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In 1998, TxDOT began a comprehensive review and planning study of the I-35E corridor in Dallas and Denton counties. For the next 13 years, TxDOT and communities and stakeholders refined the designs and upgrades for this corridor. In 2011 and 2012, TxDOT received environmental clearance for the $4.8 billion infrastructure project. Also, $1 billion in funding was identified for an initial phase of the project with most coming from SH 121 regional toll revenue funds dedicated to Denton County. In accordance with state law, TxDOT and corridor stakeholders held seven public meetings to determine the method and scope of the initial phase (Phase 1) as well as lay the ground work for Phase 2 to complete the remaining elements of the corridor.
On Dec. 13, 2012, the Texas Transportation Commission conditionally awarded Phase 1 of the project to AGL Constructors. AGL Constructors is a design-build joint venture comprised of several notable design and construction firms including Archer Western Contractors, LLC , Granite Construction Co. and Lane Construction Co. The I-35E project is dedicated to improving mobility along I-35E in a safe, efficient, reliable and environmentally sensitive manner.
The proposed $4.8 billion project would rebuild the entire 28-mile corridor and provide managed lanes with dynamic pricing to keep traffic moving at 50 mph. Approximately $1.1 billion in funding has been identified for the project with most coming from SH 121 regional toll revenue funds dedicated to Denton County.
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This section of the I-35 corridor is on the list of Texas' 100 most congested roadways. Expanding I-35E will reduce congestion that results in lost work time, increased fuel costs and higher price of goods. The project will improve mobility across Lake Lewisville with construction of a second bridge that will offer more reliability for commuters during major incidents.
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Elvedin Begić has been elected as president of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Federation (NFSBiH).
At the association's assembly in Sarajevo, a new executive board was constituted, comprising 15 members. In accordance with the NFSBiH statutes, the presidents of the entity associations, Mile Kovačević (FF RS BIH) and Mato Jozić (FF F BIH), directly joined the committee.
Begić will serve a four-year term as NFSBiH president. In recent years, he served as vice-president of the NFSBiH normalisation committee. Darko Ljubojević and Ivan Beus will serve as association vice-presidents.
Following a proposal by FIFA and UEFA, delegates at the assembly unanimously approved the establishment of a mediation committee consisting of six members, including four of the normalisation committee – Ivica Osim, Sead Kajtaz, Duško Bajević and Faruk Hadžibegić, with the two remaining members to be chosen at a later stage.
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text: Woman checking Carrie and Samantha in at the 'Women in the Arts' luncheon that Carrie bought new shoes for in order to impress Natasha, who doesn't show but later misspells "there" in a thank-you note: "Please remember to wear your nametags. Last year we had an unfortunate incident with Joyce Carol Oates." Maybe this wins for most inscrutably unfunny joke of the series so far. Seriously, what?


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The Crimson owned Saturday night in Oklahoma City (photo courtesy Oklahoma City University Athletic Communications).
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Harvard men's heavyweight crew opened the 2012-13 season with a dominating performance at the Head of the Oklahoma regatta in Oklahoma City Sept. 29, including topping Olympians from this year's games. The Crimson topped its qualifying race by over 25 seconds before taking the night sprints finale under the lights.
The Crimson had nine seniors in its boat Saturday, including David Fuller doing the coxing. Rowers included classmates Josh Hicks, Andrew Holmes, Alex Macintosh, Mihailo Malowany, Justin Mundt, James O'Connor, Jason Phillips and Parker Washburn.
Harvard opened the event by cruising to victory in the night sprint qualifier. The Crimson finished the 2.5 mile Oklahoma River course in 12:58.879, well ahead of three crews from Oklahoma City University. OCU's top boat finished in second at 13:25.811, while the other two OCU boats finished in third and fourth in 14:03.888 and 14:46.862, respectively. The 12-team race also included crews from Texas, Kansas State, Wichita State, Texas A&M, Kansas and LSU.
In the night sprints grand final, Harvard was paired with the three OCU crews along with two crews out of the USRowing Training Center. The training center crews came into the race with several Olympians from the London games in its lineup. The Crimson, rowing out of lane five, nipped a USRowing boat by 0.152 seconds in the quick sprint with a finishing time of 1:19.357 near Oklahoma City's downtown. OCU's top team finished third with a time of 1:20.787.
Harvard crew will row the Charles River for the remainder of the fall season with the Head of the Charles and Tail of the Charles rounding out the schedule. The Head of the Charles, the Crimson's and rowing world's biggest fall regatta, is slated for Oct. 20-21.


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COSP Background Note on Accessibility & Reasonable Accommodation
As announced by the Chair of the CRPD Bureau, Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico at a briefing he held with States on July...
COSP Background Note on Equal Recognition Before the Law and Supported Decision-Making
The CRPD adopts a new approach to legal capacity that makes it possible for people with disabilities to exercise their human right to...
COSP Background Note on Access to Justice
Physical accessibility to and within courts and prisons, and accessibility in communication with participants including sign language interpretation, Braille and large print text,...
COSP Background Note on Disability and Poverty in Current Economic Crisis
People with disabilities are more frequently and more severely affected by situations of poverty and extreme poverty. They are also one of the...
Partnership for the Sustainable Development Goals
The platform initially developed in response to Rio+20 has been improved to better respond to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in order...
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2014 Outdoor: Nearly broke his own school record in the shot put at the season-opening FSU Relays in Tallahassee, Fla. with a toss of 16.59m (54'5.25")… Placed third in the event at the meet and qualified for the IC4A Championships… Won a bronze medal in the shot put event at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a top heave of 16.12m (52'10.75")… Also competed in the hammer throw at the conference meet, placing 18th… Finished 21st in the shot put at the IC4A Championships held at Princeton.
2013-14 Indoor: Did not compete.
