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Previous Day's Market Highlights
Markets remained confined to their recent trading ranges on Wednesday, despite a busy day of data releases, with a lack of market-moving news flow to blame for the lack of volatility.
All About Inflation
Yesterday's calendar highlight was a host of inflation figures from a number of developed economies, with each painting a slightly different picture.
From the UK, November's CPI figures showed the pace of price increases remaining benign, increasing at just 1.5% YoY, unchanged from October's reading and equal to a 3-year low.
Nonetheless, the sub-forecast print should give little cause for concern, with the recent fall in inflation largely due to a reduction in Ofgem's energy price cap, which has depressed power prices over the past couple of months. As such, the BoE - and market participants - will look through these figures, instead focusing on the core measure, which strips out food and energy prices.
Core CPI increased by 1.7% YoY last month, as expected, which, while still short of the BoE's 2% target, points to a relatively solid underlying inflation dynamic - something which should give those on Threadneedle Street little to worry about.
For sterling, the inflation figures did little to arrest the pound's continued slide, now into its 3rd straight day, with investors remaining concerned about the prospects of the UK and EU failing to agree a free trade agreement by December 2020.
The pound ended the day with losses of 0.4% against the dollar, and 0.2% against the euro, hovering close to 2-week lows against both.
Across the Channel, final inflation data for November produced little in the way of surprises, showing CPI increasing at 1% YoY, and core CPI increasing at 1.3% YoY - both measures being unchanged from the flash estimates.
Despite core inflation rising at its fastest pace since April, both measures remain well short of the ECB's 'close to, but below' 2% inflation aim, indicating that President Lagarde & Co still have significant work to do to reinvigorate the bloc's economy.
As I've mentioned before, the ECB can no longer be the only game in town when it comes to this, with fiscal stimulus now urgently required to take some of the burden off of policymakers' largely exhausted toolkit.
Perhaps as a result of concerns over the ECB's inability to stimulate prices, the euro ended the day 0.3% lower.
Wednesday's final inflation print came from Canada, where both the headline and core measures continue to hover close to the BoC's price target.
Headline inflation ticked up to 2.2% YoY last month, boosted by an increase in energy prices, while the core CPI rate remained unchanged at 1.9% YoY.
Despite the increase in headline CPI, the Bank of Canada's policy outlook appears to hinge largely on external risk factors - namely US-China trade tensions. As such, the loonie showed little reaction to the figures, with policy set to remain on hold for now.
Wednesday's Other Releases
Barring the plethora of inflation figures, Wednesday also brought a host of other notable releases.
During the European session, the latest sentiment surveys from the IFO institute pointed to German businesses becoming more optimistic, with the index ticking up to 96.3, the highest since June. Whether this optimism feeds through into 2020 remains to be seen, with a further flare up of Sino-US tensions likely to see the index turn south rather quickly.
Overnight, a couple of notable antipodean data points have been released. Firstly, the latest GDP figures from New Zealand pointed to a faster than expected pace of expansion in the third quarter, with the economy having expanded by 0.7% QoQ, and 2.3% YoY. Australian labour market data also beat expectations, with data showing the economy added nearly 40,000 jobs last month, as unemployment ticked down to 5.2%. Both of these will be positive signs for the RBA, though policymakers are likely to maintain their easing bias for the foreseeable.
Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan's final policy decision of the year sprang little in the way of surprises, with rates remaining on hold at -0.1%. The BoJ have survived yet another year with a severely depleted policy arsenal, and will surely welcome the recently announced fiscal stimulus package.
Any Other Business
- President Trump became the third sitting US President to be impeached after the House of Representatives voted in favour of two charges - one for abuse of power, and one for obstruction of congress. There will now be a Senate trial on January, though Trump is highly unlikely to be removed from office, with Republican senators unlikely to impeach their own President
- Equity markets were largely flat on Wednesday, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 and US S&P 500 both failing to move by more than 0.1% over the course of the day
- Oil prices were broadly unchanged on Wednesday, despite a smaller than expected drawdown on US stockpiles
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Today's Market Highlights
BoE - On Hold
Focus will shift to Threadneedle Street today, with the final Bank of England rate decision of the year due this lunchtime.
Expectations are for monetary policy to remain unchanged, with rates set to remain at 0.75%. However, the two dissenting MPC members from the November meeting - Michael Saunders and Jonathan Haskel - are likely to vote for a cut once again, with a 7-2 vote split in favour of standing pat expected. In the unlikely event that any other policymakers join the dovish camp in voting for an immediate 25bps cut, this would exert pressure on sterling.
Away from the vote split, the BoE's statement is likely to continue to strike a relatively cautious tone, despite the lifting of near-term political uncertainties after the Tories' landslide election victory. Continued subdued growth, as well as the prospect of business investment remaining sluggish next year, combined with sub-target inflation, means caution is likely to prevail among policymakers.
In the longer-term, expectations are for the BoE to remain on hold throughout the next 12 months, barring any unexpected Brexit-related shocks. However, this outlook could change upon the appointment of a new Governor, with Carney's term concluding at the end of January 2020.
Today's Data
Elsewhere today, the data calendar is relatively busy.
This morning, the UK's economic check-up continues with the release of November's retail sales report, expected to show sales rising at a healthy pace in the early part of the holiday shopping season. Both the headline and excluding fuel sales measures are expected to have risen by 0.3% MoM last month, representing the fastest pace of sales since July. This would be a positive sign for the UK economy, helping to make up for the ongoing manufacturing slump and lacklustre investment.
Meanwhile, across the pond, the calendar sees a number of second-tier releases, including last week's initial jobless claims - expected in line with the 4-week average of 225k - as well as the Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing index, expected to soften slightly to 8.0.
Overnight, focus will shift to Japan, with the latest inflation figures due. As has been the case for some considerable length of time now, inflation is set to have remained practically non-existent last month, with CPI expected to have increased by just 0.2% YoY.
Anything Else?
- Today sees the State Opening of Parliament take place, including a Queen's Speech, in which the Government will set out their legislative agenda for the year ahead. For markets, particular attention will be paid to Brexit-related policies as well as the possibility of any tax cuts
- The central bank speaking calendar is barren today, with only ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane set to make scheduled remarks
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- Density estimation
In probability and statistics, density estimation is the construction of an estimate, based on observed data, of an unobservable underlying probability density function. The unobservable density function is thought of as the density according to which a large population is distributed; the data are usually thought of as a random sample from that population.
A variety of approaches to density estimation are used, including Parzen windows and a range of data clustering techniques, including vector quantization. The most basic form of density estimation is a rescaled histogram.
Example of density estimation
We will consider records of the incidence of diabetes. The following is quoted verbatim from the data set description:
- A population of women who were at least 21 years old, of Pima Indian heritage and living near Phoenix, Arizona, was tested for diabetes according to World Health Organization criteria. The data were collected by the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. We used the 532 complete records.
