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RICHMOND, Va.- Richmond men's tennis wrapped up play at the VCU 4x1 with a 4-1 victory over instate rival James Madison in the Spiders third dual of the weekend.
The win breaks a five match losing streak against the Dukes dating back to 2006.
"In my four years this is the best start we have had," said senior Jesse Feder.
Feder topped Greg Vladimirsky 6-3, 6-2 to start off the evening. Feder's win ties him with Jeppy Moss for most career wins with 63 victories.
At the number three position, Paul Nahon III battled back from a 1-6 loss in the first set to defeat Hugo Ramadier 1-6, 6-1, 6-3.
Dylan Trent topped Robert Stirling 6-4, 7-5.
At the number one position, Ethan Dunbar went to three sets with Ryan Pool, but fell 2-3, 6-4, 6-3.
In a hard fought doubles match Sebastien Fauchet and Aaron Wicker earned a win over the duo of Florent Sentenac and Bastien Russo 6-4, 6-3.
"I couldn't be happier with the way the guys competed," said head coach Ben Johnson. "We knew it was going to be a dogfight match and we just came out on top today. "
The Spiders fell to No. 31 ranked VCU 5-0 earlier in the day.
Richmond will be back in action on Saturday at Old Dominion. The match is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
VCU 5, Richmond 0
Heugas (VCU) def. E. Dunbar (Richmond), 6-2, 6-3
Wennakoski (VCU) def. J. Feder (Richmond), 6-1, 6-2
Domnik (VCU) def. P. Nahon (Richmond), 6-1, 6-4
Vazquez (VCU) def. D. Trent (Richmond), 6-3, 6-1
Vazquez/Argente (VCU) def. S. Fauchet/A. Wicker (Richmond), 6-4, 6-2
Richmond 4, JMU 1
Pool (JMU) def. E. Dunbar (Richmond), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
J. Feder (Richmond) def. Vladimitsky (JMU), 6-3, 6-2
P. Nahon (Richmond) def. Ramadier (JMU), 1-6, 6-1, 6-3
D. Trent (Richmond) def. Stirling (JMU), 6-4, 7-5
S. Fauchet/A. Wicker (Richmond) def. Sentenac/Russo (JMU), 6-4, 6-3


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Located in UAB's Biomedical Research Building II (BMRII), the Creighton Lab is an 800 sq. ft. contiguous laboratory space. Within the laboratory are cell isolation and culture facilities, a dedicated microscope room, a rodent surgical suite, and separate room for recombinant DNA work.
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morninglark wrote:Good morning, All you West Coasters that are still up! The early risers on the east coast--speaking for myself--are up, caffeinating and preparing to scrape off the car. :-)
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Turner paintings to vie with rivals and masters at Tate
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The works of English Romantic landscape painter JMW Turner will vie with contemporary rivals and preen next to those of the old masters he hoped to surpass in a new exhibition at London's Tate Britain gallery.
"Turner and the Masters" will bring together about 100 works of historical significance from around the world, including artists such as Canaletto, Claude, Cuyp, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Ruisdael, and van de Velde.
The exhibition will be the first to look at the work of Turner (1775-1851) in the company of the greatest painters in the preceding history of western art.
"It will reveal his debts and rivalries in exciting, even unpredictable, ways, and explore his reputation as one of the greatest painters of landscape in the European tradition," the Tate said in a press statement.
The exhibition will pair Turner's works with major paintings by his predecessors. There will also be pairings with paintings by Turner's most important contemporaries such as John Constable and Richard Bonington.
The exhibition aims to show how Turner's responses to other artists were both acts of homage and a sophisticated form of art criticism, designed to demonstrate his understanding of great art and his ability to equal and even outshine the most celebrated exponents of the landscape tradition.
For the first time since they were shown together at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1832, Turner's Helvoetsluys will be united with Constable's Opening of Waterloo Bridge.
When the works were originally shown Turner famously added a red buoy to his seascape during the "varnishing" period before the exhibition opened, apparently in order to compete with the bright reds of Constable's adjacent work. Constable reportedly told a friend "Turner has been here and fired a gun."
"It was Turner's strategy, almost uniquely within the history of European art, to enter into direct competition with artists both past and present, whom he considered as worthy rivals to his own fame," the Tate said. Continued...


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God's love showers down upon us no matter what opinion we may have of ourselves that day... From His heavenly sanctuary He answers and, with His powerful right hand, pours victorious blessings on us His children. When you receive God's Grace and begin to see yourself through His eyes, the world around you will change, too! - Kim Hoff, Rev2Rev (Psalm 20:6)


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The Atlantic Slanders Boehner To Ignore More Salient Story on Women and Indie Voters
posted at 4:21 pm on August 29, 2012 by Matt Vespa
Correction: It's Ms. Reeve, not Mr. Reeve.
The Atlantic posted a rather incendiary piece on August 27 saying that Speaker of the House John Boehner "hopes blacks and latinos won't show up this election." The column's author, Elspeth Reeve, got her information from Talking Points Memo. A fact that Ken Shepherd of Newsbusters made this afternoon when he called Reeve out on his vicious slander of the House Speaker.
Reeve himself got his information from another liberal site:
As Talking Point Memo's Benjy Sarlin reports, Boehner said:
'This election is about economics… These groups have been hit the hardest. They may not show up and vote for our candidate but I'd suggest to you they won't show up and vote for the president either.'
'Theres one issue in this campaign, one,' Sarlin quoted Boehner at the close of his article, 'The president's economic policies have failed. They've made things worse.' Of course, Reeve omitted that line from his piece.
These groups, along with young Americans, have suffered disproportionally during Obama's tenure as president. However, this must have struck a nerve over at The Atlantic since they posted a follow up called "Why We Think John Boehner Is Hoping for Low Minority Turnout" this afternoon.
The column highlighted the full exchange between Boehner and the press.
Reporter: Mr. Speaker, could you talk a little bit about criticisms about, ah that the Republican Party can't continue to win presidential elections if they don't appeal to more voters than they are today in terms of [inaudible], non-white voters, others not in the party in terms of Hispanic voters, African-American voters? I was just looking at poll recently that showed Mr. Romney getting 0 percent support… [This is likely a reference to a NBC/ Wall Street Journal poll showing Romney with 0 percent support among blacks nationally.]
