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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but....... Face the facts Folks, boycotting the oil companies won't work.
Do you really want to bring down the price of oil... really.
Then find an alternative, create competition. It is the sole means of reducing prices. If the "Oil Terrorists have to compete with an alternate product that runs combustion engines then they will be compelled to compete, as will the shieks of the middle east, Newfoundland and Alberta.
The States of California and Oregon, as well as the provinces of BC and the Yukon, are building the Hydrogen Highway. A series of stations selling hydrogen fuel rather than gas. Of course this has only created 18,000 new jobs in BC alone but so what.
I would suggest electing a politician that is not indebted to the "Oil Terrorists" but I am not nieve enough to believe that one exists.
You realize that in Canada the oil refineries are regional. We have Petro Canada here in Burlington. This refinery supplies their stations as well as those of their competitors within a specific region. This principal is applied for other refineries in other regions.
Look at New Brunswick as a good example. None of the other Oil Terrorists have a refinery there... where do you think they get fuel to sell at their stations???? Irving Oil. In Nova Scotia it is ESSO.
Oh, by the way, Irving Oil has the largest refinery in Canada and they are building a new one that will be twice as big.
So, boycott Ptro Canada and the other stations will raise their prices to subsidize the loss of business at Petro Canada and they will tell the government that the higher prices are necessary due to the increased demand made on their refineries. They are already telling the government that the prices are inflated due to a lack of refining capacity.
Of course we all know that there is no collusion between the Oil Giants.
There are, and always will be, collateral damage to creating competition and that is increased prices in other products. Ethanol as an example is increasing the price of corn. This affects the food industry and the consumer however the farmer is benefiting.
I understand we have to start somewhere. I am just as frustrated as all of you are but as long as we are addicted to gas, as long as they don't have competition then they will dictate the price.... that is the what free enterprise in the free World is all about.
Bob H
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On a day where temperatures reached the low 90s, it wasn't the sun that was the hottest thing in West Deptford.
It was the bats of the 9-10 all-star baseball team.
The local youngsters continued hitting at a torrid pace, producing 20 hits in a 21-5 five-inning win over South Harrison in the District 15 quarterfinals.
West Deptford advanced to Wednesday's semifinal, where they will take on East Greenwich in Glassboro at 8 p.m.
Ryan Sawyer led the offensive attack, going 5-for-5 with five runs and three RBIs, while six pitchers combined to throw a two-hitter.
"Every single one of them, from 1-through-11, can hit, I can't pick a sub," West Deptford head coach Adam Finocchi said. "They all hit. They all played in the Majors against 12-year olds, and a lot of them have older brothers. They're just great hitters. They are all contact hitters with power and are as fast as can be. Even when they hit little dribblers, they beat them out."
Gabe Finocchi had four RBIs, three of which came on a bases-clearing triple in an 11-run fifth inning. West Deptford sent 17 batters to the plate in the frame, collecting nine hits while breaking open a game it led 10-5 entering the inning.
Cleanup hitter Jack Murphy had two hits, including a towering double to the left-field fence, while Ben Smith had three hits, including two doubles, and produced four RBIs. Mike Gismondi powered two doubles, while Dominic Rossi, Dylan Wakeley, Jake Paratore and Patrick DeMarco each had a hit.
Monday night's performance marked the fifth straight game West Deptford won by mercy rule. The team was 4-0 in pool play.
West Deptford jumped out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the first and three in the second. The team then produced five hits and a walk with two outs in the third to score five runs and grab a 10-1 lead.
As great as the hitting has been, the pitching has not been far behind. In an effort to keep all of his pitchers available for Wednesday's game and beyond, Finocchi limited most of his pitchers to 20 pitches. Taking part in the win on the mound were Rossi, Murphy, Finocchi, Sawyer, Wakeley and DeMario.
For West Deptford to win the District 15 tournament, it will need to win three games in thee days, and the team could even play five games in six days if it advances to the sectional stage. That's a major reason why Finocchi wants to keep each of his arms fresh.
"I have five or six pitchers, and one dominant pitcher," Finocchi said. "The rest of them are so good, I can't pick from them, so I let them all throw."
In other Little League action Tuesday, the West Deptford 11-12 baseball all-stars defeated Oak Valley, 21-3, in four innings to open pool play, and the West Deptford 9-10 softball all-stars fell to Harrison Township, 12-2, to end their District 15 tournament run.

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It's been exactly a year since Felix Baumgartner took the daredevil dive of all daredevil dives when he jumped out of a shimmering weather balloon 127,852 feet in the air and reached a top speed of Mach 1.25.
Now Red Bull has released the full POV video of Felix Baumgartner's jump, alongside multiple camera angles, and mission data. And the video is amazing.
Baumgartner's bat-shit crazy jump was the stuff of legend. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 24 mile back down to Earth, reaching an estimated speed of 843.6 mph, or Mach 1.25, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power on his descent.
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Jack Petchey Glee Club Challenge is back and boasting patronage from comedian and Eurovision presenter Graham Norton.
The music and dance project is aimed at young performers in Croydon offering them the chance to win thousands of pounds in prizes and even perform at the 02.
The event, launched last year, is a flagship programme of the Jack Petchey Foundation inspired by the Glee TV show.
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Entrants must be aged between 11 and 25 and groups must number between eight and 30 performers.
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Dr. Joshua Camblos
Stuart Camblos, the daughter of the late Dr. Joshua Camblos, knows her childhood growing up in Asheville in the 1950s and '60s was special.
"We always had some place to go on the weekends," Stuart said. "When everyone else was at swimming pool and their fathers were playing golf, we were off at a cabin in the woods, being taught how to walk quietly, identify deer or bear tracks, and listen to the birds."
Dr. Camblos served on the Friends of the WNC Nature Center's board of directors in the 1990s, and brought with him a wealth of knowledge and a lifelong passion for the natural world.
"We felt so fortunate to have him," said Jeanne Cummings, a long time supporter of the Nature Center. "He stayed with us. It was a very rocky road when the Nature Center started, as you can imagine."
Stuart Camblos said her father's love for "anything with fur or feathers" began as a child growing up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. His interest began with the region's native birds. He would spend his time searching out bird nests, climbing trees, carefully collecting the delicate eggs, and meticulously recording his findings.
"He got a sample of every single bird that was indigenous to southwestern Virginia," said Stuart. "From the eagle all the way down to the hummingbird."
Dr. Camblos' collection was so important that it now resides in the Smithsonian.
More impressive in her childhood memories, however, is the rattlesnake collection Dr. Camblos kept in the family's backyard.
"He would go hiking up into the mountains gathering timber rattlers to develop an anti-venom," Stuart recalls. "I remember him teaching us how to milk a rattlesnake."
"Daddy was just a naturalist," Stuart explained. "And Momma was a good sport!"
Jeanne Cummings remembers Dr. Camblos especially for being the first person she met in Asheville. His warm, welcoming demeanor extended to his practice as a surgeon, as well. One of his patients even gifted Dr. Camblos a 60-acre farm in Fairview after a surgery.
"That farm is one of my children's happiest memories," Stuart said. "We picked apples out there, and made honey. Daddy planted a huge garden and taught them how all the vegetables and fruits grew."
Stuart sees similar revelations occurring for those who visit the Nature Center today.
"I know there are some young children today who don't know what some of these wonderful creatures are," she said.
She's glad that the Center her father helped develop remains a place where children continue to learn and marvel at the natural world, just as her father taught her to do, all those years ago on their weekends out in the woods.


