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STEWART AIRPORT — A subcontractor on Stewart Airport's three-year runway rehabilitation project is seeking state permission to set up a temporary asphalt plant at the airport.
STEWART AIRPORT — A subcontractor on Stewart Airport's three-year runway rehabilitation project is seeking state permission to set up a temporary asphalt plant at the airport.
According to documents posted on the state Department of Environmental Conservation's website, the department has tentatively decided to issue a permit for the plant. However, it is inviting public comment before making the decision final. Comments are due June 7.
Jointa Lime Co., based in upstate Wilton, north of Saratoga Springs, is the applicant.
The three-year, $71.7 million project is the largest single capital improvement authorized by Port Authority since it took on Stewart's lease in November 2007.
Work, which is supposed to begin by next month, will include repaving the 11,817-foot main runway 9-27 and the 6,004-foot backup runway 6-34, and adding a high-speed taxiway exit to the main runway. Aside from paving, major work is to include upgrading the airfield's electrical system to meet Federal Aviation Administration standards.
The main runway was last rehabilitated in 2001, while the backup runway has not been done since 1994.
The preliminary determination is that the asphalt plant would be a minor source of emissions and will not have a significant effect on the environment.
The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation determined, based on a cultural resources survey, that the work would not have any impact on registered archeological sites or historic structures, or those eligible for such status.
It is unclear from the documents on the DEC's website exactly where the plant would be located, and a Jointa spokesman did not return calls for comment.
Information on the application is available through the DEC's May 8 environmental notice bulletin, which can be found through the public involvement and news link at the agency's website, www.dec.ny.gov.
Comments should be sent to R. Scott Ballard, NYSDEC
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Distributed? Centralized? Both?
Part of the interest in programmatic interfaces is fueled by the desire to logically centralize network control functions. A global view of network state can have many benefits but it does not preclude the use of distributed protocols within the network. Network Programming Interfaces (NPIs) provide a facility to construct global state, mutate that state and distribute that state to the network which in combination with distributed protocols can aid in achieving greater network efficiencies, improve visibility, robustness and add to the value of the network overall. When used the right way, these NPIs will help set a new balance between centralized and distributed control. Key to this balance will be domain or deployment specific constraints.
Finding the appropriate balance in a domain means deciding where authoritative network state is kept, how the network needs to react to state changes, and how quickly applications need stability. If we desire 50ms restoration in case of link failures, some form of control logic on the individual network element will be necessary. Whereas, if we're interested in placing a new service appliance in our network and we know the traffic access patterns, or would want to perform some maintenance task and wanted to cleanly isolate the effected systems, we might opt for logically centralized control.
Centralized control for packet forwarding? When it comes to controlling packet forwarding, things become more subtle. Networks are distributed systems and can include a high degree of uncertainty. Today's network protocols were designed to operate in environments without communication guarantees, and to cope with nearly unbounded latency, highly variable resources, temporary inconsistencies, as well as arbitrary failures and changes. Today's distributed routing protocols serve these environments well. That said many of today's network deployments are not that random, e.g. data center networks are often built using very few types of network elements and have a very regular and stable network topology. Would this allow us to re-consider our control plane architecture? Could we centralize parts of the forwarding control so we can adapt more easily to specific needs of a business or application? For instance, we might want to choose a route on the least expensive path for our backup traffic as opposed to the shortest one. Another example might be to route our time sensitive multicast traffic on our lowest delay links, with the individual link delay measured dynamically.
Consistency requires protocols. When evolving the control plane design key considerations need to be given to conditions where the view that the network control plane has of the network differs from the physical reality. This is commonly the case right after for example a link change. How quickly can one converge to consistent behavior? Distributed protocols deal with these temporary inconsistencies by using mechanisms such as monotonically increasing sequence numbers with IP's TTL probably being the number one example, or proposal-agreement handshakes (i.e. two-phase commit) which rapid spanning tree employs. The latter achieves strong consistency, at the cost of increased delay– while the earlier relies on higher level protocols to deal with the temporary inconsistencies.
Let's keep in mind that part of the success of protocols is due to the fact that they are "pass by value" and leverage well defined state machines. That way protocols avoid the problem that RPC-style "request/response" communication suffers from: Far too often requestor and responder have a different understanding of the semantics of the information exchanged. For example, does the return of a positive acknowledgment mean that the request was just received and queued, or that the request was executed? Consensus building protocols, which are the basis for state machines in the network, resolve this issue via their very nature.
Consequently, even with logically centralizing components, the need for protocols and state machines between all elements does not disappear. We should not fool ourselves to believe that there could be just a single central authority which owns the master state of the network and just "programs" the network via RPC. For who might still believe in full centralization, consider how difficult it is to debug the situation where "Routing" and "Forwarding" tables of a router become out of synch.
Distributed? Centralized? It depends on your deployment. The answer to whether, and if so where, we'll use logically centralized components will have many factors. Key factors include:
- whether there is a need to run a custom control algorithm
- the ability to centrally access sources of information which are not easily accessible through one of today's network protocols
- the expected performance and scale of the solution; how quickly can we respond to network events, and what is the event frequency
- the need to handle multiple concurrent failures
Handling events where they occur, i.e. on the network element, obviously helps network performance and system scale. But there are benefits to centralization. Therefore with the advent of NPIs, it is time to re-examine combining fast reacting fully distributed control with a highly optimized centralized control for specific domains and deployments. The question is: What types of network deployments does this matter to first?
Coming back to our data center example: It is possible to build upon a network running a fully distributed routing protocol such as OSPF. On top this OSPF network, we could leverage a logically centralized routing application which reviews the link state database as computed by OSPF, and then computes and injects higher priority (least dollar cost or lowest delay) routes. In such a hybrid control case we have the best of both worlds. Our centralized routing application can fail (or be slow to converge) yet traditional OSPF routes will still be determined in a distributed manner ensuring that the traffic flows.
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Thanks for sharing Frank,
That sounds like a central control point to execute PBR based on CPE policy into an IGP via onePK.
I agree a hybrid approach is the obvious first step in the evolution. I happen to believe in centralization still, there are varying degrees to what we are centralizing. A tree approach Islands are a popular thought today for migration paths. Creating subdomain structure just as we do for the same reasons today would likely fit the same construct. Peeling traffic to a different pipeline looks pretty elegant also for the hybrid approach.
A more rich hierarchy and layered approach to state synchronization is likely in order. In your OSPF example I believe there could be consolidation into a controller sub-domain with state synchronization vertically of horizontally from there. We seem charted towards more layering and abstraction. Synchronization is a big challenge good thing we have Google doing what they are on that front 🙂
Good read.