Boehner: We've never done well with those groups, but think about who this economic downturn has affected — blacks, Hispanics, young people. 50 percent of college graduates unemployed or underemployed. And I think our economic message in this election cycle will help us recruit more of those groups than we would have otherwise. But I think it's important for our party, if we're going to be a national party, we've got to reach out, and that means showing up in their neighborhoods. It's a tall order but it can be done.
Reporter: Is it happening so far? Do you think it's happening… right now?
Boehner: This election is about economics. And they may not show up and vote for our candidate but I would suggest to you they won't show up and vote for the president either
Hence, Reeve wrote that:
Boehner gives two distinct answers to the reporter's question about polls showing extremely low black and Hispanic support for Republicans. In the first, he says that in the long-term future, he would like more black and Hispanic voters to support Republicans. That is noble. But when pressed about the here and now, where polls show very few minority voters supporting the G.O.P., he answers that they won't show up—for either party.
As we wrote yesterday, Boehner is clearly talking about the economy keeping voters away. It's not clear why people who are going through difficult times won't vote — too busy working extra jobs? can't afford gas money? — nor is it clear why this economic impact on voter turnout only applies to non-white voters. Elsewhere in the session, while discussing the Republicans' long standing gender gap with women voters, Boehner argued that the ailing economy would encourage women to change their votes. With minorities, according to the favorable scenario Boehner envisions, they just stay home. And since that is one of the reasons he hopes Republicans will win, we're sticking with our headline.
In that case, it's a wasted headline. I agree with Mr. Boehner that Republicans need to reach out to minority voters, but that may be a project for after the election. Furthermore, as reported back in May, Hispanic and Black voter registration is down, suffice to say that the minority vote isn't where either campaign should focus most of their attention 69 days from November 6th.
Lastly, since the Democratic candidate is a black man, it's safe to assume that Mr. Obama will get 400% of the black vote. Why should Republicans focus on outreach operations? We have a better chance with hispanics, which has been hampered by alleged nativist rhetoric coming from conservatives concerning illegal immigration. I still find it amazing that it's seen as racist when anyone advocates protecting the territorial integrity of of United States. It's a state's core function.
The real story is with women and independents. More women are becoming the breadwinners of their respective households, thus more on the frontlines of financial decision making within their family unit. In fact, Alex Bratty of Public Opinion Strategies has conducted a study detailing the "Walmart Moms," who along with independents, could decide this election. They're usually younger women who are moderate to right-leaning in their political beliefs. In all, they're a good representation of the entire female electorate. However, they tend to skew Republican when it comes to who they want controlling Congress.
Courtesy of Gallup
Courtesy of Gallup
Yes, there is a slight gender gap, but it's mostly concentrated with (shocker!) 18-29 year olds. A demographic that has lost its"Obamamania" fixation and will not show up at the polls as they did four years ago. Romney still trails Obama by eight with women, but it's early. With sixty-nine days until Election Day, that's more than enough time for Romney to make up that deficit–while hammering Obama on his economic failures. However, it all depends if other members of the party don't make dumb remarks about abortion and pregnancy.
Concerning independent voters, Obama's political disposition doesn't fair all that well either. Back in April, when he was trying to push the redundant Buffett Rule (aka the already enacted Alternative Minimum Tax), Alexis Simendinger of Real Clear Politics pointed out:
While progressives have urged Obama to dump his 2011 rhetorical emphasis on curbing debt and deficits in favor of a more combative re-election bid, those issues remain important to the undecided fence-sitters he will need to win a second term. These voters care about the size of government and debts and blame Congress more than Wall Street and special interests for gridlock and policy myopia.
The left is desperate. They construed this story to make the GOP look racist, even though the minority vote isn't where the election will be decided. It will be with women, who are still open to a Romney presidency, and independent voters– who are appalled by this administration's record of expanding government and reckless spending. Ms. Reeves, the ailing economy has already pushed women and independents to change their votes in 2010. However, that fact hurts the president, which makes it un-newsworthy.


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Protest march as circus animals invade Floriana
Protesters walked through Valletta yesterday evening calling for an end to the use of animals in circuses, even as lions, a hippo and a camel were drawing curious stares from the public just up the road in Floriana.
A circus agent who has been refused a police licence to set up a big top in a car park adjacent to the Granaries had brought his animals down from Kordin in open pens and set them up by the side of the road.
The agent, Johann Said, said he could not keep the animals "closed up any longer".
Mr Said has had an 11th hour application to set up in Marsa instead accepted and was last night making preparations to run a first show tomorrow.
Meanwhile, one of the protestors, Myriam Kirmond of the Animal Rights Coalition, said circuses should no longer be welcomed in the country.
"We want their existence to stop – it is cruel as animals are always kept in small cages," she said.
The protestors walked from City Gate to Great Siege Square where several bands played music.
The campaign is called Animal Circus = Animal Cruelty and aims to raise awareness about exploitation and cruelty involved in animal circuses.
"We should start campaigning for non-animal circuses instead," she said.
Another circus involving animals is being held in Naxxar over the Christmas period.
Mr Said, however, has been barred by the police from setting up in Floriana even though a tribunal – to which he had appealed after the Police Commissioner turned down his application – ordered the police to issue a permit.
The shows were meant to have started on Tuesday but police officers blocked the car park.
Although the public could not watch any shows yesterday, passers-by stopped to gawk at the animals inside their pens on the street just by the planned venue.
A long line of circus trucks and pens were last night being moved to Marsa.
Mr Said said the move was without prejudice to a judicial protest he has filed against Police Commissioner John Rizzo after the Administrative Review Tribunal had instructed the police to allow him to operate.
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First, please to those of you that got the last thread closed just exercise some judgement, I want this thread to be seen, read and civilly discussed as I feel this incident is deeply troubling.
We filed a complaint with the Sheriffs office right after the Woodland Hills Mall incident. A Captain called my girlfriend the other day and essentially harassed her and made us out to be the bad guy. She said that it's posted "where the rules are that no guns are allowed" and thats sufficient enough and that if they ever see us and the think we're carrying will be stopped and searched and arrested if they find out guns.
When my girlfriend asked where it's posted the captain said " it's posted wherever the rules are." So now I've called my state senator and filed a complaint. I'm not trying to be difficult but I'm not going to be harassed and threatened for exercising my rights. The funniest thing I thought was my girlfriend read off to her the prohibitted places under the law and the cop said "ma'am the law is open to interpretation, and the list in the law is not exclusive.". The entire demeanor of the Captain that called was combative and rude.
