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Dinging Level 29 with my Warrior Oddity seems like so long ago. I vaguely recalled the moment I turned 29 and vowed to enter the Warsong Gulch and fight for honor till I'd earned my Sergeant's stripes, or I dinged 30, whichever came first.
And did I ever fish up a storm. I mean the waits to get into Warsong Gulch are everlasting. I sometimes waited an hour, killing time by speaking with the Battle Master in Orgrimmar and heading out to the Crossroads and then running up to the Oasis up North where Deviate Fish spawn.
But one third of my way to Level 30 and I thought to myself "This sucks. I'm getting nowhere." I'd earned all of two stripes for my time spent here. So I decided to head out into the real world and return to the Way of the Warrior.
I'd gotten a Warrior quest back when I was level 20. The Brutal Armor quest. I'd gone to Stonetalon Peak to get some ore out of one of it's mines. I'd already mined some of my own iron ore and smelted it into bars. And I'd gotten some powdered Azurite from the Azureload Mine in Hillsbrad. What I had left was to get some Phlogistone (or something like that, Me Orc! Me Smash! Me not so bright always!). But I wasn't worried about it. The quest reward for completing that armor set wasn't as nice as what I could already make myself. BUT it was a Warrior quest and I figured I'd have to complete that one to get the one I really wanted, my own Whirlwind Axe.
Not really going anywhere and on my way south of Camp Tarajo to look for green mobs to kill I heard a group was looking for a tank for Razorfen Kraul. Checking real quick I realized the component I needed for my Warrior quest was actually found in RFK. Yay! And I had one quest there already, that was to get the heart of Razorflank. So I volunteered my axe and shield and was invited into a group.
It was a glorious run my friends. I the level 29 Tank, the Mage 30, the Priest 28, the Rogue 29, and a Hunter 28. I tanked and was 2nd on the DPS, the mage coming in first, and we did not have a single death. Not one. We were through there in a little over an hour. We were stoked on completing that one. A pick-up-group that good is something few and far between. Turning in the heart of Razorflank saw me dinging 30, and already having gotten a nice shield out of RFK I opted for the mail girdle quest reward. And with the phial of phlogistan I went to the armorer in the Barrens and he made me the promised Brutal Haubrek. This piece of chest armor was as nice as what I was wearing, but in different ways. One emphasized Strength and the other Stamina. Both could have their purpose.
But there was more to the Brutal armor set as I was to learn. Gloves, Leggings, and Helm as well. These turned out to be easier to acquire. I got the component for the Helm by killing a Chimera in the Charred Vale, and I returned it to the armorer and had a helm made. It wasn't as nice as what I was already wearing.
I then turned my attention to the new Warrior quest set for me. That was to journey to Fray Island and speak with The Islander. (Yes, it's a pun. :) I had to prove myself and it was just so easy. Even the big guy, Will, he fell to my blows without me even breaking a sweat.
So now I had the quest to go get my Axe. I volunteered the help of a guildmate and for that help assisted him with his own character. What a sweet axe for a level 30 Warrior. If you can get your hands on one, do so. With new axe in hand I continued on my journey to complete my Brutal Armor set.
The Brutal Leggings would be fashioned for me when I returned to the armorer with the shinbones taken from Dragonmaw Orcs. These are the Dragonmaw Orcs that patrol the Wetlands. To get to them I had to journey first from Hillsbrad to Hammerfall in the Arathi Highlands. This would be my first run there. It was a quick journey and I avoided the attention of the various beasts by sticking to the road. I even escaped the notice of the one Alliance I came across and that was a Level 60 Warlock. (Whew.)
On reaching Hammerfall and getting the flightpath there, I then turned south and headed into the Wetlands. Again, no Alliance and the Dragonmaw's fell to the Whirlwind Axe like there was no tomorrow. And I dinged 31 while doing it. Not bad.
Now having gotten the shinbones, and being so far south already, I decided "Why not?" and decided to head out to the Badlands. I journeyed up the Dwarven tunnels, killing a couple of defenders very easily (that Whirlwind Axe is AWESOME!) and making my way through the Loch Modan region.
