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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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Insights for International Strategic ManagementBenito, Gabriel R.G.; Petersen, Bent; Welch, Lawrence S. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Companies' choice of foreign operation modes (FOM) has been a core subject of international business studies basically from its beginning (Hymer, 1960 [1976]; Root, 1964). A halfcentury of research has brought us a set of established perspectives on companies' foreign operation mode choices; the most important being the economics based approaches of internalisation and transaction cost theories (Anderson and Gatignon, 1986; Buckley and Casson, 1976; Hennart, 1982), evolutionary and resource based approaches (Andersen, 1997; Kogut and Zander, 1993; Madhok, 1997), institutional approaches (Kostova and Zaheer, 1999; Meyer and Peng, 2005), and process models based on learning and decision behaviour theories (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977, 2009).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8363
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The co-creation of worth, calculative devices and calculative agencies in the Danish wind power marketKarnøe, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Wind power generated electricity offers a unique vantage point on the nature of markets and the specific organizing processes by which markets become constructed, configured, and contested. Modern Wind power generated electricity emerged in Denmark after the first oil supply crisis in 1974 when various entrepreneurial actors responded to that situation and saw wind power as one possible solution to 'the' problem. Today wind power is globally the fastest growing energy technology and supplies significant amounts of energy in countries like Denmark and Germany, in Denmark wind power generated electricity supplies 20% of annual electricity consumption. Although the trajectory of wind power institutionally and materially is much more robust today than 25 years ago very few thought that this technology had such a future. In the context of the 1970s with modernization and emerging nuclear power, many evaluated wind power as a relic from the past, some imagined opportunities (doomed as unrealistic), but nobody imagined that wind power should become one of the important 'weapons' against the CO2-related climate change at the turn of the century. However, confronted with emergent technologies outside the existing evaluative frames and institutionalised categories, it is not about being right or wrong from an objective epistemology, but about what epistemologies are used to frame the potential worth of a potential new energy technology. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6668
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an analysis of Danish medium-sized firmsEriksen, Bo; Døjbak, Dorthe (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6913
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Economic Development in the Industrial Region of Aachen, 1800‐1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Munich, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The economic transition characterizing the process of European industrialization in the 19th century was concentrated on regions rather than on states. In the first half of the 19th century, the region of Aachen (in the west of Prussia) pioneered on the territory of the German states and developed to a powerful industrial region. The implementation and diffusion of the factory system and the economic impact of adapted and new institutions make the core of this paper. Reciprocal interconnections be-tween firms of different clusters shaped the region and created economic dynamics. Investments trans-gressed the boundaries of single industries and new industries emerged. One important feature of the regional production system was cross-sectional knowledge transfer; a second was institutions support-ive to this process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8982
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Industrial and institutional revolution in the district of Aachen (Aix‐la‐Chapelle), 1800‐1860Reckendrees, Alfred (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the first half of the 19th century, the industrial district of Aachen was a small dynamic economic region in the West of the Prussian Rhineland. It was a leading industrial region in terms of production and a region in which modern economic institutions advanced modern industrial organizations. The regional institutional arrangements were partly based on the French law:1 During the French Revolutionary Wars, the West of the Rhineland had been a part of France with the region of Aachen (see maps 1 and 2) forming the Département de la Roer. After the French defeat in 1814, the Rhineland was integrated as the Rhineprovince into the Prussian State, but with very few exceptions the French legal system continued. The French code de commerce rather than the Prussian civil law constructed the norms of business and commercial activities2 and institutional arrangements that had emerged in the 'French period' continued to influence regional economic development. Not only property rights and civil rights, also other institutions of French origin like chambers of trade and commerce, commercial courts, or collective institutions for the settlement of work related conflicts shaped economic behaviour. 3 New Prussian laws did not dramatically influence regional economic development; only the Railroad Law (1838) and the Prussian Joint Stock Companies Law (Preußisches Aktiengesetz) of 1843 had a certain impact. Just like the General German Trade Law (Allgemeines deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch) of 1861, the Joint Stock Company Law was based on French ideas and aimed at modernizing the Prussian economy. It perhaps helped developing the eastern parts of Prussia towards a more capitalistic economy; for the region of Aachen it mainly introduced more oversight from the Prussian State. The Prussian integration of the Rhineland did, of course, also induce some economically relevant change; this regards e.g. the introduction of the Prussian currency or the Prussian trade union. These aspects will be discussed later. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8615
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A Complexity ApproachHolm Andreasen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: "How can we understand the dynamics of procurement management?" An answer to this question has predominantly been explained by procurement management experiencing dissatisfaction with the status quo, where the procurement organisation was viewed from other entities in the company as an insignificant, reactive and an administrative part of the business. The potential, however, for the procurement organisation to be significant in the company was argued to be vast (Ammer 1989, Ellram & Carr 1994, Van Weele 2005). In order to change the situation of the procurement organisation, procurement management was informed that they should in gradual steps develop the procurement organisation towards more sophistication and significance (Reck & Long 1988) producing strategies that were aligned with the overall company strategy including the development of policies, procedures, systems, tools and processes (Cousins 2002, Cousins et al 2008). This process changed the perspective of the procurement organisation which among other things, allowed the procurement entity to contribute to the implementation of the concept of supply chain management (Freeman & Cavinato 1990). Ever since I first got familiar with the practices of procurement and its management, I have been puzzled by its complexity. At the same time, I have wondered about how the same space of complexity in the procurement management domain literature has explained the same practices by reductionism, smoothness and simplicity as just described. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8384
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Using Updated Information from the FrontlineAndersen, Torben J.; Bresser, Rudi K. F.; Hallin, Carina A. (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Effective strategy-making in turbulent industries needs current insights that can inform ongoing decisions around adaptive strategic moves. Frontline employees involved in the daily business transactions are the first to see the subtle changes not otherwise observed by top managers. Top management with dominant logics anchored in previous business contexts usually receive updated information from performance reports for prior periods. All the while, we discern a human inclination linked to the position of power where managers subconsciously discard updated information from frontline employees. We present an experiment to investigate these effects and discuss the implications for strategic response capabilities among firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9326
