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Crate and Barrel
Crate and Barrel is a widely admired, international brand of home décor and furniture stores. Since a young Chicago couple, Gordon and Carole Segal opened their first store in 1962, the modern furniture store has grown to over 105 locations (and counting!) in almost every major North American market, as well as international markets in Dubai, Mexico City, and Singapore.
Inspired by Europe's easily accessible, affordable, and functional contemporary furniture, the Segal's set out to bring the same level of quality and convenience to the United States. After conceiving their business plan, the couple returned to Europe, culling their favorite items from local glassblowers, ceramicists, French copper kitchenware manufacturers, and simple bistro dinnerware makers. With little money left to set up shop, they built makeshift shelves and displays with the same boxes they had brought the furniture and precious home décor items home in. With one employee and no cash register, Crate and Barrel was born out of innovation and necessity.
Today, the vision of the furniture store's founders is carried out through collaborations with talented artists and designers, illustrators, studio ceramicists, fine artists, and industrial designers from all over the world. The line of bedroom, living room, and home office furniture from classic to modern style trends is characteristically simple, colorful, elegant and affordable. In addition to furniture, Crate and Barrel is a resource for cookware, cutlery, kitchen electronics, organization and storage.
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It's "back-to-school" time around the country. Teachers have planned curricula, students have gotten their school supplies, and we once again will attempt to provide a sound education to our youth.
Much of the U.S. education system, particularly at the college and university level, is now tailored to the needs of the market, providing students with the necessary education and training to be competitive in a globalizing work environment. Areas such as math, science, and business are highlighted and professions such as nursing, medical school, business school, and law school rather than students as opposed to the liberal arts and humanities are sought by many students.
In many ways, this is a good thing. For the students who have been provided the privilege of attending college, their education should prepare them to get jobs after graduation.
But is that all there is? If the primary goal of higher education is to fulfill the needs of the market, is there a value to Catholic higher education?
My answer is an unequivocal "yes" because a distinctively Catholic vision of higher education promotes the integration of religion and theology into everyday life. One of the most important things that a Catholic university (or high school, for that matter) can instill in a young person is the realization that there is no true separation between religious and secular, sacred and profane. All creation is engraced and good, and thus God's presence and Spirit are everywhere and available at all times. The understanding that grace is already and always present is a refreshing correction to a worldview that sees a rigid border between the religious and the secular.
Now, this is not a political statement. It has nothing to do with the separation of church and state (which I think is a good thing). It is a theological statement. It is an opening of one's eyes to the engraced nature of all created things, despite their being marred through human sinfulness. This is akin to the Jesuit motto, "finding God in all things." It is an important discipline and mode of thinking to be fostered in young minds.
This is a unique worldview tied up within the vision and identity of Catholic higher education. Such a view naturally leads to a call to work for justice, peace, and prosperity for all within society. It is one of the great contributions of Catholic higher education.

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I gave the first edition four stars because it missed a few areas I thought were important. I'd give the new edition five stars if I were not involved. Michael literally fixed the areas I found in the first edition (like p 20 in the new edition reminding users to issue the "no shutdown" command) and added a new chapter on basic switch administration.
If you are one of the "poor bastards who are awake at oh-dark-thirty trying to get their router working," you should keep a copy of this book nearby. Michael is absolutely one of the best technical writers in the networking, computer, and security worlds. Plenty of others could learn how to write by studying his approach to teaching readers. Great work again Michael!
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I have no doubt that's a good book. However, I'm really waiting for Michael's upcoming book, Network Flow Analysis. It would be great if you were able to tech-edit NFA, or preferably play an even bigger role in it.
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I think it will be a great book if you are new to NetFlow. There's a lot out there already. If he covers Argus it would be really helpful. The publisher hasn't approached me yet, so I don't expect to be involved.
So, is it also bad form for an author to reply to a thread reviewing his own book? Probably, but it's not like I have that many reviews posted, so I'm going to anyway.
Any suspicion that I included Richard's previous review in my 2nd edition checklist would be well founded.
NFA covers NetFlow and flow-tools. Argus is nice, but NF is everywhere, there are no books dedicated to it, and you can deploy it without setting up sniffers everywhere. It's a nice compromise for those of us who can't do full packet capture.
The problem now is that I work for an auto supplier. In Detroit. My writing time is seriously cramped by the panic (and resulting poor decisions) that surrounds me 23x6. :-(
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Glad to see an update of this one, Michael is among my favorite authors. I had the privilege of having dinner with him at BSDCan this year, he's a great guy as well as an exceptional author.
I agree if you have any vested interest in the sales of the book, it's certainly bad form to put up any sort of review.
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Reader Bondage_Zombie has spent over a decade in video game drag. He'd like this option in more games, but not just for his sake. He thinks that there aren't enough female gamers out there and it could be the developers' faults. So what can devs do to bring in the elusive audience?
It seems like a lot of people have been talking about courting female gamers, so here's my 2 cents.
Every gamer has their own 'flavor'; a genre addiction that constantly calls out. All you have to do is look at the games you own to find out exactly what scratches your itch; for me, bullets do the trick.
When Quake II came out I tore through it in no time, and quickly learned to use Gamespy and other clients to ferret out competitive servers for my burgeoning addiction. One-shot railgun kills and grappling hooks changed the game into a caffeine-fueled-eye-straining-gibfest. My favorite part of the entire experience was the angry waves of text as my female avatar soared through each level, pumping depleted uranium slugs into the face of her ham-necked counterparts.
That's right, female. A presence that is almost always conspicuously absent from games that involve unloading a few clips into the faces of a diverse range of assailants. The loving developers at Id gave me a choice that forever changed my view of shooters by allowing me the preference of a strong female lead in my blood-streaked after school playground.
I am male; at least I was the last time I checked. In most games that give me the option, I play a female because it almost always seems like a novelty. The main characters in games like Quake II, Call of Duty and many others are overwhelmingly male
This is not by accident. Roleplaying has always relied on story to drive the action and choice to give characters more involvement in growth, appearance and even gender; helping to bridge the gap between sexes, even if that sex isn't what you live day-to-day. Big developers like Activision have even come under fire by claiming that female leads "don't sell games", even generating as much focus group data (in delightfully skewed ways) to support their claims, according to articles popping up at industry-focused sites like Gamasutra [url][www.gamasutra.com]
This would explain why their female leads tend to be Barbie and Dora the Explorer; not exactly reaching out to the female community.
Activision even seemed close to hitting the mark when their Black Ops commercial "There is a Soldier in all of us" featured women, in a variety of dress, duking it out with their male counterparts. Unfortunately, females are wholly absent from the multiplayer and single-player campaign, even though the game offers many degrees of customization it seems strange that they would fall short in this area, despite many online community forums consistently raising the issue with developers of First Person Shooters.
