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A Nation Must Think Before it Acts America and the World Amid Financial Upheaval, Political Transitions, and a Changing Strategic Balance
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Presentation of the 8th Annual Benjamin Franklin
Award for Public Service
On American and the World Amid Financial Upheaval,
Political Transitions, and a Changing Strategic Balance
Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, Bard College, and Editor-at-Large, American Interest Magazine. Until 2011, he was a Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy at Yale, and, until 2010, the Henry A. Kissinger fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The author of three critically acclaimed books, Mr. Mead writes regularly on international affairs for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New Yorker, Atlantic, and Harper's. He frequently appears on national and international radio and television programs.
His book, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001), was widely hailed by reviewers, historians, and diplomats. Among several honors and prizes, Special Providence received the Lionel Gelber Award for the best book in English on international relations in 2002. His most recent book is God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007). His always provocative blog, Via Meadia, is widely read and can be accessed here: https://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/. Previous recipients of the Ben Franklin Award were Henry A. Kissinger, Fouad Ajami, Charles Krauthammer, Robert D. Kaplan, Niall Ferguson, Philip Zelikow, and John R. Bolton.
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Jon Hamm Will Reprise His 'Mad Men' Role One More Time For An Episode Of 'SpongeBob SquarePants'
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When AMC's Mad Men signed off this year, fans of the show probably thought it would be the last time they'd see Jon Hamm as Don Draper. Hamm took home the Emmy this year (finally!) for Outstanding Actor in a Drama, and the award was long overdue. Perhaps sensing that there's a little more gas in the Draper tank — or, the more likely reason, he likes SpongeBob SquarePants — Hamm will reprise his role as Don Draper for the Nickelodeon cartoon in an episode set to air in 2016…kinda.
In the episode, Hamm will play Don Grouper, a fishier version of his award-winning character. Nickelodeon stated that Hamm's Grouper will be "a charismatic head ad executive of the ad agency Grouper, Goby & Koi. His sharp mind and devastating charm make him an irresistible force. When Don's in the room everyone laps up his words like overpriced organic honey."
Don Grouper's stint on the show will involve him trying to help Mr. Krabs launch his frozen Krabbie Patties line of products. As of now, it's unclear as to when the episode with Hamm and his aquatic doppelgänger will be airing, but here's hoping that Grouper is partial to cigarettes and whisky.
Check out the sketch of Don Grouper below.
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Big changes at SeaWorld
Twenty-three years ago, as the Humane Society of the United States launched a campaign to protect captive marine mammals, SeaWorld invited the organization to visit its Orlando theme park. Dr. Naomi Rose, the newly appointed head of the HSUS campaign, and her colleagues went to the park for a behind...
Whales, dolphins don't belong in tanks
This editorial originally appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on November 14, 2005. The Georgia Aquarium will have its grand opening on November 23. Highlights include two whale sharks, the only exhibit of this species in North America, and its newest acquisitions, five beluga whales, two...
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Hawai'i court voids all existing recreational aquarium collection permits
Citizens and conservation groups achieved another legal victory against the Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) when the First Circuit Court—sitting as the Environmental Court—ruled that all unexpired recreational aquarium collection permits are void. The April 12 ruling...
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Protecting the predators
Rob Stewart was 9 the first time he came face-to-face with a shark. While he was snorkeling along a reef in the Caribbean, the shark swam into view and quickly reversed direction. The encounter lasted mere seconds, but it changed Stewart's perception of the oft-misunderstood predator. "For me, that...
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Shark finning: The cruelest cuts
On a longline fishing boat off the Galapagos Islands, a concerned biologist working undercover as a cook films a horrifying scene. As the camera rolls, a blue shark is dragged upside down out of the water, a sharp hook piercing it through the roof of the mouth and out through the side of the face....
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Q: Give all possible resources to a program I created a program in C# to work with 2.5 million records in Oracle Express (local instance), parse/split those records and create an additional 5 million records.
I added some code to print times on the screen and it seems fairly fast. It is doing all the processing for 1K records every 9 seconds. Which means it takes more than 6 hours to finish.
Now, with Task Manager I can see the program is using 6% of CPU (max) and around 50MB of memory. I understand the OS, and Oracle itself need resources to operate but..... is there a way to tell this little program "hey, it's ok, go ahead and use at least 50% of CPU, there are 4GB of RAM so knock yourself out"?
Note: One of the reasons I'm using a local instance with Oracle Express is to reduce the network bottleneck. Also I might not run this process quite often but I was intrigued to see if this was at all possible.
Please forgive my noobness,
Thanks!

A: The operating system will give your program all the resources it needs, the reason your process is not consuming all the CPU is probably because it's waiting for the IO sub system more than the processor.
If you want to see if you can consume more CPU cycles try writing a program that runs a short infinite loop as fast as possible and you will see the difference in CPU usage.

A: A number of thoughts, not really answers I guess, but.

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*You could up the priority of the applications thread, however, its possible that the code maybe less efficient than you think, so..

Have you run a profiler on it?

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*If its currently a single threaded app, you could look to see if you could parse it in batches and therefore run them in parallel.

*Without knowing a lot of detail of the splitting of records, is it possible to off hand that more to oracle to do? eg, would matter less about network etc or local or otherwise.

*If you're apps drawing/updating a screen or UI then it will almost certainly slow the progress of the work down. An example. I ran an app which sorted about 10k emails into around 250k lines into a database, if I added an item to a listbox each line the time went from short to rediculous eg, crash out got bored. So, again, offloading to a thread to do the work with as few UI updates to do as possible can help.

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Peterborough Northern Star manager Rob Ward has been sacked.
Peterborough Northern Star have sacked manager Rob Ward after just four months in the job.
Star crashed to a 6-0 United Counties Premier Division defeat at Cogenhoe on Saturday (November 18) to make it four defeats in competitive matches in a row. They've conceded 17 goals and scored one in that time.
Raff Mazzarella is the caretaker-manager of Peterborough Northern Star.
Star are currently 14th in the division with just five wins from 19 matches. Ward was appointed in the summer having previously managed Ketton in the Peterborough Premier Division.
Former boss Raff Mazzarella will take charge of first team affairs until a new manager is appointed. Star have a tough Premier Division match at Yaxley tomorrow (November 21).
A Star statement said: "The board has taken the tough but unanimous decision, believing it is in the best interests of the club for a new manager to be in place to take the club forward.
Club chairman Tony Zirpolo added: "With the re-structure in the summer and Rob stepping up to first team manager we hoped to see a continuation of steady progression utilising a squad that we believe can be competitive at Step 5 and then push on from there.
It's understood some players who had left the club will now return.
Assistant manager Steve Wilson left the club earlier this month.


Tourcoing (French pronunciation: [tuʁ.kwɛ̃]) is a city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Nord.
Tourcoing is part of the urban area of Lille and is a member of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole. Besides that, the city is also a member of the cross-border Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai (metropolitan area), which had 2,155,161 residents in 2008. The city is served by the Lille Metro.
Church of St Christopher (15th-16th centuries), considered one of the most beautiful Neo-Gothic edifices of Nord. In stone and brickwork, it has an 80-metre (262-foot) high bell tower with more than 80 bells.
Hospice de Havre, founded in 1260. The cloister and the chapel date from the seventeenth century.
Hôtel de ville (1885), in Napoleon III-style.
Jardin botanique de Tourcoing, a botanical garden and arboretum.
The city was the site of a significant victory for France during the French Revolutionary Wars. Marshal Charles Pichegru and his generals Joseph Souham and Jean Moreau defeated a combined force of British and Austrian troops in the Battle of Tourcoing on 29 Floréal II (18 May 1794).
Certified Grenoble, Tourcoing and the Country of the Perche(Perch) Sarthois "Artistic and Historical Towns and Areas"


