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DETROIT – Once again the Detroit Red Wings scratched and clawed their way into the postseason for a 23rd consecutive season, but the ouster in five games by the Boston Bruins wasn't what they had planned.
"I'm general manager of a team that this ownership, this fan base, they want us to be a playoff team," Ken Holland said. "Nobody seems to have an appetite to miss the playoff for four or five consecutive years to try and replenish and build up this core of players that you can build around for 10 or 12 years.
"Where we draft, we don't draft high enough to move players from junior to the National Hockey League to make the playoffs," Holland continued. "We can have the youngest team in the league next year, we're going to miss the playoffs. How do I know? I just look at other teams and other situations."
The youth movement was this year's theme as eight players make their NHL debut in the regular season.
"I want to be a playoff team and I think that when players are ready to help us win, they'll be here," Holland said. "The one guy that wasn't here that probably should have been here at the start of the season was (Gustav) Nyquist. Other than that, Tomas Jurco, when we called him up in November, he was the eighth leading scorer in the American Hockey League. This isn't a league where you're going to learn to score in. You're going to score in other leagues. You don't come up here and learn to score. If you can't score before you get here, the coaches aren't going to give you enough time to learn to score because they want to win. They're going to put people out there that they know have got a track record to do it. If you can't defend, it doesn't matter how many points you get.
"This is a hard league to be a real player in at 22 and 23," Holland continued. "We don't have a 22-year-old (Steve) Yzerman. We don't have a 22-year-old (Nicklas) Lidstrom. We don't have those players. I'll be the first to tell you. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, they weren't Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg at 22. They became Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg at 26.
Forwards Riley Sheahan and Luke Glendening, along with defensemen Brendan Smith and Danny DeKeyser also played huge roles this season.
"That's why young players get traded to other organizations," Holland said. "Because they get there too quick, they're not quite ready for the challenge and then people get down on them. The manager and the coach, then they go to another city. I'm hoping to leave these players away from here as long as possible so that when they do get here, the growing pains are as short as possible."
Here are the final positional grades, which includes playoffs and has each of the first three quarter grades after.
Forwards: C+ (B-, B, B)
Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk combined to play 90 regular season games. Zetterberg still was third on the team in scoring.
The duo shined in the playoffs with Datsyuk leading the team with five points and Zetterberg had a goal and an assist in just two games.
Daniel Alfredsson, when healthy, was a fine addition, finishing tied for the team lead with 49 points.
Johan Franzen was a complete no show down the stretch.
Gustav Nyquist had a magnificent regular season, leading the team with 28 goals in just 57 games.
However, he and the rest of the young forwards found it difficult to produce in the postseason. The only newbie to register a point in five games was Luke Glendening.
Injury-riddled Darren Helm potted 12 goals in 42 games. His speed is unmatched in the league.
Justin Abdelkader was like a yo-yo with linemates, but still managed 10 goals and 18 assists.
Drew Miller was the lone forward to play the entire 82-game regular season schedule.
The trade for David Legwand didn't pan out like hoped and Todd Bertuzzi's best days are behind him.
The signing of Daniel Cleary haunted them all year as did the two-year deal they struck with Mikael Samuelsson two seasons ago.
Defensemen: B (B, B+, C+)
Niklas Kronwall has truly taken over as the leader on the blue line having to mentor a mistake-prone Brendan Smith once Jonathan Ericsson's regular season ended with a fractured finger.
Danny DeKeyser is here to stay.
Despite getting off to a rough start in the plus-minus category, Kyle Quincey recovered and finished just a minus-5. He was the lone defenseman to play all 82 regular season games.
And just like last season Brian Lashoff leaped over Jakub Kindl on the depth chart when playoffs rolled around.
The team also got a look at a few youngsters on the blue line – Ryan Sproul, Xavier Ouellet, Alexey Marchenko, Adam Almquist – this season to see if they're ready to make the leap to the NHL.
Goalies: C (C+, B-, C)
Jimmy Howard admitted, "I thought it was an OK season, by no means was it a good or great season."
He finished the regular season with his worst goals-against average (2.66) and save percentage (.910) since his second season as the Wings' starter.
Battling injures from groins to shoulders, Jonas Gustavsson appeared in just 34 regular-season games with the Wings over two seasons.
When he's healthy he's a reliable backup, going 16-5-4 this season. He also started the final two playoff games because Howard at the flu and gave them a chance to win.
Petr Mrazek will likely spend one more season in Grand Rapids before coming to Detroit fulltime.
Coaching: A- (B+, B-, A-)
When the finalists for the Jack Adams Award is announced on Tuesday, look for Mike Babcock to be on the list of final three.
With the amount of injured players, many of them were the core of the franchise, Babcock changed up his coaching style and put his trust in the kids and it paid off.
"The way I look it the coach of the year gets to raise the Stanley Cup and the rest of us are trying to get better," Babcock said. "I thought we did lots of good things here this year. It was spectacular to get in the playoffs because our guys worked so hard."


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CTRUS. A football—as in soccer—that doesn't use air but an inner elastic structure and an elastomer skin that perfectly simulates a real football. It's also the ball that would avoid many referee mistakes.
Many people argue that one of the beauties of soccer is the occasional mistakes made by referees, specially the offsides. But when it's your team that gets eliminated from a World Cup or the UEFA Champions League because of one of those mistakes, it's not funny at all. And it may cost your club millions of dollars.
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Jets 2.0 return to their home this evening for the penultimate outing of the pre-season, and there seems to be one topic that's dominating discussion. As Matt noted yesterday, there's a bit of unwarranted pressure on the club from a good chunk of the fan base to keep their prize rookie in town, although I'm not in that number. Anyone familiar with my scribblings knows I'm not one to advocate rushing players.
That stipulated, I'm fine with the idea of Mark Scheifele playing nine games in the bigs for a couple of reasons. First, with Eric Fehr still likely to be headed to the IR for an extended stint, there's a natural hole in the top nine that really can't otherwise be filled internally. The Jets are likely short a legitimate top nine forward or two even with Fehr healthy, and the drop off in skill down to players like Cormier and Maxwell is fairly marked. Scheifele might well be a step up from those gents even at 18, and he seems to have some genuine ability on the PP that few others on the roster possess.
The second reason I'd keep him around for the first few weeks is that regular season hockey is a completely different animal than the disjointed shinny played in September. I suspect that Scheifele could stand a bit of exposure to the real McCoy before heading back to Barrie for the fall, and since I'm not deluding myself into believing the Jets are headed to the post-season, the club can use the opening games to get the young man's feet wet without hurting themselves in any sort of competitive manner.
