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Work Uniforms and Women in Male-dominated Manual OccupationsBjerck, Mari (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation is concerned with work uniforms for women in male-dominated manual occupations. As such, it has analysed parts of the gender-segregated labour market in light of material conditions that dress workers every day. This has been done on the background of a research and development project called Uni-Form funded by the Research Council of Norway. The dissertation presents findings from ethnographic fieldwork in six male-dominated occupations; construction, skilled manual work, industrial production, off- and onshore gas and oil production, industrial fishing and the Navy. It also analyses the project Uni-Form's product development process and seeks to show how work research can benefit from employing more materiality-based studies. Work clothes and uniforms for women in male-dominated occupations have come in the form of men's clothes or feminized copies of men's clothes where form and aesthetics have been adapted to the female body and female dress standards. There are several problematic aspects of work clothes and gender that points to premises of standardisation, which do not promote inclusion and recruitment or contribute to retaining women in the gender-segregated labour market. Research on workwear, uniforms and uniform dressing in general have largely documented that women dressing in uniform workwear are problematic in practical, functional and socialsymbolic terms, but it has not contributed with a larger study or shown how this can be solved in practice. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9434
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The Organisation of Danish Cancer Research 1949-1992Conradsen, Marie Louise (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The Cancer Centre That Never Was - The organisation of Danish cancer research 1949-1992 This thesis analyses the demise of a remarkably resilient idea relating to the establishment of a public-private comprehensive cancer centre in Denmark. Plans to establish the cancer centre were made for more than four decades without ever amounting to an actual centre establishment. After 43 years, the cancer research community finally deemed the idea fruitless and no further plans were made. But why did it take so long to abandon an idea that had at no point in its existence proved its worth or rationale? And why were better alternatives not explored although they presented themselves along the way? This thesis employs a theoretical framework inspired by economist Douglass C. North and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to answer these questions and determine whether or not the history of the cancer centre that never was can be seen as a case of path dependence. In doing so, the thesis focuses on three main questions: 1) Why was the goal of building a public-private comprehensive cancer centre never reached? 2) Why did 43 years pass before the idea of the centre was abandoned? 3) And is it possible to answer these questions by merely seeing the matter as a succession of historical events, or should it be seen in the perspective of path dependence? By using North's concepts of formal and informal institutions, the thesis shows that the failure to establish a centre is closely linked to unfavourable institutional matrices at different times in history. The thesis also shows how the idea of the centre was promoted for different reasons by various groups of actors in the case-story, and that the idea was most vigorously promoted in times of economic recession as a tool to secure either better funding for individual cancer research groups or for the anti-cancer cause in general. At every point in history, at least one group of involved actors did not have their needs met by the institutional matrix and used the idea of a cancer centre as a way of expanding the matrix to their own advantage – thereby prolonging the lifespan of the idea. The history of the Cancer Centre That Never Was may, on the surface, seem irrational because it never paid off in the form of an actual cancer centre. However, by employing the concepts of North (institutions, path dependence) and Bourdieu's theory on social fields and actor behavior it seems that the path paid off in different ways and on different levels than through the establishment of an actual centre. The involved public and private actors in the cancer research community had other reasons for supporting a cancer centre than what was formally presented as the primary objective: the scientific coordination of cancer research in Copenhagen. Reasons that reflected a power struggle between individual researchers, public and private research organisations and the Danish Government on issues relating to the financing Danish cancer research. The thesis concludes that path dependence did most likely occur in the story of the Cancer Centre That Never Was. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9025
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How Material Practices and their Symbolic and Physical Meanings Form a Colonising LogicLauesen, Linne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD thesis is the outcome of three-year doctoral study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stakeholder engagement in the water sector. This study contributes to new knowledge about water companies formed as hybrid organisations in the aftermath of the new public management (NPM) era worldwide. Today we see different hybrid organisations of water companies around the world that have either been fully privatised or quasi-privatised. Quasiprivatisation in Denmark means that water utilities are still perceived as natural monopolies, which has not made them into for-profit driven companies. Instead a simulated market and state regulation has been introduces with annual, national benchmarking to set a price cap as an upper limit for the consumer-price of water. Similar systems are seen in fully privatised water companies in the United Kingdom, the United States, and partially in South Africa. However, here the water companies are typically owned by private companies and not established as municipalityowned limited liabilities1 as in Denmark and elsewhere in Scandinavia. This PhD thesis proposes new models and principles and corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement of these water companies. The findings of the study suggest a new definition of a colonising logic of CSR competing and coexisting with the regulators' colonising logic of NPM. Through the study and definition of these logics as colonising the water sector this PhD theisis provides an understand of new perspectives of how CSR is enacted through stakeholder engagement and how the logic of CSR frames the top managers' claim: "We are CSR!" (Interview B, March 2011) and the consequences of this logic. Both the logic of CSR and the logic of NPM is found to be based on the materials that the water companies are organised around, namely water. Water is perceived as a natural good that should ideally be free and plentiful for all citizens around the world. However, the competition between the two colonising logics stems from another material, namely the money or price that providing clean and pure water for all are allowed to cost the citizens. Through the dialectical interaction of these in terms of material practices between producing water and infrastructure to distribute it and collecting money as a payment for it and the regulation of this, this PhD thesis proposes a new definition of the role of materials and material practices underlying several institutional logics such as the institutional logic of capitalism, state, democracy, family, religion/science, profession, and corporation (Friedland & Alford, 1991; Thornton et al., 2012; Friedland, 2013). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8896
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Kulturanalytisk casestudie om udfordringer og dilemmaer med at forankre Coops CSR-strategiRosenstock, Maja (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ph.d.-projektet handler om forankringen af Coops CSR-strategi. Coop er, med sine 35.000 ansatte og 1200 butikker spredt ud over hele landet, Danmarks største dagligvarevirksomhed. Coop driver kæderne SuperBrugsen, Kvickly, Dagli'Brugsen, Irma og Fakta. De er ejet at Fællesforeningen for Danmarks Brugsforeninger (FDB), der igen ejes af 1,6 mio. danske forbrugere. Coop blev for nyligt udråbt som "CSR-områdets mediedarling", da de var den virksomhed i Danmark, der havde fået mest positiv CSR-omtale i medierne. Denne afhandling illustrerer, hvor svært det kan være, at praktisere CSR - selv for en virksomhed som Coop. Et af afhandlingens væsentligste bidrag er at undersøge forankringen af CSR-strategien, set indefra virksomheden selv, og på denne måde illustrere de mange udfordringer og dilemmaer, der er forbundet med at praktisere CSR. Netop kompleksiteten og de mange udfordringer og dilemmaer ved CSR-arbejdet beskrives sjældent. Tværtimod hører virksomhederne gang på gang om, hvordan CSR er en oplagt 'business case', og om hvordan arbejdet med CSR skaber win-win situationer og giver konkurrencemæssige fordele. Afhandlingen kan dermed ses som en modvægt til de mange flatterende beskrivelser af CSR, som den direkte vej til bedre bundlinje og øget vækst. Således følger afhandlingen op på den strategiske tilgang til CSR og sætter denne under nærmere belysning. I afhandlingen diskuteres fordele og ulemper ved den strategiske CSR tilgang, ligesom det illustreres at implementeringen og forankringen af CSR-strategier langt fra er så ligetil, som det umiddelbart kan lyde, når CSR kontinuerligt beskrives som win-win situationer og konkurrencemæssige fordele. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8550
