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Or how the natural environment may qualify as a stakeholder in the firm's business environmentJustesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan; Tryggestad, Kjell (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In its general form, stakeholder theory posits an extension of the ecology. It claims that there are other stakes and interests than those posited by shareholder value theory (Freeman et al. 2004; Jensen and Sandström 2011), and some stakeholder theory proponents argue that the natural environment is also to be considered as a stakeholder (Driscoll and Starik 2004; Norton 2007). It is a positive claim – there are more stakes and interests – and a moral one – we should look towards more interests in order to complete the analysis. With this framing, stakeholder theory seeks to identify stakes and interests which may be difficult but in principle achievable; it also seeks to make analysis of organized activity such as (global) business into a concern with the relative power of stakes and interests. These concerns are highly relevant but they face the barrier that if stakes and interests are positively there, the analysis becomes static and will pay less attention to both the formation and to power-effects of stakes and interest. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8482
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The Case of a Dialogue Based Architectural CompetitionJacobsen, Peter Holm; Harty, Chris; Tryggestad, Kjell (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Wicked problems are open ended and complex societal problems. There is a lack of empirical research into the dynamics and mechanisms that (re) construct problems to become wicked. This paper builds on an ethnographic study of a dialogue-based architect competition to do just that. The competition studied had the purpose of selecting a design, a project and a design team for a large multifunctional building in Copenhagen. As a part of the competition, four different architect-teams had to come up with solutions on how to transform an old brewery site into a multifunctional building. During the competition, the invited architectural teams presented their designs and team organization in three parallel workshops for a panel of client advisors, user representatives as well as a professional jury board. Our data consists of semi-structured interviews with key informants before, during and after the competition and participant observations from all the workshops. We focus on the dynamic interplay between design visualizations and verbal dialogues and the ways in which contradictions and tensions emerge and play out. When the architect teams present their solutions at the workshops, the visualization processes creates new knowledge and insights, but at the same time present new problems related to the ongoing verbal feedback. The design problem being (re) constructed appears as Heracles' fight with Hydra: Every time Heracles cut of a head, two new heads grow back. The paper contributes to understanding the relationship between the visual and the verbal (dialogue) in complex design processes in the early phases of large construction projects, and how the dynamic interplay between the design visualization and verbal dialogue develops before the competition produces, or negotiates, "a "winning design". URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9388
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The Making of Statistical Facts and Artifacts in EconomicsTryggestad, Kjell (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The study aims is to describe how the inclusion and exclusion of materials and calculative devices construct the boundaries and distinctions between statistical facts and artifacts in economics. My methodological approach is inspired by John Graunt's (1667) Political arithmetic and more recent work within constructivism and the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The result of this approach is here termed reversible statistics, reconstructing the findings of a statistical study within economics in three different ways. It is argued that all three accounts are quite normal, albeit in different ways. The presence and absence of diverse materials, both natural and political, is what distinguishes them from each other. Arguments are presented for a more symmetric relation between the scientific statistical text and the reader. I will argue that a more symmetric relation can be achieved by accounting for the significance of the materials and the equipment that enters into the production of statistics. Key words: Reversible statistics, diverse materials, constructivism, economics, science, and technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6714
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The Role of Socio-technical Devices in Framing the Framing the Current Strategies Issues and Future States of the Service MarketTryggestad, Kjell (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The aim of this paper is to inquire into the role of socio-technical devices like value metrics and accounting in organizing the service market. The authors provide a case on how such devices participates in framing the market for transportation during the introduction of large-scale bridges. In addition to the traditional role of accounting as a representation device, the authors also show how these devices participate in performing the service economy – undermining and redrawing organizational boundaries in unexpected ways. The presence of multiple connections with socio-technical devices are then brought into an explanation of the overflowing and reconfiguration of the transportation market. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6712
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IT and the Construction of the Competent PatientLangstrup Nielsen, Henriette (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Initiatives in medical practice that are said to re-insert the subject, thereby overcoming the problems of objectifying practices in earlier times, often operate with a notion of bodies and selves as pre-established entities. In this paper, I will try to show some of the work it takes to produce or perform self-monitoring subjects who participate in keeping their asthmatic bodies in control through the use of an online control center. I argue that the bodies in control and the competent selves related to this technology depend on the establishment of a chronically ill body and on the decentering and incorporation of the clinic in everyday life. Passages into the body are to be kept open in real-time through the involvement of materially heterogeneous arrangements. The distributed character of this work creates and is dependent on an ambiguity in relation to the question of agency. Who or what acts, decides, looks, knows and so on, is not necessarily defined or otherwise clear in the day-to-day use of the technology. Instead, agency becomes performed in particular instances, where it might become the property of one part of the network or another. Creating the asthmatic as a free, autonomous agent in this instance depends on blurring other nodes in the network in the day-to-day use of this technology, these being, the physician, the technology, and the scientific set-up. As such, I argue that agency in the form of the self-monitoring competent ill, is best understood as a successful performance of invisible passages and links that hook up bodies, other selves, science and medical practices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6713
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How do sensemaking processes with minimal sharing relate to the reproduction of organised action?Murphy, Tine (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The thesis examines an underexplored area in sensemaking theory. The theme for the thesis is to examine the relation between sensemaking and the reproduction of organised action. Existing sensemaking theory focusses on how shared organising processes support the reproduction of organised action (Smircich & Morgan, 1986; Smircich & Stubbart, 1985; Weick, 2004; Maitlis, 2005; Donnellon et al, 1986). This thesis' contribution is to examine sensemaking processes which do not spring from shared articulation within the formal organisation and these processes' relation to the reproduction of organised action. In the thesis the phenomenon is illustrated with a case consisting of a younger voluntary organisation (called the Network Group) whose purpose is to provide tuition for children with another ethnic background than Danish. The organisation survives and meets its purpose. This, however, takes place largely without the voluntary tutors talking with each other to make sense of their shared action. This falls outside the expectations produced in the greater part of existing sensemaking theory. Apart from the relevancy for organisation theory, the interest in the phenomenon organised action with limited shared sensemaking and limited shared articulation – comes from a hypothesis that actors in latemodernity will be less inclined to invest in shared sensemaking because they zap between organisational contexts (Bauman 2000, Beck 1986, Beck & BeckGernsheim 2002 and Bellah et al 1985). This is a phenomenon which has drawn particular attention within the Danish voluntary sector in the last 10 years (Isen1, 1999; Goul Andersen et al, 2000; Hermansen & Stavnsager, 2000; Stavnsager & Jantzen, 2000; Christensen & Isen, 2001; Børch & Israelsen, 2001; Wollebæk & Selle, 2002; Nielsen et al 2004; Murphy 2004). Similar concerns in the U. S. are most notably expressed by Putnam (1990) in the book "Bowling Alone". In Denmark the phenomenon is linked to perceived difficulties with filling positions at boards of voluntary organisations with younger volunteers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7790
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Morten Thanning, Vendelo (San Antonio, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8410
