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Wenger relief as Arsenal grind out win
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes anything but victory over Stoke, whom his side beat 1-0, would have been a huge blow to their hopes of a top-four finish.
After securing just five points in 2013, the Gunners were set for a second successive home draw until 12 minutes from time.
Substitute Lukas Podolski got the goal, although it was Geoff Cameron who did the damage by deflecting the German's free-kick past his own goalkeeper.
Arsenal remain sixth in the standings after the 1-0 win, but closed the gap on fourth-place Tottenham to a single point - much to Wenger's relief.
"I said already before the West Ham and Liverpool games, that we are in a position where we cannot drop points," the Gunners boss said. "We dropped two points against Liverpool but we couldn't do it again today.
"What is more important is the quality of performances is there. The spirit is there. The target to be in the top four and to focus on the two cups we are still in is very important now as we have strengthened our belief and our confidence."
Michael Owen aimed a punch at Mikel Arteta after reacting badly to a challenge from the Spaniard towards the end, which came after a strong Ryan Shawcross challenge on Laurent Koscielny.
As the former England striker was not booked by referee Chris Foy, he could now face retrospective action from the Football Association - something Stoke manager Tony Pulis was not keen to dwell on.
"I think Arteta's challenge was a poor challenge, but Michael should not do that," he said. "That should be left to the referee and I think if you look at Glenn Whelan's challenge on Santi Cazorla, it is a really good challenge and plays the ball."
Pulis cut a frustrated figure in the post-match press conference after seeing a point slip out of his side's grasp late on. "Obviously we're disappointed," the Welshman said.


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|Spreader of false rumors
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Depression, according to new research just published in The Lancet, is more damaging to your everyday wellbeing than chronic diabetes, angina, asthma, or arthritis. But the most disabling of all is the combination of depression and diabetes: If you have both, you are living at the equivalent of only sixty percent of full health.
The huge study, sponsored by the World Health Organization, collected data from over 240,000 people from sixty countries. It asked eighteen questions pertaining to general health and disability in working or household activities, plus twelve questions about sleep, pain, cognition, self-care, vision, mobility, energy, and personal activities.
On the basis of interviews and those self-reports, people with neither depression nor chronic disease had the highest health score: 90.6. But things went down from there. People with either asthma, angina, arthritis, or diabetes had health scores of about 79.
For those with depression alone, the health score was only 72.9, indicating that depression produces the biggest decline in general health of the five chronic conditions. Of the people with diabetes, 9.3 percent also had depression. And they were in the worst shape of all on measures of general health.
The researchers advise that when treating people with chronic disease, physicians need to widen their focus, looking beyond the physical ailment alone to consider the patient's mental health. Unfortunately, depression doesn't get the serious attention paid to physical ailments, possibly because there is no lab test to diagnose it.
In Australia, for example, fewer than thirty percent of patients receive good treatment for their depression, in contrast to the eighty to ninety percent who receive good care for arthritis or asthma. The researchers believe that better access to treatment may be why the chronic diseases are less disabling than depression.
Nevertheless, there are now effective ways to treat depression, including medication as well as counseling, and such treatment can have a profound healing effect on a patient's overall health and wellbeing.
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Sources: ScientificAmerican.com; The Lancet, September 2007; Forbes.com; Medpage Today


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REEI FLAS Information
Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships are awarded to universities in order to promote the training of students who intend to make their careers in college or university teaching, government service, or other employment where knowledge of foreign languages and cultures is a prerequisite for success.
Each fellowship covers the academic year (summer FLAS fellowships are also available, see page 8). Both graduate and undergraduate students may apply. For graduate students, the FLAS fellowship carries an estimated fixed stipend of $15,000 per academic year. as well as a fee remissionfor12 credits of course work each semester (a total of 24 credits). For undergraduate students, the FLAS fellowship provides a stipend of up to $5000 per academic year as well as a tuition award of up to $10,000 (the exact figures may vary depending on other sources of financial aid that the awardee is receiving).
Only US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for FLAS fellowships. Holders of FLAS fellowships must undertake full-time study during the period of the award and be enrolled in formal instruction in the language of the award.
REEI will accept applications from graduate students for study of the following languages in academic year 2017/2018 and summer 2018: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Estonian, (Modern) Greek, Georgian (summer only), Hungarian, Latvian (summer only), Lithuanian (summer only), Polish, Romanian, Russian (beyond second year), Ukrainian, and Yiddish. Undergraduate students who matriculated by the fall semester preceding the FLAS award period may apply to REEI for a FLAS to support study of any of these languages beyond the second year of study only. If you wish to apply for a language or level of language not included in the regular IU schedule of classes, or if you wish to apply for FLAS support for dissertation research abroad, please discuss your application with Mark Trotter, Associate Director, prior to submission. The availability of FLAS Fellowships is dependent upon final authorization of funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Applications should include:
- One FLAS application
- One complete set of official transcripts of college and university credits
- Three letters of recommendation, at least one of which should address the applicant's abilities in foreign language training
- FLAS Fellowship Recommender Request Form
- FLAS Fellowship Online Recommendation Form
- Statement on language training and proposed program of study.
Paper FLAS applications are NOT available. Applicants should apply online at www.iub.edu/~flas/; the annual deadline for receipt of all materials is February 1.
Frequently Asked Questions about FLAS Fellowships
- Do I have to be enrolled in REEI to receive a FLAS?
No, REEI MA and dual degree students compete against graduate students from other departments and professional schools for FLAS fellowships. All eligible applicants are given equal consideration.
- I'm an undergraduate applicant, what do I put in the GRE score section?
Undergraduate applications may leave the GRE score section blank. Undergraduate students need to include a FLAS application; a complete set of official transcripts of all college and university credits; three letters of recommendation, at least one of which should address the applicant's abilities in foreign language training; and a statement on language training and proposed program of study.
- How will I know if my application has been received?
The REEI administrative secretary, sends a confirmation e-mail upon receipt of all FLAS and other funding applications. She also sends a regular update to all applicants to keep them informed as we receive supporting documents such as transcripts and letters of recommendation. You may e-mail REEI (email@example.com) if you want to check on the status of a specific part of your application, but please understand that the processing of admissions and fellowship applications is very time consuming. We will respond to your request within three working days.
- Will my supporting materials (recommendations, transcripts, and GRE scores, required of graduate students only) already on file in REEI from a previous Graduate School or funding application be available to be added to my current application?
Yes, but you will need to send an e-mail request to REEI specifying which materials should be taken from your previous application.
- Can/should I use my supporting materials (recommendations, transcripts, etc.) and statement of purpose for more than one funding application? For instance, if I have submitted a complete academic year FLAS application to REEI, can those materials also be used for Summer Language Workshop, the graduate assistantship application, or another center's FLAS application?
REEI will be glad to make copies of supporting materials for multiple applications within our office or to send to other departments within IU. Please send an e-mail request specifying what materials need to be copied and where they should be sent. It is not recommended, however, that you use the same statement of purpose or recommendation letters for multiple applications. The most competitive applications are those in which the statement and recommendation letters are geared toward the specific criteria of the award that you are applying for.
- How can I make my application more competitive?
