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In-Memory Computing Platform (IMCP) company GridGain Systems has enhanced its In-Memory Accelerator for Hadoop. The technology provides speed and scale with Map/Reduce applications without requiring any code change to native MapReduce, HDFS, and YARN environments.
Prior to this announcement, running in-memory computing in an existing Hadoop environment required code changes to the application, reducing developers' abilities to quickly derive the full performance benefits of an in-memory architecture.
This new Hadoop Accelerator is plug and play — within minutes of download developers can deliver up to 10x performance improvement on their Map/Reduce applications.
The firm says that by using its full IMC Platform, customers now can develop "category-defining" applications that process both transactional and analytic data at the speed of RAM and with unlimited scale.
"The GridGain IMC Platform's speed and scalability has been amply demonstrated in transaction-based processing, particularly in financial services, where one of GridGain's largest customers was recently able to achieve one billion ACID transactions per second," said Nikita Ivanov, cofounder and CTO, GridGain Systems.
"But more and more, customers are also looking for a way to enable real-time analytics within their existing Hadoop environment, without having to invest too much time or effort in the process. GridGain's IMC Platform is the first to enhance high-speed, high-scale transactions and real-time analytics with an in-memory plug and play Hadoop Accelerator."

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OK guys, Madden 12 is out. This year they have a neat community feature where you can keep in touch with friends, play against then, with them and have tournaments. I created one for. NET.
Just go to join community, community name is seahawksnet and password is net2011.
I also created a league.
To join either give your gamertag and I will send you an invite or go to online franchise, join franchise, league name is netleague and no password is required. If you sent me your gamertag and I sent you an invite, go to online franchise and look under invitations, when you get the invite just accept. 32 teams will be accepted.
I will create a league thread under fantasy forum later and a community thread also for updates etc... for now just use this one, cheers.
Mods please keep this thread around or clip it for a few days so everyone has a chance to see it pleeeeeese, it would be great to have many people join the community and the league.
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Alright Lovelies! It is question and answer time. In response to my Cutting Your Groceries in Half Post. I got pretty much the same two questions, so I thought they deserved a post. The two questions I was asked was what I did about fresh fruits and veggies and what I did about milk.
Let's address the milk question first. I have a freezer chest, which is in my kitchen. It is pretty dang big and holds our whole month of food, plus some. I usually buy 8 to 9 gallons of milk for the month. These milks I either buy at Smith's or Costco. It really juts depends on who is cheaper that particular shopping day. I put two gallons in my fridge and the rest goes into my freezer chest.
This is how we are able to have fresh milk all month long. It takes about a day for milk to unfreeze, so when we notice our milk in the fridge is running low, Hubby or I take one out of the freezer. I also do this with heavy whipping cream, half and half, and buttermilk. They all thaw out very well, just as if you just bought them from the store.
Now onto the fresh fruits and veggies questions. We do have fresh fruits and veggies all month long. We typically eat our grapes, bananas, berries, avocados, lettuce, and tomatoes in the beginning of the month.
When berries go on sale in the summer I buy them in bulk and freeze for later use in smoothies and such. Great way to save money and have berries last a whole lot longer. Fruits like apples and oranges can last all month long and are still fresh until the end of the month. This is also the same for most veggies like celery and carrots. Now I do freeze my green onions, white onions, and, green peppers for use in cooking throughout the month. This keeps them fresh and ready to add to all my favorite recipes.
I also use frozen veggies and freeze my own veggies as well. I save all left over veggies for use in crock-pot recipes and stuff.
I also use canned fruit to supplement as well.
You can see my my posts on saving on produce HERE
So there you have it. That is how we have milk and veggies all month long. I hope that answered your questions. Let me know if there are anymore. Thanks lovelies. Have a great day!
Check out my grocery money saving tips and tricks on youtube!
Oh and come back later today for a new yummy recipe.
For more goodness check out more recipes HERE.
Want to find out more ways to save money?
Check out some of my other posts:
Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half
Freezing Your Milk
Living on $14,000 a year
How Does She Q and A
Breakfast and Lunch: Meal Planning and Saving Tips
Fresh Produce All Month Long
Save Money at Costco
Menu Planning: Pantry Staples List
Weekly Menu Plans + Printable Shopping Lists
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SUMMIT TWP — An out-of-control pickup truck slammed into the side of the Herman Volunteer Fire Company Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators believe the driver, Edward Grenet of Fallaker Road, might have had a medical issue that caused the collision.
"If that's the case, there likely won't be any charges involved," said state police Trooper Michael Lewis.
Grenet, whose age was not available, was flown by medical helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. His condition was not immediately available.
Grenet, head of maintenance at Summit Academy, had been driving a Silverado 4-by-4 owned by the school east on Herman Road around 2 p.m.
The vehicle, which was loaded with tubing and other plumbing supplies, went out of control in front of the fire station and hit a full-sized fire hydrant that had been planted in a flower bed for decorative reasons since the late 1990s.
The truck — dragging the hydrant under it — continued forward, hitting the side of the station. Witnesses said the tires continued to spin after the truck was stopped by the building. Shreds of the tires were sent flying all over the parking lot and road.
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Especially in Central Vietnam, people are very traditional. Families have a family shrine or ancestor tomb that serves as hub for the clans ancestor worship. This picture I took in Da Nang.