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towards optimal distinctivenes in European film makingAlvarez, José Luis; Mazza, Carmelo; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper; Svejenova, Silviya (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Abstract. This paper advances a micro theory of creative action by examining how distinctive artists shield their idiosyncratic styles from the isomorphic pressures of a field. It draws on the cases of three internationally recognized, distinctive European film directors - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain), Nanni Moretti (Italy) and Lars von Trier (Denmark). We argue that in a cinema field, artistic pressures for distinctiveness along with business pressures for profits drive filmmakers' quest for optimal distinctiveness. This quest seeks both exclusive, unique style and inclusive, audience-appealing artwork with legitimacy in the field. Our theory of creative action for optimal distinctiveness suggests that film directors increase their control by personally consolidating artistic and production roles, by forming close partnership with committed producer, and by establishing own production company. Ironically, to escape the iron cage of local cinema fields, film directors increasingly control the coupling of art and business, hence forging their own "iron cage". "[T]he unusual and paradoxical place that Pedro [Almodóvar] has been able to find: we are within the industry but we preserve our peculiarity." (Agustín Almodóvar, 2001). Optimal distinctiveness: "social identity is viewed as reconciliation of opposing needs for assimilation and differentiation from others." (Marilynn Brewer, 1991). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6672
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The Power of Imperfect PrinciplesKreiner, Kristian (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The computer IC is the heart of the information and telecommunication technology. It is a tiny artifact, but with incredible organizing powers. We use this physical artifact as the location for studying central problems of the knowledge economy. First, the paper describes the history of chip design and the emergence of the technological community involved in designing and manufacturing computer chips. The community is structured in a way that reflects the underlying physical nature silicon and the numerous other materials and chemicals involved. But it also reflects the human agency of defining new projects, of visioning the liberation from atoms, of committing to travel many detours in the labyrinths of development, and of perceiving and exploring the affordance that new technologies hide. Some of these characteristics are analyzed empirically in a case study of designing a chip for a digitalized hearing instrument. It is found that technological progress is not hindered, but rather aided by the use of imperfect principles, abstractions and representations of reality. The power of such imperfections is discussed and generalized. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6683
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Exploring the Linkage Between Team Diversity and Micro-practices of (in)equalityHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This qualitative study explores the intricate linkage between organizing in diverse teams and relational (in)equality. Literature on diversity in teams predominantly applies a positivist approach prescriptive of how to compose the 'successful' diverse team while drawing up process gains and losses. Relying on an ethnographic study of diverse teams in a Danish subsidiary of a multinational service company renowned for its diversity profile and organizing work in diverse teams this article gives a nuanced picture of the relational dynamics of diverse teams both hindering and increasing relational (in)equality. It is explored how diversity is linked to paradoxical processes of gendered and ethnified hierarchies based in stereotypical in- and out-groups as well as (organic) solidarity through difference. Drawing on these paradoxical processes, the analysis unfolds how equality in diverse teams might be fostered by team practices that stress members' heterogeneity and avoid reducing minority members to mere representatives of a (stigmatized) social group. These are furthermore team practices that strengthening team solidarity trough openness to difference. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9557
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Political Organizing Between Imagination and AffirmationHusted, Emil; Plesner, Ursula (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The recent proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies and their role in contemporary political life has inspired the coining of the term 'open-source politics'. This article analyzes how open-source politics is organized in the case of a young radical political party called The Alternative. Inspired by the literature on organizational space, the analysis pays special attention to how different organizational spaces afford different practices of bottom up politics, hereby adding to our understanding of the relationship between organizational space and political organizing. We analyze three different spaces constructed by the Alternative as techniques for practicing open-source politics, and observe that physical and digital spaces create a vacillation between openness and closure. This vacillation produces a dialectic relationship between practices of imagination and affirmation. Curiously, it seems that physical spaces open up the political process, while digital spaces close it down by fixating meaning. Accordingly, it is argued that open-source politics should not be equated with online politics, but may be highly dependent on physical spaces. Also, digital spaces do not always open up political processes, but may provide both closure and disconnection between the party's universal body and its particular body. In conclusion, we propose that such a disconnection might be a precondition for success when institutionalizing radical politics, as it allows parties like The Alternative to maintain their universal appeal. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9364
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Privat produktpolitik i det indre markedFrankel, Christian; Højbjerg, Erik (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: De politiske og administrative studier af det indre markeds færdiggørelse har overvejende fokuseret på, hvordan gennemførelsen er bundet til en forandring af kompetence‐ og arbejdsdelingen mellem de eksisterende EU institutioner og medlemslandene. Et sådant EU internt fokus ser imidlertid bort fra, at væsentlige dele af gennemførelsen allerede i 1987 med Fællesaktens vedtagelse blev overladt til de private europæiske standardiseringsorganisationer (ESO2). Når man tænker på, hvor vigtig en rolle disse organisationer er tildelt i udviklingen af det indre marked, kan det undre, at denne uddelegering hidtil ikke har været belyst i nævneværdigt omfang. For det første synes uddelegeringen at indeholde demokratiske udfordringer, fordi private aktører gennem medlemsskab af de autonome europæiske standardiseringsorganisationer deltager direkte og i et vist omfang uden for politisk og administrativ kontrol i at fastlægge reglerne for markedsførelsen af varer i det indre marked. For det andet rejser uddelegeringen en række analytiske spørgsmål om, hvor EU integrationens institutionelle locus skal findes, når sikringen af EUs politiske målsætninger med det indre marked er afhængig af en inter‐organisatorisk koordination mellem EU og ESO. Udover at det indre marked er betinget af institutionelle forandringer inden for rammerne af EU er det ligeledes afhængig af en institutionsdannelse mellem de gensidigt autonome organisationer EU og ESO. Endelig, for det tredje, indebærer uddelegeringen en særskilt udfordring for ESO. I takt med at europæisk teknisk standardisering skal indfri bredere samfundsmæssige og politiske hensyn i markedsdannelsesprocessen er der risiko for, at én af de bærende principper i standardiseringsarbejdet, nemlig frivilligheden, sættes under pres. Der er sandsynligvis grænser for, hvad teknisk standardisering kan levere i forhold til samfundsmæssig regulering uden at undergrave sin egen logik. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8717
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evalueringsrapport over Master of Public AdministrationRy Nielsen, Jens Carl (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Med denne rapport ønsker vi at gøre status over de første 9 år med uddannelsen til Master of Public Administration (MPA) ved Handelshøjskolen i København. Grundlaget for rapporten er en selvevaluering, der i 2002 blev udarbejdet til den første officielle evaluering af masteruddannelser i Danmark. Danmarks Evalueringsinstitut under Undervisningsministeriet gennemførte her en evaluering af MPA-uddannelsen samt uddannelsen til Master of Public Management (MPM) ved Syddansk Universitet og uddannelsen til Master of Public Policy (MPP) ved Roskilde Universitetscenter. Resultatet af evalueringen er fremlagt i en samlet rapport: "Masteruddannelser" fra september 2003. Den eksterne evaluering giver MPA-uddannelsen en særdeles positiv vurdering, men indeholder også konstruktiv kritik. Generelt er studieledelsen og lærergruppen naturligvis meget glade for evalueringen, som til fulde bekræfter, at MPA-uddannelsen er et godt produkt, der har bevist sin berettigelse de seneste 9 år. I rapporten fra Danmarks Evalueringsinstitut indgår der naturligvis mange elementer fra MPA's selvevalueringsrapport, men studieledelsen på MPA har skønnet, at en forkortet og revideret udgave af denne rapport kunne være nyttig i forbindelse med information om MPA-uddannelsen til ansøgere, aftagere, nye undervisere, rådgivere og andre interesserede. Denne reviderede rapport udgør derfor et vigtigt vidnesbyrd om grundlaget for og de løbende justeringer af uddannelsen. Rapporten indgår samtidig som et afgørende grundlag for det udviklingsarbejde, der i 2003 er sat i gang med henblik på at på at revidere og præcisere MPA-uddannelsens kompetenceprofil og herved fremtidssikre et godt produkt. J.C. Ry Nielsen, der er en af grundlæggerne af uddannelsen og i dag vicestudieleder for den internationale del, har på studieledelsens foranledning bearbejdet selvevalueringsrapporten til den her foreliggende udgave. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6716