The developers that break stale tradition, like Valve's Portal franchise, strike gold with the female set seemingly without effort. It takes aim at puzzles instead of wanton bloodshed, narrating the single-player campaign with witty dialogue and continuing narrative. Hell, there aren't even any faeries, horses or shades of pink anywhere on the box! Other genres, particularly RPGs, have often given the option to play as a female character in some way while including an overall narrative that appeals more to women.
So, what are companies like Valve doing that is so right while other companies let a growing market slip through their fingers?
Interpret, a marketing research firm, released a new report "Games and Girls: Video Gaming's Ignored Audience", which examined behaviours of female gamers. It found that the market is growing and not just in casual(facebook), music and exercise games. They are only putting numbers to what developers like Bioware(makers of Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate) Lionhead (Fable) and Valve (Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Left For Dead) have known for years: A good story and the availability of strong female leads help their games appeal to women, even if they exist in gaming domains people consider to be dominated by males. Not only that, but these numbers are GROWING—according to the report recently released, by 50 percent in just the past two years. This time frame saw the releases of 2 Mass Effect and Dragon Age games as well as Fable III and Left For Dead 2.
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When I think about it, it seems like the simplest thing in the world: inclusion. Games have had narrative and female characters for years, but many developers have been wildly successful making games where women are only present as eye-candy or impractical beings better suited to burlesque than serious protagonists (not that there isn't a time and place for these things).
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Using the Gertbot Robotics Board for Raspberry Pi 3 I am facing some of the same problems.
I've downloaded Gertbot Debug GUI (.tgz) and extracted this. Then Enable Uart (.tgz) has been downloaded and extracted
I have also added "enable_uart = 1" in /boot/config.txt
When I run Gertbot Debug GUI the program starts and I can click "Connect"
Then it shows "Searching for boards …." and "Board 0 …." – but then nothing shows up.
Nothing is found and finally, I will have to shut down the program manually.
I've updated software (Raspian) and tried everything twice with same result.
If I run a "sudo ./enable_uart cfr" command, I will see this:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd Gertbot
pi@raspberrypi:~/Gertbot $ sudo ./enable_uart cfr
/boot/cmdline.txt seems OK
Error checking /etc/inittab
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Rwanda, little landlocked country with gorgeous rolling landscapes in the middle of Africa, is one of the few places left where you will be able to take a not too strenuous trek to see the rare mountain gorillas in the wild. Mountain gorillas are an endangered species only found in DRC, Rwanda and Uganda.In Rwanda, the mountain gorillas, peaceful giants so close to man (they share 97% of our genes!) live on the slopes of the Virunga volcanoes, in the Parc National des Volcans.Diane Fossey , the famous American primatologist spent several years studying and protecting the mountain gorillas in Rwanda and the movie "Gorillas in the mist" was actually shot in northern Rwanda a few years after her mysterious death.In 1994, horror swept through Rwanda and its name became synonymous with genocide, but nowadays the country has made its way back to peace and stability, and has become a worthwhile ecotourism destination: you will, of course, not only discover the famous and unforgettable mountain gorillas (with or without the mist), but also the magnificent savannah and fauna of the Akagera National Park, the pleasant shores of lake Kivu, the montane forest of Nyungwe with very its special fauna and flora and lots lots more….
Due to its altitude and equatorial location, Rwanda's climate is mild and ideal for tourism all year round. Temperatures rarely reach above 30°C during the daytime, and don't get lower than 15°C at night (except in the volcano area where the gorillas are to be found). The driest months are June, July, August and September, while February, March, April and May are wetter. The mountain gorillas can be visited at any time during the year.In the rainy season, the gorilla trekking can be wet and muddy, but often not too lengthy: the gorillas tend to be found lower down the volcano slopes, as there is plenty of food available for them everywhere.In the drier months, the trekking is usually easier but the gorillas, always looking for their favourite meal, can be further away, so it may take longer to reach them. Depending on the family of gorillas you are assigned to and their location in the park at the time(there are 7 groups of "habituated" gorillas which can be visited), the tracking can take anywhere from 45 minutes to 3 or 4 hours each way. Gorilla sightings, though not formally guaranteed, are extremely likely in all cases. Gorilla permits cost $1500 per person per day and should be applied for well in advance, especially if you plan on travelling during the high tourist season (July and August or over the Christmas holidays).


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Monday, August 28, 2006
The Fast Lane
Wow! It's great to be back into the swing of things but it makes life go by in whirlwind fashion.
If you are reading this you may be thinking I need to return your phone call, or e-mail you, or visit you! You may be thinking that it is about time I updated my blog! But along with the kids school starting I am in the process of putting together a 9 week womens bible study, on top of learning new music that I am teaching in the next few weeks and learn to do homework with two children instead of one...All while trying to prepare a nutritious meal that is balanced, tasty, and doesn't make my children think of penguin throw-up. Oh, and try to help the husband, who may be taking an unexpectant work related trip that is dependant on Ernestos mood in the next day or two. I just keep chucking about how everyone kept telling me that I was going to have so much time once my children were both in school.....all I can say is: HA!
These are times when I have to remember that as a woman I can use my mind or lose my mind...But only one option will get the laundry done, or make sure the oil in the car gets changed and will gently tuck everyone to bed at night while they rest peacefully thinking that all this stuff just magically gets done. :)
Honestly, I like it when life gets a little bit hectic, as long as it only lasts a few days. Then bring on the calm.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
the 80's
I received this e-mail from my brother today. I thought it was so full of memorbalia that I would pass it on.
You Know You Grew Up In The 80's if:
1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE.
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do theCarlton.
4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried tostart a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom
8. Two words: Hammer Pants
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars... and spokey-dokesor playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect
11. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (Woo ooh!)
12. It was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watchcartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the bigscreen..and still know the turtles names.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computerclass at school.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold yourshirt in a knot on the side. 17. You played the game "MASH"(Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
18. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
19. L.A. Gear....need I say more?
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten. (She'sTruly Outrageous.)
21. You remember reading Tales of a fourth grade nothing and all TheRamona books.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us...head-to-toe)
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nosefell off and his cheeks shifted.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took lunch boxes to school...and traded Garbage Pailkids inthe schoolyard.
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook up.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because youexchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?" 36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inlineskates.
38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
42. You remember Popples.
43. Don't worry, be happy.
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high topReeboks.
45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do..gettingyelled at by younger hip members of the family)
46. You remember boom boxes and walking around with one on yourshoulder like you were all that. 4
7. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
48. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
49 You remember watching Rainbow Bright and & My Little Pony Tales
50. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don'teven flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB"
53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "SavedBy The Bell," The ORIGINAL class.