Actually entering the Badlands was equally anti-climatic. The wolves spotted me right away but I just kept running. My Warrior abilities kept me healthy with their every blow it seemed and I eventually arrived at Kargath.
From there I hopped on a Windrider and flew south to Grom'gol where I'd been the day before collecting tusks for the axe quest. I love the sea.
I then hopped on the Zepplin out of there and flew up to the Undercity where I turned in the legbones and collected my Brutal leggings.
I then hearthed back to the Crossroads and then flew north to Splintertree Post. I had one last piece of the Brutal armor set to get and that involved collecting Satyr hooves. So easy. I wasn't one-shotting these level 28 Satyr, but close enough. Cleave is a wonderous thing. (One cleave hit was 456 points of damage!) And while a collected my hooves I noticed I was making good progress on the experience front as well. Before my hearthstone had cooled down for reuse I dinged 32. On dinging, I hearthed back to the Crossroads, flew to Orgrimmar, got some more Warrior training, and then ran down to Sin'jin Village where I collected the last piece of my Brutal Armor set, the gloves.
You know, if you can get all these quests done, you're already wearing something better than the quest rewards. For a newcomer with modest means maybe it's a good set. For someone twinked and pampered like Oddity, well, it was a bit of a let down. But, wasn't that fitting afterall? For do we not find tears at the end of every Warrior's journey?

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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death. He is then given orders to go to Switzerland to kill a German agent.
He goes by the name of Richard Ashenden and travels with secret agent Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll), who poses as his wife. Richard joins professional killer the General (Peter Lorre) to look for clues, which leads them to suspect the tourist Caypor (Percy Marmont).
Elsa occupies Caypor's wife, Florence Kahn, while Richard and the General attempt to complete their mission during a climbing trip in the Alps. It turns out he was the wrong man, so the spies reluctantly start another search for clues that leads them to the American charmer Robert Marvin (Robert Young).
Unfortunately, he has just boarded a train to Greece with Elsa, so they have to get onboard and warn her. The situation is complicated with an air attack, where several key players meet their fate. The Secret Agent marked a rare instance where Hitchcock was pressured into changing the ending from the more grim original.


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Overgaard Olesen, Jan (, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7913
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Shi, Qingxin (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Usability evaluation methods are widely used to assess and improve the user interface design. This dissertation investigates the thinking aloud usability testing from a cultural perspective. In a test situation, representative users are required to verbalize their thoughts as they perform their tasks while using the system, and an evaluator observes the user's task performance and comes up with usability problems. The primary goal of a usability test is to find a list of usability problems. In this research, the impacts of evaluators' and users' cultural backgrounds on both the result and the process of the thinking aloud usability testing were investigated. Regarding the results of the usability testing, the identified usability problem was the main focus, whereas for the process of testing, the communication between users and evaluators was the main focus. In this dissertation, culture was regarded as cognitive styles and communication orientations. For the theories of thinking aloud, both Ericsson and Simon's classic model, and Boren and Ramey's revised model for usability testing were taken into account. Based on the culture theories and thinking aloud models, hypotheses were developed to investigate the evaluators' identified usability problems in different cultural settings, and themes were put forward to investigate the evaluators' and users' communications. In order to investigate the hypotheses and themes, an experimental study was conducted. The experimental design consisted of four independent groups with evaluators and users from similar or different cultures (Danish and Chinese). Empirical data were collected by using background questionnaires, usability problem forms, usability problem lists, video recordings of the testing and interviews. The usability testing software "Morae" was used to record the whole testing, including the faces of the evaluators and users, the screen and keyboard activities. Evaluators' and users' communications were analyzed by the behavioural coding and analysis software "Observer XT 8.0" with a well defined coding system. The results of the systematic study of the thinking aloud usability testing in the context of the intra- and inter-cultural usability engineering show that the evaluators' cultural backgrounds do have some influences on the usability testing; however, the influences are different for the tests with Western and East Asian users. The main findings of this research have implications for both usability research and practice. The methodological approach also gives inspiration for usability evaluation studies URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8167
