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Amer says
Hey, John, could you answer my question in the "Ask Tutor Forum"?
Thank You
John Moffat says
Sorry – I must have missed it. Will do 🙂
abdelbagi2004 says
very helpful and clear lectures thaks Jhon
John Moffat says
Thank you for the comment 🙂
phylisgathoni says
Thank you .It was quite comprehensive
jia says
kindly ignore this query here as a comment because i posted it in ask the tutor forum.
petrochina says
Do I understand correctly that in questions like in Example 1 we always assume that all the income and expenses are cashflows? My doubt is that in real life for example sales revenue normally never matches to cash receipts from these sales – cash normally recieved on a later date and AR are posted as assets at the moment of sale…
John Moffat says
Yes – we make that assumption.
(It seems from your questions that you are 'jumping' around the lectures – I do suggest that you watch them in order 🙂 )
petrochina says
Thank you sir! I will follow your recommendation.
rowetigere says
Please help me understand the treatment of working capital.especially on the part were u said it has to be released
John Moffat says
Working capital is money needed to finance having to accept higher receivables, higher inventories etc..
Therefore it is likely that there will be extra outflows of cash to cover this during the life of the project.
At the end of the project we assume that we no longer need extra receivables etc. and so the money is released – we get back all of the working capital previously invested.
The relevant free lectures for Paper F9 on relevant cash flows for investment appraisal will help you – P4 is exactly the same as F9 in this respect.
rowetigere says
Thank you very much sir
ireengonwe says
Sir i dint understand why you ignored the fixed cost and yet the management accountant decided that 20% of $1000 should be absorbed into the new product.
John Moffat says
Absorbing means charging. For profit purposes fixed overheads can be charged to different products any way we want. However for DCF we are only interested in extra cash flows incurred by the company. Simply deciding to split the overheads differently does not mean that the total fixed overheads of the company will change. If the total does not change then there is no additional cash flow.
It may help you to watch the Paper F9 lectures on this.
ireengonwe says
Thanks i have understand now that we only concentrate on the extra charge.
Samson says
How can i download the video lecture for P4?
John Moffat says
Lectures cannot be downloaded – they can only be watched online.
It is the only way that we can keep this website free of charge.
sogan0 says
Thank You for the lecture
SOUD SAEED says
Hello Sir,
I just got little bit confused regarding two things, please correct me if am wrong
a) In the example 1 above, was it assumed the materials were bought at the end of 1st year, such that they were inflated upto end of 1st year? If this is so how come there were sales at the year one, does this mean all sales occured at the year end?
b) Regarding gearing, can we say that gearing is unsystematic risk, because it is company specific it may vary between different companies and because of this there is no need to include in beta, can we assume it may be eliminated by diversification?
Soud Said.
John Moffat says
In future, I will be grateful if you can ask this sort of question in the Ask the Tutor Forum rather than as a comment on a lecture 🙂
In answer to (a):
The production costs are quoted at current prices. The rule is that if costs are quoted at current prices then the cost in 1 years time will be higher because of inflation.
The logic behind this is that if you are thinking of buying this new machine, then you are likely to get quotes regarding the cost of materials etc now (even though you have not yet bought the machine). However, you will not be actually incurring the cost until next year and so by next year the cost quoted (at current prices) will have increased because of inflation.
With regard to the selling price, the question specifically says that they will be sold at $20 per unit in the first year, and so it is only in later years that the cash price will be increased.
In answer to (b):
Gearing is not unsystematic risk. The effect of gearing it to increase the existing risk of the business, whether it be systematic or unsystematic. If the earnings were certain (so no risk) then gearing would have no effect on the risk to shareholders because the dividends would be certain also. Obviously in practice, the earnings are subject to risk (both systematic and unsystematic) and the affect of gearing is to increase the level of risk when it comes to dividends (and therefore for shareholders).
If I am not making this clear, then you will find it helpful to watch the F9 lecture on gearing risk where I go through an example to explain exactly how gearing increases the existing risk in the business.
SOUD SAEED says
I really appreciate for your quick response Mr Moffat, i now got the concept very clearly. I apologize for the mistake regarding posting questions in the comments section rather than posting it in the Ask the Tutor Forum.
Thanks once again.
Soud Said.
P4 says
Answers for P4 December 2014? (This attempt)
John Moffat says
I don't understand your question (this place is for commenting on the lecture – if you have a specific question then you should ask it in the Ask the Tutor Forum).
What about the answers?
They are on the ACCA website.
Fatma says
Again in calculating discount factors, well if you want to calculate the discount factor of year 2 to infinity at a cost of capital of 14%, you take the perpetuity of 7.143 multiplied by the DF of year 2 of 0.769 to get 5.493, correct me of I'm wrong.
Now when it comes to let's say FCFE growing at 3% from year 4 to infinity then calculating the DF you take 1/(14%-3%)*DF of year 3, well my question is why not multiplying by the DF of year 4? Please explain to me the logic I'm getting confused.
Fatma says
To the same question if there was no growth rate and FCFE remained constant yeah i knw we wouldnt b deducting the growth rate but what would be the discount factor to the same scenario?
Any assistance would highly be appreciated.
