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Wednesday is late term abortion day at Orlando Women's Center (the clinic where I had my abortions 12 years ago). When I first started visiting the sidewalks of abortion clinics to pray and minister, I had NO idea that late term abortions were even legal. I remember hearing about the Partial Birth Abortion Ban in 2007 and assumed (like most) that this stopped abortions late in a woman's pregnancy.
Shock can't even begin to describe my feeling when I first counseled on late term day. "These girls are SO pregnant", I kept thinking to myself. Of course that's silly since there's no such thing as being a "little pregnant", but I couldn't get over the size of their beautiful bellies so full of LIFE. These women have felt their babies kick. Many of them even know the sex of the child and this is sometimes the reason for the abortion. These girls have carried these babies for 6 months. They are more than halfway done!
I just cried and cried. I couldn't even speak at first. Not only is the size of their bellies overwhelming but the hardness of their hearts is just as shocking. I began to think about family members, friends, and co-workers of these girls who know they are pregnant. Is our society so lacking of accountability that they will return to their lives and no one will think this is a problem?
This past Wednesday my friend John posted a picture of a girl who arrived at OWC to abort her twin baby girls. She already had daughters and didn't want anymore. She was about 20 weeks along, but because she was pregnant with twins, she had a BIG belly. Within a few hours, the picture went viral. I began to get phone calls & emails from friends who had no idea this was going on. Many offered financial help and MANY offered to adopt her babies. Thousands of people all of over the world were praying that this girl would change her mind…and thousands were saying the picture was a hoax or that what she was doing was illegal.
I found myself repeating over and over again, "Abortion is legal in America up to the day you give birth." In fact, in our nation's capital, there are 2 doctors who "specialize" in abortions this late in pregnancy. One of those doctors has been working with a suspended license for several years. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban only stopped the use of that procedure late in a woman's pregnancy. Now, as long as the baby is dismembered BEFORE removing he or she from the womb, it's perfectly legal. Look up the laws in your state. Keep in mind that any state that has exceptions for the health of the mother can mean that if a woman has bad heartburn that's a threat to her health. A late term abortion starts around $2,000 and can go up to about $15,000 depending on how far along a woman is in her pregnancy.
I've been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. They have piles and piles of hair shaved off of Jews in the concentration camps. They have millions of pairs of shoes belonging to children who were killed simply because they were Jewish. The pictures of thousands of dead bodies piled on top of each other are shocking and appalling. At one point I decided I couldn't look anymore. I was disgusted that this could happen without a revolution rising to overthrow a government that would accept murder as status quo.
I know it's controversial to say this, but abortion truly is the holocaust of my generation. What if we had the bodies of 50,000,000 babies piled on top of each other in a museum somewhere? What if we took all of the clothes they will never wear and toys they will never play with and you had to pay to see them? If each of us had to watch a late term abortion, surely there would be a revolution, right?
After the Holocaust ended, German civilians were taken to Buchenwald concentration camp to see the atrocities that happened there. Over and over they were heard saying, "We didn't know." Now, because of the internet and social media, we have no excuse for ignorance. The hands of America are covered with blood…perhaps her eyes and ears are covered as well.
The girl I mentioned earlier ended up aborting the twin girls in her womb even though we had every kind of help she would ever need ready for her. She admitted that she didn't want girls and that she had no compassion for the babies she was carrying. Through a 2 day process, she actually had to go into labor and deliver her sweet babies into a toilet. Abortions like these happen ALL over the country EVERYDAY. I hope that this girl's picture made many SO outraged that they are provoked to DO something. When I spend hours on the Planned Parenthood sidewalk alone, I want to cry out "WHERE IS THE CHURCH??"
LifeNews.com Note: Kelly Clinger is a pro-life advocate who is a former background vocalist for Britney Spears and had two abortions before becoming a Christian at age 25. She now is married to Matt Clinger and has two children, Evin and Logan. Clinger is a spokeswoman for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.


