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Egypt Is Adopting A Turkish Model After All
December 12, 2012 § 5 Comments
As Mohamed Morsi continues his campaign to push through a referendum on the Egyptian draft constitution at all costs, it is increasingly clear that Egypt is emulating a Turkish model, but not the one it might have intended to emulate. I wrote last week about the danger of Egypt falling into the same pattern as Turkey when it comes to military interventions in civilian politics, and while that may indeed come to pass, it is still too early to tell. The new Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government is, however, following Turkey down another path. The Turkish model that Egypt has already begun to mimic is one of an alternate, yet just as unsavory, variety, which is the government's adaptation of the very same authoritarian strategies of its predecessors despite formerly being victimized by those very same strategies and tactics. It requires a sort of historical amnesia to do to your opponents what was previously done to you, and while in Turkey this took a little more time to play out, in Egypt it is happening at lightning speed.
Turkey's more authoritarian bent during the last five years or so of AKP rule has manifested itself primarily in restrictions on speech and targeting journalists, politicians, and others for expressing opinions outside the bounds of what the government deems to be acceptable. Turkey has more journalists in prison than any other country in the world, and more recently there has been controversy over Prime Minister Erdoğan suggesting that prosecutors should take action against a soap opera depicting the life and times of Suleiman the Magnificent and over a fine levied against a private broadcasting station for airing an episode of The Simpsons deemed to be blasphemous. Erdoğan's beef with the soap opera, Muhteşem Yüzyıl (The Magnificent Century in English), is that he does not like the stylized description of Suleiman's life as an endless parade of battles and harem trysts, and he threatened to have production shut down by saying, "Those who toy with these values should be taught a lesson within the premises of the law." One of the AKP MPs followed up by introducing a bill that would ban the show along with establishing guidelines for filmmakers to conform with Turkish moral values. What is surprising about the heavy emphasis on targeting objectionable speech is that this is precisely the tactic used by previous governments and the Turkish military to go after current AKP members in the past. As pointed out by the blog Atatürk's Republic, "Having been born, raised and educated in a society which accepted and even welcomed a certain level of state media control, the leadership of the AKP has now begun to echo their secular predecessors, almost in spite of themselves. After all, Erdogan himself spent nearly a year in jail for a speech crime." The hypocrisy of Erdoğan, who was imprisoned for four months (although sentenced to ten) for reading a poem at a rally that the state deemed as a violation of the law against inciting religious hatred, now going after others for speech that offends his values carries a large degree of irony, and is part of a pattern of the AKP resorting to the same tactics as its predecessors used on it to punish action that it does not like.
In Egypt, Morsi has taken this lesson and run with it. For years, Muslim Brotherhood members were subject to torture on the part of the Mubarak regime intended to elicit false confessions and uncover hidden evidence of foreign conspiracies. During the uprising against Mubarak in January 2011, opponents of the regime were detained, beaten by plainclothes thugs bussed into Cairo from other parts of the country, had their wallets and phones confiscated while being tortured into confessing that they were being paid to demonstrate, and Mubarak would give speeches alleging foreign hands trying to break the sovereignty of the state and how it was up to him to hold firm and protect Egypt from outsiders. And yet, last week this scenario played out identically except that it was Muslim Brotherhood thugs rather than felool baltagiya doing the detaining and beating, and it was Morsi giving a speech decrying the nefarious influence of foreign conspirators determined to bring down Egypt. It was Morsi threatening to reinstate martial law and claiming that "temporary" emergency measures would be necessary to restore order and calm. If I put up two articles side by side, one from January 2011 and one from last week, and removed all named references to the actors involved, you'd be hard pressed to tell which article was from which time period, and yet before it was Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (among others) being repressed and now it is Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood using the exact same playbook to do the repressing.