John Moffat says
To discount a growing FCFE you use the dividend growth formula from the formula sheet.
John Moffat says
You are wrong (and I explained this to you a week ago – below)
For 2 to infinity you take the discount factor for a perpetetuity and multiply by the one year factor because it starts 1 year late (it starts at time 2 instead of time 1).
For 4 to infinity you take the discount factor for 1 to infinity and multiply by the 3 year discount factor because it starts 3 years late (it starts at time 4 instead of time 1)
Fatma says
Thanks a lot sir. Well different books confused me but now i can clearly get the concept.
I also appreciate your fast response.
Fatma says
What are the different ways of calculating the discount factor of, for example, year 3-15 at a cost of capital of 11%?
I tried taking the annuity of year 1-15 then subtracted the annuity of year 1-2, is this method acceptable?
Another method I tried was taking the annuity of year 1-15 then multiplied with the present value discount factor of year 2, correct me if I'm wrong.
Thank you.
John Moffat says
Either method is acceptable.
However, you have made a mistake in your second method. If it is 3 to 15, then there are 13 years of flows. Therefore you should take the annuity factor for 13 years and then multiply by the present value factor for 2 years.
Both methods will give the same answer (apart from rounding, which is irrelevant in the exam).
Fatma says
Really much appreciate your help.
jidep2acca says
Hello Sir,
Could you help understand how to make use of the normal distribution table to get D1 N(0.77) and D2 N(0.63)…. Thank you.
John Moffat says
You look up 0.7 down the left hand side, and then 0.07 across the top.
This should give you 0.2794.
Then you apply the rule at the bottom of the tables.
Here, because D1 is >0, you add 0.5 to the figure from the tables.
so N(D1) = 0.5 + 0.2794 = 0.7794
It is the same procedure for N(D2)
shahnawaz says
Sir is Business valuation covered in the audio lectures . And if yes , please guide me where to find them . And secondly post acquisition change is share price and the premium calculations , please guide me where to find them in your audio lectures.
Thank you.
John Moffat says
No – there are no lectures on these chapters.
lakeside says
Dear All/Tutor,
There is this ongoing issue with Fixed Costs, well not really ongoing but how BPP solved the problem below is bit confusing to me.
BPP Practice and Revision Kit ( Mock Exam 2, Q1). It is an International Investment Appraisal question. One of the information said and i quote
"Fixed Costs and local variable costs, which for the first year of operation are 12 million pesos and 600 pesos per unit respectively, are expected to increase by the previous year's rate of inflation".
My interpretaion from the above means both costs are to increase ? so fixed costs will increase?
BUT the answer only uses variable costs and ignored fixed costs.
Please any explanation why this was the case or should I just state my own assumptions in the exam and work with that. I know.
Feedback s are highly appreciated. I just need to pass this P4 this time
John Moffat says
I do not have the BPP mock, but the reason will almost certainly be because fixed costs are only relevant if the total fixed costs increase as a result of doing the project. For profit purposes they may well absorb them over different projects, but for DCF we are only interested if the total fixed costs change.
lakeside says
That makes sense then, so only incremental fixed cost because of the project and not because of general inflation, Thanks
ALI says
Can any one provide me solution of paper strategic financial management 3.7 of december 2006 of ACCA………?
lakeside says
Please forum/Tutor, can someone help me with the correct treatment of tax allowable depreciation.
In some solutions, it forms part of the cashflows before tax and after the tax is calculated, it is added back to the After tax cashflow.
However in Some other answers, what is done is this. They calculate the capital allowance and get the tax effect on the allowance calculated and this is added to the cashflows after tax and if it is a balancing charge the effect is a deduction. So which is the correct treatment
Many Thanks
John Moffat says
You can do it either way – both give the same net cash flow.
I prefer the second way (as you will have seen in my lecture) it is easier and safer.
lakeside says
Thanks a lot, that was very helpful John
prateshramjohn says
If the question said that the Fixed Overheads will grow from year one at a rate of 10%. What will be our charges to put into the NPV calculations?
Will it be:
i) yr 1= 20
yr 2= 42
or will it be incremental changes
ii) yr1 = 20
John Moffat says
If the fixed overheads are 20 in the first year and grow at 10% per year each year, then they will be 22 in the second year, and so on……..your answer (ii).
I don't know why you have called them incremental changes at all. There would be no logic whatsoever in your answer (i)
(Just suppose you personally pay rent of 20 a year, and I tell you it will increase at 10% a year – it will not mean you pay 42 next year!!!!)
Separately though, do remember that fixed overheads are only relevant at all if they are extra (incremental) fixed overheads as a result of doing the project. If they are going to be payable anyway then they are not relevant.
prateshramjohn says
thanks alot.
toobaalvi says
Do we always claim unrecovered allownance on the balance left in the pool? and consequently the tax benefit on it?
John Moffat says
We cannot deal with a pool in P4 questions, and so we treat as a special item and have a balancing charge or balancing allowance if it is sold.
toobaalvi says
If the assets are not sold by the end of project, then what will we do with the balancing amount?