54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
55. You just sang those words to yourself.
56. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
57. Homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)
58. You remember when mullets were cool!
59. You had a mullet!
60. You still sing "We are the World"
61. You tight rolled your jeans.
62. You owned a bannana clip.
63. You remember "Where's the Beef?"
64. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
65 You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
66. You're still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren'tyou! PASS THIS ON TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WHO GREW UP IN THE 80s or Early90s
I want to hear comments on how many of you did actually sing "Shot through the heart"...and are still humming it. I am!
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
First Quilt
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The Last Hurrah
I promise my blogging will be better.....I just have to get through the rest of this week and into next!
This is major transition time for me. School for me started last week and working 4-5 hours in every morning, tends to put a cramp in the schedule, leaving very little time for serious things like blogging or doing laundry. Ok, Ok...I know laundry isn't really serious but I put that in so that the hubby would know that I am actually thinking about getting that done...Eventually.
Next week is the full week back to school for the kids. We only get a taster this Friday in preparation for the full course next week...That's when the fun will begin.
This summer has been fantastic. I cannot believe that it is over.
So I will be blogging a little less until I get used to the new schedule and can organize my computer time. Tomorrow the kids and I are spending the entire day together so look for an update on Friday afternoon when I have come home for lunch and realize my house is empty!
This year is bound to be better than last year when I found myself eating Snickers bars and drinking lemonade after picking the kids up from school. But you never know.
Below are some pictures of a baby doll blanket I made for The Girl this week and then had a request for a matching pillow. It was my first attempt at quilting...So don't look too close!
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Jumping in with Both Feet
I do believe I have sufficiently recovered from our camping trip! Whew! That is one weekend I am glad is over!
This has been a great week. It's good to be back at work. The best part is getting to know the other teachers a bit. I started in the middle of the year last year so it's nice to have this week (and next) to get to know everyone better.
I always seem to get more accomplished when I know that time is limited and must be maximized. It motivates me to do what I need to do. Summertime is good for an abundance of time but isn't so great for efficient use of that time. It was good to be unstructured for a time....But it's time to jump back in.
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Gatlinburg, TN: From above you can't see how crowded and crazy it is in the streets. This is by far the more peaceful view.
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My Thrill Seeker: Who didn't want to be held back at all. She would have hung from the side if I let her.
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Monday, August 14, 2006
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Camping Adventures
You know, life is often an adventure.
Sometimes it's an adventure that you enjoy. You can throw your head back with glee, fill the wind in your hair and raise your arms in the air to reach the feeling of being in what I like to call "safe danger". Meaning, you feel scared, but it's kind of fun. The danger is in reality, an illusion.
Sometimes the adventure comes and it's more like a family of four running wildly down the trail from an evasion of epidemic proportions.
The airports around the country were confiscating water and lipstick from people on airplanes, while we were driving to the Smoky Mountains on a family trip to the woods and encountered a terror of our own.
My family was attacked by hornets. Twice.
Yellow-jackets to be exact.
It is still somewhat traumatic to this mom who watched her children run from their father and I in the attack, so I won't go into details. But the good news is that although the The Mister and The Boy were stung multiple times, and The Girl and I just once each, we didn't have reactions that required the Epy-Pen or the inhaler (even though allergy testing done years ago on The Boy suggested otherwise). I always carry Benadryl pills and ointment with me while hiking and in 11 years of marriage this is the first time we have had to use it.
Oh yeah, and have you ever heard that the Great Smoky Mountains are known for their rain? Well, the rumors are true. It rained so much that our tent leaked. Big time. This was probably due to the fact that the last time we took the tent out it collapsed under 3 inches of snow. It probably needed to be re-seem sealed.
The Great Smoky Mountains are exquisite. We love them. It just seems they do not like us.
Do not get me wrong...There were a few highlights along the way. But this adventure colored the trip more than the green that surrounded us.
Last time we weren't going to let snow bring us off the mountain. This time we shook our fists at those grumpy stinging beasts and swore they wouldn't push us off the mountain. So there are a few pictures of the happy times....and what could be happier than a little post bee sting marshmallow roasting?
After it rained all night (both nights) and into late Saturday morning we finally threw our hands up and yelled "Uncle!". Then we packed it up and left.
We did go to Gatlinburg, even though everything we had heard about Gatlinburg is true. It's crowded, commercial, and not at all a down-home quaint country town. Hey, it's got the Hard Rock Cafe. It's like expecting to see Yellowstone but arriving in Vegas, only not as clean (and that's saying something.) The good news: They don't have hornets and it only rained a little bit while we were in a restaurant eating lunch. So it was redeeming because we took the kids on a ski lift ride to view the very Smoky's we had been living in. I'll post pictures of G-Burg soon.
We are home and it sure feels good. I start work again tomorrow so the posts will most likely come later in the day and probably less frequently! I'll do my best!
Buzzing off for now.
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Serenity after the "buzz"
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Many Colors of Green
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Standing in a hollow log.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Trail Mix of the New millennium
Much of this week for me has been spent in preparation for a long weekend camping trip with the kids. We will be hitting the trails in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Hopefully, at this time of year we will not be encountering any snow. But you never know the adventures that await you when you take your family on a camping trip!
As a child we did lots of camping. One of my first memories of camping was as a 6 year old. We left home after my dad was done with work and arrived at the campsite in the dark and the pouring rain. If you ask my mom what she remembers it goes something like this: It rained and rained and rained. And I was in a tent with a 6 year old (that's me!) and a 3 year old and a newborn (that is some guts right there!).
This is what I remember: Arriving in the dark. Settling in the tent. Falling asleep to the sound of rain. And waking up to the sun shining all over the place, glistening raindrops hanging off of trees and sitting on the blades of grass, our tent sitting in perfect view of a lake that the night before I couldn't see. It is a magical moment that is vivid in my mind as if it were yesterday.
Let me tell you of another memory of that camping trip (and subsequently all the other camping trips as well.) My mom always made what she called GORP. Now a days we call it trail mix. But it is essentially the same thing. She would mix salted peanuts and raisins and plain M&M's all together and put it in that old Tupperware canister...you know the one: light tannish brown with a cutesy flower imprinted on the side and the famous corrugated type lid. Now a days we call that "vintage". Anyway, the salt from the peanuts would make those M&M's and, yes, even the raisins, taste so yummy.
So the tradition continues. Only this time I have added to the pot. Mostly because I have to make a separate Non-peanut mix due to my allergy ridden son. And because Goldfish Crackers and Cheerios are staples in this household.
So there will be a posting pause as we enjoy our last family trip of Summer 2006.
La Vida Dulce!
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
When I cleaned out my closet last week I pulled out a box that contained my wedding veil.