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Et casestudie om styring og meningsskabelse i relation til CSR ud fra en intern optikSkovmøller, Carina Christine (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ph.d.-afhandlingen undersøger betydningen af ledelsens styringsform i forhold til medarbejdernes meningsskabelse omkring CSR. Herunder hvorvidt CSR som koncept påvirker medarbejderes forventninger til ledelsens styringsform og sensegiving, og i givet fald hvordan. Ligeledes hvilke virksomhedsinterne processer der viser sig at have indflydelse på ledelsens styringsform og medarbejdernes meningsskabelsesproces i relation til CSR. Afhandlingen er baseret på et longitudinelt studie i VELUX hovedkontor i Hørsholm, Danmark, i forhold til implementeringen af Sustainable Living, som er det overordnede mål for VELUX' arbejde med bæredygtighed såvel internt som eksternt. Data er indhentet med to års interval i henholdsvis 2008 og 2010 og er baseret på 70 interviews med medarbejdere, mellemledere og ledelse i 2008 og 2010 samt observationsstudier i sammenlagt 2½ år. Sideløbende med disse undersøgelser har jeg deltaget i seminarer, projekter & møder, fulgt presseomtale om CSR i VELUX og undersøgt interne dokumenter med relation til CSR området. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8421
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The Case of RomaniaSamson, Ramona (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Europa undergår fundamentale forandringer i kølvandet på den Kolde Krigs afslutning. En afgørende begivenhed er udvidelsen af den Europæisk Union (EU), der indebærer, at de tidligere kommunistiske lande i Østeuropa bliver del af et samlet Europa. Samspillet mellem ydre og indre faktorer i disse samfund bevirker, at det i stigende grad er nødvendigt at befatte sig på en ny måde med studiet af europæisk forandring og integration. Svaret i denne afhandling er 'kulturel integration'. Afhandling tager sit afsæt i den aktuelle sociologiske debat vedrørende fremvæksten af et såkaldt postvestligt og postnationalt Europa. Denne indebærer, at ikke alene de østeuropæiske lande forandrer sig, men at hele Europa er genstand for grundlæggende refortolkning i takt med at landegrænser opblødes og Øst/vestdelingen af kontinentet gradvist ophæves. En sådan 'dobbelt synkronicitet' (double syncronicity) står i modsætning til hovedparten af eksisterende teorier om europæisk integration, der forklarer Østeuropas integration i det øvrige Europa som 'transition'. Transitologien hviler på to grundantagelser: Dels at de østeuropæiske lande bevæger sig entydigt i retning af en vestlig model (konvergens), dels at integration alene udspiller sig indenfor rammerne af EU's formelle institutionelle struktur (singularitet). I modsætning hertil er det opfattelsen hos denne afhandlings forfatter, at de aktuelle forandringsprocesser i de tidligere kommunistiske lande i Østeuropa ikke kan begribes fyldestgørende inden for rammen af disse traditionelle integrationsteorier. På denne baggrund spørger afhandlingens problemformulering: "hvordan analyserer man forandringsprocesserne i Østeuropa i sammenhæng med de overordnede forandringer, der finder sted i Europa?" URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7732
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Skjold, Else (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this PhD thesis, The Daily Selection, I will be addressing the overall question of how research on wardrobes can contribute to a more effective connection between the production and the consumption of dress objects. The thesis builds on exemplary studies of people in their wardrobes, with the aim of focusing on theoretical and methodological concerns and implications. It is structured in three parts, each of which consists -‐ independently -‐ of its own introductory framing, its own literature review, its own methods chapter, its own field work study, and its own conclusive reflections. As such, the parts, when taken as a whole, represent an evolving process through which my overall research questions are being filtered and reflected. My scholarly approach builds on the fusing of fashion and dress research and design research, in this way closing a gap between dress practice as, on the one hand, symbolic discourse and, on the other, as an embodied practice that is 'physically embedded' in the material capacities of dress objects. In Part I, I frame this view by addressing the concept of dressing as a 'bodily situated practice', as defined by Entwistle (2000), combined with a processual view on design and everyday practices, as defined by Shove et al. (2008). Based on these perspectives, I contribute with my own explanatory frameworks of 'sartorial systems' and 'sensory anchoring', on which I base the entire thesis. In order to operationalise these frameworks in my field work, I have developed a personal methodology for the wardrobe method that embraces the sensory and temporal aspects of dress practice. In Part II, I filter this through the vehicle of a collaborative project with Danish designer Mads Nørgaard, wherein I observe how dress objects from Nørgaard's collection are appropriated and used in the wardrobes of informants. In this way, I point to discrepancies between the production and the dissemination of dress objects that take place in the fashion industry, and to the ways that people use and experience these objects in their everyday lives. In Part III, I conduct a series of 'wardrobe sessions' with informants in collaboration with a designer, in order to explore how use practice might cast reflections back onto design processes. In my concluding chapter, I argue that my thesis contributes with a more facetted and reflected set of thinking in relation to dress practice, and that this way of thinking could potentially bring about radical changes in the way dress objects are currently produced, disseminated and sold. All together, this thesis shows that in order to establish a more tight fit between the production and consumption of dress objects, there is very good reason to look into the dress practices that are taking place in people's wardrobes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8992
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Humanitarian Discourse in the Age of MediatizationVestergaard, Anne (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis explores the history of humanitarian organizations as agents in public life. When taking on the role as mediators between Western publics and distant sufferers, what conception of social responsibility do humanitarian organizations promote? What are the consequences of the institutional context of these organizations on the form of social responsibility that they are able to promote? In a historical perspective, what changes in these conceptualizations can we observe and to what extent can we understand them as resulting from institutional changes? These questions are asked with the assumption that the discourse of humanitarian organizations is at once a reflection of and a force in the configuration of dispositions in target publics. Enquiring about the history of humanitarian organizations as agents in public life, thus, means enquiring about the ways in which over the past 40 years, these organizations have given meaning to our relation to different sufferers and contributed to shaping our individual and collective conception of the scope and nature of our social responsibility.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8318
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Netter, Sarah (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Despite the growing interest on the part of proponents and opponents - ranging from business, civil society, media, to policy-makers alike - there is still limited knowledge about the working mechanisms of the sharing economy. The thesis is dedicated to explore this understudied phenomenon and to provide a more nuanced understanding of the micro- and macro-level tensions that characterize the sharing economy. This thesis consists of four research papers, each using different literature, methodology, and data sets. The first paper investigates how the sharing economy is diffused and is 'talked into existence' by the communicative acts of a number of different actors. The second paper looks at how the reality of these narratives is actually experienced by the representatives of one type of sharing platform, i.e., fashion libraries. The third paper further expands the understanding of micro-level tensions experience by sharing platforms by looking at the case of mobile fashion reselling and swapping markets. The final paper combines the perspectives of different sharing economy stakeholders and outlines some of the micro and macro tensions arising in and influencing the organization of these multi-sided markets. Presently, the future of the sharing economy is rather uncertain, in part due to its conceptual ambiguity and lack of independent empirical research. This thesis concludes that the fate of the sharing economy primarily depends on two factors. Firstly, it depends on the ability of stakeholders to resolve tensions and arrive at a more nuanced and less normative discourse - one that will largely inform the ways in which sharing initiatives can be supported and regulated. Secondly, it depends on the ability of policy-makers and sharing initiatives to shift consumer mindsets from ownership to access in order to increase the adoption of these new consumption practices, while simultaneously reducing overall consumption levels and contributing to sustainable development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9397