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Confidential Comments to the Editor
November 19, 2007
Noah Grey of Action Potential has a good discussion going on the role of the "confidential comments to the Editor" box in the peer review of scientific manuscripts. The lure is as follows:
At the PubMed Plus leadership conference this past June, sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience, the creation of a Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium was proposed. Here is a message from SfN president David Van Essen describing the vision for this new entity:
After an article is rejected by one journal and authors are ready to submit a revised manuscript to another journal, they will have the opportunity and the option to request that the reviews from the first journal be passed directly to the new journal (assuming that both journals are part of the consortium). In many cases, the second journal will be able to reach a decision faster and more efficiently, thereby benefiting authors as well as the overly stressed manuscript reviewing system.
This revolutionary proposal is now a reality, at least for a trial run from January to December 2008.
Go join the discussion it looks interesting.
I found the most interesting comment from Graham Collingridge, Editor in Chief of Neuropharmacology (2006 Impact Factor 3.86). Mostly of course because I keep meaning to blog on the topic he raised a bit obliquely:
Of course the impact factor of the "second choice" journal is likely to be less but impact factor is a divisive influence on the scientific process. What is important is what the scientists think of the actual science, which will be reflected better by the download statistics and, eventually, the citations of the paper concerned (not the average citations of all of the other papers published by that journal over the surrounding 2 year period – note that the influence a given paper has on the impact factor of the journal is, in the vast majority of cases, negligible).
So this reminded me of the fact that many Elsevier journals, including Neuropharmacology, have limited article download stats (e.g., Top 25 downloaded for the past quarter) available. Now this is something that is seriously cool and unbelievably more relevant to assessing the "impact" of a given paper than the mere fact of where it was published. The Elsevier "top 25" site allows some degree of flexibility in searching as you can select a given calendar quarter and gate on a broad topic category (e.g., "Neuroscience") or a specific journal (aforementioned Neuropharmacology). It is a real pity that this is not more extensive at present time. At the least one should be able to combine the currently available categorizations so as to seek the top article in a longer time frame or from a customized subset of journals. It would be nice to go a lot deeper than the Top25, too. Ultimately, of course, one would wish for fully searchable and publisher-independent stats along the lines of the ISI Impact Factor and Citation reports. One thing a single publisher like Elsevier could do immediately is to make the actual download numbers available instead of the ranks- this would facilitate comparison across publishers.
Why is the assessment of download stats so cool? While it is nice that people cite your papers (inaccurately in some cases!) for whatever reason, isn't the real point that you want people reading your papers? All those countless undergrads and grad students who may not be publishing anything soon? All those teaching professors who may not be publishing at all? All those scientists in other fields that just found your paper dang interesting? People who want to learn about the things you have discovered about the natural world. Isn't that an important category of "impact" for your papers?
A little exercise for the reader. Which would you rather have? A paper in a <4 impact factor journal that is "Top 10 download in Elsevier's 'Neuroscience' category for the three quarters after it appeared"? Or, a Nature Neuroscience paper that nobody actually read? Would it make any difference to you if the default CV entry read something like :
Smith, A. , Jones, B. and Doe, C. 2006 An investigation into the function of the gnupi-ergic cells of the Physio-Whimple nucleus. JournalX (2005 Impact Factor 3.6 / 2006 Impact Factor 3.8) 31(4):456-461. [Most downloaded JournalX article for Q3, Q4 2006; 9th most downloaded for JournalX and fifteenth most-downloaded for Elsevier "Neuroscience" Q3 2006 – Q2 2007].
To wrap up, sure there would be some obvious caveats in terms of normalizing comparisions, journal access to the academic public, etc, etc. Sure. There are also many caveats to the "impact factor" and "citation" analyses I'll remind you. And it wouldn't stand alone as a replacement for any other schema in particular. I just think it would add some very relevant advantages to our assessment of scientific "impact" of a given paper.
20 Responses to "Confidential Comments to the Editor"
November 19, 2007 at 12:00 pm
To wrap up, sure there would be some obvious caveats in terms of normalizing comparisions, journal access to the academic public, etc, etc. Sure. There are also many caveats to the "impact factor" and "citation" analyses I'll remind you. And it wouldn't stand alone as a replacement for any other schema in particular. I just think it would add some very relevant advantages to our assessment of scientific "impact" of a given paper.
I agree.
November 19, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Don't wish to be a cynic, but if download stats become important in career advancement, there may be incentive for some to set up click-bots or something similar to increase their numbers. So that would have to be engineered out, somehow.
November 19, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Better ways to measure scientific impact are indeed needed. This issue needs to get more attention. But one thing at a time, I guess. First we enhance transparency and streamline the review process. Then we can tackle better measurements of individual article influence…
November 19, 2007 at 3:50 pm
DM, citation counts (web of science or scopus) can be filtered to remove self-citations (easy enough to do manually, anyhow). scratch-my-back citing practices, well this is in some ways in the same category as scratch-my-back paper reviewing. They do call it "peer review", after all!
No, no system is perfect. What do you think of the H-index? If you want to compare scientists, can't you compare their H-indices (in similar field and career stage, that is?)?
November 20, 2007 at 1:50 pm
From my position in the ivory tower of industry, I'd initially thought that DM's example CV must be a joke on his obsession with impact factors. But looking around, I see that people actually do include them! Highlighted in blue text!
I'd still suggest that Shay Lifshitz takes it a bit too far — if you have multiple Nature and Science papers, you probably chill out a bit. Including his name might have been a better use of space.
November 20, 2007 at 2:54 pm
To inject a little perspective, in some (many) countries, people are explicitly evaluated according to the impact factors of the journals they publish in. So it's not surprising in some ways that they would include the IF's on their CV's.
If you are going to list IF, it does make better sense to list the # from the year of publication – of course the IF refers to papers published the prior 2 years, so does that mean for a year 2000 publication, one should list the 2002 IF number??
It all gets very confusing. I also agree that cites would be more relevant to list (although by definition, these are creeping up over time too).
Yes, IF's overall are creeping upward (as the overall research $$/enterprise and literature grows). However, relative journal ranks do shift around over time.
November 21, 2007 at 8:41 am
Having recently left academia, but having maintained intimate associations with it (for obvious reasons), I can assure you that search committees for major institutions in the US do not need impact factors listed on CVs in order to decide who to invite for a job interview. In fact, having discussed these types of issues with prominent scientists, doing so is one of the fastest ways to get your CV tossed in the trash.
Remember, any department has to have a certain amount of social interaction, and even scientists don't want someone around who is dorky enough to list impact factors…
Although obviously NPG uses them on the front of every journal homepage, people have an internal list of journal prestige in their head and usually consult that before published impact factors anyway.
November 21, 2007 at 11:30 am
Sure OK this is perhaps true for "major institutions in the US", but for less-major institutions in places in Asia, Australia and Europe, impact factors are explicitly part of the evaluation process. If not for new hires, then for career progression. I know this to be a fact.
I'm not in any way defending this practice (indeed I find it rather flawed), just stating that it exists. One possible reason is if the local scientific community is somewhat thinly spread, IF's at least give some external indication of the "quality" of someone's science, even if you do not have expertise or detailed knowledge of their field.
November 21, 2007 at 3:40 pm
This is an easy call: take the paper in the prestige journal every time.
November 21, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Well, remember that downloads and citations don't always really mean impact. It may just mean that people liked the way you stained your protein gels, but your results were as boring as hell. So you have to see through the citation numbers, since they don't always tell the whole story.
I think you would have to gamble with the low-cited prestigious journal paper since people are still going to hire you with that on your CV. Realistically, any paper in a prestigious journal is going to make some sort of a splash simply because of the visibility, even if it isn't necessarily cited as many times as the "Methods in Enzymology" recipe book. Neither my reviewers nor myself have done our job of servicing the community if we accept a paper that doesn't get read. So yes, I'd still shoot for the paper in the high impact journal and take my chances…
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This report presents the specifications of a informative property for Unicode characters that is useful when interoperating with East Asian Legacy character sets.
This document has been reviewed by Unicode members and other interested parties, and has been approved by the Unicode Technical Committee as a Unicode Standard Annex. This is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference by other specifications.
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Please submit corrigenda and other comments with the online reporting form [Feedback]. Related information that is useful in understanding this document is found in the References section. For the latest version of the Unicode Standard see [Unicode]. See [Reports] for a list of current Unicode Technical Reports. For more information about versions of the Unicode Standard, see [Versions].
In mixed-width, East Asian, legacy encodings there is a concept of an inherent width of a character. For a fixed pitch font, this width translates to a display width of either one half or a whole unit width. A common name for this unit width is "Em". It is customarily the height of the letter 'M', but since in East Asian fonts the standard character cell is square, it is the same as the unit width.
Note: the character width for a fixed pitch Latin font like Courier is generally 3/5 of an em.
Layout and line breaking (to cite only two examples) in an East Asian context show systematic variations depending on the value of the East-Asian Width property (even for non-fixed pitch fonts). Further, the same information is useful in creating correct transcoding tables for East Asian character sets.
The East Asian Width is an informative property and provides a useful concept for implementations that
This Unicode Technical Report gives general guidelines how to use this property. It does not provide rules or specifications of how this property might be used in font design or line layout, since, while a useful property for this purpose, it is only one of several character properties that would need to be considered. The specific assignments of property values for given characters may change over time to reflect evolving practice and should be considered recommendations that may be overridden by implementations.
By convention, 1/2 Em wide characters of East Asian legacy encodings are called "half-width" (or hankaku characters in Japanese), the others are called correspondingly "full-width" (or zenkaku) characters. Legacy encodings often use a single byte for the half-width characters and two bytes for the full-width characters. In the Unicode Standard, no such distinction is made, but understanding the distinction is often necessary when interchanging data with legacy systems, especially when fixed size buffers are involved.
Some character blocks in the compatibility zone contain characters that are explicitly marked "half-width" and "full-width" in their character name but for all other characters the width property must be implicitly derived. Some characters behave differently in East Asian context than in non-East Asian content. Their default width property is considered ambiguous and needs to be resolved into an actual width property based on context.
The Unicode Character Database [UCD] assigns to each Unicode character one of the six values Ambiguous, Full Width, Half Width, Narrow, Wide, or Not East Asian Neutral (defined below) as its default width property. For any given operation, these six default property values resolve into only two property values narrow and wide, depending on context.
