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similar to the cockblock, a godblock is the loss of a sexual action(s) because omnipotent reasoning by the other partner. This can be due to finding god or becoming closer to god, and believing that god disproves of that sexual act.
My girlfriend and i where having sex until she realized that god does not approve of sex until marriage. She immediately stopped having sex with me, a classic godblock.
by fishsticksgayfish April 08, 2009
A "God Block" is when you meet a girl and things are going well, until she brings up god, after which the conversation completely falls apart. Effectively playing the traditional cock block role of the fat friend.
Dude this girl was awesome; we had chemistry, she was hot, and then out of nowhere I got God Blocked. I mean seriously who asks a guy what his favorite hymn is?
by Captain Thunderblumpkin September 04, 2010
When an atheist/agnostic person randomly brings up the subject of religion and tries to counter-argue against the fact that god exists by using parts of the bible that only prove their point and nobody elses'.
"Everytime somebody says God, Tim tries to God Block them with bible verses that he probably looked up online to support his argument because he is insecure and only his opinion matter apparently."
by OttoKerect July 30, 2014
When the penis is too big for the entrance in which it is trying to penetrate and penetration isn't possible as a result. "God" literally made the hole too small and blocked your cock.
by BC1989 April 20, 2009


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|START Conference Manager
ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
The Interdisciplinary Study of Information
Jenna Hartel, Steve Fuller, Rick Szostak and Laurie Bonnici
Sunday, 5:30pm
To mark the 75th anniversary of ASIS&T this panel addresses the nature and
recent history of the field of information science. It uses as a springboard The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages, a collection of writings
edited by economist Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield (1983). More than a quarter of a century ago, The Study of Information
(for short) presented the mandates of nine research specialties centered on information, namely: cognitive
science, informatics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, library and information science, cybernetics, information theory, and systems theory. By
illuminating the concerns, similarities, and differences of these related domains the book established one of the first geographies of information as an
interdisciplinary academic enterprise. In its day, reviewers described The Study of Information as
"a quite remarkable overview" (Hayes, 1985) and "an historically significant
book" (Harmon, 1987). Against this backdrop our panel asks: How has the
"interdisciplinary" study of information changed? To begin, Jenna Hartel will introduce The Study of Information:
Interdisciplinary Messages (Machlup & Mansfield, 1983). Next, as the keynote of
the session, Steve Fuller, an internationally renowned sociologist of science, will consider what it means to study information today, especially given the
increased centrality of information in life and the rise of the iSchool
movement. Specifically, he will examine these trends in relation to two works from his field that mark their anniversary this year: Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (50th) and Latour's Science in Action (25th). Laurie Bonnici will report findings from a study of the disciplinary structures of library and information science and the iSchool movement utilizing Abbott's (2001) Chaos of Disciplines. Then, Rick Szostak will explore how information science can best serve the needs of interdisciplinary scholarship. There will be a minimum of 30 minutes remaining for a conversation with the audience, hosted by Steve Fuller.

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The Pirate Bay Pays Off For One Enterprising Game Developer
from the from-pirates-to-privateers dept
If you dare risk a visit to the Pirate Bay and specifically the page for McPixel, you can see exactly what Sosowski did. He first thanked pirates for uploading the game and then gave away free gift codes.
Yay! My game is here! As weird as it sounds I am actually excited about this.This little heart felt message not only led to a lot of people on the Pirate Bay to think more highly of the developer, but it also led the Pirate Bay to seek out Sosowski in order to promote his game on its Promo Bay service.
Anyways, I am not any average video game company, I am just one man making games for a living, so feel free to give me all your money if you like the game!
I get it that in some countries PayPal doesn't work, or the price might seem really high for some of you, so here are some gift codes for you:
[gift codes snipped]
Most of all, enjoy the game, tell your friends about it, and throw some coins in my general direction if you like it!
All the best,
As a result of the developer's unusual reaction, The Pirate Bay tracked down Sosowski and the two teamed up to promote the title through the torrent site's Promo Bay initiative which it launched earlier this year.These two events working in conjunction with each other led to two great benefits for this one man development shop. The first is that the pay-what-you-want sale ended with a total of 3,043 copies sold at an average price of $2.56, with the top price paid being $140. The second benefit is that McPixel is one of the first ten games to be selected by Valve through its new Greenlight service. It is no secret that being accepted by Steam is often a major milestone in an indie developer's career.
The site has been offering a link over the weekend directing visitors to McPixel's site whilst Sosowski has been running a pay-what-you-want offer on the game. Visitors have also been allowed to torrent the game for free over the weekend to try before they buy.
This is yet another story in how piracy can often act as free advertising for artists. This story follows a very similar trend to that of Dan Bull when he used the Pirate Bay to help his single make the charts. There have been a lot of other great stories about artists taking piracy in strides and still managing to be successful. The trick is to accept that pirates are not your enemies, but potential customers who need the right reasons to buy.


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I come from a family that puts eggnog in our coffee and whiskey in our rum.
So when I set out to attempt a few holiday jobs, I felt this ancestral ebullience over Christmas gave me a bit of an edge. I could lug a tree or deliver UPS packages with the best of them, right?
The goal: to experience the holidays through the eyes of those who deliver it to us each year, physically, emotionally, even spiritually.