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Growing Like a Read
Welcome the Growing Like a Read program. To introduce you to what GLAR is all about, the Pioneer Library System has filmed and included a fun and informative video series for library customers.
If you would like even more detail about GLAR, please take a look at the information provided below to learn more about the basics of this early childhood reading program.
GLAR or Growing Like a Read is a project of the Pioneer Library System that promotes brain development for literacy skills in children from birth through age 4 through reading, talking, playing and singing. It was originally funded through a grant from the Inasmuch Foundation.
GLAR is intended for parents and caregivers and their children in Cleveland, McClain and Pottawatomie counties. Day care providers receive special materials to work with groups. Children's librarians at each Hometown Library will model GLAR rhymes and activities in story times, toddler times, Rhythm Babies, and Rhythm Toddlers programs.
Research shows that it's the one-on-one interaction between parent and child that is critical for early learning. Early reading has lifelong consequences. Research shows that children who enter kindergarten unprepared cannot catch up.
GLAR activities are suggested for any place parents and their children can be together: at home, on the go, at the library, in the store, at bedtime.
Often! Because repetition is the key. The more often a beloved role model speaks, reads, or sings to a child, the stronger the neural pathways in the child's brain become, the more words a child learns, the more sounds and rhythms of speech s/he can interpret, the more stories s/he understands and can tell, the more connections between words and print s/he can make, and the more s/he will be soothed and enchanted by books.
Visit a Hometown Library and tell the Children's Librarian you want to participate in Growing Like a Read. As long as supplies last, s/he will provide to each family: a tote bag to carry library books, a stand-up book of rhymes, songs and finger plays, an activity log matched to the child's age, a copy of our nursery rhyme CD, and a copy of the PLS WORD Magazine explaining the program and the research behind it.
This program is intended for all your children under age 4. You will receive additional activity logs matched to their ages.
Day care providers receive a set of posters that correspond to the individual stand-up book. Contact your Hometown Library for a set for your center.
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Clambering over giant landslides in the middle of nowhere in Sichuan Province, carrying aid to quake victims, is not what Frank Dunne came to China to do.
The beefy, middle-aged salesman from Virginia actually had an even more exotic plan – making apple jam in Tibet. But that was put on hold because Chinese authorities have not allowed Mr. Dunne to go home since the Tibetan uprising in March.
So in his new adventure, he's organizing, sometimes leading, "extreme teams" that the US charity "Heart to Heart" has been sending to more remote mountain villages, schlepping in aid on their backs when the roads are blocked.
His destination last Tuesday was Long Zhu, a scattering of houses across forested hillsides now scarred by rock slides, that he had visited 10 days earlier as the head of the first civilian relief team to reach the 800 inhabitants.
"If not for the earthquake," he says, "I would probably be somewhere else learning Chinese, which is what I ought to be doing. But this gives me a nice, noble reason not to study."
"The place captured my heart because it's just paradise," he explained, "except that at the moment nobody has a house to live in or a dry bed to sleep in."
Getting there would not be easy and might be dangerous. Dunne made the nine members of his team sign release forms and take a group ID photo "in case we get buried under a landslide" provoked by one of the numerous aftershocks that still rattle the region. The latest major aftershock, which struck Thursday, had a magnitude of 5.3.
The village's inaccessibility turned out to be only one of the problems. Trying to get a better grip on the multiplicity of aid efforts, which range from Chinese soldiers and citizen-volunteers to foreign medical teams and private nongovernmental organizations, Chinese officials have begun preventing unofficial distribution of goods not authorized by the government.
At the first police roadblock, at a highway tollbooth, Dunne was unflappable. He simply walked to the head of the line of backed-up cars with a folder of documents under his arm and approached a policeman politely. His three-vehicle convoy was waved through.
"Amazing what a file folder and a name tag will do," he said with a smile.
Determination and a four-wheel-drive
An hour or so later, after a jolting drive into the mountains past badly damaged villages dotted with makeshift tents, he adopted a more determined attitude. Pulled over by a soldier because of his foreign face, and risking getting separated from the two front cars in the convoy driven by Chinese, he made an executive decision.
He was unable to explain what he was doing (he should have taken those language classes), so he simply slammed his secondhand Isuzu jeep into reverse, turned hard, and roared up the road after his team. "We've got to catch up with the others," he called out in English. "If you want me, come chase me."
It turned out to be a fruitless gambit; a little farther on, the road was more securely blocked by more soldiers who were adamant that foreigners could go no farther.
Dunne knew another way in to Long Zhu though, and after a three-hour detour lurching into the mountains along dirt tracks through one flattened village after another, he reached the last obstacle before the road became completely impassable – a fast-flowing stream. Whooping with excitement he ploughed his four-wheel-drive through the water, climbed up the steep bank, and came to a halt at a house-sized boulder that completely blocked his path.
From there it would be a tough 30-minute climb up and down a hill and through two massive landslides that had piled huge rocks across the narrow valley.
As he unloaded the food, tents, personal hygiene products and medicine he had brought, and that he and fellow volunteers would carry on by hand, Dunne was thinking not only of the people who would receive it, but also of those who had given it and wanted to know where it had gone.
He had one photo taken of himself holding a box of bread, with the baker's name prominently displayed; another showed him in an "Operation Blessing" T-shirt, in a nod to the help that Pat Robertson has given "Heart to Heart"; in a third picture, he was heaving a tent paid for by the American Chamber of Commerce and labeled as such.
"Pictures are important," he explained. "They keep supporters smiling and giving. This is going to be a long effort, and we don't want them tiring easily."
A 30-minute sweaty scramble later, villagers from Long Zhu (meaning "Dragon Bamboo") appeared to help carry the supplies. They greeted Dunne warmly, clasping his hand. "I'm really touched by the way they remembered us and the smiles on their faces," he said. "We seem to be welcome."
A spirit of adventure
The gathering of villagers at the group of tents that now constitutes Long Zhu's center is a long way from Virginia Beach, where Dunne spent much of his life selling computer software, home improvement supplies, and wastewater treatment systems.
He first came to China in 1995, when his wife saw an advertisement seeking teachers here. "She said, 'We could do that,' " Dunne recalls, and he agreed.
"The travel and adventure spirit was already alive and well in me," he adds. "I was just waiting for her to get on board."
