fourth straight quarter for setting enrollment records
1,098 registered students; up 6% year-over-year
enrollment driven by scholarship program
Williams County Graduate Scholarship, launched in 2015, offers up to two years of free guition for graduates of any Williams County high school, regardless of when they graduated
2016: Regional County Scholarship Program launched; extended the program to graduates from Burke, Divide, McKenzie, and Mountrail counties
2017: program extended to five counties in eastern Montana: Daniels, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan and Valley counties
201 Williams County and 78 Regional County scholarships: $674,530
housing scholarship added this fall
occupancy rate for the school's four dorms is now nearly 82%
The scholarship money is coming from the Alva J Field Trust, WSC
Foundation and the N.D. Higher Ed Challenge Fund, which was made to
stimulate the spirit of philanthropy for North Dakota's colleges and
universities. The fund allows for every $2 in eligible private donations
to be matched with $1 of state funding.
The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2017 is 2.2 percent on September 19, unchanged from September 15.
The forecast of third-quarter real residential investment growth is -2.6 percent, virtually unchanged from last Friday, after this morning's new residential construction release from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The forecast of the contribution of net exports to third-quarter real GDP growth declined from -0.11 percentage points to -0.16 percentage points after this morning's Import/Export Price Indexes release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Valero Energy petroleum company says it is giving up plans to acquire the last independently owned petroleum terminal in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Valero said in a statement Monday that it is dropping its purchase of
the Martinez petroleum terminal hub rather than wage a long court
battle over it.
California Attorney General had sued to block the transaction ... said Valero's purchase of the Plains All American Pipeline
facility would have put all three Northern California petroleum-shipping
hubs in the hands of refineries.
He says that would have stifled competition and might have raised gas prices.
Making America great: from that alt-right site, food stamp usage has fallen every month of the Trump presidency.
Timberline Lodge is getting a dose of winter weather – in September.
Several
inches of snow have fallen at Timberline Lodge since Monday morning.
Meteorologists say this type of weather is unusual this time of year.
Usually the lodge sees sticking snows in October, not before the first day of fall.
The
snow begins about halfway up Timberline Road and it quickly turns to
thick, slippery conditions a couple miles from the lodge.
Massive Arctic ice gain over the past five years despite atmospheric CO2 rising. From the deplorables, Arctic sea ice extent is up 40% from this date five years ago. From the map at the site, it appears the "northwest passage" is blocked once again.
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The Flat Earth Society Meeting Is Now In Session
Based on a new study, it appears he DOES have time. What a doofus.
Agenda for the meeting: Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests -- The [London] Telegraph.
Climate change poses less of an immediate threat to the planet than previously thought because scientists got their modelling wrong.
New research by British scientists reveals the world is being polluted and warming up less quickly than 10-year-old forecasts predicted, giving countries more time to get a grip on their carbon output.
An unexpected “revolution” in affordable renewable energy has also contributed to the more positive outlook.
Experts now say there is a two-in-three chance of keeping global temperatures within 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the ultimate goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
A "thank you" to a reader for sending me the idea for this post. The premise is still wrong -- that climate change is man-made -- but at least we have been given more hope that all is not lost.
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The Literary Page
It looks like a great day for reading.
I started Dracula (again) last night -- I've never gotten more than just a few pages in. It's such an incredibly well-written book, I tend to linger and re-read passages.
I will also read a short monograph Twentieth Century Interpretation of Wuthering Heights, edited by Thomas A Vogler, c. 1968.
Arriving from Amazon today will be two books on Casanova and Venice, having ordered them after taking in the Casanova exhibit at the Kimbell Art Museum last week.
diligence: a stagecoach used in France and England during the 1700s and 1800s
St George's eve: from wiki, St George's Day was a major feast and national holiday in England on a par with Christmas from the early 15th century; April 23, May 6, a moveable feast; at the time considered the most dangerous night of the year; folks were terrified of vampires on this night; vampires most active on eves of St George's Day and St Andrews' Day
leiter-wagon: a peasant wagon
calèche: drawn by one horse; for two passengers, with driver on own seat on/above the splash board
More records. All three indices on track to hit all-time highs in late afternoon trading.
NYSE:
new highs, 162, including: Andeavor (Tesoro); Berkshire, B & A (whoopee); Boeing, CAT, Phillipos 66 (whoopee); RDS, B & A (whoopee)
new lows, 17
Strange bedfellows: Kohl's will now pack and ship eligible items back to Amazon fulfillment centers. The same service is available at Whole Foods grocery stores, announced when Amazon acquired that grocery store chain.
Bye-bye? Nope, buy-buy. CNBC contributor had it exactly right today -- whether GOP
repeals ObamaCare or whether it doesn't, investing in US health care
companies is a no-brainer. Bottom line for him regarding health care investments: buy-buy. Buy if ObamaCare is "repealed" (wink, wink); buy if ObamaCare survives a GOP vote to repeal. I've said the same thing for months.
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