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15 May 2008
|Vermont Chocolate Show This Weekend
Vermont is chock full of food producers. Cold Hollow Cider Mill, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, King Arthur Flour, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Cabot Cheese are the best known but the list goes on and on with what seems like hundreds of small and medium size companies making items as diverse as cookies, pizza, beer, and tea. If you like good quality food, you will love Vermont.
This weekend is a good opportunity to sample chocolate from Vermont and other places in New England. The Vermont Chocolate Show was formerly held in Stowe but it has moved to The Inn at Essex, a larger venue near Burlington.
The exhibitors are mostly made up of chocolate manufacturers but also some surprises such as an art exhibit and a Vermont vodka company that makes chocolate flavored spirits!
The event is scheduled to run Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18th.
(c) Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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12 May 2008
|VT Open Craft Studio Weekend May 24 and 25
The Vermont Craft Council, an association of several hundreds craftspeople throughout the state, started the Open Studio Weekend 16 years ago as a way to increase awareness of the craft-making community.
It's easy now to not only see the scale of the craft industry here, but also the deep wealth of skill right here in our little 'ol state. The trees, farms, and mountains are beautiful but they can overshadow a great supply of talented people here sometimes.
This year's Open Studio Weekend is taking place Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25. It's a great time to see both studios that are open frequently to the public and also the "off the beaten path" studios that are rarely open to visitors.
There is an incredibly detailed Open Studio guide and map guide on the Vermont Craft Council website. Some 250 studios will be open on the weekend. Let me emphasize that this is not people making flea market junk. These are first rate craftspeople. For example, take a look at the Studio and Gallery page on the Craft Council's website.
If you don't want to print a lot pages from the website, you have enough time to order the complete tour guide free by US Postal mail. Just click here. It will also be available at most of the studios and also the state's official welcome centers on the highways and main roads leading into the state.
It's a great time to visit. Everything here will be fresh and green, the daytime temperatures will be warm and the night time cool.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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10 Mar 2008
|Budweiser Clydesdales at Mount Snow March 21 and 22
Budweiser Clydesdale horse photo from Mount Snow
Mount Snow is the only northeast ski area that will be hosting the Budweiser Clydesdale horses this year.
They will be available for viewing at a Friday night pizza party, a Saturday afternoon parade, and in one of the parking lots after the parade.
Mount Snow Ski Resort is located in southern Vermont near Wilmington VT, between Brattleboro and Bennington.
More information is available at the Mount Snow Events Calendar.
(c) 2008 [except the photograph] Jeff Connor
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4 Mar 2008
|Telemark Ski Festival at Mad River Glen This Weekend
One of the largest telemark ski events in the country takes place every year at Mad River Glen ski area in Fayston Vermont.
The North American Telemark Organization TeleFest takes place this coming weekend, March 8 and 9. About 1,000 telemark skiers will be taking part in races, clinics, equipment demonstrations, fun runs, and parties.
The cost is $54 per day or $104 for two day. and includes lift ticket, clinics, use of demo gear, contests, and Magic Hat dance party.
About a week later, March 17 - 21, the next door ski resort at Sugarbush will host the FIS Telemark World Cup Finals with the best telemark skiers in the world competing.
If you are not familiar with telemark skiing, you can read a good article about it on Wikipedia.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor (except the photo from NATO) Grunberg Haus Inn
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29 Feb 2008
|A Celebration of American Artisan Cheese presentation Friday March 14
The Inn at Baldwin Creek in Bristol Vermont has a restaurant called "Mary's" that is well known and highly regarded around here. It has won many awards and reviews including Yankee Magazine 2005 Editor's Choice Award and 2005 Restaurateurs of the Year award from the VT Lodging and Restaurant Assn.
Each month, the Inn holds a dinner presentation and the selection this month is artisan cheese. The featured speaker is Jeff Roberts of Montpelier, VT, author of the Atlas of American Artisan Cheese , co-founder of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at the University of Vermont, and a Slow Food USA director.
Jeff Robert's Friday March 14 presentation includes dinner at 6:30 pm with tastings of regionally-produced artisan cheeses and a talk based on his research, stories about artisan cheese makers, and links to broader changes in American agriculture.
You can make a reservation by calling toll free 888-424-2432 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. The dinner and talk is $25 per person.
This presentation is part of The Inn at Baldwin Creek Annual Table Talk Dinner Series which are held the second Friday of every month. The inn's website has a list of the monthly presentation dinners as well as cooking classes.
Mary's Restaurant Chef/Owner Doug Mack has been there about 24 years. You can see him making fried zucchini flowers (!) on Vermont Public Television's Feast in the Making cooking program.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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28 Feb 2008
|Snowshoe Marathon Race March 8 in Pittsfield VT
Peak Adventures is a Vermont company that puts on extreme races several times a year. Their snowshoe marathon is coming up next weekend on Saturday March 8 starting at 8:00 am in Pittsfield VT.
The course is a 6.5 mile loop with 7,200 feet of elevation change along ungroomed and snowmobile trails. See the topo map on the website for more detail. The marathon runs four loops, the half marathon runs two loops, and there is a one loop fun run for those who just want to give snowshoeing a try. There is a ten hour time limit for all racers.
For beginners: I can tell you from personal experience that running in snowshoes takes twice the exertion of road running so plan accordingly! It's not enough to be in good shape. You have to be in great shape.
