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Contact surveys and diaries have conventionally been used to measure contact networks in different settings for elucidating infectious disease transmission dynamics of respiratory infections. More recently, technological advances have permitted the use of wireless sensor devices, which can be worn by individuals interacting in a particular social context to record high resolution mixing patterns. To date, a direct comparison of these two different methods for collecting contact data has not been performed.
We studied the contact network at a United States high school in the spring of 2012. All school members (i.e., students, teachers, and other staff) were invited to wear wireless sensor devices for a single school day, and asked to remember and report the name and duration of all of their close proximity conversational contacts for that day in an online contact survey. We compared the two methods in terms of the resulting network densities, nodal degrees, and degree distributions. We also assessed the correspondence between the methods at the dyadic and individual levels.
We found limited congruence in recorded contact data between the online contact survey and wireless sensors. In particular, there was only negligible correlation between the two methods for nodal degree, and the degree distribution differed substantially between both methods. We found that survey underreporting was a significant source of the difference between the two methods, and that this difference could be improved by excluding individuals who reported only a few contact partners. Additionally, survey reporting was more accurate for contacts of longer duration, and very inaccurate for contacts of shorter duration. Finally, female participants tended to report more accurately than male participants.
Online contact surveys and wireless sensor devices collected incongruent network data from an identical setting. This finding suggests that these two methods cannot be used interchangeably for informing models of infectious disease dynamics.
Contact network data are useful for parameterizing models that aim to understand and predict infectious disease dynamics. For example, the dynamics of sexually transmitted diseases [1–5] and droplet transmitted diseases [6–10] in humans, in addition to various infectious diseases of livestock and wild animals [11–15], are all better understood because of monitoring and modeling the interaction between the respective hosts.
Various network statistics can be computed to investigate how disease might spread across networks, some of which correlate very well with the behavior of host-pathogen systems. For instance, individuals who have many different contact partners (also known as degree) per period of time are more likely to become infected, to infect others, and to become infected earlier during an epidemic than individuals with fewer contact partners [5, 16, 17]. Moreover, even pathogens with low infectiousness can cause epidemics in networks with a highly disperse degree distribution, as opposed to - otherwise similar - networks with a narrow degree distribution . In highly clustered contact networks, the local depletion of hosts results in decreased disease spread [19, 20], and disease incidence growth is polynomial rather than exponential, as observed in unclustered networks . Finally, in networks with a very strong community structure (i.e., networks that can be easily separated into densely connected groups), individuals that connect different communities play a more important role for infectious disease spread than highly connected individuals within communities .
Several methods have been employed for measuring epidemiologically relevant contact data of host populations, including direct observations, videotaping, contact diaries and surveys, as well as wireless sensor network technologies . In this paper, we focus on contact surveys and wireless sensor networks, both of which capture contacts that are sufficient for droplet transmission. Contact surveys for droplet transmitted infections were first introduced in 1997 , and have become a popular method for measuring the structure of potentially contagious contacts [25–30]. In contact surveys or contact diaries, study participants attempt to recall all contacts which meet a given definition and record these contacts on a paper or web-based survey form. More recently, wireless sensor networks have become available as a method for measuring contact networks [8, 31–35]. Currently, these sensors all use similar technologies, are small, and can be easily worn by persons of all ages. The devices emit electromagnetic signals, which are detected and recorded by other sensors within a predefined distance.
The merits and drawbacks of various methods of contact network data collection, including surveys and sensors, have recently been reviewed . Furthermore, several methodological contributions have assessed the features of the survey method. For example, one study compared retrospective and prospective survey designs , another study compared a web-based mode of data collection with a paper-based one , and a third study compared paper-based diaries with data collection on personal digital assistants (PDAs) . Additionally, a recent study assessed reporting errors and biases in contact survey studies .
While both contact surveys and wireless sensor networks have their own particular strengths and weaknesses, a direct empirical comparison to understand whether these frequently applied methods can be used interchangeably has not yet been done. Here, we present the first study to our knowledge that compares contact surveys and wireless sensor networks as methods for collecting contact network data during a single school day at a United States (US) high school.
This study was part of a bigger project . The Pennsylvania State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved this project (IRB #37640), and the project was also approved under the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) IRB authorization agreement.
The project consisted of two parts, (1) a survey and wireless sensor network part (here) as well as (2) a disease surveillance part (including swabbing; data not used in this paper). Informed consent was obtained from all participants for the survey and wireless sensor network part, and all personal identifying information was removed after contact partner reports were matched with sensor IDs. Additionally, parental consent was obtained for the disease surveillance part for all participants younger than 18.
The contact network study was carried out at a US high school in the spring of 2012. When the data were collected, the entire school population was 974, which included 715 students as well as 259 teachers and other staff. The school was a full-time school and school days had between four and seven periods of 50 or 75 minutes duration. The student population was split in two halves for lunch break, one half having an early, one having a late break. Further, there were time slots assigned for school meetings, advisor meeting, and school clubs.
We did not offer individual incentives to participating students, teachers, or other staff. We did, however, involve the school community by offering scientific projects related to the study, in which students could participate and gain new skills.
Wearable wireless sensor devices, herein referred to as motes, store close proximity records (CPR), which are a detection events between two motes. We used TelosB motes that were programmed to detect each other if the distance between them was two meters or less and only during face-to-face interactions (see Figure S4 in ). A distance cut-off of two meters was used in previous contact studies [30, 38], and it corresponds well with theoretical work on droplet travel distances . The mote beacon frequency was set to three per minute (i.e., every 20 seconds).
We distributed motes to students, teachers, and other staff at the high school on three days in the spring of 2012 . During each deployment day, motes were placed in a pouch attached to a lanyard, and worn around participants’ necks during the school day. Each mote was labeled with a unique identification (ID) number. During the first mote day, participants reported on a paper form their full names and provided an e-mail address if they wanted to complete a web-based contact survey. Because we were interested in directly comparing the contact data collected by the motes to self-reported contact survey data, we only used mote data retrieved from the third mote deployment day, Tuesday, March 13, 2012, which was the same day for which the study participants were asked to report contacts in the web-based survey.
CPRs are concordant, if two motes record each other’s signal at the same time. Discordance means that only one mote recorded another mote’s signal, but not vice versa. Discordances were resolved by imputing missing CPRs.
Following close collaboration with school administrators to assess the appropriate timing, we distributed the web-based contact survey to participants by email on Wednesday, March 14, one day after the third mote deployment day. The school population was repeatedly informed when the contact survey would be sent by email and what day participants would be requested to remember their contact partners.
The online survey asked participants to recall and report all contacts that they had while at school the previous day, Tuesday, March 13. A contact in the survey was defined as a person with whom the participant had one or more interactions that (i) were a maximum of two arms-lengths apart, (ii) more than a 10-word conversation, and (iii) occurred only while at school. The distance cut-off of two arms-lengths was chosen as an easier-to-use proxy for the two meters cut-off that was defined for the wireless sensor network.
Contacts were entered in rows that consisted of two free text fields, where participants could enter the first and last name of their contact partners (or only one of the two if the other was unknown), and radio buttons to report the approximate aggregate contact duration (choice of 5 options: less than 5 minutes, 5 to 15 minutes, 15 to 60 minutes, 1 to 4 hours, longer than 4 hours). Initially, there was one empty row for the first contact. Participants could generate an unlimited number of further rows by pressing a clearly visible button labeled “add another contact”. Reminder emails were sent four days later, before the survey closed on Sunday, March 18.
As described above, survey participants were requested to report the names of all contact partners among the school population in the web-based contact survey. These names had to be matched with names associated with sensor ID numbers to make the two sources of data comparable. To do this, we developed a partly automated computer program to match the survey contacts with a list that linked participant names to sensor IDs.
For every contact partner reported by a study participant in the survey, we assessed the similarity of the contact’s name to the names of all individuals who participated in the mote study. We calculated average similarity scores for the first and last names combined, as well as similarity scores for both first and last names separately. The similarity scores could take values between 0 (totally different) and 1 (perfect match) and were defined as (2×M)/T, where T is the total number of elements in both text sequences and M is the number of matches . Similarity scores were calculated using the ratio() method of the SequenceMatcher class of the difflib Library for Python 2.7.3 that is included in the Enthought Python Distribution 7.3-1 (32 bit).
A reported name was automatically replaced by the sensor ID if a perfect match between a mote study participant and a reported contact partner was found. The name was also automatically replaced by the sensor ID if all three of the following conditions were fulfilled: (i) either the first or the last name was a perfect match; (ii) the other part (i.e., either first or last) of the name had to have a similarity score of at least 0.9; (iii) there was only one match with a maximal similarity score and no additional names had the same score. If a matching problem could not be solved automatically, the names were manually reconciled by study staff, who were provided with the reported name and (i) the five mote study participants’ names with the highest average similarity score, (ii) the five names with the highest last name similarity scores, and (iii) the five names with the highest first name similarity scores. Study staff could then decide if one of the provided names matched the reported name, if the reported name was clearly a person who did not participate in the mote study (recode value was 999 instead of an ID), or if the matching problem could not be solved unambiguously (recode value 888 instead of an ID).
To ensure that all personal identifying information was removed from the contact data, each individual was given a new randomly allocated ID number.
We compared the nodal degree reported from each web-based contact survey (without correcting for discordant reports) to the nodal degree recorded by the mote of each respective participant. To visualize congruence and difference in individual nodal degrees, we used scatter plots that map the mote-based degree of each participant on to her/his survey-based degree. We rendered plots for (i) all contacts reported/measured, (ii) all contacts of more than 5 minutes in duration, and (iii) all contacts of more than 15 minutes in duration. To assess the association between survey- and mote-based degree, we calculated the Kendall’s Tau rank correlation coefficient and estimated the corresponding 2-sided p-value. Finally, we visualized degree distributions for both survey- and mote-based contact data with kernel density plots. All plots were rendered using ggplot2 (version 0.9.3) that we linked into our main code (written in Python) with rpy2 (version 2.3.1, R version 2.15.2).
Having both contact survey and mote data collected from exactly the same setting, we analyzed whether differences in the two methods were a result of (i) underreporting of survey participants, or (ii) differences in the contact definitions underlying the two methods.
We used a previously developed method to estimate reporting probabilities from the web-based contact survey. Briefly, the method is based on the premises that each contact should ideally be reported by two individuals, and that concordant and discordant contact reports can be used to estimate reporting probabilities.
There are three possible combinations of reports:(i) both participants reported contact with each other (the number of such reports is labeled N 1 ss ), (ii) contact was reported by only one of the two involved participants ( N 2 + 3 ss ), and (iii) neither of the two involved participants reported the contact ( N 4 ss , which is unknown).
The average probability estimate that a contact of a specific duration t is reported by a member of the population is then given by the equation P = N 1 ss / N 1 ss + 1 2 N 2 + 3 ss . The complementary probability, Q, of not reporting a contact of duration t is Q = 1 - P. Figures 1a and b provide an illustration of how we calculated survey reporting probabilities. Probabilities were calculated for four types of contact durations: (a) 5 minutes or less; (b) 5 to 15 minutes; (c) 15 to 60 minutes; (d) 1 to 4 hours. Thereby, we assumed the higher contact duration value of every pair of contact reports to be true. Very few contacts lasted more than 4 hours; therefore, these contacts were excluded from the analysis.
Models of contact reporting probabilities. (a) Contact reporting probabilities based on pairs of survey reports (ss), where a circle stands for a contact reported (grey) or not reported (white) by a survey participant. There are four possible combinations: (i) N 1 ss where both contact partners report the contact, (ii) N 2 ss and (iii) N 3 ss where only one of the contact partners report the contact (since N 2 ss and N 3 ss are indistinguishable, we use their sum N 2 + 3 ss ), and (iv) N 4 ss where none of the two contact partners report the contact. (b) All possible combinations of survey reporting statuses, where P stands for the probability of reporting a contact and Q is the complement. (c) Survey reports and mote detections of contacts combined (sm), where a rectangle stands for a contact detected (grey) or not detected (white) by a pair of motes. There are four possible combinations: (i) N 1 sm where a contact pair is reported in the survey and recorded by motes, (ii) N 2 sm and (iii) N 3 sm where only the survey or motes recorded the contact, and (iv) N 4 sm where a contact that actually took place was neither reported nor detected by a mote. (d) P s and P m stand for average survey and mote reporting probabilities, and Q s and Q m are the average probability of a survey or mote not recording a contact respectively. (e) The estimated proportion of the difference between survey and mote data that can be attributed to survey underreporting, based on the models (b) and (d). Here, N 1 ' sm is the estimated amount of contacts detected by the motes and also reported by the study participants if there was no underreporting (estimate is based on P), N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm is the estimated amount of mote-detected but not survey-reported contacts due to underreporting, and N 3 ' sm , is the estimated amount of non-reporting due to differences in contact definitions between the survey and mote studies.
We expanded on the method described above by calculating differences between contact survey reporting and mote recordings. The probability that a contact is reported in the survey study, P s , conditional on being detected by the motes, P m , is defined as P s = N 1 sm / N 1 sm + N 3 sm . Survey reporting is expected to be incomplete and, hence, P s < 1 and Q s > 0, where Q s is the probability of a contact detected by a mote but not reported in the survey. Figures 1c and d provide an illustration of the methods we used to calculate the probability that a mote detection is reported as a contact in the survey. Differences in reporting between the surveys and motes were calculated independently for each of the four contact duration categories described above. Thereby, we assumed the contact duration measured by the wireless sensor network to be true.
The non-reporting of contacts that were detected by the motes, represented by N 3 sm , can have two causes: (i) underreporting by study participants (probability Q), or (ii) differences in the contact definitions underlying both the mote and the survey study. Regarding the latter: motes measure all face-to-face collocation events with a maximal distance of two meters between any two study participants, while the survey’s contact definition only includes conversational contact. Hence, even with perfect reporting, we would expect legitimately fewer survey contact reports than mote detections. Figure 1e illustrates the relationship between differences in both contact datasets (i) due to underreporting ( N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm ), (ii) due to differences in contact definitions ( N 3 ' sm ), and relative to the total difference between both datasets ( N 3 sm ).
The proportion of the difference between mote measurements and survey data that is caused by underreporting is given by N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm / N 3 sm ; the proportion of the difference that is caused by differing contact definitions is given by N 3 ' sm / N 3 sm = 1 - N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm / N 3 sm .
Individual differences in reporting probabilities cannot be estimated using only survey contact data (see supplementary material in ); however, our data allow us to calculate differences in individual reporting probabilities between contact survey data and the mote data, as we assumed that all motes record data with the same accuracy. To assess individual reporting differences, we determined individual P s values for each participant and also for each of the four time duration categories. Individual differences in reporting quality could then be specifically attributed to differences at the individual level.
We assessed individual differences in reporting quality for all participants together, but also for groups defined by gender and by age. Differences between the mean individual reporting probabilities of these groups were tested for significance using a permutation test with 99999 permutation resamples.
The mote derived contact network dataset covers CPRs from 487 (50.0%) individuals of the entire school population, and 320 (32.9%) of them also participated in the base survey, that asked questions about demographics and health. Two hundred and fifty six (26.3%) individuals participated in the contact survey and 245 (25.2%) reported at least one matchable contact in the survey. There were 178 participants (18.3%) for whom we had demographic information, at least one matchable contact report, and mote data. Of those, for whom we had all information, 109 (61.2%) were female and 69 (38.8%) were male. Furthermore, 138 (77.5%) were students and 40 (22.5%) were teachers or other staff.
Of the 1935 contact reports (i.e., directed ties) in the web-based survey, 253 (13.1%) were reported to have lasted less than 5 minutes, 507 (26.2%) were from 5 to 15 minutes, 986 (51.0%) were from 15 to 60 minutes, 179 (9.3%) were from 1 to 4 hours, and 10 (0.5%) were reported to have lasted more than 4 hours. Of these 1935 contact reports, 1475 (76.2%) could be clearly linked to mote study participants, 32 (1.7%) were not clearly identifiable and were given the ID value 888, and 428 (22.1%) referred to members of the school population who did not participate in the study. Three of the 32 not clearly identifiable names were from contacts with a duration of less than 5 minutes, 7 were from contacts with a duration between 5 and 15 minutes, 19 were from contacts with a duration between 15 and 60 minutes, and 3 were from contacts with a duration between 1 and 4 hours.
Most survey participants - 154 or 60.2% - submitted contact reports on the first day of data collection (March 14), and the degree distribution had a mean of 8.0. On the second day of data collection, 31 (12.1%) participants submitted contact reports; the mean degree was 10.4. On the third day, 61 (23.8%) participants submitted contact reports; the mean degree was 5.3. Ten additional participants submitted reports on the following days with a mean degree of 3.8. The degree distributions for the different report submission days are shown in Figure 2.
Survey degree by day of data submission. Box-and-whisker plots showing the reported degree distribution by day of data submission. Day 1 refers to the first day of data collection, March 14.
The motes detected a total of 13972 unique contacts. The vast majority of these contacts (11698 contacts or 83.7%) had an accumulated duration of less than 5 minutes; 1334 (9.5%) lasted 5 to 15 minutes, 899 (6.4%) 15 to 60 minutes, 38 (0.3%) 1 to 4 hours, and 3 (< 0.1%) longer than 4 hours.
The scale of the mote-based nodal degree distribution was approximately one order of magnitude higher than the scale of the survey-based nodal degree distribution when all contact durations were included in the analysis (Figure 3a). The scale of the mote-based degree distribution moved closer to the scale of the survey-based distribution when contacts with short durations were successively excluded from the analysis (Figures 3c and e). Further, there was no statistically significant correlation (at an alpha level of 0.05) between nodal degrees measured by the motes compared to nodal degrees measured by the web-based contact survey when all contacts were included (Figure 3b; τ = 0.097, p = 0.067), whereas we could detect significant, but rather weak correlation (i) when contacts shorter than 5 minutes were excluded (Figure 3d; τ = 0.142, p = 0.008), and (ii) when contacts shorter than 15 minutes were excluded (Figure 3f; τ = 0.206, p = 0.000).
Mote versus survey degree. Left column (a, c, e): kernel density estimates for survey (red) and mote (blue) degree distributions. Right column (b, d, f): jittered scatterplots of the nodal degrees as measured by the mote study versus the nodal degrees as measured by the survey study. 1st row (a and b): all contacts included; 2nd row (c and d): only contacts longer than 5 minutes included; 3rd row (e and f): only contacts longer than 15 minutes included.
In total, 133 (23.5%) web-based survey contacts had concordant reports (i.e., the contact was reported by both participants) and 432 (76.5%) contacts were reported by only one study participant, but not by the other. Furthermore, 536 (3.5%; see Table 1: 15523 contacts in total – 14893 mote-recorded, but not reported – 94 reported, but not mote-recorded) survey contact reports corresponded to a mote-recorded contact and 14893 (96.5%) mote-recorded contacts were not reported by the respective participant. Table 2 shows a cross-tabulation for concordant and discordant records only from the survey data. Table 1 shows the distribution of all concordant and discordant records of survey and mote data across the five contact duration categories. Reporting probabilities, P, reporting probabilities conditional on mote detection, P s , and proportion of differences in mote and survey data due to underreporting, N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm / N 3 sm , are shown for different contact durations and different networks in Table 3.
Columns give the number of contacts detected by motes by five duration categories and also the number of contacts that were not detected by the motes, but reported by a participant. Rows give the number of contacts reported by survey participants and also the number of contacts that were detected by the motes, but were not reported by the respective participant. Each percentage within a cell represents percentage of the row (right) and column totals (lower).
Cell frequencies represent the reports by contact duration for pairs of participants. That is, participant A’s and participant B’s reports about their contact with each other comprise a single observation in the table. Columns give the higher contact duration report, and rows show the lower report. If a contact was reported by only one participant in a pair, then the lower duration value is ‘not reported’. Each percentage within a cell represents percentage of the row (right) and column totals (lower).
Reporting probabilities of (i) survey reporting, P, (ii) reporting probabilities conditional on mote detection, P s , and (iii) proportion of differences in mote and survey data due to underreporting, N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm / N 3 sm . Percentages for P, P s , and N 1 ' sm - N 1 sm / N 3 sm were calculated for four predefined different contact duration categories and for five different networks (all participating individuals included; only participating individuals with a degree of more than 1, 2, 3, or 4 included), all compared to P values calculated from a previous study .
The main results are that (i) the reporting probability is considerably higher for contacts with a long duration than for contacts with a short duration, and that (ii) underreporting accounts for approximately one third to half of the difference between sensor-based and survey-based contact data.
Differences between mote and survey data at the individual participant level are illustrated in Figure 4. Consistent with average reporting probabilities, individual reporting probabilities increased with increasing contact duration. Excluding individuals with very few contact reports (i.e., degree lower than 2, 3, 4, or 5) amplified the overall reporting quality considerably. The probability to report a contact of ≤ 5 minutes duration that was detected by a pair of motes was very small: the median reporting probability for all participants was zero and even the 3rd quartile was close to zero. Only two participants achieved reporting probabilities of more than 25% for the less than 5 minute contact duration category. In contrast, the median reporting probability for the contacts that lasted longer than one hour was 100%.
Individual reporting probabilities. Distributions of P s (calculated for all individuals separately) rendered as box-and-whisker plots. P s values are provided separately for the four duration categories < 5 minutes, 5 to 15 minutes, 15 to 60 minutes, and 1 to 4 hours. The red box-and-whisker plots show the distributions for all individuals, the olive ones for individuals who reported at least two contacts, the green ones for individuals who reported at least three contacts, the blue ones for individuals with at least four contacts, and the pink ones for individuals with at least five contacts. The whiskers extend from the median line to the highest/lowest value that is within 1.5 times the interquartile range.
When the study population was divided into a female and a male group, clear differences in the individual reporting probabilities between these groups appeared: While the mean reporting probability of females was 2.2% in the less than 5 minute contact duration category, we estimated only 1.1% for the male participants (p = 0.020, one sided test). In the category of 5 to 15 minutes, we estimated the mean reporting probability of female participants to be 12.4% and that of males 6.9% (p = 0.026). For 15 to 60 minutes, we estimated 30.9% for females and 18.7% for males (p = 0.006), and for 1 to 4 hours, we estimated 76.4% for females and 46.4% for males (p = 0.036).
Splitting the study population into different age groups did not result in a clear pattern.
Self-reported contact surveys and contact diaries have frequently been used for measuring contact networks relevant for the spread of infectious diseases [25–30]. More recently, technological advances have permitted the use of motes to record high resolution contact data [8, 31–34]. For the first time, we compare these two methods for measuring contact networks in an identical setting. Overall, we found little congruence in recorded contact data between the two methods.
A comparison of the nodal degrees from both methods revealed no statistically significant correlation for all contacts and only weak correlation for contacts of higher duration (Figure 3b, d, f). Furthermore, the empirical degree distribution differed substantially between the two methods (Figure 3a, c, e). Since many studies rely on the nodal degree to fit models of infectious disease spread [7, 10, 25, 43], this finding indicates that survey- and mote-derived degree data cannot be used interchangeably to inform infectious disease models, and it raises questions about the appropriateness of at least one of the two methods for collecting epidemiologically relevant contact data.
Consistent with previous contact survey research , we found that reporting probabilities increased with higher contact duration. In general, persons are typically more likely to recall and report contacts of longer duration than short interactions. Nevertheless, our web-based contact survey reporting probability estimates were considerably lower overall from both unfiltered and filtered network data, compared to earlier findings (see Table 3).
Underreporting is a significant problem in reconstructing contact networks from survey data [23, 38, 44, 45]. Therefore, we were interested in calculating the extent to which survey underreporting contributed to observed differences between the survey and mote data sets. We first looked at the proportion of differences when all participants were included in the analysis across all of the predefined contact durations (Table 3). We found that the proportion of the differences between the two methods caused by underreporting ranged from 40.0% to 50.0%. Excluding participants who reported very few contacts decreased the observed differences between the two methods related to underreporting (33.0% to 51.1% for individuals with a degree larger than three). This finding reflects the effect of individual participant differences in reporting quality.
To analyze the reporting differences between the survey and the mote datasets at the individual level, we calculated the fraction of a participant’s mote-detected contacts that was also reported by the respective participant (Figure 4). Consistent with the average reporting probabilities, we found that individual reporting probabilities increased with increasing contact duration, and that excluding individuals with very few contact reports improved the overall reporting quality considerably. We further found that female participants tended to report contacts more accurately than male participants. These data show how differences in individual participant survey reporting quality can contribute substantially to the difference between mote and survey data sets.
The overall reporting quality differs vastly among studies. For example, Smieszek et al. reported 65.1% of all contacts had concordant reports, and Read et al. [23, 46] reported that 30.2% of the contacts had concordant reports, both of which are higher than the reporting quality observed in this study (23.5% concordant reports, see Table 2). There are some plausible factors that may explain these observed differences. In particular, the study population and setting could have had important effects on the likelihood of reporting a contact. For example, Read et al. obtained contact data from the students and staff at the University of Warwick, and Smieszek et al. obtained contact data from members of three research groups at ETH Zurich, whereas the data presented here were obtained from students, teachers, and other staff at a US high school. First, it is reasonable to assume that it is cognitively more demanding to recall the many more and rather short contacts that are likely to occur at high school, than the fewer contacts likely to occur in a university research setting. Second, the motivation to contribute to a scientific study might be higher among members of a university than members of a high school.
Survey underreporting is highlighted as a reason for the observed differences between the contact data collected by the surveys and motes in this study (Table 3). However, even if survey reporting was perfect (e.g., participants were more motivated to complete the survey, and/or tried harder to remember all contacts, even those of shorter duration) surveys and motes would be unlikely to record exactly the same contact data. The reason for this is that the definition of a contact differs between the two methods: motes measured all face-to-face collocation events within a maximum distance of two meters, while the survey contact definition included only conversational contact that occurred at a maximum distance of two arm lengths. Thus, the contact definition underlying the mote measurements is more inclusive than the survey’s definition, and, hence, we would always expect more contacts detected by motes than reported using contact surveys or diaries.
The extent to which different contact definitions are meaningful for infectious disease transmission depends on the specific pathogen’s modes of transmission. There are four modes of transmission for respiratory infections: (i) droplet transmission (produced from the respiratory tract and expelled by various processes such as talking, sneezing, or coughing, and are at least 60 μm in diameter ), (ii) aerosol transmission (aerosolized particles of a small diameter that stay suspended in the indoor air), (iii) transmission through direct, physical contact, or, (iv) indirectly, through fomites . The role of each of these for, e.g., influenza transmission is currently unclear [47–54]. For the purpose of this study, we were interested in droplet transmission, since there is evidence that close contacts are an important factor in the droplet transmission of many respiratory infections [55, 56].
Droplet transmission, however, depends on various parameters such as droplet size and shape, the velocity with which the droplets are expelled, the viscosity of the droplets, as well as the temperature and humidity of the ambient air [40, 57, 58]. While droplets generated by breathing travel less than one meter, coughing can expel droplets that can be carried more than two meters away, and droplets produced by sneezing can potentially travel more than six meters . Contact studies that relied solely on surveys could fail to record infectious contacts (e.g., via coughing and sneezing) if participants were further than a typical conversation distance apart. On the other hand, motes can be programmed to record interactions up to a specific distance, allowing motes to record all close proximity events regardless of whether any of the involved participants talked, sneezed, coughed, or did any other activity resulting in elevated levels of expelled droplets. Consequently, a contact study that relied solely on motes could result in an over-recording of events irrelevant for the spread of infectious respiratory disease.
Finally, transmission probability is a continuous function of the distance between the infectious and the susceptible individual, rather than a step function. Hence, imposing any specific cut-off will not result in an accurate representation of potentially contagious contacts. In essence, further empirical studies are necessary to test different contact definitions to assess which ones best explain the spread of infections in specific host-pathogen systems. These tests could include motes that are sensitive to changes in breathing, coughing and sneezing.
We report contact data collected from a single school day at one US high school, limiting the generalizability of our findings. Comparing the participation rate of this study with other, methodologically similar studies is difficult, because many of those other contact survey studies used different strategies to obtain study participants, such as convenience samples, cohorts or quota sampling, and often did not report the number of people that participated, compared to the total number approached [e.g., [25, 29, 30, 37, 46]. A comparison with three other contact network studies at schools (which all differed in methodology) indicates that the participation rate in our study might have been lower than could be expected [27, 59, 60]. Reasons for lower participation might have included the overall burden of the entire study, which involved more components than reported in this paper , in addition to dynamics within the school (students or staff unwilling to participate if other peers did not participate).
Since other contact survey studies have shown substantial differences in reporting quality , the poor reporting quality we observed in this study may not occur elsewhere, including other high school settings. In addition to the retrospective design of our survey, a minor part of the underreporting in the surveys might have been caused by the design of our web-based survey: participants had to press an “add another contact” button for every additional contact they wanted to report. While the web-based survey was found to be easy to use and convenient in informal pre-tests, it cannot be ruled out that this design prevented users to report all contacts. Nevertheless, our research revealed that contact survey and mote measurements of exactly the same setting can result in almost unrelated contact networks, which poses questions about the appropriateness of at least one of the two methods.
Additionally, the method we used to estimate underreporting of contacts was based on four simplifying assumptions (for details see Smieszek et al. ): that (i) the probability of reporting a contact, P, depended solely on the contact duration; (ii) reports of a specific contact were stochastically independent; (iii) since the true duration of a contact was not known, the higher value was assumed to be true; (iv) incongruent contact reports were only due to under- and never due to over-reporting (i.e., we believe that the reporting participant was right). While these assumptions were certainly violated in some cases, they were essential to estimate underreporting given the data available from this study.