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Uldam, Julie (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the wake of increasing disillusion with the potential of alternative online media for providing social movements with a virtual space for self-representation and visibility (Atton, 2002; Downing, 2001; Rodriguez, 2001) activists have been adopting online social media into their media practices. With their popular appeal and multimodal affordances social media such as YouTube and Facebook have reinvigorated hopes for the potential of the internet for providing social movements such as the Global Justice Movement, which is often misrepresented as a homogeneous and in a negative light in the mass media (Gamson and Wolfsfeld, 1993; Juris, 2008), with new possibilities for promoting self-representations to wider publics – beyond the echo chambers of alternative media (Cammaerts, 2007; Sunstein, 2001). In the mediation of institutional politics the increasing use of popular online spaces has brought about the term 'YouTube‐ification of Politics' (Turnsek and Jankowski, 2008). However, two challenges remain: the first relates to fragmentation – the internet's properties as a 'pull-medium' is argued to merely connect likeminded users (Cammaerts, 2007: 138). The second relates to 'lazy politics' – the internet's ephemeral properties are argued to facilitate brief participation in single-issue campaigns that fails to foster political engagement (Fenton, 2008a: 52). This thesis focuses on the latter. It addresses the possibilities of popular online spaces for fostering collective solidarity and political engagement in social movement organisations. It explores how these possibilities are played out in the online arena of popular sites employed by the two London-based social movement organisations: the World Development Movement (WDM) and War on Want. Drawing on the cases of WDM and War on Want, the thesis addresses three dimensions of these practices, exploring (1) rationales for using popular online spaces to promote the SMO agenda; (2) the social movement organisations' online campaigns; and (3) members' identifications with the campaigns through discourse analysis and interviews with SMO directors, campaign, outreach and web officers as well as SMO members. It is by analysing how SMOs use different online spaces as locations for strategic framing and the formation of political identities that we can begin to study how the internet may contribute to an agonistic public sphere where also voices of dissent are heard. The thesis is based on Mouffe's understanding of politics and the political as grounded in discourse but also based on a view of political engagement as conflictual, affective and sometimes irrational (Cammaerts, 2007; Fenton, 2009; Mouffe, 2005). Even though this does not mean that SMOs do not apply rational considerations in planning their strategic agendas for public visibility and legitimacy, it does mean that the study of these considerations need to take into account this dual character of political discourse as both rational and affective (Hajer and Versteeg, 2005). Therefore, we need to consider instrumental and affective issues to understand the relationship between strategic protest and the underlying dynamics of intragroup commitment (Griggs and Howarth, 2002; Snow et al., 1986) – the interconnections between strategy and identity, external resonance and internal commitment. In this way, the democratic potentialities of the internet can be seen as not only related to the ways in which SMOs communicate their agenda but also to potentialities for forging political identities and commitment (Fenton, 2008a). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8211
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Design af levende billeder i film og tv-serierWille, Jakob Ion (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ph.d.-afhandlingen Film som Design undersøger, beskriver og kortlægger design og designerens arbejde i filmens og det levende billedes verden for på den baggrund at bidrage med indsigter i og foreslå analytisk håndtering af det, der bredt forstås ved det levende billedes design. Generelt behandler filmens teorier det levnende billedes stil og design som en reaktion på filmens eller tvseriens dominerende narrativ. Omvendt opfatter designtænkningen generelt filmens eller tv-seriens design som repræsentation af designartefakter. Mens disse forståelser i og for sig er rimelige, udtrykker de også en begrænset indsigt i filmisk design. Det primære mål for afhandlingen er derfor at udvide forståelsen og betydningen af design i den filmiske produktion og det filmiske værk. Dette sker gennem empiriske studier af film- og tv-produktioner og ved at overføre begreber og metodeforståelse fra designverdenen til filmens verden. Der tages på den måde hovedsageligt udgangspunkt i eksisterende filmvidenskabelig og designfaglig teori, der søges appliceret på filmens design for på den bagrund 1) at formidle og udvikle ny viden om området og foreslå anvendelsesorienteret metode til analytisk arbejde med dette samt 2) at revurdere og evt. revidere opfattelsen af designets betydning for skabelsen af det filmiske værk. På den måde tydeliggøres på den ene side designeren og designets betydning for skabelsen og oplevelsen af det visuelle værk, mens denne forståelse på den anden side søges instrumentaliseret i både praktisk anvendelsesorienteret og analytisk metode. For at differentiere sig fra mere kontekstorienterede diskurser arbejdes der i afhandlingen hovedsagligt med en formalistisk forståelse af det levende billede, inspireret af en poetik, hvor det levende billedes design primært opfattes som et resultat af kunstneriske eller designmæssige valg. Implicit i denne forestilling findes samtidig idéen om designeren som væsentlig medskaber (eller demiurg) af filmen eller tv-seriens fiktive univers. Disse og andre forestillinger fremstillet i afhandlingen sandsynliggøres gennem et empirisk materiale, der blandt andet indeholder studier af designarbejdet i så forskellige film som Lars von Triers Melancholia (2011) og Steven Spielbergs Minority Report (2001). Dertil bygger afhandlingen blandt andet på eksempler fra danske og internationale tv-serier samt på erfaringer fra et eksperimenterende samarbejde mellem manuskript- og producerelever fra Den Danske Filmskole, studerende fra Det Danske Kunstakademis Skole for Design og Danmarks Radio, TV-DRAMA. Endelig trækker afhandlingen på en bred vifte af eksempler på filmisk design fra det vestlige korpus af klassiske film fra George Méliès Le voyage à travers l'impossible (1904) til Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9106
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Om kulturel produktion på Roskilde FestivalMunkgård Pedersen, Kristine (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The dissertation explores how cultural production is unfolding at Roskilde Festival – the biggest music- and culture festival in Denmark. The overall question being adressed is how the festival is assembled. The question is explored through four subquestions related to the cultural expressions, identity and materiality of the festival. The first part of the dissertation investigates the specificity of the festival's audience- based culture. The symbolic and historical connections between the festival and the 1960s' cultural activism is argued to be of an importance to the socioaesthetics, performed jointly by audience as well as performers. The dissertation further investigates how the identity of the festival is being negotiated between a number of different commercial and cultural actors: sponsors, volunteers and artists among others. The many different economic and cultural practices and values converge when the festival ground is being transformed from anonymous space to festival space embracing both cultural and commercial content. In this regard the dissertation investigates how the valuebased economic logics of subcultural production is debated and negotiated during the pratices of materializing space. It is argued that the complexity of the festival identity adds to the credibility of the festival and its many different producers. The second part of the dissertation is a socio-material analysis of two festival projects. One is the hybrid festival area Cosmopol, the other is the Orange Stage area. The analyses are based on a research agenda developed by the Actor- Network-Theory (ANT) which explores how ideas are materialised through proceses of interaction, translation and involvement. The explorations explain how subcultural attitudes, practices of transgression and oppositional identity are distributed through an ephemeral network of actors including humans (volunteers, artists, performers) and things (scenes, art works, graffiti, pictures and music) which forge performative alliances with the festival audience. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8058