After 3-1/2 years in the northeastern province of Jilin, a spell back in the United States, and the time it took him to set up an English school in Yunnan, Dunne and his wife, with their three children, won official permission to become the first foreigners to live in Batang, a small town on the high Tibetan plateau, at the border between Sichuan and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
"We hadn't a clue what we were going to do there," he laughs, "but it was breathtakingly beautiful and the cleanest place I had ever seen. "And we knew we wanted to do something to promote the idea that free enterprise is a good idea" to Tibetans in a place where ethnic Han Chinese dominate commerce, he explains.
Eventually he settled on a project to use the region's plentiful apples – descended from trees planted a century ago by missionaries – that now mostly feed yaks or rot on the trees for lack of marketing savvy among Tibetans who live in Batang.
A community kitchen making preserves for sale to the booming expatriate community in China, he hopes, could be a seedbed for other small businesses. "At the moment the sharpest Tibetans go away to college and never come back," he explains. "If we can make it fun and exciting and profitable enough to stay in town ... we might help stave off some of the brain drain. I'm still not sure it's going to work," he adds, but I'm willing to invest a few years to see."
It has taken two years just to make the right connections, choose the right project, and earn local people's trust, Dunne says, in a part of the world where trust even among neighbors is in short supply.
"To bring a community together, to see the transforming power of free enterprise, that would be beautiful if it could work," he says. "I just like the idea of seeing people's lives transformed for the better."
Dunne does not expect to be allowed back home until after the Olympic Games, and he says he has lost this year's production cycle, but he is prepared to wait.
"What I am trying to do may be a bit bizarre," he acknowledges, "and it's still a little idealistic, but it's fun and it's challenging, and it's a lot more rewarding than the next software deal."
• For more information on Heart to Heart, go to: www.hearttoheart.org. Frank Dunne's NGO, which runs the apple-jam project is at: REN Group, PO Box 65531 Virginia Beach, Va. 23467


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Osteoporesis is also creating a legion of shorter elderly people whose vertebrae are compressing against each other due to the loss of calcium from the bone. Perhaps this explains why the Incredible Shrinking Woman got so small.
This epidemic of osteoporesis has created a major market for calcium supplementation. If calcium supplements were listed on the stock exchange, their price would have skyrocketed in recent years. However, if people knew the research about calcium that follows here, the stock's value would have fallen as fast as it rose.
There are numerous countries that have a very low rate of osteoporesis despite the fact that the people consume as little as 200 mg of calcium a day, considerably less than the 1,000 to 1,500 mg. of calcium that most doctors recommend for pre- and post-menopausal women. The problem in this country is that most women consume too many things that leech the calcium out of their bones.
Conventional physicians often recommend hormone replacement therapy as a preventive to osteoporesis. Research has shown that lifelong use of these hormones helps to maintain bone strength, though it does not restore bone loss that has already occurred. More troublesome about the use of these drugs are the numerous studies indicating that they create side effects including increased chances of endometrial cancer and heart disease. Also, once a woman stops taking these drugs, calcium excretion is significantly increased.
Here are some strategies which are less costly than drugs, both financially and otherwise, and with fewer side effects. Since having adequate calcium levels in the bone is dependent on building bone strength during youth, it is best to take measures to prevent osteoporesis as early in life as possible. Although the best time to start was when you were a child; the second best time is today.


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- Dec 22nd evening! Delicious wine enjoyed sipping by the fire!
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Dear Lifehacker,
I've been getting tons of spam calls lately—like, multiple calls per day. I'm on the national Do Not Call list, but I'm still getting these robo-calls! Is there anything else I can do?
Endless Ringing
We've posted this once before, but we've gotten this question a few times lately, so we've updated our guide with modern information to help out those still getting unwanted calls. Enjoy!
Dear Endless,
You actually have quite a few options depending on the type of phone you're using. Let's take a look at what some of the more popular phones have built in.
Block Calls on Android
Android users have a number of apps available in the Play Store that can block calls. Previously mentioned Call Filter is definitely the most popular option, and it's completely free. DroidBlock will also do the trick of Call Filter doesn't.
Success with call-blocking apps tends to vary and they're not always 100% effective. If you want to avoid apps you may have another option built into Android. Some Android phones can send calls directly to voicemail, which you can enable by editing the contact information containing the number you want to block.
Some other phones (like many Samsung phones) may have call blocking options built-in, but it varies from phone to phone. Google your phone to see if it has any call blocking features out-of-the-box.
Block Calls on a Jailbroken iPhone
The iPhone doesn't allow apps that block calls, nor does it have a true call blocking feature built in. However, if you've jailbroken your phone (which is super easy to do), you can purchase iBlackList through Cydia.
If you don't want to jailbreak, check out some of the solutions below instead.
Block Calls on Any Phone
The following methods will work no matter what phone you have:
Google Voice
One of the best ways to block calls is to use Google Voice. If you don't have a Google Voice account and you live in the US, you can sign up here. Blocking calls with Google Voice is pretty simple: you have the option of sending them directly to voicemail, treating all their calls as spam, or blocking them entirely. Here's how blocking works:
- Log in to your Google Voice account.
- Find the call you want to block (or the voicemail that resulted from it).
- Select the checkbox next to the call or voicemail.
- Click the "more" link underneath the call.
- Select "Block Caller."
The best part is, you don't need change your number to do this. You just need to use Google Voice for voicemail, as reader Grays explains:
I do not use Google Voice normally as I do not give out my GV number; instead I use it as my Voicemail. People call my normal Sprint number and I have it conditional call forwarded (conditional means its only forwards when its busy or I do not answer) to my GV number. This is done on Sprints network by using *28. (Ed. note: You can see instructions on how to do this on any carrier from Google Voice's settings).
So now when someone calls my Sprint phone and I don't answer, it rolls to Google Voice as my voicemail and from there I can block calls. In this scenario it still rings to me but if I don't answer and I have them blocked they get a nice "this number has been disconnected" message. It only takes them one or two times before they then quit calling thinking the number is disconnected. It's a great alternative and I get to keep my cell number.
Silence the Call
Another option is to just silence the call. While it isn't technically a call-blocking method, the result is pretty much the same. Just install a silent ringtone on your phone, then attach it to numbers you don't want to answer and your phone will stay silent when they call.
Contact Your Carrier
Most carriers have a means of blocking calls even if they don't realize it. It usually costs money and it usually falls under the header of Parental Controls but it works just the same. AT&T uses a feature called Smart Controls to get the job done, and charges $5/month for the service. Verizon has a free call blocking service that can block five callers at a time, or a $5/month option called Usage Controls with more features. With T-Mobile, doesn't have an official call blocking service, but some users say you can call 611 and customer service will help you block any particular number. Sprint users can manage blocked calls from their My Sprint account settings.