Finally, we were unable to match all partners reported in the web-based contact survey unambiguously to participants in the mote study (see “Linking survey and sensor data” subsection). One reason for such non-matchable reports is that individuals attempted to report a contact that actually took place, but did not report contact partners’ names correctly. If reported names were too different from actual names, matching was not possible, despite referring to the same contact event. However, even if we assume that all non-matchable contact reports would refer to a contact that actually took place, the results would only change slightly: The P s for the unfiltered data would still be 1.2% for the < 5 minutes contacts, it would increase from 8.8% to 9.2% for the 5 to 15 minutes contacts, from 21.8% to 23.3% for the 15 to 60 minutes contacts, and from 65.2% to 67.3% for the 1 to 4 hour contacts.
First, contact surveys are very flexible and can be designed to collect data in various settings. They are easy to design and do not require substantial technological skills on the part of the researcher. However, since reporting quality varies vastly between different settings and, likely, between different age groups, underreporting of short-duration contacts can be a very serious issue due to the potential relevancy for acute respiratory disease transmission. It is almost impossible to distinguish whether differences in individuals’ reported contact patterns are true differences, or whether they are a result of differing individual capabilities and levels of motivation. Furthermore, surveys are unlikely to be very useful in efforts to collect data on very young children or illiterate populations, who may not be able to complete contact surveys.
Second, validation on the level of individual transmission events is still lacking for both survey- and sensor-based approaches of data collection. While there have been attempts to validate empirical contact data on a population level [7, 10, 43], there is still no proof that such contact data could explain concrete transmission paths in a population. Validation on the level of individual transmission events is important for demonstrating that measured contacts are valid proxies for potentially contagious situations. Such validation could also assist in refining data collection methods for generating contact networks that best account for infectious disease transmission.
Third, while sensor-based approaches for measuring epidemiologically relevant contact networks are objective and substantially more reliable, new sensors need to be developed that overcome the disadvantages of the current generation of sensors. Ideally, new sensors will have the capability of distinguishing various close proximity events of different epidemiological importance (e.g., assessing whether the person is talking, coughing, sneezing, or none of these) and will be able to capture contact with partners who are not equipped with sensors.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this article do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the institutions with which the authors are affiliated.
Timo Smieszek, Victoria C Barclay contributed equally to this work.
We thank members of the high school who made this project possible. This research was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through grant U01 CK000178-01 (to MS), a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD through grant D/10/52328 (to TS), a Society in Science: Branco Weiss fellowship (to MS), and NIH RAPIDD support (to MS).
We thank Devon Brewer for his elaborated comments that helped to improve the quality of this paper and Ellsworth Campbell for his valuable contribution to Figure 1. Finally, we thank the five reviewers for their insightful and knowledgeable suggestions.
TS, VCB, and MS contributed to the conception and design of this study. VCB, IS, and MS collected the data. TS performed the data cleaning and the analyses. TS, VCB, JJR, HG, AU, and MS contributed to the interpretation of the data and analysis results. TS and VCB drafted the manuscript, and IS, JJR, HG, AU, and MS revised the manuscript draft. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. | 2019-04-22T04:50:39 | https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com.preview-live.oscarjournals.springer.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2334-14-136 |
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Dr. B. Tucker and Dr. K. Pollock (Speech Pathology) with Dr. Tim Mills are currently working to enhance introductory phonetics by developing online interactive laboratory activities and also developing and offering a fully-online version of the course. This project is funded by the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund from the University of Alberta.
This entry was posted in Current Research Projects on April 15, 2013 by Benjamin Tucker. | 2019-04-24T06:32:16 | http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/?p=286 |
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Assassin’s Creed may not be getting a new entry into the popular series of games this year, but 2016 is still shaping up to be a Brotherhood-filled year. The final two entries into the Chronicles trilogy have been released already (ending with Russia mere weeks ago), the film will hit theatres in December, and now Ubisoft has teamed up with Scholastic to release a young adult book series by Matthew J. Kirby. The first book, Last Descendants, will launch in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in September. The book is about Owen, whose life has been in a tailspin ever since his father died in prison after being accused of a crime he may not have committed. The IT guy at Owen’s school allows him to use the Animus in attempt to clear his father’s name, but it isn’t that simple as Owen discovers the existence of an ancient relic that two secret organizations will do anything to possess. Owen and several other teenagers enter a simulation going back to the 1863 draft riots in New York City. The second book will follow shortly after Last Descendants, with an expected release in January 2017.
Ever wonder what an Overlord of Sloth looks like?
Yeah, neither have I, yet I’m remarkably pleased anyway. Fergor, the Overlord of Sloth in Idea Factory’s upcoming Trillion: God of Destruction, is exceptionally adorable. Fergor is Zeabolos’ (the King of the Underworld) older sister. Despite her lazy exterior (hence the Sloth in her title) she is actually quite a powerful fighter who was incredibly involved in her brother’s rise to power. Her weapons are Righty and Lefty, the toothed sleeves at the end of her sweater that claws into enemies. Fergor is one of six Overlords available for play in Trillion: God of Destruction, which Idea Factory promises will be a “groundbreaking, emotional RPG.” It is a PlayStation Vita exclusive, available on March 29 in North America and April 1 in Europe.
DLC is often expected of games, especially those beloved by many. Dark Souls III is no exception, and Bandai Namco have already announced that the game will have a Season Pass programme. The expansions for the first two Dark Souls games expanded on the content of the original games (reviews for the past two games and their DLC and be found here), and any DLC for Dark Souls III will likely do the same. The Season Pass will be available on all platforms (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One). There will also be a digital Deluxe Edition that includes the game, season pass, a theme, and soundtrack. Bandai Namco also announced that those who preorder Dark Souls III via Xbox One will also receive the original Dark Souls, which is currently playable on the Xbox 360 but will soon be available on the One via backwards compatibility.
Indie Developer Stout Games isn’t opposed to making games that no other companies are, as was seen with its first title (Dinner Date). It has now announced its next title, Cheongsam. Cheongsam is a game in which you act together with an advanced AI created specifically for the game. There is even an entire orchestral score created solely for the game (listen to the first track in the video above), not an easy feat in the world of indie developing. In Cheongsam, near-strangers Maggie and Michael have escaped their friends and ended up together in a park. The player controls Michael while the AI controls Maggie; this means it is up to you to control Michael’s facial expression, pose, and gaze while the AI changes Maggie’s acting style to match yours. There is no moment left un-noticed, and even having Michael look around will cause Maggie to react in some way. Cheongsam sounds incredibly unique, and I look forward to bringing you news as it is released! | 2019-04-26T04:49:22 | http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2016/02/catch-up-coffee-monday-february-22.html |
How sad for ANTM – the promos this year were a yawn – although visually stunning.. the lineup of all the guest judges last year was great – and they probably peaked too early with that stunt.. I think the prizes are so bad now for the winner – do we really care that much anymore – I think they should have put guys in it as well this year like the US version – just to spice it up for the 10th Anniversary..
I wouldn’t mind a Project Runway Australia revival but it didn’t seem to get good ratings. The US version doesn’t seem to either. Maybe if they fast tracked it instead of the several month delay we are faced with now!
Pretty soft launch for ANTM on FOX8…. I used to love the show but think it has moved too far from its original format. The scoring system introduced last season and continued last year really removes all drama from the weekly eliminations.
Nine will win this week quite easily now. TXF can’t come quick enough for Seven. They’ve been terrible post Olympics even though they’ve managed some weekly wins mainly due to the AFL. Zumbo has to be mentioned as one of the flops of the year given the promotion it received.
JB… You’ve done it again!! | 2019-04-22T21:58:25 | https://tvtonight.com.au/2016/09/tuesday-20-september-2016.html |
Like any other service, temporary employment services differ dramatically and if it is your job to use one successfully, it can be a daunting challenge! Fear not, help is here.
Before starting you need to assess your companies need for a temp service, you need to understand the differences between temp employment agencies that are local and nationalized and finally you need to understand the what a staffing markup is an what you are paying for when you hire a temp service. Once you have a grasp of that information, use the chart below to help you decide which type of service is best for you.
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Free movement is a network of migration activists functioning since 2006. Among us, there are students, healthcare professionals, researchers, construction workers, culture workers and artists, from Finnish and migrant backgrounds. We are politically and religiously independent, and our work happens through different working groups. The network is supported by the association Oikeudet Ilman Rajoja.
We support general freedom of movement, and the realization of fundamental rights regardless of people’s status and background. Read more from our manifesto Free Movement For All.
Through our work in Helsinki and Tampere, we support the struggle of migrants for their rights. We cooperate with various Finnish human rights organizations working on with refugees and migrants. We produce and share information on controls of movement, their consequences and and struggles against them in Finland and abroad. In Helsinki and Tampere, we give advice to migrants and their supporters on matters concerning residence permits and the realization of fundamental rights. We regularly organize an open cafe, Coffee Without Borders, where people interested in migrants’ rights and freedom of movement may meet. Along the years, we have also been involved with resistance against deportations, campaigns for residence rights of asylum seekers, and defending EU-migrants’ right to housing in Helsinki.
Oikeudet ilman rajoja ry (OIR, registered 11.6.2010) was founded to guarantee migrants’ legal protection. Association supports migrant activism for example by raising funds for relief activities of Free Movement. Donations are channeled mainly through FM’s counseling activity for migrants living in poverty or uncertain residence permit state. Additionally smaller part of donations are given on the basis of direct requests to the association and through other civil society actors.
Association is also responsible for the economical assets of Signal magazine which is published by FM and OIR. In addition to FM’s counseling and advocacy work the association supports also other migrant activism. It has co-worked for example with Global Clinic of Helsinki and Stop Deportation / Right to live demonstration.
Association’s board assembles every second month. Board is responsible for association’s economy and relief decisions. Association’s annual meeting is held in spring.
Support association’s and Free Movement’s activity by becoming a member and/or donating to association’s account. | 2019-04-23T20:13:59 | http://www.vapaaliikkuvuus.net/free-movement/ |
This all seems like it’s been too easy. Everything is happening so quickly and smoothly it seems unbelievable. A ready f0llicle in a week? Only one u1trasound? And today’s appointment was fast and painless. Then this afternoon I was on one of those sites that has the capture thing, where you have to type in something to prove you’re a real person, and guess what it said? “good luck”. Surreal. I’m not one to put much stock in signs but if I was, goodness I’d believe there was nothing that could go wrong this cycle. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens in a couple of weeks. I’m terrified but hopeful.
Long time no see. I don’t know if anyone is still following this at all, but I figure I’ve been gone long enough. If you’re still around, thanks. If not…well, I’m sad to see you gone, although I suppose this was never an experiment in how many followers I could get but a place to be open about my experience, and I’ve been neglecting that so that’s what I’m truly sorry about. I think I just needed some space to myself to process things in my own way.
I’ve had plenty of ups and downs since I last posted. Mostly more ups than downs of late, which is good, because that was not the case for a little while there. I’ve made some serious mistakes but I’ve rectified them as best I can, and I’ve done things that I think have made my family and my marriage stronger, and I will continue to do both I’m sure. We’ve made it through the mandatory two-cycle break and we’re back in the saddle and trying again. I’m a week into the first cycle post-break and went in this morning for my first blood draw and ultrasound. It was a bit of a whirlwind, and after seeing a bunch of tiny unmeasurable follies and a 17mm blob on the screen I thought for sure it was going to be a cyst and we’d be out for another cycle while we waited for it to resolve. This afternoon we’re back on, though, as it turns out from my 341 E2 result that it is in fact a mature follie. So, one more dose of F0llistim tonight, trigger tomorrow, and a Thursday morning insem at just 10 days into the cycle. Craziness.
He’s looking less and less like our baby and more and more like our little boy, which gives me great joy and sadness in the same breath. No, not sadness. Wistfulness. I’m so happy to see him grow and thrive, and to see the special person that he is developing right before our eyes, but I miss my tiny one that I could scoop up and cuddle for hours on end.
I haven’t been breaking out my camera nearly as much as I’d like, but I intend to get back on that, too, and plan to share more soon. Forgive me for being so absent? | 2019-04-22T17:02:34 | https://bluedaisyus.wordpress.com/2011/08/ |
Flash is dead. Long live Flash?
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The truth about HTML5 video?
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Consumed => “It’s Not About the Equipment” by Paul Riismandel on StreamingMedia.com. | 2019-04-21T07:01:05 | http://chiefalchemist.com/source/streamingmedia-com/ |
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Most of us these days are spending more time in the office than at home, and one of the biggest mistakes that you can make at work is not being aware of the various etiquette rules to live by. After all, missteps can impact promotions, raises, and especially your social cache in the office. Here, the 15 rules that you should keep in mind at all time while at work.
1. Don’t be too loud. Be mindful of your volume, whether you are talking to a colleague or on the phone. You don’t want to invade anyone’s personal space.
2. Don’t Interrupt your colleagues. When you are in meetings or even simply talking to a colleague in the hall, be mindful of who is talking. You don’t want to be disrespectful.
3. Be mindful of office chatter. It is great to work in an office where you also can make friends, but keep chatter to a minimum. You’ll know if you have gone on too long when a colleague has to walk with you to continue the conversation.
4. Don’t eat smelly food. Tuna, spicy Indian food—eating smelly food can be really offensive, especially in an office with an open floor plan. Save the curry for home.
5. Hold back on the perfume. To the same point, be mindful of how much perfume that you wear at the office. Some people could be allergic.
6. Office correspondence should be formal. Think of email somewhat like a formal letter. In other words, don’t use slang or abbreviations. Also, bear in mind that many companies actually store their employees emails for years, and access them from time to time to check up on their employees.
7. Share the credit. It is just good office etiquette to know when to share the credit with others. You’ll come off as a team player, and more importantly, the act of good will is likely to be repaid in spades.
8. Dress for the office that you work in. Plan your office wardrobe to fit with the tone of your office. Look to your bosses for inspiration as to what is appropriate.
9. Keep your phone on silent. Your ring tone can potentially be distracting, so it’s best to keep your phone on vibrate.
10. Keep the office clean. Throw your trash out on your desk, don’t keep items in the communal refrigerator too long, and be mindful if you are sharing a bathroom too.
11. Don’t share too much personal information with colleagues. There are a few reasons why this isn’t so good—it can leave you vulnerable and also there is such a thing as TMI, especially in an office environment.
12. Be on time. Being punctual says a lot about your personal values. You want to send the message to your colleagues that you care.
13. Don’t take long personal calls at your desk. It is perfectly fine to take a personal call at your desk occasionally, but keep it short so you don’t disturb everyone around you. Take the call outside on your cell phone if necessary.
14. Don’t play with your hair during a meeting. Refrain from playing with your hair, especially in meetings. You should also refrain from brushing your hair or applying makeup at your desk.
15. Don’t come to work if you’re too sick. If you are contagious, stay home for the good of the office. Show your diligence by being available online for as much of the day as possible. That being said, if you just have the sniffles, you should probably come into work.
Should Men Still Open the Door For Women? | 2019-04-24T12:43:47 | https://stylecaster.com/etiquette-101-office-ettiquette/ |
The RSC Hong Kong section was established in 2008. The set-up of the RSC Hong Kong Section is in no way intended to detract from the Hong Kong Chemical Society, but to reinforce it for the better promotion of chemical sciences in Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Section thanks the local members for their support in the past years and hopes that they will continue to participate in the activities. Suggestion and comments for the improvement of services are always welcomed. | 2019-04-18T21:06:01 | https://www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/LocalSections/Asia/HongKong.asp |
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Inspired by the extreme sport of cold adventure riding, the Treckmaster parka in antique beige has been developed this season to meet the demands of winter. It?s fitted with a detachable long-sleeved, quilted liner, snow cuffs and large hood trimmed with coyote fur. The fabrication has been updated too; our signature 8 oz. waxed cotton, chosen for its resilience and resistance to water, now comes in an aged finish that sets it apart from previous editions of this classic Belstaff jacket. Zip & button fastening, Detachable full-sleeved liner, Signature 8 oz. waxed cotton, Hood latch, Coyote fur trim, 8 external pockets, Quilted panels, Adjustable belt, Snow cuffs, Made in Italy.
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PR campaigns targeted specifically at a business audience, known as B2B PR, differ from most consumer PR campaigns because you must sell the company first and the product or service second.
The strategic imperative for every business is to engender trust, but particularly in B2B, where the average transaction is higher and the sales cycle longer. Public relations is far more than writing and pitching media releases. PR builds trusted relationships, educates and wins credibility.
B2B PR campaigns are also usually more targeted than consumer ones because you are aiming your messages at a more defined audience. The messages are also more sophisticated and complex.
A well thought out B2B PR program identifies unique value within an organisation and creates a plan for reaching key decision makers. It is also important to emphasise business value and benefits over price. A strategy that focuses only on price is doomed to be very short-term.
B2B communication is also not only the domain of big business. The majority of our clients are small exciting businesses making a mark in their own niche sectors.
But don't be fooled into thinking B2B communication is easy to plan and implement. It' s not easy to reach a business buyer - they are short of time, are career-focused and don't appreciate interruptions. PR is a polite way to reach them to help them learn, grow their business and establish relationships of lasting value.
Those learning environments are now even more critical, given the growing mistrust of many advertising and marketing tactics.
Typical B2B PR activities may include media relations & coverage, speaking opportunities, entering awards, online public relations including social media, strategic partnerships, issues & crisis management, developing corporate & marketing material and many more.
For an example of a successful B2B PR campaign have look at our case study on Azure Group, an accounting and financial services firm.
For more information on developing a successful B2B public relations program contact us. | 2019-04-18T11:19:24 | http://www.drpr.com.au/public-relations/b2b-pr.html |
Mr. Aimer is a retired professional pilot with 45 years airline experience. As a captain for United Airlines he flew the routes for both Flight 175 and Flight 93 many times. He is a core member of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, and was recently featured in an episode of Jesse Ventura's television show on TruTV about the Pentagon attack, where he demonstrated the implausibility of any pilot, let alone an amateur like Hani Hanjour, to accomplish what Hanjour is alleged to have accomplished.
"You guys have done an excellent job of investigative reporting, and if somebody honestly wants some answers I think that [National Security Alert] is a good place to go."
Mr. Beattie is a licensed Professional Engineer in his home state of Michigan. He also holds a B.S. in Physics. After graduation he spent several years in the U.S. Navy, where he served as Operations Officer on the U.S.S. Talbot County (LST-1153). He subsequently spent 33 years serving in various engineering and management positions for the ANR Pipeline Company before retiring in 1996.
"The video, NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT, presents stunningly clear evidence that the official story of the Pentagon attack is false and deceiving. All Americans should call for a competent investigation of that heinous crime."
Our sincere thanks go out to both of these gentlemen for their support. | 2019-04-26T14:01:43 | http://www.citizeninvestigationteam.com/news/2010-12-20-rusty-aimer-stanley-beattie |
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UMS 'N JIP is actually one of the most innovative and outstanding Swiss contemporary music ensembles. Founded in 2007 by Ulrike Mayer-Spohn [UMS] and Javier Hagen [JIP] it is yet one of the activest contemporary music ensembles worldwide performing around 70 concerts and commissioning around 10 works per year. UMS 'N JIP works on both new musical and scenical settings for voice, recorders and electronics reflecting live vs. digital performance as well as European vs. non-European music. Since their studies (composing, audio design μsical performance) in Holland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, UMS and JIP have been both invited to prestigious contemporary music and theatre festivals (Avignon, TKF Zürich, TKF Lausanne, Shanghai, Donaueschingen, Hong Kong, New York, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Basel, Bern, Paris, Strasbourg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Adelaide, Riga) where they premiered as soloists and a duo more than 200 oeuvres collaborating with world famous composers such as Goebbels, Rihm, Kagel, Reimann, Eötvös and Guo Wenjing. | 2019-04-26T08:23:20 | http://musicedition.ch/en/personen/ensembles/?koerperschaft_id=166&abc=U |
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The Federal Reserve sharply downgraded its economic outlook at its latest meeting only three weeks ago, minutes released on Wednesday revealed, challenging the view that green shoots of recovery are now plain to see.
While Fed policymakers took note of some news that was better than expected on housing and consumer spending, they appeared reluctant to put much weight on this. Most “viewed downside risks as predominating in the near term”.
Officials worried about “adverse feedback effects as reduced employment and production weighed on consumer spending” and a “weakening economy boosted the prospective losses of financial institutions, leading to a further tightening of credit conditions”.
The downgrade to the forecast led the Fed to announce that it would sharply increase its purchases of assets and would start buying Treasuries for the first time to try to support growth.
The minutes reveal disagreement within the Fed as to how robust the eventual recovery will be. Some officials “believed that the natural resilience of market forces would become evident later this year”. But others “saw recovery as delayed and weak”. Some worried that the crisis could ultimately lead to a reduction in the potential growth rate of the US economy.
While there has been better news since the March 18 meeting, the tenor of the Fed discussion suggests most policymakers will treat this data with scepticism.
Investors shrugged off the Fed’s assessment. The S&P 500 index dipped but closed back up nearly 1.2 per cent. The yield on 10-year Treasuries declined 6 basis points to 2.83 per cent.
Fed officials were concerned about the “degree and pervasiveness of the decline in foreign economic activity”. Policymakers “did not interpret the uptick in housing starts in February as the beginning of a new trend”, the minutes say.
Some policymakers noted “tentative signs of stabilisation in consumer spending in January and February”. But “others suggested that strains on household balance sheets from falling equity and house prices, reduced credit availability and the fear of unemployment could well lead to further increases in the savings rate that would damp consumption growth”.
While businesses were liquidating excess inventories, ratios of inventories to sales remained high. Given this, “participants anticipated further employment cutbacks . . . though perhaps at a gradually diminishing rate”. | 2019-04-21T02:34:03 | https://www.positanonews.it/2009/04/downbeat-at-the-fed/3100/ |
The smime command handles S/MIME mail. It can encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify S/MIME messages.
There are six operation options that set the type of operation to be performed. The meaning of the other options varies according to the operation type.
encrypt mail for the given recipient certificates. Input file is the message to be encrypted. The output file is the encrypted mail in MIME format.
Note that no revocation check is done for the recipient cert, so if that key has been compromised, others may be able to decrypt the text.
decrypt mail using the supplied certificate and private key. Expects an encrypted mail message in MIME format for the input file. The decrypted mail is written to the output file.
sign mail using the supplied certificate and private key. Input file is the message to be signed. The signed message in MIME format is written to the output file.
verify signed mail. Expects a signed mail message on input and outputs the signed data. Both clear text and opaque signing is supported.
takes an input message and writes out a PEM encoded PKCS#7 structure.
resign a message: take an existing message and one or more new signers.
the input message to be encrypted or signed or the MIME message to be decrypted or verified.
this specifies the input format for the PKCS#7 structure. The default is SMIME which reads an S/MIME format message. PEM and DER format change this to expect PEM and DER format PKCS#7 structures instead. This currently only affects the input format of the PKCS#7 structure, if no PKCS#7 structure is being input (for example with -encrypt or -sign) this option has no effect.
the message text that has been decrypted or verified or the output MIME format message that has been signed or verified.
this specifies the output format for the PKCS#7 structure. The default is SMIME which write an S/MIME format message. PEM and DER format change this to write PEM and DER format PKCS#7 structures instead. This currently only affects the output format of the PKCS#7 structure, if no PKCS#7 structure is being output (for example with -verify or -decrypt) this option has no effect.
the -stream and -indef options are equivalent and enable streaming I/O for encoding operations. This permits single pass processing of data without the need to hold the entire contents in memory, potentially supporting very large files. Streaming is automatically set for S/MIME signing with detached data if the output format is SMIME it is currently off by default for all other operations.
disable streaming I/O where it would produce and indefinite length constructed encoding. This option currently has no effect. In future streaming will be enabled by default on all relevant operations and this option will disable it.
This specifies a file containing the detached content, this is only useful with the -verify command. This is only usable if the PKCS#7 structure is using the detached signature form where the content is not included. This option will override any content if the input format is S/MIME and it uses the multipart/signed MIME content type.
this option adds plain text (text/plain) MIME headers to the supplied message if encrypting or signing. If decrypting or verifying it strips off text headers: if the decrypted or verified message is not of MIME type text/plain then an error occurs.
a file containing trusted CA certificates, only used with -verify.
a directory containing trusted CA certificates, only used with -verify. This directory must be a standard certificate directory: that is a hash of each subject name (using x509 -hash) should be linked to each certificate.
digest algorithm to use when signing or resigning. If not present then the default digest algorithm for the signing key will be used (usually SHA1).
the encryption algorithm to use. For example DES (56 bits) - -des, triple DES (168 bits) - -des3, EVP_get_cipherbyname() function) can also be used preceded by a dash, for example -aes_128_cbc. See enc for list of ciphers supported by your version of OpenSSL.
If not specified triple DES is used. Only used with -encrypt.
when verifying a message normally certificates (if any) included in the message are searched for the signing certificate. With this option only the certificates specified in the -certfile option are used. The supplied certificates can still be used as untrusted CAs however.
do not verify the signers certificate of a signed message.
do not do chain verification of signers certificates: that is don't use the certificates in the signed message as untrusted CAs.
don't try to verify the signatures on the message.
when signing a message the signer's certificate is normally included with this option it is excluded. This will reduce the size of the signed message but the verifier must have a copy of the signers certificate available locally (passed using the -certfile option for example).
normally when a message is signed a set of attributes are included which include the signing time and supported symmetric algorithms. With this option they are not included.
normally the input message is converted to ``canonical'' format which is effectively using CR and LF as end of line: as required by the S/MIME specification. When this option is present no translation occurs. This is useful when handling binary data which may not be in MIME format.
when signing a message use opaque signing: this form is more resistant to translation by mail relays but it cannot be read by mail agents that do not support S/MIME. Without this option cleartext signing with the MIME type multipart/signed is used.
allows additional certificates to be specified. When signing these will be included with the message. When verifying these will be searched for the signers certificates. The certificates should be in PEM format.
a signing certificate when signing or resigning a message, this option can be used multiple times if more than one signer is required. If a message is being verified then the signers certificates will be written to this file if the verification was successful.
the recipients certificate when decrypting a message. This certificate must match one of the recipients of the message or an error occurs.
the private key to use when signing or decrypting. This must match the corresponding certificate. If this option is not specified then the private key must be included in the certificate file specified with the -recip or -signer file. When signing this option can be used multiple times to specify successive keys.
one or more certificates of message recipients: used when encrypting a message.
the relevant mail headers. These are included outside the signed portion of a message so they may be included manually. If signing then many S/MIME mail clients check the signers certificate's email address matches that specified in the From: address.
Set various options of certificate chain verification. See verify manual page for details.
The MIME message must be sent without any blank lines between the headers and the output. Some mail programs will automatically add a blank line. Piping the mail directly to sendmail is one way to achieve the correct format.
The supplied message to be signed or encrypted must include the necessary MIME headers or many S/MIME clients wont display it properly (if at all). You can use the -text option to automatically add plain text headers.
A ``signed and encrypted'' message is one where a signed message is then encrypted. This can be produced by encrypting an already signed message: see the examples section.
This version of the program only allows one signer per message but it will verify multiple signers on received messages. Some S/MIME clients choke if a message contains multiple signers. It is possible to sign messages ``in parallel'' by signing an already signed message.
The options -encrypt and -decrypt reflect common usage in S/MIME clients. Strictly speaking these process PKCS#7 enveloped data: PKCS#7 encrypted data is used for other purposes.
The -resign option uses an existing message digest when adding a new signer. This means that attributes must be present in at least one existing signer using the same message digest or this operation will fail.
The -stream and -indef options enable experimental streaming I/O support. As a result the encoding is BER using indefinite length constructed encoding and no longer DER. Streaming is supported for the -encrypt operation and the -sign operation if the content is not detached.
Streaming is always used for the -sign operation with detached data but since the content is no longer part of the PKCS#7 structure the encoding remains DER.
an error occurred creating the PKCS#7 file or when reading the MIME message.
the message was verified correctly but an error occurred writing out the signers certificates.
Note: the encryption command does not include the -text option because the message being encrypted already has MIME headers.
The MIME parser isn't very clever: it seems to handle most messages that I've thrown at it but it may choke on others.
The code currently will only write out the signer's certificate to a file: if the signer has a separate encryption certificate this must be manually extracted. There should be some heuristic that determines the correct encryption certificate.
Ideally a database should be maintained of a certificates for each email address.
The code doesn't currently take note of the permitted symmetric encryption algorithms as supplied in the SMIMECapabilities signed attribute. This means the user has to manually include the correct encryption algorithm. It should store the list of permitted ciphers in a database and only use those.
No revocation checking is done on the signer's certificate.
The current code can only handle S/MIME v2 messages, the more complex S/MIME v3 structures may cause parsing errors. | 2019-04-22T02:35:30 | http://linuxhowtos.org/manpages/1ssl/openssl-smime.htm |
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Minister Martin's reported willingness to consider opt-out clauses in future national wage agreements for exporting businesses is a bit rich coming from a minister who had more pay rises in recent years than most people in the private sector have had hot dinners.