So Senator Dan Newberry who told me he's very much in favor of conceal carry is now investigating. I hope some lessons will be learned in this incident, while I deeply respect law enforcement and I feel this incident is not indicative of leos, hopefully something good will come out of this.


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By The Time I Get To Arizona
Reading today's New York Times: Arizona Enacts Stringent Law On Immigration, sent a chill up my spine. It wasn't the proverbial chill. This chill was colder and darker.
I know the question of how to deal with all the undocumented people living and working (or looking for work) in the United States is a complicated issue, one that doesn't have easy answers. But this new law would "make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally" and could very easily lead to intense racial profiling.
Another potentially dangerous thing about this hyperbolic law is that it plays to people's fears, and it may faintly lend a whiff of permissiveness and subtle encouragement to hate mongers around the country. In New York, where I live, there have been several hate crimes in the past couple years that have resulted in the deaths of Hispanics. One involved a group of teenagers who would go "beaner hopping" (their actual phrase) every weekend for months.
Perhaps we poets need to be caretakers of the language around this subject: for example, illegal alien vs. illegal immigrant vs. undocumented migrant.
Maybe this law, however troublesome and misguided, will help push immigration to the surface and force the government to take on this thorny, hyper-charged issue in a responsible and humane way. I assume, I could be wrong, that if most people look inside their hearts, they don't want to see families ripped apart. They don't want to see an undocumented, tax-paying father or mother yanked out of a legally-registered car and forced to munch sidewalk while their documented children (born in the USA) watch in horror from the backseat.
Fellow blogger Mark Nowak recently wrote about the Split This Rock festival, an independent poetry bonanza that took place in March in Washington DC. Anyone interested in the intersection of social activism and poetry should consider attending this vibrant mixture of workshops and readings.
It seems apropos to share the first verse of the 1991 Public Enemy song, By The Time I Get To Arizona, a powerful, surgical, thumping creative response to the state's refusal to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
I'm countin' down to the day deservin'
Fittin' for a king
I'm waitin' for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
'Cause my money's spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant
20.000 nig niggy niggas in the corner
Of the cell block but they come
From California
Population none in the desert and sun
Wit' a gun cracker
Runnin' things under his thumb
Starin' hard at the postcards
Isn't it odd and unique?
Seein' people smile wild in the heat
120 degree
'Cause I wanna be free
What's a smilin' fact
When the whole state's racist
Why want a holiday F–k it 'cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it standin' on a corner
I ain't drinkin' no 40
I B thinkin' time wit' a nine
Until we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Looki lookin' for the governor
Huh he ain't lovin' ya
>But here to trouble ya
He's rubbin' ya wrong
Get the point, come along.
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On July 4th, Americans will wave our flags proudly, belt out our national songs triumphantly, and consume our barbecue and lemonade a little too freely. Why? Because we live in America, the best nation this planet has had the privilege to host. I'm grateful to be an American, and I enjoy the many freedoms and benefits that come with my citizenship. Nonetheless, our nation's history has a track record for taking patriotism beyond gratitude and into nationalist idolatry. Many Americans through the … [Read more...]
Silver Linings in DOMA Case?
From a legal and political perspective, I'm with Hadley Arkes that this is an unmitigated disaster. But from the perspective of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I can agree with Dr. Russell Moore that there is always good news, even though, as he puts it, "Same-sex marriage is headed for your community." Wise words for those of us who don't plan to give in - ever - regardless of what the Court might say. … [Read more...]
What Wendy Davis's Filibuster Means for Christian Communion
by Rachana ChhinIf you have been swept up in all the news with the recent Supreme Court rulings on marriage, you probably have not heard about a significant event that happened in Texas. Around midnight on Tuesday night, after an 11 hour filibuster, the Texas special legislative session ended and with it a pro-life omnibus bill called SB5.There is much misinformation about what the bill actually does but, in essence, it comprised four parts. One part of SB5 would have banned abortion at … [Read more...]
This Is Not About Gay Marriage
The following is an excerpt from an exclusive feature available only in Issue #6 of the Christ and Pop Culture Magazine. For more features like this, download our app for iPad and iPhone from Apple's App Store. After a one-week free trial, monthly and yearly subscriptions are available for $2.99 and $29.99 respectively. New issues are made available every other week. More information here. Too often, the term "gay marriage" lands on the table with a thud and Christians seize on the "gay" part. … [Read more...]
Whatever the Court Says About Marriage: Carry On
This morning, the Supreme Court will announce its decisions in the two so-called gay marriage cases. Anxiety is high across the nation. Hundreds of people lined up to have a chance to witness the announcement first hand; throngs of activists, spectators, and media will surround the entrance as the nation waits for the marshall to bring the court to order. Whatever happens, these cases are sure to be among the most anticipated, most observed, and most commented-on in the Court's long history. The … [Read more...]
Patenting Genes Is Like Patenting Sunlight
J. R. R. Tolkien popularized the concept of humans acting as "sub-creators." God is the master Creator, and we are made in his image, bearing his likeness by representing him and following his example in cultivating and caring for the world. When we use the gifts God has given us to create new things, we are imitating God's creative work, obeying the first commands he gave Adam and Eve and glorifying Him by pointing back to Him as the original Creator. Tolkien applied this to writing fantasy … [Read more...]
Bordering on Chaos: Threading The Needle With Immigration Reform
Nothing brings the United States Senate together quite like larding up a farm bill with goodies for their constituents. But the goodwill and cheer is about to end, as the Senate today voted 84–15 on Tuesday to proceed with debate on so-called comprehensive immigration reform. The measure is splitting coalitions in unpredictable ways, pitting natural allies against one another and deepening generational intraparty rifts.Immigration reform has eluded policymakers for at decades now. The last m … [Read more...]
Through the PRISM: How To Submit to Authorities When They're Spying On You
"Privacy" has taken on new meaning in our generation. When the Fourth Amendment was penned, the government had to physically break down doors or at least creep up next to a window or something to gather information on private citizens. Now, we voluntarily share most of our lives on social media, and all the rest is zinging around through cyberspace.For the most part, third parties do it for us - Google, Facebook, Verizon, our banks. When we use these services, we agree to give them our data … [Read more...]
