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The Phoenix Is Coming For Jean Grey #1
Jean Grey's Time is Up, Her Time Is Now!
It's been a difficult life for Jean Grey. Well, it might be if she doesn't find a way to change her destiny. Trapped in our present, blocked from returning to her past, she's about to find herself fighting off her future. Jean Grey's never had her own solo series before. With the spotlight solely on Marvel Girl in this week's Jean Grey #1 the big question that's going to be raised is can she avoid becoming the Phoenix, and thus turning into the Dark Phoenix that, you know, murders a planet and almost kills all the X-Men then dies repeatedly? (Yeah, I know it's a run on sentence, so's her character history)
Dennis Hopeless is no stranger to Jean Grey, having written young Jean's adventures in All-New X-Men. He's a good fit to chronicle her destiny defying mission. With fellow X-Men franchise artist in tow, Victor Ibanez, there's a lot of possibility for a great coming of age story about denying the inevitable by the will and actions of one person. If the preview pages are to be believed, this Jean Grey is ready to strike out a bit on her own and find her place. Except just when she think she's found some space for change, she's set to experience a vision of the Phoenix Force finding her and fulfilling the deadly fate we've read for decades. Will Jean Grey only fight the future and bring about her destiny? Can she find a way to avoid all that death and dying? We can find out together this week in Jean Grey #1 and take it from there.


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Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, MN. Beginning his reign as singer extraordinaire in the 70's, Princes music is still as popular today as it once was. It's hard to name just one genre of music he made- it varies from arena rock all the way to psychedelic, making him a unique singer. His first ever album, titled "For You" released in March of 1978 and was the spark which ignited his career. Still making music today, Prince is known for many of his songs- the most popular being "Little Red Corvette", "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "When Doves Cry." Grab a pencil and some paper and let's draw his personal logo. :D
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Robur the Conqueror/Chapter XXII
On the following 19th of April, seven months after the unexpected return of Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans, Philadelphia was in a state of unwonted excitement. There were neither elections nor meetings this time. The aerostat Go-Ahead, built by the Weldon Institute, was to take possession of her natural element.
The celebrated Harry W. Tinder, whose name we mentioned at the beginning of this story, had been engaged as aeronaut. He had no assistant, and the only passengers were to be the president and secretary of the Weldon Institute.
Did they not merit such an honor? Did it not come to them appropriately to rise in person to protest against any apparatus that was heavier than air?
During the seven months, however, they had said nothing of their adventures; and even Frycollin had not uttered a whisper of Robur and his wonderful clipper. Probably Uncle Prudent and his friend desired that no question should arise as to the merits of the aeronef, or any other flying machine.
Although the Go-Ahead might not claim the first place among aerial locomotives, they would have nothing to say about the. inventions of other aviators. They believed, and would always believe, that the true atmospheric vehicle was the aerostat, and that to it alone belonged the future.
Besides, he on whom they had been so terribly - and in their idea so justly - avenged, existed no longer. None of those who accompanied him had survived. The secret of the Albatross was buried in the depths of the Pacific!
That Robur had a retreat, an island in the middle of that vast ocean, where he could put into port, was only a hypothesis; and the colleagues reserved to themselves the right of making inquiries on the subject later on. The grand experiment which the Weldon Institute had been preparing for so long was at last to take place. The Go-Ahead was the most perfect type of what had up to then been invented in aerostatic art - she was what an Inflexible or a Formidable is in ships of war.
She possessed all the qualities of a good aerostat. Her dimensions allowed of her rising to the greatest height a balloon could attain; her impermeability enabled her to remain for an indefinite time in the atmosphere; her solidity would defy any dilation of gas or violence of wind or rain; her capacity gave her sufficient ascensional force to lift with all their accessories an electric engine that would communicate to her propellers a power superior to anything yet obtained. The Go-Ahead was of elongated form, so as to facilitate her horizontal displacement. Her car was a platform somewhat like that of the balloon used by Krebs and Renard; and it carried all the necessary outfit, instruments, cables, grapnels, guide-ropes, etc., and the piles and accumulators for the mechanical power. The car had a screw in front, and a screw and rudder behind. But probably the work done by the machines would be very much less than that done by the machines of the Albatross.
The Go-Ahead had been taken to the clearing in Fairmount Park, to the very spot where the aeronef had landed for a few hours.
Her ascensional power was due to the very lightest of gaseous bodies. Ordinary lighting gas possesses an elevating force of about 700 grams for every cubic meter. But hydrogen possesses an ascensional force estimated at 1,100 grams per cubic meter. Pure hydrogen prepared according to the method of the celebrated Henry Gifford filled the enormous balloon. And as the capacity of the Go-Ahead was 40,000 cubic meters, the asdensional power of the gas she contained was 40,000 multiplied by 1,100 or 44,000 kilograms.
On this 29th of April everything was ready. Since eleven o'clock the enormous aerostat had been floating a few feet from the ground ready to rise in mid-air. It was splendid weather and seemed to have been made specially for the experiment, although if the breeze had been stronger the results might have been more conclusive. There had never been any doubt that a balloon could he guided in a calm atmosphere; but to guide it when the atmosphere is in motion is quite another thing; and it is under such circumstances that the experiment should be tried.
But there was no wind today, nor any sign of any. Strange to say, North America on that day omitted to send on to Europe one of those first-class storms which it seems to have in such inexhaustible numbers. A better day could not have been chosen for an aeronautic experiment.
The crowd was immense in Fairmount Park; trains had poured into the Pennsylvania capital sightseers from the neighboring states; industrial and commercial life came to a standstill that the people might troop to the show-master, workmen, women, old men, children, members of Congress, soldiers, magistrates, reporters, white natives and black natives, all were there. We need not stop to describe the excitement, the unaccountable movements, the sudden pushings, which made the mass heave and swell. Nor need we recount the number of cheers which rose from all sides like fireworks when Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans appeared on the platform and hoisted the American colors. Need we say that the majority of the crowd had come from afar not so much to see the Go-Ahead as to gaze on these extraordinary men?
Why two and not three? Why not Frycollin? Because Frycollin thought his campaign in the Albatross sufficient for his fame. He had declined the honor of accompanying his master, and he took no part in the frenzied declamations that greeted the president and secretary of the Weldon Institute.
Of the members of the illustrious assembly not one was absent from the reserved places within the ropes. There were Truck Milnor, Bat T. Fynn, and William T. Forbes with his two daughters on his arm. All had come to affirm by their presence that nothing could separate them from the partisans of "lighter than air."
About twenty minutes past eleven a gun announced the end of the final preparations. The Go-Ahead only waited the signal to start. At twenty-five minutes past eleven the second gun was fired.
The Go-Ahead was about one hundred and fifty feet above the clearing, and was held by a rope. In this way the platform commanded the excited crowd. Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans stood upright and placed their left hands on their hearts, to signify how deeply they were touched by their reception. Then they extended their right hands towards the zenith, to signify that the greatest of known balloons was about to take possession of the supra-terrestrial domain.
A hundred thousand hands were placed in answer on a hundred thousand hearts, and a hundred thousand other hands were lifted to the sky.
The third gun was fired at half-past eleven. "Let go!" shouted Uncle Prudent; and the Go-Ahead rose "majestically" - an adverb consecrated by custom to all aerostatic ascents.
It really was a superb spectacle. It seemed as if a vessel were just launched from the stocks. And was she not a vessel launched into the aerial sea? The Go-Ahead went up in a perfectly vertical line - a proof of the calmness of the atmosphere - and stopped at an altitude of eight hundred feet.
Then she began her horizontal maneuvering. With her screws going she moved to the east at a speed of twelve yards a second. That is the speed of the whale - not an inappropriate comparison, for the balloon was somewhat of the shape of the giant of the northern seas.
