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Dear Faculty,
Happy Spring! I want to take this opportunity to update you on a number of changes, upgrades, and initiatives that the Office of Multimodal Learning has been working on since Fall.
Office of Multimodal Learning – The Multimodal Learning team has undergone a few changes, adding a new part-time academic advising/retention counselor for online degree programs (Amber Darting), increasing to full-time our second instructional technologist (Delayna Breckon), and welcoming a new office assistant (Katie Ritzinger):
Orientation for New Online Students – A series of orientation videos for new students in online degree programs developed by Diane Fishel-Hall in the Office of Enrollment Management is now available through the online academic advising website. These videos cover such topics as how to access Wildcat Connection, CWU Catalog, Class Registration, Blackboard, Library Services, and Financial Aid: http://www.cwu.edu/academic-advising/orientation-videos-online-students
Online Learning Quality Assurance – Priorities Survey for Online Learners (PSOL) will be administered over Spring quarter to students in online courses and online degree programs to assess students' priorities and satisfaction with a variety of institutional, academic, and support services for online learning. This survey is administered annually at CWU by Noel-Levitz, allowing us to track our progress on key measures of quality assurance in online learning. Results from the survey and other quality assurance measures will be shared with faculty through a report to the Faculty Senate.
Enterprise Upgrades – Blackboard was successfully updated over Winter and Spring breaks to provide enhancements and new functionality, including enhanced content editor, assessment analysis for statistics on student performance, global navigation with access to personal dashboard of notifications, redesigned calendar and discussions, and video everywhere functionality to record and embed video from a webcam.
Canvas LMS Pilot – Following the evaluation and recommendation of the Academic Technology Advisory Council (ATAC), we have begun a pilot of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) this Spring with 21 faculty members across all four colleges teaching courses using a range of modalities (face-to-face, hybrid, and online). We will continue the pilot through Summer and Fall. Based on feedback and surveys of faculty and students using Canvas, we will present results of the pilot to a variety of faculty groups in the Fall and report back to ATAC for a decision on whether to adopt Canvas as our enterprise LMS and migrate all courses from Blackboard by the end of Spring 2014. Faculty interested in exploring and/or piloting courses in Canvas can request access by filling out the online form: http://www.cwu.edu/online-learning/canvas-pilot-course-request
Turnitin Plagiarism Detection – As part of our Canvas evaluation, we will also be piloting the Turnitin plagiarism detection service during Spring quarter. This service is integrated into Canvas for faculty testing or piloting the new LMS. Blackboard faculty can request direct access to the Turnitin site for testing by contacting Jane Chinn (firstname.lastname@example.com).
GoCentral Network – CWU has been piloting this online communication and collaboration network since Fall. We currently have hundreds of active users and groups created in the system (with the highest usage for administrative committees, faculty workgroups, and professional development). A majority of the groups created have been Channels for targeted communication and Communities for sharing resources and files. We have not seen a great deal of use of the social networking features in the system. Because we now have identified specific institutional requirements for such a tool and because the GoingOn platform that runs GoCentral has ceased development, we will be completing our pilot by the end of the academic year and investigating alternative enterprise collaboration tools to better meet our needs.
Professional Development – Training Workshops on Blackboard, Canvas, and other instructional technology tools continue to be offered each quarter, both face-to-face and via online Collaborate webinars for faculty at the University Centers and those who prefer training from the comfort of their office. Register for workshops from the Online Learning website or directly at http://www.cwu.edu/online-learning/faculty-workshops
Multimodal Learning Communities – Led by Dr. Schedler, these faculty communities of practice meet four times per quarter. Two groups are available for faculty participation, based on relative experience and expertise in teaching online. Both groups (Vanguard for the more experienced; Explorers for beginners) provide a chance to share best practices and receive tools and resources to improve your online and hybrid classes. Faculty at remote locations can also participate in the meetings via Collaborate. Please contact Dr. Schedler to join one of the communities.
Your suggestions and comments regarding these or other multimodal learning initiatives are welcomed.
Christopher Schedler
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Well the days are getting longer finally and you know what that means?
Thats right March is upon us and it's time for TWIG again! (The Naches Trails and Wilderness Interest Group meeting).
TWIG will be held on Tuesday night, March 6th, 2012 at 7PM at the Naches Ranger Station.
(Enter by the back door).
The focus of the meeting this month will be to share with the trails community where we are in the process of ramping up our (volunteers, partners, and the Forest Service) capacity to utilize volunteer resources to provide for quality system trail experiences and protect resources influenced by our trail system across the Naches Ranger District. We will look at the finalized district volunteer trails vision statement, review the volunteer coordinator program and introduce those coordinators that are identified at this time, summarize those trails that are presently requested for trail adoption (either at the Stewardship Level or at the Friends of the Trail Level), review, finalize dates and begin sign ups for upcoming training sessions (saw classes and recertifications, trail condition survey techniques, trail maintenance principles and techniques, trail leadership and safety), and unveil the volunteer projects for each user group selected by the TWIG subcommittee for 2012.
Additionally District Ranger Irene Davidson will provide an update on the decision process for the Naches Ranger District proposed spring trail closure for motorized trails.
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Eastern (Pa.) at UMBC, 11-11-13
The UMBC men's basketball team opens the 2013-14 schedule as they host Eastern (Pa.) University on Monday, Nov. 11 at the RAC Arena. It is the second consecutive year that good friends Aki Thomas and former Retriever assistant Nate Stewart will be on opposite sidelines to open UMBC's home schedule. UMBC defeated the Eagles, 70-52, on Nov. 12, 2012, as senior post Brett Roseboro and sophomore wing Malik Garner each contributed 10 points .The game is the nightcap of a hoops doubleheader versus Eastern and will tip at 7:30 p.m. Gary Stein has the call on Q1370 (www.q1370.com) and free streaming is available at www.umbcretrievers.tv.
In the season opener on Nov. 8, the Retrievers battled Pac-12 Arizona State competitively for 30 minutes, but could not overcome late game shooting woes and fell, 96-61, at Wells Fargo Arena. Freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Baltimore, Md./John Carroll) got the start for an injured Quentin Jones at the point guard slot and co-led a balanced UMBC offense with 12 points. Sophomore Malik Garner also scored a career-high 12. Roseboro led UMBC with nine rebounds.