A New Gospel-Inspired Peace in Honduras
I've been to Honduras, I think, four times in my life--twice that I can remember and a couple of trips when I was an infant. It's where my parents were born, my mother grew up, and a majority of my extended family still lives. My mom still goes back regularly to see our family in the capital city of Tegucigalpa and I'd love to take my wife there one day to meet them as well. It's a beautiful country with a rich culture and generous people. Of course, to me the best part of Honduras is my family, … [Read more...]
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Each week in Citizenship Confusion, Alan Noble discusses how we confuse our heavenly citizenship with citizenship to the state, culture, and world. When the State announced that it would no longer include prayer during the graduation ceremony at Liberty High School in Pickens County, South Carolina, Roy Costner IV, a valedictorian, took matters into his own hands. The local school district had received complaints from the Freedom From Religion Foundation about school sponsored prayer in the … [Read more...]


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Development and Control of a 'Soft-Actuated' Exoskeleton for Use in Physiotherapy and Training
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Full or partial loss of function in the upper limb is an increasingly common due to sports injuries, occupational injuries, spinal cord injuries, and strokes. Typically treatment for these conditions relies on manipulative physiotherapy procedures which are extremely labour intensive. Although mechanical assistive device exist for limbs this is rare for the upper body.
In this paper we describe the construction and testing of a seven degree of motion prototype upper arm training/rehabilitation (exoskeleton) system. The total weight of the uncompensated orthosis is less than 2 kg. This low mass is primarily due to the use of a new range of pneumatic Muscle Actuators (pMA) as power source for the system. This type of actuator, which has also an excellent power/weight ratio, meets the need for safety, simplicity and lightness. The work presented shows how the system takes advantage of the inherent controllable compliance to produce a unit that is extremely powerful, providing a wide range of functionality (motion and forces over an extended range) in a manner that has high safety integrity for the patient. A training control scheme is introduced which is used to control the orthosis when used as exercise facility. Results demonstrate the potential of the device as an upper limb training, rehabilitation and power assist (exoskeleton) system.


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Information is what parents need to prevent their children from falling into drug or alcohol addiction.
They will have a unique opportunity to get this information on Tuesday, May 13, at the Drug Addiction Forum at Lake Oswego United Methodist Church at 7 p.m.
'Parents who come are going to hear about addiction from four really good perspectives,' said Dr. Marv Seppala, who will be one of the main presenters. 'There's the district attorney of Clackamas County (John Foote), Judy Cushing (president and CEO of Oregon Partnership) on prevention, myself on traits of addiction, and two high school students, who will take us right into the drug scene.
'This will really help parents understand the depth of this problem.'
As valuable, even vital, as this information can be, Seppala noted that parents often resist getting it out of complacency or fear. Until they have a real problem on their hands.
'It's easy to ignore it,' Seppala said. 'Then you read about something like the student at Reed College dying from an overdose of heroin.
'A forum like this allows us to get the word out about addiction again. I work in this field and it's a constant battle. There are constant tragedies.'
Seppala pointed out statistics indicating that Oregon youth are among those most prone to become addicted.
'There is a high rate of drug abuse by adolescents and young adults in this state,' he said. 'In drug use we're in the top 10. In alcohol abuse we're in the top five.
'Now, young girls between 12 and 15 are drinking even more than their male counterparts. That is scary, because the younger the teen who uses alcohol, the more chance of dependence later in life. That means more alcoholics and more of the medical problems associated with them.'
A long-time professional in his field, Seppala is constantly encountering new outcroppings of drug addiction; some of them quite surprising, such as the rapid rise in the use of painkillers.
'Heroin used to be the number one killer in Oregon,' Seppala said. 'Now it's methadone. Not the liquid kind used in clinics, but the tablet form. There was a case of a 13-year-old kid in Minnesota taking a methadone pill at a party one night. He was dead the next morning.'
Seppala has encountered some pretty strange cases himself.
'There was a guy from the suburbs who was a high school football player,' he said. 'He took Vicodin for an injury. He liked it.'
Soon that player and some of his football teammates became a group of Vicodin addicts, and only recently, coming in one by one, have they sought treatment.
'They were a group of guys in their 20s who have never accomplished anything,' Seppala said. 'All of them were on the same football team. They had a lot of potential.'
But the most harrowing case for Seppala came when a former friend of his son came up before the court, accused of armed robbery. He had become a methamphetimine addict.
'That kid was no different from my son,' Seppala said. 'It scares me. It probably all started with just a simple decision.'
When the flames of substance abuse can come so close to even someone like Seppala, it is time for every parent to take notice.
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10:1, good good. That means my desktop dyno numbers were based on the right info. From what Ive read on here, the BBC needs some compression to respond to a cam, so while its definitely on the high side, thats not all bad. We ran 93 octane all summer and it wasnt pinging with the new HEI (DUI) distributor. Total timing was right around 36-37 degrees (initial was 12 or so).
Im not a believer in "lead substitute"... I think its a marketing scheme. Im running non-leaded gas on all of my boats, even the old ones (1971) that supposedly require the lead. Im putting the money Im saving on the substitute away to pay for a valve job someday.
Im guessing it has a tiny cam in it too. We didnt gain any top speed with the smaller prop that let it turn up to 5200 (the other one only turned 4900), so it wasnt making any more power higher in the RPM band. The stock 330hp cam would have peaked around 4400-4500 with the peanut ports- maybe a bit higher with the 990's... so a cam making power up to 5500 should hopefully wake this thing up. I cant say that it had any lope at idle- it was pretty smooth, idled down to 600-700 rpm just fine and started very easily. My fingers are crossed that it still has the original cam in it- that would give us a good opportunity for more easy power! Great info on having a machine shop measure the cam... Ill add that to the list of things to do ASAP.
We cant change the length of the exhaust, obviously, but we're eliminating the mufflers and going from 3" hose to 4". Even if we go with some classic aluminum log manifolds, they should flow better than the cast iron pyramids... plus save 50-80 lbs. True headers would be nice and we're keeping our eyes open, but they may not be in the budget.
Youre correct- the Borg Warner 72C is a stout tranny and will handle all the power we can throw at it. It doesnt care how many RPM's we turn either- it would see more strain if we tried to turn a steeper prop... which we're not.