We instruct the fellowship committee to consider the application as a whole, including grades, GRE scores (not applicable for undergraduate application), letters of recommendation, and statement of purpose. Please make sure that your statement of purpose is well-written and well-edited. It is frustrating to read through spelling and grammatical errors.
- Do you really need my GRE scores?
If you are currently a graduate student: yes. If you will be a graduate student for the FLAS award period: yes. If you are currently and will continue to be an undergraduate student during the FLAS award period: no.
- What are you looking for in letters of recommendation for the FLAS fellowship application?
The strongest letter will specifically address the applicant's need to study the language in question, as well as the applicant's overall abilities and academic and career goals. If you are applying for study of a language at the intermediate or advanced level, it is appropriate to request a letter from your beginning language instructor that addresses your ability to learn the language. If you have not been in school for a while, you may need to use a letter of recommendation from an employer.
- Is it okay if my letters of recommendation, transcripts, or other supporting materials are received after the fellowship deadline?
The only item that must be received by the deadline (February 1st) is your application. We understand that student applicants are sometimes not at fault for late recommendation letters, and we will continue to accept supporting materials after the deadline up to the point when the applications are forwarded to the committee. We strongly recommend, however, that you submit all of your supporting materials by the deadline.


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This Weekend in Sports: College Basketball and a Super Bowl Preview?
Get ready for the return of college basketball and an inter-conference clash of NFL powers. Here's what to watch this weekend:
Friday, Nov. 9
Maryland vs. (3) Kentucky
Barclays Center, Brooklyn; 8:30 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
Returning national champion Kentucky opens the 2012-13 college basketball season against Maryland at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Even though head coach John Calipari lost his entire starting lineup to the NBA, the Wildcats have Willie Cauley-Stein, Nerlens Noel and other blue-chip players who figure to present quite a challenge for the Terrapins.
Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets
Pepsi Center, Denver; 10:30 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
Two Northwest Division teams with playoff aspirations duel on Friday night as Denver (2-3) hosts Utah (2-3). The Jazz stopped a three-game losing streak by beating the Lakers on Wednesday behind Randy Foye and Al Jefferson. The Nuggets are still getting comfortable with off-season acquisition Andre Iguodala, who can be a force at both ends of the floor.
Saturday, Nov. 10
(11) Oregon State at (14) Stanford
Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto, Calif.; 3 p.m. (ET) on Fox
Oregon State (7-1, 5-1 Pac-12) hopes receivers Brandin Cooks and Markus Wheaton can deliver big yardage against a Cardinal defense that has shut down some of the best offenses in the country. Stanford (7-2, 5-1 Pac-12) will start Kevin Hogan at quarterback in place of the inconsistent Josh Nunes.
(15) Texas A&M at (1) Alabama
Bryant Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; 3:30 p.m. (ET) on CBS
Few teams are as dangerous on offense as Texas A&M (7-2, 4-2 SEC), which averages 44.7 points and 559.6 yards per game. Top-ranked Alabama (9-0, 6-0 SEC) and its stout defense can advance to the SEC championship game with a win.
(21) Mississippi St. at (7) LSU
LSU Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, La.; 7 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
LSU (7-2, 3-2 SEC) looks to rebound from its close loss to top-ranked Alabama last week. The Tigers and quarterback Zach Mettenberger host Mississippi St. (7-2, 3-2 SEC), which has the nation's 21st-ranked pass defense.
(4) Notre Dame at Boston College
Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; 8 p.m. (ET) on ABC
Notre Dame (9-0) is undefeated this late in a season for the first time since 1993. The Fighting Irish visit Boston College (2-7), which defeated unbeaten Notre Dame teams in 2002 and 1993.
Sunday, Nov. 11
AdvoCare 500
Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Ariz.; 3:15 p.m. (ET) on ESPN
Jimmie Johnson leads NASCAR's Sprint Cup points standings heading into the next-to-last race at Phoenix. Second place Brad Keselowski is just seven points away from Johnson, with Clint Bowyer a distant third, 26 points behind the leader.
Houston Texans at Chicago Bears
Soldier Field, Chicago; 8:20 p.m. (ET) on NBC
Hyped as a potential Super Bowl preview, Houston (7-1) visits Chicago (7-1) in a battle of teams with stingy defenses and effective offenses. Texans quarterback Matt Schaub faces a Bears defense that has scored seven defensive touchdowns on the season, which ties them for third most in NFL history for a single season. Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler can expect pressure from a Houston defense that already has 24 sacks on the season.


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menoottawa needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 43 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Peak Performance, Peak Performance Rehabilitation
We are a small sports medicine facility in South Florida. Some of the services we will provide are: Outpatient physical therapy, sports medicine, sport specific training, general conditioning, wellness programs, post operative care, injury prevention, exercise programs and education.
All ages 7-70, all sports from amateur to professional.
Colors we are looking for are blue, black, white and yellow.
I will include an image which we want it to very closely resemble. In the image I provide we want "Peak Performance" to be in white with rays of white light coming off it. Also try using a globe outline instead of the rays of light behind the word Peak Performance. The blue color should be outside the white rays and gradient out to a very dark blue or black. Please start with this design and I will give instructions on alterations.
Please show the logo displayed on white business cards, a brochure or pamphlet and on a rectangle sign (this will be the sign outside the business).