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Stories of a Hot SituationSommerlund, Julie (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In his influential essay on markets, An essay on framing and overflowing (1998), Michel Callon writes that "the growing complexity of industrialized societies [is] due in large part to the movements of the technosciences, which are causing connections and interdependencies to proliferate". This paper is about tech-noscience, and about the proliferation of connections and interdependencies created by it. More specifically, the paper is about stem cells. Biotechnology in general has the power to capture the imagination. Within the field of biotechnology nothing seems more provocative and tantalizing than stem cells, in research, in medicine, or as products. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6727
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Bansler, Jørgen; Havn, Erling; Mønsted, Troels; Schmidt, Kjeld (København, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The medical record, the collection of notes and other documents concerning a particular patient, is a time-honored and robust institutional artifact. However, with patients with chronic ailments that typically are treated and monitored by multiple clinical workers, sometimes at different institutions, the medical record is more than 'beginning to burst': it is beginning to fragment. This becomes clear from our ongoing study of the coordinative practices of clinical workers dealing with patients with 'implantable cardioverter-defibrillators' (ICDs), i.e., pacemakers that dub as defibrillators.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8418
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Identity work performed to manage, negotiate and resolve barriers and tensions that arise in the process of constructing organizational identity in a sustainability contextHedegaard, Stine (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This thesis presents research on organizational identity in a sustainability context and explores sustainability-focused identity as a construct, investigating the types of identity work employed to manage, negotiate and resolve barriers and tensions that arise in the process of constructing a sustainability-focused identity. Theoretically, the research takes a point of departure in theories on organizational identity, sustainability-focused identity and identity work. While organizational identity is a well researched field, sustainability-focused identity is a new construct within organizational identity research; it refers to organizational identity, where sustainability is a key identity referent, and takes a prominent role in an organizations self -understanding. With these research streams as the theoretical foundation, a case study has been carried out in order to address the research topic in question. The case study presented in the thesis is based on qualitative data collected from a multi-national retail organization engaged in the process of constructing a sustainability-focused identity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9126
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Undersøgelse udført for Arbejdsdirektoratet i perioden august 2008 til april 2009Mik-Meyer, Nanna; Just Christensen, Bodil; Brehm Johansen, Mette (, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8213
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What Do We Know? Where Do We Go?Leca, Bernard; Battilana, Julie; Boxenbaum, Eva (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional entrepreneurship since Paul DiMaggio introduced this notion in 1988. Based on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the enabling conditions that have been previously identified and reviews the research methods that have been applied to the study of institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, based on this analysis, this paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers may use this paper to build targeted and sophisticated research designs that add value to the emerging body of literature on institutional entrepreneurship. Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneur, Institutional Change, Paradox of Embedded Agency URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6705
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(meso) industry level factorsMathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Or how materials produce degrees of humanity in strategic research and practiceTryggestad, Kjell (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The aim of this article is to inquire into the possible significance of materials in the production of emerging strategic outcomes. The article first sets out to discuss the different ways contemporary strategy research define the identity of strategic actors. It is argued that the various schools of strategy research, although different in important respects, operate with a common human centered assumption: Humanity is treated as given – the strategic actor or subject is assumed to be an individual human or a collective of humans. By adding the possible significance of materials and other non-human entities to the explanatory repertoire of strategy research, another line of inquiry is pursued. The performative perspective thus proposed, is inspired by the classical work of Von Clausewitz and the recent anthropology of science, technology and organizational identities. In the proposed perspective, the human centered assumption is no longer just a premise for doing strategy research, but instead considered an interesting emerging outcome to be explained. Further more, the performative perspective allows strategy research to extend the notion of emergent strategies so as to include the possible significance of materials and other non-human entities in the explanation of 2 emerging strategic identities and outcomes. Hence, also a new task has been added to strategy research: To explain how emerging strategic identities – consisting of both humans and non-humans, are produced as part of strategic outcomes. Three cases are presented, each of them with a particular bearing on how materials participate in the making of emerging strategic identities and outcomes: The first case account for strategies transforming plans into anti-plans. This is a case of how a strategic plan is betrayed (or rejected) by an emerging collective consisting of both humans and diverse materials like a paper inscription and heavy machinery. The second case account for how the emerging twin identities of the strategic management subject and the human object are co-produced in interaction with a machine delegate. Finally, the third case account for how the strategic technology and the strategic collective emerge and co-produce each other as a macro-actor, only to become transformed in unexpected ways - as common technology and reflective human subjects. In the concluding section, it is argued that the humanity of the reflective human subject should be regarded as an emerging identity, co-produced in interaction with diverse materials like machinery. It is further argued that strategy research has slowly written out Von Clausewitz original insight in this respect. The complexity Von Clausewitz introduced with the notion of 'degrees of humanity' has been replaced with a given humanity, yet the costs of doing so remain outside the frames of contemporary strategy research. Failing to attend to the possible significance of materials in producing degrees of humanity has made strategy research as much producers of strategic outcomes, as providers of explanations and observations. The expression 'technological strategy as macro-actor' summarizes these findings and the associated implications for research and practice. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6699
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Murphy's law, absent mindedness, and shopping. . .
I got a LOT done this weekend from a Wow perspective. From the alt standpoint, I hit level 61 with my mage, the gloves and robe dropped in Blood furnace (which I was pugging), I lost the roll on the robe (which was the one I really wanted, oh well). We had a level 70 druid tank who was pretty lowsy with aggro management. I might be way off base here, but I would think Enrage, Berserk, then spam mangle would generate plenty of aggro and you should be able to keep any number of mobs. I'm not exactly a druid tanking expert, thats just my impression. I died a bunch of times from random mobs peeling off. Oh well, I got XP and some loot.
My druid didn't do any instancing this weekend, I quested a bunch, moved into Zangarmarsh and have almost cleared it. I'm into 64, ready to head to terrokar, but I want to do everything in Zangarmarsh I can (I want to work Cenarion rep for the LW patterns. I love socketable gear for leveling, since I have a high level JC, it ends up better than the intro WotLK gear normally). I will probably try to Pug a couple of the instances there for some gear and XP.
My paladin had both good and bad this weekend. Remember how I said I hate jousting? I still do. I can't beat the Champion to become a champion with Argent Tournament. With the rewards soon to be released for that (BoA chest!!), I really would like to get that knocked out, but I really dislike the jousting and just can't seem to get the hang of it. I did read a guide somewhere that said if you have a buddy DPS the Champion while you break shields, you can burn him down quick. I will hopefully try that method, yes I know it's technically cheating, oh well, he won't get off his stupid horse and fight me man to elf anways.