2013 Outdoor: Set the school record in the shot put twice during the season, first while placing second at the Big Dawg Invitational on Mar. 30, and then while claiming the top spot in the event at the Morgan State Legacy Meet on Apr. 20… After setting the mark at 16.55m (54'3.75"), he achieved a career-best toss of 16.60m (54'5.50") to overtake Dustin Gauthier's mark of 15.75m (51'8.25") set in 2002… Won a silver medal in the event at the 2013 America East Outdoor Championships… Also placed sixth in the discus and eighth in the hammer throw at the conference meet at Binghamton… Finished 14th in the shot put at the IC4A Championships.
2012-13 Indoor: Set the school record in the shot put while winning a silver medal in the event at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… His toss of 16.50m (54'1.75") eclipsed the previous record of 16.31m (53'6.25") set the previous season by Aaron Brooks… Finished tied for 15th at the IC4A meet in Boston, Mass. with a heave of 15.79m (51'9.75")… Took seventh-place in the weight throw at the conference meet… Posted a season-best in the event at the Penn State Nationals with a throw of 16.66m (54'8.00"), which ranks sixth in school history.
Background: Competed during the 2012 indoor season for Maryland... Posted a season-best mark while placing sixth in the shot put (15.30m, 50'2.50") at the Terrapin Invitational. Recorded a season-best in the weight throw with a toss of 15.37m (50'5.50") at the same meet... Previously competed at Morgan State where he finished sixth in the discus and eighth in the shot put at the 2011 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Outdoor Championships... Named First Team All-State, All-Region, and All-County for throws at Reservoir High... Won 13 individual championships in high school... An honor roll athlete in both high school and college... Also lettered in football and wrestling for the Gators.
Personal: Son of Andre and Kadi Adantor... Has one brother, Sergio, and one sister, Nina... Majoring in psychology... Born Jan. 23, 1993.


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the influence of movement on user's visual attentionPetersen, Helle; Nielsen, Janni (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6506
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Bjørn-Andersen, Niels; Mørup-Petersen, Anders (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6481
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Introducing Seven New Product Project Types for the Study of Innovation ManagementRosenø, Axel (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Product innovativeness is a key moderating variable for the study of innovation management (Song & Montoya-Weiss 1998, p. 124). For this reason, some empirical studies of innovation management examine new product processes, critical success factors, and market learning practices for incremental versus discontinuous new product projects (Song & Montoya-Weiss 1998; Atuahene-Gima 1995; Veryzer 1998a; Lynn et al. 1996; O'Connor 1998; Rice et al. 1998). By looking at both these types of new product development projects, empirical observations are likely to be more realistic than those of studies that do not discriminate between more or less innovative projects. Even so, a dualistic view of the matter does not capture the nuances (Green et al. 1995)1 of the relationship between product innovativeness and innovation management practices. Hence, there is a need for richer innovativeness typologies that go beyond the dichotomous view and, thereby, lend themselves to a more finegrained study of innovation management practices for different types of new product projects. In fact, various innovativeness typologies exist that include more than two product types. Notably, the typology by Booz, Allen & Hamilton (1982)2 introduces two dimensions: newness to the market and newness to the company, resulting in six products types (with various combinations of high, medium and low newness). An alternative set of typologies differentiates between the product's technological newness and its market newness, for example Abernathy & Clark's (1985) typology with four new product types; Leonard-Barton's (1995) five product types; and Veryzer's (1998a) four types in a two-by-two matrix. Interestingly, these two meta-perspectives on product innovativeness (i.e. 1. new to the market and/or new to the company and 2. technological and/or market newness) are generally not included within the same typology in extant literature. For example, discussions of the technological and/or market newness of a product, often leave out the question of whether that newness is in the eyes of the industry and market (exogenous newness) or only for the focal firm itself (endogenous newness). More broadly, it can be stated that "... little continuity exists in the new product literature regarding from whose perspective this degree of newness is viewed and what is new" (Garcia & Calantone 2002, p. 112). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6441
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Viborg Andersen, Kim; Juul, Niels Chr.; Korzen-Bohr, Sara; Pedersen, Jimmy Kevin (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6473
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Clemmensen, Torkil (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Interaction design and usability have become important contributors to economic and cultural development in emergent economies in today's global distribution of the use and production of IT, but research and practice that incorporate cultural and non-western perspectives on software and interactive products are still in their infancy. This chapter presents theory of cultural cognitive styles and standard usability, and a framework for thinking about the maturity of cultural usability. The framework has five levels. Level I concerns the localization of the user interface, level II focuses on the localization of the usability evaluation methods, level III emerges with new user groups, level IV concerns historical changes in the concept of usability itself, and level V deals with managing a complexity of user groups. The chapter uses recent empirical results from studies of culture and usability to illustrate the need for the framework for thinking about the maturity of cultural usability. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7949
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Rai, Sudhanshu; Kuhn Pedersen, Mogens (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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growth and impacts in DenmarkViborg Andersen, Kim; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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how MNCs enter regional knowledge clustersLorenzen, Mark; Mahnke, Volker (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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A Case Study of Indian FirmsSudhanshu, Rai (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper I ask the basic question highlighted in the title, how does innovative potential and collaborative capacity contribute to a firm's innovativeness? To address this central question I draw on innovative potential and collaborative capacity as a dynamic notion evaluates the data from India. This paper tries to create a framework creating a sustainable environment for ICT Innovation. To do that I argue that innovative potential and collaborative capacity provide a constellation of inputs to the firm to address both internal and external challenges. For instance while innovative potential works at a project or an individual level while collaborative capacity is seen to work at a firm or perhaps at the inter firm level. This does not mean IP acts only at the locus stated. I conjecture that IP/CC interact with each other at defferent levels, where each takes turn in driving the process of ICT Innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8261