The reason this happens is simple. Like I wrote about military intervention last week, existing institutions constrain the range of available political outcomes, and make it easier for a country's politics to repeat the same patterns irrespective of who is at the top. New governments often inherit a logic of action and behavior that is difficult to unlodge, and when the same institutional rules, resources, and patterns of competition remain in place from one regime to the next, the behavior exhibited by the state's new rulers begins to look identical to that exhibited by the state's former ones. In this case there is something else at work as well as my friend and colleague Hesham Sallam has insightfully pointed out, which is that Egypt has a deep state of powerful interests and institutions that have resisted attempts to break their autonomy, and it thus becomes easy for the Muslim Brotherhood to cut a deal with these military and security apparatuses and adopt the same tactics used by its predecessor. This all combines to create a situation in which Morsi was elected to the presidency, realized early on that the easiest way to get what he wanted given Egypt's weak political institutions and lack of cohesion was to adopt the same antidemocratic measures under the guise of legalism as Mubarak did, and when faced with protests resorted to the same tactics of torture, prosecuting his leading opponents, and alleging foreign conspiracies. Because he cut a deal with Egypt's deep state, he is so far getting away with all of this under the protection of the military and security forces, who are happy to let him do as he pleases as long as their own prerogatives are not trampled. And just like that, it turns out that the man and organization that bitterly denounced Mubarak for torture, detentions, and giving up any pretense to democracy are doing the exact same thing themselves not even one year into coming to power.
Unfortunately, this is how authoritarian politics works, and nobody should be surprised to see the same patterns repeating themselves. In some ways, it is a miracle that democracy ever occurs, and the conditions have to be right and a healthy dose of luck must be involved for a successful transition to happen. In Egypt, neither of these two variables seem to apply so far, and thus it has been very easy for Morsi to morph into Mubarak. There is a reason that Mubarak resorted to the tactics that he did, which is that it was the most effective way for him to hold on to power, and Morsi has quickly learned that the Mubarak playbook works. Just like Erdoğan has conveniently forgotten what was done to him, so too has Morsi, and it means that Egypt is even more unlikely now than it ever was to adopt the Turkish model of a religious society with a democratic secular government.
Guest Post: Are Islamism And Authoritarianism The Same Thing?
November 28, 2012 § 7 Comments
Friend of O&Z and frequent guest poster Dov Friedman – who tweets from @DovSFriedman – is back today with thoughts on Egypt and President Morsi, and whether focusing on the Islamist character of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood risks missing the forest of authoritarianism for the trees of Islamism. Bonus points for relating the debate over Morsi to the debate over Turkey and the AKP and making sure to cover the Ottomans portion of this blog, which has been lacking as of late due to Gaza and the upcoming Israeli elections. Without further ado, here's Dov:
In The New Republic on Monday, Eric Trager criticized those who bought into the idea of Mohamed Morsi as a moderate during the Egyptian uprising. The timing of the piece makes sense, as Morsi expanded his already considerable power last Thursday in a constitutional declaration. Trager was among the analysts consistently skeptical of the supposed moderation and democratic potential of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yesterday's piece served to remind observers that not every analyst bought into last year's dominant narrative. As evidence, Trager provides excellent detail about the Muslim Brotherhood's "cultish" structure and immoderation:
That's because the very process through which one becomes a Muslim Brother is designed to weed out moderates. It begins when specially designated Brotherhood recruiters, who work at mosques and universities across Egypt, identify pious young men and begin engaging them in social activities to assess their suitability for the organization. The Brotherhood's ideological brainwashing begins a few months later, as new recruits are incorporated into Brotherhood cells (known as "families") and introduced to the organization's curriculum, which emphasizes Qur'anic memorization and the writings of founder Hassan al-Banna, among others. Then, over a five-to-eight-year period, a team of three senior Muslim Brothers monitors each recruit as he advances through five different ranks of Brotherhood membership—muhib, muayyad, muntasib, muntazim, and finally ach amal, or "active brother."
I encourage you to read the whole thing.
The problem with Trager's analysis is that the facts marshaled fail to support the hypothesis—it uses evidence of ideologically conformist Islamism to support a claim about Morsi's authoritarianism. Of course this may be correct, but it is not inherently so.
This same conflation occurs in the conversation about Turkey, the AK Party, and Prime Minister Erdoğan. At its most benign, the error manifests itself as The Economist's insistence on calling the AK Party "mildly Islamist." The same misdirected criticism turns quite noxious at times. Look no further than Daniel Pipes or Andrew McCarthy in National Review.