Font: All capital letters with the both P's being larger than all the other letters. Choose a font which is smooth and curvy but also easy to read.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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Institutionalization Through ExperimentationGeorg, Susse; Garza de Linde, Gabriela; Pinheiro-Croisel, Rebecca; Aggeri, Franck (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Judging from the number of communities and cities striving or claiming to be sustainable and how often eco-development is invoked as the means for urban regeneration, it appears that sustainable and eco-development have become "the leading paradigm within urban development" (Whitehead 2003). But what is it that is driving these urban transformations? Clearly, there are many probable answers to this complex question and in what follows we will focus on one particular catalyst of change – urban design competitions. Considered as field changing events (Lampel & Meyer 2008, Anand and Jones 2008), urban design competitions are understudied mechanisms for bringing about field level changes. This paper examines how urban design competitions can bring about changes within two types of fields – professional fields and local geographical fields. The context for our study is urban regeneration in two cities in France and Denmark, both of which have been suffering from industrial decline and have invested in establishing "eco-districts". Based on these two case studies we explore how the different parties involved in these urban development projects have developed innovative design templates and practices that can instantiate field level changes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8405
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A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Structural Tensions of Organizing DiversityHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation consists of a collection of four articles aimed at critically exploring how diversity and its management are organized in two Danish organizations. The articles are based on a critical ethnographic study of the links among diversity and its management, and the structural setting, including the greater historical-societal structures, the organizations' structural setup and the spatial structures. Throughout the dissertation, I focus on how this structural setting enables and constrains the local organizing of diversity. This structural focus allows me to explore how structural conditions facilitate or restrain employee agency, and enables me to suggest locally relevant and progressive ways of organizing diversity. Consequently I ask the following main research question: How do the greater historical-societal setting, the organizational setup and spatial structures both enable and constrain organizing diversity in the two case organizations, and what are the implications for the management of diversity and employee agency? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9149
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Houman Andersen, Poul; Norus, Jesper (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There is a continuing focus on the conditions for and processes of establishing new businesses and the role played by the external resource context in doing so. Using sociological concepts such as network bricolage and structuration some studies point to the supporting role as well as the restraining role of networks in this process. However, most research focuses on the innovative role of entrepreneurs in linking together dispersed resources in forming a concerted business enterprise. Far less focus has been on the de facto quality of these resources in forming the entrepreneurial role. Rather, the image of the Knightian or Kriznian entreprenur is left unchallenged, even in the "new" literature on entrepreneurship. However, if the concept of network bricolage or structuration as contexts institutionalising specific practices and sorting away others is taken seriously, the preexistence of patterned work practices shared among business actors, and how the ability to utilise these patterned practices in generating new business ideas affects the business start up process becomes important. Entrepreneurial processes may not only be influenced but also internally constituted by the wider environment. One may therefore question whether the impetus for starting up a new business vests entirely with the entrepreneur or what role the context plays in patterning the work of the entrepreneur with respect to firm creation. As pointed out by Gartner (1988) asking "who is the entrepreneur?" is the wrong question. For that purpose, we believe that the context of the entrepreneur, networks and embedded routines, provides an opportunity to understand how the context contributes in shaping the entrepreneurial act. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6717
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Boxenbaum, Eva (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates the bringing into existence of a proto-institution, that is, a new practice, rule or technology that diffuses beyond the innovative setting, but which is not yet taken-for-granted in a field. A case study, conducted real-time, shows how a collaborative group of business actors deliberately develop a proto-institution. They transpose an institutional logic from another field and combine it with an institutional logic in the focal field to resolve a field-level problem. Enabling factors include a high level of institutional heterogeneity in the focal field, the use of inter-organizational networks, and actors embedded in multiple fields. The making of the proto-institution is intentional, yet the institutional building blocks and the apparent interests of actors are institutionally embedded. The results from this micro-dynamic analysis suggest revisions to current conceptualizations of institutional change processes. Keywords: Institutional change, proto-institution, cognition, institutional entrepreneurship, innovation, collaborative networks. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6726
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An Ethnographic Study of Quality Coordinator Work in two Danish Hospital DepartmentsMadsen, Marie Henriette (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The issue of quality and how to provide the best possible care for patients has always been a central concern in the health care sector. For the last decades, this concern has resulted in formulations of quality standards and clinical guidelines that define best practices for clinical work, as well as an increased use of methods and procedures to measure, assess and control quality. In this way, quality development includes certain expectations and requirements, not only to the practices of patient care but also to the practices of quality development. Accordingly, the organisation of quality development in health care has become a matter of concern in its own terms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9227
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In Between Local Translation, Institutional Logics and DiscourseWaldorff, Susanne Boch (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this dissertation I focus on a national reform of the Danish public sector, which in January 2007 facilitated the development of new municipal health care centers in order to meet specific local demands and to improve primary health care. However, this new organizational concept was not presented as a mandatory and detailed legislative reform. The municipalities therefore developed centers focusing in different ways on health promotion and rehabilitation and with great variation in their structure. Specifically, I find it intriguing how specific actors at the local level, such as politicians, medical professions, and social welfare professionals, were able to participate in local developments, and how they constructed specific organizational forms as local manifestations of the new national policy. Particularly, I am interested in exploring how the heterogeneous institutional context influences local actors' translation of an abstract organizational concept into specific organizational forms.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8021
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Georg, Susse (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6670
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Integrating Wind Power into the Danish Electricity SystemJenle, Rasmus Ploug (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present study involves an inquiry into the making of a Danish energy system based on renewable energy sources. Focusing specifically on one of the major barriers to the introduction of renewable energy sources known as the intermittency problem, emphasis is put on how fluctuating electricity generation from wind turbines has been integrated into the Danish electricity system. The study focuses on the ways in which the integration of wind power in Denmark has involved the introduction and reconfiguration of a series electricity markets known as Nord Pool. Significantly, these electricity markets are engineered as control arrangements for electricity system equilibrium maintenance. When attempting to integrate wind power into the Danish electricity system by introducing or reconfiguring these control system market arrangements, metrics from economics are used to describe the ideal outcome or objective to be attained through market construction. Coupling these empirical observations with a line of inquiry concentrating on the use of knowledge, skills, and know-how in market design and management associated with the 'performativity programme' in the social and human sciences and especially economic sociology the thesis is framed by the following research question: How have control systems engineering and economics been mobilized in the endeavor to integrate wind power into the Danish electricity system through electricity market design and management? Answering this research question involves an analysis of three different instances of electricity market construction. All three cases demonstrate how integrating wind power into the Danish electricity system has been approached as a matter of electricity market construction increasing the capacity of Nord Pool to exert control and maintain equilibrium in the electricity system. In addition to producing insights into how the intermittency problem is being handled in Denmark, the present study seeks to augment the performativity programme in two ways. One way is to show how control systems engineering, being an understudied form of expertise within the performativity programme, has played a crucial role in the design and management of a series of markets. The other is to show how economics, being a form of expertise studied extensively by the members of the performativity programme in other empirical settings, has had heretofore undescribed functions in market design and management. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9191
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Knudsen, Morten (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Workingpaperet er en guide til litteratur om metode, analysestrategi og videnskabsteori med relevans for problemorienteret samfundsvidenskabeligt projektarbejde på videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner. En række temaer præsenteres og relevant litteratur angives. Temaerne er ordnet under tre overskrifter: I. Genstand, II. Analyse og metode III. Proces, kvalitet og formalia. Guiden er skrevet specifikt til brug på masteruddannelsen Master of Health Management på CBS, men vil også kunne finde bredere anvendelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7786
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Traveling ideas for providing transparency and trust?Georg, Susse (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6730
