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Last week the inestimable Ruler of the Tenebrous Empire, Tenebrous Kate, honored Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies with the Premio Dardos award. We are pleased to be thought of so highly by someone of whom we think likewise highly-high, and also a bit humbled to find ourselves in such rarefied company.
More info about the Dardos award:
The Dardos Award is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web.
1) Accept the award by posting it on your blog along with the name of the person that has granted the award and a link to his/her blog.
2) Pass the award to another five blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgement, remembering to contact each of them to let them know they have been selected for this award.
Since La Belle Dame Tenebrous was so kind as to hurl her Prize Darts at the Duke and me, like Ralphus casting his missles at the bare/bound backside of a slave girl, we are pleased to do the same toward these five fine examples of bloggery, whose consistently entertaining effluence is available to all, and of whose brilliance you may not be aware. We're here to help--or rather *I* am, as the Duke is currently backpacking around the Iberian peninsula, staying in strange hostels and getting up to who-knows-what mischief. At any rate, the MMMMMovies-approved honorees:
- Arena of the Unwell. The maddest blog you're probably not reading (but should be), this this is the venue where trash-movie mad Brit Ashton Lamont spews his gobsmackingly hilarious and sometimes sticky entertainment juice on whoever passes by. Put on an old shirt and go strolling past today.
- Doomed Moviethon. Short, sweet, and soaked in J&B, Richard over at DM is a kindred soul and a warrior pope in the army of b-movie appreciation. His periodic weekend-long moviethon write-ups are must-read events on anyone's calendar.
- Giallo Fever. Another Brit who Just Won't Quit, Keith at Giallo Fever gives thoughtful, exhaustive scholarly reviews of gialli, krimini, and Eurosleaze that make me wish I'd stayed in school.
- Mondo 70: a Wild World of Cinema. Who knew Uncle Sam was this cool? Samuel Wilson just keeps on bringing it with his considerations of everything from 70s drive-in fare to kung-fu action flicks to the art of Werner Herzog.
- The Film Fiend. A great resource for movies you've never heard of but will end up wanting to see, thanks to the Fiend's incisive and entertaining reviews. Check him out and you'll see why he's been on the Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies link list from the beginning.
Nota Bene: Obviously if you were left out of this list, your blog is crap. Just kidding--it's so hard to pick five, and if you were already honored elsewhere, I used that to make my narrowing-down process easier. And since I've never been one to play by the rules, I'd like to throw a prize dart at my good buddy Karswell's daily (dar)dose of pre-code Horror Comics madness, The Horrors of It All. If you're not docking your ship of state daily at Mad Doctor Karswell's island of cool in a sea of post-code comic boredom, well, I just don't know what to say to you. Oh, yes I do: Get thee to a nunnery!

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There was some good news from the THQ camp today, with the publisher announcing a second expansion for Company of Heroes — the real-time strategy World War II game that everybody loves — would ship in spring of 2009. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor will follow previous expansion Opposing Fronts with "a ton of rich, new content" including "new campaigns and multiplayer modes, brand-new units, additional maps and the introduction of the 'direct-fire' feature," according to developer Relic Entertainment's own Tarrnie Williams. It will also restrict the WWII game competition from using a very marketable [Something] of [Something] option as a potential title. Tales of Valor is very catchy and a good get for THQ. A press release proving the whole thing is true is right after this.
THQ Announces Company of Heroes(R): Tales of Valor(TM) for Windows PC Next Chapter in Award-Winning Franchise Features All-New Single-Player Campaigns, Multiplayer Modes and Innovative "Direct-Fire" Feature AGOURA HILLS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 3, 2008—THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced Company of Heroes(R): Tales of Valor(TM), the next standalone chapter in the widely acclaimed real-time strategy (RTS) franchise, is currently in development for Windows PC. Featuring three intense campaigns, brand-new multiplayer modes and an innovative "direct-fire" feature that allows even more tactical control during the heat of battle, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor will immerse players in some of the most historic, tide-turning clashes of World War II. Internally developed by Relic Entertainment, the game is currently scheduled for release in spring 2009. "Company of Heroes is one of the most critically acclaimed RTS series of all time," said Peter Matiss, vice president of global brand management, THQ. "With Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Relic Entertainment is delivering an all-new, standalone chapter in the franchise and continues to push the boundaries of innovation and quality in the genre." "In Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, we're offering players a ton of rich, new content including more strategic options in single-player and multiplayer," said Tarrnie Williams, general manager, Relic Entertainment. "With fresh new campaigns and multiplayer modes, brand-new units, additional maps and the introduction of the 'direct-fire' feature, we're once again committed to delivering the best in strategic gaming." About Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is the next standalone chapter in the award-winning Company of Heroes franchise, featuring all-new content, including three single-player campaigns, new multiplayer modes, additional maps and units. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor also introduces a new "direct-fire" feature that allows players more tactical control of their units and more strategic options in-game. Developed by internal studio Relic Entertainment and powered by Relic's proprietary Essence Engine(TM), Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is fully compatible with Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, allowing players who own the entire series complete access to the epic battles of World War II. For more information on Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, please visit www.companyofheroesgame.com.


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SEATTLE — "In Search of Amelia Earhart," a temporary exhibit honoring the life of the famous pilot, opens Oct. 12 at the Museum of Flight with the installation of a 1935 Lockheed Electra airliner, the same type as Amelia Earhart's famous aircraft.
The Museum's Electra is one of only two in existence, and the only one with the same modifications made to Earhart's plane — and flown around the world in 1997 on the 60th anniversary of Earhart's global flight attempt.
The aircraft will remain on permanent display.
"In Search of Amelia Earhart" will be on exhibit until April 28, 2014, and is free with admission to the museum.
The exhibit tells Earhart's story through photographs, newspapers, newsreel footage and Earhart's personal belongings, including her pilot's helmet and goggles, and the only known surviving piece of the Lockheed Electra Earhart flew on her ill-fated flight around the world in 1937.
The Museum's Electra was built for Northwest Airlines and began passenger service in 1935. It served in World War II and then went back to flying passengers for airlines in Brazil and the U.S. until it was restored to replicate Amelia Earhart's Electra in 1996. In 1997 Linda Finch flew it around the world, reenacting Earhart's ill-fated 1937 last flight. Today there is only one other Lockheed Model 10-E Electra in existence.


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A proposed tall structures ordinance that has received two public hearings by the Craven County Board of Commissioners is expected to get a vote at today�s 7 p.m. meeting of the board.
A proposed tall structures ordinance that has received two public hearings by the Craven County Board of Commissioners is expected to get a vote at today�s 7 p.m. meeting of the board.
Commissioners stepped back from early approval of the ordinance drafted as an attempt to better plan wind turbine and cell tower tall structures to be compatible with other area land uses, particularly of air flight patterns, after two area businessmen spoke at the hearings asking that they look harder at the potential downside.
