It's that time of the month when your inbox is full with press
releases about last month's sales.
Not exact matches
The median household income in Canada is
about $ 70,000, roughly 10 per cent more than a decade ago, according to census figures
released last month.
Among kids currently ages 8 to 14, 65 percent say they learn more
about money from their parents than they do at school, according to a T. Rowe Price survey
released last month.
Last week, we saw an unusual revision in new claims data, not just for the previous week, but in
months of prior
releases, with upward revisions averaging
about 10,000 in the most recent reports (e.g. the Feb 25 figure was revised from 354,000 to 373,000).
Google Revises Link Scheme Definitions: Guest Posts, Press
Releases, Advertorials Can Hurt Rankings - Search Engine Watch relates the changes to Google's webmaster guidelines and link schemes document to the warnings
about advertorials
last month.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12
months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the
release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if
last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly
about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good
about the way their future potential employer feels
about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule
about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the
last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
In just the
last six
months, the software company for which I work, NationBuilder, has
released a feature that scales yet another tier of organizing infrastructure, allowing organizations to share information
about their supporters and prospects between one another in essentially real time.
The governor's office
last month released new figures showing a gap of
about $ 4.4 billion for the fiscal year beginning April 1.
Croci, a Republican,
released a statement
last month saying he was undecided
about running again.
In 2009, DEC's first draft of an impact statement on hydrofracking generated 14,000 public comments, which took
about 20
months for DEC to review before it
released its revised approach
last fall.
That
month, Saint - Gobain disclosed the contamination problem in a letter to the EPA and an official took part in a discussion
about the problem with state and Rensselaer County health officials, according to emails
released last week by the county executive's office.
Speaking this morning, Mr Brown said: «In the
last few
months I can assure you that we have left no stone unturned in our efforts to
release the hostages, to work with the Iraqi authorities, to maintain our vigilance
about what needs to be done and to look at all possible means by which we could free them.
Cuomo says more changes are coming to Clinton - Dannemora prison after a state Inspector General's report
released last month turned up «devastating» information
about the correctional facility's operations that enabled the escape of two convicted murderers
last summer.
Cuomo's mid-year financial plan,
released last month, includes a scheduled 3.4 percent increase for schools next fiscal year, or
about $ 722 million.
The leader of the New York City Housing Authority gave false testimony
about lead paint inspections to the City Council
last month, according to an explosive letter
released the same...
Last month, a press
release stated «Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray appoint J. Phillip Thompson as Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives,» sparking concerns
about her role.
The report comes
about five
months after Mr. DiNapoli
released a favorable report on a recent audit of Southold's financial procedures that showed a significant improvement compared to the
last report issued in 2006.
Bressanini has also published seven books, including one
about the science behind pastrymaking, whose Spanish edition was
released last month.
A summary of the studies,
released last month, warns of a nonlinear relationship between the strength of future storms and potential losses, which stand to grow even if the worst predictions
about hurricanes aren't realized.
Vil Mirzayanov, the scientist accused of revealing state secrets
about Russia's chemical weapons programme, says international pressure secured his
release from prison
last month.
Last month, NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG)
released a report raising concerns
about the companies» inability to achieve certified crewed flights to the ISS until late 2018.
Buzz has been building for
months about the movie, starring Lily Collins, and it's received both praise and criticism (based on advanced screenings and the trailer,
released last month) for its portrayal of such a sensitive topic.
The fifth /
last link is an (almost) one hour presentation that he made a few
months after the Harvard studies were
released,
about how to keep you (and your children) alive and healthy, based on these latest studies.
The press
release from 20th Century Fox lists the film as untitled, but it's presumably the film known as The Post that we learned
about just
last month., since that's the only movie the director has set up at Fox.
I'm working on a post
about Oscar and box office, but in the meantime here's a chart on the
last time a best picture was
released in each
month.
If you know a little something
about which people make which video games, the trailer for a game called Hybrid
released late
last month seemed strange.
