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NOOK®and Barnes & Noble Announce Winners of "Believe in Reading"™Justin Bieber Concert Tour Promotion Sweepstakes
Grand Prize Winner Enjoys Trip to Miami for the Final Show of the "Believe" Concert Tour - Meets Justin in Person
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.
McKenzie Suntzenich, winner of the Barnes & Noble/NOOK® "Believe in Reading" sweepstakes, with Justin Bieber in Miami on January 28, 2013. (Photo: Business Wire)
McKenzie Suntzenich of New York was the Grand Prize Winner and received four tickets and a trip to Justin's final concert of this leg of the Believe Tour in Miami, Florida. McKenzie also met Justin at the show, and received a free NOOK® HD, the lightest and highest-resolution 7-inch HD tablet available, which came pre-loaded with Justin's latest eBook, Just Getting Started.
"Last night was amazing," McKenzie said the day after meeting Justin at the concert. "Seeing Justin up close was crazy and I got to hug him too and he is even better looking in person. The show was great of course too. He is such an awesome performer and always puts on a good show. Huge shout out to NOOK for making this entire day possible. It was the best day of my life!"
The promotion also gave customers in select cities who visited the NOOK counter at their local Barnes & Noble store a chance to win two tickets to the show in that city, along with the opportunity to meet Justin in person at the show. The local sweepstakes winners were picked from the following Barnes & Noble stores: The Summit Birmingham (Birmingham, AL); Oviedo Mall (Oviedo, FL); Southlake (Morrow, GA); Metairie (Metairie, LA); Burlington (Burlington, NC); Morrison (Charlotte, NC); Cool Springs (Brentwood, TN); and San Pedro (San Antonio, TX).
As part of the exclusive "Believe in Reading"partnership with Justin Bieber, Barnes & Noble and NOOK® donated $50,000 to Pencils of Promise, one of his favorite charities. Pencils of Promise is an organization dedicated to increasing access to quality education, and to help with that goal, Barnes & Noble also donated 1,000 award-winning NOOK Simple Touch™ eReaders to schools in the U.S. who contributed to the Pencils of Promise Schools4All fundraising campaign.
With almost 700 stores nationwide, Barnes & Noble is the best place for Justin Bieber fans to get all of his merchandise in one convenient location, including his CDs (Believe, Under the Mistletoe, My World, Never Say Never), DVDs (Never Say Never) and books (Just Getting Started). For more information, fans should visit www.bn.com/JustinBieber.
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Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYS: BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company operates 689 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™ (www.nook.com), while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 674 bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).
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Justin Bieber - this weekend's (February 9,2013) host and musical guest of NBC's Saturday Night Live - has amassed over 3 billion views on YouTube, over 51.1 million Facebook fans and more than 34.2 million Twitter followers, making him the #1 most-followed person on Twitter. Bieber just became the first artist in history with five #1 albums before his 19th birthday as his BELIEVE ACOUSTIC album debuted last week at #1 Soundscan. His 2012 album BELIEVE (Island Def Jam) exploded to #1 in 30 countries including top markets such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Brazil. The platinum album's first two singles "Boyfriend" and the #1 radio smash "As Long As You Love Me" feat. Big Sean are both multiplatinum. Bieber's current Believe World Tour sold out in 45 minutes and is the #1 grossing tour in the world according to Billboard magazine. "Beauty And A Beat," which features Nicki Minaj, recently smashed the VEVO record for the most watched music video in 24 hours delivering 10.6 million views. The video is currently at more than 155 million views since its VEVO premiere on Friday, October 12.
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Patrick DUFF(c1815-1886) lost his first wife (maybe when she gave birth to their daughter Kate in 1850) and he married again, to Maria KELLY(KIELY) (1838-1874). They had children Amy (1870-1891), Agnes Mary (1866-1943) and James Charles (1863-1874). Patrick was a sergeant in the army pensions office and lived with his wife and family at Castle Barracks, King John's Castle, in the city of Limerick, Ireland. He retired as Barracks Master sometime around 1878 and he and his family went to live in Garryowen, a nearby suburb. Any information on the DUFF and KELLY family is most welcome, particularly any news on siblings.
Amy married Jack PIGOTT in 1890 and died a year later - in childbirth?
Agnes married Francis FAHY (1854-1935) in 1891, and James Charles married Maud SQUANCE (1875-1952) in 1894.
James Charles had two sons. James Albert Vincent (1895- ? ) married Rita BERNHEIM in 1927 and Terence Edward (1907-1976) married Margaret Helen MURISON (1912-1995) in 1935.
The MURISON - GARROW Connection.
James GARROW (1797-1859) married Margaret BOOTH (1797-1824) in 1822. Their daughter Isabella (1824-1896) married James MURISON (1833-1908) in 1857, becoming his second wife. Another daughter, Margaret (1834-1897), married James's brother Francis (1837-1907) in 1861. James and Isabella left Banffshire for Canada in 1872 and settled in Elgin County, Ontario.
James GARROW had a son William (1822-1894) who married Jane KEITH in 1847. They had a son, James (1848-1930) who married Isabella MURISON (1852-1933) in 1872. Isabella was a daughter of James MURISON (1833-1908) and his first wife Jane EWAN (EWIN).
William GARROW and Jane KEITH had another son George (1864- ? ) who married Maggie B(ooth) MURISON (1862-1936). She was the daughter of James MURISON and his second wife Isabella GARROW. George and Maggie ended up in Ontario.
The RANKIN - MURISON Connection.