On the good side, I finally got 40 emblems and was presented with a real tough decision. I've ALWAYS loved the BoA gear. I have a Druid I want to get to 80, and a shammy that I've started leveling. I love Hybrid classes, and I envision my shammy being a dual wielding orcish maelstrom of destruction. I've always been impressed with shammies I've seen at upper levels. I want one. However, on going to turn in my badges, I saw myself staring squarely at the Belt of Living Iron (not sure if thats the exact name, can't access wowhead at work). Extra stam, has a socket, plenty of defense (I also hit revered with Argent Crusade, so I can get the head enchat with them to give me a little more latitude while staying at the magic 540). I ended up buying the shoulders, but it was a REALLY tough decision. I figured, I KNOW I will get a ton of use from the shoulders, I had nowhere near enough stones to get the PvP ones (I have 104, you need like 200 I think), and I can always run more heroics (either prot or ret) to get more emblems. Since I hit revered with Argent Crusade, they don't have anything else I want, so I will probably switch my tabard to Ebon Blade or Wyrmrest Accord. EB gives my some nice ret boots, WA gives me access to a breastplate which is a small upgrade (I'm still wearing the quest one from UP). Another wrinkle is that when motivated, I get 750 rep a day with EB just through dailies, so I'll get the boots eventually anyways. Decisions, decisions.
By the way, good to see most of the fights turn out as I expected (read Bonnar lost, oh well). Brock went all "BROCK SMASH!!!" on Mir, I just wasn't confident he'd be able to assert himself that dominantly on Mir. Oh well. Now I get to wait around for the next Demian Maia fight. My dream match, Demian Maia vs Karo "the Heat" Parisyan. I have always rooted for Parisyan. I started in Judo when I was 17, it really changed my life, so I always root for any Judo players. However, I have come to respect the technical aspects of pure brazillian jujitsu (not from people like Matt Serra who although they have a black belt, never use it in their fights). Demian Maia is the best jujitsu technician I have ever seen in mixed martial arts. OK, enough gushing about a fight that will probably never happen. . .
4 comments:
- Everwrath of Silvermoon said...
Hope your knee doesn't give you too much trouble...
At revered, EB dailys give about 1650 rep (not sure whether that includes my human bonus) which is around 14 days grind without handing in any bones or doing other quests.
Myself, I prefer championing. I'm going to do the instances anyway - the dailys are just time-sucks.
- July 13, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- Fish said...
I personally only do the 3 dailies from Shadow Hold. I believe you're including the 2 on the island which would be 1500 + your 150 rep for being human. I like the 3 dailies because they're easy, fun, I can do them all together, and they take 20 mins. . .
- July 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- Darraxus said...
For the jousting dailiess, I have an easier way if you cant do it the old fashioned way. Find someone who has a taunt. Get them to tank the damn thing while you smash it in the face with charge over and over again. Voilla.
- July 13, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- P said...
I'm a big fan of Maia as well. really looking forward to maia v marquardt.
I read an interview with maia before that said each fight his intent is to end the fight as soon as possible while taking as little damage as possible and causing as little damage as possible as well.
interesting contrast to those who want to hurt their opponent
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text: FELLOW DELEGATES: As one of those who called this Congress into being I have been granted the privilege of welcoming you. This I shall do briefly, for if we wish to serve the cause we should economize the valuable moments of the Congress. There is much to be accomplished within the space of three days. We want to lay the cornerstone of the edifice which is one day to house the Jewish nation. The task is so great that we may treat of it in none but the simplest terms. So far as we can now foresee, a summary of the present status of the Jewish question will be submitted within the coming three days. The tremendous bulk of material on hand is being classified by the chairmen of our committees.


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Do you actually go to church (almost) every Monday? If that's the case, then I would use the Simple Present. If you're just stating that next Monday you will be found there, then the Presetn Continuous is OK.
However, note that you could also use the Continuous for a usual action, but adding something to the sentence:
- How about a beer on Monday evening?
- I'm afraid I can't. On Monday, as usual, I'm going to church. We'll have to leave it for some other time.
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Following the acquisition of Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software in 2007, Ubisoft took control of the ongoing Anno franchise. Previous games in the series--Anno 1404, Anno 1503: The New World, Anno 1602: Creation of a New World, and Anno 1701--focused on historical eras, making this the first time the series has explored a futuristic setting. "Anno 2070 is a very ambitious game that will feel both familiar and fresh to fans of the series," Ubisoft's EMEA brand director Caroline Stevens said. Stevens added that the game's futuristic setting meant the development team "wasn't restricted by historical boundaries and was able to dream bigger than ever before." Let's see if hardcore fans of the series agree with the new, futuristic direction. Key features highlighted in the press release include:
Anno 2070 brings the series to the future.
- A new era: while adhering to the fundamentals that made the Anno franchise a success, the near-future setting will bring numerous new gameplay mechanics, architectural breakthroughs, and all new challenges. Additionally, players will be able to build massive cities, the scope of which has never been seen in prior Anno games.
- A dynamic world: the world of Anno 2070 will evolve differently depending on each player's playing style and choices. Players' decisions will have an impact on the environment, the architectural look of their world, and the needs of their populations, leading them to refine and better understand the impact of their personal approaches to managing the world's resources.
- Factions: players will be able to select between two factions when building their empires. Players can choose between an industrial and efficient course by joining the Tycoons or a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly direction by siding with the Ecos.
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- Single player campaign: a story-driven single player mode with a deep variety of challenges.
- Single player "continuous mode": the renowned endless game mode where the objective is to build the biggest civilization possible without time constraints.
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San Jose, CA – Medicine Cabinet Makeover Class
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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We want to teach you how to "make-over" your medicine cabinet by replacing the over-the-counter medicines and other drugs in your home with pure, plant-based medicine-- also known as essential oils.
We invite you to join with our Green Smoothie Girl health coaches to learn how you can take charge of your healthcare with these self-directed, medicinal oils that you can utilize everyday to improve your body's chemistry and natural defenses.
"Make Over Your Medicine Cabinet" will be taught by our Northern California Green Smoothie Girl Senior Apprentice, Marsha Patterson.
Join us for this free, how-to class and learn to be a healer in your own home because there is nothing better than medicine that is safe, natural, and effective.
Get a ticket for you and a friend. We hope to see you there!
**doTERRA IPC's: Our Medicine Cabinet Makeover classes are for those not yet introduced to the healing power of essential oils. Our classes are private events, despite ticketing on Eventbrite. They are hosted by a GSG coach who has expended significant time and expense. This coach is well trained and will teach her audience how to take their healthcare into their own hands.
When & Where
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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I already have my controller and camera, i just need the system!
Kill'em with kindness, it's a slow painful death.
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I'm not gonna have the funds for early adoption. Not to mention I still have so many games to play on my PS3.
PSN ID: UserMaatRe666
I can't wait, we have a tv set up for it, and the xbone. :)
Long time no see guys. Sorry for my absense. The sites just so boring and messy now :c now i spend most my time at work or youtube.
I'm a Legendary GI member.
Resogun is so unbelievably good! I can't stop playing it. By far the best part of the release weekend for me.
I picked up Knack on a whim, best decision ever. Its been a long time since i played a good ol' school platformer. Been enjoying Resogun as well. :)
You're missing all the fun Meta! If we dont keep the site alive; Who will?
Lol I know I know but ive been so busy with work and games haha. Ill do better
Shame shame Meta. So i don't really get a thanksgiving this year...thanks to greedy people i have to work thursday to friday. Because the world ends if people can't get their crap at 50% off. BEFORE friday. >:(
Sorry I've been gone so long too. But I've been busier than ever trying to put in applications at places - even places I'm clearly not qualified for (unfortunately, my roommates seem determined to "help" and therefore don't listen to reason).
Thats ok! I applied at places that required two year degrees, and two years experience...i didnt get the job. but i got interview practice. :)
Meta you might want to change your sig,
saying you're a legendary GI member when you've only been here since 09 is like saying you're the biggest turd in a toilet full of turds
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Yeah, what Supersnake said.