ED1. East Asian Width - in the context of interoperating with East Asian legacy character encodings and implementing East Asian typography, the East Asian Width is a categorization of character. It can take on two abstract values, narrow and wide. In legacy implementations, there is often a corresponding difference in encoding length (one or two bytes) as well as a difference in displayed width. However, the actual display width of a glyph is given by the font and may be further adjusted by layout. An important class of fixed width legacy fonts contains glyphs of just two widths with the wider glyphs twice as wide as the narrower glyphs.
Note: For convenience, the classification further distinguishes among explicitly or implicitly wide and narrow characters.
ED2. East Asian Full-width (F) - all characters that are defined as FULL WIDTH in the Unicode Standard [Unicode] by having a compatibility decomposition of type <wide> to characters elsewhere in the Unicode Standard that are implicitly narrow but unmarked.
ED3. East Asian Half-width (H) - all characters that are explicitly defined as HALF WIDTH in the Unicode Standard by having a compatibility decomposition of type <narrow> to characters elsewhere in the Unicode Standard that are implicitly wide but unmarked, plus the WON SIGN.
ED4. East Asian Wide (W) - all other characters that are always wide. These characters occur only in the context of East Asian typography where they are wide characters (such as the Unified Han Ideographs or Squared Katakana Symbols). This category includes characters that have explicit half-width counterparts.
ED5. East Asian Narrow (Na) - all other characters that are always narrow and have explicit full-width or wide counterparts. These characters are implicitly narrow in East Asian typography and legacy character sets since they have explicit full-width or wide counterparts. All of ASCII is an example of East Asian Narrow characters.
It is useful to distinguish characters explicitly defined as half-width from other narrow characters. In particular, half-width punctuation behaves in some important ways like ideographic punctuation, and knowing a character is a halfwidth character can aid in font selection when binding a font to unstyled text.
ED6. East Asian Ambiguous (A) - all characters that can be sometimes wide and sometimes narrow. Ambiguous characters require additional information not contained in the character code to further resolve their width.
Ambiguous characters occur in East Asian legacy character sets as wide characters, but as narrow (i.e. normal-width) characters in non-East Asian usage (Examples are the Greek and Cyrillic alphabet found in East Asian character sets, but also some of the mathematical symbols). Private Use characters are considered ambiguous, since additional information is required to know whether they should be treated as wide or narrow.
Figure 1: Venn diagram showing the set relations for five of the six categories.
Because East Asian legacy character sets do not always include complete case pairs of Latin characters, two members of a case pair may have different East Asian Width properties:
Ambiguous: 01D4 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CARON NEA Neutral: 01D3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CARON
When they are treated as wide characters, ambiguous characters would typically be rendered as upright in vertical text runs.
ED7. Not East Asian (Neutral) - all other characters. Neutral characters do not occur in legacy East Asian character sets. By extension, they also do not occur in East Asian typography. For example, there is no traditional Japanese way of typesetting Devanagari.
Strictly speaking, it makes no sense to talk of narrow and wide for neutral characters, but since for all practical purposes they behave like Na, they are treated as narrow characters (the same as Na) under the recommendations below.
In a broad sense, wide characters include W, F, and A (when in EA context), while narrow characters include N, Na, H, and A (when not in EA context).
Figure 2: Examples for each character class and their resolved widths
When converting a DBCS mixed-width encoding to and from Unicode, the full-width characters in such a mixed-width encoding are mapped to the full-width compatibility characters in the FFxx block, whereas the corresponding half-width characters are mapped to ordinary Unicode characters (e.g. ASCII in U+0021..U+007E, plus a few other scattered characters).
In the context of interoperability with DBCS character encodings, this restricted set of Unicode characters in the General Scripts area can be construed as half-width, rather than full-width. (This applies only to the restricted set of characters that can be paired with the full-width compatibility characters.)
In the context of interoperability with DBCS character encodings, all other Unicode characters, which are not explicitly marked as half-width can be construed as full-width.
In any other context, Unicode characters not explicitly marked as being either full-width or half-width compatibility forms are neither half-width nor full-width.
Seen in this light, the "half-width" and "full-width" properties are not unitary character properties in the same sense as "space" or "combining" or "alphabetic". They are, instead, relational properties of a pair of characters, one of which is explicitly encoded as a half-width or full-width form for compatibility in mapping to DBCS mixed-width character encodings.
What is "full-width" by default today could in theory become "half-width" tomorrow by the introduction of another character on the SBCS part of a mixed-width code page somewhere, requiring the introduction of another full-width compatibility character to complete the mapping. However, since the single byte part of mixed-width character sets is limited, there are not going to be many candidates and neither the Unicode Technical Committee [UTC] nor WG2 have any intention to add additional compatibility characters for this purpose.
Ambiguous width characters are all those characters that can occur as full-width characters in any of a number of East Asian legacy character encodings. They have a 'resolved' width of either narrow or wide depending on the context of their use. If they are not used in context of the specific legacy encoding they belong to, their width resolves to narrow. Otherwise it resolves to full-width or half-width. The term context as used here includes extra information such as explicit markup, knowledge of the source codepage, font information, or language and script identification. For example:
Note: Modern practice is evolving towards rendering ever more of the ambiguous characters with proportionally spaced, narrow forms that rotate with the direction of writing, making a distinction within the character set. In other words, context information beyond the choice of font or source character set is employed to resolve the width of the character. This document does not attempt to track such changes in practice; therefore, the set of characters that have been assigned ambiguous width form a superset of the set of characters that may be rendered as wide characters, depending on context.
East Asian Width is an informative character property and implies no conformance requirements.
When mapping Unicode to legacy character encodings
When processing or displaying data
The classifications presented here are based on the most widely used mixed-width legacy character sets in use in East Asia as of this writing. In particular, the assignments of the neutral or ambiguous categories depend on the contents of these character sets. For example, an implementation that knows a-priori that it only needs to interchange data with the Japanese Shift-JIS character set, but not other East Asian character sets, could reduce the number of characters in the ambiguous classification to those actually encoded in Shift-JIS. Or such a reduction could be done implicitly at runtime in the context of interoperating with Shift-JIS fonts or data sources. Conversely, if additional character sets are created and widely adopted for legacy purposes, more characters would need to be classified as ambiguous.
All unassigned characters are by default classified as non-East Asian neutral, except for the range U+20000 to U+2FFFD, since all code positions from U+20000 to U+2FFFD and U+30000 to U+3FFFD are intended for CJK ideographs (W). All Private use characters are by default classified as ambiguous, since their definition depends on context.
For additional recommendation for handling the default property value for unassigned characters see Section 5.3 of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0 [Unicode].
Combining marks have been classified and are given a property assignment based on their typical applicability. For example combining marks typically applied to characters of class N, Na or W are classified as A. Combining marks for purely non-East Asian scripts are marked as N, and non-spacing marks used only with wide characters are given a W. Even more so than for other characters, the East Asian width property for combining marks is not the same as their display width.
In particular, non-spacing marks do not possess actual advance width. Therefore, even when displaying combining marks, the East Asian Width property cannot be related to the advance width of these characters. However, it can be useful in determining the encoding length in a legacy encoding, or the choice of font for the range of characters including that non-spacing mark. The width of the glyph image of a non-spacing mark should always be chosen as the appropriate one for the width of the base character.
The East Asian Width classification of all Unicode characters at the time of the publication of this document is available in the current version of the file EastAsianWidth.txt [Data] in the Unicode Character Database [UCD]. This is a tab-delimited, two column plain text file, with code position, East Asian Width designator. A comment at the end of each line indicates the character name. Ideographic, Hangul, Surrogate, and Private Use ranges are collapsed by giving a range in the first column.
As more character are added to the Unicode Standard, or if additional character sets are created and widely adopted for legacy purposes, the assignment of East Asian Width may be changed for some characters. Implementations should not make any assumptions to the contrary. Any future updates will be reflected in the latest version of the data file. (See the Unicode Character Database [UCD] for any specific version of the datafile).
The sets of East Asian Narrow, East Asian Full-width and East Asian Half-width are fixed for all practical purposes. New characters for most scripts will be East Asian Neutral characters, unless the script is an East Asian script using wide characters, and then the new characters will be classified as East Asian Wide. One important exception consists of those new symbol characters that are, or are expected to be used both as wide characters in East Asian usage and narrow characters in non-East Asian usage. These would need to be classified as East Asian Ambiguous.
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the time of this publication is http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.0-Update/EastAsianWidth-4.0.0.txt
The latest version of the data file is http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/EastAsianWidth.txt
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For details on the precise contents of each version of the Unicode Standard, and how to cite them.
Michel Suignard provided extensive input into the analysis and source material for the detail assignments of these properties. Mark Davis and Ken Whistler performed consistency checks on the data files at various times. Tomohiro Kubota reviewed the East Asian Width assignments against some common legacy encodings.
Revision 11:
Extended the range for the default property value to 30000–3FFFD.
Revision 10:
Reworded the definitions of F and H to explicitly refer to the compatibility decomposition. Changed 3000 from W to F, to align with the revised definitions. Extended the definition for Na to include all characters that have a wide equivalent, whether F or W. Changed 2329..232A, 3008..3009, and 301A..301B from A to W to reflect the addition of 27E6..27EB which are their Na equivalents. Also changed 3018..3019 from A to W to reflect their intended use as CJK-only punctuation. Changed 2155 and 2574 from A to N, as they were mistaken entries. Changed 24C0..24CF and 2776..277F from N to A to reflect their treatment in practice. Revised sections 2, 4.2 and 6.
Revision 9:
Updated links to new version of data file. Changed 00AE, 014B, 02C4, 02DF, 2022, 2024, 203E, 2116, 2153, 215C..215D, 21B8..21B9, 21E7and 273D from N to A . This is a result of a recent review of existing mapping tables showing their use as wide characters in widely implemented East Asian legacy encodings. [Revision 9 was never published].
Revision 8:
Change in header for Unicode 3.1. New status section and new format for references. Properties assigned to the new characters added to Unicode 3.1. Changed 2329..232A and 3008-3009 from N to A and W to A respectively. This is a result of their canonical equivalence.
Revision 7:
Change in header for Unicode 3.0.1, change in file versioning format.
Version 6.0:
Restated the definitions so that the wording more clearly reflects the intent. No changes to the assignments of properties to any character were made. Added a section on classifying characters that are to be added to the standard in the future. Also added figure 2.
Version 5.0:
Changed the spelling of the title and made minor clarifying changes to the definitions and the description of ambiguous characters and combining marks. As result of the Unicode 3.0 beta process, changed some CJK punctuation characters from W to A since they are also used in Western mathematical notation. Removed some historic information and made other edits to prepare TR for publication as part of Unicode 3.0.
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text: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is hinting about expansion (and shortening the season?!), and the Jerks are talking about it! Plus, the MLB Playoffs begin, a breakdown of the (lack of) buzz around Justice League, and we try and figure out when a game about fighting Nazis became offensive. T2J – Just when we thought we were done talking about current events, they pulled us back in!


