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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2312?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12847123#action_12847123 ] Jason Rutherglen commented on LUCENE-2312: ------------------------------------------ For the skip list, we could reuse what we have (ie, DefaultSkipListReader), though, we'd need to choose a default number of docs, pulled out of thin air, as there's no way to guesstimate per term before hand. Or we can have a single level skip list (more like an index) and binary search to find the value (assuming we have an int array instead of storing vints) in the skip list we're looking for. > Search on IndexWriter's RAM Buffer > ---------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2312 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2312 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Search > Affects Versions: 3.0.1 > Reporter: Jason Rutherglen > Assignee: Michael Busch > Fix For: 3.1 > > > In order to offer user's near realtime search, without incurring > an indexing performance penalty, we can implement search on > IndexWriter's RAM buffer. This is the buffer that is filled in > RAM as documents are indexed. Currently the RAM buffer is > flushed to the underlying directory (usually disk) before being > made searchable. > Todays Lucene based NRT systems must incur the cost of merging > segments, which can slow indexing. > Michael Busch has good suggestions regarding how to handle deletes using max doc ids. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2293?focusedCommentId=12841923&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12841923 > The area that isn't fully fleshed out is the terms dictionary, > which needs to be sorted prior to queries executing. Currently > IW implements a specialized hash table. Michael B has a > suggestion here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2293?focusedCommentId=12841915&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12841915 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Mr. Welburn knows how important reading is and loves reading to the Salem stars each month. Today he got to meet a famous author Richard Paul Evans who wrote the Michael Vey series. Mr. Welburn told him how great of readers the Salem Stars are and Richard Paul Evans said to tell them hello and to keep reading!


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As I was driving to the grocery store last weekend, the second day after my last day of work, I heard a string of songs on the radio that brought me back to college. Yes, I was listening to the '90s radio station. I didn't truly "find myself" until later in my twenties and when I now think back to college, I feel a little bit of the same. Almost as if the chaos of the past several years has stripped away layers of who I really am.
With my retirement, I feel an incredible weight lifted from my shoulders. Although, the tension hasn't completely left me. I carry stress in my shoulders and neck and at the end of last week, I was experiencing pain at the back of my neck, right on the base of my spine, which is a common pain point for me. I took Advil but that did nothing to relieve the pain. As we were leaving gymnastics Friday night, a girl walking in the opposite direction bumped against my shoulder. A sharp pain raced through my neck and then I realized that most of the pain was gone. I thought maybe something had been out of whack and the bump had fixed it but no, the pain returned that night and continued all weekend. This is typical for me. As I was walking this morning, I took note of my posture with my shoulders scrunched up and not relaxed at all. Apparently, I am not relaxed.
Comparing life a few months ago to today is like discussing the differences between night and day. Last week, I had to keep telling myself that I didn't have to check my work email. I found myself reaching for my nonexistent Blackberry or having that dreaded feeling of it's been awhile, I need to check my email. I'm not going to say that being at home is "easy" because I've only been here for just over a week but there's a huge difference in quality of life when you're not splitting yourself between family and a demanding career.
The first weekend after work ended, we were hardly at home so I only ran one load of laundry. I was behind on laundry headed into the weekend and not doing any over the weekend put me really behind. I ended up having to run multiple loads each day last week. I want to avoid that going into the future and this week is definitely not the same. I'm also going into this with a messy house. We are headed into summer vacation so I haven't set any goals with respect to cleaning. I wish it was all spotless so I could just sit and read!
I always thought that I needed routine because, for example, I prefer having my own work space that's available to me versus commuting to different client sites or hoteling. It turns out what I really need is familiarity, not routine. Familiarity is comforting to me. Routine eventually becomes draining. I had to walk a different route to and from the train station because walking the same route both sides of the commute every day drove me insane. I already know I'm not going to be able to have a routine for cleaning. I've seen those helpful hints where you do certain chores on specific days of the week, such as cleaning the bathrooms on Monday. I can't handle that much routine.
So am I ever going to work again? What am I going to do? Friends and family have asked. Eventually, I will do something. I just don't know when or what. I have had thoughts regarding photography but I haven't allowed myself to go too far down the path of dreams. My brother-in-law is selling his home and last weekend, I photographed the house for the listing. That was my second real estate photography shoot and it was quite pleasant. I'll figure something out at some point. The great thing is that it doesn't have to be now.
The one area that I have been focusing on over the past week or so is exercise, which I'd been grossly neglecting. But more on that later.


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Young Friends in the 7-11 age group share their thoughts on BYM with Jez
Monday, 14 May 2007
The Light Fantastic speak to Jez
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I have been loving the BYM blog, keep it up. It has helped to fill the gap that BYM always seem to leave for me up to a couple of weeks afterwards.
As a member of Quaker Life Outreach network Group I cn see real potential in developing blogging as a tool. I shall definitely take this to our next meeting.
By the way Isaac is quite chuffed to be in the limelight for a few seconds!
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I was helping a couple find a home when we came across this one property they really loved. There were tenants in the home and I had to give 24 hours notice to view it. My clients were so excited about the home that they were worried that if we had to wait for 24 hours, someone else would buy it before they could see it. After talking with the seller's Realtor, we moving to calgarymanaged to get in that day by piggy backing on another Realtor's showing. Well, our efforts paid off because my clients loved the property!
Within the private remarks (notes only viewed by the real estate agents), the sellers promised to have the home cleaned prior to moving in. If you've ever viewed a property that is lived in, you know that the home is never 100% clean and many times there are food smells and well, uncertain, less desirable smells.


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Soccer Laduma was founded in 1997 and is the largest football publisher (across print, web, mobile and social media) in South Africa.
It provides breaking news, interviews and analysis on local and international soccer, often complimented by user-generated content.
The print edition is South Africa's top selling sports publication, selling 317 013 copies in the second quarter of 2014, with a readership of 3.221-million.
The Soccer Laduma website gets a million unique visitors and 28-million page impressions on mobile. On desktop the website gets 252 776 unique visitors and 4-million page impressions.
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text: SOUTH BEND -- The South Bend teen who pleaded guilty to murdering a west-side convenience store owner was sentenced Thursday morning to 60 years in prison. Judge William Albright handed William Tobar II, 19, a sentence near the maximum 65 years. Tobar shot and killed Pritam "Sam" Singh, 53, on Dec. 30 during a robbery at Sam's Food Market on Lincoln Way West. Tobar apologized to Singh's family and his own family before the sentencing and said he knows his expressed remorse will not bring Singh back. "I am so sorry for what happened," Tobar said. Tobar, who has three children, including a baby born in July, said he was on cocaine at the time of the robbery, and "I would never do something like this." Under the plea deal, two 15-year sentences Tobar received for a pair of criminal confinement charges will be served at the same time as the felony murder sentence. The judge did not suspend any of the 60-year sentence. Members of Singh's family did not attend the hearing, but Gurbachan Singh, Sam Singh's brother, said in an interview he did not believe the sentence was appropriate. "So what, he'll serve 30 years and then he'll come back out and do this to somebody else?" Gurbachan Singh said. "I'm worried about him killing somebody else and causing pain for somebody else. I don't want anyone else's family to have happen what happened to us." St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Dvorak argued at the hearing for the maximum sentence for Tobar, highlighting a juvenile criminal history that included robbery and theft charges. The murder was committed "in cold-blooded fashion," said Dvorak, describing how Tobar grabbed Singh's wallet as the shop owner lay on the ground after Tobar shot him. "Mr. Tobar has done absolutely nothing valuable for society," Dvorak said. The maximum sentence, the prosecutor said, "is clearly a punishment that protects the rest of this community from Mr. Tobar committing a crime like this again -- at least not while he is in prison." Tobar's uncle, Thomas Murray, spoke on behalf of Tobar's family. "It is with regret and heartfelt remorse that we apologize to the Singh family for the pain and the hurt this case has caused them," Murray said. "I apologize from our family and from Will. As a side effect, it has hurt our family, too." "All around," Murray said, "this has been painful for everyone." The three other people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the case, two men who robbed the store with Tobar and a woman who was the getaway driver, have yet to be sentenced.


