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Excellence in
Academic Partnerships
▲ Davenport University
Research conducted by direct sales business Amway in 2008 revealed a significant gap in development opportunities for midlevel and functional leaders who wanted to improve their leadership knowledge and skills. Amway identified five areas that servant leaders would need to master: difficult interactions, engagement and influence, global collaboration, innovation and creativity, and the ability to lead people. Then it searched for an outside team to serve as a partner in developing, organizing and implementing a leadership development certification program that could deliver these skillsets. Davenport University, with its Institute for Professional Excellence, was the answer.
Together, Davenport University and Amway designed the Amway Leadership Certification Program, which blends self-guided instruction, discussion-based learning and live engagement. An annual program, the ALCP lasts for seven months and requires about two to three hours of self-paced work per week. Instructors include members of Davenport University MBA faculty and Amway experts and leaders. Amway facilitates learning on key concepts of corporate leadership philosophy. Davenport faculty teaches the five key people-leadership topics using a four-week learning cycle for each, called the FLARE cycle — Fuel, Learn, Apply, Reflect, Evaluate.
Throughout the program's 10 years, 665 participants have come from all regions in which Amway operates, with leaders joining the program from 21 countries. In 2017, of the 76 program participants, 92 percent passed the program and received academic credit and 83 percent passed with excellence and were on the program's honor roll. Amway research shows 98 percent of participants report that the program has had a positive impact on their leadership performance.
— Ashley St. John
▲ Penn State Smeal College of Business / Penn State Executive Programs / CorpU
In 2015, Agilent Technologies Inc., a public company focused on life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, spun off its electronic measurement business to focus exclusively on life science technologies. To ensure the success of this new direction, Agilent CEO Mike McMullen launched a massive restructuring to make the company more efficient, nimble and customer-focused.
Agilent supply chain teams that had been supporting individual product lines were consolidated into a global organization that required tight alignment of purpose, capabilities and best practices. Agilent engaged Penn State's Smeal College of Business and CorpU, which partnered in 2015 to launch the Supply Chain Leadership Academy, a program that helps supply chain leaders of tomorrow apply leadership concepts and best practices in supply chain management.
The SCLA program for Agilent was renamed OFS Supply Chain Program and used a two-prong approach that involved strategy sprints for department heads and managers and secondary learning sprints for a broader range of employees.
As a result of the program, Agilent saw a reduced time for its strategy rollout for 150 leaders from four months to nine days. Ninety-two percent of manufacturing and supply chain employees confirmed understanding how their work contributed to strategy and how their organization contributed to company success, and 91 percent understood how the strategy supports customers' needs, according to survey results.
— Ashley St. John
Excellence in
Blended learning
▲ Learnlight
Deutsche Telekom faced multiple challenges with its language training programs due to high costs, lack of flexibility, inefficient face-to-face programs and outdated training methods. The company wanted its staff to improve on English and decided to partner with Learnlight.
Learnlight is an education technology company aimed at delivering language and skills training online and on the ground to learners in more than 150 countries. Its curriculum is developed for adult professionals working in an international environment. It has a unique classroom methodology, where students do activities before class instead of homework.
According to the nomination application, this is done so "students can take full advantage of their time with their trainer and focus on practicing and producing the language acquired." Then, after the session, students can complete additional activities and focus on areas where they need extra help.
In February 2016, the Global English digital transformation initiative was introduced, aimed at implementing an online blended language learning solution that would support self-paced and tutored digital language learning.
The initiative led to the introduction of two new services: Learnlight Academy, an open-group virtual service where students can enroll at any time of the year and choose a group, and Learnlight Café, a virtual meeting space open all day to build fluency and improve communication skills. Additionally, "Single Sign-On" was integrated, allowing learners to access training courses from a personalized page.
According to the nomination application, 4,000 individuals in more than 30 countries have had English training. Enhancing cross-border team collaboration, ensuring effective communication with growing international customer-base, and reducing training spend considerably for Deutsche Telekom.
— Rocio Villaseñor
▲ GP Strategies
Bristol-Myers Squibb underwent a transformation from a pharmaceutical to a global biopharma company. It needed to implement a blended learning people strategy focused on developing performance for its employees, specifically its 4,500 managers. BMS wanted learning to be easily consumed; to capture managers' attention and engage them in skill development like coaching, giving and receiving feedback. BMS partnered with BlessingWhite, a division of GP Strategies, in developing manager performance.
GP Strategies is a global performance improvement company focused on: sales and technical training, eLearning solutions, management consulting and engineering services. GP Strategies introduced an online learning platform to help managers improve their skills in coaching and drive performance. The team created two streamlined paths that managers could access directly, one for new managers and one for established managers.
This resulted in a learning solution that was flexible, relevant and reflected the speed and agility that BMS expects from managers. According to the nomination application, "Managers were more inclined to engage in the improvement of their leadership and talent development skills."
— Rocio Villaseñor
Boeing Co.'s Capture Team Leader onsite instructor-led training course was offered in St. Louis with no prework and with guest speakers canceling at the last minute. Thus, Boeing decided to redesign the course using a blended learning approach addressing several of the company's business challenges and accessible to any qualified CTL.
Rite-Solutions was contracted to design, develop and support the launch. The company's learning consultants designed an effort that was undertaken through virtual learning objectives and an ILT case study. It impacted 250 participants and provided them with valuable knowledge.
— Rocio Villaseñor
Excellence in
Community Service
When TTEC employees were searching for a way to give back to their community, the company responded by starting their own search for a school where a significant impact could be made.
TTEC's TeleTech Community Foundation, founded in 2007, was set up to provide company resources to the educational experience for students of greatest need. In 2009, the company decided to eliminate their annual holiday party in favor of "Spirit of the Season," an event that focuses on a needy and worthy elementary school instead. Although they participated in these community initiatives, employees felt the need to give back on a long-term basis.
That's when the Colorado-based company sought out a school in 2012 and came across University Prep. University Prep at Arapahoe Street is a tuition-free, elementary public charter school, founded to serve the diverse and economically challenged families in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, according to the application. One of the reasons TTEC partnered with University Prep is because of its motto, "college starts in kindergarten," teaching children from a young age that a college degree is possible. TTEC employees spend time reading with students and the company hosts professional development sessions for teachers.