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Trump denounces 'horrible' threats against Jewish centers
President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced recent threats against Jewish community centers as "horrible" and "painful." He said they are a "very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil."
Trump made the remarks after touring the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture.
"This tour was a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms," Trump said.
His comments about recent threats at Jewish community centers across the country marked the first time he had directly addressed a wave of anti-Semitism and followed a more general White House denouncement of "hatred and hate-motivated violence."
That statement, earlier Tuesday, did not mention the community center incidents or Jews. Trump "has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable," that statement said.
The FBI said it is joining with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to investigate "possible civil rights violations in connection with threats" to the centers.
On Monday, Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, wrote on Twitter, "We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers," and used the hashtag #JCC. She converted to Judaism ahead of her 2009 marriage to Jared Kushner. She joined her father at the African American museum tour.
The White House was criticized by Jewish groups after issuing an International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement last month that did not mention Jews.
Associated Press writer Julie Bykowicz contributed to this report.


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How distorting are map projections? Here's what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head.
From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking demonstration of "the distortion and exaggeration inherent in various systems of projection."
Preserving the relative size and shape of the globe's assorted land masses on a 2-dimensional surface is no mean task, and it's one that mapping systems like the widely used Mercator projection (demonstrated above, at the bottom right) struggle with. The Mercator belongs to a family of maps known as "compromise projections," so-called for their tendency to sacrifice things like accurate geographic size and shape in favor of nice, straight lines (this trade-off being specific to the Mercator system). Compromise projections are notorious for giving rise to a warped view of geographic scale, and, arguably, sociopolitical prominence. Many people whose geographic knowledge is based on a compromise projection, for example, have a very poor idea of Africa's true, immense size.
Complement with this map of Pangea, charted with modern political borders and this map of the United States overlaid on the Moon.


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14K white gold comfort fit low dome wedding band from the Reis-Nichols Collection. The band is 3mm wide. Size 7 in stock now. Special order sizes also available. Pricing may vary with size of ring. Please call or email for size information and availability.
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Quick Picks!
Shop Talk's quick picks for where to be seen this week.
Edun Trunk Show
What: The sustainable line by this fellow named Bono (maybe you've heard of him?) and his wife go on display at Mario's Friday for viewing, discounts and some international drinking.
When: Friday, October 14 · 3:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Mario's, 833 SW Broadway
Details: Marios.com
For the Love of Boobs Fashion Show
What: The 4th annual fundraising event with procedes going to The American Cancer Society in the fight against breast cancer.
Who: Hollywood Babylon, Mabel & Zora, Tumbleweed, Milagros and SheShe present fall collections.
When: Friday, October 14 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: Elements Glass 1979 NW Vaughn St
Details: Tickets $15, more info through the FB Event Page.
Shop Adorn's Re-Opening
What: The Fremont shop traded up locations for a huge new space and invite you to a "housewarming" party.
When: Friday, October 14 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: 4120 NE Fremont St.
Details: FB Event Page
Spa at the Avalon's Style Night
What: A girly night of pampering showcases the latest looks in make up and how to transition business looks to evening.
When: Tonight Thursday, October 13 · 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Where: 0455 SW Hamilton Court
Details: AvalonHotelandSpa.com
Portland Sewing's Brunch with Bryce
What: A two hour chance to pick Black's brain on what really happens behind the scene on Project Runway. Plus, brunch!
When: Sunday, October 23 · 10:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Portland Sewing, 2111 NE 43rd
Details: Seating is limited. For tickets: PortlandSewing.com
Solestruck's Grand Opening
What: The gorgeous new Solestruck store in the Blackbox development invites you for a party Saturday night with VIP discounts, A live DJ, an unforgettable line up of shoes, and several other hush-hush surprises.
When: Saturday, October 15 · 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Where: Blackbox, 417 SW 13th Ave
Details: RSVP to [email protected] FB Event Page


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Photos by Kirk Gerbracht
Yes it has, and we've no reason to suspect this event will ever cease to be the world's greatest one day gathering of Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and Ford-powered cars, trucks and racing machines. Ford Motor Company and the Ford Car Club Council did it again on Sunday, April 27, 2014, putting together another fab Fab Fords show filling the massive parking lots of Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. And the photos only do the event partial justice because no matter where you stand, you're overwhelmed by Ford Blue Ovalness.
Naturally the event further celebrated the Mustang's 50th Anniversary, and continued the rollout of the new 2015 Mustang. But one of the gathering's greatest appeals are all the other great Ford or Ford related cars that you see here that you may otherwise not see so often: Sunbeam Tigers, Mercury Cougar Eliminators, (5.0-liter Mustang powered) Ford LTD LXs, tricked out Econoline vans, every iteration of Shelby Mustang and Cobra you can imagine, Pintos, Mavericks, Edsels, every year and and configuration of Model T and Model A you could imagine, and yes…Mustang IIs.
Autograph hounds had plenty of heroes to visit with too.
On hand, signing their hearts out, posing for selfies and accessible to all were many Ford Racing greats, including Steve Saleen, George Follmer, Parnelli Jones and, pictured above, one of the world's most successful road-racing champs, Scott Pruett.
Plus everyone's favorite motorsports ambassadress Miss Hurst Golden Shifter Linda Vaughn, and her gal pal Cleo (Mrs. Carroll) Shelby. Accessibility really describes Fab Fords too, because the event is easy to get to, there's tons of parking, and no admission charge. And as always, many of the Ford car clubs had information booths, and so many other vendors had booths and trailers full of T-shirts, die-cast models, performance and restoration parts, literature, and countless other goodies to spend your money on.
How many cars made up the Fab Fords field?
It's hard to say for sure or get an accurate count because it's all so massive, but the early plan was 1800 vehicles on display, and we've heard that the actual total was nearer 2000.
What are Ford and the car club council going to do next year to mark three decades? They haven't said yet, but it's likely to be the largest and best Fab Fords yet. And we'll be there to see it, and so should you. Stay tuned at www.fabulousfordsforever.com.
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excuse me just getting Christmas things out and getting ready to decorate while listening to "Yuleplay"all Christmas music.
Excuse me...I have some repairs that need to be made tomorrow
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Excuse me...I've got feet...
Merry Christmas to all...
Excuse me...I have to pay some bills today!~
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Excuse me house is all decorated tree up village is about all put out finish today.
Excuse me, but I'm taking 1/2 day off work today so I can finish running all my cords before the rain/snow moves in tomorrow.
I love Outdoor Christmas Lights!!
Excuse me...but I really need the weather to cooperate this weekend so I can finish raking the leaves
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DETROIT – Chrysler's U.S. sales rose 4 per cent last month from a year ago and Volkswagen sales were up 3 per cent as both automakers reported strong February sales.
But both companies are still see their sales growth slow after outpacing the U.S. market for the past couple of years.
Chrysler had its best February in five years, with just over 139,000 cars and trucks sold. VW reported its best February since 1973 with sales of more than 31,000. Industry analysts expect an overall increase of around 7 per cent when automakers report U.S. results Friday, as sales remained strong despite some headwinds for consumers.
At Chrysler, which reported a 21 per cent sales increase for all of last year, the growth slowdown was expected. CEO Sergio Marchionne warned last month that first-quarter sales would decline from the same period of 2012, largely because the company stopped making the Jeep Liberty midsize SUV as it prepares a factory in Toledo, Ohio, to build a replacement model. The new Jeep Cherokee is expected to hit showrooms in the summer.
Still, the company reported its 35th-straight month of year-over-year sales gains.
Auto industry analysts say that Social Security tax increases, rising gas prices and political dysfunction in Washington, weren't enough to keep buyers away from showrooms.
"I think these little speed bumps aren't big enough to slow down the momentum right now," said Jeff Schuster, senior vice-president of forecasting for LMC Automotive, an industry consulting firm.
Schuster and other analysts say there are plenty of reasons to buy cars:
— People need to replace aging cars. Pent-up demand is driving sales, as is the expiration of two- and three-year leases.
— Interest rates are at historic lows, and credit is more readily available.
— Hiring has picked up, giving people more money to spend. Hourly pay has risen faster than inflation the past three months.
— Many automakers have exciting new vehicles to choose from, both trucks and fuel-efficient small cars.
Schuster says sales probably hit an annual rate of 15.2 million cars and trucks in February, which is normally a lacklustre sales month. The TrueCar.com auto pricing site predicts 15.7 million, which would be the best February performance since 2007. Sales are still short of the recent peak of near 17 million in 2005, but they're healthy now compared with the anemic 10.4 million total in 2009.
Matt LaFontaine, general manager of the LaFontaine Automotive Group, an 18-franchise chain in the Detroit area, said all of his dealerships that sell Detroit-based brands will beat their projections for the month.
"The biggest thing for us is just making sure we have enough product on the ground." Customers, he says, "are ready to make a move."
LaFontaine said the budget debate in Washington hasn't cut into auto sales. Congress and President Barack Obama aren't likely to reach a last-minute agreement before $85 billion in automatic government spending cuts kick in Friday.
Higher gas prices also haven't hurt sales. The average price for gas rose 36 cents per gallon in February to around $3.78 per gallon. In fact, sales of larger vehicles like pickup trucks have improved, Schuster said. Consumers have also shrugged off higher Social Security taxes, which cut take-home pay starting in January. For a household making between $70,000 and $100,000 per year, it cost around $300 per month, which is close to a car payment.
Barclay's analyst Brian Johnson said the tax increase has had little impact on new-car buyers, but it may hurt used-car sales because those buyers are more price-sensitive.
Automakers are spending less on discounts and deals, which cut into their profits and brand image. Discounts in February averaged $2,392 per vehicle, down almost 4 per cent from a year ago, TrueCar said.
But low interest rates are offsetting that, LaFontaine said. The average four-year auto loan has a 2.5 per cent interest rate, according to Bankrate.com. That's about half of what it was five or six years ago. On a $20,000 loan, that means a monthly payment of $438, down $23 from a 5 per cent loan. Plus, automakers offer subsidized loans to spur sales, many with no interest.
And some consumers have no choice but to buy. The average vehicle on U.S. roads is a record 11.2 years old. Many car buyers are being forced to replace aging vehicles after hanging on to them through the Great Recession.
At Chrysler, sales were led by the Dodge Avenger midsize sedan with a 52 per cent increase. Ram pickup sales were up 3 per cent for the best February since 2007 as businesses replaced older pickup trucks.