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GLASGOW — Barren County Schools Superintendent Bo Matthews reads to Red Cross Elementary School kindergartners Tuesday. The school participated in Read Across America, a weeklong reading initiative to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday. On Tuesday, the students wore pajamas to go along with Dr. Seuss' "I am NOT Going to Get Up Today."


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The Greater Springfield Chamber's Community Affairs Committee will host a Children's Book Drive February 13 through April 6. Children's books, for readers up to grade 6, will be collected at Chamber events and at area businesses for distribution to local elementary age students this spring.
"Every child should have books they call their own," said Karen Brown, coordinator of the Chamber's book drive. "I know our business community is ready to help."
New and gently-used children's books may be dropped off at participating locations through April 6. Chamber volunteers will pick-up collected books as donation boxes fill, and prepare them for distribution to young residents in the Greater Springfield community.
Book Drive hosts include:
Accelerated Physical Therapy
ACE Plum Center
American Legion Post 176
Austin Grill - West Springfield
Colonial Animal Hospital
Comfort Inn & Suites Alexandria
Franconia Gulf
Greater Springfield Volunteer Fire Dept & VFW Post 7327 BINGO Nights
Hard Times Café - Springfield Plaza
Housing & Community Services of Northern Virginia
Interstate Worldwide Relocation
MaidPro of Alexandria
Metro Run & Walk
NOVA Pediatrics
NVCC Medical Education Campus
Office of Supervisor Jeff McKay – Franconia Governmental Center
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Union First Market Bank – Burke, Central Springfield & West Springfield
The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit organization with a mission to bring companies together to benefit the entire community by promoting and developing business opportunities in the Greater Springfield area, including Burke, Kingstowne, Lorton and Fairfax Station.
Founded in 1957, the Chamber formulates and advocates positions critical to business, keeps members apprised of current community issues, and provides numerous networking and education opportunities.


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Who knew the new faces of dance would be so freakin' cute? Nine-year-old Bailey Munoz, aka "Bailrok," and his 5-year-old partner, Miles "Baby Boogaloo" Brown formed a dance team they call Future FunK. And these little guys had big plans for their potential million-dollar winnings: Bailey just wanted to buy a lot of toys.
The adorable duo presented their own version of the history of dance, with break dancing, the robot, and even some ballroom. They delivered Howie's first "wow" moment and earned the first tickets to Vegas this season.


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The three regional Toshiba foundations take a dynamic approach to supporting culture and education.
The foundations have collaborated in holding the Toshiba Youth Conference since 2008.
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Toshiba International Foundation
Established in 1989 to promote international exchange and a better understanding of Japan, the Toshiba International Foundation supports Japan-themed symposia and seminars, introductions to Japanese arts and culture, Japan-focused research, and HR development outside of Japan. In FY2011, 53 projects benefitted from a total of nearly ¥70 million in donations from the foundation.
Primary Activities in 2011
|Support for Creation of a Research Network on Collections of Japanese Art
|Toshiba provided support for the Otsu Conference, organized largely by the University of Tokyo, which was held as part of the initiative to create a network for research in Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands on the collection made by the German scientist P. F. von Siebold.
|Support for the International Conference on Asian Regional Cooperation
|Toshiba provided support for the international conference on the subject of regional cooperation in Asia that was held in Bangkok. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Fiscal Policy Research Institute Foundation of Thailand and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
|Support for Workshops and Exhibitions of Works by Young Ceramic Artists of Japan
|Toshiba provided support for workshops and an exhibition of works by eight young Japanese ceramic artists titled "Five by Eight" and held in Philadelphia.
|Support for People Conducting Research in Japanese Studies
|Toshiba provided scholarships for European graduate students in Japanese studies doctoral programs who were selected by the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), and also supported an EAJS workshop for such students.
Toshiba America Foundation
The primary activity of the Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) is to provide funding for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) projects that are innovative and practical. These projects were designed by outstanding teachers to improve instruction in K-12 classrooms throughout the United States. The Foundation considers teachers to be the best qualified people to help students achieve success and become innovators for the next generation. In FY2011, schools in the United States used our grants for studies in numerous topics relating to robot technology, hydroponics, meteorology, water quality, and renewable energy. Since the TAF was established in 1990, it has provided approximately $11 million in funding.
Toshiba Thai Foundation
Since 1991 the Toshiba Thai Foundation's scholarship program has made a difference for university students studying engineering. The foundation hopes the scholarships will inspire talented engineers whose work contributes to sustainability through environmental or energy conservation.
This year again, scholarships for the first semester of the 2012 school year were presented to engineering students at each university concerned by the directors of the Toshiba Thai Foundation.
Toshiba Youth Conference
From August 1, 2012, the Toshiba Youth Conference 2012 was jointly held by the Toshiba International Foundation, Toshiba America Foundation, and Toshiba Thai Foundation as a week-long boarding experience in Thailand. This year's conference again focused on finding sustainable solutions in answer to current environmental issues, as students and educators from four nations keenly aware of these issues exchanged ideas. This was the fifth conference held, and 16 high school students from seven schools in Japan, the U.S., Poland, and Thailand participated along with eight instructors. Building on lectures and experiential learning conducted on farms, the program participants earnestly discussed what they themselves could do to address global environmental issues that are problems the entire world shares. Working together to think about these issues outside the framework of individual nations, these young people demonstrated traits to be sought in the global leaders of the future and presented a vision of hope for the future.