Since TTEC partnered with University Prep, it has been able to help the school provide funding for technology and human capital resources. It's also been able to get a second campus up, University Prep at Steele Street. The greatest challenge the school faced was low academic performance. Eventually, it was able to turn it around, and University Prep has grown from a single campus with 180 students to two campuses with 585.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
▲ CoreAxis Consulting LLC
Eckerd Connects, a youth services organization, needed an effective tool to deliver emotionally challenging content to employees, so it turned to CoreAxis Consulting LLC to develop learning modules.
The main goal for Eckerd Connects is to "make a difference in the lives of youth, families and communities." Even though the company embraces industry-leading tools, systems and processes, it felt like it didn't have an efficient training program. That's when it turned to CoreAxis for help.
Because of sensitive content such as photos of trauma and child abuse, it was critical to have a design that presented the material in an empathetic and understanding way. CoreAxis created four modules, the first of which was an introduction to Eckerd Connects' mission, vision and values. The other three consisted of content on how to handle trauma and child abuse.
While painful, the way the new training platform is structured solved the challenge of "delivering difficult material in a personal way, while maintaining an action-oriented approach." The modules teach the learner how to recognize signs of trauma and abuse and what steps to take.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
Excellence in
▲ Raytheon Professional Services LLC
Raytheon Professional Services LLC not only has to think about U.S. rules and regulations, it also has a responsibility to follow international laws.
The U.S. defense contractor is looking to expand its sales products and services domestically and internationally. To do this, it needs to be diligent when dealing with Export/Import, or EX/IM, regulations, especially with the U.S. Department of State International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Administration Regulations. Noncompliance can negatively impact the success of the business by driving up costs, slowing its responsiveness and, in the worst case, preventing international business.
With this in mind, Raytheon designed and implemented an EX/IM compliance learning program with the help of its global trade organization. Over a period of several months, the global trade team worked to create an effective learning program that met the company's needs. Courses are divided into three categories: all employees, global trade professionals and role-specific.
A key aspect that was important to Raytheon when constructing its new learning program was that it didn't only consist of regulations. It also wanted material that explained what Raytheon does to comply, how it operates and what it means for any individual performing a specific role. Currently, the curriculum includes 58 modules and almost 500 distinct topics.
Since implementing the new curriculum, the company has seen a reduction in violations. Where it had more than 300 violations per quarter, it is now down to 10.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
With the business environment continuously and rapidly changing, Johnson Matthey, a global sciences and chemical company, realized it needed to work on developing "ready now" midlevel leaders.
The company turned to Impact, a global leadership development consultancy, to create a new program: the Mid-Level Leaders Development Program. When Impact did an analysis to figure out key areas to target, it found midlevel leaders didn't have the skills to transition from leading others to leading managers.
The program takes the learner on a six-month learning journey, spread across nine days, with three face-to-face modules with pre- and post-work and two inter-module bridge sessions facilitated virtually, according to the application. The goal is to teach leadership development, provide participants with the knowledge, skills and behaviors to increase their leadership effectiveness, create and deepen alignment with future leaders, and navigate change, complexity and ambiguity with agility.
Since the introduction of the program, participants at Johnson Matthey feel that the MLDP has helped them build professional success by learning effective leadership skills.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
The Presentation Company
When Boston Scientific saw that its teams weren't communicating effectively internally and externally, the company realized it needed some help. It turned to The Presentation Company to improve its workers' communication skills.
Not only were things getting lost in translation, but presentations by Boston Scientific to its audience wasn't customer-centric, leaving attendees confused with many technical terms they did not understand. To be able to present its information more effectively, The Presentation Company proposed a program that combined storytelling and data visualization to get messages across.
Since completing the program, communication has improved within the team and to the company audience.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
Excellence in
▲ Easygenerator
Why not directly put the creation of learning in the hands of your employees? Nielsen Holdings PLC needed an effective solution to meet the L&D needs of its workers and found the answer with Easygenerator.
Nielsen was searching for a cost-effective strategy to meet some of its L&D challenges, including keeping up with the rapid pace of a changing market, a shortage of up-to-date knowledge and the mistake of subject matter experts training employees on an individual level rather than a larger scale. With these challenges, Nielsen asked for a home-grown, employee-driven solution to harness internal expertise, according to the application. That's where Easygenerator came in to advance an employee-generated learning model to help solve these challenges.
EGLs are "driven by L&D but co-owned and managed by employees," allowing employees to create e-learning courses on topics in which they are experts and share their knowledge with colleagues. This new model allowed Nielsen to target each of its challenges in a cost-effective way and on a tight budget.
It could keep up with a changing market since employees were sharing knowledge in a continuous cycle. A shortage of up-to-date knowledge was swept out since employees create their training content. And, rather than training individuals such as new employees one by one, SMEs no longer needed to put in long hours. New employees can find all the training content in one place.
Now there are more than 1,000 modules available to Nielsen's employees and the L&D department runs more efficiently. Future plans include the building of an artificial intelligence coach to continue building relevant and efficient content for the company.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
Smith & Nephew understood it couldn't have a learning program that's one-size-fits-all. It knew training needed to be flexible so it sought out Scrimmage to build an effective learning program.
The global medical device company wanted a training initiative for its sales department that was engaging, varied and interesting. Scrimmage created the electronic point of access, or ePOA, as a 12-week training program on its mobile platform. It can be accessed on any device and contains various modalities, including content pieces, videos and quizzes.
The ideal learning program had to provide sales reps on-demand answers for clients, develop selling skills, mitigate common issues and improve product knowledge to increase the company's overall sales effectiveness.
Smith & Nephew's reporting tools also needed a makeover since results weren't clear. With the help of Scrimmage, it developed the Matrix Reporting tool. Results showed those who completed the ePOA program increased their sales average by 13 percent compared with the 5 percent increase for those who didn't finish it in its entirety. By making the necessary upgrades, the company has been able to provide employees a "sales training journey."
— Aysha Ashley Househ
▲ HT2 Labs
Villeroy & Bock has a global workforce, and it asked HT2 to build a learning program that could be applied to stores in both London and Shanghai.
The Brand Ambassador program is a learning initiative that is cost-effective, impactful and increases sales effectiveness. The program is blended, providing online social learning and real-life sales situations.
V&B has retail units globally, so it needed to deliver the same training to every colleague. With logistical constraints, not all stores could receive the blended program. However, this was an advantage for V&B, comparing results between online learning versus blended learning.