A salvo of cheers mounted towards the skillful aeronauts. Then under the influence of her rudder, the Go-Ahead went through all the evolutions that her steersman could give her. She turned in a small circle; she moved forwards and backwards in a way to convince the most refractory disbeliever in the guiding of balloons. And if there had been any disbeliever there he would have been simply annihilated.
But why was there no wind to assist at this magnificent experiment? It was regrettable. Doubtless the spectators would have seen the Go-Ahead unhesitatingly execute all the movements of a sailing-vessel in beating to windward, or of a steamer driving in the wind's eye.
At this moment the acrostat rose a few hundred yards. The maneuver was understood below. Uncle Prudent and his companions were going in search of a breeze in the higher zones, so as to complete the experiment. The system of cellular balloons - analogous to the swimming bladder in fishes - into which could be introduced a certain amount of air by pumping, had provided for this vertical motion. Without throwing out ballast or losing gas the aeronaut was able to rise or sink at his will. Of course there was a valve in the upper hemisphere which would permit of a rapid descent if found necessary. All these contrivances are well known, but they were here fitted in perfection.
The Go-Ahead then rose vertically. Her enormous dimensions gradually grew smaller to the eye, and the necks of the crowd were almost cricked as they gazed into the air. Gradually the whale became a porpoise, and the porpoise became a gudgeon. The ascensional movement did not cease until the Go-Ahead had reached a height of fourteen thousand feet. But the air was so free from mist that she remained clearly visible.
However, she remained over the clearing as if she were a fixture. An immense bell had imprisoned the atmosphere and deprived it of movement; not a breath of wind was there, high or low. The aerostat maneuvered without encountering any resistance, seeming very small owing to the distance, much as if she were being looked at through the wrong end of a telescope.
Suddenly there was a shout among the crowd, a shout followed by a hundred thousand more. AU hands were stretched towards a point on the horizon. That point was the northwest. There in the deep azure appeared a moving body, which was approaching and growing larger. Was it a bird beating with its wings the higher zones of space? Was it an aerolite shooting obliquely through the atmosphere? In any case, its speed was terrific, and it would soon be above the crowd. A suspicion communicated itself electrically to the brains of all on the clearing.
But it seemed as though the Go-Ahead had sighted this strange object. Assuredly it seemed as though she feared some danger, for her speed was increased, and she was going east as fast as she could.
Yes, the crowd saw what it meant! A name uttered by one of the members of the Weldon Institute was repeated by a hundred thousand mouths:
"The Albatross! The Albatross!"


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Yahoo Kicks Off 'Y!ou' Campaign With Random TV Ad
Yahoo unveiled part one of its "Y!ou" campaign Monday, a one-minute commercial known as "Anthem" that's intended to highlight all the things Yahoo can do for you.
This is nothing particularly new, though. Undoubtedly it's difficult to make a compelling ad for a search engine or Web-based e-mail, but this ad never even shows a computer. Instead, it features a diverse crew of models and actors, seemingly having tons of fun while not using technology. Blowing bubbles? Check. Playing soccer? Check? Shooting rose petals out of a gun in the middle of the desert while wearing an evening gown? Check.
Poppy, lighthearted music plays over a voice track that's similarly nebulous. "You are about to enter a place. A place where time and space collide and breed wonder and joy and wow," a woman's voice says. Um, OK?
The commercial ends with the old "Yahoooo!!" catch phrase, but it's no talking dolphin.
The commercial starts airing today in the U.S. today on the major networks, as well as cable channels AMC, ESPN, USA, Comedy Central and Bravo. It will start airing in the UK and India starting October 5, and in other markets in 2010, including Brazil, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, and Taiwan.
The Y!ou campaign will also include online, radio, and print ads, as well as something known as "outdoor creative," Yahoo said.


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Freda Aron was the beloved wife of the late Dr. Richard F. Aron and dear mother of Stan, Len, Cara and Linda. She loved her daughters-in-law, Brenda and Liz, as if they were her own daughters.
Freda was the proud grandmother of Cade (Bari), Victoria, Marisa and Shauna.
Freda was the devoted daughter of Sam and Dora Umansky and a loving sister to Esther, all of who precede her.
She is survived by her cherished and loving sister Millicent.
To experience Freda was to truly experience what was best about life. Freda was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1915.
At the age of 21, Freda moved to Chicago to attend nursing school.
She met and married Richard, had a family and built a life brimming with love, generosity and vitality. If there was an adventure to be had, Freda was up for it.
Freda called herself non-religious, but her actions fit the definition of a truly religious Jew.
After many years of nursing in hospitals and healthcare centers, Freda moved to Utah as a VISTA volunteer, at the age of 75. There she practiced nursing on a Navajo reservation, while turning down many marriage proposals from the local populace.
She then moved to Sitka, AK to volunteer in running a shelter for abused women and children. Freda had a regular radio program in Sitka called 'Frankie and Freda', highlighting the music of one of the other great loves of her life, Frank Sinatra.
Freda's other true passions were writing and politics. Over the years she wrote regularly for The Bugle, The Chicago Tribune, The San Juan Record and The Raven (Sitka, AK).
From the 1950s until recently, Freda wrote articles about her very liberal political views, which she was happy to share with one and all.
Freda had more friends than any person we know. She was constantly in touch with her friends, making each of them feel special. Any friend of our mom felt comfortable to come to her for help or assistance.
Those of us, who are lucky enough to have experienced the experience of Freda, will always be grateful for having known her. Mom, we all loved you…thanks for the ride.
In lieu of flowers and condolence food, the family appreciates donations in her memory, to the charitable organization of your choice.
Private graveside services were February 15 at Jewish Oakridge Cemetery, in Hillside, IL.


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It was the favorite goddess of old Egypt: Bastet stood for fertility and long life and was considered as the people protector against the night dangers. Original: bronze, British Museum, London. 6th century BC.
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Bastet cat with gold earrings
It was the favorite goddess of old Egypt: Bastet stood for fertility and long life and was considered as the people protector against the night dangers. Original: bronze, British Museum, London. 6th century BC.
Hand patinated, metal castings, fine gold-plated earrings. Size: 6 x 14.5 x 11 cm.
Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom (3000 - 2160 B.C.)
Even in the early days, around 3000 B.C., the Egyptian art found its own style. Rules for the representation, that had existed for 3000 years, were set. Text and picture formed a single unit. The beginning of the Old Kingdom, around 2600 B.C., is marked by the emergence of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, the first king's grave in the shape of a pyramid that was 545 x 280 meter tall and built entirely in stone. Relief and painting at that time served almost exclusivelyto to the survival of people in the afterlife.
Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (2155 – 1650 B.C.)
New art that resulted from the Old Kingdom art, that was rich in cultural highlights, arose after the reunification of the country under the rule of King Mentuhotep I in about 2040 B.C. The art of this period reached its peak through the portraits of the late Twelfth-Dynasty Kings Sesostris II and Amenemhet III. During the 13th dynasty and the subsequent domination by Asian invaders (Hyksos Period), the monumental art declined. Small sculptures such as hippos and glazed animal figures made of fired clay represented the hope for regeneration in the afterlife. The preferred burial gift was the scarab, often decorated with the name of the deceased, whose life after death it was intended to secure.
New Kingdom (1550 – 1070 B.C.)
The expulsion of "Hyksos"' was followed by a renewal of the spiritual life and the visual arts. The Temple of Amun in Karnak and impressive Avenue of the Sphinxes were built. Together with the Hatshepsut's Temple Terrace began the construction of a series of royal mortuary temples on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. From the beginning of the Amarna Period and the reign of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) the colossal statues returned to more "human" measures. The king was no longer represented in his sublime divinity, but in his family circle with the symbol of sun rays. After the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and the treasures it contained, we gained a deep insight into the art, culture and everyday life of an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty.