The band first began dropping hints
about the project on their new Instagram account
last month, suggesting something was imminent, using images to spell out «9 pm 9/9,» the intended
release date of the first single from their follow - up to 2010's Grammy Award - winning The Suburbs.
Boyega and the rest of his cast members have been understandably withholding
about releasing any new details from the film during interviews over the past few
months, but while recently speaking with IGN
about The
Last Jedi, Boyega did open up a little bit
about Finn's surprising «undercover» mission in the film:
If it feels as if you've been hearing
about Gangster Squad for ages, that's because the
release was put back by several
months when the Aurora cinema massacre in July
last year prompted the filmmakers to remove a cinema - based shoot - out, which had been glimpsed in the film's original trailer.
Or do you just want to hurl abuse at me for still whinging
about The
Last Jedi five
months after it's
release?
We're only
about a
month away from the
release of Pokémon Gold and Silver in the 3DS eShop, and with the huge success of
last year's re-
release of Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, it appears that the Pokémon Company is pulling out all the stops for this one.
Creative Assembly has been surprisingly quiet
about their latest high fantasy RTS over the
last several
months, but the
release of their latest...
Detective Pikachu, a point - and - click style adventure game, was
released last month for the Nintendo 3DS, but if you weren't sure
about buying the game, you have the opportunity to download a free demo on the Nintendo eShop to try it out.
After several
months of new facts
about the Porgs and images of them being
released by Disney and Lucasfilm, fans got to see the Porgs on display for the first real time in The
Last Jedi trailer last ni
Last Jedi trailer
last ni
last night.
I touched on the Amazons of Dahomey
last month, when Marvel
released the «Warriors of Wakanda» featurette
about the Dora Milaje.
Of those children,
about four million qualify as «hungry» and 9.6 million are at «risk of hunger,» the group said in
releasing the study
last month.
A national survey on teacher career ladders and other incentives,
released last month by the Southern Regional Education Board, found some sort of incentive plan in place in
about 25 states.
About 36 percent of the 55,000 students accepted for fall 2006 in the UC system were Asian - American, while 35.6 percent were white, according to statistics
released last month.
After many
months of high - profile, politicized debate
about the new Advanced Placement U.S. History course, which was overhauled for 2014, the College Board listened to its critics and
released a sentence - by - sentence revision of the document
last month that it says is «clearer and more balanced.»
Last month Schools Week exclusively reported that no government figures had been
released about prevalence of mental health in children since 2014.
Under the proposal
released last month by the backers of Madison Preparatory Academy, the school would employ union teachers at salaries of
about $ 47,000, with benefits bringing total compensation to between $ 60,000 and $ 65,000.
Many of these research studies are highlighted on this blog here, here, here, and here, and are also summarized in two position statements on value - added models (VAMs)
released by the American Statistical Association
last April (to read
about their top 10 concerns / warnings, click here) and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
last month (to read
about their top 6 concerns / warnings, click here).
The report
released last month was called «Learning
About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project,» by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation officials Thomas J. Kane and Steven Cantrell.
Released in the wake of
last week's report
about charter schools in New York City, the study found that compared with the academic progress that students made in regular public schools, students in charter schools in Massachusetts gained an additional one and a half more
months of learning per year in reading and an additional two and a half more
months of learning per year in math.
In a separate poll recently
released in Tennessee, where a debate
about whether to keep the standards has escalated in the past few
months, only 39 percent of teachers said they believe the standards will help students, down from 60 percent
last year.
UPDATE 05/02/12: Chrysler has
released a two - minute, getting - to - know video
about the 300 Ruyi Concept, a car that we saw
last month at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show.
Over the
last few
months, Mitsubishi has
released a few photos and scant few details
about the all - new Eclipse Cross.
During
release month, I sold
about 1400 copies of my
last short story (Enigma) even though I also mailed out a Smashwords coupon so readers could download it for free (and many people took advantage of that).
The DOENA4 Jelly Bean firmware has been OTA
released for the Galaxy Note 2
last month, but since we are talking
about an official roll out, the update is still nowhere to find for some Android phablets.
Last year I
released a new title and averaged
about 2.5 new books per
month.