This cop-out would allow the public and non-traded sectors which are immune to economic realities and real competitive pressures to continue to enjoy unsustainable pay increases. As a consequence our national competitiveness would be further reduced and with corporate tax rates within the EU likely to converge we would see an eastward flight of investment from Ireland. In these circumstances, the only solution may be to abandon the euro and revert to a floating Irish pound. This would improve competitiveness but at the expense of higher prices and interest rates.
The bottom line is that if national agreements are not suitable for the traded sector then they are inappropriate for everyone.
Mr X quoted EU statistics (Letters, 5th June) to suggest that Ireland has become more equitable since Bertie Ahern came to power. He indicated that the gap between the incomes of the top 20% of the population and bottom 20% declined from 5.1 times to 5.0 between 1995 and 2005, an improvement of 2%.
It is a pity he did not look more closely into the figures as he would have found that EU countries improved their overall score over the same period from 5.1 to 4.8, a 6% improvement; Ireland's score improved by 12% from 5.1 in 1995 to 4.5 in 2001 and deteriorated by 11% to 5.0 over the subsequent four years; and Ireland had the tenth widest gap between rich and poor out of 28 countries in 2005.
Ireland's score would need to fall to 4 to match the equalities in most Northern Europe states. At the current rate of progress, this will take a hundred years.
Letter published in the Irish Times on 7th June 2007.
The central issue in the nurses dispute is not that they may be paid too little but that other people get too much, too easily.
For example, the Taoiseach and his cabinet are amongst the best paid in the world; unjustifiably high fees are charged by many sheltered professions offering critical services; price gouging is widespread amongst many local private and public services; house prices are set by an unholy alliance of builders and bankers with predictable results; wage inequities have intensified due to continual use of percentage increases under successive national agreements which, in addition, have mainly applied to the public sector; and superfluous tax reliefs have ensured that people who should pay the most tax can actually pay the least.
The net result is that competitiveness has declined alarmingly and consumer price increases are amongst the highest in the world. The remedial action is straightforward - hold back wages and prices.
The starting points could be benchmarking mark two which must roll back the first one and more; the next national wage agreement must deliver absolute rather than percentage increases; the income tax system must be rebalanced to ensure that the higher rate applies to all higher incomes; meaningful powers must be given to regulators and the Competition Authority; and, most critically, the next Government must be willing to play hard ball with vested interests in the national interest. Predictably, none of these actions feature in election promises.
Letter published in the Sunday Business Post on 15th April 2007.
In his opinion piece on behalf of the Irish Wind Energy Association, Paddy Teahon (2nd April) suggests that Ireland has one of the best wind resources in the world and that wind is the only creditable option to achieve the one-third renewable target. He highlights the main challenges confronting his industry including uncertain policies, moratoriums and planning restrictions. However, he completely fails to mention the greatest challenge of all - uncertain supply of wind. At time of writing, wind is supplying just 13 MW out of a total demand of 3,885 MW, that is 0.33% of demand. Is the wind industry whistling in the wind or in the dark?
Letter published in the Irish Times on 6th April 2007. | 2019-04-18T15:04:43 | http://www.planware.org/briansblog/2007/04/ |
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The reputation of the credit card for bad credit is an aspect that should not be overlooked. It is prudent to read the comments that have been made on the review column of the issuers. It is advisable to apply credit cards for bad credit that have support from the public. People can also inquire additional information from their friends and relatives that might have used different credit cards.
People that are planning to apply credit cards for bad credit should ask the issuers to inform them about different types of credit card. By checking out on different types of credit cards, people will be able to make informed decisions and select suitable credit cards. People with bad credit history are advised to choose credit cards that will help them to rebuild their credit history. Suitable credit cards should send notifications to the databases of the credit bureaus each time the clients make transactions. It is important for the credit bureau to update the reports of the individuals. People are advised to visit the offices of credit bureaus to confirm whether changes have been made on annual basis. | 2019-04-22T11:57:19 | http://www.whalewatchwithcolinbarnes.com/finding-similarities-between-finances-and-life.html |
The Digital Senior Producer will report to his or her relevant Senior Editor. They will be responsible producing both video and print content in the relevant focus area. From time to time the candidate will also be required to manage a team of Producers and Craft Editors to drive online video and print coverage across TRT Arabi's digital platforms. The team will produce highly shareable, cutting edge and information packed videos and text. The team will focus on the relevant focus.
Produce high quality video or/and print content in the relevant focus area.
Participate in editorial operations for the relevant team.
Carry out duties in line with editorial guidelines and ethics of TRT Arabi.
Impeccable Arabic writing and editing skills.
Fluency in English highly advantageous. | 2019-04-23T18:03:15 | https://www.trtarabi.com/jobs/I0010/10196/digital-senior-producers |
My main research interests are in the fields of environmental sociology, sociology of knowledge and science, urban sociology, and pragmatic social theory. I am member and co-director of the research group on Knowledge, Organization and Politics, and main responsible for teaching the corresponding MA specialization course. I am also co-founder and head of the CEVES research center (Center for Science, Expertise and Society).
Title: Common ground in risk society?
It is now commonly accepted that the world is facing a range of serious environmental challenges of global reach. Global warming in particular, projected to lead to future treats against nature and society, is already causing widespread concern, political conflicts, and changes in social norms. This challenges the natural as well as the social sciences. So far, however, the contributions of sociology to understanding the social dynamics of global climate change have been sparse.
This research project explores the idea that global climate changes may be analyzed in sociological terms of risk and solidarity. As such, they embody what German sociologist Ulrich Beck has dubbed 'risk society': the world finds itself confronted by the unwanted side-effects of industrial society. The research focuses on changes in social norms, practices and 'imagined communities' in the wake of climate change. Will climate change give rise to new risk- and solidarity-based communities between people living at great distances from each other, geographically as well as socially?
As a socio-political problematique, climate change may lead to widespread conflicts in the future. At the same time, however, it opens up horizons of new 'cosmopolitan' identities, as citizens of the world carrying responsibilies towards humans and environments. This project investigates the possibilities of emergence for new 'climate risk communities'. Empirically, it focuses on how cities and urban communities address global climatic concerns in the shared designs of everyday inhabitation. As such, the project seeks to further theories of 'world risk society' in the direction of socio-material transitions towards sustainability.
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Buckle up Ladies and Gents – this is going to be a long post. I have been scouring the internet for clues to the ObamaCare debacle to see if I can figure out how bad it is, and how long it will take to fix. This is basically what I do in my day job. I come into troubled, large federal programs that are heavy on distributed computers (most times some of the computers are distributed in space around our planet or in our solar system, but in the end that is just a Honking Large Wide Area Network (HL-WAN)), and I uncover where the programs are malfunctioning. This allows the programs to focus on how to get right, which I help them do as well.
This tale spans many years, and inklings of what went wrong have been hinted at by the experts in recent reporting. One thing is for sure, if the price-shock cover-up was the catalyst to this meltdown, it opened a major wound on a system that was probable not very robust (i.e., stable) in the first place. Think of this panicked need to hide the premium and deductible costs from individuals as the last straw, not the sole or primary problem.
I understand the panic. If you do the math, you can figure out quickly that healthy, young people are going to be paying out the nose for those who are older and sicker – because that is the whole house of cards ObamaCare sits on. Income redistribution! Just wait until we have to cover all the illegal immigrants as well! Then ObamaCare’s roughly $10,000 annual deductibles for a family of four along, with nearly $12,000 dollars in premiums a year, will look damn cheap!
Can anyone figure out which is less? $22,000 a year for health insurance and co-pays, or paying a fine and sticking the $22K in a CD? Even low interest is better than losing that much scratch!
Well let’s step back to March 2013 and this interesting overview of the the Federal Facilitated Exchanges (FFEs, which are a major element of HealthCare.gov for the 36 states that don’t have insurance exchanges), State Based Exchanges (SBEs) and apparently the big bottleneck to the hole scheme the Federal Data Service Hub (sometimes called the FDSH, or just “The Hub”).
Here is concept cartoon [click to enlarge all images] for the FEE, including its relationship to the SBEs (referred to as “States” lower right), The Hub, (upper right) State Medicare/Medicaid agencies (lower left). Missing are the numerous Federal Agencies The Hub interfaces to – which would be shown beyond The Hub.
This is one of those deceptively simple diagrams for managers, which neglects to tell the whole story. And it is an example of why so many government programs are in trouble. You put this in front of technologically naive people and they completely under estimate what they are facing. The critical complexity is hidden from most, and only appreciated by a few. So let me attempt to expose it.
First off, the lower right “State Medicaid and CHIP” systems. There are probably 51 of these, one for each state (plus DC) and each one with a different DB schema and way to interface to the data. This is one of the checks done by Healthcare.gov when applicants sign up to see what they qualify for. Each applicant gets checked by these state databases based on where they say they live. So a minimum of 50 interfaces to these state systems.
The Lower right is the SBEs, of which I can only guess there are 25 (since 36 states went with the HHS provided exchange – DC is one pile or the other). These have to use The Hub to access federal databases for other cross checks. So there are 24 more interfaces.
Also interfacing to this FFE are insurers, of which there must be tens if not hundreds for the 36 states being supported by HealthCare.gov. The SBEs already contain their local insurers, so they are hidden from this view.
Upper left are the consumers, something like 30 million uninsured individuals from 50 states, and I would wager a similar number of small and large companies. Note, back in March 2013, Companies had not quite yet received their one year reprieve from ObamaCare. That repreive showed up mid summer. So lets just stick with 15 million individuals everyone claims tried to sign on the first week. Remember, these people come from all 50 states and the District, so each applicant is now referred to either a state SBE (which in many cases means they were able to sign up) or now fall into the labyrinth that is the FFE and The Hub.
Now each of these federal systems has multiple databases and database schema. Worse yet, each uses a different way to identify Americans. And each probably has a different cadence in terms of requests and response. So each person who tried to set up an account on Healhcare.gov was cross checked at the Social Security Administration (SSA), the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), etc. What happens if you are not in one database but in another? Bet you Healthcare.gov throws its hands up and calls a human operator.
Two big things to note about this chart from March 2013. These are the Hub capabilities as of that date and a lot of it was supposedly in place. Hard to tell if this was prior to or after the sticker-shock cover-up. But if you had to go through all these hoops before a price could even be computed it is no wonder the system bogged down. My guess this is prior, and when they had to turn this around and pretty much do all the cross checking before you could move on, the concept broke.
Moreover, if any of these agencies had delays, or if the process was sequential (which it had to be) then delays would domino. If SSA took too long, then IRS would be put on hold, etc. At the end another commenter concurs this probably happened.
I can see a cascade of queued up messages waiting for details from the previous step. It would work for a short time, but as more people logged in their transaction would queue up, consuming RAM and disk. Worse yet, if the networks running the messages/files started to clog, then that would add to the system backing up and freezing. The system would belly up. And do so again and again as they restarted and tried to run again.
“Overly simplistic” is an enormous understatement. When I see diagrams like this I see a technical project in serious denial and headed for a crack up. As I noted before, the right side is really something like 50 state Medicaid/CHIP systems and the left is the 24 State Based Exchanges. The right side also has all those Federal systems the HUB has to query for each individual. The Hub uses a mush of messages, emails and files to interact with these entities, adding to the impossible complexity. And it translates a lot of unstructured data between all these outside systems.
On the left side, a sane program would have limited the number interface types to define, test and maintain. With SBEs being developed as part of ACA, you could afford to limit the interface complexity. And on the right side people should have begun to worry if in March, when coding supposedly STARTED, they had enough time to test, let alone develop. They show 6 entities, but the reality is 26 SBEs on the left, 60+state and federal systems on the right, and millions of transactions coming in to build a file for each of the 17 million applicants.
To see how bad The Hub’s data collection challenge is, just check out this ‘Guideline” document on interfacing to the FFE and The Hub. Here is an example record structure – no data entered.
All this collected from who knows how many sources. There is a lot more juicy technical information in this document I don’t have time to cover, but I will cover one more item. One of the main interfaces to the hub are files that are ’emailed’ between The Hub and the external insurers.
QHP [Qualified Health Plan] Issuers will connect to the Hub (for enrollment EDI transactions) via the CMS Enterprise File Transfer (EFT) system which is a batch system. Each QHP Issuer is assigned a Submitter Identifier in the EFT system which allows access to a mailbox. The QHP Issuer and the Hub use this mailbox to pick up and drop off data files.
This can cause huge problems since email can be slow and firewall rules (and other security features) can create difficulties in getting the mail delivered, with attached files intact. I have never seen such a thing work quickly. At least it appears to be only with insurers! But if you are waiting on emails to be exchanged before you can enroll in your plan, good luck! Some reporting hints that this interface to possibly hundreds of insurers is also not operating very well.
Anyway, so the general design for Healthcare.gov was to create a bottleneck called The Hub, which acted as a universal translator between scores of legacy and new systems. The universal widget and perpetual motion machine all in one. No wonder failure was the only option.
The data modeling alone must be a nightmare. Each interface deserved extensive testing – and I am talking a week of basic functional testing and then weeks of load testing. The reason you do weeks of load testing is lots of times SW systems can begin to consume themselves through memory leaks, expanding buffers, etc. Much of the problems on Go-Live day SHOULD have been caught if the load testing was done. You never want to discover the things out we are seeing after deployment. Never. And there was no excuse in not doing the load testing.
I always recommend a day-in-the-life-test followed by a week-in-the-life-test at nominal peak loading to make sure the system is robust. Obviously this was not done or else Healthcare.gov would have made it at least a day before crashing.
We know from the Hub To Date chart from March 2013, this schedule never happened.
You will notice how little testing time there was at the end of this fiasco – just a couple of weeks. No time to fold in corrections.
The vertical horizontal dashed blue line is the date of this report. The vertical red line is the Go-Live date of Oct 1, 2013. 4th row down we see the supposedly nearly complete Hub barely making it through testing before end-to-end (E2E) testing is halfway done (the yellow color indicates a risk). This is another sign of a program heading to disaster. They are running E2E and User Acceptance Testing (6th row) while the Hub is still being tested. Hard to do those other larger tests when the central bottleneck is still under test.
And why was The Hub Scrambling? Some of it had to do with the fact it had not been demonstrated to be secure. A GAO report late summer identified the fact security requirements and implementations for The Hub were not complete, let alone tested. The core piece touching all those state and federal databases had not done the required security assessments or had the agreements in place to interface with those federal repositories of PII information. So the security was slapped on at the last minute – another sign of a certain performance disaster. And I would wager, Healthcare.gov is probably very open to IT security threats. When were the ~100 external interfaces to The Hub operationally tested? I doubt it was in those last few weeks of September. I am pretty confident the first real test was on October 1, and they are now discovering a sea of technical issues that will take weeks to work off.
Look at the issues they have. The 3rd one notes The Hub had just completed stand alone testing! End to End was to begin – and this is Sept 13? They ran out of time, and that is poor technical management. And then they deployed anyway – and that is political stupidity.
There is more proof of this here, in this Sept 11th report.
Our delivery milestones for Data Services Hub completion are being met on time. We expect CMS’ Data Services Hub will be ready as planned by October 1st.
We have completed software coding for the Data Services Hub for all its required October 1st functions.
We are continuing performance and integration testing.
We have connected the Data Services Hub to databases at the key federal agencies that will be used to verify information.
We have connected the Data Services Hub to the system that will transfer data to and from the health plan issuers.
First line: note the caveat “required”. It is well known updates were planned for Dec and later, probably to fix problems discovered in September. Second line: The Hub is still being integrated and tested. It should have completed this by now and high priority ‘bugs’ should be coming in for final operational testing. Third line: The Hub has been ‘connected’ to federal agency databases. No real world testing has been done, just a connection test. Same with line 4 -“connected” is not tested.
Here are some more charts from the Washington State Exchange as far back as July 2013. This chart notes “DSHS Eligibility Services and the CMS FDSH are new systems being constructed by their respective organizations”. The SBE had deemed these to be critical schedule risks.
There are more risks listed in the presentation, but a pattern is quickly becoming clear. Not enough testing, probably due to insufficient design and planning.
In a nutshell, many agile processes — and especially extreme programming — reject the big design phase as part and parcel of rejecting the waterfall methodology. Agile processes follow more of an “organic” software development, where developers start coding the smallest increment possible and “grow” the working software up, little by little, with constant customer feedback. These agile methodologies call for “user stories” to design each small increment of the system being developed. To be fair, agile can work for some software projects, but I assert that it is the kiss of death for projects with many moving parts, multiple organizations and complex interactions.
Personally, I am a fan of design and system architecture, and I have witnessed many successful projects that resulted from good design. Furthermore, I flatly reject the notion that user stories can suffice for large IT projects like HealthCare.gov that require scalability, data integration, numerous system interfaces and other complexities.
Couldn’t agree more. The tunnel vision and blinders I see in the technical documentation is stunning. With this many complicated, unique external interfaces you can’t just wing it in scrums and sprints. With this many different forms of data you can’t skip data modeling and data architecture, so you know how to translate between the various sources, sinks and internal records. And you would not make the mistake of standalone tests over week-in-the-life tests.
The data hub would certainly be ground zero for such load issues, but not the only one. If any of the other databases it spoke to were overloaded, the sign-up process would break anyway. The conundrum may not even be in the data hub or in healthcare.gov, but in some pre-existing citizenship database that’s never had to cope with the massive crush of queries from the hub.
And who are they kidding with “Agile” when there are 50 contractors coming and going over 3 years? See here for the list of contracts per company, per year, and a summary here. Apparently there was some enterprise architecture work done by Mitre, but I would bet the developers of the Hub just ignored it in their Agile process. This is not an Agile environment. Too many contractors doing small pieces and no Systems Engineer/Architect making sure it comes together.
There are probably scores of witnesses for Congress to call upon, and a paper trail a mile deep in HHS and the states. The proof is in the last 3 dismal weeks of ObamaCare as it ObanaCrashed over and over. If the WaPo is right, these terminal design and technical mismanagement issues are leaving potential customers cold. Traffic to Healthcare.gov is dropping like a rock. The ones soldiering through are those desperate for coverage – the costly ones. Those giving up on enrolling are the ones now wondering if paying the penalty and saving the money from premiums and co-pays may not be the less painful path in the end.
Either way, the issues with Obamacare are not going away anytime soon.
Update: Is WH already working plans to delay ObamaCare individual Mandate. ROTFLMAO.
Betchya those were the Dec updates that were planned! You know what people will think now about Shutdown Theater – huge waste? BTW, Expect the links alone in this post to be fodder for the conservative PR machine. There’s a lot of ‘slpaining to do.
This isn’t some coding error, or even the Health and Human Service Department’s usual incompetence. The failures that have all but disabled ObamaCare are the result of deliberate political choices, which HHS and the White House are compounding with secrecy and stonewalling.
The health industry and low-level Administration officials warned that the exchanges were badly off schedule and not stress-tested despite three years to prepare and more than a half-billion dollars in funding. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her planners swore they’d be ready while impugning critics and even withholding documents from the HHS inspector general for a routine performance audit this summer.
Our sources in the insurance industry explain that the 834s so far are often corrupted or in the wrong syntax, and therefore unusable unless processed by hand. In other cases the exchanges spit out multiple 834s enrolling and unenrolling the same user and don’t come with time stamps that would allow the insurer to identify the most recent version.
Yep, that confirms my suspicions above with the interface to the insurers. That will require a complete do over at these interfaces, with weeks of proper testing.
A Reuters review of government documents shows that the contract to build the federal Healthcare.gov online insurance website – key to President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform – tripled in potential total value to nearly $292 million as new money was assigned to the work beginning in April this year.
“Why this went from a ceiling of $93.7 million to $292 million is hard to fathom,” said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group that analyzes government contracting.
What happened CMS and HHS got beyond those simplistic power point slides and found 10’s of “engineering years” worth of work that had to be done in only a few months. They went for the 9 women being pregnant for a month gambit to ‘bend the schedule curve’, Which means they screwed up and threw bodies at a problem that really required a full stop and a new strategy. | 2019-04-22T19:59:29 | http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/20037 |
On this week's episode of "The Local Sports Lunch Box," on WPKZ, I welcomed in the Telegram & Gazette's Chris Kyne to talk local high school hockey, and the Sentinel & Enterprise's Chad Garner to talk local boys and girls hoops.
If you want to learn a ton about local sports, particularly hockey and girls basketball, this week's show is for you. Plus, I preview the biggest games of the upcoming week, and hand out my weekly awards. Listen in for all that, and much more, below. | 2019-04-25T18:24:27 | http://www.suitesports.com/2017/01/radio-local-sports-lunch-box-1517.html |
Java applications must connect to a database before operations can be performed on the data. This section explains how to create or connect to an UltraLite or UltraLite Java edition database with a specified password using the UltraLiteJ API.
To create an UltraLite database without using the UltraLiteJ API, you can use Sybase Central or UltraLite command line utilities. For more information, see UltraLite database creation.
Create the database using the ULjLoad utility. See UltraLite Java Edition Database Load utility (ULjLoad).
Use the ulunload and ULjLoad utilities to convert an UltraLite database. See UltraLite Database Unload utility (ulunload).
Deploy a Java SE application to a BlackBerry smartphone by copying the UltraLite Java database to an SD card or transferring it from MobiLink using the file transfer mechanism. See MobiLink file transfers.
For more information about the differences between an UltraLite and an UltraLite Java edition database, see UltraLite and UltraLite Java edition databases.
A Configuration object is used to configure a database store. Several implementations of a Configuration object are provided. A unique implementation exists for every type of database store supported by the UltraLiteJ API. Each implementation provides a set of methods used to configure the database store.
Android file system See ConfigFileAndroid interface [Android] [UltraLiteJ].
RIM object (BlackBerry) See ConfigObjectStore interface [BlackBerry] [UltraLiteJ].
Record See ConfigRecordStore interface (J2ME only) [UltraLiteJ].
Java SE file system See ConfigFile interface [UltraLiteJ].
Non-persistent (in memory) See ConfigNonPersistent interface [BlackBerry] [UltraLiteJ].
Internal flash and SD card See ConfigFileME interface [BlackBerry] [UltraLiteJ].
When creating a persistent database store, you can set the form of persistence for your Java application using your Configuration object. By default, shadow paging persistence is enabled. You can use simple paging persistence as an alternative by setting the setShadowPaging method of your persistent Configuration object to false. When simple paging persistence is enabled, you can set write-at-end persistence by setting the setWriteAtEnd method of your persistent Configuration object to true.
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Transactions A transaction is the set of operations between commits or rollbacks. For persistent database stores, a commit makes permanent any changes since the last commit or rollback. A rollback returns the database to the state it was in when the last commit was invoked.
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Prepared SQL statements Methods are provided by the PreparedStatement interface to handle SQL statements. A PreparedStatement can be created using the prepareStatement method of the Connection object.
Synchronizations A set of objects governing MobiLink synchronization is accessed from the Connection object.
Create or connect to a database from your Java application.
An existing Java application for an Android device or a BlackBerry smartphone that implements the UltraLiteJ API.
Create a new Configuration object that references the database name and is appropriate for your platform.
In the following examples, config is the Configuration object name and DBname is the database name.
Set database properties using methods of the Configuration object.
For Android smartphones, you can use the setCreationString and setConnectionString methods to set additional creation and connection parameters, respectively.
The DatabaseManager.createDatabase method creates the database and returns a connection to it.
The connect method finalizes the database connection process. If the database does not exist, an error is thrown.
You can execute SQL statements from your Java application to create the tables and indexes in your database but you cannot change certain database creation parameters, such as the database name, password, or page size. | 2019-04-23T02:33:57 | http://dcx.sap.com/1201/en/ulj/uj-samples-s-3555868.html |
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Superior, a leading manufacturer of high integrity o-rings and seals, has presented 22-year-old Jamie Arnold with its ‘Apprentice of the Year’ award.
Jamie is currently in the fourth year of his apprenticeship, working in the technical department at Superior. He has been credited for his work ethic, attitude and for being the most improved apprentice of 2017.
Jamie Arnold, Superior’s ‘Apprentice of the Year,’ commented: “I am honoured to have been given this award and recognised amongst the other apprentices. My success and development originate from the training provided by the Superior Academy and support throughout the company. I have enjoyed every step of my apprenticeship with Superior and I’m proud to have a direct influence on both internal and customer projects.
The ‘Apprentice of the Year’ award has been in place at Superior since 2009. The company initiative was introduced to help motivate its apprentices and reward significant progress. The first award was given to Bradley Hicks in 2009, who is now the maintenance manager at Superior. Bradley is currently mentoring two apprentices to work alongside him in the maintenance department.
The Academy currently has 20 apprentices going through its apprenticeship programme, accepting people directly from school at 16 years old, through to A-Level students and university graduates. The manufacturing company is now recruiting for 6 engineering apprentices to join its award-winning Academy. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to complete a degree. Apprentices spend their first year full-time at the Academy with one day a week at Bournemouth & Poole College.
Katie Bodman, head of training Academy at Superior, commented: “We’re delighted to have nominated Jamie Arnold as our ‘Apprentice of the Year.’ It’s well-deserved because he has demonstrated a huge amount of development during his career at Superior, both professionally and academically. | 2019-04-23T07:01:10 | http://www.bournemouthtown.co.uk/superiors-apprentice-of-the-year-gets-the-seal-of-approval/ |
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While applying for a car loan can be tricky, it’s still possible to get your first car loan approved with these seven tips.
There are many expenses involved in owning a car apart from the maintenance and petrol. You will need to pay for things like stamp duty, car insurance and registration, which all add up. If you don’t budget well, this will be a burden. And your lender might reject your application. You can use our car loan calculator so you know how much your repayments will likely be and if you can actually afford it.
Even if you can afford to buy a new car, if you can’t meet the lender's requirements you’ll likely be rejected. You should review the requirements so you know if you qualify for the car loan. Keep in mind that different lenders have different requirements.
If you have a big deposit, there’s a higher chance your car loan will be approved. It shows the lender that you’re financially responsible as a borrower. Also, a bigger deposit means lower monthly repayments because the size of your loan is reduced.
A bad credit history is a major red flag to many car loan providers in Australia. You should be able to improve your credit score by clearing any debts against your name, and paying off your loans on time. Your goal is to have as little debt as possible, so you can show your lender you can make the car loan repayments.
This car loan tip is for people with no credit history. Opening a bank account is the first step into the world of credit, and lenders will examine your bank account balance and transaction history when deciding whether to give you a loan.
With the many car loan products out there, it pays to do your research so you know you’re getting the best possible deal that’s suitable to your needs and financial circumstances. You can compare loans by using a car loan calculator. | 2019-04-25T16:32:08 | https://www.loans.com.au/news-media/blog/august-2017/top-7-tips-to-get-approved-for-your-first-car-loan |
Each week, The Daily Beast sifts through the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Katy Perry is one artist’s new muse, Big Love returns for a blockbuster year, and a script for The Kennedys shines light on the miniseries’ cancellation.
A dreamy new exhibit in Los Angeles is the latest marker in the short but memorable relationship between artist Will Cotton and “Firework” singer Katy Perry. Cotton paints women with candy accoutrements, including cupcake tiaras and cellophane dresses—and his recent muse makes an appearance in his new show. Cotton was also artistic director of Perry’s Candyland-themed “California Gurls” video and painted her most recent album cover, a whipped confection of cotton candy surrounding Russell Brand’s beatific bride. The latest exhibit opens at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles on January 14, but fans with a sweet tooth can get a glimpse at his newest portraits here.
Until this week, no one except tabloids—who salivated over images of Katie Holmes as Jackie O—thought much about The Kennedys, the History Channel miniseries scheduled to air in the spring. But after the network announced it was dropping the pricey eight-part show, despite its A-list cast (including Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as Joe Kennedy Sr.) and credentials ( 24’s conservative creator Joel Surnow spent years getting the project off the ground), everyone wanted to know what went wrong. An exclusive, early copy of the script obtained by The Daily Beast might explain why, as the network said, the “dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand.” From the Kennedys’ rampant womanizing to the $1 million trust offered to Jackie to stay with Jack, read the most salacious bits of the script. It could be your only chance—multiple networks have already passed on snatching up the controversial rights.
For four years, the extended family on Big Love shocked audiences. Bill Paxton’s alter ego Bill Hendrickson and his harem of wives (brilliantly played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin) illustrated a type of family never-before-seen on television. Last season, critics thought the HBO drama careened off the deep end when Paxton’s patriarch ran and won for state senate—and then the family outed themselves as polygamists. But the HBO drama returns this weekend and seems to have righted itself and toned down the over-the-stop storylines for its fifth and final season. The always provocative show is again focusing on what made the show irresistible: the Hendricksons and their highs and lows of modern relationships. Jace Lacob writes that “rather than be unified by their self-outing, the family seems to be falling apart, their homes the frontlines for an internal battle of wills and self-fulfillment.” You won’t find that on Sister Wives. Big Love, premiering Sunday on HBO, deserves a second chance on your DVR. | 2019-04-19T06:19:25 | https://www.thedailybeast.com/katy-perry-and-will-cotton-the-kennedys-and-more-culture-picks |
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After that, in the previous posts, we’ve talked about using the Panorama and Pivot controls in a Windows Phone application with Caliburn Micro, we’re ready to face the lazy loading topic. What is lazy loading? This approach is commonly used when working with databases and, simplifying, means that the data is loaded only when you really need it. Basically all the available ORM technologies (like Entity Framework or NHibernate) support lazy loading; think about a database, with many tables and relationships. Usually, when you do a query to retrieve the data that is the result of a join between two or more tables, the operation is immediately executed and all the requested data is retrieved from the database. With the lazy loading approach, instead, we are able to request for the data only when we need to work with it. Let’s say you have an application used to display orders and you want to do a query to get all the orders with the information about the customers that made them. With lazy loading, you are able to get all the orders and query for the related customer only when the user, actually, chooses to see his details: otherwise, the query is not executed.