Under the reigns of kings Seti I and Ramses II, with its Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak, The Abu Simbel rock temple and others, Egypt experienced such construction activity that allowed no further increase. In sculpture, the stone was replaced by metal. Large bronze sculptures of the 22nd Dynasty finally segued to fullness of the gods and animal sculptures of the Late Period.
Late Period (712 – 332 B.C.)
During the Late Period of ancient Egyptian history, there was the tendency to imitate older works of art so it is difficult today to distinguish between an original of e.g. the Middle Kingdom and later "repetition" of the work. The way back to the origins was sought in the multispace tombs that emerged during the 26th Dynasty in Thebes. Here, all major religious scriptures of the past has been passed down to posterity.
Graeco-Roman Period (332 B.C. – 395 A.D.)
When in 332 B.C. Alexander the Great managed to expel the Persians from Egypt, he was celebrated as a liberator and was crowned as pharaoh in Memphis. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C., the empire started to collapse because of continuous succession disputes until finally Alexander's general Ptolemy took dominion over Egypt in 305 and founded the dynasty that had remained in power for 300 years.
After the assassination of Ptolemy XIII in 48-47 B.C., his sister Cleopatra VII took over as sole ruler. The Roman general Julius Caesar, who had tried in vain to mediate between Cleopatra and her brother, finally got himself into trouble and was forced to burn the Egyptian fleet, which was anchored in Alexandria. Cleopatra gave birth to Caesar's son and tried to secure his claim to the throne. After Caesar's death, she aligned with Mark Antony, whose victories brought Egypt control over the Middle East for the last time. The clashes with Octavian, the future emperor Augustus, ended with a defeat for Mark Antony in 31 A.D. He went back to Cleopatra and they both committed suicide. Thus Egypt became a province of Rome.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, for bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually it is made of clay or other easily shaped materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Also the contemporary artists, such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz enriched the sculpture with outstanding works.
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PS3 Hacker CJPC has managed to dump the PS3 hypervisor and LV1 and Bootloader LV0 via PS3 RAM. He has provided a brief explanation of what he did and a download file to the exploit can be found in the VIA link:We are happy to report that the PS3 Hypervisor LV1 and Bootloader LV0 are dumped from the PlayStation 3's RAM after getting our SX28 Hardware a few days ago, utilizing code for glitching and mashing buttons for hours - the exploit eventually will get triggered!
We tried a few different ways to dump out the real memory - the biggest "problem" was the fact that you can't just simply use File I/O code in a kernel module. Furthermore, you can't call the lv1_peek function from user mode either.
Luckily, resident DEV kakarotoks was up to the challenge. After some trial and error (and too many PS3 crashes!) he made a kernel module which maps the "real" PS3 memory to a device in /proc. The /proc area lets the kernel and userland interact some.
Basically, the device /proc/ps3_hv_mem is created when the kernel module is inserted. Once it is inserted, you can use dd to read the device. By doing this, the device gets passed arguments, which is passed along to lv1_peek - which in turns reads out the real memory.
Be advised, don't go beyond the PS3's upper memory limit. At around 260MB, the PS3 tends to crash - it does not like trying to read beyond RAM limits! So, for usage:
First, run the exploit, and get it triggered and working - that's the hard part!
Next, download the attached file, inside are three files, a Makefile, the ps3_hv_mem.c and a pre-compiled version. Stick these in a folder, and run make. It will then compile a kernel module for you (ps3_hv_mem.ko, or use the pre-compiled one). Then simply type: sudo insmod ps3_hv_mem.ko
Enter your password and check /proc for a ps3_hv_mem entry, or your dmesg. If it is there - let the dumping begin!
You can dump out the PS3 Hypervisor and Bootloader (and the rest of the real memory) via dd. You can use the command:
dd if=/proc/ps3_hv_mem of=PS3_Memory_Dump.bin bs=1024 count=10K
That command will dump out 10485760 bytes, or about 10MB - which nicely includes the goodies like LV0 and LV1. Finally, you can also increase the count, which will increase the amount dumped (multiply by blocksize).


text: (BPT) - With the cost of college increasing year by year, graduating with a degree that can help land you a high-paying job is ever more important. Recent studies show that 7 out of 10 of the most valuable undergraduate degrees are in engineering, which tells you there is a career and an income waiting for you when you graduate. Unfortunately, a significant gender gap still exists for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. YouTube science star Hank Green and Emerson CMO Kathy Button Bell discuss the challenges and rewards for women pursuing engineering and other STEM-related fields.


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Yokoyama, Keiko (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The growing practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has led to increasing research attention in the literature to the role of CSR strategy. CSR strategy is a concept for maximizing profits or benefits for both society and the company. Studies of CSR strategy during the 1990's and the early 2000's were mainly limited to examining the concept of CSR, and merely discussed the needs and importance of the strategic development of CSR. Recently, strategy researchers have proposed more specific CSR strategies by applying their knowledge of strategic management. This paper first summarizes these CSR strategy studies and then proposes an approach to CSR strategy from a new perspective. This paper also identifies issues that a company may face when implementing CSR and suggests approaches to CSR strategy to overcome these issues. To overcome the CSR issues, the paper discusses (1) a framework for recognizing the contribution that CSR activity makes to corporate performance, and (2) approaches to CSR strategy for resolving tradeoffs inherent to the CSR activity. This paper proposes that a company design its CSR activity so that it expands the company's stakeholders, resources and capabilities. Secondly, because the impact of CSR activity occurs both through external factors, such as legitimacy and reputation, and through internal factors, such as implementation and learning, efforts to stimulate the processes are discussed. Lastly, based on the above considerations, the outcome of CSR, corporate performance and the resolution of tradeoffs inherent to CSR are further examined. This paper concludes by pointing out that, from the perspective of CSR strategy, it is most important for a company to implement CSR activity regarding it as a social business, based on a careful review of its core business. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7124
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7121
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Abstract: Over the past decade product service systems (PSS) study has established itself as a research field. Most recently scholars have occupied themselves with the design and implementation of product service systems, which they posit help reduce environmental and economic inefficiencies. However, extant literature leaves open the question why such inefficiencies exist in the first place. This paper proposes opportunistic behaviour, bounded rationality, and asymmetric information as possible explanations for the existence of the inefficiencies discussed by PSS scholars. It continues by exploring five types of property rights and the role they can play in increasing eco-efficiency. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7123
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The Relation Between Policies concerning Corporate Social Responsibility and Philosophical Moral TheoriesAn Empirical InvestigationFrederiksen, Claus S. (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the relation between policies concerning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and philosophical moral theories. The objective is to determine which moral theories form the basis for CSR policies. Are they based on ethical egoism, libertarianism, utilitarianism or some kind of common-sense morality? To address this issue, I conducted an empirical investigation examining the relation between moral theories and CSR policies, in companies engaged in CSR. Based on the empirical data I collected, I start by suggesting some normative arguments used by the respondents. Secondly, I suggest that these moral arguments implicitly rely on some specific moral principles, which I characterise. Thirdly, on the basis of these moral principles, I suggest the moral theories upon which the CSR policies are built. Previous empirical studies examining the relation between philosophical moral theories and the ethical content of business activities have mainly concentrated on the ethical decision-making of managers. Some of the most prominent investigations in that regard propose that managers mainly act in accordance with utilitarian moral theory (Fritzsche and Becker, 1984; Premeaux and Mony, 1993; Premeaux, 2004). I conclude that CSR policies are not based on utilitarian thinking, but instead on some kind of common-sense morality. The ethical foundation of companies engaged in CSR thus does not mirror the ethical foundation of managers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7822