You can register online at peakraces.com and click the link to runrace.net or register that morning at the General Store in Pittsfield from 5:30 to 7:30 am. Registration costs $75 and includes a beanie hat and the post race meal.
The post race celebration begins at 6:30 pm and includes lobster and shrimp dinner, "plenty" of Long Trail beer, the awards ceremony ($1200 for the marathon only to the top three men and women - $300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place, and $100 for third place; plus unique finishers awards for everyone and a special award for top three male and top three female in the marathon and half marathon).
(c) 2008 [except the photo from Peak Adventures] Jeff Connor
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Title: How'd you like THEM apples - part 2
Date: October 18, 2004
Summary: A continuation of Comic 14 - Beaver and Steve try to undo the de-invention of gravity.
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Sir Isaac Newton
Onomatopoeias used: "SNIK!", "WACHUNK!", "SWHOOOSH!", "SWOOOOOSH!", "SWAK!"
Number of panels: 11
Panel 1
Beaver and Steve approach the time portal
Beaver: "We'd better go back and sort this mess out."
Panel 2
"Shortly..." Beaver and Steve are at a catapult loaded with an apple.
Beaver: "Elevation 48° ... Declination 32° ..."
Panel 3
Beaver: "FIRE!"
Panel 4
SNIK! Steve cuts the rope and WACHUNK! The catapult throws the apple.
Panel 5
Sir Isaac Newton sits under the tree, reading a book entitled Hard Math.
Panel 6
SWHOOOSH! The apple speeds through the air.
Panel 7
Beaver: "Stay on target... Stay on target..."
Panel 8
SWOOOOOSH! The apple approaches Newton.
Panel 9
? Newton looks up quizzically.
Panel 10
SWAK! As the apple strikes Newton's head, he drops his book.
Sir Isaac Newton: "Gnnk!"
Panel 11
Beaver and Steve stand over the bloody corpse (and bloody apple) of Sir Isaac Newton.
Beaver: "Steve, I think we just killed the father of modern mathematics."
[To be contd.]
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- At the beginning of this strip, Steve is suffering the effects of no gravity, while Beaver remains on the ground. At the end of the previous strip, however, neither Beaver nor Steve is affected by the lack of gravity.
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The case of travel guidebook productionAlačovska, Ana (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis focuses on the production of travel guidebooks. Its aim is to explore the mutual coconstruction and entanglement of genres, producers and institutions in cultural production and cultural work. It also examines how authorial and institutional, professional and industrial selfreflexivity exists in and through ambiguous and shifting interrelations with genres and their poetics. To this end, it develops a preliminary theoretical framework for a comprehensive exploration of the complex dynamics of cultural production that is attentive to the cultural objects themselves: here, a down-market, 'uninventive' and 'heteronomous' genre known as the travel guide(book). The thesis argues that the specificity of the genre is continually contextualized and re-contextualized, qualified and re-qualified, commodified and rendered autonomous, in the daily, local, and intimate practices of guide-making. The argument presented is that the genre is not merely a backdrop for creative agency or a predetermined set of rules, but a complex entity – spatially and temporally dispersed – that affords autonomous opportunities for various modes of action, self-definition, and self-interpretation. Thus, genres are active elements or animating forces of cultural production, rather than merely outcomes of industrial dynamics. What arises from the empirical material is that cultural producers experience 'autonomy' in and through the notion of genre which itself is fuzzy, vague, tacit, implicit and often non-formalized. Nonetheless, it is obdurately present in a spectrum of strategies, rhetoric, a sense of responsibility, expertise and professionalism applied by such producers in order to explain, define and justify their practical decisions and evaluations. The first three chapters explore perceived limitations of sociological, anthropological and sociocultural paradigms of cultural production. They also indicate some potential areas for crossfertilization with genre theory, which has conceptualized the notion of genre as social action, cognitive action-schemata, and institutions that mediate between industry, producers, and audiences. The last four chapters follow and trace interpenetrating and interlocking relations between genres and institutions firstly, as they mutually and historically co-produce each other in industrial practice; secondly, as entangled in individual and professional auto-biographies with reference to the genre and its adjacent markets; and third, as embedded in actual production practices - how guidebook producers make use of and interact with the editorial brief (or institutionalized and contractually binding genre specificity) and independent genre trajectories (autonomous logic), while making daily evaluations of their work and their own professional selfreflexivity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8703
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Abstract: 'Good' Outcomes – Handling Multiplicity in Government Communication This thesis examines how five Danish government organizations produce and assess communicative solutions in practice, and argues that government communication may be understood as a case of multiplicity. In the practices of producing and assessing communicative solutions it is uncertain what constitutes a 'good' outcome of government communication. This uncertainty is grasped by drawing upon analytical resources from the field of multiplicity-oriented ANT analyses. Empirically, the thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at the five government organizations. Combining empirical observations, theoretical insights, and political programmes, four 'modes of ordering' are developed and these are utilized in exploring how the multiplicity of government communication unfurls and how it is handled in practice. The thesis shows how the ordering attempts described by the four modes of ordering coexist and interfere, and it suggests the notions of 'sequencing' and 'singularizing' for understanding how the multiplicity of government communication is handled in the production and assessment of communicative solutions. The study upon which the thesis reports has been carried out in connection with a larger Industrial PhD project, entitled Measurements you can learn from, that aimed at developing, testing, and implementing new and better communication measurements. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8306