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Trawls are cone-shaped nets with two, four, or more panels, ending in a bag. They are towed at midwater or near the bottom, and held open horizontally by heavy doors (otter trawls), by beams, or by the tension created by lines connecting the net to two separate vessels (pair trawls). The net opening is sustained vertically by floats and weights. Fish size and species is controlled by mesh size; pelagic, demersal, and benthic fish can be targeted. The recent development of trawls with large wheels (rockhoppers) prevents damage and tangling of nets, and has eliminated the disincentive to trawling along rugged seafloors.
For more detailed information, please visit the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department trawl nets web page.
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You Guessed It, Svedka: I Am Not Bot Enough for Your Stupid VodkaBy Greg Boose
April 19, 2011
Like a Hollywood producer watching the heroin mix with his smoky blood, I often wonder what the future holds.
Will there be rocket socks?
Will there be sock rockets?
Will there be someone around financially irresponsible enough to help me get some of my patented sock-related inventions off the ground?


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FDA recalls tattoo ink over bacteria concerns
Gary Dinges
Six different types of tattoo ink are being recalled because they're contaminated with bacteria.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the tainted ink could cause infections and possibly even lead to scarring, USA Today reports.
The inks that have been recalled are:
- Scalpaink SC, Scalpaink PA, and Scalpaink AL basic black tattoo inks manufactured by Scalp Aesthetics (all lots)
- Dynamic Color - Black tattoo ink manufactured by Dynamic Color Inc (lots 12024090 and 12026090)
- Solid Ink-Diablo (red) tattoo ink manufactured by Color Art Inc. (dba Solid Ink) (dba Antone's Ink) (lot 10.19.18)
The FDA encourages people getting tattoos to confirm with their tattoo artist that the recalled inks are not being used.
If you believe you may have contracted an infection because of the recalled inks, contact your doctor.


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Sky and News Corp have entered into strategic relationships with Roku, announcing big investments in the streaming media player manufacturer.
Roku's media streamer has attracted a good deal of attention since its launch, with the US in particular taking to the device.
Roku also launched in the UK in February and, although it has yet to gain the kind of traction that it has managed across the Atlantic, that hasn't stopped it piquing Sky's interest.
Roku and rollu
The company has been seeking investment and the latest round has seen an influx of some $45 million (around £29m) from BSkyB, News Corp and venture investors Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners.
"We have watched Roku maintain market leadership since the launch of its streaming platform four years ago and we look forward to deepening our relationship, having already worked closely together on the launch of several products," said News Corporation chief digital officer Jon Miller.
"Roku's significant technology advantage, coupled with a strong market position, places them in a unique position to be an integral part of the television landscape for years to come."
Now opportunity
Sky's CFO Andrew Griffith praised Roku's innovation, and will use Roku to 'extend' its multi-platform offering.
"We're delighted to have entered into this strategic relationship with Roku. As an innovative content company we're committed to embracing a wide range of complementary platforms to create more choice and flexibility for customers," said Griffith.
"Coupled with the on-going strength of satellite distribution, online and mobile help us unlock even more value for customers. Working with Roku we look forward to extending our multi-platform leadership."
The move from Sky is particularly interesting given its steady evolution into a multiplatform content provider.
The launch of Sky's subscription-free Now TV has already been expected to land on Roku, which has gone head to head with Apple TV, and could give the British broadcaster opportunity to look to the US market.
Investment plans
So, what does Roku plan to do with the money? The company is now looking to increase brand awareness, branch out into new territories and increase engineering and production.
"Our philosophy is to give consumers the best streaming TV experience, with the most content and at the best value in the market; and it has served us well as millions of consumers have brought Roku into their homes," said Roku founder and chief executive officer Anthony Wood.
"With the News Corporation and Sky strategic relationships, we are poised to further grow our leadership position and to become the TV distribution platform of the future."


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I've talked a lot about website development, and hopefully I've stressed how important it is to make a plan. To help you make your plan, here is a simplified checklist for the development and design of a website ($ indicates potential additional fees that may be incurred).
- Gathering of information related to site content
- Website Name (Domain Name) Research
- Competition Researched
- Website Title Chosen
- Website Host Research
- Website Host Chosen and Registered $
- Website Name Chosen
- Website Name Purchase $
- Website Structure and Organization Established
- Link Exchange Researched
- Link Exchange Page Set Up
- Articles/Resources Provided/Researched
- Articles/Resources Chosen
- Advertising Inclusion Implemented
- Search Engine Submission Prepared
- Search Engine Submission Implemented $
- Review Search Engine Submission Results (1-4 months after public release)
- Artwork Compiled
- Logo Designed or Prepared as Digital Art
- Color Scheme Research and Presented
- Layout Design Research and Presented
- Color Scheme Chosen
- Layout/Design Chosen
- HTML and CSS Coding Design
- Content and Articles Added
- Review Web Standards
- Validate Code
- Check Website with Other Browsers
- Check Website with Other Computers
- Check Website with Various Screen Resolutions
- Edit and Review Website Presentation
- Test Website (typically 2-4 weeks)
- Test Links
Website Maintenance
- Frequently Update
- Check for Errors
- Add Link Exchanges
- Check for Bad Links
- Keyword Review and Update
- Check Link Popularity
- Review New Technology
- Review Web Standards and apply
- Check Site Statistics
- Add New Content
- Check Links
- Validate Code
- Re-Submit Site to Search Engines
- Check Web Page Descriptions
- Check Web Page Titles
- Review Meta Tag Standards and Update
- Review Top Searches from Search Engines (potential new content ideas)
Checklist Resources
- SCORE: Web Site Checklist Can Help You Plan for Success
- Skyrme Website Checklist
- Usability Website Checklist
- Max Design Website Code Checklist
- Net Mechanic Web Site Usability Checklist
- Dive in Design Design Checklist
- Site Point – Site Design Checklist
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Author: Jessica Sorensen
Series: Sins #1
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Mystery
More Info: Goodreads
Purchase: Amazon US
Lies. Betrayal. A double life.
Lola Anders isn't who she seems. Two years ago she ran away from a dangerous life she'd been living since she way born in order to stay alive. She changed her name and reinvented herself into a good girl… at least part of the time anyway. A secretary by day and an escort by night, Lola lives a double life in order to maintain balance and survive. And things are going well, until a ghost from her past shows up out of nowhere.
Sexy and dangerous Layton Everett enters Lola's life again without warning. Not only does Layton know who Lola really is but he also used to work for her family's sworn enemy . Lola worries he's shown up to finish the hit put on her two years ago, so she tries to stay away from him, but it's difficult when he seems to be everywhere. Plus, she's attracted to him more than she likes to admit.
The closer Lola gets to Layton, the more her life gets turned upside. She ends up getting caught up in Layton's dangerous world and ultimately the life she ran away from catches up with her again.
Finally he pulls away and looks at me again. His eyes are a little watery, like he's been crying. "Run away with me." There's desperation in his eyes, a silent plea.
I bite down on my lip. "What?"
He sits up and traps my face between his hands. "Run away with me, Lolita. We can start over and I'll keep you safe. Please tell me you trust me enough to run away with me, like you said to me when we were fourteen. God I wish I would have just done it… Things would have been so different if I just done it back then." He pulls me against him again, embracing me tightly.
I remember the day my mom died, right before I found her in my dad's arms in the driveway, I'd suggested to Layton that we run away. I'd never liked the world I grew up in and leaving seemed like such a great idea—still does. I just wish I could permanently leave it all behind.
"Where would we go?" I ask with my face tucked against his chest where I can hear his heart thudding almost violently. I think about Dannie and Mary Lou and how I'm just going to disappear, leaving them to wonder what happened to me. Then there's Nyjah. I don't know whether he was with Reagan on blackmailing me or not, but I still wish I could say good-bye. I feel guilty about it, but know in my heart that I can't go back to Glensdale. Maybe one day, if this all ever settles down. One day. I hope. I hope. I hope.
Layton swiftly slants back, looking flabbergasted. "You're seriously considering it? After everything?"
"You know I'm crazy enough." I try to make a joke but miss the mark badly—it's been a long time. Not knowing what else to say, I shrug. "I have to run anyway. Might as well be with someone." I give him the best smile I can summon, but there's too much darkness in me at the moment to be happy.
He smiles back, but it doesn't quite reach his eyes. "I know, but I want to make sure."
I think I'm sure. The last thing I want to do is leave Layton when I just got him back. "Layton, can I ask you a question?"
He nods, this time with confidence. "You can ask me anything."