Welcome to my long slog across the desert.
The mall elf
The first thing you need to know about elves is that our toes curl. We also lie a lot, and lie about how much we lie.
Did I mention that we lie? We don't.
Mostly we work seasonal retail. At the Glendale Galleria Santa exhibit, the tools of my trade are an Elmo puppet, bells that jingle and a feather duster — all designed to pry camera-friendly smiles from stubborn little lips.
PHOTOS: Man About Town: A Christmas special delivery
No, I don't understand the feather duster either, but when I whack Elmo over the head with it, the parents laugh.
The kids, not so much.
After an hour as Santa's elf, I don't know whom to sympathize with the most, the Santa who smiles no matter what or the Santa photographers who wait-wait-wait for that miserly microsecond when the adorable 14-month-old in the red velvet dress isn't screaming as if bitten by a bat.
All the photog needs is that nano-pause when, disoriented from all the fussing of the tense mom and the over-ripe man in the velvet suit, and me, his goofy, middle-aged elf with the hairy legs, she hesitates, hiccups and quits screaming just long enough — the flutter of an eyelid, the passing of a wee bit of gas — for the photographer to get the impossible shot.
There should be a special Pulitzer for mall Santa photogs, who earn minimum age for maximum effort.
And Santa himself should win the Nobel Prize.
Grunting at the tree lot
By temperament, I am drawn to sad little tree lots that stay open all night, staffed by world-weary types who sit around flaming trash cans telling stories of the road.
South Pasadena has no such tree lots.
Yet, at the corner of Mission and Fremont, there is a fine little forest, full of fat imports from the rainy Northwest.
Sure, after my tree lot shift, I Velcro to everything — fabric, fuzzy kids, passing clouds.
But I also discover the answer to Christmas' great mystery: how a plastic tree pan stays watertight after you pile-drive six massive nails through the bottom of it.
"The heat of the nail seals the plastic," says tree wrangler Andy Dalton, a 35-year veteran.
Dalton tells me he can do about anything with his hands — "I can build a boat, I can build a building" — which makes him so unlike the bozos I usually hang with. When they need a boat or building built, they pick up a phone.
What I'm saying is that these tree men are real lumberjacks — Dalton, Robert Aguilar, Travis Nelson, their boss, Scott "Tahoe Scotty" Sorenson.
Leading up to the holiday, they work 12-hour shifts seven days a week, shouldering corpulent firs that are heavy as hit men.
And when they unbail one off the truck, out jumps a tree frog.
"We wanted to ship the frog back to Oregon, put him on a truck and take him back," Sorenson says. "But he escaped."
I'm pretty sure there's a children's book in there somewhere, about a tree frog that gets lost in the big unforgiving city.
A metaphor for the people who come to L.A., then can't find their way back.
A metaphor for me.
Santa drives a UPS truck
You never see David Sedaris pulling stunts like this. He mines emotional turmoil and family dysfunction for his humor.
Me, I hop a truck.
A week before Christmas, I'm in the land of the lucky and the exceptional (the Westside), working a shift with veteran UPS driver Dave Nieto.
"Never been bitten by a dog," he says of his 28 years with UPS. "Never called in sick."
Go ahead, just try to keep up with the fast-walking, fast-talking Nieto as he darts in and out of shops at the Brentwood Country Mart and the stylish neighborhoods of Santa Monica. Within minutes, it's clear why Nieto urged me to stretch, urged me to chug plenty of water. During this day, he'll deliver 250 packages, log 50 to 60 miles.
"We're industrial athletes," he explains.
I'm more of an industrial water boy. Hey, wait up!
Dave Nieto, the man who puts the Santa in Santa Monica.
Meanwhile, down in Whoville ...
No kidding, the other night in bed I found a plastic gutter clip, the kind you use to hang outdoor lights.
I'm pretty sure I am going slowly insane.
I don't blame Christmas. I blame my editors, my wife, my kids, my idiot beagle Orson Welles.
I blame the lack of quality choices in popular fiction. I blame Mindy Kaling's underwhelming new show.
At this moment, my meltdown is being made worse by a makeup artist from Georgia. With the hands of a sculptor, Sabrina Wilson is applying a rubbery feline snout. Mindy Pedrick follows up with fake lashes. In about an hour, I'm a Who.
"A what?" you're asking.
No, a Who.
Let's move on.
Today, the Whos and actress Betty White are entertaining about 100 schoolkids at the Grinchmas exhibit at Universal. There are 4 inches of man-made snow, a zigzaggy Whoville tree and Miss Betty herself, who I've always insisted is a flash-in-the-pan and will never have a real career in this town.
Time will prove me right on this.
Meanwhile, I am sprawled on the ground making Who-angels to entertain the kids, many of whom have never seen real snow.
"Please make me a snowball, please," says the cutest third-grader you ever saw.
"Who?" I ask.
Then I calmly make her a snowball.
That's what I need, a sermon
With what's left of my fragile psyche, I track down the Rev. Gary Dennis, who is prepping for his 41st Christmas Eve sermon, a folksy man with an eternal holiday twinkle, fetching as candlelight.
"I love the people who come once or twice a year, because it means that if some crisis happens in the next 12 months, they might come back," says Dennis, pastor at La Cañada Presbyterian Church.