Image location: Da Nang, Vietnam
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The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable The Irish Society is a major survey, compiled in 1639 by a Commission instituted under the Great Seal by Charles I, of all those estates in Derry managed by the City of London through the Irish Society and the City of London livery companies. It represents a hugely important source for the City of London's role in the Protestant colonisation and administration of Ulster.
Damaged as the result of a fire at Guildhall in 1786, it has been unavailable to researchers for over 200 years. However, the manuscript has remained part of the City of London's collections held at London Metropolitan Archives.' 165 folios survived the fire, but the uneven shrinkage and distortion caused by the fire had rendered much of the text illegible. The parchment sheets have now been flattened as far as possible. Following this, digital imaging has been used to gain legibility and to enable digital access to the volume.
You can read more at http://goo.gl/SK98AL. The images of The Great Parchment Book may be found at http://www.greatparchmentbook.org.
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A June 22 wedding is being planned by Melissa Koebler of Butler and Jim Eppinger of Butler.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Brian and Linda Cottage and Crystal Koebler, all of Butler. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are John and Sandi Eppinger of Butler.
The bride-elect is a 2008 graduate of Butler High School and a 2012 graduate of Slippery Rock University.
She is employed by Texas Roadhouse in Butler.
Her fiance graduated in 2004 from Butler High School.
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"The Rose Garden" cat collar with felt rose. The collar is made from beautiful cotton fabric. A small rose and green leaf are handmade from soft felt. They are permanently attached to the collar.
This collar and flower bow is aimed for cats, kittens of at least 6 months, but they will also look very sweet on bunnies. The type of buckle I use on this collar is breakaway and therefore it will not be suitable for dogs.
✓ Lightweight - felt rose is approximately 1.3'' (35mm) wide.
✓ Felt rose available in many colours.
✓ Soft (made from cotton and felt)
✓ Colourful
I offer various sizes:
Kittens: max length 9'' (in approx. 7'')
Adult cat: max 12'' (min approx. 9'')
This collar can also be made with a non-brekaway buckle for small dogs.
For bunny owners, please let me know your bunny neck size on the notes to seller at checkout.
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Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 3 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 7 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 4 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
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In order to process your order, we need to process your personal information such as the name of the recipient and address (without this we can't post your order).
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Clothes, satin collars and bow ties.
Use lint roller to remove any dust or pet hair and wipe with a damp cloth.
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Washable at 40%, dry flat. Can be ironed. No tumble dry.
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From frayed wires to down powerlines, what can an electrician do to help your home get back on track.
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There are different kinds of electricians. Some mostly work with contractors to install and map out electrical circuits inside homes and commercial buildings while others lay wire for large projects such as telephone lines and traffic lights. Keep this in mind when narrowing your search for a professional. If you need a tradesperson to work on your home or building, contact an inside or house wire expert. These professionals specialize in designing and putting new electrical systems in place for houses and commercial buildings.
When you contact an electrical contractor, describe the job that needs completing. Maybe you have a large project, like a remodeling plan that requires new wiring, or a small one, such as replacing a light switch or socket. Let the electrician know. Not every person you call will have the training and know-how to do more complex work.
To further hone your search, make sure you ask electricians the following questions before hiring:
1. Are You Licensed?
Trades such as HVAC, plumbing and electrical work require contractors to carefully install complicated systems that could be hazardous if they're installed incorrectly. Therefore, most states require electricians to receive training and obtain a license before working. An electrician that's licensed is one that's competent and knowledgeable enough of his or her trade to install and maintain electrical systems.
Electricians must complete thousands of hours of training in order to get a license to practice their trade, so make sure not only the company you choose but the employees doing the work show you their license. When you view the license, ensure that it's up to date and that it's issued by your state.
2. Are You Bonded?
There's potentially a lot that can go wrong if a tradesperson like an electrician installs wiring the wrong way. To spare you and your home or office from subpar work, make sure the electrician is bonded. Being bonded means the professional has an intermediary that can pay for any damage caused to a property or foot the bill if the contractor fails to finish the job.
3. Are You Insured?
Besides a bond, you also need an electrician that's insured. Many states require contractors to carry some form of insurance along with their license. Insist that whomever you hire has the proper amount of insurance for the work you need done and call the insurer to check the policy.
See that who you hire for the job has liability and workers' compensation insurance so you don't end up paying for injuries or accidents caused by the company's work. Workers' compensation insurance means the business can provide for any of its employees if they're hurt on the job.
4. Is Your Business Licensed?
Not only should you check that the electrician is licensed by your state, you should also ask if his or her company has the certification to operate in your area. Both the electrician as well as the business he or she works for need licenses either issued by the state or local municipality.
5. Who Will Do the Work?
Ensure the person who actually comes out to complete the work is licensed, bonded and insured. You need to know not just the company that's doing the work but the person they're sending out to your home or building. Make sure the employee doing the job isn't an unsupervised apprentice. If it happens that the business uses a subcontractor, check with both the company and the tradesperson that the same kind of bond and insurance applies for that subcontractor as it would for an employee.
6. How Much Do You Charge by the Hour?
If you have a small and simple job that needs completing, such as a new light switch, then ask the electrician how much they charge for it before hiring him or her. When it comes to larger, more intensive and time-consuming work, you'll want to inquire about the contractor's hourly rate. Many tradespeople will offer to come out to your home or building, examine it and give you an estimate as well as tell you how much they charge per hour. It's best to get this in writing before proceeding.