In this example, we construct three density estimates for "glu" (plasma glucose concentration), one conditional on the presence of diabetes, the second conditional on the absence of diabetes, and the third not conditional on diabetes. The conditional density estimates are then used to construct the probability of diabetes conditional on "glu".
The "glu" data were obtained from the MASS package of the R programming language. Within 'R', ?Pima.tr and ?Pima.te give a fuller account of the data.
The mean of "glu" in the diabetes cases is 143.1 and the standard deviation is 31.26. The mean of "glu" in the non-diabetes cases is 110.0 and the standard deviation is 24.29. From this we see that, in this data set, diabetes cases are associated with greater levels of "glu". This will be made clearer by plots of the estimated density functions.
The first figure shows density estimates of p(glu | diabetes=1), p(glu | diabetes=0), and p(glu). The density estimates are kernel density estimates using a Gaussian kernel. That is, a Gaussian density function is placed at each data point, and the sum of the density functions is computed over the range of the data.
Estimated density of p(glu | diabetes=1) (red), p(glu | diabetes=0) (blue), and p(glu) (black).
From the density of "glu" conditional on diabetes, we can obtain the probability of diabetes conditional on "glu" via Bayes' rule. For brevity, "diabetes" is abbreviated "db." in this formula.
The second figure shows the estimated posterior probability p(diabetes=1 | glu). From these data, it appears that an increased level of "glu" is associated with diabetes.
Estimated probability of p(diabetes=1 | glu).
Script for example
The following commands of the R programming language will create the figures shown above. These commands can be entered at the command prompt by using cut and paste.
library (MASS) data(Pima.tr) data(Pima.te) Pima <- rbind (Pima.tr, Pima.te) glu <- Pima[,'glu'] d0 <- Pima[,'type'] == 'No' d1 <- Pima[,'type'] == 'Yes' base.rate.d1 <- sum(d1)/(sum(d1) + sum(d0)) glu.density <- density (glu) glu.d0.density <- density (glu[d0]) glu.d1.density <- density (glu[d1]) approxfun (glu.d0.density$x, glu.d0.density$y) -> glu.d0.f approxfun (glu.d1.density$x, glu.d1.density$y) -> glu.d1.f p.d.given.glu <- function (glu, base.rate.d1) { p1 <- glu.d1.f(glu) * base.rate.d1 p0 <- glu.d0.f(glu) * (1 - base.rate.d1) p1/(p0+p1) } x <- 1:250 y <- p.d.given.glu (x, base.rate.d1) plot (x, y, type='l', col='red', xlab='glu', ylab='estimated p(diabetes|glu)') plot (density(glu[d0]), col='blue', xlab='glu', ylab='estimate p(glu), p(glu|diabetes), p(glu|not diabetes)', main=NA) lines (density(glu[d1]), col='red')
Note that the above conditional density estimator uses bandwidths that are optimal for unconditional densities. Alternatively, one could use the method of Hall, Racine and Li (2004) and the R np package for automatic (data-driven) bandwidth selection that is optimal for conditional density estimates; see the np vignette for an introduction to the np package. The following commands of the R programming language use the npcdens() function to deliver optimal smoothing. Note that the response "Yes"/"No" is a factor.
library(np) fy.x <- npcdens(type~glu,nmulti=1,data=Pima) Pima.eval <- data.frame(type=factor("Yes"), glu=seq(min(Pima$glu),max(Pima$glu),length=250)) plot (x, y, type='l', lty=2, col='red', xlab='glu', ylab='estimated p(diabetes|glu)') lines(Pima.eval$glu,predict(fy.x,newdata=Pima.eval),col="blue") legend(0,1,c("Unconditional bandwidth", "Conditional bandwidth"), col=c("red","blue"),lty=c(2,1))
The third figure uses optimal smoothing via the method of Hall, Racine, and Li (2004) indicating that the unconditional density bandwidth used in the second figure above yields a conditional density estimate that may be somewhat undersmoothed.
Estimated probability of p(diabetes=1 | glu).
See also
- Kernel density estimation
- Mean integrated squared error
- Histogram
- Multivariate kernel density estimation
- Peter Hall, Jeffrey S. Racine and Qi Li. "Cross-Validation and the Estimation of Conditional Probability Densities". Journal of The American Statistical Association, Volume 99, Number 468, pp 1015-1026, 2004.
- Brian D. Ripley. Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. The Elements of Statistical Learning. New York: Springer, 2001. ISBN 0-387-95284-5. (See Chapter 6.)
- Qi Li and Jeffrey S. Racine. Nonparametric Econometrics: Theory and Practice. Princeton University Press, 2007, ISBN 0691121613. (See Chapter 1.)
- D.W. Scott. Multivariate Density Estimation. Theory, Practice and Visualization. New York: Wiley, 1992.
- B.W. Silverman. Density Estimation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1986. ISBN 9780412246203
- J.W. Smith, J.E. Everhart, W.C. Dickson, W.C. Knowler, and R.S. Johannes. "Using the ADAP learning algorithm to forecast the onset of diabetes mellitus". In Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (Washington, 1988), ed. R.A. Greenes, pp. 261-265. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988.
External links
- CREEM: Centre for Research Into Ecological and Environmental Modelling Downloads for free density estimation software packages Distance 4 (from Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment "RUWPA") and WiSP.
- UCI Machine Learning Repository Content Summary (See "Pima Indians Diabetes Database" for the original data set of 732 records, and additional notes.)
- Free MATLAB code for one and two dimensional density estimation
- The np package An R package that provides a variety of nonparametric and semiparametric kernel methods that seamlessly handle a mix of continuous, unordered, and ordered factor data types.
- libAGF C++ software for variable kernel density estimation.
- Estimation of densities
- Non-parametric statistics
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Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know our garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of
the river,
keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lonely wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
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We are the ones we have been waiting for.
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"Knee high by the 4th of July"
It's an adage that's been ringing in the ears of American farmers for longer than anyone can remember, and an expression well known even to us confounded city-slickers!
That's just how iconic corn is in America. Endless stately rows of lush green stalks, bejeweled with a bounty of golden, photogenic ears—that's the image America's Corn Belt evokes.
And yet, in the early 1900s, your average farmer could only pray that his crops would be "knee high" or higher by Independence Day.
That's at least until one scientist from Cold Spring Harbor introduced American agronomists to the benefits of hybridized breeding—which, it may surprise you to know, was once considered a "wicked" practice!
In this episode, we dive into the surprisingly contentious history and genetics of America's corn.
AA: And I'm Andrea. And last month for our super exciting pilot episode …
BS: Which, by the way, you really should check out if you haven't already.
AA: You really should, because in that episode, we talked a lot about genes, research, and how all of that impacts us, the people.
BS: Today we're gonna keep running with that theme, although, how we do so may surprise you.
AA: That's because, and you might want to sit down before you hear this, today we're going to talk about corn.
BS: Yup, corn. We're serious, by the way. We're going to all about the world changing research that came from our favorite kernel crop.