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visual communication and interactionNielsen, Janni (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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A Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) Perspective on Internet - and Sensor Based ICT Systems for Climate ManagementNordiCHI Workshop on Crisis management training: design and use of online worlds, Reykjavik, Iceland, 16 October 2010Clemmensen, Torkil; Ulslev Pedersen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Internet- and sensor based ICT systems for climate management in greenhouses presents challenges for the understanding of how technology mediates the interaction between humans and specific work contexts, which is the topic of the field of Human Work Interaction Design (HWID). In this paper, we will analyze and discuss how to combine empirical work analysis with interaction design techniques, with a focus on sensor-based prototypes. The proposed method is action research that will use a combination of theory from usability, work analysis, and prototyping techniques. We wish to investigate possibilities for designing, using and evaluating interactive sensor based prototypes for designing systems, learning key skills, and enhancing current training methods, all of this in a work context. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8232
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Holck, Jesper; Holm Larsen, Michael; Kühn Pedersen, Mogens (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The main research interest in Open Source Software (OSS) has been in answering the questions of why individuals and organizations without economic compensation contribute to OSS projects and how these projects are organized. In this paper we instead focus on managerial decisions for acquisition of OSS and discuss potential barriers for widespread use of OSS. Based on existing literature and a small case study, we develop and discuss the hypothesis that a major barrier may be the "customer" organizations' uncertainty and unfamiliarity with the relationships with OSS "vendors". To develop viable models for these relationships is an important challenge, which we will deal with in a research project, of which this paper should be seen as a first step. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6511
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from visual communication to visual interactionNielsen, Janni (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Viborg Andersen, Kim; Zinner Henriksen, Helle (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Bhutan is in economic terms highly dependent of tourism. E-tourism is in this report assessed as a mean to maintain the current positive development in tourism and as a driver for extending tourism to new markets. Effective use of information, communication, distribution and transactions through the new media, such as the Internet, can lead to an increased level of economic activity in the tourism sector in Bhutan. Also, the indirect economic impacts on transportation, accommodation and the retail/ handicraft industry can be substantial. The macro-economic impacts of e-tourism in terms GDP growth, improvement of the foreign exchange balance, and increased employment are in this report described in three scenarios based on a forecasted annual increase in tourism by 15%. In the event driven scenario where the Bhutanese tourism industry manages to increase the number of bed nights per tourist and their consumption by 15% and to increase the number of international arrivals by 5%, there is a short term increase in the GDP output from the tourism sector and the dependent sectors by 22.4%, an improvement of the foreign exchange balance by 1.2 million USD, and an increase in the employment in the tourism sector and the dependent sectors by 5.1%. In the transition driven scenario the Bhutanese tourism sector manages to use the internet and other technologies to increase the number of international arrivals by 15% but the number of bed nights increases by only 5% and the consumption by 5%. In this scenario, the GDP output increases by 8.7% and employment by only 2.3%, whereas the foreign exchange balance increases by 623,000 USD. In the tourism consumption spending driven scenario, there is an increase in the number of international arrivals and bed nights by 5% only, but the consumption by tourists increases by 15%. Thus, the GDP contribution from the tourism sector and the dependent sectors increases by 15.5% and employment by 6.7%, whereas the foreign exchange balance increases by 873,000 USD. There are several challenges to be met in order for the full scale benefits of e-tourism to materialize. Effective online visa procedures and marketing training of tour operators are being implemented as part of the E-Bhutis project. Economic incentives for the tour operators and the scale of economics benefits are less visible in the current business structure. The relative limited international orientation of the tour market and the lack of international players at the Bhutan market are other inhibiting factors for e-tourism to materialize in the Bhutanese economy. This report also highlights several facilitating factors for e-tourism to flourish: the commitment by the Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO) and the willingness of the various institutional players to facilitate a smoother visa application process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6439
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Gatti, Anna; Vendelø, Morten Thanning (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Our paper reports research from the emerging institutional field of venture capitalists in Europe. In Europe venture capitalism began to emerge about ten years ago, and thus, in Europe the phenomenon has the characteristics of emergence and novelty, as a local in-dustry venture capitalists have yet to develop distinctive characteristics. The European countries do not constitute a homogeneous institutional environment, but must be per-ceived as different local settings, and thus, venture capitalism may evolve into different forms in the various parts of Europe. The objective is to understand if and how differen-ces in local institutional settings affect learning and adaptation by European venture ca-pitalists and start-ups, and thus, affect the processes of field formation. For example, it has been observed that institutional settings can facilitate or discourage learning from direct experience (Herriot et al., 1985). Thus, depending on the institutional settings venture capitalists and start-ups may rely on diffusion of experience in various degrees. Experiences can diffuse from the US, where venture capitalism as an entrepreneurial form evolved in Silicon Valley in the 1970s. In the US venture capitalists represent an institutionalized type of organization with formalized rules and standards, codified be-havior and roles (Suchman, 1995; Suchman et al., 2001). European venture capitalists and start-ups may imitate behavior and rules developed in Silicon Valley, and thus, a second research objective is to understand if and how US venture capitalism affect the evolvement of venture capitalism in Europe. We study the emergence of a venture capitalist industry in Denmark and Italy, and thus, by selecting two countries with distinctive differences in cultures and institutions, we study learning and adaptation by venture capitalists and start-ups in different institutio-nal settings. We suggest that venture capitalists and start-ups perceiving institutional settings as non venture-friendly are more likely to rely on learning by imitation than on trial-and-error learning. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6515
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Impact Of It In The Danish Banking Industry, With Specific Illustrations From The Nordea Group And Lån & Spar BankBjørn-Andersen, Niels; Viborg Andersen, Kim; Holm Larsen, Michael; Schou, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Danish banks have traditionally been in the absolute forefront globally as regards the automation and introduction of IT since the mid 60'ies. But when the e-commerce opportunities emerged in the late 90'ies, the majority of the Danish banks resisted the development. They saw no reason to be the prime movers in cannibalising their own key competitive advantage, the 2.500+ retail-outlets (branches) placed on all the best locations on corners of the shopping streets1. However, once pure Internet banks were introduced in 1998 - 2000, all major banks (and the computing centres servicing the smaller banks) launched massive initiatives to bring the brick-and-mortar banks back into the driver seat using Internet banking. At the end of 2003 more than 30% of all Danish bank customers are using Internet. This development in the banking industry is illustrated using two cases. The first is one of the most ambitious attempts at creating a Nordic based large international financial service company, capable of spearheading the transition to the digital economy - the case of Nordea. This bank is in the midst of various transformation processes across the organisation due to several years of multiple cross boarder mergers and