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Abstract: In this dissertation I examine the establishment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) bureaucracies at corporations and I come to consider the CSR bureaucracy as a space for reflection within the corporation. In the face of charges that bureaucracies are inherently unethical and devoid of consideration for humanistic concerns, I argue that within the large bureaucracy that is the corporation, the CSR bureaucracy can create a space in which tensions that arise from conflicting values and purposes can be identified, negotiated, and actions coordinated. I position this dissertation within the field of CSR, to which I introduce the Weberian distinction between formal and substantive rationality as means through which to identify and describe tensions that become apparent with the CSR agenda. This dissertation contains four articles, two of which draw from the engaged scholarship approach. One includes findings from a study I conducted as an action/intervention researcher with a U.S. corporation during the period in which a CSR bureaucracy was established. The other includes findings from a study of CSR focused MBA courses I instruct in which reflection is a primary learning objective. The other two articles include findings from studies I conducted to explore the establishment of a CSR position to the top management teams of U.S. and Scandinavian corporations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8462
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Differentiated internationalization strategies of emerging market state-owned enterprisesLi, Ming Hau (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The rise of globalization over the past several decades has witnessed a surge of cross-border activities by emerging market firms. To a large extent, such acceleration in their overseas venturing has been precipitated by the liberalization of domestic and foreign trade regimes governing foreign direct investment. In order to compete with advanced country multinationals, emerging economy firms have increasingly leveraged a broad array of resources and organizational strategies to springboard abroad. Simultaneously, such firms are subject to dynamic shifts in their institutional terrains triggered by a plethora of heterogeneous reform treatments as their governments endeavor to modernize their economies. The initiation of these potent large-scale reforms associated with transition such as economic decentralization, market liberalization, industrial restructuring and corporate ownership reform undoubtedly exert cross-cutting and transformational impacts on the resource endowments, adaptive capabilities and strategic behaviors of emerging market firms. Given this critical phenomenon, this dissertation is motivated by the primary research question – how does institutional transition and its related change processes operate to reconfigure and alter firm resources and capabilities for internationalization? Since a significant proportion of emerging market firms are owned by governments, this thesis investigates how reforms have transformed state-owned firms' strategic characteristics for internationalization. The dissertation comprises of three research papers utilizing extensive primary fieldwork and a manually compiled panel dataset of Chinese firms to examine emerging market state-owned firms' overseas activities. The first paper is a conceptual piece which develops an overarching framework to delineate the reconfigured orchestration of multiple institutional reforms in the emerging economy context can spawn organizational diversity among state-owned firms leading to their differing outward FDI strategies. The second paper builds on this notion of organizational diversity and investigates how corporate ownership reform confers varying levels of institutional competitive advantages to marketized and non-marketized state owned firms to support their overseas venturing. It further examines how the relationship between firm ownership and outward FDI propensity is moderated by state-owned business group affiliation. The final paper studies how hybrid organizational forms arising from institutional transition such as university-run firms can evolve novel organizational features including 'incubating platforms' to launch overseas entrepreneurial spin-offs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9113
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Evidence from VietnamPham, Ha Thi Van (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis revolves around the internationalization of Vietnamese firms - that is, how the international competitiveness of these firms is enhanced in terms of both upstream and downstream value chain activities and the export performance implications hereof. For Vietnamese firms, as well as for other firms from emerging markets, internationalization trajectories may differ considerably from the internationalization patterns portrayed in classical theories (such as the Uppsala Model) based on observations of the internationalization of firms from Western, developed market economies. Classical theories have primarily focused on firms' marketing & sales and networking capabilities as levers of internationalization – and less on upstream capabilities, such as manufacturing and auxiliary service competencies. Likewise the situation in other emerging markets many Vietnamese firms are inserted in global value chains (GVCs) governed by multinational buyers. For these firms, manufacturing skills may be of equal - or greater - importance to export performance than the mastering of marketing & sales and networking in foreign markets. The thesis presents various theoretical perspectives on firms' internationalization – perspectives that vary in terms of their focus on either upstream or downstream activities (or, the interrelationship of these two types of activities). The thesis tries to fill out the knowledge gap as to which of these theoretical perspectives fit best the trajectories of Vietnamese manufacturing firms involved in exports. In doing so, the thesis also draws on GVC models, entrepreneurial literature, and studies of economic as well as strategic export performance. Unique survey data covering 226 Vietnamese manufacturers involved in exporting was collected through face-to-face interviews conducted in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. On the basis of these data a set of hypotheses is tested using structural equation modelling as a statistical tool. The empirical study suggests that Vietnamese firms create international competitiveness in relation to both upstream and downstream activities. Furthermore, the study suggests that upstream competitiveness of the sample firms is significantly more attractive in terms of economic export performance (export sales, profitability and growth) than downstream competitiveness. However, when export performance is measured in more far-sighted, strategic terms, there are no significant differences between the two dimensions of competitiveness. The study also reveals some interesting industry differences: for firms in the "low-tech" textiles & garments industry, upstream competitiveness has greater impact on economic export performance than downstream competitiveness. Conversely, downstream competitiveness results in a higher economic return than upstream competitiveness for firms from the "high-tech" industries of electronics and mechanical manufactures In the last part of the thesis, theoretical, empirical, and managerial implications are discussed along with conclusions and suggestions for future research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7934
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Un estudio sobre emigrantes norteamericanos en un pueblo mexicanoBalslev Clausen, Helene (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Den traditionelle migrationsforskning betragter Mexico, som et typisk faktor eller transit land, samt har sit fokus på migrationsflowet fra Syd (Latinamerika) til Nord(USA). Dette case studie derimod bidrager empirisk med identifikationen af en ny type immigranter, angelsaksiske noramerikanere, som i stadigt større omfang emigrerer fra Nord(USA) til Syg(Mexico), hvilket som noget nyt også gør Mexico til et pull faktor land..... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7733
