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Q: Helps a vector for cache locality? (C++) Last week I have read about great concepts as cache locality and pipelining in a cpu. Although these concepts are easy to understand I have two questions. Suppose one can choose between a vector of objects or a vector of pointers to objects (as in this question).
Then an argument for using pointers is that shufling larger objects may be expensive. However, I'm not able to find when I should call an object large. Is an object of several bytes already large?
An argument against the pointers is the loss of cache locality. Will it help if one uses two vectors where the first one contains the objects and will not be reordered and the second one contains pointers to these objects? Say that we have a vector of 200 objects and create a vector with pointers to these objects and then randomly shuffle the last vector. Is the cache locality then lost if we loop over the vector with pointers?
This last scenario happens a lot in my programs where I have City objects and then have around 200 vectors of pointers to these Cities. To avoid having 200 instances of each City I use a vector of pointers instead of a vector of Cities.

A: There is no simple answer to this question. You need to understand how your system interacts with regards to memory, what operations you do on the container, and which of those operations are "important". But by understanding the concepts and what affects what, you can get a better understanding of how things work. So here's some "discussion" on the subject.
"Cache locality" is largely about "keeping things in the cache". In other words, if you look at A, then B, and A is located close to B, they are probably getting loaded into the cache together.
If objects are large enough that they fill one or more cache-lines (modern CPU's have cache-lines of 64-128 bytes, mobile ones are sometimes smaller), the "next object in line" will not be in the cache anyways [1], so the cache-locality of the "next element in the vector" is less important. The smaller the object is, the more effect of this you get - assuming you are accessing objects in the order they are stored. If you pick a random number, then other factors start to become important [2], and the cache locality is much less important.
On the other other hand, as objects get larger, moving them within the vector (including growing, removing, inserting, as well as "random shuffle") will be more time consuming, as copying more data gets more extensive.
Of course, one further step is always needed to read from a pointer vs. reading an element directly in a vector, since the pointer itself needs to be "read" before we can get to the actual data in the pointee object. Again, this becomes more important when random-accessing things.
I always start with "whatever is simplest" (which depends on the overall construct of the code, e.g. sometimes it's easier to create a vector of pointers because you have to dynamically create the objects in the first place). Most of the code in a system is not performance critical anyway, so why worry about it's performance - just get it working and leave it be if it doesn't turn up in your performance measurements.
Of course, also, if you are doing a lot of movement of objects in a container, maybe vector isn't the best container. That's why there are multiple container variants - vector, list, map, tree, deque - as they have different characteristics with regards to their access and insert/remove as well as characteristics for linearly walking the data.
Oh, and in your example, you talk of 200 city objects - well, they are probably going to all fit in the cache of any modern CPU anyways. So stick them in a vector. Unless a city contains a list of every individual living in the city... But that probably should be a vector (or other container object) in itself.
As an experiment, make a program that does the same operations on a std::vector<int> and std::vector<int*> [such as filling with random numbers, then sorting the elements], then make an object that is large [stick some array of integers in there, or some such], with one integer so that you can do the very same operations on that. Vary the size of the object stored, and see how it behaves. On YOUR system, where is the benefit of having pointers, over having plain objects. Of course, also vary the number of elements, to see what effect that has.
[1] Well, modern processors use cache-prefetching, which MAY load "next data" into the cache speculatively, but we certainly can't rely on this.
[2] An extreme case of this is a telephone exchange with a large number of subscribers (millions). When placing a call, the caller and callee are looked up in a table. But the chance of either caller or callee being in the cache is nearly zero, because (assuming we're dealing with a large city, say London) the number of calls placed and received every second is quite large. So caches become useless, and it gets worse, because the processor also caches the page-table entries, and they are also, most likely, out of date. For these sort of applications, the CPU designers have "huge pages", which means that the memory is split into 1GB pages instead of the usual 4K or 2MB pages that have been around for a while. This reduces the amount of memory reading needed before "we get to the right place". Of course, the same applies to various other "large database, unpredictable pattern" - airlines, facebook, stackoverflow all have these sort of problems.


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New Down Syndrome test for pregnant mothers
By 6abc
It used to be the only way to know if the baby had Downs was with amniocentesis or another test. Both of which carry the risk of sparking miscarriage. Doctors say this new blood test changes the way women at high risk are treated.
Seventeen-month-old Megan's parents say she was a wonderful addition to their family with big sister Katie and big brother Ben.
"She is a great 3rd child, very easy baby, she just goes with the flow," says mom Erica Milas of Mullica Hill, New Jersey.
Erica was 35 when she was pregnant with Megan. Her first screening showed a high risk the baby had Down Syndrome. She had received similar news about Katie but at that time, the only way to get a more accurate answer was with an invasive test.