Francis MURISON (1723-1801) married Elspet WOOD (1725-1801) and had children James (1757-1841), Ann (1760- ? ), Margaret (1755-1820), Elspet (1756- ? ) and Mary (1764-1801). Margaret married George RANKIN in 1793 and Mary married James RANKIN. Can anyone add to this?
MURISON Family of Gamrie, Scotland to Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
My mother is a MURISON from a line that originated in Banffshire and the parishes of Gamrie and Alvah. Many of our line stayed in the area for up to 200 years. My mother can trace her forebears directly to John Morison/Murison (c1695-c1760), a crofter on the lands of Alexander Garden, Laird of Troup. I have a fairly detailed family tree of our Murison line, which includes a line of the GARROW family from Dufftown.
In 1872, a branch of our Murisons emigrated and landed in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada and farmed just outside St. Thomas. The Garrows were also involved in this emigration and both families were well represented in Elgin County for almost 100 years. A splinter group, James and Susa Murison, ended up in Winnipeg and another, led by Dr. James Murison, ended up in Powell River, B.C.
MURISON family historians may be interested in going online to the National Archives of Scotland and researching the Murison Papers under file GD1/808/1-9. The trials and tribulations of "everyday country folk" in North-East Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries are well described first-hand by early Murisons.
If anyone can connect with these families, I would be pleased to hear from them.
Chris Duff
Looking for my IRISH DUFF forbears in Limerick
I am unable to get any further back than my great-grandfather Patrick Duff (c1825-86). He was an army man and in the 1860s a sergeant-clerk at Castle Barracks, King John's Castle, Limerick. He was a Barrack Master by the time he retired with his family to Garryowen, just outside Limerick.
He married twice. The name of his first wife is not known, but they had a daughter, Catherine (Kate), in 1850. His second wife was Maria Kelly (Kiely), whom he married c1862. They had children James Charles (1863-1928), Agnes Mary (1866-1943), and Amy (1870-91) who married Jack Pigott in 1890. It is suspected she died in childbirth.
The Duff name seems to have been uncommon in south-western Ireland, so it would be interesting to find out where they came from originally. Eldest daughter Kate went off to Lisdoonvarna with her friend Margaret Dowling to run a grocery/spirits/lodging house business in the 1890s. It's possible she came back to Limerick in 1891 when Amy died and Agnes married. She returned to Lisdoonvarna until 1908, when her friend Margaret died. She then went to live with her step-sister Agnes in London.
I wouldbe interested to hear anything, however insignificant, about Patrick Duff's family, siblings (if any) and where the family originated.
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So maybe the lack of info about the first leg was production's way of not calling any attention to the Chiasso issue, because it seems the teams flying to Milan drew the short stick.
Not a bad episode, but nowhere near the level of last week's. And in many ways it did remind me of the german leg in Season 9 but with a better roadblock (thank god no gnomes so far).
Quote from: Slowhatch on February 22, 2009, 09:17:42 PMSo maybe the lack of info about the first leg was production's way of not calling any attention to the Chiasso issue, because it seems the teams flying to Milan drew the short stick.I'm really sorry to bother everyone, but I'm still new here. I love reading all your posts (can't participate in the real-time commenting because I'm on the west coast), and am usually able to follow the inside banter and allusions to other threads, but this one just confused me all to pieces. Would someone be kind enough to explain this one to an old lady?
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Ken was up at 4AM?
I thought this was a good episode. Not a great one, as it was clear about halfway through the episode who was toast, but still pretty good.Tammy & Victor: They really owned the leg tonight. Hell, they reached the Pit Stop long before any of the other nine teams even reached the Detour! They're basically coming across to me like Nick & Starr with actual personalities and not saying the same damn things over and over again! But man, do their voices annoy. A lot.Mel & Mike: I'd already seen the preview before the season starting of Mel paragliding, so I knew he'd make it through that Roadblock. I find Mel naturally funny, while I think Mike sometimes deliberately hams it up to look funny, when I think he can be naturally like Mike. Their attempt to get into the Pit Stop area was hilarious, though.Amanda & Kris: Even though it certainly seems like both of them pull their weight, it definitely looks like the editors are trying to make Amanda out to be the less useful person, what with her already leaving the first two Roadblocks to Kris and not having done one yet. That's all I can really say for now, because otherwise, they sort of bore me, though I like them okay.Margie & Luke: They fell out of first, but they still ran a decent enough leg. I liked the look on their faces when they came in fourth tonight. But please, editors. Don't keep pushing Luke's deafness storyline on us. Let that story arc tell itself.Brad & Victoria: I have to admit. Victoria's impressed me two legs in a row. She's a gutsy woman! I like seeing her bond with Brad and kicking butt the way they do! They certainly seem very close and like pretty good racers so far, and I hope that continues. They're already reminding me of Bob & Joyce -- old couple who was gone too soon after running some fairly strong legs.Jaime & Cara: Too bad more of them wasn't shown tonight. But they seemed competent enough at the tasks. Cara certainly kept her eyes out on the Roadblock, and that's really all we got to see of them. (Although a brief glimpse of them at the Bouncing Dolly Detour was seen in their pre-season promo, and Cara wasn't doing so hot in it.) I still like them, though. They're actually my favorite of the three women's teams -- and all the teams, period -- and I hope they can jump up and do better on the next leg.Kisha & Jen: Not much seen of them on this leg. But it looks like navigation is going to be their weakness. Jen would do well to stand up for herself against Kisha, though. Still, their two low finishes in a row, coupled with their navigation problems, has me thinking they'll be toast fairly early on.Mark & Michael: Too bad they didn't think of making reservations for themselves on the first flight out of Zurich. They probably could've notched another high finish if they had. Probably. That said, they did well enough with everything else they were given, and I'm glad enough that they stayed in the race.Christie & Jodi: I like them. But I didn't like their racing on this leg. Christie made a good choice to bail on the paragliding, but she should've moved faster. And both of them really shouldn't have taken the "hoof it" part of the next clue way too literally. Still, good to see them still in, especially considering who that meant would be ousted.Steve & Linda: I usually want the older couples to last a while, but there's no doubt these two were weak from the beginning (mainly because of Linda) and had no place in the race. Linda really made things bad for them by getting lost in the Alps. Navigation made things worse for them. I felt bad for Steve, as he really seemed to want this a lot, but my happiness of knowing Linda's gone overshadows my sadness for Steve being gone.Oh, and what I really liked about the Roadblock was that, in some ways, it was a Detour within a Roadblock -- get down the mountain by land or by air. Simply awesome.The Detour? I'd have done Bouncing Dolly. Like I'd have been able to anticipate the amount of time it'd take to find a cherry-filled cake or pie at Austrian Folly?LOVE: Tammy/Victor, Mel/Mike, Margie/Luke, Jaime/Cara, Kisha/Jen, Mark/Michael, Christie/JodiLIKE: Amanda/Kris, Brad/VictoriaNEUTRAL: No oneDISLIKE: No oneHATE: No oneWow. Good casting. Only loves and likes here!
