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Christoffersen, Jeppe (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In recent years, we have witnessed multinational enterprises (MNEs) changing strategies to exploit opportunities for division of labor on a global scale (Hansen et al. 2009). In consequence these have received growing interest among researchers and governments as 'agents of host country economic development' (Scott-Kennel and Enderwick 2005, p.105). A general consensus of this research is that 'FDI [Foreign Direct Investment] offers an additional channel for introduction of technology, innovation, new ideas, different organizational practices and new skills to a host country' (Scott-Kennel and Enderwick 2005, p.112). Another consensus is that these knowledge resources were introduced into the host country through linkages between the MNEs and a local firm and would in the longer term diffuse to other firms through e.g. demonstration effects and labor turnover (Giroud and Scott-Kennel 2009).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8332
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Investigating the Impact of Gender Differences on Trustworthiness of e-WOMLiu, Fei; Xiao, Bo; Lim, Eric T. K.; Tan, Chee-Wee (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The maturing of Web 2.0 infrastructure fosters the rapid generation and dissemination of electronic wordof- mouth (e-WOM). The abundance of e-WOM allows online service providers to facilitate consumers' trust building. However, due to the often coexistence of two forms of e-WOM, namely numerical rating and opinionated review, consumers can perceive cognitive dissonance between the former and the latter. This cognitive dissonance can hinder the formation of consumers' trust and compel them to resolve the conflict. Guided by confirmation bias theory, we propose that, to maintain trusting beliefs when experiencing dissonance in e-WOM, male consumers value opinionated review over numerical rating and vice versa for their female counterparts. The results of our field survey on a custom developed website with 115 college students empirically validated our hypothesized relationships and also unveiled male's general bias towards opinionated review. Our findings can contribute to both research and practice. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9273
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Procedural Justice Constrains Harmful and Benefical Headquarters InterventionAsmussen, Christian Geisler; Foss, Nicolai J.; Nell, Phillip C. (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Multi-business firms should design the task portfolio of their headquarters (HQ) and the way HQ tasks are carried out so that net value creation results. While the strategic management literature has emphasized such parenting benefits, less attention has been paid to the costs that may inadvertently be caused by HQ actions. Using a simple game theory model, we analyze the motivational costs that may result from HQ intervention in subunits. Along the lines of the procedural justice literature, we identify the conditions under which these costs may be influenced by the existence of fairness expectations among subunit managers. Our analysis of the dynamic game between HQ and subunits has novel and non-intuitive results. For example, we find that good parenting may involve forgoing opportunities for value-creation, and that procedural justice systems may sometimes be counterproductive. Our findings contribute to both the HQ and the procedural justice literatures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8800
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Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal SocietiesBulte, Erwin; List, John A.; Gneezy, Uri; Andersen, Steffen (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7591
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An Experiment with Object and Behavior-Based Beliefs and AttitudesWang, Ying; Tan, Chee Wee; Clemmensen, Torkil (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A system can be customized by is owner. The fundamental premise behind designing for customization is that it improves the user experience (UX) of the system. In this study, we contend that the effects of customization on UX of a smartphone can be theoretically modelled as users' beliefs about the system object (customization) that influence their attitudes towards the system object (perceived system usability), which in turn shapes their beliefs (flow) and attitudes (engagement) towards using the system. We tested this proposition via an experimental study with 50 college students as participants. Each participant was asked to perform customization tasks on a smartphone, and then instructed to complete a comparison task aimed at contrasting customized user interface with a standard one. Our manipulation checks confirmed that the customization task, in particular, the customization of the layout was more pronounced for participants. Analytical results from the comparison reveal that customization positively influence users' evaluation of three key constructs of UX: perceived system usability, flow and engagement, and that the feeling of engagement is mediated through perceived system usability and flow. We conclude with a discussion of the impact of customization on UX, and whether the distinction between object- and behaviour-based beliefs and attitudes is helpful. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9362
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Melchior, Marie Riegels (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In terms of dress and fashion Denmark is an example of a West European peripheral country within the international fashion system. Since the Middle Ages, new fashions have found their way to Denmark through the internationally oriented royal family, the purchases of well-traveled citizens, various international and national fashion reports, and the international purchases by local retailers. With varying speed new cuts, colors and styles have impressed themselves upon both the everyday and festive fashions of the Danish wardrobe. The same foreign influence applies to local fashion production. Design, craftsmanship and technology has through time been shaped under influences from abroad. But these international influences have not undermined the recurring idea of a particular Danish dress and fashion culture. In the middle of the 19th century the prevailing view was that the peasants' festive dress represented specific national dress. By the beginning of the 21st century discussions in the Danish fashion industry and industry policy concern Denmark's status as a fashion nation and Copenhagen as a possible new global fashion center. This is due to the growing Danish fashion culture, the textile and clothing industry's export success, and not least the fact that Denmark is a world-leading fur exporter. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7769
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An Empirical Study of Website Quality in the Public SectorSørum, Hanne (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the public sector, we find that traditional face-to-face interaction has, in many cases, been replaced by online communication and transactions during the last decade. The quality of public sector websites is, therefore, of particular importance in order to ensure quality participation in an increasingly digital society by all the citizens. In view of the fact that Norway and Denmark aim to be world leaders of the Web, with regard to innovations, technical standards and user-centred development, easily accessible facilitation for high quality interactions assumes considerable significance. With reference to this particular aspect, the following Ph.D. thesis focusses on perceptions and measurement of website quality and success, by emphasising and highlighting the performance of public sector websites in the Scandinavian countries (respectively Norway and Denmark). This thesis draws on both qualitative and quantitative data collected during the research process. A grounded theory approach is applied in order to investigate explanations of website quality and statistical analysis is performed to examine perceptions of quality and success in websites. In this regard, the webmasters' perspectives are emphasised, as they are found to be pivotal figures and key contributors in website quality improvements. Website quality criteria, obligated by the central governments are also discussed. These criteria aim to minimise a gap between the governments and the citizens for provision of online information and digital services. The findings and explanations of website quality cover a variety of features and range from technical standards to a broad definition of usability. Pertaining to this fact, added emphasis is placed on actual usage and subjective issues concerning user-friendliness and ease of use, compared to the criteria implemented by the governments, which focus more on objective technical measures. This may explain why users are not actually satisfied with high quality websites, when compared to low quality websites, in an annual assessment of hundreds of public websites based on these criteria. Accordingly, explanations and measurements of quality within the public sector are perceived differently, when taking into account the citizens' (users') needs and requirements from websites. Based on the use of quality criteria and evaluation methods applied to such evaluations, there exists a potential argument for adopting an additional user-centred focus. Furthermore, user satisfaction is emphasised as a measure of success in websites and user-centred development is found to be a key contributor. In view of this fact, the findings also prove that the public sector in general should improve and extend their feedback channels, by extending frequency and methods applied in user testing and continuous quality improvements. The fact that government bodies perform testing to a minimal extent and that more sophisticated methods should be included, demonstrates a potential for advances in facilitation for improved and refined user experiences in online communication between citizens and the public sector. In this regard, organisations which perform user testing tend to see a stronger correlation between website quality, user satisfaction and net (user) benefits. The concluding observations in the thesis, suggest that further research can decrease a gap between the governments' perceptions of quality, and the citizens' needs and requirements from public websites. Future investments and quality improvements should devote increased attention to testing and issues concerning inclusion of real users, and the benefits of such actions. Implications for practice are also provided in order to move the sector forward and facilitation for improved and refined user experiences and success on the Web. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8922
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flows of exchange in a Japanese ValleyMoeran, Brian (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7018