"Either a needle stuck in their abdomen or a placental biopsy," said Dr. Ronald Librizzi, Chief Maternal-Fetal Specialist at Virtua. "Both of them the risk if you lose the pregnancy."
Even though the risk is small, Erica and her husband Jerry -- who are both doctors -- weren't willing to chance it. It turns out, the results was a false positive.
During the pregnancy with Megan, there was another way: A simple blood test. Doctor Ronald Librizzi at Virtua was involved in the research. He says the 'Cell-Free Fetal DNA' test looks at fragments of the baby's DNA in the mother's blood.
It can also detect some other abnormalities very accurately.
The original, sequential test showed Megan had a 1:40 chance for Downs. The new blood test ruled it out.
"I just felt relief and we were all just overjoyed she was going to be a healthy normal baby," mom Erica Milas said.
Erica and Jerry say there was never any intent to terminate the pregnancy but they wanted know ahead of time if there was a problem.
"I think as with anything in life, the more you can prepare for something the better you can deal with it," father Jerry Milas said.
"This test provides them an opportunity to get information without having to balance it as to whether they are going to risk the pregnancy," Doctor Librizzi, adding that right now the test is only for high-risk women. But he expects this breakthrough to expand to all moms-to-be in the future.
If the new test shows the baby could have Down Syndrome, then the mother can get one of the more invasive tests if she wants more information. Right now there are several companies ( Verinata Verifi Test | Materni21 | Harmony) making the new blood test, which has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.
Women considered at high risk are women over the age of 35, if they have a family history or another child with a chromosomal abnormality and if the first sequential screening test shows a high risk for Down Syndrome.

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A million miles from Palmerston North, Linley Boniface
Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific
Graeme Lay
Awa Press, $29.95,
Liars and Lovers: A Travel Memoir
Diane Brown
Vintage, $26.95,
As a child, I used to read adventure stories featuring coral atolls and leaping mako sharks and talking parrots, and think how wonderful it must be to live somewhere near the Pacific Islands, which were clearly at least a million miles away from Palmerston North. Years later, I was astounded to discover that these mysterious lands, which had seemed as remote to me as Narnia, were in fact our neighbours. Even now, New Zealanders have largely failed to engage with the South Pacific. There's a perplexing lack of curiosity about the extraordinary archipelagos on our doorstep: most Pakeha Kiwis pride themselves far more on their knowledge of London or Hong Kong than Nuku'alofa or Papeete.
In this collection of stories about his journeys around tropical Polynesia, Graeme Lay goes some way towards redressing the balance. Lay has associated the Pacific Islands with romance and adventure ever since reading Treasure Island as a boy, and the reality he encounters as an adult is no disappointment. Whether he's drinking bush beer in the Cook Islands, catching flying fish in an elongated butterfly net in Nuie or simply propping up the bar in some dusty waterfront drinking hole, Lay displays a contagious delight at finding himself in a part of the world that inhabited his dreams for so many years.
Like all good travel writers, Lay is more interested in the people who populate a landscape than in the landscape itself. In the South Pacific, this category inevitably expands to include those Westerners who helped define the islands to the modern world – Herman Melville, who jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842 and emerged, after a four-day jungle trek, into the arms of a tribe so violent that the translation of its name meant "lover of human flesh"; the hapless Paul Gauguin, whose arrival in Tahiti with both shoulder-length hair and a cowboy hat prompted locals to jeeringly call him a "taata vahine" (man-woman); and, of course, Robert Louis Stevenson, who defied tuberculosis by spending his last years smoking, drinking kava, dancing, partying and butting into Samoan politics.
Lay doesn't let his fascination with the human flotsam and jetsam who have washed up on the shores of the South Pacific over the past couple of hundred years blind him to the harsh realities of life for many islanders. He's good on the cynicism with which politicians in Paris govern French Polynesia, while the inequities of cultural tourism are neatly summed up by a disturbing encounter between a light-fingered teenage tour guide and a pair of middle-aged American birdwatchers.
One small caveat: Lay can't resist rendering the speech of Westerners phonetically (although he's far too PC to do it to islanders as well). An English traveller, for example, introduces himself thus: "Me too, jost arrived. I'm from Brimming'im. Ing-lund." This patronising tactic was popularised by Clive James, who went on to make an entire career out of mocking the absurdities of Johnny Foreigner, but at least he had an ear for it. Lay doesn't.
Still, in recompense for this, The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest offers us one of the most sensational jacket illustrations produced all year. It's by Andy Leleisi'uao, a New Zealand-born artist of Samoan descent, and if it doesn't immediately make you want to cancel your plans for a short break in Sydney and book a ticket to Apia instead, then there's something very wrong with you.