"You want people to be engaged by the story, whether it's their first time here or their 50th Christmas Eve sermon," he says of his approach.
Dennis has seen too much good in what religion can do to be discouraged by life's crushing tragedies.
"Life is a full-contact sport, and you need all the resources you can get to get on with it," he says.
"At times, there's a horrific darkness in the world," he says, acknowledging the shooting in Connecticut. "We're not going to let the darkness prevail."
The great chronicler of Christmas Jean Shepherd once noted the same puzzling contrasts.
"Oh, life is like that," the writer observed. "Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us."
Mercifully, we'll always have Christmas.
Take it from your tree man.


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Also known as: Dora Saves the Snow Princess
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Publisher: 2K Play
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Release Date: July 3, 2009
Publisher: 2K Play
Also available on: PC, Macintosh, Wii, PlayStation 2
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Today's workforce is fundamentally different and no longer limited to the office. Mobile devices are integral companions in today's modern work life. HTML Email Approvals provide the always-connected manager an effective method of monitoring and staying on top of approval requests. For example, a manager is often required to approve last minute requests such as vacation, sick, maternity leave, expense report, promotion, or other tasks while he is away from his office.
PeopleSoft HTML Email Approvals facilitates the mobile managers the ability to review and take approval actions without the need to log into their system to perform the tasks. The HTML approvals are delivered templates that enable the PeopleSoft application to send, receive, and process emails with interactive content. The managers will be able to take approval actions without having to connect through the firewall/intranet or log into a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access the PeopleSoft system.
The HTML approvals can be access from any email client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird) and using various devices (e.g. laptop, smart phone, or tablet).
HTML Email Approvals
HTML Email Approvals works in conjunction with PeopleSoft Approval Workflow Engine (AWE). The approval email is generated when a user triggers an action such as submitting a vacation request (see Figure 1). The action is processed using our PeopleSoft Integration Broker. When the manager opens the email, the manager will be able to approve, deny, or push back on the pending request. The process is transparent to the everyday manager and the transaction is securely updated using PeopleSoft single sign-on and Integration Broker.
Figure 1 HTML Email Approvals Process Flow
The following table contains the HTML Email approvals templates delivered for releases 9.1 and 9.2:
| Financials/Supply Chain Management
| Human Capital Management
|Self Service Invoice
|Job Opening
|Job Offer
|Service Procurement
|Absence Request
|Control Budget Journal
|Extended Absence Request
|Purchase Order
|Promote Employee
|Treasury Settlements
|Transfer Employee
|Reporting Change
|Performance Document
|Credit Invoice
|Service Work Order
|Time Report
|Expense Report
|Cash Advance
|Travel Authorization
Benefits of Implementing HTML Email Approvals
Content-Rich Email: HTML Email Approvals allows you to provide consistent usability that is content rich to enable users to make well-informed and accurate decision (see Figure 2). Approval options such as Approve, Deny, or Push Back are actionable within the email. The email can also provide quick links into PeopleSoft.
Figure 2 Example of Request Absence HTML Email
Access on the Go: HTML Email Approvals can be access from any email client and using various devices. There is no need to connect into your intranet or Virtual Private Network (VPN). The approval actions are taken directly within the email.
Security: We use your PeopleSoft security to authenticate and encrypt the information that is sent through the email server to ensure your data is protected.
Configurability: The delivered templates are highly configurable. You can add or remove content as needed to better fit your business needs and provide optimal user experience (see Figure 3). You can convert your existing text email templates into HTML email templates. PeopleSoft plans on delivering additional templates. Customers can leverage the delivered documentation to guide you through the HTML Email configuration process.
Figure 3 Example of How to Edit an HTML Template
Best of Both Worlds: Customers will have the option to continue using the classic text email template or start using the HTML email templates. We deliver the HTML Email Approvals configuration disabled by default. This provides customers flexibility to decide when and which transaction to use the HTML Email Approvals.
Additional Information
For more details on how to download and apply this new functionality please check the following Doc IDs 1577468.1 and 1585801.1 in My Oracle Support (MOS).


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We have been speculating since July that Boost Mobile would receive an Android phone from Motorola and it looks like we are getting closer to launch. Last week we got our first glimpse of the Motorola Opus One on video, which is the first Android-powered iDEN phone. Today we have some specs leaked to our friends at BGR.
Motorola has told us their core strategy is to take Android as low down the feature phone tier as they possibly can with hopes of offering a device between $150 and $250. The most expensive Boost Mobile phones currently go for $150 so we expect the Opus One to be somewhere in that range. The cheapest Motorola Android phone to date was the CLIQ which went for $399.
The leaked specs of the Opus One include:
- 3.1″ hVGA 320×480 capacitative touchscreen display
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
- Accelerometer
- Proximity sensor
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth
- microSD card slot
- 2.5mm headset jack
- Home, Menu, Back, Speaker buttons are capacitive buttons with haptic feedback
- iDEN PTT & PTX
- Android LBS which is integrated into the iDEN GPS engine
- "Enterprise email"
- Plastic-molded housing with some rubberized texture finishes
- 58mm in width, 118mm in length
- 100g weight
- 512MB Flash / 256MB of RAM
- 64k and 128k iDEN SIM card support
- Motorola dual-mic technology noise-canceling for noisy enviroments
- Flash Lite v3.1.x
- Some of the preloaded apps include: corporate email client with ActiveSync support, MOTONAV navigation app, barcode scanner, and document viewer.