— Aysha Ashley Househ
Excellence in
Executive Education
The Regis Co.
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s business model is based on having a strong field presence in communities where its district and field offices support financial representatives. These representatives are responsible for developing relationships with customers who ultimately purchase the Milwaukee-based company's products and services. With the goal of expanding its sales force, Northwestern Mutual was looking to increase development efforts to build the skills of its emerging leaders to be able to lead the growing organization.
To create this leadership pipeline, the company came up with Leadership NEXT. The invitation-only, three-year, high-potential program debuted in 2014 and includes simulations and experiences that allow participants the opportunity to improve and focus on their leadership skills. These experiences include real-world applications focusing on the financial acumen of running a small business, leadership development, and other leadership competencies in a peer-to-peer setting, according to the company's application.
Initially, to help determine the needs and strengths of Northwestern Mutual's financial representatives, The Regis Co., a developer of custom simulation-based experiences, conducted interviews that were then codified in a needs document. Next, a cross-functional design session was held with financial representatives, leadership and stakeholders. Finally, working with Regis, Northwestern Mutual designed the NEXT Simulation Board Game, the primary activity in the Leadership NEXT program. The game is designed for six teams, with each team representing the leadership in an Northwestern Mutual office. As the teams play the game, they encounter tasks that emulate running an office, including making investments and ROI impact, as well as situations in which leaders must make financial decisions unique to running an office. The game is delivered in a live, facilitated session to prompt discussion among participants. Each year, the game can be updated to reflect new challenges facing Northwestern Mutual.
While it's too early to tell whether the program has made an impact in market share and improved financial representative performance, behaviors have changed among its target audience, according to the company's application. Observations by Northwestern Mutual executive leadership share that participants are making fewer decisions alone. They are engaging more people in their offices when making difficult decisions, which will hopefully create better change-management processes and clearer communication in the long term.
Northwestern Mutual has also experienced an increase in its executive leader succession pool. Due to the NEXT program, more sales leaders are expressing interest in becoming a managing partner; Northwestern Mutual reports a 400 percent increase in interest among sales leaders to continue to executive roles in the company.
— Brooke Pawling
As part of its Strategy 2020 goal, Clorox wanted to gain a competitive advantage by developing an industry-leading supply chain. The company enlisted the help of Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech, which was already providing successful executive education to senior leaders for the company. These senior leaders felt that in order to execute changes in the business, lower-level managers needed to be properly trained as well. But bringing in Clorox managers for a two-week offsite program was not feasible for both logistical and budgetary reasons.
To meet this need, Scheller created a blended online program, Global Operations Leadership Forum. The program utilizes the NovoEd learning platform to incorporate online learning with an onsite residential component at the Georgia Tech campus, allowing participants to interact with Georgia Tech faculty and network.
The GOLF program focuses on three areas crucial to implementing an industry-leading supply chain — strategic thinking, operational excellence and leadership development — and lasts eight weeks. The first two weeks are completed online. Participants learn about basic topics, divide into small groups and work on team assignments. Week three is held in-person and consists of three days on campus at the Scheller School of Business, with seminars led by faculty and subject matter experts. The final four weeks are held online and consist of a continuation of learning content and one team assignment per week.
The program requires three to four hours per week spent in the NovoEd learning platform. Each week, the teams are expected to meet via video conference at a time of their choosing to work on and submit their team assignment. In the platform, each team has its own private workspace in which they can schedule times to meet virtually, have discussions and share documents. Team assignments receive feedback from instructors and staff so participants are receiving both peer and expert feedback during the program.
By building a greater sense of accountability and relying on each other in teams, the initiative has garnered a nearly 100 percent completion rate. Based on survey feedback, participants reported a high level of impact on their activities and management of supply chain initiatives.
— Brooke Pawling
Excellence in
▲ Scrimmage
Gilead, a global top-five biopharmaceutical firm, enlisted the help of Scrimmage, a long-standing partner, to help train 2,000 U.S., U.K. and European sales personnel with an innovative concept of integrating various LMSs under one access point, available on any mobile device.
Employees were being required to access each system individually to locate, view and complete assignments, tasks or review/re-read materials. Along with recognizing that it wasn't aligned with today's mobile standards, it became clear to the company that a technology partner was needed to address its issues and devise complementary learning strategies — and so it turned to Scrimmage.
The commercial learning and development team and IT team at Gilead went to Scrimmage with a wish: for their learners to be able to access all of the content, curriculums, activities and assets located in the various repositories and applications in one place — via the Scrimmage mobile learning platform.
— Brooke Pawling
▲ Litmos
In response to discouraging comments and scores made on a recent employee engagement survey, TTEC put its focus on enhancing its current leadership program, which would address employee concerns. These concerns, according to the company, include lack of employee development, limited career development conversations and minimal evidence of company values being demonstrated. With its employees on different experience and tenure levels, TTEC partnered with the Litmos engagement team to develop a custom and gamified learning interface to encourage development of key competency areas. The five key metrics it influenced included employee Net Promotor Score, rational engagement, emotional engagement, job satisfaction and intent to stay.
After a year, every aspect of engagement measured by the employee NPS saw a double-digit percentage point increase.
— Brooke Pawling
GP Strategies
Bristol-Myers Squibb, a leader in the pharmaceutical industry, was looking to transform its approach to learning that would reflect how learners today want to engage with material. BMS came up with an initiative titled Reimagining Learning @ BMS, spearheading a more immediate, interactive, integrated and individualized learning experience for its employees. To help conceptualize this initiative, the company partnered with BlessingWhite, a division of GP Strategies, which then taught them how to integrate technology, focus on critical skills and messages, socialize the concept and turn out the new approach. The successful initiative saw a 67 percent increase in use of online digital resources and has been accepted across BMS as the company standard for all learning efforts.
— Brooke Pawling
Excellence in
Technology Innovation
Hilton knew it needed to modernize its approach to design experiential learning in order to build empathy for roles that are often overlooked, as well as deliver a more cost- and time-effective way to introduce the value of hospitality to new team members. Hilton decided to work with SweetRush's emerging technologies team SPARK to create a virtual-reality-based learning experience. Hilton received assistance navigating how to evaluate and select VR technology for the Business Immersion learning program. Once the complex process of creating VR began, SweetRush and Hilton went through a series of phases, including allowing learners to move their body in a virtual space.