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OUTing The Past Festival @ Taunton Library
February 2, 2019 all-day Europe/London Timezone
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OUTing the Past - South West OUTing the Past - The National Festival of LGBT History
Somerset Libraries are very excited to be hosting their first Outing the Past Festival in Taunton Library in February 2019. Our festival programme covers a wide variety of topics and historical periods and hopes to provide 'something for everyone'.
Attendees can expect to journey from Spartan Greece, where we will explore whether the Spartan army was as macho as we think it was, all the way through to the growth of LGBT activism in modern day Britain. In this centenary year for the commemoration of the First World War, we are also delighted to welcome the first openly transgender officer in the British Armed Forces to talk about three key transgender figures to serve in the armed forces this century.
Finally, there will the opportunity to explore local LGBT history with two talks from the Somerset area. Local playwright, Malcolm Martin, will take us back to Taunton in 1954, where the arrest of a young man accused of approaching another man on a train led to one of the first public calls to decriminalise homosexuality in the UK. Following this will be a talk about the significance of the LGBT coffee shop in Bristol, which will be complemented by an exhibition in the library on the LGBT history of Bristol, Bath and Somerset.
Details of the full programme and how to book a place will be available via our website from early January – www.somersetlibraries.co.uk
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The 404 Christmas Reunion 2011!
03 Dec 2011 by ShogZ
Is happening now at Shogz towers. It's going to be such fun darlings.
Congratulations to the Conan
14 Sep 2008 by Dr_Gonz
Congrats to erstwhile 404 legend Conan, who got married in full on Cypriot-Italian style last night. Props also to Mr Butlertron who delivered a nod to the 404 Generals squad in his excellent best man speech.
05 Jul 2008 by ShogZ
It used to make me sad reporting daily stabbings and murders, then it made me angry. Now...Predictably it makes me feel nothing but a dull sense of regularity.
This week was a heavy one by all standards, six people stabbed and killed in as many days. There have been two more stabbings this morning (Saturday).
I can't talk about the incidences happening around the country, but I can talk about my front door.
In London something has gone very wrong.
There are a multitude of reasons for this, some obvious, some not so obvious and some just theoretical. I want to try and explore a few of these in the most basic, pertinent way I can. It isn't the murder of Ben Kinsella, the 16-yr old stabbed outside a pub in Islington, who has since spawned a trendy line in 'No to knives' shirts from the middle classes. This hasn't 'shocked me from my revere' in any way, it was actually the Oxford Street stabbing that hit me hardest.
My first question is 'When is there no law?'
Is it when there are no police, no judges no prisons? Is it when the system is full and slow? Is it when it is corrupt or inefficient? All of these boil down to one thing. A lack of universal, effective deterrent and punishment. Whether you have the money to get off or the system cant deal with you, it all boils down to there being no legal presence.
That presence can be physical (No Police where you live) or metaphorical, 'I'll pay my way out' or 'The punishment is nothing'. Thankfully we dont have rampant corruption within the police, nor do we an (entirely) overflowing penal system.
For me, the brutal murder of a man by a group of men in broad daylight in the busiest shopping district of the capital city of the country in front of hundreds of onlookers tells me definatevely. There is no law.
When children test boundaries and find no punishment, that behaviour is acceptable. There are so many stabbings now, so much regular youth on youth killing and so little follow up that it's basically acceptable.
This isn't entirely the fault of the police. They do their best in an increasingly hostile world. But the truth is they dont have the power. They are constrained, rightly and wrongly, by human rights legislation, lack of effective powers, the fight against other crimes, a creaking system of red-tape and so on and so forth. When kids realise that basically after you've had your name taken, your knife confiscated and a DNA swab done, you're off. That process isnt scary anymore.
I remember fearing the police. I remember when having a police officer talk to you was scary because it had possible impact. They might start writing it up and who knows where it went then? Well, now we all know:
Perhaps a maximum of seven years for murder, out in four with time served and good behaviour to ease the at-capacity prison system. With three meals a day, TV, Playstation, a gym and amenities its more of a spa-break. Prison is a shitty hard place, friends have been in and it isnt easy. But it isnt a Siberian labor camp either. It's the social dynamic that makes prison hard, not prison itself. Other inmates are dangerous, the internal respect and currency system make it hard. But not the prison system itself. Thats relatively easy.
Let me end any debate here by political councils, committees, academics and hand wringers all over London. Most of the time, for these kids, prison isn't scary and they couldnt give a shit.
The police now have no power to deter and prison isnt scary, so what then? Why was prison scary for a generation of kids and not another?
The prospect of having a criminal record counts when you can fail.
When you have possible opportunities removed form you as a result of being convicted of a serious crime. If you want to be a stockbroker, a lawyer a doctor or even a solicitor and these things become unreachable if you have a murder or assault record.
But what when you dont feel like you have any of these opportunities?
What when the best you can aspire to is being a rap mogul or a dealer?
Hold on here. I'm not going to make the shallow and obvious point. These kids do not suffer from a lack of opportunity. There are schools, there are colleges and there are universities for all of them.
They have school places and teachers who turn up to work, and classrooms and books.
They might not be the best schools, teachers or books. But they are there.
It's just that education isnt seen as the route out of anything.
There's a great scene in 'Boiler Room' where the lead charatcer describes the 'white boy' version of 'learning a jump shot or slinging crack rock' and thats becoming a stock broker.
Why dont kids now look to these things? Why do they set themselves up with no possibility of failure? Because the truth is none of this is relevant to them or their lives. They rarely have parents or siblings who've achieved that level, nobody around them aspires to achieve ot that degree and certainly nobody in the media has achieved that.
Who was the last A-List doctor? Solicitor or Physicist?
Those people with money now are almost entirely, devoid of talent. The era of reality-TV and get-rich one shot record deals mean we live in an era where fame for the 'normal man' is expected. 'Being famous' is a career aspiration. As a country we have lauded the stupid and the unworthy for so long that we slaughtered merit as a concept to the gods of reality TV long ago.
Add that to a nanny culture in education where nobody truly 'fails' and there are options for everyone, multiple qualifications, NVQ's, bachaleureates, apprenticiships and its ok not to achieve, because I can 'talk about it' and there will be 'understanding'. When we killed failure and judgement in society, we killed standards.
But what about music? As a keen listener of Hip Hop, Rap and urban music and a sometime maker of it, surely this for me is in the heart and real? Short answer: No.
The reason all the outreach programmes and street kid initiatives teach DJ'ing and MC'ing is not because it's a genuine release for its own sake. Its because its a percevied ladder to being famous.
The truly sad thing about HH going mainstream, which in itself is a good thing, is that using it as a genuine tool of confession, regret and development is gone. The 'tough heartache stories' of Eminem, 50 cent and others mean that its almost now relegated to another 'talking is explaining' initative.
HH used to be a real and genuine thing grasped by people who had few other outlets and used with great effect. It was bought by others in the same struggle, as Jay-Z famously said "I gave a voice to the hustlers" Rarely, very rarely, it still is. But even the confession form of self evaluation rap is now mainstream and overdone.
"It's hard in the ghetto"
"My friends shoot each other"
"But I'm using music to struggle out of this life"
Has become a cliche.
Does that mean music as an outlet is redundant? No. It's just going to have to be more inventive than it currently is. And this is also true, HH reflects life in a way for me, no other art form yet does. Street Bards are alive and well but their progress and chances are radically different. Add to that that the UK HH scene is tiny and growing slowly means there are not record deals out there for many, but a tiny few. Even less than the rhymers coming out of the Bronx or South-Central.
Anyway this is all academic.
The next part involves us, you and me, the general public. See this doesnt really affect us. We shout about outrage and the fear for safety and 'our kids'. But in the main, the majority. They're not our kids and it isnt our outrage.
There is, I'm willing to bet, a large part of the white middle class public who get outraged etc because they're supposed to. It isn't until this shit happens on your doorstep that its a real problem. There is no one ghetto anymore. Most of South London has its problems, just like East London. And north London suffers too.
When we get a killing a street away from the mayors house in Kensington you know its changing.
So now it is our problem.
Choir boy children are being killed in bakerys, white middle class high achievers are being killed outside pubs protecting friends. Holy shit our blind eye, laissez faire approach came home to roost. It isn't just black working class kids killing one another on estates, although this is the majority, to use a crass metaphor it has 'bled out'.
Now the real outrage begins.
And the middle class reacts in a predictable way. Facebook groups, ironic t-shirt campaigns and low-level student marches. We are impotent.
So what about govrnment?
Governments failures are large on this issue, but its partly our fault. See we all accuse politicians of being liars and then give them all trial by media.; A politician cannot give a bad soundbyte or admit defeat or say they are not in control. Because we slaughter them.
We, the sheep, read one or two headlines and decide we think the minister concerned should go and after a week of political assasination by ambitious colleagues, research journo articles and think pieces in higher brow papers the offending member is usually gone. If they survive the week they stay.
Government has become so used to 'massaging the figures' and making the 'compelling argument' that it means nothing anymore. Statistics are utterly meaningless. They are read and reread in different ways allowing no definitive answer. This government has become masterful at setting 'targets' and 'quotas' and showing 'progress' all the while Rome Burns around them.
The vast majoiry of MPs have no idea, none whatsoever of this slide. They live protected lives in jobs where they read reports and when they do 'take to the streets' its with a gaggle of armed police officers.
They dont know you or know me.
They handle the media as best they can by never admitting defeat, taking obviously stupid lines of argument just to say that thats not the case. Look out especially for the following words:
'Deeply troubled' 'Deeply concerned' 'Deeply sadenned'.
These are government stock phrases used at every death or calamity (Soldiers on duty, through to teens on the streets) they are not actually 'deeply' anything. Neither are we.
Oh they care alright, its bad for their image and bad for them and crime is bad so they do actually care, no doubt. But each case does not affect them personally, nor does it give them honesty.
We're partly to blame. Politicians are trapped in a cycle of having to feed the beast good news or deny bad news. We criticise their lack of honesty and integrity but constantly demand that everything be 'all right' or that they are incompetant. The idea that a bunch of legal graduates from decent universities sitting in an old palace in Westminster have all the answers is ludicrous. Just as if we were in charge. So stop expecting it.
Expect leadership in a crisis, expect direction. But do not expect to be spoon fed progress or safety. These things trap us all in the cirlce of constant hyperbole and justification and denial that has seen the death of political honesty in assosiation with the death of failure.
We have to let politicians fail occasionaly or be lost for words or report bad stats openly and honestly without mauling them the one and only time they do it. Also, take pity on them. To them knife and gun crime are reports and statistics, headlines and commentary. It is not thier doorstep, their neighbour or their child.
When it is, expect action.
Finally, government are not police their job is enacting legislation, something this government has done a huge amount of. They setup committees and talking shops, headed by white middle-upper class individuals of good intention who just dont know the problem. They interview some offenders and talk about 'getting to the heart of the issue' they then take months to publish a 'paper' that goes nowhere and does nothing but stimulate a debate before another committe and at best, more legislation.
That is the limit of government power. They can tax you, spend your taxes and create laws. But thats it.
None of those things are going to solve knife crime, its out of their hands.
Now lets look at that other factor which unities and dividies a society. Religion.
Whilst we have those who are ultra religious in our midst (Another debate another time) religion plays no part whatsoever in the current life of a UK working class kid involved in this scene. None whatsoever.
The church is meaningless, they make good open plan flat conversions but thats about it.
Reverends and ministers will give sermons to the older generation, the old and dying looking to God or trying to reach Him. But apart form religious outreach initiatives, there is no role for religion here or in society as a whole. This lack fo faith has combined with the above factors in the lack of punishment. If the police cant stop me and I dont have a soul to judge then who cares?
It's just true that religion and God play at best a passing part in the lives of these kids. Working hard and doing the right thing do not result in an easy life, neither does belief so its irrelevant.
The death of religion feeds into a wider decline in morality. Pretty much everything is acceptable, nothing is tabboo and you cant be punished anyway. The social contract is gone. That idea that even if there was no God or effective police you brought shame to yourself and family by acting badly is also gone. We live in a world of 'respect' and 'my rights' which means nothing. The only person we protect is ourselves and our rep. Beyond that, who cares I dont know them.
Finally we come to demographics and family. Lets state the obvious up front here. The majority of the perpetrators of this problem in London are black and so are their victims. Anybody who denies that this is predominantly a black community problem is playing PC with the wrong issue.
I'm tired. My fingers and brain ache. Familiies with no fathers, mothers on benefits. Children as parent, no formal education of their own a disdain for education and achievment and 'I'm still young and I know my rights attitude' have ruined these kids. Period.
Final thing. The kids themselves.
Dont get caught up in the excuses above, opportunity, environment, family and other reasons.
Some of these kids, by no means all, but some of them. Are lost.
Forget redemeption, social initiatives and saving them. Some of them have gone feral and simply require humanising. Their is no moral, no tale that will bring them round. No gospel, song or t-shirt that will reach them. They are animals.
You can as much tell a dog to stop biting your leg as you can instruct some of these people to change.
I want out. Out of this city and perhaps, out of this country.
This is no longer the country of my fathers generation, but I suspect it could be once again.
Soon...The hatching
21 Jun 2008 by ShogZ
I'm thinking it's our birthday in September and we need to do something about it as a clan.
Last year we went to Belgium...This year?
16 Jun 2008 by Dr_Gonz
The excellently numbered room key from the hotel shades and I were staying at for a conference last weekend:
I think this post may have invalidated their security.
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I read all three books and have never enjoyed a series as much as Nothing Too Good For a Cowboy. We could no longer receive Canadian television part way through the series. Please please make them available as a boxed set. I feel that this series would be as popular as the Australian series "McLeod's Daughters" that is now available from Barnes and Noble. They are both about ranching families that are both humorous, moving, realistic to ranch life and suitable for the whole family. There are not many shows that can do all this. So far McLeods has five seasons available and I have purchased all five as have two of my children's families. These are no longer available on US TV so there is a demand for the boxed DVD's.