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Theory and Practice of Stakeholder Engagement in ScandinaviaStrand, Robert; Freeman, R. Edward (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this article we clarify the historical roots of stakeholder theory to establish that a much larger role was played by Scandinavian thinkers in its development than is currently acknowledged. We show that important contributions to the stakeholder concept were being made by Eric Rhenman and his Scandinavian contemporaries in parallel to the contributions from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the early 1960s and thereafter and thus are not a "historical trail" as they are currently labeled. Therefore we offer a significant modification to the historical narrative as presented in Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Freeman, 1984). These important Scandinavian contributions include the first publication and description of the expression "stakeholder" in management literature accessible to scholars throughout the world and the introduction of the first stakeholder map to the management literature. We use this occasion to consider potential relationships between these early Scandinavian contributions to the stakeholder concept with current practices of well-known Scandinavian companies. Through this we contend the evidence suggests relationships worthy of further considerations. We conclude by endorsing the expression "Scandinavian cooperative advantage" through which we intend to provoke increased attention from beyond Scandinavia. Cooperation between companies and their stakeholders is increasingly recognized as necessary for the social and environmental sustainability of world and the long-term profitability of companies where we contend inspiration for such cooperation may be prosperously drawn from Scandinavia. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8657
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Toward a Theory of Scandinavian Cooperative AdvantageStrand, Robert (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Whereas strategic management in the U.S. has traditionally focused on competition and a competitive advantage, Scandinavian strategic management has long centered on effective cooperation. In light of recent calls in the U.S. to shift toward cooperation to realize opportunities for shared value creation and address sustainability challenges, the Scandinavian context can effectively serve as an inspiration for this shift. We conduct our exploration with two interrelated objectives: to increase awareness of the Scandinavian cooperative approach and encourage practitioner and researcher inquiry, and to provide a stepping stone to a more thorough research agenda on cooperation in the Scandinavian context. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9464
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Vetterlein, Antje; Brown, Dana; Roemer-Mahler, Anne (København, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: An increasing number of firms are engaging in social and environmental initiatives beyond their core business activities. While much has been written on the question of why business should be spending resources on social and environmental causes, relatively few studies have systematically addressed the question of why companies actually do engage in such activities. A notable exception is literature on the 'business case' for corporate social responsibility, which argues that good social and environmental performance will positively affect a company's financial results. Empirical evidence, however, has failed to prove this. Moreover, even if there is an economic rationale, it is not clear why some companies engage in social activities while others do not. And, why do many more companies today 'see' the business case than in the past? Our paper attempts to conceptualise the motives of companies to engage or not to engage in such activities. Drawing on theories from Management Studies, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, we suggest modifying the notion of the business case by opening the black box of the corporation's identity as a social actor. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7337
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Roseberry, Lynn (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a strategy for applying discourse analysis to the debate concerning the legal status of Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR"). In the 1990s activists concerned with corporate involvement in activities that harm workers and the environment encouraged corporations to adopt voluntary initiatives, which have come to be known as CSR policies or corporate codes of conduct. Roughly ten years later NGOs like Christian Aid, which at first was a strong proponent of voluntary corporate codes of conduct, have begun calling for a greater emphasis on law and accountability mechanisms. Trade unions especially have expressed deep scepticism of the idea of CSR initiatives and the attendant industry that has grown up around them. The trade union movement criticises CSR initiatives for being a strategy to avoid regulation and trade unions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7119
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The Beer Babe
Allagash taps into Beer Camp with Myron's Walk collaboration
On Friday, Sierra Nevada's "Beer Camp" will make it's fifth stop on a seven-stop national tour in Portland. In support of the epic even, Sierra Nevada produced a 12-pack of collaboration brews with different breweries, one of which is our own Allagash. Read on
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Is ginger the new black? Ginger-flavored beers sneak into summertime
When I think of ginger, I don't normally immediately think of beer - but it makes for a refreshing break and goes great with food. Read on
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What is Portland drinking? Bier Cellar Top 5
If you want to know what beers Portland locals are bringing home to drink, you don't have to go any further than to ask Greg Norton, owner of Bier Cellar in Portland. Read on
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Maine Craft Beer Road Trip: Midcoast
A craft beer road trip up the midcoast, with stops in Rockland, Belfast, Newcastle and Boothbay. This trip features four breweries tucked in scenic settings just waiting for you to visit. Read on
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Noshbow takes over the block
This Sunday Nosh + Oxbow join forces to host a unique outdoor neighborhood block party. "Noshbow" will be taking over the street adjacent to Nosh Kitchen Bar, and will feature bands playing throughout the day, food trucks for tasty treats, and, of course, Oxbow beer. Read on
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Beer ahoy! Dogfish Head brewer sailing in for a 'Moveable Feast'
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has a proudly-earned reputation of being "off centered" and is now setting off on a journey to raise funds for The Nature Conservancy - stopping along the way to host a series of beer dinners and visit Nature Conservancy sites. Read on
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Maine craft beer road trip: Go west!
Like the pioneers before us, there is some unknown territory to the west and south - along with some scenic drives through some more of the open spaces in Maine. On this trip, I decided to hit several breweries that I had never visited, despite them being not too far out of reach than others more familiar to me. Read on
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The King's Head opens with interesting, hard-to-find beers
Friday was a night that I just couldn't let myself stay home. The sea breeze was a perfect compliment to the nice weather, and the city of Portland seemed like it was buzzing with anticipation for the weekend's events. From an online tip, I had heard that there was a new bar opening up - The King's Head - and felt motivated to take a walk to go and check it out. Read on
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – "Prince Tuesday" Release Saturday
This Saturday, there's a beer release going on that you shouldn't miss. The beer is Prince Tuesday - a collaboration beer brewed by Allagash Brewing Company, Maine Beer Company and Rising Tide Brewing. Named after the character from Mr. Rogers, the beer captures the neighborly spirit from when the three breweries used to be literally neighbors on Industrial Way. I'll see you there, neighbors! Read on
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Daughters of Poseidon collaboration brings together brewers, oysters
An event at Baxter Brewing featured the release of Daughters of Poseidon, a collaboration with DC Brau - a relatively young brewery in the Washington DC area. When planning the beer, the brewers were both looking for ingredients local to their respective breweries. The answer? Oysters. Read on


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The new application is called "Memory songs". One of the biggest features is that once the user input his/her birthday, it can show up a list of hit songs according to the age bracket between the birthday and the year 2010. With this function, users can look back on hit songs of his/her younger age. With a touch on the list, the application forms a list of songs that can be replayed on YouTube and likewise by this application. The song data is so vast: it contains more than 4,000 hit songs from 1920 to 2010 and more than 90% of them are audible via this application.
Also, various visuals related with the hit songs of each year appear one by one on the lower part of the screen, so that users can immerse themselves in their fond memories. This application is customized for users in the US, adapting a hot-selling application "Omoide (memory) Songs", which ranked No.3 on the overall ranking in the Japanese "App Store" chart with a superb record of more than 40,000 sales! Of course, the song list is also customized for users in the US.
In Japan, "Omoide (memory) songs" has won rave reviews from users of all ages ranging from collage students in 20's to old ladies in 80's. I would really be happy if we could share the please of finding songs with sweet memories and of indulging in reminiscence along with those songs.
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New Catholic Dictionary – Saint Catherine of Siena
Virgin, born Siena, Italy, 1347; died Rome, Italy, 1380. From her earliest childhood she began to see visions and practise extreme austerities; at 16 she joined the Dominican Tertiaries; and in 1366 she underwent the mystical experience known as the "spiritual espousals." She then began her labor of caring for the sick, coming into close contact with those suffering from revolting diseases. She became the adviser of the rulers of Church and State, effected the pope's return from Avignon, 1376, and brought about a reconciliation between Florence and the Holy See, 1378. During the Great Schism she favored Urban VI, and worked untiringly for the reform of the Church. Patroness of fire prevention. Emblems: a ring, cross, the stigmata, lily. Canonized, 1461. Feast, Roman Calendar, 30 April.