As Istanbul-based independent journalist Claire Berlinski has argued, it would be more appropriate—and more helpful—if The Economist called the AK Party "mildly authoritarian." Put differently, AK Party acts increasingly authoritarian in ways unrelated to its Islamist roots. Critics' focus on Islamist identity diverts their attention from the main problem: alarmingly anti-democratic developments under Erdoğan's rule. So they may snarl at last year's education reforms or the current project to build a mosque in Taksim Square, but they miss Erdoğan's systematic crackdowns on free speech, press, and association.
I cite Turkey as an example because the decade of AK Party rule has contained policy approaches that confounded critics. In the early 2000s, Kemalist and secularist critics invoked fears that AK Party would impose a radical ideology on the country. Erdoğan and President Gül stymied criticism by pursuing, among other policies, EU accession—the centerpiece of Kemalist and liberal dreams for Turkey. When the AK Party did pursue some conservative domestic policies, the earlier conflation of Islamist identity and anti-liberalism robbed opponents of clarity in their criticisms.
Similarly, the early moments of AK Party's authoritarian creep coincided with a period in which Turkey's foreign policy was becoming deeply internationalist and aligned with the West. In 2007 and 2008, Turkey spearheaded mediation efforts between Israel and Syria, and between Serbia and Bosnia. In 2009, Istanbul hosted the Alliance of Civilization. In 2010, a former Turkish MP served as president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. At the same time, in 2010, the government levied punitive fines on Doğan Holding, an AK Party critic. By 2011, Turkey already imprisoned journalists in alarming numbers. Erdoğan and other government officials have filed suit and won judgments against individuals who "insult" them. The Ergenekon and Sledgehammer trials mutated in recent years from legitimate investigations to score-settling efforts to crush opposition voices. Here again, arguments about Erdoğan's nefarious Islamism were easily brushed aside, and—worse—masked some crude anti-democratic domestic developments.
Yesterday in The Atlantic, Trager expanded upon the previous day's post and broadened the argument. He argued that Morsi's domestic power grab suggested that after the Brotherhood's domestic power is consolidated, Morsi would construct a conservative Islamist foreign policy. As evidence, he pointed to a series of distressing statements by top Muslim Brotherhood officials.
Prime Minister Erdoğan has also made distressing statements of late, as Michael has discussed in previous posts. He's called Israel a terrorist state and claimed that rocket fire is a legitimate means of resistance. Turkey observers recognize that while these statements are odious—and likely detrimental to Turkey's foreign policy standing—they may also serve a more complex purpose than simply representing the Prime Minister's foreign policy beliefs.
I note these pairs of similarities to make a relatively simple point. The number of world leaders with Islamist backgrounds has increased in the post-Arab Uprisings world. Funneling analysis of their domestic and foreign policy actions through the lens of their radical Islamist ideology may, at times, inhibit the ability to understand not only why these leaders act in particular ways but also how these leaders may act in the future. A strict focus on their Islamist identities may also overlook actions that are deeply problematic but do not naturally fit into a discourse of Islamist creep. This has certainly been the case with Turkey.
Trager is very knowledgeable about Egypt, and thus I defer to him and other analysts to continue informing those of us for whom Egypt is an interest but not a specialty. However, nuance in interpreting not only what has happened but also why it has happened remains crucial.
The NYT Editorial Board Needs A Political Science Lesson
November 1, 2012 § 1 Comment
The New York Times ran an editorial yesterday entitled "Tunisia's Challenges" that dealt with the tensions between Tunisia's Islamist government and the secular opposition, and more broadly attempted to grapple with the role of Islam in a nascent democracy. The gist is that Ennahda has promised to respect liberal values and not impose its own views of morality on the rest of the county, but has also tried to engage Tunisian Salafis, and in so doing has imperiled Tunisian democracy and not shown enough commitment to moderation. In the words of the Times,
Ennahda has also drawn fire for allowing the introduction of constitutional proposals that would enshrine Shariah, or Islamic law, and compromise rights for women. The party eventually backed off those positions and the constitutional draft before the assembly omits Shariah and endorses gender equality. Ennahda leaders may have been maneuvering to draw the Salafis into the process, while maintaining their political support, but it gave the secularists another reason to doubt Ennahda's commitment to moderation…
The pressure is on Ennahda to deliver a Constitution that protects the rights of all Tunisians under a system of equal justice and to create jobs so educated but unemployed young Tunisians are not drawn to the Salafi movement, which would try to exploit their disillusionment. The pressure is also on the secularists to find ways to work with Ennahda to build a better state. That will require more compromise and commitment to the common good than either side has been willing to show so far.