Feel free to clue me on on any speed secrets you know- not all will translate to a direct drive inboard but some may help. We're still using the boat to ski, so prop options are limited- but any info helps! Luckily the hull seems to get up out of the water pretty nice for a ski boat, which is certainly helping us. My other Nautique wont even break 50mph, even with a 350hp 351w pushing it! A few guys I run with have tweaked their hulls to get the bow up more at speed- this involves grinding the "hook" out of the last few feet of the hull... but those were flat bottomed boats. Not sure how that would affect this v-hull. The flat bottomed boats tend to run faster with a bit more weight in the back seat (people, lead, coolers, etc), but this boat didnt respond in the same way. Im still learning!
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How is the puppy doing at this point?
I don't even want to think of the amount I've spent training. Fuel costs are the main factor, but I've paid to train for a few years and my focus was never the podium or national level competitions... I just love training and learning. Seminars are great, but costly, some of the competitions I've been involved in have no 'titles' to gain but more for fun.
Training with a trainer, IMO is important, because I like to be critiqued, challenged and held accountable for my techniques. I'm still learning, always will be. Thick skin is necessary.
I won't add up the weekly costs to train, I'd be found out by my husband if I posted that anywhere, lol
10 weeks is just a little bit early to start training maybe two or three weeks more would be a little better but that's just my opinion and also if the puppy is doing well. I can see going to a specialist for an office visit but I cannot see doing a bunch of tests if the puppy is running around in a normal fashion it just doesn't make sense to me you've already done everything you can and until the puppy show signs of needing veterinary medicine - I would just play it safe ?!>
My females lack temperament and structure to do anything competitive. Kacie has a bad elbow and Onyx has aggression issues.
You should invest in your dog whatever you want to meet the goals you set.
In my opinion, no, there is never a time when you stop working with trainers. Even the best of the best are always going to seminars and studying under other top-level trainers to get feedback on what they're doing, learn new techniques of approaching old problems, and see things from a fresh perspective.
My personal experience has been that the longer you're in it, the more time and money you spend seeking out and training under the best possible instructors. You might find yourself trialing more frequently and in higher levels of competition, too, and that's also going to eat up more money on everything from gas to entry fees.
It's more expensive to chase a UDX than a BN, and it's more expensive to chase an ARCHMX than a RL1, because you have to enter more runs per day, the runs are harder, and you need double or triple Qs to count toward your title (so if you fail any individual run in a set of two or three, bam, your whole day is wasted. No points!). In IPO, once you leave the world of club competition and move into Regionals and Nationals, I imagine it's probably pretty similar. More time, more money, more stress to compete. You work harder to win and those wins come more rarely.
So pretty much if you get sucked into the world of dog sports, IME it can easily balloon into a huge investment, because as you get better, you will set the bar higher and higher, and that costs exponentially more money and time and effort.
It doesn't have to go that way. You probably won't need a trainer to help you teach a puppy Sit and Stay and so forth. But if you get hooked on competition, god have mercy on your wallet.
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I've been re-playing IX and these designs are on my disks and they're pretty. It was a toss up between this or Zidane, but hilariously and unintentionally this one would partner j_merc's Celes on the Thursday, so this one has won out (for now.) Will also work as a back up costume should anything go wrong with anything else.
Plus I will get to make a prop according to my reference image and props are fun.
In progress now, and going surprisingly well! About a quarter of the way there now.
Yay, you added it....erm, we'll both be doing yellow costumes on that day... :lol:
Actually, I'll be going more for the brown/sandy colour for Celes, but it did stick me that both the Amano versions of the our cosplays are yellow....
...I hadn't actually thought of that, but you're right! I'm now even more amused than I was before.
You will look amazing...Garnet is such a great character
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Some of the Itialian Sharps are made very good so if money becomes a problem then you have another avenue. I myself prefer the American made but I do own a Pedredi Sharps that shoots very well. Not sure but Pedredi is part of Pedersoli and I am not sure if I have spelled the name correctly. My 1874 has a very sweet double set trigger.
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so this year i will be tinkerbell! I also wore silver/black eyelashes; really fun . love it. only thing missing is the BIG white ball on the shoes.
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Benchmarking and systems performance - hosted by Elisabeth Stahl
Blog Authors: ELISABETH STAHL 0600029JQ8 is Chief Technical Strategist and Executive IT Specialist, IBM Systems and Technology Group, and has been working in systems performance for over 25 years.
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Briskets and Benchmarks
Should you use a linear function or the Brisket Curve when cooking a brisket? And how does all this relate to benchmarks? Read here.
Oracle Compares Itself to Itself
On the new Oracle M3000 "enhancement" - Read about it and tell your self-improvement story here.
POWER7 Redefined
Read all about performance with the new POWER7 announcements . . .
Who Killed HP?
Conspiracy theory or truth surrounding HP benchmarks and Oracle . . . read here.
IBM eX5 with E7 Vrooms
Read about the new IBM eX5 benchmarks and what to consider . . .
Oracle, Itanium, and Crisco
How I discovered that Oracle is like Crisco, not Cisco . . . Read all about it.
Oracle, Why Even Bother?
Why did Oracle even bother to publish their new TPC-H BI benchmark result? Read all about it here.
Cisco/Oracle Surgery on SPECjEnterprise
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Read about how Cisco/Oracle's new "world record" SPECjEnterprise2010 result is like gum surgery.
How can I make use of benchmarks in my purchasing decision?
An IT purchasing decision can be just as exciting as planning a vacation.
Read all about it here.
IBM #1 in Oracle Benchmark
Oracle provides a suite of vendor benchmarks to measure the performance of Oracle applications called the Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark. This benchmark is a comparable standard workload which demonstrates the performance and scalability of Oracle applications and provides metrics for the comparison of performance on different system configurations.
IBM just published another #1 POWER7 benchmark result on one of Oracle's own benchmarks. The IBM Power 710 6-core system now leads in the R12 Order-to-Cash Medium Model. IBM surpassed Cisco and HP in this benchmark by over 2 times the performance per core. (1)
So my question here is what happens when Oracle decides to have a hardware presence in this specific benchmark? Are we taking bets?
(1)A 6-core IBM Power 710 (3.72 GHz) achieved the best medium two-tier Order-to-Cash batch result (213,523 lines per hour) running AIX 6.1 and IBM System Storage DS5100. A 12-core Cisco UCS B200 (3.33 GHz) achieved medium two-tier Order-to-Cash batch result (185,643 lines per hour). An 8-core HP DL380 (3.16 GHz) achieved medium two-tier Order-to-Cash batch result (108,108 lines per hour).
Source: http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/benchmark/apps-benchmark/results-166922.html. Results current as of 3/11/11.