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I remember when Franz Ferdinand's second album dropped through the mailbox - I put it straight on and was happily run through by the dashing, rapier sharp opener 'The Fallen'. The opening gambit is a rakish lead section that charges into a duelling twin guitar line, the two melodies jousting and intertwining insouciantly. It only gets better from there - rat-a-tat vocal delivery in the verses and powerful choruses, leading up to a bold singalong section then a delightfully knackered solo tied into the outro. This song oozes confidence, barging its way into your memory. And now, 'The Fallen' is set to barge into the charts as the third single to be taken from the number one album You Could Have it So Much Better.
But after the great expectation and furious billboard hype has calmed down, there seems to have been a general consensus that Y.C.H.I.S.M.B. is nowhere near as complete as their iconic self-titled debut. There's too much fumbling, and some clearly inferior filler. The first few tracks are actually its saving graces, a trilogy of highly polished gemstone songs that, not unreasonably, worked the critics into a fevered hyperbole frenzy at the time of their release. They're breathtaking - the unadulterated crack-addictive hit of guitar pop in its very purest form. And that's exactly what Franz Ferdinand have always been aiming for. On Newsnight Review, Alex Kapranos surprised me by renouncing the term art rock, instead saying that he wanted Franz to be a pop band (albeit one so good as to tap into the transcendental, universal power of truly great pop music). Franz are aiming to enter the canon inhabited by songs like 'Brown Sugar', 'Leader of The Gang' and 'Prince Charming'... glamorous, memorable hits that'll be filling dancefloors at student union indie nights, hipster house parties and even wedding receptions twenty years from now. Listening to both 'The Fallen' and the relentless catchy and glitzy 'Do You Want To' again a few months after their initial release, I have to say they might just have done it.
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Director of Care to retire after 15 years at the Primrose
Libby Mytton, Director of Care is retiring after 15 years at Primrose Hospice.
Libby began her career back in 1979 as a Staff Nurse at Solihull Hospital and has since then dedicated her time to helping and supporting others.
Joining Primrose Hospice in 2002 as Nurse Manager, Libby spent 12 years looking after the patients stepping into the role of Director of Care in February 2014.
Libby received a gift of 'The Libby Tree' from the ex chair or Trustees John Burman. The tree is planted in the gardens at the Primrose.
Helen Briscoe, Chief Executive, Primrose Hospice comments "Libby has been an integral part of Primrose Hospice for many years and has seen hospice care change massively in that time.
Changes in treatments and an ever changing NHS structure mean that the Hospice has to adapt to meet demands. Libby has worked hard to ensure that we offer the very best quality care for the hundreds of patients we have supported over the years and her wisdom and experience will be missed. We would like to thank Libby for all that she has done for Primrose Hospice and wish her a long and happy retirement!"


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CenterPoint expands office with new hires, new accounts
ST. LOUIS—Third party central station CenterPoint Technologies and its vice president of operations and business development MJ Vance have had a very busy summer with a rash of new hires, new services and new recognitions.
"I was having a heck of a time keeping up with my business development and running the central station at the same time." Vance said. "Since 2007 I've been running the central station and doing business development, so I knew I was going to have to bring in someone qualified to run the central so I could focus on other endeavors."
Those other endeavors include forays into new services, signing up new dealers comprising an additional 2,000 monitored accounts, and the hiring of additional, seasoned central station operators.
Vance said CenterPoint took its time finding new central station operations manager Tom Legens. "It was probably a five- or six-month process," she said. "I wanted to be sure I had someone here who could run the central the way it needed to be run if I were out for two or three days."
Legens was hired in April from another local alarm company, American Burglar and Fire, where he filled many roles. "Technically, I was purchasing manger accounts receivable manager, IT manager, I also did fleet services, and the website," Legens said. "It's definitely more a focused thing here. I have the day-to-day operation. Trying to build the dealer relations and get new services ready."
What kinds of new services are in the wings?
"We'll be ready to roll out video monitoring services in the next 30 days," Legens said. "We'll be working with SureView and the Immix platform." Legens said they wanted to be sure "they weren't playing catch up," and that all the wrinkles were ironed out before offering the service to dealers. He's also exploring managed access control and autoattendant services.
"We're dealer based, to the extent that we keep the dealers intentions top of mind at all times," said CenterPoint president Chris Burnes. "We're committed to providing the highest levels of technology and customer service. We continue to encourage our dealers to bring their clients through on tours to see how we make the difference."
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Wednesday 9 July // day one hundred ninety :: I feel as though this deserves a kind of lengthy explanation. Yes, this picture was taken exactly one month before my 21st birthday. I received this for my college graduation {in December} and the glasses were my great-grandfather's. I got sick of looking at that bottle in the fridge, so I figured that I would try it, but of course I would need to take pictures to document this. I really only had a tiny sip and I didn't like it, so I dumped it out. Growing up Catholic and taking Eucharist at Mass, I could already tell you that I don't like wine. I've spent plenty of time around alcohol in my life and I don't really understand why people like it {I'm sorry, but it smells gross} or what it does to them. I think we all know that I'll be having a sober birthday! (: To each his own, I guess.
Thursday 10 July // day one hundred ninety-one :: tiny red heels. they're actually a phone stand, and it was a gift from my manager (:
Friday 11 July // day one hundred ninety-two :: from the August 2014 issue of Glamour (an article entitled "12 Times New Clothes are the Answer") - I do have quite a bit of color in my closet, but there are many, many black items in there... (:
Saturday 12 July // day one hundred ninety-three :: this is my favorite lotion! (I get it at World Market)
Sunday 13 July // day one hundred ninety-four :: trying to finish a book by doing some reading before work so that I could return it to the library the next morning.
Monday 14 July // day one hundred ninety-five :: clouds. I really like clouds. this was one of those days where I took a few other pictures, but I liked this one the best for the day.
Tuesday 15 July // day one hundred ninety-six :: if I'm running late on taking a picture for the day and about to leave for work, I just take a picture of the view from my balcony...
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That phone stand is gorgeous! I rarely drink, as alcohol gives me heart burn. However when I do drink it's fruity. Vodka and cranberry. I stick to like colors, clear alcohols only or dark only, no mixing then no sick. Also, arbor mists are tasty and have almost no alcohol!ReplyDelete
I can't believe you're 20. You're so mature!
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There is a new online Christian community starting up on 1 November - His Kingdom Come, a creative community of faith. You can find it here. There will be a blog hop on Saturday to launch it and I am sure there will be lots of exciting things to follow.