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---- — BOSTON (AP) — A Cape Cod town is now considering becoming the first community in the country to tear down its wind turbines.
The town's two turbines have been controversial since the first one was installed in 2010.
Some neighbors have persistently complained about the noise from the turbines and also attribute a range of ailments to them, from dizziness, to headaches to memory loss.
Some in town say it's far too soon to tear down a critical renewable energy project they estimate could produce $450,000 in revenues for the town annually.
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Piedmont College Theatre opens season with South Pacific
The Piedmont College Theatre Department presented its first show of the season, South Pacific, at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 29-Oct.1; and 2 p.m., Oct. 2 on the Mainstage Theater in the Swanson Center for the Performing Arts and Communications at the college in Demorest.
The classic Broadway play, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1950. It is based on the book of short stories "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener. The show is set during World War II at a U.S. Navy base on a South Pacific island. Themes of racial discrimination and love are explored with two couples and the weaving story lines between them. The musical includes favorites such as "One Enchanted Evening," "There is Nothing Like a Dame," and "I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Outta My Hair."
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. Piedmont faculty, staff, and students are admitted free. Call the box office at 706-778-3000 ext. 1355 for reservations.


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Latta — The grand opening of the new Latta Panther Fieldhouse couldn't have gone any better for those wearing black and gold.
With local rival Byng in town, both games were close until the closing minutes before Latta was able to finally take control and pull away for a pair of Panther victories before a crowd of nearly 2,000 mostly pink-clad fans Tuesday night.
In the girls contest, Latta hit seven unanswered free throws in the final 2:21 in a 37-31 victory while a 9-0 fourth-quarter run helped seal the deal in the Panthers' 53-41 win over Byng in the boys game.
Latta 37, Byng 31
Latta (ranked No. 5 in Class 2A) improved to 10-3 on the year while Byng fell to 8-6.
"That ends a dry spell. We hadn't beat Byng in a few games. That was a good one, especially for my seniors," said Latta head coach David Tinkler following the game. "It was just two good defensive teams going at each other. We mixed in a little offense and persevered."
Byng nearly overcame a dreadful third quarter that saw the Lady Pirates miss 6-of-7 field goals and commit five turnovers. Tatum Hill sank a mid-range baseline jumper off an assist from her sister, Alexis Hill, at the 2:58 mark to trim a Latta lead to 26-21. It would be the last points of the frame.
Byng's Briauna Delozier rebounded her own shot and scored on a putback to open the fourth quarter and get the Lady Pirates within 26-23. But Krisha Young, who carried the Latta offense in the first half with nine points, hit her only bucket of the final two frames — a pull-up jumper from the baseline — and Laramie Edens followed with a jumper of her own (her only basket of the game) to push the Latta lead to 30-23 with 4:13 to play.
Byng started pressing after a time out with 3:45 to play and that strategy — along with several big plays from Alexis Hill — got the Lady Pirates back in it. Alexis Hill stole the ball and fought past a Latta double team for a basket to spark her team. After another steal, she was fouled and hit two free throws with 3:16 to play to cut the LHS advantage to 30-29. The BHS press again forced a Latta turnover, but this time Byng would give the ball right back.
Young hit a free throw for Latta to make it 31-29 with 2:21 remaining, but Byng still couldn't get a shot to fall for the tie or the lead.
And the Lady Panthers kept their cool.
"That's one of the things I told them after the game. I was proud of the way they kept their composure," Tinkler said.
Latta iced the game with six more free throws — two by Maria Priest at the 1:34 mark, two by Shelbey Parnacher with 51.7 ticks left and two more from Shiann Henderson with 17.7 remaining to push the Latta lead to 37-29.
"We hit some big throws right there at the very end," Tinkler said.
Asya Tims — who had to be helped off the court with an injury early in the second quarter — scored with less than a second left to account for the final score.
"I thought our defense was great. We just couldn't score enough in the end," said Byng head coach Matt Fike. "I can't fault their effort. I thought we played hard."
Young finished with 12 points, six rebounds and four steals as Latta's leader while Priest added eight points and five rebounds off the bench.
Alexis Hill continued her streak of strong outings with 16 points, six rebounds, two steals and four blocked shots to lead the Lady Pirates. Tatum Hill was next with six points.
Byng again was hurt by turnovers, finishing with 20 compared to just 13 for Latta.
Latta 53, Byng 41
Latta (ranked No. 2 in Class 2A) improved to 11-2 while Byng dropped to 10-4.
"It was probably the best game as a group we've played in a while," said Latta head coach Donnie Husband. "We were fortunate the floor opened up and we made a few plays there at the end that got us a couple of easy baskets."
Byng freshman Darian Luper drained a 3-pointer with 6:40 left in the game that cut a Latta lead to 38-37. Kade Hayes immediately answered by completing a conventional three-point play after a fast-break bucket at the other end that started a pivotal 9-0 Latta run that gave the Panthers some breathing room.
Treston Tully hit the final of his multiple pull-up bank shots to give Latta a 43-37 edge with just over five minutes left. Tully would finish with a game-high 19 points"Treston really did a good job tonight. When you have two senior shooters standing out there that they have to respect, that opens up penetration for him," Husband said. "I thought it was his best game so far — overall, defense, offense, and everything."
Tully seemed to hit one of his patented bank shots every time the Panthers needed a basket.
"A lot of those were contested, but he just made some plays. There's no doubt he's a talented player. He can really do some things to help you win games," Husband said.
Brady Johnson got loose for a layup and post man Derek Epperly scored on a fast break to give Latta its first double-digit lead at 47-37 with just under three minutes remaining.
Game over.
"They are so good defensively that everything is tough around the basket. Once we kind of got a little lead and made them spread out a little bit, I thought we handled that real well at the end," Husband said.
Byng led 27-25 after Reid Wall drove to the basket and scored just before the halftime buzzer. But the Panthers would outscore the Pirates 28-14 over the final two frames.
Hayes and Epperly both added 10 points apiece in Latta's balanced attack while Johnson added eight and Carter Kessinger sank two 3-pointers off the bench.
Joe Nemecek looked like he was in store for a monster night for Byng after scoring seven points and grabbing eight rebounds in the first quarter and helping Byng jump out to a 12-6 lead. He would finish with 12 points and 11 rebounds.
Dineh Bohan just missed double figures with nine points for the Pirates. Eight different players scored for Byng.
Both schools are headed to tournaments this weekend.
The Byng teams meet host Purcell at 6:30 and 7:50 p.m. at the 2014 Heart of Oklahoma Tournament.
The Latta girls meet Kingston at 2:30 p.m. and the Panthers battle Davis at 6:15 p.m. Thursday at the Tishomingo Invitational.