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Dynamics of Techonology Upgrading of the Central and Eastern Europe Countries in a Comparative PerspectiveAnalysis Based on Patent DataJindra, Björn; Lacasa, Iciar Dominguez; Radosevic, Slavo (Warsaw, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This report explores patterns of technology upgrading as a three-dimensional process which consists of (i) intensity of technology upgrading, (ii) structural change, and (iii) interaction with the global economy. The specificity of our report is that we depict patterns of technology upgrading by relying entirely on patent data. We derive patent indicators to capture the three dimensions. Patent indicators for intensity of technology upgrading trace technological capabilities at the technology frontier (transnational patents) and behind the technology frontier (domestic/resident direct applications to national offices). Structural change in technological knowledge is depicted by the share of transnational patent applications in high technology fields and knowledge-intensive activities and by calculating a technological diversification index. To capture interaction with global economy in the upgrading process indicators measure technological knowledge sourcing across countries and interactions between foreign and indigenous actors. Based on 7 patent indicators covering the three upgrading dimensions the comparative analysis focuses on EU27 and its subregions and on the BRICS countries. According to the results, in 2011 CEECs were quite homogenous in their upgrading paths. A typical CEE economy in 2011 is well behind EU12 in terms of frontier technology intensity, domestic technology intensity, share of high tech patents and technology sourcing abroad. Moreover, its organizational capabilities are often less advanced. The CEE profile is much less coherent in terms of technology diversification/specialization and share of joint inventions. However, differences among CEECs are not significant. Still there are some notable national features. Poland, Romania and Slovenia have above average domestic technological intensity which reflects partly their sizes (Romania and Poland) and specific model of innovation system reliant on domestic R&D intensive firms (Slovenia). Latvia and Lithuania are specific in terms of high share of HTKI patents. CEE technology upgrading as depicted by patents is within the BRIC pattern (with exception of China which in terms of technology upgrading has de facto delinked from BRICS). In the BRIC context, the CEE characterize very open innovation system with a high share of coinventions and foreign actors exploiting local inventions. This reveals weak organizational capabilities to commercialize its own inventions. According to the results CEE grew during 1990s/2008 based on production, not technological capability. Their future growth will increasingly depend on building technological capabilities at world frontier level. Our analysis shows that the basis for such growth exists only to a limited extent and that speed of upgrading towards world frontier activities is well beyond required for catching up. Equally, our analysis shows that solutions for improved technology upgrading will need to be found with their existing innovation model of small open economies integrated into the EU. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9232
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Jens, Frøslev Christensen (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper discusses 1) the generic forces that drive the evolution of diversified industrial corporations and their implications for the corporate technology base, 2) the changing role of the central R&D lab in the context of these forces, and 3) the role of management of technology in promoting dynamic coherence in diversified - and highly decentralized - corporations. The line of argument in the paper is illustrated by an indepth case-study of Danfoss, a Danish multi-divisional corporation operating within mechatronical markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8109
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Apple and HTC have come to an agreement over long standing patent disputes over smartphones.
The two smartphone makers have been involved in legal patent disputes since 2010. Apple and HTC have decided to end the long standing argument by agreeing to a 10 year licensing agreement.
Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, said: "HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation,"
The sentiment was echoed by Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, who said: "We are glad to have reached a settlement with HTC. We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation."
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Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, a press statement from Apple confirms the license agreement includes current and future patents held by itself and HTC. The latter will have to pay fees to Apple for each handset with Google's Android operating system.
Apple will no doubt be focusing its legal attention on bigger rivals such as Samsung. The Korean firm's Galaxy S3 became the world's bestselling smartphone ahead of the iPhone 4S in the third quarter.
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Kenny Chesney Prepares to Release 13th Studio Album, 'Welcome to the Fishbowl'
Despite 22 No. 1 hits and dozens of accolades, Kenny Chesney is preparing to embark on what could be his most successful journey yet: the Brothers of the Sun tour with Tim McGraw. Propelling his journey forward will be his 13th studio album, 'Welcome to the Fishbowl,' which hits stores on June 19.
Of course, it's hard to imagine how a country megastar like Chesney could still release award-winning albums after so many years at the top. Doesn't he get tired of being on top of his game? Apparently not.
The 'Feel Like a Rock Star' hitmaker told Billboard that creatively he has "never felt more comfortable in [his] own skin."
One reason that Chesney is so popular — and why his Brothers of the Sun tour is anticipated to be one of the top-selling tours in history — is that he focuses on how songs will sound live. While most country artists focus on which songs will become radio hits, Chesney keeps his focus on the performance aspect of each single.
"Making a song is a wonderful, creative time, but for me it can be a very stressful time," Chesney says. "If you don't get it right in the studio, you're not going to get it right on the radio and out on the road. When I'm in the studio, I imagine myself being in the grass at an amphitheater. 'What's going to turn me on? What's going to make me care?'"
According to Sony Music Nashville Chairman Gary Overton, it sounds like Chesney has done a great job of getting 'Welcome to the Fishbowl' right in the studio.
"On many of the songs, Kenny pushed himself to dig deeper into the emotions of personal relationships — both successful and failed — more than he ever has before," Overton says. "You can feel it in his voice."
Although Chesney is digging deep into his emotional side, fans can look forward to 'Welcome to the Fishbowl' sounding sun-kissed and beach-inspired like many of Chesney's No. 1 hits. Be sure to check out the album when it hits stores on June 19.


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You can take it as career advice, but it is more a thought on how to use the time you are in college.
Monday, June 23, 2008
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Well said. College is the best place to try out new things. But unfortunately these days more and more of our young generation are worried and more focused on jobs and placements even before they start their course. In spite of the fact that the job opportunities have actually increased over the last few years the entrepreneurship skills have coming down. Blame our education system ?
- 9:46 AM, June 23, 2008
- Kavi said...
This by far is one of your best posts ! Youngsters need passages like this to reflect. To think about possibilities.
If our young men & women come out of college with intact or even improved curiosity about everything around them, life will be so very welcoming!
I remember Steve Jobs saying 'stay hungry, stay excited'. That sums it very well !
- 8:26 PM, June 23, 2008
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- 3:36 PM, June 26, 2008
- Arul said...
Yes, of course. Everyone should have the awareness to spend the time in graduation time. Its much related to the career that you deserved. It would be more helpful when you are going to hire a job.
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Intel SSD 525 Series Full Capacity Roundup - Intel Sweeps mSATA
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging
It has been just under a year since Intel released their 520 Series SSD, which was their second 6 Gb/sec SATA unit. Sporting a SandForce controller, that release helped bridge a high speed storage gap in their product lineup. One year prior, Intel dabbled in the mSATA form factor, releasing a 310 Series model under that moniker. The 310 showed up here and there, but never really caught on as the physical interface was admittedly before its time. While in hindsight it was a very good way to go towards establishing a fixed standard, the industry had already begun fragmenting on these smaller interfaces. The MacBook Air had already launched with a longer 'GumStick' shaped SSD, and Ultrabook makers were following suit with units that were physically identical yet not pin-compatible with that used in the Apple product.