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Go on then, i'll take the bait, name 5 better keepers than him.
Fair dos but we are 18 games into the season and having to go back to the stoke game...says it all for me and as of yet he hasn't looked like a 30m keeper for everton or a massive improvement on what we had.
TBF for Pickford to have made a save to win us the game the rest of the team have had to put him in that situation. Which they haven't done a lot of so he can't be blamed for that.The other one that springs to mind is the 1-on-1 with Defoe in the Bournemouth game. Turned the game that.
I'd love to know too.De Gea, Lloris and Courtois are the stand outs of the league. You'd possibly say Ederson at City?The others are not obviously better or are worse. Cech is on the decline and Butland is probably going to be competing with Pickford long term for the England No 1 Jersey
He's already better than Courtois and Ederson
Come on now.Let's calm down a tad.
Arguably more question marks over him now than there was before wed kicked a ball.Very, very far down the list of issues tho.
Not havin that at all.
Fair enough.Personally Im not into his mad rushing out, have any of them worked yet? Generally I love that in a keeper and its how I play myself in goal but maybe hes just like bad at it? Maybe not. Question mark.Same for the parrying into the 6 yard box, maybe hes had no choice, maybe its by chance, maybe its a pattern. Question mark.In general Im a fan and I like him as a player. A good signing and as I say, very low down in our list of issues!
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Baker Hughes: US Drillers Cut Oil And Gas Rigs For 14th Straight Week
March 24 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut oil and natural gas rigs for a 14th week in a row to the lowest level since at least 1940, data showed on Thursday, as energy firms continue to slash spending as part of the deepest energy price rout in a generation.
Oil rigs alone <RIG-OL-USA-BHI> fell 15 to 372, the lowest level since November 2009, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely followed report. After last week falling to the lowest level since at least 1987, Baker Hughes said the number of active gas rigs <RIG-GS-USA-BHI> this week increased by three to 92.
Looking forward analysts forecast the total rig count will bottom in a couple months before recovering later this year when they expect energy prices to rise.
Drillers cut 12 oil and gas rigs in the week to March 24, bringing the total rig count down to 464, the report said.
That compares with 1,048 oil and gas rigs operating in the same week a year ago. In 2015, drillers cut on average 22 oil and gas rigs per week for a total of 1,142 for the year, the biggest annual decline since at least 1988.
Before this week, drillers cut on average 20 oil and gas rigs per week for a total of 222 so far this year.
Energy firms have sharply reduced oil and gas drilling since the selloff in global crude markets began in mid-2014.
Still, many analysts think the combined rig count will rise later this year with signs that prices have bottomed after U.S. crude futures hit a 12-year low of $26 a barrel in February and U.S. gas futures fell to a near 18-year low of $1.611 per million British thermal units earlier in March.
Since hitting those lows, U.S. oil futures have soared over 50 percent to around $39 a barrel, while U.S. gas gained more than 10 percent to around $1.80 per mmBtu. U.S. crude futures were fetching near $42 a barrel for the balance of 2016 and almost $45 for calendar 2017.
"Based on indications from exploration and production, activity can begin to increase at the $45 level. E&Ps are hedging when the 2017 strip is at or above $45," analysts at Cowen & Co, a financial services firm, said in a note this week.
With the increase in forward U.S. crude prices over the past month or so, E&P firms like Pioneer Natural Resources Co and Cimarex Energy Co have recently told analysts they were looking to boost hedging programs.
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The same was said of the Campbelltown game. I was at both and the figures seem wrong.alexaki wrote:I was at both Leichhardt games this year and if we got 16k at the Manly game there certainly was at least 12-13k there today....phil1986 wrote:I was there on the hill and have no idea wheeee that figure was pulled from....Cosimo_Zaretti wrote:About 8,800 was the official figure at the ground. Bit dissapointing but it was a miserable day.
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Stress fractures are tiny cracks in weight-bearing bones caused by the repeated application of force, usually due to overuse. I am an orthopedic surgeon, so I was trained to not only treat my patients' existing condition, but to consider the cause of that condition as well, in this case, that moment immediately preceding the formation of the fracture. I recently moderated a healthcare technology panel where industry experts, Dr. John Halamka, Dr. Adam Landman, Dr. Keith Dreyer and Dr. Steven Stack discussed "What needs to change to get doctors back to the patient?" One thing is clear, the repeated hammering of regulations, policy changes, and non-intuitive technology is causing fissures in the physician community and, more terrifyingly, between patients and their physicians.
In an interesting twist, as the panelists sat, discussing current industry challenges and the impact government regulations were having on their colleagues and their IT agendas, the House of Representatives was voting to delay the ICD-10 deadline another year. It exemplified their point –health IT policies are being made without the careful consideration of the many possible unintended consequences these rulings will have on the people most impacted, the patients, their physicians, and provider organizations. Although the panel unanimously spoke out against a delay, less than one week later, they are again modifying their priorities based on a rather precipitous Congressional decision made behind closed doors without stakeholder discussion.
I have said it before, but physicians, by their very nature, will go out of their way to help others, often making personal sacrifices to be there for their patients and their patients' families. It's in their genetic make-up. It's who they are. It doesn't matter the circumstance, because as physicians, even though we know there are limits to medical knowledge, we embrace our role as the last line of defense against the medical "unknown." During the panel, I was struck by a sentiment eloquently articulated Dr. Steven Stack, reminding us that historically, physicians' methods were torturous – bloodletting and leeching – often leading to the patient's death, yet the infirm sought out such treatment. Why? Because these physicians provided hope. And, while modern medicine has completely changed from those days, what has remained the same is that we still offer that hope. Sometimes, that is the only thing we can do. When you remove this element from healthcare, what is left?
Everyone has a breaking point: that moment directly leading up to the formation of a stress fracture. If you are physician who speaks ICD-10, you probably know it as a variant of M84.xxx; if you are a physician who speaks ICD-9, you may recognize it as a 733.xx code. But regardless of the codes being used, every physician knows it through his or her patient's eyes—the searing pain, and weeks of missed track practice and qualifying races for a 17-year old high school athlete, and the feeling of helplessness that the runner's parent has.
Although stress fractures are rarely visible in a routine x-ray, as physicians, we use our knowledge and clinical experience to diagnose them. In terms of the practice of medicine, many physicians are acutely aware that we are at our "stress-fracture moment." The treatment is simple (up to the point where everything "lets loose"); that treatment being relief from repetitive stress. Incomplete stress fractures will heal in time by removing the constant pressure being placed on the bone. The "stress fracture" induced by our regulatory environment will also heal before total collapse occurs, but only if the offending stress is removed.
To learn more about what physicians are saying about the current health IT challenges and what can be done to help reduce the burden being placed on them, check out the Art of Medicine webpage.


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Craig Newschaffer is founding director of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University and a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health. The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute applies a public health science approach to address challenges facing individuals with ASD and their families. Dr. Newschaffer is an epidemiologist whose main research focus is the discovery of modifiable autism risk factors. However, in addition to Dr. Newschaffer's own research program, the AJ Drexel Autism Institute also houses robust research programs on early detection and intervention and ASD life course outcomes as well as policy analysis and clinical consulting groups. Dr. Newschaffer has directed an NIH Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) project, been a site PI on other major autism epidemiology initiatives, including both the ADDM Network and SEED Study, and led an NIH-funded project testing streamlined approaches to ASD case confirmation for epidemiologic research purposes. He has served on the DOD Autism Research Program Integration Panel, the Autism Speaks Science Advisory Board, and, on multiple occasions, the IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Research expert review group. Dr. Newschaffer is also a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and currently is the current Vice President of the International Society for Autism Research, an Associate Editor of Autism Research, and Interim Associate Dean for Research at the Drexel University School of Public Health.