While you're at it, call several electricians to come out to your home to give you an estimate on the work. This way you can get an idea of what the average price of the job will be.
7. Do You Offer a Warranty?
Many reputable tradespeople provide warranties for their work. Inquire if both the labor and parts the electrician uses are under warranty and how long the work is guaranteed for.
8. Do You Have or Need a Permit?
Depending on what kind of repairs or installation you need, your city could require a permit for the electrical work. Ask your electrician if the job calls for one and have him or her put the permit under his or her name. Ensuring the tradesperson obtains a permit will safeguard you from any blame if the labor turns out to be subpar.
Finding a trustworthy electrician isn't hard, but you must do your due diligence. Make sure whomever you hire is licensed, bonded and insured, and that the professional can show you proof of all three as well as get the necessary permit for the job. Besides these important factors, you can take further steps to guarantee you obtain a reputable tradesperson.
1. Get Referrals
Ask your family, friends or neighbors if they can recommend a professional to you and inquire if they're pleased with the work. Better yet, ask them if they can show you the project the electrician completed and ask them how long it took the worker to complete it.
2. Look Online
It can't hurt to also check electricians out online. Look for reviews, ratings and, most importantly, see if they have any complaints on file with your municipality or with your local business bureaus. If former customers filed grievances against them, you may want to steer clear.
3. Ask for a Quote
Reputable electricians will give you a quote for small work over the phone if you ask and will travel to your home to quote you a price for larger jobs. Be wary of one that declines to give you an estimate or insists that he or she charge you for coming out to your house.
4. Ask Them About Their Experience
Being bonded, licensed and insured is all well and good, but you also need an experienced professional to do the work. With that said, interview electricians about past projects they completed and how many years they've been in business or how much training they have.
5. Be Wary of Suspiciously Low Estimates
Watch out for contractors that greatly underbid other electricians. If the price seems too good to be true, it probably is. Also, always remember to get the estimate in writing before settling on a company.
While all electricians need a license, not all of them do the same types of jobs. They are usually split up into three groups: outside, inside and residential.
Outside: These types of electricians work outdoors on electrical lines that connect to power plants.
Inside: Inside experts typically focus on commercial and industrial buildings that require a lot of power.
Residential: If you're a homeowner, you'll most likely need to hire an electrician that specializes in residential wiring. Residential electricians work with low-voltage systems and wiring to install fuse boxes and light fixtures.
Like many trade groups, electricians learn their craft by going to vocational schools and shadowing professionals on the job. In order to become a full-fledged professional, a person must undergo an apprenticeship with master and journeyman electricians. An apprentice needs 8,000 hours of practical work before graduating to the journeyman level.
If an apprentice reaches journeyman status, he or she can complete most electrical work but cannot design it until completing more testing along with 2,000 more on-the-job hours.
Many do-it-yourself enthusiasts might be inclined to fix electrical problems around their home, but they risk shock and bodily injury. It's always best to call a licensed electrician, even if you have something as small as an improperly working wall outlet.
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When our hostess this month chose macarons, I had to laugh, seeing as just a few weeks ago I was making macs for Jamie's mac-a-thon. I pretty much hadn't made macarons since I became obsessed with figuring them out a couple of years ago and now here I was making them over and over again. Back when I was trying them out, I'd made a number of traditional flavors, but hadn't gotten around to making matcha-flavored macs.
Matcha has been of interest to me ever since I participated in a traditional tea ceremony on one of the several occasions I visited Japan. I don't remember all the details of it, the only part that stuck with me being how you have to turn the bowl twice clockwise with your right hand as it sits on the palm of your left hand several times throughout. It's a beautiful ceremony and an activity that merits the detour if you ever have the opportunity to see it being done or participate in it.
It didn't occur to me to use matcha as an ingredient until I tasted green tea ice cream and became fixated on green tea mochi many years after the above-mentioned ceremony. Then at Sadaharu Aoki's shop in Paris I had one of his green tea-chestnut pastries, on one of the rare occasions when I wasn't having his yuzu tart (be still my beating heart), and fell in love with the combination. Of course the sugar-daddy of them all, Pierre Hermé, also makes a green tea-chestnut macaron, but as I've never seen it in his shop I haven't tried his (keep reading).
So when came time to pick a flavor for this challenge, I decided to make matcha macarons with sweet chestnut paste filling. It's a perfect fall combination in terms of both the flavors and colors and is a perfect companion to a chilly afternoon cup of tea or coffee. Making the matcha version was uneventful, but this is the part where I'll admit that I then tried to make Pierre Hermé's chestnut macarons (to pair with a matcha buttercream) which basically consist of making an Italian meringue and adding sweetened chestnut paste to the almond/meringue batter, and the result was not macarons but sweet meringue cookies, quite puffy but without any feet whatsoever. It's quite possible that, having followed his recipe faithfully, I'm now intrigued enough to try and make chestnut macarons shells again, but I might not use sweetened chestnut puree, I might just dry and process chestnuts into a powder and add that to the shell batter instead. There's no telling what I might do really, I can be stubborn like that.