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Antecedents, processes dynamics and firm-level impactØrberg Jensen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD thesis addresses one of the most intensely debated phenomena over the past decade within the realm of international business: Firms' relocation of value chain activities to other parts in the network of multinational corporation (MNC) or to external suppliers/services providers in foreign countries (hereinafter referred to as offshoring), often to destination countries with lower cost structures. Whereas the offshoring of manufacturing tasks has existed for several decades, and has been analyzed in the international business literature, the offshoring of advanced services tasks from developed country firms to destination countries such as India, which offer an attractive cocktail of low costs and highly skilled labour, is a more recent phenomenon. The offshoring of this type of services tasks forms the subject of this PhD thesis... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7741
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The politics of corporate responsibility: CSR and the governance of child labor and core labor rights in the 1990sNielsen, Michael E. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: 'No amount of preparation could have lessened the shock and revulsion I felt on entering a sporting-goods factory in the town of Sialkot, seventy miles from Lahore, where scores of children, most of them aged five to ten, produce soccer balls by hand for forty rupees, or about $1.20, a day. The children work eighty hours a week in near-total darkness and total silence. According to the foreman, the darkness is both an economy and a precautionary measure; child-rights activists have difficulty taking photographs and gathering evidence of wrongdoing if the lighting is poor. The silence is to ensure product quality: "If the children speak, they are not giving their complete attention to the product and are liable to make errors." The children are permitted one thirty-minute meal break each day; they are punished if they take longer. They are also punished if they fall asleep, if their workbenches are sloppy, if they waste material or miscut a pattern, if they complain of mistreatment to their parents or speak to strangers outside the factory. A partial list of "infractions" for which they may be punished is tacked to a wall near the entrance. It's a document of dubious utility: the children are illiterate. Punishments are doled out in a storage closet at the rear of the factory. There, amid bales of wadding and leather, children are hung upside down by their knees, starved, caned, or lashed.' URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7730
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India's national Oil Company and International Activism in SudanPatey, Luke (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
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Abstract: This dissertation examines the relationship between corporate branding and identity work at organizational and individual levels in the context of a lowprestige corporation. It is based on 17 months of research undertaken as an inhouse ethnographer at MGP, a European based national telecommunication corporation. The study seeks to contribute to integrated corporate branding theory by adopting a critical perspective on the intra-organizational affects of brands and branding. The dissertation contains three papers, each of which contributes to discussions within corporate branding, organizational identity and identification, as well as to literature on management control and employee resistance. The findings demonstrate that the management adopts integrated corporate branding in a hypocritical manner, while employees in response develop a cynical distance to their work. While this may be interpreted as negative consequences, the dissertation argues that these are productive and have certain advantages for the management in the given context. Thus, the findings challenge the integrated corporate branding ideal of coherence between the external and internal dimensions of corporate branding as the only productive way to create a successful corporate brand. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8366
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A critical political economy perspectiveBuch-Hansen, Hubert (København, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The focus of this thesis is one "component" of EC competition regulation, namely that of merger control. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7729
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The Semi-automatic expansion of existing terminological ontologies using knowledge patterns discovered on the WWWAn implementation and evaluationHalskov, Jakob (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The research object of this thesis is the so-called knowledge patterns and their usefulness in automatically extracting specic semantic relations from unannotated and uncategorized text on the WWW so as to facilitate semi-automatic updating and extension of existing ontological and terminological resources. The main contribution of the thesis is the implementation of a com- plete ontology extension framework called WWW2REL which is 100% based on a knowledge-poor, domain-independent processing of WWW text snippets and includes the three stages of pattern discovery, pattern ltering and relation instance ranking. Unlike most comparable systems WWW2REL is special in that it is both highly portable, can be applied to any semantic relation type and operates directly on uncategorized WWW text snippets. The system is tested on the biomedical UMLS Metathesaurus for four dierent relation types and manually evaluated by four domain experts. It is demonstrated that high precision in the task of knowledge discovery from a noisy text source can be achieved using a very simple instance relevance measure and two ranking heuristics. In contrast, many comparable systems operate on richly annotated academic text and tend to apply heuristics which are custom-tailored to a specic domain and/or relation type. When selecting the overall best ranking scheme, average system performance across all four relation types ranges between 70% to 65% of the maximum possible F-score by top 10 and top 50 relation instances, respectively. Finally, the thesis experiments also examine the portability of individ- ual knowledge patterns and of the ranking heuristics. It is concluded that synonymy KPs are the most domain independent closely followed by ISA KPs, whereas patterns for "may_prevent" and especially "induces" are more dependent on the domain. Empirical experiments also suggest that a ranking heuristic which penalizes relation instances whose arguments occur frequently in a general language corpus can be highly eective, but may need to be adapted to the domain in question. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7731