AA: But wait, don't go just yet. There's a really great story here, about mutants.
BS: And hybrids.
AA: About kings of the Midwest.
BS: And sweeping black blizzards.
AA: Do we have your attention now? Because we're about to begin.
MB: It was the most evolutionary development that had occurred in corn culture since the prehistoric days of its discovery as a crop.
BS: That's Milford Beeghly, and as a corn farmer, he made a bit of a name for himself in the late 1930's. More about that later, but for now I just really want you to hear what he has to say.
MB: When word got around after 1906 that a number of scientists had explored the possibilities of a technique of exceedingly close inbreeding the result was a genetic explosion. Corn plants sow across upon themselves produced astounding mixtures of growth.
They yielded misshapen nubbins, occasional pod specimens, or throwbacks with every grain encased in a little husk, all its own and grotesque combinations of all that is good and bad in corn. We spoke of the dangers of close inbreeding as if it were wicked. Indeed orthodox agronomists called it 'plant incest'.
BS: Hmm, plant incest. Sounds real bad, right? You definitely wouldn't want a mouthful of incestuous corn, and yet.
AA: This is where you're gonna tell me that I've been eating wicked corn all my life, isn't it? I know how these things go.
BS: Well, it wouldn't do to jump to conclusions. That's why we asked Dr. Rob Martienssen to help us tell the story.
RS: The notion that plant breeding is somehow unnatural has been around for hundreds of years.
AA: Rob is a pioneering plant scientist here at the lab.
RS: I'm a plant biologist, plant geneticist, not an economic historian or anything, so I'm not an expert.
AA: But just by the virtue of being in his profession for over 25 years, he's picked up a story or two. By the way, Rob is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an HHMI investigator in addition to being a CSHL professor.
RS: The medieval church castigated plant breeders and animal breeders for tinkering with God's work. Thought that, you know, breeding is like a bad thing. So, there's a long history to this.
BS: The man's an encyclopedia of fun science facts, but we set out to talk with Rob about those scientists that farmer Beeghly spoke of earlier. The men who unwittingly turned corn so darn wicked by 1906.
AA: You just like saying that, don't you?
BS: Yeah I kinda do. But it didn't take all that long for this incestuous corn to shake of its bad reputation. This wicked technique actually gave rise to modern agriculture thanks to the innovative mind of one of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's first scientists, a plant geneticist named George Shull.
AA: Shull was a true pioneer in his field. Actually, everyone from the field of genetics was kind of a pioneer at that time.
RS: Yeah, so I think it's important to keep George Shull in context with his time. This was done in 1906 to 1908 and genetics itself had only just been rediscovered in 1900.
AA: Rob's talking about the rediscovery of a paper by Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk. In the mid 1800's he uncovered the basic laws of genetic inheritance by breeding pea plants.
BS: When Shull was first appointed to the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution …
AA: Basically just a main lab building, now our library.
BS: In 1904, word of Mendel's work had only just resurfaced.
AA: So, inspired by the Monk and others, Shull got to work.
But breeding a plant with itself is a pretty strange thing to do. How does that even work?
BS: Well, some plants, like corn, are hermaphrodites, they have both male and female reproductive parts. In the case of corn, the top of the plant has a tassel that contains the plant's sperm, the pollen, and the plant's ovaries are the kernels.
AA: So I've been eating wicked ovaries?
BS: Hah, yeah, well I mean, yes you've been eating ovaries. You'll see that this corn really wasn't wicked at all, just bear with me.
Shull noticed as he was breeding corn plants with themselves, taking pollen from the tassels and using it to fertilize the flowers of the same plant, he noticed that this did result in some …
MB: Grotesque combinations of all that is good and bad in corn.
BS: That's the best way to put it. Thanks Milford.
The products of this corn incest were usually weaklings. They had some good features, but they were less healthy, less fit overall. Shull was the first to notice this phenomenon, which is a really important one in plant breeding.
AA: I have to admit, though, forcing corn to propagate with itself and saying the results are weird … that doesn't exactly sound like science.
BS: Well, Shull was extremely meticulous about his work, painstakingly recording everything his crops did. He would walk through his fields looking for star corn plants, the ones with really desirable traits like big juicy kernels and lots of them. Those were the ones that he would breed with themselves in the hopes of intensifying those good traits.
AA: But you said these crops wound up being weaklings, how can that be?
BS: When Shull was going through his fields and picking prime plants he was choosing them based on the features he could see, but there were lots of things that he couldn't see, and those are still crucial to a plant's survival. For example, the kernels on one plant might be extra luscious, but the same plant may not be putting enough effort into growing strong roots.
AA: Oh, so when Shull bred the plant with itself to intensify the good traits, he accidentally ended up bringing out the bad traits too.
BS: Exactly. Breeding plants with themselves basically ensures the next generation will boast not only the good traits you desire, but also the bad and ugly that come with it, in varied intensities from cob to cob.
AA: So some plants would have the size or shape that Shull desired but also wound up being particularly vulnerable to insects or disease.
BS: But Shull noticed another very important feature of those strange corn plants.
RS: So the inbreds suffered from depression, which means they look bad, right? But, if you select rare individuals each generation of inbreeding, you can effectively remove, select against some of those deleterious qualities. And if you do that enough, you will eventually get something that's stable enough that can be propagated more or less intact every generation.
AA: It makes sense. If you only planted the seeds from better looking plants every year that helps to tip the scales toward the good traits in the population. It would take generations, but eventually, this could create a smaller gene pool that pretty much guarantees that the crop has certain desirable traits.
BS: Mm-hmm (affirmative). These corn plants were more reliable, but this wasn't Shull's big innovation. He still needed a way to get around the fact that when you breed a plant with itself it becomes weaker overall, even if it consistently has a good trait or two.
AA: Yeah, big juicy kernels won't do a farmer much good if the plants are so sensitive to disease that half of them die before harvest.
BS: So, one day, Shull started a new experiment, one that was so wildly successful that it completely changed the course of agriculture. He decided to take two separate groups of these weaklings …
AA: Whose good traits he had honed through breeding with themselves …
BS: And tried breeding the two different groups with each other.
RS: In a very deliberate way, the hybrids were not only higher yielding, but they were also very uniform and really perfect for agriculture.
BS: Weak plus weak somehow added up to very strong. These hybrids had a certain vigor to them that was virtually impossible to achieve by breeding plants with themselves. Shull suspected that this was because hybrid seeds were getting only the best traits from their parents. He called this phenomenon heterosis, but today it's commonly known by a more intuitive name: hybrid vigor.
AA: Still, if this hybrid vigor thing sounds too good to be true, it sort of is.
RS: Well a really important implication of hybrid vigor, which was immediately realized by people who were commercializing it, was that the hybrid corn, although it was wonderful in the field in the year that you planted it, if you were to collect seed from those plants and try to reproduce the same vigor in the next generation, it didn't work. And the reason was because the genes get shuffled up again in the process of sexual reproduction. So, you can't maintain the hybrid, you have to re-make it every year.