Within this interactive experience, the learner must do the work of others, including kitchen workers, housekeeping and the front desk. Throughout, understanding and empathy is built for those who fulfill these demanding roles. Additionally, the virtual environment can give guided help.
Learners tested positively — 85 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they gained more empathy/appreciation for hotel team members, the company said. Additionally, 79 percent stated they agree or strongly agree the experience will impact their corporate work.
— Brooke Pawling
STRIVR helped 200 Walmart Academies out with the old and in with the new through implementation of virtual reality training to teach and train employees after the company began facing business challenges.
Those challenges revolved around preparing store associates and store managers for their first six months on the job. Not to mention, training methods were getting costly, and the turnover rates were high among store associates. That's where STRIVR came in.
After identifying its learning strategies, the two collaborated to design the training scenarios and curriculum. While Walmart brought the SMEs, STRIVR brought the VR expertise. The development included STRIVR's team of solutions architects, data scientists and engineers creating the training curriculum in four weeks. The initial test occurred at 30 Walmart academies where employees were trained on how to use VR software and devices, with STRIVR going onsite for accurate set-up. Now, employee satisfaction has improved by 30 percent and Walmart has expanded the VR program to reach 140,000 employees per year with plans to expand training to encompass soft skills training such as conflict resolution for managers.
— Brooke Pawling
After Paychex executives noticed a distinct lack of women in leadership roles at its organization, it launched a career mentoring program by matching women in leadership roles to high-potential women at the company. The framework, facilitated by Chronus mentoring software, focused on ways to design, attract, connect, guide and measure potential leaders. The program was monitored on an admin dashboard allowing feedback by way of surveys so Paychex could see what aspects were thriving and what needed to be corrected efficiently. In just two years, according to the company, participants have achieved a 94 percent retention rate and are 12 percent more likely to see a change in position.
— Brooke Pawling
To help children and adults gain a better musical education, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra partnered with D2L to design video teaching resources to put students in the middle of the orchestra while also providing a comfortable lesson plan for the teacher. After enlisting the help of D2L's Learning and Creative Services, which helped create the digital design and build the video player technology, the two recorded 10 concerts from multiple camera angles with more than 100 musicians and distributed it to Canada Mosaic, a digital learning site. The format featured embedded videos, easily digestible learning modules and integrated lesson plans. As a result, more than 40 TSO performances have been recorded for future use and 10 teaching modules have been created for schools.
— Brooke Pawling


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TEXATA 2017: Round 1 starts on March 25
UPDATE: Professional Services Champions League (PSCL) would like to announce that the next official dates for the TEXATA 2017 Big Data Analytics World Championships for Business have been set for March 25th, 2017 (Round 1 Qualification), April 8th 2017 (Round 2 Qualification) and the Top 12 World Finals in Austin, Texas from the 6-7th May 2017. The online rounds of the competition will follow the familiar business-focused case study format for Data Science, Big Data and Analytics tools, technologies and problem solving. Register for TEXATA Round 1 on March 25th 2017 at www.texata.com
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Together with our global sponsors and international partners, we are exploring the introduction of the new TEXATA 2017 Big Data Analytics Global Training Camp program worldwide in 2017. The TEXATA GTC will be a two-day intensive technical training and leadership programs for the world's best and brightest Data talent in business with 150-250 attendees, focused on three tracks of Big Data Analytics, Data Science and Internet-of-Things (IoT). Host cities under consideration for the TEXATA GTC are Sydney, New York, Singapore, London and San Francisco for 2017. We are looking to release further information and prospective agenda outline for this soon.
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Peyton Manning did not need Wes Welker in the Denver Broncos' heart-pounding season opener. Manning threw three touchdown passes to tight end Julius Thomas in the first half, and the host Broncos held on to beat the Indianapolis Colts, 31-24, on Sunday night.
In his second try, Manning beat his old team and joined Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks to beat each of the current 32 N.F.L. franchises.
The Broncos raced out to a 24-0 lead thanks to Thomas, then turned to their revamped defense to fend off a furious comeback attempt by Andrew Luck, who was working behind a patchwork offensive line.
Luck cut the Colts' deficit to a touchdown when he found Hakeem Nicks for a 9-yard scoring strike with 3 minutes 26 seconds remaining. But Indianapolis's last drive stalled at midfield when the rookie Bradley Roby broke up a fourth-and-6 pass to Reggie Wayne.
Denver was playing without Welker, a star receiver, who was suspended for four games for using a banned substance.
FALCONS 37, SAINTS 34 Matt Ryan threw for a franchise-record 448 yards, and Matt Bryant kicked two long field goals, including a 52-yarder in overtime, to give host Atlanta Falcons a victory over New Orleans.
Bryant kicked a 51-yard field goal on the final play of regulation, then came through again with the winning kick in overtime after a Saints turnover, handing the Falcons just their fourth victory over New Orleans in the past 17 meetings.
TEXANS 17, REDSKINS 6 Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a touchdown pass, and the rookie Alfred Blue blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown to help Houston beat visiting Washington.
The victory was Houston's first since last Sept. 15 and ended a 14-game skid.
The Texans led by 7-6 after a 76-yard touchdown reception by DeAndre Hopkins in the second quarter. Blue blocked Washington's punt on the next drive, scooped it up and returned it five yards for a touchdown to push the lead to 14-6.
BILLS 23, BEARS 20 The veteran running back Fred Jackson had a 38-yard run to the 1 to set up Dan Carpenter's field goal in overtime, and Buffalo stunned host Chicago.
The Bills took over on their own 22 after a punt to start the winning possession. The Bills had moved the ball to the Chicago 39 when Jackson, who had 61 total rushing yards, turned toward the left side and broke off his big run, pushing safety Chris Conte out of the way twice inside the 10 before being knocked out of bounds at the 1.
49ERS 28, COWBOYS 17 Colin Kaepernick threw two touchdown passes to Vernon Davis, one right after the first of three Tony Romo interceptions, and visiting San Francisco opened the season with a win over a sloppy Dallas team.
The 49ers also got a 35-yard fumble return on the second play of the game when Chris Culliver picked up the loose ball.
Coming off a spotty preseason for his offense, Kaepernick was efficient if not prolific, going 16 of 23 for 201 yards without an interception.