If you don't like your carrier options, TrapCall (our previous post) is an inexpensive service that'll not only block calls, but can even unmask numbers that appear as "blocked" when they call you. It offers some other options, such as voicemail transcription at an additional cost, but $5 a month will get you the basic features you're looking for. Thanks sleepmanager for the tip!
While there's no obvious one-size-fits-all solution, you've got plenty of options for blocking unwanted calls. You just have to find the option that best fits your needs.


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Reality fuels new fiction for Plame
Valerie Plame, who rose to prominence in 2003 when her cover as a CIA operative was blown in a newspaper column, is now trying her hand at fiction — well, mostly fiction.
In "Blowback," which came out earlier this month, Plame's lead character not only works at the CIA but also has the same initials (Vanessa Pierson). Plame says the process of writing fiction after "Fair Game" was "a blast," and she's not sure that she'll ever go back to the world of nonfiction.
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"I'm already working on the second book," Plame said. "Hopefully this will be a long and successful series. … I've got so much on my plate that to do justice to a big topic in a nonfiction way, I'd have to clear everything and also lose my kids. And I like them well enough."
Part of Plame's motivation in writing "Blowback" was her own frustration with how female CIA agents are typically portrayed.
"Most of the women portrayed in espionage thrillers, they're pretty silly. So I wanted to correct the record while still making it realistic and entertaining," Plame told POLITICO. "I think they're props. I think most people really enjoy James Bond, but of course women are props. They're either man-eaters or they're props. In my experience, I was none of those things and still was able to collect intelligence."
( Also on POLITICO: Sabato's JFK book takes aim at House conspiracy theory)
The plot in "Blowback" centers on an Iran nuclear facility — an area of expertise for Plame — and so, accordingly, the book had to be vetted by the CIA.
"I'm obligated forever to submit my writings to them for review, which is fine." And while she might have given up the world of nonfiction writing, she's not done with nonfiction news reading.
"I'm watching very closely what's happening between President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani," Plame said. "I'm really heartened to see there's an actual dialogue and diplomatic overtures between the United States and Iran, which hasn't happened at this level since 1979. … The United States is great enough to speak to our friends and enemies alike. … Maybe there is a window of opportunity. … Both sides really want to make this happen, so I'm really heartened."
Plame has also kept her eye on recent revelations of domestic surveillance from the National Security Agency, although she said that, in the past, "I had assumed it was happening."
( Also on POLITICO: Carl Bernstein's 'Washington Star' memoir)
"Certainly I did not know the extent and the breadth that we now know from Edward Snowden's revelations," Plame said. "I find it very troubling. There's a great deal of power amassed in the NSA and while many Americans seem not to quite understand the consequences, the fact remains that information is power and they are taking in so much — in many ways illegally — and so many decisions are being made in these secret [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] courts. I'd really like to see more robust congressional oversight."
Plame and her family have lived in New Mexico since they left Washington in 2007 and they haven't looked back.
"We miss our friends, but we don't miss Washington one bit," said Plame, who not only read Mark Leibovich's "This Town" — which painted a damning portrait of how business gets done in Washington — but called it "brilliant."
"My husband I know many of the characters in the book," Plame said. "Many of us who live outside the Beltway look back and say, 'really?'"


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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Wordless Wednesday: Primary Colors (Sorta)
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I have always wanted to have some of those little blue ones and just this year (like right now) I see that two must have transplanted themselves from someone elses garden into one of mine. Thanks for sharing, Greta.ReplyDelete
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Thanks! I love the grape hyacinths, too. And they are so forgiving - extreme temps, lousy soil, getting stepped on - you name it, they still come through.ReplyDelete
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Last week, when Apple reported earnings it said it was going to go into debt, and sell bonds.
It's the first time the company is going into debt since 1996.
The proceeds of the bonds will be used to fund dividends and stock buybacks.
The company has tons of cash, as everyone knows, but it's parked overseas, and to repatriate it would cause the company a tax hit. So it makes sense to borrow for dividends and buybacks, rather than to use its existing cash.
Anyway, the offering is going to be absolutely gigantic. Reports vary, but it seems likely that this will be the largest non-financial orporate bond offering in histoory.
Different reporters have different numbers.
We're hearing #Apple bond size to be between $10bn to $15bn - at top end would be the biggest US corporate bond of all time — Chris Adams (@chrisadamsmkts) April 30, 2013
Regardless of how much the company is raising, it's clear that demand is through the roof.
CNBC's Kayla Tausche reported that the order book could be as big as $40 billion, meaning that the company has received at least $40 billion worth of bids for the debt.
One trader we spoke to said: "Hearing AAPL deal already 2x + over subscribed."
He followed that up with: "hearing $40Bn in the book now AAPL. $15-$20bln deal expected."
Good news. Apple finally has a hit on its hands.


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- and definitely not THE archaeologist, but have an increasing interest in the subject. This comes about mostly as a result of acrimonious debates between creationists and evolutionists. Which "side" I am on matters not one jot, reason will prevail.
I got here by a reference from Minimalist on another board and I am pleased to be here.
My weekend will be full with 111 pages of previously unknown "beginnings" debate to read.


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Race, Sport and the American Dream
Carolina Academic Press, 2007 - Social Science - 261 pages
This book reports the main findings of a five-year research project investigating the scope and consequences of the deepening relationship between African American males and the institution of sport. While there is some scholarly literature on the topic, author Earl Smith tries to understand through this project how sport has changed the nature of African American Civil Society and has come to be a major influence on economic opportunities, schooling and the shaping of African American family life. Race, Sport and the American Dream is a contribution to the literature on the continued relevance of African American athletes in contemporary American society. What is of interest here is the broader socio-cultural milieu that surrounds the dialectic of African American athletes and mainstream American society. This book is intended to provide social scientists and others interested in the sociology of sport with an understanding of carefully selected issues related to the African American athlete. Smith examines the world of amateur sports (Olympic and intercollegiate sport) using Immanuel Wallersteins World-Systems Paradigm which provides a lens with which to examine the colonizing and exploitative nature of intercollegiate sports and the special arrangements that universities have with the world of sport. He also analyzes the world of professional sports ranging from NASCAR to the NBA. All of the topics in this book from youth violence, to sport as big business which Smith terms as the Athletic Industrial Complexto incivility and criminal behavior by athletes, to the lack of leadership opportunitiesas coaches, administrators, and owners for African American athletes who retire from play, to the question of the biological superiority of African American athletes verses white athletes are addressed within the context of the history of racial oppression that has dominated race relations in the United States since its inception as a nation-state in the 1620s. Any discussion of race and sport must be understood within this context of power and domination. Otherwise, the importance of the question itself will always be (a) misunderstood or (b) underestimated.