How can this concept be applied to Pivot? With Caliburn Micro we’ve been able to split the different pages in the different Views and ViewModels but, in the end, they are all part of a single page: the conductor’s one, that contains the Pivot control. This means that, if we use the usual approach to load the data in the ViewModel’s constructor, when the user navigates to the page all the ViewModels are loaded and all the data is loaded and displayed.
Think about a news reader application, that displays different news categories in the different pages of a Pivot control: when the page is loaded, all the news are loaded, even the ones that are displayed in pages that are initially hidden. This is when lazy loading comes in handy, to improve the performances of our application: we can load just the data on the page that the user is currently viewing and loading the other stuff only when he swipes on that specific page.
Let’s see how to implement it: we’ll start from the same application we’ve developed in the last post, with a Pivot control and two pages.
IMPORTANT! Even if, from a code point of view, Panorama and Pivot have the same approach, we’ll be able to support lazy loading just using a Pivot, due to a bug in the Panorama control in Windows Phone 8. Which is the problem? That if Panorama items are added to the Panorama control using binding and the ItemsSource property (and they aren’t directly declared in the XAML or manually added in the code behind), the SelectedIndex property (which is important to keep track of the view that is actually visible) doesn’t work properly and returns only the values 0 and 1. The consequence is that the SelectedItem property doesn’t work properly, so we are not able to support lazy loading because we don’t know exactly when a view is displayed.
We’re going to develop a simple RSS reader, so first we’ll need some helpers class to accomplish our task.
By using LINQ to XML we are able to parse the RSS file and to extract, for every news (stored in the item node), the properties title and description.
When the ViewModel is initialized we call the LoadData() method which, using the WebClient class and the Async Targeting Pack (so that we can use the DownloadStringTaskAsync() async method), we download the RSS feed. Then, we parse the result using the RssParser class we’ve created before and, in the end, we convert the collection we get in return in a List<T> object, that we assign to a property in the ViewModel called FeedItems. Due to the naming convention, this is the collection that will be displayed in the ListBox in the View.
Now repeat the same steps for the second page of the Pivot, by adding the same code to the PivotItem2View page and to the PivotItem2ViewModel class: just change the URL of the RSS feed to download with another one, so that we can see the differences.
Now run the application: you’ll see that, when the Pivot page is loaded, both views will load and display the list of news from the RSS item; not just the one that is currently displayed, but also the second one.
If you have many views in the Pivot and you need to load a lot of data, this operation can take some time and the user will have to wait that everything is fully loaded before using the application. So, let’s implement lazy loading! The operation is really simple and, if you have already read my previous posts about Caliburn Micro, you should already have a hint about the way to do it: using the navigation events.
If you launch again the application your notice that, now, when the Pivot is loaded only the news in the first page will be displayed: the second page won’t contain any data. As soon as we swipe to the second page, the load operation is triggered and the list of news is displayed in the ListBox.
This is the conclusion of the series of posts about using the Pivot control in a Windows Phone application developed using the MVVM pattern with the help of Caliburn Micro. | 2019-04-20T09:12:42 | https://blog.qmatteoq.com/first-steps-with-caliburn-micro-in-windows-phone-8-lazy-loading-with-pivot/ |
Lancashire-born Rachel Jackson has an interesting story on how she became a jewellery designer. Rachel decided to leave her 10-year career in the music industry to pursue her passion for jewellery design after the tragic death of a close friend. It was an epiphany that life is short and it was time to do something she loved so she took a leap of faith and dived right in. She started making her jewellery at her kitchen table without any experience in the jewellery industry or any funding and sold her jewellery at Spitalfields Market, London.
Fast forward to present day, with her hard work and perseverance, Rachel’s jewellery brand has taken off. She was voted one of the eight Best of British Designers in 2009 and her designs are sold worldwide in over 150 stores. Her jewellery have been featured in Vogue, Elle and Grazia and are worn by celebrities including Rita Ora, Katy Perry and Jennifer Lawrence.
Rachel Jackson’s jewellery are minimal, geometric in design with an art deco detailing. Each piece is unique, authentic, personable, much like the girl-about-town personality that’s Rachel Jackson.
Popular bestsellers include her birthstone necklace where you can choose your own made with a semi precious gemstone of your birth month and her Art Deco inspired alphabet that you can layer on for a unique effect. Her jeweleries are made from high quality materials sourced in the most ethical way possible, for example she uses recycled sterling silver that are then plated with 22 carat gold or rose gold.
Take a peek at yet another talented jewellery designer we are bringing in to the London Designer Pop-up Store from 16-22 November at the Butterboom online store now. Pieces are limited so if you want to get your pressies in time for Christmas, better reserve now! | 2019-04-19T16:34:55 | http://butterboom.com/fashion/rachel-jackson-jewellery-modern-day-girl/ |
Springfield, MO. (April 9, 2019) – The Springfield Art Museum is pleased to announce that Watercolor USA 2019 will feature 90 works from 80 artists working in aqueous media, representing 34 states. At 90 works, Watercolor USA 2019 is the largest Watercolor USA in recent memory, continuing a recent trend among jurors to give audiences what they want: watercolor - and more of it.
The 58th exhibition of Watercolor USA was juried by award-winning watercolorist Dean Mitchell. Mitchell is a member of the National Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society (AWS). He is a recipient of the AWS Gold Medal and received a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Watercolor USA Honor Society in 2018.
Two hundred and eighty-one artists from 47 states entered 485 works for consideration. Mitchell had the unenviable task of narrowing those entries down into a sampling of the very best in contemporary American watermedia. Unique among the many juried watercolor exhibitions across the country, Watercolor USA is exhibited in a museum setting and the Springfield Art Museum frequently acquires and continues to exhibit work from the show. The Museum purchased work for its permanent collection from Arkansas artist Emily Wood from Watercolor USA 2018.
A number of cash prizes, merchandise, and possible purchase awards from both the Museum and the Watercolor USA Honor Society totaling approximately $20,000 will be announced prior to the opening reception on June 7 at 5:30 PM. This reception has a long history of generous support from the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates.
See Watercolor USA from June 8 through September 1, 2019 at the Springfield Art Museum located at 1111 East Brookside Drive in Springfield, Missouri. A color catalog, a complete record of the exhibition, will be available for purchase in Avant Art, the Museum’s social gallery. Admission is always free. Donations are gratefully accepted. | 2019-04-24T20:39:20 | http://sgfmuseum.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=84 |
Book cheap flights to Niagara Falls from Tampa today with using OutTrippin’s ticket finder. We help you compare flights, carriers and seating classes all year round. Be sure to find the right flight to match your budget, plans and travel preferences. | 2019-04-24T22:17:41 | https://outtrippin.com/flights/us/tpa/iag/ |
This self-test will give you insight into your basic parenting style and help you determine those factors that influence your parenting decisions.
The test is lengthy, but completing it will give you valuable information regarding your feelings about anger, fear and sadness - in both yourself and your child - as outlined in the book, The Heart of Parenting by John Gottman, Ph.D.
The quiz consists of 81 TRUE or FALSE questions. You will need to mark your answers down on a separate piece of paper. If you are not sure of an answer, choose the answer that seems to match your feelings the closest.
Please answer honestly. There are no right or wrong answers. | 2019-04-24T16:11:01 | https://www.teach-through-love.com/my-parenting-style.html |
Stocking collections from leading designers such as Emma Hope, Stuart Weitzman, Nicholas Kirkwood and Rupert Sanderson just to name a few Hoity Toity is a unique shoe boutique situated in the picturesque village of Tarporley, in the heart of the Cheshire countryside.
Our luxurious boutique contains a carefully selected range of handpicked designer shoe brands rarely found outside of London, New York and Milan.
Our stylish shop provides an unrivalled experience for our customers to enjoy shopping for key designer pieces as well as everyday footwear all in the capable and attentive hands of the Hoity Toity team.
To complement our shoe range we also stock The Soho Furrier who create the most beautifully made luxury real fur clothing and accessories.
Discover the world Hoity Toity for yourself at 73b Tarporley High Street, Tarporley, Cheshire. | 2019-04-26T12:21:33 | http://www.welovecheshire.co.uk/profile/hoity-toity-shoes-tarporley/ |
Check out these two recent publications on drivers and indicators of state change and recovery. This is pretty interesting. Although the models and empirical data are mostly from mesic systems, these ideas definitely apply to aridland systems as well.
Ratajczak, Z., P. D’Odorico, J.B. Nippert, S.L. Collins, N.A. Brunsell and S. Ravi. 2017. Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal of Ecology 105: 750-760. | 2019-04-21T13:10:37 | http://collins.lternet.edu/node?page=1 |
TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Global IT Management-as-a-Service (ITMaaS) market to grow at a CAGR of 34.29 percent over the period 2012-2016. The increasing number of employees using personal technology devices in the workplace is one of the key factors contributing to this market growth. The Global ITMaaS market has also been witnessing increased popularity of ITMaaS among small and medium-sized enterprises. However, risk associated with multi-tenancy could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
TechNavio’s report, the Global ITMaaS Market 2012-2016, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market in the Americas, and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Global ITMaaS market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
The key vendors dominating this space include BMC Software Inc., CA Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., and ServiceNow Inc.
The other vendors mentioned in this report are Cherwell Software LLC, Entrada Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hornbill Corp., IBM Corp., and Microsoft Corp.
Exhibit 11: Business Segmentation of BMC Software Inc.
Exhibit 12: Business Segmentation of CA Technologies Inc.
Exhibit 13: Business Segmentation of Hewlett-Packard Co.
Exhibit 14: Business Segmentation of ServiceNow Inc.
BMC Software Inc., CA Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., ServiceNow Inc., Cherwell Software LLC, Entrada Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hornbill Corp., IBM Corp., and Microsoft Corp. | 2019-04-21T00:37:40 | http://tn.h-and-i.jp/technavio-market-data-53245 |
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District, have been voting at the Port Providence Band Hall.
known as the “Fountain Inn.” They have been held here since 1852 or 1853.
1883, William B. Logan, Jr.
entirely lost had it not been recently rescued and brought to light by Dr.
facilities for knowing. He speaks without doubt.
of the last centuries are spelled Trappe.
advertises the hotel in Sower’s newspaper, and calls it “Trapp” Hotel.
5. The post-office, when established in 1819, was by the name of Trap.
Thus the change is gradual, but marked,–T-r-a-p, T-r-a-p-p, T-r-a-p-p-e.
event the hotel received its name, “Treppe” being the German word for steps.
champions for “Treppe” or “Trappe,” while Hon. Wright A. Bringhurst and Hon.
determined that the proper name was Trapp.
village boasted of three public-houses.
north of Norristown, and one of the most beautiful villages of the county.
postmaster, and the office named Perkiomen Bridge. In 1848, Henry A.
name from its school, and was called Freeland.
of the post-office was changed to Freeland.
this name did not last long.
been waged, each person calling the village the name best suiting his fancy.
soon attached itself also to the village.
Schuylkill Valley Railroad established here, called Mont Clare Station.
office of the same name recently established.
Square, situated midway between Collegeville and Phoenixville. | 2019-04-20T20:15:14 | http://trappehistoricalsociety.org/upper-providence-township-beans-1884/ |
See your City with Enterprise Holdings Inc.
If you are in search a variety of rental options fitted to an array of different needs, look no further than Enterprise Holdings. The company’s three different brands, Enterprise, National, and Alamo continually rank highest in customer satisfaction. Each of these three brands serves a different walk of life, making Enterprise Holdings dramatically versatile and all-encompassing. With a philosophy of “Take care of customers and employees first, and the growth and profits will follow,” Enterprise Holdings is a company that values what it has, and takes pride in what it can provide to their customers.
Based out of St. Louis, Enterprise Holdings Inc. is the largest rental car company in the world, as measured by revenue and vehicles; Enterprise Holdings owns the largest fleet of passenger cars in the world! Enterprise Rent-A-Car, one of the brands owned by Enterprise Holdings is internationally recognized and known for affordable rates, neighborhood convenience, and outstanding customer service. They will even pick up local customers at no extra cost or fee. With more than 7,600 locations throughout the world and more than 5,800 fully staffed neighborhood and airport branches located within 15 miles of 90 percent of the U.S population, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has you covered.
National Car Rental, another of Enterprise Holdings’ brands, is a premium brand serving daily rental needs of the frequent airport traveler seeking choice, convenience, and time-savings for both business and personal trips. National even helped pioneer the corporate-account business with the car rental industry’s first comprehensive frequent rental program called: “Emerald Club.” National Car Rental is also the Official Partner and Rental Car of the Professional Golfer’s Association, as well as the Official Rental Car Partner for nine major league baseball teams, including the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles and the New York Mets.
Alamo Rent A Car is the company’s third brand, and aims to attract value-oriented international and U.S leisure travelers looking for an easy and hassle-free rental experience. It is not only the largest car rental provider to international travelers visiting North America, but it also holds the title of the Official Rental Car of Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort. Be sure to sign up for the Alamo Insiders Loyalty Program, as it provides members with a 5 percent discount.
Enterprise Holdings and its three internationally recognized brands have continually been recognized for customer service, sustainability efforts, employment practices and policies, and overall leadership in the car rental industry. They care about the satisfaction of their customers as well as their employees, and work tirelessly to continue to be a leading rental company. | 2019-04-21T06:17:12 | https://www.travelresearchonline.com/blog/index.php/2017/09/see-your-city-with-enterprise-holdings-inc/ |
Eggs cooked with tomato sauce are known in many cuisines. In most recipes, the tomato sauce is heavily spiced and cooked for 15-20 minutes before the eggs are added. While very tasty, the dish can be quite heavy, especially if served for breakfast.
Here is a quicker, and in my humble opinion, fresher and tastier, version. | 2019-04-22T14:12:42 | https://ronitpenso.wordpress.com/category/breakfast/ |
This class will help bring calmness to the mind by using your breathing during the practice of movements with the body. This will enable you to withdraw from the chaos of the busy lives we all lead, and you will become aware of your posture.
With regular practice, you will build up energy and become more toned. | 2019-04-22T02:54:36 | http://www.think-fitness.co.uk/classes/mind-body |
We are working on a drupal ecommerce subscription service.
Modules: Commerce, Commerce Mollie, Payment etc..
After finishing the payment the user needs to get the right role + a message.
This works with the default test creditcard payment.
But the commerce mollie integration module, is not triggering any rule after finishing the payment.
This is a real problem for us.
I would love any help, if there is information missing tell me!
You need to use event named order_paid_in_full.
Create you own rule, based on the event above, and grant the user the role.
Use commerce_license module - it has a role module, and this is what you need.
How to implement a donation functionality? | 2019-04-25T14:37:45 | https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/262557/drupal-mollie-payment-no-rules-trigger |
Fully furnished condo in the beautiful Catalina Foothills! Equipped with everything you need - house wares, linens, full-size washer & dryer, cable and Wi-Fi. Relax on your private covered patio or take a dip in the sparkling pool! Close to fine dining and shopping, too. List price is average, please call for exact pricing and availability.
Direction: From Sunrise/Kolb East to entrance on South side of Sunrise. | 2019-04-20T15:02:37 | https://www.realestate.com.au/international/us/7050-e-sunrise-drive-tucson-az-110001661095/ |
The Aroma Festival was "huge", according to Breville business manager for beverages, David Gubbin. Coffee snobs and newbies alike got to check out the brand new black and red BES900 Dual Boilers (RRP $1,499), as well as get some tips from Breville pontiff of the pour Phil McKnight.
The new black BES900 (with the red model in the background), which we first told you about last week.
Breville's in-house coffee expert Phil McKnight. | 2019-04-23T04:06:08 | https://www.applianceretailer.com.au/2012/07/vwjvvxfylw/ |
In 2017, Stora Enso launched our first Accelerator programme, in partnership with Aalto ENT and Vertical Accelerator. The programme focused on digital solutions for smart factories, supply chain track and trace, customer experience and other ideas with a clear connection to renewable materials. As an outgrowth, Stora Enso has already announced two partnerships, with Sulapac and TRÄ.
With Sulapac, the company will concentrate on combatting the global problem of plastic waste by accelerating the use of renewable materials in packaging. With TRÄ Group, the focus is on making the specification of wooden buildings easier and attaining smarter construction with a digital platform and toolbox that connects industry professionals throughout the value chain. | 2019-04-18T22:42:52 | http://www.pulpapernews.com/20181109/10118/stora-enso-teams-startup-company-sulapac |
Romantic flight, my tribute to John Powell’s fantastic, phenomenal score for How To Train Your Dragon! To this day one of my all-time favorite soundtracks.
A big THANK YOU to BlackFlex for transcribing this one! | 2019-04-23T22:38:07 | http://www.pandatooth.com/portfolio-items/how-to-train-your-dragon/ |
On Monday the United States and Japan agreed to the most sweeping changes to their bilateral alliance in more than fifty years. The so-called “2+2” Security Consultative Committee (SCC), consisting of the U.S. secretary of state, and secretary of defense, and Japan’s foreign minister and defense minister agreed to a series of initiatives that will draw the two allies even closer in defense and security matters.
The SCC agreed on the so-called Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation, which will supplement the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America. The overall goal is tighter, more seamless cooperation between the two countries on a raft of security issues, from ballistic-missile defense to mutual logistical support and cyber warfare.
The primary benefit to the United States will be a more capable alliance partner, as the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) will be empowered to protect American assets and work more closely with their American counterparts. On the Japanese side, the agreement will help Japan break out of constraints on the SDF and the use of force, in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s vision of normalizing Japan’s security situation.
Japan’s armed forces and security policy have been shaped accordingly. Japan’s military is technically a “self-defense force,” meant solely to defend Japanese territory from aggression and without the means to project offensive power against another state.
The cornerstone of the U.S.-Japan alliance continues to be a joint dedication to the defense of Japan. Under the guidelines, in the event Japan were to come under some form of attack, Japan would assume primary responsibility for its own defense, including its surrounding waters and airspace, and air and maritime approaches. This also includes chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) attacks. The United States would provide a supporting and supplementary role.
The guidelines allude to an offensive role for United States forces in wartime. “The United States will take actions to shape the regional environment in a way that supports the defense of Japan and reestablishes peace and security.” That is a reference to offensive action leading to a termination of hostilities, activities the SDF cannot constitutionally provision themselves to conduct.
The guidelines specify a “whole of government” approach, which will knit the two countries together at the civil and military levels. A new aspect of the alliance is the Alliance Coordination Mechanism, a shared set of procedures devoted to streamlining and increasing coordination between the U.S. military and the SDF. That mechanism will further information and intelligence sharing between the two countries, plan for joint contingency operations, and coordinate bilateral exercises.
The alliance will also seek to increase joint coordination and planning through a new Bilateral Planning Mechanism. At the personnel level, exchange programs will assign SDF personnel as liaisons to U.S. military units and vice-versa.
Japan and the United States will also step up intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) cooperation, sharing and protecting intelligence gathered by manned and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. That may include, for example, intelligence gathered by Japan’s future fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk drones or American RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. The agreement makes mention of “bilateral ISR activities” to ensure “persistent coverage” of threats to Japan and the region.
Recently revised projections of North Korea’s nuclear weapon stockpile, as well as China’s sizable arsenal of nuclear and conventionally armed ballistic missiles, are driving Japan and the U.S. to work closer together.
Japan will bear primary responsibility for conducting ballistic missile defense (BMD) operations in Japan, with the United States providing support. The two countries will share BMD-related data in real time, for early detection of ballistic missile launches. The guidelines also specify increasing interoperability between U.S. and Japanese forces.
Under the guidelines, the two countries will jointly increase early warning capabilities, including expanding network coverage of potential threats. That likely includes further expansion of the X-band radar network to southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Two U.S. AN/TPY-2 surveillance radars, which can support Aegis BMD and THAAD missile systems, have already deployed to Japan, with another two or three likely.
A sore point in the U.S.-Japan alliance has been the inability of the SDF to defend U.S. forces and territory. While Japan claims the universal right of self-defense, successive interpretations of its constitution have disallowed the right to defend other states.
News reports have suggested that under the guidelines, Japanese forces will be allowed to shoot down ballistic missiles aimed at the U.S. The reality is somewhat more complicated.
Under the new guidelines, a form of mutual defense is now allowable. “The Self-Defense Forces and the United States Armed Forces will provide mutual protection of each other’s assets, as appropriate, if engaged in activities that contribute to the defense of Japan in a cooperative manner.” The vague nature of the wording means “assets” could be practically anything, from a U.S. naval vessel to an American city.
A strict interpretation of the guidelines suggests the SDF will only be able to defend American territory in situations arising from the defense of Japan. This suggests that SDF ballistic missile defense would sit out any one-on-one confrontation between the United States and, for example, North Korea that did not directly involve Japan.
One scenario that may fall under the expanded charter is a noncombatant emergency evacuation of the Korean peninsula. There are at any one time roughly 33,000 Japanese nationals living in South Korea, a number that surges to 100,000 during Japan’s peak travel period. Prime Minister Abe has repeatedly stated the Japanese government would wish evacuate its citizens in wartime.
Japanese government officials have concluded they would receive no help from Seoul in evacuating its civilians, and South Korea has warned Japan it would not allow its sovereignty to be violated by Japanese forces. The use of American ships and planes to evacuate Japanese citizens may be a middle ground that could satisfy both Japan and South Korea.
Logistics: Bilateral cooperation will extend to logistics. Under the guidelines, countries will provide mutual logistical support to one another in the field, including supply, maintenance, transportation, engineering, and medical services. The agreement is similar to one Japan signed with Australia in 2010.
The United States and Japan have considerable commonality in military equipment, from GE gas-turbine engines powering surface ships to the upcoming F-35 fighter. The new logistics agreement will allow each country to take advantage of that commonality to assist the other in servicing equipment and resupplying troops during contingency operations.
Maritime cooperation: The guidelines specify ISR, training, and exercises as means to cooperation in the maritime domain. The guidelines stress cooperation in maritime operations, stating that the two countries “will cooperate closely with each other on measures to maintain maritime order based upon international law, including freedom of navigation.” The latter is likely an indirect reference to China’s enforcement of its claim to the South China Sea and implies a future Maritime Self-Defense Force presence in the area, a move endorsed in January by Adm. Robert Thomas, commander of the 7th Fleet.
Cyberspace: Under the Guidelines, Japan and the United States agree to share information on threats and vulnerabilities in cyberspace. Alliance members will cooperate to protect critical infrastructure, including working with private industry to secure secrets. Training and education will be shared.
As with other forms of attack, cyberattacks against Japan will be the responsibility of the SDF, with American forces providing support.
The bulk of the new U.S.-Japan agreement consists of incremental, logical steps for the alliance, and Japan in particular. By embracing mutual self-defense Japan will be able to reciprocate—under certain circumstances—defensive aid. Considering the vast amount of resources America could provide—and risk it assumes—that is only fair.
The agreement opens up new vistas for the alliance, including bilateral planning, joint operations, and informational exchanges at the national strategic level. The agreement will strain—but arguably not breach—Japan’s constitutional boundaries on the use of force. Prime Minister Abe may wish to ultimately do away with Article 9, but this new agreement saves that for another day. | 2019-04-25T05:52:32 | https://news.usni.org/2015/04/29/inside-the-new-u-s-japan-defense-guidelines |
This new venue in its beautiful Denver setting rates an “A” grade from the music critics! The project, with lead involvement by Bastien, is located at the Pepsi Center and run by ClearChannel. It is a 5400 seat concert venue with an awesome tensile structure and an incredible view. It sits on 2.1 acres and is approx. 60,000 s.f. | 2019-04-23T02:29:33 | http://www.bastienarchitects.com/projects/denver-city-lights/ |
This year is not a lot different, we have another wedding but not until February. I do have to have a knee surgery however, and we are travelling to Europe to meet our number 6 grand child who was born in late August. Sadly I may be on crutches, but life doesn't stop for a sore knee!!
ANYHOO, I am planning a couple of Christmas get togethers before we trek off to a snowy Christmas and then a snowy wedding.
These are the must haves in my household for your Christmas joy! Perhaps a practice run or two might be in order. It is only a month away!
What is Christmas dinner without the perfectly glazed ham? This recipe dates a long way back to. Put it on your list and make sure you get the jam made well in advance. You can do that now!
I'm not going to lie. The parsnip carrot and quinoa gratin, doesn't look amazing. (see background of the ham pic above) But I have to say, it is completely delish and if you have any vego's in your party, this will suit them to the ground. It is quite amazing. Give it a try! I totally love it!
If we are talking dessert, (and we certainly should) no Christmas in Australia is complete without a pavlova, ammaright? But they can be a fiddle in the hot weather and you really cannot prep them too far in advance. So I have the perfect solution for ease and less stress, the Pavlova Yoghurt Panna Cotta's. They seriously taste like a pav and if it is the meringue crunch you are after, then garnish with mini meringues, which will stand the distance of early prep and the hot weather.
Speaking of meringue, for something a bit special and pretty impressive, why not get this one organised. Strawberry Meringue Pie with Rose is delicately flavoured, very table worthy for the occasion and is the total package. Good looks as well as great taste!
For a little drinky, when you have a crowd, or just to calm your pre dinner nerves when you are the hostess, I suggest a very big batch of the Pomegranate Sangria. It is easy to throw together at a moment's notice if you have the syrup all organised and plenty of ice. YUMMERS.
The presents are done, dinner is done, the house is relatively quiet, people have left, you are weary but happy and you need a little something to note that the day went well. After Dinner Mints, homemade of course are perfect. (I have been known to call these After Breakfast Mints, but don't judge me). They can be made waaay in advance, keep them frozen, and preferably hidden for safe keeping as once you have one, you may find you will need to make another batch before the big day. You have been warned!
Start the menu planning now, you will thank me for it as the day draws near. It is fun to whip a storm when you have most of it prepped ahead of time.
Let's enjoy it all this year shall we mum? | 2019-04-24T14:32:24 | https://tenina.com/blog/8-christmas-dishes-you-cant-do-without |
I will begin this Vertical Transmission by highlighting the links between the ASM National Executive and our State branches, and the steps we are taking to strengthen interactions between these important ASM groups.
Welcome to this edition of Microbiology Australia in which we examine the second most dangerous ectoparasite for humans, the tick (the most dangerous being without doubt the mosquito!), for the pathogens it carries and the diseases it can cause. | 2019-04-18T22:23:53 | http://microbiology.publish.csiro.au/nid/206/issue/9357.htm |
It’s always fun to see past wedding clients years after working with them, so we were thrilled when April & Scott asked us to photograph their family. Baby girl Maeva was turning ONE and felt like smashing some cake and eating tacos with family, so we joined the party and mixed some family photos in with it. We couldn’t keep these hidden away so we thought we’d share a few of our favorites from the session.
This girl loves her books. And dragons. And tacos. And dragons who love tacos. Ha! LOVE this adorable one. Name train from Grandpa and handmade rocking chair from Uncle. Everyone loves a sugar rush! | 2019-04-18T17:17:29 | http://ericandchristy.com/april-scott-maeva-1st-birthday-family-session/ |
The Krabi Adventure Race Trophy 2017 | JustRunLah!
- Each competitor must start the race with 2 liters of water (camel pack is recommended).
- Mountain or off road bike (Please contact us if you need to rent a bike or helmet).
- Tire repair kit (minimum 2 spare tubes, tire inflation device) per team.
Teams: Team of 2 racers.
Extreme: For confirmed athletes and experienced adventure racers.
Adventure: Suitable for W.E. warriors or adventure racing newcomers.
3 – 5 hours for Adventure division and 4.30 – 7 hours for the Extreme division.
Hello I registered for the race but my partner had a loss in his family and won’t be able to attend. Can I do the race alone? Can I get refunded? Can I join another group of 2 pax? | 2019-04-26T00:23:03 | https://www.justrunlah.com/race/the-krabi-adventure-race-trophy-2017/ |
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Our team is getting in the holiday spirit. How about yours? Here are some holiday tidbits about our favorite workmates (i.e. all of them).
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That shouldn't even be possible. That boss hasn't received any changes.
Oh! That's what was happening? I thought entering a new floor reset the effect and that "need for speed", "need for super speed", etc, were stacking on top of each other, giving you 3 layers of bonuses every floor. But looking at the code now, I see there's a "remove system" in there. Ok, that's pretty neat actually. Once I play some more, I might have some duration suggestions for the super speed and super duper speed perks though. Thank you for clearing my confusion.
Yep, the previous perk systems should be getting removed. The durations are probably going to need fine tuning, yeah.
Yeah, the safe zones are at either end of the room, so if you want to be super cautious you can try to draw out as many enemies as possible, and fight in those areas.
As far as achievements go, because that is proper engine stuff I don't really know what's going on there. The achievement bugs have been pretty frustrating to deal with for that reason.
Yep, that sounds about right. You become a kind of blood phantom, although it's not 1 health per room it's life leech when killing enemies.
Sounds like it's working out. You're going to have a lot of restarts with the Penumbra, but when everything works out those runs should be satisfying.
I think the turrets are meant to be solid and dependable, so you can reliably use them tactically, so I'm not a big fan of adding randomness to those. Hopefully just being able to deploy sentries, and the tactical gameplay that creates should make the weapon interesting enough. Yeah, there is a delay on how fast you can put the turrets down...I guess there doesn't need to be, though. It's probably more about how you position them. The fire rate doesn't really matter, I guess, so I'll reduce that delay a bit.