VIKINGS 34, RAMS 6 Wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson ran for 102 yards on three carries with a 67-yard scoring run off a simple pitchout, and visiting Minnesota shut down St. Louis, opening impressively under its new coach, Mike Zimmer.
The Rams handled the All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson, limiting him to 75 yards on 21 carries. They had no such luck with Patterson, who had carries of 23 and 12 yards in the first half and added three receptions for 26 yards.
BENGALS 23, RAVENS 16 A. J. Green caught a 77-yard touchdown pass from Andy Dalton with 4:58 left, and Cincinnati blew a 15-point lead before bouncing back to beat host Baltimore.
Green got behind cornerback Chykie Brown, who had been pressed into a starting role for the injured Lardarius Webb.
That touchdown, along with a 2-point conversion, came 48 seconds after the Baltimore newcomer Steve Smith caught an 80-yard touchdown pass from Joe Flacco.
DOLPHINS 33, PATRIOTS 20 Knowshon Moreno rushed for 134 yards and a touchdown, Ryan Tannehill threw for two scores, and Miami overpowered visiting New England after halftime.
The Dolphins outscored New England by 23-0 in the second half.
Tannehill had touchdown throws to Lamar Miller and Mike Wallace as Miami showed off a new, faster-paced offense. The Dolphins' defense recorded four sacks, all in the second half, and recovered two fumbles.
STEELERS 30, BROWNS 27 Shaun Suisham drilled a 41-yard field goal as time expired to lift Pittsburgh at home over Cleveland.
The Steelers blew a 24-point halftime lead as the Browns rallied but escaped thanks to some great plays from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and wide receiver Markus Wheaton.
Roethlisberger hit Wheaton twice on the winning drive, including a 20-yard completion that put Suisham in range to send the Browns to their 10th straight season-opening loss.
TITANS 26, CHIEFS 10 Jake Locker threw for 266 yards and two touchdowns, Alex Smith was intercepted three times, and visiting Tennessee rolled over Kansas City.
Locker picked apart the Chiefs' defense, going 22 of 33 and finding eight players, including the former Chiefs receiver Dexter McCluster.
Kendall Wright and Delanie Walker had touchdown catches for the Titans.
EAGLES 34, JAGUARS 17 Nick Foles threw a 68-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Maclin in the fourth quarter, and Philadelphia rallied from a 17-0 second-half deficit to beat visiting Jacksonville.
The Jaguars dominated the defending N.F.C. East champion Eagles in the first two quarters, but the Eagles scored touchdowns on their first two possessions in the third quarter.
Then Foles made a perfect deep throw to a wide-open Maclin for the 68-yard pass, the longest of his career, to put the Eagles ahead by 24-17.
PANTHERS 20, BUCCANEERS 14 Derek Anderson filled in nicely for the injured Cam Newton, throwing for 230 yards and 2 touchdowns to lead Carolina over host Tampa Bay.
Despite rallying with two late touchdowns, it was an ugly debut for the Bucs under Coach Lovie Smith. The defense applied little pressure on Anderson, and an offense that was among the worst in the N.F.L. in 2013 showed few signs of improvement until midway through the fourth quarter.
Anderson completed 24 of 34 passes with no interceptions and one sack. He threw touchdown passes of 5 yards to Greg Olsen and 26 yards to the rookie Kelvin Benjamin.


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NFL Owners Sued, Get Headache They Deserve For Allowing Thugs To Run Wild
NFL owners should have controlled their unruly field thugs long ago. Now their businesses are suffering and they're in court with Kaepernick suing because nobody wants a toxic…
It's called "nipping it in the bud" and it's what NFL owners and commissioner Roger Goodell should have done back when Colin Kaepernick first began his disrespectful assault on the United States and our national anthem last year. Beyond that, they should have responded firmly back when it's forerunner, the "hands up don't shoot" lie, was first being peddled to the masses by the NFL field thugs.
The owners would have done themselves a huge favor. They would not only have avoided alienating their fan base, many of whom are gone forever, saving themselves huge amounts of money, but they wouldn't now be being extorted Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson style by that very malcontent who started the anthem protests and who can't accept the fact that now he's poison and nobody wants him on their team.
By taking the unprincipled cowards' way out, and somehow claiming that he and other bad apples have a right to protest while being paid and wearing their uniforms, the NFL has created a monster. The afro-adorned head of that monster is now trying to force someone to hire him and pay him a lot of money to come in and further disrupt their operations.
Colin Kaepernick has retained the services of celebrity ambulance-chasing lawyer Marc Geragos and filed a complaint against the NFL, accusing them of colluding against him, of working together to deny him the ability to earn a living. It's inconceivable to him that these successful businessmen could all independently recognize he's someone they don't want on their teams.
His position is that the owners have singled him out for some unknown reason, apparently having nothing to do with his own actions, as an innocent athlete who just wants to play ball. Perhaps they don't like his color, his afro or tattoos, we know how obsessed the league is with maintaining its privileged, Johnny Unitas clean-cut image. Are there any black players in the NFL?
The owners didn't all decide they want to pick on this innocent guy, they decided they don't want his toxic influence on the franchise that they paid money for. And if they don't want the negative influence that his being on another team would have on their own franchise, they should have a right to express their views as well. Being rich doesn't mean you forfeit your First Amendment rights.
Kaepernick and his parasitic lawyer are demanding that all 32 owners turn over their cell phone records and email. It's not that any owner would have wasted his time ever even speaking with Kaepernick. They want to eavesdrop on the private conversations of others. Just as with the supposed collusion investigation by Robert Mueller, Geragos is casting a wide net to see what he might drag in that can then be used later.
The seven owners to initially be deposed were chosen based upon their remarks about Kaepernick and because they made public statements that indicated they weren't supportive of the disruptive demonstrations against white people, cops and America. If you have a business that someone wants to ruin in America, apparently, you're not allowed to complain about it.
Geragos claims that "multiple NFL head coaches and general managers stated that they wanted to hire Kaepernick, only to mysteriously go silent." There's nothing mysterious about it – he's trouble and he's hated by fans for his assaults against this country. Nobody in their right mind would bring a toxic individual like him into their organization.
Owners being deposed include Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Patriots owner Bob Kraft, and Houston Texans owner Bob McNair. That's certainly not going to endear him to any teams that might have been willing at some point to take a chance on him. Kaepernick will be lucky if he's able to get a job in a booth selling team souvenirs.