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Select Tweets from Keynote Address at Texas Association of Healthplans Conference
Today the Texas Association of Health Plans (TAHP) kicked off their 2016 TAHP Managed Care Conference & Trade Show in Dallas, TX. The TAHP is a trade association representing all major commercial & Medicaid health plans in Texas that is committed to increasing access to affordable, quality care for all Texans.
The keynote address was by Aaron Carroll, MD, of The Incidental Economist and the title of his keynote was The Affordable Care Act: Preparing for 2017 and Beyond.
As is more often the rule versus the exception nowadays, the conference is being live tweeted using the conference-specific hashtag #TAHP2016.
The following are highlighted tweets from Dr. Carrolls keynote – courtesy of the @txhealthplans Twitter account.
What Did Dr. Carroll Have to Say about Preparing for 2017 and Beyond?
The three legged stool of PPACA: 1. Regulations 2. Individual Mandates 3. Subsidies
It's difficult for people in the U.S. to get the care they need when they need it.
1/3 of American citizens avoid care because of cost.
The fiscal outlook for #healthcare spending looks better because things have been growing more slowly.
The problem isn't that we spend more on healthcare, it's that we spend more than you'd expect given our wealth.
We have far fewer doctors than you'd expect, a major shortage of generalists.
We are in the lower half of countries when it comes to deaths from cancer.
More people die from heart disease in this country than you'd expect.
Access is bad (but maybe improving?), quality is below what we want, costs are sky-high.
With last week's election, all bets are off. #ACA #Election2016
There's no way the #ACA will stand as it is.
The only thing standing in the way of full-on repeal of the #ACA is a filibuster.
Most laws require half the house and half the senate.
Option 1 for the #GOP - Reconciliation, only requires 51 votes. #ACA
Option 2 - Repeal & Replace #ACA. Option 1 leads to 22M people becoming uninsured; won't be popular.
Paul Ryan's Better Way is a refundable tax credit to help defray the cost of premiums.
Paul Ryan's plan does keep guaranteed issue but does not keep the community ratings.
There are too many doctors that are sued on cases that don't have any merit. #tortreform
In 2003, Texas passed comprehensive tort reform.
Just passing tort reform doesn't bring it down.
Tort reform is necessary, malpractice reform is necessary; but it's a red herring.
Medicaid block payments are the low-hanging fruit of the next few years.
Right now, Medicaid works by matched money.
The debate is how much money are they going to give and how much will dry up in the future.
Most savings in budget are from radically reducing payments; cut spending by 35% by 2022 & 49% by 2030.
The devil is in how this will be spun politically and how payments will be reduced in the future.
Life expectancy isn't that different at age 65 since 1970.
The poor 1/2 of U.S. has seen their life expectency increase by a year. Hasn't gone up as much as people think.
How much will it cost? Employers would have to pay additional $4.5B. The costs outweigh the savings.
Other ideas - change the actuarial values of plans offered (60/70/80/90 ➡ 45/55/70/85)
The #ACA isn't as prescriptive as people think. Birth Control is an example.
The #ACA doesn't demand birth control be covered. It delegates that decision to the HHS Secretary.
Inaction is as good as action. Right now, the Obama Administration is fighting King v. Burwell.
There's a lot we could still do to improve the #healthcare system. #txlege
Anyone who tells you they know what's going on right now is lying. #ACA
The TAHP conference runs through Wednesday, November 16th. You can know more about what's been said and shared at the conference by following the #TAHP2016 hashtag. You can also learn more about healthcare data, technology and services topics by following me on Twitter.
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22 Notable Tweets from Day Two of the 2016 Healthcare Internet Conference
Billed as "Healthcare's Most Forward-Thinking Conference on Marketing and Internet Technology," the 2016 Healthcare Internet Conference held November 7-9 at at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas appears to be a popular event for healthcare marketing and communications professionals – and wanna-be's.
I say this because the #HCIC16 hashtag was all over my Twitter stream today. I recognized a number of the people and companies tweeting and pulled out 22 tweets that stood out in the first couple hours to Day 2. Here they are:
@jmcpherson
Good reminder on content layout and page structure to deliver what's important immediately to the user!
@andygradel
Always quotable @bladelink "only difference between a vision and a hallucination is how many people can see it"
@sleibforth
Do you remember the first time you logged onto the internet? - Mine was good old
@kertingprmaven
Motivation for being online is 'What are we looking for?" Email once exciting. Not anymore!
@natashabflo
We have to stop reacting and start planning. #manbun
@allisonwendorf
Do you have a @Myspace page? What are you, a freak show? LOL'ing in the morning with @unmarketing and his beautiful #MANBUN at #HCIC16
@angharless
51 million people daily still use Myspace. What?!
@ashmharmon
Grasping at all new social media isn't real time marketing, it's reactive marketing, and there is no strategy.
@vaughndtaylor
On chasing social trends, "It's not real marketing, it's reactive marketing" - Scott Stratten
@amandatodo
#HCIC16 Context of the platform matters as much as context of the message. Yes!
The millennials are coming, The millennials are coming!
When we say millennials we don't even know what we mean. We just fear youth.
Millennials have something we don't have. Hope!
@allisonmanley
Dear millennials: pencil joke refers to how we had to manually rewind cassettes. You're welcome. :)
@laurenfarabough
We forget that we are in healthcare, an industry that changes lives daily.
We are in an industry that affects lives. Most others have to find motivation elsewhere.
@audreymmarks
But for real: good take on generations, how to reach them and planning vs. being reactive from
@j_duffield
We get very territorial about how we communicate. Should be finding out who our audiences are & be there with an open ear.
The only communication that matters is the one that is for the customer that needs it.
It shouldn't be "this is how you reach us," rather, "how do you want to be reached?" Only the patients' preferred channel matters.
19 quotes and paraphrased interpretations of comments made by Scott Stratten of @unmarketing
The following were culled from tweets shared during Scott's session titled: Everything Has Changed and Nothing is Different.
"If we can't trust the exosystem of the Internet, then the system doesn't work. @unmarketing on paid fake reviews at #HCIC16"
"Integrity is not a renewable resource. You don't get it back quarterly."
"It's not about what the hospital wants; it's about what consumers want. Need to focus on how pts want to communicate."
"Match the communication preference of the customer, not your communication preference"
"Negative reviews are solved simply by one thing. Response. People want validation that they were heard"
"Not every metric is a good metric. It's our job to avoid vanity metrics. They sound good but amount to nothing."
"We are creating a stereotype with millennials and it's not fair."
"Can we stop stealing stuff and sharing it in hopes it goes viral for a vanity metric that doesn't matter"
"I saw a blog post that says millennials don't like meetings." @unmarketing "What? Nobody likes meetings!"
"The worst kind of patient complaint is the one you don't hear." Participate and respond.
"Video can actually hurt your brand - due to the unforgiving nature of video, not to mention live video."
"What are we trying to say and does it make sense to say it through this medium? Content context matters. "
"You guys are lucky. You are in an organization that changes lives." Not everyone has that."
"We are in an industry that affects lives. Most others have to find motivation elsewhere. "
"The worst kind of patient complaint is the one you cannot hear. Your brand becomes unanswered complaints"
"We trust strangers' reviews before an organization's. Ethics matters. "
"Your brand is whatever words come out of a person's mouth"
"If we're not going to do it very well, then why are we doing it? @unmarketing on live video, 360 cameras, VR and AR"
"If you're in patient care, then care. @unmarketing #nof1"
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Top 5 Blog Posts for August, September & October of 2016
The following five blog posts of the 25 posts I've written over the last three months are the most popular - with each receiving between 1000 and 1200 hits as of today: November 4th, 2016.
Healthcare Executives Rank Top 10 Issues Facing Health Plans & Providers 08/03/16
Summary of #HITsm Tweetchat: Acquiring, Managing & Disseminating Health IT Knowledge 09/01/16
Importance of Social Determinants of Health Data to Improved Patient Outcomes 09/07/16
How will the role of a successful #HealthIT #CIO change as we enter post-EHR era? 08/29/16
Healthcare's Unsung Among the #HIT100 - Introduction 08/13/16
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Population Health, Community Health & Who's Going to Make Transformative Changes?
GuideWell Insights Lounge - Oliver Innovation Conference
Here's another 'transcripted synopsis' of an interview by Kate Warnock, GuideWell Social Media Manager and Healthcare Inquisitor Extraordinaire, from the GuideWell Insights Lounge at the 2016 Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit.
The following are questions from Kate's interviews with Josh Michelsen, Health & Life Science Practices partner at Oliver Wyman and Director of the #OWHIC Leaders Alliance for Oliver Wyman.
Kate quizzes Josh talk about population health, its differences from 'community health,' and how Josh believes a group effort targeted at a 'community microcosm' might effectively improve the population health of that defined population.
Kate: How would you describe population health and how is it different from Community Health?
Josh: That's a good question. You know it's certainly a buzz word - both are buzz words in the industry.
And they're linked but I do draw a little bit of a distinction between the two. So when I think of population health, at least as the industry thinks about population help, it's four pieces:
Four Parts of Population Health
First Piece: it's about actually improving the Triple Aim; so quality, cost and the experience.
Second Piece: It's for a defined population. So you are trying to improve those pieces for a specific population. It could be quite micro; so it could be around Medicaid or Medicare, commercial or could be all-encompassing.
I think population health also has a Third Piece which is much more of a holistic approach to health care: you're not just receiving the patient but you're proactively trying to improve their health.
And the Fourth Piece is that whatever organization is responsible for that population, they're actively at risk for it - financially at risk.
So that's kind of how I think about population health, at least from an industry standpoint. And so community health is similar but I think it's a little bit different in that it's the foundation on which people are trying to improve the health of a specific population.
Josh: So in a community, it's about all the social determinants of that community. It's about economic vitality. It's about some of the structural impediments and it's about social impediments. And so, while I think in a given community, take Chicago. In a pocket of Chicago, if you were trying to improve the community health and really lay the foundation for that, you might take a specific cell population and laser in. And have a provider or payer organization responsible for the cost quality and experience (of that specific cell population.)
But I think the community health is a much broader and more public health oriented ambition.
Kate: Is it fair to say this 'community health cell' is more location-based? Is it more about a geographic region versus population health? which doesn't necessarily have the same quarters? (Clarify at 3:02)
Josh: Yeah, you know, that's probably a fair way to think about it. Most organizations here [At OWHIC] and we were studying a little bit of what's in the mission. So we've looked at the mission statement of payers and providers and health IT organizations. And what we found was that organizations that had roots in a specific community, or a specific market, tended to gravitate to words like 'improve the health of their community and the individuals that they serve.' Versus those [organizations] that are location independent; those that are more location independent didn't quite draw that same connection.
So I do think being able to put your arms around a geography or micro geography is certainly an important attribute.
Kate: Ok. Alright. Fair enough. Next question for you Josh:
Who are the constituents required to drive better health for a community? Who's really going to make a transformative change we all want to see?
Josh: Well, we have many organizations here that happen to be some of the largest employers in their market. So whether it's hospitals or payers, they tend to be in the top, you know, two or three organizations in terms of employing individuals. So they're naturally an anchor and then there's this notion of an anchor in the community that you can rally around. But I think it's a lot broader than that.
First Steps - Per Josh