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On the Operational Dynamics and Social Dimensions of Public-Private PartnershipsWeihe, Guri (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Drawing upon extant alliance literature, this article substantiates the argument that we need to look beyond mere structural and formative aspects of cooperation in order to fully understand the performance antecedents of public-private partnerships. Currently, scholarly work on operational processes and behavioural dimensions is practically non-existent. This article tries to remedy the current gap in the literature by reviewing research findings on interfirm collaboration (alliances). On that basis a conceptual framework for analyzing partnership processes is developed. Finally, the antecedents of collaborative advantage are theoretically examined, and the organizational competences contributing to collaborative success are identified. The conclusion is that operational processes and social dynamics are vital drivers of collaborative advantage. Another significant conclusion is that public management research can benefit from drawing upon existing alliance research. Alliance scholars have during the past couple of decades accumulated an impressive amount of knowledge on different aspects of inter-firm cooperation, and therefore the learning potential for public management scholars seems to be quite enormous. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7380
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A Guide for PractitionersAvlonitis, Viktor; Frandsen, Thomas; Husan, Juliana; Karlson, Christer (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Servitization, or adding services to the manufactured product, has become a strategy for increasing financial margins, getting closer to the customer and prolonging product lives. This is especially applicable to Western hemisphere companies in their efforts to compete with companies from low cost countries and emerging economies. It is our hope that this booklet can assist managers to analyze and plan a servitization strategy. The text is brief and comprehensive to supplement a workshop, but can also be used separately as a quick guide on steps to follow for a manager when considering servitization for the company. This booklet is produced to serve as a documentation of a research project together with industry on how servitization can be a strategy to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturing firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8990
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Buch-Kromann, Matthias (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: DTAG is a versatile annotation tool that supports manual and semi-automatic annotation of a wide range of linguistic phenomena, including the annotation of syntax, discourse, coreference, morphology, and word alignments. It includes commands for editing general labeled graphs and graph alignments, comparing annotations, managing annotation tasks, and interfacing with a revision control system. Its visualization component can display graphs and alignments for entire texts in a compact format, with a highly flexible and configurable formatting scheme. It also provides a powerful search-replace mechanism with queries based on full first-order logic, which can be used to search for linguistic constructions and automatically apply graph transformations to collections of annotated graphs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8222
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Andersen, Steffen; Harrison, Glenn W.; Lau, Morten Igel; Rutström, Elisabet E. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The most popular models of decision making use a single criteria to evaluate projects or lotteries. However, decision makers may actually consider multiple criteria when evaluating projects. We consider a dual criteria model from psychology. This model integrates the familiar tradeoffs between risk and utility that economists traditionally assume, allowance for rank-dependent decision weights, and consideration of income thresholds. We examine the issues involved in full maximum likelihood estimation of the model using observed choice data. We propose a general method for integrating the multiple criteria, using the logic of mixture models, which we believe is attractive from a decision-theoretic and statistical perspective. The model is applied to observed choices from a major natural experiment involving intrinsically dynamic choices over highly skewed outcomes. The evidence points to the clear role that income thresholds play in such decision making, but does not rule out a role for tradeoffs between risk and utility or probability weighting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7798
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Böhm, Markus; Henningsson, Stefan; Yetton, Philip; Leimeister, Jan Marco; Krcmar, Helmut (, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Acquisitions of new businesses and divestments of existing ones are frequently components of large organizations' corporate strategies. In both acquisitions and divestments, corporate IT infrastructure plays a critical role for realizing business objectives. In this paper, we take a dual view of the IT-related challenges in divestment and acquisition strategies, studying them as a single integrated transaction between a buyer and a seller and investigating how the IT carve-out and IT integration strategies influence each other. The extant literature on the interaction between carve-outs and integration strategies is an empty set. Here, we begin to shed light to the limitations of the carve-out contract, the processes of carving out a business unit from one and integrating it into another multibusiness organization, asymmetries in both parties' preferences for an IT transaction process and its influence on arising challenges and organization performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8631
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Global Competition, Collective Efficiency, and Local DevelopmentLorentzen, Jochen; Robbins, Glen; Barnes, Justin (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper describes the formation of the Durban Auto Cluster in the context of trade liberalization. It argues that the improvement of operational competitiveness of firms in the cluster is prominently due to joint action. It tests this proposition by comparing the gains from cluster activities in the areas of supplier development, human resource development, logistics, and benchmarking, and by contrasting the impact of joint action against a host of other variables, notably international competition and technical assistance by foreign partners. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6598
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Sørensen, Carsten; Trolle, Anders Bjerre (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We derive an explicit solution to the portfolio problem of a power utility investor with preferences for wealth at a ¯nite investment horizon. The investor can invest in assets with return dynamics described as part of a general multivariate model. The modeling framework encompasses discrete-time VAR-models where some of the state-variables (e.g. expected excess returns) may not be directly observable. A realistic multivariate model is estimated and applied to analyze the portfolio implications of investment horizon and return predictability when real interest rates and expected excess returns on stock and bonds are not directly observed but must be estimated as part of the problem faced by the investor. The solution exhibits small variability in portfolio allocations over time compared to the case when excess returns are assumed observable. JEL Classification: G11 Keywords: Portfolio choice, predictability, VAR, unobserved state-variables, hedging demands URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7151
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Christensen, Peter Ove; Flor, Christian Riis; Lando, David; Miltersen, Kristian R. (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We consider a dynamic trade-off model of a firm's capital structure with debt renegotiation. Debt holders only accept restructuring offers from equity holders backed by threats which are in the equity holders' own interest to execute. Our model shows that in a complete information model in which taxes and bankruptcy costs are the only frictions, violations of the absolute priority rule (APR) are typically optimal. The size of the bankruptcy costs and the equity holders' bargaining power affect the size of APR violations, but they have only a minor impact on the choice of capital structure. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9101
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Lagrange versus the HamiltonianKleis Frederiksen, Niels (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7628
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Juul Andersen, Torben (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Organizational studies should address contemporary challenges of dealing effectively with the increasingly complex and dynamic business conditions. In this context we argue that structural features are linked to the corporate strategy process and affect the organization's ability to respond to ongoing environmental changes. Sustainable performance arguably derives from integrative strategy-making where business opportunities are pursued as they emerge while being directed and coordinated through forward-looking analytics. This combination of decentralized responsiveness and central reasoning identifies a dynamic system of interacting fast and slow processes. The fast system observes and reacts to environmental stimuli and the slow system interprets events and reasons about future actions. When the fast and slow processes interact they form a dynamic adaptive system that allows the organization to respond to uncertain and changing conditions. We apply this model to interactions among individuals in organizations where ongoing experiential insights among dispersed operating managers interact with the forward-looking planning considerations around top-management. This identifies an organization that is able to react to frequent and often unpredictable changes and adapt. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9008
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Kallestrup, René (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The Global Financial Crisis which started in 2007 is a defining economic event of our lifetime. Recessions and public bailouts of banking systems have resulted in concerns about the solvency of sovereigns in recent years as many Eurozone countries face substantial fiscal pressures. The exact causes of the Global Financial Crisis are still debated but it is unlikely to be the outcome of one single event. In a review of the Global Financial Crisis based on 21 books on the topic, Lo (2011) summarises the underlying causes and policy prescriptions: "there is still significant disagreement as to what the underlying causes of the crisis were, and even less agreement as to what to do about it ... Like World War II, no single account of this vast and complicated calamity is sufficient to describe it." The listed causes range from global capital flows, poor regulation, regulatory capture, inequality, high leverage, skewed economic incentives of borrowers and lenders, etc. Gorton and Metrick (2012) also contain an interesting summary of the literature written in recent years and in "Lessons from the Financial Crisis" edited by Berd (2010) several chapters from academic researchers analyse the ongoing crisis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8450
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in search of network performanceGeersbro, Jens; Hedaa, Laurids (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6345
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Great. Something for all to think about.