Zach Taylor of Trent Woods and Henry �Bud� Stilley of New Bern didn�t speak against having an ordinance to regulate wind energy or cell phone towers, but said they felt the proposed ordinance went too far in terms of permit cost and general restraint.
Some modifications were made to clarify the ordinance to protectmilitary and civilian aircraft transmissions and to prevent the beauty of the county from being marred. The board tabled it until key county staff and a couple of commissioners attended a League of Municipalities-sponsored broadband symposium at the Doubletree in New Bern.
County Manager Jack Veit said the information presented was interesting and showed how much the broadband industry was destined to grow. The event was attended by representatives from city, towns and county governments across the state.
But Veit said he does not think the proposed ordinance, which will be presented again today by Craven County Planning Director Don Baumgardner, needs to change more as a result.
Concerns about wind turbines interfering with military training flight paths and signals also are being addressed in a bill that passed the N.C. House of Representatives and its first reading in the N.C. Senate last week.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense has told military officials to steer clear of initiating any interference with alternative energy efforts, but Craven County and North Carolina, with several military air bases they want to protect, is trying to be proactive.
Rep. Pat McElraft, R-Carteret, and Rep. Chris Whitmire, R-Transylvania, were primary N.C. House sponsors, and Rep. George Graham, D-Lenoir, and Rep. Mike Speciale, R-Craven, who also represent Craven, signed on to the bill.
Sen. Harry Brown, R-Onslow, and Sen. Norman Sanderson, R-Pamlico, are sponsors of the Senate Bill.
The Pamlico County Board of Commissioners rejected a proposed tall structures ordinance there.
Commissioners also are scheduled to hear 2013-14 proposed budget requests from Craven County Schools Superintendent Lane Mills and Craven Community College President Catherine Chew.
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when our JBS Mercantile Kits incorporate my newest JBS Red/Black Extension line - my all time favorite, not to mention classic, never-going-out-of-style, color scheme. And how blessed am I to have such a talented Design Team who really knows how to "work it"!!
Here are two layouts using the Papercrafting Kit designed first by Becky Novacek and second, by Jill Sprott.
A little peek at the details in this kit, including the exclusive stamp . . .
I had so much fun creating this Christmas shadowbox using our new JBS Divided Cigar Box. It easily closes up for storage and can be displayed year after year. Check out the detail shots on the web page of the Doily Flower Christmas Trees and the sweet Vintage Santa Candy container. You won't want to miss this one!
This month's Antiquarian Add-On kit is filled with black, cream and red goodies that I have been holding onto all year . . .
And the Artisan Add-On kit is filled with coordinating extras including a special treat - our new JBS Outline Alphabet Clear Stamp set!
Also for the 1st and new this month, you can pick up an extra pack of all of the papers/cardstock in the kit under "Kit Extras" and we are putting up in very limited quantities a 2011 Fall Vintage Crafting Kit under Limited Edition Kits.
So after you put the trick-or-treaters to bed tonight, come spend some time with us! 12:00 a.m. central time - all new kits will be available at that time.


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The regulative framework and interpretation of the rules are generally hampering innovation and tend to make procurers risk aversive. There is therefore a great need for increasing the competence of the procurers of how the rules work and how they can be used to reach innovative solutions. By understanding the market and the public needs, the public procurer can drive innovation from the demand side and help companies to find new market opportunities.The procurement of innovative services is not linked to the traditional concept of procurement where R&D and development are main ingredients. Instead the focus of this kind of procurement is the actual service, a service innovation new or improved taken into practice, says Petra Nilsson-Andersen, Senior Advisor at the Nordic Innovation Centre. Ms. Nilsson-Andersen presented the conclusions of the study on 4 March at a workshop on innovative public procurement, arranged by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm. The results of the workshop will contribute to the development of the national Swedish innovation strategy.The study describes both national and sub-national initiatives and programmes in the Nordic countries, promoting innovative services through public procurement, as well as cases from other European countries. Among the Nordic countries, Finland has presented the most interesting cases of promoting innovative services. The regional Innovative Public Procurement development programme of public services was launched 2008, and promote the creation of new models of public services. The Nordic Innovation Centre would like to further influence the debate on how public procurement can stimulate innovative services by designing a project in close dialogue with Nordic stakeholders.
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Philosophy is...
"Philosophy is quite unlike any other field. It is unique both in its methods and in the nature and breadth of its subject matter. Philosophy pursues questions in every dimension of human life, and its techniques apply to problems in any field of study or endeavor. No brief definition expresses the richness and variety of philosophy. It may be described in many ways. It is a reasoned pursuit of fundamental truths, a quest for understanding, a study of principles of conduct. It seeks to establish standards of evidence, to provide rational methods of resolving conflicts, and to create techniques for evaluating ideas and arguments. Philosophy develops the capacity to see the world from the perspective of other individuals and other cultures; it enhances one's ability to perceive the relationships among the various fields of study; and it deepens one's sense of the meaning and variety of human experience." —The American Philosophical Association
"Philosophy...is its own time apprehended in thoughts." —G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right
"Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of the sciences, and the kind which results from a critical examination of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs." —Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
"Philosophy is simply thinking hard about life, about what we have learned, about our place in the world... Philosophy is nothing less than the attempt to understand who we are and what we think of ourselves. And that is just what the great philosophers of history, whom we study in philosophy courses, were doing: trying to understand themselves, their times, and their place in the world... But philosophy is not primarily the study of other people's ideas. Philosophy is first of all the attempt to state clearly, and as convincingly and interestingly as possible, your own views. That is doing philosophy, not just reading about how someone else has done it." —Robert C. Solomon, The Big Questions
"Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.—Since everything lies open to view, there is nothing to explain." —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations §126
"It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise. Philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to the 'creation of the world,' to the causa prima." —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil


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Did you know that aside from being an information center, the Children's Room is also a Recycling Center? Come down to the Children's Room at the Port Washington Public Library and you can recycle the following items; new sneakers or gently used sneakers, plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
Cool Recycling Links
Become a Planet Protector: Learn all about recycling, climate change and how you can improve the environment!
Comp4Kids: This not-for-profit collects and refurbishes used laptops, then distributes them throughout Long Island to low-income areas.
Garbology: This exciting interactive websites helps elementary-age students better understand how they can reduce trash and stop polluting.
Energy Kids: Learn more about energy and try some fun games and activities!
Residents Forward: This is a local environmental action group. They frequently take part in main street and park cleanups. They also help inform local Port Washington residents of environmental projects taking place in town.


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Lawyer: Teen accused in baby death is '1000%' innocent
The baby shot in Brunswick, Ga., was mourned in a vigil where both the mother and father of the child spoke out, one wishing forgiveness, the other hoping for the death penalty. VPC
A 17-year-old teen's lawyer says he is "1,000% not guilty" in the shooting death of a stroller-riding toddler last Thursday.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The lawyer for one of the Georgia teenagers charged with murder in the shooting death of a baby who was in his stroller on a walk with his mother said Monday his client is "absolutely" not guilty.