The benefit of this approach is that they can expose him to what he needs to work on, send him back to Ducky with that list of instructions, and wish him well for the year. The one potential downside is that playing a physically immature player is that he could be at an increased risk for injury, as anyone that has witnessed Gilbert Brule over the last few years could attest. In fairness, though, Scheifele's a bigger man that Brule, and as I've noted before, Brule dominated junior by being a power player, so he ran risks maintaining that style as an 18 year old in the NHL that players like Scheifele and Nugent Hopkins might not face.
Should Scheifele stay up for his cameo, one area to watch very carefully will be his performance in his own end 5v5. That's almost always the part of the game where young players need the most work. If he knocks it out of the park at EV, well, that'll be a nice problem to have, and one just hopes that people pay attention to who he plays with and against at evens before getting too excited.
The other issue at hand beyond Scheifele's ability is the absence of a signed contract. The Jets do have an advantage in this case, since the players drafted immediately before and after Scheifele are already under wraps. Mika Zibanejad has inked a deal that averages 1.775M, while Sean Couturier signed for 1.375M after bonuses. I'd bet that the two sides can come to a deal fairly quickly if needed, with a number in the 1.6-1.7M range, so if the team wants the young man around for October, his contract status really shouldn't be an impediment.
At any rate, he's still in town, and tonight, he and the others will face a C+ level Hurricane squad. Ezra at Illegal Curve has posted preliminary lineups, which show Scheifele working with Evander Kane. That's good to see, if for no other reason than Scheifele has mostly skated with pluggers at EV in the first three games. The Jets are sitting four players of note in Hainsey, Byfuglien, Antropov and Little, so I suppose if the Canes are a third-rate group, Winnipeg is countering with a solid B+ squad.
Edit: the Free Press has an updated roster that includes Antropov and Gregoire in, Postma out.
The other thing to watch will be how guys like Bodie, Cormier and Klingberg fare. All of them are on the bubble for the last coupe of roster spots at forward, so tonight might be their last chance to win a job, especially in Bodie's case as he's on a PTO. Paul Postma appears to still be in the mix on the back end as well. He'll play this evening for the fourth time in pre-season (or not. See above). I'll confess I'm not quite as impressed as some with Postma's game, because points on the PP in the pre-season are nice, but defencemen still need to be NHL-worthy in their own end. I'm not sure he's there, and even if he was a bit more adept in his own end, defence is the last spot the club needs bodies, at least for this season.
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VALLEJO - Ask Ken Ingersoll, owner of Gracie's Family Bar-B-Que in downtown Vallejo, about bankruptcy and he says it was just the jolt his city needed.
VALLEJO - Ask Ken Ingersoll, owner of Gracie's Family Bar-B-Que in downtown Vallejo, about bankruptcy and he says it was just the jolt his city needed.
Sure, it was painful, he said, and it didn't cure all of Vallejo's ills. But it taught everybody - residents and business owners alike - about the value of community.
With fewer police to answer their calls and a bare-bones staff at City Hall, residents came together to tackle more of their own challenges. They had no choice.
"Now we have a more active and engaged community," said Ingersoll, a 43-year-old former refinery worker turned restaurateur. "It's the survival of the fittest."
As Stockton slides closer toward bankruptcy, Ingersoll said his hometown is glad to share what it has learned.
Vallejo, a former shipbuilding town, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in May 2008, when municipal finances buckled at the start of the Great Recession. Many police officers left for work in other towns.
Prostitution, home foreclosures and squatters became themes in Vallejo's story line. The city emerged from bankruptcy late last year.
A lack of resources prodded downtown business owners to use public-nuisance laws to run off deadbeat landlords who rented to drug dealers and pimps.
Out in the neighborhoods hard hit by foreclosures, the number of neighborhood watch groups increased and homeowners began to take banks to task for failing to maintain vacant houses.
"You see a mind-set change in the community," Ingersoll said. "Vallejo is a tough girl."
The Bay Area community also is a window into Stockton's future. Municipal bankruptcy remains rare, but more cities grappling with financial crises look to Vallejo, and now Stockton, as setting painful standards.
Chapter 9 didn't cure all of Vallejo's ills, but the city is recovering, Vice Mayor Erin Hannigan said. Vallejo is now struggling to overcome a $3.8 million budget shortfall arising from a rift with its police union.
Yet, the city's residents narrowly passed a 1 percent sales tax increase on the promise that it would be used to fill potholes and bolster police services. The proposal was a hard sell given the distrust that bankruptcy spawned.
The city last year attracted Blu Homes to the former Mare Island Naval Complex, where the Massachusetts-based firm manufactures its "green" prefabricated homes inside a massive warehouse. City leaders see that as a good sign.
Hannigan said she spends a fair share of time these days defending her city's battered reputation.
"People think it's a desolate Detroit where they're tearing down neighborhoods," Hannigan said. "It's not like that at all."
The city, with a diverse population and a blue-collar reputation, sits on a hillside with a scenic view of Mare Island and, beyond that, San Pablo Bay.
A ferry stops at the newly renovated terminal, and it shuttles residents to work in San Francisco an hour away.
The downtown shopping district has similar turn-of-the century architecture to Stockton. The difference is that most of the storefronts in Vallejo are occupied.
Some shops sell flowers, antique furniture and real estate. Many store windows post a flier for the city's 159th Fourth of July parade.
Janet Sylvian, who owns an upscale sewing shop, Pieced on Earth, was among 150 downtown Vallejo business owners to join forces a decade ago to clean up the city's core.
They taxed themselves and put in weekends to clean up old mattresses abandoned in the alleys and other junk. She's stood on her sidewalk and run off loitering vagrants.
They're seeing the payoff.
Sylvian said she no longer has to spend each morning bleaching the human waste off the cement of her shop's entryway.
"What is happening at City Hall is not on my mind," she said. "I'm focused on my business."
Residents in the city's middle-class hillside neighborhoods have their own focus.
David Corbett, a crime novelist and Vallejo community activist, said the psyche evolved during the city's financial crisis from an "orgy of blame" and finger pointing" to writing a "new social contract."
Neighborhood watch programs sprouted up and began to connect neighbors. They in turn pressured the banks that owned foreclosed homes to keep them up.
Corbett is editor of the Vallejo Lamplighter, a newsletter designed to share ideas among neighborhood watch groups.
"It takes a crisis to jar you out of your lethargy," Corbett said. "That's what the bankruptcy really did."
In downtown business district, Raymond Prather is the fourth generation to run Victory Stores, a working-class clothier. He gauges the city's pride by sales of "Vallejo" T-shirts.
He orders them in bulk and recalls selling very few the first summer of the city's bankruptcy. Now, he can't keep them on the rack and is ready to order a new shipment.
"I'm selling them like hotcakes again," Prather said. "Maybe the pride is back."
Contact reporter Scott Smith at (209) 546-8296 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/smithblog.