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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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Krogh Petersen, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
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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Strand, Robert Gavin (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
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 Hua (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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Dirt, aesthetics and inclusion in public service workDahl, Dorte Boesby (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation investigates how changing management strategies in the public sector contribute to shaping and developing the 'parking attendant' as a certain sort of person in a municipal centre responsible for parking attendance. The job as parking attendant is – just as many other jobs in the public sector – the object of changing management strategies according to changing political agendas. Meanwhile, the job is also a psychologically demanding and stigmatized unskilled job in the public sector. The dissertation analyzes how parking attendants, whose job is increasingly professionalized, interact with changing management strategies by for instance resisting or avoiding them. The dissertation relies on sociological fieldwork among parking attendants and their managers. The fieldwork included shadowings of daily work, interviews, gathering of documents and participant observation at job-interviews. The analytical point of departure for the dissertation is Ian Hacking and Paul du Gay's theories of how identities are 'made up'. This sort of analysis is coupled in three articles in the dissertation to other perspectives on the relation between work and identity. These are about how employees handle stigma, which is considered in research on "Dirty Work", about how managers and employees draw upon "aesthetic labour" to meet the public's scepticism and as a means to bring down the number of assaults and finally how managememt strategies aiming at creating inclusion and diversity contribute to the making up of the parking attendant. All three analysis contribute to expand our understanding of work and identity in the public sector. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9265
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On Second-hand Valuation PracticesLarsen, Frederik (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this thesis I address the question of how value is created in second-hand markets. Focusing on the role of charity thrift stores I present an ethnographic account of fieldwork I undertook in the Tavern Guild Community Thrift Store in San Francisco. I analyse my ethnographic findings in light of contemporary literature on values and valuations in material culture and reaching back through the anthropological literature on commodities and gift economies I build a framework around David Graeber's formulation of a concept of social, relational value. In order to structure the analysis I take Mary Douglas's seminal work on classification as a starting point and argue that the practices of valuation constitute a process of transformation form discard to commodity. To support the analysis I introduce theoretical concepts from the ethnographic literature on values, secondhand markets and valuations. Practices of categorization enable the employees to create value, but disorder is a condition of the process, which hinders the flow as well as provides opportunity for value. I describe thrift, a considered use of resources, as the main 'infravalue' that drives the valuations and allows the organization to create economic, social and emotional value. Next I zoom in on the interaction between people and objects on a micro-level. The theoretical framework here brings anthropological theory into play with actor-network theory (ANT) approaches to nonhuman actors, and I introduce the term withdrawal from object-oriented philosophy to address the agency of objects in valuations. By dividing the analysis into two parts I demonstrate in greater detail how objects as part of valuations are given agency through social entanglements, but also how the objects by their mere existence influence valuations beyond this entanglement. Their presence as more than the sum of their social relations has a profound impact on the valuations by resisting as much as partaking in the process of transformation. In the last section of the thesis I present an explorative study of the extended trajectory the objects take through markets and wholesale companies in Thailand. I discuss the role of the thrift store in the global context of second-hand exchanges and offer a critical reflection on the consequences of the proliferation of second-hand markets. The thesis provides a situated approach to the study of human-objects interactions and demonstrates that an understanding of the different forms of value that are at play reveal charity thrift organizations as important players in second-hand markets. Thrift enables the organization to salvage as many objects as possible while providing services to the community. In doing so they are vital in transforming discards into commodities for the other actors in the market. This study highlights the importance of considering materiality, and especially objecthood, in the context of second-hand markets, and suggests a situated framework for understanding the relationship between objects and practices in the broader context of material culture studies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9182
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Xiao Jun slowly wakes up from a train accident. Losing all her memories and left with amnesia, Xiao Jun has no idea who she is or where she is going. Yet the ancient ring that she is wearing on her finger is proof of being the Du family's eldest son's fiancé. Therefore, Xiao Jun is confusingly brought to the rich and powerful Du family. The head of the Du family treats her and loves her as if she is his own daughter, causing the pregnant Xiao Jun to experience the feelings of a warm family that she has never felt before.
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Year : 2013
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Cast : Komal Kumar, Poorna, Kuri Prathap, Manoj, Aryan, Soni, Gayathri
Music : Manikanth Kadri
Lyrics : V Nagendra Prasad, Shivananje Gowda, Manikanth Kadri, Santhosh Nayak, Praveen Bhushan
Direction : Murugan E
Producer : N Ravikumar
Genre : Drama
Release Date : 14-June-2013
Runtime : 150 min
A well knit tale the story begins with Radha (poorna) who elopes from home to marry her lover Krishna (komal). But Krishna is in a pile of loans and works as a touch up boy in film industry. Things change when a producer sees Radha and makes her the heroine of a film. In order to clear the family issues, Radha agrees to act but this creates inferiority complex for Krishna and trouble begins. Krishna starts living separately and meanwhile Radha lands into trouble. What happens after that forms the rest of the story
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Greens leader Christine Milne has moved to re-enter the political debate over the budget, seeking meetings with Labor and the Senate crossbench to a discuss alternative revenue measures in a potential circuit-breaker before Parliament's resumption next week.
Senator Milne says she is also ready to sit down with Treasurer Joe Hockey or any other minister to discuss budget compromise proposals, but she would not compromise on unfair proposals such as the $7 GP tax.
On Monday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the government would deal with the crossbench but what ''we're not prepared to do, though, is sell out the fundamentals''. He lashed the Labor and the Greens for ''saying no to everything''.
''What I say to all of the crossbench senators is if you don't like what the government is putting up, give us your alternative in terms of how we save money.
''And there were some alternatives that came up from one of the crossbench members of the federal Parliament, and frankly they didn't stack up for five minutes.''
Senator Milne wrote to Labor leader Bill Shorten, Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer and all eight crossbench senators to outline her party's alternative proposals to raise revenue, including a levy on the big four banks, abolishing tax breaks for fossil fuels and higher taxes for millionaires.
In a softening of the Greens' at times doctrinaire approach to political strategy, Senator Milne said the Greens wanted to propose alternative measures to debunk the Prime Minister's assertions the opposition parties offered no alternatives to the Coalition's contentious budget measures.
''This is not an exclusive list, it's our list; they may have other things in mind,'' she said. ''They [the crossbench] will have had a bit of time now to think about things. They may have suggestions we can talk through.
''This will enable us, Labor, PUP and other independents to see if there is other common ground on raising revenue.''
Senator Milne said the proposed bank levy and a move to reduce tax avoidance by taxing discretionary trusts could win support. Asked if she would meet the Treasurer, with whom she hammered out a deal on the debt ceiling last year, she said ''Joe Hockey has got my number''.