Hi, BantyMom. I'm sorry if I was unclear.Money troubles, customs troubles, taxi troubles, etc.: the teams that flew into Milan were at a distinct disadvantage. And it was spotted by walkingpneumonia that the teams got on the train at Chiasso (first Swiss stop on the northbound route), not at Milan as the episode would have you believe. Now, it may be a simple webmonkey mistake. But I think (no clue peeks, no money counting) that they didn't want to advertise that parts of the leg weren't well planned.(Why Chiasso? I don't know. I thought at first it might have been a rail strike: "scioperos" are very common in Italy. But I cant' find any mention of a strike for those dates.)
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This issue is more than simple demographics. Measuring who genealogists are by looking at statistics is very limited. It is sort-of like looking at average income when you have 100 people making $1000 a year and 1 person making $1,000,000 a year. The average income is $10,891.09, but what does that tell you? Exactly nothing. Unfortunately, a lot of major decisions and opinions are made on just such a level of analysis. For more on this subject see
Huff, Darrell, and Irving Geis. How to Lie with Statistics. New York: Norton, 1954.
Let's start with the large organizations and entities and work our way down to individuals since there is likely to be more controversy about who the individuals are than there is about who the larger entities are.
Here is a rough list of the players with some typical examples of each. You can see that some of these entities are involved in genealogy only very peripherally. For example, the Library of Congress has a Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, but could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be called a genealogical entity.
Commercial enterprises:
- Large multinational companies with genealogical subsidiaries (Ancestry.com, brightsolid.com)
- Large international companies that are primarily genealogically oriented (MyHeritage.com)
- Smaller nationally based companies that have divisions that specialize in genealogy (Newsbank.com)
- Much smaller companies whose business is primarily genealogy related products or services (RootsMagic.com, Millennia Corporation)
- Family owned or very small companies that provide a specific genealogical product (FamilyChartMasters.com)
- Professional genealogists (Association of Professional Genealogists)
- Individuals who promote themselves or specific products (Dick Eastman)
- Huge national government sponsored repositories, libraries or archives (U.S. National Archives, Library of Congress, British Museum, British National Archives)
- Government agencies (Bureau of the Census)
- Regional or local libraries and repositories with significant genealogical collections (Allen County Public Library, New York Public Library)
- Religious or Educational sponsored entities (FamilySearch, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
- Private non-profit organizations (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)
- Huge online databases (overlap with larger companies and other organizations)
- Commercial websites promoting a genealogically related business (software vendors)
- Online sponsored or un-sponsored organizations (RootsWeb, GenWeb)
- Reference sites (Cindy's List)
- Useful but not genealogical websites or online services (Google, Bureau of Land Management)
- Family Websites
- Surname Websites
- Blogs
- Google+
- Many, many others
- Genealogical societies (Utah Genealogical Association, National Genealogical Society)
- Local genealogical clubs
- Family organizations
- Individual genealogists
There are other players who sell directly to the genealogical community but seem to ignore it otherwise. Some examples of this are the Macintosh software developers who write genealogy programs for Apple devices. They seem to live in their own world and ignore any other contact with the community.