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A small child from a forest village in Indonesia - where as more rainforest is cleared, tigers stray into villages putting lives at risk.
As a teenage boy is killed by a tiger forced out of its natural habitat by deforestation, we ask how serious must this get before KFC publicly cut ties with companies pulping rainforests.
Following huge public outcry, KFC recently announced the start of a process to examine where they get paper for items like napkins and chicken buckets. But examination is not enough! Despite having months to reflect, they've still not announced zero tolerance on deforestation. And they still haven't said whether they will cut ties with companies like Asia Pulp & Paper, who are pulping tiger habitat.
And while KFC dither the situation is becoming increasingly grave.
Sumadi is from Jumrah village in Indonesia. Before the deforestation started, there were no problems with tigers. But as the animal's natural habitat was destroyed, tigers were forced in to areas where the villagers lived and worked.
It was a normal day for Sumadi and his family. They were working the land near their village when the tiger appeared. Frightened and confused, it attacked and killed Ahmad, Sumadi's 18 year-old son.
"No one wanted to help us carry his body [back to the village]," Sumadi explained. "No one dared because the tiger was still near. My wife and I had to carry him on our own. When we felt tired we put him down and cleared the dirt from his face. It was difficult. He was covered in blood.
"When the forest was still in good condition, no tigers entered our village. After the forest was cleared our son was attacked. It's enough that our son became a victim, but my wife no longer comes with me to look after our land. Whenever she comes to the forest she will remember our son."
Sumadi, whose 18-year-old son Ahmad was killed by a Sumatran tiger.
Sumadi does not blame the tiger for Ahmad's death. He explained: "All I want is for our forest not to be cleared. Leave some forest for the Sumatran tiger. When there is no more forest obviously tigers will enter our villages."
It's encouraging that KFC, as the world's largest fast food company, are starting to examine the issue of its paper supply. But strong vision and decisive action is needed now.
If we are going to stop the destruction of tiger habitat, then global giants like KFC must stop buying from APP so that they see that clearing forests is not only bad for tigers and local communities but also bad for their business.
KFC CEO, David Novak, fancies himself as a leadership guru, recently winning CEO of the year. Yet he has so far failed to provide strong leadership on deforestation.
So we're asking the KFC Board to pull him in to line. They're the one group Novak must answer to. He can't ignore them.
So far, over 30,000 people have emailed the KFC Board of Directors asking them to cut rainforests from KFC packaging. Why not add your voice and help protect tiger habitat and the communities around them.
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Hollywood humanitarian Sean Penn has ditched tinseltown and made a life-long pledge to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Penn founded the Haiti relief organization J/P HRO, which began providing medical aid and helping people relocate hours after a massive 7.0 quake reduced Port-au-Prince to rubble in January 2010. He's been living and working there ever since.
"There's no end point," Penn told the Hollywood Reporter. "This is where I'll be when I'm not working, for the rest of my life."
And he will be working, by necessity if not for his love of film. The "I am Sam" star finalized his divorce from actress Robin Wright in July.
"I had just got taken for half of everything I had in the divorce," he said. "So it's not like I don't have to work."
The "Mystic River" star and film director will be honored with the Producer's Guild 2011 Stanley Kramer award for shedding light on the devastation in Haiti. The award goes to a motion picture, producer, or individual that "illuminates a provocative social issue."
Penn is the first individual to win the Kramer, which honored the global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006 and the Rwandan-genocide film "Hotel Rwanda" in 2004.
He and his team oversee a camp in the once-affluent suburb of Petionville where 11,000 tarp-topped structures dot what used to be a nine-hour golf course.
Penn said he belongs out there in the trenches at the J/P HRO camp, not in Malibu or Hollywood.
"Let's face it," the actor said. "I'm a person that feels pretty alienated from the rest of the world and never felt understood by anyone."
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HOUSE BILL No. 2820
Section 1. K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 72-4412 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 72-4412. As used in this act:
(a) ``Board'' means the board of education of any school district, the
board of trustees of any community college, the board of regents of any
municipal university, the board of control of any area vocational-technical
school, the governing body of any technical college, or the chief executive
officer of any state educational institution.
(b) ``Area vocational school'' means any vocational education school
established under authority of the laws of this state, approved and offi-
cially designated as an area vocational school by the state board, and
operated under any board. Any area vocational school, except for pur-
poses of the construction of this act, may retain and use the name given
to such school prior to the effective date of this act, even though such
name includes the words ``area vocational-technical school.'' Until this
provision is amended by or repealed from law, the state board shall not
approve the establishment or operation of any area vocational school
which has not been approved for establishment or officially designated as
an area vocational school prior to the effective date of this act, except that
a community college which is consolidated with an area vocational school
or area vocational-technical school under the provisions of K.S.A. 71-1701
through 71-1706, and amendments thereto, may be designated as an area
vocational school.
(c) ``Area vocational-technical school'' means any vocational educa-
tion school which was classified as a type II area vocational-technical
school under authority of former laws or which is established and classi-
fied as a type II area vocational-technical school under authority of this
act. The school to which this definition applies is the Southeast Kansas
area vocational-technical school.
The governing body of an area vocational-technical school shall be
called a board of control and shall be constituted as is provided by agree-
ment of the boards participating therein. Members of the board of control
shall be paid subsistence allowances, mileage and other actual and nec-
essary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. The
state board may adopt special rules and regulations applicable to the con-
duct, operation and administration of area vocational-technical schools.
Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the establishment or
operation of any area vocational-technical school not specifically desig-
nated in this subsection. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to prevent
any board from entering into an agreement for participation in the op-
eration of any area vocational-technical school; nor shall any board which
is now or hereafter a participant in the operation of an area vocational-
technical school be prevented by the provisions of this act from with-
drawing therefrom in the absence of a written agreement to the contrary.
(d) ``School district'' means any school district organized under the
laws of this state.
(e) ``Community college'' means any community college organized
and operating under the laws of this state.
(f) ``Municipal university'' means a municipal university established
under the provisions of article 13a of chapter 13 of Kansas Statutes An-
(g) ``State educational institution'' means the university of Kansas,
Kansas state university of agriculture and applied science, Wichita state
university, Emporia state university, Pittsburg state university, and Fort
Hays state university, and Kansas state university--Salina, college of tech-
(h) ``Technical college'' means an educational institution that for-
merly was an area vocational school or an area vocational-technical school
and that has been converted to, established as, and officially designated
a technical college under authority of this act.
(i) ``State board'' means, for the 2001-02 through 2003-04 school
years, the state board of education; and for the 2004-05 school year and
school years thereafter, the state board of regents.
(j) ``School year'' means the twelve-month period ending on June 30.