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Today concludes the KSP's Pacasmayo Peru Kite Surf Pro with the official awards ceremony taking place at 6 p.m. (PET) at El Faro Adventure Resort, Pacasmayo. Dominating this leg of the World Championships, the Brazilians earned three spots on the podium.
Congregating at the world's longest kite surfing wave on the planet, the world's top 36 kite surfers came together in the northern Peruvian city of Pacasmayo for the second stop of the KSP World Championship Kite Surfing Tour.
Following four days of marginal wind and waves, the action kicked off on October 23 — mid-way through the 10-day holding period. As the surf began firing at four- to seven-feet, 24 men and 12 women from 15 different countries duked it out over the following three days for the coveted tour stop title.
Two days of competition boiled the men's field down to the final eight riders, where ultimately, seasoned veteran Sky Solbach (USA) faced 19-year-old Filippe Ferreira (Brazil) for third place, and Airton Cozzolino (Italy) — who won the Mauritius One Eye Pro in September — squared off with reigning Kite Surfing World Champion Guilly Brandao (Brazil) for first place. Ferreira beat out Solbach by a slim margin of .47 points (out of 20), while Brandao earned the highest score of the whole competition (17) and secured the Pacasmayo Peru Kite Surf Pro title.
On the women's front, Kelly Strachan (USA) faced off with three-time Kite Surfing World Champion Kirsty Jones (United Kingdom) for third place, and Ines Correia (Portugal) met the Brazilian powerhouse Milla Knesse-Ferreira for first place. Jones beat Strachan by 3.7 points, while Knesse-Ferreira bested Correia by more than five points.
With two of three tour stops complete, the Europeans hold a majority of top-three Overall World Championship Rankings, as Airton Cozzolino (Italy) currently leads the men's pack, and Ines Correia (Portugal), Marie Gautron (France) and Kristin Boese (Germany) hold down first, second and third places in the women's division.
Live-streamed online, the event featured live scoring and chat as well.. Follow the KSP World Championship Tour on Facebook at www.facebook.com/KSPworldtour or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KSPworldtour.
The third and final leg of the KSP 2011 World Championship Kite Surfing Tour — the Ponta Preta Kite Surf Pro — will run from December 2 to 11 in Ponta Preta, Cape Verde, where the esteemed 2011 Kite Surfing World Champions will be crowned.
RESULTS — 2011 KSP Pacasmayo Peru Kite Surf Pro
1st place: Guilly Brandao (BRA)
2nd place: Airton Cozzolino (ITA)
3rd place: Filippe Ferreira (BRA)
4th place: Sky Solbach (USA)
5th place: Etienne Lhote (FRA), Mauricio Pedreira (BRA), Mitu Monteiro (CBV), Sebastian Ribeiro (BRA)
9th place: Jesse Richman (USA), Juan Pablo Diban (CHI), Lee Harvey (GBR), Patri McLaughlin (USA)
13th place: Bruno Bordovsky (BRA), Jacobo Said (PER), Jeremie Eloy (FRA), Juan Antonio Gordillo (PER)
17th place: Bastien Bollard (FRA), Bear Karry (USA), Libero Cozzolino (ITA), Mark Moore (CAN), Nuno Figueiredo (POR), Octavio Chaine (ARG), Paulo Rios (PER), Scott Peterson (USA)
1st place: Milla Knesse-Ferreira (BRA)
2nd place: Ines Correia (POR)
3rd place: Kirsty Jones (GBR)
4th place: Kelly Strachan (USA)
5th place: Adriana Harlan (USA), Kristin Boese (GER)
7th place: Marie Gautron (FRA), Melissa Gil (USA)
9th place: Celina Guardati (ARG), Erika Lindberg (SWE), Laurel Eastman (USA), Maayke Tadema (NED)
For the current 2011 World Championship Rankings (after two of three events), please visit kspworldtour.com/2011-rankings.


text: Washington - When US environment chief Gina McCarthy talked about cutting climate-warming carbon emissions on Friday, she offered a translation for those unfamiliar with the dropped "R" of her thick Boston accent."I should make sure that everybody knows that when I say cahbon, it's c-a-r-b-o-n," McCarthy told a standing-room-only gathering at the National Press Club in Washington.As the chuckles subsided, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who was sworn into office in July, added, "I'll be talking about cahs later too, which is c-a-r."McCarthy's self-deprecating humour is a new asset in the Obama administration's push to sell its climate plan - in Friday's case, regulations that will use the Clean Air Act to severely limit greenhouse gas emissions from yet-to-be-built power plants.She also emphasised, for the second time this week, that the climate policies do not add up to a "war on coal", a persistent charge from many Republican lawmakers, Democrats from energy-producing states and many in the fossil fuels industry.Public health"Cutting climate change just makes good business sense," McCarthy said. She added that "setting fair Clean Air Act standards does not cause the sky to fall".Beyond the business case, McCarthy cited links between a changing, warming climate and risks to public health and safety from smoggy air, with lower income and urban communities particularly at risk.McCarthy became emotional at times when she discussed the health problems caused by smog, such as the life-threatening Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) that afflicts Daniel Dolan-Laughlin, a retired railroad executive from Wheaton, Illinois."Daniel's health has improved significantly after he received a double lung transplant," she said. "Last year Daniel came to EPA to tell his story. He made a specific plea: He asked us to act on climate change."McCarthy's down-to-earth communications style has been on display for three days in Washington as part of a very public rollout of the carbon-cutting regulations.On Wednesday, she faced pointed questions from Republicans on the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce at a hearing to examine current and future regulations which it said cost $22bn this year.At that hearing, McCarthy parried questions about whether the proposed regulations would be so tough that they would effectively prevent new power plant construction.McCarthy sat for interviews with publications ranging from the mainstream - the Washington Post - to the partisan - Grist, an environmental news and commentary website. Her speech to the National Press Club was carried live on C-SPAN.McCarthy's path to this spotlight has been a bumpy one.Confirmed after more than four months of partisan wrangling, she came to the job after overseeing rules on mercury and soot pollution as EPA's top air official.Before coming to the federal agency, McCarthy earned bipartisan stripes as the top environmental regulator in Massachusetts and Connecticut under Democratic and Republican governors.She was the environmental policy adviser to then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.


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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Kevin Correia made his return to the rotation an impressive one Wednesday by giving up four hits in six innings and bringing Pittsburgh a 6-3 win over Houston.
Three of Correia's last four appearances had come out of the bull pen, but he was given the start Wednesday when Jeff Karstens was unable to take his turn due to a hip injury.
Correia (10-8) allowed the Astros one run and was lifted after throwing only 67 pitches.
The Pirates won their second in a row to climb with a game of the second wild card spot in the National League. Houston moved within five losses of reaching 100 for the season.
Pittsburgh built a 5-1 lead through four innings and moved in front for good on RBI singles from Garrett Jones and Gaby Sanchez in the first.
Brock Holt drove in two Pittsburgh runs with an infield single in the second and a sacrifice fly in the fourth.
The last two Houston runs came on a two-out, ninth-inning homer by Brandon Laird off Jason Grilli. It was the first career homer for Laird, who was obtained by Houston this week off waivers from the New York Yankees and was playing in his 13th major league game.
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Plants in Zero-G
Growing plants
in the weightless environment of an orbiting spacecraft is much
harder than meets the eye. Having a supply of tomato and basil seeds
I tried my hand at growing them with results proving that it is
not as easy as the first time I tried this for science class in
second grade. I do not have the necessary ingredients to grow healthy
plants to fruition. We have no dirt on space station. I have no
soil or soil substitute and no fertilizer to supply the necessary
macro and micronutrients throughhydroponics. However, it is possible
to investigate sprouting where the new plant structures live off
the nutrients from their seed starch. The best I could expect is
to have healthy seedlings for a few days and then have them turn
yellow, wither, and die as they starve for the lack of potassium,
fixed nitrogen compounds, and all the other micronutrients. With
this end in mind, I set out to construct a 0g sprouter.