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The Case of Maersk LineWorm, Verner; Jakobsen, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the consequences of rolling out a global corporate culture on a multinational company in order to streamline modes of communication between headquarter and local offices across different host markets in an attempt to optimise the functionality of the organisation per se. Our key focus in this connection is to understand how employees in the Danish shipping company Maersk Line's headquarter in Copenhagen as well as in three local offices in Shanghai, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur 'read' and respond towards such an optimisation process. We focus in particular on how employees, based on their 'reading' of this process, try to make sense of it in order to construct personal strategies as guidelines for how to navigating the organization to their own and the company's advantage. The key question to research in this context is what elements enters into employees personal strategies when navigating a multinational organization? To answer this question we employ a phenomenological approach as a way of exploring the relationship between organizational changes and employers' response towards them. We argue that single case studies provides us with the capability of providing deep insight into the inner workings of a multinational organisation. Furthermore, such kind of studies shows how various societal factors within a host market impact on the functionality of employees in local offices as well as on the relationship between the latter and headquarter. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9635
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Kalmi, Panu (, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7059
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Wagner, Christian (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we derive the dynamics and assess the economic value of currency speculation by formalizing the concept of a trader inaction range. We show that exchange rate returns comprise a time-varying risk-premium and that uncovered interest parity (UIP) holds in a speculative sense. The often-cited `forward bias puzzle' originates from the omission of the risk-premium in standard UIP tests. Consistent with its popularity among market professionals, the carry-trade strategy can be rationalized as it systematically collects risk-premia and generates economic value when applied in multi-currency portfolios. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9099
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Effekter og udfordringerAndersen, Kim Normann; Medaglia, Rony (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Staten bruger millioner på rengøring alt mens ældrecentre og ældre i eget hjem er skydeskiven for de arbejdskraftbesparende teknologier. ABT-fondens indsats skønnes at skubbe yderligere til denne digitalisering. Budgetterne i den statslige sektor er ikke påvirket af robotteknologien, mens der eksperimenteres på livet løs i kommunerne. Mens kommunerne således har haft en række pilotforsøg og taget robotteknologien til sig, har de mange statslige styrelser, universiteter og departementer tilsyneladende holdt robotterne i arms længde. Derved har staten ikke blot lidt et ressourcetab, men også mindsket mulige afledte positive innovationsgevinster. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7787
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evidence from baltic and other transitional economiesMygind, Niels (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7108
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Hougaard, Jens Leth; Tjur, Tue; Østerdal, Lars Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Discrete choice experiments are widely used in relation to health care. A stream of recent literature therefore aims at testing the validity of the underlying preference axioms of completeness and transitivity, and detecting other preference phenomena such as unstability, learn- ing/tiredness effects, ordering effects, dominance, etc. Unfortunately there seems to be some confusion about what is actually being tested, and the link between the statistical tests performed and the relevant underlying model of respondent behaviour has not been explored in this literature. The present paper tries to clarify the notions involved and discuss what can be tested in a general frequency of choice frame- work and more specifically in a random utility model. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6731
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A safety stock adjustment procedure to enable target service levels in simulation of generic inventory systemsGudum, Connie Køhler; de Kok, Ton G. (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6733
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Jacobsen, Jóannes (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Vækstkautioner fra Vækstfonden giver anledning til privat finansiering af erhvervsaktivitet, som ellers ikke ville opstå. Vækstkautioner udstedt i 2011 medførte, at virksomhederne kunne skaffe samlet privat finansiering for 1153 mio. kr. til at foretage investeringer for. Beregninger i ADAM modellen viser, at investeringerne over en 3-årig periode skaber 872 arbejdspladser årligt – eller 5 arbejdspladser per virksomhed. I forhold til de forventede tabsudgifter på udstedte Vækstkautioner er beskæftigelseseffekten per udgiftskrone 15 gange større end effekten af udgifter til offentlige investeringer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8660
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Theory and Practice of Stakeholder Engagement in ScandinaviaStrand, Robert; Freeman, R. Edward (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this article we clarify the historical roots of stakeholder theory to establish that a much larger role was played by Scandinavian thinkers in its development than is currently acknowledged. We show that important contributions to the stakeholder concept were being made by Eric Rhenman and his Scandinavian contemporaries in parallel to the contributions from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the early 1960s and thereafter and thus are not a "historical trail" as they are currently labeled. Therefore we offer a significant modification to the historical narrative as presented in Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Freeman, 1984). These important Scandinavian contributions include the first publication and description of the expression "stakeholder" in management literature accessible to scholars throughout the world and the introduction of the first stakeholder map to the management literature. We use this occasion to consider potential relationships between these early Scandinavian contributions to the stakeholder concept with current practices of well-known Scandinavian companies. Through this we contend the evidence suggests relationships worthy of further considerations. We conclude by endorsing the expression "Scandinavian cooperative advantage" through which we intend to provoke increased attention from beyond Scandinavia. Cooperation between companies and their stakeholders is increasingly recognized as necessary for the social and environmental sustainability of world and the long-term profitability of companies where we contend inspiration for such cooperation may be prosperously drawn from Scandinavia. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8657
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what types of firms use universities as a source of innovation?Laursen, Keld; Salter, Ammon (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the factors that influence whether firms draw from universities in their innovative activities. The link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the propensity of firms to use universities is explored. The results suggest that firms who adopt "open" search strategies and invest in R&D are more likely than other firms to draw from universities, indicating that managerial choice matters in shaping the propensity of firms to draw from universities. Key words: University-industry links, innovation, external search strategies JEL Codes: C25, C42, O31, O32 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7260
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Lessons for the EU from United States History, 1789 - 1861Sweeney, Richard J. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: If secession or expulsion ends in a "velvet divorce," as with Czechoslovakia, costs are minimal and the split is relatively unimportant. High costs arise if a federation splits into mutually hostile, comparably sized regions. Perhaps the majority of splits lead to dangerous hostility. A well-designed constitution minimizes the likelihood of hostile splits by limiting the issues that are dealt with at the federal level, by providing checks and balances, and by establishing due process under the rule of law. Preventing the conditions under which a hostile split may arise is more costeffective than trying to optimize the terms of a split or to find last-minute compromises to forestall the split. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6786
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Why Didn't the U.S. Civil War Go On and On?Sweeney, Richard J. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The post-Civil War reconciliation between the North and the South is a very rare event in the history of civil wars. The South was thoroughly beaten. Top generals, particularly Robert E. Lee, saw further fighting as "useless effusion of blood." There was no call by top Confederate leaders for continuing the fight with the type of bushwacking that occurred in Missouri and Kansas. Reconstruction is often thought of as harsh, but compared to the standards of history Confederates were by and large treated well after the Civil War. Within a decade or so of the end of the Civil War, conservative white elites had established political, economic and social dominance in the South. They had lost their "slave property" and the "government of our own." They could never get back slavery, and a government of their own was not worth fighting for. There was little reason for the kind of persistent low-level guerilla warfare that often occurs after civil wars, or the organization of a succession of rebellions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6810