His antics have gotten the result they merit, although it took longer than it should have. Nobody wants him and that's why nobody's hiring him. Instead of continuing to follow in his footsteps, players might want to consider the repercussions their misconduct will have on their own futures.
Every player's contract will expire and owners, angered and frustrated by what has happened to their businesses and the never-ending turmoil, may decide it's time to put their feet down and put an end to this protest idiocy once and for all. Goodell is one of those whose contract is up. The chances are good he'll be joining Kaepernick on the sidelines, looking for work, with nobody returning his calls.
It seems everyone involved is getting what they deserve, slowly but surely. That includes a little delayed satisfaction for the forgotten component in this prison daycare uprising, the fans who have been insulted by these punks. We're enjoying every second of watching them stew in their own pots.
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The Designer's Dilemma. Changing the way we think about design to better tackle the challenges of environmentalism.
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Bjarke Ingels Group – BIG - is a Copenhagen based group of 85 architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development.Historically the field of architecture has been dominated by 2 opposing extremes. On one side an avant-garde full of crazy ideas. Originating from philosophy, mysticism or a fascination of the formal potential of computer visualizations they are often so detached from reality that they fail to become something other than eccentric curiosities. On the other side there are well organized corporate consultants that build predictable and boring boxes of high standard. Architecture seems to be entrenched in two equally unfertile fronts: Either naively utopian or petrifying pragmatic.
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We believe that there is a third way wedged in the no mans land between the diametrical opposites. Or in the small but very fertile overlap between the two. A pragmatic utopian architecture that takes on the creation of socially, economically and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective. In our projects we test the effects of scale and the balance of programmatic mixtures on the social, economical and ecological outcome. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. Each building site is a testbed for its own pragmatic utopian experiment. At BIG we are devoted to investing in the overlap between radical and reality. Choosing between them you condemn yourself to frustrated martyrdom or apathic affirmation. By hitting the fertile overlap, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit the way we want to live. In all our actions we try to move the focus from the little details to the BIG picture.
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Aeroflot orders 100 SSJ100s; ALC prices $1.7bn bond issuance
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Aeroflot has signed an order for 100 Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft. The document was signed by Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Saveliev and President of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation Yury Slyusar during the Eastern Economic Forum in the presence of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
Under the agreement UAC will deliver 100 Russian-built SSJ100 aircraft to Aeroflot between 2019 and 2026. The aircraft will be configured with 12 seats in business class and 75 seats in economy class. The final contract will be signed after the parties agree on material terms of the transaction and corporate approvals have been obtained.
"We have signed the largest aircraft delivery agreement in Aeroflot's history, under which the company will receive 100 modern Russian-built SSJ100 aircraft. Including the expected delivery of 50 MC-21, by 2026 Aeroflot will operate 200 Russian-built aircraft," said Vitaly Saveliev, CEO of PJSC Aeroflot.
Yury Slyusar, President of PJSC UAC, added: "We have worked with Aeroflot for many years. As the first and largest operator of SSJ100 aircraft Aeroflot has significantly helped the development of Russia's aircraft industry. The signing of this new agreement marks the next stage of our cooperation and joint contribution to the development of the aircraft industry and the expansion of regional and international air connections."
Aeroflot currently operates 49 SSJ100 aircraft and is expecting the delivery of the 50th aircraft.
Meanwhile, Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has priced $1.2bn of unsecured senior notes due 2022 at 3.500% and $500 million unsecured senior notes due 2028 at 4.625%. The sale is expected to close on September 17, 2018.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has assigned a senior unsecured rating of A- with a Stable Outlook to the senior unsecured notes.
ALC intends to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include the purchase of commercial aircraft and the repayment of existing indebtedness.
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Medical Malpractice lawsuit = shoddy medical care + something else
A while back I read Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. The book takes a look at snap judgments, the decisions we make in the "blink" of an eye. It also compares snap decisions with slow analytical decision making. He opens with a discussion about a certain sculpture. All the evidence, such as testing the material, shows that the sculpture is authentic. This is contrasted to a group of experts who immediately thought something was wrong with the sculpture and questioned its authenticity. They couldn't put their finger on it, but something didn't seem right. The first word that popped into the mind of one of the experts was "fresh."
So, were the people making snap judgments about the statue's authenticity correct? They were indeed. After a year of testing, it was determined that the sculpture was in fact a fake.
Besides being a good storyteller, Gladwell discusses the likelihood of a doctor getting sued for medical malpractice. He gives the example of you, the reader, working for a medical malpractice insurance company. You're given two choices to decide how prone a doctor is to committing medical malpractice. Do you examine the doctor's training and previous records to see how many errors he or she has committed over the last few years? Or, do you listen in on a brief conversation between the doctor and a patient?
According to Gladwell, listening in on the doctor/client interaction is a much more accurate way to determine the likelihood of getting sued than where the doctor went to school and how error prone he or she is.
Close analysis of malpractice lawsuits shows that there are highly skilled doctors who get sued a lot while doctors who make plenty of mistakes may never get sued at all. At the same time, the overwhelming number of people who suffer an injury due to the negligence of a doctor never file a malpractice suit. In other words, patients don't file lawsuits simply because they've been harmed by shoddy medical care. Patients file lawsuits because they've been harmed by shoddy medical care and "something else" happens to them.
Gladwell states that the "something else" is the human interaction element. How was the patient treated on a personal level? Basically, it comes down to this: people don't sue doctors they like.


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Last Days to Apply! Call for 10 EAVE producers to PriFORUM / Prishtina International Film Festival
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Dear EAVE Producers,
Prishtina International Film Festival and PriFest are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year!!
Prifest has teamed up with Kosovo Cinematography Centre (QKK) and in the name of this institution and the regional film industry development platform PriFORUM, they would like to invite up to 10 EAVE Network producers to join this year and visit the PriFORUM in the weekend of 19-22 July. The invitation covers your stay and accommodation for 3 nights while you take care of your travel.
Coming to Pristina is pretty simple by air you can fly to Pristina or Skopje (one hour away) or you can travel by road and have a small Balkan adventure :)
PriFORUM will be exciting this year with the following events:
Best Pitch presentation of film projects from the Balkans (first and second director's film)
Prishtina Rendezvous (3rd edition) - speed-dating with the filmmakers to present their film projects. Prishtina Rendezvous is mainly focused at distributors and sales agents who are invited to attend, but it is a great possibility for International producers who would like to co-produce with young Balkan filmmakers, to explore the projects further and create network.