Lacking soil,
you need some sort of substrate that will retain both seeds and
water. I considered using an old shirt or sock but decided the Russian
supplied toilet paper was best. This toilet paper is not like what
you normally think of as toilet paper. It consisted of two layers
of coarsely woven gauze, 4 by 6 inches in dimension sewn together
at the edges with a layer of brown tissue sandwiched in-between.
It works very well for its intended purpose. It also makes a wonderful
sprouter. It retains water well and the seeds can be anchored under
the gauze weft.
My first thoughts
were to arrange the seeds in little rows on the rectilinear squares
of toilet paper. Only then did it occur to me that being on space
station could offer new possibilities. Why not a spherical planter?
Every direction is the same as the rest and a sphere would offer
some interesting possibilities. The limited lighting, both from
window and artificial sources, can be shared by the spherical surface
if the sphere is attached to a string and allowed to freely rotate
in the air currents. It will then be constantly moving and bobbing
around like a helium balloon on a string and thus share the lighting
with all its surfaces. The plants can enjoy the 1/R^2 potential
given by spherical geometry. A spherical geometry gives increasing
surface area as the plants radially expand, surface area needed
for leaves and photosynthesis. They will not have to partake in
foliage fights like plants do when grown on a rectilinear flat plane
where surface area for foliage becomes limited as the plants grow
upwards. It also allows one small spherical volume in which to circulate
hydroponics via capillary action. A spherical geometry for growing
plants in limited volume makes good sense if you have weightlessness.
To construct
my planter, a spherical core is needed. An old pair of underwear
worked well. We have supplies on station sufficient to change our
underwear perhaps once every three to four days so I figured there
might be a few nutrients in there as well. An old pair of underwear
was folded into a sphere and held in place with a few well-placed
stitches using needle and thread from our sewing kit. The toilet
paper was sewn to the outer surface. A drinking straw was sewn so
that its opening was in contact with the fabric and could thus be
connected to a drink bag to provide a continuous water drip via
capillary action. Seeds were planted with a pair of tweezers by
carefully working each seed between the weft of the gauze. The sphere
was initially watered and then attached to the water bag by a long
thin plastic tube, which also functioned as a string and hung by
a light in the node. It bobbed around in the air currents.
I became concerned,
when after a few days, no sign of sprouting had occurred. The water
bag was working well in keeping the sphere moist and was consuming
about 100 ml a day. I touched the sphere. It was cold. The cabin
air temperature was warm at 28 degrees centigrade. I measured the
sphere at 18 C. Evaporative cooling was acting like a refrigerator
and slowing germination. A plastic enclosure was constructed out
of plastic bags that made the planter sphere into a miniature greenhouse.
A few holes were poked through the side for ventilation just like
you did in the jar lid when you were in second grade. The plastic
enclosure slowed the rate of evaporation and resulted in temperatures
around 30 C. Within two days there were sprouts. However, not all
was well on the planter sphere.
Gravity plays
an important role in sending roots down and stems up. Without gravity,
every direction is the same. Roots and stems were exiting the seed
and growing in any direction within the plane of the spherical surface.
The lighting provided an outward growing cue however its effects
were small compared to the effects of capillary forces. Capillary
forces, subtle in nature and derived from the water interface on
the damp layers of gauze, convinced the sprouts to ignore the outward
direction of the light and to grow in the surface plane of the sphere.
Each sprout had deployed its cotyledons, two miniature leaves that
jump-start photosynthesis and provide for the growth of its real
leaves. Cotyledons are the drogue chute equivalent before the main
canopy is deployed in a parachute system. The capillary forces were
overpowering the effect from the outward direction of light. Without
gravity's direction, it was as if the sprouts were lazy and decided
to give into the subtle capillary forces instead of standing upright
to light's beckoning.
The cotyledons,
constantly covered with a warm layer of water, rapidly molded and
withered. Without a drogue chute, the main canopy will not deploy
and you will have a hard landing. Without cotyledons, the sprouts
died. It is imperative to make the sprouting leaves grow through
the water film as quickly as possible, thus surrounding them with
fresh air.
It was too
late to save this batch of sprouts so a new batch was started. This
time, as each sprout deployed its cotyledons they were carefully
pulled by hand out from the grips of surface tension and allowed
to freely spread their leaves in the surrounding air. This batch
of sprouts did as well as you could expect having only their starchy
seedpod as a source of nutrients. After an inch or so of growth
with budding main leaves forming, they turned yellow and died. When
you live inside of a metal can filled with machines and electronics,
a small splash of growing green is a pleasant reminder from where
we came; we all have our roots. I could not help but feel a small
sadness for these living creatures that were giving me so much delight
while I was powerless to help them grow strong.
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Can't wait for this show!
I think to fairly review this show, we need to forget about TAR. If we constantly compare EI to TAR, in the end TAR will win. TAR has has 18 seasons to perfect it's formula. EI has had 1. Of course TAR will have a better opening segment, they have had 18 tries at it. Good Things About EI-Challenges are creative, and add a nice mental aspect to a very physical show-Teams of three add more minds and more opinons. Expect alot of 2 vs.1 action.Not So Good Things About EI-Editing is awful. With 13 teams and 6 challenges, it's hard to keep track. I thought Latin Persuasion was really far behind. Suddenly, they are right behind Mom's Army. WHAT!-Besides challenges, watching people hike & rappel is really no fun.-No opprtunity for teams to pass another.-Poor challenge design. The find water idea was great, but everyone mooched off of Fab 3's hole.I'm excited to see what happens next. Winner Prediction: Fab 3.
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The New York Times endorsed an end to the "prohibition" of marijuana with a new editorial Saturday night that features the stars on the American flag being transformed into green marijuana leaves as readers scroll down.
"It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished," the editors wrote. "The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana."
The Times was so excited about its new policy endorsement that the company fired off a press release to trumpet the editorial and an upcoming series of articles by the editorial board that will look at how to create "systems for regulating manufacture, sale, and marketing" the drug.
In a statement, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal said he wanted readers to have a "personal approach" while engaging the topic of marijuana legalization with his paper.
"[W]ith this series of editorials, we wanted to deepen that engagement with a more personal approach," said Rosenthal. "These signed editorials explore a variety of issues critical to the national conversation about marijuana. We will continue to experiment in the future on different ways to use the power of the unsigned editorial, along with new and different ways to signal the author of other editorial articles."
Not everyone at the Times is fully on the legalization bandwagon, however. Columnist Maureen Dowd recently wrote about her trip to Colorado, one of two states that have legalized the drug, and had a terrifying experience after eating a marijuana candy bar.
Update (9:25 p.m.): Dowd's views on marijuana legalization are apparently more complicated.


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GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A study found doctors in several countries do not wash their hands properly 40 percent of the time, World Health Organization officials in Switzerland say.
Nurses had the highest compliance rates at 71 percent across all sites -- at 43 hospitals in Costa Rica, Italy, Mali, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- before the intervention and after the intervention.
The intervention, the WHO Clean Care is Safer Care Program, explains to doctors, nurses and all those working with patients that hand hygiene should be performed at five key moments, preferably by using an alcohol-based rub or by hand washing with soap and water if hands are visibly dirty.
The five moments for hand hygiene are:
-- Before touching a patient.
-- Before clean and aseptic procedures such as inserting devices into the body such as catheters.
-- After contact with body fluids.
-- After touching a patient.
-- After touching patient surroundings.
Healthcare-associated and hospital-acquired infections usually occur when germs are transferred by healthcare providers' hands touching the patient. The most common infections are urinary tract and surgical site infections, pneumonia and infections of the bloodstream. They are often caused by multi-drug resistant germs such as methicillin-resistant S. aureus.
Of every 100 hospitalized patients, at least seven in developed and 10 in developing countries will acquire a healthcare-associated infection.