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Taylor Swift is not typically a controversial figure, but her latest mascara advertisement caused a minor stir for violating industry standards — all because her eyelashes were digitally enhanced.
As Taste of Country reports, Procter & Gamble pulled the print ad for CoverGirl NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara featuring Swift after an inquiry from the National Advertising Division of the Council of Business Bureaus Claims. Complaints were centered around the fact that the ad featured a disclaimer that read, "lashes enhanced in post production," meaning they were altered via Photoshop.
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SMS Flaw Opens Twitter Users to Account Hijacking
A flaw in how Twitter handles SMS messages can be exploited by attackers who know the victim's mobile number, a security researcher has found.
With just the mobile phone number in hand, attackers can post messages from the victim's account and modify profile information, security researcher Jonathan Rudenberg wrote in a blog post Tuesday. Users who have registered a mobile number can post messages on the site via SMS messages. Users who have enabled this feature are vulnerable and should disable it until the security hole is closed, Rudenberg said.
Users can remove their mobile numbers from Twitter by visiting the Settings page.
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Rudenberg said that he disclosed the vulnerability to Twitter Aug. 17 and the company asked him to not publicly disclose the information until the security flaw could be closed. When he asked Twitter for an update Oct. 15, he got no response. He notified Twitter he would publish his findings on Nov. 28.
"I received no further communication from Twitter," he said.
Twitter's security team reached out to Rudenberg after he published his findings and said the security hole has been closed, he told Ars Technica in an email update.
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Facebook and mobile payment service Venmeo had a similar security hole, but both companies have already fixed the issue, he said. Rudenberg will be collecting a bounty from Facebook for finding and reporting the issue, according to his post. Venmeo, which has been acquired by Braintree, fixed the issue immediately by disabling the ability to make payments via SMS, Rudenberg said.
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Not surprisingly, a film of this stature has enjoyed no shortage of home video releases. DVD Talk reviewed most of 'em, including the vintage SelectaVision VideoDisc, the 2000 DVD release, 2005's extensive three-disc Collector's Edition Set and, of course, 2009's landmark 70th Anniversary Blu-Ray. The Wizard of Oz's upcoming 75th Anniversary has spawned a well-received IMAX 3-D theatrical release and, naturally, it's been ported to Blu-ray for fans to enjoy at home. Both a non-3-D edition and another massive boxed set are also available, but this two-disc release splits the difference by offering both viewing options and a nice collection of old and new bonus features. Let's take a closer look, shall we?
This appears to be an identical presentation of the 70th Anniversary Blu-ray, utilizing a 2009 8K scan that captures almost every detail imaginable. Obviously the transition from 8K to 1080p will sacrifice many of these details...but within the limitations of current technology, Wizard of Oz fans won't find much to complain about. The mixture of sepia-toned footage and, of course, every ounce of eye-popping Technicolor makes each viewing a memorable experience, while digital imperfections are virtually absent every step of the way. A pleasing layer of natural film grain is also present, as well as strong shadow detail and striking textures. Overall, we won't see a better effort until 4K gets off the ground.
An optional 3-D Version of The Wizard of Oz is also included; though I don't have the full technical capability to enjoy this option at the present time, initial reviews of the revamped IMAX theatrical release were quite positive so I'm eager to check it out. It's also worth noting that unlike the 70th Anniversary Blu-Ray, both versions of the film have now been encoded using the more modern MPEG-4 MVC codec. Though it doesn't seem to have noticeably improved the video presentation (at least to my eyes), it's reassuring to know that little details like this were at least paid attention to.
The new DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio default track replaces the 70th Anniversary Dolby TrueHD 5.1 offering, but the song remains the same. It's a tasteful remix that isn't loaded with canned surround effects and forced channel separation, just occasional hints of background ambiance and a fuller-sounding tornado experience. The classic soundtrack and score also benefit greatly from this more dynamic presentation. Purists will be glad to know that the original mono audio mix is included (albeit in lossy Dolby Digital), but it's buried on the bonus features menu. A wealth of optional subtitles is here, including separate tracks for English (SDH), French, Spanish (Castellan), Portuguese, Czech, Dutch and more.
Everything else is ported from previous releases; these items are covered in more detail within the reviews linked above. Three of the recycled bonus features are included on both discs, including an informative Audio Commentary and two Mono Audio Tracks featuring the film's original one-channel mix and an option that isolates the music and effects.
Disc Two is home to a few more vintage extras, including an abridged reading of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Storybook by Angela Lansbury (12 minutes, with moving illustrations), who also hosts a nice collection of Cast Biographies (22 minutes). The Sing-Along Mode and Audio Jukebox pay tribute to the film's memorable songs through subtitle-only options and a collection of assorted original recordings and outtakes. An extensive Stills Gallery also returns, featuring a wealth of production photos, sketches, makeup tests, premiere photos and much more. Finally, we get three Radio Broadcasts of Oz-related material, including a 1950 Christmas recording of the story (61 minutes), a 1939 cast interview (60 minutes) and an original advertisement for the film (12 minutes), as well as an extensive collection of Trailers. It's a nice, condensed collection of extras that should please all but the most die-hard fans.
You should know by now if you like The Wizard of Oz enough to pony up for yet another version of the film on home video, but this two-disc release seems like the most sensible option for the film's 75th anniversary: featuring two viewing options (including the recent 3-D version), a mildly tweaked A/V presentation and a nice assortment of old and new supplements, it's a compact but well-rounded release that fans of all ages will enjoy. Collectors will probably opt for the boxed set, but there's enough here to consider this a solid re-release on its own terms. Highly Recommended.
Randy Miller III is an affable office monkey by day and film reviewer by night. He also does freelance design work, teaches art classes and runs a website or two. In his limited free time, Randy also enjoys slacking off, juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.