This all seems like a plausible argument, but it also demonstrates that the Times editorialists have a misinformed and naive view of how democracy works and what brings it about. Let's start with the glaring contradiction in this editorial, which is that on the one hand the NYT wants Ennahda to speak for all Tunisians but on the other seems to want to cut the Salafists, who last time I checked are Tunisian citizens, out of the process altogether. Tunisian Salafi groups espouse extreme and retrograde positions on all sorts of subjects, including women, secularism, and Jews, to name just a few. The problem is that Ennahda cannot just make the Salafists go away. They are a force to be dealt with, and Ennahda's determination seems to have been to try and co-opt them in order to reduce their capacity to make mischief. In many ways this has been a bad strategy, and the violence carried out by Salafists on university campuses and against television stations is deplorable and has often been ignored or downplayed by the government. There is no good excuse for this – or, for that matter, Ennahda leader Rachid al-Ghannouchi's encouragement and advice to Salafists on how to eliminate secularist power – but what the NYT misses is that Tunisia is not a country with decades of liberal tradition. The Salafists are not committed democrats willing to work within the confines of the political system, and so Ennahda has been trying to figure out a way to bring them in with as little chaos as possible. Yeah, the initial constitutional proposals were pretty bad, but like anything else this is a game of back and forth, and the current draft constitution is largely where it should be.
This brings me to the crucial point here, and the one on which the New York Times needs some schooling. Democracy does not just emerge from the mist, and leaders in a newly post-authoritarian state cannot just close their eyes and tap their heels together and create a democratic political system. Democracy has been aptly described as a second-best solution, because it results from a stalemate in which no side has the power to fully impose its will and thus everyone becomes willing to roll the dice and take their chances with democratic politics in order to win something. Essentially, democracy is installed by non-democrats who have no other choice, and over time democratic politics become habituated and the system (hopefully) becomes self-perpetuating. If this does not describe what is going on in Tunisia, then I don't know what does. Tunisia is not filled with committed democrats, but is instead a combustible mix of parties that would all like to impose their will. The Salafists would like to create a pure Islamic state, Ennahda likely wants something closer to what the Muslim Brotherhood wants in Egypt, and the secularists want Ben Ali's Tunisia without Ben Ali. Make no mistake though; the secular parties would just as soon impose their vision of society on everyone as the Salafists would if they had the strength to do so. The fact that none of these factions are able to carry out their will unimpeded is what gives me hope that Tunisia will emerge democratic.
This is precisely how democracy comes about, and yet the New York Times seems to think that democracy is not the end result of a difficult and torturous process. Let's remember that the United States went through slavery and a civil war, so it's not like we had an easy time of it either. When the Times editorialists talk about the need for more compromise, the maneuvering around the constitution is exactly that. Parties in a newly democratizing state are not going to compromise out of the munificent goodness of their hearts, but out of the need to break the gridlock, and that is what's going on here. It may seem counterintuitive, but in new democracies the process is more important in some ways than the substance. Tunisia still has a long way to go, and Ennahda has displayed plenty of disturbing behavior to make doubts about a successful democratic transition perfectly legitimate. I don't in any way mean to give Ennahda a free pass or to minimize the serious concerns everyone should have over the party's flirtation with extremely illiberal and violent elements within Tunisian society. But in fretting over the haggling surrounding the constitution and sermonizing about commitment to the common good, the New York Times is missing the point about how democracy is born and demonstrating why taking an introductory course to comparative politics might be a useful thing to do.