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Seafood Import Monitoring Program to Take Effect for Shrimp and Abalone
The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced that shrimp and abalone will be subject to the reporting, recordkeeping and permitting requirements of the Seafood Import Monitoring Program effective 24 May, with a compliance date of 31 December. These requirements will apply to shrimp and abalone species originating from both wild capture fisheries and aquaculture operations. The SIMP was implemented as of 1 January for various other species of seafood.
NMFS states that as of 31 December importers of shrimp and abalone species will be required to obtain an international fisheries trade permit, submit harvest and landing information on those products into the International Trade Data System through the Automated Commercial Environment prior to entry into U.S. commerce, and maintain supply chain records from the point of harvest to the point of entry into U.S commerce for two years after entry. IFTPs are currently available for issuance and it is anticipated that ACE reporting will be available for testing prior to 31 December. NMFS states that for products harvested prior to that date U.S. importers should work with their foreign suppliers to ensure that the harvest event and supply chain records are available for any entries made on or after 31 December.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Soccer and the Human Brain by Jeff Holt
This one rule takes away eons of evolutionary advantage we humans have developed. Hands are what we do best. A peak inside the brain of the average human reveals that the hands are vastly over-represented relative to other regions of the body. There is no question that our achievements with the hands are remarkable. In the sporting world, the hand is a major advantage. Compare the size of the net or the difference in score between soccer and basketball. Hands do make a difference.
Yet, since soccer eliminates the use of hands and focuses on the feet, soccer emphasizes another powerful human capacity: the plasticity of the human brain and its ability to learn and be shaped by experience. The feet, the principle instruments of the game, are represented by a very small region of cortex in the average human brain. Remarkably, this feeble cortical representation is not set in stone; clay would be a better analogy because the brain can be molded by experience. In fact, the ability of the human brain to be remolded and learn from experience is so pervasive in humans that it may be our greatest evolutionary advantage.
A remolded cerebral cortex in the minds of the best soccer players is a testament to the incredible plasticity of the human brain and its ability to adapt and learn from new experiences. Every artful touch of the ball, exquisite pass, explosive burst of speed, and thundering shot on goal, begins in the cortex of evolution's greatest achievement, the human brain. Its awesome power to learn and be reshaped by experience will be on display for a month this summer beginning today in South Africa at the Soccer World Cup. Check it out…you might learn something.
--- Jeff Holt is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia.
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- AnonymousJune 11, 2010 at 8:20 AM
No doubt!!!!!!!!!! Indeed, these points lend yet ANOTHER angle from which to be absolutely excited for the coming play. As Mr. Desmond Tutu said in yesterday's opening ceremonies.... (and I'm paraphrasing): "Welcome home, world. Welcome back to Africa!!!" Now let's go do what we humans do so well, if infrequently: enjoy the phenomenal gifts given us, each other's company and support, and the beautiful joy of plain and simple LIFE!!! (Gooooooooo...Africa!)ReplyDelete
I just listened to your essay on the WMRA blog. I loved it. When I lived in South Africa for a couple of years, I noticed that when you would throw a ball (or anything) at an African youth, their fist reaction was to "catch" it with their feet, not their hands, which would be the predominant reaction for American children.
- AnonymousJune 11, 2010 at 12:10 PM
People suggest this also occurs for musicians!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 11, 2010 at 12:11 PM
People suggest this also occurs in professional musicians.ReplyDelete
- Caroline AbdalaJune 11, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Jeff, after watching the finesse and precise foot skill and touch of Lionel Messi as he receives the ball with a soft touch then weaves his way around a triplet of mammoth defenders, I have no doubt you are right about enhanced "foot representation" in his brain. In addition, I would guess that the split-second decision making of a playmaker like Xavi might indicate well-tuned, lightening fast motor planning areas as well! Very cool piece. I enjoyed it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 11, 2010 at 3:53 PM
Hey Jeff,ReplyDelete
I enjoyed your NPR spacial at 7:30 this morning. It was lay audience friendly, and I loved the analogy of the size of the
basket ball net versus the soccer goal. On a friendlier note, Go Argentina Go!!!
Hi Jeff - Pardon the double entrende, but IReplyDelete
enjoyed your very cerebral view (from the top, as it were). I'm glad to learn that the apparatus on the top of our heads is not just for heading balls...DNH
- AnonymousJune 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Loved your essay! It is quite an interesting way to think about it. I wonder if there are great soccer players who also possess great hand skills; Are there any fine artist playing in leading soccer teams around the world? I guess they would have little time left to practice anything else than soccer... Anyone knows? GwenReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 13, 2010 at 8:31 AM
are there brain exercises that might also improve one's soccer game? crossword puzzles perhaps?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 13, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Loved this story! Messi's foot work yesterday in the Argentina v. Nigeria match was Brilliant!ReplyDelete
- Mike BallardJune 14, 2010 at 3:08 PM
There was one element that the good neuroscientist left out, and that is the damage done to soccer players' brains by heading the ball, crashing head to head, etc. The NFL is finally serious about addressing the problem of concussion. How long will it take FIFA?ReplyDelete
- Jeff HoltJune 15, 2010 at 8:26 AM
@ Gwen: Cortical plasticity does not just apply to the regions that represent the foot, but the entire cortex. Any task that is repeated regularly can remold the cortex: artwork, dance, etc...ReplyDelete
@Ellen: There are certainly excercises that can improve one's soccer game. Regular repetition of any movement that is soccer specific could help. I recall the scene from the Karate Kid Movie: Wax on, wax off. Same idea. Mr. Miyagi got it right!
@Mike: I share your feelings, blunt head trama is a concern.
- AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 7:04 AM
re: Mike Ballard's concern - I don't know HOW much lighter these new balls are.... but is this a (small) step? or atleast a little more justification for their use?ReplyDelete
This is a great essay. I run the Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia's Twitter page, and I RT it from uvahealthnews for our followers. I think everyone will get a kick out of it! No pun intended.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 10, 2010 at 8:28 AM
boy. FIFA and their refs need their cerebral cortices redefined.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Jeff, the italians were a terrible disappointment – now that you told me about the brain and soccer, I am quite worried about the future of italy…ReplyDelete
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Hi, thanks for this very informative article. I like it. =)ReplyDelete
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|Glam Roc in natural light.
Today I have a great textured polish to show you. This is Glam Roc, from the Julep Maven February subscription box. Glam Roc is a lightly textured deep purple matte glitter with hints of gold and green.
My camera did not want to photograph this one at all! It's not as dark in person, and appears more purple and glittery. It was terribly fickle and photo shy, unfortunately. To make up for this, I photographed it under natural and artificial light.
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Over all, this was a surprisingly nice polish. It wasn't without its faults, however. This polish was incredibly thick and the application was messy as a result. It only required one to two coats, which was nice, but those coats were quite gooey. The consistency was a big turn off for me.