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What time is it?
This is one of the most confusing days of the year for me, the hours leading up to Daylight Savings Time.
The day when, at 2 a.m. March 10, it becomes 3 a.m. You know, spring ahead an hour.
I wake up Sunday and stare at the things in life that tell you the time, and wonder: Is that right?
Because these days, so many of the clocks revert for us. In fewer and fewer cases you personally don't have to "wind your clock." My smart phone updates itself. My television updates itself. My pocket watch, not so much.
It's nice that these robots from the Jetsons Era do that for us, it's quite considerate, and I do thank them, but it makes all my other time-bearing appliances seem lazy in comparison, and it also serves to truly confuse me. As I walk through the house, and smartphone and television have one time, and microwave, oven and wall clock have another time an hour apart, I do more than wonder what Daylight Savings Time is saving us from, really.
Besides that mess, it's also the time of year where I spend the most time wondering about all the other things impacted by this lost hour. What happens to television programs that regularly air at 2:30 a.m. Sundays, for example.
I'm sure the more diligent of you out there, dear readers, wake up and set upon the task of changing all the times on your clocks Sunday morning or, for the more organized, perhaps before bed Saturday night. Some of you — I have been known to do this — may even stay up until 2 a.m. and wait to be thrust forward an hour into the future, to not sleep through this small window of quasi time travel.
So at whatever point you start this annual chore, at least tomorrow it is easier than the "fall back" time of year. Once you figure out what button (or what many many buttons) you have to push to get into your gadget's clock settings, all you have to do is hit it once to change the hour. Unless your settings have a minus button you have a lot more button mashing to do in the fall to get to 1 a.m. from 2 a.m.
Invariably, I miss a clock. I'll discover, maybe around 11 a.m. (or is it noon?), that the DVD player doesn't match the television. The time on the iPod dock doesn't match the time on the iPhone I just stuck in it.
I'll admit the one clock that manages to escape this chore is the clock in my car. I will always forget it is there, and, as I head out for some errand, look down and think to myself, "that is not right." But you can't really change the time as you drive down the highway, nor did car manufacturers have simplicity in mind when creating the process of setting your car radio's clock.
Unfortunately, due to my inability to reset my car radio's clock with any sort of grace, I instead manage to hit the combination of buttons for resetting my programmed radio stations, and leave myself with a bunch of unintended new music choices or static.
And I'll still have the time wrong after that, so at that point I just give up and convince myself I can make it to fall being an hour off all summer. So just to recap: most of the year I drive around in a jalopy with the wrong time and awful preset radio stations.
Whether you spend Sunday morning pondering the nature of the space-time continuum, bungling the clock instructions on your 2004 Toshiba, or are content to do nothing and add an hour in your head, just please remember to spend a portion of the day also changing the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
Those things, I am certain, do not change themselves.


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Strategic focus requires leadership with circular vision: vision with the capacity to see around, beneath and beyond what you seek in order to anticipate change and find the most valuable opportunities.
4. They Seek Social Significance
The best companies use the platform of their corporate brand to create social significance that reverberates and multiplies. For example, IKEA partnered with UNICEF to create a program to help prevent child labor by changing the conditions that led to child labor in the first place: poverty, hunger, and illiteracy.
Because poverty is often the result of illness, IKEA and UNICEF also worked with the World Health Organization to establish a five-year vaccination program, vaccinating almost three hundred thousand women and children from three thousand villages from 2002 to 2007. IKEA has consistently been a leader as a company that makes the world a better place.
That kind of charitable work may seem like mere marketing, or worse, a distraction from the bottom line. But it's the mark of a truly great company to recognize that a sense of mission and purpose inspires workers and customers alike. When people work for a company that is genuinely trying to make the world a better place, they're inspired. They see opportunity in new places, and they're willing to take risks to achieve great things.
Awesome article Glenn- it started my Monday off just right, you nailed it!
I love Glenn's articlesI I am an owner of two franchises, and am so interested in what works, and how some of the most successful companies, i.e. Trader Joe's, are gaining momentum by following their own course as opposed to the main stream 'thought'
Right on, Glenn!
Congratulations Mary- two franchises, I love your Entreprenueral Spirit!
Thanks for the examples of the outliers. I'm working with many MBAs around the globe to create a series of ebooks for MBA potentials, students and graduates that will help them understand the challenges they will face, as well as, develop the strategies that will make them more successful. Tomorrow's leaders need these examples and a global perspective. Hopefully, we can help them achieve both!
Thanks, again.
Great article, Glenn. What you've shared is really a primer for companies struggling to spark creativity at every touch point with their customers. Your first point really exemplifies the benefits of a company focusing on their customers' objectives, not their own. I remember being laughed at during a strategic planning session in the mid-90s for using the term "customer intimacy", but being customer-centric gets you out of the factory and into the field. The other critical item here is to involve customers in their natural environment, where they consume your service or use your product (not depending on focus groups, which are artificial and subject to affect contagion) into your development process as early as possible. A three degree shift in customer-driven perspective early on can be the difference of missing the market or creating an entirely new market twenty-four months down the road.
Your second point is the one most large companies struggle with, and even some startups do as well, but for a different reason. Flexibility requires structure. Without it flexibility of thinking can become diffused and the results look like a fish out of water, flopping around on a dock. In our workshops we refer to this as "holding the space for unlimited possibilities" and your emphasis on being inclusive, of authentically embracing diversity and the perspectives of professionals with eclectic backgrounds, from various cultures, and different experiences broadens the lens. Much like a telescope, the larger the mirror, the further out into the cosmos you can see.
Your third point reminds me of a consulting engagement we had with a custom sales solution company five years ago. We talked about have a 360 degree perspective for their clients, because we were experienced working both sides of the street (both startup and investor). We were able to find truly innovative ways to position disruptive technologies by following our intuition while conducting our market research. Allowing your people to wander the forest, freely embracing divergent thinking will uncover opportunities you'd have never discovered otherwise. Of course, we would alway validate our intuitive discoveries with hard research before acting. I think you sell yourself short on your perspective here, as we did at the time. It's beyond a circular vision, it is spherical vision, which is probably simply a point of semantics.
Your final point cannot be overemphasized, especially if companies want to authentically engage passion in their employees (which is critical for Gen Y associates). A feeling of purposefulness, of being part of something greater than one's own self interest is crucial to engagement. A culture of engagement and alignment of values enriches the soil in which the seeds of creativity can sprout. Most companies miss this, as the RogenSi Global Mindset survey illustrated last summer. Only 14% of employees feel their company shares their own personal values and beliefs. How engaged can anyone be from that emotional perspective?
We've seen this in our own firm. Back in 2009 we created a program to provide transition assistance to combat veterans and their family members to successfully navigate the journey back to civilian life. As a veteran, I saw how what we do in leadership development, team building, and sales training could help servicemembers re-establish their authentic sense of self once they returned home. Our intention was key. It wasn't a marketing play, it was something we new we could do, pro bono, that no one else was doing the way we were capable of delivering (integrating Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning into the developmental process). Since then, it has expanded into a therapeutic approach (partnering with therapists) for veterans and families struggling with PTSD and TBI, we've presented our approach at a Combat Stress conference, received a formal commendation from General David Petraeus, and continue to train and expand the program around the country.
By reaching out with authentic intention, of being of service to those that have sacrificed so much for us over the past decade, doors have opened and relationships have emerged that we never would have discovered if not for our initiative. It is an expression of our core values and mission, we walk our talk regardless if there's a buck to be made. This resonates with people and has also validated our rather unique approach.
Again, great article! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thanks for the great article. I'm 17 and a aspiring entrepreneur who hungers to know what it takes to run a successful business to surpass the new and old titans in the industry. I understand the risk and struggle, but articles like this inspire me to continue moving forward.
I applaud your initiative and level of awareness! The risk is to not follow your vision and inspiration! We all are born with a unique and wondrous gift…for entrepreneurs, the challenge is to discover this talent and align it in such a way that is of distinct value to others. You've got a jump start on so many others so early in your life!
I wish you much success upon your journey!
Great companies communicate clearly. They have a clear vision, strategy and a means to execute. As an executive coach to Fortune 500 CEOs, I can tell you from first-hand experience that a really great company has a great leadership team with superior verbal skills. And each member of the C-suite can succinctly tell investors, the media and internal teams where the company is going and how it will get there. Thanks for the other insights, Glenn. Very important ideas for all companies! Loraine Antrim