However, among critically ill and vulnerable patients in intensive care units, that figure rises to about 30 per 100. Practicing good hand hygiene during healthcare reduces the risk of these infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance, the study said.
"WHO's hand hygiene improvement strategy is recommended by both the U.S. and European Centers for Disease Control, the Joint Commission International and accredited bodies, and almost all professional organizations worldwide," Didier Pittet, the study's senior author and director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals, said in a statement.
From December 2006 to December 2008, compliance with best practices increased from 51 percent before the study to 67 percent.
The findings were published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.


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Church: Baseball needs to give Pete Rose a 'second chance'
Former Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's all-time hit leader, is scheduled to make an appearance at Christ's Church of the Valley in Philadelphia later this month, according to the church's website.
COLUMN:Rose defies easy answers
Rose, who played for the Phillies from 1979 to 1983, is set to appear live and be interviewed by Senior Pastor Brian Jones during services at 9:00, 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. on March 30. Rose is scheduled to appear at Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati later that night for an Evening with Pete Rose.
BONDS:What to make of MLB return
More from the post on the church's website:
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Rose's banishment from the game as well as the 10th anniversary of his admission of guilt. Yet, while players who took performance-enhancing drugs have been welcomed back to the game, Pete still remains an outcast. As someone who preaches weekly about the need for "second chances," Brian Jones believes that it's time Pete was offered one.
"We've all made decisions we wish we could take back. When we make mistakes there are consequences for our actions. Pete Rose is somebody who has admitted his mistake, has come clean with what he did, and I truly believe his debt has been paid," said Jones. "It's time for baseball to give Pete Rose a second chance."
Rose is on the cover of this week's issue of Sports Illustrated. Earlier this week, Cincinnati Enquirer columnist John Erardi wrote a story about Rose and the latest book about him, Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, by Sports Illustrated's Kostya Kennedy, coinciding with the SI cover and released 25 years after baseball launched the investigation that ended with Rose accepting a lifetime ban.
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TotalView is a debugger and memory leak detector for high performance Linux and MAC OS/X platforms.
Versions and Availability
Softenv Keys for totalview on supermike2
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The information here is applicable to LSU HPC and LONI systems.
A user may choose between using /bin/bash and /bin/tcsh. Details about each shell follows.
System resource file: /etc/profile
When one access the shell, the following user files are read in if they exist (in order):
- ~/.bash_profile (anything sent to STDOUT or STDERR will cause things like rsync to break)
- ~/.bashrc (interactive login only)
- ~/.profile
When a user logs out of an interactive session, the file ~/.bash_logout is executed if it exists.
The default value of the environmental variable, PATH, is set automatically using SoftEnv. See below for more information.
The file ~/.cshrc is used to customize the user's environment if his login shell is /bin/tcsh.
SoftEnv is a utility that is supposed to help users manage complex user environments with potentially conflicting application versions and libraries.
System Default Path
When a user logs in, the system /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc (depending on login shell, and mirrored from csm:/cfmroot/etc/profile) calls /usr/local/packages/softenv-1.6.2/bin/use.softenv.sh to set up the default path via the SoftEnv database.
SoftEnv looks for a user's ~/.soft file and updates the variables and paths accordingly.
Viewing Available Packages
The command softenv will provide a list of available packages. The listing will look something like:
$ softenv These are the macros available: * @default These are the keywords explicitly available: +amber-8 Applications: 'Amber', version: 8 Amber is a +apache-ant-1.6.5 Ant, Java based XML make system version: 1.6. +charm-5.9 Applications: 'Charm++', version: 5.9 Charm++ +default this is the default environment...nukes /etc/ +essl-4.2 Libraries: 'ESSL', version: 4.2 ESSL is a sta +gaussian-03 Applications: 'Gaussian', version: 03 Gaussia ... some stuff deleted ...
Managing SoftEnv
The file ~/.soft in the user's home directory is where the different packages are managed. Add the +keyword into your .soft file. For instance, ff one wants to add the Amber Molecular Dynamics package into their environment, the end of the .soft file should look like this:
To update the environment after modifying this file, one simply uses the resoft command:
% resoft
The command soft can be used to manipulate the environment from the command line. It takes the form:
$ soft add/delete +keyword
Using this method of adding or removing keywords requires the user to pay attention to possible order dependencies. That is, best results require the user to remove keywords in the reverse order in which they were added. It is handy to test out individual keys, but can lead to trouble if changing multiple keys. Changing the .soft file and issuing the resoft is the recommended way of dealing with multiple changes.
- Compile programs with debugging enabled and optimizations turned off: -O0 -g
- Request an interactive session, for example:
$ qsub -I -X -V -l walltime=4:00:00,nodes=2:ppn=8 -A allocation -q checkpt
$ mpirun_rsh -tv -np
Here is a list of some commonly used command line options:
- -a
- Pass all subsequent arguments (specified by
) to your program. This option must be the last one on the command line.
- -dbfork
- (Default) Catches the fork(), vfork(), and execve() system calls if your executable is linked with the dbfork library.
- -e
- Tells TotalView to immediately execute the CLI commands
named within this argument. All information you enter here is
sent directly to the CLI's Tcl interpreter. More than one -e
option is allowed per line. For example, the following writes
a string to stdout:
cli -e 'puts hello'
- -patch_area_base address
- Allocates the patch space dynamically at the given address. See "Allocating Patch Space for Compiled Expressions " in Chapter 14 of the TotalView Users Guide.
- -patch_area_length length
- Sets the length of the dynamically allocated patch space to the specified length. See "Allocating Patch Space for Compiled Expressions" in the TotalView Users Guide.
- -pid
- Tells TotalView to attach to process
after it starts executing.
- -remote
- Debugs an executable that is not running on the same machine as TotalView. For more information on the autolaunch feature, see "Setting Single Process Server Launch" in the TotalView Users Guide.
- -r
- Same as -remote.
- -s
- Specifies the path name of a startup file that will be loaded and executed.
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ROME/MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's central bank on Saturday gave its approval to a request by scandal hit bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena for 3.9 billion euros ($5.3 billion) of state loans, the latest step in the battle to revive the ailing bank.
The Bank of Italy's backing was the final stage required to free up the financial help for Italy's third biggest lender, which this week revealed loss-making derivatives trades that could cost it about 720 million euros.
After a meeting that lasted most of Saturday, the central bank issued a brief statement to say its board had given "a favorable opinion" on the bailout. It gave no further details.
The scandal surrounding Italy's oldest bank has hit its share price and prompted questions about how the risky deals could have been hidden from regulators.
The issue has shot to the center of the campaign for a February 24-25 national election and politicians have blamed the Bank of Italy (BOI), led by current European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the time of the deals, for failing to spot them.
At Saturday's meeting the BOI's four member board, chaired by Governor Ignazio Visco, had to judge whether the bank's current and future capital adequacy and stability were sufficient to receive the loans.
The Tuscan bank was forced to seek state aid last year for the second time since 2009 after becoming one of just four European lenders that failed to meet tougher capital requirements set by regulators.
Under the loan scheme the bank will issue 3.9 billion euros of bonds to the Italian Treasury, with just under half of these replacing 1.9 billion euros of existing state help.
The lender's new management, appointed last year to turn it around, said on Friday the situation was "completely under control".
The bank will pay a hefty 9 percent coupon on the bonds, which are worth more than its current market capitalization of 3 billion euros. The coupon will increase by 0.5 percentage point every two years up to a maximum of 15 percent.
At a stormy meeting at Monte Paschi's Siena headquarters on Friday, shareholders approved two capital increases for 6.5 billion euros to be carried out if needed in the next five years, which are a condition of the state bailout.
That raises the prospect of possible nationalization, because if the bank cannot repay the state bonds or the coupons attached to them, it will have to issue shares to the Treasury.