John Moffat says
It really depends on assumptions, and whether or not you are told the value of the project at the end of the planning period. Sometimes the examiner has treated the value at the end as if they were sale proceeds (and therefore had a balancing charge/allowance), other times it has just been reducing balance for each year of the planning period. On at least one occasion the problem has been avoided by the question giving the after-tax value, which assumed it had dealt with all taxes.
If it is not made clear then state your assumption and you will get the marks. In P4 there is rarely one correct answer – it depends often on assumptions made (not just with regard to tax).
toobaalvi says
So will we calculate any charge or allowance if 'it has just been treated as reducing balance for each year of the planning period'?
John Moffat says
That is not what I wrote.
You will always have capital allowances during the appraisal period at reducing balance!
toobaalvi says
I'm not getting you. I'm asking, if at the end of a project for e.g 6th year, after charging capital allowance that year, if there still remains some balance and no sale proceeds are given, so will we calculate any unrecovered allowance on it by multiplying with the tax rate?
John Moffat says
The way capital allowances work is this:
Every year it is a writing down allowance of 25% reducing balance except for the final year.
In the final year, there is no writing down allowance. Instead you subtract any sale proceeds from the written down value and the difference is a balancing allowance or a balancing charge – that is the capital allowance in the final year.
toobaalvi says
And if no sales proceeds are given then what will we do?
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The snowmobile industry has had long track mountain sleds for many years, at least 25 years by my best guess if we go by the introduction of the Ski-Doo Summit in 1994. Long track sleds are like a big snowshoe in that they provide greater flotation which is very beneficial when riding in deeper snow.
Everyone that promotes snowmobiles, from the manufacturers to the dealers to the media (myself included) has openly and freely promoted the virtues of such sleds as being superior for use in deeper snow conditions. That is our job, and it is only logical. Different tools work better for different jobs. Pretty basic.
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As each segment of machines matured and evolved, the so-called "mountain" sleds become more advanced, more capable and more specific. What started out as 133.5" and 136" tracked sleds (seriously, the first RMK 800 we had was a 136" track sled, before that we had 133.5" SKS models) slowly stretched out to 141", 144", 155", 163", and finally 174" track lengths. Front end widths became narrower and narrower. The mountain sleds used to be great all-around deep snow sleds but slowly became highly specialized machines, designed to traverse deeper and steeper terrain. To ride one down a trail for much of any distance was just plain difficult.
With the evolution of deep snow specific mountain sleds, something curious happened. Riders who had been buying the shorter-tracked mountain sleds were now left out in the cold. Their riding conditions were not as extreme, not as deep, so they didn't need all of the track length or deep snow lug height. They really despised the super narrow front ends, great for sidehilling but terrible for all-around stability. They were perfectly fine with the slightly longer tracks and slightly taller lug tracks, something that would work well across a wider range of conditions.
This emerging void in the market created a new opportunity for the sled manufacturers. There was a gap in the sled offerings to be filled by demand. This is how the "crossover" sled market was born. I clearly remember the very first Ski-Doo Renegade model. Ski-Doo jokingly said they were going to call it the "SnowTech Special" as we had been so vocal in the need for such a machine. In fact, the very first Renegade was called a Summit Renegade, not an MX Z Renegade, as Ski-Doo believed it better identified with the mountain riders than it did the trail riders. From those humble beginnings the Renegade quickly became a popular crossover sled, and is today considered a premier trail sled as the crossover market has slowly migrated to longer and narrower models. Funny how history repeats itself.
Today's crossover sleds are now very close to what a mountain sled used to be years ago. Consider track length, lug height and front end width of a crossover sled and we pretty much have what used to be called a mountain sled. The manufactures simply built what the consumers were willing to purchase.
Notice that nowhere in this did anyone ever suggest that these machines were to be used for illegal riding. Nowhere has anyone EVER suggested that a long track sled be used to enter areas off-limits to snowmobiles. Never has it been suggested that a rider purchase one of these machines to trespass onto private land.
The popularity of longer tracked sleds is growing, which in itself is not a problem, but what is a problem is where riders plan on using them. An alarming number think they can use them pretty much wherever they please. Public, private, who cares. Down the trail, across the trail, off the trail, across this yard, across this field, maybe even across this golf course or cemetery. Wherever there is deep snow, away they go. They have little to no regard for what is legal or illegal, public or private, open or closed.
We see this first-hand in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There is a lot of public land open to ride, but each and every groomed trail section that crosses private land is constantly abused by those who insist on going off trail where it is illegal. Riding in the state or national forest is one thing, but cutting across private land is another. Signs, fences, banners, all are ignored. The riders under the helmet believe they are invincible, albeit totally irresponsible.
On many groomed trail systems off-trail riding is illegal. Period. With today's crossover sleds we study maps and find legal riding areas to take them. Anytime a rider leaves the legal trail system they MUST know who owns the land they are entering. If you don't know, don't go! Much like a hunter must know where the public land ends and private lands begins, snowmobilers are obligated to know where it is legal to ride and where it is illegal to ride. Not only in their local areas, but everywhere and anywhere that they might take their sled to ride. Different areas have different laws, different areas have different customs. What is legal and acceptable behavior in one state might not be legal or acceptable in another state. It is the obligation of the snowmobiler to know the laws and regulations wherever they plan to ride.