(k) ``Vocational education'' means organized educational programs of-
fering a sequence of courses which are directly related to the preparation
of individuals in paid or unpaid employment in current or emerging oc-
cupations requiring other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree. Such
programs shall include competency-based applied learning which con-
tributes to an individual's academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning,
and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills,
and the occupational-specific skills necessary for economic independence
as a productive and contributing member of society. The term vocational
education also includes technology education.
(l) ``Technology education'' means an applied discipline designed to
promote technological literacy which provides knowledge and under-
standing of the impacts of technology including its organizations, tech-
niques, tools and skills to solve practical problems and extend human
capabilities in technological areas.
(m) ``State plan'' means a document or set of documents, together
with attachments and supplements thereto, containing such provisions as
are authorized by this act and required by the Carl D. Perkins vocational
and technical education act of 1998, and acts amendatory thereof or sup-
plemental thereto.
(n) ``Associate of applied science degree program'' means a program
that is offered and maintained by a technical college, composed of vo-
cational, technology, and general education courses of instruction for
which individuals may earn college credit, designed to prepare individuals
for gainful employment in technical or technological occupations requir-
ing other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree or to qualify individuals
for transfer to another college or university and, after satisfactory com-
pletion of the requirements for graduation, results in the conferral of an
associate of applied science degree. For the purpose of awarding college
credit for completion of coursework leading to the conferral of an asso-
ciate of applied science degree, the state board of regents shall determine
the number of clock hours of instruction in general education courses or
vocational education or technology education courses which shall be
equivalent to a credit hour shall consist of 15 clock hours of instruction
in general education courses or 30 clock hours of instruction in vocational
or technology education courses.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 72-4412 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
Approved April 4, 2002.
Date Composed: 10/10/2002 Date Modified: 10/10/2002


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|Hokusai. In the footsteps of the Master
Ara Pacis
dal 12-10-2017 al 14-01-2018
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Through about 200 works b> (100 for each rotation of the exhibition for conservative reasons linked to the fragility of polychrome silographs) coming from the Chiba City Museum of Art i> Important Japanese collections such as Sumisho Art Gallery, Uragami Mitsuru Collection and Kawasaki Isago i> no Sato Museum i>, as well as < The Museum of Oriental Art Edoardo Chiossone of Genoa b>, the show tells and compares the production of the Master with that of some of the artists who have followed his footsteps b> creating new lines , Shapes and color balance within the classical strings of the tukio.
Hokusai has explored subjects b> of every kind: from landscape to nature, animals and flowers, from the portrait of kabuki actors to the feminine and warrior actors, to ghost images and Spirits and beings and animals of the same age.
It was a experimenter that varied formats and techniques: b> from ink-and-paint on vertical and horizontal rolls, to polychrome silographs of any size for the big market, to the finest < I> surimon, i> used as greeting cards, invitations, event calendars, literary encounters, tea ceremonies, theater invitations.
The volumes of the Manga i> Hundreds of sketches and drawings drawn by the master and printed in black ink with a touch of light vermilion, represent the compendium of so eccentricity and genius made available to young artists and painters as models for every kind of subject. Among his students are Hokuba, Hokkei (1790-1850), Hokumei (1786-1868) who mark the next generation of artists, along with Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), a non-direct student of Hokusai, but who is Was influenced by the developments of the prints of female beauty and landscape of the years 1810-1830. Just to Eisen, presented in Italy for the first time in this exhibition, belongs to the beautiful and impressive figure of courtier represented in the silography that Van Gogh paints behind Père Tanguy and also used on the cover of the Paris Le Japon Illustré i> I> in 1887.
The exhibition is made up of five sections b> that will cover the most fashionable and most sought-after issues from the market of the time:
1- MEISHŌ i>: not to be missed b>
2-Stylish Belts b>
3 - Fortune and Goodwill b>
4- Capture the essence of nature b>
5- Manga b> and learn manuals b>
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Meet Nashville recording artist Doug Allen...
a singer/songwriter with a rich voice and tunes with strong
hooks that are setting him apart on the country music scene.
You'll hear two songs off his current CD in Major Motion
Pictures... including a bar scene with Renee Zellweger in the
Universal Pictures Film One True Thing. Doug is a seasoned live
performer, having opened for acts like Gregg Allman, Edwin
McCain, John Entwistle of The Who, Jewel, The Bacon Brothers
and many more. Thanks for taking a listen!
See Doug playing His Song "Blue Room" in the Bar
Scene with Renee Zellweger in the Universal
Pictures Film One True Thing. (Also starring Meryl
Streep and William Hurt).
Lion's Gate Entertainment chose "One Room Flat"
the 2nd song off Doug's current CD... to support
the soundtrack to A Reason to Believe alongside
tunes from: 10,000 Maniacs, R.E.M., Violent Femmes,
Blind Melon and Concrete Blonde.
Sacramento"... is a true love story about an east
coast /west coast relationship and also the single
off Doug's latest release from Nashville. We filmed
this video in the late summer at a cool old barn in
"Choose Love." This song started out as just a
guitar part that I kept playing over and over again
last February
so I brought it to my friend PJ
around the time of the winter olympics, and he said
it sounds anthemic and big like these winter
games... lets write it about something BIG.
Opening Show for The Bacon Brothers
"Somebody Like You" (Keith Urban Cover). Ive loved
Keith Urbans guitar playing form the first time I
heard it in my cousins kitchen up in Albany, NY
years ago
: ) They were nuts for him and I cans
see why. He plays lead guitar with the best feel in
country music I think. Its a really fun song to
play, with that ascending riff
hope ya like it! We
loved playing it.


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Recipe Box Organizing
Hey I'm not sure if I can't figure it out or it is no longer a feature? Are we able to catagorize our recipe boxes anymore? It was much easier for me to click on "Indian" if that's what I am craving and pick out a recipe from my favorites. From what I can tell they are all lumped together now. Can we still do this?
I am wondering about this too. I see that the tags have been added to each recipe, but there is no way to search by those tags so they are basically useless. I also don't see a way to remove recipes that I no longer want in my recipe box.
woah, i came back to this site after a year and all my folders are gone. is there way to break things into folders again? its just a mess now
I'm new to this site and I also tried to figure out the Recipe Box feature. Any help would be much appreciated.


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|Aberdeen, Md.
|High School:
2011 Outdoor: America East shot put champion... Earned a silver medal in the discus throw, 41.63m, at the America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships... Recorded new personal best performances in the hammer throw, 41.03m, and the javelin, 24.74m...Returns as the Retrievers top performer in the discus throw, weight throw, hammer throw, javelin, and shot put.
2010-11 Indoor: America East shot put champion... Earned silver at the conference meet in the weight throw... Finished seventh in the shot put at the Penn State Invitational with personal best distance of 14.45m… Earned a first overall finish in the weight throw with a distance of 16.50m at the Bison Opener.