I find a lot of these quotes on Facebook. I'm doing more "liking and sharing" these days. More so because it agitates the theists on my friends list. which is now up to about 33 or so. But also because I want to share LOGIC with my friends. :)
'What is truth?' Pilate asked.' . . .John18:38
The only honest question in the xian canon.
@Maz Stirner.
Too bad it wasn't a question, but a sarcastic retort by a roman governor.
If any religion offered us the Truth, as they all claim it does, then there would be no need for blasphemy laws to be enacted as a divine Truth would speak for itself and not need a manmade law to protect it from scrutiny.
Why do many religions insist on respect from non-adherents to that religion? If any religion even approached the truth, people would flock to that religion and give it all the respect and love they could muster.
Damn, I detest all religion.
@ Dr. Bob –Every science denier I have ever met has been either a fundamentalist Christian or Muslim. They live in denial of Science because they misunderstand it or because they get all the science they need from their one book. Science is not a matter of belief but one of understanding. Science does not execute people for not understanding it or for denying its claims.
I know people in jail because they do not believe what other people claim to be the truth. They are not denying anything. They just don't believe it. Religion does this because it cannot stand up to the scrutiny Science gives it. It needs that protection.
@William. Prepare to be de-friended over posting things like that. Not that this should stop you but you can be sure that facebook-friends will quietly remove you from their friend list once they've had their quota of religion "bashing".


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How do you organize all the information?
We have not started any type of formal homeschooling yet as DS is only 2 but I have been researching since before he was born and have found a lot of information I want to hang on to for the future. Some things we could use in the near future and others we would not need until high school. What is the best way to organize all of this information? I use pinterest for almost everything but have started to feel uneasy about using it for the important things because occasionally websites shut down and then whatever it was I wanted is lost.
Well, you could save everything for offline viewing, but then what if your computer dies? Probably safest to get a cheap printer and just print everything for the next grade or two out; everything else you can bookmark, since by the time you get there, there may be better resources available anyway if the links no longer work.
A lot could change in 3-4 years with home schooling, online education, Common Core, etc. so I wouldn't worry about gathering too much now. Much of it may be outdated and not of any use at that time anyways.
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Oct. 7 Bronson Arroyo and Ryan Hanigan postgame interview
Q. Bronson, curious, early on in the first inning or so you had some decent contact. It happened that after that you were on the edges of the strike zone. What occurred at that point where you were able to sort of get off to the end of their bats and on the handle and things?
BRONSON ARROYO: I mean, nothing special. You're going out there the first inning is going to be the toughest to command your pitches just because of the emotion of the game and just trying to settle in.
So the first few hitters you're trying to throw strikes and a couple of those pitches were fatter than I would normally want, but they hit 'em hard right at some of our outfielders and it's something that allows to get deep in the ballgame. You hope it goes that way. If those balls go in the gap, it's a totally different ballgame. Nothing special I was trying to do, you're trying to grind and throw the balls in the black. It just doesn't always happen.
Q. Do you remember the first time you requested that Ryan be your catcher and why?
BRONSON ARROYO: I don't remember that, but since I've been in this uniform I've basically had two guys, David Ross and Ryan Hanigan catch me a lot. They were two guys that I found that could think along with me, could understand just, you know, the dynamic of how I try to beat hitters in an out of the box mentality.
A lot of times there are some catchers that go about their business differently and have a hard time following that along whereas these guys would pick up on me so fast, and it was easier for me to get into my game plan and just with eye contact know what I was trying to do.
Q. Bronson, with Johnny going down and the bullpen being used a lot yesterday, did you feel like ‑‑ if you have incentive to go it out there today and really go deep in that game and work as fast as?
BRONSON ARROYO: You want to get deep in the ballgame but a playoff atmosphere it's impossible to control everything that's going on. You go out there about a mind‑set of trying to get into the seventh inning possibly and that doesn't happen a whole lot perform if you look around at both leagues you will see a lot of starting pitchers that have to bow out after 5 and 2/3, or 5 and a half. You're burning more energy, there is so much more going on.
So it's hard to take that responsibility on your shoulders and say I'm going to get deep in the ballgame you hope you do. I threw enough pitches in the middle of the game where they had swung early on and saved me some pitches that gave me an opportunity to do that.
Q. Bronson, considering the stage best game you've ever pitched? And Ryan best game of his you've ever caught?
BRONSON ARROYO: Yeah, these games are as big as any many my whole career. I go back to pitching some playoff games in Boston, but every year that goes by you feel like the next one is the biggest thing, and for this ball club last year we didn't win a game in the playoffs or two years ago and just getting off to a good start and having the ball club believe, the fan base believe, all those types of things can help you later on, hopefully in the playoffs.
RYAN HANIGAN: I think that was one of the best games he's ever thrown. He threw a similar game against the Phillies in 2010, playoff game as well. It was really on point. I think like he said, getting the lead there, the four‑run lead helped and in the first inning having those balls that were a little middle get caught when they were hit hard was huge and then he settled in and command the rest of the game.
Q. Ryan, these two games you guys got production from a lot of guys. Are you feeling good going home with a commanding lead?
RYAN HANIGAN: Yeah, to get the bats going was huge, there was a lull after we clinched with guys, for whatever reason. But we've been winning games on pitching and defense and it's good to see the bats come alive, top to bottom, really, yesterday and today, different guys contribute and go everyone has been getting hits. That's big especially as the postseason goes on.
Q. Bronson, I think you went with six innings without allowing a runner on base. At that point are you feeling more pressure to do well, or are you satisfied?
BRONSON ARROYO: I think they got the hit in the fifth, but there was already two outs, a no‑hitter in this type of environment is almost impossible to do and it's something you're not thinking about, the win for the ball club is the nirvana, there is nothing else to think about if something else happens crazy like that then it's icing on the cake.
But to get through the fifth inning without having to pitch from the stretch but one time was really big. It allows you to get in your groove, you're not wasting a lot of energy because when guys are on base you're thinking about shutting the running game down, all kinds of things come into play there that don't have to if no one is on base. So to make it through the first five innings without having to deal with a base runner was big.
Q. There were a lot of players from the 2010 team that are still on this team. Can you talk about the experience factor? Back then it was more of a you were happy to be there and seems to be a different attitude.
BRONSON ARROYO: Yeah, you know, we still do have a very young ball club, but I think back in 2010 everybody would ask me, you know, how are you going to try to invoke your experience in playoffs past on this ball club and it's impossible, and I say it all the time it's impossible to tell somebody what it's like to stand on the free‑throw line with no time left on the clock and you've got to hit both to tie and that's what it feels lying in the playoffs.
Our faults in Philly and the no‑hitter that Halladay threw against us in game one all of those things battle tested these guys and gave them a preview of what it feels like to play under a microscope and because of that it made everybody on the ball club better and it gives you an opportunity to play a little more relaxed and not to feel like you're pressing so much.