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LBG and Aviva Investors Acquire Hilltop Mall in San Francisco East Bay
LOS ANGELES (July 25, 2017) – LBG Real Estate Companies and Aviva Investors today announced the purchase of Hilltop Mall, a 1,100,000-square-foot regional mall in the East Bay city of Richmond, Calif. The property, located at 2200 Hilltop Mall Road, was originally developed in 1976 and renovated in 2007, and encompasses approximately 77 acres of land prominently located at the Hilltop Mall exit off of Interstate-80. It offers exceptional visibility and access to a dense and growing residential population, and spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay. Hilltop Mall features many well-known national tenants including Macy's, Walmart, Sears, and 24-Hour Fitness.
"Hilltop Mall has experienced higher tenant defections and has suffered from deferred maintenance over the past six years as it's been either in foreclosure or lender owned," said Leslie Lundin, Managing Partner for LBG. "LBG's ownership will be the first true developer ownership for Hilltop Mall since the end of the last downturn. Hilltop is a sleeping giant just waiting for a chance to be reborn."
The irreplaceable property is ideally situated 20 miles northeast of San Francisco, and 25 miles south of Napa, which is an ideal location for the rapidly growing area that is within a 30-minute drive from San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Napa, and Marin County.
LBG plans to implement an entirely new merchandising strategy for the mall which, when combined with extensive rebranding and redevelopment, will once again create an inviting and exciting atmosphere for shopping, entertainment and dining and revitalize this formerly iconic destination in the East Bay. LBG will explore a larger redevelopment to take advantage of the zoning in place which would allow more than 9,600 housing units at the property as well as office and hotel uses.
"The Hilltop District has the potential to become the premier East Bay residential mixed use walkable community of the future," said Doug Beiswenger, Managing Partner in charge of entitlements and construction for LBG.
The immediate retail redevelopment will include significant upgrades to the building exterior, interior common areas, and signage surrounding the property. "We believe our reimagined merchandising and branding strategies will increase consumer traffic dramatically, be very well received by the retail community and be well supported by residents throughout the East Bay," said David S. Goldman, Managing Partner in charge of Leasing for LBG.
"The surrounding neighborhood has great growth opportunities that contribute to a strong value-proposition," Russ Bates, head of the Americas of Aviva Investors' Global Indirect Real Estate Group stated, "When considering such an opportunity for our client portfolios, we assess the prospect of repositioning a property along with demographic income levels and buying habits, and are pleased to joint venture with a real estate specialist of the caliber of LBG on this property."
About LBG Real Estate Companies, LLC
With offices in the San Francisco East Bay, Los Angeles, and Newport Beach, LBG Real Estate Companies, LLC is a privately-held real estate investment company that specializes in the acquisition, repositioning, and development of commercial real estate throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.lbgfunds.com
About Aviva Investors
Aviva Investors America (AIA) is the US member of a group of internationally affiliated investment advisers collectively referred to as Aviva Investors. Aviva Investors is the global asset management business of Aviva plc, a publicly-traded multinational insurance company headquartered in London. The business delivers investment management solutions, services and client-driven performance to clients worldwide. Aviva Investors operates in 15 countries in Asia Pacific, Continental Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom with assets under management of over $437 billion US globally as of March 31, 2017. See www.avivainvestors.com
Aviva Investors Real Estate
*With on over 100 investment professionals globally and on the ground in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, New York and Singapore, Aviva Investors Real Estate has over $41 billion of real estate assets under management. The group has individuals focused on Governance, Strategy and Research and directly holds over 600 properties in developed and emerging markets.
*These numbers represent not just Aviva Investors in North America, but all Aviva Investors Real Estate companies globally, in aggregate.
Important Information
Opinions are those of LBG and Aviva Investors, as of July 24, 2017. Unless stated otherwise any sources and opinions are those of Aviva Investors and based on Aviva Investors internal forecasts. They should not be viewed as indicating any guarantee of return from an investment managed by Aviva Investors nor as advice of any nature. The value of an investment and any income from it may go down as well as up and the investor may not get back the original amount invested. Past performance is not a guide to future returns.
Products and strategies mentioned may not be available in all markets.
For use in North America
Aviva Investors is a global asset management firm comprised of a group of affiliated companies, each of which is regulated in the jurisdiction in which it operates. Each Aviva Investors affiliate is a subsidiary of Aviva plc, a publicly traded multi-national financial services company headquartered in the United Kingdom (UK). The professionals quoted in this press release are associated with Aviva Investors Holdings Limited (AIHL) and/or Aviva Investors Global Services Limited (AIGSL), UK based investment manager authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Prepared for professional clients and /or qualified investors only. It is not to be viewed by or used with retail clients. The information provided in this document and any appendix is confidential.
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Aviva Investors Canada, Inc ("AIC") is located in Toronto and is based within the North American region of the global organization of affiliated asset management businesses operating under the Aviva Investors name. AIC is registered with the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") as a Portfolio Manager, an Exempt Market Dealer, and a Commodity Trading Manager.
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Aviva Investors Americas LLC is a federally registered investment advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Aviva Investors Americas is also a commodity trading advisor ("CTA") and commodity pool operator ("CPO") registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), and is a member of the National Futures Association ("NFA"). In performing its services, AIA utilizes the services of investment professionals of affiliated investment advisory firms who are best positioned to provide the expertise required to manage a particular strategy or product. In keeping with applicable regulatory guidance, each such affiliate entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with AIA pursuant to which such affiliate is considered a "Participating Affiliate" of AIA as that term is used in relief granted by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission allowing US registered investment advisers to use portfolio management and trading resources of advisory affiliates subject to the supervision of a registered adviser. Investment professionals from AIA's Participating Affiliates render portfolio management, research or trading services to clients of AIA. Investment professionals from the Participating Affiliate also render substantially similar portfolio management research or trading services to clients of advisory affiliates which may result in performance better or worse than presented herein. This means that the employees of the Participating Affiliate who are involved in the management of strategies and other products offered to US investors are supervised by AIA.
AIA's Form ADV Part 2A, which provides background information about the firm and its business practices, is available upon written request to: Compliance Department, 225 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2250, Chicago, IL 60606
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Bergeron scores twice, Bruins top Blackhawks 3-0
Bruins rebounded from a 2-1 shootout loss to the Canadiens Monday
Patrice Bergeron scored two goals, and the Bruins beat the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks 3-0 on Thursday night in the first meeting between the teams in Boston since the deciding game of the Stanley Cup finals.
Bergeron scored his first goal at 11:50 of the first period, and the Bruins broke the game open with goals by Carl Soderberg and Bergeron in a 13-second span early in the third.
Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots in posting his NHL-leading seventh shutout.
Chicago, fourth in the Western Conference, remained one point short of clinching a playoff berth for the sixth straight season.
The Eastern Conference-leading Bruins rebounded from a 2-1 shootout loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday that ended Boston's 12-game winning streak. In their last 14 games the Bruins have outscored opponents 51-19.
The Blackhawks, the NHL's highest-scoring team, played without Patrick Kane, the Conn Smythe Trophy winner last season as the postseason MVP. Chicago's second leading scorer is expected to miss the rest of the regular season because of a knee injury.
In Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, the Bruins allowed two goals in the last 76 seconds as the Blackhawks clinched their second championship in four seasons with a 3-2 victory. Brian Bickell tied it with 1:16 to play and Dave Bolland scored the winner with 59 seconds left.
But on Thursday the Blackhawks had few good scoring opportunities. Their last solid bid came when Jeremy Morin unleashed a hard, 30-foot shot from the left side that a sprawling Rask plucked out of the air with his glove.
Bergeron began the scoring when he tipped in Matt Bartkowski's shot from the left point as the puck eluded goalie Corey Crawford.
Soderberg made it 2-0 with his 14th of the season at 5:28 of the third period. Johnny Boychuk's shot was stopped by Bruins forward Chris Kelly in front and it went to Soderberg, who shot quickly from 15 feet.
Just 13 seconds later, Bergeron was credited with his 25th goal after a video review. Crawford had gone behind his net, and when he tried to get back in front, he knocked the net out of position as the puck was heading toward it. Officials ruled that the puck would have gone into the net had it been in place.