The Girl, who loves when I deep clean because "she can find treasures" found this box and opened it. This is probably why it took 4 hours to clean my room....because every ten minutes she was finding something that I had to help her with. She also wanted me to drag my wedding dress out, but sometimes you just gotta say no.
We'll save that for another hot sticky day.
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Monday, August 07, 2006
Anatomy of the Handbag
or August True Confessions
While cleaning out my room last week I threw out 2 very large bags of trash. Purging of the unused trash is not only good for housekeeping...it is good for the soul.
Confession is also good for the soul. So it is here that I will start my monthly list of blogger confessions.
While purging my poor closet of all it's trashy fullness I came across my collection of purses and handbags, which brings me to :
After my closet was clean and organized I decided it was probably time to clean out the handbags of all the ample odds and ends. Out of five bags this is what I found. To make this easier think of the items in the circle as on the face of a clock. This is some of what I found:
1:oo- $1.33 in change. I was a little disappointed in this amount. Out of 5 bags you'd think that there would be at least $10.00!
2:00- A wedding favor tag that reads "Eric and Jenni May 2002". It has been so long I had to remember who Eric and Jenni were....Mostly because I didn't know him too well...and quite frankly because that was 2.5 years ago!
3:00- Assorted hard candies, mints and an occasional Sweet N Low package I swiped from various restaurants. You know, if you eat all that candy you want to make sure you have some sugar free sugar to balance it all out.
4:00- A checkbook register. Last Entry: 11/03. Scary.
5:00- Straws and earplugs?
6:00- A single Junior Mint resting on a paint swatch. The color name for that swatch: Coffee.
7:oo- A lipgloss and mascara I have been searching for... for 18 months.
8:00- One of three Ritz Crackers. Each one in a different bag.
9:00- Paper clips and a store discount card...from a town I haven't lived in for a year and a half.
10:00- A ladies Bible study nametag.
11:00- One of many, many, grocery lists and some beads from my daughters broken necklace.
12:00- A plastic fork.
Now in the middle of the circle are various bits and pieces: Pens and pencils that were most likely stolen. If You are reading this and you see a pen that is yours...I am sorry.
And last, but certainly not least...Half a dog bone.
This little pile is the organized version....There was lots of other junk that consisted mostly of 1000 receipts from Costco and Kroger.
So there you have it. Some of you think I am an organized and efficient housekeeper. Ok maybe only one person thinks that. But now you know.
Some people shove everything into a closet or into the tub....I just throw it in a handbag.
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Saturday, August 05, 2006
New Cardio
Normally I keep my weekends 'blogger free', but to make up for my lack of posting this week I decided to post on a Saturday.
I stumbled across these Crazy treadmill guys. Normally on Saturday mornings my running partner and I would have already been done with our long weekend run but she's currently on a mission trip. When we can't get together on a Saturday I usually just do the treadmill. After seeing this video I am inspired. Instead of just running this morning I think I will try to make up choreography and start doing this when she and I can't get together. :)
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Friday, August 04, 2006
Blue Friday
This weeks color for the photography project is blue. You can see them below.
I seem to be in a bit of a bloggers block. I have many things on my mind and yet no time today to lay them all down on paper....or key board. But let me tell you about last night.
There is a gal from church who is getting married tomorrow. She comes from a large extended family whom I have the pleasure of calling friends (not to mention neighbors). Last night I went down the street to hang out a bit with the 3 of the 5 "K's" (there are 5 of us...pic to come) K3 is here with her sweet family from the land of Texas.
All that to say, I brought my guitar. I never want to seem presumptuous but I enjoy playing and they are a musical family and I know they enjoy singing just as much as me.
Now, let me tell you that there are many fine qualities about these beautiful K sisters...However there ability to sing together in 3 part harmony is one of their best. So I had the pleasure to play and sing with them last night. At times it was hard to sing and play because I wanted to stop and just listen. It was an amazing time of fellowship and singing worship songs. It makes me want to practice more and build up my limited repertoire.
But alas, I cannot blog nor practice my guitar right now because my room is a disaster that must be fixed. So I am taking my turkey sandwich lunch and heading upstairs with two garbage bags and an upbeat CD of some kind...cause the work has got to be done!
Have a great weekend!
La Vida Dulce!
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
I took a bit of a sabbatical from blogging.
I had told myself that I needed to fold the ever growing pile of laundry that was accumulating on the guest bed before I could blog. It didn't happen on Tuesday. It didn't happen on Wednesday. Today I was going through some serious withdrawal...so I kicked my own rear and did what needed to be done.
I did my work. Now I can play.
Of course now it's time to cook supper.
In the meantime, go take a look at the newest member of our blogger's Circle of Friends.
La Vida Loca is a spin off of my blog by my much more mature friend. She is the older blond sister I always needed but never met until about 7 years ago. I love her for many reasons. Here are a few:
1. Being a lactation guru and R.N., she has actually seen me at my best breastfeeding self and at my current "can I borrow your 11 year olds trainer?" self...and she only brings it up when she really needs to.
2. Although she is not really that old, I tease her incessantly about her age...and she takes it graciously because she knows it means I love her.
3. She always buys me lunch when we are together. A residual effect from the days when I really didn't have any money...Please don't tell her that times have changed...I like my lunches.
So, that is my friend and new addition to the side link of blogs I currently read.
Tomorrow I will have more to post...unless the floors don't get cleaned....JUST KIDDING!
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The topic of this "Let the Dog Out" series has been a bit heavy the past few weeks, so I decided to lighten things up a bit by coming up with 25 things I've learned from my dog Oreo since adopting him from the Bangor Humane Society in May. That is, after all, the reason I'm writing this "Let the Dog Out" series — to share all I'm learning about dog ownership and also to gain insight about dog ownership from readers.
I've received many emails from readers over the past month or two, and one really got my attention. A man wrote to me about how he thinks many people need to take pet ownership more seriously. I understand where he's coming from. I've witnessed a few of my friends adopt a dog, realize that they weren't prepared to train or care for it, then bring it back to the shelter. And while that's sad to see, what's worse is when people decide to keep the pet even though they don't have the time or energy to properly care for it.
So much for light hearted … My point here is, If you're not a dog owner yet, but you're considering becoming one in the future, prepare for some changes. The following list, while a bit silly, is just a glimpse of how a dog changes a person's life. Yet, I can tell you now, after learning to live with Oreo (in relative harmony), I can't imagine what I was doing before, living without a canine companion.