acquisitions, new composition of the group executive management, increasing thrives towards automation of business processes to reduce costs, and different innovations involving a change of the roles of value network partners. The other case is Lån & Spar Bank, which is one of the smaller Danish banks, who have its basic IT services done at a joint computing centre owned with many other smaller banks, but have its own IT development for strategic purposed done in-house in close collaboration with the business units. This bank has been in the forefornt in adopting new IT-solutions. This report consists of an analysis of the background for the development of the Danish banking sectors, the key processes in the Danish banking industry, the environmental and policy actors influencing the development, the e-commerce readiness in the Danish banking sector, the diffusion of e-commerce, and finally the impact on efficiency, industry structure and competition. The main results are that there are more Danish financial institutions having Internet technologies and Internet applications than in the other nine countries in the GEC survey. Furthermore, we suspect that they have had it for a longer period on average than found elsewhere in the sample. However, when we compare the figures in the GEC-survey on the ' Use of Internet for the different business processes', and 'On-line support', the number of Danish financial institutions having Internet applications is not higher than in the other countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6483
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the role of absorptive capacityMahnke, Volker; Pedersen, Torben; Venzin, Markus (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Empirical studies on the impact of knowledge management on the performance of MNC subsidiaries remain elusive to date. This study examines the effect of knowledge management tools such as corporate university, communities of practice, group benchmarking, learning systems and rewards upon absorptive capacity and performance with unique data from subsidiary units in a large German MNC – Heidelberger Cement. The findings suggest that knowledge management tools unfold their performance impact through their significant influence on absorptive capacity and knowledge inflows. The key contributions to the current literature on knowledge flows in the MNC include an empirically corroborated link between deployments of knowledge management tools and their impact on the subsidiary employee's ability and motivation to learn from internal knowledge flows in the MNC as well as their impact on subsidiary business performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6495
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A multi-method inquiry on online communitiesKorfiatis, Nikolaos Theodoros (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation studies the behavioral characteristics of participants engaged in information exchange in the context of online communities. Online communities are defined as collectives of individuals that use computer mediated communication to facilitate interaction over a shared purpose and/or objective. It is argued that this interaction creates externalities, for example, in the form of codified information that others can use through web search tools. These externalities assemble a virtual form of social capital, a commonly shared resource. The research objective of this thesis is to examine how the behavioral tendencies of the participants in online communities are affected by the way this common resource is formatted, administered and shared. The dissertation consists of two parts: a theoretical part where the empirical background and the object of research inquiry is highlighted, and an empirical part which consists of four empirical studies carried out in the context of three online communities, namely, Google Answers, Yahoo!Answers and Amazon Online Reviews. The empirical part of this dissertation starts with a controlled experiment emulating a well known social dilemma: the public goods game. It provides substance as to whether and when participants in online communities behave (un) cooperatively. The next two studies focus on a special case of online communities where participants ask questions and other participants post answers conditionally on social and monetary incentives. The results of these two studies confirm that community participants do care about the contributions of others and engage in incentive compatible behavior. Yahoo!Answers participants exercise effort in the community by posting answers to questions conditionally on benefits provided by other participants. The empirical findings show that contributing participants in an online community receive answers faster, while those that do not contribute much effort are sanctioned in the form of longer response-time to their questions. In Google Answers this thesis, interactions can be observed that are based on monetary rewards (rather than social rewards in the form of a reputation index as in Yahoo Answers). Participants make use of voluntarily awarded payoffs (tips) along with stated rewards, in order to motivate those that provide answers (answerers) to provide better quality in their responses. The findings of this study confirm the symmetric effect between monetary rewards and quality. However, this study also identifies cases where social norms have a significant effect on response behavior. When participants seek to get better service with less effort (in terms of total cost), a reputation index which is constructed by the history of their previous interactions supports such an attempt. In other words, reputation history influences information sharing behavior in online communities. The last chapter of the empirical part focuses on another crucial aspect of information as a shared resource: Clarity and understandability. The study examines online product reviews on Amazon.com. The results suggest that participants do care about the clarity of this codified form of experience which increases a helpfulness index accordingly. The thesis overall finds symmetric effects between participation in online communities and output of interaction, but also identifies the ability of the participants to interact strategically as they seek to minimize the effort they provide in order to find the information they seek. The results underline the importance of signaling and quality evaluation mechanisms as counter-balancing control that can enhance activity on online communities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7797
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Blues edge Blackhawks 4-3 in shootout
CHICAGO (AP) The St. Louis Blues not only got a rare victory in Chicago, they also got a rare comeback win over the league-leading Blackhawks.
Defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of the shootout and the Blues rallied for a 4-3 win over the Blackhawks on Thursday night.
With the tiebreaker knotted at 3-3, Shattenkirk beat Corey Crawford with a wrist shot high on the goalie's left side.
Chris Stewart, Andy McDonald and Alexander Steen also connected in the shootout as the Blues overcame a 2-1 deficit after two periods and ended a seven game (0-3-4) losing streak in Chicago dating to Feb. 3, 2010. The Blackhawks lost for only the third time this season (20-1-2) when leading after 40 minutes.
The Blues' Adam Cracknell scored his second goal of the game at 3:30 of the third, then David Backes connected 3:36 later - ending a personal 14-game streak without a goal - to put St. Louis ahead 3-2.
But Chicago's Viktor Stalberg swept in a rebound of Michal Rozsival's shot with 4:31 left in regulation to tie the game at 3, force overtime and snap his streak of 14 games without a score.
``I think we did a great job reacting after their third goal,'' Shattenkirk said. ``In the first half of the year we would have let that affect us a little more, but I think we've done a great job recently of bouncing back from goals.''
The Blues (19-14-2) are in a tight race in the Western Conference to make the playoffs after posting 109 points last year. They wanted two points, not just one.
``We don't like to give up leads in the third period, but the team across the hall has a lot of firepower and they never quit,'' Backes said. ``It was one of the more entertaining shootouts I think you'll ever see.
``We'll take the other point any way we can.''
The Blues matched the Blackhawks in three of the first five rounds of the shootout. After newly acquired Chicago center Michal Handzus was stopped by Brian Elliot in the sixth frame, Shattenkirk won it.