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Enhancing Social Entrepreneurship and Stakeholder TheoryDacanay, Marie Lisa (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis develops a framework for understanding how social enterprises engage the poor and address poverty, a pressing global problem of the 21st century. Using casebased theory building, it studies a theoretical sample of three pairs of Philippine-based social enterprises, where the poor were suppliers, workers, and customers. In half of the cases, the poor were also owners. The research studies the roles and role changes of the poor in these social enterprises, how and why these roles changed, or did not change, and the impact of the roles and role changes, if any, on the social enterprises and the poor. Data for the research was gathered mainly from key informant interviews, published and unpublished organizational documents as well as previous studies done by external consultants on the case subjects. Based on a cross case analysis of the data from the theoretical sample, the thesis develops three models of stakeholder engagement among social enterprises with the poor as primary stakeholders or SEPPS, namely: control, collaboration and empowerment. This thesis provides insights and develops propositions about the importance of stakeholder engagement and the power and limitations of these three models in bringing about social inclusion and poverty reduction. These propositions are suggested to be applicable in countries in the South other than the Philippines where systemic poverty and inequality are exacerbated by the failure of state and market institutions to address the needs of the poor. This thesis makes a contribution to social entrepreneurship and stakeholder theory. It does so by sharing a perspective from the South and giving a voice to the poor as stakeholders. The researcher notes that overall, the poor and the South are under-represented in these discourses. On the whole, social entrepreneurship theorizing has been characterized as embryonic as a topic of academic inquiry. Stakeholder engagement is considered an under-theorized area in stakeholder theory. In developing a framework for understanding stakeholder engagement models involving the poor, this thesis makes a first step towards applying and extending stakeholder theory in SEPPS. The thesis likewise enriches social entrepreneurship theory by conceiving of SEPPS as a global social enterprise model that catalyzes South-North cooperation to address poverty and inequality. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8513
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A Performative ApproachAlbu, Oana Brindusa (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation provides a critical analysis of transparency in the context of organizing. The empirical material is based on qualitative studies of international cooperative organizations. The dissertation seeks to contribute to transparency and organizing scholarship by adopting a communication centred approach to explore the implications of pursuing ideals of transparency in organizational relationships. The dissertation is comprised of four papers each contributing to extant debates in organizational studies and transparency literature. The findings indicate that transparency, in contrast to being a solution for efficiency and democratic organizing, is a communicatively contested process which may lead to unintended consequences. The dissertation shows that transparency is performative: it can impact authority by de/legitimating action, shape the processes of organizational identity co-construction, and its intersection with new media technologies can create tensions. Thus, the dissertation questions instrumental tendencies which regard transparency as full disclosure, the opposite of secrecy, and a way to achieve a consistent organizational identity. The dissertation provides a framework of organizational transparency which underlines its negotiated, power-infused and paradoxical nature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8916
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An Ethnographic Study of Trust, Distance, Control, Culture and Boundary Spanning within Offshore Outsourcing of IT ServicesTøth, Thomas (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD dissertation is an ethnographic field study of the collaboration between Berlingske Media, one of the leading media companies in Denmark, and their Indian IT service provider, HCL – one of the largest IT service providers worldwide. The dissertation studies the day-to-day operational collaboration between actors from the client organization and the vendor organization in order to understand how vendor-side actors, as individuals and as a collective, can be constructed as trustworthy collaborators in the eyes of the client-side actors. While trust is the theoretical epicenter of this thesis it is, in acknowledgement of the contextual and dynamic nature of trust, subjected to an interdisciplinary analytical framework. Thus, the four analytical chapters in Part II introduce four different factors that influence the client-side actors' perceptions of vendor-side actors' trustworthiness: distance, control, culture and boundary spanning. The analytical conclusions are summarized in Part III of the dissertation. Based on these analytical conclusions a number of practice-oriented suggestions on how the client-side actors' perceptions of the vendor-side's trustworthiness can be improved are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the theoretical implications are presented and discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9115
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I'm planning on purchcing a new Syncro this spring but am debating upon buying the 200 or 250. Honestly money is a slight issue to spring for the larger machine. Would it be more beneficial to start out with a complete package 200 and later as I need buy a larger welder or purchace the 250 machine only option with no cooler or extras and a 150 amp torch for now and add the other items as I need them? Thanks Nick
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Help deciding on new Tig
if you know you will need more power, get the 250 with a 150 amp air cooled torch for now and add as you can afford. or get a water cooled torch and build your own cooler. adding to a large welder is essayer and less $$ then having to buy a larger welder later. maybe look for a nice used syncro 250. they are not that hard to find at a decent $$ . then you can put it to work to make the used welder pay for the new one. its generaly never a good idea to get too small of a welder new. if you can go big to start.
a little food for thought. the 150amp air cooled or #17 torch insides will interchange with the 350amp water cooled torch # 18 . so any parts you get now for the #17 will still be used later on the larger water cooled torch.
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Thanks for your help especially with the torch info. One more quick question can I use my reg and hose setup off of my MM135 mig for the syncro 250?
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absolutely buy the larger machine or you'll be kicking yourself. If its for home just watch your power input requirments. I have been researching inverters to buy and after my own research it became very apparent that both sales reps from BOC/Linde as well as Praxair didn't know their products at all. So much so that i almost bought a syncro , being told that it would work in my garage, but after reading the #'s myself i soon found out that the power draw was much too high for my house. meaning if i was welding higher amps on say alum and my wife turned on the radio that it would blow the breaker.