It did wear well, however. Like most matte polishes, it was a bit prone to tip wear but I didn't experience any chipping while wearing it and it held up well enough. The texture is fairly subtle so it was very easy to wear.
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Sunny weather and summer holidaysJuly 15th, 2009 alison
The recent spell of gloriously sunny weather looked set to end this week on the Clyde, but so far at Kip the rain has not managed to make a lasting appearance. Good news for the two sailing courses out! One course was out over the weekend and arrived back in this afternoon having had some rain, but also enough time to dry out before having to pack away their things and head home. The second course departed yesterday after some berthing practise. The weather forecast showed numerous low pressure systems heading their way and it seemed like they were doomed to a damp week, but it turns out that if the weather holds as it has done the last couple of days they may only get rained on in the mornings!
Looking out at Kip Marina at the moment the sun is beating down on the boats, but many of the berths are empty as people have gone on their summer cruises. This weekend the Clyde Cruising Club holds its annual Tobermory Race, a race popular with members who want to go sailing around the west coast for their holidays. With options to sail Round the Mull to Crinan on the 17th July, or to go from Rothesay to Ardrishaig on the 18th, heading west through the Crinan Canal, to join up with the boats which have gone Round the Mull for the second part of the race from Loch Craignish to Tobermory on the 19th July. This year the tides appear to have been kind to the competitors with a 9am start rather than the 4am start it often can be.
The last Fairlie Yacht Club event was the Holy Loch Race on the 4th July. Light winds meant the racing took most of the day, but the fleet managed to avoid most of the rain showers which were gracing our shores that day. The next Fairlie event is not until the 15th August with a crew race from Largs to Ardlamont, and a muster at Portavadie marina that evening.
With so many boats away, or about to head off on their cruising adventures, the marina is quite quiet, but there was some excitment as the marina's resident swans hatched their eggs and 4 new signets are now learning to swim in the peaceful waters of Kip.
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After four years of working together on Central Connecticut State University's Spring Concerts, the Student Government Association and the Central Activities Network will no longer be working together for the upcoming 2018 concert.
Caitlin Moreau, president of CAN, announced the decision at last week's SGA meeting due to what is believed to have been communication issues between the two parties.
According to Moreau's statement at the SGA meeting, CAN felt as if the SGA's decision to allocate money for the concert was not taking place in a timely manner, ultimately causing a time concern and impacting the chosen artist to perform.
"You guys ran out of time to even hear the request I brought forth and I need strong partnerships," Moreau said. "We have come to this decision [to work alone on the Spring Concert]."
Moreau also stated that she believed the "interworking's of SGA has also been a problem," stating that the SGA "cannot bring that influence into CAN."
"We have been working hard on rebuilding CAN," Moreau added. "The direction SGA is going in is affecting us."
According to Brendan Kruh, president of the SGA, CAN's decision to part ways with the SGA came as a surprise.
"[The] SGA was not provided the opportunity to discuss the matter and was informed abruptly by CAN that they would be choosing to do the Spring Concert on their own after almost two months of collaboration," Kruh said.
When asked about the reason as to why CAN decided to part ways with the SGA, Kruh said he and his colleagues were given two answers.
"The first was that CAN felt that SGA's decision-making process to allocate money was taking too long and was causing a time concern," Kruh said. "The second is that they stated that they believed the SGA would benefit from less pressures, such as the Spring Concert."
According to Kruh, the reason behind "elevating pressures" is due to the fact that "certain senators" were not actively advocating to pursue the concert.
"The overlap between two CAN e-board members serving on the Spring Concert committee as CAN e-board members and also holding the position of senator may have [also] caused some individuals to feel the emotions of each organization more than as if they were in just one," Kruh said.
Kruh did not provide any reason as to why CAN would have a reason to believe the process to allocate money was taking too long, as he stated that he did "not believe that the time process was an issue."
Damar Britto, Vice President of Recruitment and Retention for CAN and Chair of the Student Life Committee for the SGA agreed with Kruh, but also believed there were other issues at hand to have triggered the separation.
"The behavior of the Senate itself have seemed to affect the SGA representatives and also the decisions made within the Senate floor," Britto said. "SGA has [also] been having a decent amount of internal matters that are starting to spill on the Senate floor, which takes time away from the matters on our agenda."
More than anything, both Kruh and Britto said that this was not an easy decision and there are no hard feelings between the two parties. The SGA looks forward to working with CAN in the future if permitted.


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I've had it with studies. First, the experts declared that housework is likely to make you depressed.
Now, a different set of experts has concluded that doing housework can help prevent depression and anxiety.
A new study by the British Journal of Sports found those who did vigorous housework weekly were 20 percent less likely to suffer from mental health problems. Of course vigorous housework is exercise, and it's common knowledge that exercise helps alleviate depression and anxiety.
Otherwise, I'm pretty skeptical about their findings. On the one hand, living in a cesspool can bum you out. But, on the other hand, cleaning toilets and mopping floors can be a bummer too.
I am waiting for an expert to declare that vacuuming and sweeping don't make you happy or depressed. They just help you keep your house clean.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Studies depress me
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- Bernie Bernstein said...
It's Me, Mom - I don't care what the experts say. I know when I come home to a clean house (whether I've cleaned it or someone else has), I'm happy. Something about clean makes me smile.
- June 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM
- Dori said...
Um, as I am your resident expert on everything, I'll confirm your sneaking suspicion: Housework results, generally, in a cleaner house. It also generally results in your having less time to do actual fun things that truly make you happy.
- June 19, 2009 at 3:57 PM
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Please take notice that a public hearing will be held at the request of Ed Chiles, property owner, requesting a Special Exception to expand the ground floor covered outdoor dining area six (6) feet towards the waterfront, eliminating the previously-approved second-story outdoor dining area, and relocating 37 seats to the ground floor covered outdoor dining area, and a Site Plan Amendment to eliminate the previously approved second-story outdoor dining area deck and construct a second story office and storage area, at the Mar Vista Restaurant located at 760 Broadway Street.
A quasi judicial public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board on the Special Exception and Site Plan Amendment will be held on June 21, 2016, at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, at the Town Commission Chambers, Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, Florida. This hearing will be held in accordance with established quasi-judicial procedures.
All interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to the Special Exception and Site Plan Amendment. Copies of the Special Exception and Site Plan Amendment and related material may be viewed at the Planning, Zoning & Building Department, 501 Bay Isles Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays. Questions may be directed to the Planning, Zoning & Building Department at 316-1966.
No verbatim record by a certified court reporter is made of these proceedings. Accordingly, any person who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at these proceedings upon which any appeal is to be based (see Section 286.0105, Florida Statutes).
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the Town Clerk's office at 941-316-1999 forty-eight (48) hours in advance of this proceeding. If you are hearing impaired, please call 941-373-7002.
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The desk looked better, but still blah. Today I added shutters to the back.
I primed and painted them the same way I did the desk so that they matched.
I then hung them using two nails on each end of the shutter. Be sure to use a level.
I liked the idea of shutters because I could use small clips to hang important items that I use on a regular basis as well as pictures. JoAnn's Fabric has all sorts of colors and sizes to choose from.
I thought the shutters looked really plain with just the pictures and documents clipped on them. I was digging around the basement and found this wreath that I made for my wedding. It was just what I needed.