So some of the first steps in transforming the health of the community are connecting the organizations that are responsible for care. It's not just the hospitals and it's not just the physicians. It's the safety nets. It's the FQHCs. It's social services. And you start to orient around that anchor.
Next Steps - Per Josh
Then you broaden it. You start to say: "Well, who else is there?" It's the retailers that have a role. It's education that has a role. It's the churches that have a role. And religious affiliations. And what we've observed is that some organizations are you really saying: "What could we do to connect the care and other communities?"
And other organizations are starting to say: "Wait a second. If we're thinking about social determinants, who plays a role in these social determinants?"
Community Health Improvement Initiatives
And then the third layer is many Community Health Improvement Initiatives (CHII) really start with organizations that have a physical presence. And what we're seeing is that there's an opportunity to pull in innovators and technology companies to actually assemble the supply side of these CHII's a little bit differently.
So it's not just a provider in a market that has a new care model; it's what would happen if you actually incorporated the provider with consumer tech and engagement around specific populations? And we think there's a lot of promise and actually attracting innovators to test their models and refine their models through Community Health Improvement Initiatives.
Who's Your Anchor? - Per Josh
So it's quite broad but we do think it's important to have an anchor that can serve as a facilitator and really help rally investment and energy across multiple organizations.
Back to You Kate...
Kate: You know, as you respond Josh, you can' t help but think that, with so many players involved in this, really just speaks to the complexity of managing true health and helping people focus not just on episodic care but on that holistic vision that you painted for us in the beginning. So just one of the challenges, but so many opportunities too, when you have the right people involved.
So one more question Josh.
What new business models or collaborations are you seeing emerge as a result of organizations wanting to make a substantial impact on the health of their communities?
Josh: I guess a couple things. One is, we're seeing organizations rally around a major cause. So whether it's something like hunger or employment we're seeing some healthcare organizations say "You know what? We're going to find an issue and rally around that issue and be quite systemic about it." So take hunger as an example. You know the role of a provider could actually be creating, as part of their care pathways, nutrition plans and then tying into what restaurants are doing in the community. And addressing food deserts.
Marble the Solution Set
And so, taking an issue like that and actually marbling a set of solutions around a specific issue. We're seeing other instances where it's actually city lead and so the government is going to come in. Chicago is an example of this. They have invested in a healthy community or Healthy Chicago 2.0. They are inciting or are asking multiple constituents in a market to rally around multiple issues. So it's a much more diverse set of issues that they're taking.
Preventive, Proactive Care Engagement
And the third thing which I haven't seen take place but I would love too is and we're here talking about it is this idea of health and wellness. We have sick care and we have preventive, proactive care engagement. And we think there's an opportunity for organizations in a market in a specific geography to create a new marketplace: a marketplace for health and wellness. If a community were actually able to, it would build up demand at scale; have employers or multiple employers rally around a new supply side.
So not just by the traditional provider and the traditional network and the traditional plan of benefits, but have a payer or an employer wrap a product around the new supplies. So creative assembly of the supply and have traditional organizations actually integrate their solutions with some of that; innovators that we have in the room and then have a new marketplace around that and have that sit side-by-side with the traditional. And hopefully you'll build up demand and show that this alternative model is possible. So that's where we're hoping this goes or at least personally where I hope this goes.
How Long is this Going to Take?
Kate: I gotta ask. So, timeline for something like that is this something a year out or are we looking 3 to 5 years? Because that sounds, I mean it's a very…love the idea of that kind of model. Realistically how long would it take to really get something like that to begin to build traction?
Josh: Well. So what we've observed in the market is anytime you're trying to bring a new product, even… take a payer that's moving into Medicare Advantage space and trying to build adoption. You don't go from zero lives to tens of thousands of lives or hundreds of thousands. That can take a while. What we're hoping is that transparency around the effectiveness of those solutions is something that helps influence it.
Kate: It's its own best marketing. (Transparency)
Josh: And then, we are seeing examples of smaller communities, maybe not large metropolitan communities, but with smaller communities bring government, public health providers, banking, transportation, all kinds of all sectors together.
And in that smaller microcosm they've been able to do it; in part because they control many of the levers. Whereas in a market place like Chicago, it's a lot harder to do that. So we're hoping that, at least in pockets, were able to see that kind of new supply rise where it's many organizations coming together and then buying that in a for package way.
Kate: Okay Josh you paint a really, really fascinating look ahead into the future of healthcare and I appreciate you spending your time and your insights with us here at the Guidewell Insights Lounge.
Thank you. My name is Kate Warnock. Thank you so much for watching.
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Dr. Max A. Lauffer
Written on 25 January 2020 .
Dr. Max A. Lauffer was a professor, administrator, researcher and pipe smoker. He was known for discovering a virus (a tobacco related virus no less) before it could be confirmed under the microscope and he was highly influential in the discovery of the cure for Polio when he hired Jonas Salk to work on the vaccine at Pittsburg University. Sounds like we need a few more pipe smokers working on the COVID-19 virus don't you think?
As a Fellow and Associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in Princeton, NJ, 1937-1944, Lauffer published the physical characteristics of a simple virus called the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) before the electron microscope confirmed his findings at a later date. Max's work was important because this was one of the first pictures of a virus that was ever created, thus forwarding the prevention and cure of infections from viruses. While in Princeton, Max worked in Nobel Prize winner Dr. Wendell Stanley's influenza vaccine program supported by the US Army. He studied biophysical properties of the influenza virus, which helped pave the way for the production of flu vaccines.
Max worked at the University of Pittsburgh as administrator, researcher and teacher from 1944-1986. During that time he founded and chaired the Department of Biophysics, was Dean of the Division of Natural Sciences, established a virus research program involving biophysical studies on the flu virus but especially on TMV. Max played a large role in bringing Jonas Salk to Pitt to work on the polio vaccine. Work in his later years involved studying the self-assembly of TMV. This turned out to be an entropy-driven process, which led him to study those processes further. Max said, "I believe that my work on entropy-driven processes in biology is the most important work of my career because they are involved in many of the processes that involve motion -- muscular movement or movement within cells. "
As a revered teacher, Max invited his graduate students to a weekly brown bag lunch in his office to discuss their dissertations. What he didn't know at the time was that the students met the night before to critique each other before being grilled by their austere Professor. When confessing this, years later, during the establishment of the Tousimis-Lauffer Distinguished Annual Lecture in Biological Sciences, 2006, his students admitted that those lunches helped them to bond with each other and guide them to meaningful careers.
His honors include the Eli Lilly and Co. Award in Biochemistry from the American Chemical Society, 1945; outstanding Achievement Award, University of Minnesota, 1964; honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1964; and the Samuel and Carolyn Williams Mission and Peacemaking Award along with his wife Erika at the Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, PA, 2003.
Max was both scientist and churchman. His faith led him to serve the Presbyterian Church (USA) on local, regional, national and international levels, e.g. elder of the Presbyterian Congregation of Middletown, moderator of the Presbytery of Carlisle, 1992, member and chairman of the Council on Church and Society, 1963-1971, and delegate to the World Council of Churches' Church and Society Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, 1966. He served on the boards of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and The College of Wooster. Active in the community as well, he was a life long member of the World Federalist Association (now Citizens for Global Solutions) and was President of the Rotary Club of Middletown, PA.
Whether in connection with his scientific work or for pleasure, Max loved to travel. He taught at The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Max was a visiting professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland, 1952, and the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research, Tubingen, Germany, 1965-1966. He served as a consultant at the University of the Philippines in the fall of 1967.
During the 1950s Max helped found the Biophysical Society. He served as member of the first National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council of the National Institutes of Health, and consultant to the Surgeon General of the US, 1963-1967.
Cited by Governor Edward G. Rendell for "remarkable caliber of character, exceptional talent for leadership, and passion for public service," Max has always valued his Pennsylvania Dutch roots, retaining that of the country boy in his world travels and world-changing research and teaching. He loved to read history, tinker with machines, fish and play bridge with friends, play on the floor with children, and heartily laugh at jokes (often his own). Max's sister Eleanor Geissenhainer, who died in 2003, remarked Max was a two-time winner in marriage referring to his first wife Dorothy Easton who died in 1963, and to his wife of 48 years, Erika Erskine Lauffer. He cherished time with his four children: son Edward William Lauffer and wife Louise of Mechanicsburg, PA; daughter Susan Keiper Lauffer of Arlington, VA; son Max Erskine Lauffer and wife Heike of Dusseldorf, Germany; and son John Erskine Lauffer of Harrisburg, PA. He was proud Grandfather and Great-grandfather of Lauren, Jon Allen, Samuel, Jonathan David, Rebeckah, Hannah, Cedric and Cecilia. He enjoyed his Easton and Erskine nieces and nephews as well as his many Keiper and Swiss cousins.
More on Norman Dr. Max Lauffer:
Dr. Max Lauffer - Archives and Manuscripts
Guide to the Max A. Lauffer Papers
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Hawaiian Airlines is Most Punctual Airline in the U.S. for May
HONOLULU – Hawaiian Airlines completed the month of May as the U.S. airline industry's top-ranked carrier for on-time performance, as reported today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
Hawaiian Airlines' flights arrived on schedule 89.7 percent of the time, earning the DOT's top ranking for punctuality. Hawaiian also ranked third in fewest flight cancellations for the month of May with 0.2 percent, representing 12 cancellations out of 6,790 flights.
Hawai'i's largest and longest-serving airline provides daily non-stop service to Hawai'i from 11 gateway cities in North America using Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 767-300 aircraft. Hawaiian Airlines also operates approximately 160 daily flights between the Hawaiian Islands using Boeing 717-200 aircraft.
The DOT's monthly Air Travel Consumer Report ranking the nation's 16 largest air carriers is available online at www.dot.gov/individuals/air-consumer/air-travel-consumer-reports.
Hawaiian®, the world's most punctual airline as reported by OAG, has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past 13 years (2004-2016) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure have placed Hawaiian the among the top of all domestic airlines serving Hawai'i.
Now in its 88th year of continuous service, Hawaiian is Hawai'i's biggest and longest-serving airline.
Hawaiian offers non-stop service to Hawai'i from more U.S. gateway cities (11) than any other airline, along with service from Japan, South Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides approximately 170 jet flights daily between the Hawaiian Islands, with a total of more than 250 daily flights system-wide.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com. Follow updates on Twitter about Hawaiian (@HawaiianAir) and its special fare offers (@HawaiianFares), and become a fan on its Facebook page. For career postings and updates, follow Hawaiian's LinkedIn page.