Anyway, I should have added more matcha powder to the batter but I only used one teaspoon (I couldn't remember the recommended amount) and didn't add any food coloring, resulting in very light green shells. Once the shells were ready, I decided to play with my food, and therein you see the result. It was fun actually, I have at least three ideas I couldn't execute for this post for lack of time but I think it might almost be more fun to make macaron shells just so I can play with them rather than eat them, I'm just saying...
The 2009 October Daring Bakers' challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming's The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.
from Claudia Fleming's The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern
Preparation time: Not taking into account the amount of time it takes for you to bring your egg whites to room temperature, the whole baking process, including making the batter, piping and baking will probably take you about an hour to an hour and a half. How long it takes to make your filling is dependent on what you choose to make.
Actual baking time: 12 minutes total, plus a few minutes to get your oven from 200°F to 375°F.
Equipment required:
• Electric mixer, preferably a stand mixer with a whisk attachment
• Rubber spatula
• Baking sheets
• Parchment paper or nonstick liners
• Pastry bag (can be disposable)
• Plain half-inch pastry bag tip
• Sifter or sieve
• If you don't have a pastry bag and/or tips, you can use a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped off
• Oven
• Cooling rack
• Thin-bladed spatula for removing the macaroons from the baking sheets
• Food processor or nut grinder, if grinding your own nuts (ouch!)
Confectioners' (Icing) sugar: 2 ¼ cups (225 g, 8 oz.)
Almond flour: 2 cups (190 g, 6.7 oz.)
Granulated sugar: 2 tablespoons (25 g , .88 oz.)
Egg whites: 5 (Have at room temperature)
1. Preheat the oven to 200°F (93°C). Combine the confectioners' sugar and almond flour in a medium bowl. If grinding your own nuts, combine nuts and a cup of confectioners' sugar in the bowl of a food processor and grind until nuts are very fine and powdery.
2. Beat the egg whites in the clean dry bowl of a stand mixer until they hold soft peaks. Slowly add the granulated sugar and beat until the mixture holds stiff peaks.
3. Sift a third of the almond flour mixture into the meringue and fold gently to combine. If you are planning on adding zest or other flavorings to the batter, now is the time. Sift in the remaining almond flour in two batches. Be gentle! Don't overfold, but fully incorporate your ingredients.
4. Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a plain half-inch tip (Ateco #806). You can also use a Ziploc bag with a corner cut off. It's easiest to fill your bag if you stand it up in a tall glass and fold the top down before spooning in the batter.
5. Pipe one-inch-sized (2.5 cm) mounds of batter onto baking sheets lined with nonstick liners (or parchment paper).
6. Bake the macaroon for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and raise the temperature to 375°F (190°C). Once the oven is up to temperature, put the pans back in the oven and bake for an additional 7 to 8 minutes, or lightly colored.
7. Cool on a rack before filling.
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The advancement committee should become familiar with Venturing recognition and assist those crews that choose to pursue Venturing advancement.
The Venturing advancement program is available to all youth Venturing members of the BSA. Its purpose is to
- Provide a pathway for personal development.
- Encourage Venturers to learn, grow, and serve.
- Recognize the high level of achievement of Venturers who acquire Venturing skills.
- Identify trained and highly motivated Venturers who will be a training, leadership, and program resource for other Venturers, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, organizations, and the community.
The Venturing Advancement track includes the Bronze, Gold, and Silver awards.
The introduction to specific Venturing skills. Venturers may earn one or more of the five Bronze awards: Arts and Hobbies, Sports, Sea Scout, Outdoor, or Youth Ministries. One Bronze is required for Gold.
Intermediate level requiring at least 12 months' tenure and work. Requirements are based on three areas: personal development, service, and leadership. Gold requires a pre-approved plan of action and a crew review board consisting of youth and adults conducted by the crew president. It is appropriate to present the award at a court of honor. Gold is required for Silver.
This is the highest award for Venturers. In addition to earning a Bronze and Gold Award, Venturers do additional work in the areas of leadership, emergency preparedness, and ethics. Silver requires a pre-approved plan of action and a board of review.
The Venturing awards include Ranger, Quest, and TRUST awards:
The Ranger Award is an additional award/growth opportunity based on outdoor/high adventure requirements. A Venturer must complete eight requirements and at least four of 18 electives. The Outdoor Bronze Award is half of Ranger. There is no board of review.
The Quest Award is based on fitness and sports. A venturer must complete five core requirements and at least one of the five electives. There is no board of review. The Sports Bronze Award is the first requirement.
The TRUST Award will help Venturers learn about themselves, their communities, their religion and culture, as well as those of others. They must complete five areas of requirements with the support of a religious leader in their community.
It is appropriate to present these awards at a court of honor or Eagle/Silver banquet, and to recognize them in local and school newspapers.
The first step of the Sea Scout advancement program involves youth who are members of Sea Scouting and have learned the Sea Scout Promise and the Venturing Code and are active with a ship. They learn about seamanship, it's safety and customs, swimming, and working with ships as a crew member.
The next step involves being active with the ship, explaining the Sea Scout emblem, understanding the history of the U. S. flag, participating in regular meetings, and learning special skills on the operation of boats, marlinspike seamanship techniques, yacht racing procedures, sailing abilities, ornamental rope work, and engine maintenance.
This step involves the Scout in ship ceremonies, etiquette in boarding boats, ship participating, sharing of experiences with other youth, and showing proficiency in a variety of watercraft specialties.