@Blade-Can i be the shiniest turd?
What thanksgiving? Oh! Thats the holiday that people that dont work retail celebrate...
I hope everyone else had a good one though. :)
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Tropical Cyclone warning cancelled
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Official Statement From Solomon Islands National Disaster Council Chair Dr. Melchoir Mataki Tropical Cyclone warning cancelled, NDMO looks to progress towards normalcy as a people Today the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) issued a Flood All-Clear …Official Statement From Solomon Islands National Disaster Council Chair Dr. Melchoir Mataki
Tropical Cyclone warning cancelled, NDMO looks to progress towards normalcy as a people
Today the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) issued a Flood All-Clear statement.
We have advised no further threat exists and it is now safe for people in the affected areas to move around.
We would like to see those living in evacuation centres or other safe areas, who can safely do so, return to their homes. We will assess their needs from their homes and do all we can to assist them.
We offer our deepest sympathies to those families affected by this tragedy. We appeal to the public and all our partners to help the Solomon Islands recover from this disaster, and reduce the risks of such a disaster happening here again.
The dangerous weather system has now passed, which means those who have had their houses flooded will able to start cleaning them up.
We are facing a lot of constraints in terms of providing sanitation at the evacuation centres, mainly because of lack of water.
Solomon Islands Water Authority advised today that 40% of Honiara was still cut off from the water supply – this includes many of the evacuation centres we have.
NDMO Director Loti Yates yesterday expressed concerns about the outbreak of diseases that come with overcrowding and lack of clean water and sanitation, such as malaria, dysentery and Dengue fever.
In addition, 11 of the evacuation centres are school buildings. It is very important that these schools open again as soon as possible, people once more have somewhere to live, and businesses can reopen.
We must progressively move towards normalcy as a people.
Ultimately what we need in Honiara is reconstruction, not rehabilitation, especially taking into consideration how we are going to build the roads, where they will be located, where we allow people to build their homes.
All risks need to be considered in the future. Making sure all bridges, roads, and buildings meet the requirements and can endure the tropical weather we receive here.
23 people so far have been confirmed dead as a result of this disaster, a yet-unknown number are still missing, and many have lost their homes.
The priority for the NDMO at the moment is still to attend to the needs of the people who have been seriously impacted by the weather events and provide immediate, urgent relief, and ensuring the people who do not have homes to go back to are properly being supported.
Currently there are still around 9,000 people registered in evacuation centres around Honiara.
The NDMO is still coordinating and distributing disaster relief support to evacuation centres on an ongoing basis. It is working in conjunction with the Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision, the Honiara City Council Emergency Operation Centre and the Internally Displaced Persons welfare cluster.
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Will they make sneering faces at each other? Rude hand gestures? Will they "haze" the other space station? Teepee their solar collectors in the night? Will the ISS astronauts pop in from time to time to borrow a cup of sugar? Host a friendly neighborhood barbecue?
Have you learned nothing from how chinese immigrants behave in other countries? Now the guys up in the ISS finally can have cheap take-out and dry-cleaning!
"In another universe (Arthur C. Clarke's 2011), it would be on its way to Europa by now.
Clarke naively believed NASA and the U.S. government when they said that the space race WASN'T just a Cold War pissing contest. He never figured in the possibility that once the U.S. had the capability to plant the Stars and Stripes on the moon that funding would be slashed.
A few years ago the funding would have come as soon as China would start adding their military equipment there, too. Ironically, however, now China will just pull the financial rug under the US, or just squeeze those hairy a bit harder.
This is as tired of an argument as "they hate us for our freedom."
What China and the US have is the economic version of mutually-assured destruction.
China will be pulling no rug out from under the US. They're as fucked as we are.
They're as fucked as we are.
Why? They have all of Latin America, India and Africa to sell to. It doesn't take long for those countries to catch up the US when economic growth in the US is virtually nil. The US by no means has the largest population in the world, so its economic importance can only shrink over time as others grow. Haven't you noticed how China has been very active signing trade agreements all over South and Central America lately? And with none of those bullshit "sign here but also you have to change your laws to match
In Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 (not 2011), which was written before the cold war ended, the cold war was still going on into 2010 and they where still pissing away.
Exactly. Part of the point of the story was the fact that the situation around Jupiter led to some (tense, somewhat hostile) partnerships between the US and the USSR.
In the book there was a three-way cold war between USSR, China and the US.
In most of the sci-fi featuring near-future space travel in the era before we actually went to space it was rare to find an author who even considered that it would be a government monopoly that got us there.
And, bizarrely, this mistake is repeated by modern libertarian/neoliberal space advocates, who are certain that SpaceX and Bigelow can beat the Chinese without any government help at all. This is nothing but fantasy.
Funding was slashed in 1968-'72 because of the increasing cost of the Vietnam War and costs of implementing LBJ's Great Society program. The Democratic Senators who had the power to cut NASA (like Mondale), went out of their way to go after it's funding for the Great Society programs. By the time Nixon took the White House, he ramped up Vietnam to force the North to the peace talks (which worked by late 1972) and the Democrats hated him, so there was very little he could push.
We are lucky Congress didn't cl
The Chinese seem willing to spend the money on space tech. Someones gotta carry the flag. Unbelievable how long it's been since people were walking the moon.
The states had the money, too.
But they just spent it on more important things:
-Liberating oil in Irak.
-Molesting the terrorists out of our shorts.
-Covering rich people for bad bets in the stock market
No. The U.S. Federal Government had the money too, not the "States". There is a difference.
There is a historical precedence for going somewhere and then not going back for a while.
The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 at Roanoke, a second voyage there in 1590 found it missing, there was not an attempt by the English to colonize North America again until 1607. And going to North America from western Europe was much, much easier than going from the Earth to the Moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_colonization_of_No [wikipedia.org]
I suppose that makes sense. Pioneering journeys can be expensive.
Actually, the Vikings [wikimedia.org] predated the English by quite a bit (6 centuries), but yes, economic colonization often takes decades to centuries.
So, no second attempt for 17 years. Whereas no-one has been to the moon in nearly 39 years and it looks like even if someone sat down and planned out and funded a mission tomorrow, it would still take a decade to actually happen. So, best case scenario is looking like 50 years from the last Apollo mission to the next moon landing.
Not Really
As a % of nominal GDP, China spends about the same as most ESA member states (0.02% by my calculation) compared to the real big players USA (0.13%) and Russia (0.26%)
Don't ask me for a reference. I literally just worked this out myself from numbers off wikipedia (which are themselves well referenced enough). If you are skeptical, just repeat the calculation.
China isn't especially focused on space travel, or manned space travel - its just a big economy, and its found a way to do manned spaceflight
It's big and getting bigger, so you can see why I'm hopeful. Plus they seem to like the international spotlight (olympic games were huge for them), so perhaps they'll keep spending on space.
With the US, you just get the feeling people are tired of science. You don't the sense of wonderment about the world. Science seems to be a declining form of entertainment. All simply a vibe I'm getting, of course, nothing I can document.
The Chinese seem willing to spend just enough money on space tech to impress the impressionable.
There, fixed that for you.
Seriously, most of the posters on Slashdot are worse than the worst Tea Partiers when it comes to exaggerating facts and events in order to work themselves up into a panic. The fact is, China has just enough of a space program to show the world that they are a Serious Nation and a World Player - and not a Yuan's worth more. They aren't going to the Moon anytime soon, and at the
Are the docking ports compatible?