Is anyone interested in a prepaid Android phone with an unlimited plan from Boost?


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cgarforth needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
1st Class Holidays
1st Class Holidays DO NOT provide beach type holidays.
1st Class Holidays provide high end, luxury holidays in:
• Canada (this is the main part of the business)
• New Zealand
• Australia
• America
We Provide:
• Flights
• Hotels
• Car Rental
• Motor Home Rental
• Limo Hire
• Rail Travel
• Ferry Travel
• Self Drive Tours
• Escorted Tours
• Wildlife & Adventure Tours
• Alaska Cruises
Activities such as:
• Whale Watching
• Polar Bear Watching
• Grizzly Bear Watching
The target audience is:
• Aged 40+
• Professional / Retired
• Well travelled
• High disposable income
Words which should best represent the site:
• Traditional
• Friendly
• Expensive
• Personal
For reference other sites which the client liked the initial look and feel of (but not necessarily every feature of the page) were:
http://www.onlyexclBackgounds usivetravel.com
Home page design based on the technical site design below but with various changes made and ideas taken from other sites.
We do not require a destination search on the home page anymore.
Notes on http://www.smartebuilder.com/mockup…ayout.html
• Colours. Quite like blues but perhaps would like earthy colours and stones instead.
• Logo is still to be awarded. The client wants to get the home page design first. For the moment just use a simple attractive font saying "1st Class Holidays" (NOT FIRST). (if you have done a logo use it and it may increase your chance of winning both contests).
• Phone number more prominent (be it done with colour or size)
• Top navigation should be: Home, Destination, Hotels, Tours, Wildlife, Cruises
• Reviews & Travel Blog Separate look to clarify it is n't main nav.
• Large main Image as focal point– Framed. No images or text. large.
• Instead of create your dream holiday have country links. Similar to http://www.travelbag.co.uk but less intrusive and must be aesthetically pleasing.
• Protection logos in the footer in every page in one colour similar to the bottom right hand corner of http://www.travelbag.co.uk/
• Request a brochure, Live Chat & request a quote all together. Similar size, position and style to http://www.travelbag.co.uk
• Traditional simple links and design rather than the currently popular big blocky links.
• Like borders on the pictures etc.


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Public Art Workshops
Highlighting Public Art in The Bronx (www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/publicart/), these workshops
conclude with a large-scale, collaborative artwork that is permanently installed in
the school. Materials may vary from glass or tile mosaics to painted murals and
found object assemblage. These workshops not only teach students a wide range of
art skills, but are also structured to develop democratic thinking and cooperative
learning in the studio. Students develop their own design ideas, discuss the
possibilities, vote, and then work together in small groups to produce the final
piece. Strategies for linking the art workshops with the school curriculum
are discussed with classroom teachers. When the final work is installed, students
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If you are interested in learning more
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They are designing a global R&D footprint that aligns growing markets, essential skills and cost savings. These factors are the building blocks of a performance payoff.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) October 21, 2008
NEW YORK (Business Wire EON) October 21, 2008 -- Booz & Company's fourth annual analysis of the world's 1,000 largest publicly traded corporate research and development spenders, released today, found that these corporations continue to invest aggressively in R&D -- spending a total of US$492 billion on research and development in 2007, a 10% rise over the previous year, and well over the compound growth rate of 6.7% since 1999. The majority of these companies (91%) conducted their R&D activities in multiple countries beyond that in which they are headquartered.
The Booz & Company study found that the average global multi-national corporation spends just 45% of its total corporate R&D dollars in its home country, while the majority is invested in other countries in its global footprint to capitalize on specialized R&D skills, proximity to new markets and insights into local customers. As in previous years, there is no statistically significant evidence that a higher level of R&D spending relative to peers assures better results. However, companies that invested more than 60% of their R&D spending outside their home countries over the past three years appeared to enjoy superior performance in total shareholder return, operating margin, market cap growth and return on assets. Further, companies investing a higher percentage of R&D resources overseas than their percentage of sales overseas had three-year market cap growth fully 50% higher than those that invested at lower levels.
Booz & Company analyzed the world's top 1,000 public corporate research and development spenders – the Booz & Company Global Innovation 1000 – in what continues to be the most comprehensive effort to assess the influence of R&D on corporate performance. The study looked at R&D spending and its link to corporate performance, and uncovered insights into how organizations can get the greatest return on their innovation investment. New to the study this year is an in-depth examination of the geographic distribution of R&D dollars of a subset of 184 of the top spenders among the Global Innovation 1000 companies, a group that represents $351 billion in 2007 R&D spending, a total that amounts to 71% of the total Innovation 1000 and 57% of all private sector R&D spending in the world. This sample covered the R&D activities conducted by these companies at over 3,400 engineering and research facilities, spanning 47 countries.