On the face of it, Liars and Lovers should be a far more tempting read than The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest. One is a whimsical meander around the Pacific Islands; the other a non-stop shagfest through swinging Europe in the 1970s. For this reader – and, I suspect, many others – the shagfest is the obvious favourite. And yet seldom has a book so chock-full of sex been so utterly devoid of sexiness.
The premise is this: in 1975, 23-year-old Diane Brown gives her root rat husband the flick and books a ticket on one of the last passenger ships to Europe. Almost three decades later, as "a woman on the edge of menopause", Brown returns to Europe with her partner and attempts a retrospective emotional dissection of her big OE. Was Tony, the American med student who looked into her eyes and said, "I see the hurt", the love of her life? Could Marion and Kath, a pair of butch Aussie shoplifters, possibly have been lesbians? And why the hell didn't she explore more of Rome, instead of lounging around the campsite reading Watership Down?
Even material as dull as this could be salvaged by wit, or insight, or at the very least a sincere attempt to forge a connection with the reader. Alas, no such attempt is made. On the one hand, Brown is reluctant to share any personal details that might win our sympathy ("This is not the place to go into detail about the disintegration of my marriage," she sharply finger-wags within the first couple of chapters, and then proceeds to bleat on about this insufficiently-explained event for the rest of the book.) On the other, she assumes her audience finds the colourless descriptions in her original travel journal as fascinating as she does:
We kept driving till we found a little town, Osuna, where there was a restaurant open. Unfortunately at that time I didn't have quite the interest in food I have now – for eating, yes, but for describing, no. According to my diary we had chicken for dinner. Boiled, roast, fried, or in paella? I wish I could say.
Some of the material here is potentially of interest, even if only as a period piece. There's the hilarious obsession with yoga; the slathering on of coconut oil instead of sunblock; the exhilarating absence of discussions about student loans, house prices or superannuation plans; and the apparent assumption of just about every man Brown meets that a young woman travelling by herself must be sexually available.
But Brown doesn't seem much interested in the extra-ordinary era of social change she lived through. She sees herself, first and foremost, as a writer – make that Writer – and her chief objective is to examine her twentysomething self for evidence of the poet-in-waiting. Her excuse for reading House and Garden is that the magazine sometimes features the homes of writers, and, after bemoaning the fact that she has no daughters, she says she will "give birth only to books from now on".
Certainly, the reader is never permitted to forget that Brown teaches writing as well as churning the stuff out:
Our view of Switzerland was limited to the train window. Beautiful, I wrote in my diary. This was before I had attended my own writing class, so I didn't know then that beautiful was an imprecise word and too vague to be recalled. What matters is precise details and imagery: the exact colour of rivers and sky, the movement of shadows, the type of trees, the shapes humans have imposed upon the natural contours of the land.
Oh yeah? It seems to me this is exactly what is wrong with the New Zealand literary scene: there are far too many writers banging on about the exact colour of rivers and sky, and the movement of shadows, and, god help us, the type of trees, and not nearly enough who are prepared to think up an engaging story and attempt to tell it using words as daringly unpretentious as beautiful.
During her first trip to Europe, Brown herself unwittingly summed up the travel memoir she was one day to write. At the time, she was being chatted up in a ham-fisted sort of way by Dan, one of many predatory Australian no-hopers:
"What is it you want from life?" Dan asked.
I had no real answer. "I'd like to write," I said after a while, "but I'm not sure if I have the talent."
"Write about what?" Dan asked. "What are your passions, your interests? And you have to have something to say."
"That's the problem," I said. "I'm not sure that I have."
Linley Boniface is a Wellington reviewer.
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Red and Blue America- time to wave the white flag?
America has sorted into two opposing camps, both of which are mad because they see themselves losing ground. How can both sides be losing? And doesn't that make us all losers? How do we transcend this loser's standoff and finally start agreeing on anything?
There are two general arenas of disagreement in America today- the social arena and the economic/political arena. If you are on Team Red (conservatives), you have mostly been winning the economic arena for the last 50 years while losing badly in the social arena. If you are on Team Blue (liberals)- it's the opposite. Will either team ever prevail in both arenas? Not likely. We live in a universe of yin and yang, where every action produces a reaction and balance is always trying to be restored.
Let's start with the economic arena, covering jobs, the economy, and taxes. The past 50 years have been a conservative landslide. Tax rates, especially those on the wealthy and corporations, have tumbled to their lowest rates in a century. The government has shrunk in power and significance, and the social safety net is constantly under attack. Regulations have been lifted all over the economy, allowing businesses to get bigger and bigger without any consideration to the environment, labor practices, or future sustainability. This retrenchment away from the New Deal has led to unprecedented wealth but also third-world level income inequality and lack of social mobility.