Q. Dusty talked about this being a for giving ballpark. You pitch differently here? Are there things you can try in this ballpark that you wouldn't in other venues like your home ballpark?
RYAN HANIGAN: I think so. Fly balls got to be hit here, and I think you can use the top of the zone a little more because getting guys up in the air isn't as big of a problem. At the same time, you know, whenever someone asks me that it's hard for me to tell anybody that we're pitching to the ballpark we're pitching to the pitcher's strengths, the hitters' weaknesses, the situation in the game, if the ballpark helps great.
But I think in certain cases, yeah, it does help. You don't have to worry about those deep homers in center and the gaps because it's such a long way and you have to really get it.
Q. Bronson, you threw so many strikes and they kept putting the graphic up in the strike zone and it seemed like everyone was on a line or just inside or just ticking the line. With so many variables in a strike zone and where Ryan might set up, when you get on that roll, what is that feeling like when you can hit the glove as often as you did tonight?
BRONSON ARROYO: It's super comforting, you know? Because the times that you get a little squirrelly out on the mound is when you're 2‑0, 2‑1, you're 3‑1, and you're trying to throw secondary pitches to get back into the count and you can't do it. If you can't throw something off‑speed, throw a sinker down in the zone and get back into the counts it puts you behind the 8‑ball all the time and for me I think the 3‑2 backdoor breaking ball we threw to Blanco early in the game‑set a nice tone for us because you don't always get those pitches, you're trying to pitch to such a small sliver of the outer half of the plate and if you can do that it builds confidence.
Q. Was that a Laredo?
BRONSON ARROYO: It was a drop down backdoor. A lot of times I do that.
RYAN HANIGAN: Named your pitch right there.
BRONSON ARROYO: I usually do that a lot of times early at‑bat.
Q. Ryan, just how different is it to catch Bronson versus other pitchers and secondly, how much do you guys look to him as having been there before and accomplished what he has in his career?
RYAN HANIGAN: Honestly, there is no one like Bronson in terms of the way he pitches I don't think in the game. He does so many different things with his breaking ball, with his fastball, with his change‑up. He drops down with all his pitches, changes speeds, he will throw a lot of what we call "BP speed" pitches. It's hard to sit on stuff, and that's what a lot of big league hitters are doing, sitting on pitches and velocity and you can't ever say, he's a fastball slider guy, he's unique and that's what's tough. If he's throwing strikes and he's commanding his pitches all of 'em, he can throw games like this for sure.
To your second question, I think the pitching staff and all the pitchers for sure look to him. The first thing I would say is is if you just look at how many innings he throws, he never misses a start, how hard he works.
In baseball you're not going to get too many guys that are super rah‑rah leader guys, but he leads by example and in terms of days off going to the yard and getting his workouts in, throughout his career, as long as I've been here and it's a great example for the guys to see the longevity and the ability to pitch whether he feels good or not and that's a huge thing.
If you look at our starters this year, they pitched all five guys all year and you can attribute that to leadership he brings for sure.
Q. Bronson, what's it like to go back knowing that the fan base is going to be fired up with you guys 2‑0, a different feel than 2010 down 0‑2, coming home. What's the team feeling right now?
BRONSON ARROYO: Without question it's going to be a nice, happy flight. We couldn't put ourselves in a better situation, doesn't mean you're going to close it out, but for us personally, I know the fans are going to be as jacked as they have ever been in that ballpark since it has been built, which is going to be nice.
But that being said, we've got to calm it down a little bit and stay the task at hand because we haven't won anything and baseball is a crazy game. We need Homer to keep pressure on these guys in order to not let them get momentum and jump back in the series.
RYAN HANIGAN: Yeah, it's not over yet.


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Jesus called the disciples to follow him and to place everything, without reserve, in the service of the reign of God. But does that mean he wanted to call all Israel to discipleship? Was it his goal that gradually everyone in Israel would become a disciple?
There are indications in the New Testament that point in that direction. The Acts of the Apostles often speaks simply of "the disciples." In that book "disciples" can simply mean "Christian" or "member of the community," and "the disciples" often means simply the community in Jerusalem or in some other place. Add to this the command at the end of Matthew's Gospel, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations!" (Mt 28:19). We could set up an equation: church = discipleship. But is that right?
If we read the New Testament more closely, things look different. The language of the Gospels and Acts does show unmistakably that without discipleship there can be no New Testament-style church. But that usage remains unique within the New Testament. The epistles avoid the word disciple. There is no text in which Jesus calls all Israel to discipleship. Above all, he nowhere makes being a disciple a requirement for participation in the reign of God. So we have to suppose that life toward the reign of God—in sociological terms, participation in the Jesus movement—allowed for a number of very different ways of life.
Jesus used a striking and clearly defined symbolic action in choosing the Twelve from a larger group of disciples, making them an eloquent sign of the gathering of the eschatological people. We are in the fortunate position of having a few names of disciples who were not among the Twelve but seem to have belonged to the broader group of disciples: Joseph Barsabbas (Acts 1:23); Cleopas (Lk 24:18); Nathanael (Jn 1:45; 21:2); Mary of Magdala (Mk 15:40-41); Mary, the [daughter?] of James the Less (Mk 15:40); Mary, the mother of Joses (Mk 15:40); Salome (Mk 15:40-41); Joanna, the wife of Chuza (Lk 8:1-3); Susanna (Lk 8:1-3); and for a time also Matthias, who then was taken into the group of the Twelve in place of Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:23, 26). The list shows that group of Jesus' disciples also included women. That was remarkable in an Eastern context and was anything but ordinary. It appears that here Jesus deliberately violated social standards of behavior.
Jesus by no means called everyone who met him openly and in faith to be his disciple. He went to the home of the tax collector Zacchaeus (Lk 19:1-10) as well as that of the tax collector Levi (Mk 2:14-17). But Zacchaeus did not receive an invitation to discipleship as Levi did. Zacchaeus vows to change his life; in the future he will give half of his wealth to the poor of Israel and return wrongfully obtained money fourfold. But he will stay in Jericho and continue to practice his calling as a tax collector.
The reign of God requires a dedicated community, a form of life into which it can enter and be made visible. The circle of men and women disciples who followed Jesus, their being together with one another, was to show that now, in the midst of Israel, a bit of the "new society" had begun.
According to the Gospel of John there was a very affectionate relationship between Jesus and the family of Lazarus: Jesus and Lazarus were friends (Jn 11:3). When Lazarus died, Jesus wept on the way to his tomb (Jn 11:35). The household of Lazarus (Mary and Martha, his sisters), which was in Bethany, must have been a kind of support station for Jesus on the road to Jerusalem. But nowhere is it said that Lazarus belonged among Jesus' disciples or followers.
A Complex Pattern
The Gospels, especially Mark, reveal a great variety of forms of participation in Jesus' cause. There were the Twelve. There was the broader circle of disciples. There were those who participated in Jesus' life. There were the localized, resident adherents who made their houses available. There were people who helped in particular situations, if only by offering a cup of water. Finally, there were those who simply took advantage, who profited from Jesus' cause and for that very reason did not speak against it.
These structural lines that run through the Gospels are not accidental. They express something that is essential for the eschatological people of God, as Jesus sees it, and is therefore an indispensable part of the church. In today's church we can find all these forms expressed. It is a complex pattern, as complex as the human body. The openness of the Gospels and of Jesus must warn us against regarding people as lacking in faith if they are unable to adopt a disciple's way of life or if it is something completely alien to them. In any event, Jesus never did.