The Intel 520 Series SSD helped push Intel into 6Gb/sec SATA territory.
It's taken a while for the industry to favor defragmentation (pun intended) enough for mSATA to really start catching on, and that time appears to be nearing with Intel's launch of the SSD 525 Series:
- Capacity: 30, 60, 120, 180, 240GB
- Sequential read: 500, 550, 550, 550, 550 MB/sec (respectively)
- Sequential write: 275, 475, 500, 520, 520 MB/sec
- Random read IOPS: 5, 15, 25, 50, 50 k-IOPS (respectively)
- Random write IOPS (typical): 10, 23, 40, 60, 60 k-IOPS
Kudos to Intel for listing *typical* 4k IOPS figures on their spec sheet. Sure they also state that all capacities have a maximum of 80,000 random write IOPS, but that is purely theoretical and assumes a best case scenario including maximum compressibility of the incoming data.
Our samples arrived in OEM Intel brown boxes. There may be a more colorful retail packaging, but this is what we can show you for now:
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Huh. An mSATA SSD that doesn't suck!
They need to be bigger.
I can't wait till the 480s come down in price then maybe ill remove the 20gb slc one that came with my gigabyte mb and install the 480gb one for my main drive and use my 500gb black as a external back up for game files like Steam.


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Also, "Google Analytics" was launched, which accepted webmasters to accretion admission to accomplished data, alms abysmal compassionate or insights on how and from area visitors accustomed at your website or webpage, how abundant time did they absorb on it and how abounding webpages they visited.
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7. Time Period: Seek engines can yield some time to basis a website and to change its ranking. Some seek engines can yield 2 weeks to 1 ages and some seek engines can yield 2 – 6 months.


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After two years of effort, the US Congress last week gave President Obama a massive and very ambitious financial reform bill, the Dodd-Frank Act, to sign.
The 2,300 page law in 15 sections affects all financial service activities in various ways but it does little to improve systemic risk control. It strengthens the hands of regulators, but relies on them entirely to identify and avert future crises, things they have not been successful in doing in the past.
Too-big-to-fail financial firms (those with more than $50bn of assets, of which there are about 40 in the US) are largely left alone, free to be as large and complex as before.
However, if one of these financial firms faces a liquidity crisis in the future, which is likely given their aggressive business strategies, rescuing it with taxpayer funds to avoid a systemic crash will be much more difficult. Precluding bailouts when they are necessary will severely limit the government's ability to manage the next crisis.
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First, we should focus on the operative word in the above paragraph: enterprise. Teams used to write their own configuration management tools, now an archaic practice. There are plenty of open source revision control systems out there that, at least in theory and with some modification, could handle some of the aspects of hardware IP design management for a small design team. Im sure some teams have tried this approach, grabbing open source tools and making changes to suit specific needs. Im also sure that as the needs grow, that idea looks less and less attractive not because of the tool itself, but because of the level of effort around modifying and maintaining it. From my last post:
A software configuration management tool such as Subversion [or Perforce] handles source code and metadata needed for compilation in a high-level language such as C or Java. What these tools lack is any knowledge of a hardware design flow or the ability to handle multiple file formats (likely with different EDA tools) and relationships involved when working with hardware IP. Extending these software-centric tools to integrate with typical EDA tools would be a massive undertaking.
Ah, but that is the premise of open source. Its meant as a basic platform for value-add. Some software vendor out there has already grabbed Perforce or Subversion, made the modifications to the database, and created what looks like a commercial hardware design management tool. They may have even done some integration work with various EDA design flows. The problem with such an approach is that when you support features of multiple software-based revision control systems, you need to support the different features of all of them. This makes the layer built on top of these software packages thin, and quality as well as robustness becomes questionable.
Comparing these efforts to the enterprise-ready alternative is kind of like comparing MySQL to Oracle Database 12c. Both are databases. Both can be queried dynamically. Both can be modified. One is free and the other isnt. However, only one is designed for and trusted to handle enterprise-level distributed data and application flow, tuned for performance and scale and usability.
ClioSoft has spent the effort over the past seventeen years to create a robust, easy to use, enterprise-level SoC design and IP management application, not just a database to store stuff. They have optimized SOS, their design management solution, to meet the real needs of ASIC teams working with a range of IP and EDA tools. They own the entire ecosystem and can rapidly turn maintenance requests and feature modifications, as opposed to possibly having to wait on an open source community working with an underlying software configuration management database and tool to review, code, and approve changes. With a single system you can control your own destiny and create features backed by the proper infrastructure to ensure robustness and ease-of-use. Its an Apple-like approach, with ecosystem ownership applied to design management tools.
There is more to the picture than functionality. ClioSoft has also engineered its performance with attention to details. Caching is smart, and network usage has been optimized. Large hierarchical objects are represented as composite objects for easy viewing and access. Instead of broadside copies of entire work areas created by the software-based revision control systems, SOS creates smart links a huge advantage avoiding the performance hit of copying big blocks of design data. In addition, speed counts in EDA. With its native multi-stream hyper transport technology, ClioSofts SOS delivers that speed. Its easy to see how a tool not designed for hardware design/IP management in EDA could quickly run into very ugly performance and storage issues.
In most organizations, configuration management data outlives the designers. (Anyone remember these data cartridges from the Unix era, or even more antiquated formats?) Large companies tend to want control of their process and dont want to be locked into a proprietary commercial vendor. Again, one can hear the open source siren in the background. Heres the reality: when youve made any modifications to a database, youre locked in. When that day comes that you have to get the data out and into another tool and it will what happens? ClioSoft allows data export with a read-only license to provide confidence that hardware IP management data moves forward if needs change.
Isnt it overkill? Not really lets consider the bigger picture. More and more IP blocks comprise an SoC today. Those blocks are coming from many different sources, with many different locations where human capital resides. IP can be analog, digital, RF, or mixed-signal. Collaboration with increased efficiency in creating IP is a must. Even a small team is likely to track and exchange hardware IP design data amongst themselves or with contractors, third party IP houses, foundries, software providers, and other parts of an ecosystem that could be anywhere on the globe. A small team might need to coordinate with external design teams, such as in working with customers or in the case of an acquisition.
Well look at the need for more collaboration and how ClioSoft helps distributed teams next time.