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Thoughts on a Micro-Foundations Project for Strategic Management and Organizational AnalysisFelin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Making links between micro and macro levels has been problematic in the social sciences, and the literature in strategic management and organization theory is no exception The purpose of this chapter is to raise theoretical issues in developing micro-foundations for strategic management and organizational analysis We discuss more general problems with collectivism in the social sciences by focusing on specific problems in extant organizational analysis We introduce microfoundations to the literature by explicating the underlying theoretical foundations of the origins of individual action and interaction We highlight opportunities for future research, specifically emphasizing the need for a rational choice program in management research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7470
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Lessons from Special Education in FinlandSabel, Charles; Saxenian, AnnaLee; Miettinen, Reijo; Hull Kristensen, Peer; Hautamäki, Jarkko (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present paper studies the growth and efficiency consequences of tax-favored individual retirement accounts in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We distinguish between economies with rational and with hyperbolic consumers and compare the consequences of mandatory and voluntary retirement plans with and without annuitized benefits. While a full taxation of capital income yields the highest efficiency gains in the rational consumer model, annuitization and hyperbolic discounting substantially improve the economic efficiency of IRAs. We also show that annuitization alters the intergenerational welfare consequences of the reform substantially, since it reduces accidental bequests. Finally, even if mandatory saving programs have a clear cost advantage, they are only recommendable if consumers are myopic. individual retirement accounts, annuities, stochastic general equilibrium, hyperbolic consumers URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7710
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En case-samlingHelbo, Martin; Jakobsen, Jesper; Gammelgaard, Britta (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Dette working paper er en samling af case beskrivelser angående indkøbspraksisser i Danmark. Case-dataene er indsamlede i efteråret 2003 og foråret 2004. Alle beskrivelser er validerede af de deltagende virksomheder. I den oprindelige undersøgelse var 10 virksomheder repræsenterede, men én af case-virksomhederne valgte desværre at trække sig ud af undersøgelsen på grund af meget store ændringer i virksomhedens grundlag. Dette ændrer dog ikke det samlede billede af, at indkøbspraksisserne i virksomhederne er i opbrud. Indkøbet bliver i stadig stigende grad opfattet som en vigtig brik til strømlining af forsyningskæden "upstream" mod råvareleverandørerne. En egentlig case-analyse vil kunne findes i kommende publikationer af de tre forfattere. Case beskrivelserne er en vigtig del af datagrundlaget i projektet "Indkøbspraksisser i et SCMperspektiv", der er finansieret af Center for Underleverandører i Herning. Dataene er hovedsagelig tilvejebragt via interviews med indkøbsansvarlige i de pågældende case-virksomheder. I den forbindelse vil vi gerne rette en stor tak til de personer og virksomheder, der velvilligt har stillet sig til rådighed med indsigt i de processer, der strukturerer dagens indkøb. Når vi har valgt at udgive beskrivelserne i et working paper og ikke blot lade dem samle støv i en skuffe som datagrundlag for videnskabelige publikationer, er det fordi, vi håber, at beskrivelserne kan inspirere andre end os selv, eksempelvis virksomheder og nuværende og kommende studerende med interesse i indkøbspraksisser. Nøgleord: sourcing, indkøb, underleverandører, segmentering af indkøb URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6290
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Moralens evindelige genkomstRaffnsøe, Sverre (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Cumberland, Flemming (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Udgangspunktet for dette working paper vil være en række teoriområder, som er valgt ud fra den opfattelse, at de er centrale repræsentanter for udviklingen indenfor det erhvervsøkonomiske genstandsområde – med såvel aktuel som potentiel værdi for overvejelser og beslutninger vedrørende indtrængning på internationale markeder. Udviklingen i de udvalgte teoriområder vil have form af en kronologisk redegørelse, hvor der fokuseres på deres forudsætninger, indhold og anvendelse samt potentielle relevans og betydning for indtrængningsproblematikken. Dette giver mulighed for at arbejde med teorierne på metaplan samtidigt med, at forskningen kan vurderes i forhold til K.B. Madsens almene metateori, Karl Poppers falsifikationsprincip, Imre Lakatos' forskningsprogrammer samt Thomas Kuhns paradigme-begreb. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6661
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Towards An Analytical FrameworkPyke, Frank; Lund-Thomsen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this article, we explore the relationship between industrial clusters and social upgrading in developing countries. Our article focuses on the hitherto little-considered influence of the economic and regulatory environment on the social upgrading of a cluster and on its governance system. In doing so, we develop an analytical framework that seeks to explain how the enabling environment and different actors in cluster governance can either facilitate and/or hinder the process of social upgrading in cluster settings in developing countries. Finally, the conclusion outlines our main findings, the research and policy implications of our analysis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9155
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1880-1980Foss, Nicolai J.; Møllgaard, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries. Danish research was mainly theoretical and strongly oriented towards the international context, whereas Norwegian research was largely industry analysis with a strong leaning towards managerial economics. Swedish research in industrial economics is very scant until the end of the 1960s. JEL Code: B1, B2, B3, D2, D4, L1, L2, L4 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7539
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Abstract: This paper attempts to place industrial foundations (IFs in the following; similar to trusts) in the tax system. An industrial foundation is a private foundation that holds a voting majority in a joint stock corporation. These IFs are probably more prevalent in Denmark than in any other country, and the paper starts by reviewing some stylized facts and figures for IFs in Denmark. Thereafter, it recalls basic desires as to the structure and logic in the tax system and demonstrates how they lead to a system akin to the 'dual income tax' system which has inspired tax reforms in the Nordic countries and elsewhere. This system implies clear consequences for the taxation of different types of income, labor income and capital income. However, as the outline of the system is based on the premise that "people pay taxes", industrial foundations, having no personal owners, do not immediately fit in. So what to do? The paper explores the implications of treating IFs as high‐income earners (wealthy individuals) and draws the conclusion that in the current system, IFs are very leniently taxed relative to that benchmark. Lenient tax treatment relative to the norm is regularly interpreted as tax expenditures; the usual recommendation for such indirect subsidies is to render them direct by transferring them from the revenue to the expenditure side of the budget. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9051
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Skov, Lise (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Analyser af industrialisme byggede indtil for tyve-tredive år siden på en narrativ figur – 'fra håndværk til industri'. I vores postindustrielle samfund hvor butikkerne ligger tæt, og der er langt til fabrikkerne, må denne analysefigur suppleres med et nyt slutpunkt, så den forløber 'fra håndværk til industri til globaliseret industrinetværk'. Der er opstået et nyt grundlag for en globaliseret industrikultur baseret på en voksende afstand mellem produktion og forbrug. I denne artikel analyseres den danske og europæiske pelsbranche ud fra denne tre-punktsfigur. Pels har aldrig været et skoleeksempel på industrialismens udviklingsparadigme. På grund af pelsbranchens særlige materielle udfordringer – hvert skind er unikt, og det kræver en stor viden at bearbejde det – har det været svært for branchen at følge med industriudviklingen og høste de stordriftsfordele, som andre brancher gjorde i efterkrigstiden. Den fortsatte næsten håndværksmæssige organisering satte branchen så meget udenfor modens og industriens netværk, at den ikke havde mange venner tilbage, da dyrerettighedsbevægelsen i 1980erne lancerede en række anti-pelskampagner. Under efterfølgende krise og omstrukturering er branchens organisation blevet ændret, således at pelsbeklædningsproduktion i dag er koncentreret i Kina, mens distribution og salg er knyttet til internationale designermærker. Denne del af branchens strategiske repositionering kan i høj grad tilskrives markedsføringsorganisationen Saga, der er finansieret af de nordiske pelsdyravlere og beliggende i Danmark. Denne artikels overordnede argumentation er, at denne omstrukturering sammen med den voksende interesse for etik og forbrugerpolitik har været den afgørende forudsætning for pelsens tilbagevenden i modebilledet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7794