Those who cry they have nowhere to ride should be reminded that buying a snowmobile with a deep lug track was a voluntary purchase. You don't go buy a high powered rifle to go deer hunting if they only allow slug hunting in your local area. Nor do you use the rifle to go duck hunting. If you want to use that new rifle you'd better find where it is legal to do so.
The notion that it is an obligation of the club volunteers to accommodate riders who want to go off trail and break laws is absurd. If these riders want a different experience and opportunity, they can take their machines to locations where that kind of riding is legal and acceptable, or they can roll up their sleeves and do the work to create such opportunities – just like everyone else has. Not all riding areas will be able to have legal off-trail opportunities. Just like your rifle, you can't use it everywhere hunting is legal.
Some trail riding areas are starting to recognize this as a "tourism" opportunity and promote their availability of lands open to off trail riding – of course this is only possible in areas that have such opportunities, be it public land or private land with permission. The further north and/or west you go the more likely you are to find this. Many areas in the east are VERY strict about ONLY operating sleds on the designated groomed trail system. Off trail riding is an even bigger problem in these areas that have no legal off-trail access. Locally here in central Minnesota there is no public land, there is no state forest, there is no national forest. If we want to go boon docking we load the sleds on a trailer and go where that kind of riding is legal. And we sure don't blame somebody else that we can't do it right here.
The suggestion that the explosion of illegal trespassing and off trail riding is caused by the manufacturers (and the entire snowmobile industry) promoting off trail sleds is misguided. We promote different machines for different applications. We show machines being used in their legal operating environment. To suggest this is justification for illegal operation is insane. The obligation to use and operate your machine legally is the solely burden of the rider! Again, just because a hunter sees pictures or video of somebody elk hunting in Wyoming, do they step outside and try to do the same in their local neighborhood? Of course not! They know when and where they need to go to do the same.
Trails get closed each year because of selfish riders. We just lost another one here in Minnesota at the end of November because someone went down a trail on private land before it was even open for the season. Some snowmobilers ignore signs all day long like they don't read or understand the language. They know full well they are trespassing. They don't care. Yet we blame the "industry" for encouraging such behavior? I blame social degeneration. The lack of respect. The loss of morals and personal responsibility. Yes, these habits of society are creeping into our beloved sport of snowmobiling. How sad.
Each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. If we break the law, we have no excuse. We cannot blame the devil. We cannot blame our circumstances. We can only blame ourselves. And, until we recognize that the problem resides within us we will never arrive at the solution.
Kevin Beilke – Editor, SnowTech Magazine


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- Title
- The contribution of structured activity and deliberate play to the development of expert perceptual and decision-making skill
- Creator
- Berry, Jason; Cote, Jean
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58407
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- vital:108
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- Abstract
- The developmental histories of 32 players in the Australian Football League (AFL), independently classified as either expert or less skilled in their perceptual and decision-making skills, were collected through a structured interview process and their year-on-year involvement in structured and deliberate play activities retrospectively determined. Despite being drawn from the same elite level of competition, the expert decision-makers differed from the less skilled in having accrued, during their developing years, more hours of experience in structured activities of all types, in structured activities in invasion-type sports, in invasion-type deliberate play, and in invasion activities from sports other than Australian football. Accumulated hours invested in invasion-type activities differentiated between the groups, suggesting that it is the amount of invasion-type activity that is experienced and not necessarily intent (skill development or fun) or specificity that facilitates the development of perceptual and decision-making expertise in this team sport. © 2008 Human Kinetics, Inc.; C1
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
- Relation
- Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Vol. 30, no. 6 (2009), p. 685-708
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- Copyright Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
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- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1701 Psychology; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1702 Cognitive Science; Learning; Practice; Skills development; Sport expertise
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Pilar Marqués introduces emotional networks to the European Institute of Innovation in Emotional Intelligence
The SALBIS Research Group establishes a collaboration with the European Institute for Innovation in Emotional Intelligence. Pilar Marqués explains the group's strength in the study of emotional behaviour in networks of contacts between people. Specifically, among students in learning-teaching learning, among health professionals, etc.
The contagion of positive and negative emotions is relevant for the sustainability of projects both in the health system and in the university.
Marqués points out that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for emotional management has been truly recognised. The Institute and the SALBIS group will do projects and collaborations based on the transfer of knowledge of networks and emotions.
Marqués-Sánchez P, Quiroga Sánchez E, Liébana-Presa C, Fernández-Martínez E, García-Rodríguez I, Benıtez-Andrades JA. The consumption of alcohol by adolescents choolchildren: Differences in the triadic relationship pattern between rural and urban environments. PLoS ONE 2020, 15(11): e0241135. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241135
Marqués-Sánchez, P.; García-Rodríguez, I.; Benítez-Andrades, J.A.; Fulgueiras-Carril, I.; Fernández-Sierra, P.; Fernández-Martínez, E. Networks and Emotions in Cooperative Work: A Quasi-Experimental Study in University Nursing and Computer Engineering Students. Healthcare 2020, 8, 220. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030220


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We have previously mentioned about telematics car insurance that is also known as "black box" insurance. This sort of insurance really does appear to have its benefits, in particular for the younger driver.