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Bayard seeks to manage tight budget
Written by on May 10, 2016
Bayard's budget for the upcoming fiscal year began to take shape at the second of the City Council's meetings on the topic Monday. It appears that despite a sizable cut in state funding this year, the city will be able to operate without too big a cut in the budget.
The state cut was to the Small Cities Assistance distribution through the state's Department of Finance and Administration. The council had some warning that this fund would be cut, from the $400,000 they had come to expect in recent years to around $180,000 — closer to the amount they had received most years before that. With that warning, the council opted earlier this year to freeze all expenditures not attached to specific grants.
According to the preliminary budget City Clerk Treasurer Kristy Ortiz outlined in the special budget session before Monday's regular meeting, the council will likely stick with that strategy through the coming year.
The preliminary budget includes no capital purchases and no salary increases for fiscal year 2017. The only projects moving forward — aside from day-to-day operations — are those funded through grants like wastewater, municipal street projects, and Community Development Block Grants.
Ortiz said that despite the flat budget, the city isn't hurting for cash.
"All in all, all of our funds are looking pretty good," she said, "within a few thousand dollars."
Ortiz said the city's only "problem funds" are the general fund and Municipal Court. These have been covered at length over the past few weeks as the two funds have taken several hits. The Small Cities money would have gone into the general fund, so it is lacking that cushion this year. The Municipal Court fund is depleted after the Bayard Police Department began directing its citations to Magistrate Court instead, cutting off its revenue source.
While the city could redirect some money the court's way, that would put them in even more dire straits in the general fund.
"If I make a transfer to balance Municipal Court, general will be $130,000 over budget," Ortiz said. "Had we gotten [Small Cities fully funded] we would have been doing great."
Ortiz said the city ended the 2016 fiscal year with around $920,000. "So we're still good," she said. "The general fund has seen as low as $250,000 at one time in previous years."
While no decisions were made — lacking a quorum, with the skeleton crew of just Mayor Charles Kelly and Councilor Zeke Santa Maria at the budget meeting — the council did discuss possible options to earn more revenue.
One was a potential hike in fees at the city's Motor Vehicle Division office. That service loses the city money every year. A hike in fees, Kelly pointed out, would still leave that fund in the red, but would bring it closer to even.
"The citizens of Bayard pay to keep that open, and we do that for their pure convenience," Kelly said. The city pays utilities, supplies, salaries and insurance for the office to remain open.
One cut the city may have to make is the elimination of a position on the maintenance staff that is unfilled at this time.
Ortiz also announced that the city is set to begin replacement of water meters. Rather than the pulsing radio-read meters bemoaned by opponents of a similar Silver City project, Bayard will be installing meters that connect with cell phone towers. These — referred to as "wake-up meters" by electronic meter opponents, who also claim they are better for public health — send readings back to the city "only when we call for them," according to Ortiz.
Over the next 90 days, crews will install an estimated 40 meters per day, Monday through Thursday, from 7 a.m. to 5 pm. Water will be turned off at each residence for just 15 minutes on average.
In light of problems in Silver City with residents calling police to report that they do not want the meter installed, Ortiz informed the chief that she would like his department to inform residents that the contractors installing the meters are in fact contracted through the city of Bayard.
The council also welcomed and congratulated the Cobre High School marching band for their recent tie for a state championship.
"Over and over and over again we're proud of you," Kelly said. "And we're proud of you for leading them," he told Band Director Chuck Gerheart.
In addition to the council's proclamation, the Bayard Police Department took part in celebrating the band's success by leading them home with sirens and lights blaring.
"People in big cities ask, 'You have time for that?'" said Police Chief Willy Kerin. "We make time for that. No one knows how tough this job can be at times, so when we have to do something nice like this, we're thrilled to do it."
Gerheart said he wishes there was a way for the band to repay the city.
"I don't think we're able to give back to the community as we want to," he said. " People will call me to come play somewhere and we can't. We're either PARCC testing [or] EOC testing. And that is nothing to do with my administration; that is just the state Public Education Department."
Sam Holguin, percussion; Vanessa Padilla, alto saxophone; and Amber Pena, flute, were on hand to accept the proclamation.
The city's next budget meeting is slated for 1 p.m. on May 23. The time was moved later by one hour because no member of the public has so far provided input during the budget meetings. The usual work session will be held following, at 1:30. The regular meeting will follow at 2 p.m. There, the council will vote on the draft agenda.
—BENJAMIN FISHER