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The postings on this site solely reflect the personal views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or IBM management.
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Too Many IBM SAP #1's
Walking the dog this week, you felt that spring was in the air. The boots with crampons were put back in the closet. The sun on my face, I could almost imagine reading in my beach chair. And my black lab found grass and dirt mounds, instead of making yellow spots in the white snow.
Yet I just found out this afternoon that besides our flood warning now in effect, a new weather development has formed. A winter storm watch has now turned into a full winter storm warning. With 10 inches or more snow expected. As I write, I see the rain turning to icy chunks. And all I feel like saying is wow, I don't know if I can take any more.
Which is sort of how I felt today when I saw the new #1 IBM SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) 2-tier 16-core result.(1) I mean, IBM already has the top three results in this Unicode benchmark using POWER7 systems.(2) And the highest x86 result, with the IBM x3850 X5.(3) And now we have another outstanding proof point with DB2 on the IBM Power 730, a high-performance, dense and energy-efficient server ideal for running multiple application and infrastructure workloads.
My dog's coat is so plush that we sometimes call him Steiff. Sometimes we even find him stretched out, just relaxing, in a pile of snow.
I guess he can take some more.
(1)SAP SD 2-tier result of 8,704 benchmark users, Average dialog response time 0.97 seconds, CPU utilization of central server 99%, AIX 7.1, DB2 9.7, SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0, Certification number: 2011011, IBM Power 730, 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads, POWER7, 3.55 GHz, 32 KB (I) and 32 KB (D) L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 4 MB L3 cache per core, 128 GB main memory. (2) IBM Power 795 on two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode): 32 processors / 256 cores / 1,024 threads, POWER7, 4.0 GHz, 4,096 GB memory, 126,063 SAP SD benchmark users, 0.98 seconds dialog response time, 96 percent CPU, AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 9.7. Certification #2010046. (3)SAP SD 2-tier result of 19,700 SAP SD benchmark users, IBM System x3850 X5, eight Intel® Xeon® X7560 processors, IBM System Storage™ DS4800, IBM DB2 9.7, SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP application Release 6.0., 0.92 seconds average dialog response time, 99 percent CPU , Certification number 2010044.
Source: www.sap.com/benchmark. Results current as of 3/11/11.
SAP, mySAP and other SAP product and service names mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world.
The postings on this site solely reflect the personal views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or IBM management.
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Exadata Buckeye Brouhaha
While IBM has been publishing detailed ads and press releases backed by meticulous industry standard benchmark results, it's certainly not a given in the rest of the industry.
Yesterday, Oracle once again published a press release which claimed performance on their Exadata system.
Was this claim backed by industry standard data? No. Was this claim backed by a proof of concept? No. Was this claim backed by a white paper with data? No.
This claim was something that Oracle tells us was seen by one of their customers. With headquarters in Ohio. Land of the Wright Brothers and good Midwest values. Land of LeBron and Jimmy Dimora.
I can say this because I live in Ohio. And I love it but I still wouldn't trust my neighbor further than a pig's ear without any data.
The postings on this site solely reflect the personal views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or IBM management.
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IBM's Hip Benchmarks
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I am embarrassed to admit that I am one of the last people to adopt anything hip. It took me years to decide to buy my first pair of capris. Remember when those knit caps from Nepal became really popular a few years ago? I just got one. I also just bought my first pair of Ugg-like boots last month.
Luckily I have a cousin who is a designer in New York City or I would be a total loss.
Which is why I have a real appreciation for anything that is hip. And I realized that IBM has actually been very prescient these days with new hip benchmark results. Let's take a look at a few:
I did realize that there are a few times where I am actually an early style adopter -- when I still have something from the 1970's that comes back into style.
(1)SPECjEnterprise2010 result with WebSphere Application Server V7 on IBM Power 780 (64 cores, 8 chips) and DB2 9.7 on IBM Power 750 Express (32 cores, 4 chips) of 16,646.34 EjOPS. (2)SPECvirt_sc2010 result on x3850 X5, 5466 @ 336 VMs, Intel® Xeon® Processor X7560 (2.26GHz with 24MB L3 cache per processor—8 chips/64 cores/8 cores per chip), 2TB of memory, 576 73GB disk drives, Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 6, KVM. Source: www.spec.org. Results current as of 3/3/11. (3)http://www.stacresearch.com/node/8509
SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjbb, SPECweb, SPECjAppServer, SPECjEnterprise, SPECjvm, SPECvirt, SPECompM, SPECompL, SPECsfs, SPECpower, SPEC MPI and SPECpower_ssj are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
The postings on this site solely reflect the personal views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or IBM management.
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XIV, Storwize, and Jane Eyre for 200
Some books are so good that they make you forget what century you are living in. And who you are and what you do. You forget to make dinner. You forget to feed the dog.
This week I've been rereading one of my all time favorite novels -- Jane Eyre. It is an amazing book for me because not only do I forget everything else but the emotional ups and downs of the passionate unconventional heroine are truly tremendous.
And that's exactly how I felt last night watching Watson on Jeopardy!. Oh wow, the Yorktown IBM building looks so good. Oh great, Watson is doing so well. Oh no, Watson missed that one. Do I really want humans to lose?
As you saw last night, efficiency is important for Watson. And the same is true for today's IBM storage announcements. Storage efficiency is the goal - store less, move data to the right place, get more from what's on the floor. The announcements include ability to:
Read here for all the exciting news about IBM systems announcements today.
I've read that some viewers thought the IBM Jeopardy! challenge was wonderful, others thought it was more of an infomercial. But I think that everyone agrees that one of the most entertaining parts is when Watson gets it wrong. And you realize that even 90 POWER7 systems can miss a nuance. But then again, how many humans actually learn from their mistakes?
Oracle Confessions
The right way to use technology: On Monday evening I was in class and some of the students had questions. The instructor pulled out her iPad and successfully answered the questions in real time.
The wrong way to use technology: Attend a funeral via live-streaming, or give a confession using an iPhone app - unless you have a really good reason.
The right way to make a performance claim: Highlight all hardware and software used and give a result that can be compared to something in order to know whether it is a good result.
The wrong way to make a performance claim: Oracle published three press releases today claiming "extreme performance" using their financial services software on Exadata X2-2 systems. Here's what you need to know:
Forgive me, for I have doubts.
The postings on this site solely reflect the personal views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views, positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or IBM management.
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Akeem Dent: It's been going good.