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Hedman, Jonas (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Historically, organizations developed their information systems in-house. Today, a large portion of information systems development is based on acquisition of pre-made information systems, so called commercially off the shelf (COTS) systems. This approach of developing information systems requires new skills and methods supporting the process of evaluating and selecting information systems. This paper presents a method for selecting COTS systems. The method includes the following phases: problem framing, requirements and appraisal, and selection of systems. The idea and distinguishing feature behind the method is that improved understanding of organizational' ends' or goals should govern the selection of a COTS system. This can also be expressed as a match or fit between 'ends' (e.g. improved organizational effectiveness) and 'means' (e.g. implementing COTS systems). This way of approaching the selection of COTS systems as viewing COTS systems as a 'mean' to reach organizational 'ends' is different from the mainstream view of information systems development, which view information systems development as a problem solving process, and the underlying ontological view in other COTS selection methods, which focus on selection of functionality not reaching organizational ends. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7999
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Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti OrganizationFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2001)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper argues that such "internal hybrids," particularly in their radical forms, are inherently hard to successfully design and implement, because of fundamental credibility problems related to managerial promises to not intervene in delegated decision-making ¾ an incentive problem that is often referred to as the "problem of selective intervention." This theoretical theme is developed and illustrated, using the case of the world-leading Danish hearing aids producer, Oticon. In the beginning of the 1990s, Oticon became famous for its radical internal hybrid, the "spaghetti organization." Recent work has interpreted the spaghetti organization as a radical attempt to foster dynamic capabilities by imposing loose coupling on the organization, neglecting, however, that about a decade later, the spaghetti organization has given way to a more traditional matrix organization. This paper presents an organizational economics interpretation of organizational changes in Oticon, and argues that a strong liability of the spaghetti organization was the above incentive problem. Motivation in Oticon was strongly harmed by selective intervention on the part of top-management Changing the organizational structure was one means of repairing these motivational problems. Refutable implications are developed, both for the understanding of efficient design of internal hybrids, and for the more general issue of the distinction between firms and markets, as well as the choice between internal and external hybrids. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7894
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Lessons from the Causes of the American RevolutionSweeney, Richard J. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Because the conflicts that led to the American Revolution mainly arose from constitutional issues, the history of these conflicts offers lessons for the design of the new European Union constitution. One lesson is the importance of avoiding needless conflicts between federal and member-state governments. In particular, forcing decisions on where sovereignty lies may cause great conflict. Another lesson is that a federal system depends on good will among the federal and member-state governments, and because this good will is easily dissipated, efforts should be made to nurture it. Federal exercise of power will often alienate member states; thus, a sensible strategy is to grant the federal government only the minimal powers that a strong consensus agrees it must have, and to change these powers only by strong consensus. Removing "democratic deficits" may not be sufficient in many cases to give legitimacy to exercise of federal power; minorities may require protection by constitutional limits on federal powers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6782
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Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In financing start-up firms, venture capitalists carefully select among alternative projects, design incentive compatible financial contracts and support portfolio companies with value enhancing managerial advice. This paper considers how venture capitalists can induce self-selection among entrepreneurial firms with different qualities by designing appropriate contracts and offering commercial support. We study the efficiency of the competitive market equilibrium with respect to the level and quality of entrepreneurship and the level of effort by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. We also provide comparative statics results with respect to basic preference and technology parameters. Venture capital, entrepreneurship, self-selection, moral hazard. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7707
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in ChinaHolst Jensen, Mads (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Taking into account a broad range of stakeholders who may affect or be affected by corporate action, the perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) carries the promise of a win-win situation for all. CSR in China is highly topical, as the country is integrating into the supply chains of the major global players, but the ideals of CSR are a far cry from the realities of production in "the workshop of the world". In this paper I will discuss key issues relating to the process of adapting CSR into the Chinese context. I will focus on the position of the PRC political leadership. I argue that the leadership seems to pursue an agenda of submerging CSR under the control of the Party-State and conceptualizing CSR by reference to a blend of an eclectic interpretation of Western European welfare models and CSR conceptions with an eclectic interpretation of Chinese tradition and political culture. As a result, CSR in China lacks the element of multi-stakeholder dialogue, which is commonly recognized as the core element of CSR in Western countries. Keywords: CSR, China, Labour issue, MNCE, NGO, Politic change. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7405
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Real-Time Realistic Social Sharing of Experiences and EnvironmentsVatrapu, Ravi; Suthers, Dan; Joseph, Sam (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The Shared Experonments system provides interactive services for ubiquitous real-time interactive social sharing of experiences and environments. Designed and implemented for ubiquitous high-speed wireless environments, the Shared Experonments system provides synchronous ways and means for interactive social sharing of erstwhile personal experiences while one or more persons are in remote locations. Example scenarios include sharing of experiences with friends and family while off hiking or trekking, as well as business situations where a remote field worker must collaborate in real time with other field workers or head office. The Shared Experonments system integrates multiple realities and works in a variety of mixed reality modes and interactional settings, and crucially supports deixis from one environment to another. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7977
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we show that the welfare implications of immigration which takes place in upturns, and may be partly reversed in downturns, are very different from the implications of immigration usually found in static models. Abstracting from any gains to capital owners and native workers due to complementarities, we find that (especially temporary) immigration may still benefit native workers in a European type of labour market where minimum wages may bind in downturns. However, in the presence of hiring costs, these effects may be reversed. Thus, promoting temporary immigration schemes may lead to adverse consequences if they also increase the costs of hiring foreign labour. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7700
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Määttänen, Niku; Poutvaara, Panu (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study the welfare effects of earnings testing flat-rate old-age benefits in a quantitative overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals' expected lifetime utility, whenever other taxes are taken into account. Moreover, it also lowers the realized lifetime utilities of those at the bottom of the lifetime utility distribution. Social security; Retirement; Means-testing URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7705
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Former South Plantation quarterback Erin DiMeglio's history-making turn as the first girl to play under center in a varsity football game in Florida has earned her plenty of recognition.