2009-10 Indoor: Won gold in the shot put (13.75m) and bronze in the weight throw (15.14m) at the America East Championships… Placed sixth in the shot put with a throw of 14.01m at the ECAC Championships… Set a UMBC season-best mark in the shot put of 14.08m at the New York Armory… Won the shot put at the Rider/Lafayette Winter Games… Named team's Most Valuable Athlete at UMBC's varsity awards ceremony in May.
Background: Was Maryland 3A State Champion in the Shot put in 2008 and 2009… Won 3A State crown in the discus in 2008… Won 3A Regional champion in the shot put and discus in 2009… Was named Harford County Athlete of the Year in 2008… Was named to the All-Metropolitan team in 2008… Was named 3rd team all state in 2008 and 2009… Was named to Harford County All County team 2007-2009…
Personal: Oldest child of Edward and Dena Bailey… Has a younger brother Bryce… Also lettered in Basketball… An honor student every year in high school… Elected senior class president… Began throwing when she was 13... Born Nov. 3, 1991.


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"Liesl & Po" by Lauren Oliver
"Liesl and Po" is about a girl, a boy, a ghost, and a ghost pet. Will (the boy), confuses a box containing ashes of Henry Morbower, who is Liesl's father, with the most powerful magic in the world. Liesl is locked in the attic by her evil stepmother. Po (the ghost) and Bundle (the ghost pet) come to visit. The Lady Premiere is sooo angry about Will's mix-up! Will goes out to find the magic, and at the same time, Liesl is running away with the magic, which she thinks is her father's ashes. She wants to bring her father to the place she was born. Po and Bundle accompany Liesl. The journey is long and mysterious and things stir up trouble. But she gets there. I like the mysteriousness of the journey. If you like fantasy, you will love "Liesl & Po." To find out what happens next read, "Liesl & Po."
— Hannah Gruber, 8, Cumberland, R.I.
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
"The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom" by Christopher Healy
I read a newly published book called "The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom." I think that other kids should read it because there is a lot of suspense and happiness. There are also thrilling moments and breathtaking points in this book. This story is about the four Prince Charmings from different fairy tales: Frederic, Gustav, Liam, and Duncan, and their princesses. The cool part about this book is that all the princes' personalities are really different.
All the princes showed courage in different ways. For example, battling a dragon and an evil witch named Zauberer, and distracting a giant. These are only a few examples. I really, really, really liked this book a lot and I think other kids would enjoy it, too.
— Sophia Andrews, 9, Oak Park
"Dragon Valley" by Luke Herzog
"Dragon Valley" is a 203-page fantasy novel that just happens to have been written by my 11-year-old brother, Luke Herzog. He wrote it in spiral notebooks over 18 months. It is the story of five lab-created dragons of five different colors and personalities who are set free in a valley. The book takes place over one thousand years, and by then there are tribes of dragons — some good and some bad. There are also other creatures with names like Grizzclaws and Neomeons. The book has tales of rescues, dragon contests and battles. All of it was a lot of fun to read. There is even some dragon romance (which wasn't so bad either), as well as a long glossary and a map of Dragon Valley. It's one of my favorite books, even though my brother wrote it.
— Jesse Herzog, 10
"Natasha Lands Down Under" by Katherine McCaughan
Natasha thinks that life is fine in Shanghai, China, but when the war erupts and takes over her city, her family is forced to move out. Natasha is worried, but would rather do ANYTHING than move to Sidney, Australia. However, her parents say it is the safest place to stay and there is no stopping her parents! She has many worries, but is mainly focused on one problem. In Sidney, people speak English and she doesn't know how to say yes or no in English!!! She is scared to move to a new land but, she is forced to. After a long trip to Sidney traveling by cargo boat and airplane, she finds out that she is living with her Aunt Vera for a while. Not only is her Aunt very vain, she is 100 percent rude to Natasha!!! If that isn't bad enough she has her 2 cousins, Vladimir and Peter, who are also rude to her. FINALLY, her parents save up enough pennies to buy their own home. Many problems arise after they move, but it doesn't only happen at home. She faces problems at school and other unexpected places. She is teased about her hair being old fashioned. She is also embarrassed about many things, but mostly the remark "Bloody-New-Australians." Many things worry Natasha and make life harder in this new place. Those things include: secrets about her family, troubles with her sister, trouble making new friends, and the loss of relatives and animals she loved.
Does being from a different country make Natasha so different after all?
Read the book "Natasha Lands Down Under" to find out!!
— Magie Andries, 11, Oak Park
"The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict" by Trenton Lee Stewart
In Trenton Lee Stewart's most recent book, "The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict," a young boy named Nicholas is sent to yet another orphanage. Since Nicholas has a problematic sleeping disorder, he sleeps on the third floor, separated from the others in the boy's dormitory. During his first few days, he makes enemies with a group of boys nicknamed The Spiders. At the same time, he manages to befriend a boy named John. At any rate, Nicholas discovers that life at Rothchild's End, the orphanage, won't be easy. Despite hardships, Nicholas manages to have quite a few extraordinary adventures. You'll have to read the book to discover what they are! I will say that Stewart has really outdone himself. I just adore this book because I find it highly entertaining. People who enjoy mystery, adventure and comedy should not only read this book, but the entire "Mysterious Benedict Society" series!
— Maeve Anger, 11, Lake Forest
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"The Hunger Games" is a great book. Even though it is a book on survival, it is also a romance and a story of caring and sadness. Katniss is the protagonist. Soon her sister, Primrose, is called for the reaping. Katniss volunteers. She will do anything for her sister, even die a painful death.
Personally I loved it. If you like romances, fighting, or friendship, you will love it. If you hate romances, get sick at the sight of blood or hate serious topics, this is not for you. You probably think, it is an "oh-no-we're-going-to-die...oh-yay-we-won" kind of story. It is not. So next up, read "The Hunger Games."
NOTICE: Do not read the book if you are under age 10.
WARNING: Also very gory.
— Fiona Fryman
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
"A Wrinkle In Time" is a great book for young kids, and I think this book is great for kids who love Science Fiction.
The whole book is about a girl named Meg Murry. Meg's father, who is a genius scientist, disappears while he is on top-secret business.
On the way to meet her little brother Charles Wallace's peculiar friends, Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs.Which, Meg meets a popular boy from school named Calvin O'Keefe.
Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which tell Meg, Charles, and Calvin that they have to save the dark planets, which are overpowered by The Black Thing. Friends along the way will help them. The trio discovers the disappearance of Meg and Charles father has something to do with The Black Thing. But when Charles gets captured and controlled by IT, a giant evil brain, disaster strikes.