"My client is absolutely, 1,000-percent not guilty," public defender Kevin Gough, who represents 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins, told the Associated Press. He made the comments Monday, while preparing for Elkins' first court appearance on a murder charge. It was scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday.
Elkins and a 15-year-old boy are charged in Thursday's fatal shooting of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago. His mother, Sherry West, was wounded.
At a Monday morning hearing, the boy came into the courtroom shackled and wearing a baggy orange jumpsuit, The Florida Times-Union reported. The Associated Press generally doesn't identify juvenile offenders. Elkins is charged as an adult.
The 15-year-old glanced at the few members of the news media allowed into the courtroom for the initial appearance as he shuffled to a lectern facing Glynn County Magistrate Tim Barton.
The magistrate told the boy he couldn't set a bond because only Superior Court judges can do so in murder cases.
"I'm going to see that you get a lawyer immediately," Barton told the boy.
The boy was in the eighth grade at Glynn Middle School before his arrest, said Jim Weidhaas, a spokesman for the school system.
Elkins was last a student in the system in October 2011, when he left Ombudsman, an alternative school program, Weidhaas said.
The baby's mother said she was walking home Thursday morning when two boys confronted her and one of them opened fire. Police say she was shot in the leg, and her baby was shot in the face.
Gough said he has demanded a bond hearing and filed a request for a speedy trial for Elkins.
"We look forward to our day in court," he said.
The slain boy's mother said she picked the gunman out of a photo lineup of 24 mugshots police brought to her Friday and insists he killed her baby.
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Reviewed by Olivia L. (age 6)
I like this book because I love horses. They are good animals that you can do a lot of things with. The illustrations are photographs that are real and interesting. This is a great book because it is about horses.
People who have farms or love horses would love this book.


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April 25, 2007
Dallas, Texas - Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser remained perfect on the AVP Tour this season with a straight-set victory over Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal in the finals of the Dallas Open Saturday.
The duo won by scores of 21-14 and 21-16 and never trailed in either set.
Rogers and Dalhausser have won both events of the 2007 AVP season thus far, also topping Gibb and Rosenthal at the Miami Open to begin the year. The beach team has now won the last four AVP event titles dating back to 2006. Overall, Rogers and Dalhausser collected eight championship wins last season.
Rogers and Dalhausser advanced to the finals after topping Ryan Mariano and Larry Witt, 26-28, 21-18, and 15-12, in the semifinals. In winners bracket matches, they picked up victories over Gibb and Rosenthal (24-26, 21-12, 15-13), Anthony Medel and Fred Souza (22-20, 21-15), and Brad Keenan and John Mayer (23-21, 21-19).
Over the 12 games, Rogers totaled 75 kills, 61 digs, and hit .473. Dalhausser had 71 kills, 30 blocks, and 11 service aces. He hit .436.
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We got to show you a pretty nifty Ferrari-badged Hayabusa Trike Friday, but that wasn't the only exotic car cross-branding at the 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon. Check out these adorable Lamborghini Murcielago ATVs.
These little Lambo-bodied ATVs are marketed to the more-money-than-brains crowd, but they sure do make us giggle. They were created by Liberty Walk of Japanese Lamborghini tuning fame to match a couple of the cars they had on display at this year's Tokyo Auto Salon. Little else is known about them, but we're sure they'll end up in some rap video sooner than later.
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collective bargaining and labor arbitration: an overview
Collective bargaining consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedures is a collective agreement. Employees are often represented in bargaining by a union or other labor organization. Collective bargaining is governed by federal and state statutory laws, administrative agency regulations, and judicial decisions. In areas where federal and state law overlap, state laws are preempted. See, U.S. Constitution, Art. VI.
The main body of law governing collective bargaining is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). It explicitly grants employees the right to collectively bargain and join trade unions. The NLRA was originally enacted by Congress in 1935 under its power to regulate interstate commerce. See, U.S. Constitution Art. I, Section 8. It applies to most private non-agricultural employees and employers engaged in some aspect of interstate commerce. Decisions and regulations of the National Labor Relations Board, which was established by the NLRA, greatly supplement and define the provisions of the act.
The NLRA establishes procedures for the selection of a labor organization to represent a unit of employees in collective bargaining. The act prohibits employers from interfering with this selection. The NLRA requires the employer to bargain with the appointed representative of its employees. It does not require either side to agree to a proposal or make concessions but does establish procedural guidelines on good faith bargaining. Proposals which would violate the NLRA or other laws may not be subject to collective bargaining. The NLRA also establishes regulations on what tactics (e.g. strikes, lock-outs, picketing) each side may employ to further their bargaining objectives.
State laws further regulate collective bargaining and make collective agreements enforceable under state law. They may also provide guidelines for those employers and employees not covered by the NLRA, such as agricultural laborers.
Arbitration is a method of dispute resolution used as an alternative to litigation. It is commonly designated in collective agreements between employers and employees as the way to resolve disputes. The parties select a neutral third party (an arbiter) to hold a formal or informal hearing on the disagreement. The arbiter then issues a decision binding on the parties. Both federal and state law governs the practice of arbitration. While the Federal Arbitration Act, by its own terms, is not applicable to employment contracts, federal courts are increasingly applying the law in labor disputes. Fourty-nine states have adopted the Uniform Arbitration Act (1956) as state law. Thus, the arbitration agreement and decision of the arbiter may be enforceable under state and federal law.
menu of sources
Federal Material
U.S. Constitution and Federal Statutes
- 29 U.S.C. - Labor
- 29 U.S.C., Chapter 7 - Labor Management Relations Act
- 29 U.S.C., Chapter 7, Subchapter II - National Labor Relations Act
- 9 U.S.C. - Federal Arbitration Act
- CRS Annotated Constitution
Federal Agency Regulations
- Code of Federal Regulations: 29 C.F.R. - Dept. of Labor
Federal Judicial Decisions
- U.S. Supreme Court:
- U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Recent Decisions on Collective Bargaining
State Material
State Statutes
- Uniform Arbitration Act - as enacted in various states
- New York Labor Relations Act - New York Labor Code, Article 20
- New York Labor and Management Improper Practices Act - New York Labor Code, Article 20-A
- California statutes making collective bargaining agreements legally enforceable - California Labor Code Sections 1126-1128
- California statute requiring the state to establish procedures for binding arbitration of certain disputes in the garment industry - California Labor Code §§ 2685 - 2692
- Other State Statutes Dealing with Labor
State Judicial Decisions
- N.Y. Court of Appeals:
- Appellate Decisions from Other States
International Material
Conventions and Treaties
- Convention Concerning the Application of the Principles of the Right to Organize and to Bargain Collectively (1949)
Other References
Key Internet Sources
- U.S. Department of Labor
- American Arbitration Association
- Cornell University's Institute for Collective Bargaining
- ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law
- Employment Law and HR (Nolo)
- Federal Labor Relations Authority
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Collective Bargaining Agreement Program
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review Online (includes index to archived issues)
Useful Offnet (or Subscription - $) Sources
- Good Starting Points in Print: Robert A. Gorman and Matthew W. Finkin, Basic Text on Labor Law - Unionization and Collective Bargaining, West Publishing Company; 2nd ed. (2004)


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Luis Ceniga is senior managing director for Greater China within Accenture Strategy. His role focuses on advising companies and governments on business strategy, operating models, digital strategies and innovation, cost management, customer strategies, human capital management, large-scale business transformation and organizational change.