Key findings of the study include:
For many countries, the flow of innovation monies goes two ways. The analysis of the 184 company subset found that even though those companies based in the U.S. perform $80.1 billion worth of R&D in other countries, the companies headquartered elsewhere poured $42.6 billion into R&D conducted in the U.S. In other words, 40% of the money spent on R&D in the U.S. is spent by companies headquartered elsewhere. Other countries with significant two-way movement of R&D dollars include Germany, the U.K., France and Japan.
The U.S. received the largest amount of R&D dollars from foreign companies for product development activities. As a result of these substantial inflows, the U.S. is the largest country in terms of where corporate R&D is actually conducted—by a factor of 2.7 times over the second-largest Japan. However, China and India were the top net "importers" of R&D spending, receiving $24.7 billion and $13 billion, respectively from the 184 companies in the subset analysis, while spending far less on R&D abroad. Other top net recipients of foreign company R&D monies include Canada, Israel and the U.K.
Labor arbitrage is fading as a reason to move R&D offshore. The Booz & Company analysis found that lower engineering labor rates explain only a third of moves to site R&D facilities overseas, as labor costs soar in many low-cost countries. The study found there is still some money to be saved by arbitraging labor costs – those investing more than 10% in low-cost countries such as China and India did 25% better on three-year sales growth and up to 67% better on three-year market-cap growth. "Companies that look offshore are no longer just focused on lowering their labor costs. Increasingly, global companies need access to talented engineers and scientists around the world – and access to local market insight to better develop new products," said Barry Jaruzelski, Partner at Booz & Company. "They are designing a global R&D footprint that aligns growing markets, essential skills and cost savings. These factors are the building blocks of a performance payoff."
A dispersed global R&D network is less effective. Companies that operated a multi-geography network of fewer and larger R&D facilities performed 30% better on three-year operating income growth and total shareholder return, and 40 percent better on three-year market-cap growth. "A highly focused R&D footprint improves coordination among sites, and focuses a company's talent pool in its R&D hubs that benefit from scale," said Kevin Dehoff, Booz & Company Partner. In contrast, those with smaller, more dispersed site strategies "experience execution problems," he added. The study finds, in fact, that nearly half of companies that deployed R&D resources globally did not reap the benefit they anticipated.
India and China-based companies are still small R&D players – but they are growing fast. Though tiny players on the worldwide R&D stage, accounting for just 1% of Innovation 1000 total spending, companies headquartered in India and China increased their absolute R&D spending by 22%, outpacing the worldwide compound annual growth rate of 5.6%. Europe boosted its spending by 12%, increasing its share of global R&D spending to 31%. North America had a lower growth rate in spending at 9%, but maintains the largest share of R&D spending in the Innovation 1000 at 42%. In all, companies headquartered in North America, Europe and Japan accounted for 94% of the Innovation 1000 spending, a proportion that is down 1% from last year.
Two-thirds of R&D spending was concentrated in just three industries in 2007: computing and electronics (29%), health (22%), and automotive (16%). Their R&D footprints reflect different competitive and management challenges:
In computing and electronics, access to talent and ideas drives the global R&D footprint as a significant portion of research can be used in products for sale in just about any market. Fully 70% of this sector's R&D spending originates in companies headquartered in just two countries – the U.S. and Japan – yet less than 40% of this spending actually takes place there. The rest is spread among more than 20 different countries. In health, about 30% of R&D spend is devoted to research, and 70% to product development, and for the latter, about two-thirds is spent in emerging markets in order to recruit clinical trial participants cost-effectively. The research side has been slower to establish a presence in emerging markets; in 2007 close to 95% of R&D went to drug discovery in the U.S., Europe and Japan. While 83% of the automotive industry's 2007 R&D spending came from three countries—the U.S., Germany and Japan—just 60% of total R&D spending took place in those three home countries. Diversification of R&D in this industry is motivated by the desire to increasingly locate design efforts in fast growing, emerging auto markets like China and Eastern Europe. Additional study findings include:
The top 10 global R&D spenders in 2007 were, in descending order: Toyota, General Motors, Pfizer, Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, Ford, Microsoft, Roche Holding AG, Samsung Electronics and GlaxoSmithKline R&D spending among the Global Innovation 1000 ranged from the $8.4 billion spent by #1 Toyota to the $53.4 million spent by #1000 Dongbu Hiteck Co Ltd. (of Korea), a wide range that explains why the top 100 companies account for fully 63% of the total R&D spend of the Innovation 1000. Sales of the Global Innovation 1000 grew almost 12% to $13.2 trillion in 2006, two percentage points faster than R&D spending in 2006, representing a decline in R&D spending as a percentage of sales to 3.7%, from 3.8% in 2006, continuing a ten-year downward trend. North American-headquartered companies spent 4.8% of sales on R&D, flat compared with 2006, while Japanese-headquartered companies spent 3.6% of sales, down .1% from last year and European-headquartered companies spent 3.6%, up .2%. Booz & Company estimates that the Global Innovation 1000 accounts for 80% of 2007 total global corporate R&D spending of $613 billion. R&D spending growth accelerated in 8 of 10 industries examined, with health and consumer showing slower growth rates this year. The software and Internet industry had the highest level of R&D spending as a percentage of sales (13.6%), followed by healthcare (13.4%), and computers and electronics (7.0%). The chemicals and energy sector had the lowest R&D spending level, at just one percent. Booz & Company Global Innovation 1000: Study Methodology
Booz & Company identified the 1,000 public companies around the world that spent the most on research and development in 2007 (companies for which public data on R&D spending was available). Subsidiaries that were more than 50% owned by a single corporate parent were excluded because their financial results were included in the parent company's reporting.