This will be the first contest of the season for Eastern. The Eagles were 6-19 a season ago (not counting the loss to UMBC). Guard Anthony Parenti averaged a team-best 10.5 points per game for Eastern a year ago. Eastern averaged 61.5 points per game and permitted 69.8 a season ago.
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Larc wrote:What is this,a warning?
1) You aren't a mod...so your opinion means nothing.
2) What problems do you have? If you don't like this topic,just don't read it....
That was just trolling, don't get upset.
Larc wrote:What is this,a warning?
1) You aren't a mod...so your opinion means nothing.
2) What problems do you have? If you don't like this topic,just don't read it....
Lavarinth wrote:If I travel to a different time zone- Have I not effectively traveled time?
One might argue, well, it's the same time, only humans have determined it to be a different time. Well, if that were true, then humans have labeled the past as past and future as future, so in that case, if I "travel back" to one year ago, and have the ability to communicate with those of the present, is it not the same as me going to one time zone ahead of me and communicating with someone?
tipereth wrote:Get your metaphysics out of my physics. Seriously. That's a completely different topic of discussion. (in which you are probably right)
You cannot accelerate an object of consequential mass to a fast enough speed for it to undergo the relativistic effect. The end. It would require another spatial object of infinite mass, and that's not possible.
tipereth wrote:Stephen Hawking has proved that if you built a time machine it would explode before you could use it. I'm not sure how he did that, but if you want to throw random names into the ring as your argument, I'd be more than happy to do the same.
For something to accelerate to a substantial speed around the supermassive object at the center of the galaxy, it would have to ENTER the galaxy with a great enough speed to avoid being deflected by any local start or planets, and it would still take a very long time (on the scale of thousands of years) to theoretically reach such a speed. Long enough that anyone on board would die. Time travel is impossible.
tipereth wrote:I cannot tolerate when ideas that defy common sense and basic physical knowledge are taken as absolute and true. Sue me.
Larc wrote:I see that you like being right,you don't bear someone to think differently from you or what?
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ABC's upcoming but still unfinished "Life on Mars," adapted from the BBC series of the same name, nostalgically recalls 1973 New York, pre-Studio 54, post-World Trade Towers. Clearly "Serpico" and "Mean Streets" form the template for this retro- cop show, producer Josh Appelbaum said.
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NEW YORK – The VCU Men's & Women's Track & Field teams hit the road this weekend for New Balance Invite in the Big Apple.
VCU Head Coach Jon Riley liked what he saw from his athletes this weekend. "We broke a few school records and had a few personal best performances. We are seeing consistency from our athletes each and every weekend. Overall, I was impressed in how we competed against some of the best athletes in the country."
Redshirt-sophomore thrower Jaleesa Williams continued her surge of strong performances in the shot put, breaking her own school record in the event, with a toss of 14.78 meters. Williams previous school record toss landed 14.57 meters.
The Virginia Beach, Va., native didn't just stop there, as she broke the school record and qualified for ECACs in the weight throw.
Redshirt sophomore Chaneka Perry placed second in the college division in the triple jump, jumping 12.29 meters. The Newport News, Va., native's jump broke a school record, surpassing the previous mark of 12.12 meters.
Junior distance runner Brenden Leavitt placed seventh in the 5,000 meters, setting a personal record and qualifying for the IC4A with a time of 14:45.62.
Freshman thrower Brandon Ruffin (pictured right) set a new personal record in the shot put, with a toss of 15.81 meters, which also qualified him for the IC4A meet.
Sophomore Chase Turner finished fifth in the 60 meter hurdles of the college division, setting a personal record with a time of 8.32 meters.
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Utica 20, Hartwick 17 - Box Score
Utica, N.Y. (10/15/2011) – Junior quarterback Andrew Benkwitt engineered a nine-play, 71 yard game-winning drive, capped by a 16-yard touchdown grab by senior wide out Jeremy Meier with 1:04 remaining, to help lift the Utica College football team to a huge 20-17 win over visiting Hartwick College Saturday. Hartwick actually had a chance to tie the game up on the ensuing drive, but Harley Edwards' 50 yard field goal attempt with one second left on the clock fell short, much to the delight of the Pioneers homecoming crowd.
"That's a big win for us on homecoming weekend against a very good team. I wanted to congratulate coach Will Pluff and the defensive unit for really keeping us in the game today," said fourth year Head Coach Blaise Faggiano. "Our guys answered in the face of adversity again and this is the type of win that helps us gain momentum headed into a big contest against Ithaca next weekend. It was a total team effort today and I am very proud of our entire program."
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record to 4-2 overall and they picked up their first conference victory of the year. Hartwick lost its second straight 3-point game, as the Hawks overall record fell to 2-4 on the season.
Junior running back Jake Larson posted his third straight 100 yard rushing effort, tallying 163 yards on the ground, to go along with two touchdowns. Junior tight tend Matt Dunn caught a career-high nine balls, while Benkwitt finished the day with 30 completions for 298 yards and one key touchdown throw to Meier on the Pioneers' final drive of the game.
Hartwick's Anthony Casimano carried the ball 39 times for 226 yards, and added a key 74 yard touchdown scamper to put the visitors on top 14-6 early in the third quarter. The Pioneers answered by outscoring the Hawks 14-3 in the final 13:57 of play to earn the three point victory.
"Our guys never gave up and as a coaching staff that is one of the biggest things we are looking for," said Faggiano. "We are going to enjoy this one for tonight and get right back after it tomorrow."
Hartwick opened the scoring on the day in the first quarter when quarterback Dan Brainard hooked up with all-conference receiver Jordan Wilkins on a 15-yard touchdown to give the Hawks an early 7-0 lead. Brainard finished the day with 147 yards passing on 12 completions, while Wilkins caught a team-high four balls for 65 yards.
The Pioneers answered at the 10:10 mark of the second quarter when Larson plunged in his first touchdown of the day, but 25 mile per hour winds sent UC kicker Seth Mitchell's extra point attempt wide right, to help the Hawks remain on top, 7-6.
A first half fumble and a missed field goal halted two of the Pioneers first half drives and the score remained 7-6 after 30 full minutes of play.
Larson added his team-best seventh touchdown run of the season early in the final quarter to help lead the Pioneers' fourth quarter charge. Hartwick kicker Alex Tesoriero added a 34 yard field goal to give the Hawks a five point lead with 8:40 remaining in the contest.
The Pioneers turned the ball over on downs on their next possession, but the UC defense kept them in the game by forcing a 4-and-out on the Hawks ensuing drive. This huge stop is what led to the Pioneers' game-winning fourth quarter drive.