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An interpretation of the bicycle industryMikkola, Juliana Hsuan (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper aims at describing network dynamics through the lenses of modularity. Different types of networks exist as ways of coping with the dynamics of industry demands that are based on modular product architectures. In order to distinguish between different types of mechanisms in which networks (operating with modular product architectures may) evolve, two types of networks are introduced: 'marketdriven product architecture network' (i.e., when the industrial network is driven by product architecture that is controlled by the market) and 'firm-driven product architecture network' (when the industrial network is driven by product architecture that is controlled by the firm). The history of the technological development of bicycle, since 1890s to 1990s, illustrates how the bicycle industry survived two cycles of disaggregation-concentration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6286
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A Relational ViewWieland, Andreas; Wallenburg, Carl Marcus (, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose: This research explores the resilience domain, which is important in the field of supply chain management; it investigates the effects relational competencies have for resilience and the effect resilience, in turn, has on a supply chain's customer value. Design/methodology/approach: The research is empirical in nature and employs a confirmatory approach that builds on the relational view as a primary theoretical foundation. It utilizes survey data collected from manufacturing firms from three countries, which is analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings: It is found that communicative and cooperative relationships have a positive effect on resilience, while integration does not have a significant effect. It is also found that improved resilience, obtained by investing in agility and robustness, enhances a supply chain's customer value. Practical implications: Some findings contrast the expectations derived from theory. Particularly, practitioners can learn that integration has a limited role in enhancing resilience. Originality/value: The study distinguishes between a proactive and reactive dimension of resilience: robustness and agility. The relational view serves as the theoretical basis to explain the effects between three types of relational competencies (communication, cooperation, and integration) and the above-mentioned two dimensions of resilience. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9018
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a crucial capability for value creation in the network economyFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper develops a four sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational at- tainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available to low educated workers. More zealous enforcement policy will in this case improve educational incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low educated worker. Characterizing the optimal enforce- ment policies, we nd that relatively more audits should be targeted towards the sector employing low educated workers, elsewise a too low stock of educated workers is materialized. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8328
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Understanding Romance and Germanic Compounding in a Lexico-typological PerspectiveMüller, Henrik Høeg (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The title of my talk is "Informational balance. Understanding Romance and Germanic Compounding in a lexico-typological perspective". What I basically mean by informational balance is that semantic content is distributed systematically differently between nouns and verbs in the Romance and Germanic languages, and that this distribution is complementary. I shall explain that in detail in a minute, but first I shall introduce you to the problem, which I believe can be explained on the basis of this idea about "informational balance". URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8281
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Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7608
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Juel Henrichsen, Peter (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Modern hearing aids use a variety of advanced digital signal processing methods in order to improve speech intelligibility. These methods are based on knowledge about the acoustics outside the ear as well as psychoacoustics. We present a novel observation based on the fact that acoustic prominence is not equal to information prominence for time intervals at the syllabic and sub-syllabic levels. The idea is that speech elements with a high degree of information can be robustly identified based on basic acoustic properties. We evaluated the correlation of (information rich) content words in the DanPASS corpus with fundamental frequency (F0) and spectral tilt across four frequency bands. Our results show a correlation of certain band-level differences and the presence of content words. Similarly, but to a lesser extent, a correlation between F0 and the presence of content words was found. The principle described here has the potential to improve the "information-to-noise" ratio in hearing aids. In addition, this concept may also be applicable in automatic speech recognition systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8411
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Lorenzen, Mark (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this short paper, I put forward an argument about trust based upon an information cost perspective. I argue that, in different contexts, different origins of trust come to dominate. This is so, because different possible origins of trust have a different information cost, and different contexts have different information availability. Agents learn about this, and place their trust accordingly. I provide an empirical example, and list some traits of information availability between geographically proximate firms. The information cost argument explains why a particular way of trusting is prevalent in some proximate 'communities' of agents. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8096
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Lessons from Co-operation and Higher-order Capabilities Amongst geographically proximate firmsLorenzen, Mark (Frederiksberg, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7847
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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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Over ten years of research into the stations on the Sussex Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad have been collected into one book. This volume is the result of explorations through newspaper archives, maps, and D.L. & W. company correspondence. Over 100 historic photographs document the buildings which once stood in the town centers of many Sussex County villages. Over 80 Original and redrawn maps show the area around each station and nearby industries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If you remember the Sussex Branch or wish you could, this is the book for you!
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text: Honda's hoping to make that bad little habit vanish by using the tried and true guilt trip method, or more specifically, the Ecological Drive Assist System. For starters, the technology's ECON Mode works with the CVT and engine to "support more fuel-efficient driving." The real kicker, however, is the color-based "guidance function" -- drive like a granny, your speedo lights up green, drive a little wilder, and things get a bit blue, and if you toss fuel economy to the wind and let 'er rip, expect a full-on blue screen and the voice of God to come thundering through your sound system instructing that those horses be held. The EDAS should appear in the automaker's Insight hybrid as early as Spring 2009, though there's no word if it'll be standard equipment on the rumored S3000.


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If you're still wondering how well the optical stabilization works on the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone, we ran across a video using the Lumia 920 as an action cam over in the Windows Phone Central Forums.
According to the discussion, Windows Phone Central reader Allen Balkema strapped his Lumia 920 to his helmet and took it out for a spin through the woods on his four-wheeler. While the helmet mount didn't place the Lumia 920 at the best angle, you can tell from the video that the optical stabilization worked nicely.