Booz & Company analyzed key financial metrics for each of the top 1,000 companies for 2001 through 2007 — sales, gross profit, operating profit, net profit, R&D expenditures and market capitalization. All expenditure figures were translated into U.S. dollars according to the average exchange rate for the year. In addition, total shareholder return was gathered and adjusted for each company's corresponding local market total shareholder return.
Each company was coded into one of nine industry sectors (or "other") according to Bloomberg's industry designations, and into one of five regional designations according to reported headquarters locations for each company. To enable meaningful comparisons across industries on R&D spending levels, Booz & Company indexed the R&D spending level and financial performance metrics for each company against the median R&D spending level for that industry.
To understand the global distribution of R&D spend, the factors that drive it and the affect on performance, Booz & Company researched a subset of companies on this year's Global Innovation 1000 list that spent a total of $351 billion on R&D in 2007, and represent 71% of the Innovation 1000 and 57% of all global private sector R&D activity. Supplemental interviews were conducted with a select group of leaders.
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Driver Charged With 4th Offense OWI Following Johnston Street Crash
29-year-old Alexander Miles is behind bars after an accident Tuesday afternoon on Johnston Street.
According to our news partners at KATC, Miles was arrested after police say he failed to yield while making a left turn and crashed into another driver.
Fortunately, there were no injuries reported.


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The Over-Achiever Muse--
Writing Exercise for Poets-
1. Make a list of twenty words
2. Add a place, a proper noun, the name of person, a planet and a color
2. Add a place, a proper noun, the name of person, a planet and a color
Now look at your words and pair them up by sound the best you can (use half/slant rhyme, for example: greed could go near underneath, and futility could go with vanilla pie)
Being writing in the form of a poem (use line and stanza breaks, not just a "free write") and picking up your words in order so the words that sound similar are near each other in the poem.
Try to use as many sets of words as possible and feel free to bring in new words with similar sounds to complete your poem.
Revise, revise, revise.
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What parts of K-G are most useful for non-German speakers?
Qimmik wrote:mwh:
As an observation, based on my experience reading, I think that the "rules" of Greek are really not that extensive or complicated. Much of what is presented in Smyth and other grammars consists of "exceptions" to the basic rules, which are not really exceptions, but rather application of the rules in specific contexts, and interaction among the rules. Also, I think the complexities are frequently not so much syntactic principles as lexical attributes of specific words, particularly verbs and their arguments. I think you pick these things up by reading, not necessarily by studying grammar in the abstract.
But you do have to have the fundamental lines of the grammar down cold--you have to internalize it--before you can make sense of anything; otherwise you're liable to go wildly astray. And I certainly don't agree that linguistic analysis--what is wrongly, I think, dismissed as the "metalanguage"--is irrelevant: it's absolutely necessary.
Not sure that makes much sense.
C. S. Bartholomew wrote:One of the things that I don't like about the traditional grammar translation model is that the text books start you with memorization of paradigms. I think that is backwards.
Victor wrote:C. S. Bartholomew wrote:One of the things that I don't like about the traditional grammar translation model is that the text books start you with memorization of paradigms. I think that is backwards.
One of the things I like about the traditional approach is that it does start you off with serried ranks of paradigms. It's often objected that this is not the way you learn your mother tongue. No-one would argue with this, but then you're not learning your mother tongue; you're learning a heavily inflected corpus language, the efficient reading of which depends fundamentally on good mental cataloguing and recall of its paradigms. Until you do learn the paradigms, your reading will be perpetually hampered by the tedious task of identifying what form of the verb or case of the noun etc. you happen to be looking at. Get the elementary necessity of having good recall of these forms out of the way as quickly as possible, and although at the very outset you'll make slower progress in your reading than the learn-the-inflections-as-you-go-along brigade, you'll pretty soon be leaving these learners behind in your more confident wake.
Starting out with basic syntax and learning morphology only as it is needed to understand a clause is fine if that is what you prefer, but it strikes me as more logical and far less time-consuming in the long run to take a combined approach and learn the paradigms alongside your learning of syntax; in other words to do it the way it's been done for donkey's years.
Though I find the prospect of yet another debate breaking out over pedagogical methodology oh so tedious...I'm going to have to +1 this.


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NCB, known for providing creative financial solutions tailored to meet the needs of cooperatives nationwide, released its annual NCB Co-op 100, listing the nation's top 100 revenue-earning cooperative businesses. In 2010, these businesses posted revenues totaling approximately $193.8 billion.
"The boom of cooperative organizations and the key role they play in both our national and global economy, is clearly evidenced in the growth and expansion highlighted in this year's report," said Charles E. Snyder, President and CEO of NCB. "As a cooperative business ourselves, we are proud to support these efforts and participate in the United Nations General Assembly declaration of 2012 as the International Year of the Cooperative, to educate the public on the benefits of cooperatives. Our report is just one of the many ways we work to inform the public on the advantages of cooperatives in all fields of enterprise."