In addition to earning the above Sea Scout awards, the Quartermaster candidate must write and submit a paper on how their ship can contribute to the world fellowship of Scouting, be an active member of their ship, develop and conduct a service project and conduct a service project helpful to others, and show specialty skills in boating and marlinspike seamanship.
The Quartermaster rank/growth opportunity for Sea Scouts is based on seamanship skills. It requires a preapproval plan of action and a board of review. The Sea Scouting Bronze is half of Quartermaster.
Past Credit
(Quoted from: Advancement Policies #33088, p. 38)
All requirements for all awards require Venturers to do the work as Venturers. As an example, they may have earned the Backpacking merit badge as a Boy Scout, must do all that is required in the Ranger backpacking elective while registered as a Venturer. Some requirements may require some type of certification such as Scuba Open-Water Diver, American Red Cross Standard First Aid, or BSA Lifeguard. This certification may be used regardless of when it was earned as long as the certification is still current.
Multiple Credit
(Quoted from: Advancement Policies #33088, p. 38)
Venturers may receive multiple credit in Venturing, for such as using an American Red Cross Emergency Response course for credit in the Ranger first aid course requirement and first aid elective, and the Silver first aid requirement. However, Venturers may not receive multiple credit when required to do a tabletop display or presentation. These must be done for each requirement that requires one. Members who are simultaneously members of a Boy Scout troop may receive credit for work toward Boy Scout advancement and Venturing advancement. An example would be getting dual credit for the Backpacking merit badge and for the Ranger backpacking elective, or for a conservation project required in Boy Scouts and in Venturing.
Boy Scouting Rank Advancement for Venturers
Sea Scout advancements are approved by the ship's quarterdeck. In the case of the Quartermaster Award, the application is reviewed by the ship's committee with a member of the district advancement committee as chairman. Since the Quartermaster Award is a Venturing recognition, it may be earned by any young man or young woman registered as a Venturer.
All work on all Venturing advancement must be completed prior to the young person's 21st birthday.


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Former Indians broadcaster Hegan dies at 71
An All-Star in 1969, first baseman-outfielder played 12 seasons in Majors
CLEVELAND -- Mike Hegan spent most of his life around the Cleveland Indians. He shagged fly balls in the outfield of Cleveland Municipal Stadium as a boy, played in the ballpark as a visiting big leaguer and went on to call some of the franchise's most memorable games as a broadcaster.
The Indians lost a close friend on Christmas morning.
With family by his side on Wednesday, Hegan passed away in his home of Hilton Head, S.C., after a battle with an untreatable heart condition. He was 71.
Hegan's family ties to Cleveland date back to his father Jim Hegan, the longtime Indians catcher and member of the franchise's 1948 World Series championship team. During Jim's second season with the Tribe in 1942, James Michael "Mike" Hegan was born in Cleveland, where he was raised and embarked on his own path in baseball that had its roots in Northeast Ohio.
Most Indians fans might be more familiar with Hegan's voice than his accomplishments in the Major Leagues. After spending 12 seasons as a color commentator with the Brewers, Hegan joined the Indians' WUAB-TV broadcast team in 1989, alongside Jack Corrigan. Hegan went on to spend 23 years doing play-by-play and color in Cleveland's radio and TV booths.
In 1998, Hegan also was teamed with Tom Hamilton and Dave Nelson as part of a three-person radio broadcast on WTAM and shuttled between radio and television. Matt Underwood replaced Nelson in 2000 and the new trio stayed together through '06, when Underwood moved to TV and Hamilton and Hegan became a two-man team for three seasons, with Hegan focusing solely on radio work.
That partnership continued through 2011, when Hegan transitioned to an alumni ambassador role with the organization to focus more on family and his health. Hegan did return to call his final game on May 23, 2012, when the Indians pulled off a dramatic 4-2 victory over the Tigers.
Before his 50 years in professional baseball, Hegan starred as a three-sport athlete (football, basketball and baseball) at St. Ignatius High School on Cleveland's West Side. He was inducted into the St. Ignatius Hall of Fame in 1989. The Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame similarly honored him in 2011.
After one season at Holy Cross, Hegan signed with the Yankees in 1961 and made his big league debut with the club in 1964. A first baseman and outfielder in his career, Hegan appeared in eight games between the regular season and World Series for the '64 Yankees, who lost the Fall Classic to the Cardinals in six games.
Hegan's big league career spanned 12 seasons, which included stints with the Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland A's. He was the first player to sign with Seattle's expansion team and belted the franchise's first home run in his first at-bat on Opening Day in 1969, his lone All-Star season. The Pilots moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers in 1970.
That year, Hegan began an errorless streak at first base that spanned 178 games and extended into the '73 season. It stood as the American League record until Boston's Kevin Youkilis surpassed it in 2007. Hegan also captured a World Series title with the 1972 A's in the midst of that record run.
Later, from his perch high above the playing field, Hegan helped describe many of the Indians' historic moments throughout their incredible run in the '90s. He took pride in not only providing color commentary, but in being able to also provide play-by-play for his audience.
Hegan is survived by his wife, Nancy, his two sons, Shawn and J.J., and four grandchildren.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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I've arrived in Montreal. And true to my history in this city (if you've read my new book) I am already getting tons of pussy. Linda Dydyk, my kind host here, has been providing me all the hot pussy I can handle. Yep. She has four kitty-cats; Squishy, Stinky, Freddy and Lola Granola. Sounds like the line-up for some undiscovered British beat group from the Sixties.
