She and her Village HeartBeat teammates at Second Calvary Baptist Church are committed to getting healthier this year.
Determination, hard work, and teamwork are the keys to Allie Hill making her weight-loss goal this year. And she's halfway there, in part thanks to Village HeartBeat.
In step with her first-year Second Calvary Baptist Church team, Hill has been working hard and having fun along the way. Being part of a team means "we are accountable to each other, and we have all committed to this being the year we're all going to get better," Hill said.
She and her teammates participate in line-dancing on Friday nights at First Baptist Church-West, put in an extra 30-60 minutes every Tuesday and Thursday before their hourlong exercise classes, and occasionally meet on Saturday mornings to walk the track at Johnson C. Smith University.
Hill especially enjoys working with fitness instructor Mitchell Smith, who leads chair aerobics classes at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesdays. "He's so funny, and he keeps you engaged," she said.
At 66, Hill is the oldest member of the all-female team at Second Calvary, but her energy appears boundless.
Because she is retired from Novant Health, Hill can take full advantage of the many events offered by Village HeartBeat, and she does. She tried yoga classes for the first time and took part in the Glow Party at McCrorey YMCA in April, where they used glow sticks in a variety of activities — Zumba, MixxedFit, line-dancing.
In March, Hill attended a cooking workshop at St. Luke, which she said was "extremely beneficial." She has decreased her meal portion sizes and increased water intake, which has led to more restful sleep, she said.
She's cooking with less salt, using more herbs and eating more fresh fruit and vegetables. And she's trying to stay away from fried foods, especially fried fish. "It's my weakness," Hill said.
Hill has lost 15 pounds, halfway to her goal of losing 30 pounds. She said the upper number of her blood pressure reading has been lowered by 40 points.
Hill said she is looking forward to "continuing this path that Village HeartBeat has laid out for us." Her annual physical is coming in a few months and she's hoping — "prayerfully" — that the results will lead to lowered doses of blood pressure medication.
She wants to get healthier and be an example for her family and to keep up with her two young grandchildren. She and her teammates hope to influence other members of their congregation, families, and communities to join Village HeartBeat.
"It's a tremendous program. It's an outreach ministry, which I thoroughly enjoy," Hill said.


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Q: web application design strategy on app engine I'm trying to develop a gaming site. User can add other users as their friends. User will get points as he completes various game levels. Now I need to show the average points of all user's friends who had already played the game on its page(example: When a user plays a game A, average of points earned by his friends shall be displayed on the game A page. Similarly game B average points of his friend's shall be shown when he plays game B).
My approach:

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*Store user's friend list(Max 1000) as multi-valued property in datastore and load it into
GAE memcache when user log's into site.

*Use resident backend to cache all the user's game data(points earned for
each specific game). A cron job updates the backend cache every hour.
When user requests for a game page(eg: game A) for the first time, request handler contacts backend for computing average of friends points via URL-Fetch service.

*Now backend gets the friends-list(Max 1000) of user from memcache, fetches game A points of friends from in-memory cache(backend cache) and returns the computed average.
Request handler after getting the average, persists it in datastore and also stores it in memcache so that subsequent requests to game A page fetches data from memcache/datastore without computation overhead on backend. This average is valid for 1 hour and re-computed again after that upon next request to game A page.

My questions :

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*Is the above mentioned approach a right way to solve this problem ?

*How to implement an in-memory cache efficiently and reliably with backend instance (python-2.7) ?

*How to estimate memory and cpu required at backend for only this job ? (Assuming 0.1 million key-value pairs have to be stored with "userid/gamename" as key and user-points as value. User friend list max size is 1000.)

*If I have to use multiple backend instances as the load increases, how to load balance them?

Thanks in advance.

A: Have a look at this blog post from Nick Johnson, about counters : http://blog.notdot.net/2010/04/High-concurrency-counters-without-sharding
Use NDB datastore for :
- automatic caching, instead of your own memcache
- NDB has some new interesting properties like : json property with compression, repeated propeties, which act like Python lists
And have a look at mapreduce for efficient updating.

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Химилтруда (Himiltrude; * 742, † 780 ?) е майка на Пипин Гърбавия, първият син на Карл Велики. Тя е първата конкубина на Карл Велики и живее в брак с него от 767 г.

Биография
Дъщеря е на бургундски граф и е внучка по майчина линия на Гримберт I, граф на Париж.

През 767 г. се жени за 25-годишния Карл. При смъртта на нейния свекър на 24 септември 768 г. Карл става крал и Химилтруда така кралица за една година. В края на 769 г. Химилтруда е изгонена и Карл се жени през 770 г. за Герперга или наричана още Дезидерата, дъщеря на лангобардския крал Дезидериус и Анза. Химилтруда отива да живее в манастир "Света Гертруда" в Нивел, Белгия, където умира и е погребана вероятно на 40 години.

Деца
Химилтруда има от Карл две деца:

 Пипин Гърбавия, (770 – 811), който става монах в манастира Прюм;
 Амаудру, която се омъжва за граф на Париж

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Литература
 Dieter Hägermann, Karl der Große. Herrscher des Abendlands, Ullstein 2003, p. 82f.
 Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni, ch. 20
 Pierre Riché, The Carolingians, p.86.
 Russell Chamberlin, The Emperor Charlemagne, p. 61.

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This project supports several key activities that have enhanced the THT's ability to become a successful Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO), including expanding care coordination for high users of avoidable hospital services, implementing a Health Information Exchange, and strengthening THT's organizational infrastructure. On June 30, 2015, THT, along with its partner organizations, was one of three community healthcare coalitions certified by the State of New Jersey as a Medicaid ACO.
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