She's been featured in numerous national newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Sports Illustrated Kids, and People. She's been honored by local, state, and national dignitaries, even earning a mention in the Congressional Record.
In April, she was awarded a $20,000 scholarship from Foot Locker and DoSomething.org. She was voted her school's homecoming queen and now, she's getting the chance to shine on televsion.
Last fall, DiMeglio traveled to California to film an appearance on the Nickelodeon show Figure It Out. According to DiMeglio's mother, Kathleen, the episode is scheduled to air Monday night at 7:30.
In August, Erin DiMeglio made state history by becoming the first girl to play quarterback in a varsity football game in Florida when South Plantation defeated Nova 31-14 in its season opener. Three weeks later, she made history again when she became the first girl to throw a pass in a varsity game in the Paladins' win against Piper.
DiMeglio, who also played flag football and basketball for the Paladins, is a recent South Plantation graduate. She is attending the University of Central Florida and hopes to walk on to the school's basketball team.


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So the differential equations textbook just reached 20000 downloads from unique adresses. The real analysis textbook is close behind (despite being a year younger) at around 19200. The rate is growing, it started out at around 200 per week for both in the fall and is now pushing 400 a week. As an overwhelming percentage of the hits come from google I think google might have ranked the pages higher. So if you want to help out with the project of free textbooks: link to the books on your blog, page, whatever. And press those social buttons on the page, I guess that also does it.
It's also interesting to see how ipv6 is doing. So far, 82 ipv6 adresses looked at the real analysis book and 43 for the diffyqs. As ipv6 was active for about half a year on the server, it's still a very tiny percentage. There were about 6-7 thousand ipv4 addresses looking at the diffyqs book during that time frame and about 8-9 thousand for the real analysis book. But at least someone is using ipv6 (if I could get an internet provider that offered ipv6, I'd use them, but I didn't find such in Madison).


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A new study claims that a Facebook algorithm can predict who users are dating and if that relationship is in trouble.
The study of 1.3 million Facebook users, which was created by a Cornell computer scientist and a Facebook engineer, says that by using an algorithm based on "dispersion," or how connected people are between sets of friends, can correctly identify those in relationships and those who are in danger of breaking up, according to the New York Times.
Dispersion isn't the same as embeddedness, which means sharing a lot of mutual friends, but how certain people connect each other to different social groups, according to The Verge. The algorithm spots a spouse because that person is likely introduced to a number of his or her partner's college friends but won't have any other connections between them. "A spouse or romantic partner is a bridge between a person's different social worlds,"Jon Kleinberg, a Cornell University computer scientist and author of the study, told the Times.
A high dispersion seems to indicate a longer and often healthier relationship. If the algorithm couldn't figure out if a couple was dating, the study also seemed to indicate the couple had a 50 percent chance of breaking up within two months.
The study was created with Facebook's blessing, so we have to see that it's benefiting the social network to create this kind of information. Perhaps Facebook is looking for validation as a source for scientific study rather than as a social network selling off its users' information to advertisers.


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One Time Letra
Motherfuckers callin' my team Scarface, pushing that white boy like Tony
From the blocks to the island like Coney
We poundin' (?), young gun away from nothing, but a couple of pennies
2-1-2, ahh, couple of minis
Now can you feel me, it's just that real biatch, Kells, biatch
Caught ya never snitchin' in 5th Grade, I wouldn't even show and tell biatch
I'm from the city where menace made
I had a daughter, now I'm trying to father a junior, like it's Eleventh Grade
Neighbors look in my garage, like where the whip at?
Haters looking around like where my click at?
Right over there, makin' sure my profit is avoiding the dispatch
Only thing that ain't moving is where my lips at
Cause all that chit-chat with me? Nada
I'd rather stuff these dollars in my pockets, tell the (?) make em burst like Piñata
And though my partners medicated, they ain't ill much
But they do regurgatitin', throw the bills up
This is my life, born winner since momma pushed out a fetus
And these haters over-crowdin' my penis
6'3', big feet, Chuck T's, guess you know what that means
Get on your motherfuckin' knees and suck these, bitch!
And I will never put no one above my baby mama
So with these hoes, I keep my poker face like Lady Gaga
Give them some intercourse and flight, middle fingers up
That means I give a flying fuck, dumb dumb, listen up
Now let me tell you some rules to this game
Everybody isn't real, only a few remain
With that said, you should never become a business mans friend
Cause his intentions from the beginning is them back ends
And most important, never forget where you from
Cause after it's over, guess where you gon' be? Running home
And last off, never let 'em take the love from us
Loyalty is everything, EST or it's nothin', Kells
One time, for the beautiful struggle we live
Fuck, one time, trying to keep us from doing the biz
Two times, for the people that's holdin' the jokes
Three, if I gotta say who this for, I'mma save this for y'all
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Dead Boston bomber's wife needn't explain her religious conversion (Column)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As we are about to be reminded, with this week's release of Baz Luhrmann's film version of "The Great Gatsby," nothing is more American than reinvention.