The following are the top two revenue producers in 2010 for the NCB Co-op 100's main sectors:
• Agriculture:
o CHS Inc., based in Saint Paul, Minnesota reported $25.3 billion in revenues in 2010 and maintained its first place position on the NCB Co-op 100 list.
o Land O'Lakes, Inc., headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota reported $11.1 billion in revenues earning the number two ranking again this year.
While the companies and rankings change year to year on the list, the cooperative sector continues to advance, playing an increasingly influential role in the national and global economy. Released annually in October during National Co-op Month, the NCB Co-op 100 is just one way the Bank strives to educate and promote the importance of this sector. This year the Bank is proud to be a vocal supporter of 2012 International Year of Cooperatives initiative. The global campaign led by the UN, with the official slogan "Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World," is focused on educating and informing the public of the contributions cooperatives make to socio-economic development. Notably it aims to draw attention to cooperatives commitment to reducing poverty, generating employment opportunities and social integration. The initiative also seeks to draw attention to the cooperative sector in order to promote the policies, laws and regulations that will further the expansion of these enterprises.
As a long-time advocate for cooperatives, NCB shares a similar goal by providing critical financing to support the growth and expansion of cooperative businesses, while also deploying hundreds of millions of dollars to support underserved communities and cooperative expansion initiatives. NCB and other cooperatives named on the NCB Co-op 100 list are already hard at work on getting the message out on the advantages of member-owned organization. They regularly undertake programs and initiatives that promote the creation of new cooperative entities and the growth of existing ones.
Cooperatives exist in a cross-section of sectors, including agriculture, grocery, hardware and lumber, finance, energy and communications, housing, and recreation among others. These businesses provide over 850,000 jobs and create more than $74 billion in annual wages with revenue of nearly $500 billion.
Although similar to other business models, a cooperative has several unique features. It is owned and controlled by its members who have joined together to use the cooperative's goods, services and facilities. A board of directors, elected by the membership, sets the cooperative's policies and procedures. By pooling resources, members can leverage their shared power to buy, sell, market, or bargain as one group, achieving economies of scale and sharing in any profits generated. In addition, communities benefit both socially and fiscally by the cooperatives' ability to access and deliver goods and services from across the nation.
The entire NCB Co-op 100 report is available at www.coop100.coop. Barry Silver, NCB Managing Director, is available to answer questions regarding cooperatives and the NCB Co-op 100. Barry can be reached at (703) 302-1955 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on cooperatives visit www.go.coop.
Source: NCB News Release


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Looking at these upcoming Air Jordans 4 Men Shoes Glow In The Dark White Red Black, which have been informally dubbed the "Cavs", one has to wonder: what would Craig Ehlo think about these kicks? Basketball fans will remember that Ehlo was guarding Michael when His Airness pulled off "The Shot", the buzzer-beating series-winning jumper that propelled the Chicago Bulls to the second round of the 1989 NBA playoffs while sending the Cavs packing, to the horror and dismay of the Cleveland home crowd. The Air Jordan 4 generations have used high durable material urabuck in the shoes interior. But to enhance its permeability, the Micheal Jordan designer has used the netted material quality in the instep, causes 3/4 groups of styles even more to evolve.
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If the Thunderbolt 2.0 PCIe expansion controller card is installed in the incorrect slot on the motherboard for the Precision T5810 or T3620, the card will not be recognized or function properly. This article provides additional information on this issue and guidance on proper installation for the Thunderbolt 2.0 card.
A Precision Tower 5810 user reported that when he received his system, the Thunderbolt 2.0 card was not recognized by the Thunderbolt application and that the card did not function to its full capability.
It was determined that the card was installed in the PCIe 3.0 slot (SLOT 1). The Thunderbolt 2.0 card setup guide indicates that for proper operation the card needs to be installed into the PCIe 2.0 slot (SLOT 5) (Figure 1):
Figure 1: Installing the ThunderBolt 2.0 add-in card in Slot 5
The Thunderbolt Add-In-Cards Setup Guide indicates this card should be in PCIe slot 5 for both the Precision Tower 5810 and 7810. For the Precision Tower 3620, the Thunderbolt 2.0 card should be installed in slot 3 for it to function properly.
If you encounter this issue, ensure the Thunderbolt 2.0 card is installed in the correct PCIe slot.
Once the Thunderbolt controller card was installed into the correct PCIe slot, the card was correctly identified by the Thunderbolt application and functioned normally.


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It's always a good idea to spruce up the exterior and interior of your home before listing it for sale. But that doesn't mean you have to undertake major and/or expensive project.
Just a little effort will greatly increase the perceived value of your home. After all, if you wanted to undertake a large-scale project, you probably wouldn't be selling!
Here are some simple steps you can take to increase the perceived value of your home and make a great first impression.
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Walker v. Emanuel County of Court Superior State et al
Plaintiff: Carlton J. Walker
Defendant: Emanuel County of Court Superior State and Juvenile Court
Case Number: 6:2017cv00153
Filed: December 1, 2017
Court: Georgia Southern District Court
Office: Statesboro Office
County: XX US, Outside State
Referring Judge: R. Stan Baker
Presiding Judge: J. Randal Hall
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 42:1983
Jury Demanded By: None
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Richard Belitsky MD
Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education and Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Dean for Education
Dr. Richard Belitsky,
Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical Education and Associate
Professor of Psychiatry, is noted for his work in medical education at both the
undergraduate (medical student) and graduate (resident) levels.