So, here it goes:
1. A pizza box can be left unattended only at an elevation of 6 feet and higher.
2. White pants are a waste of money.
3. The definition of edible is broader than I initially thought.
4. Don't leave underwear on the floor.
5. The cat's litter box must be accessible to the cat, but not the dog.
6. I'll never suffer a sick day alone again.
7. Vacuums are evil.
8. Squirrels are evil.
9. Fireworks are evil.
10. Carrying a bag of poop in public results in strangers giving me looks of appreciation or looks of disgust (depending on the stranger).
11. Rain=muddy dog=muddy me.
12. Chocolate goes on the top shelf.
13. Laptops make good pillows.
14. Books make good pillows.
15. I make a good pillow.
16. I actually have two shadows. One is furry.
17. Tomatoes are good, peaches are not; green beans are good, onions are not.
18. The "no human food" law is extremely difficult to follow.
19. Tug-of-war can and should be played for hours.
20. Not all chew toys are created equal.
21. I need a bigger bed.
22. I need a bigger lap.
23. Playing favorites is OK.
24. I will never want for kisses again.
25. I am my dog's "momma," whether I like it or not.
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I'm really surprised by ENOCH's position. NJ is a "green state," one which HSLDA considers to be in the uber-easy category. Many people work through fear (there's a similar situation in NC), and I think they're plain wrong. Even HSLDA, the ultimate legal resource IMHO, doesn't take such a radical position as not withdrawing a child in the middle of the school year.
I too was surprised and think it's wrong as well. I believe it adds to the confusion with those of us trying to figure out when to start HS.
Speaking of HSLDA, I looked at the application yesterday, and I admit there is a part that is intimidating me just a bit. The part where you list your childs teachers and how much time they will be devoting to teaching the child. Of course I have selected myself, and I'd like to add my husband, but due to his long hours, I just don't think I should add his name. When you signed up, did you list just yourself as being the only teacher as well? What if later on, his hours change. Would I have to call them and have him added on the application as one of her teachers? Any thoughts on how to handle that part of the application is greatly appreciated.
I also found out that membership there is not instant. There is a 2-4 week window for processing it, and depending on when you submit it (summer & fall), it could take longer. However, for those who (like me) would like to have it processed quicker, they offer that option for an additional 35.00 dollars.
Oh, and before I forget. I did ask about that letter, but they could not really give me an answer. I have to be a member first, then they will direct me to their legal team for some legal advice on that.
It's JMHO, but I say go for it (as long as you've thought carefully about what you're doing, which you have).
I'm going to "go for it," real soon. In fact, I spoke with my dd primary care physician about all of this yesterday. He's all for it, and has no problem with my decision to HS our daughter. It felt really good to know that he supports us in her education as well as her health. And, to have the support that I have and need here, makes me feel like I won the lottery or something. You've been so helpful and positive. Thank you!!!


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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Kapali Coffee Liqueur
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Eleven months a year, Bottom Shelf research coordinator Emily and I have a fair, precise, and effective labor agreement: I do the shopping and the cooking, and she does the everything elseing.
This suits me fine because I like to cook. Or rather, I like to eat and drink things that have been prepared in my kitchen and to my specifications; that's the only way to ensure the Brussels sprouts get burned, the whiskey gets overpoured, and the mustard gets slathered on every edible surface. I would make eager and lasting peace with anyone who wanted to do all this for me, but I've met no such angels. So I make dinner for us on weeknights.
I always make enough for Emily to take the leftover leftovers (the part I don't eat with my hands while she does the dishes) to work for the next day's lunch. This is so convenient and frugal and thoughtful of me! It completely makes up for the fact that she alone among us requires lunch at work the next day.
But this arrangement falls apart in December, because insufficiently gluttonous office workers such as Em don't need lunches from home; they instead subsist on the cookies and cakes and other sprinkled and frosted items that lay around every corner in the sugar-infestived corporate environment. Not having to produce leftovers is helpful in that it expands my dinner repertoire to include delicacies such as fish and take-out, but it also robs me of a key component of my usefulness. I might have to start planting spiders around the apartment to earn the next couple weeks of my keep.
And the other downside is HEY NO ONE BRINGS COOKIES TO MY UNOFFICE. This is wildly unfair, and since my only coworker is a part-time research coordinator who has her own cookie needs amply met and doesn't bake or shop anyway, I don't see any way to restore justice. Wait, yes I do. I guess I could just start drinking during the day.
That's a fair, festive, and harmless holiday indulgence, right? I'm not talking about cracking Thursday morning beers or sipping whiskey throughout the day or anything savage like that. I've never really gotten the hang of the whens and whats of socially sanctioned off-peak drinking, but I'm pretty sure you're only allowed to drink early beers if you're camping, and I don't camp. The whiskey sipping might pass muster if I could sell it as some kind of old-timey writer affectation, but that's ruled out by my constitutional inability to sip things. I need something a little lower proof.
So now I'm leaning toward getting through these last couple weeks of domestic upheaval by finding just the right little something to sweeten my coffee. I don't drink a lot of things in the 30- to 50-proof range, but I think that's what this job calls for, and even though I didn't have any good memories of Kahlua, I figured that was the natural place to start the auditions.
I've always thought of Kahlua as something grandmas hide under the kitchen sink, and while of course I have the utmost respect for that heritage, I still don't really see myself as a Mudslide/White Russian kind of guy. But it could work for my newly specific purposes, since it is coffee-flavored and -colored, which means there's the possible flavor affinity plus plausible deniability in case my imaginary teetotalling boss takes a sniffing gander at my mug.
I put a little Kahlua in my coffee last Saturday night at bar-work and it went better than expected. But before I committed to a whole bottle of my own, I felt both personally and professionally obligated to test out the cheapest knock-off I could find, which was Kapali Licor De Café, a coffee liqueur imported from Mexico by way of Maine.
Kapali costs $10 per 750mL at a store that gets $18 for Kahlua. They're both 40 proof; Kahlua bills itself as a liqueur made of sugarcane—i.e., rum—and coffee beans, whereas Kapali makes no mention of the base spirit, though rum seems likely.
Emily had a couple minutes to kill between cookie parties, so she was actually available to coordinate some research for the first time all month: She served me a secret, unmarked shot of each. They were clearly going after the same flavor effect, and one was clearly superior in every regard.
Merry Christmas, bargain-hunting morning drinkers! Kapali is far better than Kahlua. It smells deeper and more complex, with strong coffee scents that are simultaneously sweet and roasted. It's very rich and thick, and has dark fruit notes under the pleasant wave of coffee. Kahlua's like that, but less so, and with a harsh booze bite where the dark fruit ought to be.
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The following image-essay accompanies a performance given by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal at This is the ENDD, a forum on the e-cigarette held on February 22. Video of Rosenthal's presentation can be found here.
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The following image-essay accompanies a performance given by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal at This is the ENDD, a forum on the e-cigarette held on February 22. Video of Rosenthal's presentation can be found here.