Will Meg and her group save the day?
— Catalina DeLaPena, Evanston
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle is a great adventure story. It has action, mystery, and sci-fi, all packed in one book. I would recommend this book to ages 9+ because it has a lot of long words and the author's style of writing is suited for older kids and adults. The book is entertaining, but it might get a little boring for younger kids.
The book is about three kids named Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin who go on quest to another planet to save Meg and Charles Wallace's father. They do this by "tessering," which means to wrinkle time or/and space.
Overall, this book is great for science fiction lovers, since it has a lot of things that those kinds of readers would enjoy. I really liked this book, and I know others who liked it too.
— Sam Shin, Evanston
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
When I first read "A Wrinkle In Time," I thought it would be boring. But I guess I judged the book by its cover.
"A Wrinkle In Time" is a GREAT book. It's science fiction, and I'd say it's for readers ages 9+. I don't think I'll ever be too old for THIS novel.
The story stars Meg Murry, Charles Wallace, Meg's misjudged younger brother, and Calvin O'Keefe, Meg's mabe-more-than-a-friend. They are on a quest to find Meg's father, who has been missing for years. Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs.Who, and Mrs.Which accompany them and help them on the journey.
Everyone out there, don't judge the book by its cover like I did. After I read the first few chapters, I couldn't stop! This emotional yet exciting book rocks.
— Jordan Yi, Evanston
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a beautiful novel about a girl named Meg and how she rescues her father. She has a brother named Charles Wallace. This is an incredible journey of Meg, Charles and Calvin O'Keefe (who met Meg and Charles at the haunted house) rescuing Meg's father with the help of Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which. I think this book will be interesting to those who love science fiction.
This book has time travel and fantasy combined together. It has many characters and this story has been built well. In this story, all the characters develop over a period of time and learn something new. They cover up their faults. Each person in this story leaves behind their views and makes you think "why?". I hope you all will enjoy reading this book.
— Anusha R K, Evanston
"When you Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
"When You Reach Me" is a great book. At first the only thing that was keeping me reading was the $20,000 Pyramid, but then as I read, I saw the great qualities this book brings to the table. I find this book very well-written. This book is a mystery that to the reader is impossible to solve. There was never a time I could even guess what was going to happen, and don't get me wrong that is a great thing. I loved the ending. (So for the people who have to have a good ending, you are fine, you may read this book, enjoy.) I must say it starts out slow, but PLEASE keep reading until you finish the book, you won't regret it! All in all, this book was great! I give this book a 9 out of 10.
— Askley Lemke, Evanston


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My employer is tossing around the idea of sending out a mass email to potential customers. My question is how do spam filters determine what is or is not spam.
I have read that the emails header is reviewed and I have found a list of words that will raise the spam count. Is there any thing else aside from attachments i should be aware of? The only attachment will be a small image file (coupon).
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Enriching software process improvement with knowledge managementHansen Hansen, Bo (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Formålet med denne afhandling er at belyse, hvorledes softwarevirksomheder kan forbedre deres udviklingspraksis ved at udnytte deres vidensressourcer bedre. Afhandlingen belyser dette ved at besvare følgende forskningspørgsmål: • Hvorledes kan en softwarevirksomheds videnstyringsstatus bestemmes med henblik på at kunne identificere vidensrelaterede forbedringsområder? • Hvorledes kan forbedringer af sådanne områder planlægges via design og tilpasning af nye organisatoriske tiltag til styrkelse af organisationens læringsmuligheder? • Hvorledes kan sådanne forbedringsinitiativer faciliteres og implementeres for at sikre accept og fortsat udvikling? Afhandlingen er en del af det nationale forskningsprojekt Softwareprocesser og Viden og er udarbejdet som et aktionsforskningsprojekt hos softwarevirksomheden Systematic Software Engineering i Århus. Afhandlingen leverer, foruden forbedringer i den involverede organisation, teoretiske og metodiske bidrag til softwareprocesforbedringsfeltet ved at vise hvorledes teoretisk input fra vidensstyringsfeltet kan integreres i og styrke softwareprocesforbedringsfeltet, samt ved at vise hvorledes komplekse organisatoriske sammenhænge kan belyses ved at anvende en passende og fleksibel portefølje af analyse— og interventionsteknikker. Derudover bidrager afhandlingen med udviklingen af en balanceret teori om vidensstyring i softwareprocesforbedring. Til dette formål introduceres begreberne eksemplarisk og situeret videnstype og normativ og reflektiv processforbedring. Afhandlingen anskueliggør desuden, hvorledes et længerevarende samarbejdsbaseret studie har bidraget med resultater internt i case-organisationen ved at designe og tilpasse en ny projektevalueringsproces, der er baseret på et skifte mod en situeret vidensorganisation ved aktivt at involvere de eksisterende ekspertnetværk i organisationen. Gennem designet af denne ny proces belyses, hvorledes Softwareprocesforbedringsfeltet på et teoretisk niveau styrkes igennem integration af teorier fra beslægtede felter. Afhandlingen viser, hvorledes kulturanalyse og videnskort kan anvendes som softwareprocesforbedringsteknikker. Derudover antyder afhandlingen en balanceret teori om vidensstyring i softwareprocesforbedring, der beskriver betydningen af at søge en ligevægt imellem den herskende organisatoriske videnstype (eksemplarisk vs. situeret) og softwareprocesforbedringsmetode (normativ vs. reflektiv). Slutteligt viser denne afhandling, hvorledes et længerevarende forskningsprojekt, inspireret af aktionsforskning, kan styres og fokuseres igennem anvendelsen af Collaborative Practice Research URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7902
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A Neo-Institutional Understanding of Change Processes within the Business Press - The Case Sudy of Financial TimesKrogh-Meibom, Frederikke (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation examines dynamic processes between human actors and technology that encourage institutional change displayed as the emergence of new work practices. The research design is a micro-level analysis of a case study, conducted in 2002 in London at Financial Times under the headline of the co-evolution of institutions and technology. The study seeks to contribute to neo-institutional theory with a more profound understanding of how institutional embedded actors generate new institutional work practices when they interact with new technology. Two work practices have been studied; the work practice of surveillance and the work practice of publishing. These have been observed and studied as they were unfolding themselves at ft.com at Financial Times. The actions of journalists working at ft.com has been the empirical locus of the micro dynamic processes of changes of otherwise well defined and taken-for-granted institutionalized work practices The findings specify how the micro-dynamic mechanisms of change of work practices is related to the interaction of human actors with new technology. The study of how individual human actors institute changes to established work practices through a process of endogenization of technology is the basis for a better understanding of institutional change and its relation to human actors and their use of new technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7740