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I didn't expect it to be good—and it wasn't—but I did think that Johnny Depp's name combined with the audience-pleasing connection to the Pirates of the Caribbean movies would translate into good box office anyway. Boy was I wrong. Over a generous five-day 4th of July weekend, it couldn't crack $50 million. Against a reported budget of $215 million (but that likely ran closer to $250 million), it's the equivalent of throwing a cherry bomb in a toilet. The Lone Ranger bombed so hard it exploded sh*t everywhere.
So what does it mean? First and foremost, it means Johnny Depp's bankability is now significantly devalued. He couldn't sell The Rum Diary, Dark Shadows ate it last summer, and even the last Pirates movie showed some wear and tear from the previous entries in the franchise. Depp has officially worn out his welcome and, if he intends to remain a top dollar Movie Star, will have to rejuvenate his reputation with audiences. Maybe try not dressing up? People seem tired of that.
But it also means Disney should give serious consideration to that sixth Pirates movie. Perhaps it's time to retire that franchise before it's run entirely into the ground, but if it does go forward, the budget has got to be brought under control. Even with the in-house mint that is Marvel to offset losses, Disney cannot keep making these $200+ million blockbusters that tank, one right after the other (see also: Prince of Persia, John Carter, Mars Needs Moms).
In fact, no one can keep making these movies. Paramount will be lucky to break even with its own disastrously-produced World War Z, which isn't showing the kind of legs or wild international box office it needs, and even Warner Brothers is sweating it out with Man of Steel thanks to a massive $225 million dollar budget (they've got to be nervous about Pacific Rim). The middle (movies with budgets between $25-$80 million) has been disappearing for years as studios rely more and more on gargantuan success from one or two movies, instead of moderate success from a dozen, to carry them. But this blockbuster business model? It isn't working.
Or, it won't work forever. They've still got just enough gas left in the tank to ignore the death-rattle coming from the engine. Despite The Lone Ranger taking a hugely expensive sh*t, Disney is making so much off Iron Man 3 they can absorb the loss. And while Warner Brothers sweats it out with Man of Steel thanks to a colossal $225 million budget, they should break even and then they have another Hobbit, a guaranteed billion-dollar earner, to sweeten the pot. Catching Fire is sure to be big business for Lionsgate/Summit, and Paramount, despite a rough year so far, still has three potential blockbusters on its slate.
You don't have to look any further than Paramount to see the weakness in the business model. Their most lucrative movie to date this year is Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which is like…I don't have a clever analogy for how embarrassing that is. Their next big earner is Star Trek Into Darkness which is another case of "cost too much/lucky to break even". Studios are constantly issuing press releases that say "yay, box office is up!", but so is their spending. That's pretty much exactly the formula that bankrupted the world in 2008.
Disney was able to brush off the John Carter losses because of The Avengers, and this year Iron Man 3 will absolve them of any responsibility toward The Lone Ranger's balance sheet. God help them when Marvel finally unleashes a bomb.


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Jon Lester strikes out 15 as Red Sox beat A's
Boston starter allows 1 hit in eight scoreless innings
Jon Lester struck out a career-high 15, allowing one hit over eight scoreless innings and pitching the Boston Red Sox over the Oakland Athletics 6-3 on Saturday.
Jonny Gomes hit a grand slam, and David Ortiz and David Ross added solo homers in Boston's second straight win after losing a day-night doubleheader to Tampa Bay on Thursday.
The only hit off Lester (3-4) was Craig Gentry's leadoff bloop single in the third over the head of second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
Lester rebounded from taking the loss in his previous two games by striking out nine of his first 13 batters. His previous strikeout best was 13 on July 24, 2010, in a 5-1 loss at Seattle.
The lefty struck out every hitter in the Oakland lineup. He fanned Josh Reddick three times and Coco Crisp, Nick Punto, Josh Donaldson and Alberto Callaspo twice each.
Oakland scored three runs in the ninth against Chris Capuano, helped by two errors. But Koji Uehara got out of a one-out jam with runners at second and third for his seventh save in seven opportunities.
Gomes hit his slam in the first inning off Tommy Milone (0-3).
Lester walked two and threw 119 pitches before being replaced by Capuano to start the ninth. In his previous two starts, Lester threw 118 pitches in a 7-2 loss to the New York Yankees on April 22 and 122 in a 4-1 loss at Toronto last Sunday.
Punto started the ninth with a double and took third on a single by Crisp. Both scored when Jed Lowrie doubled and left fielder Gomes threw wildly to the plate for an error. After Donaldson was hit by a pitch, Uehara walked Yoenis Cespedes.
Derek Norris then hit into a forceout at home, but catcher Ross' throw to first went into right field, allowing a run to score. Uehara ended the threat by striking out Callaspo and retiring Brandon Moss on a flyball.
The first three Boston batters reached on a walk to Pedroia, a single by Xander Bogaerts and a walk to Ortiz. After Mike Napoli struck out, Gomes hit the first pitch into the seats above the 37-foot high Green Monster for the fifth grand slam of his career and the second by Boston in two games.
Pedroia hit his second career grand slam and first homer of the season on Friday night against the A's.
Milone struck out the next four batters but ran into trouble again in the third when Ortiz led off with his sixth homer of the year. Ross started the fourth with his third homer.
NOTES: Pedroia has reached base 35 times in his last 17 games. ... The Athletics have scored no runs while Milone was in the game in his three losses. ... Sonny Gray (4-1) pitches for Oakland in the finale of the three-game series against John Lackey (4-2) on Sunday. ... The crowd cheered each time a Red Sox worker walked along the left-field warning track to change the number next to the Bruins name on the scoreboard after each of their last three goals in Game 2 of their playoff series against Montreal. Boston was trailing 3-2 in the third period then scored three goals in the last six minutes to win 5-3 and even the series at 1.


