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Upon the prepayment on those investments this quarter, we recognized their prepayment fees in investment income and unwinding effect of unrealized gains. Said another way the prepayment fees in Northern Oil will pull forward in Q3's net income and as a loan we paid this quarter those fees ran to a net investment income and burden this quarter's net income to the unwinding of those unrealized gains.

“Leafly is looking to offer customers and patients the most streamlined experience with complete accuracy, and integrating with POS systems like Meadow ensures that menus are always up to date and compliant,” said Paul Barry, Chief Technology Officer at Leafly. “Our partnership with Meadow means that Leafly’s menus are automatically updated as dispensaries input new information. Customers and patients will know that their favorite products are available thanks to this technology.”

“This will be the first major deployment of internet technology which creates more risk than benefit if not properly controlled,” according to a memo written by retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding, who served on Trump’s National Security Council when it issued the 2017 National Security Strategy.

--With assistance from Bill Allison, Margaret Talev, Alyza Sebenius, Marek Strzelecki, Natalie Obiko Pearson, Nick Wadhams and Nizar Manek.

He was inheriting a tense relationship. Not long before he took the job, Clapper, his predecessor, had released a report summarizing the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered the Russian meddling campaign in the 2016 elections, and had done so to benefit Trump. The president has several times cast doubt on these findings. Within days of tapping Coats for the DNI job in January 2017, Trump held a press conference at which he stated, “I think it was Russia” responsible for the election meddling, then reversed himself at the same event, saying, “It could have been others also.”

• The buying or competitive situation is changing rapidly. Such situations require deviations from some sales process steps or activities • The sales force works with customers in various industries, and must accommodate heterogenous buying preferences, procurement processes, and technical environments • There is high likelihood that target buyer needs cannot be supported with the template process • The vendor seeks revenue growth outside its core markets Are your sales processes too strict or too inflexible? Look for these symptoms: • Sales reps report that process requirements don’t improve probabilities of needed outcomes • Sales reps document opportunity losses as a direct consequence of process conformity • Sales rep recommendations for process change aren’t considered or accepted • Competitors win opportunities despite appearing to have less rigorous or less time-consuming processes • Prospects frequently request sales resources that aren’t included in the sales process, or they want them in a different sequence

Sportswear and sports gear are top-selling items among young Chinese shoppers who are adopting a healthier and more-active lifestyle, according to Tmall. Tmall data show that over 200 million people, mostly under 30, have purchased sports-related items from the platform, and the number is set to increase.

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"Even if I don't feel 100 per cent, I pretend I am," she tells me, pointing out that she's only missed one engagement since she began teaching in China. In 2014, she kept an engagement to speak in Shanghai before 3000 guests, after earlier breaking her arm in several places in Hong Kong. She postponed the operation on her arm until after the speaking event.

"The loveliest gift we have is our smile," Dally-Watkins continues. "When we smile, it lights up our faces and makes our eyes sparkle and our appearance is warmer and friendlier. A smile changes the tone of our voice. When I am smiling, people appreciate me much more. When you smile it brings on a new you, a new human being, both for men and women.

Seen as a milestone that opened the door for mutual exchange and cooperation between China and the US, the visit came less than a month after the Sino-US relationship became normalized on January 1 and was the first time that a national Chinese leader visited America since the founding of the PRC in 1949.

Still, it’s never pleasant to work hard and get slammed by your boss in public. Coats has spoken glowingly of the intelligence workforce as a group of dedicated, purpose-driven professionals. He hasn’t scolded Trump in public for his attacks, but has said that he has tried to convey to him what the intelligence community’s role is. He has said that he won’t tolerate political influence on intelligence work. “There's a lot of swirl, political swirl, going around,” he told Mitchell at Aspen about how he speaks to his workforce. “Just do your jobs. Our goal is to make unpoliticized information necessary for our policy makers to make good decisions.” The attitude has won him praise from people who have worked with him, including former intelligence officials I spoke with. But it’s also earned him criticism from others, who feel he should stand up more forcefully to Trump.