Mr. Ceniga has more than 29 years of experience working for Accenture. He specializes in developing close working relationships with clients to drive strategy rapidly to achieve tangible outcomes. Solutions include growth acceleration programs, cost and balance sheet effectiveness, and supply chain management.
Prior to his current role, Mr. Ceniga led Accenture Management Consulting in Spain, Portugal, Africa and Israel. He also held a variety of global leadership roles in the Accenture automotive, industrial equipment and construction industry practices.
Mr. Ceniga graduated as an Industrial Engineer from the Escuela Superior of Industrial Engineers of Bilbao, Spain. He is based in Shanghai, China.


text: LINGUIST List: Vol-13-3124. Fri Nov 29 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 15.2203, Review: Translation: Mauranen & Kujamäki (2004) Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Sheila Collberg, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org> ========================================================================= What follows is a review or discussion note contributed to our Book Discussion Forum. We expect discussions to be informal and interactive; and the author of the book discussed is cordially invited to join in. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, look for books announced on LINGUIST as "available for review." Then contact Sheila Dooley Collberg at collberg at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:11:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Gabriela Saldanha <Gabriela.Saldanha at dcu.ie> Subject: Translation Universals: Do they exist? -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:11:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Gabriela Saldanha <Gabriela.Saldanha at dcu.ie> Subject: Translation Universals: Do they exist? EDITORS: Mauranen, Anna; Kujamäki, Pekka TITLE: Translation Universals SUBTITLE: Do they exist? SERIES: Benjamins Translation Library 48 PUBLISHER: John Benjamins YEAR: 2004 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-548.html Gabriela Saldanha, Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University. OVERVIEW Mauranen and Kujamäki's edited volume consists of selected papers from a conference with the same title held in Savonlinna in 2001. It is divided into four parts. The first one presents two theoretical explorations of the concept of universals and one discussion of the limitations of corpus-based methodologies for the study of translation universals. The rest of the volume consists of empirical studies testing potential universals. The second and third parts present corpus-based studies and the last one describes classroom-based experiments. The introduction specifically addresses the problematic aspects of the notion of translation universals and the methodological difficulties involved in finding empirical evidence. In particular Mauranen and Kujamäki point out that there are several potential explanations for the patterns revealed in translated language: the cognitive process involved translation, systemic differences between languages and social and historical determinants. Distinguishing between the effects of each of these factors is not easy, and the corpus-based methodology that has been favoured - for good reasons - in studies of universals, needs to be complemented by research into cognitive and social factors. The editors also warn of the risks of drawing hasty conclusions from small- scale studies with a limited scope. SYNOPSIS Two of the papers in Part 1 (Toury's and Bernardini & Zanettin's) prefer the term 'laws' to 'universals' on the grounds that a law can be conditioned and has the possibility of exception built into it, and exceptions can then be explained with resource to other laws operating at a different level. Toury stresses that translational behaviour is affected by a vast an heterogeneous array of factors which are present all at once and affect each other apart from the observed behaviour. This situation, argues Toury, requires explanations to be formulated in probabilistic, rather than deterministic, terms, accounting for the presence of more than one conditioning factor. Chesterman compares three different ways in which Translation Studies have attempted to go beyond the particular: from prescriptive, critical and descriptive perspectives. Chesterman describes advantages and problems in each of them, but focusing on the latter, which is the one that relies on the notion of universals, or unrestricted descriptive hypothesis as he also calls them. Still, Chesterman does not object to the term universal, provided ''it is kept for claims that are actually hypothesised to be universal, not specific to a subset of translations'' (p43). He concludes by pointing out ways in which the descriptive approach needs to proceed to move forward. Chesterman mentions, among other things, the need to further test and replicate work on restricted hypothesis, standardise concepts and ways of operationalizing them, and work on testable explanatory hypotheses to account for the evidence found. Bernardini and Zanettin's concern is with evaluating the corpus-based methodology typically applied for research in translation universals. They highlight the difficulty of achieving representativeness in translational corpora, with special emphasis on how to ensure the comparability of the components in a parallel bi-directional corpora. With reference to one such corpus, CEXI, they point out that the different tendencies in terms of the text-types most commonly translated from English into Italian and Italian into English can impose a certain bias. In these cases there is a need to choose whether to reflect the operation of different translation policies in each culture or to prioritise the comparability of the components. In their conclusion Bernardini and Zanettin stress the need to take into account the social context in which translations are produced before attempting to generalise beyond the relevant sample. The three papers in Part 2 (Large-Scale Tendencies in Translated Language) all deal with interference as a potential universal of translation and present results from studies based in the Corpus of Translated Finnish (CTF), compiled under the direction of Anna Mauranen and held at the Savonlinna School of Translation Studies. The first article, by Mauranen herself, discusses in some detail the related concepts of interference and transfer, and also describes the compilation of the CTF. Mauranen tests the hypothesis that tolerance of interference is higher when the translation is from a language/culture that is more prestigious than that of the target text. According to this hypothesis, argues Mauranen, translations from English into Finnish should deviate more from original Finnish than translations form Russian into Finnish. Mauranen measures the distance between components of the corpus (Finnish originals, Finnish translations from English, Finnish translations from Russian and Finnish translations from several languages) by comparing frequency ranked wordlists. The subset of Finnish originals is taken as a standard and then the wordlists are compared to this standard. Despite this being a rather crude method, which apparently has not been tested before, some interesting patterns are observed. The results indicate that translation from English actually differ less from original Finnish than translations from Russian. However, because only differences in rank order are considered, this method can only show that there is a source language effect, without any indication of what causes this effect or what kind of shifts it brings about. Linguistic interference could be one explanation, but the influence of factors such as those highlighted by Bernardini and Zanettin in the previous article could also have been considered. Eskola adds to the variety of terms used to explain regularities in translation by proposing to talk about 'local laws' (instead of norms) and 'univeral laws' (instead of universals). Eskola looks at whether the use of optional non-finite syntactic structures in translated Finnish is affected by the existence (or not) of equivalent structures in the source language. The results indicate that translations from English and Russian into Finnish do tend to under-represent target- language specific linguistic features, which supports Tirkkonen-Condit unique-item hypothesis (see below). Eskola's findings, in line with Mauranen's, also show translations from Russian differing more from original Finnish than translations for English. The aim of Jantunen's study is to demonstrate that translations show untypical lexical patterns and that these are influenced by the source language. Jantunen looks at the distribution, collocation and colligation of three nearly synonymous words in non-translated Finnish, translations into Finnish from English and translations into Finnish from different source languages. In all cases the normed frequencies for each of the lexical items were higher in