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"feelings are the motive power, reason is the rudder"Ry Nielsen, J.C.; Ry, Morten (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this essay we will demonstrate that the role of project management in organisational change processes is a mixture of rational and non-rational features. It is also colourful, difficult, interesting, and messy. We have named the paper "An Essay on". An essay means treating a topic freely from different angles, although not forgetting the sources you used. The implication of this is that we are not able or willing to make an encompassing study of the literature on project management3. We thus know that many angles will not be covered. Furthermore we do not intend a make a negative delineation, indicating what we are not dealing with. We prefer to make a positive delineation, emphasising what we are going to take up in our essay. Positively phrased we are inspired by 3 sources that will make the foundation for our different angles: 1. Decision making theory (Enderud,1976)4. One of the authors has previously with success applied decision-making theory as an approach for analysing organisation change processes 5. Both authors have followed the same line in analysing organisational changes in the Danish public sector6. That success has inspired us to re-use the distinction between rational, political and anarchic processes in this essay 7. Enderud (1976:21-22) excludes explicitly the role of the actors' participation in his presentation of decision models. We find, however this aspect so important that we have decided to include it 2. Buchanan and Boddy´s analysis of the character of change8: The authors characterise the change project in to dimensions. One pertains to the activities concerned: Are we dealing with peripheral or core activities of the organisation. The second dimension deals with the magnitude of the change. Buchanan and Boddy use the scale: incremental - radical9. Furthermore Buchanan and Boddy makes a useful distinction between "public performance" (on stage) of rationally considered and logically phased and visibly participative change and "backstage activity" in the recruitment and maintenance of support and in seeking and blocking resistance (ibid p.27) 3. We will apply data from our own case studies. We will use a format that we call an illustration, thereby indicating that we "only" illustrate a point. We do not prove it10. Our cases are almost all from the public sector or from trade unions. Most of them have been published elsewhere. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6711
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An Interview with David J. TeeceAugier, Mie (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, Mie Augier provides a rich description of the intellectual traditions, the signifi-cant people and academic institutions that in some way or another made a difference to Davis Teece's own intellectual development. In this sense, it is a dynamic account of the emerging career of a distinguished scholar - but not only that. It is also a description of the co-development of three major disciplinary fields; organization theory, economics and strategic management during three decades or so. David Teece has made several important contribu-tions, perhaps most notably to economics (on the theory of the firm and transaction cost eco-nomics) and strategic management (on dynamic capabilities) while drawing upon organization theory and notions such as organizational routines and bounded rationality. In addition, Augier also provides an interview with David Teece, a true scholar still unsettled with what has been achieved so far - in all three fields: "Maybe I'm wrong; and maybe technology is a special case and maybe technology and organization do not belong at the core of the theory of the firm. My intuition tells me otherwise." (David Teece, quoted in this issue). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6686
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Westenholz, Ann (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose: Very little research has been done to find out what happens to organizing in Chinese companies that are located in countries characterized by cooperative capitalism. I focus on this phenomenon and explore what happens to organizing in two Chinese high-tech companies located in Denmark. Design/methodology/approach: Case studies, interviewing, and three questions inspired by the work of Boltanski & Thévenot: 1) What type of test scenarios are the Chinese and Danes becoming engaged in? 2) Which worlds are called upon as justification of actions by the Chinese and Danes in the test scenarios? 3) How do they discover their relative worth in different worlds enacted in the test scenarios? Findings: The analysis shows that controversies have emerged in test scenarios where Chinese managers and engineers have enacted a market world and a domestic world, while Danish managers and engineers have enacted an industrial world and a civic world. Furthermore, it is suggested that controversies also occur when Chinese managers enact a fuzzy world. Different worlds collide in these types of test scenarios, creating ambiguity about the worth of the persons involved and the organizing principles in their practices. The Chinese and the Danes deal with the ambiguity in many different ways. Research limitation: Few cases exist and the data is limited. Practical implications: The analysis creates learning opportunities for Chinese and Danish managers and highly qualified employees. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8793
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Forms and facades in formation of the biotechnology firmsNorus, Jesper (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the recent years the successful collaborative arrangements and relationships between university, industry and public institutions have become a mantra in transforming new scientific knowledge into new innovations and business ventures. The fit between these very different actor groups has been treated as a contingent factor. However only little attention have been giving to a specific focus on the strategies that new business ventures have obtained to establish the fit between small firms, university research, and public policies such as regulatory policies and R&D policies. The emergence of the new biotechnologies and these techniques predominately coming from the university sector make the new biotechnology organizations an interesting object for studying these relationships both on a regional and a national level. From the perspective of the small biotechnology firms (SBFs) the paper explores four different strategies for dealing with network relations; the research oriented strategy, the incubator strategy, the industrial partnering strategy, and the policy-oriented strategy. The research-oriented strategy is narrowly focusing on how a biotechnology firm transforms their scientific results into promising technologies, services or products. The incubator strategy is concerned with localization and how to come about specific types of managerial problem in the initial stage of forming a business venture. The industrial partnering strategy concerns how to overcome the problem of bringing the technologies from an experimental stage at a research lab to be able handle industrial processes and full-scale production. Last but not least the policy oriented strategy focus on problem of having products approved by the public authorities. Theoretically the article draws upon network theories and a dynamic view of network relations. That is done in order to capture the nature of the relationships between different types of actors, but also in order to emphasize the informal nature of some of these relationships. The article has a dual purpose; 1) From a corporate point of view to emphasize multiple conditions for developing and forming interorganizational relationships, 2) From a research perspective to point to the diversity and heterogeneity of these relations and thereby emphasizes the evolutionary nature of these relations and their relatedness to the overall strategies obtained by the biotechnology entrepreneurs. The paper is structured so it will start out by stating its methodological foundations. Thereafter the theoretical positioning of the network approach will seek to argue that we have multiple network relationships are at play. Not only do these networks differ but also the institutional and organizational origins are to be touched upon to come to understand the nature of the biotechnology environment and the actors involved. The positioning of the SBFs as the focal point of the analysis leads to a discussion on entrepreneurial business strategies in biotechnology industry and how these business strategies in a very distinct mode is correlated with interorganizational relationships. The empirical evidence will be fleshed out in four cases representing each of the four suggested strategies. The conclusion discusses three implications of network partnering analysis. First, it discusses the theoretical contributions on the diversity, heterogeneity between the four partnering strategies. Second, it will point to future directions in the research. Third, the conclusion will point to the managerial challenges that can be foreseen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6669
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Framing Research Collaboration Through ScreensBjørn Vedel, Jane (København, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In recent years, research collaboration between academic and corporate scientists has become a matter of concern for policy makers as well as research managers in academia and industry. Often, both in public research policies and in university and company strategies, science-industry collaboration has been presented as a catalyst for advancing science for the benefit of society as well as for the involved collaborators. The same policies and strategies, however, often emphasize that science-industry collaboration is difficult and demanding due to inherent and often incommensurable differences between the respective goals and processes of academia and industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8561
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Skabelse af forestillinger i læge- og plejegrupperne angående relevans af nye idéer om kvalitetsudvikling gennem tolkningsprocesserAlbæk, Jens (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to identify how ideas of organisational development are incorporated into and employed in hospital departments. The dissertation focuses on the conceptions of professional identity among doctors and nurses, their conceptions of clinical practice and the ideas of development they are introduced to. The health professionals' conceptions of development and practice are connected to their perception of 'professional relevance' in the dissertation. This conception of 'professional relevance' thereby forms a recurring expression of conceptions among the actors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7806
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Diagnostisk Afdeling, Glostrup Hospital 2011-2015Nicolaisen, Line; Ry Nielsen, J. C.; Tørnkvist, Annette; Hedegaard Lethmar, Helle; Morsel-Carlsen, Lone; Skovgaard, Niels; Rye Jørgensen, Niklas; Hambak Hovind, Peter (Glostrup, 2015)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: Denne afhandling er en artikelbaseret afhandling bestående af fire artikler og en kappe. Afhandlingen er et narrativt og etnografisk casestudie af, hvordan job- og personalekonsulenter i en specifik konsulentvirksomhed gennem arbejdspraksisfortællinger om selv, arbejde og organisation arbejder med at skabe mening og identitet (individuel, kollektiv og organisatorisk) i forhold til deres daglige arbejde og organisationen. Konsulenternes daglige arbejde er kendetegnet ved at være immaterielt videnarbejde (Alvesson, 2000; Ipsen, 2006), hvor både input (konsulenternes viden og erfaringer) og output (kandidater, kunder og samarbejdspartneres tilfredshed og fremdrift) er af en immateriel karakter. Herunder fremstår det centralt, at en stor del af arbejdet er at etablere og "være i" relationer til kandidater, kunder, virksomheder og samarbejdspartnere, og at konsulenterne er centrum for mange, til tider modsatrettede, krav og forventninger fra kunder, kandidater, kollegaer, ledelse osv. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8778
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generationsskifte sætter værdier og praksis på spilChristensen, Søren (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6680
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A Study of a New Economy Firm's Powers of PersuasionElgaard Jensen, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The article is an empirical analysis of how a Scandinavian new economy firm was able to persuade a number of business journalists that it represented 'the future'. It analyses how visitors to the firm were met with a specific and persuasive combination of rhetorical and material ressources. It suggests that the persuasive power of the firm was based on its ability to evoke and articulate a series of pointed contrasts between the attractive working life within the firm and the ordinary and problematic work life elsewhere. The article suggests that this strategy of drawing contrasts together differs from the mode of persuasion usually described by STS. Keywords: Sociology of expectations, Sociology of futures, Sociology of anticipation, New Economy, dot-com, persuasion, power, actor-network theory, materialised contrast argument. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6690
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The I-45 murders
At first glance, it seems just like any other interstate in America. The traffic, billboards, street signs, motels, fast food restaurants and cookie cutter neighborhoods. Yet dozens of females have been discovered murdered while others have disappeared without a trace along this Highway to Hell. The Gulf Coast Corridor has had more than its share of bodies turn up since the 1970's and most of the homicides remain unsolved. In desolate areas mostly around Galveston County and Harris County in Texas. I-45 starts in Dallas, runs through Houston and ends at the Gulf of Mexico on Galveston Island. This is evidently not the deeds of one serial killer but of multiple serial killers.