Some More On The Embassy Riots
September 14, 2012 § 6 Comments
Foreign Policy asked me to elaborate on the last point I made in my post earlier this morning about violence against U.S. interests in the Middle East continuing into the future, and I was more than happy to oblige. The piece is up and can be found here and I'd love to hear people's feedback.


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all that sketchstuff is really cool. It's just fun to browse around here =)
all that sketchstuff is really cool. It's just fun to browse around here =)
Your figures have such a good structure! From the start of the sketchbook, it's clear that you're thinking about stuff in 3D and the anatomy just keeps getting better and better.
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Didn't get as much done as usual, busy with a few other things/being lazy
I have decided/discovered that I need to spend more time on individual things instead of just getting them done!
It was eurovision last sunday(here that is) and I was challenged to do some portraits so I did a few in pencil and tried to do one in photoshop, one of the places I realised I need to take more time!
My attempted at painting a jedward(maybe John?)
Two quick Elvgren studies
The sketches
May Strength Be Kind and Courage GentlePrinces of the Universe
What a wonderful performance!
Hey fool, the amount of work you've been cranking out is awesome, you're makin' me feel like a lazy sea slug. May i ask where you get your photo muscular reference? I've gone through bridgman and others many time now and the studies are all starting to look the same, i could use some branching out.
You're outa control, keep that fire burnin!
Great studies!post more works you keep on improving mate=)
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Awesome artist and friends
You're the second person I've seen draw Jedward this week. Now I am over come with the urge to follow the trend. O_O IT'S DRAWING ME INNNN.
ALSO. Bloody hell, mate! Your figures. You do so many! You keep that up and in a few years your skills in drawing people are going to be terrifyingly good. So you better keep it up!
No crits this time, just keep it up as always.
Now, excuse me as I go pic out pictures of the jedward twins to draw...
cool stuff mate! Can't wait to see more ^_^
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Just drawing this week. I plan to get back in to some painting after watching matt kohr's latest download
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Wow bruce you've got a silly amount of reference photos going just for muscles, but really man JEDWARD eeeeeew haha sketches are looking great as always keep pushing man lets see some life studies! get someone to flex infront of you
Your figure drawings are great!Love the baff guy with animal heads and small heads lol!
And I like also the frogs unbushing the foxes
Australia has good taste then!
And more nice sketches as usual, the torsos and leg studies are lookin' damn fine
But hey, I'm greedy and I want to see more so update soon will ya? ;P
I like your sketchbook entries. Very comprehencive and deep. I like that you focus on understanding the shape and form, not just copying it. Overally nice linework. Maybe you should try some tone work if you're interested. You seem to get the hang of lines. Very loose and dynamic, I suppose if you focus on pencil technique, work on rendering through crosshatching and other grips of the pen, using the wide side of the lead. You can also try to lay down a tone and use the eraser as a drawing device - to draw light instead of shadow. Hope I was helpful.
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Naidy: Naturally we do and Danke Schön for the compliment! p.s. there is a pattern for when I update can you find it?
Moonrage: Thanks man. Rendering is something I've been trying to do more of, but I have to remember to make myself do it!
First, I've done doing some studies after matt kohr's latest download the forth one is a wip.
And the sketches!
May Strength Be Kind and Courage GentlePrinces of the Universe
great work on the studies.
i especially like the cartoon of yourself!
Bot Sapp!!!! keep going!
broooce! bruce! man... now that's what i call updates i'm always amazed at the amount of space you fill up on your sketchbook pages those digital studie after kohr's seem to be helping a ton! tempted to look into his downloads but then again i think i will just stick to my guns xD
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Spent some time (most amount I've ever spent on one was half an hour) on a few master studies this week!
The Zorn was 5 hours, the Repin was 3 and a half hours and the Andrea Del Sarto was 4 hours, I got pretty lost with this one
I also started on doing one hundred hands, got to 46 at the time of posting
The sketches!
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an impressive amount of work, well done
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100 hands challenge!!
dude... you're getting so good and so fast too all these digital paints and studies -- ahh!
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Didn't get a whole lot done in terms of volume but I've been working on a few things trying to get better taking my time to do it right instead of as fast as possible and hoping!