Prime Minister Mario Monti said late on Friday he considered nationalization a "remote hypothesis".
Monti, bidding for a second term in the election, defended his government's decision to rescue it with taxpayers' money. "It's a loan, with a high interest rate," he said.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday Visco sought to deflect accusations the BOI had not done its job properly.
"It is wrong to insinuate that there was a lack of supervision by the Bank of Italy," he said, adding the BOI would cooperate with prosecutors investigating the lender.
Draghi, also in Davos, took no questions from reporters.
Visco's task was made more difficult by a report in the Corriere della Sera daily which included excerpts of a document drafted by six BOI inspectors expressing concerns over the two main trades under scrutiny as long ago as 2010.
That document would have been sent to the BOI's head of bank supervision at the time, Anna Maria Tarantola, who has since left the bank to become president of state broadcaster RAI.
Visco sidestepped questions about whether Draghi knew about the 2008-09 derivatives trades, which involved Japanese bank Nomura and Deutsche Bank.
Internal auditors at Monte Paschi had detected anomalies at the bank's finance department responsible for derivative trades three years ago, daily Il Sole 24 Ore said on Saturday.
Monte Paschi was already under investigation over its 9-billion-euro cash acquisition of smaller lender Antonveneta from Spain's Santander in 2007.
Santander had bought Antonveneta for 6.6 billion euros in a three-way break-up bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO, and almost immediately sold it on to Monte dei Paschi netting a hefty gain.
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I remember many things of being a young theist child. Some of these things are nice memories, others are not nice, and some I thought were nice at the time.
One of the memories that falls into the latter is my Chronic Guilt as a young Christian. I am a psychology undergraduate major, and I made up the term "Chronic Guilt Disorder" [You will not find it in any medical or psychiatric dictionary] to define a phenomena quite common among religious people, but especially prevalent and severe among Christians. Although, among Christians, the length they will go to make up for their Chronic Guilt, which in turn will often lead to an inferiority complex, varies in extremity.
With Easter coming up in just 2 days, I thought the timing for writing this blog post was perfect. Easter is a "holiday" which symbolizes the PINNACLE of Christian Chronic Guilt Disorder. In fact, the whole holiday is based on the idea that God was killed by a sinful world to take away their sins. And that because of God's perfection, no one is worthy of this salvation.
As a christian child I believed that I was an unworthy human being, a guilty evil sinner who deserved to be punished. In fact, unbeknownst to my parents, I would practice a mild form of self-injury [A REAL DOCUMENTED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER, more commonly known as "cutting yourself"] as a way to show my repentance to Jesus, and I always did it around Easter. The self-injury was light, I would merely scratch myself or pick at scabs, just to induce slight pain. Then I would feel "cleansed of sin." I look back now as an atheist and shake my head at the insanity of this. I was only a child, but I was already practicing self-destructive habits in the name of God!
However, my "scratching for Christ" is really only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to religious self-destructive behaviors due to Chronic Guilt Disorder.
In fact, it seems that not only does religion create self-destructive behaviors and attitudes, it PURPOSELY attempts to force them upon it's followers by using the weapon of SIN. In a VERY well done attack on the evils perpetuated by Christianity, George H. Smith hits this issue on the nail when he writes,
"The notion of the sin is perhaps the most effective sanction ever invented. For a Christian, to sin is the worst thing imaginable, and the thought of committing a sin can cause intense guilt. [...] Sin represents something metaphysically monstrous, something that directly undercuts a man's [or woman's] sense of self-esteem, and this adds to its effectiveness as a manipulative device." - p. 301 of "Atheism: The Case Agains God" - By George H. Smith.
I remember that as a Christian child I would feel horribly guilty for things that were completely out of porportion to the amount of guilt that should be displayed. When I would lie or backsass my parents one day, on Sunday in church, I would be silently crying and begging God for forgiveness, terrified of God's wrath.
You see... fear IS a powerful weapon of Christendom, but GUILT is MUCH MORE potent of a weapon!!
If you can make someone believe they are worthless, you can break them.
As I said, though, the examples of religious self-destruction go far beyond "scratching yourself." People harm their bodies and their psyches in the name of repentence to God. Sometimes they do very serious harm.
Although severe physical self-punishment was far more common in past centuries, it remains today!
The bible gives us GREAT role models as to how to act when God is "angry with you." Over and over it speaks of the people weeping and tearing their hair and putting on "sack cloth."
In the middle ages, a priest who wished to get on God's good side wore a "hair shirt" for a great portion of his life without ever taking it off. A hair shirt is a very uncomfortable and unsanitary garment made entirely of human hair.
When lice infested his hair shirt, you would have thought he would have taken it off, right? WRONG!! He took his suffering from the parasites to be an even greater way to show repentence to God. So he tortured himself for years wearing a dirty, uncomfortable, unsanitary, and infested garment to be "good for God." [What kind of insane god would sanction that?!]
Think extreme forms of self-punishment for God exist only in the past? You're wrong!
In some modern Christian sects it is common to go through the EXCRUCIATING practice of LITERALLY reinacting the crucifiction on a LIVING person!! The person who is the "crucified" is revered for his/ her "piousness."
This picture is from the Phillipines and is typical of such practices.
More common forms of Self-Punishment are, Fasting, Self-Mutilation or Self Beating, and the Self-Deprivation practices common during Lent among Catholics. ["What are you going to give up for Lent?"]
These may be seen on first glance as harmless, but they are not. The main problem with the self-deprivation practice of Lent, is that it causes emotional distress and temptation and possibly depression among those who fail to hold to their "vows." You may object that it is no worse than dieting. However, dieting is done out of medical NECESSITY!! Dieting has a progressive PURPOSE!! It is not simply about deprivation!! Dieting is about changing your lifestyle and becoming a healthy person! And, dieting should ALWAYS be done only under the supervision of a medical doctor!
Which brings us to the next "supposedly harmless" practice - Fasting. Fasting is the practice [for religious or other reasons] of depriving yourself of food for a certain amount of time [usually only a day]. In moderation, fasting CAN be harmless. However, if taken to an extreme, fasting is DANGEROUS!! Since a person is depriving themselves of all food, if fasting is done for more than a day, it becomes purposeful starvation. If you fast for more time than your doctor would recommend, you are risking PERMANENT damage to your body and your overall physical health!! Depriving yourself of food will wreck havoc with your electrolytes, essential chemicals in your blood that regulate hydration, and are critical for nerve and muscle function. You will set your blood sugar out of wack, causing weakness, nausea and fatigue. Prolonged deprivation [when your body goes into starvation mode] will cause your body to start [literally] EATING ITSELF!! Your body will attempt to keep you alive by first absorbing your muscles, and then absorbing your fats. Then your vital organs will start to shut down. [But if you get to that point, the point at which death can happen, you're a dumbass because you had more than enough time to save yourself from your PURPOSEFUL starvation]. You see, you may see it as a religious practice, but your body doesn't see that. It just sees you as starving and will act exactly as it does when you are starving of other causes.
Self- Beating - In the time of the Black Death, a group of zealot Christians [who were scorned by the organized church] would go from town to town in ragged clothing, beating themselves unmercifully with whips and sticks to try to get God to lift the plague from the "good Christian people." They were called, the Flagellants.
Even today some christians practice this archaic abuse on themselves!
An Image of Flagellant actors in a film about the Black Death:
Although all of this seems horrible... perhaps what is more horrible is the effect of EMOTIONAL self-punishment! What I mean by that is that Chronic Guilt [which is characterized by guilt that far exceeds the level of the crime or guilt without a crime] does emotional damage.
A person who believes that they constantly commit evil acts, will come to believe that they ARE evil, and [in the minds of any good person] thus they are worthless.
In this case the bully that lowers the victim's self-esteem, is not a person, but a poisonous ideology which is [in essense] a never-ending guilt trip.