In the 1980's a task force looked into the murders of six prostitutes who worked in Houston's Montrose area. In the 1970's a number of girls were abducted and killed. Due to the bizarre pattern of the slayings and the equally bizarre occurrences of rapes around this zone of I-45. Plus the fact that these case have crossed different jurisdictions, counties, cities and towns. It seems all these different police departments were only investigating their own individual cases, unaware of the connections to other jurisdictions cases along the highway. The news media coverage has also been extremely light considering the scope of these serial killings and the fact that unsuspecting females could still be at risk.
There are about 200 known unsolved murders of females in Houston and the surrounding areas since 1971. The victims in the I-45 cases usually disappeared while they were out alone and vulnerable. Some just vanished, while others were discovered sexually abused and left dead in a remote spot sometime later. Frequently their remains were too decomposed, leaving little or no clues behind as to the killer(s) identity. In some instances the killings are presumably the work of one man, like the case of the 1970's murders and in the case of the "Killing Fields" on Calder Drive in League City. However, there are many things that point to multiple serial killers who have hunted for their prey in the same I-45 areas. The MO of a few of the I-45 serial killers appear to copy cat somewhat the original 1970's murders, yet very in other ways they do not match up. Being that a few of the I-45 killers have been caught conform that there is more than one serial killer roaming the highway. Which alone makes the serial killing along I-45 an unique study in these types of crimes.


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Dont Be A Hero: Man Tries To Help Domestic Dispute At McDonalds & Ends Up Getting Stabbed In The Eye With A High Heel!
"Anthony Miliner was sitting in a car in the drive-through lane at a
Dayton, Ohio McDonald's last month when the pair witnessed a
fight erupt in the car ahead of them. A woman in the car was being
severely beaten. Miliner got out to help, but a few moments later,
seemingly out of nowhere, a group of women rushed in and
attacked him. One of the women took off her shoe and beat him
with the high heel. It shattered the bones around Miliner's eye and
left him partially blinded."
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The Devil Wears Prada to Begin Recording Next Album in April
The Devil Wears Prada are currently out on the road, co-headlining a tour with As I Lay Dying, but the trek is giving the band a bit of a break before they resume work on their next album. The band spent a good portion of January completing the writing for their upcoming disc and now they've confirmed a start date for recording the album.
According to ThePrp.com, the band will hit the studio on April 22 to start sessions with producer Matt Goldman. The group revealed that Goldman would oversee the album just last month when it was also announced that they had signed to Roadrunner Records. Killswitch Engage's Adam Dutkiewicz, who handled production duties on their 'Dead Throne' album, will serve as executive producer on this release.
Speaking about the writing back in January, frontman Mike Hranica told us, "For me, I definitely feel a little bit of a carry-over from 'Dead Throne,' particularly because it was a very cool record for me learning, for me learning to write better and that was working with a new [producer] … working with Adam [Dutkiewicz] for the first time and having [A Day to Remember's] Jeremy McKinnon working on some of the songs with us, and I feel I took a lot from that. On 'Dead Throne' there were better vocal parts and everything was more cohesive and understandable and made for better song structure and everything and that had had a big impact on me creatively and so it's definitely carried over into this."
However, he added that conceptually the record will be different than 'Dead Throne' as he doesn't want to be repetitive. He adds though, "I can say that nothing got more happy or uplifting really. So I think it's very much the Devil Wears Prada but also it's got a bit of freshness and originality to it and I think that even musically we started approaching the songs differently."
The album is tentatively expected this fall and will be their first release with Roadrunner Records.


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Never underestimate the power of a well-timed "just sayin'."
That was one of the lessons learned by Australian actress Margot Robbie while filming her career-making performance in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Portraying the Brooklyn-born trophy wife of Leonardo DiCaprio's greedy corporate raider Jordan Belfort — in the $100-million, big-screen adaptation of Belfort's 2007 memoir of the same name — a casual suggestion by Robbie resulted in "Wolf's" most shocking scene. No small achievement in a gleefully vulgar movie comedy chock-a-block with drug-fueled debauchery, dwarf tossing and graphic sex.
"The day Leo was shooting the scene, [the actress portraying a dominatrix] was going to pour candle wax on him," Robbie recalled. But that was a tame version of what Belfort described in his book. "I was like, 'You know, if you were really committed to this character and wanted to do it authentically, you'd do the same. Just sayin'.
"And Leo's like, 'Oh my God, you're right!' " Thanks to Robbie's provocative remark, DiCaprio is shown getting up close and personal with the candle.
Of course not just any ascendant ingenue could expect to wield such persuasive power over one of Hollywood's preeminent alpha males.
"She's in her early 20s but just feels wise beyond her years," said "Wolf" screenwriter Terence Winter. "She's really savvy. Sharp. Poised. She just gets the joke."
With her bombshell looks and cheeky demeanor, Robbie, 23, comes across as unattainable yet somehow approachable. She's the rare glamazon who "gets it" in a way that recalls "There's Something About Mary"-era Cameron Diaz.
In "Wolf," Robbie is deployed like sexual napalm, more in the service of risqué comedy rather than eye candy. DiCaprio's first assignation with her character ends prematurely, hilariously, disastrously. And when co-star Jonah Hill first sees Robbie's Naomi (nicknamed "the Duchess" in "Wolf"), his corporate character becomes unhinged in the middle of a crowded pool party.
As Winter put it, "she's incredibly gorgeous, which lends itself to the obvious stuff. But then to play off the people who are tongue-tied, trying to talk to her because she's so beautiful, she understands how to downplay moments to get the maximum impact."
Ensconced in a Beverly Hills hotel suite, slogging through a long day of media engagements, and just hours after arriving from Australia where she spent the winter holiday with family, Robbie kicked off her Christian Louboutin heels and curled up on a sofa to describe what went into filming her nude scene in "Wolf." The first and only time Robbie has bared all before the camera, she said, "it was stressing me out for months leading up to it."