The start (7hours in ) of my master study of one of my favourite paintings Gyula Benczur's The Baptism of Vajk (and gurneys post about him) I'm working from a bigger reproduction which I got from chiu stream which isn't up anymore for some reason.
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7hours?! good job
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Oooooh! You're a weekly updater! Christ, you'd think I'd have noticed by now. xD
Anyways, Those female figures your doing are really getting there, it's hard to look away from them, which is strange for a girl to say... damn it. People will start questioning my sexuality now. Oh, and I'm lovin' the hands.
Also- THOSE MASTER STUDIES. Yes. Just yes.
Keep up the good work as always, mate!
sweet! can't wait to see the Gyula master study progress~ looks very promising so far
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niiice lighting studies with the jugs, nice jugs . master studies are very hot! like on fire!
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MRSA carriage rates vary widely in nursing homes, study finds
December 1, 2010--A study published in the January 2011 issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology finds that a high percentage of nursing home residents carry Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and suggests that some nursing homes could be doing more to prevent the spread of the bacteria, which can lead to hard-to-treat infections.
The study, which looked at 10 nursing homes in Orange County, California, found that 31 percent of the residents who were tested were carrying MRSA (meaning they could pass the bacteria along to others, but were not necessarily sick with infection).
That rate is substantially higher than rates found in hospitals and even intensive care units, according to Susan Huang, medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention at the University of California Irvine Medical Center and one of the study's authors.
The study also found, however, that carriage rates in each of the individual facilities in the study varied widely, from a high of 52 percent in one facility to a low of 7 percent in another.
"The high overall levels of MRSA are reason for concern," Huang said. "But the variation in rates between facilities may be good news because it suggests some facilities are finding effective ways to contain the bacteria."
Nursing homes have long been considered high risk facilities for MRSA infections. However, few studies have compared multiple facilities in one area to look for variation in MRSA carriage.
The researchers took nasal swabs from a sample of 100 residents in each of the 10 homes. They also took samples from 50 people at each home at the time they were admitted to get an idea of how much MRSA was coming into each facility.
The study found that a nursing home's rate of MRSA carriage was not simply a result of how much MRSA came in with new residents, and suggests that some homes do a better job than others of containing the bacteria once it arrives.
For example, two nursing homes in the study had identical MRSA intake rates of 12 percent, but one of those homes had an overall MRSA carriage among its established residents of 22 percent, while the other had a rate of 42 percent.
The next step, Huang said, is to find out exactly what these facilities are doing to better contain MRSA.
"The social environment in a nursing home has a positive influence on residents, who are encouraged to frequently mingle," Huang said. "We don't want to stymie that residential feel which can be very important to mental and physical health, but we think there's more to be learned about what nursing homes can do to contain MRSA."
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Infor Global Solutions Job Posting Infor delivers fully integrated enterprise solutions for a wide range of industries, as well as best-in-class, stand-alone products that address the essential challenges its clients face in areas such as enterprise resource planning, supply chain planning and execution, client and supplier relationship management, asset management, product lifecycle management, financial and performance management, and business intelligence. With 8,100 employees and offices in over 100 countries, Infor provides enterprise solutions to more than 70,000 clients. For additional information, visit www.infor.com. POSITION: Infor Consulting Services (ICS) Sales Representative (Infor Distribution Business, formerly SX.enterprise) LOCATION: Remote TRAVEL: 80% Basic Purpose Actively position and sell service solutions to net new and existing clients within a defined territory / region. Develop and deliver detailed statement of work agreements to clients. Typically reports to a Senior Services Director or Regional Vice President. Four to 10 years of experience in product knowledge, and / or distribution knowledge optimal. Consulting sales and delivery within a service organization is required. Specific tasks include: • Work actively with License Sales Executives, Service Management, Business Consultants, and / or third parties / partners to design implementation estimates based on discovery sessions for each prospective opportunity. • Build a trusted advisor relationship with the client / prospect. • Develop strong relationships with clients from the business manager to the CIO level. • Work closely with Infor consulting services personnel regarding implementation plans, estimates and resources and position Infor's Implementation Methodology (OPIM) selling