Balkema feels that the Lumia 920's video performance was smoother than what he's seen from the GoPro HD Hero 2 action camera. You can catch the full fourteen minute video in this WPCentral.com Forums discussion.
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Sep 30, 2010 (CIDRAP News) A new study suggests that about half of essential workers, such as police and emergency medical personnel, might be unwilling to work during a serious pandemic. Meanwhile, another study indicates that it's common for employees in private industry to work while sick with flu-like symptoms.
Both studies were published on Sep 25 in an early online edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
In the first study, the goals of researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health were to assess the ability and willingness to work specifically during a pandemic and to gauge the opinions of not just healthcare workers, but alsofor the first timeworkers from other essential sectors such as police, emergency services personnel, public health workers, and corrections officers.
Researchers in the second study conducted a monthly survey of workers from three US companies to explore if flexible sick leave policies influenced employee decisions to work while sick with a flu-like illness.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has addressed both topicsrisky work settings and flexible sick leave policies as a possible social distancing measurein its pandemic guidance materials for employers.
Working in a severe pandemic setting
The Columbia University researchers recruited workers from Nassau County, in the New York City metropolitan area. The anonymous surveys asked employees about their ability and willingness to work during a serious pandemic. It was conducted from November 2008 to June 2009, a time that overlapped the first few months of the H1N1 pandemic. The survey also asked workers about their flu vaccination history, respiratory protection knowledge and use, workplace climate and trust, and employer pandemic planning.
They found that though 80% of workers would be available to report for duty in a severe pandemic, only 65% were willing. Less than 50% of the essential workers were both willing and able to report for duty. The proportion who said they were willing ranged from 56% in correctional workers to 74% in public health employees.
Investigators found that ability to work during a severe pandemic was closely linked to personal obligations, such as caring for children or sick family members.
Dr Robyn Gershon, professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, said in a Sep 28 press release that employer policies and programs can help workers meet their home obligations. "Even something as simple as making sure workers can communicate with their families while they are on duty can have a big impact on ability and willingness," she said.
Among other findings, authors learned that participants had little confidence in respiratory protection, but would wear it at work in a pandemic setting. Only 9% reported they were aware of their employers' pandemic plans, and only 15% said they had received training.
In what they called a surprising finding, the group found that 12% of study participants would consider retiring or leaving their jobs rather than reporting for duty in a severe pandemic. They said that outcome is a concern, due to a rapidly aging US workforce, many of whom are public service workers. "The development of strategies to retain these most experienced workers during public health emergencies remains an area for future exploration," they wrote.
The authors recommended other simple strategies that employers can use to boost employee support during a pandemic, including a plan to vaccinate essential workers and their families as soon as a vaccine is available, getting guidance in advance about respiratory protection needs, and making sure employees know about the workplace pandemic plan.
The study group included many workers who were involved in the response to the Sep 11, 2001, World Trade Center terror attack, and the authors wrote that they, like other workers in the area, are "highly motivated and altruistic." They cautioned that other workers in other areas might not be as responsive, and they recommended that further studies include essential employees in other geographic areas along with other types of essential workers, such as those in telecommunications, transportation, and commerce.
Which policies keep sick employees home?
In the flexible sick leave study, researchers recruited employees from three large US firmsa retail chain, a durable goods manufacturer, and a transportation companyand used a Web-based survey tool that asked them each month between November 2007 and April 2008 about flulike illnesses and workplace attendance. They also collected demographic information and details about employer-provided flexible sick leave policies, such as ability to work from home, adjustable working hours, or time off without pay.
Among 793 employees who said they were sick with a flulike illness, average duration of a severe infection was 3 days. About 72% said they worked while they had severe flu symptoms, on average for about 1.3 days.
The only flexible sick leave policy that was associated with working while sick was the ability to work from home. Those who were able to telecommute were 29.7% less likely to come to work sick with severe flu symptoms.
Researchers pointed out that the study is one of the first evaluations of the CDC's recommendation to institute flexible workplace policies in advance of flu season.
They recognized that though social distancing makes sense, employers who are setting their personnel policies must weigh possible unintended consequences of telecommuting, such as shirking work responsibilities, against the drawbacks of working while sick.
However, they wrote that the ability to work from home minimizes the economic impact of the employee being away from the workplace.
The group concluded that the findings support CDC social distancing recommendations for flu seasons. "When feasible, employers that implement teleworking policies may be able to effectively reduce the likelihood of employee-to-employee transmission of respiratory illnesses, such as seasonal of pandemic influenza," they wrote.
See also:
Sep 25 J Occup Environ Med pandemic worker study abstract
Sep 28 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health press release
Sep 25 J Occup Environ Med sick leave policy study abstract


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This weekend marks the celebration of Peru Independence Day. Peruvians throw parties and hold patriotic celebrations to remember the Declaration of Peru's Independence by José de San Martín on July 28th 1821. Across Peru, even in remote communities, homes fly the Peruvian flag from the start of July. It is customary for all Peruvian houses, private and commerce to bear the Peruvian flag and people to bear the Peruvian rosette.
On the night of July 27th, Peruvians stage serenatas to both folk and Creole music in plazas and public parks. Dawn on July 28th is greeted with a salvo of 21 cannons in Lima, to herald the ceremony of raising the flag. On the following day, before the famous military parade is held in downtown Lima, the Te Deum ceremony, attended by the president, is celebrated in Lima Cathedral.
In various parts of the country, Peruvians will be holding agricultural and livestock fairs (Cajamarca, Piura, Monsefú) together with three festivals that are the soul of Creole culture: cockfighting, bullfighting and Peruvian Pase horse exhibitions. This year, Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable freshwater lake in the world, will attract more than 10,000 tourists during Peru's Independence Day, according to regional authorities in Puno.
Peru is a proud and independent nation that is famous for its love of fiestas, festivals and carnivals, so it comes as little surprise that across the world people will be marking the occasion. In London, the traditions of Peruvian culture will be alive in the streets of the city with some of the best Peruvian food, artists and musicians throughout the day on Sunday. Pisco sours will be flowing in the city of New York also, with Peruvian food, drink and Latino music on offer in the district of TriBeCa.
At Inkaterra, we'll be marking the occasion with a celebratory lunch today for all of our staff in Lima, and on Independence Day this Sunday, there will be a fraternal lunch and festive activities across all of our hotels and offices.
How will you be marking the occasion?