As you may be aware a black box is fitted inside the car and it measures things like how well you are driving the vehicle and when you are driving it. As we have stated above, it has proved of particular benefit to the younger motorist that drives safely by lowering the premium that they would normally pay in a number of instances.
We thought you would find it of interest to read that BMW in conjunction with Allianz Insurance are to offer a form of usage telematics car insurance in respect of their i3 and i8 cars called a BMW Flexi Mile car insurance policy. Use will be made of the BMW Connected Drive technology in these vehicles. The system will track the number of miles done providing the driver with a statement each month of the number done. Those BMW drivers taking out this policy who do less than 5,000 miles per annum will get cheaper car insurance – a 25% reduction that will no doubt be a figure not to be sneezed at. Any driver doing more than 5,000 miles per annum will pay a fixed price for every extra mile.
This is believed to be the first time that anything resembling telematics insurance is being fitted in a factory. We are sure that you will agree this is an interesting development.
It remains to be seen if other car manufacturers decide to follow suit in the future as it has the potential to be of great interest to many motorists who may have perhaps not considered a full type of telematics car insurance as they may have felt it intrusive. All that the system used by BMW will do is track the number of miles that you have done.
We will keep you posted should we hear of any other car manufacturers doing the same.


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Here's how the Saints-Seahawks Monday Night Football game unfolded last night through the eyes of the Who Dat Nation Twittersphere.
The game hasn't even started and "the 12th man" already makes me want to puke.
— Andrew Juge (@AndrewJuge) December 3, 2013
Brees loosening up the ole groin.
— Sean Hatin (@JuanScroates) December 3, 2013
Saints being greeted by a sign that says "Saints Can't Play In Cold Weather." Guess we are about to find out.
— Terrance Harris (@TerranceHarris) December 3, 2013
Hawthorne and Herring both captains tonight. Both played for Seattle earlier in their careers.
— WWL-TV Sports (@wwltvsports) December 3, 2013
Saints lose the toss. Seahawks defer. Saints will receive.
— Larry Holder (@LarryHolder) December 3, 2013
Coin toss tweets are my signal to turn the TV on.
— Matthew (@GeauxDucks) December 3, 2013
I bet Brees relished the pre-game handshakes: he got to look down at the opposing QB.
— Who Dat Report (@whodat9000) December 3, 2013
Payton texted Farve about stadium noise and got a dick pic back
— Patrick (@saltedfish13) December 3, 2013
Saints are using big signs on the sideline to signal in their plays in an effort to counter the crowd noise. http://t.co/JTFpwVVNfR
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) December 3, 2013
Golden Tate is the next Steve Smith of assholes.
— skooks (@skooks) December 3, 2013
Kenny Vaccaro forced fumble. Lynch gets the ball back, but holds Seattle to a field goal to go up 3-0.
— Larry Holder (@LarryHolder) December 3, 2013
First ESPN camera shot of Rob Ryan inspired a huge round of cheers from the Saints fans in the bar I'm watching at.
— Brett (@thecajunboy) December 3, 2013
Saints just substituted five guys on offense. THey're a damn hockey team. #MNF
— Vincent Verhei (@FO_VVerhei) December 3, 2013
This has not been a good 1Q. Brees intercepted and returns it 22 yards for TD. Saints behind by two scores early.
— WWL-TV Sports (@wwltvsports) December 3, 2013
Well that wasn't good.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker6) December 3, 2013
Well that was fun.
— skooks (@skooks) December 3, 2013
Well that was unfortunate...
— Pat White (@PatWhiteSports) December 3, 2013
Press box shook on that one.
— WWL-TV Sports (@wwltvsports) December 3, 2013
It's not that loud in Seattle because I can still hear Jon Gruden and Mike Tirico. Seahawks fans, help us out here. Please.
— Skip Bayless (@FunSkipBayless) December 3, 2013
Someone tranquilize Zach Strief and drag him off the field. Replace him with a cardboard cut out of Willie Roaf.
— Cory Gunkel (@CoryGunkel) December 3, 2013
Not to be rude, but if you think the Seahawks unis look nice, what the hell do you wear when you leave the house?
— Kevin Allman (@NOLAKevin) December 3, 2013
The Saints making no plays, Seattle making all the plays. Analysis.
— Ralph Malbrough (@SaintsForecast) December 3, 2013
Humber gives Zach Miller too much cushion at the goal line and the Seahawks are about to go up 17-0 with 1:55 to go in 1Q
— WWL-TV Sports (@wwltvsports) December 3, 2013
Someone might want to defend Zach Miller. This one is about to get out of hand.
— Larry Holder (@LarryHolder) December 3, 2013
The bad news? It's only the first quarter. The good news? It's only the first quarter.
— Canal St. Chronicles (@SaintsCSC) December 3, 2013
The first quarter mercifully ends for the Saints.
— Katherine Terrell (@Kat_Terrell) December 3, 2013
And there's Jimmy Graham on a slant route down the field. #Saints now on #Seahawks 12-yard line.