Labor sources questioned Senator Milne's move to reposition her party, saying it had opposed the Coalition's proposed restarting indexation of the fuel excise and the temporary deficit levy, despite both being Greens' party policies.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said that if the government put something to the ALP it would listen but ''our values and principles have been clearly outlined, our red lines. We are not prepared to negotiate … matters of principle like the universality of healthcare''.
On Tuesday, Mr Bowen rejected the idea of a tax on bank profits.
''Banks pay corporate tax and that's appropriate,'' he told reporters.
Mr Palmer, who met Mr Hockey's chief of staff on Monday, said his party still thought the GP co-payment and rise in fuel excise were unfair but held out the prospect of a possible deal.
He said his party was ''available to talk to anyone about anything''.
James Massola is south-east Asia correspondent based in Jakarta. He was previously chief political correspondent, based in Canberra. He has been a Walkley and Quills finalist on three occasions, won a Kennedy Award for outstanding foreign correspondent and is the author of The Great Cave Rescue.


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Drew Peterson Denied Mistrial Again After Prosecution's Missteps
(JOLIET, Ill.) -- Drew Peterson's attorneys marched into court this morning demanding a mistrial in the murder case against Peterson, alleging that missteps by the prosecution on Tuesday and Wednesday had irreparably tainted the jury.
"It's going to be an unfair trial if you let this go on," a defense attorney told Judge Edward Burmila today. Peterson is charged with killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and making it look like an accident in 2004.
The defense's argument centered on testimony introduced Wednesday by a former neighbor of Peterson's, who said without prompting that a bullet had once been found in Savio's driveway. The prosecution said that they were simply trying to prove that Peterson had intimidated Savio prior to her death, but the defense and Burmila loudly objected to the mention of the bullet, saying that its admissibility had not been discussed in pre-trial motions and was inappropriate.
The defense asked for a mistrial immediately following the testimony about the bullet, but Burmila returned a decision in the afternoon denying the mistrial. Instead, he said he would strike the neighbor's testimony from the court record and allow the defense to keep the cross-examination testimony on the record if they chose. He gave the attorneys Wednesday afternoon to think about it.
Today, attorneys again told Burmila that the prosecution's pattern of mentioning evidence that had not been officially admitted into the trial was irreparably damaging to their client.
Merely throwing out the neighbor's testimony would not "untaint the harm," the attorneys told Burmila.
Burmila, however, denied today's mistrial request. It was the third request for a mistrial in the three-day-old trial.
Today, the trial is expected to get back under way with the prosecution's next witness. They have so far only called Mary and Thomas Pontarelli, neighbors who lived down the street from Savio and were the first to discover her dead in her bathtub.
Savio's death was ruled an accident in 2004, but after Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, went missing in 2007, police exhumed Savio's body and reexamined it. A new forensic pathologist reported that Savio's death was actually a homicide, and Peterson was charged with murder.
Stacy Peterson, whom Drew had already begun dating while still married to Savio, vanished without a trace and has never been heard from or found.
The case against Drew Peterson is expected to hinge on whether Burmila allows certain evidence, including statements Stacy Peterson made about Savio's death, into court record. Stacy Peterson reportedly told her minister that around the time of Savio's death, Drew came home to their house with women's clothing that did not belong to Stacy.
Savio also made statements to her relatives about Peterson's alleged domestic abuse and threats which the prosecution will try to enter into evidence through hearsay testimony.
The legal wrangling over admissibility seen in the first few days of the trial is expected to continue as the prosecution presents its case. Defense attorney Joel Brodsky has told ABC News that he expects Burmila to dismiss the case after the prosecution rests due to a lack of real evidence tying Peterson to Savio's death.
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John Nunn will appear at two Galax book signings this weekend for the Galax history book he co-authored with his sister, Judith Nunn Alley.
Nunn will sign copies of "Galax" at Snickerdoodles from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, 122 S. Main St.; and at Magic Mart on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m., 1077 E. Stuart Drive.
The book includes more than 200 vintage images from the first 50 years of Galax, and is the most recent addition to the popular "Images of America" series from Arcadia Publishing.
The book showcases community events, buildings, people, and businesses from the beginning of the town. It depicts the devastation that fires and floods had on local businesses and discusses organization of Galax's first fire department.
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Thank the good Lord above that it is almost college football time. Asking me to choose my favorite sport, as I have said many times, would be like asking me to choose my favorite kid, if I had any.
Thank the good Lord above that it is almost college football time. Asking me to choose my favorite sport, as I have said many times, would be like asking me to choose my favorite kid, if I had any.
I love every single nuance and aspect of college football, from the pageantry to the playmakers.
Recently, an arrogant, I-think-I-am-better-than-I-really-am coach spouted off at the mouth about two smaller programs holding his big program back.
I�m speaking of West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen in regards to his remarks about in-state rival Marshall and East Carolina.
Holgorsen�s remarks were, �Programs like ECU and Marshall are holding us (WVU) back from being able to feed our players three times a day or from being able to pay them a stipend.�
It did not stop there.
�Why should Marshall be fighting for the same prize as WVU? Why should ECU be fighting for the same prize as UNC? It�s absurd.�
Is it really Dana?
Okay, let�s take West Virginia, which is just as much of a powerhouse as ECU in my mind. Why? Because they both have the same amount of National Championships � zero.
Sure WVU is a bigger school and puts more players in the NFL, but Holgorsen�s comments make him sound ignorant.
ECU Coach Ruffin McNeill�s response was in his classic classy style, �I don�t think that it was a good thing for Dana to say,� McNeill said.
While it is true that in regards to its in-state contemporaries, ECU gets discredited often. Forget the red-headed step-child, ECU is more like that third cousin, twice removed in the minds of Tar Heel and Wolfpack fans.
Let�s take Holgorsen�s comments though. He mentioned UNC and N.C.State, neither of which are powerhouses and have the same number of titles as Holgorsen�s Mountaineers.
ECU has defeated North Carolina twice in 15 games since 1972, and has beaten N.C. State 11 times in 27 contests since 1970.
Last season, Duke won the hypothetical state championship, with wins over UNC and Wake Forest. It should be noted that Duke did not play ECU or N.C.State, but I digress.
My point is that Holgorsen is forgetting what the true definition of a powerhouse program is.
If Notre Dame, Alabama, Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio State, Southern Cal, Penn State, Miami, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, Nebraska, LSU or Florida State want to come out and blast somebody, then okay, that�s another thing. Not West Virginia.
To me, a powerhouse program has to have multiple championships, which is why I do not include Clemson, Oregon and their likes as powerhouses, not yet.
They also are usually competing year-in, year-out for a BCS bowl game, minus a brief drought here and there.
College football is divided into the FCS and FBS. The last time I checked, ECU and Marshall are both in the FBS Mr. Holgorsen.
FBS schools can go to bowl games and those are the schools I consider as schools that should receive stipends, not FCS, Division-II, Division-III and so on.
I can get on my soapbox and rant and rave all I want, but the fact of the matter boils down to this.
West Virginia started 5-0 last season, and finished 7-6. I think that reflects highly on the coaching staff, although Holgorsen just wants to dump the blame on Geno Smith.
If WVU feels like they are above Marshall and ECU, then schedule both schools every season. To back up his claims, if he were to do just that, Holgorsen had better beat them every year too, which I don�t think he can.