Sophomore linebacker Alex Rukavena racked up a career-high 12 tackles for Utica, while Genaro Scampone added one interception. Junior nose guard Cody Adams also tacked on a key sack late in the game to help secure the Pioneer victory. Sophomore safety Eric Rindo made nine stops, while freshman Xavier Richardson added a career-best nine tackles as well for the UC defensive unit.
Jordan Spirou, the Hawks leading tackler, had another huge day, totaling a game-high 18 tackles, while four other Hartwick defenders posted 10+ tackles.
Utica returns home next Saturday when it hosts Empire 8 rival Ithaca College for a key Empire 8 Conference game at Charles A. Gaetano Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Fans who cannot make it out to the contest can watch the game live on their local Time Warner Cable Sports television station or visit http://www.twcs.tv/ for a link to live streaming video of the contest.
Hartwick returns to the gridiron next Saturday when it hosts nationally-ranked Salisbury for an Empire 8 contest at 1 p.m.
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Doubts set testy tone at Senate immigration hearing
An earlier version of this story misstated Sen. Jeff Flake's title.
WASHINGTON — Republican senators insisted Wednesday that the Obama administration must secure the border before serious talk can begin on the future of illegal immigrants in the country.
The Senate's first hearing on proposals to alter the status of about 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. was a contentious one in which senators berated the Department of Homeland Security secretary and speakers were interrupted repeatedly.
Immigrant advocates lined up as early as 7 a.m. to get into the scheduled 9:30 a.m. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., opened the hearing by saying "now is the time" to reach a compromise on illegal immigration. GOP senators suggested such a compromise cannot come without a guarantee that the flow of more illegal immigrants into the country will cease.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., criticized DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano for not having her department do more to secure the nation's borders. He said the Obama administration is more interested in granting "amnesty" to illegal immigrants — referring to a proposed pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants — than fully securing the southwest border with Mexico.
"I have my doubts (the administration is) going to deliver on its promises," Sessions said.
Napolitano argued that the Obama administration, and others before it, have helped establish the largest contingent of law enforcement along the border in the country's history. That has led to more seizures of drugs and historically low levels of apprehensions of people illegally crossing.
"Too often the border security refrain simply serves as an excuse," Napolitano said. "Our borders have in fact never been stronger
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., questioned whether the department even has a reliable way of measuring whether the border is secure. Under an immigration proposal offered by a bipartisan group of senators, the border must be certified as secure before any of the nation's illegal immigrants can apply for citizenship. How that would be done is still being discussed.
Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said border security may not be the biggest impediment to legislation. He said fixing the nation's guest worker programs could be the biggest roadblock to a compromise.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., agreed, saying dairy farmers in his state struggle to find workers since their work is year-round and guest worker visas are mostly for seasonal workers.
"If cows are milked seasonally, you'd have a lot of uncomfortable cows," he said.
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Happy birthday, Dennis Polhill, here's to the 65 candles and can of Mace
Say what you will about Jon Caldara, and plenty of people do, but the think-tank president writes a hilarious newsletter. Today's gem:
Our senior fellow and father of term limits here in Colorado, Dennis Polhill, just celebrated his 65th birthday. He says he feels as young as ever, and is still madly in love with his wife of all these years. In fact he says, sometimes he still tears up when they make love. She says it's likely just the Mace.
Polhill hadn't seen the item from the Independence Institute president when I called. It took him a while to stop laughing after I read it to him.
"The sad part is it's all true," Polhill said.
Polhill turned 65 on Monday, a birthday he shares with ProgressNow's Alan Franklin, a "delicious" irony, as Mark Hillman would say. So is Polhill finally collecting Social Security? It turns out he's been getting a check from the government since he was 62. Entitlement program, indeed.
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President Obama's Dubious Claims about Incomes of the Top 1% vs. the Bottom 90%
"In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined," Obama said on April 13. "The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each."
Politi-Fact, partly on the basis of my own research, generously rates the president's claim as "Half True."
The truth is that the President's source, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, refer only to pretax, pretransfer income reported on individual tax returns (as opposed to being sheltered inside a corporation or IRA or simply unreported), and they have no data on the bottom 90%. Worst of all, they leave out transfer payments, which amounted to $2.3 trillion last year — 44% as large as all private wages and salaries ($5.2 trillion). The data also excludes refundable tax credits, which added about $170 billion to low and middle incomes in 2009 according to the the Joint Committee on Taxation (the EITC, child credit and Obama's "making work pay" credit). And the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that gross income reported on tax returns is about $1 trillion less than actual income.
As for the top 1%, my research shows that top investors report more capital gains and dividends when those tax rates go down, which is why they paid such a big share of income taxes (up to 40%) in 1997-2000 and 2003-2007. Raise the tax on dividends and capital gains to 23.8%, as Obama hopes to do by 2014, and somebody else would have to pay the taxes now paid by the top 1%. Using income reported to the IRS to measure actual living standards is foolhardy at best.


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I've asked before about Thomas Maxted,1748 of Kent,who married Elizabeth Knott 1750 and had good response so I thought I'd throw this information (question)into the pot and see what happens.
On another families web site Thomas's parents are listed as Franis (1718) and Mary (Margins)(1718) MAXSTEAD. Franis's parents as William(1677-1714)and Alice(1681-1731)SHAXTED both born Littlebourne, Kent. Does anyone have this same information or anything else on Thomas and Elizabeth, Franis and Mary, William and Alice.
They have William and Alice SHAXTEDs children as Franis, Alice, Mary x 2, Henry, Richard, another Alice and Edward.
Franis and Mary MAXSTEADs children as Phoebe, Thomas, Elizabeth, Henry, Richard, Mary x2, John x2, Barbara Ann, Sarah x2
Sophia Isabella Budd
Can any one give information on Sophia Isabella Budd(b.1863or65)who married George Hartopp Eliot Warburton?
George had a brother Piers and was the son of Bartholomew Warburton (I think)
Maxteds of Kent
Can any one help me with Thomas Maxted b. 1748 Ickham, Kent. married Elizabeth Knott b. 1750 Goodenstone, Kent.
They had a son Richard Maxted b. Wickhambourne 1779-1857 who married Mary Haugham possible Feb 1800.
They had Thomas 1809 and Robert possible 1831.