Relaxing the mind and finding relief from stress is vitally important to happiness and a healthy body, especially with the constant pressures of work and the increasing developments in technology every day.
If you are seeking ways to transcend the mind and find inner peace, meditation is one of the easiest gateways to do so, regardless of the level of experience you have with meditating each day. With just a few minutes each day and a few techniques for opening the mind, you can feel relaxed and a bit less worried about the "small things" in life.
Meditating at least once a day for about 10 minutes or so can greatly help to relieve stress and allow you to feel more calm and relaxed overall.
Keeping a journal is a method of documenting your true feelings and emotions that are otherwise difficult to remember, especially if you are dealing with trials and tribulations in life that are challenging and stressful.
Learning to trust your intuition is a key factor in transcending the mind with meditation. Letting go of your past fears and even irrational fears of the present can allow you to be more open to changes and to the world around you.
Removing the ego from any type of situation that invokes negative energy and emotions can help to see any type of issue in a more objective manner, keeping emotions from becoming intertwined.
Does your mind wander during meditation? Let's talk about it.


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Universal's The Mummy Reboot Gets Tom Cruise and New Release Date
By ComicBook.com Staff - September 6, 2017 07:38 am EDT
The Mummy will be a part of Universal's new plan for a shared monster movie universe, and it now officially has Tom Cruise as part of the production. The release date was bumped slightly more than two months, to June 9, 2017 from its previous date of March 24. Alex Kurtzman is directing the film, with Sofia Boutella as the titular monster.
The greater universe is also being developed by Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, with plans to reintroduce several of their classic monsters, eventually bringing them together, Avengers-style - whether that's to fight some greater evil, or to go be... scary... is yet to be revealed.
Jon Spaihts is writing the script for The Mummy, which will be set in present day, Variety reports.
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"Why Austerity is a Dangerous Idea"
by NickM on April 20, 2015 - 6:03pm
I was given an article which reports the austerity situation in Greece. In the article "Why Austerity is Dangerous Idea" published in Time Magazine, Mark Blyth describes the situations where austerity can deal its worst blow on an already indebted economy. When the government of a country imposes an austerity budget on its people, it will often cut spendings on domestic and international enterprises and institutions. This means that the decrease in government expenditures with allow the regeneration of the government budget because the funds which previously went towards institutions will stay in the same place instead. Factors that will also contribute to the regeneration of the government's budget are other countries' investments in its institutions (such as exports). If a country enacts budget cuts in the public sector, a larger part of the income obtained from foreign investments would be purposed to rebuilding the government budget rather than in expenditures in the public sector. If foreign investments remain constant and fluid over time, the government budget will theoretically repair over time. In his article, Blyth uses Greece as an example. Greece, being a country that is a part of the eurozone, receives a large portion of its annual income from the investments of its fellow eurozone countries. When Greece received its first austerity package in 2010, it had more significant chances of clearing its government debt than it does now. At the time, Greece still received significant financial support from its eurozone partners through its exports and their investments. Currently, many of Greece's eurozone partners are going into debt, meaning that they gradually have less money to invest in Greece. This means that Greece has a smaller chance of clearing its debt now that its government and its eurozone partners are in debt. This same concept can be applied to Quebec: The ideal time to rebuild are debt is when our foreign business partners are not also in debt.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/18/why-austerity-is-a-dangerous-idea/
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BZN eyeing new gates, destinations, and Southwest Airlines in the future
By: Carson Vickroy
Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport handles about 31 percent of the passengers in the state. While tourism is a big part of the airport's success, the growth in the Gallatin Valley is a likely bigger component.
"I think the surprising numbers that we fell that around 80 percent of passengers are businessmen and women that are flying to Bozeman either to do business or they live here in Bozeman and Gallatin County," Bozeman Chamber of Commerce CEO and President Daryl Schliem said.
With the airport being one of the fastest growing in the country, this can cause some growing pains. So to help accommodate more passengers, airport officials have already put out to bid for their concourse expansion project, which will bring four new gates the terminal.
"During our peak periods we tend to see all of our gates full, and sometimes we'll see aircraft waiting for gates when there are irregular operations so our goal is to make sure we reduce that and take advantage of the growth," said Airport Director Brian Sprenger.
In addition to more gates being added at the airport, the Bozeman Area Chamber of Commerce is working closely with airport officials to not only add more direct flights but also add another airline.
"Our target markets would be looking at Boston and JFK with Jet Blue. We will be meeting sometime in the near future with Southwest Airlines. It'll be the fourth time we've talked with them, no guarantees, no commitments," Schliem said.
Speaking of more direct flights, Delta announced that it will be adding Saturday service to Detroit in the summer.