Cracknell's two goals were his first this season, following his recall on Tuesday from Peoria of the AHL. He played in only his ninth NHL game this year, and entered the contest with four goals and six assists in 34 career NHL games.
``It was exciting getting the call a couple days ago, knowing we're going to Chicago,'' Cracknell said. ``It was nice to contribute a couple goals.''
Elliott made 33 saves through overtime in his first start and second game since returning from a two-game conditioning stint in the minors.
``It's a credit to him how tough he's been working,'' Backes said. ``He's found his stride again, and we'll ride him as long as we can.''
Elliot had a league-leading 1.56 goals-against average and a franchise record nine shutouts last season. But he entered Thursday's game with a 3.51 goals-against average, and 4-6-1 record.
He relieved Jaroslav Halak in the Blues' 4-1 victory at Minnesota on Monday, and stopped 19 of 20 shots to pick up his first win since Jan. 31. Halak left that game with a groin injury and is out indefinitely.
Chicago's Jonathan Toews scored his 18th goal early in the second period, then set up rookie Brandon Saad's goal 2:27 later to give the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead going into the third period.
Toews, Patrick Kane and Marian Hossa connected for the Blackhawks in the shootout.
Crawford stopped 19 shots through overtime in his third straight start.
``It's definitely not fun when you give up that many goals in the third period,'' Crawford said. ``I just didn't feel that great in the shootout.''
Chicago coach Joel Quenneville wasn't especially upset, although his team dropped to 15-3-4 in one-goal games.
``Third goal - I like the way we came back in the game as well. I thought we played well for the majority of the game.''
Hossa, one of the Blackhawks' top forwards, returned after missing six games with an upper-body injury. Forward Patrick Sharp, who led Chicago with 33 goals last season, sat out his 12th game with an injured shoulder.
Cracknell scored with 3:57 left in a tightly played first period.
Toews fought off two St. Louis defenders to tie it on a rebound at 3:18 of the second, just 19 seconds after Chicago had killed a penalty. Toews set up Saad's goal that made it 2-1 just 2:27 later.
Cracknell's second goal tied it 2-2 and Backes scored his first goal since March 1 3:36 later, putting the Blues back up when he was left open at the edge of the crease and backhanded in a rebound of defenseman Jay Bouwmeester's shot from the point.
Stalberg scored his first goal since March 1 with 4:31 left to send it to overtime.
NOTES: Bouwmeester played his first game with the Blues after being acquired in a trade from Calgary on Monday. ... Handzus, acquired from San Jose on Monday, skated in his first game since the trade. He played eight games for Chicago in 2006-07 before being sidelined by a season-ending knee injury. ... Elliott allowed three goals in his two games with Peoria of the AHL. ... Blues forward T.J. Oshie, who was placed on IR Tuesday, missed his second game with a lower-body injury. ... D Jordan Leopold played in his second game with the Blues after arriving in a weekend deal with Buffalo.


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Opinion: Chile Turns to the Left
Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on Michelle Bachelet's victory in the first round of Chile's presidential election. Photo credit: Associated Press.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... I ... the ... the chili went to the polls over the weekend and voted in droves ... for former President Michelle back chalet ... this is a need for one of Latin America's most economically successful ... countries I've got America's columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady joining me now ... Mary ... big victory at not enough to clinch a foreigners in Iraq next month ... I it what were the major planks of her platform why is this can eat soup ... well she was president before ... and I actually she was president during the two thousandnine global financial crisis and she ... aam ... was very eager to bring a lot of government help some people felt like she started ... brought this state and when they needed the social safety net ... aam she's also personally very likeable people like her they see that she's kind of like a grandma ... on but she is a socialist ... and got her coalition is socialist Christian Democrats but also ... importantly this time around content she did not have the confidence on the team last time ... and the immediacy issues is education ... I'm education higher education very expensive in Chile ... and a lot of people end up with our heavy debts ... and so she is recommending that the state pick up the burden for all education for everybody just ... not ... making it I think it something the left calls free ... although ... as you know it's not for a somewhat candidate for it but I she suggesting that people actually consume the education should not be the ones who pay for it ... and I that seems to be a popular one thing Yellen to see popular in this country to present a bomb on a very similar as sort of knows when it comes to education ... she's also found that raising taxes that green and that the government into the very successful private pension system ... for viewing trade agreements ... you know what does this mean for our country ... it's really I major success story in my in America ... well I would just remind you that Newark City has been a major success story of the last twenty years and we just learning and laughing there ... so I think that happens people get use to what they have and ... they hear the siren song of populism in it sounds good and a lot of times their young voters who haven't been around during the times ... that ... when times are hard the last time around ... ah so that's part of that ... ought to be ... is ... not that worried about you know her not wanting to raise taxes and so forth because I think that ... I'm generally that selection sent out anywhere always trying to side of the world the station plays in our inner lives ... what's more troubling I think with her is ... her ... auction and then to rewrite the constitution ... I'm you know what America's famous for re reading Constitution art every time there we read it ... I mean all of that country's are always Argentina's actually one of the least to me rather buy to let some of them rewrite them quite regularly and I'm you know Venice Whelan rewrite the constitution under which Chavez ... and generally that expands the role of the sea and since the sometimes long land it seems the state that however ... you don't put bylaw I'm not can not buy something legislation that Congress can change ... and on the other thing I think is traveling with her is that ... Journal ... on the new government which is the government to leave power ... of belief became more and more enamored of the idea of going to the streets to demand what they wanted ... and can be very disruptive and audio violent ... and on so you know if she does not get the odd that majority she needs in Congress ... to change the constitution and she may very well not because you know the constitution will be a pluralistic aam ... body ... on the her supporters may go to the streets that's the thing that's very worrying I hope that we don't see more violence in Chile we had that before and it didn't happen an ... okay well we're going to keep an eye on it we appeal comeback in Guinness Updates Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady ... thank you very much


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A Coulomb Stress Model to Simulate Induced Seismicity Due to Fluid Injection and Withdrawal in Deep BoreholesG. Perillo[1], G. De Natale[2], C. Troise[2], A. Troiano[2], M.G. Di Giuseppe[2], A. Tramelli[2]
[1]University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy
[2]INGV, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
Fluid injection and withdrawal in deep wells is a basic procedure in mining activities and deep resources exploitation, i.e. oil and gas extraction, geothermal exploitation, geothermal permeability enhancement and waste ?uid disposal. All these activities have the potential to induce seismicity, as dramatically demonstrated by the 2006 Basilea earthquake of magnitude ML=3.4. The mechanism of induced seismicity, despite several decades of experience, is not known in details, preventing an effective assessment and/or mitigation. In this work, we give an interpretation of induced seismicity based on the computation of Coulomb fracture stress changes resulting from ?uid injection/withdrawal at depth, mainly focused to interpret induced seismicity due to Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) reservoir stimulation. Seismicity is in fact, theoretically, more likely where Coulomb fracture stress changes are larger. For modeling purposes, here we simulate the thermodynamic evolution of the system where fluids are injected/withdrawn. The retrieved changes of pressure and temperature are subsequently considered as sources of incremental stress changes, which are then converted to Coulomb stress changes on favored faults, taking into account also the background regional stress. Numerical results are then applied to simulate the water injection stimulation used to create the fractured reservoir at the Soultz-sous-Forets (France) EGS site. The obtained results show that our approach gives a very good description of induced seismicity, and gives a natural explanation to the different impact between fluid injection and withdrawal. In particular, it accurately reproduces induced seismicity at EGS sites, thus representing a powerful tool for its interpretation and mitigation.