I'd like any information on any of these people, parents, siblings, children, births, deaths etc
Thomas, his wife Emma (nee griggs), their 6 children and Robert came out to New Zealand but were born in Kent.Thomas and family came on the 'Creswell' but we are unsure how or when Robert arrived.
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Charles and Sarah Astle, Nelson, New Zealand
Charles and Sarah Astle were both born in Wilne, Derbyshire, England, in 1809 and married in 1832.
They immigrated to New Zealand with their four eldest children Thomas 9, Mary 7, Harriet 4, and William 1, sailing from Eng on the ship 'Bombay'in July 1842, arriving in Nelson in Dec.
Records show that it was not a comfortable trip, being noted, like many voyages, for it's infant deaths.
It's recorded that Charles Astle spent two days on bread and water for falling asleep while on watch between decks. He also gave blood to a Mrs Joseph Cooke, who had given birth, to a son, on Nov 19th. The transfusion was given by means of an apparatus made with a funnel, an elastic gum tube, a cannula and the quill feather of a fowl!
Sarah, being pregnant with their fifth child did not have a comfortable trip. She was reported to have been nauseous and in pain for the whole voyage. She was given various medicines to try to ease her discomfit. She also received a pint of porter and preserved potatoes each day. Sarahs baby was not born on board and must have been born late Dec 1842 or sometime early 1843 but we have found no records of this child or it's name.
After their arrival they settled in Haven Rd, Nelson, where two more children Elizabeth 1845 and Hannah 1849 were born.
An early census shows Charles occupation as Carpenter and he is also mentioned as working, as a carpenter on the first bridge over the Maitai River.
Charles drowned in the Riwaka River on the 28th of January 1855.
Sarah continued to live in Nelson until her death in 1872.
James and Mary Spain
James and Mary (nee May) Spain were my great great great Grandparents.
My Mother and Aunt have done quite a bit of research on their family this is a little bit about one of our earliest New Zealand ancestors.
James Spain, aged 32 on the passenger list(really 42), was one of a group of men who were engaged by The New Zealand Company to set up the new town of Nelson. Records show his place of residence as being Minster, Isle of Thanet, Kent. He left England on the 2nd of May 1841 sailing on the 'Whitby' and arriving in Nelson on the 18th of Sept.
The men were promised paid employment for two years after their arrival. James was engaged by Capt. Liardet as a workman.
Mary, with their three children, Elizabeth 10, John 8 and Charlotte 5, travelled out with the other wives and children on the 'Lloyds" arriving in Nelson the 11th or 15 th of Feb 1842.
This is one of the saddest voyages and has it's own story in history. There were 73 women and 139 children on board. 65 children died on route to New Zealand.
It would appear that Elizabeth, John and Charlotte all made it. Certainly Charlotte did as she grew up to marry Thomas Astle
Mary died, in Nelson, aged 88 in 1883 and James, aged 86, in 1885.
I'm looking for information about Thomas William or William Thomas Chandler and his wife Ellen (nee Munday) Ancestors Photo
Thomas William Josiah Chandler, born ~1852 in Jersey, UK and Ellen (nee Munday)born ~1856, Durham, Eng, were married at St Andrews church Christchurch New Zealand, aged 25 & 21 on the 27th Aug 1877. T W J Chandler's occupation is listed as Grocer.
Their first child was born 4th Sept 1878 and baptised William Arthur Chandler, but on the 20th Nov they registered a child, born on the 4th Sept, as Henry Arthur Chandler. This child was reg as being born at Glen Tui, Rangiora, New Zealand.
They had, that we know of, 3 more children,
Thomas Joshua 6th June 1880.
Clara Constance 27th July 1881.
Ellen Gertrude 6th May 1883.
There are 'Insolvency' and 'Bankrupt' notices in the CHCH press for T W Chandler 1879 & 1880. Store keeper at Waikari.
My Great Grandfather was William Chandler. His mother was Nellie Chandler and he had two sisters younger than him named Clara Mary and Ellen. They had been deserted by their father who they named on their marriage cert. as William or Thomas Chandler.
The first definite record we have of William was his 'arrest' in Wellington 1888, aged 8.
Evening Post 5/1/1888
'William Chandler, the child who has been under the care of the police since New Years Day, was today committed to St Mary's Industrial School, Nelson, by Mr Wardell Esq. Despite full inquiries made by police they failed to find the boys mother, though she is well known to authorities and although she was seen on the street immediately before the youngster was arrested.'
His mother is named as Nellie and she said that Williams father had left the colony.
From 'Papers Past' in June 1888, another Chandler descendant has found a report of the arrest of a Thomas Chandler at Dannevirke on a charge of deserting his wife and three children. He was returned to Wellington and placed before the court, agreeing to pay towards the maintenance of his family. His occupation is given as an Expressman (Horse and Cart Delivery Contractor) of English Descent. If this was their father it was too late for William and the girls. The Warrant(Police Gazette)had been issued on 15 November 1887, just before William had been taken off the street.
Interestingly Thomas William Josiah Chandler is listed on the 1890 Census as living in Bute Street, Wellington, occupation Carter. There is no mention of his wife and family.
The girls went to an orphanage in Wellington.
We believe this to be the same family but wonder what happened to little Thomas Joshua?
Also found in 'Papers Past' (but with no proof of connection to any one)
A Mr Chandler in court (Rangiora) for Wife Desertion, May 1881. (just a couple of months before Claras birth date.)
Passenger list for Ship 'Mawheru' arriving in Wellington with a Mrs Chandler and Children (3) listed as cabin passengers July 1884.
Also a death in Wellington for a Nellie Chandler (1893)who died of 'Delirium Tremens' and Pneumonia there is no 'next of kin' listed. Her age is given as 30 and she is buried in Karori Cemetery. Could this have been Williams mother? If it was Ellen Munday she would have been 37, but without 'next of kin' did they just guess an age?
It doesn't help that our Clara and Ellen had different names for their father on their marriage certs, one saying her father was William and the other said Thomas. Both said they were born in Wellington but again they were very young when they went to the orphanage and may not have know where they were born.
Our William ran away from the Industrial School more than once and ended up in Marlborough. He worked on Hastilows farm (Tua Marina) was a Logger at Onamaluto, served in the Boer war, then became a butcher at Renwick.
His army records, for the Boer War, name a Mary Chandler as next of kin, possibly it was Clara Mary Chandler.
He played cricket for Tua Marina. W. Chandler is also mentioned in running races but there is another family of Chandlers, with a William, who lived in the same area so it's difficult to tell which was which.