I'll reduce the energy cost on that a little then, thanks.
I tested this a bit. Unfortunately, this seem more like a general problem. I've used as much wall_collision_reduction on shots as possible in order to reduce this effect, but sometimes if you are flush with the wall, the shots are stopped. For some weapons, the shots seem to be pushed to the side a bit...for some reason, which looks weird but gameplay-wise it's better. I'll have to investigate this a bit more and maybe ask Keith about it to see what's going on.
Yeah, the reason why I did this is so that if the Evaporater is hovering over an unreachable area, it's not halting your progress. It's a solution to that, but a janky one. I could just stick with the regular behavior on room clear, but then there would be some rooms where the Evaporater would hover in unreachable areas for a bit. You could just wait until the enemy moves, of course, but I was thinking that might prove frustrating for the player. I suppose I could just remove the ability to move through walls on this enemy, which isn't the original design, but it works, I guess.
I might look into something like this, but I think that once the patterns click and it's realized that the end of the rooms are safe, the room should be good as is....I think!
Darn. I should have recorded the fight. I thought it would be easy to reproduce in the test room, but it's not! Now all I have to offer is "It was going a bit forward everytime it went up or down", which is as unhelpful as can be. Now that's frustrating.
Okay, I got some stuff here.
- rooms with "JumpScare_x1" couldn't spawn whatever that is.
- you seem to not get as much XP as you used to get, so less health, damage, etc. could be associated with item drops being rare.
Also, some complaints about the melee enemy. Sidestep Abmoog, was it? I'm pretty sure that was the one. And a complaint about "too many bullets per enemy" which is going to feed in a bit to something else here.
Okay first of all, I'd like to congratulate Windows on being the worst thing to ever happen to computers. I have to type this up a second time because I maybe hit the windows key kinda almost sorta possibly. WHoever came up with that has hopefully been A: fired and B: banished to another galaxy while covered in bees.
Anyway. Biggest issue right now: Visual confusion. WAY too much of it. I'll put it this way: in just going through a run on normal mode, I've had a few too many times where I cant even entirely tell what's going on. Now, if *I* am having issues with this, it's definitely a problem. I'm used to Mushihime and it's infinite fields of tangled purple doom, and it doesn't give me that much trouble. The problem: Too many "large" bullets and particle effects. Way too many. These larger shots should be used sparingly. The problem isn't the hitbox size, it's simply the visual size of the sprite. It sort of "bloats" everything. But it also makes it nigh-impossible to tell what is going on when two patterns intersect, which is very frequent in this game. I'll just put it this way: There's a reason why the normal floors are using mostly bullets from the "simple" bullet art folder. Same with most of the bosses. There's already a lot that players need to process visually as it is.
I'd love to get some feedback from you testers on this one. Let us know what you think of this. I'm aware that it's a very subjective issue even just within individual games.
Let's see... other issue: Entirely missing enemy category (jumpscares). Facepalm. This one is probably my fault. I'll deal with that, and other related issues. I'm going to put the Misery Mode stuff on hold and try to push out an update tomorrow or the next day containing some new baddies to fill some voids that are currently there and just add more in general to the golden floor enemy selection. Also maybe new boss #8. In particular we could use some more of the "simpler" foes. Got lots of complicated ones in the golden floors, perhaps a bit too much.
Certain things also could probably do with a good whack from the nerf bat. Carrion Engine in particular could use a nerf nuke, I went a tad overboard with that guy, so it's getting some changes. A couple of the minibosses could maybe do with a mild nerf but I should test a bit more.
A couple of other things here.... elemental damage. It's hard to even tell what this is. It seems... out of place to me? What do you guys think? Also, most things capable of altering enemy firing timings (like the Narcotics Drone) could do with a toning-down. They pretty much ALL turn bosses/fearsomes into sad, easy things regardless of difficulty. There's a new module that was doing something like this, I forget the name. I should have written this down.
Challenge rooms are doing well, too. The one with the bazillion snipers might be a bit overboard though, I could see players getting a bit lost on that one perhaps. But for the most part, these have been very good. The more variety here the better!
Evaporator enemy: room cleared, this guy was still hanging around. No idea why. Happened more than once.
Skeleton Key: Not opening lock blocks. Probably an oversight instead of a bug.
Lastly: the biggest feedback I'd like to get right now, is what you guys think of the current difficulty, based on whatever mode you are playing on?
And yes I know I could have typed this up in an email, but I'd rather have all of it open for discussion among the testers as well.
That is actually a good spot, yeah. In my rooms, I've hardly used those glass containers. I'll add a bunch to mine where appropriate, cheers. I'll leave Draco take a look at his own rooms. Maybe it's just my rooms that are really lacking them.
These are probably the Sidestep Abmoogs. Those are actually slightly broken in the build that was sent out, so that they don't actually side-step (I think), which makes them a bit more terminator-esque. I've also slightly nerfed the movement speed for the next build. We'll take it easy with these guys, though. A couple of rounds of tweaks should get them into good shape.
Not sure about this. Generally, there are later floor enemies that unlock, so there should be a clear difference between late and early game. I am trying something a bit different with the elemental enemies, though, in just having same floor variants, I might have to change that in the future, although it's a bit early to say. The enemy HP values could be looked at a bit more, perhaps.
you seem to not get as much XP as you used to get, so less health, damage, etc. could be associated with item drops being rare.
XP values should be similar, I think. Unless something weird is going on.
I'm not at the correct computer just now, but I'll put a nerf in later, cheers.
The other errors with Challenge rooms and enemy seeding are all known, yeah. The empty challenge rooms won't be fixed for a long while.
Yeah, I'm going to have to just be reactive about this. If anybody can point out any specific problem enemies, I'll take a look. For myself, though, I don't really struggle visually for some reason. It may just be that it doesn't really bother me that much, even when I can't see fully what's going on, heh. I like the chaos of the moment too much. The only thing I do find bothersome visually is at some points when there is visual glare from the backdrops behind. As for particles, the only enemies that are using particles, I think, are 3 attackers which give off an AOE -- the drainer, energy drainer, and the healer, I think. I'm going through the enemies in my mind, but those are the only ones I can think of, and those don't even shoot at you, so it's just an area around the enemy. Should be easy enough to see. It's a general rule to not use particles on enemy shots, only player shots. This then also helps you distinguish between enemy and player shots a bit. As for large bullets, those can be looked at, yeah. Someone is going to need to point out the problem enemies for me, though.
I really didn't want to get too deep into the elemental damage stuff, so it's meant to be pretty simple. Mainly just some Dot and an associated effect. Ice just slows a bit, Fire burns you a bit, Acid does Dot and increased weakness to further attacks, and Ion stuns a bit. I can remove it if necessary, though, but most of this stuff is already in the base game -- the effects like time dilation, I mean.
Yeah, I think I'm just going to have to lose the flies through walls attribute on this enemy. It's a shame, but I've tried various solutions so far.
No feedback currently, just a question. Do we get a new final boss with this expansion, when it gets released? Maybe somethign like "Hand of Midas" or soemthing along that line?
Yeah, I think so. Misery can confirm this, though.
I'll run through my rooms and check on glass containers. I know that some of the simpler rooms I did recently didn't have any, but we're talking shops and secret stuff rooms, which probably don't need any.
Found 3 rooms to add glass shottables to that didn't have them previously.
Aw, that's too bad. I really like those guys. One just gave me a good fright with Penumbra, passing over a wall to reach me. An intense and surprising moment that couldn't have happened without their current design. Can't you give them some special ability making them commit seppuku when the room is cleared?
I'm not sure what this Hand of Midas thing is.
Okay, how about Enter the Gungeon? I don't know if you've seen that but it's a decent analogy I guess. The game's normal final boss is the Dragun, but if you've done enough things and completed a couple of special objectives, you have the option of going past that into another area (which in that game is literally named "Bullet Hell", someone was being very clever that day...). In there you reach the game's "true" final boss, Lich, who is really dramatically harder than the Dragun, BUT, he's optional. You don't HAVE to go to that area, you can simply end the game with a win right after the Dragun if you want. But if you do go fight the Lich, you better know what you're doing because it's one of those fights where it seems like the game stops being balanced in difficulty and starts simply trying to actively kill you. It's also a very long fight, as the boss has three separate forms. Bosses like this are usually very long battles.
Isaac is where the concept is inspired by though, as it does this sort of thing in multiple places. It's pretty common in the genre though. Usually in these games the idea is, if you think your build is strong enough (and if you think you have enough skill) you can go after the big optional guy on that particular run. But if it isn't, you don't have to.
I'm not sure what sort of conditions might be required here to get this boss to show itself. Havent decided.
It's also somewhat inspired by lots of the bullet-hell games I play, where there's usually some sort of horrible "true" final boss that only appears if you beat the game almost perfectly. Cave's games do this a lot, they're the bosses that are so stupidly difficult that even most experts don't stand a chance. I don't intend on going THAT far with it, but... I'll say that the misery mode version of this particular boss will be different than the rest. If I can get it to do the stuff I want, that is.
It's definitely not playable yet... right now it's a hideous jumbled mess. It's pretty low on the priority list at the moment.
Actually...yes, yes, I believe I can! (checks). Yep, that works. Thanks! We'll try that for now then. The only problems are that if a room is filled with Evaporaters then you only have to kill the remaining enemies to clear the room. This is fine if there is only one or two Evaporaters, and a bunch of other enemies, but it does feel a bit weird if the room is mostly Evaporaters. You might potentially also get a room that rarely spawns only Evaporaters, so the room will auto-clear. Anyway, we'll try this for a while. If it doesn't work out I'll have to remove flies_through_obstacles.
Mine layer abmog, vain, drove and trebuchet all do not give xp when I kill them. Not sure if it is intended since they are such easy kills.
Maybe pick up an item that could be a part of this boss. A weapon or a piece of armor or whatever. Then it checks if you have this part, if so then you can fight this boss. Make it available in the sacrifice shop to kinda guarantee it to show up.
The undead revival sacrifice perk doesn't seem to grant life on kill. It also prevents pickup of any weapon and resources too.
Well spotted on the Mine Layer and Vain. Mine Layer wasn't granting XP due to the enemy transforming into a mine on death. I've fixed that now using a different implementation. Vain is a super easy fix, but I'll leave Misery to deal with that. I don't like digging into his code when he's close to pushing an update, in case it causes conflicts. The others are popcorn enemies which are set to not give XP, I think...although maybe if they just gave a very small amount of XP that would be nice. Only really respawning enemies need to be set to 0, I think.
Yeah, setting it to not allow you to pick up any items is kind of a thematic thing, plus it adds a slightly different gameplay element. I didn't want to do just another straight revive item. It does actually grant life on kill, but it's not a 1 health per enemy ratio. You have to kill 5 enemies for 1 health, I think. I tested it quick, and it does seem to be working correctly for me. | 2019-04-26T04:00:14 | http://forums.arcengames.com/starward-rogue-alpha-discussion/augmented-alpha-feedback/30/ |
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Haas Visiting Artist Reverend Billy and his collaborator Savitri D. return to Wheaton for a performance hosted by the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities. Come and see this performance artist-preacher revel against the sins of consumerism and sermonize on the crisis of the Earth. Internationally notorious for their hilarious and controversial work, director/activist Savitri D. and Reverend Billy’s stop at Wheaton promises to shake Cole Memorial Chapel with a joyful noise. Join us after the performance for a conversation led by Savitri D. about creative activism and strategies of resistance. | 2019-04-22T08:06:47 | https://wheatoncollege.edu/event/reverend-billy-and-savitri-d-performing-resistance/ |
Gum disease causes more Americans to lose their teeth than any other reason. The condition begins with simple, reversible gingivitis, and when left untreated, it progresses into periodontal disease: a condition that causes bone loss, gum detachment, gum recession and even tooth mobility.
Active gum disease is linked to systemic health problems.
Inflammation associated with gum disease places a strain on the body’s immune system, and its ability to combat other types of diseases. Also, bacteria found in the deep pockets of areas with periodontal disease can become dislodged and enter into body’s circulatory system where it can deposit itself into blood vessels throughout the body. The more advanced the periodontal disease, the more severe and uncontrollable the systemic condition is likely to be, and vice versa. Therapeutic treatment for gum disease will help strengthen the body’s immune system as it combats other conditions.
Each patient receives a periodontal screening to assess the health and attachment levels of bone and gum tissue. Diagnosis is achieved through a clinical examination, periodontal exam, and x-rays. This allows for the opportunity to implement therapy as early as possible, and maintain dental health. For patients with advanced disease, we also provide therapeutic services to eliminate the disease and associated bacteria.
Each dose is delivered with an applicator device that places the Arestincapsule into the bottom of the pocket. Once placed, it begins releasing microcapsules of antibiotic over a 10-14 day period. The advantage of Arestin over other types of medications is that it penetrates the deepest area of the disease. Other types of prescriptions are delivered topically, may not reach the bottom of pockets, and can also cause enamel staining.
After completing Arestin treatments, patients can generally expect healthier pocket depths and tissue reattachment in the treated area. That’s what makes it an effective part of the comprehensive periodontal plan we provide to patients at Sunny Dental of Wilton Manors.
Ultrasonic instrumentation is a comfortable and effective way to loosen and flush bacteria from the periodontal pocket. The thousands of vibrations that occur in the smooth instrument tip cause tartar deposits to dislodge off of the tooth. This type of instrumentation is also more effective than traditional manual hand scaling (not to mention more comfortable.) Most of the time the cleanings will be completed one quadrant of the mouth at a time, with 1-2 quadrants per appointment. More quadrants may be completed if local anesthetic is not needed, and the disease is less advanced. After a full mouth cleaning has been performed, the patient will need to have routine maintenance treatments to prevent the disease from recurring.
We typically offer nitrous oxide and local anesthetic for deep cleaning procedures. This keeps the patient very comfortable so that they’re at ease throughout the entire therapeutic procedure. If needed, we can also perform full-mouth SCRP treatment under oral conscious sedation.
Treating periodontal disease doesn’t end with the deep cleaning procedure; in fact, that’s just the beginning. Proper maintenance of deep periodontal pockets can keep bacterial deposits from redeveloping and reverse inflammatory conditions.
Therapeutic cleanings that lead to a healthier mouth.
For most patients, we recommend a therapeutic periodontal maintenance cleaning as frequently as every 3 to 4 months. This prevents the disease from recurring when proper home maintenance is practiced and allows healthy tissue to reattach to the root surface. As pocket depths are lessened, maintenance visits can be spread out further and further apart, hopefully once again reaching regular recall visits every six months.
Professional therapy is only the beginning of managing gum disease. Sunny Dental of Wilton Manors will help each patient establish an individualized oral care plan that addresses the specific areas of infection, as well as home methods that are the most successful for plaque removal. | 2019-04-20T21:04:08 | https://wiltonmanorsdental.com/services-perio-therapy.php |
It’s your favorite creepy, kooky, altogether ooky family. From television, to film and now gracing us on stage, Dramatic Activities is proud to bring ‘The Addams Family Musical’ to Edinboro University. In this critically acclaimed production, our favorite dark princess Wednesday has grown up and fallen in love with a “normal” boy, Lucas Beineke. Things get topsy-turvier when Lucas proposes to Wednesday and both families meet for the first time. It’s a story of secrets, betrayal, love, sword fights, and of course, The Tango. We invite you to come join Gomez, Morticia and the rest of the Addams clan for this macabre affair…if you dare. Music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa. Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Directed by Joey Asti Asst. Director: Maddie Krol Choreographed by Anna Strnisha To reserve seating, please call 814-732-2555 Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. | 2019-04-22T02:41:35 | http://events.edinboro.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=4/7/2019&todate=4/7/2019&view=DateTime&display=Day&type=public |
We are a rural district located 20 miles west of Wichita and 2 miles south of Highway 54, in a community of roughly 2100 people. We are also located 7 miles south of Cheney Reservoir, a popular state park in this area. We are a 3A school district consisting of 3 attendance centers, with an enrollment of between 775 and 800 students. We offer a wide variety of athletics, fine arts, and activities. We have a very progressive and supporting community, which has all the basic amenities; Local grocery store, hardware store, several restaurants, banking, post office, medical clinic, fitness centers, hair/tanning salons, excellent recreation program, a beautiful eighteen-hole golf course, historical museum, and steady growth in new homes. We are the home of the Sedgwick County Fair each year. We pride ourselves in our excellent test scores and have an impressive team of administrators, teachers and support staff who strive to help each student be successful. | 2019-04-21T21:04:32 | https://jobs.kansasteachingjobs.com/3.0/?p=scripts/funct.employer.details&employerCode=0aed717c0810148&MapQuery=100+W+6th+St++Cheney%2C+KS+67025 |
In what may be the worst regional drought in more than 50 years, brought on by an El Niño cycle exacerbated by climate change, water shortages have been declared in 18 of the country’s 25 provinces. In Banteay Meanchey, Kampot, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces this week, the Post found that water scarcity is jeopardizing the food security, health and livelihoods of many, though a few have carved out business opportunities amid the devastation.
A few minutes down the road, Thin Vannak, chief of the Sela Khmer Health Center in O’Beichoan commune, said that on average, 20 people show up each day seeking treatment for high fevers and skin irritation brought on by the heat. The centre’s three wells, 120 to 150 meters deep, have all run dry, leaving Vannak no choice but to purchase truckloads of water.
“We received 200,000 riels [about $50] for buying water for use at the centre every three months from the provincial health department, but it is not enough, because we use two cubic meters [2,000 litres] of water a day and the price is 30,000 riel [about $7.50],” he said, adding that the price is high because water is sourced from a private company in Poipet, 20 kilometers away. | 2019-04-21T18:37:10 | https://eurasia-news-online.com/2016/05/08/cambodia-scenes-from-a-drought/ |
How to save as eDrawomg with API?
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I just love looking at photos from years ago. I have many photos from when the kids were young, vacations, and even my wedding. These photos are in boxes all around the house and some are on an old computer that we no longer use. It can be a pain when I want to see photos from years ago as usually, that means climbing a ladder to get the dusty box down. I discovered an easier way to reminisce through all my photos on my Amazon Fire TV with the help of my Alexa Voice Remote.
I can now see all those wonderful photos and even videos on my big screen TV while relaxing on my comfy couch. You see my family just got an Amazon Fire TV Stick for our TV and I am loving the features beyond being able to stream shows on my TV. Amazon just launched Prime Photos with Alexa on the Amazon Fire TV... using the Alexa Voice Remote.
I am able to search through all those vacation photos with the help of my Alexa Voice Remote and the Prime Photos app on my Fire TV. I love that I just say "Show my Summer Vacation 2017 photo album" and all the photos that I took are on my TV screen. I can even say "play a slideshow" and then view albums of photos from all my vacations.
Like Amazon Fire TV, you can also use this Prime Photo feature on the Echo Show too. You can showcase all the photos in your Prime Photos account, with voice commands like, “Alexa, show my photos.” In fact, all the same, commands work with Echo Show – just add “Alexa” to the beginning of each one.
I think Alexa and I are going to be spending a lot of time together. I just love looking at my photos on my TV while relaxing in my living room.
You must watch this fun video of how the Amazon Fire TV allows you to see your photos on your TV with the help of Alexa. Check out the Prime Photos Voice web page Here for more information.
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What a steal!!! You go girl. Creative ideas for making something new.because that is how I FOUND YOU!
I am excited to see photos of my pets and family on my Amazon Fire TV.
This is so cool! We don't have amazon fire but we have something similar we could use to display our photos.
This is incredible, would love to be able to see our family photos on the big screen!
I like to see photos of some family get togethers, especially when I haven't seen many in a long time!
My vacation photos with my friends and family. Also, baby photos of my four boys! I never get tired of looking at my family photos.
I need an Amazon Fire TV. I take so many photos, it would be a lot of fun to see them on my TV. The kids would really love that.
Now this looks pretty interesting. I have so many photos and looking at them on the big tv would be amazing. What a super giveaway!
This is great! I am slowly making my house smart as well, and just got the Echo, which is brilliant. I need the fire stick next.
I really want to try Amazon Fire! I have Amazon Prime, and a whole bunch of streaming things, and it's hard to keep track of all of them.
I'd like to see pics of old memories! I've never heard of Amazon Fire before, and this is a great concept!
This is yet another reason why I love Amazon so much! What an awesome way to store and see your photos.
Gotta try Amazon Fire! I have so many photos and would love seeing them on our TV.
I guess its time for me to get Amazon fire :) perfect for this coming holiday season at home.
I have one of these accounts and I had no idea that you could do this. How super cool!
I'm excited to see our Mom's 75's birthday celebration photos with my family that would be so amazing!
I am excited to see my son's baby photo albums on tv. I think that would be phenomenal!
I have many photos of my kids so I'd like to see them.
I have several photos from my trail with lots of deer which I can't wait to see.
Oh gosh so many our travel vacations to Punta Cana , Mexico , Florida of my grandchildren so many.
I'm most excited to see my wedding photos on my Amazon Fire TV!
I'd love to see my family through the years on Amazon Fire TV! It'd be great for family night to browse, laugh and talk!
I would love to see photos of my kids and my grandkids.
Photos fo places I've vacationed would be one of my first choices.
I would love to show pics of my kids, especially the new baby on my Amazon Fire to my family and friends.
I'd love to have updated pictures of my Grand children to show, kids grow SO fast.
I am excited to see our family pictures on the tv!
I would show my daughters wedding photos and any photos of my grandkids.
I am excited to see my daughters wedding pictures and pictures of my grandchildren! | 2019-04-21T10:50:20 | https://www.momknowsbest.net/2017/09/see-your-photos-on-your-amazon-fire-tv.html |
Recently I was talking with Andrew who said his favorite book series is "I Survived". These chapter books by Scholastic are historical fiction. The events happened but the authors add make believe characters so we can feel and experience the event with depth.
I bet there is something in your life about which you could say, "I survived!"
There was a time in my life when surviving was about all I seemed able to do but some wise people came along and told me they wanted to see me Thrive. They wanted to see me fully live. They wanted me to see that in the Bible God calls us into fullness of life not just getting along, barely making it.
The Bible tells the story of Jesus triumphing over death, over evil plans, over sin. The Bible promises we too can have fullness of life moving beyond difficulties and just surviving (endurance) in Romans chapter 5.
It takes time and perseverance to move from "I survived" to living with joy. It takes attention to being present in the movement, encouraging and entering into laughter, and effort to move to deeper pools of joy.
But it is worth the effort and God is here with us, walking beside us, encouraging us, carrying our burdens when we share them and offering forgiveness to lighten our load.
May you be able to see hope is just ahead.
May you join in with people who will walk the journey with you.
Recently while in Colorado, I passed by a business labeled "Rest Haven" and immediately thought it was a nursing facility. However the rest of the sign read "Cremation and Burial Services."
Our ideas of what was a haven and what rest was were dramatically different!
my salvation comes from God.
I will never be shaken.
Sometimes events in life shake us up. We feel anything except rested. Memorizing Scripture or repeating the words again and again can help restore our peace.
Patting one's legs or snapping one's fingers alternately while speaking Psalm 62 aloud helps give new life to the words and brings a sense of peace while building new thought patterns that will help us move through shaky times.
May you experience the strength and peace of God today!
We were in sunny and warm Florida a few years ago and though I felt physically fragile, all was well. We went on a Segway tour and the guide took us through many tight twists and turns then stopped us for a photo op by the Atlantic ocean. Nearing the end of the tour, we went “off road” and on to the sandy area in the state park nearby. I was trying to catch up to the guide when it happened. Smack! I hit the dirt hard. The Segway went one way and I went the other way. Somehow I had hit a rut that was just deep enough to throw me off.
Humiliation. Frustration. A bruise, a cut, a scrape—nothing requiring a trip to the Hospital, but for me it felt like the last straw. My track record was now a fall every other month for the last six months. Later, I sat on the beach and felt exactly like the weather, a storm of emotion swept over me. I couldn’t see that fifty-nine out of sixty days I was not falling down. I didn’t feel upheldby the Lord, I felt let down by my body.
As a gentle rain swept in, I was reminded of God’s unending care for me whether I was standing upright or whether I had just fallen.
Are you aware of God's unending care for you?
Help us to see your tender care in the actions of others around us.
Help us to remember that you are with us.
I love Psalm 27:4 (NIV) because it provides a place to rest your eyes when all around you is swirling and unsteady. Often I just need to be reminded of where I am to be looking. There are situations all around that "rock our world."
So Psalm 27:4 reminds me of how to keep my head on straight in times of trauma, trouble and tragedy. This verse always leads me to the throne room of God described in John's vision in Revelation chapter 4. The throne room in Revelation 4 is a place of deep beauty, awe inspiring worship and great reflection. The chapter even gives you the words to pray/praise. There is something about the chorus of both the creatures and the Elders that can bring a hush to any room and heart and a vibrant awareness of the presence of the Holy Spirit.
8 Each of the four living creatureshad six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings.
When you are troubled I invite you to join in with the heavenly chorus and be transported to the very throne room of God. For the peace of God promised in John 14 awaits each of us and we have only to join in with wholehearted praise to be transported to the presence of God.
My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to God in song.
purple sweatpants, a sea green bandana, and a new book to read.
I believe when we experience joy it is a direct gift from God, often prompted by one of God’s creatures or creations. This joy can be found even in the darkest valley. Cindi Broaddus, in her book, A Random Act, speaks of the joy that laughter gave her in the midst of excruciating pain while recovering from burns covering sixty-nine percent of her body.
When was the last time you allowed yourself to experience joy? Have you found a way to include humor and laughter in your day to day, hour to hour life? When you have found it have you praised God for this incredible gift? | 2019-04-22T20:30:44 | https://newhopeva.com/blog |
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If you have been around Delineate Your Dwelling for a while, you will probably already know that I am a bit of a DIY project and craft crazed lady.
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"Here, Just Hear", an internationally recorded and conceived album, features the original compositions, 'Ode to Mozart', recorded in Mozart's very own compositional stomping grounds, The Cathedral of Mirrors, Prague, Czech Republic.
'Fire-Japanese Remix' and '2.5 Children-Japanese Remix' are Japanese re-mixes of the originals 'Fire' and '2.5 Children' with IMORI recorded at Alchemy Studios in Osaka, Japan.
'Heart Beat' was re-mixed and recorded live in Vienna, Austria by A. Fiddle-Hooper and Megumi Otsuka for the Ars Vitalis Fundraiser in Poland.
Please enjoy this internationally inspired collection.
A. Fiddle-Hooper an internationally seasoned violinist, electric violinist, cellist, composer, videographer, producer and instructor has touched thousands of lives globally with her music. Her 27 years of professional repertoire provides a well-rounded blend of Classical, Soul, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock & Roll, Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian Classical and Alternative Trance styles. She has taught internationally in Europe, India, Japan and the U.S. She has performed professionally in 22 countries. Currently, she is a resident instructor of violin & cello at Hammond Ashley Violins, in Issaquah, WA.
A. Fiddle-Hooper has played with artists such as Kaki-King, Les Claypool, Jane Wiedlin, Pamela Parker, Boots Riley, Gabby La-La, Jaya Lakshmi, Lost at Last, Jay Lane, Geoffrey Gordon, Tami Gosnell, Shirley King and many more!
'ELEMENTAL: An audio-visual journey through the elements that create us' combined original live & pre-recorded compositions with poetic lyrics and theatrics. It was shared with the countries of England, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Japan and the U.S. rocking the cities of London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Kamiana, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Kyoto, Osaka, Khoyasan Mountain, Hiroshima, Maui and Hilo.
A. Fiddle-Hooper worked with Alchemy Studios in Osaka, Japan with Sound Engineer Toshiaki Kitahata for a Japanese re-mix of her songs, '2.5 Children' and 'Fire' with her Japanese band IMORI.
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A. Fiddle-Hooper co-produced her first album 'Groove Sessions', with Jane Clark of Motown, 2008.
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Well, Victoria and the twins were here since last night… so this morning was quality time with the boys spending time with chickens for a bit… then it was off to the sledding hill. This chinook wind has cut the snow level around here tremendously, and our little hill was in slick and fast form. For three year olds, it was a Grand Time.
Wyatt is a champion sledder, going the farthest and fastest. Waylon was right behind, hating to be left out.
It only lasted the morning, for we had to hold our annual meeting today. Like many family businesses, we are incorporated. We have officers and shares and bylaws… the whole package. While most businesses don’t have 6 kids aged 3 and under running around and screaming during their annual meetings… WE DO!
This has been a family business since George Greet first came to the Ten Sleep area in 1891. His sons Fred and Frank moved to this place in 1909. Frank’s sons George, Neil, and John ran it for a while and then split up parts of the place, with Johnny staying on this part, of course! Next is Vernon, (his sister Cindy)… and my boys, Daniel and Brandon, with Victoria having some shares as well. Now Quinlan, Waylon, Wyatt, Jaxon, Lorelei, and Lacee feel it is their prerogative to disrupt this meeting to the best of their abilities!
We can only hope and pray that more names will be added to this roll call of a family business.
I love the picture! So sweet!
The most heartwarming photo and posting about your family! Thanks!
How fortunate Johnny is to have his family around him, the ranch is in good hands.