Jay Gatsby, whose made-up stories about himself are so transparent that he goes around saying he's a Middle Westerner from San Francisco, does not bother lying too convincingly to anybody but himself. He calls everything he ever wanted and willed into being "Daisy."
As much as anything else, it's his stubborn refusal to see reason that makes him the hero of the Great American Novel. And that makes him the stand-in for striving, arriving and making-it-up-as-we-go-along America, with our "extraordinary gift for hope," as F. Scott Fitzgerald writes of his protagonist, and "a romantic readiness such as I have never found."
Even in America, though, there are certain unstated rules for reinvention: First, we aspire to more, not less, even if the cautionary excesses of Gatsby's West Egg or (the also self-invented) Don Draper's Manhattan, along with all those McMansions on Bravo, inspire both disgust and envy.
So when Katherine Russell, an American girl with every advantage -- her father and grandfather went to Yale University, we keep repeating in horror -- trades a reputation as a "social butterfly" for a life as a devout, hijab-wearing Muslim wife, we demand to know what went wrong.
Of course we're shocked by the way the story ends; her husband, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, wrapped up his feelings and frustrations in something he called Islam. Which both was and was not about the religion by that name, in much the same way that Gatsby's dream of Daisy was and was not about a spoiled Louisville socialite.
But there is a religious and a class bias in our reaction, too, I'm afraid; we're baffled by how Russell could have gone from a doctor's privileged daughter to a job at the other end of the ladder in her father's world. According to her attorney, she worked long hours as a lowly home health aide.
A friend of mine used the word "debasement" to describe that arc, and others have wondered in print why Russell seemed to have rejected some of the freedoms that were her birthright.
I wondered that myself, to be honest -- but also realize how hypocritical that reflex is, particularly as a Catholic woman who has been asked once or twice (or 1,000 times) how I could possibly choose to stay in a church that so oppresses women.
An observant young Muslim woman I know here, Umema Aimen, a 21-year-old student from Pakistan, says she was horrified by the violence of the bombing, and by what felt to her like the Islamophobia of the response.
Russell's decision to convert and wear the hijab "isn't something 'enigmatic,' as it's being labeled," Aimen told me, a little frightened by "the way the media is so frantically trying to find explanations for her conversion."
Whether Russell was seeking or fleeing, acting out or joining in, a leap of faith is never easy to explain. Her conversion "may have been out of love for Tsarnaev," Aimen says, "but why doesn't anyone discuss the possibility that she chose Islam because the religion appealed to her intellect?"
Instead, our clear assumption is that she gave up her identity for a man -- a man accused of violence both before and after she met him. But as Real Clear Religion columnist Jeff Weiss asked: Who are we to say whether, in doing that, she rejected her identity or found it?
Just as I consider Jesus a feminist whose followers have not always followed his example, Aimen points to the Koran's concept of equality for all people; early Islam, after all, gave women new rights to inherit, and spelled out that marriage required a woman's consent. "I am a feminist partly because my religion encourages and teaches feminist values," she says, "so that's where my strength truly comes from."
Both here and in her country, which she's returning to on Wednesday for the summer break, "it is frustrating that people don't pay attention to Islam's feminist values." Or Christianity's.
While we all continue to try to make some sense of the tragedy in Boston, Russell certainly does owe the authorities as full an accounting as possible of her husband's every movement. She does not, however, owe us any explanation for her conversion.
The reinvention the separatist Pilgrims were after when they landed in this state involved freedom of religion. And Russell did not forfeit that first freedom when she put on the hijab.
Melinda Henneberger, a Washington Post political writer and She the People anchor, is spending this semester as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center. Follow her on Twitter at .


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- Second Barcelona Test, Day Two
Lotus 'in the four or five best cars' - Grosjean
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- Romain Grosjean
- Teams:
- Lotus F1
Romain Grosjean says Lotus is "somewhere in the four or five best cars" after concluding his pre-season testing schedule.
Kimi Raikkonen will drive for Lotus on days three and four of the final test at Barcelona, with Grosjean's next track time in the E21 coming at Melbourne. Heading in to his second full season as a Formula One driver, Grosejan said he wasn't feeling more confident than in 2012 but was more sure of where Lotus stands in the pecking order.
"No, I think at least I know - I don't know about the team - I personally know a little bit more where we are compared to last year," Grosjean said. "Qualifying in Melbourne was a big surprise to me... I know now that we are somewhere in the four or five best cars."
Despite missing out on the best of the weather conditions which are forecast for the weekend, Grosjean said the amount of running would balance itself out over the whole pre-season programme.
"It's for sure not ideal, but you know Kimi [Raikkonen] had a lot of problems during his days at the start of last week. For sure I would have preferred to have one day with sun and more higher temperatures, but it's not my decision."
While Grosjean was keen to stress that no one team stood out as quicker than the others, he was happy to name the teams' main competitors.
"In the wet, Mercedes is impressive; it was going very, very quick. Then in the dry, McLaren is quick, Ferrari we don't know today, but Red Bull will be quick, Mercedes should be alright - it's going to be tight. "


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BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Beavers won their third game of the season on Saturday, Sept. 22, defeating the Mount St. Joseph Lions, 14-7, at Salzman Stadium. It marked the first time the Beavers (3-1, 2-0 HCAC) had beaten the Lions since 2001, a string of 10 straight setbacks at the hands of MSJ. It is the first time since 2000 that Bluffton has opened the season 3-1 and 2-0 in the HCAC.