William married Eliza Ann Thompson of Grovetown, Marlborough. They had 5 children, 1 died as a baby.
William died aged 35, at Renwick, having accidentally shot himself while climbing through a fence. He was returning home from killing a pig for the butchery.
After his death Eliza moved back to Grovetown and worked as a dressmaker.
Can anyone give me information on Kenneth Ernest Adams, of Thames New Zealand. 1894-1975?
Kenneth Earnest Adams 1894-1975 was married to Jessie Whittaker 1897-1984. They had one child Jacquiline Nancy Mary Adams. Kenneth and Jessie divorsed and he remarried.
I would like any information on the Whittaker side of the family, they are the chocolate makers. Jessies brothers and sisters etc and if Kenneth had any brothers or sisters?
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One woman was arrested in Orange after reportedly attacking two people while she was wearing a pink, polka-dot bikini.
According to a report from the Orange Police Department, officers were dispatched to the area of 1st St. and Cherry St. at approximately 12:28 Sunday, March 17, in reference to an assault. Officer Robert Enmon reported he met with the victim of the assault upon arrival at the scene. The man told the officer a woman dressed in a pink, polka-dot bikini approached him at the intersection and assaulted him, slicing his left cheek and ear with a box cutter. While taking the victim's report, Officer Enmon reported receiving a second call advising someone at the victim's residence at an apartment complex at 111 Pine St. had also been attacked by a woman brandishing a box cutter.
While en route to the scene of the second assault, Officer Enmon reported he saw a woman wearing a pink bikini running within the apartment complex and into an apartment there. According to the report, the officer saw the woman hiding in a closet inside the apartment. She was identified as 32-year-old Daphne "Dee Dee" Locks-Allen of Orange. Enmon reported he arrested the woman, and she was transported to the Orange County Jail.


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Yulin Zhong, VP Public Relations
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Ramana Reddy, Secretary
Amy Chen, Sergeant at Arms
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Visual Music
Visual Music
David Harrington / Violin
John Sherba / Violin
Hank Dutt / Viola
Jeffrey Zeigler / Cello
Alexander V. Nichols / Scenic and Projection Design
Laurence Neff / Lighting Design
Mark Grey / Sound Design
1. Pendulum Music (1968)
for microphones, amplifiers, speakers and performers
Composer / Steve Reich (b. 1936)
2. Cat O' Nine Tails (Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade) (1988) *
Composer / John Zorn (b. 1953)
3. Three Movements from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone) (1991–1993) *
It Raged, Perfect Weapon, and What Would Have Happened
Composer / Scott Johnson (b. 1952)
Video / Larry Springer
Voice / I. F. Stone
4. Bertoia I (2002) *
Composer / Mark Grey (b. 1967)
Video / Catherine Owens
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950/2002) +
Composer / Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975)
Arranger / Stephen Prutsman
6. Boogie Woogie #3A (1942) +
Composer / Conlon Nancarrow (1912–1997)
Realization / Trimpin
Video / Alexander V. Nichols
Kronos samples / Mark Grey
Arrangement of Kronos live parts / Stephen Prutsman
7. Quartetto per archi (1960)
Composer / Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)
Video / Alexander V. Nichols, Larry Springer, and Dan D. Shafer
8. One Earth, One People, One Love from Sun Rings (2002) *
Composer / Terry Riley (b. 1935)
Video / Willie Williams
Voice / Alice Walker
9. Bertoia II (2002) *
Composer / Mark Grey (b. 1967)
Video / Catherine Owens
10. Flugufrelsarinn (The Fly Freer) (2000/2002) +
Composer / Sigur Rós
Arranger / Stephen Prutsman
Video / Catherine Owens
*Written for Kronos Quartet
+Arranged for Kronos Quartet
Janet Cowperthwaite / Producer
Laird Rodet / Project Development
Kronos Performing Arts Association / Production Management
Visual Music runs approximately one hour and thirty minutes with no intermission. Program performed without pause.
" The Kronos Quartet's "Visual Music" program was uncomplicated, director, heart-on-sleeve. Three of the 10 works played consecutively asserted an antiwar, world-peace message, and a fourth -- though pure music -- rose to the fervor of an anthem. "
- Chris Pasles, Los Angeles Times
" The Kronos players are masters of multimedia... "
- Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
" A concert by the Kronos Quartet is always an involving experience, but even longtime fans had to be amazed by the enveloping sensory input of the legendary string ensemble's latest venture, 'Visual Music'....[A] dazzling 90-minute performance incorporating video, lighting, pre-recorded sound and musical 'sculpture' - all integrated with the same seamless brilliance audiences have come to expect from these estimable musicians. "
- Georgia Rowe, Contra Costa Times
" The concert folded 10 diverse pieces into a seamless 90-minute multimedia production...[The] precise staging, the committed playing and true integration of aural and visual elements left a lasting impression...the concert bristled with adventure and relevance. "
- Mark Styker, Detroit Free Press
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Today's guest blog post is by Robert Mahaney of Indiana University. The IUB Anthropology Graduate Student Association is including a photography exhibit "In the Field: Images of the people and places of IUB Anthropology" this year during its annual graduate student symposium. The symposium will take place next Friday, February 22. Click here for event details. If you're in area, check it out!
Reflecting on Fieldwork: "In the Field: Images of the people and places of IUB Anthropology" by Robert Mahaney, Indiana University
What is 'the field'?
We could answer this question simply. The field is where we work. Its where the people are — or its where they were. But this answer is unreflective. It avoids the subtle and sometime difficult issues involved in knowledge creation. 'The field' is a space constituted by the interaction of the observer – ethnographer, linguist, archaeologist, or biocultural researcher – and those she observes. It is structured and bounded by research questions and paradigms, means of analysis and representation, disciplinary tradition and lore, and personal experience and expectation. Of course, this is also is a simplistic and obvious answer. It may be a banal truism. However, there is no field without the fieldworker.
Its this creative act that we, as graduate students, are trying to master. How do we create these spaces? How we build these relationships? And how does this place and experience become knowledge?
These are the questions that motivate our exhibition of images from field sites. From February 22-24, a photo exhibit titled "In the Field: Images of the people and places of IUB Anthropology" will be presented during the annual Indiana University Anthropology Graduate Students Association Symposium. This year the symposium will be held at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology in Bloomington, Indiana.