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Politikernes og forvaltningens medkonstruktion og konsekvenserne herafSecher, Christine (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is about how different e-participation user groups co-construct technology through the use in practice. It is studied how technology is used on a municipality level for citizen-communication and -participation with an online debate forum as a case in point. Users of online debates are citizens, politicians and the administration. In this thesis, I have chosen to focus on how politicians and the administration use online debates. I show how politicians and the administration participate in very distinct ways on the debate forum and thereby create specific forms of citizen communication and participation. Everybody can participate in the online debate as long as they give up their name and email. Periodically, citizens write quite a lot of contributions on the debate forum. But politicians' and the administration's perception of what is happening on the debate influence which role the citizens's contributions will have for the politicians and administration, as well as forms of interaction between users. In this thesis, I argue that the users' (politicians's and administration's) sensemaking about online debates as well as the mediation of the use of online debates have a crucial influence on which types of practice of online debate can develop. Online debate is perceived as an equivocal technology in the sense that the use of the technology is not clear cut but a result of the user's sensemaking about the technology and thereby the sensemaking about possible acts and interactions with the technology and other users. Sensemaking is the primary theoretical frame with a special focus on situation-specific cue-frame-relations. The Municipality of Odder is the case and a unique one with its 11 years of experience within municipally facilitated online debate. The empirical data are contributions written from September 3rd, 2005 to April 15, 2008 (a total of 1983 contributions), 17 semi-structured interviews of ½-1½ hours length with administration and politicians in the municipality as well as different written documents from the municipality. In this thesis I show that politicians and administration act as users of the online debate in four different ways: Political candidate, councilor, administrator and mediator. The political candidate run for the municipal election and is only present in the debate the last three months before the election. The political candidate see online debates as a good opportunity to make him/herself visible to voters and competing candidates, and therefore (s)he writes a lot of contributions during this period. The political candidate rarely answers ordinary citizen's contributions but instead decides to write new contributions or answer contributions started by competitors. The political candidate rarely gets involved in real discussions on the debate but instead choose to give his/her visions for the future of the Municipality of Odder. The councilor see the debate as the citizen's opportunity to voice their meaning and therefore rarely participate in the debate, as this could have a negative effect on citizens motivation to write on the debate. The councilor reads the citizens' contributions and once in a while the contributions act as input for internal council discussions. When the contribution reflect misunderstanding and when it is not only a few citizens who share the misunderstanding, the councilor chooses to write a report for the debate. It is usually the relevant committee chairman or equivalent who writes the contribution. The administrator believes that the majority of the contributions on the debate are political and therefore (s)he should not participate in the debate. The administrator sees citizens and business as partners. It is groups of professionals, which cover associations, organizations etc. and does not necessarily, see the individual citizen as a key stakeholder. The groups of professionals use other media, such as mails and letters, in their communication with the administration, as their input is often long reports and technical judgments. The administrator chooses only to answer factual misunderstandings in ongoing processes or more general issues in the municipality. The mediator, which is a role only a small part of the administration acts in, generally works with the implementing and forming the use of technology in the municipality. (S)he sees ICT as a way of increasing openness and effectiveness in the municipality. Online debates is a solution which the mediator believes especially increases openness and (s)he works with the aim of ensuring a continued debate. The mediator focuses on maximizing the number of contributions, on making it easy to participate and to make it possible to discuss anything, which is why the debate is in no editor or guided use of the debate. The result is that the individual user – political candidate, councilor and administrator – mediate the use of the debate and develop filters for their own and others' ability to act on the online debate. That politicians and administration appear in these four roles in relation to online debate problematic several aspects of the use of e-participation practices in a municipal context. One aspect is that the four roles develop different practices for the use of the debate which function parallel on the debate without the development of a common practice. A second aspect is that a mediator role is established. An actor who mediates the interaction between citizen and politician, and thereby an actor who has a high degree of importance for what online debating becomes in practice. A third aspect is that the administration takes the mediating role and becomes a political advisor or an administrator of political decisions. A shift which neither the politicians nor the administrator are aware of. At the same time, the way the technology is mediated creates both synergy and conflict between the councilor, the political candidate and the administrator. Synergy and conflict which primarily can be related to the focus of the mediator on the increased use of the technology and the missing focus on contextualization of the online debate. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8000
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Shi, Qingxin (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Usability evaluation methods are widely used to assess and improve the user interface design. This dissertation investigates the thinking aloud usability testing from a cultural perspective. In a test situation, representative users are required to verbalize their thoughts as they perform their tasks while using the system, and an evaluator observes the user's task performance and comes up with usability problems. The primary goal of a usability test is to find a list of usability problems. In this research, the impacts of evaluators' and users' cultural backgrounds on both the result and the process of the thinking aloud usability testing were investigated. Regarding the results of the usability testing, the identified usability problem was the main focus, whereas for the process of testing, the communication between users and evaluators was the main focus. In this dissertation, culture was regarded as cognitive styles and communication orientations. For the theories of thinking aloud, both Ericsson and Simon's classic model, and Boren and Ramey's revised model for usability testing were taken into account. Based on the culture theories and thinking aloud models, hypotheses were developed to investigate the evaluators' identified usability problems in different cultural settings, and themes were put forward to investigate the evaluators' and users' communications. In order to investigate the hypotheses and themes, an experimental study was conducted. The experimental design consisted of four independent groups with evaluators and users from similar or different cultures (Danish and Chinese). Empirical data were collected by using background questionnaires, usability problem forms, usability problem lists, video recordings of the testing and interviews. The usability testing software "Morae" was used to record the whole testing, including the faces of the evaluators and users, the screen and keyboard activities. Evaluators' and users' communications were analyzed by the behavioural coding and analysis software "Observer XT 8.0" with a well defined coding system. The results of the systematic study of the thinking aloud usability testing in the context of the intra- and inter-cultural usability engineering show that the evaluators' cultural backgrounds do have some influences on the usability testing; however, the influences are different for the tests with Western and East Asian users. The main findings of this research have implications for both usability research and practice. The methodological approach also gives inspiration for usability evaluation studies URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8167
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An empirical investigation of business model innovation in supplier relation-ship managementNøkkentved, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In broad terms we want to identify the initiatives that drive business model transformation and study their effect on performance. We also presume that such initiatives are primarily influencing the context-specific skills and priorities of the organization. Transformation initiatives leading to organizational and technological change are presumably constrained by resident capabilities (Hartmann et al.,2002, Håkansson & Waluszewski, 2002), the focus and state of the current operations (Subramanian & Shaw, 2002), hence they indirectly influence performance26. There are potentially additional environmental contingencies affecting those same domain-specific factors, of which we will investigate industry membership, region, and company size (Ford et al. 1997). Finally, we will explore whether different actors or leaders incharge of such technology-oriented and organizational transformations have differences of opinion on the priorities of the firm (Håkansson & Waluszewski, 2002). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7767