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A New Approach to Strategic ControlHallin, Carina Antonia; Andersen, Torben J.; Foss, Nicolai J.; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Recent advances within the dynamic capabilities view emphasize the "sensing" of employees as an important part of the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities: By putting in place organizational processes that mobilize and exploit information gathered by individual employees from their operating environment, firms can update insights about performance outcomes and improve strategic decision-making. We test empirically the extent to which firms can ascertain performance outcomes by drawing on employee knowledge. Our empirical setting is the Scandinavian hospitality sector with respondents among frontline service employees. Using a time series approach, we show that employee respondents (collectively) assess medium-term organizational performance better than management and the financial models available to them. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8506
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Torp, Simon (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This dissertation creates a model that combines the literature on employee stock ownership (ESO), middle management involvement in strategy and the participative leader ship style with the motivational literature on psychological owners hip. The model is based on the recognition that despite a strong theoretical foundation of the firs t three concepts supporting a positive relationship with performance, the empirical evidence is inconclusive. Additiona lly, the literature on the three concepts finds that the performance effect of the concepts seems to be me diated by the creation of internalised extrinsic motiva tion in the form of psychologi cal empowerment, organisational citizenship behaviour or psyc hological ownership. Based on th e literature on psychological ownership, ESO, middle management involvement and a participative leadership style are argued to be determinants of psychological ownership. The m odel thereby argues that the three concepts must be seen as determinants of psychological owners hip and that their pote ntial positive effect on performance is triggered by their potential motivationa l effect. The three concepts can also be seen as interrelated and the model argues that a combin ation of the three would enhance the performance effect. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8292
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Essays on sorting and globalizationScheuer, Christian (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: "Leaping into the future of labor economics: the research potential of linking employer and employee data" is the title of a paper by Daniel S Hammermesh published in Labour Economics in 1999. I quote it here, since it captures much of my motivation for the work included in this thesis. Considering applied micro econometrics and labor economics my main elds of interest, the development of linked employer-employee data that took place in Denmark around the time of the new millennium, marked new and exciting possibilities. For some years Danish researchers have had access to very detailed information on all people living in Denmark, but at the beginning of this century also data on all companies linked to these persons was being made available for research. Combined with modern computer technology this meant access to a linked database following all employers and all employees in Denmark over time. I had no doubt that this should be the centerpiece of my Ph.D. The result has been two lines of research, one studying the e¤ect of globalization on labor demand in Denmark, and one studying sorting, that is, how and why employers meet employees in the labor market. In the summary I treat each line of research independently although I would like to emphasize, that studying a labor market where fi rms and workers reacts to one another is the corner stone in both. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7928
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A Qualitative Case StudySøderberg, Anne-Marie (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Previous research tends to overemphasize frictions, cultural clashes and communication breakdowns in virtual teams. The author aims at exploring positive aspects of cross-cultural collaboration and identifying some of the conditions underlying trust-building, employee motivation and team effectiveness. Whereas much research on virtual teams has taken its point of departure in Western MNCs and primarily addressed headquarter concerns, this case study of a Danish MNC´s Indian R & D site gives voice to Indian managers and employees and explores through semi-structured interviews and observations how they perceive communication and collaboration within multinational and multicultural R & D teams, and how they try to find common ground. Based on the interviews accounts, there are several enablers of virtual team collaboration: advanced information and communication technology facilitated virtual communication, and high English-language proficiency among the engineers at different R & D sites made dialogue and knowledge exchange feasible. Moreover, team members shared a strong professional identity as engineers and technicians, and they displayed a strong identification with the MNC, a world leader in the wind power industry. Perceived national differences in leadership and communication style played a minor role, maybe because the majority of Indian managers and employees had previous experience working in other Western MNCs. Some of the Indian managers and employees were even able to act as boundary-spanners between headquarters and the Indian R&D site due to their study and work experiences in other business environments. Culture courses that introduced the Danish and Indian team members to a North European communication and management style, and to an Indian respectively, were introduced on the initiative of the Danish managing director, who - in contrast to the HR department - recognized the importance of facilitating the virtual teamwork through cultural awareness training. Suggestions for further cultural learning processes are given. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8566