A wonderful family photo Carol. It truely is a blessing to share in the lives of our Grandkids. Hope you managed to get some business done during what sounds to have been an interesting meeting. Some frost overnight but the sun has just arrived in a beautiful blue sky. The birds have been singing even before the sun appeared. Spring is somewhere. | 2019-04-23T05:57:09 | https://reddirtinmysoul.com/2015/02/07/roll-call/ |
## Jan 26th **Frame Server 5.0.1** + Resolved an issue where the on_active (resume) customization script also ran at session start. + Resolved an issue where a session could potentially timeout after a tab switch. + Improved audio latency with a new audio codec. This is off by default and available with an optional setting for now. ## Jan 25 **Frame UI** + Resolved an issue where the Sessions tab in analytics did not show active sessions when some were in progress. There was an immediate hotfix for this issue previously, and this is the permanent fix. **Frame Terminal** + The Frame Application API now provides an event handle, EVENT_MINIMIZED, for cases where the terminal is closed but the session is still running. Please see https://developer.fra.me/docs/application-api#section-events + Resolved an issue where only the first application launched in a session received command line arguments from the App Launch Arguments setting. | 2019-04-25T00:55:09 | https://docs.fra.me/blog/jan-14-jan-21-2017 |
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John Edwards gave a terrific speech last night furthering a major theme in the convention: it’s time for unity. Little talked about in the news is just how great his wife, Elizabeth’s, introduction was.
So much is not being seen on the major stations. As Garret says: Do CSPAN or PBS.
TV is really failing us. You need to read the papers, or visit the bloggers for any kind or interesting or in depth coverage. On ABC I heard one of their anchors describe their coverage as “gavel to gavel”. In what universe?
As John Edwards mentioned in his speech last night.
I’ve been following the coverage from as many possible sources as I can find.
I missed Dean and most of Ron Reagan’s speech the other night. I ended up catching up on the mail at cspan.org.
Cspan.org has archived coverage on their website.
I don’t rely on major news networks for anything anymore. Since they’re all too busy yapping through most of the coverage to gleem anything important.
I can say this from what I have seen so far. My gut is starting to feel the change in the tides and I hope tonights speech by Kerry finishes off the job.
I see alot of American’s attending these conventions dates with tears in the eyes. I see a passion kicking back in to the public who are watching. I only pray that these two guys can finish what they’ve started.
I liked what Ted Kennedy said the other night.
America, finish this. Vote Kerry in November!
That goes double for me Neo. I’ve gone to a couple meetups and am starting to get personally involved myself. I think, far from being ‘polarized’ – people are simply getting motivated and see the Kerry Edwards ticket as their platform and way to make a difference. I hope so. Down with the division and feer the GOP has been promoting and exploiting and time to get out and vote. | 2019-04-20T21:20:39 | https://paradox1x.org/2004/07/one-america/?share=google-plus-1 |
You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
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As of November 12, 2013, 58,077,031 shares of the registrants common stock were outstanding.
Management believes that the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments (which include normal recurring adjustments) that, in the opinion of management, are necessary to present fairly the Companys consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes for the year ended December 30, 2012, included in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
On September 27, 2013, the Company filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the Bankruptcy Code), case number 13-12503. The Company will continue to operate the business as debtor-in possession under the jurisdiction of the United States Bankruptcy Court of Delaware (the Bankruptcy Court) and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code and orders of the Bankruptcy Court, (see Note 2).
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes continuity of operations, realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities in the ordinary course of business. The Company has experienced declining same stores revenue and profitability over the past several years, has incurred significant recurring losses from continuing operations and has a net capital deficiency. Further, the RSA (as described in Note 2 below) requires the Company to file a voluntary petition seeking to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The ability of the Company, both during and after the Chapter 11 proceedings, to continue as a going concern is contingent upon, among other things; (i) the ability of the Company to generate cash from operations and to maintain adequate cash on hand; (ii) the resolution of the uncertainty as to the amount of claims that will be allowed; (iii) the ability of the Company to confirm its reorganization plan in the Chapter 11 proceedings and obtain any financing which may be required to emerge from bankruptcy protection; and (iv) the Companys ability to achieve profitability. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully achieve these objectives in order to continue as a going concern. The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
On August 27, 2013, the Company entered into a management agreement (the Local Media Management Agreement) with Local Media Group Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a subsidiary of Newcastle Investment Corp. (Local Media Parent), to manage the operations of Dow Jones Local Media Group, Inc. (Local Media). The Company has determined that the Local Media Management Agreement results in Local Media being a variable interest entity (VIE) and the Company has the power to direct the activities that most significantly affect the economic performance of the entity therefore the Company will consolidate Local Medias financial position and results of operations. On September 3, 2013, the Local Media Parent completed its acquisition of thirty three publications from Dow Jones & Co. Local Medias results of operations have been included in the Companys consolidated result of operations beginning on September 3, 2013. Local Media is not part of the bankruptcy filing and will continue to operate in the ordinary course of business. Refer to Note 5, Variable Interest Entity for additional information.
The Companys operating segments (Large Community Newspapers, Small Community Newspapers, Directories, and Local Media) are aggregated into one reportable business segment.
The changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 are outlined below.
(1) This accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) component is included in the computation of net periodic benefit cost. See Note 14.
The following table presents reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013.
The Company and certain of its subsidiaries commenced voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court on September 27, 2013. Concurrent with the bankruptcy filing, the Company filed and requested confirmation of a joint prepackaged plan of reorganization (the Plan). On September 4, 2013, the Company entered into a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with Cortland Products Corp., as administrative agent (the Administrative Agent) and certain of the lenders under the Companys 2007 Credit Facility, including Newcastle Investment Corp. (Newcastle) and its affiliates.
Pursuant to its RSA, the Company solicited votes on the Plan from holders of claims under the Companys 2007 Credit Facility and certain related interest rate swaps. The Plan was accepted by the only impaired class of creditors entitled to vote on it. Specifically, 79 out of the 80 holders of secured debt entitled to vote holding an aggregate amount of $1,199,317 (representing 99.99% of the total secured debt) voted to accept the Plan. No creditors voted to reject the Plan.
Pension, trade and all other unsecured creditors of the Company would not be impaired under the prepackaged Plan, and their votes were not solicited. The Companys common stock would be canceled under the Plan, and holders of secured debt would have the option of receiving a cash distribution equal to 40% of their claims, or stock in New Media, a new holding company that will own the Company and Local Media, as described below.
The Plan proposes a restructuring of the Company pursuant to a pre-packaged restructuring under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code whereby each Creditor (as defined below) has the option of exchanging its holdings in the Outstanding Debt (as defined below) for either its pro rata share of cash or common stock in a new holding company (such common stock, New Media Common Stock, and such holding company from and after the effective date, New Media) with ownership interests in the reorganized Company (such reorganized Company, New GateHouse). New Media is an entity that is unrelated to the Company and currently is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newcastle.
New Media intends to distribute a portion of its estimated EBITDA (as defined in the Plan) less (i) cash taxes; (ii) interest expense; (iii) principal payments under the Financing (as defined below), (iv) capital expenditures; and (v) changes in net working capital to its shareholders and reinvest the remainder for general corporate purposes which may include accretive acquisitions.
(a) Indebtedness under the 2007 Credit Facility, consisting of a Revolving Credit Facility, a Term Loan Facility, a Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility and an Incremental Term Loan Facility (collectively, the 2007 Credit Facility Claims). The 2007 Credit Facility Claims consisted of a (i) Revolving Credit Facility of $0 and $0 at December 30, 2012 and September 30, 2013, respectively, (ii) Term Loan Facility of $658,281 and $654,554 at December 30, 2012 and September 29, 2013, respectively, (iii) Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility of $245,627 and $244,236 at December 30, 2012 and September 29, 2013, respectively and (iv) Incremental Term Loan Facility of $270,190 and $268,660 at December 30, 2012 and September 29, 2013, respectively.
(b) Swap Liability, including (i) $100,000 notional amount executed February 27, 2007, (ii) $250,000 notional amount executed April 4, 2007, (iii) $200,000 notional amount executed April 13, 2007 and (iv) $75,000 notional amount executed September 18, 2007. As of December 31, 2012 and September 29, 2013, the carrying value of the Swap Liability totaled $45,724 and $28,440, respectively.
ii. (a) 100% of New Media Common Stock (subject to dilution as discussed herein) and (B) 100% of the Net Proceeds (as defined below), if any (collectively, the New Media Equity Option).
Creditors that do not make an election during the Solicitation Period (as defined below) with respect to their claims will be deemed to have elected the Cash-Out Option.
(b) Pension, trade and all other unsecured claims will be unimpaired by the Plan.
(c) Holders of equity interests in the Company, including warrants, rights and options to acquire such equity interests (Existing Equity Holders), would be cancelled, and Existing Equity Holders will receive 10-year warrants, collectively representing the right to acquire, in the aggregate, equity equal to 5% of the issued and outstanding shares of New Media (subject to dilution) as of the effective date of the Plan (the Effective Date), with the strike price per share for such warrants calculated based on a total equity value of New Media prior to the Local Media Contribution (as defined below) of $1,200,000 as of the Effective Date. New Media Warrants will not have the benefit of antidilution protections, other than customary protections including for stock splits and stock dividends. Existing equity interests will be cancelled under the Plan.
In connection with the Plan, Newcastle (Plan Sponsor) (or its designated affiliates) has offered to purchase, in cash, an amount equal to 40% of the sum of (a) $1,167,450 of principal of the claims under the 2007 Credit Facility, plus (b) accrued and unpaid interest at the applicable contract non-default rate with respect thereto, plus (c) all amounts due under and subject to the terms of the interest rate swaps secured under the 2007 Credit Facility (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any default interest) on the Effective Date of the Plan. The Cash-Out Offer will be coterminous with the Solicitation Period (as defined below).
As of the Effective Date of the Plan, New Media will enter into a registration rights agreement with certain holders of the Outstanding Debt that received 10% or more of the New Media Common Stock, to provide customary registration rights.
Instead of the Cash-Out Offer, each Creditor may elect to receive in satisfaction of its claims, a pro rata share of New Media Common Stock and the Net Proceeds (as defined below), if any. Following the completion of the restructuring, New Media will use commercially reasonable efforts, based on market conditions and other factors, to list New Media Common Stock (the Listing) and may raise additional equity capital in connection with or subsequent to the Listing. New Media intends to seek the Listing on the New York Stock Exchange. For the avoidance of doubt, the Listing will not be a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Plan. Under the Plan, New Media will not impose any transfer restrictions on New Media Common Stock.
On November 6, 2013 the Bankruptcy Court held a hearing and entered an order (the Confirmation Order) confirming the Plan.
The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts based on market conditions and other factors, to raise up to $165,000 of new debt, including a $150,000 facility to fund distributions and other payments under the Plan (the Financing). The distribution will be made to holders of New Media Common Stock, including Plan Sponsor (or its designated affiliates) on account of the Cash-Out Offer, on the Effective Date (the Net Proceeds). The Financing will not be a condition precedent to the effectiveness of the Plan.
The Plan Sponsor acquired Local Media, a publisher of weekly newspaper publications, on September 3, 2013. Subject to the terms of the Plan, the Plan Sponsor will contribute Local Media Parent and assign its rights under the related stock purchase agreement to New Media on the Effective Date (the Local Media Contribution) in exchange for shares of common stock of New Media (and at Plan Sponsors option, $50), collectively equal in value to the cost of the Local Media Acquisition (as adjusted pursuant to the Plan) based upon the equity value of New Media as of the Effective Date prior to the contribution.
On the effective date, New Media will enter into a management agreement with an affiliate of the Plan Sponsor (the Manager) pursuant to which the Manager will manage the operations of New Media. The annual management fee will be 1.50% of New Medias gross equity as set forth in the Management Agreement.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the restructuring shall include a full release from liability of the Company, Plan Sponsor, the Administrative Agent, the Creditors, and all current and former direct and indirect members, partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, funds, managers, managing members, officers, directors, employees, advisors, principals, attorneys, professionals, accountants, investment bankers, consultants, agents, and other representatives (including their respective members, partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, funds, managers, managing members, officers, directors, employees, advisors, principals, attorneys, professionals, accountants, investment bankers, consultants, agents, and other representatives) by the Company, Plan Sponsor and the Creditors from any claims or causes of action related to or arising out of the Company, the Outstanding Debt or the Restructuring on or prior to the Effective Date, except for any claims and causes of action for fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct.
The confirmation order has (a) not been reversed, stayed, modified, or amended, and (b) the time to appeal or seek certiorari has expired and (i) no appeal or petition for certiorari has been timely taken, or (ii) any appeal or petition for certiorari has been fully resolved, denied, resulted in no modification, or has otherwise been dismissed with prejudice.
On November 6, 2013, the Bankruptcy Court confirmed the Plan.
On September 4, 2013 the Plan Sponsor and the Company entered into an investment commitment letter in connection with the restructuring, pursuant to which Plan Sponsor agreed to purchase the Cash-Out Offer claims, described above. The investment commitment letter provides that, on account of the claims purchased in the Cash-Out Offer on the Effective Date of the Plan, Plan Sponsor will receive its pro rata share of (a) New Media Common Stock and (b) Net Proceeds, if any, net of transaction expenses associated with transactions under the Plan.
In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 852, Reorganizations (ASC 852) the Company has segregated the liabilities subject to compromise in its Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.
The amount of Liabilities subject to compromise represents the Company and certain of its subsidiaries who filed bankruptcy (the Debtors) estimate, where an estimate is determinable, of known or potential pre-petition claims to be addressed in connection with the bankruptcy proceedings. Such liabilities are reported at the Debtors current estimate, where an estimate is determinable, of the allowed claim amount, even though they may be settled for lesser amounts. These claims remain subject to future adjustments, which may result from: negotiations; actions of the Bankruptcy Court; disputed claims; rejection of contracts and unexpired leases; the determination as to the value of any collateral securing claims; proofs of claims; or other events. Refer to Note 2 for additional information.
In accordance with ASC 852 the Company has segregated reorganization items related to the Plan in its Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss).
For the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013, the Company paid approximately $6,854 for reorganization items.
On September 3, 2013, Local Media Parent acquired Local Media. The Company entered into a management and advisory agreement with Local Media Parent, which was assigned to Local Media, to manage the operations of Local Media. In return, the Company will receive compensation including an annual fee and will be eligible to earn an annual incentive pay out equal to 12.5% of the EBITDA of Local Media in excess of budget. Although Local Media Parent currently owns 100.0% of the equity of Local Media, the Company manages the daily operations of Local Media. The Company has determined that the management and advisory agreement results in Local Media being a VIE and the Company has the power to direct the activities that most significantly affect the economic performance of the entity. As a result, the Company is the primary beneficiary and therefore has consolidated Local Medias financial position and results of operations. As 100% of Local Media is owned by Local Media Parent, the net income (loss) of Local Media is reflected in noncontrolling interest.
The Company has accounted for the consolidation of Local Media under the purchase method of accounting. Accordingly, the assets acquired and liabilities assumed are recorded at their fair values. The transaction costs were incurred by Newcastle not GateHouse. The net assets, including goodwill of Local Media have been recorded in the condensed consolidated balance sheet at their estimated fair value in accordance with ASC 805. The value allocated in consolidating Local Media, was approximately $83,701 and $1,910 of acquisition related costs were recognized. Local Media Parent contributed $55,823 of equity and Local Media entered into a long-term debt agreement for $33,000. Local Media consists of eight daily and fifteen weekly newspapers as well as ten shopper publications, serving areas of New York, Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and New Hampshire. The results of operations for The Local Media have been included in the Companys consolidated financial statements.
The Company obtained third party independent appraisals to assist in the determination of the fair values of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets. The property, plant and equipment appraisal included an analysis of recent comparable sales and offerings of land parcels in each of the subjects markets. The appraised value is supported with consideration and use of standard accepted appraisal practices and valuation procedures. The appraiser used the three basic approaches to value: the Cost Approach (used for equipment where an active secondary market is not available and building improvements), the Direct Sales Comparison (Market) Approach (used for land and equipment where an active secondary market is available) and the Income Approach (used for intangible assets). These approaches used are based on the cost to reproduce assets, market exchanges for comparable assets and the capitalization of income. Useful lives range from 1 to 7 years for personal property and 17 to 38 years for real property.
The appraisal utilized a relief from royalty method, an income approach, to determine the fair value of mastheads. Key assumptions utilized in this valuation include revenue projections, a royalty rate of 1.5%, long term growth rate of 0%, tax rate of 39.2% and discount rate of 25.0%. Based on estimated discount rates, attrition levels and other available data, the advertiser and subscriber relationships were determined to have a fair value of $0.
Trade accounts receivable, having an estimated fair value of $13,427, were included in the acquired assets. The gross contractual amount of these receivables was $14,937 and the contractual cash flows not expected to be collected was estimated at $1,510 as of the acquisition date.
Local Media accounted for inventory using a weighted cost methodology, which was deemed to approximate fair value. The FIFO valuation method is used and is consistent with the Companys inventory valuation. The difference between the weighted average and FIFO methodology does not have a material effect on the results of operations.
From the date of acquisition through September 29, 2013 Local Media had Revenues of $12,043 million and a net loss of $865.
For tax purposes, the amount of goodwill that is expected to be deductible is $462 as of September 3, 2013.
The estimated fair values are preliminary pending the finalization of the valuation.
The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations information for 2013, set forth below, presents the results of operations as if the consolidation of the newspapers from Local Media had occurred on January 2, 2012. The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations information for 2012, set forth below, presents the results of operations as if the consolidation of the Local Media had occurred on January 2, 2012. These amounts are not necessarily indicative of future results or actual results that would have been achieved had the acquisitions occurred as of the beginning of such period.
The table below summarizes the assets and liabilities of the consolidated VIE (Local Media) as of September 29, 2013. As of December 30, 2012 the balances were zero, as the VIE was not consolidated until September 3, 2013.
The Company recognized compensation cost for share-based payments of $0, $23, $25 and $71 during the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013and September 30, 2012, respectively. As of September 29, 2013, all compensation cost for share-based payments have been recognized.
Under the GateHouse Media, Inc. Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the RSG Plan), 266,795 RSGs were granted to Company directors, management and employees, 42,535 of which were both granted and forfeited during the year ended December 31, 2008. An additional 100,000 RSGs were granted to Company management during the year ended December 31, 2009. The majority of the RSGs issued under the RSG Plan vest in increments of one-third on each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the grant date. In the event a grantee of an RSG is terminated by the Company without cause, a number of unvested RSGs immediately vest that would have vested under the normal vesting period on the next succeeding anniversary date following such termination. In the event an RSG grantees employment with the Company is terminated without cause within twelve months after a change in control (as defined in the applicable award agreement), all unvested RSGs become immediately vested at the termination date. During the period prior to the lapse and removal of the vesting restrictions, a grantee of an RSG will have all of the rights of a stockholder, including without limitation, the right to vote and the right to receive all dividends or other distributions. As a result, the RSGs are reflected as outstanding common stock and the unvested RSGs have been excluded from the calculation of basic earnings per share. With respect to Company employees, the value of the RSGs on the date of issuance is recognized as employee compensation expense over the vesting period or through the grantees eligible retirement date, if shorter, with an increase to additional paid-in-capital.
As of September 29, 2013 and December 30, 2012, there were 0 and 25,424 RSGs, respectively, issued and outstanding with a weighted average grant date fair value of $0.00 and $6.04, respectively. As of September 29, 2013, the aggregate intrinsic value of unvested RSGs was $0. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, the aggregate fair value of vested RSGs was $1.
Certain amounts in the prior period unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the 2013 presentation.
Over the past several years, and in furtherance of the Companys cost reduction and cash flow preservation plans the Company has engaged in a series of individual restructuring programs, designed primarily to right size the Companys employee base, consolidate facilities and improve its operations. These initiatives impact all of the Companys geographic regions and are often influenced by the terms of union contracts within each region. All costs related to these programs, which primarily reflect severance expense, are accrued at the time of announcement.
Information related to restructuring program activity during the twelve months ended December 30, 2012 and the nine months ended September 29, 2013 is outlined below.
(2) Included above are amounts that were initially recognized in integration and reorganization and were subsequently reclassified to discontinued operations expense at the time the affected operations ceased.
The restructuring reserve balance as of September 29, 2013, for all programs was $597, which is expected to be paid out over the next twelve months.
The following table summarizes the costs incurred and cash paid in connection with these restructuring programs for the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012.
Other costs primarily included costs to consolidate operations.
Included above are amounts that were initially recognized in integration and reorganization and were subsequently reclassified to discontinued operations expense at the time the affected operations ceased.
The weighted average amortization periods for amortizable intangible assets are 4.4 years for noncompete agreements, 16.7 years for advertiser relationships, 13.8 years for customer relationships, 17.2 years for subscriber relationships, 10.0 years for trade names and 15.0 years for publication rights.
During the first quarter of 2012, the Company reorganized its management structure to align with its publication types. The fair value of goodwill was allocated to each of the new reporting units: Small Community Newspapers, Large Daily Newspapers and Metro Newspapers. The Company determined that impairment indicators were present for the Metro Newspaper reporting unit, which had a goodwill balance of $216. As of April 1, 2012 the Company performed a Step 1 analysis for this reporting unit and determined that its carrying value exceeded fair value. As a result of the Step 2 analysis, the entire $216 of goodwill was impaired and this amount was subsequently reclassified to discontinued operations, see Note 18. The fair value of this reporting unit for impairment testing purposes was estimated using the expected present value of future cash flows, recent industry transaction multiples and using estimates, judgments and assumptions that management believed were appropriate in the circumstances. The estimates and judgments used in the assessment included multiples for revenue and EBITDA, the weighted average cost of capital and the terminal growth rate. Given the current market conditions, the Company determined that recent transactions provided the best estimate of the fair value of this reporting unit. The Company performed further analysis of this reporting units intangible and long-lived assets and determined that impairments of these assets were not present.
As of April 1, 2012, a review of impairment indicators was performed for the Companys other reporting units and it was determined that financial results and forecast had not changed materially since the June 26, 2011 impairment test and it was determined no indicators of impairment were present.
As part of the annual impairment assessment, as of July 1, 2012, the fair values of the Companys reporting units for goodwill impairment testing and newspaper mastheads were estimated using the expected present value of future cash flows, recent industry transaction multiples and using estimates, judgments and assumptions that management believed were appropriate in the circumstances. The estimates and judgments used in the assessment included multiples for revenue and EBITDA, the weighted average cost of capital and the terminal growth rate. Given the current market conditions, the Company determined that recent transactions provided the best estimate of the fair value of its reporting units and no impairment indicators were identified. Additionally, the estimated fair value exceeded carrying value for all mastheads. The total Companys estimate of fair value was reconciled to its then market capitalization (based upon the market price of the Companys common stock and fair value of the Companys debt) plus an estimated control premium.
As of September 30, 2012, December 30, 2012 and March 31, 2013, a review of impairment indicators was performed with the Company noting that its financial results and forecast had not changed materially since the July 1, 2012 impairment test and its market capitalization exceeded its consolidated carrying value. It was determined no indicators of impairment were present.
As part of the annual impairment assessment, as of June 30, 2013, the fair values of the Companys reporting units for goodwill impairment testing and newspaper mastheads were estimated using the expected present value of future cash flows, recent industry transaction multiples and using estimates, judgments and assumptions that management believed were appropriate in the circumstances. The estimates and judgments used in the assessment included multiples for revenue and EBITDA, the weighted average cost of capital and the terminal growth rate. Given the current market conditions, the Company determined that recent transactions provided the best estimate of the fair value of its reporting units and no impairment indicators were identified. Additionally, the estimated fair value exceeded carrying value for all mastheads. The total Companys estimate of fair value was reconciled to its then market capitalization (based upon the market price of the Companys common stock and fair value of the Companys debt) plus an estimated control premium.
The bankruptcy filing was considered a triggering event for the non amortizable intangibles and the Company performed a valuation analysis to determine if an impairment existed as of September 29, 2013. The fair values of the Companys reporting units for goodwill and newspaper mastheads were estimated using the expected present value of future cash flows, recent industry transaction multiples and using estimates, judgments and assumptions that management believed were appropriate in the circumstances and were consistent with the terms of the Plan. The estimates and judgments used in the assessment included multiples for revenue and EBITDA, the weighted average cost of capital and the terminal growth rate. Given the current bankruptcy Plan, the Company determined that discounted cash flows provided the best estimate of the fair value of its reporting units. The estimated fair value of the Large Daily reporting unit exceeded its carrying value and Step 2 of the analysis was not necessary. The Small Community reporting unit failed the Step 1 goodwill impairment analysis. The Company performed Step 2 of the analysis using consistent assumptions, as discussed above, and determined an impairment was not present for this reporting unit. The estimated fair value of each reporting units mastheads exceeded their carrying values, using consistent assumptions as discussed above. The masthead fair value was estimated using the relief from royalty valuation method.
The Company considered the impairment analysis for goodwill and mastheads to be an indicator of impairment under ASC 360, and performed an analysis of its undiscounted cash flows for amortizable intangibles. For any groups where the carrying value exceeded the undiscounted cash flows a discounted cash flow analysis was performed to determine the amount of the impairment. Key assumptions within this analysis included earnings projections, discount rates, attrition rates, long term growth rates, and effective tax rate that the Company considers appropriate. Earnings projections reflected continued declines in print advertising revenue of 5.0% to 9.0% per year, which is expected to moderate in later years, growth in circulation revenue of up to 2.0% per year, and expense declines of up to 4.0% per year. Discount rates ranged from 14.5% to 17.0%, attrition rates ranged from 5.0% to 7.5%, the long term growth rate was 0% and the effective tax rate was 39.15%. The resulting cash flows were reconciled to the projections supporting the Plan.
Due to reductions in the Companys operating projections during the third quarter in conjunction with the bankruptcy process, an impairment charge of $68,573 was recognized for advertiser relationships within the Companys Metro and Small Community reporting units, an impairment charge of $19,149 was recognized for subscriber relationships within the Companys Metro and Small Community reporting units, an impairment charge of $2,077 was recognized for customer relationships within the Companys Metro reporting unit and an impairment charge of $1,800 was recognized for trade names and publication rights within the Directories business unit. Refer to Note 16 Fair Value Measurement for additional information on the impairment charge.
The newspaper industry and the Company have experienced declining same store revenue and profitability over the past several years. Should general economic, market or business conditions decline, and have a negative impact on estimates of future cash flow and market transaction multiples, the Company may be required to record additional impairment charges in the future.
Facility to refinance existing indebtedness and for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, financing acquisitions permitted under the 2007 Credit Facility. The 2007 Credit Facility is secured by a first priority security interest in: (a) all present and future capital stock or other membership, equity, ownership or profits interest of Operating and all of its direct and indirect domestic restricted subsidiaries; (b) 65% of the voting stock (and 100% of the nonvoting stock) of all present and future first-tier foreign subsidiaries; and (c) substantially all of the tangible and intangible assets of Holdco, Operating and their present and future direct and indirect domestic restricted subsidiaries. In addition, the loans and other obligations of the Borrowers under the 2007 Credit Facility are guaranteed, subject to specified limitations, by Holdco, Operating and their present and future direct and indirect domestic restricted subsidiaries.
Borrowings under the 2007 Credit Facility bear interest, at the borrowers option, equal to the LIBOR Rate for a LIBOR Rate Loan (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility), or the Alternate Base Rate for an Alternate Base Rate Loan (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility), plus an applicable margin. The applicable margin for the LIBOR Rate term loans and Alternate Base Rate term loans, as amended by the First Amendment (defined below), are 2.00% and 1.00%, respectively. The applicable margin for revolving loans is adjusted quarterly based upon Holdcos Total Leverage (defined as the ratio of Holdcos Consolidated Indebtedness (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility) on the last day of the preceding quarter to Consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility) for the four fiscal quarters ending on the date of determination). The applicable margin ranges from 1.50% to 2.00%, in the case of LIBOR Rate Loans and, 0.50% to 1.00% in the case of Alternate Base Rate Loans. Under the revolving credit facility, GateHouse Media will also pay a quarterly commitment fee on the unused portion of the revolving credit facility ranging from 0.25% to 0.50% based on the same ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA and a quarterly fee equal to the applicable margin for LIBOR Rate Loans on the aggregate amount of outstanding letters of credit. In addition, GateHouse Media will be required to pay a ticking fee at the rate of 0.50% of the aggregate unfunded amount available to be borrowed under the delayed draw term facility.
No principal payments are due on the term loan facilities or the revolving credit facility until the applicable maturity date. The Borrowers are required to prepay borrowings under the term loan facilities in an amount equal to 50.0% of Holdcos Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility) earned during the previous fiscal year, except that no prepayments are required if the Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility) is less than or equal to 6.0 to 1.0 at the end of such fiscal year. In addition, the Borrowers are required to prepay borrowings under the term loan facilities with asset disposition proceeds in excess of specified amounts to the extent necessary to cause Holdcos Total Leverage Ratio to be less than or equal to 6.25 to 1.00, and with cash insurance proceeds and condemnation or expropriation awards, in excess of specified amounts, subject, in each case, to reinvestment rights. The Borrowers are required to prepay borrowings under the term loan facilities with the net proceeds of equity issuances by GateHouse Media in an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the amount by which 50.0% of the net cash proceeds exceeds the amount (if any) required to repay any credit facilities of GateHouse Media or (b) the amount of proceeds required to reduce Holdcos Total Leverage Ratio to 6.0 to 1.0. The Borrowers are also required to prepay borrowings under the term loan facilities with 100% of the proceeds of debt issuances (with specified exceptions), except that no prepayment is required if Holdcos Total Leverage Ratio is less than 6.0 to 1.0. If the term loan facilities have been paid in full, mandatory prepayments are applied to the repayment of borrowings under the swingline facility and revolving credit facilities and the cash collateralization of letters of credit.