I read many years ago on Chinese media (can't find the source anymore) when they first launched Shenzhou that the docking port is imported from Russia for the explicit goal of compatibility with other vehicles as the Russian design is now the de factor standard.
Are the docking ports compatible?
I read many years ago on Chinese media (can't find the source anymore) when they first launched Shenzhou that the docking port is imported from Russia for the explicit goal of compatibility with other vehicles as the Russian design is now the de factor standard.
Yes. Same one as on the Shuttle and ISS [wikimedia.org].
There are several standards right now:
- Russia and Europe (Soyuz, Progress, and ATV) use SSVP, which is high impact so I can see why the Chinese avoided it.
- The Shuttle used APAS, which is what the Chinese are using to be compatible with ISS. (Originally developed for Soyuz-Apollo, so the Russians have it, but aren't using it.)
- The Japanese HTV and current US vehicles (Dragon, Cygnus) don't dock, they berth on the CBMs
- Commercial Crew will use ILIDS which is compatible with the actual standard, the Inter
Helpful, but can you get us the Kepler elements?
China has begun its own effort to construct a space station that will one day look like this....exactly like this.
http://nationalspacestudiescenter.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/space-station-iss.jpg [wordpress.com]
Can it be reached by NASA
Unfortunately, no. NASA doesn't currently have a man-rated vehicle that can exceed about 60,000 feet.
The DOD can probably deliver a decent size payload to it, but their craft aren't exactly designed to dock in a diplomatic way.
Slashdot needs a "Sad but true" moderation option.
Exactly. We should have a "enter your own" mod option...
Wouldn't be the first time the Chinese have borrowed space technology from the Russians; the Shenzhou spacecraft is awfully similar to Soyuz. On the other hand, physics are physics, regardless of what country your in, so and there really are only a few useful hull configurations. No one is surprised when a fighter jet looks like externally similar to a Russian or American one.
By the way, the Salyut design is still alive and well. Zvezda, the ISS service module, is a direct decedent. Salyut 6, which you
Its dimensions are somewhere between Progress [wikipedia.org] and Salyut, which makes sense given that it's currently being used like Salyut as a testbed, but will eventually be used like Progress as a resupply craft for a larger station.
...thinking of the Chinese space station in World War Z?
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Harvard will face two top-15 teams in head-to-head
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's swimming & diving team will host six different opponents in head-to-head competition in the upcoming season, as the university announced the team's 2011-12 schedule. The home schedule features a pair of tri-meets as well as two dual competitions.
The 2011-12 schedule kicks off with a stiff test, as No. 17 Texas A&M takes to Blodgett Pool Nov. 11. Harvard begins its conference schedule a day later when it hosts Dartmouth and Cornell in the first of two Ivy League tri-meets. The UNC Invitational, which takes place Nov. 17-19 in Chapel Hill, N.C., is the final event in November for Harvard.
The Crimson will compete at the USA Swimming National Championships Dec. 1-4 in Atlanta, Ga., before heading to New York to face Columbia in the final meet of 2011. The team will take its annual training trip to Puerto Rico, where it will face off against Connecticut in a dual meet Jan. 12.
Harvard returns home for a meet against Brown Jan. 19, then travels to Columbus, Ohio, for a dual against No. 10 Ohio State Jan. 21. Harvard will host the annual HYP meet Jan. 27-28, and swims against Penn on the road Feb. 11 to wrap up its regular- season schedule. The 2012 Ivy League Championships will take place March 1-3 in Princeton, N.J.
"We have a schedule that is designed to challenge our swimmers and divers at every turn," said head coach Tim Murphy. "The combination of our Ivy schedule, meets against perennially top-15 teams Texas A&M and Ohio State, the Invitational and USA Swimming National championships will push our swimmers to be their best. We look forward to the competition."


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In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness slip below the surface. Five years ago, the National Academies prepared Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a book that cautioned: "Without a renewed effort to bolster the foundations of our competitiveness, we can expect to lose our privileged position." Since that time we find ourselves in a country where much has changed--and a great deal has not changed.
So where does America stand relative to its position of five years ago when the Gathering Storm book was prepared? The unanimous view of the authors is that our nation's outlook has worsened. The present volume, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited, explores the tipping point America now faces. Addressing America's competitiveness challenge will require many years if not decades; however, the requisite federal funding of much of that effort is about to terminate.
Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited provides a snapshot of the work of the government and the private sector in the past five years, analyzing how the original recommendations have or have not been acted upon, what consequences this may have on future competitiveness, and priorities going forward. In addition, readers will find a series of thought- and discussion-provoking factoids--many of them alarming--about the state of science and innovation in America.
Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited is a wake-up call. To reverse the foreboding outlook will require a sustained commitment by both individual citizens and government officials--at all levels. This book, together with the original Gathering Storm volume, provides the roadmap to meet that goal. While this book is essential for policy makers, anyone concerned with the future of innovation, competitiveness, and the standard of living in the United States will find this book an ideal tool for engaging their government representatives, peers, and community about this momentous issue.
"All that's missing [in this election campaign] is any realistic diagnosis of where we are as a country and what we need to get back to sustainable growth. Actually, such a diagnosis has been done. A nonpartisan group of America's most distinguished engineers, scientists, educators and industrialists unveiled just such a study in the midst of this campaign." -Thomas L. Friedman Read Friedman's entire article in The New York Times: Can't Keep a Bad Idea Down
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Wearing the unfamiliar No. 31, Ichiro Suzuki strode to the plate for his first Yankee at-bat in the third to a standing ovation and a charade of cheers from the place he called home for the past 11- plus years.
Suzuki returned the favor to the Seattle faithful with a traditional bow of respect to both sides of the stadium and then fittingly reached out and slapped a solid single to center.
The 38-year-old went 1-for-4 and stole a base in his Yankees debut, while Hiroki Kuroda spun seven innings of one-run ball as New York snapped its season-high four-game losing streak with a 4-1 triumph over the Seattle Mariners in the opener of a three-game set.
"I was on the opposite side today, it looks different being over here," said Suzuki through an interpreter. "But I was kind of worried getting up on that first at bat, but, with the standing ovation, I was really relieved. It was a special day today."
The Yankees acquired Suzuki, who is in the final year of his contract, from the Mariners earlier Monday in exchange for minor league pitchers D.J. Mitchell and Danny Farquhar and cash.
"We're excited to have him," said Yankees manager Joe Girardi of Suzuki. "It just changes our lineup when you have a guy that can do the things that he can do."
Suzuki, a 10-time American League All-Star, is Seattle's all-time leader in hits (2,533), runs scored (1,176), triples (79) and at-bats (7,858).
The AL MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001, Suzuki had spent his entire career with the Mariners, hitting .322 over that span. He was named an All- Star in 10 straight seasons from 2001-2010, while capturing a Gold Glove Award in each of those campaigns.
He did not wear his traditional No. 51 in respect for legendary Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams.
"It was a weird feeling," said Mariners catcher John Jaso of not having Suzuki on the team. "Once the game started the only weird thing was seeing him in a Yankees uniform.
Kuroda (10-7) fanned nine and surrendered three hits to win his career-high tying fourth straight decision.
Alex Rodriguez tallied two hits, including a solo homer, and two runs, Mark Teixeira recorded three hits, an RBI and a run scored and Rafael Soriano notched his 25th save of the year with a 1-2-3 ninth.
Kevin Millwood (3-8) was charged with three runs on nine hits and two walks in seven innings for Seattle, which had won five of its last seven.