Of course, no one may reject the specific call that comes to her or him. It is not only that in such a case one fails to enter into the broad space God wants to open for that person. Rejecting the call also closes the space to others and places obstacles in the way of possibilities of growth for the people of God.
It is also true that one may not assert a claim to a calling. Not every disciple of Jesus could be one of the Twelve. The Twelve are sent to Israel and therefore are clothed with an eschatological office that will continue in the church. That is why they are rightly called "apostles" (those who are sent) even in the Gospels.
It is also true that not everyone can be a disciple, since discipleship also presupposes a special call from Jesus. It does not depend on the will of the individual. It can be that someone wants to follow Jesus but is not made his disciple. Thus, not belonging to the circle of disciples as such is by no means an indication of lack of faith or a sign that someone is marginal. Nowhere does Jesus describe those of his adherents whom he has not called to follow him as undecided or half-hearted. Each person who accepts Jesus' message about the reign of God has his or her own calling. Each can, in her own way and capacity, contribute to the building up of the whole. No one is second class. The healed man of Gerasa is as important for Jesus' cause as the disciples who travel with Jesus through the land.
Radical For All
Is a disciple's existence the more radical way of life? Here again we need to be careful. As I explained in Does God Need the Church? (Liturgical Press, 1999), the ethos of discipleship is certainly a radical one. Is there anything harder and more inconsiderate than to be called by Jesus to discipleship, to be told that first one must bury one's father—perhaps recently dead, perhaps lying on his deathbed, perhaps old and ill—to be told, "Let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God" (Lk 9:60)? And yet the ethos of the Sermon on the Mount, which is not just for the disciples but for everyone in the eschatological people of God, is just as radical because it demands that one abandon not only evil deeds but every hurtful word directed at a brother or sister in faith (Mt 5:22). It demands regarding someone else's marriage (and of course one's own) as so holy that one may not even look with desire at another's wife (Mt 5:27-28). It demands that married couples no longer divorce but remain faithful until death (Mt 5:31-32). It commands that there be no twisting and manipulation of language any more but only absolute clarity (Mt 5:37) and that one give to anyone who asks for anything (Mt 5:42).
For a man's lustful glance at someone else's wife to be equated with the act of adultery is just as drastic as the demand that disciples leave their families. Jesus demands of the one group an absolute and unbreakable fidelity to their wives (Mt 5:31-32) and of the others absolute and unbreakable fidelity to their task of proclamation (Lk 9:62). This means that Jesus regards the concrete way of life, whether marriage or discipleship for preaching, as sacred. Both ways of life are possible in their radical form only in light of the brilliance and fascination that emanate from the reign of God. But above all, neither way of life exists in isolation and independent of the other. The disciples, as they travel, are sustained by the aid of the families who open their houses to them in the evening, and the families live from and within the new family that began in the circle of disciples.
Two-Level Ethos?
Thus there is no two-level ethos, one of perfection for the apostles and disciples and a less perfect one for the rest of the people of God. We must admit, certainly, that there is one text in the Gospels that seems to presume such a two-level ethos: the story of the rich man who came to Jesus with the question about how he could "inherit eternal life" (Mk 10:17-22). Jesus points him to the Ten Commandments. The man responds: "I have kept all these since my youth." Jesus looks at him, embraces him, and says: "'You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.' When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions" (Mk 10:20-22).
Matthew has reworked the Markan text. The phrase "you lack one thing" has been rewritten to "if you wish to be perfect" (Mt 19:21). The Gospel story of the rich young man has had an extraordinary influence throughout the history of the church. Again and again it has given men and women the strength to abandon their bourgeois existence and begin an alternative life of discipleship in community. The history of the founding of many religious orders began with this text. The Matthean phrase, "if you wish to be perfect," however, has also given rise to the idea that there must be two orders of life in the church: that of the perfect, who live the life of discipleship, and that of the less-than-perfect, to whom only the Ten Commandments and the commandment of love apply.
But that kind of two-level ethos does not do justice to the text. Neither Mark nor Matthew is formulating norms for the people of God here. The story is about a concrete case. Jesus says "sell what you own" to a particular person who has come to him searching and dissatisfied. Jesus' demand is addressed to him personally. It is a call to discipleship. Obviously, in the minds of the evangelists this text is also transparent for the later church: there will be many callings to follow, to discipleship, to radical abandonment of possessions. But these calls will also always be specific callings for individuals and not a law for everyone.
This becomes still clearer if we consider the closing words of Matthew's interpretation. Behind the word "perfect" stands the Hebrew adjective tamim, which means "entire," "undivided," "complete," "intact." Being perfect in the biblical sense, when applied to persons, means living wholly and entirely in the presence of God. The rich man in the story had kept his wealth separate from his relationship to God, and therefore something "more" was required of him. Jesus wants his "whole [self]."
And wholeness or integrity of the self is again not a privilege of disciples alone. The poor widow who puts in two copper coins, in contrast to the rich, who give to the temple only from their surplus, gives away everything she has. She gives "what is hers" entirely (Mk 12:41-44).
This wholeness is different for everyone. For one it can mean abandoning everything. For others it can mean remaining at home and making one's house available to Jesus' messengers. Perhaps for a third it can mean just giving a cup of fresh water to the disciples as they pass by. Everyone who lives her or his specific calling "entirely" lives "perfectly."
The more closely we read the Gospels, the clearer it appears, over and over again, that the various ways of life under the reign of God do not arise out of accidental circumstances but are essential to the Gospel. They sprang not only from the practical-functional point of view that Jesus could not possibly have traveled through Israel with thousands of followers, and they did not derive solely from the fact that only a relative few in Israel became his disciples. We have to look deeper. Ultimately, the variety of callings is a precondition for the freedom of every individual within the people of God.
The division of the church into perfect and less-than-perfect, into better and ordinary, into radical ethos and less radical ethos, ignores the unity of the people of God and the organization of all its members toward the same goal.
I think I'm with Sara. In my church and in my belief, we are all called to be disciples in whatever walk of life we have chosen or find ourselves in-not just those in the more visible or official ministerial tasks of the church. Whatever we do, however we live, we find some way to demonstratively live as Jesus taught. It could well be more than even just taking care of our families in such a way as to offer them every possible advantage within our means-maybe they don't need all that. For many of us discipleship moves to neighbor, workplace and community. Still how to live 'entirely' is easily missed as we go about filling our lives with activities and diversions as wonderful as they are. How much of what we do actually goes to bringing the kingdom into fullness?
Personally, I don't perceive a division in our church into 'better and ordinary' or 'perfect and less than perfect' though I can see these ideas exist. This division may give one a rationale to just be 'ordinary' and leave, erroneously I believe, what is perceived as church work to the 'official' disciples, i.e., clerics, paid catechists, other church workers volunteer or otherwise. I do think that, in some way, all our efforts of goodness in the church, home, community and life, recognize and give more than an internalized or private credit to the source and reason underlying all our 'goodness.'


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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it may be carrying weapons, Turkey's foreign minister said, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a wider regional conflict.
A Syrian Air Airbus A320 coming from Moscow was intercepted by F16 jets as it entered Turkish airspace and escorted to the capital's Esenboga Airport, the state-run TRT television reported.
"There are civil aviation rules, planes are required to make clear statements (concerning their cargo)," Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in an interview with Turkey's TGRT television from Athens. The interview was also shown on TRT. "We received information that it was carrying certain equipment in breach of civil aviation rules."