2011 Updates on Google Panda Algorithm Change.
Almost a month after Google announced their latest Panda Update. Its effects on SERP results have been unclear so far but many blogs have reported large scale losses in their natural SoV.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Congress that Google made 516 updates in 2010. The real shocker? They tested over 13,000 updates. Not sure which update effected what but glad these revelations got public.
After experimenting in Latin American states Google officially rolled out expanded site-link. At first, these mega sitelinks were of constituent of 12 sublinks driving traffic to the website and literary covering more than half of the SERP page, but Google appeared to limit the expanded site-links to 6 shortly after the roll-out.
Google updated Panda 2.3 launch as announced on their official webmaster blog. Initiall effects of these updates are yet to be known but it has given Search Experts a heads up on the changes might be happening in the coming months.


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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when it discovers that a 10-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret, about a spring of magical water that prevents the drinker from ever growing any older.
January 29, 2015 • In Natalie Babbitt's celebrated classic, a young girl stumbles upon a secret spring and the family the spring has given eternal life to. Babbitt says she wrote the book to help kids understand death.


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The American natives worshipped wolves like gods and affectionately used to call them "Brother Wolf". Their lives were closely related to nature and animals, and the natives believed that wolves would watch over the paths the dead walk on and clean their souls with water. Spirits purified like this were then allowed to go to the happy hunting ground.
By now, wolves have been thought to be extinct for more than 100 years! As a result of the untrue idea of the "evil wolf" these animals were hounded and hunted. Step by step, their habitat was destroyed. But there is hope: recently, wolf traces have been found here and there in Austria.
YLVA wants to play a part in ensuring that wolves are being seen as the graceful animals they actually are and make the horror stories part of the past. Therefore, YLVA provides photos and information about these animals on facebook.
Aiming to help and promote wolves, YLVA donates 1 Euro of each product sold to the Wolf Science Center based in Lower Austria. Among other things, the Science Center researches on the relationships between wolves, dogs, and humans. It strives to provide the public with objective information about wolves and dogs and how to keep and rear them in a species-appropriate way. The Wolf Science Center closely cooperates with the University of Vienna and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.
Its most beautiful wildlife park is the home of several packs of Canadian gray wolves (Canis lupus occidentalis) and mongrels.
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Q: Query More Than 100 DynamoDB Items that match a Partition Key using Java SDK 2? How can more than 100 items from a dynamodb table, matching a particular partition key, be queried using aws java sdk 2?
If the number of rows that match a hash key exceeds 100 then the batchGetItemPaginator method needs to be used.  This method accepts a BatchGetItemRequest which requires a KeysAndAttributes.
When I construct a KeysAndAttributes with just a hash key, but not a sort key, I get the following exception

DynamoDbException: The provided key element does not match the schema

However, if I provide a sort key in the KeysAndAttributes then the batchGetItemPaginator method works fine.
So how can a BatchGetItemRequest be constructed with just a primary key (no sort key)?
Note: my question is not a duplicate of this question.  That other question does not involve the required pagination if the number of rows exceeds 100.
Thank you in advance for your consideration and response.

A: Primary key >> Partition + HashKey
GetItem is used to get one item by primary key.
BatchGetItem is used to get multiple items from multiple tables using multiple primary keys. so, we need to pass list of Partition & HashKey
We can never do a getItem or batchGetItem with partial key i.e just Partition Key.
To fetch items just by partition key, we must use query api, which returns maximum of 1 MB of data. To fetch all the records with a particular partition key, we can paginate by calling query api multiple times with exclusiveStartKey
.exclusiveStartKey(exclusiveStartKey) helps us to start after a particular record.
.limit(10) usually set to a reasonable number that doesn't exceed total size beyond 1 MB. if no of items is not a concern, we can exclude this.
response.lastEvaluatedKey() capture this from the response to be used for next query.
public static Map<String, AttributeValue> queryTable(DynamoDbClient ddb, String tableName, String partitionKeyName,
        String partitionKeyVal, Map<String, AttributeValue> exclusiveStartKey) {

    Map<String, AttributeValue> lastEvaluatedKey = null;

    HashMap<String, AttributeValue> attrValues = new HashMap<String, AttributeValue>();
    attrValues.put(":" + partitionKeyName, AttributeValue.builder().s(partitionKeyVal).build());
    QueryRequest queryReq = QueryRequest.builder().tableName(tableName).exclusiveStartKey(exclusiveStartKey)
            .keyConditionExpression(partitionKeyName + " = :" + partitionKeyName)
            .expressionAttributeValues(attrValues).limit(10).build();

    try {
        QueryResponse response = ddb.query(queryReq);
        lastEvaluatedKey = response.lastEvaluatedKey();
    } catch (DynamoDbException e) {
        System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        System.exit(1);
    }
    return lastEvaluatedKey;
}

sample test on table test with pk as partition key for value 1
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Region region = Region.US_EAST_1;
    DynamoDbClient ddb = DynamoDbClient.builder().region(region).build();

    Map<String, AttributeValue> lastEvaluatedKey = null;
    // Loop until we don't get lastEvaluatedKey
    do {
        System.out.println("---------DynamoDb Query with Exclusive Start Key------------" + lastEvaluatedKey);
        lastEvaluatedKey = queryTable(ddb, "test", "pk", "1", lastEvaluatedKey);
    } while (lastEvaluatedKey != null && !lastEvaluatedKey.isEmpty());

    ddb.close();
}

A: The accepted answer above is partially wrong (at least as of v2 of the Java SDK), you can do a batch get item with only a primary key.
Unfortunately, the code I have is proprietary therefore I can't share it but just look at the Javadocs around batch get item.
For example: https://sdk.amazonaws.com/java/api/latest/software/amazon/awssdk/services/dynamodb/model/BatchGetItemResponse.html


Known to me simply as Dr Z, the man is a mathematician who used to design sleeping pills for a major pharmaceutical company. The drugs he designs these days are more likely to keep you awake. His most famous creation is mephedrone, or "meow meow", which was briefly the world's most famous legal high.
Drugs like mephedrone usually slip onto the market via shadowy underground networks. Dr Z first tries his creations himself before recruiting willing human guinea pigs from the online "psychonaut" community.
But this clandestine system may soon be a thing of the past. New Scientist understands that Dr Z is now testing a number of drugs in rigorous scientific studies, conducted by mainstream pharmaceutical labs and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The trials are the result of a radical shake-up in drug policy in New Zealand. Last year its government passed a law that will allow new recreational drugs to be sold openly as long as they meet certain safety standards. Before long, Dr Z hopes his drugs will be on sale there, alongside alcohol and tobacco – taxed, regulated and entirely legal.