Right now I have an envelope for my 2013 home improvement receipts. We save them and use them for tax purposes. As you can imagine, I'm always coming home with new receipts so it's nice to have this envelope handy. The other thing I have pinned up there are address labels. I spray painted a container for pens and pencils and it was still drying at the time. It will go on the desk on the right side.
I love this box. I think I got it from Hobby Lobby. I keep pictures of my husband and I in there as well as the letters he wrote me while he was deployed.
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Hoxie™ is an online platform for collecting data on implementation of academic interventions. Specifically, that means we collect data on teachers' use of interventions. We then analyze that data to spot trends in implementation and critical teaching behaviors, at department-wide or school-wide levels. Hoxie is currently tuned to track SIM™-related interventions at the middle and high school levels.
Unlike general-purpose online data collection tools, Hoxie is specifically designed to collect small chunks of data unobtrusively and en masse. In other words, our goal is collect lots of high-quality data without being burdensome to the teachers, school administrators, and instructional coaches we rely on to provide it to us.
The walkthrough engine allows administrators to easily collect real-time walkthrough data electronically, into a centralized repository accessible to administrators and researchers. Data collected from walkthroughs give everyone a better understanding of what's happening on a day-to-day basis.
Data may be collected with your laptop or or iOS or Android-based smart phone or tablet—in fact, walkthroughs are designed for easy accessibility from these small-screened devices!
Collections help monitor the frequency and fidelity of an intervention. With collections, a school administrator collects artifacts of an intervention's usage for a specified date range—typically a day or two. From these artifacts, Hoxie generates a report to show which strategies and routines were reported, as well as what types of assessment were being done in that time.
Hoxie's support for instructional coaching helps simplify the process of scheduling time with an instructional coach. More importantly, though, it collects data on what's going on with coaching in a given school. What departments are leveraging coaching? Why do teachers seek out a coach's expertise? When are coaches' schedules the busiest?
Reporting and data analysis
In the end, numbers are just numbers unless you know how to make meaning of them. Hoxie helps with this by providing visually-rich snapshots of your how your school is implementing an intervention, in order to help you understand what is happening and make decisions based on what's been observed.
Who may use Hoxie?
We currently offer Hoxie as an annual, subscription-based service to research projects and school districts implementing the Strategic Instruction Model™ or Content Literacy Continuum™, or some component thereof (for example, Fusion Reading).
Through ongoing development, we're also extending the platform to other interventions and applying its components to other data sets. Since Hoxie is a cloud-based platform, such updates are instantly available to all schools using the service—no software updates required!
Learn more
To learn more about Hoxie, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to schedule a live demonstration.
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If the name "The Fleming Foundation" summons up a picture of a stately stone villa surrounded by a park-sized lawn as lush and green as the foundation's endowment, then you had better blink your eyes and look again. This foundation is located in the third-floor attic of my crumbling house in Rockford. The lawn is dotted with dandelions and pockmarked with holes that are nowhere as deep as the deficits we are likely to be running up. At this point The Fleming Foundation is just me, my wife, my former colleague Jim Easton, and a few friends who have agreed with me that, although I am retired from The Rockford Institute, there is still a great deal of unfinished business that I have been putting off for too many years.
The greatest mistake I have made over the years is not to follow the advice I have so freely lavished on others. As editor and think-tank president, I spent far too much time writing about politics. I did not waste much attention on which set of scoundrels should be issued a license to loot—I knew better than that—but I did write a lot about problems of immigration and crime, social legislation, and even on issues of trade and globalization.
It is not that these matters are not important or even that I should not have been talking about them, but my focus should have been exclusively on aspects about which I can speak with some knowledge and authority. The only people qualified to talk seriously about political strategy are professional political operators, and they would not tell the truth even if they were paid good money. Besides, even if I had accurate inside information and passed it on to my readers. What could they do with it? An expert can write many volumes on the impact of immigration or which politician has been paid what to change his vote. This kind of knowledge is not power, because there is nothing that can be done with it. No one person can do much to stop the unchecked flow of immigrants, and what is true of one person, in this case, is equally true of one million and even ten million. I am reminded of the old Serenity Prayer: "Give me the strength to accept what I cannot change."
In accepting the existence of evil, we are not giving up the struggle. We are only giving up the pretense that editorializing and politicking is going to have any effect. Years ago I sponsored a debate. The question, as I recall, was this. Resolved: Washington Conservatives have not done a damn thing!. The Nay side consisted of people who had been drawing good salaries and accomplishing nothing. What was their defense? That things would have been much worse, had it not been for the ceaseless efforts of conservative writers, policy experts, and think-tank executives. What a comforting thought. Since then, the decline has been still more rapid and precipitous, and they are still scribbling away their bad prose, still contributing their voices to the conservative echo chamber.
Once we accept the ugly reality of 21st century America, we can begin to do something about it, at least in our own lives. When the Goths took over Italy, there was not much point to editorializing against the evil Gothic party and getting out the vote for the stupid Gothic party. Better to plant a garden, say your prayers, and teach your children. But we cannot concentrate on improving our own lives, if we are too absorbed in blaming all the usual suspects, while singing the praises of conservative politicians, less radical universities, and pop culture celebrities who give at least one tepid cheer for decency. Once we see things for what we are, we can begin to detach ourselves from the evil in which we are all enmeshed.
There are no short term or partial solutions to the mess we are in, and it is a waste of time to point the finger at the various privileged minorities that are used as shock troops in the war against civility. In stead, we have to fix the blame where it belongs: on the political class and cultural elite that have revolutionized our society and destroyed our civilization.
The first task of our foundation will be to find ways of communicating this truth to people who have ears to hear and eyes to see. This means a website with commentary on the passing scene but with an emphasis on the reality under which we live and what can be done in our own lives and communities to protect our families and friends from the moral and cultural plague that is attacking even the noblest institutions and traditions. The second task is to provide insights into the alternative moral and cultural traditions that created the civilization we are losing. For this reason, I shall soon be realizing a project I have had in the works for several years: a series of books, which already exist in drafts of varying degrees of roughness. We shall be arranging a subscription website on which subscribers can read serially a completed draft, make comments, and finally receive the finished book.
Since satisfying lives cannot be lived in the abstract or devoted exclusively to contemplation, we also plan to throw in some beer and skittles in the form of dinners and receptions for people who take an interest in our work. Next year, we hope to begin holding book discussions, lecture programs, and cultural odysseys, though in the beginning we shall content ourselves with informal get-togethers.
We are describing the main efforts of our foundation as the Boethius Project. As you will recall, Boethius was the last truly educated Roman Christian. In a magnificent career in the early 6th century A.D., he achieved the highest civilian offices under Theoderic's Gothic Kingdom of Italy. At the same time, he engaged in a truly heroic effort to translate and transmit the philosophy of Aristotle to future generations. He saw the darkness coming…..As his reward, he was accused of treason and condemned to death. While awaiting a cruel and barbaric execution, he wrote the book that would be the most popular serious work of the next 1000 years: The Consolation of Philosophy.
Our main goal is to do in a small way for our generation what Boethius did so splendidly in his: to hand on as much of the classical Christian tradition as we can. This is the tradition that is the basis of what was best in what used to be our own civilization. And, to continuing comparing small things with great, I shall be finishing and publishing books on the moral and political traditions of the ancient and Medieval world, traditions that survived in Christian institutions and also flourished in the early days of our American republic. I am talking about such fundamental institutions as private property, marriage, parenthood, kinship, matters of life and death.