the translation components than in the corpus of non-translated Finnish. A chi-square test revealed a significant difference between the non-translated Finnish and the subset of translations from several languages, but not between non-translated Finnish and translations from English or between the two translation components. Jantunen attributes these results to a source language effect. As in Mauranen's study, we see translations from English differing less from non-translated Finnish than from translations from several source languages. Still, the fact that the frequencies are much higher for all the items in both translational components remains without explanation. The patterns emerging from comparisons of collocational patterns show each of the lexical items behaving rather different, and the colligational patterns are again less clear and more complex. In any case, Jantunen offers a good example of the kind of detailed analysis needed in order to account for the complexity of the data in these types of study. The first paper in Part 3 (Testing the basics) again demonstrates that translations have different lexico-grammatical patterns than original tests by comparing the frequency and collocations of a grammatical word (av) in Swedish translated and non-translated fiction. Nilsson's study is very limited in its scope. Although the most typical patterns found in translated texts are shown to be straightforward translations of English structures, there is no attempt to explain why they are less common in original texts (are other alternative options being used more in originals?). The next two articles in this section deal with explicitation as a potential universal in translation. Pápai´s article explores instances of explicitation in translations into Hungarian. First, explicitating shifts in translations from English into Hungarian are identified manually by comparing source and target texts. Then the overall frequency of five of the linguistic features (for example, conjunctions) used in the explicitating shifts identified in the translated texts are compared with their respective frequencies in a corpus of original Hungarian. The results are not without interest but the article is poorly written (and edited), which makes it difficult to follow. Puurtinen's study is based on the hypothesis that frequent use of clause connectives as explicit signals of clausal relations in translation might be a manifestation of explicitation. The corpus used is a monolingual comparable corpus of children's literature, part of the Corpus of Translated Finnish. The results do not support the hypothesis: Puurtinen found no clear overall tendency in either the translational or the non-translational components. A closer look at the data reveals that in some cases the higher occurrence of the connectives in the translations could be explained by the existence of more or less straightforward equivalents in the source language (English). Tirkkonen-Condit tests what she calls the Unique-items Hypothesis, according to which target-language items that have no straightforward equivalent in the source language tend to be less common in translated texts. The corpus is again the Corpus of Translated Finnish and the unique items are verbs of sufficiency and clitic particles typical of Finnish. As predicted, they are considerably more common in original than in translated Finnish. Tirkkonen-Condit then discusses the results in the light of other studies that showed similar tendencies and that offer possible explanations. The last part of the book contains only two articles. Kujumäki also explores the unique-items hypothesis but in a classroom environment. Kujumäki wrote a short text in Finnish containing three lexical items (hanki, kilos and keli) that have no straightforward equivalent in English or German, then had this text translated into those languages by native speakers. The student's task was to translate the text back into Finnish. Few used the three lexical items present in the original text. A control test was then designed to confirm that the students do use these concepts when describing situations similar to that presented by the text of the exercise. The results suggest that when translating students tend to opt for lexical choices that are closer to the source language. Kujumäki claims that these results challenge the translation students' belief that theory has little relevance when it comes to practice, and their strong belief in their L1 competence. However, it seems to me that if the low frequency of unique-items in translation is such a widespread phenomenon as some of the papers in this volume suggest, then it cannot be considered an indication of deficiencies in L1 competence. Jääskeläinen deals with a different 'universal', the avoidance of repetitions. In this case, the task set to students was to translate a text were repetition was used as a stylistic device in order to emphasise certain aspects of the message. Some groups were provided with a set of general instructions that called attention to stylistic patterns while others received no specific instructions. Students that had received instructions generally showed more sensitivity to repetitions. In the conclusion Jääskeläinen reflects on her methodology and on how the student's background may also affect how they approach translation. EVALUATION It is interesting to note that despite the warnings in Chesterman's and Bernardini and Zanettin's papers about the limitations of the corpus- based methodology and the need to ensure replicability, few authors reflect on the methodology applied or open the ground for questioning representativeness. In Eskola's article, for example, the methodology is not described in any detail. In general, this book provides a good overview of the state of the art in research on universals in translation studies: there are some interesting findings, and evidence is accumulating that confirms the existence of patterns that cut across translation cultures, genres and individual language pairs as well as patterns that reflect the influence of each of these factors. However, the research is still patchy and very much at surface level. Identifying patterns (however untypical) and differences is only worthwhile if they can tell us something about the nature of translations or about the cultural and social imperatives that shape them. In some areas results are fairly consistent, and in others less, but in general there are missing links between one and the other, links that could probably be explained by the variables at work in each case, but that have not been explored in depth. As some scholars in this volume point out, there is a need to complement research on the translation product with research that delves more deeply into the translation process and context. The introduction and the first part of the book point in this direction, but most of the empirical studies reported fail to engage with these issues. Maybe a good idea would have been to add a conclusion as well as an introduction, to provide an overall picture summing up and making connections between the findings, discussing potential explanations and implications, and refining the existing hypothesis. Papers presenting empirical findings generally work on the assumption that universals are indeed possible, but the question is far too broad to be addressed in small-scale studies as the ones reported. Even though the question in the title was probably intended to open a discussion rather than elicit concrete answers, those authors that do address it from a theoretical perspective suggest that it is not accurately formulated, because it is not the existence of universals that is at stake. In Toury's words: ''the whole question of translation universals is not one of existence [?] but one of explanatory power'' (p. 29). In any case, as three of the papers suggest, it seems that the term 'law' is probably a better choice to reflect the complexity of the data and it seems to be less controversial. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Gabriela Saldanha holds an MPhil in Translation Studies from UMIST, UK and is currently doing a PhD in the same area at Dublin City University, Ireland, where she has also lectured on Corpus Linguistics and Translation Technology. Her research interests include Corpus-based Translation Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Stylistics, Translation Technology, and Gender and Translation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-15-2203


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In California, a court sentences a defendant to probation in one of two ways, either "Imposition of Sentenced Suspended" and "Executed of Sentence Suspension." Joint suspension is "Execution of Sentence Suspended" Here's the difference:
"Imposition of sentence suspended" is the default probationary sentence. The defendant is sentenced to certain terms and conditions of probation but there is no set penalty or punishment if the defendant violates probation.