PriView - Work in Progress - a presentation of limited number of feature films in post-production
Other events will include presentations, discussions, talks and looots of parties and music nights!
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With a production run of only 3 years, the 24 Valve version of Mercedes excellent 300CE, some say the last of the "proper Mercs" was always going to be rare. To find a January 1990 car in this sort of non-restored condition, is even more unusual! There is only one 1989 example showing on the DVLA records so this has to be the next to oldest one left.
Coming to us on sale for the owner unfortunately there is no service history, but check the MOT history on line and you will see this is no store it away and forget about it car, it has been constantly MOTd since records began so has been on the road all that time, so must have been up kept.
Now we are not claiming the car is mint, the body work while being almost rust free, does have the odd mark here and there and signs of some paint work from over the years plus the drivers door lock barrel is missing. ( Please Note that the Bonnet star that is missing in the pictures has been replaced with a genuine Merc star)
Inside the black leather is in lovely order with just a small faded, not worn through, patch on the drivers seat bolster, otherwise just a good feed would bring it back to excellent. Everything electrical apart from the r/h rear window and drivers "Butler belt" is working including the electric sun roof and driver seat.
Mechanically the engine fires with ease and the gear box etc does what Mercedes intended. With the added bonus of the extra Horse Power the 24 Valve set up gives, while not being a sports car, it gets down the road with some pace if required.
With a current MOT through to April, you could be happy enough just to sort out the couple of niggles and use as is, or it would be an excellent candidate to restore? With the way prices are going for these desirable and stylish "Coupes" the choice is yours.
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text: Gaudete et Exsultate "...we cannot forget that the ultimate criterion on which our lives will be judged is what we have done for others." -His Holiness Pope Francis Pope Francis' third apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad) discusses our call to holiness in our modern world and the need for all of us to become saints. It is comprised of five chapters discussing topics such as the Beatitudes, joy and a sense of humor, spiritual combat and discernment. Gaudete et Exsultate is the third apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis, preceded by Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) and Amoris Laetitia (Joy of Love). Read Gaudete et Exsultate Buy Gaudete et Exsultate


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Women's Industry Network Welcomes Board of Leadership for 2016-2017
During the Women's Industry Network (WIN) Board of Directors Annual Meeting, held during the recent Educational Conference in Tampa, Fla., the WIN Board of Directors elected the 2016-2017 Executive Committee.
Serving on this year's Executive Committee are:
- Chair: Petra Schroeder, Axalta Coating Systems
- Vice Chair: Melissa Miller, CARSTAR, Administrative
- Vice Chair: Jessica Rob, AkzoNobel Coatings, Inc.
- Treasurer: Beverly Rook-Twibell, Safelite Solutions
- Secretary: Michelle Sullivan, FinishMaster, Inc.
Denise Caspersen of National Autobody Parts Warehouse, Inc., will continue to serve in the roll of immediate past chair.
In addition to the new executive team, the board welcomed new industry representatives including:
- Jenny Anderson, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- Denise Kingstrom, BASF
- April Lausch, Faulkner Collision Center of Lancaster
- Debbie Menz, Axalta Coating Systems
Board members continuing their service to the organization include:
- Shellie Andrews, CSN – Dana's Collision
- Cheryl Boswell, DCR Systems
- Jaclyn Byers, State Farm Insurance
- Susanna Gotsch, CCC Information Services Inc.
- Yen Hoang, UYL Color Supply, Inc.
- Terri Neely, Nagy's Collision Centers
- Amy Nuttall, USAA
- Nina Pedraza-Zinna, ClaimsForce, Inc.
- Marie Peevy, Automotive Training Coordinators, LLC.
"With the addition of four new members, the WIN Board of Directors now has 19 members ready to accomplish the goals of our 2016-2017 strategic plan," said Schroeder. "As an all-volunteer organization, WIN is thankful for the talent and time contributed by each and every board member at all levels of our leadership and from all segments of the collision industry."
At the event, the assemblage also recognized departing board members Margaret Knell, I-CAR, and Katie Henwood with a round of applause for their contributions to WIN and the Board of Directors.


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Your needs are our priority, and we never try to cheat our customers. Free quotations are available over the phone, and we visit your property to provide a survey and an accurate estimate. The cost always depends on the extent of the damage. Because of this, our experienced team are fully qualified to deal with a variety of issues, both big and small. All our work is guaranteed for your peace of mind.
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8 December 2008
Towards a research agenda for learning design research
- What are the overarching goals?
- What are we looking for?
- How can we identify it?
- How can it be re-produced?
- How can we measure it?
- To what extent can identification, production and measurement be automated
- What are the opportunities and limitations/pitfalls of this area of research?
Potential actions
1. Work towards a shared ontology for the field and a shared set of definitions
2. Identify the inter-relationship between research areas and where they align and don't
3. Need to try and formualte a set of research questions, such as:
- What different design representations are there - what and whom are they for?
- What are the effects of learning design, what differentce does it make to teacher practice
- and to the learner experience?
- What are the theories and different prespectives of design (their capacity and preferences)?
- How are designs interpreted, validated and evaluated?
- Better understanding of the process and issues around sharing and repurposing of designs?
- We need to capture and analyse teachers' design practice?
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Comment 1 by J. Michael Spector
J. Michael Spector
12:48am 9 December 2008 Permalink
Iwould very much like to see a conversational web repository for design cases. This could be
used to investigate how different people conceptualize the design space, differences in layers
and levels of designing and planning, explore detailed relationships that different teachers and
designers perceive to exist among various design processes, resources, layers, levels, etc.
Comment 2 by Gráinne Conole
Gráinne Conole
12:56am 9 December 2008 Permalink
Absolutely Mike! This is partly what we are working towards. I believe the application
of web 2.0 approaches could be very powerful in terms of unlocking that design dialogue.
Comment 3 by Chris Jones
Chris Jones
3:00am 10 December 2008 Permalink
In one of the other groups we discussed the potential and limitations associated with trying to develop clear definitions of some of the terms in this area - e.g. learning. We agreed that there is really no one common definition of this term and many others. Indeed we thought that definitions often obscure as well as illuminate and that the best we could hope for were working definitions used in ways that were clear about the underlying assumptions that the definition drew upon.