BS: Feed farmers wouldn't dare set aside land just to raise inbred lines. It's just not something most can afford, but they could afford to buy new seed every year.
RS: And that was the foundation for the hybrid seed industry because, thanks to Shull's investigations, they knew that if they had inbreds that they could maintain and just cross them every year, then they'd be able to sell that hybrid seed every year to the farms.
AA: It was still over a decade after Shull's work that this industry even truly saw its beginnings with a man named Henry Wallace.
He was selling hybridized seeds straight out of the back of his pickup truck for another 10 years before his company, Pioneer Hybrid, really took off.
BS: And remember Milford Beeghly? This is really where he comes into the picture. Beeghly was one of Wallace's first customers, and in the 1930's he even started selling his own seed.
MB: Let me introduce myself, I'm Milford Beeghly of Beeghly Best Hybrids. I just happen to be in the neighborhood and thought I'd drop in. Better order your corn now from your local dealer.
BS: That commercial was one of Beeghly's first attempts at really getting the public's attention, but just as Wallace did, he struggled a lot with suspicions of hybrid corn.
AA: Filmmaker Monteiths McCollum spent 7 years digging up stories and sound bytes about his grandfather, Milford Beeghly, and many of these clips show how even the tassling corn, the practice that made crossing corn possible, was viewed as ludicrous.
MB: I put it on … in the field back away from the road so people couldn't see it very well, because whenever you detassel female rows … people had never seen that before, and they would think, "That guy's kind of gone off his rocker a little bit."
BS: Monteiths was kind enough to share these audio gems with us, but the culmination of his work can be seen in the award-winning film 'Hybrid'. Visit our blog for more information.
MB: It was kind of a discouraging endeavor, but yet I had confidence that hybrid seed was the wave of the future.
AA: What I find most interesting about Beeghly is that he was a very educated man, a graduate of Iowa State College and AIMS, he was not only familiar with Shull's work, he understood it well.
BS: His shame then was not that he questioned his own practices, but more so that he was diverging from tradition, something that the corn belt is heavily steeped in, even today.
AA: But those practices that pioneers like Beeghly and Wallace went out on a limb for, now they are tradition.
RS: Enormous fields, yeah. And every summer teenagers are employed by companies like Pioneer Hybrid to go and tear the tassels, the male flowers, off of the corn plants to make sure that they're fertilized by the other parent of the hybrid, so it forces hybrid pollination. That's still practiced today, not that different from how it was in the 1920's.
BS: You have to admit, it's a pretty big headscratcher. In 1930, the Beeghly hybrid seed corn company was nothing more than a few corn fields hidden away from narrowing eyes, but by 1950 Milford was known as the king of corn in the Midwest. No, I'm not exaggerating.
AA: And Wallace? His pioneering seed company is actually still around today, reincarnated as Dupont Pioneer, an international entity that rakes in an estimated 6 billion dollars in revenue every year.
BS: So, what happened? As the saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures.
FDR: I shall never forget field after field of corn, stunted, earless, stripped of leaves, for what the sun left, the grasshoppers took.
BS: That's president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, in 1936, visited the corn belt when it was experiencing a massive drought. The region would soon become part of what history calls 'The Dust Bowl', complete with massive clouds of whipped uprooted soil.
AA: See, corn and wheat crops had been literally holding the Great Plains together. With these plants withering by the acre, the soil of these farms was suddenly at the mercy of the wind. And by 1934, an estimated 350 million tons of dusty land tumbled through the Midwest skies.
BS: Many people fled from the sun scorched lands and dusty black blizzards, but as FDR put it during his fireside chat …
FDR: No cracked earth, no blistering sun, no burning wind, no grasshoppers are a permanent match for the indomitable American farmers who have carried on through desperate days and inspire us with their self-reliance, their tenacity and their courage.
BS: Sure enough, those farmers did weather the drought, dust storms, and even the Great Depression that struck during the same years.
Most untouched were the hybrid corn farmers, who, with seed bred for drought resistance, were able to press on where the skeptics had failed.
AA: The switch also just made sense to farmers who were now far more skittish about investing in a field.
RS: So, you know, when people were planting more sort of heirloom varieties of corn, from year to year they couldn't guarantee getting the same thing. When the hybrids came along, because they were deconstructed every year in exactly the same way, they were very reproducible, and I think that helped things like crop insurance and all of these economic factors that were really important at the time.
AA: This unsung agricultural revolution also resulted in a stunning spike in corn yield. With the acceptance of hybrid seed alongside improvements in crop husbandry, the number of bushels per acre your average corn farmer can obtain has increased by nearly 8 fold since Shull made his first cross over a hundred years ago.
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George Shull, pictured below, was a plant biologist who started his work just years after the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's study of heredity in pea plants. Inspired by Mendel and Charles Darwin, Shull pioneered investigations into the secret of heterosis—better known as hybrid vigor.
Milford Beeghly, pictured below left, was one of the very first pioneering hybrid corn farmers, buying his very first hybrids from Henry Wallace, the founder of Pioneer Hybrid (now DuPont Pioneer.)
Beeghly made a small fortune for himself as the "King of Corn" in the 1950s. But as his maize flourished, his family life shriveled on the vine. Learn his whole story by watching the award-winning film, Hybrid. Watch the full film here or download the education resource.
It was only to avert crisis, in the wake of drought, dust storms, crop failure, and the Great Depression, that America's farmers finally accepted hybrid corn. Today, it is the prevailing way in which we breed corn.
Want to find out more about the amazing genetics of maize? Check out http://www.weedtowonder.org/—an online educational resource provided by CSHL's DNA Learning Center.
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I have been pining for a visit to the World for the Christmas festivities for a while now and it seems the that the week of Thanksgiving next year will work with the many school schedules my family is juggling. We are looking at being there Saturday before Thanksgiving to Thursday (Thanksgiving day). But, when I look at this year's schedule for MVMCP there are no parties the week of Thanksgiving. Is this something they normally do? Will I miss out on the MVMCP if we go then? Does the Candlelight Processional always start the day after Thanksgiving? Is it worth going for all the other holiday happenings even if we'll miss that?
MVMCP & CP week of Thanksgiving 2018?
I was there the week before Thanksgiving and they had either 2 or 3 then. I am pretty sure they had some during the week as well.
Smart choice in going to the party. One of the best parts of our trip. I always tell someone, if you can fit it in the budget, you need to go. I had an absolutely amazing time and made memories that will last a lifetime. I wish I could go again, but the next time we are going will be in June, so no party then.
I would love to go to the party, but I'm worried I can't make it work with the time we'll be there.
I went the week of Thansgiving last year and there were no MVMCP days that whole week. I think its because it's so packed, they would probably lose money having less people in the parks those nights, but that's just my opinion.
That's what I'm afraid of. I so want to go to MVMCP!