Unbeknownst to director Scorsese, a crew member on the movie's Brooklyn set suggested some liquid courage might calm her jitters and popped out to a 24-hour liquor store to buy the actress a small bottle of tequila. It was nowhere near cocktail hour. But after downing three shots, she was ready for the scene.
"Amazing how easy it went down at 9 in the morning," Robbie said with a grin. "My Aussie breeding had prepared me well for that."
A native of Australia's Gold Coast, Robbie grew up surfing and playing beach cricket but incubated her ambitions of Hollywood stardom as a young child by memorizing dialogue from old VHS tapes — 1993's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" providing a libretto for early dining room performances. After appearing on TV commercials and taking odd jobs such as "sandwich artist" at a local Subway, Robbie lucked into roles on a couple of indie movies then relocated to Melbourne at 17, where she picked up work as a series regular on the long-running Australian soap opera "Neighbours."
There, Robbie began plotting an exit strategy.
"It wasn't like, 'Guess I'll go to America!' For two years while I was finishing my contract on 'Neighbours,' I was carefully setting things up," the actress said. "Two years of doing acting courses, dialect coaching so that I could have my American accent perfect. I didn't spend any money so if I didn't get a job, I wouldn't have to move back. Getting a team in place so I could get straight in the room with the best casting agents and not waste any time."
Within a month of landing stateside, she scored a co-lead role on the TV series "Pan Am" (which was canceled by ABC after a season in 2012), and a part in last year's ensemble sci-fi romance "About Time."
But even before "Wolf" established Robbie's va-va-voom bona fides, she popped up on the celebrity radar thanks to a rash of specious tabloid reports linking her to Will Smith, the actress' co-star in the romantic dramedy "Focus." At issue: Photographs of the two hugging, goofing and lifting up their shirts for a photo booth camera were presented by Star magazine in November as evidence that Smith and Robbie were having a "home-wrecking" affair.
Robbie stands by her initial tweets refuting an affair and brushes off any suggestion of impropriety.
"It genuinely came out of nowhere and nothing," the actress said. "But even my mum's like, 'Margot, be careful next time you're at a party.' 'Mum! We weren't even at a party! We're at work. We weren't drunk. We were between scenes on set!'
"It's unavoidable," Robbie continued. "A little while back, they put pictures in the magazines saying Leo and I were on a balcony in Miami. It's not me. It's a 6-foot Ukrainian model. Really, I could lock myself away in a dark room for the rest of my life and they still could say I'm having an affair with someone."
Although she transitioned from Antipodean soap star to tabloid mystery woman to A-list actress with relatively dizzying speed, Robbie takes pains to make clear: If she appears lucky, it's because she made her own luck.
"Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work," Robbie said. "I feel so fortunate that everything worked out according to plan. But it definitely was a plan."


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Formation and Education for the Life of the Church
"Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another,
singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your
hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything
in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father
through him."
-- Colossians 3:16-17
St. Benedict does not refer explicitly to the above Scripture
passage in his Rule for monks, but it succinctly expresses what the
Rule embodies. The monastic day is designed to carry with it the
word of Christ throughout its hours. In gratitude to God, we pray
and we work. We do this as a community that strives to make Christ
present to one another and the world in
everything we do.
As human beings, we naturally tend to compartmentalize our
lives. We have our work life, our family life, our social life, and
(if we have it at all) our spiritual life. But how do these areas
intersect and affect one another? The Christian life is one of
unity. It is about making the whole of life holy. We worship a God
who is incarnate-the Word made Flesh. All that we think, say, or do
should radiate Christ.
Since monks are not immune to the temptation of living
fragmented lives, the Benedictine motto ora et labora-pray
and work-expresses the ideal of the Rule of St. Benedict.
Faithfully lived within the context of community, it is a sacred
rhythm that provides structure and direction for our daily lives
and (hopefully) keeps us on the path of life everlasting. Our
common prayer, our personal prayer, our various works, and our
day-to-day living with one another are not disparate elements, but
strands woven together like those of a rope to give the whole of
life strength and sacred purpose. All of this requires commitment,
humility, and the love of God.
One concrete symbol of this ideal is the corridor (or slype)
that connects the monastery and church. Each day, after praising
God in church, the monastic community processes down the slype and
directly into the monastery dining room (refectory) at the
corridor's other end for our meals together. It is a reminder that
whatever we do, we do for the glory of God, so that God may be
glorified in all things through Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 10:31;
1Peter 4:11).
All this, of course, is with the recognition that the Kingdom of
God is not yet fully realized. This path toward life everlasting is
a journey we make each day.
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HP Byron Nelson Championship, Jason Dufner Wins May 21 2012
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Jason Dufner birdied the 18th hole to win the HP Byron Nelson Championship at TPC Four Seasons Resort, Irving, Texas, by one shot from Dickie Pride. Jason had a last round of -3 under par 67 for a tournament total of -11 under par. This is Jason's second Tour win in four weeks, and also the second of his career. This win gives Jason the lead in the FedEx Cup standings. Jason was pleased with his weeks work;"Great week for me golfwise. Tough conditions throughout the week. Today was easier. That's why I think you saw the leaderboard jam up there toward the top, made for exciting golf toward the end. Good bit of guys had a chance to claim the trophy.It was nice to have a birdie putt there at the end to win, and not to be in a playoff for once. So just all in all a great week the last month. You couldn't ask for anything more professionally or personally, for what's been going on"
Dickie Pride was alone in second place on -10 after his -3 under par last round. Dickie enjoyed his tournament and also praised Jason;"It was fun. Apparently that was not a very difficult putt on 18, from the long right !! It was downhill about a cup and a half out, and I made it, and I was pretty happy about that. Jason made a great putt. He's a really good player.I think we're all seeing that, we've known that, now he's just winning tournaments, but I have a lot of respect for Jason. When we had our pro-am in Tuscaloosa for Tornado Relief, he was the first guy. He said, "I'm coming, I'm bringing a team and how can I help," and that says a lot about him. For a guy that doesn't say much, that says a lot about him. I'm happy for Jason. He went to Auburn, everyone is making a big deal about that, but he married a woman from Alabama to show him around, guys, someone has to do it!
Four players tied for third spot at -9 under par, they were; Joe Durant, Marc Leishman, Jonas Blixt and J.J. Henry. Unlucky J. J. stood on the par three 17th tee with a one shot lead, but an errant club selection saw him airmail the green, and he suffered a double bogey 5, to drop out of contention. The seven iron was way too much club, Phil Mickleson by comparison hit just a wedge onto the same green. Phil finished tied for 7th place on -6 under par for the tournament.
J.J Henry talked about 17;"Obviously it's disappointing. I played great all day, and to be honesty thought I had a great shot on 17. I hit the line exactly where I tried to, and it carried about 6 or 7 yards too far and it's disappointing but that's golf. You take the good with the bad. Great crowds out here. Everybody was very supportive. To play so well for that long, and actually like I said, I thought I had a good shot on 17 but the golf gods thought otherwise. I'm happy. This is the best I've played here, carry momentum into Colonial, right there where I live, and it's always fun to play at home." Phil Mickelson enjoyed the week with his family, apart from his poor golf form; "We had such a great week. There was so much to do here in Dallas: The two Ranger games, water parks. She and I had a special week, and I really had a great time here. This is a well-run event and I'm happy I was able to come back., I didn't strike it well this week, and when the wind came up this week my misses were magnified and I hit into some crazy spots. Today there wasn't any wind, they were more playable and manageable, and I was able to get hot with the putter. It's not like I knocked down the flag by any means, but I tried to make some on the greens."