"Execution of Sentence Suspended" or "joint suspension" is also a probationary sentence, but the punishment for violating probation IS set. Usually the punishment for violating probation is a state prison sentence…which is why it's called "joint suspension" (an old slang term for prison is "the joint" and your sentence in "the joint" is suspended).
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Because my girlfriends in Orange County had a lot of money ... and just being able to afford to buy them a gift that they don't have. Instead of buying them Juicy sweatsuits -- they already have like 10 of those -- I wanted to find them something that they didn't have already; it had to be unique. And going to boutiques and buying stuff there, they wanted like $300 or $400 for one; it was unaffordable. I was already doing jewelry like 18 years ago and with research I was able to find the right product to wrap the leather around them. It's all been a learning process. Now I've extended to handbags and purses. And I'm coming out with a bedding line soon.
Cool. And I see you have Gretchen modeling a piece on your website.
Yeah. Gretchen on a motorcycle. I got that cool, kind of cross-motorcycle-looking things for the Harley people too. I got a lot of rocker crosses. And I named some after my daughters. I have Raquel, and I have an Alexa. The Alexa cuff is the one that has a fleur de lis on it. That's surpassing our Raquel sales right now. We'll see ... it just depends what people are into.
Well, let's rewind and talk about how you got yourself on the show.
I had one girlfriend who was doing my skin care; she knew somebody that worked for a store that was doing the wardrobe, and also, my other girlfriend had a daughter on an MTV show.
I knew it! Was she modeling one of the pieces on your website?
Yes, Kendra [Mayo from Laguna Beach]. Her mother and I have been best friends forever, and she's a really good photographer in Laguna Beach. So both of them in one week said, "Can we give your name out?" -- unrelated to each other. So I was like, "Oh, sure. Why not?" Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be here today on a show, having such a great time with all the women. It's been a blast.
Wait. Did you watch the previous seasons?
Um, yeah. I did a bit, actually. Lauri [Waring] happened to be a really good friend of one of my really good friends. And I knew Lauri was having a good time on the show. That was part of the reason ... I thought, "If Lauri is doing the show, I want to interview for it. That would be fun." I didn't know I was going to be replacing her at the time.
So before you joined the cast, was there someone you expected to click with, or someone you knew you'd have to watch out for?
Not in particular. Not until I got on the show and someone said we would be going out to dinner with everybody. ... I had a heads-up about Vicki [Gunvalson]. I didn't know all the characters by face that well, so I wasn't sure who she was. I whispered over to Gretchen [Rossi], "Which one's Vicki?" 'Cause I'd only really remember a few of the episodes ... like the one with Lauri and the trailer. Being a mom keeps you pretty busy. You can't really follow every show. I was a little nervous the first time I saw Vicki 'cause I was like, "uh-oh. She's going to be tough on me." But she turned out to be a doll. This season, she's been one of my closest friends on the show.
Is that how it really is? It's seems like you guys don't really hang out on a regular basis. When all of you are in a room, it's usually a setup like the sleepover and cooking party ...
Actually, we do see each other. I was invited to an event for Vicki. Or I get invited to an event for Tamra [Barney]. Like Tamra and I just talked. We're going to take a spin class tomorrow. I saw Jeana [Keough] the other day at my gym.
How's she doing?
She actually came by and dropped me off some clothes the other day; her friend's a designer. But she's doing great. She loves my cuffs; she's my little model. She's doing great.
I'm curious to know what it's like being part of a reality show ... do you watch each week? And what's that like reliving some of those events?
I do watch. I'm like underneath the covers. I'm like, "Oh, my gosh, did I do that?" or "Did I say that?" Sometime I wish I would have thought before I said something. But I just try to let it all go. I'm just as real as I could possibly be. It's all real. I'm a little ditzy, I admit it.
Well, let's talk about that. You were certainly portrayed as the ditzy gal last season ... and the other women -- mainly Tamra and Vicki -- weren't shy about pointing that out. Given that, how were you able to move past that and become so close?
I think they just really realized who I am and what I'm about. I am a hard worker. I think they see the fact that I am ... I'm doing really well with my business right now. I've learned a lot from Vicki from just seeing her, and now I know what she's going through. Before, it was a cottage industry, my business. It wasn't like how it is today. Now I live, eat, breathe and sleep my jewelry line. It's a constant work in progress. Just trying to keep it fresh. Keep it new. I'm very excited. The bedding line might, I think, be in Costco; we're talking. We'll see.
Seems like you're busy; that's something that seems to be a frequent topic in episodes -- how much you guys do in comparison to Vicki. I mean, last week, she left your housewarming party and caused a ruckus with the whole working thing ...
Yeah, we touched on that subject a little bit last week. We all work. We're all working people. My husband goes to work every day. We're not in the traditional sense. She probably goes to the office every day -- but who knows if Vicki really goes to the office every day? She has an office, but I don't know if she actually goes there from 9 to 5. My point is, nobody really knows how hard everybody else is working. And we kind of got on her case a little bit about that. Everybody was offended by that statement. She kind of brushed it off a little bit, saying, "Oh, I didn't mean it that way."
Think she's still just bitter about the girls weekend turned couples retreat?
I think she's over that. What she's got going on right now, she's a nervous wreck. She just hasn't been herself. [More on that in my interview with Vicki on Friday.]
Let's turn the table back to you. Your daughters are really highlighted in this season. And viewers see how you struggle to communicate with them ... and you bring in this youthologist to sort of help you with that. How did that come about?
I heard about this book called "You're Grounded." One of the other parents told me to check it out. I ended up calling her [Vanessa Van Petten], and she was really into coming down. She lives in L.A. I was at first a little eerie 'cause I was thinking "she's 26, what is she going to know?" She actually had a similar situation, you know, being a teenager and was going through all the same issues and turned her life around. The girls talked to her and they really did listen ... and it stuck for a couple of weeks. She inspired them. Raquel went out and got some art supplies; she actually has a website and has sold three paintings. She actually took one right off my wall the other day and sold it. Not a lot of money, but at least it's something.
Raquel seemed to be the rebellious one at first, but this season we see Alexa take on that role.
They're two years apart. They're both going through it at different times.
A lot of the readers of this blog have commented about the lack of boundaries you and your husband have in place. How do you respond to the criticisms you receive on how you discipline your daughters?
They don't see everything. They see a little bit here, a little bit there; they don't see what really goes down: the arguing, Frank getting upset, us taking away Raquel's vehicle. You just see a little bit. You don't see everything that transpires. I am tough. I'm strict. Alexa is home right now. She's not grounded but, you know, she just got her license and she wants a car. Does she have a car? No. Raquel doesn't have a car either right now. Neither one of my daughter's have cars. I am tough.
And what about the whole Gretchen situation?