Jaso's RBI single in the third opened the scoring for Seattle, but the Yankees retaliated with a three-run fourth and plated another in the eighth.
Rodriguez smacked a one-out double to center and after Robinson Cano walked, Teixeira brought Rodriguez home with a double to right. A pair of singles by Raul Ibanez and Andruw Jones plated Cano and Teixeira, respectively, to give New York a 3-1 advantage.
Rodriguez drilled a leadoff homer in the eighth into the seats in left-center to increase the Yankees margin to 4-1.
In the ninth, Jesus Montero flied out to Suzuki in right to end the game.
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The Illinois House has narrowly approved legislative hearings looking into how the Illinois High School Association operates.
The House on Monday approved legislation 55-51 from state Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia. The non-profit association organizes high school sports championships statewide.
Chapa LaVia says she wants to question the IHSA about sponsorship contracts and other financial issues because it receives taxpayer money. The Aurora Democrat says she doesn't want the state to take over the association. She says she wants accountability and transparency.
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Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, told the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee for Privacy, Technology that the Commission would like to see changes to the wording of the Location Privacy Protection Act of 2014 (LPPA) . The LPPA is draft legislation introduced by Sen. Al Franken that carves out new consumer protections for location data sent and received by mobile phones, tablets and other portable computing devices. Rich said that the FTC, as the U.S. Government's leading privacy enforcement agency, should be given rule making and enforcement authority for the civil provisions of the LPPA. The current draft of the law instead gives that authority to the Department of Justice.
The LPPA updates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to take into account the widespread and availability and commercial use of geolocation information provided. LPPA requires that companies get individuals' permission before collecting location data off of smartphones, tablets, or in-car navigation devices, and before sharing it with others.
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I have a '98 Legacy Limited GT with an automatic transmission. I noticed a referrence to newer Limited GT's coming with an LSD in the rear but need to now if this is true with my '98 version. How can I tell if there is an LSD in the rear diff? I am about to change the fluid in the diffs to synthetic using Mobil 75W90 but if I understand it correctly I need a special additive to the oil if the rear has an LSD. Is this correct? Also, can anyone tell me what gear ratio came in these cars? It cruises at 70 mph at 3,000 rpm.
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How to tell if I have a LSD in my '98 Legacy?
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Posted 07 September 2003 - 11:24 AM
None of the second generation Legacys (95-99) came with a rear LSD (North America anyway).
Some of the first generation Legacys have them (turbo) and some of the current generation Legacys have rear LSD. It's become more common again thru Subaru's line up.
Some of the first generation Legacys have them (turbo) and some of the current generation Legacys have rear LSD. It's become more common again thru Subaru's line up.
Posted 07 September 2003 - 12:30 PM
Check the label on the rear of the diff.
Posted 08 September 2003 - 11:46 AM
Straight from the Subaru parts book's mouth... you don't have a rear LSD.
Posted 09 September 2003 - 08:48 PM
Originally posted by edrach
Check the label on the rear of the diff.
I looked beforehand and there is no label on the rear of the diff.
North Ursalia and Commuter: that's what I was figuring. Thanks.
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Head coach Tom Brown returns 16 letter winners including all 11 starters from last year's team that came within a penalty kick shoot-out of reaching the Southland post-season tournament finals.
The group of returning players includes two ladies who rank among the top five goal scorers in Sam Houston soccer history.
Junior Tricia Mallory has scored 19 goals in two seasons as a Bearkat to rank second in career goals at SHSU. Senior Kirby Zak ranks fifth in all-time Kat annals with 17 career tallies. Both have earned All-Southland Conference honors each of their seasons at Sam Houston.
"Kirby is good at exploiting our opponent's weaknesses, so we like to move her around," Brown said. "Tricia is a talented finisher and has led our attack the past two seasons. We're looking for both to have good seasons up front."
Zak is one of seven seniors Brown expects to provide outstanding leadership and experience this season.
Returning in a back line that helped Sam Houston post seven shutouts during the 2011 drive to the Southland tournament semifinals are seniors Kayla Anderson, Amanda Biega and Hailey Shelpuk. In the midfield, Paige Rodriguez and Hillary Ackerman are back. Michele McCullough gives the Kats needed experience in goal.
"Our seven seniors know what it takes to be successful in the Southland Conference," Brown said.
Other returning players include juniors Cat Abitua, Lindsey Posner, Emily Edenstrom and sophomores Madison Bible, Ashley Fluty, Jessica Toms, Megan Manis, Ashlyn Davis and Kaitlyn Stowe.
Brown is excited about an outstanding group of new freshmen, several of whom could be in the mix for playing time. Top newcomers include goalkeeper Kylie Hambleton; defenders Becca Cheiffetz, Emma Brandon, Katie Bunch and Colby Glover; midflielder Mariah Titus and Ashley Alonzo; forwards Shelby McDaniel, Constance Semien and Katie Ferrara.
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Heidi, Greatly enjoy your column. I'm an American living in France, and have been following the O type diet (though not strictly) for several years. I have the BTD book, but next time in the USA, I'll buy one of the newer ones with updates. If I only get one, which is the best to get to have current info on foods and supplements? I'm not really interested in theory, as I have no qualms accepting it. And can I buy it at a book store, or only order it from NAP? Until I get it, I have a small potpourri of questions that I hope you can help me with. First, is MSM okay for type O? How about GSE, and does it contribute to an ongoing problem with acidity? Is Colloidal Silver really an effective anti-biotic, and is it safe to take it instead of a Doctor prescribed anti-biotic? And, if so, is it okay for O's?? Second, I take Armour Thyroid, which is made from pig's thyroid glands, I think. Being from a pig, is it a problem for O types? Third, sheep and goat yogurt are common in France. ER4YT says to avoid all yogurt varieties for type O, but don't know if it really refers to yogurts from animals other than cows. What about this? Lastly, I always steam my vegetables in the microwave, but recently read on a website that microwaves destroy vitamins in all foods. Is this true? I hope not, as it is a life saver, but guess I should know if I am ruining all my great "beneficial" veggies! Thanks for your advice, and keep it up! ~Abby~
Hello, Abby! The books are all available in major bookstore chains, as well as many smaller shops, health food stores... I've even seen them in pharmacies. I'd say it's a choice between the Complete Blood Type Encyclopedia and Live Right 4 Your Type. The Encyclopedia has far more supplement information, is primarily prescriptive, and contains a current food list. Live Right has a wealth of health-building strategies, along with detailed food lists. See the updates page for changes made since publication.
Over the years we've seen that MSM is unlikely to be of harm to anyone. :-) May I suggest the msm-msm.com website: ~lowest prices for highest purity!
Grapefruit seed extract can be very helpful in anti-candida protocols, and shouldn't give you any acidic symptoms.
Instead of colloidal silver, I've found a less hazardous and far more effective product: Heallix, composed of ionized silver and fulvic acid. Read all about it on Leo's site. He and his product are very fine indeed. I and friends use Heallix occasionally for everything from a cut or scrape to impending cold or more serious health concerns. It appears to work for everyone with nary a side effect, and rather miraculously in our experience. See what you think!