Working at sites in places including Southern Indiana, Wyoming, Greece Kazakistan, Tanzania, and Turkey archaeologists Megan Buchanan, Kaeliegh Herstad, Sheena Ketchum, Robert Mahaney, Rebecca Nathan, Tekla Schmaus, and Liz Watts provide a distinctive group of images with two distinct focuses. First, they seem to highlight the interaction with their collaborators – PIs, specialists, and excavators – which hints at the central role of 'the crew' in archaeological research. Second, they often focus on the physiography of the place, reflecting the imaginative aspect of archaeology in which the researcher tries to orient themselves in landscape in the same ways that past people may have.
Shingo Hamada is an ethnographer studying fisheries in Hokkaido, Japan and Lyra Vega studies food culture in her Belize. They provide pictures of the events and people that inform their work. Interestingly, material culture – in the form of food or animals and plants harvested from the ocean – play an important an important role in their images. of course, this hints at the mediating role of the photographic medium.
It is very interesting to note that the images of biological anthropologists such as Alicia Rich Stout, Caroline Deimel, Evanna Singh, and Lindsey Mattern provided pictures of fieldwork in Guyana, India, and Uganda that bridge the concerns and perspectives of the contributing archaeologists and ethnographers. The biological dimension of human experience is placed in a culture context of people, place, and event. Susan Spencer, a bioarchaeologist, osteologist, and forensic anthropologist provides images from Indiana cemeteries in she highlights the role of grief and practices of commemoration.
Together, these images hint at the various ways that students performing fieldwork have constituted the fields in which they work. As hinted briefly already, there are subtle differences between the images presented by archaeologists, ethnographers, and biological anthropologists in this exhibit. But the fields in which we operate as Anthropologists are hardly incommensurable. Though evidence, methods, and theoretical tools may vary amongst the sub-fields, there is a commonality amongst in how we constitute and embody the places in which we work and interact with our collaborators. Ultimately, this may be the most characteristic feature of our shared culture as anthropologists.


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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. music mogul Clive Davis says in his memoir he has been in a romantic relationship with a man for seven years, confirming for the first time he is bisexual.
Davis, 80, was the founder of Arista and J Records and now serves as chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment.
"The Soundtrack of My Life," a memoir he wrote with Anthony De Curtis, was published this week by Simon & Schuster. In it, Davis talks about his career and working with artists like Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Kelly Clarkson, Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana, the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, the Foo Fighters, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson, EW.com said.
The twice-married executive also reveals how he began dating men about three decades ago when a man approached him at Studio 54 in New York.
"Was I nervous?" EW.com said Davis wrote. "Absolutely. Did the heavens open up? No. But it was satisfying."
Davis said he considers himself bisexual, not gay, even though he has been in "a strong monogamous relationship" with a man for seven years.
"Do I feel I could have been similarly attracted to a woman? The answer is yes," he said.
EW.com didn't report the name of Davis' romantic partner.


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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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An Analysis of Donor-financed Management ToolsLund-Thomsen, Peter; Jamali, Dima; Vives, Antonio (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than 90% of the world's enterprises and 50-60% of employment. Their contribution to national and regional economic development and GDP growth is well-recognized (Morsing & Perrini 2009, Srinivasan & Bolar, Under Review). In fact, SMEs are thought to have enhanced local productive capacities, fostered innovation and entrepreneurship, and attracted foreign direct investment in both developed and developing countries (Raynard and Forstater 2002). However, whereas SMEs account for more than 60% of employment in developing countries, and although they are sometimes portrayed as key vehicles in the struggle against poverty in Southern contexts, (Luetkenhorst 2004), there is still a critical lack of knowledge about to the extent to which these firms may contribute to achievement of broader objectives of sustainable and equitable development (Fox, 2005). In fact, when it comes to their role in promoting corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries, the verdict is still out there in terms of the extent to which SMEs engage in CSR, and whether their CSR involvement makes any difference to the profitability of firms, workers, and the environment in the South (Jamali et al., 2009; Sachdeva & Panfil, 2008). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8805
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Lauesen, Linne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the literature of CSR before and in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008. The aim of the research question is to map out the consequences upon CSR derived from the crisis and to derive new principles of future CSR models to come consistent with the consequences of the financial crisis, and to suggest new research as well as policy-‐making possibilities to highlight the importance and necessary survival of CSR as an instrument for sustainable and financial progress. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a literature review of CSR prior to and after the financial crisis 2008 with an emphasis on academic papers published in peer-‐reviewed journals. Findings – The findings of the paper reveal that post-‐crisis CSR-‐models do not articulate anything that has not been mentioned before; however they do strengthen former values of CSR, but still lacks an overall formula of how the financial sector can adopt CSR in the core of their businesses and transparently display their products and the risk adhering to them. The paper proposes a new Four-‐'E'-‐Principle that may guide new CSR-‐models to accomplish this deficit. See under 'Originality'. Practical implications – The paper calls for a discussion on ways in which governments and businesses can enhance social responsibility though balancing the requirements of more engagement from businesses as well as public sector companies in CSR. The paper suggest some instrumental mechanisms of how governments can engage not only multinational companies but also smaller companies and other kinds of organizations acting on the market to make them engage more in CSR. 2 Originality/value – The paper proposes a new Four-‐'E'-‐Principle to guide the development of new CSR-‐models based upon the core of Schwartz and Carroll's 'Three-‐domain CSR-‐model', which the Principle extends and revises to: Economy, L/Egal, Environment, and Ethics. This Principle disentangles the dialectic relationship between economic and social responsibility; takes financial products into a consideration; refines the definitions of good stakeholder engagement without the illusions of corporate 'Potemkinity'1; and considers the benefit of replacing the semiotic meaning of the 'C' in CSR from 'corporate' to 'capitalism's social responsibility' in order to extend the concept towards a broader range of market agents. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8777
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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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Hansen, Rina; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper proposes a framework for assessment and design of B2C websites focussing on Web 2.0 and social media as vehicles for involvement of current and potential customers. Three overall strategic dimensions are proposed for characterization of websites, whether the 1) purpose is branding or e-commerce, 2) communication is one-way or two-way, 3) focus is transaction or innovation. When these three strategic binary dimensions are combined, we get 2 x 2 x 2 or a total of 8 different triplet combinations. The framework is used for an assessment of 15 fashion websites in the years 2006, 2008 and 2010. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8429
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a social constructionis perspectiveSøderberg, Anne-Marie; Cardel Gertsen, Martine (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There have been a number of attempts to explain post-merger problems by cultural differences, and in this paper, we argue that much previous research on mergers is based on an essentialist concept of culture. We claim that this conception is a problematic starting point for cultural studies, and argue for a social constructionist alternative. The conceptual challenges we address are: decontextualization of cultural issues, cultural differentiation and fragmentation, and structural versus processual views on culture. We also outline an agenda for future merger research and argue for studies focusing on cultural sensemaking processes in merging organizations by adopting narrative perspectives. Key words: merger, culture, organizational change, integration, social constructionism, narrative. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6942