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Palmer Luckey, the baby-faced founder of virtual-reality start-up Oculus VR, looked slightly perplexed when asked if he thought his ballyhooed headset, known as the Rift, could change cinema.
"No, not 'if.' We will change it," he said after a pause, sitting in the boardroom of his Irvine office. Then he gave a Luckey-ish smile, which lies somewhere between mischievousness and certainty.
The 21-year-old has reason for bravado. Thanks to a set of groundbreaking goggles that gives users an immersive, 360-degree virtual-reality experience with little of that stomach-turning motion-sickness, Oculus in the last year has gone from trade-show darling to major business player. In March, Facebook agreed to acquire the company for an estimated $2 billion.
But even as Oculus works with developers on new video games and commercial applications (want to get a tour of that open house without leaving your couch?), it has quietly begun making in-roads in the entertainment world.
The company has been taking versions of its road show to movie gatherings, including the recently concluded Tribeca Film Festival. And it has attracted the attention of Hollywood heavyweights such as DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg and Legendary Pictures chairman and CEO Thomas Tull, the latter so enamored that he dipped into his personal investment fund to take a stake in the company. Meanwhile, the product has inspired a range of creators, including veteran director Mark Romanek, to develop content for it.
To put on the Rift headset is to have the kind of out-of-body experience for which even the most compelling 3-D cinema doesn't quite prepare you. Live-action Rift content allows you to turn around and see the 360-degree world of the movie around you, not the annoying chatty guy eating popcorn. Look down and you see the environment of the film, not the sticky floor of a movie theater. A nonfiction short featuring Canadian musician Patrick Watson, for instance, is so tangible you feel like you're next to him at the piano. A piece of "Game of Thrones" marketing content was so immersive it had fans at the South by Southwest festival lining up around the block.
Though the headset is for now available only to developers and filmmakers, the excitement around the Rift is real--because unlike most digital advancements, the system offers more than just a new platform to watch the same old TV show and films. Instead, by allowing for a movie to be experienced all around the viewer, the Rift is something more disruptive, potentially changing how movies are made and watched.
"We often equate this innovation to the addition of sound of cinema," said Paul Raphael, a Montreal-based filmmaker who co-directed the Watson movie, titled Strangers." "Even with the most advanced 3-D movie you're always aware you're watching a film. But with virtual reality, you're no longer looking at the action — you're in it."
Yet these transformative ambitions don't come without costs or consequences. Hollywood studios, generally slow to react to new technology, must decide how much time and money to invest in VR, as it's known, at the expense of their traditional business. No one wants to be left out in the cold, but as private conversations with several high-ranking executives and studio-based producers suggest, no one wants to sink capital into a doomed or far-off proposition either.
Filmmakers, in the meantime, must decipher a new language. When a viewer can be taken inside a movie, pretty much everything known about a century of cinematic storytelling, framing and editing goes out the window.
Directors who have tinkered with the technology see in it numerous possibilities, for both original and classic content.
"I'm intrigued by the intimacy of it," said Romanek, who has begun developing narrative films for the Rift both on his own and in conjunction with the VR camera company Jaunt, on whose advisory board he has accepted a seat. "I don't know yet if the experience of watching 'The Godfather' would be more interesting if you're in the room with Marlon Brando and can hear the wedding going on outside. But it might be."
A music-video director and feature filmmaker ("Never Let Me Go") often on the technological cutting edge, Romanek echoed his forward-looking peers when he said that the Rift offers not just a new tool but "a new medium."
Indeed, how much the Rift will serve mainly as a new format for existing movies, in the way of Imax or 3-D, as opposed to something that generates content and rules all its own is one of the key questions facing Oculus as it moves into Hollywood. It also remains to be seen how the relatively passive experience of watching films can, or should, be combined with the ethos of a video game or interactive video art, particularly in the trickier live-action realm.
Some early experiments are testing the waters.
The director and video artist Chris Milk has created a Beck concert short--by some accounts the first-ever film for VR, also known as a "spherical film"--that is unlike nearly every other documentary ever made. The film allows the Rift viewer to see and hear the symphonic concert all around them and even switch vantage points, standing onstage with the musician or, if they prefer, hanging with the orchestra.
Raphael's "Strangers" film, which he directed with collaborator Felix Lajeunesse, puts viewers in the studio with Watson such that when the musician turns to look at you, you almost want to say something to him.
The films are created by using many or specially rigged cameras — sometimes both — to capture the action around an entire room. Those images are then pieced together in an elaborate postproduction process. In some cases, the technology is invented along with the content; "Strangers" entailed the devising of a new camera by Raphael and Lajeunesse, while Milk built a sound-capturing system to give his movie its surround-sound feel.
The Beck filmmaker, who has shown the film to a range of Hollywood actors and creatives including Matt Damon, said it was worth it because of what he sees as VR's upside. "I firmly believe we are at an next inflection point for the next great platform," said Milk, who also was behind the Arcade Fire multimedia nostalgia project "The Wilderness Downtown." "I know that sounds like a big statement, but I really believe it."
David Karlak, a young visual-effects specialist who has worked on such movies as "The Collector," has created "Rise," a short for the Rift that's meant to accompany the traditional film he is developing as a director at Warner Bros. Though mainly a series of still images, the Rift film aims to bring viewers into the "Rise" world. He is also toying with Rift-related ideas for another film, a supernatural thriller called "Outliers" set up at Fox.
"What if you could be a ghost for 10 minutes," he said. "Or, even better," he added, thinking bigger, "Darth Vader?"
At Oculus' unassuming digs in an office complex on the outskirts of UC Irvine, those tracks are being laid by its about 100 employees. Though some of these ideas are still in process, one movie-themed Rift application that's relatively far along is VR Cinema. Through the networked headset, one can watch a movie in a virtual theater environment — complete with the cone of light from the projector and the seats behind you — in tandem with others.
"You can feel like you're in a theater with your friends and turn to them like they're next to you, but be as loud as you want and not disturb the guy in front of you, because he can't hear you," Luckey said, before acknowledging with a bit of a shrug that "the movie theater-owners won't be happy about it."
Luckey, who got his start both building headsets in his parents' garage in Long Beach and working at USC's virtual-reality lab, admits Oculus' relationship with the entertainment industry was a little shaky at first. But that has begun to change as the company has assembled a new team focused on Hollywood outreach.
Tech progressives such as Alfonso Cuarón have met with Oculus, and executives from the company have talked with Katzenberg about the animation possibilities. At Tribeca, Robert De Niro gave a terse "cool" — the highest praise — after demo-ing the Rift. A few weeks before, an image of Rupert Murdoch trying on a headset quickly went viral.