Oh, gosh. I just say let the parenting duties stick with the parents. That's all I have to say. I don't wish her any ill when she has kids. I was just saying, 'You know what, Gretchen? Wait 'til you have kids, then come talk to me." I wasn't saying it to be mean or anything, I just wanted her to know that no one knows your kids like you do. I'm with them 24/7. And somebody who just spends maybe 25 minutes with them here or there is not going to be able to know my daughter and then tell me what to do about my daughter.
Continuing on with that, a lot of people were upset that you would allow your daughter to get plastic surgery at such a young age ...
My daughter is 19, and she had an injury. If you look at the comparison to her nose now, it wasn't like a drastic change. It was Raquel -- the same nose, minus the bump. She wanted a breast augmentation also. Did I let her do that? No. With the nose thing, she was bugging me for the past five years. Every day. Every time she was in front of the mirror. It's like someone who wants to get their teeth whitened or repaired. It seems a lot more invasive than it really was. It wasn't all that invasive. She didn't bruise; she didn't look like an accident victim. Neither of us got much bruising. I think nowadays, the way they perform these surgeries, it's amazing. I was on these tablets that you get from the health food store; you won't bruise, you won't swell. I took them two weeks before. It was very holistic. I barely had to take any pain pills. The thought I was on a lot ... I just left telling them, "No, I'm just relaxed." I'm very sensitive because I'm very much a pure system. I barely even drink ... aside from the show, when you see me a couple of times. That's how sensitive I am -- I kind of went on the deep end a few times 'cause I'm not a big drinker.
OK. Now let's talk about the husbands. We see the them in a bigger capacity this time around. And we see the wife-husband dynamics. Alexis and Jim Bellino's relationship is quite different than, say, Vicki and Donn's. ... Where do you and your husband fall on the spectrum?
Well, I'm in charge [laughs]. We get along really good. I actually got Frank running in right now; he's actually handling a lot of my business right now for me. It's kind of nice now. It's a whole different set of circumstances since I've been so successful with my company cause he has to listen to what I say. I'm the boss...no, it's actually 50-50. He lets me go wherever I want to go. If I want to go tomorrow with my girlfriends to Greece, I can get on a plane if I can afford it.
I don't know. I wouldn't have lasted five years if someone was telling me what to do. There's no way. I think that's why we've lasted 20 years, because he listens to me. We don't take each other too seriously. We get over it. We don't ever go to bed angry at each other. We're not like that. We just know each other so well now.
But in this week's episode, we see that Frank has kept you in the dark about finances. Want to clear that up?
What it was was a discrepancy over a deposit. It was an exorbitant deposit that Frank failed to tell me about. It was like an insurance binder that the woman wanted for our house. Since she knew we were on a show and filming, I think she was thinking we were rich and had all this money and thought, "Oh, why is she getting her face done?" I would get mail every day sent to her house from different doctors. ... I think she was looking for a deposit in order for her to get surgeries on her face. I think she was angry that I was getting some surgery done. I really feel that ... that's what I think went down. The rent was paid every month on time. But, yes, Frank did fail to tell me that there was this huge, huge -- more than you could imagine for any deposit. I could have put a down payment on a house. And he failed to tell me because ... I don't know what he was thinking was going to happen in the interim. That's why I was so ... I was kind of blindsided that day when I found that out. And my daughters called me and I was so sad that they had to go through that on camera.
Was it hard to have that all transpire on camera? To have it all exposed?
I don't really care what anybody thinks. As long as I have my family behind me, that's all that matter to me. I have good friends; my friends know me -- they know what it's all about. And you know what? I was just in Vegas for three days and I had more love and more support from strangers coming up to me. ... It was a natural high. We couldn't go 10 feet without people coming up to us and telling us how much they loved the show. Men were coming up! I can't believe how many men watch the show. I felt like a celebrity. I sold two cuffs that night. My girlfriend and I sold them off our wrists.
So no plans to leave the show any time soon?
I'll be doing it until in my walker. I love it. It's fun. I have a good time. As long as the people like me, I'll stay as long as they'll have me.
--Yvonne Villarreal
Photo: Lynne Curtin. Credit: Bravo
Check back Friday for my take on Thursday night's show ... and my interview with Vicki -- "Wa-hoo!"


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On any given day, the specials at Bryan Owens' Unclaimed Baggage retail store in Scottsboro, Ala., include deals like a $75 Sharper Image pillow for four bucks, a brand-new Trivial Pursuit 20th anniversary edition board game for $15 and a Schwinn double jogging stroller in excellent condition for just $40.
Judging from the latest US Dept. of Transportation statistics, Owens' business strategy-buying unclaimed luggage and cargo from airlines after a mandatory 90-day search for the owners expires-is sure to burgeon: The average number of mishandled bags, including lost luggage, grew from 4.61 to 4.81 per 1,000 passengers between August 2003 and August 2004, an increase of 4%, a trend that holds for other months as well.
A new lineup of comprehensive bag management technologies being deployed by several pathfinder airlines and airports could, however, cut down on Owens' inventory while saving carriers hundreds of millions of dollars every year in the process. Chief among the airline frontrunners are Delta Air Lines with its anticipated networkwide RFID deployment and JetBlue with its new baggage reconciliation and data warehouse package that will be deployed at all 27 airports the low-fare carrier serves. Airport systems are evolving with the rollout of integrated bag management products by SITA and RFID tracking infrastructure by companies like FKI Logistex.
The financial magnitude of the lost baggage problem is immense. Katherine Mayer, VP-airport services for SITA, says an airline like Delta will spend $100 million a year locating and returning 1 million of the 80 million bags it flies-an average of $100 a bag. Payment for a lost bag averages about $140 ($20 per kg.) under the Warsaw Convention, not including the cost in customer satisfaction. Says Mayer, "That's profit that is effectively disappearing needlessly down the drain."
As for who pays to solve the problem, she says airports often will purchase a baggage handling system and charge airlines for usage where there are shared terminals-a more frequent situation in international airports-while airlines tend to buy or develop their own systems for locations where they have dedicated terminals.
SITA offers a system called Integrated Baggage Solution that Mayer says can reduce an airline's number of lost bags by 25%, translating into a return-on-investment for the upgrade in as little as one year. The company's premium offering is installed in more than a dozen airports worldwide and is set to go into eight more major facilities under recently announced contracts.
IBS has three components that can be used independently or together. BagManager reconciles bags with passengers (positive match) as they move through and between airports. BagMessage is a "community based" message product that enables airport baggage systems to communicate with an unlimited number of airline departure control systems for automatic baggage sortation. WorldTracer, SITA's automated service for lost and mishandled luggage, features distinct modules for baggage tracing, management and claims investigation. WorldTracer also lets passengers track the progress of their luggage via a website.
Lufthansa Systems, a SITA competitor in this market, offers similar efficiency gains with its BagSuite package containing two independent modules, BagScan and BagTrail.