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Australia are my tip for gold .....I will be surprised if Spain don't win a medal. Very classy side with Tubau, Freixia, Alegre and coached by the arguably the best coach in the world in Maurit Hendriks.
One of Holland or Germany should grab that third medal spot. New Zealand are dark horses but they rely very heavily on Ryan ARchibald in midfield.
Great Britain are another team who could surprise.


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AgriMet network consists of over 70 agricultural weather stations located throughout the Pacific Northwest. Real-time AgriMet data is transmitted from individual stations once an hour. The AgriMet site can be used for searching the weather data and determining crop water use per season.
The OCS site has a tremendous amount of data that can be difficult to sort through. Historical temperature and precipitation can be found under 'Climate Data'; this will indicate how much it rained on a certain day or what the temerature was. The OCS site also has observations from seven weather stations around the state found under 'Observations'.


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In order to present our customers with the best holiday shopping experience, many of our Seasonal Selling Floor Lead Associates arrive prior to store opening and remain after closing to ensure we are ready to make Macy's magic. Seasonal associates will have the opportunity to work a flexible schedule on a temporary basis, which may include early mornings, evenings, weekends and busy events such as the day after Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas. And don't forget - just in time for holiday shopping, you will receive an employee discount of up to 20% starting your first day!
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Walkabout Joker Draw Odds for Friday, March 16, 2012
The Walkabout Joker Draw is now in Week 43. Friday night's jackpot will be a feckin' brilliant $9,362.
There are just 11 face down cards remaining. One of those cards is the jackpot-winning Joker. Two of those cards are Aces that win a moto.
The Walkabout sold 968 tickets last week. That's fewer tickets than they sold back on February 17 when the jackpot was almost 20% lower. I could have included another chart to illustrate this, but it would just show a rather pitiful flatline of ticket revenue over the last month. It seems that the Walkabout, like some of its patrons, is having trouble getting it up.
Is this the week that the bar finally sells more than 1,000 Joker Draw tickets? With a $9,362 jackpot on offer, it certainly should be. Perhaps the St. Patrick's Day weekend revelry will help to fuel the kind of excitement that the Walkabout needs to get over the 1,000 ticket milestone.
For the sake of simplicity, let's say that the bar sells exactly 1,000 tickets Friday night. With 1,000 tickets in the drum, and 11 cards left on the board, the odds of winning the $9,362 jackpot are pretty easy to figure out. A patron who purchases a single ticket will have a 1 in 1,000 chance of getting his or her ticket called, times a 1 in 11 chance of picking the Joker. That's a 1 in 11,000 chance of winning the $9,362 jackpot.
To put these odds in perspective, the American National Safety Council has calculated that your odds of dying from slipping in a bathtub are also about 1 in 11,000. That's certainly doable. People slip in bathtubs all the time. So if you have some extra money lying around, it's entirely up to you whether you spend it on Walkabout tickets or a bathtub grab bar. Both purchases would make equally good sense.
A 1 in 11,000 chance to win $9,362 is a pretty good wagering opportunity, as far as lottery-type drawings are concerned. Your "expected return" from a single $1 ticket would be 9,362/11,000 = 85.1 cents. That would make the house edge about 15%.
But wait, the Walkabout also gives away an $800 moto for each Ace that is drawn. There are still two Aces remaining out of just eleven cards. So a ticket holder would also have a 2/11,000 chance to win $800. To calculate the extra wagering value of these two Aces, you multipIy 2/11,000 times $800 and you get 14.5 cents.
When you add the 14.5 cent value of the Aces to the 85.1 cent value of the chance of winning the jackpot, this means that the overall expected return on the purchase of a $1 Joker Draw ticket this week will be 99.6 cents, assuming 1,000 tickets in the drum. That's a better wagering proposition than you will find in just about any casino anywhere.
Regardless of the number of tickets sold, we know that the person whose ticket is called will have a 9% (1 in 11) chance of turning over the Joker and winning the $9362 jackpot. That chance is worth $851. He or she will also have an 18 % (2 in 11) chance of winning an $800 moto. That chance is worth $145. This means that simply having the called ticket in your hand will give you an asset that is worth $996. So don't blow it.


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Kurt Nimmo
May 9, 2012
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has announced it will introduce legislation designed to strip Americans of the right to defend themselves. Called "Stop Shoot First Laws," the amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill under consideration in the House would deny states federal funding allocated under section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 if they continue to allow citizens to defend themselves.