This is why I'm going with an inverter.
its you money. so ultimately do your own research and research and research.
Or you'll be sorry. your local sales rep probably seems nice enough but they all work on comission.
Multiprocessors are great but what happens if your into a big job and the machine decides crap out. Then you can't use any process because you've got to send your only machine in to fix.
As well, if you are infact starting your own shop remember that you won't be the only guy using it. So don't buy somehting you'll be **** about.
I personally buy the best equiptment out there but only because i know i'll be the only one touching it. If it was for a shop where i employed people, I certainly wouldn't be going that route
you definitely want to look at the available power for the welder. but keep in mind you can run it on the lower setting till arrangements can be made to upgrade if thats needed. also look at the $$ to upgrade power if you cant do it your self it can get expensive. inverters are nice here as they draw less amp's but you pay for it up front. if you think the dyn200 is expensive just look at the dyn350 . might just make the upgrade worth doing. .
you might also look at making your own cooler to save some $$.
I personally buy the best equipment out there but only because i know i'll be the only one touching it. If it was for a shop where i employed people, I certainly wouldn't be going that route
if i had a shop with others using the equipment the Miller syncrowave would be my first choice. they are good solid welders more than capable of taking abuse for others and should they go down i know parts and service are easy to come by. saving a few $ up front expecting them to break it is a good way to lose a lot of $$$ in replacement and lost work time. best to by the best for work. when paying my bills and feeding my family is on the line, the syncrowave would help me sleep at night.thanks for the help
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ADEL — An incredible set of events turned the tide in the final 4:42 as ADM, trailing 35-24, stunned visiting Creston/O-M in a 36-35 victory Friday night.
In a game of momentum shifts, the Panthers rallied from a 14-3 early deficit to take a 25-21 halftime lead. ADM had scored on a 74-yard pass play on the first play from scrimmage in the game.
In the second half, Creston/O-M used a ball-control offense led by the rushing of Adam Baker, to gain the advantage, 35-24. In building on their five-point halftime lead, the Panthers had a 45-yard touchdown pass from Brandon Phipps to Maxx Walters and Connor Pals' second field goal of the game.
That 30-yarder for a 35-24 edge with 4:45 left capped a 17-play drive by the Panthers that used 7:11 of the fourth-quarter clock, starting at their own 30-yard line. Baker carried nine times for 47 yards during the possession.
ADM took got the ball on its own 44 with 4:42 left, trailing by 11. On fourth-and-11, quarterback Kolby Whisner hooked up with Joseph Sloss for a 22-yard gain to the Panther 34.
A 14-yard pass took it to the 19, where the pivotal play of the game occurred with 2:24 left. A pass from Whisner went in and out of the hands of receiver Jonathan Reel as he was hit by Walters in the Panther secondary. Linebacker Gavin Leith scooped up the ball and returned it to ADM territory as the visiting crowd cheered in celebration. The sideline chains were moved to indicate Creston/O-M's possession.
Then an officials' huddle transpired, and the ruling was an incomplete pass, giving the Tigers new life with the ball at the Panther 19. Whisner converted a fourth-and-one on a keeper to the 8-yard line. Finally, with only :46 left in the game, he connected with tailback Grant Goeden on a screen pass to the left for a 2-yard touchdown. A two-point incompletion left the score 35-30 in Creston/O-M's favor.
ADM kicker Jacob Hutzell stroked an onsides kick that went bouncing toward the right sideline. Just before it went out of bounds, past the first wave of Panthers, ADM's Elijah McCartney pounced on it at the Panther 37-yard line with 34 seconds left.
After three incompletions, Creston/O-M was called for pass interference, giving the Tigers the ball on the 21. An ADM procedure penalty brought it back to the 26 with 20 seconds left.
Whisner, who had been under pressure from the Panther line much of the second half, had just enough time to heave it to the left side of the end zone, where Jacob Sloss was covered by both Bryce Briley and Pals. The pass was tipped in the air by one of the defenders, and landed in the lap of Sloss seated in the end zone, for a touchdown with 12 seconds left. A two-point pass failed, leaving it 36-35.
Phipps' first pass of the ensuing possession was picked off by ADM's Darold Baker, clinching the unconventional victory for the Tigers, now 2-0 in District 1 and 3-1 overall. Creston/O-M fell to 1-1 and 3-1 going into its homecoming contest against Perry.
"We've had a lot of overtime games, some great victories here," ADM coach Mike Whisner said, "but I've never had a game like this. We were getting frustrated there in the second half, and Creston was playing good, physical football. We just kept playing. That was a real hustle play to get that onsides kick."
Creston/O-M coach Brian Morrison struggled to find the words to describe the mindset of his team, following the shocking loss.
"I don't even know what to say," the Panther coach said. "Two and a half minutes left and we're up by 11," Morrison said. "Forty seconds is a long time if you give them a short field. We had guys in position at the end there, and they just came down with it. We put ourselves in position in the fourth quarter to do what we always do. We'll learn from it. Perry will be another challenge next week."
Glenwood knocked off Perry Friday, 31-14. In non-district play, Harlan lost to Carroll, 14-7. Lewis Central rolled over Atlantic, 42-0.
For the game, Baker carried 25 times for Creston/O-M for 138 yards. Frain had two rushing touchdowns. Phipps completed 9 of 23 passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns to Walters. He was intercepted three times.