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We should all move to Greenland. From the WSJ:
Greenland represents one of the largely unrecognized paradoxes of global warming. In former Vice President Al Gore's recent film "An Inconvenient Truth," the melting of Greenland's ice cap, along with a similar cap in the Antarctic, is portrayed as one of the greatest threats of global warming. If the layers of ice and snow holding billions of tons of water were to melt, scientists warn that global sea levels would rise by 40 feet, submerging lower Manhattan, the Netherlands and much of California.
But to many of the people who live here in Greenland, the warming trend is a boon, not a threat.
It is no small feat to get things living and growing in Greenland, an arctic and sub-arctic country at the northern tip of North America whose frigid landscape is often confused with Iceland, a smaller, greener European island nation to the southeast.
More than 80% of Greenland is covered in ice. Temperatures in the south regularly drop to 22 degrees below zero during the long, dark winters when the sun shines for as little as five hours a day. Intermittent frosts during the four-month growing season make it difficult for anything to thrive.
Even small increases in temperature can make a big difference in the quality of life for many Greenlanders who scrabble out a living at the whims of the weather. Freezing temperatures are the biggest factor limiting plant growth in Greenland. If the average temperature warms just a degree or two, the number of freezing nights is reduced. Higher temperatures produce stronger, healthier plants and provide farmers larger crop yields.
Already, the temperature rise in Greenland has extended the growing season by two weeks since the 1970s -- no small matter since those two weeks come during the spring and summer when the sun shines for as long as 20 hours a day in southern Greenland. Warmer days allow farmers to take better advantage of the extended sunlight, which gives plants more energy and a better chance to survive and thrive. If temperatures rose enough to allow the growing season to begin in late April, rather than mid-May, Greenlandic farmers might be able to grow fruit, including strawberries or apples.
Improved crop production could help wean Greenland from its heavy dependence on expensive, imported produce: Greenlanders pay about $3.50 for a cucumber at a local grocery store, $5 for a head of lettuce and $7.50 for a pound of carrots. Since 1980, Greenland has seen farmland devoted to growing crops increase to about 2,500 acres from 620 acres.
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Isn't the hockey stick the upside?
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It happened before in the Medieval warm period - read Collapse by Jared Diamond.
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Well, that settles it, then. If global warming is a boon for a few thousand people recently freed of ice, then it has to be a boon for everyone else not living within the Arctic Circle! How could we ever doubt the wisdom of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, especially when they try to "liberate" that newly exposed land and discover that the Inuit have no interest in giving it to them?
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It helps if you believe that the earth is flat (i.e. Cylindrical projection:
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Since with the former you can convince yourself that the land lost to desertification will be completly compensated by permafrost melting..
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Modernization and GPS III Southern California Section ION Meeting 11 March 2009 Lt Col David Goldstein, US Air Force Chief Engineer GPS Wing This briefing is for information only.
2 Overview GPS SS Current Status –Overview of Current Space Segment Status Modernization Improvements –IIR-M, IIF, IIIA GPS III –Discussion will focus on GPS III Summary
3 GPS – Serving the World Constellation– the largest ever - 31 Healthy Satellites –13 Block IIA –12 Block IIR –6 Block IIR-M –31 st satellite, SVN 23, set healthy, achieved 31 healthy satellite constellation for first time ever Most Recent Launch –IIR-19(M) – 6 th modernized SV Launched Wednesday, 15 Mar 08 SVN 48, PRN 7 Set healthy on 24 Mar 08 Next Launches –IIR-20(M) – Mar 09 – L5 demo payload –IIR-21(M) – Aug 09 –IIF-1 – Oct 09
4 SPS Signal in Space Performance System accuracy exceeds published standard
5 Block IIA/IIRBlock IIIBlock IIR-M, IIF Backward compatibility 4th civil signal (L1C) Increased accuracy Increased anti-jam power Increased availability Increased integrity IIR-M: IIA/IIR capabilities plus 2nd civil signal (L2C) M-Code (L1M & L2M) IIF: IIR-M capability plus 3rd civil signal (L5) 2 Rb + 1 Cs clocks 12 year design life Basic GPS Standard Service Single frequency (L1) Coarse acquisition (C/A) code navigation Precise Service Y-Code (L1Y & L2Y) Y-Code navigation Increasing System Capabilities Increasing Defense / Civil Benefit GPS Modernization Program
6 Second Civil Signal (L2C) Designed to meet commercial needs –Higher accuracy via ionospheric correction –Expected to generate over $5 billion in user productivity benefits Available since 2005 On 24 satellites by 2016 Increases accuracy for consumers Supports miniaturization, possible indoor use Benefits existing professional receivers
7 Third Civil Signal (L5) Designed to meet demanding requirements for transport safety –Uses highly protected Aeronautical Radionavigation Service (ARNS) band May also enable global, decimeter- level accuracy using new techniques Opportunity for international interoperability Demonstration signal to be launched in 2009 24 satellites by 2018
8 Fourth Civil Signal (L1C) Designed with international partners for interoperability Modernized civil signal at L1 frequency –More robust navigation across a broad range of user applications –Improved performance in challenged tracking environments –Original L1 C/A signal retained for backward compatibility Launches with GPS III A in 2014 On 24 satellites by ~2021 Under trees Inside cities
9 New Civil Signals Summary Second civil signal "L2C" –Designed to meet commercial needs –Higher accuracy through ionospheric correction –1 st launch: Sep 2005 (GPS IIR-M); 24 satellites: ~2016 Third civil signal "L5" –Designed to meet demanding requirements for transportation safety- of-life –1 st launch: ~ 2009 (GPS IIF); 24 satellites: ~2018 Fourth civil signal "L1C" –Designed with international partners for GNSS interoperability –Begins with GPS Block III –1 st launch: ~2014; 24 satellites: ~2021
10 GPS – Spectrum RNSS Band RNSS Band RNSS Band P(Y) C/A L5 M L2C L1C L1 L2 L5 Block IIA 1990 Block III, 2014 Block IIR-M, 2005 Block IIF, 2009 Since Dec 2005 (6 SVs) (artist's concept) Planned Previous L1C Block IIR 1997
11 GPS III Update Contract for GPS III-A satellites awarded, May 2008 –Lockheed making excellent progress toward PDR, 19/71 milestones –Selective Availability feature to be eliminated Next-Generation Operational Control Segment (OCX) –Needed for Block III satellites & full functionality of modernized signals –Will implement full functionality of L2C and L5 –Awarded Phase A contracts to Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, Nov 2007 Future increments of GPS III will incorporate additional capabilities –As technology matures and new requirements are validated
12 GPS III- Spiral Development GPS III developed as a low risk capability insertion program GPS III A –Provides initial capability for GPS III, new signals, added power GPS III B –Directional crosslinks demonstration Enhanced ranging Enhanced integrity GPS III C –Spot Beam demonstration Enhanced anti-jam capability
13 Summary Largest constellation in history with best accuracy ever GPS III A design phase successfully moving forward GPS III will provide modernized design and technology insertion –New signal design –Increased availability –Increased integrity –Increased accuracy GPS – Serving the World
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IEA: Russia complies with OPEC+ oil output cut deal 78% in Jan
MOSCOW, Feb 13 (PRIME) -- Russia's oil production grew by 20,000 barrels per day to 11.29 million barrels per day in January, meaning that the country's compliance with the OPEC+ oil output reduction deal amounted to 78%, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report on Thursday.