Democrats Raul Grijalva asnd Keith Ellison.
"Shoot first laws have already cost too many lives," said Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva upon introducing their amendment. "In Florida alone, deaths due to self-defense have tripled since the law was enacted. Federal money shouldn't be spent supporting states with laws that endanger their own people. This is no different than withholding transportation funds from states that don't enforce seatbelt laws."
"The message here is if you have this kind of law that your federal funding is going to take a hit because they make states less safe," Adam Sarvana, communications director for Grijalva, told Politico.
In other words, the Democrats will force states to choose between putting their citizens at the mercy of violent criminals or taking federal largess.
Because the House does not have an open amendment process, the amendment will likely not see a vote on the floor. Ellison and Grijalva introduced the amendment in and effort to further politicize the Trayvon Martin case and increase pressure on the Second Amendment.
Democrats are using "Shoot First" instead of "Stand Your Ground" in an effort to portray self defense as homicide.
"Stand Your Ground" is a legal extension of the Castle doctrine stating that a person has a right to defend himself against an intruder. "Stand Your Ground" laws state that one can use deadly force in any location one is legally allowed to be and removes the requirement that the threat must occur on one's own property.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in Congress. It is supported by the Institute for Policy Studies, MoveOn.org, the NAACP, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, and other liberal and so-called "progressive" organizations.
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Man sentenced to death for infant daughter's murder
Jason Hann already serving 30 years in infant son's death
A former Southern California man who killed his 2-month-old daughter and stashed the body in a storage unit has been sentenced to death.
Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Hann of Vermont was sentenced Friday for first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Hann was living in Desert Hot Springs in 2001 when he struck his daughter, Montana, to stop her crying.
The girl died.
Authorities say Hann and the girl's mother placed the body in a plastic container and moved away. Her decomposed remains were found in an Arkansas storage unit in 2002.
The mother, Krissy Werntz of Indiana, faces a murder trial next month.
Hann already is serving up to 30 years in prison for the 1999 murder of his 6-week-old son in Vermont. That body was found in an Arizona storage unit in 2002.


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Many companies have released information about their data center energy effiency using the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric. But none have received more scrutiny than Google, whose exceptional PUE numbers have been widely discussed in the data center industry. The latest data from Google show that the company's numbers can go up as well as down.
Google's quarterly energy-weighted average PUE rose to 1.20 in the second quarter, up from 1.19 in the the first quarter of 2009. The best-performing facility had a PUE of 1.15 for the quarter, compared to 1.11 for the most efficient site in Q1.
What's behind the increase, which followed two quarters of improvement? Three new Google data centers met the inclusion criteria for the company's public PUE reporting, expanding the number of facilities to nine.
"The PUE of the new facilities is elevated due to commissioning and bring-up activities," Google said. "The combined impact of partially-commissioned facilities and traditional seasonal effects resulted in a (quarter-on-quarter) increase of our quarterly energy-weighted average PUE, bringing it to 1.20. "
The latest report reinforces the value of efficiency reporting over time to track seasonal fluctuations and changes in a company's data center environment. In response to industry questions about its disclosures, Google has made several presentations at industry events providing details about its efficiency strategies and how it measures and calculates its PUE. The company will continue to provide public updates on its data center energy efficiency on a quarterly basis.


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Right before launching into a fourth-quarter earnings call, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer—apparently not realizing her mic was live—complained about the hold music to her team, calling it "garbage" and asking her team to "make a note" to fix it.
Good news! A company called Jingle Punks has totally taken care of this situation already, writing custom hold music just for Yahoo.
We couldn't think of a more perfect fit for Mayer's vision of "a Web ordered up for you."
Jingle Punks even hired one-hit wonder Snow, the Canadian rapper known for "Informer," to perform the song.
The New York-based startup is a serious operation—it's done music for NBC's "The Voice" and the Academy Awards.
But this is just ... wonderful.
The only thing it's missing is the actual audio clip of Mayer criticizing the hold music. We don't know if anyone captured that moment—it's not on Yahoo's archived recording, obviously.
If Yahoo doesn't use this as its hold music for its next quarterly call, we shall be sad.
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It's worth keeping an eye on the LNG plant on Elba Island, not because it might blow up but because its value as an economic force for Savannah is growing.
The notion of that potential increased impact surfaced several months ago when corporate officials linked to the plant began to mention the possibility that natural gas might be exported through the plant and made the first formal application for government permission to do so.
At the time, they threw out numbers that suggested the transition could require more than $1 billion in new construction at the plant.
The moment when that construction could begin is getting closer.
On Monday, Shell US Gas & Power LLC and Southern Liquefaction Co. LLC, a Kinder Morgan company and unit of El Paso Pipeline Partners, announced plans to develop a natural gas liquefaction plant at Southern LNG's Elba Island Terminal.
Once various corporate and regulatory approvals have been received, Shell and Kinder Morgan affiliates have agreed to modify the Elba Express Pipeline and Elba Island LNG Terminal to physically transport natural gas to the terminal, liquefy it and load it onto ships for export.
Construction is expected to start within the next two years, with the first exports flowing out by the end of the decade.
Southern LNG already has received approval from the Department of Energy to export up to half a billion cubic feet per day, roughly equivalent to 4 million tons of LNG per year, from the Elba Island terminal to Free-Trade-Agreement countries. It's one of 17 facilities that have received such approval.
What does this mean for Savannah's economy?
"The potential benefits of a liquefaction project to the local community could include employment for hundreds of skilled trades workers during construction, additional full-time terminal personnel once operational, positive financial impact to local businesses and governments from the additional contract workers living and working in the community, and additional significant ad valorem taxes for Chatham County," said Kinder Morgan spokesman Richard Wheatley.
As almost a postcript to the announcement of the partnership to build a liquefaction plant, Kinder Morgan announced a day later a $5 billion deal to acquire Houston-based Copano Energy LLC for about $3.2 billion in stock, which will give the company more access to oil and gas-rich territory in Texas, Wyoming and Oklahoma.
And could help ensure an ongoing source of natural gas to export through Savannah.