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Video: Drew Ramsey at TEDxBloomington.
Along with Fifty Shades of Kale, Ramsey is co-author of The Happiness Diet, which explores how modern food impairs brain function and provides a nutrition prescription for mood, energy, and focus. His research focuses on concepts of "brain food" and "mood food" and he aims to help educate the public on the long-lasting effects of the right foods on overall health.
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"The book points out which foods lead to depression and anxiety, and it suggests antidotes such as grass-fed beef, butter, yogurt and whole milk to better your mood. By changing what you eat, say the authors, you can "stabilize your moods. You can improve your focus. You can even make your brain grow." And you thought doughnuts made you happy?!"
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Court acquits Mona Al-Iraqi on charges of insulting police officer - Daily News Egypt
Egypt Court acquits Mona Al-Iraqi on charges of insulting police officer
Court acquits Mona Al-Iraqi on charges of insulting police officer
The TV presenter had appealed the three-month prison sentence
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A misdemeanour court accepted on Sunday the appeal of television presenter Mona Al-Iraqi, who had earlier received a three-month prison sentence on charges of insulting a police officer, according to state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram.
Al-Iraqi has previously faced trial for a number of cases, including filming without permission and filming persons without their consent.
However, the most famous case Al-Iraqi faced court for was televising a police raid into a bathhouse where 26 men were present, whom she accused of practicing homosexuality.
The 26 men were later acquitted, while Al-Iraqi received a sentence of six months imprisonment.
Topics: acquitted insulting policeman Mona Al-Iraqi
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15 defendants to stand trial on accusations 'practising homosexuality'
Egypt now has capabilities to win Oscar: Medhat El-Adl
President Al-Sisi ratifies new Media Syndicate Law
Egypt refuses any UN gay rights-related resolution: official
Lawyer files report to prosecutor general over passport confiscation


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Microsoft Academic je brezplačen javni spletni iskalnik za akademske publikacije in literaturo, ki ga je razvil Microsoft Research. Orodje, ki je bilo ponovno zagnano leta 2016, vsebuje povsem novo strukturo podatkov in iskalnik z uporabo semantičnih iskalnih tehnologij. Trenutno indeksira več kot 220 milijonov publikacij, od tega je 88 milijonov člankov.

Academic Knowledge API ponuja iskanje informacij iz osnovne baze podatkov z uporabo končnih točk REST. Iskalnik ponuja ne le rezultatov iskanja in dostopa do virov, temveč tudi informacije o navedbah, ki vključujejo število virov, g-index in h-index. Poleg akademskih publikacij se uporablja tudi za iskanje spletnih strani, ki vsebujejo državne in lokalne evidence.

Storitev nadomešča prejšnji Microsoftov raziskovalni projekt Microsoft Academic Search, ki se je zaključil leta 2012. Platforma je bila razvita leta 2009 podružnice Microsoft Research v Aziji, projekt pa je vodil Zaiqing Nie.

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2005: The Friends and Family Plan
If 2004 had a genre-busting vibe, by 2005 we were embracing friends old and new as barriers cleared. The questions at the intersection of music and digital delivery, however, were getting much more complex as the novelty of what we could do careened into what music was worth and how we were going to pay for it.
Welcome to day eight of our celebration of [email protected] If everyone who regularly reads NewMusicBox donated just $1 per month we could end this campaign today. Help support the future of in-depth new music journalism by donating today!
If 2004 had a genre-busting vibe, by 2005 we were embracing friends old and new as barriers cleared. And we worked on our relationships: with our colleagues, with our kids. The problem was that the harder we hugged, the more ridiculous settling on a meaningful genre name became.
Not that it was all peace and love just yet. Judgments were made about music and meaning and history, and we questioned those doing the judging. And then we questioned those who questioned those doing the judging. It was a somewhat confusing time, but rather than take our concerns to a psychologist, we tried visiting a psychic.
We also questioned our elders with adolescent conviction. We wrestled with Cage like we wrestled with our dad. We questioned taking tuition from so many would-be composers if there would never be enough jobs for them. We looked at the music we studied in the academy and found that the frame needed some adjustment.
Not to be left out, Frank J. Oteri and I interrogated each other. Once we launched a redesigned version of the site on our 6th anniversary, we had a little fun publicly debating our previously in-house-only arguments. Like any family, we continue to have these perennial disagreements—over everything from the value of negative criticism to the necessity of the Oxford comma. But ultimately, we are a team—which has translated into countless moments of shared high comedy and nail-biting anxiety (often simultaneously). For instance, when Frank got stuck in some epic traffic that year while trying to get back from a sneak premiere of Joan Tower's Made in America, I headed uptown to cover his interview with Brian Ferneyhough with zero preparation aside from the list of questions Frank had relayed over the phone. Mr. Ferneyhough was incredibly gracious and understanding of the situation, and I remain grateful for his patience and generosity that day. Despite my trepidation, we ended up having a really great conversation! An education about music from the creators themselves—there's really not a more illuminating path to take.
For all I learned that day, there were actually quite a few bits of advice and guidance on offer that year. In a time before Kickstarter, you used to have to do all the heavy lifting on individual fundraising campaigns yourself. And if you didn't have your own lawyer on retainer, sometimes you had to tighten your tie, lint-roll your jacket, and play that role as well.
But it wasn't all about administration, of course. That was just to keep fuel in the artistic engine and the lights on in the studio where experiments with extended techniques and microtonality could happen. There was advice on how to work well with a record producer and a look inside how our ears were working with our brains. Honestly, though, I might have gotten the most caught up contemplating the accordion's various reed ranks and tone colors—fascinating stuff and I do not even play the accordion…yet.
And though it might seem as if all that technological excitement of 2004 fell off the radar, the questions at the intersection of music and digital delivery were actually getting much more complex as the novelty of what we could do careened into what music was worth and how we were going to pay for it.
On a personal note, The Friday Informer, a column I wrote highlighting the best of the new music internet, kicked off on September 30 that year. I would regularly spend my Thursday evenings with 60-some browser tabs open until May 2008, by which point social media made my delayed weekly endcap obsolete.


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Q: How to handle a click event of a child view of a listview item view? So..I want to create a list view whose views will be handled by a custom array adapter. Each view of this list view has a child text view. What I want to do is that I want to handle(launch an intent) the click event of this text view which is positioned within the view present within the list view. How do I do that? Would my suggested code run?
Suggested Code:
@Override
public view getView(int position, View convertView, View parent)
{
View v = convertView;
/*code…*/

TextView t = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.text_field);

t.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener({
@Override
public void onClick(View v){
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(thisActivity.this, R.raw.sound);
mp.start();
}));

}

A: Just refer the below example.
@Override
    public View getView(final int position, View view, final ViewGroup parent) {
        ViewHolder holder;
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        if (view != null) {
            holder = (ViewHolder) view.getTag();
        } else {
            view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.store_list_item, parent, false);
            holder = new ViewHolder(view);
            view.setTag(holder);
        }
        holder.storeName.setText(mShoppingLists.get(position).getName());
        holder.editButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                final FragmentManager manager = ((Activity) mContext).getFragmentManager();
                FragmentTransaction transaction = manager.beginTransaction();
                ShoppingListEditFragment shoppingListEditFragment =
                        ShoppingListEditFragment.newInstance(mShoppingLists.get(position).getId());
                transaction.replace(R.id.container, shoppingListEditFragment, "shoppinglistedit");
                transaction.addToBackStack(null);
                transaction.commit();
            }
        });

        holder.handle.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                ((DynamicListView) parent).onHandleLongClickListener(new DragEvent());
                return true;
            }
        });
        return view;
    }

A: If you want to handle the click event of a listview item, here is the code for it:
    /*Inside the onCreate method of your activity class which displays the list
    ......*/
        ListView l = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);
        CustomAdapter adapter = new CustomAdapter(this, 0, list, R.color.category_numbers);
        l.setAdapter(adapter);
        l.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener({
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long
        id) {
        /*your code*/
        }
    });

A: To capture click event on a child element inside a listview item, you also need to set focusable="false"on child element and focusable="true"on Listview itself.
Other than that, the code looks correct. So try setting focusable and focusableInTouchMode params.


More of the Saint. As I have said before, I am sharing this large run of The Saint Sundays by Mike Roy, because somewhere in 1950 he hired a young Jack Davis as an assistant. Jack Davis has said that he was asked to do backgrounds, but at a certain point it seems he was doing pencils and inks as well. But when did he start and can we see?
In this lot we see the Sunday that is my first point of defenitively Jack Davis: the Sunday for June 11. That is not to say that there are no hints of him before that, but to my eyes it is the first one I am absolutely sure about. From there we can go backwards.
These have been wonderful. They match up nicely with the dailies as reprinted in issues #9, 10 & 11 of the Avon comic. More?