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Juveniles Questioned Regarding Krauszer's Weekend
Three nights of break-ins at Krauszer's Food Store in Liberty Corner — during which cigars and some cash reportedly were taken — led to a state police helicopter search for suspects early Wednesday morning. Police said they had questioned three juveniles regarding the incident.
No 9/11 Moment of Silence in Schools 'Shocking' to Parent
An accident on Route 78 eastbound in Warren shut down the highway and backed up traffic for miles.
PHOTOS: Strong Dogs Day at Somerset Hills YMCA
Big dogs, little dogs, cute dogs, distinguished dogs all were remarkably well behaved at the Somerset Hills YMCA's annual Strong Dogs Day last weekend. The day also included hundreds of people — and fun activities, a dog wash, treats for humans and canines and the traditional blessing of the hounds.
ARTsee Tour Back This Weekend
After the success of last year's tour of artists' studios in Bernards Township and Bernardsville, the tour was planned over both Saturday and Sunday, with 20 participating fine artists, photgraphers, a weaver and other artisans.
Report Pending for Report on What's on Computer of former Bernardsville Middle School vice-principal
Patrick Lott, former vice-principal of the Bernardsville Middle School, is due back in state Superior Court in Somerville on Nov. 9, pending a final forensic report on the contents of his computer's hard drives. Investigators seized the data in December 2011 when Lott was arrested on charges related to accusations that he had hidden secret cameras to tape students in the shower at Immaculata High School.
Ridge, Traffic to be Discussed Again by Town, School Officials
The headache that just won't go away — what to do to relieve traffic at the entrance to Ridge High School in the morning, was brought up at last week's Board of Education AND Township Committee meeting. Representatives from both are due to meet to take a fresh look at the options on Tuesday. Do readers think any teens will object if the opening time for high school is moved to say, 9:40 a.m.?


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It's great to have friends who care. It's a blessing to find those whose playful peer pressure can really rouse us out of our doldrums—friends who will visit us unexpectedly and make every effort to share an experience. Unfortunately, sometimes, these same beloved comrades won't take "no" for an answer. This can be especially annoying when a large appliance is involved.
According to a Knoxville Police Department report, officers responded to a complaint Thursday morning from a Knoxville resident who said an intoxicated friend had been outside his residence the previous night "yelling and screaming, and being a nuisance." His boozing buddy spent an agonizingly long time trying to persuade him to join what he touted to be a festive night ahead. The drunken serenade was ignored by the victim who opted to stay in for the rest of the evening. Upon awaking in the next morning, his inebriated nuisance was gone but quickly became a prime suspect when the complainant arrived at his car to find the windshield of his Ford Explorer crushed with old vacuum cleaner. Dude, not cool.
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On Sunday evening, crews were called to a vehicle fire inside a garage at . Shortly after 6pm, crews found a car engulfed in flames on the third level of a five-story garage on the campus.
A woman was in the car at the time and she initially told investigators the fire was accidental and may have been caused by a mechanical issue. Upon further investigation, it was revealed that the fire was intentionally set by the woman in an attempt to cause harm to herself. She was evaluated and released at the scene for exposure to smoke products.
Investigators say the woman is not a student at GGC and is not connected to the school in any way. Her identity has not been released as the investigation continues.


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Whether you are aware of it or not, Tag Heuer watches have recently become closely associated with the sports world. Although just recently becoming apparent, Tag Heuer has been the official timekeeper for the Formula 1 World Championship since 1969. All over the world you will see sports stars sporting Tag Heuer replica watches while participating. Some of the most notable sports stars today include Jeff Gordon and Golf star Tiger Woods. It is the emphasis that Tag Heuer puts in preciseness in time that intrigues so many sports stars and organizations to put their trust in the company. Other places that have used Tag Heuer watches for major sporting events include timekeeping for the Olympics since the 1920's and the FIS Ski World Cup since 1992. Not only is it the precise timing that makes Tag Heuer's watches so popular amongst various sporting events, but also the stylish sporty look. It's simple and classy at the same time, with many of the watches being chronographs. Although there are watches in many different sports, it is the watches work with motor racing that has sparked a Formula 1 replica watch collection of its own. The Tag Heuer replica watch was initially introduced in 1986, with many of the most prominent racers sporting the watch. There are several features that make this collection stand out from other watches, but it is the bright colors that catch the eye first. It uses a risky but unique design scheme by matching the dial color with the accents put on the outside of the case. There are two variations to the Tag Heuer replica Formula 1 watch collection, the chronograph and automatic. The automatic version is much more reasonably priced and downgraded from the chronograph version, but still a sufficient sports watch. The automatic version is toned down with a silver dial and silver sub-dials. The brand name is placed craftily below the 12 o'clock mark and the Formula 1 logo placed just above the 6 o'clock mark. The chronograph Tag Heuer replica watch has a white or black sub dials, similar to the automatic version. However, it is the second counter that stands out from most watches. It features a combination of three colors that each covers 20 seconds. It is the bright colors that bring the watch to life while still maintaining a professional and stylish design. With a unique style and promising precision in time, there is no wonder why sports models and organizations have chosen to sport Tag Heuer watches for so long. And with the Tag Heuer replica watch collection being released recently, the tradition is sure to continue for years to come. Copyright (c) 2007 Patrick Bedford
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Fortunately I think most republicans are smarter than Bachmann and Palin. But Bachmann must know the constitution as she is all over those 2nd amendment solutions
These are a bunch of really sick people that know what they are doing. But guess what, if anyone is smart, they will debate them on the constitution. Fox News wills link away and so will the two birdbrains
American has reached close to bottom of how our country is run. What we see is the worst of the republican party and as usual a weak kneed dem party that cant overcome itself and lead. if only this congress would stand up and lead against the hate.