Right now our plans are as crude as this website, and with neither staff nor facilities, it will be some time before we shall be making any kind of public splash. Nonetheless, I will fairly soon be posting regular editorials, and we hope to have the book subscription website activated in a month or less, though with my level of expertise in computers, it may take till the end of the Summer.
If you are interested in learning more about our activities, you can send a note to sign up for the informational emails we shall be sending out from time to time.
Thomas Fleming
Thomas Fleming is president of The Fleming Foundation. He edited Chronicles: a magazine of American Culture for over thirty years, for 17 of which he served as President of The Rockford Institute. He has written books on ethics, politics, and history, and his articles, columns, and reviews have appeared in many magazines, newspapers, and academic journals in the United States and Europe. He holds an A.B. degree in Greek from the College of Charleston and a Ph.D. in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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The first is the buds on the trees outside my office window. The second is all the birds I encounter on my morning walks. Most are robins, but it is the cardinals that make me wish I had my camera along.
The third sign of spring is the road kill on U.S. 30 as I drove to and from Ft. Wayne on Saturday. One carcass even looked like a young deer.
But for Roland and me, the key proof came yesterday when we launched Freizeit for another sailing season. We battled the wind and did not emerge unscathed, but in the end we were the victors.
Spring is here. Finally.


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To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Required
My life really started to click when I plugged in to a local Rotary club. Service clubs grew at turn of the century and started to peak in the 1980-90's. Thousands of business and community leaders still engage in a service club but they need your involvement.
My experience in Rotary modeled what was expected of the business community in my local market. From Rotary, I was invited by a dear friend, Bill Holmes, to join an organizations in the Catholic Church that did the outreach of my faith. The more I gave back the more I was blessed.
Over my time in community and board service, I saw an opportunity to show a new generation of business leaders their responsibility in helping. The traditional Rotary or Kwanis or Sertoma weren't fits for many young professionals. After trying to change some of the current clubs, I decided to start a new group with three friends. What started as an idea back in 2008 turned into what is now the Foothills Club of Tucson. The club has grown to 60 members that meet monthly to support local children's charities and network with members to encourage business bonds.
If you are looking for meaning in you business or personal life, if you feel like you are trapped in a rut, read Robert Greenleaf's Servant Leadership, and find a service club or non-profit board that needs your skills.
Community groups and boards I'm passionate about.


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By AMANDA VINCENT
Roush Fenway Racing has hired Brian Pattie to be Greg Biffle's crew chief on the No. 16 Ford NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team. He replaces Matt Puccia. Pattie confirmed the news Wednesday during an interview on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, and a team representative also confirmed the news of Pattie's hiring on Thursday.
Puccia will move to the Xfinity Series to serve as crew chief on the No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford team of driver Darrell Wallace Jr.
The team remains mum on other possible crew chief changes. RFR also fields the No. 6 Ford for Trevor Bayne and the No. 17 Ford for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the Sprint Cup Series. Bob Osborne was Bayne's crew chief and Nick Sandler was Stenhouse's crew chief in 2015.
Pattie was with Michael Waltrip Racing the last four years. That team shuttered its operations at the end of the 2015 season. At MWR, Pattie spent most of his time as crew chief for Clint Bowyer on the No. 15 Toyota team before being moved to MWR's No. 55 team of driver David Ragan during the 2015 season.
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Samsung Launches Their Thinnest Smartphone yet, the Galaxy A8
Sporting only 0.23 inch or about 5.9mm thinness and all-metal chassis, the Samsung Galaxy A8 is the Korean electronics company's slimmest smartphone ever. And it's just quietly launched on the Chinese market for now bearing a price tag of 3199 Yuan. It's extremely thin but it doesn't mean low-calibrated specs are being offered by this device. It's actually one of the most feature-packed smartphones in the midrange category.
Apart from the super sexy profile size, the Galaxy A8 also features a very sexy design, not to mention again the all-metal build that adds more attractiveness to the phone. What about the battery size? It's hard t believe but Samsung was able to squeeze the massive 3.050mAh pack in its slim body and it only weights 151 grams.
A quick run down on the specs, the Galaxy A8 has a large 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display with 1920 x 1080 resolution. On the inside are the 1.0GHz octa-core processor and it's a 64-bit Snapdragon 615 one, together with it is a 2GB RAM and a default 16GB internal storage. It is expandable, yes, and according to most tech blogs I've read that can support up to 128GB via microSD card. Photo taking requirements will be 16MP and 5MP resolution rear and front respectively.
The most latest Android 5.1.1 Lollipop will be powering the Galaxy A8 supporting up to 4G LTE of network connectivity. Additionally, the home button on the front panel is equipped with the fingerprint scanner, something we usually see on high-end or flagship level devices.
Right now the smartphone is already available for pre-order in China with an SRP of 3199 Yuan or about Php24,000 in the local currency. As of yet, Samsung is still to confirm if the device is only limited to China or an international release is also to come.
Samsung Galaxy A8 specs:
- 5.7" Full HD Super AMOLED display
- 1920 x 1080 resolution
- 1.0GHz octa-core 64-bit Snapdragon 615 processor
- 16GB internal storage
- Supports microSD card up to 128GB
- 16MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture
- 5MP front camera with wide angle lens and f/1.8 aperture
- Abdroid 5.1 Lollipop
- WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth 4.1
- GPS and NFC
- Fingerprint sensor
- Handwave detector
- 151g
- Black, White, Gold
- 3,050mAh battery
- Yuan 3,199
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The Tonight Show is not known for breaking news, but Conan O'Brien had some last night, revealing the newest addition to the list of Tiger Woods mistresses.
By now, Tiger's extramarital affairs are common knowledge, but this one will still shock you, as it came completely out of left field (and the girl's not his type).
At this point, Tiger should really consider heading to rehab for sex addiction, as has been rumored, because this is 12 women and counting. That we know of.
During a wrap-up of 2009's films, Conan showed viewers a deleted scene from one of this year's hits that featured a lucky lady linked to the world's #1 golfer.
This is one you didn't see coming ... even if Tiger wishes he did:


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Success Book Reviews: Ray Dalio's "Principles"
How do you become a billionaire? Solving one important problem at a time. That is one of the messages I take from one of the most unique "Success Books" I have ever read, billionaire Ray Daio's Principles. The PDF is, apparently, freely available ( I don't know if this has changed or will change)
The more I delve into the science of personal achievement, the more I am amazed at the incredible wealth of information that has been made freely available by successful people, such as Charlie Munger (billionaire), Charles Koch (billionaire) and many others. We are truly living in a wondrous age where such masters are eager to part with their secrets.
Why would these guys do such things? Why would they part with such life-changing information, passing it on to the rest of us at zero or trivial cost? They are certainly not dumb. On reason could be that they may welcome the compounding effect that their works produce. In other words, if a billionaire writes a book that stimulates others to be entrepreneurial, visionary, productive, disciplined, etc, this could, eventually, have a significantly positive effect on the environment that the billionaire himself live in. For instance, hugely successful investor Monish Pabrai, took his idol, Warren Buffett to a $650,000 lunch, using profits accumulated by emulating Buffet (the money went to a charity Buffett favors). Great link about it here.