The combined daily oil output of the OPEC states fell by 710,000 barrels per day on the month to 28.86 million barrels per day in January. The organization overfulfilled the deal by 43%.
The OPEC+ states jointly complied with the deal by 123%.
The IEA has decreased its assessment of global demand for oil by 365,000 barrels per day to 825,000 barrels per day in 2020, the lowest since 2011. In January–March, demand will fall to 435,000 barrels per day due to the coronavirus outbreak. In 2019, demand amounted to 885,000 barrels per day.
The IEA expects a significant oil surplus in January–June, mainly due to rising supply from non-OPEC states.
Commercial reserves of oil in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) amounted to 2.915 billion barrels in January, which topped the average 5-year reserves by 26.4 million barrels.
In November 2016, OPEC and non-OPEC states including Russia first decided to reduce their oil output to rebalance the market, and agreed on additional reduction in December 2018. In July, they prolonged the deal until April 2020. According to the latest amendments, the agreement stipulates a production cut by 2.1 million barrels per day.
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It was the last week of our winter break in January 2019 when me and two of my friends, Vianna and Laura decided to go out and explore Kenny Center that is located near campus. We decided to go out on this day as it will be the last time we will get to enjoy ourselves and also because Laura was just released from the hospital, so we decided to take her out. In Kenny Center, there are various stores and restaurants that were geared towards Japanese culture, and we took a huge interest in looking at the different foods and gifts that were displayed in each shop.
We stopped at one store called J.Avenue, which is a store that mainly sells gifts and stationary from Japan. As we were looking around, I had stopped upon the earring section and saw that there was a wide array of assorted earrings that were of unique shapes and designs. Laura came over and we started comparing the different styles of earrings with each other and after a while, we decided on a pair that I had assumed was going to be for her.
We went back to the car to decide our next destination when she handed me a small paper bag with the earrings we had chosen. She had written a small note on the bag which had told me that these earrings were not chosen for her, but for me instead as a late Christmas present. I felt guilty that she was buying something for me when the purpose of the whole day out was mainly to celebrate her release from the hospital. Because of this, we all in the end treated each other to different items from the stores we visited as our late Christmas presents to each other to commemorate this relaxing day out.


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Make easy, mini baked corn tortilla bowls for appetizers, salad, ice cream and more!
These mini baked corn tortilla bowls are tasty and a cute way to serve your appetizers, dessert or your favorite tacos in an edible cup. Corn tortilla bowls take only minutes to make and you can make them as fancy or rustic as you like. Use them to add fun to your taco night by making Mini Taco Cup Appetizers. Two or three for each person makes a filling meal!
The street taco size corn tortillas are small enough, 4-1/2 inches that they don't have to be cut down to size. You can make them rustic (easiest) or spend more time shaping them if you like. It's just too easy, and they are a super gluten-free alternative to crackers or bread slices!
The bowls can be made in a regular muffin tin. The tortillas must be warmed before you start or they will crack while you are working with them. I just press the warm tortillas in to the bottom of the well and lightly form the sides with my fingers. The overlapping sides make interesting shapes, but feel free to mold them as you like.
Pro Tip – the thinner the tortilla, the easier it will be to shape. If you want smoother sides, you can make small vertical cuts around the edges, or cut the tortillas into smaller rounds..
The large wells of this jumbo muffin tin make bowls that are larger, but more shallow.
I used the bottom of a mini muffin tin to make shallow, smooth sided bowls. If you use the bottom of a regular or jumbo tin you can make the bowls deeper.
Sure can! These bowls can be made up to two days ahead of time. Store in an airtight container on the counter. If needed, place in a 375 degree oven to warm and re-crisp before using.
Non-Stick Cooling and Baking Rack. When baking muffins, you'll want to cool them on a rack so that air can circulate all around them.
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- 24 corn tortillas, 4-1/2 inch
- non-stick cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly mist muffin tin with cooking spray.
- Place a damp paper towel on a microwave-safe plate. Working three at a time, cover tortillas with a second damp paper towel and microwave for 10 seconds on High power. Tortillas will be Hot!
- Working quickly, form tortillas into a bowl in the bottom of muffin wells, overlapping the sides, or turn muffin pan upside down and place tortillas between cups to make a shallow bowl.
- Bake in preheated oven for 10 – 12 minutes, until crisp and starting to brown. Tortillas will continue to crisp as they cool.
- Add filling and toppings to serve.
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Nuneaton clinched the Mid-Warwickshire League final by beating Kenilworth 3.5-2.5 at Purley Chase.
Victories from Dave Miller, Andy Kearns and Paul Brindley plus a half from Steve Frearson earned the Whitestone club the glory.
Despite missing the talents of the talented trio of Jon Wetton and Ryan Burton, both away on golfing scholar-ships in America and Jamie Melton, on County Youth Championship duty, Nuneaton still had the aces to take the trophy which they last won in 2002.
Other members of the squad were skipper Paul Randle Luke Melling and reserve Cimon Fenton.
Nuneaton also staged the Goodyear Challenge Cup in which Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire players were in opposition.
The cup was first presented to Leicestershire GC in 1897 and was played as an 18-hole medal round.
Despite threatening thunder clouds and flashes of lightning which forked around the course, the 43 players completed the course in lovely sunshine and several excellent scores were recorded.
Best on the day, with a brilliant nett 65 from 19-handicapper Fiona Kane from Moor Hall, who won her second Warwickshire Trophy in as many months.
Moor Hall also featured in the gross prize won by Claire Howells, gross 75 off a handicap of three. Runner-up in the Goodyear Trophy was young Charlotte Smith from Northamptonshire with a nett 68.
Home player Diane McCormick took third place with a fine nett 69, handicap 10. o A SPECIAL annual golf day in memory of five Nuneaton youngsters who lost their lives in a car crash four years ago, takes place at Oakridge next month.
The Jonathon Roberts & Friends tournament takes to the greens on Sunday, September 19 and is an event for individuals (stableford) with a maximum handicap of 24 (ladies 36). Cost is £15 per person and all proceeds go to the memorial fund.
To book a tee-time contact Tony Harper on 01676 540542. Last entry date is September 18. Last year £1,300 was raised and hopes are high on bettering that this time around. Non golfers are welcome and no official handicap is required to play. o HOT putting Rob Rowland topped the leaderboard in the 2004 Cheylesmore Golf Society Championship - clinching the crown on the last day.
The final tournament took place at Belmont Lodge in Hereford with David Emsley leading the way but Rowland came through strongly to dislodge his main rival from top spot and take the crown himself.