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And with this quote of J.R.R. Tolkien – the Fellowship of the Ring, my first blogpost on this wonderful site, about one of the most amazing events in SL starts…!
My name is Caitlin Tobias and I love the Fantasy Faire.
This afternoon (well for me it was afternoon) The Fantasy Faire 2014 opened its many portals to the eleven sims, filled with gorgeous buildings and shops.
As I stood on Sanctum the moment the Faire opened, I watched the people coming in. Some disorientated, some grey, some immediately started running. I smiled and tried to blend in, just being an observer. With a camera.
Then, two little boys came near where I stood – disguised as a statue – and I heard them discussing whether or not take the 'stairway to heaven', a name not invented by me or anyone, but it is what lots of people say when they see it.
And off they went, to the unknown, to the light.
I am sure their journey will be good, and they will not get lost. And maybe one day, they will return from the Fairelands and tell the world about their adventures….Not all those who wander, are lost.
Safe travels and enjoy the Fantasy Faire!
* The two boys are Aleph Ceriaptrix and Pokute Burt – if you see them…say hi!
* My skin, dress and eyes : Lacrimosa by Fallen Gods Inc. on Sanctum
* My wings and hair: Stone Maiden Hair and Stone Wings (large) by Mac Moragh and Muse on Sanctum
* My hands are the Demon Hands by DRD
Pictures shot on Fantasy Faire – Sanctum


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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versão impressa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 no.8 Cape Town Ago. 2012
Is Hahnemann's therapeutic system a mystica?
To the Editor: I refer to the recent editorial by Professor Van Niekerk on traditional healers in which Hahnemann's system, or homeopathic therapeutics (HTS), is termed a 'mystica, a religious belief.1
HTS arose out of therapeutic uncertainty - how to match, akin to a pass word, a therapy with a disease of a particular patient. Hahnemann discovered in 1790 the experimental methodology termed provings, the homeopathic pathogenic trial (HPT), on disagreeing with the Scottish Hippocrates, Cullen, on the action of Peruvian bark. Hahnemann's intuitive ingestion of bark elicited symptoms and signs of malaria, the HPT. Thus, bark induces a mild similar artificial disease which cures the similar severe disease of the patient - the age-old theory, the similarity. During an HPT, knowledge and experience of a medicine's specific actions are elicited via the healthy, linking diagnosis and therapy prior to its clinical application; thus, specific therapeutics (SRx). The similarity as guiding principle means matching an SRx with the disease of the patient to achieve a successful clinical outcome, which links the diagnosis, therapy and outcome,2 approximating therapeutic certainty.
The validity of HTS can be analysed conceptually by the sciences, and the applied sciences. Medicine is an applied science like engineering; however, the social acceptance of science is attributed to its powerful engineering products.
A scientific theory, says Lakatos,3 must have 'positive heuristics'; i.e. 'problem-solving'; e.g. Einstein's general theory of relativity solved the planet Mercury's problematic orbit, while certain theories were verified by 'dramatic confirming instances' and not 'crucial experiments'; e.g. Newton's laws were accepted after Halley's Comet's calculated return 72 years later.3 The high quality of a technology must be designed into it from the outset - it won't work better than originally designed. And, scientific evidence is depicted by, e.g., the first flight of Airbus A380 aircraft, one assembled aircraft - a high-quality product demonstrated outside the laboratory. Furthermore, it is inept to experiment on a mature product.
HTS has 'positive heuristics'. They approximate therapeutic certainty, designed into medicines from the outset, so achieving the aim of the profession - a 'right and good healing action taken in the interest of a particular patient', one patient, achieved not 'fortuitously', otherwise the profession is 'inauthentic and a lie'.4 Its scientific evidence is its clinical successes, its 'confirming instances' or 'anecdotes' in, e.g., cholera epidemics. Nevertheless, HTS can't replace, for example, lignocaine or surgery.
In conclusion, Hahnemann's system isn't a 'mystica', and this letter is based on an article published elsewhere.5,6
Herman Jeggels
MD (VU Ams), MRCP (UK), FBIH (Hon), DHM (Hon)
General Practitioner
1. Van Niekerk JP. Traditional healers formalised? S Afr Med J 2012;102(3):105-106. [ Links ]
2. Ameke W. History of Homoeopathy: Its Origin, Its Conflicts. London: E Gould & Son, 1885. [ Links ]
3. Lakatos I, Feyerabend P. For and Against Method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. [ Links ]
4. Pellegrino E. Toward a reconstruction of medical morality: the primacy of the act of profession and the fact of illness. Med Philos 1979;4(1). [ Links ]
5. Jeggels HJD. An Analysis of the concept scientific evidence of technologies as it relates to NASA's TRLs & technoscience, medicine, and homoeopathic therapeutics, Part 1. The Homoeopathic Heritage 2012;38(1):47-49. [ Links ]
6. Jeggels HJD. An Analysis of the concept scientific evidence of technologies as it relates to NASA's TRLs & technoscience, medicine, and homoeopathic therapeutics, Part 2. The Homoeopathic Heritage 2012;38(2):23-30. [ Links ]


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JAMES MAGNUSSEN'S coach, Brant Best, has defended the nation's swimmers, saying they weren't lacking in heart and some were simply guilty of trying too hard at the London Games.
Two reports released on Tuesday pulled the covers on the dysfunctional state of Swimming Australia before and during the Olympics, highlighting cultural deficiencies, chronic mismanagement and favouritism, among a catalogue of other issues. Some athletes were also accused of bullying, abusing prescription drugs, failing to remain in the stands to cheer on team members and, one report says, drunkenness on the flight home.
Best said there were significant mistakes made leading into London, many of which had been acted on as Australian swimming readied for this year's world titles in Spain and beyond. But he rejected the notion that the swimming squad was full of pampered athletes more interested in showboating and partying than racing.
''These are good kids and hard workers,'' Best said. ''They eat, they sleep and they swim. Most of them hold down part-time or full-time jobs to support that. A couple of them got a little bit carried away. They just went in the wrong direction but they have responded.
''These guys can handle that they didn't swim so well, and they're disappointed. But some of the comments are nasty and personal, and they hurt the kids. They have a big heart and they do care, so when people say they aren't training hard, it matters.''
Central to Best's view is Magnussen, the star sprinter in his stable who was part of a men's 4x100 metres relay team that has become the symbol of Australia's mortality in the London pool. The team was unplaced after emphatically talking up its chances.
Magnussen rebounded to take silver in the 100m freestyle, where he was touched out by American Nathan Adrian by just 0.01 of a second.
His pre-Games swagger, then perceived flop in London, was greeted with waves of criticism, and he took much of the heat for Australia's worst swimming effort since 1976.
''Magnussen's performance in London was because he tried too hard,'' Best said.
''The guy just felt like he let his country down, and that was his primary concern. A selfish person worries about themselves but all he was concerned about was how he'd let everyone down.
''That doesn't come from someone who is selfish and a spoilt brat. That comes from someone who wants to give. Some people got carried away with that.''
Best hasn't put his head in the sand, and said harsh truths had been confronted and significant strides already taken to reform the sport.
He said the nation's leading coaches locked themselves in a room before the Aquatic Super Series meeting in Perth last month to thrash out many of the issues that appeared in the scathing reports.