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A Field ExperimentHoogendoorn, Sander; Van Praag, Mirjam (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is cultural back- ground. We measure the impact of cultural diversity on the performance of business teams using a eld experiment. Companies are set up by teams of undergraduate students in business studies in realistic though similar circumstances. We vary the cultural composition of otherwise randomly composed teams in a multi-cultural stu- dent population. Our data indicate that a moderate level of cultural diversity has no e ect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, pro ts and pro ts per share). However, if at least the majority of team members is culturally diverse then more cultural diversity seems to a ect the performance of teams positively. Our data suggest that this might be related to the more diverse pool of relevant knowledge facilitating (mutual) learning within culturally diverse teams. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9261
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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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A Response to Global Needs?. IACCM(International Association for Cross Cultural Competences and Management) Annual Conference: Cross Cultural Competence: Knowledge Migration, Communication and Value Change, 24-26 June, 2009 WienEgholm Feldt, Liv (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
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The ideological symbiosis of 'auteur' and 'craftsperson'Mathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter explores some of the central cultural tenets of career and film making among elite members of the Danish film industry, or what is less than elegantly and somewhat grammatically incorrectly referred to as 'the cultural of production and career' in the title of this chapter. The theoretical reasons for this formulation is to train focus on the ideational dimensions of culture in the Danish film industry, especially as refracted through reflections on work and career by film workers. In this sense the approach, though less inclusive and ambitious, resembles Caldwell's interest in 'indigenous interpretive frameworks in Production Culture.i The chapter also argues that production and career decisions and actions are inextricable intertwined. Sometimes the two are consciously and manifestly related to each other, in terms of deliberating the implications that working on a given film, with given persons, in a given manner, etc. will have on one's further work possibilities; or the reverse, how career considerations impact how films get made in terms of who works on them and what resources, skills, tastes, and perspectives are brought into and realized in a production. Sometimes the interrelation of these considerations remains latent. This chapter explores how certain cultural underpinnings support these mutually intertwined considerations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8446
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Moeran, Brian (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper draws on extensive fieldwork in a wide range of creative industries to argue that creativity itself is under-theorised, and should be considered as both enabled and inhibited by numerous constraints guiding the choices made by creative personnel during the course of their work. Six sets of constraints are outlined in the context of different forms of cultural production: material, temporal, spatial, social, representational and economic. It is argued that the performance of creative work is similar in part to Turner's concept of 'communitas', when an aura of individual creativity is passed to other participants. This kind of liminal space is also found in creative industry ritual events, which enable participants to communicate on an equal footing, and gain knowledge and connections that they can then use at work in their normal everyday lives. These in turn may have a long-term effect on cultural production, creativity and constraints. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7951
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Proceedings from NordiCHI 2008 Workshop Sunday October 19, 2008Clemmensen, Torkil (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper raises themes that are seen as some of the challenges facing the emerging practice and research field of Human Work Interaction Design. The paper has its offset in the discussions and writings that have been dominant within the IFIP Working Group on Human Work Interaction Design (name HWID) through the last two and half years since the commencement of this Working Group. The paper thus provides an introduction to the theory and empirical evidence that lie behind the combination of empirical work studies and interaction design. It also recommends key topics for future research in Human Work Interaction Design. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7764
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Nawaz, Ather; Plocher, Thomas; Clemmensen, Torkil; Qu, Weina; Sun, Xianghong (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There is a difference in how Danish and Chinese people group object, method and concepts into categories. Difference in these points affect the information structure in applications, which involve menus, links and directories. This study involves groups from Chinese and Danish cultures and investigates how these two cultures group cards into different categories and how their cultural backgrounds affect the structure of their categories. Card Sort, Information Structure, Cultural Difference and Usability. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6518
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A tale of two paradigmsVorm, Werner; Li, Xin; Jakobsen, Michael; Xie, Piehong (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the status of culture studies within the field of international business research, and to examine how two main paradigms – essentialism and social constructivism – relate to the discourse in this field. We analyze the main points of the two paradigms, and discuss how the relationship between them has evolved. Findings - We show that essentialism and social constructivism have a paradoxical relationship. They seem to be mutually exclusive, yet each offers unique insights into the notion of culture. Both are necessary for a complete understanding of culture, yet they cannot be integrated in any normal sense. We see the relationship between the two paradigms as paradoxical: that is, we see them as ontologically complementary yet epistemologically incommensurable. Taking inspiration from Bohr's principle of complementarity, we understand the two competing paradigms of culture studies as both necessary and yet as incompatible. Research limitations - Future research should help to improve the conceptual clarity with which the relationship between the two paradigms is portrayed here, thereby enhancing the empirical rigor of the argument we make in this paper. Practical implications – We encourage practitioners to learn how to switch, both sequentially and spatially, between the two paradigms of culture (fundamentally incommensurable though they are). This involves taking a "both/or" approach to the two paradigms. Originality/Value - We show for the first time that Bohr's complementarity principle is illustrative and useful for understanding the paradoxical relationship between essentialism and social constructivism. Inspired by two principles enunciated by Bohr – that of complementarity and that of classical concepts – we argue that the two competing paradigms are necessary yet 3 incommensurable. We therefore suggest that culture scholars switch between the two paradigms, instead of seeing each as negating the other. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9257
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The European Higher Education Area and Copenhagen Business SchoolTackney, Charles T.; Zølner, Mette (Atlante, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This Symposium presents curriculum design and content issues in a Scandinavian business school at its Centenary. The aim is an exploration of an educational institution at the interface of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) within the historical trends of the European Union. We hope this step will empirically document how the goals of the European Higher Education Area are functionally linked with the entrepreneurial sensibilities of administration, faculty, and administrative staff during the concrete operations of work. The series of presentations are framed between trans-cultural epistemological foundations in insight-based critical realism and inquiry into how the institutional entrepreneurs – the program directors – negotiate opportunities, risks, and tensions in curriculum and program implementation. Detailed case presentations take up curriculum effort to successfully engage issues of interdisciplinarity, use of text production as a tool in support of project and thesis writing, and the use of plurilingual content based teaching in a cooperative learning model for European studies. The history of one curriculum model initiated to educate better citizens, combining interdisciplinary methods with language instruction, whose features have endured and diffused throughout the business school, ends the presentation set. Symposium discussion will be designed to invite participants, from within the EU and beyond, to join in collaborative practitioner research for the EHEA future. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9547