Now look at the social arena, which covers things like race, gender, religion, and popular culture. Here liberals have prevailed, transforming a culture strictly stratified by race and gender to one of interracial marriages and unisex bathrooms. In just 50 years women and minorities have made huge strides in both elected offices and popular culture, and though they still have a long way to go, their issues are front and center. Homosexuality has emerged from the closet and become widely accepted in many areas of the country, and the organized religions that once condemned them are is on the decline. Marijuana is practically legal and widely accepted, and birth control and abortion are more accepted now than they were 50 years ago.
When you think about it, both teams have seen significant victories, but they seem somehow miserable. People tend to focus on what they've lost more than what they've gained, and I can see where both sides are coming from. The feeling of being outspent and out of power for the left matches the frustration of the right's loss of control of the social agenda. The only people who've come out on top are a handful of millionaires and billionaires, and I doubt many of them are truly happy about the way things have turned out.
It's puzzling that while the economic arena has the most influence over our lives, it's the social arena where most of today's battles are being fought. This is probably because social issues are emotionally charged, while economic theory is boring and confusing. Even the economists can't agree on anything. Abortion is a hot-button issue, while fiscal policy puts people to sleep. So while we've been arguing over guns, weed, and immigration, we've been ignoring things like infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and foreign policy. And nothing ever gets settled in the opinion-heavy social arena.
We've been fighting for 50 years about abortion and family planning. The right, whose main goal in that fight is - producing more babies- has sabotaged itself by creating an economy where more and more women decline to reproduce, often for financial reasons. For half a century we've fought a costly war on minor drugs like marijuana while ignoring the major legal one that's destroying millions of lives- opioids. The fight over gun rights has become impossible to understand as more and more people become victims of gun violence and guns become more plentiful and more powerful (even as gun ownership is declining in the country as a whole).
Politicians are cynically using social issues to incite tribal tendencies and get elected, knowing full well that there's very little that the government can do about any of them. All of the changes we've seen in social attitudes have come about organically, and not because some legislature passed a law or some pundits ranted about it on cable television. These debates are the junk food of American politics, and we need to clean up our mental diets and stop ranting about cancel culture and critical race theory.
So what can we do about any of this? We can't turn back the clock and go back to the good old days, and we can't rig elections to force people on our side. The only direction we can go is forward. But to get there we have to understand each other better and open up honest, productive dialogues. Team Red and Team Blue are stuck with each other, just like an eagle has both a left wing and a right wing, and needs both to fly. Last month a group called America Talks began a dialogue across the country teaming people of opposite ends of the political spectrum with that exact goal.
It's time to call a truce. We have real problems that need to be addressed- jobs, climate change, infrastructure, cybercrime, pandemics, and more. I refuse to get caught up anymore in junk politics. Treat each other with kindness and respect, and most of these social differences will work themselves out. The fact that we can even talk about the injustices of the past shows we've made great progress, and now it's time to get moving on the urgent things we can actually do something about.


Being obsessed anything about japan made do some silly things. Gelar Jepang 2009 at FIB UI had given me so much ideas to do. Most of the people wore costumes (cosplay), for example yukata, japanese uniform including gakuran, anime style, free-style, tokusatsu style. A day before I visited GJ 2009, I decided to sew a sort-of-yukata-like-skirt. I found some fabrics, and I made it after several days of thinking about the design. With so much cosplayers, I really I thought I wasn't dressed up well. Come on! I had no time to prepare and no friends to share the same madness about cosplay-ing. They were to busy to come. On GJ 2009, I met only six friends.
Here's the only photo of me and my friend with a cosplayer. I wore the skirt I'm talking about. I was disappointed because I had no digicam, and I lost my opportunity to take a pic with Kon. He was one of the winner of cosplay competition in anime category.
I have no pic of him, so this one is what Kon wore back then. I couldn't think what he was thinking because the weather was hot and he wore the costume all the time.
Several days later, I'm talking about two days ago, I found some fabrics (again) and made a school bag just like what a japanese student use. It was kinda difficult because it was a cloth fabric, not a bag fabric. I spent much time to think of improving design. The total time was about 9 hours, including several rests, bathroom, salat, read a newspaper (lil bit), but no dinner. I was too excited to finish it up. So, on 1 o'clock in the soooo early morning, my prototype was done.
Not as nice as I thought first. Still, a prototype is a prototype. I won't give up to make some mores.


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Mikaela Shiffrin sets stunning goal for 2018 Olympics
Paul Myerberg
Shiffrin became the youngest woman to win gold in slalom
The 18-year-old%27s goal is to win five golds at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang%2C South Korea
Two male skiers have swept the Alpine events but that was when there were only three%2C not five
SOCHI -- To Mikaela Shiffrin, one Olympic gold medal is just the beginning.