''We sat down as a group in Perth and talked very, very frankly about the things we thought had been done well and hadn't been done well. We were going to, as a group of coaches, help to lead the sport out of what happened,'' Best said.
''We felt the best teams in the world produce the best individual performances. I think the direction into London was more about individual performances. It's already turned around very quickly.''
After failing to pick up an individual gold in last year's Games, Best said Australia still had the potential to be one of the world's elite swimming nations. But he said future public expectations should be tempered by the fact rivals had invested vast resources in their aquatic programs.
''A lot more money has been poured into swimming by a lot more countries, and they are taking a more professional approach,'' he said. ''Looking at the amount of Australians overseas, we've shared a lot of our knowledge. The English have got their lottery, the French are putting more money in. It's happening all over the world, and people can make more money out of swimming. It is a bigger sport globally, so we've got a lot of competition.
''We've got more people to beat but I still think we've got the coaches and the system in the country to compete. We've got to be changing because if you stay still, you are falling behind.''
He backed Magnussen and Emily Seebohm to emerge from the haze of London and become influential leaders. ''It's up to this next group, some of whom have come off the back of disappointment like Emily and James, who can really help to lead the sport into a new era … There's some disappointment but with that comes fire in the belly.''
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All through my life I have been a fairly contented little chappy (teenage angst years aside), never the life and soul of a party but usually always in a good mood. Other people's opinions never really upset me, even if I held an opposing view. I have worked in bars for 26 years and my personality suited the job well, tolerant of others and blessed with a patience when most would be pulling their hair out. But the last couple of years have seen a change, a mental adjustment of how I see and possibly treat others. I'm not talking about looking for confrontation as I walk by someone on the street or any other extreme behaviour, but instead a slow, gentle erosion of some of the character traits I have always shown. Basically I get really pissed off, really quickly over stuff that has next to no bearing on my life. My patience has gone to be replaced by a sour grump.
I am putting this down to age and the erosion of manners that sometimes you see older people display. It could be quite as easily a product of the online, always connected digital age that we now live in and has produced so many keyboard warriors/critics/trolls but I kind of like the image of the grumpy old man better. By way of proof of my sedated descent into cantankerousness you only need to look at any of my social media feeds (or even this blog) and see the once hopeful and bright posts become almost acidic in their bitterness. My eternal optimism has left the building. I don't go as far as hate or anything that requires energy but rather just get really, really frustrated. These things/people/actions simultaneously get up my nose, on my wick and wind me up.
And what brings out this venom of annoyance? Trivial, mundane bollocks usually. Seldom is it anything that actually matters, for serious life affecting issues I still apply an analytical process (well, I usually do). We are talking issues that have zero bearing on my life, a watch strap for a watch I don't own, or an app for an OS I don't use. You have no idea how much these little insignificant things annoy the life out of me for no reason whatsoever.
I am posting this not as another moan, or even because I feel bad about it. I quite enjoy it at times, it can be fun. No, I am posting this for it's educational value. Most of anyone who might read this will be younger than I am (46 at last count, although I did think there was another year or two on that at one point) so I am simply letting you have a little look at what could be in store for you. A window to the future. Now ask yourself if as a comparative youngster you already have any of these traits, cause if so you're gonna be one miserable old fecker.


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Current Macon County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Stacy Gann will be taking over the reins of the Lafayette Police Department beginning November 19, after City Council members voted to hire Gann as the City's new police chief last Thursday night, November 8.
Henry Behr has been serving as the department's interim police chief since the resignation of former chief Ray Amalfitano on August 31, 2012.
City of Lafayette Mayor Richard Driver stated that there were 11 applicants vying for the Chief position, and that list was narrowed down to five candidates. Each of the five candidates, including Gann, were interviewed, and it was recommended by both the Police Committee and the Personnel Committee that Gann be offered the position.
Gann had these words to say after council members approved the motion to hire him as Chief of Police, Level X:
"I just want to thank you for the opportunity. I don't take the job lightly. I will work hard to make you proud of the department and the employees of the department."
During the regular meeting, Lafayette City Council members honored the Macon County Junior High School 2012 football team and coaches for an outstanding 8-0, season record by adopting a proclamation recognizing their achievements.
"This is something we don't see all of the time, or hear about all of the time, but when it happens it's something that we're very proud of in our community," Mayor Driver stated about the proclamation honoring the team.
Coaches of the team are Nathan Wilson, Anthony Carter and Tim Greenhalgh.
In other business:
· Council members dispensed with the reading of the October 2, 2012 council meeting minutes and the October 29, 2012 special called council meeting minutes.
· Council members adopted the minutes of the October 2, 2012 council meeting and the October 29, 2012 special called council meeting.
· John Poole, City Auditor, discussed the City's 2011/2012 Audit report, stating that there was nothing in the report that concerned him.
· Steve Jones spoke to the council, requesting the City's support in the installation of three radio towers on City property. The towers will be purchased through a $3 million grant for Macon County emergency services that designates a portion of the money to be spent on communications. Council members approved the motion to support the project.
· Chris Ballou, of Mid Tenn Engineering presented a letter of recommendation for a contractor to complete the USDA/Rural Development Phase II water system expansion project. Ballou recommended that low-bidder ($43,917) W & O Construction, out of Livingston, be secured as the project contractor. The council voted to appoint W & O Construction as the project contractor.
· Council members adopted resolution 11-08-2012, a resolution authorizing that Grassroots Planning & Consulting shall prepare all necessary documents for the administration of said project to be paid by the City of Lafayette from the CDBG funds.
· Council members voted to set a meeting with the Public Works Committee to discuss changes to Title 18, Water & Sewer, Chapter 3, sewer use regulations, section 13, sewer fees and charges.
· Ordinance 631, an ordinance to zone newly annexed property owned by Roy & Christine Carter, was adopted on first reading. The property consists of 9.8 acres, to be zoned R-1 low density residential.
· Ordinance 632, an ordinance to zone newly annexed property owned Charles & Julie Caruthers, was adopted on first reading. The property consists of 13.7 acres, to be zoned R-1 low density residential.
· Ordinance 633, an ordinance to zone newly annexed property owned by Betty Hersey, was adopted on first reading. The property consists of 1.62 acres, to be zoned R-1 low density residential.
· Ordinance 634, an ordinance to zone newly annexed property owned by Roger Jent, was adopted on first reading. The property consists of 5 acres, to be zoned R-1 low density residential.
· November annual employee evaluations and possible salary increases were approved by the council. They are as follows: Freddie Fuqua (Gas Dept.), Keith Scruggs (Fire Dept.), Shane Phillips (Sewer Dept.)
· Council members approved the volunteer firemen yearly pay.
· Approval was granted to give full-time City employees a $200 Christmas bonus and part-time City employees a $100 Christmas bonus.
· The council voted to approve the authorization to increase the employee pay scale by 3 percent for cost of living. This increase will only affect the 18 City employees that have topped out on the pay scale and will be effective January 1, 2013.
· Approval was granted for the purchase of a variable speed drive for the water treatment plant.
· Authorization was granted for the City of Lafayette to conduct the annual Christmas Lighting Contest for City residents and businesses. In previous years, the local banks have sponsored the contest and donated the prize money.