In completely unrelated news, my long-suffering publicist Kim Corbin forwarded me this message:
I did get to see Brad at a book signing, and asked him a question (which he said, coincidentally, was the same question that had been asked to him earlier in the day). The turnout was good, about 30-40 people on a Saturday afternoon at the bookstore. I didn't chat with him afterwards because he had a long line of Zen groupies waiting to meet him ;) but you can tell him that the girl with the bodacious tata's, tattoos and questions about group practice really enjoyed his lecture!
Which brings up an important message, girls with bodacious tata's and tattoos please push those Zen groupies out of the way and come talk to me at book signings! Or girls without tattoos, or with non-bodacious tata's, or anyone who is not a Zen groupie.
I really don't mind answering people's Zen questions. But, honestly, after a lecture I'm usually kind of "zenned out." Which is not my way of trying to set up the opposite problem and make people shy about asking heartfelt Zen stuff. Please ask (see first sentence of this paragraph for further clarification)! But also remember I'm a human being, not a Zen Answer Machine. It's often refreshing at these things to talk to someone about anything other than Zen.
The tour has now passed its halfway mark. Though it looks like a slight extension is in the offing. I'll be in New Mexico from May 20-23 for talks in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and El Paso. Details soon. I get around, baby!
Here's a question from the mail bag, variations of which I've been getting at several of my talks:
Where I live right now, there's basically no sangha at all. While yoga joints dot the landscape like dandelions, the nearest Zen groups seem to be hours away. I've seen the odd online groups, like Jundo Cohen's Treeleaf Zendo, but I'm not sure whether something like that would be beneficial or harmful to me as I get myself back into an everyday, active practice of zazen. What do you think about online groups like that? Do you think they can be valuable to someone who can only actually travel to a real zendo rarely? What do you advise for someone who's in the middle of nowhere, about going it mostly alone?
A guy in Dallas also asked me what I thought of the Zen groups on Second Life.
A number of older Zen teachers have asked my opinion on the on-line sangha phenomenon as well. I guess they expect me to be a kind of tuned-in member of the cyber generation. But, although I blog and use the Internet pretty frequently, I'm not all that crazy about it. I don't surf the web. I don't frequent chat rooms. I've never really gotten what things like Second Life are all about.
The most I do on the Internet other than blogging is look for oddball video clips on YouTube. I just got a Twitter account. But I don't really get that either, although I update mine most days. I know you young whipper-snappers are looking at that stuff on your new-fangled portable telephone contraptions, but that's about it.
The problem I see with the on-line stuff is that it's all very much in the head. It doesn't address the rest of the body. Take on-line dokusan for example. Dokusan is supposed to be a face-to-face meeting with a teacher to talk about practice. Nowadays some teachers are using Skype, webcams and other such technology to offer cybernetic versions.
But talking to someone on a webcam is not the same as talking to someone in the room with you. The smell of the person, the shared physical space, that little bit of electrochemical interconnectedness that occurs when you're near a person, these subtle but vital areas of communication are lacking. Yet the webcam and other such technologies do such a tremendous job of mimicking those few areas of communication our thinking minds take note of (visual and audio) that we are easily fooled into believing we're having the same experience as being in the room with the person.
It's very easy for the Master to appear more ethereal and holy when you can't smell the garlic on his breath or let your eyes roam around and see the unwashed tea cup over in the corner or feel the subtle charge of tension he exudes when you step into the room. It's deceptive nonsense to claim that any cyber sangha is just the same as a brick and mortar zendo.
That being said, they can serve a function. In the past Zen teachers have communicated with students at a distance through letters. Some of Dogen's most famous pieces, such as Genjo Koan, originated as letters to students living in far off places. I've had a lot of heart-to-hearts with my teachers via telephone when I was living away from them (but I knew them in person first, an important difference). The newer technological communication tools can be used the same way.
The problem is our unfamiliarity with these tools of communication and the aforementioned ability of these tools to fool us even more effectively than the tools we had in the past.
Nobody in the 13th century would have thought a letter from Dogen was the same as a meeting with him. But folks in the 21st century are often fooled into thinking a Skype chat with someone where both parties have webcams (or whatever) is the same as actually meeting them. I feel this very keenly when I talk to people about their various cyber excursions. It's like they really do believe they've gone to these places and talked to these people when all they've actually experienced were icons and typed messages on a screen. "I talked to so-and so," they'll say. And I'll often ask, "Did you talk with him or did you type messages to each other?" Usually it's the latter.
The other problem is there is way, way, way too much information for anyone to ever take in. So we have a tendency to want to try to absorb everything, which leads to skimming over stuff in a very cursory manner rather than getting very deeply into just one thing.
This is a common trend in the age of information overload. We think we have to audition absolutely everything before we can commit to anything. But there's no way we can possibly look at everything that's out there. So we never end up committing to anything at all. It may have been better before when our choices were more limited.
This is why I always encourage people to go to their local sangha no matter what it is before they start doing the virtual zendo thing. I've seen people pass up really terrific places right around the corner because they've gotten it into their heads that some guy with a website (maybe even this guy -- me -- with a website) is better because he's more famous. It ain't always so. And, in my case, it almost certainly is not so.