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E-cig store in Les Sables, France
On February 22, Rhizome held This is the ENDD, a one-day forum on the e-cigarette. A version of this article was given by the author as a PowerPoint lecture. Video of the talk can be seen here.
Last fall, I spent a month in Arles, a small town in southern France, which has a population of 50,000. This being France, a large number of the residents smoke, and the town has three cafés-tabacs, where you can buy cigarettes. It also sports two different e-cigarette stores, both on the same street, the main drag in the town. It's clear that the stores are not there to sell the cigarettes, but rather, to showcase them.
I presume both these stores will not exist in five years (that may be a generous estimate). Whether or not e-cigarettes replace real cigarettes, as many e-cig providers claim, the needs that the vape stores answer will change as our relationships with these objects shift. They are designed for a particular moment in the history of the e-cigarette, when it's still a little out of the ordinary, when we're still not totally sure what to do with it, how to normalize it, and whether or not it's actually here to stay. There is an immediacy, a consistency, to our associations with smoking and cigarettes (good and bad, the Humphrey Bogarts and the health threats); trading them in for an electronic object is a mental leap that's hard to ignore. These stores exist to help consumers make the leap.
In conjunction with This is the ENDD and at the invitation of event presenter Mathew Dryhurst, Aaron David Ross of Gatekeeper has compiled a mixtape exploring the vape aesthetic. The resulting work is available to stream and download below, along with a statement by ADR. The compilation will be given a public premier tomorrow at Beverly's (21 Essex St New York, NY 10002), following the conclusion of the conference, at 630pm.
Following the conclusion of This is the ENDD and Pinar&Viola's front-page exhibition, this project can be found here permanently.
This weekend, to coincide with This is the ENDD: a Forum on the E-Cigarette, the front page of Rhizome.org will present The Smoking Room, created by Pinar&Viola and programmed by Gui Machiavelli. In this lush chatroom, you can wield strange new kinds of e-cigarettes and blow virtual smoke shapes while talking to friends and strangers.
I know. Vaping is not smoking. This is rule #1 of vaping culture, a distinction of paramount importance for vapers (who rightfully want to avoid the social stigma of the cigarette) and e-cigarette manufacturers (who want to avoid tobacco-style regulation). Therefore, in their marketing of this emerging technology, the manufacturers have trodden a fine line between reminding potential users of the good, old-fashioned "benefits" of smoking, and establishing their product as something new and hi-tech and detached from bodily consequence. In a word, as something virtual.
Rhizome is dedicated to art and ideas that create richer and more critical technology cultures. With this program, we continue our examination of influential, technological objects from interdisciplinary points of view, in the context of artistic research practice.


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There are many different ways to make a theoretical contribution. We've posted some readings on writing theory that may be helpful on our website: Theory Building Resources. It's also a good idea to get "friendly reviews" from colleagues before submitting your manuscript to the journal. Make sure you ask your friendly reviewers to be critical, and then take their feedback to heart!
Does AMR publish literature reviews or case studies?
No, AMR does not publish literature reviews, case studies or manuscripts with empirical data. We are looking for papers that make a theoretical contribution by offering new theory, challenging existing theory or providing important insights about the process of theorizing and theory development. For a more detailed description of our publishing guidelines, please visit Information for Contributors.
Does AMR publish formal models and simulations?
The Academy of Management Review (AMR) is interested in papers that make important contributions to management theory using a variety of theory development tools, including formal models and/or simulation techniques. The criteria for evaluating the publication of formal model/simulation papers is exactly the same as the criteria for evaluating all papers submitted to AMR: Do these papers make an important contribution to management theory (either by significantly extending current theory or developing new theory) and are they accessible to a broad scholarly management audience? No other attributes of a paper can substitute for making a theoretical contribution that is widely accessible to management scholars.
The application of these two criteria (contribution to management theory and broad accessibility) have a variety of implications for those looking to publish formal model and/or simulation papers in AMR. For example, with regard to contribution to management theory:
With respect to accessibility to a broad scholarly management audience, the goal in writing these papers is that those who read them will need only a passing familiarity with the modeling techniques they apply and will still be able to understand what the models are doing, and their implications for management theory. This suggests:
Does my paper need propositions and figures with boxes and arrows?
Figures, tables, and propositions can be helpful tools, but we don't require that you include them in your manuscript. Some papers benefit from them, but others don't. It all depends on your paper. Confusing figures, tables and propositions can be a distraction, so if you use these tools make sure they are clear and that they help your readers understand your ideas.
How do I know if my paper "fits" with AMR?
In general, the best way to see if your paper fits a journal is to read the journal. Reading current issues of the journal gives you an idea of the types of papers that are published and the way they are structured. Some of our "From the Editor" essays offer helpful tips on publishing in AMR and how to structure your manuscript. You can access these essays through our website at From the Editor Essays on Writing Theory. If you are still in doubt, don't hesitate to ask the editor!
What are the page limits for submissions? How do I format my submission correctly?
As a general guide, your paper should be about 25–30 double-spaced pages, excluding references, tables, and figures. We understand how difficult it is to present complex ideas clearly and concisely, and we do take the contribution-to-length ratio into consideration. However, please keep in mind that reviewers (and readers) will quickly lose interest in long, rambling, or unnecessarily dense papers that are not accessible to the reader.
Please make sure to format your paper using the AMR guidelines, which can be accessed through our website at: Information for Contributors.
What is the review process at AMR? Are submissions blind reviewed? When will I hear back about my submission?
AMR uses a "double blind" peer review process. This means that authors do not know the identity of the reviewers and reviewers do not know the identity of the authors. Here's how it works: the editor first reviews your paper and, if it is suitable for the journal, assigns it to an associate editor. The associate editor then invites reviewers based on their expertise. Some reviewers are members of the editorial board, while others may come from our database of ad hoc reviewers. We usually get three reviewers for each manuscript, and we ask them to return their reviews within 30 days. After getting the reviews, the associate editor makes the decision about whether to invite a revision or reject the manuscript.
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Do I need to include a cover letter with my submission? Can I request reviewers and/or an associate editor?
Cover letters are entirely optional. You can request reviewers and associate editors in your cover letter, but please keep in mind that we cannot always honor your requests. We try to keep workloads manageable by asking reviewers to review only one manuscript at a time. So if the reviewer or board member you request already has an assignment, he or she will not be available to review your paper.
Can I submit a paper to AMR that has been reviewed and rejected as a regular submission or by a Special Topic Forum?
No, unfortunately, we can't allow authors to submit previously reviewed and rejected papers.
Sometimes authors will take a gem of an idea from their rejected manuscript and develop it into an entirely new paper. In this case, we could consider the paper as a new submission if the authors can demonstrate that the paper involves a different theoretical framing and addresses a substantially different theoretical issue or question than the rejected paper.