Emsley finished runner up while Roy Cleverley filled the minor berth.
In the Dave Evans Memorial Cup, Gary Archibald was in fine form over the two-day stableford event as he chalked up 64 points to tie with Kevin Evans but the former's better performance over the last 18 holes secured him the trophy. Martin Kelsey clocked up 63 points to take third position.


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For someone who wasn't even going to be able to play in the game due to an ankle injury, Myles Powell sure had an incredible performance in Seton Hall's 76-73 loss to Michigan State Thursday evening in Newark.
The senior guard surprised many people when it was announced that he would be starting just four days after an ankle injury that head coach Kevin Willard warned would lead to a "prolonged absence" for Powell.
Questions about his effectiveness for Seton Hall were answered relatively quickly, as Powell was responsible for six of Seton Hall's first 11 points, knocking down three free throws and a three pointer early in the first half.


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The stock market got a big jump on a better year.
After a flat 2011, stocks rose sharply Tuesday in the first trading of 2012 after investors returned from the holiday and found encouraging economic reports from the United States and around the world.
The market may have gotten an extra boost from what�s known as the January effect: Investors sell stocks at the end of the year to lock in losses for tax purposes, then come back in January and buy stocks again.
The effect could be more pronounced this year because the stock market was so volatile in 2011 and more investors had losses to take, said Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at Standard & Poor�s Capital IQ.
Money managers also usually get a fresh infusion of cash at the beginning of the year because workers who maxed out their contributions to retirement accounts well before the previous year ended start contributing again.
These investors are back hunting for bargains, he said.
January is a fairly good predictor of the year for U.S. stocks. Only seven times since 1950 has January turned out to be a �major error� in predicting the year to come.
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She'll be performing on RA's stage at the Iceland event alongside Objekt, Árni, Bruce and more.
The next edition of the Iceland event takes place at Harpa from April 25th through the 28th. Little Dragon, Orbital, Upsammy, Caterina Barbieri, FM Belfast and Prins Polo are among the new names to join the lineup, which features a mix of international acts and local artists across dance, R&B, pop and experimental genres.
Resident Advisor will return to host a stage in the venue's basement car park. Avalon Emerson and Árni will DJ and Benjamin Damage will perform live alongside previously announced artists Objekt and Exos. (Richie Hawtin, Jon Hopkins, Fatima Al Qadiri, Yves Tumor, Exos and Aïsha Devi were also revealed in the first round of lineup announcements.) Hessle Audio's Bruce is locked in for a back-to-back set with Iceland bass DJ Árni.
Read our review of last year's edition, and listen to Objekt's recent RA podcast.


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Located in a prime location, the home is one block West of Pentwater's main street, three blocks East of the Charles Mears Park sandy beach on Lake Michigan, a block from the Pentwater channel walkway, and a block from the Village Park; you're close enough to hear the local community band concerts every Thursday evening.
Sit and relax on the full-length porch for morning coffee, people watching, and evening wine.
Amenities include a 32-inch Smart TV and DVD player, Wi-Fi, ceiling fans in all bedrooms and living room, central heat, and air-conditioning. Kitchen amenities include microwave, gas stove/oven, disposal, dishwasher, coffee maker, toaster, full assortment of pans, dishes, and glasses. There is a back deck off from the dining room and a propane gas BBQ unit is located in the backyard near the deck.
Maximum 6 people over age 3 plus 2 children under age 3. Must supply infant/toddler needs (playpens, high chairs, etc.)
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We have five pairs of tickets to give away to this year's Festival of Food and Drink, held at Clumber Park on 19th and 20th September. Masterchef judge John Torode and Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Chetna Makan are just two of the TV chefs lined-up for this great event.
A hugely popular and influential figure on the UK culinary circuit, John Torode is best known as the straight-talking co-host and judge of eleven seasons of BBC1's MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and Junior MasterChef, as well as writing a number of hugely popular cookbooks with his new book My Kind of Food coming soon.
Chetna, who won the hearts of the nation with her weekly experimentations, flavour combinations and fancy baking skills, will appear with John on Sunday 20th September in the Cookery Theatre, performing demonstrations as well as signing autographs and offering advice to baking enthusiasts.
Now in its third year, the Festival of Food and Drink has quickly developed a fantastic following of top quality food and drink producers, artisan specialists and food experts.
There are also interactive classes for both children and adults from the School of Artisan Food, covering everything from barbecuing to butchery for adults, and pizza, bread and ice cream making for the children.
With book signings, a children's play area, the Beautiful Things gift and homewares marquee, a new Live Music Stage, and plenty of food and drink to try and buy, it's a feast for the senses and a great day out for all the family.
New for 2015 is a VIP experience offering priority free parking right by the show entrance, fast track entry, and access to an exclusive VIP area where you can relax. VIPs will also enjoy a very special 'meet and greet' with one of the Festival's special guests.
Adult tickets start from just £6 in advance with free entry for children aged six years and under. Family tickets are also available. Advance bookings also receive free car parking at Clumber Park. For more info, visit www.festivaloffoodanddrink.co.uk.
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Assistant Director of Program Marketing & Outreach
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Job location: Other Locations
Employment Type: Full-time
Posted data: 2019-12-20
Req: R0010540
The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia seeks an Assistant Director of Program Marketing & Outreach to develop and implement strategic marketing and outreach campaigns to meet enrollment goals across multiple graduate business and/or non-degree programs. They will collaborate with other members of the Graduate Marketing & Recruiting team as well as the School's Communications and Marketing Office to create marketing content and collateral, communications, and advertising placement plans. The Assistant Director of Program Marketing & Outreach will implement outreach campaigns across a variety of media, plan and host recruitment events, and develop key relationships with targeted organizations. They will also counsel and advise prospective students (in-person, by phone and by email) using a consultative sales approach.
The McIntire School of Commerce is regarded as one of the nation's finest business schools, offering world-class programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level. With a commitment to excellence, an innovative spirit, an integrative perspective, an appreciation of the globalization of business, and a strong sense of community, the School's vision is to develop students into leaders who successfully live, work, compete, and contribute in the new global reality.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree with at least three years of experience in marketing, advertising, communications, journalism, college/professional recruitment or a related field
- Demonstrated proficiency in in strong written and oral communications skills and the ability to relate well to the career and educational needs of prospective students
- Proven success using social or digital media to generate leads for product sales, services, or student enrollment
- Ability to work independently and with a team, strong organizational and problem skills, technology proficiency, outstanding customer service, and commitment to diversity are essential
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to be a quick learner, active listener, supportive of diverse perspectives/backgrounds, and possess a strong creative intuition
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud
- Master's Degree
** This position is located in Northern Virginia and will require occasional travel to Charlottesville and other locations. **
PROCESS FOR INTERNAL UVA APPLICANTS: Please apply through your Workday Home page, search "Find Jobs", and search for 'Assistant Director of Program Marketing & Outreach'. Complete an application online and attach:
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For questions about the application process please contact Rhiannon O'Coin, Senior Academic Recruiter, firstname.lastname@example.com
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require walking some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The selected candidates will be required to complete a background check prior to the first day of employment per University Policy.