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All about the DNA Revolution
Exoneration and Conviction
On November 23, 1983, a fifteen year-old schoolgirl named Lynda Mann walked along a path known as the Black Pad in the small village of Narborough, England. She was found there the next day, strangled and raped. The only clue was a semen sample that identified the killer's blood as Type A, and the absence of leads left the case unsolved.
Almost three years later, Dawn Ashworth, also 15, was found raped and murdered on another footpath only a mile from where Lynda Mann had met her demise. The semen proved that the blood type was the same, which made it likely that the same man had killed both girls.
Then Richard Buckland was arrested and he confessed to the second murder, but denied any involvement in the first. Investigators felt sure they could nail him for both, and since the family sought justice, they decided to try a new and untested technique: "genetic fingerprinting" through DNA analysis.
Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a geneticist, had discovered this technique and had successfully used it in a paternity suit. He had never before been approached to try genetic fingerprinting in a criminal case, but everyone felt certain that Buckland's semen would prove their case, as well as affirm the technique's viability, so they went ahead and tested a sample of his blood.
To everyone's surprise, there was no match between him and either of the samples taken from the two murders. The test was done again, and once again proved negative. Buckland was exonerated—the first person in criminal history to be freed based on a DNA test. When asked why he had confessed, he said that he'd felt pressured. Investigators believed that he had probably come upon the body, which explained how he knew unpublished details about the crime scene, and they had simply worked him into a confession based on that.
Then the search was on to find the right man, so all the men of Narborough and villages nearby who had type A blood were asked to voluntarily submit to a DNA analysis. Over 5,000 men agreed to do it, but the object was to find any man who would not willingly submit, because it could be that he had something to hide.
Colin Pitchfork, who had once been arrested for indecent exposure, persuaded a friend to go to the test site in his place. Pitchfork provided his friend with a false passport, but the friend had a big mouth. When he bragged about what he did, a woman who overheard him turned him in to the police. That placed the spotlight dead on Pitchfork. He confessed, his genetic profile proved to be indistinguishable from that of the semen samples, and in 1987 he became the first person to be convicted for murder based on genetic fingerprinting.
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Greensburg Daily News
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The Greensburg, South Decatur and North Decatur track and field teams turned in solid performances at the IHSAA Boys Track and Field Sectional meet at East Central Thursday. All three schools will send at least two athletes to the Regional tournament next Thursday.
Greensburg placed fourth with 67 points. North took sixth with 45, and South scored 41 for seventh place out of 11 teams. East Central won the meet with 139 points, while Batesville was second with 125. South Ripley took third with 69. Rising Sun (55 for fifth), South Dearborn (34 for eighth), Milan (22 for ninth), Jac-Cen-Del (14 for 10th) and Lawrenceburg (3 for 11th) rounded out the scoring.
Individual champions on the evening who automatically punched their ticket to the regional were Sean Sellers in the high jump and senior Colin Evans in the 800-meter run. Evans also qualified individually in the discus with his second place finish. Seniors Ryan Martin and Peter Myers rounded out the individual qualifiers with their third/fourth place finishes in the shot put.
Also advancing were the 4x100m and 4x800m relay teams. Team members running in the sectional in the 4x100 were Averi Fultz, Ethan Amburgey, Shane Ploeger and Sean Sellers. The 4x800 runners were Chase McCreary, Peyton Buening, Francis Teague and Michael Back. Those runners and the alternates will also make the trek to Connersville next week.
North Decatur junior Kevin Nielsen qualified in three events. Nielsen won the 300-meter hurdles in a time of 42.28 seconds, and placed second in 11.5 seconds to advance in the 100-meter dash. He took third in the high jump with a mark of 5-10.
Senior Nick Gehrich will compete in the discus throw. He tallied a third-place mark of 125-10 to qualify for the regional.
For South, junior Chris Meadows advanced to the regional in the 300 hurdles with a fourth-place time of 44.02.
A pair of South Decatur relay teams will compete in the regional, along with two pair of alternates for each relay. The South 4x100 meter relay team of Josh Campos, Randall Canady, Chris Johannigman and Chris Meadows, tallied a time of 46.62 to advance. The South 4x800-meter relay of Sam Studler, Justyn Clark, Nick Grissom and Chris Meadows, clocked a third-place time of 9:01.63 to advance.
Two Cougars scored points by placing in the top eight for South. Junior Luke May took eighth in the shot put with a throw of 39-11. Senior Zack Gault took eighth in the discus throw with a mark of 110-05.
South sophomore Byron Haley just missed qualifying in the 110-meter hurdles. He clocked a 17.38 for fifth place, less than a half-second behind Meadows. Josh Campos took fifth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.60, just missing the mark.
A complete story with full results will be published in Tuesday's print edition, along with full results from the girls sectional meet.
Contact Nick Gonnella at (812) 663-3111, x7003.