Grant: Did you do anything in the spring such as track or baseball?
Dent: In the spring all I really did was get in the weight room a little. In track I did the long jump and triple jump.
Grant: How have the weight workouts been going for you?
Dent: Everything's been going well in my weight workouts.
Grant: Have you managed to get any stronger?
Dent: Yes, I feel myself getting stronger.
Grant: Are you using the workout from Georgia or are you doing your own thing?
Dent: Right now I have a personal trainer. I workout four to five days a week, and I go by my strength and conditioning book.
Grant: How long are your workouts?
Dent: About two hours a workout.
Grant: Have you added or cut any weight?
Dent: Right now I haven't put on that much weight. The University of Georgia just told me to worry about getting faster and stronger, and the weight would come when I get there.
Grant: What are you weighing right now?
Dent: Right now I'm 208.
Grant: When do you report to Athens?
Dent: The date that I report is June 5.
Grant: Do you have any goals for yourself as you get ready to go and once you get there?
Dent: My main goals are to go to school and get my grades up so that I won't have anything to worry about. So when I get out on the football field, I'm going to go out and compete.
Grant: Do you think you have a shot at playing time this year?
Dent: Right now I feel I may have a chance to go in and get a little playing time because of some of the injuries that Georgia had at the linebacker position. So I think there might be a good opportunity for me.
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Putting Too Good A Face On Revlon?
Just what is Revlon worth in a public offering? Revlon won't comment, but sources close to Revlon maintain its value is $4.7 billion. Here's how it's calculated: Assume that Revlon is similar to four other publicly traded, personal-care-product companies: Gillette, International Flavors & Fragrances, L'Oreal, and Procter & Gamble. Now, take two yardsticks for determining value: the multiple of sales and the multiple of cash flow that each company's stock trades at. The highest of the four, IFF, trades at 3.87 times sales. The average of the four is 2.63. Then, take IFF's multiple together with the 2.63 and average them, which yields 3.25. Apply that to Revlon's estimated 1995 sales of $2 billion. The result: $6.5 billion. Do the same for cash flow, where Gillette is the top multiple, at 14.6, and you'll get $2.9 billion. Averaging these two measures yields $4.7 billion.
This method seems misguided. Averaging the mean and the maximum multiples biases the results upward. Moreover, it seems optimistic to compare Revlon with Gillette and IFF: Both have a virtual lock on their markets. Sure, one investment banker justifies the use of the maximum multiples because this year Revlon is growing faster than Gillette. But one year doesn't make a trend, especially in highly volatile cosmetics. A more conservative comparison is L'Oreal, the French cosmetics outfit. Using L'Oreal's multiples, Revlon would fetch $2.7 billion. Indeed, one non-Perelman investment banker comes up with the same figure.


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Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) hosted its inaugural Directors of Tennis Conference last week on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Based on feedback from participants, the three day event was a success!
Fifty people interacted with 14 presenters before breaking into roundtable discussion groups. Subject matter was specific to address the needs of tennis directors and included such topics as pricing, budgeting, hiring and compensation, software solutions, programming and management.
Several exhibitors were available to discuss their products and services including, reBounces, TIA, TennisSource.net, The Wimbledon Experience, USTA and Van der Meer Tennis. Participants enjoyed morning Cardio Tennis and the new Cardio TRX workouts. A welcome reception was sponsored by reBounces and the USTA sponsored lunch on the final day.
PTR is the largest global organization of tennis teaching professionals with more than 14,000 members in 117 countries. It has the greatest percentage of multicultural and women members of any such organization. PTR is dedicated to educating, certifying and servicing tennis teachers and coaches around the world in order to grow the game.
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|Brandon Reed Bio
Courtesy: ArkansasState
Release: 08/26/2013
2013-14: Has accumulated 860 career points between Georgia Tech and Arkansas State.
2011-12 & 2012-13: Played two seasons at Georgia Tech ... Coached by Brian Gregory ... Produced career per game averages of 6.4 points (391 pts.), 2.9 rebounds (177 rebs.), 1.2 assists (75 asts.), and 0.6 steals (37 stls.) while averaging 21.2 minutes an outing (1,293 minutes) ... Started 43 of 61 contests played in for the Yellowjackets ... Registered a combined 34.8 percent (134-385) from the floor and made 31.8 percent (62-195) of shots from three-point territory in two seasons ... Connected on 61-of-88 at the free throw stripe for a 69.3 percent success rate ... Averaged 5.2 points (157 pts.) along with 2.6 rebounds (77 rebs.) and 1.2 assists (37 asts.) in the 2012-13 campaign ... Received starting nod in the initial 15 of squad's 30 2012-13 outings ... Netted a career season-best 38.4 percent (28-73) from three-point field goal range, which included 42.1 success rate in conference contests ... Reached double-figure scoring on three occasions in 2012-13 - 19 vs. Saint Mary's (11/25), 17 against Maryland (2/27), and 14 vs. Alabama State (12/17) ... Started 28 of 31 games in 2011-12 season ... Produced a team sixth-highest 7.5 points (234 pts.) and 3.2 rebounds (100 rebs.) a contest for 2011-12 campaign ... Chalked up double-digit point totals in 11 games, which included season-high 18 points at Florida State (2/1) ... Tallied 16 points apiece in season opener at Florida A&M (11/11), at Savannah State (12/10), and at Fordham (12/29).
2010-11: Transferred to Georgia Tech but was ineligible for competition due to NCAA Division I Transfer Rule.