Named the School of Medicine's deputy dean for education in 2006, Dr. Belitsky is concerned with curriculum development, particularly with respect to the methods and challenges involved in teaching medical students in the areas of patient-centered medical interviewing, the biopsychosocial model, social history and counseling patients for behavior change. He is also interested in the development of professional identity in medical education. In addition, he is interested in the delivery of mental health services in prisons and jails, with particular attention to suicide in correctional facilities.
Belitsky holds a B.A. from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and an M.D. from the University of Florida School of Medicine. He came to Yale in 1979 as a resident in psychiatry and continued on as a fellow in forensic psychiatry and chief resident/instructor in the Department of Psychiatry. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1983, when he also became unit chief of the Inpatient Services Division of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. He served as the director of the division 1988-1989. He was the medical director of the Yale Psychiatric Institute 1991-1997.
At the School of Medicine, Belitsky has served as the residency program director in the Department of Psychiatry 1996-2006. He became the deputy chair for education in 2001, serving in that role until he was promoted to deputy dean for education. He has earned numerous professional honors at Yale, including the Stephen Fleck M.D. Faculty Award as Exemplary Physician and Teacher, the Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Prize and the Francis Gilman Blake Award (for the member of the faculty at the School of Medicine designated by the senior class as the most outstanding teacher of the medical sciences) in both 1998 and 2000.
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Jay-Z Introduces His New Artist Rita Ora
Besides managing superstars and saving the planet, Jay-Z is also launching new careers. The hip-hop dad recently introduced radio audiences to his new artist on the Roc Nation label, Rita Ora. The London-born singer debuted her first official single, 'Party and Bulls—' on New York's Z100 radio last week.
The song is not a remake of the late Notorious B.I.G.'s classic house party jam, but it's just as anthemic. On the track, Ora sings of partying with a cute guy who makes her heart sing.
"We just came to see some great friends over here at Z100 in my neighborhood and we knew they would like what they heard, because Rita is amazing," says Hov about his new artist. "This is what radio is all about — feeling, emotion and discovering new music and artists and sharing it with a huge audience."
Yes, indeed. Ms. Ora is currently working on her debut album with a few notable producers including Drake, Will.i.am and The-Dream.
With Jay-Z backing her up, it shouldn't be a problem for Ora to become a household name. Just ask fellow Roc Nation rapper and Grammy nominee J. Cole.
Other Roc Nation artists on the roster include pint-size rap dynamo Willow Smith and R&B singer Bridget Kelly.
Roc on, Rita Ora!
Jay-Z Premieres Rita Ora's 'Party and Bulls—' on iHeartRadio's Z100 and KTU


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Summer Chocolates from Hotel Chocolat.
When the sun is shining and it's the kind of weather to sit outside and relax, what could be better than light, delicate chocolates specially designed for the season?
Those lovely people at Hotel Chocolate have created a portfolio of tastes which are just perfect for a summer's afternoon or evening. A range of chocolates which combine zesty citrus flavours with dark chocolate and creamy clotted cream and milk chocolate with raspberries. Light and fresh, these are indulgent without being overwhelming in the hot weather we hop e to enjoy throughout summer.
You could skip the afternoon tea and indulge in their lemon truffle, billionaire's shortbread or passion fruit cheesecake
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VANCOUVER — If the Bruins are having a hard time finding playing time for defenseman Adam McQuaid, maybe they should give him the Zdeno Chara treatment.
At 6-foot-4, 197 pounds, McQuaid would make for a pretty difficult obstacle for Vancouver goaltender Roberto Luongo to look around in front of the net in tonight's Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Arena and beyond.
"I don't know. I never have. It'd be fun, but …" said McQuaid when asked this morning about becoming a power-play forward.
"I think I could," he explained when asked if he could tip a puck, "but it's always easier said than done."
For the first time these playoffs — except for Game 2 of the Philadelphia series when he suffered a first-period injury — McQuaid's playing time was in the single digits for minutes Wednesday night in the 1-0 loss. A lot of that had to do with special teams, but he kept himself loose and managed to throw two hits and fire one shot on net.
"I think the flow was a little different. There were a lot of penalties and stuff," he said. "It was just one of those games. It's nice, when you can, to get a regular shift, get into a flow. But that's part of it. You never know what can happen in a game. You've got to be prepared."
As a rookie playing in his first Stanley Cup Final game, McQuaid could have been overwhelmed by the moment. But he wasn't. He said the experience of playing in the prior three rounds helped him keep his head.
"I obviously expected it to be quite an atmosphere and it was," he said. "It was fast-paced. I don't think it was that huge a step from last round. I thought last round was pretty crazy too. So things have just been kind of building up to this point."


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Beta Sigma Phi Scholarships
Tyler Laurie (left) and Ariel Brinkley (right) are the recipients of the Beta Sigma Phi Scholarships. The awards were presented at the Kane High School commencement last month. Deborah Wensel (center), who recently retired as a Kane Middle School teacher, presented the $500 scholarships. Beta Sigma Phi is an international non-academic sorority with 200,000 members.