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Backing up your iTunes Store purchases used to be extremely important. That's because there was no way to redownload music or other content from iTunes. So, if you accidentally deleted a file or lost it in a hard drive crash, the only way to get it back was to buy it again. Thanks to iCloud, though, that's no longer true.
Now, using iCloud, virtually every song, app, TV show, or movie or book purchase you've made at iTunes is stored in your iTunes account and is available for redownload onto any compatible device that doesn't already have that file on it. That means that if you lose a file, or get a new device, loading your purchases on it is just a few clicks or taps away.
There are two ways to use iCloud to redownload iTunes purchases: via the desktop iTunes program and on the iOS.
Redownload iTunes Purchases via iTunes
To begin, go to the iTunes Store via the iTunes program installed on your desktop or laptop. On the right-hand side of the screen, there will be a menu called Quick Links. In it, click the Purchased link. This takes you to the screen where you can redownload purchases.
In this list, there are two important groupings that allow you to sort your purchases:
- Purchased: This first set of buttons lets you choose whether you want to redownload music, movies, TV shows, apps, or books
- All/Not In My Library: All, of course, shows you all purchases from your iTunes account. Not In My Library shows only purchases from your account that aren't on the computer you're currently using.
When you've selected the type of purchase you want to redownload, your purchase history will be displayed below.
For Music, this includes both the artist's name at the left and when you've selected an artist, either the albums or the songs you've purchased by that artist at the right (you can choose to see albums or songs by clicking the appropriate button). If a song is available for download (that is, if it's not already on that computer's hard drive), the iCloud button--a small cloud with a down arrow in it--will be present. Click that button to download the song or album. If the button is grayed out and reads Play, then the song is already on the computer you're using.
For TV Shows, the process is very similar to music, except instead of artist name and then songs, you'll see the show's name and then Seasons or Episodes. If you browse by season, when you click on a season, you'll be taken to that season's page on the iTunes Store. The episode that you've purchased, and can redownload, has a Download button next to it. Click that to redownload.
For Movies, Apps, and iBooks files, you'll see a list of all your purchases (including free downloads). Movies, apps, or books available to download will have the iCloud button. Click the button to download them.


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1955 Chevrolet Limousine On loan from Paul Hoffman, Latham, NY
Residents of Saratoga Springs are used to seeing a wide variety of heavy-duty vehicles converted to limousines cruising around their city. But even there, Paul Hoffman's vintage Chevrolet stands out, with most observers wondering just where it came from.
"My unique automobile was remade about eight years ago after I saw a similar car while on active duty with the New York Air National Guard," explains Hoffman. "I've used the car for my children's weddings and rent it out for others. I'm often asked if it is original, but my 'idea' to build the limo wasn't exactly original. While building this car, I heard of similar ones in San Diego, Michigan, New Hampshire and even Catskill.
"The history of 'stretch' vehicles mostly comes from an Ohio company, Stageway, which called them airport transporters. But mine is a little more ornate, so I call it a limousine."
Hoffman's saga began when he heard of a stretched '55 Chevy while on National Guard duty in Christchurch, New Zealand. It took weeks to meet the owner, but Paul finally saw the car. "I took several pictures and briefly talked to the owner. He'd built his car out of remnants of a dragster and said it took him 18 weeks, which seemed like a reasonable time, so when we got back home another Guardsman and I decided to become partners in a Limo business and began looking at vintage Chevrolets. Somewhere along the way he dropped out due to marital problems, but I finally found an unfinished '55 Chevy four-door 'project car' in Texas on eBay."
Some spirited bidding eventually led to a sale, with the owner delivering the car to Latham on his way to buying a Nomad in Pennsylvania. The car had disc brakes, a fresh engine, a rebuilt transmission, power steering and an air conditioning unit ready for installation. The frame had been bead blasted and coated and the body blasted and painted.
"I quickly starting taking the car apart, thinking I was going to do it in eighteen weeks," recalls Hoffman. "I was in a barn with no heat in Colonie, but managed to get the frame pulled out. I quickly realized I didn't have a level surface to extend the frame, so I took it to a welding shop. Within a week, they'd cut and welded the frame perfectly with a 48" stretch, which was the width of a two-door's door. They also added a split driveshaft with carrier from a Chevy Suburban."
From there, Hoffman cut the body in half and began the arduous process of putting it back together with a 48" insert.
"Floors were not a problem, any monkey can do those," he declares. "The sides were just a door that my friend donated from his parts car with new door skins. But now I had a big hole in the roof that I had to fill. Luckily, my son was living in the Syracuse area at the time and had met a guy named Gary Buttons who sold Chevy parts. I purchased a roof from Gary and he delivered it to the barn.
"I had purchased some Air Bag shocks and was having difficulty installing the cross bar and went back to my friendly frame guy. When I explained I was also having difficulty with the roof, he introduced me to his neighbor, who was trying to establish a body shop business. He needed to grow his reputation and quoted me $8,000 for body work and paint. In one month the bodywork was complete and the car was painted."
Recalling that the New Zealand car that inspired him had a split front seat from a two-door to allow storage between it and the middle seat, Paul started another quest.
"While purchasing my air shocks from a local vender, I saw one in his office. Normally, just the frames for these seats go for $1000, so a complete seat would be even more expensive. He quoted a price of $300, so I added that to the price of the shocks and no longer had to drive the car on a milk crate."
Hoffman then turned his attention to the wiring and electric windows, using his electronics degree to the fullest, before moving on to the upholstery and a new headliner. After much searching, he finally found someone in his car club willing to tackle the interior. Once he'd worked his magic, the car was finally ready for passengers.
"I thought everyone in the world would be interested in it but it turned out to be only car people," Hoffman says wistfully. "But with those guys, everyone has a '55 Chevy story. They love it!
"When I started driving it, I realized that everyone back in 1955 drove more slowly. The Thruway was just opening and 55 mph was the norm everywhere else. I've improved the ride with new shocks, extra seat padding and a new AC unit for the back, because the front unit just wasn't enough, and now it's great.
"I call it a 'second take car' and just love watching people look back after what they've just seen sinks in."