The 2007 Credit Facility contains a financial covenant that requires Holdco to maintain a Total Leverage Ratio of less than or equal to 6.5 to 1.0 at any time an extension of credit is outstanding under the revolving credit facility. The 2007 Credit Facility contains affirmative and negative covenants applicable to Holdco, Operating and their restricted subsidiaries customarily found in loan agreements for similar transactions, including restrictions on their ability to incur indebtedness (which GateHouse Media is generally permitted to incur so long as it satisfies an incurrence test that requires it to maintain a pro forma Total Leverage Ratio of less than 6.5 to 1.0), create liens on assets, engage in certain lines of business, engage in mergers or consolidations, dispose of assets, make investments or acquisitions, engage in transactions with affiliates, enter into sale leaseback transactions, enter into negative pledges or pay dividends or make other restricted payments, except that Holdco is permitted to (a) make restricted payments (including quarterly dividends) so long as, after giving effect to any such restricted payment, Holdco and its subsidiaries have a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility) equal to or greater than 1.0 to 1.0 and would be able to incur an additional $1.00 of debt under the incurrence test referred to above and (b) make restricted payments of proceeds of asset dispositions to GateHouse Media to the extent such proceeds are not required to prepay loans under the 2007 Credit Facility and/or cash collateralize letter of credit obligations and such proceeds are used to prepay borrowings under acquisition credit facilities of GateHouse Media. The 2007 Credit Facility also permits the borrowers, in certain limited circumstances, to designate subsidiaries as unrestricted subsidiaries which are not subject to the covenant restrictions in the 2007 Credit Facility. The 2007 Credit Facility contains customary events of default, including defaults based on a failure to pay principal, reimbursement obligations, interest, fees or other obligations, subject to specified grace periods; any material inaccuracy of a representation or warranty; breach of covenant; failure to pay other indebtedness and cross-accelerations; a Change of Control (as defined in the 2007 Credit Facility); events of bankruptcy and insolvency; material judgments; failure to meet certain requirements with respect to ERISA; and impairment of collateral. There were no extensions of credit outstanding under the revolving credit portion of the facility at September 29, 2013 and, therefore, the Company was not required to be in compliance with the Total Leverage Ratio covenant at such time.
On May 7, 2007, the Borrowers entered into the First Amendment to the 2007 Credit Facility (the First Amendment). The First Amendment provided an incremental term loan facility under the 2007 Credit Facility in the amount of $275,000. As amended by the First Amendment, the 2007 Credit Facility includes $1,195,000 of term loan facilities and $40,000 of a revolving credit facility. The incremental term loan facility amortizes at the same rate and matures on the same date as the existing term loan facilities under the 2007 Credit Facility. Interest on the incremental term loan facility accrues at a rate per annum equal to, at the option of the borrower, (a) adjusted LIBOR plus a margin equal to (i) 2.00%, if the corporate family ratings and corporate credit ratings of Operating by Moodys Investors Service Inc. and Standard & Poors Rating Services, are at least B1, and B+, respectively, in each case with stable outlook or (ii) 2.25%, otherwise, as was the case as of September 29, 2013, or (b) the greater of the prime rate set by Wells Fargo Bank, or the federal funds effective rate plus 0.50%, plus a margin 1.00% lower than that applicable to adjusted LIBOR-based loans. Any voluntary or mandatory repayment of the First Amendment term loans made with the proceeds of a new term loan entered into for the primary purpose of benefiting from a margin that is less than the margin applicable as a result of the First Amendment will be subject to a 1.00% prepayment premium. The First Amendment term loans are subject to a most favored nation interest provision that grants the First Amendment term loans an interest rate margin that is 0.25% less than the highest margin of any future term loan borrowings under the 2007 Credit Facility.
On September 4, 2013, the Company entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Credit Facility (the Fourth Amendment). Pursuant to the terms of the Fourth Amendment, the Company obtained the following improvement in terms: a clarified and expanded definition of Eligible Assignee; an increase in the base amount in the formula used to calculate the Permitted Investments basket from $35,000 to a base of $50,000; the removal of the requirement that the Companys annual financial statements not have a going concern or like qualification to the audit; the removal of a cross default from any Secured Hedging Agreement to the 2007 Credit Facility; the removal of a Bankruptcy Default, as defined therein, arising from actions in furtherance of or indicating consent to the specified actions; and a waiver of any prior Default or Event of Default, as defined therein.
In consideration of the changes described above, the Company agreed to pay each of the lenders party to the Fourth Amendment that timely executed and delivered its signature to the Fourth Amendment and the RSA, an amendment fee equal to 3.5% multiplied by the aggregate outstanding amount of the Loans held (including through trades pending settlement) by such lender, unless waived in writing. Newcastle and certain other lenders elected to waive their amendment fee pursuant to the Fourth Amendment. Newcastle indemnified other Lenders with respect to their entry into the Fourth Amendment, subject to the limitations set forth in the Fourth Amendment for a total amendment fee paid of approximately $6,790.
As required by the 2007 Credit Facility, as amended, on March 26, 2013 and March 15, 2012, the Company made principal payments of $6,648 and $4,600, respectively, which represented 50% of the Excess Cash Flow related to the fiscal years ended December 30, 2012 and January 1, 2012, respectively. As of September 29, 2013, a total of $1,167,450 was outstanding under the 2007 Credit Facility: $654,554 was outstanding under the term loan facility, $244,236 was outstanding under the delayed draw term loan facility, $268,660 was outstanding under the incremental term loan facility and no amounts were outstanding under the revolving credit facility.
On August 27, 2013, the Company entered into the Local Media Management Agreement with Local Media Parent. Pursuant to the Local Media Management Agreement, the Company manages the business conducted by Local Media and its subsidiaries, as well as the day-to-day operations of Local Media and its subsidiaries. The Company determined that Local Media is a VIE with the Company having control as a primary beneficiary. As a result of such determination, as of September 3, 2013 the Company is required to consolidate the results of the Local Media with the Companys results. The Company does not have any equity interest in Local Media.
Certain of Local Medias subsidiaries (together, the Borrowers) and Local Media entered into a Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2013, with a syndicate of financial institutions with Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent (the Local Media Credit Facility).
The Local Media Credit Facility provided for: (a) a $33,000 term loan facility that matures on September 4, 2018; and (b) a $10,000 revolving credit facility (subject to the activation condition that Credit Suisse Loan Funding LLC, as lead arranger, assigns the revolving loan commitment to an unaffiliated lender), with a $3,000 sub-facility for letters of credit and a $4,000 sub-facility for swing loans, that matures on September 4, 2018. The revolving credit facility was activated on October 25, 2013. The Borrowers used the proceeds of the Local Media Credit Facility to (a) fund a portion of the acquisition of Dow Jones Local Media Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Local Media Acquisition), (b) provide for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Borrowers and (c) fund certain fees, costs and expenses associated with the transactions contemplated by the Local Media Credit Facility and consummation of the Local Media Acquisition. The Local Media Credit Facility is secured by a first priority security interest in all assets of the Borrowers and Local Media. In addition, the loans and other obligations of the Borrowers under the Local Media Credit Facility are guaranteed by Local Media LLC.
Borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility bear interest, at the borrowers option, equal to the LIBOR Rate (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) plus 6.5% per annum for a LIBOR Rate Loan (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility), or the Base Rate (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) plus 5.5% per annum for a Base Rate Loan (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility). Under the revolving credit facility, the Borrowers will also pay a monthly commitment fee of 0.75% per annum on the unused portion of the revolving credit facility and a fee of 6.0% on the aggregate amount of outstanding letters of credit.
No principal payments are due on the revolving credit facility until the maturity date. Principal payments are due on the term loan facility as follows: (a) $203 at the end of each fiscal quarter beginning with the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2013 until the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2015; and (b) $406 beginning with the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2015 and at the end of each fiscal quarter thereafter. The Borrowers are required to prepay borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility in an amount equal to: (i) 100% of Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) earned during the any fiscal quarter if the Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) of Local Media and the Borrowers as of the end of such fiscal quarter was greater than or equal to 2.0 to 1.0; (ii) 50% of Excess Cash Flow earned during the any fiscal quarter if the Leverage Ratio of Local Media and the Borrowers as of the end of such fiscal quarter was less than 2.0 to 1.0 and greater than or equal to 1.75 to 1.0; and (iii) 0% of Excess Cash Flow earned during the any fiscal quarter if the Leverage Ratio of Local Media and the Borrowers as of the end of such fiscal quarter was less than 1.75 to 1.0, in each case subject to an annual audit adjustment. In addition, the Borrowers are required to prepay borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility with (A) net cash proceeds of asset dispositions, (B) 100% of Extraordinary Receipts (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility), (C) net cash proceeds of funded indebtedness (other than indebtedness permitted by the Local Media Credit Facility); and (D) 100% of all Specified Equity Contributions (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) to Local Media.
agreements for similar transactions, including, but not limited to, restrictions on their ability to incur indebtedness, create liens on assets, engage in certain lines of business, engage in mergers or consolidations, dispose of assets, make investments or acquisitions, engage in transactions with affiliates, pay dividends or make other restricted payments. The Local Media Credit Facility contains customary events of default, including, but not limited to, defaults based on a failure to pay principal, reimbursement obligations, interest, fees or other obligations, subject to specified grace periods; any material inaccuracy of a representation or warranty; breach of covenant; failure to pay other indebtedness; a Change of Control (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility); events of bankruptcy and insolvency; material judgments; failure to meet certain requirements with respect to ERISA; and impairment of collateral. As of September 29, 2013 Local Media was in compliance with the applicable covenants.
As of September 29, 2013, Local Media is in compliance with all of the covenants and obligations under the Local Media Credit Facility. The revolving credit facility was activated on October 25, 2013.
On September 27, 2013, the Debtors commenced voluntary chapter 11 proceedings (the Chapter 11 Cases) under the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court. Concurrently with the commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases, the Debtors have filed and requested confirmation of the Plan.
The Debtors solicited votes of holders of claims under the 2007 Credit Facility and certain interest rate swaps secured thereunder (collectively, the Secured Debt), including certain affiliates of the Debtors. The Plan was accepted by the only impaired class of creditors entitled to vote on the Plan. Specifically, 79 out of the 80 holders of Secured Debt entitled to vote holding an aggregate amount of $1,199,317 (representing 99.99% of the total Secured Debt) voted to accept the Plan. No creditors voted to reject the Plan.
Pension, trade and all other unsecured claims of the Company would not be impaired under the Plan and their votes were not solicited. The Companys common stock would be canceled under the Plan.
The Debtors intend to continue to operate their businesses without interruption as debtors-in-possession under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and the orders of the Bankruptcy Court. Pursuant to the Plan, the Debtors do not need, nor intend to obtain debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing during the Chapter 11 Cases. The Bankruptcy Court confirmed the plan on November 6, 2013.
The Companys long-term debt is recorded at cost and is not actively traded. As of September 29, 2013, the fair value of the Companys long-term debt under the 2007 Credit Facility was estimated at approximately $467,850. The Companys fair value estimate is based on the allowed claims presented to the Bankruptcy Court multiplied by the 40% Cash-Out Offer. The 40% Cash-Out Offer price, using allowed claim amounts, was determined by management to represent the current price a market participant would be willing to pay to transfer the underlying liability at the measurement date because of the very short amount of time between the measurement date and the Cash-Out Offer settlement date. The Companys long-term debt under the 2007 Credit Facility is classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
The fair value of long-term debt under the Local Media Credit Facility was estimated at $33,000 as of September 29, 2013, based on discounted future contractual cash flows and a market interest rate adjusted for necessary risks, including the Companys own credit risk as there are no rates currently observable in publically traded debt markets of risk with similar terms and average maturities. Accordingly, the Companys long term debt under the Local Media Credit Facility is classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
In order to reduce such risks, the Company primarily uses interest rate swap agreements to change floating-rate long-term debt to fixed-rate long-term debt. This type of hedge is intended to qualify as a cash-flow hedge under FASB ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging (ASC 815). For these instruments, the effective portion of the change in the fair value of the derivative is recorded in accumulated other comprehensive loss in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders Equity (Deficit) and recognized in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) in the same period in which the hedged transaction impacts earnings. The ineffective portion of the change in the fair value of the derivative is immediately recognized in earnings.
The reorganization process resulted in the hedging relationship being discontinued as it was not probable that the forecasted transaction will occur according to the original strategy, any related amounts previously recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net were recognized into earnings in the nine months ended September 29, 2013. The derivative liability balances have been classified as liabilities subject to compromise and are reflected at their fair value at the amount of, the anticipated allowed claim. The remaining amount of other comprehensive income, $16,011 net of $10,302 of tax, was recognized through earnings as of September 27, 2013 and $26,313 was classified as interest expense.
(1) During the quarter ended September 29, 2013, the Company recognized $2,041 in reorganization items, net to adjust the fair value of derivatives to the allowed claim.
On June 23, 2005, the Company entered into and designated an interest rate swap based on a notional amount of $300,000, which matured in June 2012, as a cash flow hedge. Under the swap agreement, the Company received interest equivalent to one month LIBOR and pays a fixed rate of 4.135%, with settlements occurring monthly. On February 20, 2006, the Company redesignated the same interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge for accounting purposes. At December 31, 2006, the swap no longer qualified as an effective hedge. Therefore, the balance in accumulated other comprehensive income has been reclassified into earnings over the life of the hedged item. On January 1, 2007, the Company redesignated the same interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge for accounting purposes. On August 18, 2008, the Company terminated the swap and entered into a settlement agreement with Goldman Sachs in the aggregate amount of $18,947, which also includes the termination of the swap having a notional value of $270,000. The balance in accumulated other comprehensive income was reclassified into earnings over the remaining life of the item previously hedged. As of September 29, 2013, all amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income have been reclassified into earnings.
In connection with financing obtained in 2006, the Company entered into and designated an interest rate swap based on a notional amount of $270,000, which matured in July 2011, as a cash flow hedge. Under the swap agreement, the Company received interest equivalent to one month LIBOR and paid a fixed rate of 5.359%, with settlements occurring monthly. On January 1, 2007, the swap was redesignated. Therefore, the balance in accumulated other comprehensive income has been reclassified into earnings over the life of the hedged item. On August 18, 2008, the Company terminated the swap and entered into a settlement agreement with Goldman Sachs in the aggregate amount of $18,947 which also includes the termination of the swap having a notional value of $300,000. The balance in accumulated other comprehensive income was reclassified into earnings over the remaining life of the item previously hedged. As of September 29, 2013, all amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income have been reclassified into earnings.
In connection with the 2007 Credit Facility, the Company entered into and designated an interest rate swap based on a notional amount of $100,000 maturing September 2014, as a cash flow hedge. Under the swap agreement, the Company receives interest equivalent to one month LIBOR and pays a fixed rate of 5.14%, with settlements occurring monthly. During the three months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $434, of which $0 was recognized through earnings, an increase $765 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $331 was recognized in reorganization items. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $2,835, of which $0 was recognized through earnings, an increase of $3,166 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $331 was recognized in reorganization items.
In connection with the 2007 Credit Facility, the Company entered into and designated an interest rate swap based on a notional amount of $250,000 maturing September 2014, as a cash flow hedge. Under the swap agreement, the Company receives interest equivalent to one month LIBOR and pays a fixed rate of 4.971%, with settlements occurring monthly. During the three months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $1,043, of which an increase of $1 was recognized through earnings, an increase of $1,842 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $800 was recognized in reorganization items. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $6,837, of which an increase of $2 was recognized through earnings, an increase of $7,635 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $800 was recognized in reorganization items.
In connection with the First Amendment to the 2007 Credit Facility, the Company entered into and designated an interest rate swap based on a notional amount of $200,000 maturing September 2014, as a cash flow hedge. Under the swap agreement, the Company receives interest equivalent to one month LIBOR and pays a fixed rate of 5.079% with settlements occurring monthly. During the three months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $855, of which a decrease of $5 was recognized through earnings, an increase of $1,515 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $655 was recognized in reorganization items. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $5,597, of which a decrease of $16 was recognized through earnings, an increase of $6,268 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $655 was recognized in reorganization items.
In connection with the First Amendment to the 2007 Credit Facility, the Company entered into and designated an interest rate swap based on a notional amount of $75,000 maturing September 2014, as a cash flow hedge. Under the swap agreement, the Company receives interest equivalent to one month LIBOR and pays a fixed rate of 4.941% with settlements occurring monthly. During the three months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $281, of which $0 was recognized through earnings, an increase of $536 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $255 was recognized in reorganization items. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, the fair value of the swap increased by $2,015, of which $0 was recognized through earnings, an increase of$2,270 was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive income, and a decrease of $255 was recognized in reorganization items.
The aggregate amount of unrealized loss related to derivative instruments recognized in other comprehensive loss as of September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012 was $0 and $51,517, respectively.
As of September 29, 2013, Fortress and its affiliates beneficially owned approximately 39.6% of the Companys outstanding common stock.
Affiliates of Fortress own $639,233 of the $1,167,450 outstanding under the 2007 Credit Facility, as amended, as of September 29, 2013. These amounts were purchased on arms length terms in secondary market transactions.
On August 27, 2013, the Company entered into the Local Media Management Agreement with Local Media Parent, to manage the operations of Local Media. Local Media Parent is a subsidiary of Newcastle (an affiliate of Fortress).
On September 4, 2013, the Company entered into a restructuring support agreement with Cortland Products Corp., as administrative agent and certain of the lenders under the Companys 2007 Credit Facility, including Newcastle Investment Corp and its affiliates.
On September 4, 2013, Newcastle and GateHouse also entered into an Investment Commitment Letter (the Investment Commitment Letter), effective September 3, 2013.
The Restructuring Support Agreement and the Investment Commitment Letter relate to the restructuring (the Restructuring) of the obligations of GateHouse under the 2007 Credit Facility debt and under certain interest rate swaps secured thereunder (collectively, the Outstanding Debt) and GateHouses equity pursuant to a prepackaged Plan (the Plan) under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code (the Bankruptcy Code).
As of the date of the Restructuring Support Agreement and the Investment Commitment Letter, Newcastle and its affiliates held approximately 52% of the principal amount currently outstanding under the 2007 Credit Facility (Loans), including certain amounts still pending trade settlement. Other Participating Lenders held approximately 59.8% of the remaining principal amount of the Loans (i.e., the amount excluding Loans held by Newcastle and its affiliates, approximately 48%), including certain amounts still pending trade settlement. Additional holders of Outstanding Debt may join the Restructuring Support Agreement in the future as Participating Lenders.
Equity interests in GateHouse, including warrants, rights and options to acquire such equity interests (collectively, the Existing Equity Interests) would be cancelled, and the holders of Existing Equity Interests would receive 10-year warrants, collectively representing the right to acquire, in the aggregate, 5% of the common stock of New Media Common Stock (subject to dilution) as of the Effective Date, with the strike price for such warrants calculated based on a total equity value of New Media, prior to contribution of Local Media, of $1,200,000.
In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, the Company considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. The Company considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. The Company concluded that during the nine months ended September 29, 2013, a net increase to the valuation allowance of $49,164 would be necessary to offset additional deferred tax assets. Of this amount, an $77,007 increase was recognized through the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss), a $28,194 decrease was recognized through accumulated other comprehensive loss, and a $351 increase was recognized through discontinued operations.
For the nine months ended September 29, 2013, the expected federal tax benefit at 34% is $58,310. The difference between the expected tax and the effective benefit of $10,878 is primarily attributable to the tax effect of the federal valuation allowance of $57,931, the tax effect of the termination of derivative agreements of $(10,302), return to provision adjustments of $(540), the tax effect related to non-deductible expenses of $258, and deferred tax benefits that expired of $85.
The Company and its subsidiaries file a U.S. federal consolidated income tax return. The U.S. federal and state statute of limitations generally remains open for the 2010 tax year and beyond.
In accordance with ASC 740, the Company recognizes penalties and interest relating to uncertain tax positions in the provision for income taxes. As of September 29, 2013 and December 30, 2012, the Company had unrecognized tax benefits of approximately $4,677 and $4,677, respectively. The Company did not record significant amounts of interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits for the periods ending September 29, 2013 and December 30, 2012. The Company does not expect significant changes in unrecognized tax benefits within the next 12 months.
The following provides information on the pension plan and postretirement medical and life insurance plans for the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012.
During the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012, the Company recognized a total of $90, $91, $270 and $275 in pension and postretirement benefit expense, respectively.
As of September 29, 2013 and December 30, 2012, the Company intended to dispose of various assets which are classified as held for sale on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet in accordance with ASC 360.
During the twelve months ended December 30, 2012 the Company recorded an impairment charge in the amount of $2,128 related to property, plant and equipment and certain intangible assets which were classified as held for sale, refer to Note 16 for fair value measurement discussion. No such impairment charges were recorded during the nine months ended September 29, 2013.
(1) The fair value of the Companys interest-rate swaps is determined using a discounted cash flow method and the following significant inputs: the remaining term of the swap (ranging between 11 and 11.5 months at September 29, 2013), the notional amount of the swap (ranging from $75,000 to $250,000), discount rates interpolated based on the one month LIBOR swap curves, the rate on the fixed leg of the swap (ranging from 4.94% to 5.14%), and a credit value adjustment to consider the likelihood of the Companys nonperformance. The pricing model used is consistently applied and reflects the contractual terms of the derivatives as described above. In determining an appropriate spread to reflect its credit standing, the Company considers credit default swap pricing on debt with similar credit risks and maturities. Therefore, the Companys interest-rate swaps are classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. An increase in the one month LIBOR and/or an increase in the credit default swap price would result in a decrease to fair value. A decrease in the one month LIBOR curve and/or a decrease in the credit default swap price would result in an increase to fair value.
(2) The Company recognized $2,041 in reorganization items, net to adjust the fair value of derivatives to the allowed claim. The derivative liability is included in liabilities subject to compromise on the Consolidated Balance Sheet at the allowed claim amount of $28,440.
Certain assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis; that is, the instruments are not measured at fair value on an ongoing basis but are subject to fair value adjustments only in certain circumstances (for example, when there is evidence of impairment). During the quarter ended April 1, 2012, goodwill was written down to implied fair value using Level 3 inputs. The valuation techniques and significant inputs and assumptions utilized to measure fair value are discussed in Note 9.
During the quarter ended September 29, 2013, certain intangible assets were written down to their implied fair value using Level 3 inputs. The valuation techniques and significant inputs and assumptions utilized to measure fair value are discussed in Note 9. The fair value of select advertiser relationships was $19,120, subscriber relationships $5,310, customer relationships $270, trade names was $270, and publication rights was $0 at September 29, 2013.
During the quarter ended September 29, 2013, the Company consolidated the assets and liabilities of Local Media under the purchase method of accounting. Accordingly, the assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at their fair value. Property plant and equipment was valued using Level 2 inputs and mastheads and goodwill were valued using Level 3 inputs. Refer to Note 5 for discussion of the valuation techniques and significant inputs and assumptions utilized and the fair value recognized.
Refer to Note 10 for the discussion on the fair value of the Companys total long-term debt.
During the twelve months ended December 30, 2012, the Company recorded an impairment charge in the amount of $2,128 related to property, plant and equipment and certain intangible assets which were classified as held for sale. The Company used assessed values and current market data, Level 2 inputs, to determine the fair value.
The Company becomes involved from time to time in claims and lawsuits incidental to the ordinary course of its business, including with respect to matters such as libel, invasion of privacy, intellectual property infringement, wrongful termination actions, and complaints alleging employment discrimination. In addition, the Company is involved from time to time in governmental and administrative proceedings concerning employment, labor, environmental and other claims. Insurance coverage maintained by the Company mitigates potential loss for certain of these matters. Historically, such claims and proceedings have not had a material effect upon the Companys condensed consolidated results of operations or financial condition. While the Company is unable to predict the ultimate outcome of any currently outstanding legal actions, it is the opinion of the Companys management that it is a remote possibility that the disposition of these matters would have a material adverse effect upon the Companys condensed consolidated results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
Restricted cash at September 29, 2013 and December 30, 2012, in the aggregate amount of $6,467 for both periods, is used to collateralize standby letters of credit in the name of the Companys insurers in accordance with certain insurance policies and as cash collateral for certain business operations.
In May 2013, the Company disposed of a non wholly owned subsidiary in Chicago, Illinois. As a result, the asset, liability and noncontrolling interest carrying amounts of this subsidiary were derecognized. A loss of $1,146 was recognized in discontinued operations.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, the Company entered into an agreement to sell 22 publications in Suburban Chicago, Illinois for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2,800. As a result, an impairment loss of $1,922 is included in loss from discontinued operations on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. Additionally, an impairment loss of $206 is included in loss from discontinued operations net of income taxes on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 related to previously discontinued operations.
The net revenue during the nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012 for the aforementioned discontinued operations and previously discontinued operations was $394 and $8,560, respectively. Loss, net of income taxes of $0, during the nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012 for the aforementioned discontinued operations and previously discontinued operations was $1,034 and $2,093, respectively. The loss from discontinued operations attributable to noncontrolling interest during the nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012 was $55 and $410, respectively.
The financial statements below represent the condensed combined financial statements of the Debtors. Effective September 29, 2013, the non-debtor entities are accounted for as non-consolidated subsidiaries in the accompanying Debtor-In-Possession financial information. Local Media, a VIE that is owned entirely by Local Media Parent, is the only non-debtor entity with material financial activity. The Local Media net loss is included in net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest in the GateHouse Media, Inc and subsidiaries Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) and noncontrolling interest on the GateHouse Media, Inc and subsidiaries Balance Sheet.
Forward-looking statements are based on managements current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could lead actual results to be materially different from those described in the forward-looking statements. We can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations include, but are not limited to, the risks, uncertainties and other factors identified by us under the heading Risk Factors and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2012. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. Except to the extent required by law, we expressly disclaim any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in our expectations with regard thereto or change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based.
We are one of the largest publishers of locally based print and online media in the United States as measured by number of daily publications. Our business model is to be the preeminent provider of local content and advertising in the small and midsize markets we serve. Our portfolio of products, including the acquisition of Dow Jones Local Media Group, Inc. (Local Media), which includes 435 community publications, 353 related websites, 329 mobile sites and six yellow page directories, serves over 128,000 business advertising accounts and reaches approximately 10 million people on a weekly basis.
six yellow page directories, with a distribution of approximately 488,000, that covers a population of approximately 1.2 million people.
Since 1998, we have acquired 416 daily and weekly newspapers and shoppers and launched numerous new products. We generate revenues from advertising, circulation and commercial printing. Advertising revenue is recognized upon publication of the advertisements. Circulation revenue from subscribers, which is billed to customers at the beginning of the subscription period, is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the related subscription. The revenue for commercial printing is recognized upon delivery of the printed product to our customers. Directory revenue is recognized on a straight-line basis over the period in which the corresponding directory is distributed and in use in the market, which is typically 12 months.
On May 9, 2005, FIF III Liberty Holdings LLC, an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with the Company pursuant to which a wholly-owned subsidiary of FIF III Liberty Holdings LLC merged with and into the Company (the Merger). The Merger was effective on June 6, 2005, thus at the time making FIF III Liberty Holdings LLC our principal and controlling stockholder at that time. As of September 29, 2013, Fortress beneficially owned approximately 39.6% of our outstanding common stock.
On September 27, 2013, we filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, case number 13-12503. On November 6, 2013 the bankruptcy court confirmed the restructuring plan, as discussed below. We will continue to operate the business as debtor-in possession under the jurisdiction of the United States Bankruptcy Court of Delaware (the Bankruptcy Court) and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code and orders of the Bankruptcy Court.
On August 27, 2013, we entered into a management agreement (the Local Media Management Agreement) with Local Media Parent to manage the operations of Local Media. We have determined that the Local Media Management Agreement results in Local Media being a variable interest entity (VIE) and we have consolidated Local Medias financial position and results of operations from September 3, 2013. On September 3, 2013, Local Media Parent completed its acquisition of thirty three publications from News Corp Inc. Local Media is not part of the bankruptcy filing and will continue to operate in the ordinary course of business.
The newspaper industry and our company have experienced declining same store revenue and profitability over the past several years. These trends have eliminated the availability to us of additional borrowings under our 2007 Credit Facility. As a result, we previously implemented plans to reduce costs and preserve cash flow. This includes the suspension of the payment of cash dividends, the continued implementation of cost reduction and restructuring programs, and the sale of non-core assets. We believe these initiatives will provide the financial resources necessary to invest in the business and ensure our future success and provide sufficient cash flow to enable us to meet our commitments for the next year.
We periodically perform testing for impairment of goodwill and newspaper mastheads in which the fair value of our reporting units for goodwill impairment testing and individual newspaper mastheads were estimated using the expected present value of future cash flows and recent industry transaction multiples, using estimates, judgments and assumptions, that we believe were appropriate in the circumstances. Should general economic, market or business conditions decline, and have a negative impact on estimates of future cash flow and market transaction multiples, we may be required to record additional impairment charges in the future.
and subject us to more restrictive covenants than our existing debt arrangements. Additional downgrades in our credit ratings could further increase our borrowing cost, subject us to more onerous borrowing terms and reduce or eliminate our borrowing flexibility in the future.