Ernie Els finished tied for 41st place at 1 over par, another sad tournament for the South African Major winner.
Next week is the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial CC, Ft. Worth, Texas, where the defending champion is David Toms.


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WARSAW (Reuters) - In April this year, a pregnant woman asked Professor Bogdan Chazan, director of Warsaw's Holy Family Hospital, for an abortion because her own physician had diagnosed her unborn child with grave health problems.
Chazan sent the woman a letter saying he could not agree to an abortion in his hospital because of a "conflict of conscience," and instead gave the woman the address of a hospice where, he said, the child could get palliative care once born.
The baby was born at a different hospital with, according to a doctor there, severe head and facial deformities and a brain that was not viable, conditions which the doctor said would result in the child's death within a month or two.
The event has stirred a new battle in a long-running war in staunchly Catholic Poland between conservatives and liberals over abortion, which along with homosexuality, contraception, and in vitro fertilization, is defined by the church as sinful.
On Wednesday, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the mayor of the Polish capital, said she was firing Chazan from the hospital on the grounds that he did not have the right to refuse the abortion and did not inform the woman about the options for getting a termination.
The case has added resonance because Chazan was one of 3,000 doctors and medical students who this year signed a "Declaration of Faith" affirming the Catholic church's teaching that all human life is sacred from the moment of conception.
"The sole basis for the dignity and freedom of a Catholic physician is a conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit," said the declaration, which was unveiled at a Catholic shrine in the form of a stone tablet, a nod to the Old Testament's Ten Commandments.
Chazan has become a hero for devout Catholics, who say he is defending traditional values that are being eroded, and a focus of anger from liberals who say doctors' first obligation is to patients, not to the church's teaching.
Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Warsaw, said in a statement he supported Chazan. He said the dismissal was a "dangerous precedent, violating the rights not only of Catholics but of all people."
In Poland, which prides itself on being the birth-place of newly-canonized Pope John Paul II, abortion is allowed if there is a threat to the mother's life, if the fetus is seriously ill, or if the pregnancy is the result of rape.
Polish law gives doctors some leeway to refuse to carry out an abortion themselves for reasons of conscience, but it requires them to help the patient find alternative options for having a termination.
An inquiry commissioned by the mayor's office alleged that Chazan flouted that rule, that he did not inform the patient an abortion would be illegal after the 24th week of pregnancy, and ordered unnecessary tests which made her miss that deadline.
Chazan does not deny that he refused to carry out an abortion, but disputed the findings of the inquiry. His lawyer said Chazan may appeal against his dismissal.
"Today's decision is the start of an attack on the conscience of doctors and people in management positions in the health service, it is a violation of their conscience," Chazan said in an interview with razem.tv, a conservative news portal.
"Abiding by the laws of nature, and first and foremost by the law that prohibits killing a person, will probably become a reason for eliminating these people from management positions."
Professor Romuald Debski is a doctor at the Bielanski hospital, where the child whose termination Chazan refused to carry out was born. Debski has said doctors' guiding principle should be the Hippocratic oath, not their faith.
"If Professor Chazan saw the life that he saved, he would have a different attitude," Debski told TVN24 television station earlier this month.
"This child does not have half of its head, has a hanging eyeball, its face is split, it has no brain inside, and will be dying for a month or two thanks to the professor."
Additional reporting by Anna Sterczynska and Joanna Kozlowska; Writing by Christian Lowe; editing by Ralph Boulton


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Taming the Tides of High Inflation in South Sudan
Six years after independence, South Sudan remains one of the world's most fragile states, unable to emerge from cycles of violence. About half the population—that is, about 6 million of 12 million people—are food insecure. A famine was declared in February 2017. And though the famine was contained (thanks to massive humanitarian support), food insecurity remains at extremely high levels.
About 2 million South Sudanese have fled the country and another 1.9 million are internally displaced. The economy is estimated to have contracted by 11 percent in the past fiscal year, due to conflict, low oil production, and disruptions to agriculture. The fiscal deficit, inflation, and parallel market premium have all soared.
This macroeconomic collapse has crushed the livelihoods of many South Sudanese.


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We suggest that you try the virtual room before the meditation or meeting. This way you can test your microphone, webcam (optional) and adjust the sound's volume levels. For testing your sound, it is very useful to enter twice in the room with 2 names (eg Jo and Jo2 or Jo Clone). That way, you can hear yourself when you speak, test your own sound and make sure everyone else can hear you very well. You will certainly need to adjust your mic's volume level:
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You will see a chart like the one above.
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Click on the link you have received to enter the room - Eg. http://www.rael.org/events for public events in English, http://www.es.rael.org/events in Spanish, http://www.fr.rael.org/events in French, etc.. br> For public events, you need to click on the link of the event in the section "Online Events". You will be directed to a page with more details about the event and a link to enter the room. Click on that link.
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Gov.-elect Pence solidifies opposition to state health exchange
TOM LoBIANCO,
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov.-elect Mike Pence closed the door on a state-run
health insurance exchange Thursday, arguing that the estimated $50 million
cost of the state program was not worth the limited autonomy granted in
Opposition to the state-based exchange has remained firm among Republican
governors following President Barack Obama's re-election, and the
realization that his health care law would not be overturned or repealed.
"I do not believe the State of Indiana should establish a state-based health
insurance exchange because doing so will cost taxpayers millions of dollars
and it is not clear that Hoosiers would benefit from incurring the cost of
implementing this new federal healthcare bureaucracy," Pence wrote. "Without
knowing more details on the cost and nature of state-based exchanges, it is
possible that our state could be placed in the untenable position of serving
as the administrator of a new federal healthcare bureaucracy over which we
have little control."
Many of Pence's Republican soon-to-be counterparts, including some of the
nation's staunchest conservative governors in Wisconsin and Florida, have
warmed to the idea of partnering with the Department of Health and Human
Services under the "hybrid" option. But it didn't sound like that was the
case for Pence on Thursday, although he left the door ajar for a
"Furthermore, I remain opposed to our state pursuing a partnership exchange
with the federal government and, absent new information, will make that
known to the proper federal authorities by the deadline of February 16,
2013," he wrote.
Gov. Mitch Daniels told the gubernatorial candidates earlier this year that
he would pass on their decision to the federal government ahead of Friday's
deadline because one of them would ultimately be tasked with the
implementation. If Pence declines the hybrid option in a few months, the
federal government would build an exchange for Indiana and run it for a
The members of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce supported the idea of a
state-run exchange in a survey, because of the power the state would have to
work with insurers. But Mike Ripley, vice president for health policy and
workforce safety, said the business group has not pushed Pence to approve a
state exchange.
State lawmakers are expected to weigh in on the health care law when they
return for their 2013 session in January. Republican House Speaker Brian
Bosma tapped a Crawfordsville physician and health policy expert to run the
chamber's most powerful committee this year and said he expected health care
changes to add to Indiana's budget demands in the coming years.