"Should the information (received by authorities) turns out to be true, then whatever is required by international law will be done," he added.
The head of Turkey's civil aviation agency Bilal Eksi said there were 37 passengers and crew on board the plane. According to Moscow's Vnukovo airport, flight RB442 left for Damascus at 3:26 p.m. Moscow time (1126 GMT). It wasn't immediately clear whether this was the plane that was intercepted.
Davutoglu said the passengers were being treated "hospitably" and given meals while the plane's cargo was being inspected.
Officials in the Syrian information and foreign ministries could not immediately be reached for comment.
Davutoglu also said Turkish authorities had declared Syria's airspace to be unsafe and were stopping Turkish aircraft from flying over the civil war-torn country.
The move comes as tensions Turkey and Syria are running high. The countries, which were once close allies, have been exchanging artillery fire across the volatile border for days.
Earlier Wednesday, Turkey's military chief vowed to respond with more force to any further shelling from Syria, keeping up the pressure on its southern neighbor a day after NATO said it stood ready to defend Turkey.
Gen. Necdet Ozel was inspecting troops who have been put on alert along the 910-kilometer (566-mile) border after shelling from Syria killed five civilians in a Turkish border town last week. Turkey has reinforced the border with artillery guns and also deployed more fighter jets to an air base close to the border region.
"We responded and if (the shelling) continues, we will respond with more force," the private Dogan news agency quoted Ozel as saying during a visit to the town of Akcakale.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that Washington has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to help build a headquarters in Jordan and bolster that country's military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria.
The revelation raises the possibility of an escalation in the U.S. military involvement in the conflict, even as Washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in Syria.
In Syria's largest city, Aleppo, regime troops and rebel fighters exchanged fire for several hours in and near the historic 13th century Ummayyad Mosque, said local activist Mohammed Saeed.
Saeed said rebels were trying to drive out regime troops holed up in the downtown place of worship. He said that by nightfall the shooting had stopped. The mosque is one of the landmarks of Aleppo, along with its medieval covered market, or souk, which was largely gutted last month in a huge fire sparked by the fighting.
Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said local activists told him fighting was restricted to the area near the mosque, but that no fighters entered the site itself. The Observatory relies on reports from a network of activists in Syria.
Aleppo has been the scene of intense fighting, particularly since rebels launched a new offensive two weeks ago to try to dislodge regime troops. The fighting has devastated large areas of the city of 3 million, Syria's former business capital.
Earlier, Syrian activists also said the rebel units of the Free Syrian Army took control of Maaret al-Numan, a strategic city along the main highway in Idlib province that connects the central city of Homs with northern city of Aleppo and the capital Damascus.
Abdul-Rahman said the rebels took control of the city late Tuesday. He said the rebels control the western entry into the city while the military is massing troops along the eastern outskirts for a possible counter offensive.
Fadi Yassin, an activist in Maarat al-Numan, told The Associated Press on Skype that rebels are in control of the town, although fierce fighting continued around the military barracks in the eastern part on Wednesday, three days after the FSA launched a "liberation battle," he added.
"The city has been liberated," Yassin said of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province. "All liberation battles start with small cities and then moves on to the major cities."
Holding on to Maaret al-Numan would be a significant achievement for the rebels, enabling them to cut the army's main supply route to two battered cities of Aleppo and Homs, both of which came under bombardment from the regime's helicopters and artillery on Wednesday, according to activists.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported fighting between Syrian rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime around the Syrian town of Azmarin, in Idlib province, across from the Turkish border. It said Syrians were fleeing homes in the Azmarin region, some crossing into Turkey on rowing boats over the river Orontes, that runs along the border.
Footage from Anadolu showed women, children and elderly men being taken across the river from Syria to Turkey on makeshift rafts and boats.
Private NTV television reported that explosions and automatic weapon fire could be heard in Turkey's Hatay province, coming from Azmarin. It said rebels were clashing with some 500 Syrian government soldiers, and that at least 100 rebels had been injured, some of whom had been brought to Turkey for treatment.
Some 99,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have sought refuge in Turkey since the start of the conflict.
Also on Wednesday, state-run news agency SANA said President Bashar Assad appointed Sattam Jadaan al-Dandah as Syria's new ambassador to Iraq. The report did not say when al-Dandah will travel to Baghdad. His predecessor, Nawaf Fares, defected in July to become the most senior diplomat to abandon Assad's regime during a bloody 18-month uprising that has gradually become a bloody civil war.
Meanwhile, the U.N. envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday on the first stop of his diplomatic tour of the Middle East. His spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said Brahimi would "hold wide-ranging talks on the prolonged crisis in Syria."
Barbara Surk and Zeina Karam in Beirut and Frank Jordans in Istanbul contributed to this report.


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Really that headline works with any game, even games that already have bunnies in them. Coming soon from Atari and Zynga (The A to Z of mobile games—that's free, marketing people), Super Bunny Breakout.
Inspired by the superhero Freedom Man, one rabbit embarks on a quest to free his furry friends from an animal testing lab, Breakout-style. It's block breaking with a message that PETA will surely get behind. It'll have 40 levels to break, five characters to unlock, a secret base to decorate and more bunnies than you can shake another, completely different bunny at.
I'm guessing there will be gameplay as well, though the creators seem perfectly happy just showing us artwork. Whatever brings the bunnies, man.
Super Bunny Breakout is coming soon to iOS and Android devices. Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies.


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Antelope on the loose in Rhode Island
Animal escapes private reserve in Hopkinton
The owner of an exotic antelope that escaped from a private collection in Hopkinton had been keeping it and other animals illegally, Rhode Island environmental officials said Wednesday.
State veterinarian Scott Marshall told The Associated Press the owner did not have an exotic wild animal permit to keep the 500-pound female antelope or four other antelope. The escaped antelope was being captured for relocation to Texas when it got loose Tuesday. It is still missing.
The other animals have been sent to the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison, Texas, as planned, according to Marshall.
Marshall said the department is considering penalties against the owner, whom he declined to name. Normally, people found to be keeping wild animals without the required permits face fines and removal of the animals, he said.
Officials have said the animal collection is in the Woodville-Alton Road section of Hopkinton. The animal, which belongs to a species native to Asia, is believed to have been imported from a game farm in New York state, Marshall said.
Marshall said the owner told the state that the antelope that escaped had gotten out before, but returned on its own. He said the owner has a "pretty decent fence" but that it was damaged during Superstorm Sandy.
State officials have warned hunters not to target the antelope, which resembles a large brown deer with no antlers. Before it escaped, it was shot with a dart containing medication that could harm, or even kill humans who ingest its meat.
Marshall said the medication is a potent sedative that usually makes an animal wobbly and lie down within 15 minutes. The medication wears off in about eight to 10 hours, he said.
Residents are asked to report any sightings of the animal to the state Department of Environmental Management. Marshall said there have been no credible sightings so far.


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By: Maria Gorosito, Baby Boot Camp & Karna Fitness, Katy, Texas
The Inner You
I am so excited to now be entering the third month of the 2013 Mother Love Fitness Challenge! I am feeling strong, yet light; empowered, yet patient; creative and full of worth! These are all changes that I am planning on solidifying this last month of MOLO. So far, so good! Here's an update on my progress!