At the next Winter Games, she says she wants five.
One day after winning gold in the women's slalom, becoming the youngest skier in Olympic history to do so, Shiffrin, 18, gave reporters a glimpse into her future goals – listing two items in particular that paint the 18-year-old Coloradoan as an Olympian to watch in 2018 and beyond.
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When it comes to the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, Shiffrin is dreaming about putting together an unprecedented medal sweep across Alpine skiing's five events: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined.
"I'm still young and I still have a lot of strength to gain over the next few summers of conditioning and the next few winters of skiing," Shiffrin said. "I don't want to push myself too far too fast and definitely don't get greedy, but at the same time, I'm a dreamer.
"So right now I'm dreaming of the next Olympics, winning five gold medals. Which sounds really crazy. Sorry I just admitted that to you all."
An Alpine sweep, or even multiple golds in one Olympics, would clearly separate Shiffrin from Lindsay Vonn, the two-time medalist who missed the Sochi Games with a knee injury.
It took Vonn until her third Games, in 2010, to win her first medal. While Vonn's two medals and 59 World Cup victories makes her one of the great alpine skiers in U.S. history, age is also on Shiffrin's side: Vonn will be 33 in 2018, four years older than any U.S. female skier in Sochi.
Shiffrin, on the other hand, may only now be entering the prime of her career.
To date, Shiffrin has competed internationally in only the two slalom events, with giant slalom the weaker of her two disciplines. "I definitely want to branch out," she said Saturday.
Shiffrin also indicated perhaps an even grander vision for her career in the sport.
MIKAELA SHIFFRIN IN PHOTOS
"When I'm done I hope I can look back and say that I changed the sport," Shiffrin said, "that I was innovative and created a new way of skiing and pushed women's ski racing to be faster and more athletic and more exciting for the people to watch, and really put on a show.
"I do hope that I can inspire people to try to put on a show for themselves, for the crowd, for anybody, just ski their best and don't be afraid to make the mistakes because you'll learn from them. They make the sport exciting."
WOMEN'S SLALOM:Historic gold for Shiffrin
It's the spirit of the Olympics – the Games' inspiring message – that makes such a dream possible, Shiffrin said.
"I think the Olympics are a really inspiring event, not just because Americans win but because anybody can win," she said.
"It's OK to be confident here. It's OK for me to go into my first press conference and say, 'I'm going tor two medals, I'm going for gold.' Because I think I can. I don't think it's jinxing here, and I don't think it's arrogant. I think it's just a fact: We come to the Olympics to win."
Five Olympic golds -- however unlikely -- would give her six for a still-young career and tie the all-time Olympic record. One woman in Olympic history has come close to a sweep. Croatia'sJanica Kostelic won four in Salt Lake City in 2002, falling short only in the downhill.
Two male skiers have swept the Alpine events but that was when there were only three, not five.
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You might be wondering what the hell is S.A.P. anyway? S.A.P. (Speak, Act, & Push) is a way of life that many of us use anyway. Let's get down to it, shall we?
ACT: Secondly, you have to act on what you have spoken. Faith without works is dead. If you are believing to be an award winning anything and do not act on it then it will only be a thought. I could say I was an author all day long but until I had proof that I was one, it would have continued to be just talk to pass the time. We have to do something. Acting on the belief that it WILL happen should not be taken lightly. Don't bluff yourself. We don't need you half-assing the work and expecting that what you believe will come to pass. You can't believe and not show up either. Click To TweetThat's like believing that you will get pregnant and not practice. More like believing for a husband/spouse and not becoming what you are believing you should have and be. You have to act. Time is of the essence and no one has time to be bluffing the man in the mirror. You are only failing yourself.
PUSH: Lastly, you have to push. You have to birth that gift, song, novel, business, or whatever that PUSH is to you. No one can birth what was given to you. You will experience heartache, isolation, and elevation. You have to push first. What are you waiting for? PUSH! It is the last month and everything that you have worked so hard for is now crowning. You have to birth it. You have to sell that book (Produce, Publish, and Promote). You have to find that market and stand firm that you might be in a groundbreaking isolation period but it won't last long. Push whatever it is out of you or from you. Celebrate after the pain but first you have to go through it. Click To Tweet I have four steps of PUSH. It is all simple really.
There are five types of birthing in PUSH also that I want to discuss.
Premature: Birthing prematurely in this sense is going ahead of schedule. You are trying to do things your way. There are areas that are not yet ready. You suffer. Yes, most do survive and make it but sometimes giving the world your gifts prematurely can be fatal not only to them but to you. You are rushing too much to have a product out or your business open that you fail yourself and do a disservice to your product and business.