What are the reasons for a desk reject?
The most common reason is that the paper doesn't fit with the mission of the journal. Manuscripts may be desk rejected because they don't offer new theories or theoretical perspectives, are literature reviews, contain empirical data, fall outside the field of management, are descriptive editorials, or are aimed at practitioner audiences. In some cases the manuscript is on the right track but is theoretically underdeveloped. In such cases, the editor may send the paper back to the authors with the hope that they can address this problem. Authors are able to resubmit these types of desk-rejected manuscripts because their papers have not gone through the peer review process.
What do you look for in Dialogues, and how do I submit one?
Dialogues are short commentaries on recently published AMR articles. Dialogues are not just opinions or editorials: they need to make a substantive contribution in moving the field forward. Dialogues should do more than just identify assumptions or shortcomings in an article; they should take the next step in offering constructive ways to address the limitations. They also need to be constructive in tone and written in ways that are accessible to the average AMR reader. Our readers should be able to understand the debate or issues raised in the dialogue without having to be an expert in the field. Guidelines and information about submitting dialogues can be found at Information for Contributors.
How do I become a reviewer for AMR?
Reviewers are selected based on their expertise, so building your publication record is the best way to be selected as a reviewer. However, you can also be proactive by reaching out to editors and letting them know that you want to review for the
journal. This can be helpful, as we're not always aware of new work published by early career scholars or papers that are in-press at other journals.
Once you get our invitation to review, make sure that you promptly accept the invitation and follow through by submitting a high quality review on time. We will not invite you to review again if you have a track record of declining reviews or submitting late or low-quality reviews.
For more information on reviewing guidelines and expectations, please see our website: Reviewer Resources. We've also published "From the Editor" essays that offer practical guidance on reviewing. Gary Ballinger and Russell Johnson's essay, "Your First AMR
Review" (July 2015), offers concrete advice for first-time reviewers and shows the rating scale used to evaluate reviews. Belle Rose Ragins's essay, "Developing Our Authors" (January 2015), describes what developmental reviewing is (and isn't) and offers practical tips on how to write developmental reviews. These essays, as well as others, can be accessed through our website at Reviewer Resources or through your library.
Source: Ballinger, G.A. & Johnson, R.E. 2015. Editors' comments: Your first AMR review. Academy of Management Review, 40: 315–322.
Source: Ragins, B.R. 2015. Editors' comments: Developing our authors. Academy of Management Review, 40: 1–8.
How do I get on the journal's Editorial Review Board?
The editorial review board is selected based on a number of considerations (e.g., areas of expertise, background, nationality, diversity, and theoretical orientations). We invite members to join the board who not only are premier scholars in the field, but who also demonstrate their commitment to reviewing through their solid track record of providing timely, high quality, and developmental reviews.
Are my reviews evaluated?
Yes, absolutely. Associate editors evaluate every review. The rating scale used in these evaluations is reprinted in Gary Ballinger and Russell Johnson's 2015 essay on how to be an AMR reviewer (see page 320). Their essay can be accessed through our website at Reviewer Resources or through your library.
What do you mean by developmental reviewing?
There are many misconceptions about developmental reviewing. Developmental reviewing does not mean saying only nice things about a paper or ignoring its flaws. Developmental reviews identify issues with the paper, but they also help authors take their work to the next level by offering ways to address these issues.
One way to be a developmental reviewer is to imagine a face-to-face conversation with the author. Picture the author as a colleague who asked you to review her paper. You'd point out her paper's shortcomings, but you would also take the next step in offering ideas for how she could address them. You would try to find the hidden gems in the paper. You would listen to her and try to understand her perspective, even if it's different from your own. You'd ask questions that would help her articulate and clarify her thinking and assumptions.
Developmental reviewing uses a different mindset that focuses not just on the work, but also on the author. What are the authors trying to say? What's keeping them from realizing the potential of their ideas? Developmental reviewing not only helps authors realize the potential of their current paper but also builds their capacity for future work. This raises the level of scholarship for AMR and the field.
For more information on developmental reviewing, please visit Reviewer Resources, which has video interviews of award-winning reviewers discussing their approaches to developmental reviewing and links to editorial essays on how to write a developmental review.
How long should my review be? Any other tips for reviewing?
Generally we look for 1–2 pages, but some reviews need to be longer. While we don't want to overwhelm the author, it's also important that the author understand your points and rationale. Authors also appreciate it when you refer them to other work in the field that may be useful.
While authors appreciate positive support, it's important to make sure that your review identifies important limitations in the manuscript. In fact, authors may be confused if you say only positive things in your review, yet recommend rejection to the editor. We hope that your review will be developmental in identifying weaknesses, but also offering authors constructive ideas for how to address these weaknesses as they continue their work on this paper.
Reviewers have the ability to make confidential comments that are seen by the editor but not the author. These candid comments can be helpful and we encourage you to use this option when you submit your review.
Other tips for reviewing can be found on our website: Reviewer Resources.
What if I can't make the deadline for turning in my review?
We understand that life happens. Please reach out to your associate editor as soon as you can. If you can't do the review, your editor will need to find a replacement, which will delay the review process. Please remember that many of our authors are assistant professors and doctoral students, and that delayed reviews can affect their job searches, promotions, and careers.
Can I have my student write my review?
No, your review should be written by you. Do not have your students write your reviews for AMR. Our authors expect, and deserve, high quality reviews from the leading scholars in the field. We understand that doctoral students need to learn how to write reviews, but there are other methods that can be used. For example, you could share your own manuscripts and the reviews you received as an author with your students to facilitate their learning.
Should I accept a review if I know the identity of the author?
We need to preserve the blind peer review process. If you are certain of an author's identity, please contact your associate editor right away so we can electronically withdraw your invitation to review the manuscript, this way, you won't get a "decline" on your reviewing record. Sometimes reviewers discover the author's identity later in the review process, perhaps after the author presented his or her work at a conference. In this case, please contact your associate editor right
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Do not share the manuscript or your review with anyone other than the associate editor. Authors submit their manuscripts with the understanding that they will be held in confidence and that only the editor and reviewers will see their work. For more guidance, please see Sections 2 and 4 of the AOM Code of Ethics: Code of Ethics.
What is the journal's impact factor?
The journal is ranked among the top five most influential journals in the fields of business and management. The most recent impact factor and rankings can be found at: Academy of Management Review.
When doing research project and need a particular article, how do I get access to the journal?
As a benefit of membership, all Academy of Management (AOM) members have free access to the contents of AMR, as well as the other AOM journals. To learn more about the benefits of being AOM member, please visit: Benefits and Services. If you are not an AOM member, you can purchase articles at amr.aom.org. You may also be able to access AMR through your university library.