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PITTSBURGH C AK Steel Corporation will pay $600,000 to settle a racial harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that the Fortune 500 company violated federal law at its Butler, Pa., facility by creating and condoning a racially hostile work environment for a group of African American employees, which included widespread racist and threatening displays for years.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, the hostile work environment has included, since at least 2000, racially graphic graffiti, the displaying of nooses and swastikas in work areas open to African American employees, racial slurs and epithets, the open display of Ku Klux Klan videos in employee lounge areas and the circulation of Populist Party literature where the party candidate, David Duke, is a known KKK leader. Some of the graffiti contained direct or implied threats to African Americans, such as a message to "kill" them and a picture of bullets coming out of a gun accompanied by a threatening insult toward blacks. There was also a good deal of Nazi graffiti, including "I ♥ Adolf."
Besides complaints by black workers about these matters, the EEOC said, the problem was so pervasive that AK Steel's managers had knowledge of what was happening without such complaints. Subsequent to the filing of this lawsuit, Gerald Patterson, who had filed the initial charge, died.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal to deny a person any employment opportunity because of that person's race or color, sex, religion or national origin. A work environment free from racially hostile words and actions is included in the range of "employment opportunities."
The consent decree settling the lawsuit provides Patterson's estate and a class of seven African American employees with $600,000 and includes a commitment that all employees who work at the Butler location will receive annual training in the company's equal employment opportunity policies.
"The racial harassment alleged in this case, including the use of derogatory ethnic terms, nooses displayed in the work environment and disciplining those who complained of race discrimination, represents some of the most severe misconduct this office has seen," said EEOC Regional Attorney Jacqueline McNair. "Through the consent decree resolving this case, EEOC will monitor AK Steel's treatment of employees to ensure a workplace environment free of harassment and race discrimination. Further, we believe the sizable monetary relief and the proposed training of employees on anti-discrimination policies may serve as a deterrent to future acts of blatant racism.""
According to its web site, Middletown, Ohio-based AK Steel is a Fortune 500 company with nearly $6 billion in sales and major plants and offices in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The company makes flat-rolled carbon steel and stainless and electrical steel products.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing the nation's laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, gender (including sexual harassment and pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, disability and retaliation. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Retired NDS official among 3 killed in violence
FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): A former National Directorate of Security (NDS) service member and a civilian were killed separately by unknown gunmen in western Farah province, officials said on Saturday.
Police spokesman Nasir Mehri told Pajhwok Afghan News that former NDS retired major Rahmatullah was gunned down by unknown armed men in Farah City, the provincial capital, late on Friday.
The killers had managed to flee and police were investigating the case, he said.
Separately, a policeman and a shopkeeper were shot dead by unknown motorcyclists in Shibkoh district on Friday afternoon.
A resident of the area, who declined to be named, said the policeman was buying grocery when came under attack. The shopkeeper was also killed.
Pajhwok tried to contact the police headquarters, but failed.
In central Parwan province, a six-year-old boy was released by his kidnappers after holding him in captivity for 10 days.
The child, , Bilal Ahmad, a resident of Charikar, the provincial capital, had been kidnapped from the city, police spokesman Mohammad Alam Mukhles said.
The child was a private school student who had been kidnapped 10 days ago from the 1st police district. The abductors had demanded $100,000 in ransom from Bilal's family, but released him after realizing his father, a shopkeeper, could not pay the amount.
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THC University in Denver holds first class on how to grow pot
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A healthy marijuana plant should have lots of shoots, healthy roots and plenty of leaves.
But the more than 20 people Saturday who attended THC University's first class, Growing Marijuana 101, learned that growing a healthy and fruitful marijuana plant is far from easy.
The sold-out class offered students the basics of growing marijuana at home, including information about watering, proper lighting, different containers and optional accessories. At the end of the five-hour class, students had the option of touring the growing operation at the Denver dispensary Karmaceuticals.
THC University co-founders Matt Jones, 24, and Freeman LaFleur, 25, said they had been looking for a way to enter the industry for the past couple of years.
"When Amendment 64 passed, we saw this industry that is going to go boom and no education to go with it," Jones said.
Under Amendment 64, people 21 and older in Colorado can legally use and possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six marijuana plants.
Christopher and Ginger Grider drove to Colorado from New Mexico to take the class. Ginger Grider uses medical marijuana to help treat lupus, fibromyalgia and post-traumatic stress disorder. The couple wants to learn how to grow at home.
"I want to know what I am getting and how it is grown," Ginger Grider said.
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Barnard welcomed more than 30 high-school girls from around New York City and the tri-state area for the 2013 Young Women's Leadership Workshop on February 20. This program was designed and facilitated by the Global Symposium Student Fellows—six Barnard students selected to attend the college's upcoming global symposium, "Women Changing Brazil," which is taking place in São Paulo, Brazil on March 18. On March 20, the Fellows will lead the same workshop for high-school girls from around São Paulo.
During the workshop, the high-school students participated in a role-playing simulation that explored gender discrimination in the workplace. They were assigned roles as company directors, hiring managers, and job candidates, and acted out mock interview sessions and hiring decisions. Guided by the Fellows, this experience led to a discussion about women's leadership, and about the high-school students' own experiences as leaders in their schools and communities.
"The best part of the workshop was watching the girls discuss what women's leadership meant to them," said Annelise Finney '13, one of the Global Symposium Student Fellows. "It was clear that this was something they were passionate about and it was fun to share that passion with them and work together to think about what challenges women face today and how we can solve them."
"I was really excited to see how engaged the students were during the simulation," said Mariany Polanco '13, another student Fellow. "They had so much to share and expressed such insightful thoughts. I am looking forward to seeing how the girls in Brazil respond."
"This was a great opportunity for our students to see their curriculum in action and prepare for the experience of leading the same workshop in São Paulo next month," said Prof. Kathryn Kolbert, the Constance Hess Williams '66 Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, who has worked closely with the Fellows as they've developed the simulation activity and overall workshop program. "And holding the workshop here on campus is also a very nice example of how Barnard's international initiatives can simultaneously help us reach out and build connections with young women here at home."


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