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No, Websites Shouldn't Roll Their Own Encryption
from the just-use-ssl dept
Ben Adida calls out Apple for the poor security of its MobileMe web applications and AppleInsider for its misguided defense of Apple's design. Most users know that a special "lock" icon in the corner of their browser is a signal that the contents of the current website is encrypted in transit, protecting it from third-party eavesdropping. Evidently, users of MobileMe have been alarmed that MobileMe applications don't take advantage of this feature, even when sensitive information is being transmitted. Appleinsider says this is no big deal because Apple uses "authenticated handling of JSON data exchanges" to ensure security, and as a result SSL is unnecessary. Moreover, "if Apple applied SSL encryption in the browser, it would only slow down every data exchange without really improving security, and instead only provide pundits with a false sense of security that distracts from real security threats."
As Adida points out, this is way off base. A malicious individual may discover a security hole in the unencrypted part of the site that Apple's engineers didn't think of. Encrypting the entire session, rather than just the parts that Apple thinks are security-sensitive, provides an important extra layer of protection. There's also a more fundamental problem with AppleInsider's argument: without SSL, the user has no real assurances that he's talking to Apple, rather than a third party executing a man-in-the-middle attack (perhaps using a poisoned DNS cache). SSL requires servers to present a certificate signed by a recognized certificate authority in order to prove that it's the website it claims to be. That makes it difficult for a third party to masquerade as a legitimate SSL-encrypted website.
Training ordinary users to follow good security practices is notoriously difficult. Widespread user understanding and acceptance of the "lock" icon in their browsers is arguably the most significant improvement in web security since the web was created. It's extremely counterproductive to undermine use confidence in SSL by telling users to put their faith in Apple's magical homebrew crypto algorithms instead.
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Alessandra Ambrosio Bares Her Midriff For a Shoot | Pictures
Alessandra Ambrosio Flashes Her Abs Posing For Victoria's Secret
Alessandra Ambrosio flaunted her figure for the camera in Venice, CA, yesterday. She posed for her latest Victoria's Secret spread with a wardrobe that showed off her legs and bared her midriff. She even hopped on a beach cruiser to show off her balancing skills as she rode down Abbot Kinney Boulevard in style.
Earlier this month, Alessandra joined her friend, and fellow Victoria's Secret Angel, Gisele Bündchen to support photographer Mario Testino as he unveiled his exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Gisele showed off her baby bump in a black Halston dress and blazer, while Alessandra exposed a little leg in a Versace gown. Before returning to the West Coast, Alessandra also made a trip to NYC to do press supporting the $2.5 million Fantasy Bra she's been selected to wear in the upcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.


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Laos is a country in transition that is enjoying robust economic growth as a result of its exposure to global markets, increased foreign investment in the country's abundant natural resources, and a blossoming tourism industry. At the same time, more than a third of Laos's population continues to live below the global poverty line of U.S. $1.25 PPP a day in a society where most of the population remains dependent on subsistence agriculture. Farming still accounts for 67.6% of total employment, compared with 16.9% of the population who is self-employed and only 15.5% who are wage-earners, according to the World Development Report 2013. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 93% of women who participate in the labor force in Laos are employed in agriculture. Agriculture also still accounts for 29% of Laos' GDP, compared with 19% for industry and 51% for services.
The official Vientiane Capital Region extends over 3,920 km2of which only 6% are occupied by developed areas while 68% are forest areas and 16% paddy fields. With a total population of just over 800,000 people, many settlements in the capital region are still villages. Even within the city of Vientiane itself, good roads are a privilege and residents often times must use dirt roads to access essential services like schools or hospitals.
As this suggests, booming economic development does not automatically translate into improved access to services for the poor. Without a system of social protection, the poor have to rely on friends and relatives in times of economic hardship. This reflects the fact that unskilled farmers working small plots of land face immense difficulties in trying to find a non-agricultural job to supplement their meager incomes.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
In Phonethong Village, located on the outskirts of Vientiane, the capital city, I encountered a woman named Kaum – a mother, farmer, laborer, and factory worker – living at the far end of the village. She and her husband own a small plot of land barely capable of producing a subsidence level output. In order to feed their family, they are forced to spend their nights laboring on other villagers' farms. In addition, Kaum works a number of shifts at a nearby garment factory, earning U.S. $50 every two weeks, or approximately U.S. $3.57 a day. Despite these extra income sources, Kaum and her husband struggle just to feed their family of four, let alone to put their children through school or make capital investments in their farm to increase output.


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Wise Snacks/94.9 The Point Monarch Madness Kicks Off Basketball Season for Men & Women
By ODU Athletics
|The Old Dominion basketball teams unveiled the new Fieldhouse floor at Monarch Madness.
NORFOLK -- Fans in Hampton Roads can get their first look at the Old Dominion University men's and women's basketball teams and the new fieldhouse floor at the annual Wise Snacks/94.9 The Point Monarch Madness on Friday, Oct. 15 beginning at 10 p.m. in the field house. Both teams will be introduced at midnight to be followed by a brief co-ed scrimmage. Admission is free to the public.
The Lady Monarchs return seven letterwinners and three starters from last year's 28-4 "sweet 16" squad that ranked fifth in the final ASSOCIATED PRESS poll. Three returning starters are CAA Tournament MVP Natalie Diaz (5-11,Sr,G, 6.8 ppg), Lucienne Berthieu, the CAA Co-Player and Rookie of the Year (6-2,Jr,F-C, 14.2 ppg/ 8.0 rpg) and CAA All-Tournament pick Hamchetou Maiga (6-1,Jr,F, 6.2 ppg/4.1 rpg).
Last year, the Monarchs were 25-9, reached the finals of the CAA Tournament and the second round of the NIT. The Monarch returnees include: Michael Williams (6-0, Jr, g, 7.6 pg/2.6 apg); CAA All-Tournament selection Andre McCullum (6-6,Jr,F, 9.4 ppg/5.2 rpg); Clifton Jones (6.7 Jr,F-G, 5.5 ppg/4.1 rpg); Skipper Youngblood (6-8,Sr,C, 6.3 ppg/5.0 rpg);Freddie Bryant (6-3,Sr,G, 3.9 ppg);Pierre Greene (6-2,So,g, 3.0 ppg) and Heath Burris (6.4, Jr. ,G, 0.4 ppg). Monarch newcomers include; Charles Dunnington (6-9,Fr.,F) from Washington, DC.; Ricardo Marsh (6-7,Fr,F.) From Mebane, NC.;Aron McMillian (6-9,So,C,) from Greensboro, NC.,Joe Principe (6-9,Fr.,C,) from Gladstone, Mo.), Lamont Sides, (6-2 Jr, G) from High Point, NC.;and Rasheed Wright (6-5,Fr.,F,) from Greensboro, NC.). The Monarchs have reached the finals of the CAA Tournament in three of the last five years.
The first 100 fans will receive a free Monarch Madness t-shirt at the door, and Wise Snack bag. Other activities for the evening will include a couch potato contest (win a free living room set, courtesy of Haynes), a laser tag contest and hula-hoop contest, along with autograph sessions and games for people of all ages.
For more information please call the athletic public relations office at 683-3372 or the ticket office at 683-4444.