Induced: Induced in this nature is being pushed out anyway. They know you will succeed but you are doubtful. You need to be induced. Your gifts need to be birthed by any means necessary. You can't keep holding back what was put in you. You are hindering the person that needs to hear your voice,your message, read your words, or utilize your business.
Natural: You are just on time. Your gifts are being birthed through no help or stimulant. You are PUSHING! The overcomer. You have made the executive decision to PUSH your way through. You want to welcome the pain and stand in your glory.
Dying: This isn't a birthing process. You have carried this child for so long but the pain is unbearable so you choose to die and not PUSH. Your dreams are on the other side of pain, fear, reluctance and you'd rather die than have people see your transparent self. You worry too much of what others may say about your gifts that you keep it all to yourself.You are dying. You came all this way. You have spoke it into existence and acted on it but won't even publish the book.
Abortion: You have given up before anything. You didn't even know how it would turn out. You threw away your dreams and now mourn at the sight of others having that same dream, goal, or vision. You never wanted it in the first place.
How many of you are practicing the S.A.P. method?
I want you to evaluate yourself and ask yourself these questions. Write them down.
Why are you speaking and not believing?
Are you truly acting in your gifts?
Why are you withholding the birthing process?
What's stopping you from the PUSH?
Are you premature, inducing, natural, aborting, or dying?
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This post is so motivational and the abbreviation letters are easy to remember. I like how you were able to get your point across and provide examples for each reader.
Thank you! It was just a repurposed speech I had.
Thanks hun! I've actually checked your blog and love your topics.
You can't believe and not show up!!!!! So important. Thank you for this.
You are welcome. That statement is so true. Most people believe in things but put no action to it.
You made some really great points. I always say you have to speak things into existence and act on it. I'm a true believer of this. I love the idea of PUSH. I love this post! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. I am also.
Definitely needed this today. I'm pushing to accomplish some large goals this weekend. Thanks!!
You're welcome. I am also PUSHing major accomplishments. Prayers up!
OMG this was so on time!! Lately I've been feling like I'm lacking motivation in so many areas of my life so this was really what I needed!!
I'm glad to be of service. Who knew speaking to yourself could reach so many others.
Love the acronym P.U.S.H! Such an inspiring post ?
Yeah, most people practice SAP and not even know it. I've learned that most people learn more by using acronyms like S.A.P. & P.U.S.H. and then the different birth strategies. Share if you like.


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11/30/09 Send Girl Scout Cookies to the U.S. Military!
Customers do not take receipt of the cookies; the council will coordinate the delivery to the organization(s) that the customer selects from the list for their local area. In addition, customers will receive a donation receipt for their order.
Did you know you can buy Girl Scout Cookies to send to active military personnel? Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia's Cookies from Home sponsorship program is a great way for you to send a taste of home and your personal message of encouragement to troops serving overseas. Cookies from Home sponsorship is also a terrific alternative for those who want to support Girl Scouts without actually purchasing the cookies for themselves, and is ideal for companies and corporations. By purchasing an extra box or case of Girl Scout Cookies, you're not only supporting military troops, but after the cost of the cookies, 100% of the proceeds stay in the community to support Girl Scouting!
Just another way the Girl Scouts are involved in our communities!
Great news! President Obama signed the bill at a ceremony at the White House on October 29 that included Connie L. Lindsey, GSUSA National Board Chair, Laurie Westley, Senior Vice President, Public Policy, Advocacy & the Research Institute, and girls from the Girl Scout Council in Washington, DC.
The bill in the House of Representatives (H.R. 621), sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), easily passed by a voice vote and with more than 300 cosponsors on October 15. A companion Senate bill (S. 451), sponsored by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), also passed unanimously on October 19.
The legislation directs the U.S. Mint to produce 350,000 silver coins. Ten dollars from the sale of each coin will go to GSUSA to help fund much-needed renovations at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah, Georgia. The bill also calls for the Secretary of the Treasury, in collaboration with the GSUSA and the Commission of Fine Arts, to design the coin in a manner "emblematic of the centennial of Girl Scouts." The coin will be minted and sold in 2013, marking the end of Girl Scouts' yearlong centennial celebration and kicking off a new century of leadership and service to girls.
Today, Girl Scouts is the largest voluntary association for women and girls in the United States. More than 50 million women have been Girl Scouts, including 58 percent of the women in Congress.
The minting of the coin is only one of several events Girl Scouts has planned for its yearlong centennial celebration, including a National Community Action Project focused on girl leadership related to environmental issues, a Young Women's World Forum, and a national gala event.