— Mike Triplett (@MikeTriplett) December 3, 2013
Saints with clock management issues. I blame Les Miles
— Pod Katt (@valleyshook) December 3, 2013
SEA personal foul in end zone (Richard Sherman), ball to 6, first-and-goal.
— John DeShazier (@JohnDeShazier) December 3, 2013
December 3, 2013
I bet Sherman's mom doesn't even love him
— Ryan Berger (@BoatRich) December 3, 2013
thanks Sherman for the dumb penalty...time to get some points Saints
— Steve Geller (@SteveGellerWWL) December 3, 2013
Richard Sherman got dragon breath pic.twitter.com/Nx2MtUCrvg
— Mike Tunison (@xmasape) December 3, 2013
Welp. Saints have life. Jimmy Graham TD reception and dunk quiets the crowd. Seahawks 17, Saints 7.
— Larry Holder (@LarryHolder) December 3, 2013
#LegionOfDunk the ball over the goalpost
— skooks (@skooks) December 3, 2013
Whatever wardrobe or beverage adjustment you guys made seem to be working. Nice job.
— skooks (@skooks) December 3, 2013
Saints converted 4 of 4 third downs on that TD drive. http://t.co/ZJJV1N14Jn
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) December 3, 2013
Saints are not going to lose in a stadium full of computer executives, coffee bunglers and damp hipsters.
— GulfSails (@GulfSails) December 3, 2013
#Seahawks ultimately have to settle for a chip-shot FG. Letting #Saints hang around here. Lead 20-7 with 3:41 left in 1st half.
— Mike Triplett (@MikeTriplett) December 3, 2013
Considering how miserable that drive was, holding them to a FG is a borderline miracle. Let's see if the offense can finish half w/ points
— Saints Nation Blog (@SaintsNationBlg) December 3, 2013
New plan. Let's stop including Josh Hill in our 3rd down plays. Sound good?
— Ryan Chauvin (@Sporthappens) December 3, 2013
Who is this josh hill guy and why does he get targeted on 3rd downs i wonder? #graham #colston #sproles #moore #thomas
— Scott Shanle (@scottshanle) December 3, 2013
Congratulations on being really loud, Seattle. Your reward is tinnitus.
— The Falcoholic (@TheFalcoholic) December 3, 2013
putting a deicbel meter in a football stadiums like putting a breathlyzer in rob ryans van your just encouraging them
— PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) December 3, 2013
I'm temporarily stepping off the Galette bandwagon. I'll probably return next week. But for now I'm just going to glare at him.
— Ryan Chauvin (@Sporthappens) December 3, 2013
The Saints are not good on the road. Deal with it.
— Sean Hatin (@JuanScroates) December 3, 2013
The Saints defense took the night off.
— Larry Holder (@LarryHolder) December 3, 2013
Seattle did not punt in the first half. First four drives: FG; TD; FG; TD. http://t.co/Li7eNwcMEL
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) December 3, 2013
Annnnnnd I just threw up in the bar bathroom. #fucktheflu
— Held Over (@hakimdropsball) December 3, 2013
How were those designer earplugs holding up?
— New Orleans Saints (@saintsnola) December 3, 2013
Will forever remember this as the "designer earplugs" game.
— Reid (@ReidG75) December 3, 2013
One step forward two penalties back #saints
— Mike Nabors (@MikeNabors) December 3, 2013
Charles Brown? Illegal use of hands? There's a terrible Peanuts joke in here.
— The Falcoholic (@TheFalcoholic) December 3, 2013
@jerrybrannon Is this an option?
— Ryan Chauvin (@Sporthappens) December 3, 2013
When you absolutely know it's not your night: A tipped pass by the TE caught by a WR who was out of bounds but restablished inbound for TD
— WWL-TV Sports (@wwltvsports) December 3, 2013
Just give it to them
— Thanks be to Todd (@TheToddNewberg) December 3, 2013
Incomplete pass, but a late hit on Brees will give the Saints a first down
— WWL Radio (@WWLAMFM) December 3, 2013
There's Brees being short again.
— skooks (@skooks) December 3, 2013
That's not gonna help the Brees is soft thing
— Sean Hatin (@JuanScroates) December 3, 2013
Impressive streak here. Unfortunately for Brees it's coming to screeching halt tonight. #NOvsSEA pic.twitter.com/giQS8EykJP
— bill hofheimer (@bhofheimer_espn) December 3, 2013
RIP Zach Strief's knee
— Jerry Brannon (@jerrybrannon) December 3, 2013
Oh good another injury nobody can afford
— skooks (@skooks) December 3, 2013
Jimmy just ran backwards to hit a guy
— ok awesome (@ok__awesome) December 3, 2013
Did Jimmy Graham just intentionally back into that defender and use him like a human shield?
— Jerry Brannon (@jerrybrannon) December 3, 2013
— Ryan Chauvin (@Sporthappens) December 3, 2013
The Seahawks had only 10 men on the field on that last fourth down play and still managed to stop the Saints.
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) December 3, 2013
I'm done watching #tvoff
— Connor Payton (@ctpayton19) December 3, 2013
The score makes it seem closer than it really is #saints
— Brett Anderson (@BrettEats) December 3, 2013
Luke McCown is warming up on the Saints sideline.