Whisner was 14-of-32 passing for 251 yards and three TDs. He was intercepted twice. Cory Rathe led a good effort by the Panther defensive line with four tackles for losses.
Penalties continued to plague the Panthers, flagged 11 times for 88 yards Friday.
The varsity game was a mirror image of the freshman contest, in which the Panthers converted a late turnover into the winning touchdown with 1:09 left for a 14-12 victory.
Mount Ayr 61, Colfax-Mingo 13
MOUNT AYR — It didn't take long for the Mount Ayr Raiders, ranked second in Class 1A by the Des Moines Register, to take control in Friday's 61-13 district opening win over Colfax-Mingo.
The Raiders marched down the field, capping an eight-play, 69-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown run by Jacob Sobotka. The drive took less than 3:00 in length.
On Mount Ayr's second drive, Sobotka hit Kyle Dolecheck on a fade route down the right sideline. Dolecheck went up over a pair of defenders, took a hit, held onto the ball and got a foot in bounds to make the catch at the 5-yard line.
Just 5:00 after Mount Ayr's first score, Caleb Schnoor ran it up the middle for another touchdown, giving the Raiders a 13-0 lead.
Dolecheck intercepted the first play of the second quarter, setting up a 20-yard touchdown pass from Sobotka to Lincoln Martin. Martin caught three touchdown passes in the game.
Mason Mercer blocked a punt for a touchdown, as the Raiders improved to 4-0 overall and 1-0 in Class 1A District 7.
Plowman gets record
HUMESTON — Adair-Casey running back Clayton Plowman became Iowa's all-time leader in career rushing yards in eight-player football, snapping the previous record of 6,389 yards in the first quarter against Mormon Trail on Friday night.
Plowman scored the Bombers' first touchdown and broke Tyler Tonderum of Armstrong-Ringsted's mark on the second possession.
Becoming Iowa's top eight-player rusher ever moved Plowman to fourth on the national list, and another 30 yards would move him past Zac Cardwell of Lowell, Ore. for third all-time.
With the scores, the senior also moved into third-place in Iowa eight-player history in career touchdowns.
Friday's scores
A-H-S-T, Avoca 31, Griswold 21
Adair-Casey 79, Mormon Trail, Garden Grove 14
ADM, Adel 36, Creston-Orient-Macksburg 35
Ballard 27, Norwalk 24
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 62, LeMars 27
Bondurant Farrar 54, Interstate 35,Truro 0
Boone 42, Saydel 6
Boyer Valley, Dunlap 70, Stanton 34
Carlisle 43, Winterset 12
Carroll 14, Harlan 7
Central Decatur, Leon 27, Clarke, Osceola 14
Clarinda 41, Clarinda Academy 6
Colo-NESCO 30, East Union, Afton 20
English Valleys, North English 54, Southeast Warren, Liberty Center 20
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 66, Charter Oak-Ute 18
Fremont Mills, Tabor 55, Essex 12
Glenwood 31, Perry 14
Greene County 25, Red Oak 7
Grinnell 21, Dallas Center-Grimes 14
Guthrie Center 35, Bedford 6
H-L-V, Victor 48, Tri-County, Thornburg 8
Indianola 34, Ottumwa 7
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 49, South Central Calhoun 6
Lamoni 80, Seymour 6
Lenox 54, Nishnabotna 28
Lewis Central 42, Atlantic 0
Madrid 54, Martensdale-St. Marys 35
Melcher-Dallas 62, Moravia 0
Mount Ayr 61, Colfax-Mingo 13
Murray 47, Wayne, Corydon 22
OA-BCIG 38, Shenandoah 17
Oskaloosa 35, Chariton 21
Panorama, Panora 10, Nodaway Valley 0
Pekin 49, Pleasantville 23
Riverside, Oakland 21, Logan-Magnolia 20
Southwest Valley 59, CAM, Anita 20
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 56, West Central Valley, Stuart 32
Storm Lake 24, Denison-Schleswig 7
Treynor 14, Tri-Center, Neola 6
Twin Cedars, Bussey 52, Meskwaki Settlement School 22
Underwood 52, West Monona, Onawa 14
Van Meter 35, Ogden 28


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U.S. 31 Lane Restricted for Pavement Repairs
WESTFIELD, Ind. – Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) contractors will restrict the right lane of southbound U.S. 31 between 161st and 156th streets tonight at 9:00 p.m. to repair damaged pavement within the construction work zone. This restriction will end by 6 a.m. Contractors also plan to restrict the left lane northbound and southbound to make repairs in the same area on Saturday night.
This work is weather dependent and will be postponed in the event of rain.
161st Street is closed between Oakridge Road and Union Street for construction of a new roundabout interchange. The official signed detour directs traffic north to the signalized 169th Street intersection. The closure is expected to last no more than 120 days.
The New U.S. 31 Hamilton County project will include freeway exits at 146th Street, 151st Street and 161st Street. Ramps will connect 146th Street to the north with Greyhound Pass and 151st Street with a "split-diamond" interchange. A freeway exit at 161st Street will have roundabouts controlling ramp and cross traffic. Local traffic on Union Street and 156th Street will pass under U.S. 31 with no on or off ramps.
More information about the new U.S. 31 Hamilton County and details about how to receive project updates can be found online at us31hamiltoncounty.IN.gov.