Armour Thyroid is unlikely to contain any of the galectin we seek to avoid by eschewing pig meat. Besides, it is used only in therapeutic situations. The alternative (Synthroid) is no better, and probably worse. If you still have your thyroid, I hope the diet (including plenty of seaweeds, and some supplements if necessary) may reduce your need for the Armour ~ but in the meantime, don't worry about the "pork" aspect! :-)
Ha! I was waiting for a dairy question. After all, you live in FRANCE! I expected "cheese," but yogurt fills the bill. (I can tell you that if I lived in France, the question would be ALL about cheeses!! ) I have no authoritative data on sheep vs cow yogurt OR cheese, but you can test it on yourself and will probably get a quick answer right there at home. Try some regular cow yogurt, and see if you experience some sniffling, sneezing or coughing. I predict you will clear your throat a fair bit, or have a runny nose, within half an hour. If you can pinpoint clear symptoms, that's great! Round two is, next day, try some sheep yogurt. Next day, the goat yogurt. And post me a full report! :-D
Well, just recently I read somewhere on the Minnesota Wellness Directory pages that microwaving garlic for as little as one minute destroys its cholesterol-lowering properties. Whoo! I've no way of testing this assertion, but I've taken to warming things in the toaster/broiler instead these days. Peter has said it's best not to cook things in the MW, but warming-up isn't going to turn us into Venusians or anything. See if you can adapt your steaming technique to a stovetop pot or oven routine. And don't let yourself be alarmed by all the health scares and Powerful Advice on the Internet (including from me!!) to the point you give up on your veg and start eating Bigue Macques or anything. ~~;-D
With all the gorgeous fresh, organic and wild food available in the bounty of France, I'm sure your regimen will accomplish your health goals in record time. Enjoy the abundance, and eat a little fresh herbed chèvre for me, OK?
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12.04.12Dow Coating Materials, a global business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, has announced plans to expand production of its Dispersants product line in response to rapidly increasing demand from customers across the globe. Additional production of Tamol and Orotan high-performance hydrophobically modified copolymer dispersants from Dow is slated to begin in Q1 2013. The additional Tamol dispersant will be produced for
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So, the Microsoft announcement - taking place as I write this, 01:45 in my timezone - turns out to be a bigger deal than expected. Microsoft just announced it's going full-on hardware - the company announced a new tablet called 'Surface', and boy, is this thing something to behold. Microsoft's hardware partners? They're not happy right now. Update: Here's Microsoft's official Surface site. I believe someone coined the phrase 'sexy as a succubus' in the comments about Vizio? Stealin' it! Update II: They aren't just taking the iPad head-on - this is a straight-up MacBook Air competitor.
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> And I quite enjoy the double speak a lot of people use > with regards to Windows 8. Some say it won't sell, no > one will like Metro, it'll cause Microsoft to lose revenue (give me a break) while at the same time decrying the unfair monopoly that Microsoft has and how its going to ensure Microsoft dominates, and how general purpose computing is over
There's not contradiction in this logic, while Win8 may flop in traditional MS turf (esp. enterprise) it makes an interesting tablet offering, a serious treat to Android in ARM tablet space. And that's where it's restrictions may shape hardware standards (ARM PC) to exclude Linux and any other oses for that matter.


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Cinco de Mayo Celebration, an event to kick off summer and to commemorate Mexican heritage, is scheduled for May 4. Organized by InspirationField, the Celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Downtown La Junta, followed by a Dance featuring "Krush" at the new Inspiration Field Building at 7 p.m.
The La Junta Tribune-Democrat Cinco de Mayo Celebration will feature Authentic Mexican cuisine, which will be served at the La Junta Senior Center beginning at 11 a.m. The event will include vendor booths, a live auction beginning at 12:48 p.m., silent auction, games and a beer garden for adults. Also, the State Bank of La Junta sponsoring a coin find for kids at 3 p.m.
The event will also include live entertainment throughout the day beginning with Latin Boyz at 10 a.m., Glass Apparatus at 1 p.m. and 2nd Chance at 3 p.m. in addition to a pie eating contest and Piñata Break in between performances.
The dance, featuring "Krush," is at the new InspirationField Building located at 612 Adams. From 7 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. the dance is for ages 21 years and up; tickets for the dance are $10 each or $12 at the door.
Numerous activities including a 5K Run/Walk and a Zumba Street Fest are part of the Cinco de Mayo Celebration. The InspirationField 4th Annual Cinco 5K Run/Walk will begin at the corner of Second and Colorado. Check-in begins at 7:15 a.m.; the run/walk begins at 8 a.m. Pre-registrations for the run/walk are currently being accepted, or participants can sign up the morning of the event. The entry fee is $20.
The Zumba Street Fest, with Leah Reed and friends, will be held Downtown at 2nd and Raton from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The entry fee is $20 and includes a free Zumba 3-pack of ankle socks to the first 40 entries.
The funds raised during the Celebration will be added to InspirationField's capital campaign fund for the new 34,280 square foot state-of-the-art facility located at 612 Adams where day program services, supported employment opportunities, meeting facilities and administrative offices will be located.
This year's sponsors include Johnnie & Mabel DeLeon, Rocky Mountain Coors, Holiday Inn Express, La Junta Tourism, Wendy's; PDC Pharmacy, Flood & Peterson, BJ's, The State Bank Of La Junta, Copper Kitchen, M4 roofing, EMR Contracting, H.W. Houston Construction, La Junta Economic Development; Armor Sheet Metal, Images in Wood, Steel City, Woodco, Knights of Columbus, Coffee Holding, Sports World, Elks Lodge, Gobin's and Hydro Profire.
For additional information on the La Junta Tribune Democrat Cinco de Mayo Celebration or to purchase tickets to "Krush", contact Kristina Lofing, InspirationField Development & Communications Manager at 719-384-8741, ext 146.
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After two years of radio silence since first revealing a MechWarrior reboot was in the works, developer Piranha Games has revealed that the game will be a PC-exclusive title sporting a free-to-play business model.
MechWarrior Online will go live in the second half of 2012, according to a report from PC Gamer.
"Starting from just before the Clan Invasion of 3050, MWO will tell the story of the Battletech universe in real-time," PC Gamer writes in its exclusive preview of the upcoming title. Each day within the game will represent a single day of the universe's warring factions battling for control of the "fictional Inner Sphere."
"I think it's really the MechWarrior you know," Piranha President Russ Bullock said, insisting that the title's new Free-to-Play model will not keep the game from being a proper title in the series. "It's fully first-person. It's not a new interpretation. We're modernizing things a little bit, I think we'll get to those questions, but certainly it's MechWarrior."
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Jordan Weisman, founder of MechWarrior creator FASA, announced in 2007 his newly established studio Smith & Tinker had licensed the rights to a number of properties from Microsoft, including MechWarrior. At the time, Weisman said it was his company's intention to "surprise and delight old fans."
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BATAVIA – Aldermen on Monday voted to make the city's economic development position a full-time post.
"I'm encouraged to see what this person can do," 7th Ward Alderman Dawn Tenuta said.
Meredith Hannah had been the city's economic development analyst since July 2008, but Hannah left the part-time post in February.
Assistant City Administrator Jason Bajor said making the position full-time would help the city.
"The primary focus of the position would revolve around business retention and expansion, as well as marketing and attraction," Bajor said in a memo to aldermen.
The position would pay between $55,000 and $77,000 a year. He said staff had conducted a review of comparable positions within the employment market.
"Estimating a starting salary at the midpoint [$65,000] and with additional benefits, the total cost for the position is projected to be about $94,000," Bajor said.
Hannah earned about $36,000 a year in the part-time role.
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"Given the considerable economic development efforts focused within the downtown area, it is a conservative estimate that 25 percent of this position's time will be focused on downtown activities," Bajor said.