But, yeah, just because something comes to you via the Interwebs does not mean it's bad. I'm certainly not saying that. You can find good people who will help and support your practice that way. Still, it's not the same as face-to-face communication -- even when you can see their face on that little plastic screen.


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It's a wonderful feeling for the whole organization when a home-grown high-potential executive in treasury or finance moves upward and takes his or her rightful place in the C-suite. Everyone celebrates the selection and sits back to watch the magic happen. At least, that is how it's supposed to work. But what happens when the individual with so much promise can't deliver after the big day arrives?
It always comes as a shock when someone with an impressive combination of talent, experience, and results fails to achieve success in a new role. What causes a high-potential executive to crash and burn when scaling to the next level? Failure can usually be traced to one of two causes—either an unaddressed shortcoming in the individual or a failure at the organizational level.
Companies looking to improve the success of internal promotions need to review their talent management systems. Many wait until after a high-level departure to assess the skill gaps of internal candidates. Instead, organizations should work to identify high-potential individuals on an ongoing basis and prepare them in advance to have the right experience and skill sets before the next appropriate position opens up. And individuals looking to advance into a leadership role in treasury or finance need to put some thought into how their careers are progressing. (See the sidebar Set Yourself up for Advancement on page 4.)
Talent Must Align With Strategic Goals
When creating a talent management program, organizations frequently neglect to start with a foundation based on a clear picture of their strategic goals. What does the company hope to accomplish over the next three to five years? How will it be done? What dangers lurk over the horizon? And what kind of talent pipeline will the company need in order to be successful given these challenges and opportunities?
An evaluation of strategic goals should inform organizational leaders about the abilities and behaviors required of the company's future leadership team. In particular, the roles of finance executives appear to be rapidly evolving. In some companies, the CFO, treasurer, and other finance leaders play narrowly defined and technical roles, but increasingly, they are expected to see things through a broader lens and develop a broader point of view.
In fact, most organizations expect their senior-most finance leaders to play a role beyond financial stewardship, serving as a strategic enterprise leader for the entire business. At the same time, they're shifting some strategic responsibilities onto lower-level finance managers. It's no longer acceptable to wear one hat and say, for example, "But I'm the treasurer, and the treasurer doesn't do X." As an officer of the company, the treasurer may well be expected to take on responsibilities that weren't traditionally part of the treasury function.
One indicator that strategic responsibility is moving deeper into the organization is that managers outside the C-suite are increasingly interacting with companies' boards of directors. Today, treasurers and controllers need the credibility, courage, and confidence to convince the board that they're in control. In truth, any finance or risk manager could come under board scrutiny in the event of an accounting mishap or similar situation. Board exposure at lower levels is a good thing for companies' cultivation of internal candidates for executive positions, but it expands to some degree the skill set needed by people in lower levels of the finance and risk functions.
Wherever a business is headed, the organization's executives will have to evolve along the same path. If the company is becoming more focused on acquisitions, it will require acquisition-related skills of all its executives. If, instead, the company is focusing on organic growth with an eye toward cost savings, it will require a totally different skill set. Likewise, industries that are either deregulating or facing expansion of governmental oversight will demand a specific risk management skill set from the executive team.
The first steps in putting together a successful talent management program are to look at the direction in which the company expects its industry and its business to evolve, and then determine what that evolution means for its treasury, finance, and risk leadership. Outside business management consultants may be required to evaluate how changes in the business landscape should affect the company's performance expectations for individuals in certain roles.
Once the C-suite and function-level managers reach consensus around the key leadership behaviors and functional skill sets that the company's executives will need to sustain future organizational success, those characteristics should be codified and publicized. The selection and development of high-potential executives should revolve around these qualities, ensuring tight alignment between leadership and strategy.
Identification of Potential
Organizations that don't ground their talent management programs in the strategic direction of the business are at risk of filling critical positions with leaders who have impressive skill sets but cannot execute on the company's strategic vision. Even when corporate strategy is tied in closely with talent management, organizations often overlook or fail to identify their "true" high-potential talent. They may allow for an abundance of subjectivity in talent reviews. They may lack a consistent process for accurately assessing individuals' capabilities. Or they may equate future potential with current performance.
While exceptional results in one's current position may be a requirement for being deemed a high-potential executive, outstanding performance at one level does not guarantee success at the next. The biggest reason why promotions in the finance function fail is that the person is unable to look up from the day-to-day and take a broader view. Moving into a larger role generally involves taking on more complicated and nuanced responsibilities. As roles become more strategic, decisions require greater judgment and fewer problems have a clear right or wrong answer. Some people struggle to translate their narrow skill set to a wider perspective. They tend to get lost when they try to apply their former expertise to fuzzier situations where visibility is hazy and the guardrails are less clear.
The process of identifying high potential starts with an accurate and targeted assessment of prospective leaders. The assessments need to be objective, and they need to focus on future success, independent of past performance. In addition to considering the direction of expected evolution of the business, this process should seek out early indicators that individuals have the curiosity and interest to look outside their area of responsibility. Lower-level individuals won't see the organization as a whole, but they might at least take a couple steps outside their box and say something like, "I'm noticing this pattern, and I see how it connects to my business unit. I wonder if we could try XYZ."
The earlier a company identifies talent in a particular individual, the better. High-potential individuals will be attractive hires for other organizations, and even those that stay with the company will benefit from accelerated progress if they're provided the right opportunities at every stage of their career.