In February of 2008, a reorganization of the Girl Scout councils took place in Georgia. The Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia was formed to combine the six Georgia Girl Scout councils outside Atlanta into one.
AT&T Inc. provided a $25,000 award that will enable the organization to integrate and centralize its technology systems and data. The newly formed Girl Scout council has used the grant to enhance the efficiency of its technology. Upgrades to the leadership training program have been very beneficial, especially to volunteers and troop leaders. It is so critical for non-profit organizations to have support from corporations. AT&T has proven to be a valuable partner for the Girl Scouts!
The Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc., with corporate headquarters located in Macon, is comprised of the following Georgia councils: Girl Scouts, Central Savannah River Council; Girl Scouts of Concharty Council; Girl Scouts of Middle Georgia; Girl Scouts of Northeast Georgia; the Girl Scout Council of Savannah, Ga.; and Girl Scouts of Southwest.
SWAPS are a Girl Scout activity in which the girls trade homemade craft pins with each other as a way to promote friendship. A great time for a swap is right before an event or camping trip where there will be girls from other councils to trade with.
The SWAP tradition became very popular in the 1950's and 1960's when Girl Scouts gathered together for activities. The legacy continues today with the same outcome: When girls swap their pins, they make new friends, and that is what girl scouting is all about!
The pin can depict any object and can be made from any material. Pins fashioned from recyclable materials are especially popular. There are very few restrictions, however, the pin should tell something about the girl or their troop. Many girls even include their address or email information with the pin so that they can correspond with one another. A lot of the homemade pins represent the girl's country, community, or council. This creative activity is a fun opportunity for Girl Scouts that allows them to building lasting friendships.
Girl scout troops through our area are taking part in food drives to help those in need. Food drives are a wonderful way to give back to the community and these girls work hard to lend help in many ways. Many of their volunteer efforts are behind-the-scenes, but for this venture, they received alot of visibility. As unfortunate as it is, many folks are unemployed or layed off and are going through very difficult times. They depend on the free food they can obtain from food banks, so this is a very important community service effort.
The Girl Scouts in Swainsboro spent last Saturday morning packing meals and organizing the shelves at the Emanuel Food Pantry. They're trying to log 500 hours of community service by the end of the year.
All the girls scouts in the area are trying to get one hundred thousand service hours by March 2012. In helping with this project, the Emanuel Girl Scouts volunteer teamwork is counting towards the council's goal. As they are learning, 'tis far better to give than to receive!
Developing a strong sense of self is one of the greatest benefits of participating in Girl Scouts. Girl Scouting emphasizes courage, character and confidence, all of which are important attributes, especially for girls since they tend to be more reserved with regard to self-esteem. These factors, plus many more that are developed through the scouting program, create exposure for the girls to a myriad of experiences and activities that teach them important life lessons. These skills prepare them to become mature, responsible and well-rounded adult women.
In 2002, Girl Scouts teamed up with Dove to create the uniquely ME! THE GIRL SCOUT/DOVE SELF-ESTEEM PROGRAM, designed to foster self-esteem in girls, ages 8-17. This program has received positive results for helping girls feel better about themselves so that they are better prepared to deal with the many challenges they will encounter. Of course, we all know what it's like to wish for what we don't have (i.e. if our hair is straight, we want curly hair; if we're blonde, we want to be brunette or redheaded, the tall want to be short and vice-versa).
Recently on Facebook a video has been circulating of a model who goes in "plain Jane" and by the time they style her, digitally alter her neck, brows, cheeks, etc. and air brush the photo for the billboard, you hardly recognize her. We all need to remember that we are uniquely beautiful just as God created us.
The importance of this program with Dove, however, lies with the fact that no matter what our physical body looks like, it's who we are "inside" that really counts. The Girl Scout organization should be proud of their partnership in this wonderful program. In the long run, it benefits everyone when girls grow up to be mentally, physically and psychologically healthy.
The Girl Scouts organization will celebrate 100 years in March, 2012. To commemorate this special milestone, each council has been challenged to complete 100,000 hours of community service by the 100th anniversary. The Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia have already earned 12,753 hours and are confident that they will reach their goal. Many are making blankets and pillowcases for area hospitals; others are volunteering at nursing homes and senior citizen centers. Older members are even working with Habitat for Humanity and the Humane Society. It is evident that alot of good will come from the Girl Scout's efforts.
Volunteerism isn't restricted to Scouting. Here in Statesboro, you can volunteer in many ways. One vital group is Hands on Southeast Georgia: http://www.handsonsega.org/. This is a great way to make a difference in our community. It doesn't cost a thing, but the rewards are priceless!
10/1/09 Girl Scouts Need Volunteers!