On September 4, 2013, we and our affiliated debtors (the Debtors) announced that we, the Administrative Agent (as defined below), Newcastle Investment Corp. (Newcastle) and other lenders (the Participating Lenders) under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement by and among certain affiliates of us, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and Cortland Products Corp., as administrative agent (the Administrative Agent), dated February 27, 2007 (the 2007 Credit Facility) entered into the Restructuring Support Agreement, effective September 3, 2013, as may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time (the Support Agreement), in which the parties agreed to support, subject to the terms and conditions of the Support Agreement, the restructuring of our company (the Restructuring) pursuant to the consummation of a pre-packaged plan under Chapter 11 of title 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (the Plan). The Support Agreement relates to the Restructuring of our obligations under the 2007 Credit Facility and certain interest rate swaps secured thereunder (collectively, the Outstanding Debt) and our equity pursuant to the Plan.
The Plan, once effective, will discharge claims and interests against us primarily through the (a) issuance of shares of common stock in a new holding company, New Media Investment Group Inc. (New Media, and such common stock, Common Stock) and/or payment of cash to holders of claims in connection with the 2007 Credit Facility and related interest rate swaps, (b) reinstatement of certain claims, (c) entry into the Management Agreement (as defined below), (d) issuance of warrants by New Media to existing equity holders in us (Existing Equity Holders) and (e) entry into the New Credit Facilities (as defined below), if any, the net proceeds of which will go to holders that elect to receive New Media Common Stock, and entry into the New Undrawn Commitments (as defined below).
Pursuant to the Restructuring, Newcastle offered to purchase the Outstanding Debt claims in cash and at 40% of (i) $1.2 billion of principal of claims under the 2007 Credit Facility, plus (ii) accrued and unpaid interest at the applicable contract non-default rate with respect thereto, plus (iii) all amounts, excluding any default interest, arising from transactions in connection with interest rate swaps secured under the 2007 Credit Facility (the Cash-Out Offer) on the effective date of the Plan (the Effective Date). The holders of the Outstanding Debt have the option of receiving, in satisfaction of their Outstanding Debt, their pro rata share of the (i) Cash-Out Offer and/or (ii) New Media Common Stock and the net proceeds, if any, of a potential new debt facility (the New Credit Facilities). Newcastle will receive its pro rata share of New Media Common Stock and the net proceeds of the New Credit Facilities, if any, for all Outstanding Debt it holds, including Outstanding Debt purchased in the Cash-Out Offer. We intend to pay all pensions, trade and all other unsecured claims in full.
As of September 19, 2013, Newcastle held approximately 52.2% of the principal amount currently outstanding under the 2007 Credit Facility and the other Participating Lenders held approximately 28.7% of such principal amount (in each case, including certain amounts still pending trade settlement). Additional holders of Outstanding Debt may join the Restructuring Support Agreement in the future as Participating Lenders.
On September 20, 2013, we commenced a pre-packaged solicitation of the Plan (the Solicitation). Under the Support Agreement, each of the Participating Lenders agreed to (a) support and take any reasonable action in furtherance of the Restructuring, (b) timely vote their Outstanding Debt to accept the Plan and not change or withdraw such vote, (c) support approval of the Disclosure Statement and confirmation of the Plan, as well as certain relief to be requested by Debtors from the Bankruptcy Court, (d) refrain from taking any action inconsistent with the confirmation or consummation of the Plan, and (e) not propose, support, solicit or participate in the formulation of any plan other than the Plan. Holders of Outstanding Debt sufficient to meet the requisite threshold of 67% in amount and majority in number (calculated without including any insider) necessary for acceptance of the Plan under the Bankruptcy Code (Bankruptcy Threshold Creditors) voted to accept the Plan in the Solicitation. 100% of the holders of the Outstanding Debt voted to accept the Plan under the terms of the Support Agreement. As a result, Debtors commenced Chapter 11 cases and sought approval of the disclosure statement for the Plan (the Disclosure Statement) and confirmation of the Plan therein. The Plan was confirmed by the Court on November 6, 2013.
The Companys operating segments (Large Community Newspapers, Small Community Newspapers, Directories and Local Media) are aggregated into one reportable business segment.
A summary of our significant accounting policies are described in Note 1 of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 30, 2012, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Due to the bankruptcy filing, we have applied debtor-in-possession accounting as described in FASB ASC Topic 852, Reorganizations (ASC 852). There have been no other changes in critical accounting policies in the current year from those described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2012.
The following table summarizes our historical results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012.
Revenue. Total revenue for the three months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $6.0 million, or 5.0%, to $126.0 million from $120.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012. The increase in total revenue was comprised of a $1.1 million, or 1.4%, decrease in advertising revenue which was offset by a $3.7 million, or 11.1%, increase in circulation revenue and a $3.4 million, or 51.7%, increase in commercial printing and other revenue. Advertising revenue includes an additional $5.8 million from Local Media in 2013 while total company excluding Local Media (Gatehouse Standalone ) declines were $6.9 million or 8.7%. Advertising revenue declines were primarily driven by declines on the print side of our business in the local retail and classified categories, which were partially offset by growth in digital advertising. The local retail print declines reflect both secular pressures and a continuing uncertain and weak economic environment. These secular trends and economic conditions have also led to a decline in our print circulation volumes which have been primarily offset by price increases in certain locations. Our circulation revenue was also impacted by approximately $0.5 million for a net to gross accounting change at two of our larger locations. The increase in circulation revenue was primarily due to circulation revenue from Local Media of $3.7 million. The increase in commercial printing and other revenue was primarily due to commercial printing and other revenue from Local Media of $2.5 million as well as increases in our small business marketing services within GateHouse Media Ventures.
Operating Costs. Operating costs for the three months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $4.5 million, or 6.8%, to $70.8 million from $66.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012. The increase in operating costs was primarily due to operating costs of Local Media of $7.9 million, which was partially offset by a decrease in GateHouse Standalone compensation expenses, newsprint expenses, and professional and consulting fees of $1.5 million, $1.3 million, and $1.0 million, respectively. These decreases are the result of permanent cost reductions as we continue to work to consolidate operations and improve the productivity of our labor force.
Selling, General and Administrative. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the three months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $7.5 million, or 21.5%, to $42.5 million from $35.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to selling, general and administrative expenses of Local Media of $4.4 million and an increase in GateHouse Standalone outside services and compensation expenses of $2.9 million and $0.2 million. The increase in outside services is primarily from legal expenses of $2.6 million related to reorganization costs.
Depreciation and Amortization. Depreciation and amortization expense for the three months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $0.9 million to $10.7 million from $9.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012. Depreciation and amortization expense increased due to depreciation expense of Local Media of $0.9 million.
Integration and Reorganization Costs. During the three months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012, we recorded integration and reorganization costs of $0.4 million and $1.6 million, respectively, primarily resulting from severance costs related to the continued consolidation of our operations resulting from our ongoing implementation of our plans to reduce costs and preserve cash flow.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets. During the three months ended September 29, 2013 we incurred a charge of $91.6 million related to the impairment on our advertiser relationships, subscriber relationships, customer relationships and other intangible assets due to reductions in our operating projections within our various reporting units. There were no such charges during the three months ended September 30, 2012.
Interest Expense. Interest expense for the three months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $26.1 million to $40.6 million from $14.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012, which primarily resulted from the reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income related to the write off of the derivative instruments due to the termination of the swap agreements of $26.3 million.
Reorganization Costs, Net. During the three months ended September 29, 2013, we recorded reorganization costs, net of $9.8 million, which was comprised of credit agreement amendment fees of $6.8 million, the adjustment of the fair value of the swaps to the allowed claim value in the amount of $2.0 million, the write-off of deferred financing costs of $1.0 million, and bankruptcy fees of $0.1 million.
Income Tax Benefit. Income tax benefit for the three months ended September 29, 2013 was $10.9 million compared to $0.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012. The change of $10.5 million was primarily due to the tax effect of the current years termination of derivative agreements.
Net Loss from Continuing Operations. Net loss from continuing operations for the three months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012 was $130.0 million and $7.7 million, respectively. Our net loss from continuing operations increased due to the factors noted above.
Revenue. Total revenue for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 decreased by $7.0 million, or 1.9%, to $356.2 million from $363.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. The decrease in total revenue was comprised of a $16.4 million, or 6.7%, decrease in advertising revenue which was offset by a $4.0 million, or 4.2%, increase in circulation revenue and a $5.4 million, or 28.4%, increase in commercial printing and other revenue. Advertising revenue includes $5.8 million from Local Media in 2013 while Gatehouse Standalone declines were $22.3 million or 9.1%. Advertising revenue declines were primarily driven by declines on the print side of our business in the local retail and classified categories, which were partially offset by growth in digital advertising. The local retail print declines reflect both secular pressures and a continuing uncertain and weak economic environment. These secular trends and economic conditions have also led to a decline in our print circulation volumes which have been slightly offset by price increases in certain locations. Our circulation revenue was also impacted by approximately $1.4 million for a net to gross accounting change at two of our larger locations. The increase in circulation revenue was primarily due to circulation revenue from Local Media of $3.7 million. The increase in commercial printing and other revenue was primarily due to commercial printing and other revenue from growth of our small business marketing services within GateHouse Media Ventures combined with Local Media commercial print and other revenue of $2.5 million.
Operating Costs. Operating costs for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 decreased by $1.8 million, or 0.9%, to $200.8 million from $202.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. The decrease in operating costs was primarily due to a decrease in Gatehouse Standalone compensation expenses, newsprint expenses, professional and consulting fees, supplies, travel expenses, and repairs and maintenance expenses of $5.6 million, $3.5 million, $3.1 million, $0.8 million, $0.4 million, and $0.4 million, respectively. These decreases in operating costs were partially offset by operating costs of Local Media of $7.9 million and an increase in outside services of $4.5 million. These decreases are the result of permanent cost reductions as we continue to work to consolidate operations and improve the productivity of our labor force.
Selling, General and Administrative. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $14.2 million, or 13.3%, to $121.3 million from $107.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012.
The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to an increase in GateHouse Standalone outside services, compensation expenses, and professional and consulting fees of $8.6 million, $0.8 million, and $0.5 million, respectively. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses also includes selling, general and administrative expenses of Local Media of $4.4 million. The increase in outside services is primarily from legal expenses of $6.5 million related to reorganization costs.
Depreciation and Amortization. Depreciation and amortization expense for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $0.4 million to $30.4 million from $30.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. Depreciation and amortization expense increased due to depreciation expense of Local Media of $0.9 million, which was offset by a reduction in depreciation expense due to the sale and disposal of assets.
Integration and Reorganization Costs. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012, we recorded integration and reorganization costs of $1.4 million and $3.5 million, respectively, primarily resulting from severance costs related to the continued consolidation of our operations resulting from our ongoing implementation of our plans to reduce costs and preserve cash flow.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013 we incurred a charge of $91.6 million related to the impairment on our advertiser relationships, subscriber, customer relationships and other intangible assets relationships due to reductions in our operating projections within our various reporting units. There were no such charges during the nine months ended September 30, 2012.
Interest Expense. Interest expense for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 increased by $26.0 million to $69.5 million from $43.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012, which primarily resulted from the reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive income related to the write off of the derivative instruments due to the termination of the swap agreements of $26.3 million.
(Gain) Loss on Derivative Instruments. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, we recorded a net gain on derivative instruments of $1.6 million, which was comprised of reclassifications of accumulated other comprehensive income amortization related to swaps terminated in 2008 that were partially offset by the impact of the ineffectiveness of our remaining swap agreements. The accumulated other comprehensive income reclassification for swaps terminated in 2008 was fully amortized in 2012 and the 2013 loss on derivative instruments relates only to the ineffectiveness of our remaining swaps.
Reorganization Costs, Net. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, we recorded reorganization costs, net of $9.8 million, which was comprised of credit agreement amendment fees of $6.8 million, the adjustment of the fair value of the swaps to the allowed claim value in the amount of $2.0 million, the write-off of deferred financing costs of $1.0 million, and bankruptcy fees of $0.1 million.
Income Tax Benefit. Income tax benefit for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 was $10.9 million compared to $0.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. The change of $10.6 million was primarily due to the tax effect of the current years termination of derivative agreements.
Net Loss from Continuing Operations. Net loss from continuing operations for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012 was $160.6 million and $23.2 million, respectively. Our net loss from continuing operations increased due to the factors noted above.
As required by the 2007 Credit Facility, as amended, on March 26, 2013 and March 15, 2012, we made a principal payment of $6.6 million and $4.6 million, respectively, which represented 50% of our Excess Cash Flow (as defined under the 2007 Credit Facility) related to the fiscal years ended December 30, 2012 and January 1, 2012, respectively.
Our 2007 Credit Facility imposes upon us certain financial and operating covenants, including, among others, requirements that we satisfy certain financial tests, including a total leverage ratio if there are outstanding extensions of credit under the revolving facility, a minimum fixed charge ratio, and restrictions on our ability to incur debt, pay dividends or take certain other corporate actions. As of September 29, 2013 we were in compliance with all applicable covenants. Although we are currently in compliance with all of our covenants and obligations under the 2007 Credit Facility, due to restrictive covenants and conditions within this facility, we currently do not have the ability to draw upon the revolving credit facility portion of the 2007 Credit Facility for any immediate short-term funding needs or to incur additional long-term debt.
Future compliance with our financial and operating covenants will depend on the future performance of the business and our ability to curtail the negative revenue trends experience and our ability to address other risks and challenges set forth herein and in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2012. We believe that we have adequate capital resources and liquidity to meet our current working capital needs, borrowing obligations and all required capital expenditures for at least the next twelve months.
The Local Media Credit Facility provided for: (a) a $33 million term loan facility that matures on September 4, 2018; and (b) a $10 million revolving credit facility (subject to the activation condition that Credit Suisse Loan Funding LLC (CS), as lead arranger, assigns the revolving loan commitment to an unaffiliated lender), with a $3 million sub-facility for letters of credit and a $4 million sub-facility for swing loans, that matures on September 4, 2018. On October 25, 2013, CS assigned the revolving loan commitment to Capital One Business Corp and the revolving credit facility was activated.
Borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility bear interest, at the borrowers option, equal to the LIBOR Rate (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) plus 6.5% per annum for a LIBOR Rate Loan (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility), or the Base Rate (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility) plus 5.5% per annum for a Base Rate Loan (as defined in the Local Media Credit Facility). Under the revolving credit facility, the Borrowers will also pay a monthly commitment fee of 0.75% per annum on the unused portion of the revolving credit facility and a fee of 6.0% on the aggregate amount of outstanding letters of credit. No principal payments are due on the revolving credit facility until the maturity date. Principal payments are due on the term loan facility as follows: (a) $203,125 at the end of each fiscal quarter beginning with the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2013 until the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2015; and (b) $406,250 beginning with the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2015 and at the end of each fiscal quarter thereafter. The Borrowers are required to prepay borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility in amounts and under circumstances as set forth in the Local Media Credit Facility.
The Local Media Credit Facility imposes upon Local Media certain financial and operating covenants, including, among others, requirements that Local Media satisfy certain financial tests, including a total leverage ratio and a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio, and restriction on Local Medias ability to incur debt, pay dividends or take other corporate actions. As of September 29, 2013, Local Media was in compliance with all applicable covenants and could draw on the revolving facility if it chose to do so.
The discussion of our cash flows that follows is based on our historical cash flows for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 and September 30, 2012.
Cash Flows from Operating Activities. Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 was $9.7 million, a decrease of $33.9 million when compared to $24.2 million of cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. This $33.9 million decrease was the result of an increase in net loss of $136.4 million and an increase in cash provided by working capital of $8.2 million, which was offset by an increase in non-cash charges of $110.7 million.
The $8.2 million increase in cash provided by working capital for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 when compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2012 is primarily attributable to an increase in prepaid, account receivable and accrued expenses.
The $110.7 million increase in non-cash charges primarily consisted of an increase in impairment of long-lived assets of $89.5 million, an increase in non-cash interest expense related to the termination of derivative instruments of $26.3 million, non-cash reorganization cost, net of $3.0 million, an increase in loss on derivative instruments of $1.7 million, and an increase in loss on sale of assets of $1.6 million. These increases were partially offset by an increase in the tax benefit of $10.3 million related to the termination of derivative agreements, a decrease in pension and other postretirement benefit obligations of $0.4 million, a decrease in depreciation and amortization of $0.3 million, a decrease in goodwill impairment included in discontinued operations of $0.2 million, and a decrease in amortization of deferred financing costs of $0.2 million.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities. Net cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 was $2.5 million. During the nine months ended September 29, 2013, we used $3.2 million for capital expenditures, which was offset by $0.7 million we received from the sale of publications and other assets.
Net cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $2.0 million. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, we used $2.8 million for capital expenditures, which was offset by $0.8 million we received from the sale of real property and insurance proceeds.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities. Net cash used by financing activities for the nine months ended September 29, 2013 was $2.5 million. The net cash provided by financing activities resulted from additional paid-in capital of $4.1 million related to the VIE Local Media which was offset by a $6.6 million repayment under the 2007 Credit Facility, as amended.
Net cash used in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $4.6 million due to a repayment under the 2007 Credit Facility, as amended.
The discussion that follows highlights significant changes in our financial position and working capital from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013.
Accounts Receivable. Accounts receivable increased $8.4 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, due to $14.3 million addition related to Local Media during the first nine months of 2013, which was partially offset by the timing of cash collections and lower revenue recognized in the 2013 nine month period compared to 2012.
Inventory. Inventory increased $1.1 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, which primarily relates to the Local Media consolidation during the first nine months of 2013.
Prepaid Expenses. Prepaid expenses increased $2.1 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, which primarily relates to the Local Media consolidation during the first nine months of 2013.
Property, Plant, and Equipment. Property, plant, and equipment increased $62.1 million during the period from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, of which $73.8 million relates to the Local Media consolidation in the third quarter of 2013 and $3.2 million that was used for capital expenditures. These increases in property, plant, and equipment were partially offset by $12.9 of depreciation and $1.9 million related to assets sold and discontinued operations.
Intangible Assets. Intangible assets decreased $105.1 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, of which $91.6 million relates to an impairment charge, $17.5 relates to amortization and $0.1 million relates to discontinued operations, which was offset by $4.1 million from the Local Media consolidation in the third quarter of 2013.
Current Portion of Long-term Debt. Current portion of long-term debt decreased $6.0 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, due to a $6.6 million principal payment as required by the 2007 Credit Facility, as amended, which represented 50% of the Excess Cash Flow related to the fiscal year ended December 30, 2012, which was offset by $0.6 million in borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility.
Accounts Payable. Accounts payable increased $2.6 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, of which $1.3 million relates to Local Media consolidation during the first nine months of 2013 and $1.9 million primarily relates to the timing of vendor payments, which was partially offset by $0.7 million from the disposal of a non wholly owned subsidiary in Chicago, Illinois.
Accrued Expenses. Accrued expenses increased $8.8 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, which primarily resulted from $5.4 million from the consolidation of Local Media during the first nine months of 2013 and $3.1 million due to payroll related expenses.
Accrued Interest. Accrued interest decreased $4.5 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, which primarily resulted from a reclassification of the 2007 Credit Facility and derivative instrument accrued interest to liabilities subject to compromise in connection with the bankruptcy filing.
Long-term Debt. Long-term debt decreased $1,135.1 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, of which $1,167.5 million resulted from a reclassification of the 2007 Credit Facility to liabilities subject to compromise in connection with the bankruptcy filing, which was offset by $32.4 million in borrowings under the Local Media Credit Facility.
Derivative Instruments. Derivative instrument liability decreased $45.7 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, of which $19.3 million was due to changes in the fair value measurement of our interest rate swaps and $28.4 million resulted from a reclassification of the derivative instrument liability to liabilities subject to compromise in connection with the bankruptcy filing, which was offset by an increase in the fair value of the derivative instruments of $2.0 million.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss. Accumulated other comprehensive loss decreased $35.4 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, of which $26.3 million resulted from a release of accumulated other comprehensive loss related to the termination of the derivative agreements and $19.3 resulted from the change in fair value of the interest rate swaps. These decreases were offset by an increase in the tax benefit of $10.3 million related to the termination of derivative agreements.
Accumulated Deficit. Accumulated deficit increased $160.8 million from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013, due to a net loss.
On or around September 4, 2013, GateHouse and certain Lenders (including Newcastle) constituting the Required Lenders under the 2007 Credit Agreement entered into Amendment Agreement to the 2007 Credit Agreement effective September 3, 2013 (Credit Amendment). Pursuant to the terms of the Credit Amendment, GateHouse obtained the following improvement in terms: a clarified and expanded definition of Eligible Assignee; an increase in the base amount in the formula used to calculate the Permitted Investments basket from $35 million to a base of $50 million; the removal of the requirement that GateHouses annual financial statements not have a going concern or like qualification to the audit; the removal of a cross default from any Secured Hedging Agreement to the 2007 Credit Agreement; the removal of a Bankruptcy Default, as defined therein, arising from actions in furtherance of or indicating consent to the specified actions; and a waiver of any prior Default or Event of Default, as defined therein, including without limitation from the negotiation, entry into, or performance of the Restructuring Support Agreement or the Investment Commitment Letter.
In consideration of the changes described above, GateHouse agreed to pay each of the Lenders party to the Credit Amendment that timely executed and delivered its signature to the Credit Amendment and the Restructuring Support Agreement, an amendment fee equal to 3.5% multiplied by the aggregate outstanding amount of the Loans held (including through trades pending settlement) by such Lender, unless waived in writing. Newcastle and certain other Lenders elected to waive their amendment fee pursuant to the Credit Amendment. Newcastle indemnified other Lenders with respect to their entry into the Credit Amendment, subject to the limitations set forth in the Credit Amendment.
The bankruptcy filing on September 27, 2013, was a termination event under our interest rate swap agreements.
No other material changes were made to our contractual commitments during the period from December 30, 2012 to September 29, 2013.
We use Adjusted EBITDA as a measure of our core operating performance, which is evidenced by the publishing and delivery of news and other media and excludes certain expenses that may not be indicative of our core business operating results. We consider the unrealized (gain) loss on derivative instruments and the loss on early extinguishment of debt to be financing related costs associated with interest expense or amortization of financing fees. Accordingly, we exclude financing related costs such as the early extinguishment of debt because they represent the write-off of deferred financing costs and we believe these non-cash write-offs are similar to interest expense and amortization of financing fees, which by definition are excluded from Adjusted EBITDA. Additionally, the non-cash gains (losses) on derivative contracts, which are related to interest rate swap agreements to manage interest rate risk, are financing costs associated with interest expense. Such charges are incidental to, but not reflective of, our core operating performance and it is appropriate to exclude charges related to financing activities such as the early extinguishment of debt and the unrealized (gain) loss on derivative instruments which, depending on the nature of the financing arrangement, would have otherwise been amortized over the period of the related agreement and does not require a current cash settlement.
(a) Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 29, 2013 included net expenses of $14,777, which are one-time in nature or non-cash compensation. Included in these net expenses of $14,777 is non-cash compensation and other expense of $14,735, non-cash portion of postretirement benefits expense of $(392), integration and reorganization costs of $422 and a $9 loss on the sale of assets.
(b) Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2012 included net expenses of $3,205, which are one-time in nature or non-cash compensation. Included in these net expenses of $3,205 is non-cash compensation and other expense of $1,417, non-cash portion of postretirement benefits expense of $(188), integration and reorganization costs of $1,597 and a $379 loss on the sale of assets.
Adjusted EBITDA also does not include $428 from our discontinued operations.
(c) Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 29, 2013 included net expenses of $22,419, which are one-time in nature or non-cash compensation. Included in these net expenses of $22,419 is non-cash compensation and other expense of $20,807, non-cash portion of postretirement benefits expense of $(820), integration and reorganization costs of $1,380 and a $1,053 loss on the sale of assets.
(d) Adjusted EBITDA for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 included net expenses of $7,684, which are one-time in nature or non-cash compensation. Included in these net expenses of $7,684 is non-cash compensation and other expense of $4,125, non-cash portion of postretirement benefits expense of $(432), integration and reorganization costs of $3,457 and a $534 loss on the sale of assets.
Adjusted EBITDA also does not include $593 from our discontinued operations.
During the nine month period ended September 29, 2013, there were no material changes to the quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk that were presented in Item 7A of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2012.
See Index to Exhibits on page 46 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. | 2019-04-20T06:57:13 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1368900/000119312513443203/d627167d10q.htm |
Dharmindar works In 247 films, these almost were super hit. He born 8 December in 1935, and start his filmy career to the film “Dill bi tera hum bi terry”. He got film fare award in 1997, and awarded a Padmabhooshan Award in 2012. Bollywood super star Dharmindar is called a very lucky actor on silver screen. He got such successes in bollywood films history which didn’t have anyone.
He considered a big actor of Indian films; he made his acting in 247 films to which most films were hit in box office. He has born 8 December 1935 in Punjab’s region Sahneewal. His real name is Dharma Pol Singh. He starts his films career from film “dil bi tera hum bi tery” as romantic hero. Which was a release in 1960 whenever her film “phool aur pathar” and “soorat aur seerat” was also super hit film? Her most successful partner actress was “Meena Kumari, saira baano, mumtaaz and zeenat amaan”. Whenever his work with heema malni in most films.
During 1970 dharmindar’s famous films were “Dharamweer, Ghazab, Hakoomat, Ghulami, and Hatyaar” are very famous and note able films. He introduced her son’s Sunny deol and Bobby deol in her films. He introduced sunny deol in film “Betaab” in 1983 and Bobby deol in film “Barsaat” 1995. He made another film in 2011 “yamla pagla deewana” which is include in super hit films. The first marriage of dharmindar in the age of 19 years old to parkaash koar, from which he has two sons Sunny and Bobby deol and two daughters Wegeeta and Abeeta. Whenever her 2nd marriage was to Heema Malni. The affairs of both were started to film Shollay, s shooting. | 2019-04-25T10:04:30 | http://www.telegraphpk.com/dharmindar-success-in-the-film-industry/ |
IS YOUR LAWN & GARDEN GETTING TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE WATER?
HOW MUCH WATER DOES YOUR LAWN NEED???
During the hottest months (June through September), you may need to add an inch and a half to two inches of water to your lawn each week, divided into two or three applications. Apply less water during spring and fall, perhaps one-half inch to one inch per week. There is no need to water your lawn during a typical rainy winter here. Irrigate once every other week if no rain falls during the winter.
DO NOT WATER YOUR LAWN EVERY DAY!
This practice can lead to serious lawn problems, such as shallow lawn roots (making the lawn more susceptible to drought and insect damage), fungal growths and diseases.
Position 6 to 10 flat-bottomed, same sized containers around your lawn. Use drinking glasses, Tupperware, tuna fish or cat food cans; containers with taller sides will keep the water from splashing out. Put some in the greenest areas; put some in the areas that are struggling.
Turn on your sprinklers for 30 minutes. Then, measure the amount of water in each container. There should not be more than a quarter-inch difference among all the containers. If there is, readjust or add to your sprinklers to hit those areas that aren't getting as much water. If, on average, you are getting a half-inch of water per container during that 30 minute test, then you need to water your lawn for two hours a week in the summer, to put two inches of water on your lawn. In this example, you would water your lawn twice a week, for an hour each time.
You may need to adjust this timing if you see water streaming off the lawn. In that case, reduce the amount of time the sprinklers are on at any one time. Then, add a second cycle a few hours later.
It is best to water with rising temperatures, which in the summer, is from about 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. Earlier is better.
HOW MUCH WATER DOES YOUR GARDEN NEED???
Improper watering is the number one cause of plant failure. Knowing how wet the soil is where the plant roots are hard at work can help you determine your plants' health. Keep in mind: different plants have different watering needs. Learn those needs, then group plants together with similar watering requirements. The Sunset Western Garden Book is a good source for that information.
A day or two after watering, dig down 8 to 10 inches with a trowel or small shovel, near the drip line (outer canopy) of the plant. Doing this in two or three spots would be more helpful.
At that depth, grab a handful of the soil. Squeeze that handful. If it is muddy and watery, reduce your watering for plants that require regular (but not frequent) irrigation. If it is so dry you cannot form a clod in your hand (it turns to dust instead), increase your watering (for those plants that require moderate amounts of water).
If you can form a dirt clod in your hand, yet break it apart with a little effort, that is probably the correct soil moisture for your plant.
An easier, but more unreliable way to measure the water content of the soil: purchase an inexpensive (under $10) moisture meter. Test it's accuracy by putting its probe into a glass of water. If the probe does not read "wet", choose another. Expect it to function for only a year or so.
Extended, infrequent, slowly applied irrigation is the most efficient watering method. Soaker hoses or drip irrigation systems work best. Here in the Central Valley, foothills, and Bay Area, run them for 3 to 6 hours at a time, twice a week, in the summer. This is only a guideline to get you started. Adjust that timing to your particular soil type and plants.
And, don't forget: add more drip emitters and drip lines as the plant grows, especially for trees and shrubs. Make sure to get water to the outer canopy of the plant (and beyond) where the roots travel.
Listen to "Farmer Fred" Hoffman on The KFBK Garden Show on Newstalk 1530/KFBK Sundays, 8:30-10 a.m.; and, Get Growing also on Sundays, 10 a.m.-Noon, on Talk650/KSTE. | 2019-04-26T06:36:16 | http://farmerfred.com/watering.htm |
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