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How do I subscribe to AMR?
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What is the journal's publication schedule?
The journal is published quarterly: January, April, July, and October.
Can I make copies of my AMR article for my class?
For detailed information on reprints and permissions, please see: Reprints and Permissions.
Is there a submission fee for the journal?
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What is the journal's Open Access Policy?
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Report: Child Removal Cases in Sweden and the neighbouring Nordic countries
Honourable Mr Secretary General, Honourable Committee of Ministers, We, the undersigned, lawyers, former judges and law professors, professor of psychology and investigating psychologists, medical doctor in Sweden, including the lawyers, members of the Steering Committee of The Nordic Committee for Human Rights - NCHR - For the protection of family rights in the Nordic countries (Nordiska Kommittén för Mänskliga Rättigheter - NKMR - För skydd av familjers rättigheter i de nordiska länderna), are hereby sending this request to the Council of Europe, the Minister Committee and the European Parliament for a thorough investigation of the very prevalent and destructive Child Removal Cases that are being practiced, on a daily basis, in the neighbouring Nordic countries. All of the judges, lawyers and law professors, professor of psychology and investigating psychologists and the medical doctor who endorse this report have worked with and publicly addressed the issue of the child removal cases and the NKMR/NCHR has participated actively in the government's "New plan of action for Human Rights 2006 - 2009", (Ny handlingsplan för de mänskliga rättigheterna 2006 - 2009), which is still in progress. From our professional experiences, it appears that mostly young, sole parent families, economically and educationally weaker families, families with health challenges and immigrant parents are targeted by the social services in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Also parents with religious and philosophical beliefs, which do not seem to be politically accepted, are often deemed as unsuitable parents, which invariably leads the social councils, acting upon the advice of the social workers, to remove the children from their families and place them in foster homes. However, even highly educated parents with high-profile professions have experienced social workers' interference in their private and family lives. Since the beginning of the 1980's, a great number of families have fled from Sweden in order to protect their children from being taken into care and placed in foster homes.1 Many
1 - Jacob Young, Joan Westreich and Donna Foote, A Family's Flight From the Welfare State, Newsweek, 1983, http://www.nkmr.org/english/a_family_flees_from_the_welfare_state.htm; David Högstedt, Hemskolefamilj flyttar till Åland, (Homeschooling family moves to Åland), rightfully upset critics even refer to these cases as the "child care and abduction industry", because of the large sums of money that are being paid to the foster parents, while others use the term: the "child abuse and family destruction industry", because the children and their parents are invariably traumatised. It should also be noted, that lawyers in Sweden who believe in the rule of law and the supremacy of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and who work conscientiously to protect the rights of their clients, are harassed and persecuted by the staff in the administrative court system. At the outset, we hereby request that we, the undersigned, should be granted a personal meeting with the Council of Europe, so that we can give you a briefing of the situation in Sweden and the Nordic countries. The number of signatories to this application makes it impractical for all of us to meet up at the Council of Europe, therefore we invite the Council of Europe to designate a Committee, for eg the Torture Committee, to meet with us in Gothenburg, Sweden for the purpose of find remedies for the non-existing Child-friendly Justice system in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
Since the beginning of the 20th Century, Sweden and the Nordic countries all have laws which give the social welfare authorities the power to forcibly remove children from the care of their parents - on what appears to be arbitrary grounds - and place them in foster homes, or institutions, among total strangers. From 1920 to the present day, more than 300 000 children in Sweden have been removed from their homes and placed in compulsory foster care. The statistics for Norway, Finland and Denmark are a little lower. In 1957, the young and intrepid journalist, Ms. Lillemor Holmberg, wrote several articles about the Blomqvist family in the municipality of Vetlanda, whose eight (8) children had been removed from their home by the social services and placed in secret foster homes far away from their loved ones, hence Vetlandfallet4, the Vetlanda Case. The title of Lillemor Holmberg's first article that was published in a magazine is "Legaliserade barnarov", (Legalised kidnappings). The following year, 1958, Ms Lillemor Holmberg6 published her article, and the late Professor Halvar Sundberg7 wrote his commentary: "Ett hems undergång i folkhemmet" (The destruction of a home in the welfare state). Both pieces were highly critical of the procedures employed by the state to remove the Blomqvist children from their home and break up their family. Ten years later, in 1967, the publicist, Mr Jan Gillberg, interviewed Ms Holmberg on the topic of the Vetlanda Case. In the interview, "En mor frågar samhället: Var finns mina fem barn? 8" (A mother asks the state: Where are my five children?), Ms Holmberg quoted Ms Ulla Lindström, a government minister, who in a recorded conversation, said: "This is a scum family and they stick together like a clan!" ("den här familjen är ju tattare och håller ihop som en klan!") We have focused here on the Blomqvist Case that took place in 19579 in order to show that the taking of children into public care by the social authorities in Sweden and placing them in foster homes is nothing new, but instead, a long standing practice.
Världen idag, (The World today), February 10, 2012, http://www.varldenidag.se/nyhet/2012/02/10/Hemskolefamilj-flyttar-till-Aland/
2 - 2 § LVU. Vård skall beslutas om det på grund av fysisk eller psykisk misshandel, otillbörligt utnyttjande, brister i omsorgen eller något annat förhållande i hemmet finns en påtaglig risk för att den unges hälsa eller utveckling skadas. Lag (2003:406). (Law with special Provisions on the care of young persons (1990:52)). The strophe "eller något annat förhållande i hemmet" leaves children and their families open to the whims of the social workers.
3 - European Convention, Articles 5 and 8 forbid arbitrariness. Cf: Case of Čonka v. Belgium (Application no. 51564/99), Judgment Strasbourg, 5 February 2002 paras 39; 79; Case of B. v. The United Kingdom Application no. 9840/82 Judgment Strasbourg 8 July 1987, paras 60-65, http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-57453.
4 - Vetlandafallet. En sammanställning av artiklar, http://www.nkmr.org/vetlandafallet.htm (The Vetlanda Case. A collection of articles)
5 - Lillemor Holmberg, Legaliserade barnarov, Perspektiv, Tidskrift för kulturdebatt, häfte 9. 1957. Årg. 8. November 1957, http://nkmr.org/legaliserade_barnarov.htm
6 - Lillemor Holmberg, Ett hems undergång i folkhemmet, Särtryck ur Samtid och Framtid nr 4, 1958, http://www.nkmr.org/ett_hems_undergang_i_folkhemmet.htm
Upplagd av Socialdemokraterna måndag 19 augusti 2013 13:18
Etiketter: Barnhandel, Child, Human Rights, NKMR, Pedophile, Sverige, Sweden
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