Positive Progress- During the challenge, we will be doing assessments 4 times. It's amazing and inspiring to see where I started and where I am today! My fellow moms are putting up some amazing numbers in their cardio, strength and core exercise functional fitness tests. This weekend, many of my fellow MOLO moms ran their first half marathon! While not my first half, I was looking forward to running with them and crossing that finish line. Unfortunately, I got very sick Friday evening and had to watch from the sidelines…total boo. Watching these ladies tackle their first13.1 miles during the MOLO Challenge was nothing short of greatness! There's already talk of which race we will be doing next, when and where... the excitement is palpable! This is the type of positive progress I am so proud to be a part of! It really makes me feel like I am a part of something BIG.
Empowerment – And so having lived through the aforementioned sidelined experience this past weekend, I have realized that the MOLO Challenge has given me a sense of empowerment! I am responsible for making good choices with regards to the foods I eat, how much exercise I get and ultimately, my health! Whereas before MOLO I may have doubted myself on whether to run or not, I am comfortable knowing I made the right decision. I am listening to my body, even if it means shedding a tear or two! Before MOLO, I could hear my body, but I wasn't really listening! Now I pay attention and take action!
That's me on the sidelines cheering on my MOLO and Half Marathon teammates!
We all know that clean eating and exercise creates changes on the outside. Our jeans feel better, our shirts get cuter and we walk taller! But now that we are in the third and final month of MOLO, how has this challenge changed the inner YOU?
Maria Gorosito is the owner of Baby Boot Camp and Karna Fitness in Katy, TX. She is an AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor. When not training for marathons or 5K's in the dark, she's busy raising three energetic little boys! Her favorite exercise move for all of her Baby Boot Camp stroller fitness clients is by far the fantastic and super-efficient burpee!


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The Houston Dynamo took firm control of Group 3 Thursday night with a 4-0 win over CD FAS in the third round of the CONCACAF Champions League group stage.
After getting four crucial points in their first two road matches, the Dynamo knew the opportunity was there to take full control of their CCL destiny. Thanks to continued aerial domination and a few well-taken chances, the home team did just that, taking their point total to seven and earning sole possession of the group lead.
After a slow first 20 minutes, newcomer Giles Barnes showed some of his EPL skill, unleashing a left-footed stunner in the 21st minute to wake the match up. After taking a layoff from Cam Weaver, the 24-year-old Englishman took full advantage of some lax defending from FAS, teed up his shot and blasted his strike into the upper 90.
Ricardo Ulloa and Kofi Sarkodie traded chances in the 31st and 40th minute respectively before FAS's inability to apply pressure did the visitors in again.
After Je-Vaughn Watson drew a tough free kick at the edge of the box, Colin Clark sent a well-placed ball to the top of the six-yard box. With no FAS defender near, defender Bobby Boswell rose up and snapped a header back across goal to give the Dynamo a 2-0 first half lead.
Weaver then got Houston on the board just four minutes into the second half, taking full advantage of FAS's continued defensive struggles.
On another well-hit Clark cross that found him at the back post, Weaver initially attempted to head the ball down to a waiting Brian Ching. FAS's Elder Figueroa stepped in front of the captain and gifted Weaver a chance and the 6-foot-4 forward took full advantage, hitting a hard shot across goalkeeper Daniel Arroyo to make it 3-0.
Houston controlled the balance of the match, rarely letting the visitors string more than three passes together.
OPTA Chalkboard: Houston make aerial advantage pay
The night was nearly punctuated by an Adam Moffat special, but his 20-yard rocket flew a foot over the crossbar in the 65th minute. Unfortunately for Moffat, Thursday's action will be his last in CCL group play as a 73rd minute dust up with Figueroa and the FAS bench earned the midfielder a caution, ruling him out of Houston's decisive October 23 match versus Olimpia due to yellow card accumulation.
Second-half sub Calen Carr eventually made it four on the night in the 79th minute with a cheeky goal to seal the scoring. After a sublime ball in from Sarkodie found Weaver – who notched two assists and a goal on the night – the big man laid the ball off to Carr who deked the 'keeper and scored a right-footed chip to cap off the scoring.
The 4-0 win means that match the Oct. 23 match at BBVA Compass Stadium against Olimpia – who travel to face FAS on Sept. 27 – will decide who advances to March's quarterfinals. FAS, meanwhile, saw their CCL hopes ended by the loss.
Houston Dynamo (2-0-1) vs. C.D. FAS (0-3-0) - CONCACAF Champions League group play
September 20, 2012 BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, TX
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Scoring Summary:
HOU: Giles Barnes 1 (Cam Weaver 1) 21
HOU: Bobby Boswell 1 (Colin Clark 2) 44
HOU: Cam Weaver 2 (unassisted) 49
HOU: Calen Carr 1 (Cam Weaver 2) 78
Houston Dynamo: Tyler Deric; Kofi Sarkodie, Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Warren Creavalle; Je-Vaughn Watson (Calen Carr 58), Adam Moffat, Giles Barnes (Luiz Camargo 81), Colin Clark; Cam Weaver, Brian Ching (Alex Dixon 71)
Substitutes not used: Tally Hall, Jermaine Taylor, Macoumba Kandji, Brad Davis
C.D. FAS: Daniel Arroyo; Marvin Gonzalez (Cristiam Alvarez 36), Ramon Flores, Miguel Granadino, Alexander Mendoz; Williams Reyes (Jonathan Aguila 53), Alexander Larin, Alexander Figueroa, Jorge Moran; Emerson Luiz, Ricardo Ulloa (Carlos Carrillo 70)
Substitutes not used: Luis Contreras, Gerson Mayen, Juan Carlos Moscoso, Mario Abadia
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Adam Moffat (caution) 73
Referee: Francisco Chacon (Mexico)
Referee's Assistants: Juan Joel Rangel, Salvador Rodriguez
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If I'm deported to Algeria, send along a casket, Harkat warns
Mohamed Harkat pauses during a press conference on Parliament Hill marking the 10th anniversary of his arrest and detention on a security certificate, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:03PM EDT
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OTTAWA -- Terror suspect Mohamed Harkat has a grim request if the Canadian government sends him back to his native Algeria: send a casket along with him.
That's how sure Harkat is that he'll be tortured and killed if he's deported.
Harkat's dire message came a day after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the national security certificate against him, unanimously ruling the process is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The 45-year-old former pizza delivery man says he's certain to face torture and death if returned to Algeria, given the high-profile accusations against him.
"The ultimate goal of (Wednesday), it's shattered. That's all 12 years of waiting for the highest court in the land to give me a fair and open trial to defend myself," Harkat told a news conference on Parliament Hill.
"So basically, what's left now is the government of Canada wants to send me to Algeria. You'll have to send me with a box. They're going to torture me and bury me in it."
Indeed, Harkat is running out of options in his long legal saga.
Harkat was taken into custody in Ottawa in December 2002 on suspicion of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent -- an accusation he denies.
The federal government is trying to deport the Algerian refugee on a security certificate -- a seldom-used tool for removing non-citizens suspected of involvement in terrorism.
Harkat's lawyers argued the process was unfair because the person named in a certificate doesn't see the full case against them.
Harkat's wife, Sophie, said she and her husband feel betrayed by their country. They cried themselves to sleep Wednesday night, she said.
"I had such faith in the justice system, but all that has changed."
Both Harkat and his wife wept during the news conference as they spoke about the prospect of deportation.
Because Harkat is a refugee, the federal border agency cannot deport him unless the immigration minister issues a "danger opinion" declaring him a danger to the Canadian public or Canada's security.