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) December 3, 2013
Somebody need to slap Malcolm Jenkins with a Bow tie. Lol Dude got abused in coverage all game.
— LL Cool Jay Gizzle (@jay_gizzle) December 3, 2013
You can look now. It's over.
— Angry Who Dat (@angrywhodat) December 3, 2013
The Saints' 188 yards of total offense is a low in the Sean Payton-Drew Brees era.
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) December 3, 2013
Please, somebody ask Payton a dumb question in the presser. Need a good laugh.
— Reid (@ReidG75) December 3, 2013
And just like that its #PanthersHateWeek
— #whodat (@WhoDatGod) December 3, 2013
Night got worse for the @Saints. Source inside locker room just told me team plane may be broke down, and having trouble finding hotel.
— Amber Theoharis (@AmberTheoharis) December 3, 2013
This night couldn't get any worse
— rafael bush (@rbush36) December 3, 2013
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Involving HRM in Innovation
Innovation is in need of a significant transformation on how it is designed, developed and executed in most organizations. Traditional approaches to managing this simply need ripping up and redesigning to allow innovation to become more the central core. Where does Human Resource Management (HRM) fit within this?
If we look at the broad areas that HRM has to cover and master in organizational development today, it can, perhaps, leave little time for adding in innovation into this array of demands. You can understand that HRM has little time to master a 'decent' understanding of what makes up innovation, when they are grappling with so much already but they should. Innovation is very people centric and HRM should be working hard in facilitating this often understated aspect.
Today's HRM role is demanding and complex, no question.
Let's firstly remind ourselves what does make up a current HRM role in leading or participating in many crucial areas needing constant attention. These include planning and designing and the executing of change management, seeking out potential leaders, participating in career development and recruitment, managing organization capability and effectiveness in all its different demands called for across a diverse demanding organization.
HRM gets fully involved with seeking out different designs to team building or should, organization transformation work, building knowledge and talent capacity, let alone the classic payroll, reviews and turnover questions brought on by volatile markets, change of directions or global expansion.
I could add more but organizational development is an extremely tough, challenging and pivotal role, often under-appreciated and struggling to gain their rightful seat at the top table.
Adding innovation as a simple add-on into HRM will not work
What we need to 'flag' today is that HRM has evolved to be at the vanguard of regulatory and compliance oriented. This mindset certainly can conflict with encouraging and developing more free-thinking needed for innovation and for HRM to shift over to supporting innovation will need further change within the HRM team itself. If it can achieve this 'release' of its shackles it might be seen as a 'go to' competence centre for people development again.
Managing the culture needed for innovation that fosters creativity would allow a flourishing of ideas and creativity many organizations need today. Can HRM make changes, firstly within themselves and then in taking hold of the development of the people side within the building of innovation competencies?
Presently HRM is little involved in the current innovation process where innovation is focused on developing and designing new products, services and often even excluded from the design of new innovation business models to find the best ways to break these out from existing organization design so they thrive and not just survive due to patronage alone.
The management of human resource needs to be replaced with the management of human creativity and ingenuity, as this is the triggering point to innovation success. The critical role of innovation is without question needed for the future growth, wealth creation and organizations potential survival. Who is to drive the human change required here? Â I believe HRM should have a lasting design impact and central engagement role in this.
HRM has a crucial role to play in the needs to facilitate and underpin the people factor as well designed into the organization, in every activity for making innovation the 'way of life' and well understood as corporately vital to be well support and consistently enhance in capabilities and capacities.
Those that attempt innovation gain valuable experience
If HRM took innovation into the core of organizational design, the mandate for each person is to get involved in innovation activity to gain valuable experience that enhances the desired capabilities for the future. If innovation is seen as core, you begin to break down the present barriers and mindsets that restrict innovation today by current behaviours, blocking innovating activity or placing constraints in allocating the required resources to 'allow' innovation to flourish.
HRM plays the critical role in breaking down the existing barriers (cultural, environmental, structural) and determines the need for information and knowledge sharing to actively lower one of innovations greatest barriers today, the not invented here, that existing within organizations both in themselves and in opening up to external new sources of stimulus. HRM can find clear ways to foster innovation in more open ways.
The changing role of organization design
There is a consistent need to sustain and secure a steady top-line and bottom-line growth, CEO's tenure is mostly based on this. What is increasingly needed is to go beyond this expected 'state' and deliver the 'wow' factor, which comes mostly through innovation. Here top managers have to seek out speed, flexibility and adaptability as outlined earlier in this article but they also need to go beyond this. We come back to the ability to extract new value is in the individuals identifying, assimilating and exploiting knowledge and it is in recognizing this reverse flow, is where the HRM role needs to focus on a different organizational design.