resources necessary to successfully implement Infor products. • Responsible for the end to end service solutions process presented to the client. • Proactively work with the delivery team to monitor progress through the delivery of the project and provide tactical management during the project as required. • Work closely with Infor's Contract, Legal Counsel and Revenue teams to ensure complete execution of all services contractual agreements. • Frequent communication with clients to assess satisfaction level with services and license products with a constant focus on customer satisfaction. • Attainment of quarterly and annual service sales bookings quota. • Responsible for bi-monthly reports outlining business pipeline opportunities and / or changes. • Must be organized and able to handle all administrative tasks independently (e.g. travel schedule and bookings, expense report preparation, contract submissions and deal training, etc.) Essential Education, Skills, and Environment Education and Work Experience Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, sales, or computer science. Usually requires four to ten years of experience in Consulting Sales, Services, or other relevant experience, including three to five years of practical consulting or project management with ERP Distribution implementations. Specialized Knowledge and Skills • Excellent negotiation, writing, editing, communications and presentation skills. Able to professionally discuss project planning and articulate issues and solutions with clients. • Has positive attitude, displays "can do" attitude – is willing and able to display confidence in an ever changing and unpredictable environment. • Willing to work in a collegial environment • Is able to form effective network of contacts with other Infor departments, clients and third parties, etc. • Strategic selling skills helpful. • Very strong leadership qualities and team oriented business values. Needs to work well in a matrixed organization. Equipment and Applications PCs, spreadsheets and various other software applications used as required. Email and telephone usage contacting consultants, sales, and clients. Work Environment and Physical Demands • Willing to travel as required. • Willing to adjust work schedule to fit the requirements of the work at hand. • Must be prepared to work within a wide variety of work environments, ability to work with tight deadlines, and on multiple projects simultaneously. Reporting Structure This position typically reports to the VP of ICS Distribution JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Essential Duties and Responsibilities • Participate in all aspects of the sales cycle with the Account Team. • Ongoing follow-up with existing clients to understand their business needs and sell additional services. • Conform to all services pricing, legal and contract requirements, and follow revenue rules as mandated by Infor. • Develop strong relationships with clients from the business manager to the CIO level, and internal services, sales personnel. • Present solutions to clients conforming to Infor's Implementation Methodology (OPIM). • Responsible for the end to end service solutions process presented to the client. • Attainment of quarterly and annual service sales bookings quota. • Responsible for bi-monthly reports outlining business pipeline opportunities and / or changes. Infor Global Solutions offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. 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TWU is seeing stars - on its women's volleyball team.
Kristen Moncks has made quite a first impression with Trinity Western University.
In her first year with the Spartans women's volleyball team after transferring from Medicine Hat College, the Standard, Alta. native was voted Canada West Libero of the Year, while third-year Spartans Alicia Perrin and Kelci French were named Canada West first team all-stars.
This past fall, Moncks, who is in her third year of eligibility, led the Spartans in digs and was second in the conference with an average of 3.26 digs per set. The 5'9" human kinetics major had a CIS career-high 19 digs in a single match and collected 17 digs on three other occasions.
"Kristen was a great addition to our lineup this year. She brings a ton of control to the back court when it comes to serve receive," TWU head coach Ryan Hofer said. "She is a great defender who reads the play well. She's quick, she's fast, she brings a lot of passion to the floor and she's a great teammate."
Her two all-star teammates also had stellar seasons.
Perrin finished the regular season second in Canada West in blocks with 1.31 per set, third in the conference in hitting percentage at .336, and ninth in points with 3.57 per set.
She had a career-high 19 kills against Manitoba on Jan. 19 and a career-high .583 hitting percentage against UBCO on Dec. 1.
This is the second year in row Perrin has been named a Canada West first team all-star. Last year, she was also voted a CIS second team all-star. In Perrin's first year, she was named the Canada West Rookie of the Year and to the CIS all-rookie team.
French finished the regular season tied for first in the conference with 0.53 aces per set, was sixth in Canada West with 8.80 assists per set, and was third on TWU in digs, with 2.18 per set.
French also set the TWU record for aces in a season, with 39, bettering current TWU assistant coach Lies Reimer's (former Verhoeff) previous mark of 36, which the former Spartan earned twice, in both 2001/02 and 2002/03.