"I don't think it's Hollywood studios greenlighting [Rift] movies that will be the tip of the spear," said Tull, who since investing has sought to connect filmmakers and Oculus execs. "But any time there's an opportunity for commerce things will change quicker than you think."
Still, there are hurdles. Dreams of a mainstream VR go back decades and are largely unfulfilled. The Rift headset has yet to sell any units to consumers, and there's still not yet a body of evidence filmgoers will want to watch a 100-minute film with a headset on.
Perhaps equally fundamental are the filmmaking challenges.
"A lot of what we know works about cinema doesn't apply to VR," said Brendan Iribe, chief executive of Oculus, as he went through the possibilities and peril in the company's well-lighted offices, its walls lined with press clippings and some carefully selected art pieces. "A lot of movement doesn't work," he said, noting the dizzying effect it can have on the viewer. "And a car chase won't work," he added, because it tends to rely on traditional editing, which doesn't really exist in VR.
Or as "Strangers" co-director Lajeunesse said, "You can't go from outer space to grandmother's house in a split second in VR."
Film is also based on traditional notions of foreground and background, and part of VR's goal is to erase those distinctions. Cuarón could create a VR version of the single-take "Gravity" opening, but what would it mean as a viewer if you can turn away from George Clooney and Sandra Bullock to watch space debris floating behind you?
"We're going from directing the viewer to a small point to creating spherical entertainment," Romanek said. "That isn't just apples-and-oranges. It's a new fruit."


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Peter, Paul and Mary - 25th Anniversary Concert
Peter, Paul and Mary - 25th Anniversary Concert Previous Broadcasts
KQED Plus: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 -- 9:00 AM
In 1986 the legendary Peter, Paul and Mary marked their 25th anniversary with the taping of their very first PBS TV special. Now, two and a half decades later, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the group in the famed Greenwich Village, this joyous yet deeply moving live concert is being re-released for March 2012 pledge. Peter, Paul and Mary's 25th Anniversary Concert features songs that became, for many, the soundtrack of their generation. In an era in which folk music became America's messenger of hope, Peter, Paul and Mary sounded a call to conscience that, to this day, remains an enduring part of our national quest for equity and justice. Perhaps as much as anyone, in a period of great turbulence and transformation, Peter, Paul and Mary inspired America to be the best we could be. That, indeed, is a formidable legacy and one that has made this trio and its music a true and enduring national treasure.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Plus: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 -- 3:00 AM
- KQED Plus: Thu, Nov 15, 2012 -- 9:00 PM
- KQED Plus: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 -- 5:00 PM


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Pop Culture, (aka. Popular Culture), is transmitted via the mass media and aimed at younger people. But many already established more decades. With the help of globalization, these sort of phenomena from Comic Books to Movies, TV series and more easily reach every corner of the entertainment world.
As one of the largest Pop Culture retailers in New Zealand and Australia, we've sorted all of the merchandise and goodies by brands. You can find all of your favourite Superheroes, Games, Books and Movies.
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Join us as we raise funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls.
Who: PSU Women's Resource Center
What: V-Day Portland State University 2013, a benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, raising funds for the Women's Resource Center Campus Sexual Assault Prevention Program and V-Day Foundation
Where: PSU Smith Ballroom on Campus at 1825 SW Broadway, Room 355
When: Friday, February 15th & Saturday, February 16th
Doors Open at 6:00PM
Admission: $12 General Admission, $10 Students/Seniors
Tickets available at the PSU Box Office 503-725-3307
or go to www.pdx.edu/boxoffice/tickets
Doors open at 6pm! There will be local organizations and vendors, music, snacks, and a raffle! Then the show starts at 7pm. Come early and have a wonderful time!
About V-Day:
V-Day (www.vday.org) is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works. In 2011, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $85 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 13,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt, and Iraq. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities," in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, and in 2010 was named as one of the Top-Rated organizations on Great Nonprofits.
What is a V-Day Campaign?
A V-Day Campaign is a catalyst for mobilizing women and men to heighten awareness about violence against women and girls. By creating this global community, V-Day strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence that affects one in three women in the U.S and around the world.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Jerusalem Institute of Justice (JIJ) has conducted research revealing that since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1995, the Palestinian Authority has been the recipient of 25 times more financial aid per capita (considering current inflation) than the citizens of Europe received under the Marshall Plan following World War II.
For those who know their history, the Marshall Plan financially enabled Europe to successfully rebuild following the most devastating war in history.
And yet, having been handed 25 times more cash and resources than post-war Europe, the Palestinian Authority continues to complain of unemployment, a faltering economy and destitute living conditions.
Oh, and guess what Americans and Europeans - it's your money primarily that has been sunk into the economic black hole that is the Palestinian Authority.
"Poverty in the Palestinian areas could have been eradicated years ago," wrote JIJ founder and director Calev Myers on his Facebook page. "The Palestinian people should be outraged by this. So should Americans and Europeans."
Sadly, that does not seem to be the case. Myers pointed out that under the Obama Administration, American financial aid to the Palestinian Authority has increased 600 percent.
It has long been argued that the most tragic and irresponsible move in the ongoing peace process was to hand the reins of the Palestinian Authority to Yasser Arafat's PLO. The equivalent today would be inviting Al Qaeda to rule a newly democratic Iraq.
Under the PLO, the Palestinian Authority is a repressive, corrupt and hopelessly mismanaged regime from which the Palestinians now have little hope of being freed.
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To my palate, pils seems more bready-grainy than pale malt and is a flavor that I find very pleasant. Why not give it a try and see what you think? Maybe up your boil time to 90 min. to take into account the pils tendency to produce sulpher compounds.
Keep it low ABV and you'll have a lovely breakfast beer, or don't and you'll have a really mellow day.After all, you can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning. I've decided I really like Blondes with some noble hops. A friend did one with Saaz and it was a winner, and Blonde is not a style I often like.


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The first step: align the dog door in the position that you want (usually the bottom of the dog door is aligned with the bottom of your dog's belly).
The second step: trace the outline of the dog door and make sure that everything is level.
The third step: drill holes on the inside corners of the traced line. It's important to make sure that you do not go outside of your line! These holes will help you to not over saw and go outside of your traced image.
The fourth step: use your jigsaw to cut from hole to hole. This will give you a cut that matches your outline.