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Built-in cooperation with business communityMadsen, Dorte (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the design of a three year bachelor's programme in information management. In 2006, a new educational programme in Information Management was launched at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark: BA in Information Management (http://www.cbs.dk/im). Developing this programme was motivated by a wish to launch a programme with a specific focus on the emerging digital, global information world in which we live, and the initiation of the programme was motivated by a strong demand from the business community calling for graduates with a holistic view of information processes and practices in organisations. The paper focuses on the underlying model for curriculum design which has been developed at CBS. The model takes its starting point in the business community's perception of the graduates' future practice. In the bachelor's programme in information management, the cooperation with the business community has been built into the curriculum design in the form of problem-based projects and an internship. On the basis of a survey of the business community's perception of future practice, a qualifications profile for the programme was formulated. The importance of problem-oriented work is discussed, as well as the interplay between problem-based and discipline-based elements in the curriculum design. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8639
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Haurum, Helle (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis discusses customers' engagement behaviors (CEB) in the context of continuous service relationships (telecommunication provider and financial services' provider). CEB manifestations are agreed in literature and in business to be a potential source of value for the firm and valuable contributions have been made, mainly focusing at antecedents for CEB, the various CEB behaviors and consequences of CEB. Extant literature adopts mainly a firm-centric perspective and tends to be conceptual. This research adopts a customer-centric perspective. The methodology is qualitative and is performed via semi-structured in-depth interviews with individuals resulting in 40 touchpoint histories about their service relationships with their telecommunication provider and financial services provider. Furthermore, are qualitative data collected at the telecommunication firm, in terms of interviews with employees and participant observations at touch-points. CEB are definitely found to be potential sources for value-creation for the firm. CEB can however at times destroy value or cause lost CEB value (when CEB initiatives by the firm are not returned). From the perspective of customers are CEB manifestations part of their everyday Life. Customers manifest CEB to obtain a certain goal, sometimes targeted the firm, and sometimes targeted a group external to the firm. Customers manifest CEB by adopting a certain interaction style to facilitate goal achievement, and the way customers manifest CEB are sometimes inconsistent and follows not necessarily pre-figured sequences. Customers' CEB manifestations co-exist with the experiences customers have in their service relationships. CEB is sometimes manifested by customers to re-experience, reinforce or challenge what the customer is currently / has been experiencing. CEB is as well sometimes embedded in the service relationship to a degree, where customers' experiences and CEB become deeply intertwined or even become one and same construct, and sometimes is a CEB manifestation a consequence of a certain customer experience. CEB has changed the service relationship, and some of the recognized cornerstones in what constitutes a service relationship are challenged. This thesis suggests that CEB manifestations turn the service relationship into a plethora of (service) events of sometimes conflicting valence, which might disrupt the value creation process intended by the firm. This might be the reality of 'the new service relationship'. These obvious managerial challenges are best solved by the firm, when the firm adopts a customer-centric approach and understands which situation(s) their customers are most frequently in (revolving around the firm). The firm should investigate which touch-points are relevant contingent the customer situation and finally how the touch-points could be best possible organized to stimulate for favorable CEB. This novel managerial concept is labeled 'customer arenas'. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9583
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Grønholdt, Lars; Martensen, Anne; Jørgensen, Stig; Jensen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how essential dimensions of customer experience management (CEM) drive business performance in Danish companies. Methodology/approach – An empirical study is conducted to investigate the relationships between seven CEM dimensions, differentiation, market performance and financial performance. The conceptual model is operationalized by a structural equation model, and the model is estimated and tested by using the partial least squares method. A survey among 484 companies in Denmark forms the empirical basis for the study. Findings – The findings provide evidence that the seven CEM dimensions influence financial performance. The high performing companies differentiate significantly from the low performing companies with regard to how they master CEM. All seven CEM dimensions are essential in producing differentiation, market performance and financial performance. Research limitations – This study is limited to the seven identified CEM dimensions in Danish companies. Practical implications – This study has clear implications in terms of identifying and measuring the importance of essential CEM dimensions which influence business performance. The results can help companies to understand CEM and develop CEM strategies. Originality/value – The paper provides a deeper insight into CEM and how CEM works. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8986
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Their Merits and Sophistication across ContextsHolm, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to expand our understanding of the applicability and performance effects of different Customer Profitability Measurement (CPM) models across contexts. Customer profitability measurement has attracted increasing interest recently – mainly in the marketing literature. The vast majority of this research has been case-based. Consequently, the evidence in this field consists of a number of case demonstrations indicating that using CPM models can be beneficial in specific industries but only very limited cross-sectional research investigating the general relationships between the CPM model use, context and firm financial performance. Researching these relationships is expected to contribute to marketing as well as management accounting literatures but also to managers working with or planning to start working with CPM models in practice for two reasons: First, marketing managers are increasingly required to be accountable for the marketing investments they expect to make. A better understanding of which CPM models that are applicable in different contexts will contribute to more efficient resource utilization in firms. Second, the management accounting literature on CPM models is very scarce despite the fact that this area is a key priority in practice. Knowledge on how CPM models are adapted to fit the environment in which the firm operates will contribute to our understanding of how CPM models should be designed but also to the general school of contingency-based management accounting research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8437
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An econometric study of an Italian bankGritti, Paola; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We empirically address how customer satisfaction and loyalty in the banking industry may affect profitability. This helps to identify the strategy and competencies necessary to benefit from customer relationships which are important sources for improved performance in the banking. We do this by analyzing data collected on 2,105 customers of 118 branches of one of the biggest banks of an Italian banking group. We find that customer satisfaction impacts loyalty, which in turn has a direct effect on financial and non-financial customer value/total customer value/complex customer value. Moreover, loyalty is a mediator between financial and not-financial customer value and two sources of customer satisfaction, namely relationships with the front office and the branch, on the one hand, and the products offered, on the other. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7484
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