Battling through rainy and muddy conditions, neither side was able to find the end zone in the first quarter as each team was forced to punt the ball twice. It was not until the 7:55 mark of the second quarter that junior Airic Steagall (Hillsboro) crossed the goal line from five yards out, sparking the home team to a 7-0 lead after Austin Sweeney (Adrian, Mich./Whitmer) connected on the extra point.
The Bluffton defense continued to hold Mount in check, keeping them off the scoreboard for the duration of the first half for a 7-0 lead at the break.
Bluffton went three plays on its first possession and fumbled at midfield after a lightning delay extended halftime by 40 minutes. It was the second straight home game that storms have caused delays this season. A nine-play, 49-yard Mount drive ended with a four-yard touchdown trot by MSJ senior standout James Clay. The PAT was good and the score was knotted at 7-7 just 5:13 into the second half.
The defenses held for the next quarter-and-a-half until Steagall scored his second rushing touchdown of the day, this time a seven-yarder. Sweeney's extra point moved the score to 14-7 with 4:50 remaining in the game. On the ensuing Mount possession, Tyler Hensley (Batavia) picked off a Jason Stinebaugh pass at the Bluffton seven yard-line and returned it to the Bluffton 42, sealing the second straight Heartland Conference victory for the Beavers.
Steagall led the Beaver ground attack, picking up 81 yards on 17 carries and scoring twice. Freshman Calib Alexander (Ocala, Fla./St. John Lutheran) ran the ball 18 times for 65 yards.
Tyler Wright (Troy) led the Beavers through the air, completing 10-of-14 passes for 104 yards. Ryan Sabin (Canal Winchester) caught four of those passes for 70 yards.
Ben Kaufman (Ottawa-Glandorf) totaled 11 tackles, three of the solo variety, to lead the Beavers on defense. Josh Runda (Lima/Bath) also had a stellar defensive performance, racking up nine tackles, including four solo tackles and three tackles-for-loss. Nick Smith (Troy) and Mike Johnson (Browns Mills, NJ/Pemberton Township) chipped in with eight tackles each. Derek Woods (Springfield/South) had a late interception to go along with his four stops.
MSJ had a slight advantage in yards (306-293), including 253-189 on the ground, but the Lions completed just eight passes for 53 yards with two interceptions. Bluffton picked up one more first down (17-16) and the Beavers converted on both of their trips into the red zone.
The Beavers will be back at home next Saturday as they welcome the Manchester University Spartans to Salzman Stadium. That contest is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.


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Mehring Books sets out to clarify the historical record. We are proudly associated with the writings of Leon Trotsky and other great anti-Stalinist socialists and are making many of their books available in English for the first time. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, these works acquire an immense contemporary significance.
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A brief post to highlight what I feel is an important thing to take into consideration in transmedia projects.
For once I've found the time to read something a little bit longer than blog posts and tweets, so I've been reading up on communication, on pitching, and am thoroughly waiting for Andrea's book on producing transmedia.
I felt the need to share one sentence that I found in one of the books I'm delving into, as I feel it resonates pretty intensely with a couple of projects I'm working on at the moment. The quote comes from Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who co-created an effective definition of communication: "The meaning of communication lies in the response it gets."
Too often, especially if caught up in production/distribution, do I find myself occupied with developing what is going to be put out there next, too busy with planning next moves and new updates and next series and further installments. Too seldom to I take the time to actually analyze responses, ask further questions, show interest and engagement back, interacting with and involving the audience.
My point is that this is crucial. And it needs to be the creative(s), the director(s), the producer(s) who are doing this. It's not enough to hire someone to be "community manager" and be the voice of the production or the project or the brand. The people creating more content need to be in touch with the responses, analyze these, draw the right conclusions and amend coming content in accordance with the results of the conclusions. This, whether they like it or not.
I for one will do better from now on!


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Okay guys--I see you out there! Be nice! The TARcon festivities kicked off tonight with Kevin's Comedy Club routine at Don't tell Momma. He did a great job and was super funny.And in the audience was Lenny from season one, Brenda from season one...And Jill! from season 3, Ian (sans Teri) and Tom and Terry.And then what to our wondering eyes did appear... David and Mary, Charla (sans Mirna), and Eric with a charming blonde who *ahem* was not Danielle.And now Michael--are you sitting down? Take a deep breath!There happened to be these two lovely blonde ladies there who are even more beautiful in person than we see on the race.And a certain RFF poster just happened to mention to them about a certain fan who kept their love threads alive...And Michael---THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE! QUOTE: "DO YOU MEAN KING MICHAEL?" So a little BQ love is coming your way! And there will be pictures too IF I can figure out how to get them out of my camera!And guess who was absolutely charming to talk to?? Eric! I pretty much got to talk with all of them except I missed Charla.... So tomorrow will bring more joy at lunch and then tomorrow night will be TARcon! See you there, Chateau! and BigPapi! and Apskip!So y'all be good and I'll keep you updated--but right now this peach is pooped! Questions for the racers? tell me quick!
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I woke up forgetting why I was happy!
lol @mswood !! Maybe we should call Michael Woody?
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text: Petros Papadakis is busy preparing for Fox's Cotton Bowl broadcast tonight, so L.A. Times columnist and Around The Horn panelist Bill Plaschke guest-hosted Petros & Money on KLAC radio in Los Angeles on Thursday. Despite a world of sports topics worth discussion in Southern California at 3 p.m. Pacific yesterday, though, Plaschke decided to open the broadcast by talking about Helen Hunt's vagina (he calls it a "lady garden") and then providing a detailed history of hotel porn technology and how to manipulate it to maximize masturbatory efficiency. Enjoy.