2009-10: Earned Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year honors ... Achived National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 24 Second-Team laurels ... Attained United States Basketball Writers of America All-District accolades ... Led Red Wolves in scoring by averaging 15.1 points per game and his team-leading 469 points was the most scored by an A-State freshman in a single season ... Ranked seventh among the Sun Belt Conference scoring leaders for all games while his 16.8 points a contest (303 pts.) in 18 league matchups was fifth best in conference outings only ... A starter in 30 of A-State's 31 contests ... Averaged 3.4 rebounds per game (62 rebs.) in Sun Belt competition and connected on 76.6 percent (52-67) at the free throw line to along with 43 assists and 17 steals in a team-most 642 minutes ... Made 38.8 percent (107-276) of his shot in league play and connected on a squad-most 37 treys in 114 attempts for 32.5 percent efficiently ... Went 52-for-67 (77.6 percent) at the charity stripe in SBC matchups as his 52 free throws marked an A-State best ... Generated double-figure scoring in 23 games, which included six with at least 20 points ... Poured in a career game-high 34 points against Denver (1/30) and had 30 points in an overtime tilt versus Western Kentucky (2/20) ... Scored 26 points at South Alabama (1/9) while garnering 25 points each vs. North Texas (1/2) and at FIU (1/21) ... Finished season reaching double figures in points nine of last 12 contests and averaged 16.8 points per game (202 pts.) ... Paced the Red Wolves in scoring 14 times ... Grabbed season-most nine rebounds (five offensive) against UALR (3/6) in SBC Tournament tilt ... Dished out six assists on three occasions - vs. MacMurray (11/16), at New Orleans (2/6), and against Western Kentucky (3/7) in SBC Tourney contest ... Made personal season game-high 66.7 percent (8-12) in win over Tennessee-Martin (11/25) ... Went 9-of-11 (81.8 percent) at free throw stripe against Western Kentucky (2/20) and converted all seven charity attempts at South Alabama (1/9).
High School: Led Whitefield Academy to the Class A state championship game all four years capturing the Class A championship his senior season ... A 2009 McDonald's All-America nominee ... Coached by Tyrone Johnson ... Graduated in 2009 from Whitefield Academy in Mableton, Ga. ... Averaged 21 points, eight rebounds and five assists per game as a senior in leading the Wolfpack to a 28-7 record ... Scored 31 points against Wilcox County and 36 points against Darlington during the 2008-09 Class A tournament ... A first-team all-state selection and named 2009 Class A Player of the Year while earning first-team All-Atlanta Metro honors ... Played against former A-State player Martavius Adams in the Class A championship game his sophomore year ... Rated as a three-star recruit by Rivals.com while also earning the nod as the top recruited shooting guard in the Sun Belt Conference for the 2009-10 season also by Rivals.com ... Ran track from 2005-07.
Personal: Born in Kansas City, Kan. ... Son of Bryan Elmore Sr. and Princess Elmore ... Has three brothers ... Father is a computer technican with Dell and mother is a vice president at Affinity Banking ... A cousin of former NFL and Auburn football standout Joe Cribbs ... A nephew of Missouri State Athletics Hall of Fame women's basketball player Roshonda Reed ... Started playing basketball at age seven ... Enjoys shopping, music, bowling, and video games ... Enrolled in graduate school after receiving a bachelor's degree in sociology.
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Press Release: Satisfied employees and higher productivity go together
Satisfied employees and higher productivity go together
Workplaces with rising employee job satisfaction also experience improvements in workplace performance, while deteriorating employee job satisfaction is detrimental to workplace performance. This is according to new research out today by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The first such UK study, based on the nationally representative 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey of workplaces and their employees, found that in workplaces where average employee job satisfaction was rising, employee job satisfaction was found to be positively associated with workplace financial performance, labour productivity, the quality of output and service and an additive scale combining all three aspects of performance.
Workplaces experiencing an improvement in job satisfaction – whether measured in terms of the average level of satisfaction in the workforce, or measured in terms of an increase in the proportion "very satisfied" or a reduction in the proportion "very dissatisfied" - also experience an improvement in performance. By contrast, there was no association between job-related affect and workplace performance.
- Increasing overall average employee job satisfaction was associated with increases in all four workplace performance measures.
- Increasing average non-pecuniary job satisfaction was positively associated with changes in all four workplace performance measures.
- Increasing pay satisfaction, on the other hand, was never positively associated with performance measures.
- Workplaces with rising job dissatisfaction experienced deterioration in all four performance measures, whereas workplaces with an increase in "very satisfied" employees experienced rising quality of output or service and an increase in the additive performance measure, but not financial performance or labour productivity.
- Changes in job-related affect (the amount of time feeling tense, depressed, worried, gloomy, uneasy and miserable) were not generally associated with workplace performance.
These findings are consistent with the proposition that employers who are able to raise employees' job satisfaction may see improvements in the performance of their workplace. These improvements are apparent in profitability (financial performance), labour productivity and the quality of output or service.
Comments on the report
Alex Bryson, Principal Research Fellow at NIESR and one of the co-authors of the report, said:
"Although we cannot state definitively that the link between increasing job satisfaction and improved workplace performance is causal, the findings are robust to tests for reverse causation and persist within workplaces over time, so that we can discount the possibility that the results are driven by fixed unobservable differences between workplaces. There is therefore a prima facie case for employers to consider investing in the wellbeing of their employees on the basis of the likely performance benefits."
Notes to Editors:
To discuss the article or for interviews, please contact:
- Alex Bryson (a.bryson [at] niesr.ac.uk) on +44(0)7969 179755
- Lucy Stokes (l.stokes [at] niesr.ac.uk) on +44(0)20 7654 1928
1.The study entitled Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance? was produced by Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The study was funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. The report can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/worker-wellbeing-and-workplace-performance
2.The study analyses the 2011 WERS which is the sixth in a series of workplace employment relations surveys. Previous surveys were conducted in 1980, 1984, 1990, 1998 and 2004. Interviews were undertaken with around 2,700 workplace managers and 1,000 employee representatives, whilst over 20,000 employees completed questionnaires. Fieldwork ran from March 2011 to June 2012 and was conducted by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Further information on WERS is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-2011-workplace-employment-relations-study-wers
3.The 2011 survey was jointly sponsored by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). NIESR's contribution was made possible by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation. The views expressed are those of the publication's authors.
4. The study is based on analyses of the 2011 survey of workplaces and employees, and on a panel of workplaces tracked over the period 2004-2011. The measures of workplace performance are based on HR Managers' perceptions of their workplace's performance relative to the industry average in relation to financial performance, labour productivity, and the quality of output/service. WERS measures nine dimensions of job satisfaction (pay, sense of achievement, training receipt, job autonomy, skill development opportunities, job security, scope for initiative, involvement in decision-making and their satisfaction with the work itself). It contains six indicators of job-related affect covering the frequency with which the employee feels tense, depressed, worried, gloomy, uneasy and miserable.
5. Alex Bryson and John Forth are Principal Research Fellows at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Lucy Stokes is a Senior Research Fellow at NIESR.
6.All findings reported in the publication relate to workplaces with 5 or more employees.
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Further details of NIESR's activities can be seen on http://www.niesr.ac.uk or by contacting enquiries [at] niesr.ac.uk Switchboard Telephone Number: +44 (0) 207 222 7665