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One of my bold predictions for 2013 — coming soon! — is that Obamacare will experience "unexpected" glitches as the date of full implementation approaches. As of the applicable deadline this week, only 17 states had officially declared that they would take full responsibility for creating their own Obamacare health care exchanges. Peter Suderman reviews a few of the "unexpected" glitches.
Another of my bold predictions is that none of President Obama's repeated assertions of the beneficent effects of Obamacare will materialize. But that's okay. We don't remember what they were anyway. We've got bigger problems.
In the current issue of the Weekly Standard, Kate Havard tracks down the owner of a successful Italian restaurant in Baltimore to discuss his efforts to come to grips with Obamacare. The interview proceeds on background to prevent retaliation against the owner — he's a culinary Deep Throat. The resulting article — "Spaghetti with regulation sauce" — provides a telling glimpse of our brave new world.


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What Are Tayberries?
A Sweet (and Sour) Taste of Tayberries
I grew up in a fruit-forward household, so I'm intrigued whenever I come across a variety I don't recognize. So when I found an article about mythical-sounding fruits called tayberries, I knew I needed to try them for myself. A cross between the Aurora blackberry and a European raspberry variety, this relatively young berry breed was developed at the Scottish Horticultural Research Institute, and named after the country's River Tay. It's been said to resemble the tart loganberry — a fruit I've never had the pleasure of trying — but with a sweeter finish. Follow me on my search to locate tayberries and see my comparison photos after the jump.
Fragile tayberries aren't often sold commercially. But at the farmers market, I was able to track some down from Yerena Farms. Poli Yerena, who happens to be the nicest farmer I've ever met, seemed surprised when I inquired about them. "Well, I only have two crates left, so I didn't put them out. The rest are going to restaurants," he said, producing a crate of gleaming, sangria-hued clusters from the back of his truck.
Although tayberry season runs from July through mid-August, Poli explained that they don't produce continually like raspberries do, but rather have one large, short cropping period. He handed me an open carton for a taste. They were full of seeds and juice like blackberries, but had the conical shape and the color of a raspberry. Because of their sour pucker, I concluded they'd be great with a dose of sugar in a macerated berry dessert, preserved in a jam, or strained, sweetened, and frozen for the ultimate Summer sorbet.
Since tayberries are scarce with a short-lived season, if you see these at a farmers market, succumb to your curiosity and bring a carton home! Have you ever tried these berries? What did you do with them?


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Kevin Duffy: For DeBalsi, a new rival, new thrills
MIDDLETOWN -- One last epic battle in track's staple event, the mile, was sure to take place on this early June afternoon.
It was happening, rain or shine, because this event has for two years pitted the state's finest runners against each other, and like the end of slug-it-out seven-game basketball series, they needed a tantalizing finale.
Except when Staples sophomore Hannah DeBalsi arrived at Danbury High five days ago for Class LLs, her coach told her, "It's over."
"I was like, `What's over?" DeBalsi said at Monday's State Open. "And he said, `Claire's not racing.' I was sad because I want to race her again because she won both times, but I can't do anything about it now."
Westhill senior Claire Howlett had fended off DeBalsi in what turned out to be their final dual, setting an FCIAC record with a blistering 4:48.19 in the 1600 at the league championship meet. She also had edged DeBalsi by seven seconds in the 3200.
But Howlett wasn't running at the LLs. An IT band injury kept her out, the Norwalk Hour reported. And that meant DeBalsi would cruise in both events. It also meant Howlett wouldn't qualify for the State Open, which brought the two-year rivalry to a premature finish line.
At Monday's State Open, DeBalsi predictably could have log-rolled or crab-walked the final lap of the 3200 and still won. She finished in 10:24.06, roughly four seconds off the meet record set by Howlett last summer, and the runner-up, Simsbury's Sarah Mattison, crossed at 10:44.46.
Distance runners admit they typically run for themselves. It's about the time, not necessarily the competition. Yet distance runners also concede the importance of rivalries.
And for DeBalsi, who has burst onto the scene as perhaps the most promising, impressive prospect in a wave of stud Connecticut distance runners, Howlett has always provided that push.
As a kid, DeBalsi was a student of Tae Kwon Do. She played on baseball teams with her twin brother. She only ran on family vacations.
When she joined cross country as a freshman, her coaches told her, "Stay with the girl from Westhill." DeBalsi didn't know who the girl was.
"I just knew she was the girl in the purple uniform," DeBalsi said.
DeBalsi took Howlett in the FCIACs last spring. Beat her in both the 1600 and 3200. At the 2013 LLs, Howlett coasted past her rival by six seconds in the 3200. DeBalsi won by 0.6 in the 1600.
Howlett swept the 2013 Open, a winner by 0.58 seconds in the 1600 and by nearly two seconds in the 3200. Both runners obliterated the previous State Open record, a mark of 10:35.02 set by Glastonbury's Lindsay Crevoiserat in 2012. DeBalsi checked in at 10:21.86; Howlett at 10:20.03.
See what I mean about the rivalry?
At last spring's Open meet, there was one other freshman who qualified for the 1600, Wilbur Cross' Danae Rivers. Unlike DeBalsi, she was a lifer in distance running. She started with the New Haven Age Group Track Club as an 8-year-old.
Like most everyone, she was battling for third place when DeBalsi and Howlett stole the show.
This spring, Howlett's injury hardly meant there would be no rivalry.
Seeded third in the 1600, Danae Rivers jumped out in front of the pack, and she stayed there until DeBalsi, shorter and slimmer, casually made her pass at the 400-meter mark. DeBalsi held the lead, but Rivers never left her heels.
"It was great to have her in the race, to have her pace and take that second lap," Rivers said. "It was like `OK, let me ride this out and see how this feels.' The pace was excellent."
Said DeBalsi: "I knew if I was going to drop her, it would have to be on the third lap."
The third lap was much like the second, though, and DeBalsi's lead neither stretched nor shrunk.
She thought, "OK, (Rivers) is going to have a kick. Hopefully I'll have a kick, too."
The race had gone according to plan for Rivers, who appeared relaxed throughout. She made her move with about 200 meters left. And with Rivers' kick, her strength, a comeback seemed a longshot.
But as the two sophomores rounded the corner, rain crashing to the track and splashing up with each kick, DeBalsi reached deeper, finding a gear she'd needed in all those races with Howlett. Her form looked perfect. Rivers was flailing around the 50-meter mark. This, yes, would be an epic finish.
Exhausting everything, Rivers remained a half-step ahead, if that.
"I considered diving at the end," DeBalsi admitted, "but I probably would have crashed into her."
DeBalsi stayed on her feet, Rivers kept churning, and from the stands, it was near-impossible to tell which time, both shattering a two-year-old State Open record, would hold. It then went final: Hannah DeBalsi, 4:47.50.
Danae Rivers, 4:47.45.
It was the start of a brilliant afternoon for Rivers, who also won the 800 and the 4X400. It was a loss for DeBalsi, but nonetheless a personal record and a successful kick.
"I got both of my goals," DeBalsi said.
She also got a new rivalry, one that should push her, provide more thrills, and probably more records, in the years to come.
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