The fifth step: slide your interior doggy door frame in place and mark with a pencil where the next drill holes must go. Remove the interior piece and drill through those holes.
The sixth step: When those holes are drilled, attach the frame to both sides, screw the interior and exterior sides together through the newly drilled holes, and let your dog enjoy his new dog door!
If you have any further questions about dog doors or how to install them, feel free to e-mail or call us at Pet Street Mall anytime. We love all animals and take pride in providing you with any information you may need.


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After my last painting project, I decided I needed something easy-peasey.
I had picked this shelf up at a yard sale last summer. Not terrible, but I could tell it was one of those items that was purchased in a box, and put together with those funky screws that click into something when you turn them 'just so'. I don't like the screw heads. They are big and annoyingly obvious. Camouflaging them is what I was going for…Not sure if I succeeded, but I like the way it turned out anyway.
I painted the shelf using a light green paint I had on hand. I them sanded all the sharp edges to give it a worn look.
It wasn't quite there yet. Finally, I randomly dry brushed a light touch of white paint to the outside of the shelf. Sanding the entire surface blended it all together.
All done! And I didn't spill a thing! 😉


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PreEmptive Solutions has announced availability of Runtime Intelligence Exception Analytics -- software and managed services that provide near real-time visibility into application stability across multiple platforms, architectures and surfaces including mobile, rich Internet, cloud-based, and thick application clients.
When exceptions occur "in the wild," diagnostic information is typically difficult to capture, limited in scope, inefficiently delivered, difficult to analyze, and expensive to manage. With the emergence of distributed computing platforms, smartphones, and rich Internet frameworks, gathering this kind of runtime data has never been more difficult or more critical. Runtime Intelligence Exception Analytics addresses each of these issues directly:
- Data capture. Data capture at point (and time) of failure is automated with no programming required -- no agents to manage -- running across all physical and logical application layers
- Exception scope
- Contextual data is included beyond the "stack trace" including historical, custom, and technology stack
- Benchmark data can also be captured including "healthy" usage over time, across applications, and across users
- Data delivery. Data transfer with appropriate opt-in and security controls are automatic supporting both online and offline scenarios
- Exception analytics
- Content management and integration across applications, user communities, and any relevant business (CRM) dimensions and;
- Comparative analytics to identify hidden trends and dependencies are all included
- Efficient implementation and management
- Injection of exception reporting post-compile reduces or eliminates any additional programming and can be accomplished after the development phase is complete
- Encoding and enforcement of opt-in policy supports diverse sets of user communities and controls -- even within a single application
- Automated delivery and management of information shortens response times, and reduces support expense while maintaining security
- Managed service provides infrastructure, security, and scale through ready integration into CRM, QA, and IDE platforms
"Identifying and remediating defects is an inescapable and expensive part of the software development process," says PreEmptive Solutions' Gabriel Torok. "Runtime Intelligence Exception Analytics offers a powerful means to improve application quality and increase user satisfaction."


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Wedded Bliss Letterpressed Coasters
Wedded Bliss Letterpressed Coasters
Our personalized letterpressed coasters are printed in the good ole' USA on recycled chipboard on either round coasters or square with rounded corners. The coasters are 4" in diameter.
Please place your order below by selecting your quantity and once you've added the item to your cart, you'll be prompted to enter your personalization for the coasters along with ink color and coaster shape. This listing is for the monogram shown in the photo.
You'll receive a color digital proof within 24 business hours that you will need to approve and then we'll move forward into production. Letterpress orders ship within 10-14 business days from final proof approval.
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HERNDON, Va., March 12 (UPI) -- A deadly bacteria superbug has been plaguing U.S. health facilities. The seriousness of this "nightmare bacteria" has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue an alarm. America's best medical minds will determine how to deal with the problem.
A devastating superbug also has been plaguing Venezuela. But the reality of its effects will only be fully understood by its people in the aftermath of Hugo Chavez's death as a new president faces the massive economic and social ills the populist president leaves behind.
The socialism Chavez championed during 14 years of rule has proven to be a superbug of devastation. Unfortunately, many of the best Venezuelan minds needed to deal with these problems have left the country.
When he took office in 1999, Chavez promised change. He promised to redistribute Venezuela's oil-generated wealth. He promised to fix corruption. He promised to give power to the people. He promised to destroy a government foundation built on capitalism, cutting economic and political ties to the United States.
Today, Venezuela suffers one of the world's highest murder rates, double-digit inflation, water and food shortages, a serious downturn in foreign investment, rampant corruption, etc.
Ironically, the only recent economic upturn experienced was in April 2012 after a journalist claimed Chavez was dead. Stock values skyrocketed, only to fall when the claim was found to be untrue.
As a young army officer, Chavez wanted to abolish the country's two-party political system. In 1992, he tried stealing power by leading a failed coup. Imprisoned for two years, he came to realize to steal power, he had to do it legally, working within the country's democratic framework.
Elected in a 1999 landslide, "the man who would be king" immediately sought to become one, chipping away at the country's constitution, vesting himself with monarchial powers.
Appealing to the uneducated poor, using state assets to buy their votes, curtailing criticism by limiting free speech and taking control of the air waves, either arresting opposition members or running them out of the country, Chavez was able to get a number of resolutions passed that effectively put him and his cronies in control of all three government branches.
To gain control over the country's economy, Chavez began nationalizing foreign-owned industries. While gaining popularity with Venezuela's poor, it discouraged foreign investment, further contributing to a downward spiraling economy. Adding to it was the subsequent exodus of Venezuelan businessmen to more favorable economic environments.
Chavez's foreign policy was based on Venezuela's oil, using it to bind together a group of anti-U.S. dictators or dictator wannabes. To his hero Cuba's Fidel Castro, he provided 100,000 barrels a day at subsidized rates. The irony of Cuba's own failed socialist program was lost on Venezuelans who continued to support Chavez's socialist policies. Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador also benefitted from Chavez's oil largess -- all at his people's expense.
To his credit, Chavez contributed to one oil company's economic boom. In 2002, after Venezuelan state oil workers protested against him, Chavez fired 20,000 executives, engineers, geologists and workers. Those 20,000 were eventually replaced by 100,000 inexperienced Chavez supporters. With a fivefold increase on the payroll and oil industry knowledge in short supply, production in Venezuela plunged. Only increased oil prices helped deaden the full financial sting that resulted.
Meanwhile, fired Venezuelan oil workers found an open job market next door in Colombia, triggering that state oil company's subsequent boom.