Ray Dalio built and runs the largest hedge fund in the world (as of 2010), Bridgewater, managing, at the time of this writing, over $90 billion in assets. He wrote the Principles as a management document. Apparently the principles are "fractal" in that they worked for him, as the head of Bridgewater, and they work at all levels beneath him in the organization he created. So the incentive is clear in this case.
His Principles range from the general and universal, down to the incredibly specific. What is the key to building such a might organization as Bridgewater? An unflinching acceptance of reality, and the refusal to tolerate problems (also termed "badness"). Consider this: where might the tolerances be more lax? Building a skyscraper or building an investment company? I would have to answer "probably the latter". Maybe that's why very few skyscrapers fall down, and so many organizations do. Dalio's tolerances, in my opinion, are much closer to engineering /architectural tolerances, than a "soft", "people-oriented" business tolerances.
Dalio has assembled a far-reaching exhaustive roup of rules designed to unmask "badness". One of the reasons may be that people are not girders. They don't come in standard sizes and specifications. Girders don't have hidden agendas, egos, laziness, or lack of motivation. People, of course, do. So Dalio provides some methods to cut through the foibles of individual human behavior in order for the group to function as (in his term) a "machine".
In the books and interviews I have read, it has seemed to me that many successful men such as Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, and Jack Welch, have that same characteristic. Small, nagging problems, often related to peoples' underperformance, just cannot be tolerated because they have a "multiplier effect"; perhaps similar to a bunch of rivets in a suspension bridge , if each rivet is just a little under "spec" , the sum total could be catastrophic.
One of Dalio's tools for rooting out problems seems simple: an "issues log". Once you keep careful track of issues, you are well on the way to solving them. Simple? Maybe. Butt is the first time I encountered such a tool, and I am a bbig fan of success tools. I have kept lists of goals, I have lists of visualizations, affirmations, etc, but I have never kept a separate "issues" log. But, when you think of it, how else can you continually improve the purity of the outputs of your efforts?
Dalio also uses his incisive drive for clarity to make sure we separate functions (such as issue drilldown vs problem solving) so as not to muddy the waters when optimizing the organization
There is lots more in the Principles. These principles demand courage. Personal courage. They demand faith that huge results come from facing every aspect of reality, working with it, and improving your results as quickly as possible.
This may be the most outstanding document of its kind, ever. I think it is a life-changing read.


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Using Public-Private Partnership to Finance National Hospitals: The Case of Lesotho
- Edited by: Nawsheen Elaheebocus
- Prepared by: Mpho Chinyolo
Many African countries are facing increasing demands for health financing with fewer limited resources available and dwindling donor financing. This disconnect compels African countries to come up with innovating financing mechanisms to achieve Millennium Development Goals.
Lesotho just like most African countries is facing the same challenges. The need for hospitals to serve the population's need has not been matched with adequate financing from the government on this sector. This led the Lesotho government to look for an alternative way to finance the building of a hospital. A Public Private Partnership (PPP) was found to be the most suitable way to achieve this objective.
The new hospital, a first of its kind in Africa, delivers greatly improved, high-quality, publicly and privately funded health care services and serves as the main training facility for all health professionals. It serves 20,000 inpatients & 310,000 outpatients per year. The hospital is a shining example of the impact private investment is having on Africa's troubled health sector.
The Government provided USD$52 million while the total cost of the project was USD$120 million.
The project intends to achieve better value for money by providing better quality services and a higher variety of services than those provided by public hospitals but at the same cost as other public hospitals.
Minister of Energy, Minerals and Water Affairs Hon. Timothy Thahane, speaking at the high level dialogue between Ministers of Finance and Health on "Value for Money, Sustainability and Accountability", said the project was affordable for the government. On an operational cost comparison, the government does not pay much more and from the patient perspective, services are affordable and cost the same at any other public health facility in the country.
This high level dialogue was organized by the African Development Bank and Harmonization for Health in Africa (HHA) partners in Tunis on July 4-5, 2012. The conference gathered Ministers of Finance and Health and/or their representatives from 54 African countries, African parliamentarians as well as over 400 participants from the public and private sectors, academia, civil society and media globally. His Excellency Hamadi Jebali, Prime Minister of Tunisia, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, and Dr. Margaret Chan, Executive Director of the World Health Organisation delivered the opening remarks.
Distinguished guests such as Dr. Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehim, Executive Director for UNFPA, Mr. Gabriel Jaramillo, General Manager of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Mr. Seth Berkeley, CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) delivered keynote speeches.
High-profile speakers like Julio Frenk, Dean of the School of Public Health, Harvard University and Hans Rosling, Chairman of Gapminder Foundation also delivered keynote speeches during the conference.
This conference emphasized the urgent need for greater domestic accountability, reduced dependence on foreign aid and value for money in the delivery of health services in Africa. It gathered the expertise from all over Africa as well as globally featuring speakers from India, China, Brazil, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan. This high level dialogue culminated in a Tunis Declaration endorsing, among other things, the prioritization of high impact interventions, which lead to results.


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PepsiCo's Solid Quarter, Eli Lilly Beats Projections, and 3 More Hot Stocks
PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP): Pepsi has reported earnings per share of $1.31, enough to beat estimates by 12 cents. Revenue of $16.8 billion just passed projections by $0.01 billion, and core gross margins rose 120 bps on the heels of a marketing expense increase of 13 percent. Organic revenue grew 4.2 percent, spurred by emerging market growth of 11 percent. The company keeps its guidance of $900 million in productivity savings in 2013 and $3 billion from 2012 to 2014. Pepsi is still on track to return $6.4 billion of capital to shareholders this year, with $3.4 billion in dividends and $3 billion in share repurchases.
Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE:LLY): Second-quarter earnings per share reached $1.16 to beat projections by 15 cents. Revenue of $5.93 billion also beat, by $0.11 billion. A 25 percent drop in Zyprexa sales due to patent expirations didn't hold back the 6 percent gain in revenues; Cymbalta and Cialis sales saw 22 percent and 13 percent gains, respectively. The gross margin swelled 80 basis points since last year, and guidance has been raised to $4.28 to 4.38 per share on revenue of $22.6 billion to 23.4 billion against a consensus of $3.92 per share on sales of $22.8 billion.
Delta Airlines (NYSE:DAL): Delta's second-quarter EPS of 98 cents beat estimates by 4 cents, though revenue of $9.71 billion missed by $0.03 billion. Domestic revenue grew 3.7 percent to $3.9 billion, while cash flow from operations generated $1.3 billion, minus about $500 million in accelerated pension funding leaving $730 million of free cash flow. A non-fuel unit cost increase of 2.5 percent was 200 bps lower than guidance and indicates a "positive trend to continue in September."
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT): Two misses (EPS of $1.45 missing by 25 cents and revenue of $14.62 billion missing by $0.41 billion) have pushed Caterpillar shares down over 2 percent. A $1 billion reduction in dealer machine inventory was more than expected, and it seems that dealers are positioned to reduce it even further. The company's management expects it to decline another $1.5 billion to $2 billion in the second half, ending the year at about $3.5 billion in reductions. "2013 is turning out to be a tough year and we've already taken action to reduce costs," the company said.
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE:DPS): EPS of 84 cents fell in line with analyst expectations as revenue of $1.61 billion missed by $0.04. Net sales decreased by 1 percent, and a sales volume decline of 4 percent was partially offset by a 2 percent boost in favorable pricing and mix.
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