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22 Dec 2007
|How to Prevent Lost and Broken Luggage
"ngader" posted this luggage wheel photo on Flicker with this tip in the caption: " Rule of thumb : When buying luggage, check the wheels. Try not to buy wheels with rubber bits. Buy the full fibre / hard plastic wheels."
Yesterday, I received an email alert from Squidoo about a blog on how to prevent lost luggage.
The writer, Victoria Neely, once worked for an airline as a baggage agent so she knows what she is writing about. With all the things she has seen go wrong with luggage, she says she is "frankly amazed that most checked bags return to their owners unscathed!"
Even if your bag is not lost (and there is a six in one thousand chance it will be), it's likely to get broken or dirty at some time or another.
You can't make it impossible for something to go wrong but there are a number of things you can do to improve your bag's chances of greeting you in good shape at the other end of your mutual journey.
There are a lot of useful tips in this article along with some interesting and surprising facts. For instance, did you know there is a reason baggage is handled roughly instead of gently?
And Ms. Neely is not hesitant to recommend some bag brands that she has seen hold up well.
Take a look - I'm sure you will read something you did not know!
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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22 Dec 2007
|Free Lessons at Leading Vermont Ski Areas
The Vermont Ski Areas Association is sponsoring a learn-for-free program January 5 -13, 2008.
This is a heck of a good deal. The lessons can be for either skiing or snowboarding, and include lift ticket and equipment rental at no cost whatsoever.
They are calling it the "Ski Vermont New Years Resolution" program. It is geared toward first time skiers and snowboarders ages six and older.
The participating resorts are the best in the state: Ascutney, Bolton, Bromley, Burke, Jay Peak, Killington, Mad River Glen, Magic, Middlebury, Mount Snow, Okemo, Pico, Smuggs, Stratton, Sugarbush, and Suicide Six. To see where these resorts are located, go to the VT Ski Areas Association map page.
Spaces are limited so I suggest you register right away. You can do so on the VT Ski Areas Association website Learn for Free page.
Don't put this off. It's such a great deal that spaces will fill quickly.
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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25 Nov 2007
|Snow Depth Up to Four Feet at Stowe
Stowe's first rail jam of the season, November 24.
Vermont skiing is off to a good start this year with plenty of snow. For example, at Stowe, the snow-making trails have 1.5 to 4 feet of base built up so far. Stowe has received about a foot of natural snow the past week and a total of nearly three feet this season. You can get details on the Stowe Snow Report page of the resort's website.
Things are looking good for the big kick off week between Christmas and New Years. Now is a good time to make reservations.
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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24 Nov 2007
|Airline Travel Tip: Use FAA Rule 240 If Your Flight Is Cancelled
Peter Greenberg's website is full of useful travel information.
Here is some ammunition to use with the airlines if your fight is canceled. It involves a little-known FAA rule that requires the airline to book you on the next available flight whether it is their flight or another airline.
It's called Rule 240 and it's a good thing to remember when you are dealing with an airline front desk person or supervisor.
However, like most things in life, there are exceptions. You can read more details about it at the Peter Greenberg website.
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24 Nov 2007
|Another Travel Shopping Site
" 22" Flash Trolley" by Titan Luggage of Germany . . . Made with 100% polycarbonate . . . extremely lightweight and scratch-resistant, with sturdy ergonomic telescopic handles and protected exterior zippers . . . fully lined and padded . . . removable garment and toiletry cases . . . TSA approved combination lock and 4 swivel wheels" It's $475! but it will probably survive 20 years of airline abuse so that's just $24 per year: on the Luggage section of Flight 001.
Flight 001 is a website with travel related products including "luggage, carry-on, tech-to-go, packing aids, groom bags, essentials, travel i.d., wallets, jet comfort, meal service, aerotherapy, time travel, gadgets, entertainment, books, and airtunes."
I found myself spending a lot of time just looking around this website and learning about all the different products I didn't know were available.
If someone asks you what you want for the holidays, have this website bookmarked for them.
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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24 Nov 2007
|Where to Buy Travel Gear
I was recently looking for travel bags and came across a site you might be interested in too. It's called Trusty Pony for no reason that I see but it has a lot of "cool stuff for travelers" as it claims.
You can find helpful items under categories such as Air, Family, Fancy, Gadgety, Girly, International, Outdoorsy, Road Trip, Sporty, Urban, Warm-weather, Luggage & Bags, Body, Books & Guides, and Gifts.
There are countless worthwhile and clever items that you can use even when you are not traveling. Give it a look - you'll probably see something of use to you or someone you know (think holiday shopping).
(c) 2007 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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An early morning collision on Interstate 495 left one person dead in Silver Spring Monday, according to Maryland State Police investigating the accident.
Initial investigation revealed two vehicles had stopped in the outer loop lanes of the Capital Beltway near the Colesville Road exit after a minor accident shortly before 2 a.m. One of the occupants of the vehicles was standing outside the cars, apparently surveying for damage when a tractor truck pulling tandem trailers struck and killed them, said a Maryland State Police trooper at the Rockville Barrack.
The victim, who will not be identified until after their family is notified, was standing in the travel portion of the roadway when they were struck, police said.
Emergency medical personnel responded to the scene but were unable to revive the victim, according to a state police press release.
Details regarding the exact circumstances of the fatality remained under investigation as of noon, police said. Anyone who may have witnessed the collision are being asked to contact Trooper Newill at the Rockville Barrack at 301-424-2101.


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