The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System and the University Physician's Group are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.


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WAISAL Volleyball Results
October 30, 2017
Our sports team made it safely to Dakar and our athletes played their best under the Senegalese sun. Both teams have played well with some extremely close games. The boys won a set against Dakar but were just edged out in the final set. The wind was really impressive this weekend and added an x-factor to every game on all three outdoor courts. Although both teams lost their games, they showed strong effort, teamwork, and perseverance!
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Many in the industry will not remember 2019 positively. Simply put, most global markets were awash in wood, and all major producing regions searched valiantly – but with limited success – for outlets to move their product. Consequently, most major importing countries have been sitting on above-average lumber inventories for much of the year, with the net result being low prices and red ink for producers, importers and exporters. One question frequently gets asked of us: "Why were the industry and market results so bad in 2019 and was there any way to predict this?"
Many reasons have been offered up about the soft markets in 2019 in the U.S., China and other key regions. However, we present one scenario here that broadly assesses global softwood lumber consumption trends over the years to see if some obvious results start to show up. (Spoiler alert: they do!)


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Nuclearwolf587 reacted to a post in a topic: I Wish More Nighthunter Players Would Play As Survivor
The legendary rank doesn't matter.... that is absolutely no indicator for how many matches they played because legendary levels you can completely gain offline. what matters is their online rank. they can be legendary lvl 250 but having an online rank of a prey. you can see their online rank when you press options and click on their name These are the 12 online survivor ranks from lowest to highest: 1. Prey 2. Casualty 3. Endangered 4. Underdog 5. Runner 6. Contender 7. Challenger 8. Fighter 9. Dominant 10. Ruthless 11. Indomitable 12. Ultimate Survivor My main char was ultimate survivor before the following update and I mostly got the highest hunters available. regrettably my rank got reset to prey due to a bug since the patch, thx to techland at this point. my second char is challenger or fighter at the moment i'm not sure, and he mostly gets connected to lvl 20-30 hunters with mutation 1 or 2. So MM works fine i think.
This Comment/Quote hasn't come out of my mind it was an official statement. And i think the officials have to know it better then me or you. And I repeat what i said in other Threads a lot of times. if you're that good as survivor i would please you to record some matches and link them in this forum because this forum has a huge lack of survivor stuff.
The win/lose ratio is not 50/50, it's very much in favour of the hunter.
It's not their fault , it's techlands fault. There is no tutorial like you have when you're playing the nighthunter. You just get thrown into cold water as survivor. And the BtZ gameplay is totally different to the single Player Experience. Ok you have some tips in the loading screen now since the latest Update and techland tried to put some BzT mechanics into the single player experience with the volatile nest introduced in the following but that's just a drop in the ocean , you're still not told what's important in pvp.
We are talking about 2 different things.... You are talking about the legendary rank! I was talking about the online rank, that are two completely different things. There are 12 different online ranks for survivors from "Prey" the lowest to "Ultimate Survivor" the highest. And you ONLY gain XP for these Ranks at the end of each online Match. And if you can't rank up because some stupid hunters that can't take a loss think they have to abort a game, you won't face high ranked hunters or high ranked hunter will face less survivors it's all one circle
Yes, you are the Mount Everest of Politeness !!! You're self-awareness ist astounding. The Nighthunter is faster then the humans and only in a 1vs1 or 2vs1 Match a single human can burn the Hunters stamina with UV Light on their own. In 3vs1 or 4vs1 Matches a full UV-Light isn't enough to burn the Hunters Stamina. So how can humans hunt the Hunter? They can chase him for a while but hunt.... ? no way
That is pure bullshit. You just gettin Points at the End of the Game otherwise you're getting NOTHING and stay Prey forever. And you also only get a Gold weapon for your first online Match ever and after that you only get Gold weapons when you are at least Rank "Underdog" (Rank 4) or above. If Hunters abort, you will never reach the Rank Underdog or get a weapon. And everything besides the Goldweapons is chupacabra and of no use.
There is a difference between losing and totally getting crushed! If you destroy 4 Nests and lose, it's ok because you think you could have won the match. But if you do not even see the first Nest before losing all 10 lives then those Noobs just feel being cheated.
And aborting hunters are much more frustrating because you only gain points for ranking up at the end of the game. a hunter gets points for everything....
lol sry but that teaches them nothing but frustration. If you want to learn boxing and your first opponent is Wladimir Klitschko and he knocks you out in like 2 seconds you won't learn anything and you won't have the motivation to keep going. I played this Game since release and I played with a lot survivors and believe me, most of them quit this game mode if they get crushed. only if they have the feeling to stand a chance they will be motivated to keep going and maybe stay long enough to get good.
Wow so you trick the Game to get into Games with Noobs ? You Guys are so short sightet.... you destroy your own Game Experience with such a behavior. The Match Making is there for a reason. Do you think that new Players will ever keep playing this Game Mode when they get crushed like this? Yes, you get into a Game for now, but in the long term you're drying out the Playerbase. Maybe a little real Life comparison will help you to understand. I'm not sure if you're used to fishing or hunting ? There is something called "Schonzeit" or close Season in english. That is the Time where Hunters and Fishermen arn't allowed to hunt or fish, thus recovers the stocks. Same thing you can transfer into BzT Mode. If you hunt all those Noobs (the baby deers and fishies) then they won't ever become a good survivor. And then some day you will have nobody left to hunt for. How about join some survivor games and show them how to get good instead ?
So every Person that is a Stranger to you doesn't get any form of Respect and instead you're insulting them ? Wow, very mature, good luck in Life with that attitude! Sorry but I really had to smile at this point . So I did not add something constructive? Maybe I should quote you and ask you if you had read my posts ? And before you're making new suggestions about the Games I play, here you can look me up: https://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/de/user/SniperWOLF-G http://psnprofiles.com/SniperWOLF-G
bjoernsen80 reacted to a post in a topic: Dying Light Pvp Needs A Serious Fix.
Can We Expect More Abilities/mutations For The Night Hunters?
bjoernsen80 replied to Boomspark's topic in Be the Zombiebut this game isn't all about 4vs1 mister. it has to be balanced for ALL aspects. So let's agree: The hunter has to be slightly buffed when you play 4vs1 and he has to be slightly debuffed when you play 1vs1 or 2vs1.
Spam Jump To Success Couple Balance Changes
bjoernsen80 replied to thehandler's topic in Be the ZombieI play on PS4, i don't have steam. Where do you broadcast ? twitch ? what is your name there?
There Should Be No Instant Healing Medpacks For Survivors On Normal
bjoernsen80 replied to airwalkaidan's topic in Be the ZombieThe best Troll ? Yeah I sign this