In addition, the agency says anyone to be removed from Canada "is entitled to due process before the law and all removal orders are subject to judicial scrutiny."


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Prior to joining PAI, Peter was Chief Computer Scientist at EFF, where he led a team of technologists that launched numerous computer security and privacy projects, including Let's Encrypt and Certbot; Panopticlick; HTTPS Everywhere; the SSL Observatory; and Privacy Badger. In addition to these projects, Peter and his team also worked on diverse Internet policy issues including campaigning to preserve open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern computing platforms open; helping to start the campaign against the SOPA/PIPA Internet blacklist legislation; and running the first controlled tests to confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with P2P protocols.
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Labour's new leader appears to think he can manage New Zealand's financial system better than the Reserve Bank. If he was in power now, he says, he would not allow the bank to include first-home buyers in its mortgage lending restriction to take effect from next week.
The bank is about to limit the amount of lending that retail banks can do on deposits of less than 20 per cent of the price of the house. It is acting out of concern that banks are becoming too exposed to the risk that another house price bubble will burst, causing prices to fall. If that were to happen, the consequences for banks might be costly but for low-equity first-home owners it could be catastrophic.
The little equity they have amassed could be wiped out, leaving them owing the bank more than their house is worth.
If that sounds bad enough, other policies espoused by David Cunliffe would make their position even worse. If elected, he says, Labour would exempt first-home buyers from the new lending limits until its capital gains tax took hold and its low-cost house building programme took effect.
Nothing would be more likely to bring about a fall in house prices than a capital gains tax and an increase in state housing. If Mr Cunliffe had the interest of first-home owners at heart he would not only limit their access to low equity loans, he would do so well in advance of his other proposals.
The Reserve Bank is not expecting to bring about a fall in house prices next month. Its loan-to-value restriction is intended only to slow the rate at which prices have been rising, particularly in Auckland.
When it announced the proposed restriction the Prime Minister made it known the Government wanted an exemption for first-home seekers. The bank was unmoved, pointing out that first-home buyers were about 30 per cent of low-deposit borrowers and they had to be included if the measure was to be effective.
John Key gave way, deferring to the bank's expertise in its statutory jurisdiction. The bank's so-called independence in these matters has been in the bedrock of New Zealand's economy for nearly 30 years. In that time its independence has been respected by both major parties in government and when they were in opposition.
Labour's finance spokesman, David Parker, believes the party could exempt first-home seekers without removing the Reserve Bank's independence; his new leader appears not to care whether the bank's role is compromised or not.
Indeed, Mr Cunliffe reminded reporters that this is not new ground for him. He has already indicated that under him Labour would review monetary arrangements.
Mr Cunliffe needs to be very careful in this area. As the leader of one of the main parties, his utterances could be damaging to long-term confidence in the economy well before he threatens to be in any position to act.
It is hard to believe he would carry out the promise to over-ride the Reserve Bank's independence to exempt first-home seekers, if only because of the obvious risk to their equity. He was looking to score an easy political point.
Anything that makes it harder for first-home seekers to get finance is bound to be superficially unpopular, as proven by a poll at the weekend. Political leaders who withstand this pressure and respect the Reserve Bank's independence deserve more credit for it than Mr Key has received.
Governments are all-powerful in this country, it would be easy to weaken the bank's legislated jurisdiction and do untold damage to our economy.
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OCEAN CITY — Despite
keeping the tax rate the same as last year in Ocean City, potentially lowering
the median property owners' tax bill by about 2.5 percent, the City Council was
split 4-3 in passing the FY2011 budget through first reading on Monday night.
Heading into the final
two weeks of budget hearings, certain council members were outspoken in where
they wanted to see the tax rate set when it came to the end of the proceedings,
and while seemingly all wanted to lower the rate from the proposed 40.5 cents
per $100 assessed valuation, some were a bit more vocal about their goal than
Councilman Jim Hall had
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last years' 39.5 cents, while Councilman Joe Hall said he wouldn't vote it
through unless the tax rate was set at 39 cents, which he believed could have
been obtained by cutting town employee salaries by up to 5 percent.
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Monday as he had last week during the final budget hearing, but it was a bit of
a surprise to see that Jim Hall voted against it, despite the tax rate being
set at the exact same number as last year, and the fact that he voted for the
budget the prior week.
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despite voting to set the budget at 39.5 cents just a week prior.
"We hit the same number
as last year, and we worked very hard to get it down a penny," said Jim Hall,
"but I voted against it on Monday because I have been asking for over a year to
address the issue of a new pay and benefits structure for new employees and I
still haven't gotten it. I'm very disappointed and I just can't move forward
and not address that."
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budget by what they called the "failure" of City Manager Dennis Dare to present
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the private sector concerning new hires.
Though the town of Ocean
City's hiring freeze has been in effect for almost two years, leaving the
vacant positions in the resort nearing 90, and shows no signs of being lifted
any time soon, Hall thinks that the pay structure for new hires needs to be put
on the top of the priority list in order to be well prepared for the future.
"Yes, the hiring freeze
is in place and probably won't go anywhere for a bit, but that doesn't mean if
someone vital resigns we aren't going to replace them," said Hall. "If we don't
address this, it's going to break the city in the long run, and we keep moving
ahead with this old pay structure. I just won't have it."
Dare told the council on
Monday that the study concerning the pay and benefits comparisons for new hires
"is coming soon" and contested later that the city had compiled a great deal of
data on the matter, but was having some trouble getting certain businesses in
the private sector to openly share their salary and benefit statistics for
their new or even their existing employees.
"Sometimes the private
sector is much more reluctant to releasing that type of information, whereas in
government, it's public knowledge and it gets printed in the newspaper every
year," said Dare. "So it's taking a little bit longer to get them the
information. I'm as interested to see the results as they are, but I've been
working on this budget for quite some time, and I thought it was higher on the
priority list."
Dare said that
information from municipalities across the state, other resorts, as well as
Department of Labor Statistics will all be part of the study, along with other
facts and figures from the private sector.
Pillas went even further
with her displeasure in the absence of the so-called pay-scale study at the
budget hearings, saying that it was "impossible" for her to do her job as a
councilperson with out it, thus essentially forcing her to vote against the
"We've been asking for
it for almost a year, and to this day, we've gotten zero input," said Pillas.
"We aren't getting the information we need to do the job that we were elected
to do. It's plain and simple."
Despite the tough
economic times where budgets all across the state and the country are being cut
to the bone, Ocean City's tax rate is still among the lowest in the state, and
significantly lower than that of Salisbury (81.4 cents) Berlin, (73 cents),
Cambridge (67.6 cents), Easton (52 cents) and Snow Hill (86 cents).
Joe Hall believes that
although the city cut millions in this year's budget including almost an
additional million dollars in the last two weeks that cut the tax rate from
40.5 to 39.5, Ocean City has still not enabled itself for the future.
"I still don't think
we've retooled our government enough for a sustainable future," said Hall. "We
chose parts of the budget to be really tough on, but we didn't over-scrutinize
the Recreation and Parks Department, tourism or even special events."
Mayor Rick Meehan, on
the other hand, disagreed with Hall and ironically used "sustainable" to
describe what this year's budget enables the resort to be.
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responsible budget to pass, and I believe that it makes our city sustainable
for the future because we didn't balance the budget on one-time-only stimulus
funds or other things that some municipalities are doing," said Meehan. "We
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