Much like Egyptian President Abdel Nasser envisioned himself leading an alliance of unified Arab states during the mid-20th century, Chavez envisioned himself atop a Latin American alliance. While both failed (although Chavez made headway), they succeeded in promoting anti-U.S. sentiment. Chavez repeatedly claimed all of Latin America's problems were due to the United States.
Chavez also embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, providing his terrorist group Hezbollah, now operating a base there, access. Embracing Iran meant criticizing Israel, so Chavez suddenly became a Palestinian supporter. He claimed their treatment by Israel was evidence of a "new Holocaust." (Since Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust occurred, apparently Chavez's "new" reference escaped Ahmadinejad's scrutiny.)
Chavez was a demagogue who sought to establish himself as the highest authority. While healthy, he criticized the Catholic Church, calling officials "devils in vestments."
Yet later, fighting a losing battle against cancer, he tearfully pleaded for life at a pre-Easter church service.
Reportedly, Chavez's last words were: "I don't want to die. Please don't let me die." Supporters claimed it was out of love for country. The truth is, it was out of love for power.
(Continuing its anti-American policy, the interim government suggested Chavez's cancer was the result of U.S. foul play.)
Socialism is a "nightmare bacteria" that has taken a heavy economic and social toll in both Cuba and Venezuela. The Cubans understand this; soon, so too will the Venezuelans.
Like the cancer that ravaged Chavez, socialism has ravaged Venezuela. Hopefully, the prognosis for Venezuela will prove more optimistic than it did for Chavez. But major surgery by a new leader vested with the best interests of the Venezuelan people in mind will be required to heal the patient.
The man who would be king has left the kingdom in ruins.
(James G. Zumwalt, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and infantry officer, served in the Vietnam war, the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Persian Gulf war. He is the author of "Bare Feet, Iron Will--Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields," "Living the Juche Lie: North Korea's Kim Dynasty" and "Doomsday: Iran--The Clock is Ticking." He frequently writes on foreign policy and defense issues.)
(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.)


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Jkreativ - Multilayer Parallax MultiPurpose Theme
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JKreativ is ultra multi purpose, super responsive, SEO Optimized WordPress Theme with highly customizeable feature. You can create very beautiful photography website, classic villa or hotel website, interior or architecture, creative, or practically this themes fit with any kind of business. Jkreativ also bring very unique shop page layout with WooCommerce. It come with ton of styling option and feature that make your website different from other site that using the same themes.
This themes is a real heaven for your portfolio with most compete portfolio option you can have on a themes. You can have mixed multimedia content, control your portfolio size, margin, or block size, or using ajax extend, or extended portfolio and Side portfolio expand mode. You can also choose normal (you can create metro style from this layout), masonry, pinterest layout style, no forget gallery with additional justified option.
Full Feature List
- Responsive Design
- Retina display ready
- Visual Composer Page Builder – Included for FREE
18 Page Template
- Blog – Clean Layout
- Blog – Masonry Layout
- Blog – Normal Layout
- Blog – Wide Layout
- Contact – Fullscreen Map
- Single Fullscreen Page – Video
- Single Fullscreen Slider – IOS Slider
- Single Fullscreen Slider – Kenburn Slider
- Single Fullscreen Slider – Service Slider
- Single Fullscreen Slider – Video & Image
- Gallery – Media Gallery
- Gallery – Media Gallery with Side Content
- Landing Page Builder
- No Wrapper Page
- Single page – Cover Page Layout
- Single page – Normal Page Layout
- Single page – Wide Page Layout
- Portfolio – Portfolio List Page
Ability to override setting on single page, blog post, portfolio, even product page with global option setup such as :
- Override Navigation Setup
- Override Website Background
- Override Website Loader
8 Combined Navigation Posibility
- Side Navigation
- Side Navigation Collapse
- Side Navigation with no header
- Top Navigation
- Top Navigation Two Line
- Narrow Top Navigation
- Shrink Top Navigation
3 Type of Page Loader
- Circle Loader
- Linear with percentage loader
- Youtube Style Loader
Contact interactive with fullscreen map
- Show Direction
- Multipe Location
2 Type Of Menu
- Mega Menu
- Normal Menu
Deep integration with several plugin to create seamless experience
- Draggable post
- Order post
- Disable right click, show credit with background sound
- Super smooth 360 degree image product
4 Type of landing slider
- Parallax Slider
- Split slider
- single page landing style slider (with video background)
- revolution slider
Landing page main feature
- Vertical or horizontal moving background
- Multi layer parallax
- Cool image animation
- Section navigation with section progress indicator
- Video background on section
- Ribon for landing separator
- Video background
Blog Feature :
Blog layout
- Normal blog layout
- Half Width & Fullwidth
- Blog float left, right, center
- Use sidebar or not
- Wide blog layout
- Clean blog layout
- Masonry blog layout
- Normal blog layout
Single blog layout
- Wide blog layout
- Normal blog layout
- Cover with sticky share button
- Clean blog
Single blog type
- Standard Image
- Quote
- Image Slider
- Vimeo
- Youtube
- Soundcloud
- HTML 5 Video
- Advertisement (only for masonry)
- Sticky Sidebar on normal blog and cover layout
- Blog layout
4 fullscreen slider
- Kenburn slider
- Service slider
- Ios slider
- Mixing video & image slider fullscreen slider
Gallery Option
3 Layout
- Normal Layout
- Masonry Layout
- Justified Layout
- Custom Height & Width
- Custom Margin
3 type of expand script
- Magnific
- Photoswipe
- Swipebox
- 6 Load Animation
- Partial Load Content
- Custom Block Size
Mixed gallery content
- Image
- Youtube
- Vimeo
- HTML 5 Content
- 3 Layout
Portfolio Feature
- Unlimited Portfolio Item
Portfolio Layout
- Normal with ability to create metro style portfolio
- Masonry
Expand mode
- (Ajax) Inline Expand Mode
- (Ajax) Theather Expand Mode
- (No Ajax) Extended Expand Mode
- (No Ajax) Cover Expand Mode
- (No Ajax) Side Content Expand Mode
- Custom Height & Width
- Custom Margin
- Custom Block Size
- Ajax Load More
Image Scale Mode on Ajax Expand
- Fit
- Zoom
- Fit no upscale
Shopping Cart with Woocommerce
- Unique product list design with masonry / normal thumbnail setting
- Unique single product design with side content image with full gallery setting
- Twitter Widget
- Subscriber Widget
- Demo XML
- Music Background
- 150 Live customizer Option
- 600 Google Font with 3 Placeholder
- Theme Options – Powered by Vafpress Framework
- Fontawesome Included
- Autogenerated Shortcode (More than 75 Shortcode)
- Translation Ready, PO & MO included
- Contact form 7 Compatible
- SEO Plugin Compatible
- Child theme ready
- Wordpress 3.9 ready
- Multisite Ready
- Revolution Slider Included
Images used in the Demo
All images used in the demo are not distributed with the theme. They are all licensed under Creative Commons and credited to their respective creator/owner
We would say thank you for noncommercial image used from Bali Wedding Makeup
Note: the photos and illustrations seen in the live preview are not included with the theme.