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Frank Woolum, 97, of Williamsburg, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Baptist Health hospital in Corbin.
He was the husband of the late Docie Cox Woolum.
The funeral service is at 11 am. Saturday, March 2, 2013, in the funeral home chapel. Burial will follow in Whitley Memorial Gardens.
Visitation is after 6 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel.
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Thieves have left a trail of destruction across Logan, south of Brisbane, after ram-raids at four businesses.
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As mentioned here a few days ago, I have been revising my paper on the Jeffreys-Lindley's paradox paper for Philosophy of Science. It came as a bit of a (very pleasant) surprise that this journal was ready to consider a revised version of the paper given that I have no formal training in philosophy and that the (first version of the) paper was rather hurriedly made of a short text written for the 95th birthday of Dennis Lindley and of my blog post on Aris Spanos' "Who should be afraid of the Jeffreys-Lindley paradox?", recently published in Philosophy of Science. So I found both reviewers very supportive and I am grateful for their suggestions to improve both the scope and the presentation of the paper. It has been resubmitted and rearXived, and I am now waiting for the decision of the editorial team with the appropriate philosophical sense of detachment…
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on the Jeffreys-Lindley's paradox (revision)Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Aris Spanos, Bayesian foundations, Dennis Lindley, improper priors, Jeffreys-Lindley paradox, paradoxes, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, review, revision on September 17, 2013 by xi'an
ABC with empirical likelihood (second round)Posted in Statistics, University life with tags ABC, AMSI, Australia, Brisbane, empirical likelihood, PNAS, referee, renewal process, revision on September 18, 2012 by xi'an
We (Kerrie Mengersen, Pierre Pudlo, and myself) have now revised our ABC with empirical likelihood paper and resubmitted both to arXiv and to PNAS as "Approximate Bayesian computation via empirical likelihood". The main issue raised by the referees was that the potential use of the empirical likelihood (EL) approximation is much less widespread than the possibility of simulating pseudo-data, because EL essentially relies on an iid sample structure, plus the availability of parameter defining moments. This is indeed the case to some extent and also the reason why we used a compound likelihood for our population genetic model. There are in fact many instances where we simply cannot come up with a regular EL approximation… However, the range of applications of straight EL remains wide enough to be of interest, as it includes most dynamical models like hidden Markov models. To illustrate this point further, we added (in this revision) an example borrowed from the recent Biometrika paper by David Cox and Christiana Kartsonaki (which proposes a frequentist alternative to ABC based on fractional design). This model ended up being fairly appealing wrt our perspective: while the observed data is dependent in a convoluted way, being a superposition of N renewal processes with gamma waiting times, it is possible to recover an iid structure at the same cost as a regular ABC algorithm by using the pseudo-data to recover an iid process (the sequence of renewal processes indicators)…The outcome is quite favourable to ABCel in this particular case, as shown by the graph below (top: ABCel, bottom: ABC, red line:truth):
This revision (started while visiting Kerrie in Brisbane) was thus quite beneficial to our perception of ABC in that (a) it is indeed not as universal as regular ABC and this restriction should be spelled out (the advantage being that, when it can be implemented, it usually runs much much faster!), and (b) in cases where the pseudo-data must be simulated, EL provides a reference/benchmark for the ABC output that comes for free… Now I hope to manage to get soon out of the "initial quality check" barrage to reach the Editorial Board!
mad statisticPosted in R, Statistics, University life with tags ABC, mad, median, quicksort, R, revision on April 30, 2012 by xi'an
In the motivating toy example to our ABC model choice paper, we compare summary statistics, mean, median, variance, and… median absolute deviation (mad). The latest is the only one able to discriminate between our normal and Laplace models (as now discussed on Cross Validated!). When rerunning simulations to produce nicer graphical outcomes (for the revision), I noticed a much longer run time associated with the computation of the mad statistic. Here is a comparison for the computation of the mean, median, and mad on identical simulations:
> system.time(mmean(10^5)) user system elapsed 4.040 0.056 4.350 > system.time(mmedian(10^5)) user system elapsed 12.509 0.012 15.353 > system.time(mmad(10^5)) user system elapsed 23.345 0.036 23.458
Now, this is not particularly surprising: computing a median takes longer than computing a mean, even using quicksort!, hence computing two medians… Still, having to wait about six times longer for the delivery of a mad statistics is somehow…mad!
Checking for stationarity [X-valid'ed]Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags AR(p), Bayesian Core, cross validated, polynomial, revision, roots, Schur's lemma, Schur-Cohn procedure, time series on January 16, 2012 by xi'an
While working with Jean-Michel Marin on the revision of Bayesian Core, and more specifically on the time series chapter, I was wondering about the following problem:
It is well-known [at least to readers of Bayesian Core] that an AR(p) process
is causal and stationary if and only if the roots of the polynomial
are all outside the unit circle in the complex plane. This defines an implicit (and unfriendly!) parameter space for the original parameters of the AR(p) model. In particular, when considering a candidate parameter, to determine whether or not the constraint is satisfied implies checking for the root of the associated polynomial. The question I asked on Cross Validated a few days ago was whether or not there existed a faster algorithm than the naïve one that consists in (a) finding the roots of P and (b) checking none one them is inside the unit circle. Two hours later I got a reply from J. Bowman about the Schur-Cohn procedure that answers the question about the roots in O(p²) steps without going through the determination of the roots. (This is presumably the same Issai Schur as in Schur's lemma.) However, J. Bowman also pointed out that the corresponding order for polynomial root solvers is O(p²)! Nonetheless, I think the Schur-Cohn procedure is way faster.
Bayesian variable selection [off again]Posted in Statistics, University life with tags AIC, Bayesian Analysis, BIC, Lasso, regularisation, revision, variable selection on November 16, 2011 by xi'an
As indicated a few weeks ago, we have received very encouraging reviews from Bayesian Analysis about our [Gilles Celeux, Mohammed El Anbari, Jean-Michel Marin and myself] our comparative study of Bayesian and non-Bayesian variable selections procedures ("Regularization in regression: comparing Bayesian and frequentist methods in a poorly informative situation") to Bayesian Analysis. We have just rearXived and resubmitted it with additional material and hope this is the last round. (I must acknowledge a limited involvement at this final stage of the paper. Had I had more time available, I would have liked to remove the numerous tables and turn them into graphs…)


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College Republican Leader Urges Y'all to Resist Temptation to Shoot Obama
In the wake of a shooting incident that left one bullet lying in "in the exterior area of the White House" and another round stopped by ballistic glass, many were left pondering serious questions. Who could be demented enough to fire shots at the White House? How could the shooter get so close as to fire a round that cracked a window on the second floor residence? Was the alleged shooter, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez of Idaho, motivated to commit this crime because "hates the president, he hates Washington" (and what gave that away?)?
And then, there is the question most people dared not ask, because they are neither psychotic nor evil: should I shoot the president?
At 2:29 p.m. ET, UT's Lauren E. Pierce wrote: "Y'all as tempting as it may be, don't shoot Obama. We need him to go down in history as the WORST president we've EVER had! #2012."
Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at UT Austin, told ABC News the comment was a "joke" and that the "whole [shooting incident] was stupid." Giggling, she said that an attempted assassination would "only make the situation worse."
"Insofar as she's a representative [of the College Republicans], maybe it shouldn't be said, but she's made a positive statement in a way," said Cassie Wright, the group's vice president.
Thank you, for that "positive" public service announcement. I await future UT College Republican PSAs with baited breath:
"Y'all, as fun as it sounds, don't repeatedly hit yourself in the stomach with a tire iron."
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