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After his own incident during an airport screening , Sen. Rand Paul states what changes he feels the TSA needs.
It was worse than crap, it was a disgraceful pictrue of the state of American politics. Not a single question was directly answered, whether it was "What would your punishment be for an abortionist doctor?" (Except Ron, who offered something of an answer) "Would Jesus be in favor of the death penalty?" to "What would you do about Infrastructure?" The most sound-bite filled, substance less debate of human history, idiocracy in its purist form.
I will not fly because of TSA. They are an insult to all of us. The two attempts to blow up an airplane was stopped by passengers.(?) The flights are nice, the time at airports a nightmare.
My suggestation is,get rid of the TSA period.It is a complete waste of money put out.Does the TSA people even have high school educations?Jim Thomas Phx.Az.
A bit self-centered by Rand Paul – I'll worry about things only when they impact me – is there a trend in today's behavior of this new crop of politicians?
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Have you ever had one of those days where you simply have had enough and then something else falls from the sky, drops in your lap, and voila, you simply have to take that on too?
Recently I have had a series of events occur that are over the top and I wanted to share this with you.
Going back a bit to the beginning of last year, a blood test revealed that I had a cancer. All last year and into this, I have been undergoing treatment. There have been a number of side effects to say the least.
One of these I have been referring to as a "spell." It is rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure. Both the oncologist and the primary care doctors told me not to worry. I don't know about you, but for me this was a worrisome deal. On a recent Saturday, when I was having one of these spells, I looked to my husband and said, "Take me to the emergency room. Let's find out what is really going on here."
Now, I could really get into the details here but would rather not. Suffice it to say, there was a treatment to settle down my heart, xrays, and more. One of the funny moments, if there can be any, was when the ER nurse handed me this tiny cup to use for a urine sample. With all the wires coming off me, how was I ever going to hit target zero? I felt like I was the meatball in a huge bowl of spaghetti.
I ended up spending quite a bit of time in the hospital. More than I expected. I was in for a total of 16 days, or slightly over half of August. What they discovered was that I have a fixable heart condition. The next thing they discovered was pneumonia. I thought this would quarantine me, but surprisingly it did not.
Over the course of my time in the hospital, I had numerous xrays, too many blood tests, insertion of a PICC line to enable the nurses to draw blood, respiratory treatments, and whole slew of tests, and pills, pills and more pills. Then there was the food.
The nurses bragged about the good food that comes from their cafeteria. The food was really bad. If they added a bit of applesauce to their apple muffins, eating one of these would be moist and flavorful rather than bland and dusty. Dinner plates were attended with a dull knife. There can be no serrated edges to a knife handed to a patient as they might cut themselves. I found it was easier to eat like a cave man. It just worked out better. The staff was not happy that they kept having to change my gown and sheets.
Upon release, they told me that I had a fixable heart condition and the pneumonia. They also told me that I was suffering from COPD, and a slight trace of emphysema. They were waiting for results from a test they did on my lungs, and it would be about another week before we knew what those results would be.
Did I mention that I gained 20 pounds in the two weeks? It was not from the hospital food. One of the drugs causes major water retention. I swear I can hear myself sloshing as I walk. The swelling has my ankles looking like I had sprained both of them. Maybe I should add a bit of purple and green eye shadow. At least I now I know what my feet probably looked like when I was a baby. All the wrinkles are gone there and in my face too. Who cares that I look like a chipmunk? Hey, maybe they should just give this drug out instead of using a Botox based drug to create a youthful looking you.
When we finally found out the results of the tests, we were told that I now have stage 3 cancer. The other cancer does not seem to be with me anymore, but this one is.
So, now you know why my responses to you and new postings have shifted. This last week has been one Dr. appointment after another as things get lined up and ready for the start of my treatments. My treatments will be a combination of radiation and chemotherapy, and I believe it will begin next week.
As if is this is not enough, one more thing happened. It took us once again to the ER. I have a blazing red and purple rash on my abdomen that turned up quickly. This ugly little rash turns out to be shingles. I can now pass on chicken pox! Wahoo! One never expects to hear hysterical laughter in the ER, but after hearing this is what I had, my husband and I did just that: We laughed our asses off.
We have new challenges to face, my husband and I, and we will be doing so head on and with a positive outlook. I want life to be as normal as it can be considering the circumstances. I am hoping that I will be able to post to the Life in the Foothills blog on a regular basis, and same with the Mondays Finish the Story blog. If there is a bit of delay in my replying to a comment, commenting on your story, or doing a post, I ask that you bear with me. I have an offer from one of my blogging friends to help me out, and if I need to I will take her up on that.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post and remember: Be well… ^..^


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(CNN) -- Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world.
Taken from a small airplane, the photos show men outside thatched communal huts, necks craned upward, pointing bows toward the air in a remote corner of the Amazonian rainforest.
The National Indian Foundation, a government agency in Brazil, published the photos Thursday on its Web site. It tracks "uncontacted tribes" -- indigenous groups that are thought to have had no contact with outsiders -- and seeks to protect them from encroachment.
More than 100 uncontacted tribes remain worldwide, and about half live in the remote reaches of the Amazonian rainforest in Peru or Brazil, near the recently photographed tribe, according to Survival International, a nonprofit group that advocates for the rights of indigenous people.
"All are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed or decimated by new diseases," the organization said Thursday.
Illegal logging in Peru is threatening several uncontacted groups, pushing them over the border with Brazil and toward potential conflicts with about 500 uncontacted Indians living on the Brazilian side, Survival International said.
Its director, Stephen Cory, said the new photographs highlight the need to protect uncontacted people from intrusion by the outside world.
"These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist," Cory said in a statement. "The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct."
The photos released Thursday show men who look strong and healthy, the Brazilian government said. They and their relatives apparently live in six communal shelters known as malocas, according to the government, which has tracked at least four uncontacted groups in the region for the past 20 years. Watch a report on the tribe »
The photos were taken during 20 hours of flights conducted between April 28 and May 2.
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Yes, Maingear has added Intel's new Ivy Bridge third-generation Core CPUs to its desktop lineup. So will all other PC vendors if they haven't already. Click here for a list of Ivy Bridge systems currently on sale.
Far more interesting is that with its new case designs, also announced today, Maingear is demonstrating it understands the power of an easy-to-understand product lineup.
Joining Maingear's existing full-tower Shift gaming desktop are a new version of the standard-tower F131, and the new Potenza, which is smaller. The F131 has existed in name for a few years, but both it and the Potenza now come in vertically oriented case designs.
Not only do those designs have technical merits -- the narrowed chassis channels hot air up and out of the system for efficient cooling -- the size difference between them also makes it immediately clear where each model fits in the performance spectrum.
The minimum starting prices are close for each system, ranging between $900 and $1,400 for the most affordable base model. As you dig into the respective configurator for each PC, you'll see the Potenza can only accept a single graphics card, the F131 will take two, and the Shift will support up to four.
Maingear's new lineup isn't foolproof. The dual-card-capable Vybe, which I've liked in the past, occupies a confusing middle ground between the F131 and the Potenza. The Vybe's standard midtower chassis also has different design language.
Still, the new Maingear systems show a too-scarce appreciation for the benefits of product-line simplicity. Acer, HP, and Lenovo would all be wise to heed this example.


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adidas by Stella McCartney held their Spring/Summer 2011 presentation yesterday as part of London Fashion Week. Added to the sport-specific pieces is a new Weekender category. (Read: British Vogue's write-up)
I'll leave it to you guys to caption these awesome pictures of Caroline Wozniacki playing 3D videogame tennis. (Whew, for a second I thought those were here everyday eyeglasses!)
Based on these images, it doesn't look like adidas is straying too much from the palette, switching from 2010's shades of grey into a dark blue and switching the detail color from lime to pink. And the undergarment theme — this year's, a corset — continues with this negligee-inspired look. (What do you think of the collection? Tell us!)
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Climategate correspondent Michael Mann has published an editorial in the Washington Post.
As a CA reader observed in another thread, the more interesting aspect of the editorial is the overwhelming opposition to Mann's editorial in the comment thread. Readers were not distracted by Mann's efforts to deflect attention to Sarah Palin.
Mann's editorial commences in Nixonian style:
I cannot condone some things that colleagues of mine wrote or requested in the e-mails recently stolen from a climate research unit at a British university.
Readers were quick to observe the inconsistency with Mann's response to Phil Jones' request to delete emails (see Climategate here).
Two days after CRU received an FOI request for AR4 comments sent to Briffa that had not been included in the IPCC archive of Review Comments (IPCC procedures adopted by its member governments require it to be "open and transparent" and to archive all review comments for 5 years), Phil Jones sent Mann an email headed "IPCC & FOI" asking him to delete any emails that he may have had with Briffa regarding AR4 and to contact Gene [Wahl, then at Alfred University, currently of NCAR] to do likewise, saying that they would contact Caspar [Ammann of NCAR] to delete his emails.
Subject: Re: IPCC & FOI
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
… [unrelated]..
Instead of replying in forceful terms that he did not "condone" such a request and urging other parties not to do so as well, Mann immediately replied to Jones that he would "contact Gene [Wahl] about this ASAP".
Hi Phil,
[… unrelated]
I'll contact Gene about this ASAP. His new email is: email@example.com
talk to you later,
Mann says about this:
Some statements in the stolen e-mails reflect poor judgment — for example, a colleague referring to deleting e-mails that might be subject to a Freedom of Information Act request — but there is no evidence that this happened.
This is, of course, untrue. Evidence of deletion of emails that might be subject to a FOI rquest is in a later email, in which Jones says
About 2 months ago I deleted loads of emails, so have very little – if anything at all.
In addition, while the Climategate emails are extensive and still being assimilated, they are by no means complete. In many cases, the curtain goes up for a day or two and we don't see the end of the story. Investigations at the University of East Anglia and Penn State have been authorized.