Talent Development and Retention
A good high-potential talent identification process means little if the organization falls short on talent development and retention. A development program for high-potential staff accelerates their readiness and prepares them to move more quickly through the pipeline. The goal is to close experience, knowledge, or perspective gaps for each individual. Depending on the individual's specific needs, the development plan may involve mentoring, external coaching, stretch assignments, and/or other learning opportunities. For example, one finance manager might have great ideas but have trouble pulling them together in a format that investors or the board will buy into; her most pressing development need might be closing a communication gap. Another finance manager might have a very narrow scope of expertise. He might be excellent on the transactional side but need a rotational assignment to fill out an experience gap.
Once a company completes a talent assessment, it should implement a talent review roundtable, in which managers from different functions meet and seek alignment on development of high-potential individuals in the organization. They should identify one or two skills that each high-potential individual needs to work on to be prepared for the next role he/she might occupy.
Bringing the creation of development plans for high-potential staff into the format of a cross-functional roundtable integrates multiple points of view into the process. Candid discussions that are part of these talent review roundtables help eliminate subjective decision-making that can be driven by personal biases or political agendas. They also provide information about how people outside of finance see each person, helping ensure that the people identified as high potential provide great service to their internal customers in addition to having strong technical capabilities within finance.
One CFO we worked with on succession planning remarked, "I have been hiring and promoting the smartest people I could find for 15 years. Now I have a lot of really smart people around and no one to delegate to." His point was that he'd made a lot of individual decisions with no one to challenge his thinking. Each hire and promotion looked like a good decision in isolation, but on the whole, there was a distinct pattern to behaviors he was valuing and those he was ignoring. He had a department populated by experts but few true leaders. This created a big problem for succession planning and even handing off strategic responsibilities. By bringing together diverse perspectives, a talent review roundtable can help executives avoid these blind spots.
In addition to discussing individuals' failings in the roundtable setting, executives need to communicate them to the candidates. A primary goal of the entire process should be to increase the self-awareness of each participant. Leaders who gain a deep understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, and impact early in their career are better able to leverage their assets. They also show a more consistent ability to mitigate and compensate for the skills or traits that might otherwise derail their career.
Note that it's important to limit the scope of each person's development plan to one or two items at a time. No one can invest energy in improving several different aspects of their personality and style and approach and background all at once; they have to be prioritized. Sometimes companies take a scattershot approach, putting high-potential staff in a leadership development program, encouraging them to pursue an MBA, giving them lots of feedback and four or five goals. This tends to water down each person's focus and reduces his/her ability to close specific experience gaps.
It's also important to be crystal clear in explaining each gap. Sometimes we spend so much time worrying about tactfully communicating about a person's weaknesses that the resulting language is completely ambiguous. A development plan that tells the individual "You need to work on communication skills" is almost meaningless. Does it mean he is not articulate in meetings? Does it mean he should work on public speaking? Does it mean his vocabulary is too academic—or that his vocabulary is too technical to be comprehensible to those with less expertise in a certain area? When the goal is to help each person focus in on specific skill gaps, being indirect about what the gap is does the individual a disservice.
After the roundtable group identifies the most critical skill gaps for a particular high-potential individual, finance leaders and/or HR staff need to create opportunities to close those gaps. Sometimes training programs or continuing education can adequately prepare someone for the next career move. Other times, filling an experience gap may require a structural change within the company. For example, an organization might create a new position to give a specific high-potential individual oversight of several business units, to demonstrate that the person can manage successfully at scale. Of course, making a structural change as part of a talent development program is risky. Executives preparing for such a change need to determine in advance how the company will respond if the individual isn't successful for reasons outside his/her control. A talent review roundtable should not recommend a key staff member for a stretch role in which he/she has a higher-than-average chance of failing, only to discover after the fact that the company has little tolerance for that result.
Costs and Benefits
This complex and involved approach to talent management obviously requires a substantial investment of resources. Some companies see finance positions as more readily interchangeable than line-of-business leadership roles. They routinely recruit CFOs, treasurers, and other finance managers from competitive companies, or even from different industries. However, developing finance talent internally can ensure that some of the most important executives in the company combine the appropriate level of financial acumen with a solid understanding of the unique strategic challenges and opportunities the company faces. It also helps ensure that any critical skill gaps have been accessed and addressed—something that may not be accomplished during an external search process.
Talent development can not only provide bottom-line benefits by populating the organization with highly effective leaders, but it can also play a critical role in the retention of a company's best employees. Investment in their professional development signals to high-potential individuals that they are valued by the business, and it enables them to envision a future with the company. Executives advancing through the ranks are very attractive to outside organizations, and giving them a clear internal career path helps reduce the chance that they will jump ship.
Ultimately, senior management must determine whether a high-potential talent development program would be worth the effort for their company. The answer may vary by industry and by organization. But companies that want to build enterprise leaders within their finance function will likely decide that a high-potential talent management program is a smart investment in the future of the organization.
Jessica Bigazzi Foster, Ph.D., is the global practice leader for individual assessment for RHR International LLP. She has a strong background in psychological assessment, senior-level executive development, talent management, team building, succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, and organizational restructuring.


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Pericarditis may last from two to six weeks, and there may be a recurrence of the disorder.
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