Comment 4 by Gráinne Conole
Gráinne Conole
4:00am 10 December 2008 Permalink
OOooooh hornets nest comes to mind. I think one of the difficulties in trying to get
clarity and shared understanding in this area is knowing where the boundaries of what
we are talking about. I think there is a real danger of chasing our own tails. We have
to work up and develop definitions whilst also remaining pragmatic in terms of keeping
one eye on what we are trying to acheive.
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Mussorgsky Khovanshchina
''To Russians, Mussorgsky's music is an integral part of their cultural awareness and, like the novels of Dostoevsky, plagues them with agonizing questions: what are the causes of Russia's continuing calamities and the Russian state's persistent disregard for the law which crushes all that is good and even denies a person the right to his own death?'' Victor Borovsky's question, in his fine essay in the programme book, is as timely as the opera remains; and it is perhaps no coincidence that, just as Dostoevsky used to be hard to find on Soviet shelves, so Khovanshchina was almost throughout its history misrepresented in Russia. The performances under Claudio Abbado in Vienna last year were in many ways an act of rehabilitation, one that is taken further by the publication of this remarkable set of records.
In the first place, as is made clear in the interview with Abbado on page 953, the version of this tangled, difficult score which has been prepared is essentially that of Shostakovich, based on Pavel Lamm's edition, with Stravinsky's ending. The implications of this are discussed in another authoritative accompanying essay, by Richard Taruskin. In brief, Rimsky-Korsakov is rejected for reasons now very familiar: his orchestration was too glossy, his 'corrections' of Mussorgsky's harmony too conventional. No less importantly, Shostakovich is in part accepted, though some of the brass emphasis that has long troubled admirers of his work is lightened, but rejected with regard to his final 'triumphant' ending with the return of the Preobrazhensky March. The point is crucial. At the centre of the opera is a confrontation of essential Russian characteristics that were to divide into the enduring Slavophile-Westernizer debates; and in Soviet times the view taken by Stasov and then Rimsky-Korsakov, that the Old Believers represented all that was regressive and obscurantist in Russia, was underlined in contrast to the automatic state optimism here associated with Peter the Great. With the beautiful, tragic music of the restored ending, here most beautifully played, the strength, the dignity, the Christian endurance and tolerance of the Old Believers is set back in place as a vital ingredient of the work.
So we have here a Khovanshchina which may not present a complete solution to the work—its history is too uncertain and complex for that—but which does come closer than ever before to what seems to have been Mussorgsky's vision. It is very much a collaborative enterprise. Above all, honour must go to Abbado for his lead. His belief in the work and understanding of its issues is evident at every turn, from the exquisite playing of the opening Dawn scene, and the other purely orchestral passages, to his sensitive support of the singers in their contrasting roles and his capacity to articulate the opposing factions by characterizing their music so perceptively. The orchestra is excellently recorded, on the whole, rather better so than some of the singers; the recording is based on several evenings in the Vienna Opera, and not only are the voices sometimes set at rather a distance, but there is a measure of tramping and coughing. None of it matters much.
The cast mostly rise to the interpretation presented to them by this version and Abbado's intentions. There is, at the start, a vivid scene between Anatolij Kotscherga's bullish Shaklovity and the angry, frightened little Scribe of Heinz Zednik. Marfa is superbly sung by Marjana Lipovsek, calm and possessed in her divination scene, maintaining a steady warmth against the frantic assaults of Brigitte Poschner-Klebel's Susanna. There is a lively, colourful, desperate account of Emma from Joanna Borowska, well matched against Vladimir Atlantov's fierce Andrey Khovansky. Aage Haugland is splendid as old Ivan Khovansky; but there is a slightly disappointing performance of Golitsin from Vladimir Popov, who must, especially in the circumstances of this version of the work, carry the burden of the Westernizer ideal in his Act 2 narrative, and does not underline the complexities of the character as fully as others in the role have done. I must also admit to some disappointment with Paata Burchuladze. Perhaps longer acquaintance with the set than I have so far had will reveal more subtleties in a performance lacking in the towering authority and visionary fervour the part must possess. His interventions, first in Act 1 and then to silence the quarrel between Marfa and Susanna, do not seem to carry enough conviction, and his actual tone is too often disturbed by a low, heavy vibrato.
A vital contribution in this whole collaboration has been that of scholarship; and in times when record companies can betray their customers with inadequate supporting material, it is a pleasure to welcome this set's booklet. Outstanding essays include Dr Borovsky's on Chaliapin and the work's theatrical history, Richard Taruskin's magisterial survey of the historical background to the work and changing attitudes to it, and valuable German essays by Michael Stegemann on the history by way of Mussorgsky's letters and by Sigrid Neef on the music (especially the dramatic associations of contrasting sound-worlds and tonalities). There is also a contribution by Abbado himself, and a careful table of the manuscript sources and how they have been assembled into this version, together with the original Russian libretto, a transliteration, and English, French and German translations. The whole provides not only fascinating reading to help and deepen enjoyment of the work, but is the fullest assemblage of the scholarly material known to me. Coming hard on the heels of the recent Tchakarov recording for Sony Classical, it presents a perhaps unfortunately timed choice to collectors; but certainly no one with an admiration for Mussorgsky, or indeed with any feeling for Russia, should miss this set.'


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text: The aim of this paper is to explore femininity ideals associated with being Finnish and Swedish and what impact these ideals have on first and second generation Finnish immigrants residing in Sweden. Further it is explored how masculinity ideals associated with Finnishness and prejudice against the two nationalities shape the women's identities. This is done with an intersectional perspective and understood through theories of respectability and critical femininity studies. Interviews conducted with four women, two born in Finland and two born in Sweden, are analyzed with the help of discursive psychology, focusing on how they perceive themselves and others. The results show that first and second generation Finnish women relate to these ideals differently. First generation Finnish women are more likely to idealize Finnish femininity ideals, whereas second generation Finnish women are more affected by Swedish femininity ideals. The analysis also shows that the women were more likely to discuss ideals associated with Finnishness during the interviews, the Finnish ideals being understood as differing from the Swedish norm.


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PPAR Research
Volume 2013, Article ID 896412, 2 pages
PPARs and Liver Disease
1Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan
2Division of Molecular Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan
3Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, University Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
4Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Received 14 January 2013; Accepted 14 January 2013
Copyright © 2013 Yasuteru Kondo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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