French had a career-high 46 assists against Alberta Feb. 9 and career-high 18 digs against Mount Royal on Jan. 26.
In 2008/09, French, while playing with Alberta, was voted the Canada West and CIS Rookie of the Year.


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"I recall moving in very clearly. We thought it was the world's most beautiful house. One summer when king Oscar came to Lyckorna on his yacht it had been decided that he just had to see the most beautiful ville in the resort. The choice said to have been between our house and the Hasselblad's"
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In the aftermath of the gruesome injury suffered by guard Kevin Ware in the first half, it was anyone's guess how top overall seed Louisville would perform in the second half of the Midwest regional final against 2-seed Duke. But after a slow start to the second stanza Rick Pitino's team played at a very…
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The first annual Dutch Holland Memorial Golf Tournament will be at Bailey Creek Golf Course Saturday, Oct. 13.
As Dutch wished, the proceeds from this tournament will go to benefit sports programs at Chester Junior-Senior High School. The $95 tournament fee includes golf, cart, range balls and tri-tip dinner.
Men and women are invited to participate. A blind draw for teams will be conducted after completion of play. There will be a tee prize for each participant and cash prizes for top-scoring teams. In addition, there are closest-to-the-pin prizes, as well as four exceptional hole-in-one awards.
A tri-tip dinner and live and silent auctions follow the golf. Non-golfers are invited to attend the dinner for $15.
More information and registration forms may be obtained from Bailey Creek Golf Course, 433 Durkin Drive, Lake Almanor, CA 96137, call 259-4653 or contact Dig-it Construction at 258-3306 for more information.
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Lindsey Vonn clinched her fifth consecutive World Cup downhill title Saturday after placing third in a race on the 2014 Sochi Olympics course won by German rival and friend Maria Hoefl-Riesch.
Hoefl-Riesch clocked 1 minute, 49.17 seconds down the Rosa Khutor slope for her second victory this season and first in downhill. She beat Elisabeth Goergl of Austria by 0.43 seconds and Vonn by 0.59.
With two downhills remaining this season and wins worth 100 points each, Vonn holds an unassailable 231-point lead over Hoefl-Riesch in the discipline standings.
"Downhill is my favorite event and it's always nice to wrap up a title before the end of the season, before the last races," Vonn said. "It puts a little less pressure on me."
Hoefl-Riesch also had a win in the test event for the 2010 Vancouver Games.
"It's really important," the German said. "In Whistler, two years before the Olympics I won the super-combined and I (did well) in the downhill and I won two gold medals two years later. But it's never a guarantee, it's just good to know you can be fast on a special track where a big event takes place."
Vonn has an even bigger lead in the overall standings, where she is 448 points ahead of Slovenia's Tina Maze and 486 points in front of Hoefl-Riesch, who ended Vonn's run of three consecutive overall titles last season.
The start of the race was delayed by 15 minutes as organizers cleared overnight snowfall off the course, and there were a few more delays once it started due to clouds moving over the course, limiting visibility.
Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein finished fourth, Marion Rolland of France was fifth and Julia Mancuso of the United States was sixth.
Also, Stacey Cook finished ninth and Alice McKennis was 10th as the U.S. Ski Team placed four racers in the top 10 for one of its best overall results.
Nadja Kamer of Switzerland and Lotte Smiseth Sejersted of Norway crashed, but both appeared to avoid serious injury.
As for the men's races last week, the stands were only half full, although those that were in attendance were enthusiastic, singing and cheering on each finisher.
Vonn started after a TV break and executed well on the upper portion of the course but lost some time on the bottom, and her lead only lasted slightly more than a minute because Hoefl-Riesch skied next and was faster than Vonn at each checkpoint.
"I may have been a little cautious on the top, because the coaches were saying outside the track was really soft, so I tried to stay a little bit above the line but I think maybe that wasn't the fastest line," Vonn said.
Upon seeing her result, Hoefl-Riesch dropped down on her back in the snow and pumped her arms and kicked her feet to celebrate. A bit later, Goergl knocked Vonn down to third.
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