BagScan, first installed at Chicago O'Hare Terminal 5 in 1998, is used for luggage tracing, reconciliation and re-flighting-figuring out what to do with bags when a passenger misses a connecting flight or a flight is canceled. Michael Weghorst, product manager-bag management systems, says BagScan requires handlers to use wireless devices to scan bag tags before a bag is loaded on an aircraft. If the bag then needs to be offloaded because the passenger doesn't show-a security requirement for international airlines and domestic carriers without access to explosive detection systems-the scanner captures the location of the bag in the container and the position of the container in the airplane, accelerating the removal process. Weghorst says the software also will work with RFID tags and readers.
Lufthansa Systems' newest offering, BagTrail, is billed as a proactive tool that an airline can use to make its baggage flow more efficient. In addition to being a data "warehouse" that customer service and lost-and-found can use to locate a wayward bag, Weghorst says BagTrail can analyze the "weak points," helping a carrier understand why bags are getting lost in the first place.
JetBlue, the launch customer for BagSuite, says it expects to reduce its annual costs of dealing with mishandled luggage by 30% once the system is deployed at its 27 baggage handling stations in the US. The first phase of the deployment, at its operation at New York JFK Terminal 6, was scheduled to be complete by the end of November. The carrier apparently can use some help: DOT figures showed a 12% increase in its mishandled baggage for the month of August 2004 compared to August 2003.
Regardless of the quality of the bag management suites from the likes of SITA and Lufthansa Systems, there remains the problem of capturing the relevant information about a bag as it moves through the system. SITA reports that more than half of all mishandling incidents (54%) relate to transfer baggage, with 17% caused in part by failure to load the bag. Philip Heacock, director-airport systems for FKI Logistex, an integrator of baggage handling systems, says reasons for the Achilles' heel include ramp workers damaging bag tags so that barcodes are unreadable by optical scanners, barcodes that are smaller than the IATA standard or weren't printed properly and environmental aspects like the tags getting wet.
One solution is to invest in RFID bag tags, a technology that should boost read rates to 99% or so based on the results of Transportation Security Administration pilot programs that FKI Logistex and others have completed at several airports. Instead of reading tags optically, the RFID system creates an electromagnetic field that powers up a tiny nonbattery chip embedded in the tag. The chip radios back an identification number set at the factory, updating a passenger's record with the bag's progress and instructing the baggage system where to send the bag next based on flight number and security status. While the record of a bag's progress through the system now generally stops with the last optical scan of the tag before it reaches the baggage makeup area, RFID tags are readable all the way into the aircraft's baggage hold.
Two airports, Las Vegas McCarran and Hong Kong International, are in the midst of installing RFID-capable airportwide baggage handling systems, while at least one airline, Delta, plans to deploy the technology across its entire network, an action Heacock says will "substantially decrease" its number of mishandled bags.
One issue at the moment with RFID, says Mayer, is that the bag tags cost about 25 cents each, a price that can be reduced somewhat through bulk purchases by airlines and airports together. How many airports will be willing to participate is questionable: SITA's latest IT Trends Survey, which compiled research from senior management at one-third of the top 100 airports, revealed that as many as 40% of the respondents have no plans to implement RFID in the future.
For airlines, Heacock says it is only a matter of time before RFID becomes standard operating procedure. "Airlines know [it] is coming. They're waiting for it either to be mandated or for their finances to pick up to solve the baggage issue," he says. "As soon as one of the major carriers does it, I think you'll see the other major carriers do it."


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The Buffalo Bills are officially on the market.
QMI Agency has learned that on Wednesday the NFL club finally kicked off the bidding process by mailing to prospective buyers both a non-disclosure agreement from law firm Proskauer Rose and a teaser sale document, according to a source involved in the process who requested anonymity.
Those who have expressed an intention to bid on the Bills, and perhaps others as identified by the Bills' investment banker Morgan Stanley, on Wednesday received a seven-page non-disclosure agreement (NDA), the source said.
Such bidders must sign the NDA in order to receive the "offering memorandum," or sale book.
That document, which presumably is now ready to be shared, will contain the confidential summary information regarding the Bills franchise and the NFL — most importantly financials such as revenues, assets, operational costs, prospects of future revenue and liabilities.
The four-person trust overseeing the sale of the Bills last month hired both Morgan Stanley and Proskauer Rose as the transaction team to conduct the process. In announcing as much on May 21, the Bills said in a statement "it is anticipated that the transaction team will begin contacting prospective buyers within the next 30 days."
Wednesday was Day 28 after that announcement.
So who are the bidders that received the above documents on Wednesday?
Likely Tom Golisano, Donald Trump, Terry Pegula and the Toronto group that includes rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. Probably other prospective bidders — unidentified as yet publicly — received the documents as well.
Golisano on Thursday was unavailable to comment. Spokespersons for Trump and Bon Jovi would neither confirm nor deny this story and had no comment, while the other likely bidders' spokespersons could not be immediately reached.
The Bills had no immediate comment.
QMI Agency confirmed in April that Bon Jovi and Tanenbaum intend to lead a Toronto bid group, and QMI Agency was first to report last month that Golisano — the billionaire from Rochester, N.Y., who owned the NHL's Buffalo Sabres from 2003 to 2011 — intends to bid.
Golisano sold the Sabres to Pegula. Of the Western New York billionaires, Pegula probably is in the best financial position to buy the Bills.
The sale price likely will be in the neighbourhood of $1 billion and by NFL rules only up to $200 million of whatever the final amount might be can be borrowed. The rest must be paid in cash. What's more, a source told QMI Agency last month that the NFL strongly prefers that any principal prospective owner be financially liquid to the extent of possessing at least $200 million in available cash over and above his or her portion of the sale price.
According to the Buffalo News last week, Pegula recently sold natural gas lands in West Virginia and Ohio worth $1.75 billion.
Trump is as liquid as any bidder, according to his right-hand man.
"Donald Trump continues to remain interested in exploring the opportunity to acquire the Buffalo Bills," Michael Cohen, executive vice-president and special counsel to Trump, said in a telephone interview on Thursday afternoon.
"Financially he is more than capable of buying the team on his own; whether he does, or elects to syndicate, is something he will decide at a later date."
Cohen had no further comment.
QMI Agency also has learned that Morgan Stanley will vet potential bidders before the NFL does.
That will come as a surprise to some, but sports franchise relocation expert Marc Ganis told QMI Agency last month that both Morgan Stanley and Proskauer Rose are so experienced in this realm, and have worked so often with the league on recent sales, that "they know what the NFL accepts and what it doesn't."
Founding Bills owner Ralph Wilson died in late March at age 95. His primary heir and widow, Mary Wilson, soon announced that — as long expected — she would sell the team.
According to WBBZ-TV in Buffalo, the four publicly unnamed trustees of Ralph Wilson's estate are his widow Mary, his niece and Bills executive-VP Mary Owen, Bills CFO Jeff Littmann and Detroit lawyer Eugene Driker.


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