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A multi-method inquiry on online communitiesKorfiatis, Nikolaos Theodoros (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation studies the behavioral characteristics of participants engaged in information exchange in the context of online communities. Online communities are defined as collectives of individuals that use computer mediated communication to facilitate interaction over a shared purpose and/or objective. It is argued that this interaction creates externalities, for example, in the form of codified information that others can use through web search tools. These externalities assemble a virtual form of social capital, a commonly shared resource. The research objective of this thesis is to examine how the behavioral tendencies of the participants in online communities are affected by the way this common resource is formatted, administered and shared. The dissertation consists of two parts: a theoretical part where the empirical background and the object of research inquiry is highlighted, and an empirical part which consists of four empirical studies carried out in the context of three online communities, namely, Google Answers, Yahoo!Answers and Amazon Online Reviews. The empirical part of this dissertation starts with a controlled experiment emulating a well known social dilemma: the public goods game. It provides substance as to whether and when participants in online communities behave (un) cooperatively. The next two studies focus on a special case of online communities where participants ask questions and other participants post answers conditionally on social and monetary incentives. The results of these two studies confirm that community participants do care about the contributions of others and engage in incentive compatible behavior. Yahoo!Answers participants exercise effort in the community by posting answers to questions conditionally on benefits provided by other participants. The empirical findings show that contributing participants in an online community receive answers faster, while those that do not contribute much effort are sanctioned in the form of longer response-time to their questions. In Google Answers this thesis, interactions can be observed that are based on monetary rewards (rather than social rewards in the form of a reputation index as in Yahoo Answers). Participants make use of voluntarily awarded payoffs (tips) along with stated rewards, in order to motivate those that provide answers (answerers) to provide better quality in their responses. The findings of this study confirm the symmetric effect between monetary rewards and quality. However, this study also identifies cases where social norms have a significant effect on response behavior. When participants seek to get better service with less effort (in terms of total cost), a reputation index which is constructed by the history of their previous interactions supports such an attempt. In other words, reputation history influences information sharing behavior in online communities. The last chapter of the empirical part focuses on another crucial aspect of information as a shared resource: Clarity and understandability. The study examines online product reviews on Amazon.com. The results suggest that participants do care about the clarity of this codified form of experience which increases a helpfulness index accordingly. The thesis overall finds symmetric effects between participation in online communities and output of interaction, but also identifies the ability of the participants to interact strategically as they seek to minimize the effort they provide in order to find the information they seek. The results underline the importance of signaling and quality evaluation mechanisms as counter-balancing control that can enhance activity on online communities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7797
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Yonatany, Moshe (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this study is elaborating the current understanding of a relatively new phenomenon: the internationalization process of digital service providers. It deploys a multiple case study methodology. Based on the case analyses and the discovery of new insights this study proposes a conceptual framework attempting at elaborating existing International Business theory. The analytical process of this study begins with explaining its context and developing definitions that are necessary for the purpose of data collection and case construction. Next, selected International Business theories and concepts are reviewed and contextualized propositions are developed. Following a detailed presentation of the case studies, the propositions are analyzed through per-case analyses. This analysis is coupled with a theory development exercise (which is presented in subsequent distinct sections). Here, unique findings of each case are analyzed in sequential per-case analyses in order to identify emerging patterns. Rudimentary concepts, which are grounded in the case findings, are proposed through the cross case analysis. In addition, the analysis of the propositions is summarized at this stage. Subsequently, a conceptual framework is proposed. To provide foundations for the framework, the proposed constructs are defined and explored more deeply, also through collecting additional data and integrating additional external literature. The conceptual framework is presented in the form of testable hypotheses. Finally, implications for International Business theory are drawn from the analyses and the conceptual framework. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8309
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Shaping of user engagementsKnutsen, Lars Andreas (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The research motivation for this study is to improve the understanding, scholarly and my own, of wireless service adoption as services enters and leaves users' hands and minds. Wireless devices and services are enabling an unprecedented intertwinement of human actions and information systems in everyday life. Current IS research has so far paid scant attention to studying technologies which transcends the organizational domain. Little emphasis has also been provided beyond the absolute point of acceptance and adoption of artifacts. Nevertheless, many new wireless services transcend traditional use spheres. With this emerges the strong need to follow the shaping of user engagements with new mobile data services. This is the key phenomenon of interest in this dissertation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7804
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Ørngreen, Rikke N. (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: SUMMARY The summary presents an overview of the dissertation and major findings of my research: · Research Area, Questions and Design · Frame of Reference - Domain Knowledge · Major Findings Research Area, Questions and Design This dissertation investigates development and use of multimedia teaching cases, as applied in business education. Teaching cases present companies, and the current problems or opportunities they are facing. (Barnes, Christensen and Hansen 1994, Maufette- Leenders, Erskine and Leenders 1997, Heath 1998, Manninen 1997.) The primary characteristic is that the case is based on real events. Very often the case description follows a decision-making situation. (Mauffette-Leenders, Erskine, and Leenders 1997, Hazard 2000.) The case is prepared by students and then discussed in class. The objective of the class discussion is to analyse the company's situation and come up with viable strategies for the future (Leenders and Erskine 1989, Heath 1998, Orngreen and Bielli 2001). Cases were introduced to business education already in 1910 at the Harvard Business School, and have since then gained widespread use throughout the world (Leenders and Erskine 1989). Traditionally teaching cases have been written descriptions, but the teaching cases in this dissertation are multimedia cases. The use of multimedia teaching cases is a relatively new phenomenon. Because of the novelty of the approach, research on how to apply these or developing them is extremely limited. Though I investigate both a use and a development perspective, the use dimension is investigated with the purpose to inform development. In particular the dissertation results in a set of roles and tools influencing the development process, which is also seen in my three research questions: 1. Which roles and tools characterise the development and use of multimedia teaching cases for business education? 2. How are these roles and tools applied to the multimedia development process, and how do they support or restrain the development. 3. How are the development roles and tools, and the use roles and tools interrelated, and how do they relate to a development model for multimedia teaching cases? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7746
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Busquets, Javier (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is about innovation and power. Human nature has always been expressed by our capacity to innovate and adapt to almost any environment (Bowlby, 1962; Giddens, 1991). In the 20th century, the primary function of business organisations was to invent, produce and commercialise their products and services in different markets. As a matter of fact, business organisations in the last century proved to be the best way of disseminating innovation (Schön, 1971). Currently in the 21st century, there is a call to better understand how new ideas, technology and sources of knowledge are managed, based on the premise that novelty can unfold anywhere and that innovation cannot be considered a linear process consisting of a chain of activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8164
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