We also would say thank you for image, video, and music used on this themes.
- Thomas Leuthard – Flickr
- weirdsgn.com
- Paul Flavius Nechita – Dribbble
- SUNBZY – Dribbble
- Justin Mezzeli – Dribbble
- Artua – Dribbble
- Ramotion – Dribbble
- Emiliano Morciano – Dribbble
- Bali Indonesia – Youtube
- Casey Warren – MINDCASTLE – Youtube
- Southern Hills Country Club wedding – PenWeddings – Youtube
- Janice Lacey – Soundcloud
Update Log
Version 2.2.9: 5 May 2015
- fix comment button disapear - fix Full text slider button click problem - fix disappeared category on portfolio problem - fix shop problem when set as front page
Version 2.2.8: 24 April 2015
-- Update Visual composer to version 4.4.3 - Update WooCommerce to version 2.3.8 - Image fallback untuk mobile parallax - Title disappear on single ajax portfolio - Update TGM plugin activation - Remove Image size checker on WordPress Importer that causing image import failed
Version 2.2.7
- add option on service block to have URL option - update themes to fit with latest Visual composer 4.4.2 - update themes to fit with WooCommerce 2.3.3 - update revolution slider to version 4.6.5
Version 2.2.6
- fix accordion problem - update visual composer to version 4.3.5
Version 2.2.5
- fix accordion problem - enable Fulltext slider HTML 5 background for IE - update revolution slider to version 4.6.5 - update compatibility to woocommerce 2.2.10 - update compatibility with WordPress 4.1.0 (remove title tag to handle with WordPress) - provide ability to filter category on landing page blog list
Version 2.2.4
- change portfolio URL listen on portfolio list to append portfolio parent url - fix portfolio side menu meta lost - language switcher for two line navigation
Version 2.2.3
- hot fix, PHP bellow 5.3 version unable to recognize anonymous function and causing blank screen
Version 2.2.2
- upgrade jkreativ plugin to version 1.2.1 - fix upload problem when loading external url / media - fix music player not working on WordPress 4 - fix image select problem when thumbnail not available - Show more detail notification about jkreativ plugin update which many user forget to upgrade / dismiss TGM plugin notification - fix input slider problem on visual composer
Version 2.2.1
- Hot Fix : remove script that disable heathbeat, its causing some backend script not working
Version 2.2.0
- Make backend faster, on portfolio & page - Provide hover title for portfolio video for side content portfolio - Update jkreativ plugin version to 1.2.0 - Update Revolution slider to version 4.6.0 - Update visual composer to version 4.3.3 - Disable WordPress Heartbeat - Fix twitter & google plus share problem - Fix navigation scroll problem - Fix child themes doesn't load child style
Version 2.1.1
- update jkreativ plugin version to version 1.1.1 - fixing alternate text lost from media gallery - remove design option from textblock visual composer - add notification to disable WordPress importer - only show pricing & team when legacy section builder enabled
Version 2.1.0
- Enable one click import demo data - Update masonry script (isotope) to version 2.0.0 - Add category & tag detail on bottom of blog post - Use another kenburn script to make it more responsive - Automatically add WPML flag (when using top navigation) and menu (if using side navigation) - Use textarea instead input text to second line top navigation additional text, it will give ability to insert html tag too - add VK social flag - fix category filter lost on portfolio - add option to upload favico
Version 2.0.3
- Pinterest on blog refixed - top transparent fixed - Pinterest share portfolio fixed - Mega menu on second child fixed
Version 2.0.2
- fix pinterest sharing media not shown - fix top navigation disappear
Version 2.0.1
- user normal shortcode processing instead using vc autowp removal, to make shortcode processing easier on texteditor vc element
Version 2.0.0
- Integrate Visual Composer with JKreativ Themes - Fix crash causing of multiple style load cause of Mega Main Menu - Remove license check when installing plugin - Move Plugin to local repository instead fetching to server - Add class to open Movie Credit
Version 1.1.2
- hot fix for shortcode on credit that not showing up
Version 1.1.1
- hot fix for cleanup shortcode method
Version 1.1.0
- share translation on blog - fix portfolio arrange position bug when filter executed - fix twitter problem, and provide cacheing method for twitter feed - don't load twitter oauth if its already loaded by another plugin - integrate flickr widget new API - provide option to disable smooth scroll - Several shortcode fix for W3C Compatibility - Create jkreativ own menu that hold several menu functionality - add envato wordpress toolkit into TGM list for easier themes update - Fix top nav menu color override by flat & dark css - fix mobile nav search customizer bug - WPML Integration - update plugin to version 1.1.0 to fit with Jkreativ Themes 1.1.0
Version 1.0.3
- remove global iframe, object, embeed, video absolute position. This will fix problem when user trying to load other iframe or object usage. - use H1 instead of H2 on single page - fix translation for several word, also update PO & MO - add feature for custom font uploader - fix bug on video background remove javascript calculation on video size, use user input instead - add feature, blog section on landing page - add portfolio into rss feed - add feature to switch position of media content on portfolio side content (previously added on media gallery - side content) - add disqus comment support - make jkreativ compatible with child themes, also include jkreativ child starter template - update plugin to version 1.0.3 to fit with Jkreativ Themes 1.0.3
Version 1.0.2
- add 500px social icon - add feature to show image caption on gallery - add feature to switch position of media content (side media content) from top to bottom - update version of image loaded javascript to version 3.1 - fix problem on fulltext slider on IE
Version 1.0.1
- Fix fetching logo mechanism - Fix dark style for mega menu - Fix Navigation Top Woocommerce Image
Version 1.0.0
- Initial Release


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bford24 wrote:Don't complain guys, at least you get great wrestling to see live. I used to attend every show when I lived out there and would love to have any decent wrestling to see where I am living. There is no perfect night so just continue to enjoy what you have the privilege of seeing.
Exactly. This shouldn't even be a topic.