This blog entry is dedicated to a conversation I had earlier this week with Deadre Hadden, the community liaison for the Emanuel county Girl Scouts. This group has just started back after almost a decade of inactivity in our community and so I attended the first meeting of the Daisy troop in Twin City on Monday. Daisy is the first level of Girl Scouts for girls in Kindergarten and first grade. These young scouts were literally bouncing with an infectious excitement that rekindled good memories of my former scouting days. I made a statement to Deadre saying that it was a shame that more girls were not involved. She responded sadly saying that there was an overwhelming response for Girl Scout members but she had to restrict the troop sizes because of a lack of volunteers. I was stunned – what could be more engaging than being a mentor for young girls? Regardless of whether it is a mother, grandmother, aunt, sister or an interested woman who wants to make a difference, there is so much to gain through volunteer work with this worthy organization. She and I talked further about obstacles and then devised some strategies to attract additional volunteers. Even if one doesn't want to work directly as a leader, there are many other areas of scouting that need help indirectly doing behind-the-scenes work.
As I assist with marketing efforts for this group, I will make a concerted effort to recruit Girl Scout volunteers. For the benefit of so many young girls in Emanuel county, wish me luck!
Your urgent help is needed! The Girl Scout organization will be celebrating 100 years in 2012 and they need everyone's help in advocating an Act (S. 451) that will be presented to the 111th U.S. Congress in January, 2010. The Act, if passed, will allow the production of 350,000 Commemorative Girl Scout coins through the U.S. Mint. Girl Scouting has had a positive impact on the lives of many women, young and old, and it is deserving of this recognition.
Since Congress only approves two new coins a year, the Girl Scouts need your help in this endeavor. Our two Georgia Senators are Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. Please take a few moments to e-mail Sen. Chambliss and Sen. Isakson and encourage them to support the Girl Scout Commemorative Coin Act. Please encourage others to respond to this information, as well.
Contact Senator Saxby Chambliss and Senator Johnny Isakson directly via the link below by clicking on the "Senators" tab above Gov. Perdue's photo. The Girl Scouts have provided all relevant information; all you have to do is send the prepared e-mail request unless you want to send a personally prepared correspondence.
9/16/09 Is Wal-mart the Cookie Monster?
Wal-mart has recently started carrying knock-off versions of two popular girl scout cookies, the thin mint and the tagalongs. The imititation cookies were recently introduced at the BlogHer conference in Chicago. As fate would have it, that probably wasn't the best choice for premiering the "beta" cookies because now the controversy has spread like wildfire through social media blog sites – strong evidence of how powerful this medium has become for communicating in today's society. In what appears to be a David versus Goliath, Girl Scout moms are using their blogs to protest the retail giant's infringement on the Girl Scout's cookie sales that are only held once a year. Of course, the other side of the fence defends free enterprise and sees nothing wrong with Wal-Mart earning a few more dollars. Even though most folks will remain loyal in their support of buying cookies from the Girl Scouts, it does make one stop and wonder why Wal-Mart would want to impede on this non-profit organization's primary fundraiser if it claims to be such a good corporate citizen. Isn't it enough that they have closed down nearly every "mom and pop" business in the small towns where they have stores? At what cost is Wal-Mart's value really worth when they continue to gobble up everything in their path? Despite their slick marketing efforts aimed at convincing us to "Save Money, Live Better" by shopping at Wal-Mart, their actions suggest that we need to be very concerned…after all, a Cookie Monster appears to be on the loose.
As we pause today and remember those who perished in the 9/11 catastrophe in 2001, this recently posted article regarding my client, the Girl Scouts, is timely. Home Land Security, the agency formed after 9/11, has entered into an agreement with the Girl Scouts organization to assist with emergency preparedness. Not only will this endeavor help our communities in times of need, it will provide an opportunity for these young women to learn valuable life-skills that will carry over to all areas of their life. The government has actly wisely to create this collaborative community service effort that will benefit so many people. Way to go, Girl Scouts!
I will be working with the local Girl Scout troop in Swainsboro, Georgia. This group has been inactive in our community for several years, but they are finally experiencing a resurgence of interest. Any girl in kindergarten through twelfth grade is eligible to participate. They are seeking more scout leaders, if anyone is interested! Volunteers are a critical part of this organization, especially as they rebuild the program. I will be assisting them with their public relations communication efforts to increase membership, attract volunteers and publicize fundraising events and troop activities. Although Girl Scouts was founded in Savannah, Georgia, it is now a world-wide organization with 3.4 millons members in 96 different countries. Go girls!
As I have learned through the years, communication is collaborative, not competitive, so hopefully, I will receive meaningful feedback from other bloggers!
I am looking forward to the experience!


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