Future leaders need to emerge not from managing existing assets well but in managing in increased uncertainties, being more adaptive, agile and responsive to changing needs. CEO's are demanding creativity, flexibility and speed to size up, quickly seize and grab breaking opportunity. These newer demanded skills come from knowing how and where to go, to be well-connected across platforms of knowledge, having close client connectivity and being able to extract all the essentials, resources and commitments to enable execution. Adaptability to constant change has a very different mindset to be developed in our future leaders
HRM needs to be on the cutting edge of innovation and faces a stark choice
HRM does need to step up and define a new mandate for innovation. If innovation is ever going to achieve a core place within organizations it has to be deliberately designed in for skill definitions, leadership development and knowledge and experiences gained. HRM needs to cultivate, mobilize and capitalize innovation.
HRM needs to take on a more pivotal role for innovation. They can become central for a lasting place to plan and significantly contribute to building innovation capability and capacity or stay more passive and operate always in the outer periphery of today's and the future corporate relevance that innovation needs to play.
I believe HRM needs a new raison d'être, one that comes from grabbing hold of innovation and making this core to the organizations future design. Building capabilities and capacities for innovation are essential to our organizations future well-being and HRM needs to step up and become far more engaged.
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Borussia Dortmund battled to a 3-2 victory at European hopefuls Hoffenheim on Saturday to close in on leaders Bayern Munich as striker Erling Haaland made it 56 goals in 57 Bundesliga games for the Ruhr valley club.
Efficient Dortmund had only three shots on goal compared to Hoffenheim's 14 but it was enough for the win that lifted them to 43 points, three behind Bayern, who face Hertha in Berlin on Sunday.
Dortmund, looking to make it three wins out of three league games this year, got off to a strong start and Haaland tapped in for the lead in the sixth minute from Donyell Malen's first of three assists.
Haaland, who had to be taken off injured in the 63rd minute, has scored 16 times in the league this season. Dortmund defender Manuel Akanji was also injured in the 83rd minute.
Andrej Kramaric's sensational volley in first-half stoppage time drew the hosts level but the visitors struck again in the 58th minute with Reus completing a quickfire passing move with a deft finish.
Hoffenheim's afternoon took a further turn for the worse when David Raum drilled the ball into his own net attempting to clear a Malen cutback to give Dortmund a two-goal lead.
Hoffenheim, battling for a Champions League spot this season, got back into the mix when Georgionio Rutter caught the defence napping to latch onto a clever Munas Dabbour chip and slot in, but they eventually ran out of time.
Hoffenheim dropped to sixth on 31 points. Bayer Leverkusen stayed in third on 35 with a 5-1 demolition of Augsburg courtesy of a Moussa Diaby hat-trick while Union Berlin climbed to fourth following their 2-1 win at Borussia Monchengladbach.
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Effect of acid treated carbon nanotubes on mechanical, rheological and thermal properties of polystyrene nanocomposites
AuthorsAmr, Issam Thaher
Al-Amer, Adnan M J
Selvin, Thomas P.
Al-Harthi, Mamdouh Ahmed
Girei, Salihu Adamu
Sougrat, Rachid
Atieh, Muataz Ali
KAUST DepartmentImaging and Characterization Core Lab
Advanced Nanofabrication, Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
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AbstractIn this work, multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNT) were functionalized by acid treatment and characterized using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Polystyrene/CNT composites of both the untreated and acid treated carbon nanotubes were prepared by thermal bulk polymerization without any initiator at different loadings of CNT. The tensile tests showed that the addition of 0.5 wt.% of acid treated CNT results in 22% increase in Young's modulus. The DSC measurements showed a decrease in glass transition temperature (Tg) of PS in the composites. The rheological studies at 190 °C showed that the addition of untreated CNT increases the viscoelastic behavior of the PS matrix, while the acid treated CNT acts as plasticizer. Thermogravimetric analysis indicated that the incorporation of CNT into PS enhanced the thermal properties of the matrix polymer. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
CitationAmr, I. T., Al-Amer, A., P, S. T., Al-Harthi, M., Girei, S. A., Sougrat, R., & Atieh, M. A. (2011). Effect of acid treated carbon nanotubes on mechanical, rheological and thermal properties of polystyrene nanocomposites. Composites Part B: Engineering, 42(6), 1554–1561. doi:10.1016/j.compositesb.2011.04.013
SponsorsThe authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) through Science & Technology Unit at King Fahd University of petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) for funding this work through project No: 08-NAN91-04 as part of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan (NSTIP).
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Update from Secretariat: Announcement of Vacancy: The Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol
Please find below update from the Secretariat:
D-2 Executive Secretary, The Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol of United Nations Environment Programme – 21-Administration-UNEP-156440-D-MONTREAL (X) application deadline is 3 August 2021;
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. The Multilateral Fund (MFS) for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol is dedicated to reversing the deterioration of the Earth's ozone layer and phasing down hydrofluorocarbon controlled under the Montreal Protocol. It was established in 1991 to assist developing countries to meet their Montreal Protocol commitments in complying with the control measures specified under the Montreal Protocol. The Fund Secretariat is administered by UNEP. This post is located in UNEP/MFS at the Montreal duty station. Under the guidance and instruction of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, the Incumbent will assist the Executive Committee in the discharge of its functions and report to it.
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The cost of the digital Leica cameras may seem expensive, but they are comparable to similar cameras sold by other companies. Although particularly suited for specialized photography operations, they provide basic photography options for the hobby photographer seeking a dependable, easy to use camera.
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