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An empirical investigation of business model innovation in supplier relation-ship managementNøkkentved, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In broad terms we want to identify the initiatives that drive business model transformation and study their effect on performance. We also presume that such initiatives are primarily influencing the context-specific skills and priorities of the organization. Transformation initiatives leading to organizational and technological change are presumably constrained by resident capabilities (Hartmann et al.,2002, Håkansson & Waluszewski, 2002), the focus and state of the current operations (Subramanian & Shaw, 2002), hence they indirectly influence performance26. There are potentially additional environmental contingencies affecting those same domain-specific factors, of which we will investigate industry membership, region, and company size (Ford et al. 1997). Finally, we will explore whether different actors or leaders incharge of such technology-oriented and organizational transformations have differences of opinion on the priorities of the firm (Håkansson & Waluszewski, 2002). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7767
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An Ethnographic Study of an Emerging Business Model Innovation within the Frame of a Manufacturing CompanyMichea, Adela (Frederiksberg, 2016)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This is an ethnographic study of business model innovation in an established manufacturing company. The motivation of the thesis is to propose a sensemaking (Weick, 1995), with focus on enactment (Weick, 1979), analysis of a business model innovation process, stepping outside the usual perspectives employed in analysing such a phenomenon, namely activity system, dynamic capability and transaction costs, discovery driven or cognitive perspective. The research question guiding the thesis is: How do established companies enact new business models? The innovation of business models in established companies is an intricate process, and a mountain to climb in the eyes of top management. Often, in the choice between innovation and control the latter wins. Studies have shown that technologies and processes, which have the potential to challenge the exiting model, are being filtered out. In here, the dominant logic, and so-called managerial inertia, is defining the selection criteria. However, in face of perceived serious exogenous factors, such as financial crisis or losing significant market shares, companies are left with nothing else than the choice of innovating their business model. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9394
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Georg, Susse (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6670
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A Contribution to Strategic Cost ManagementScheibye, Carsten (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This PhD Thesis researches into Strategic Cost Management with a general research interest in, how top management makes sense about the organization's cost structure in strategic decisions about the configuration of the value chain. The empirical setting is among other confined by organizations' outsourcing and relocation ventures, where 'cost reduction' is a prominent argument behind the decisions. The overall research purpose is to develop explanatory propositions about, how Strategic Cost Management practices might be 'enacted and given meaning' (Baxter and Chua, 2003, p. 112) by top management. Such understanding is suggestable of scholarly interest. It is well-known to academia that extant contributions from the literary realms of Supply Chain Management and Management Accounting irradiate that decisions to reconfigure the organizations' value chains can encompass substantial investments and embed pivotal organizational tradeoffs. Thus, it is of centrality in relation to the organizations' competitive positions. Secondly, contemporary contributions within Supply Chain Management or in close juxtaposition hereto increasingly question decision making schemes based on 'pure cost efficiency considerations' (e.g. Kinkel, 2012, p. 696). These contributions progressively advocate for a broader view upon organizations' approaches to value chain configuration. This perspective on cost management within the realm of the value chain is shared by Management Accounting researchers (e.g. Anderson, 2007; Anderson and Dekker, 2009ab). These Management Accounting situated researchers, thirdly, direct attention to a disproportionate research emphasis on cost management issues with a focal point of that of improving cost performance given a certain strategy and cost structure, i.e. executional cost management, opposed to research into the cost structural choices associated with the design of the value chain, i.e. structural cost management (e.g. Anderson and Dekker, 2009ab). This is perhaps surprising, when the centrality of the cost structural choices in relation to the competitive position is considered. These scholars do, fourthly, stress the amble opportunity to understand the more 'complex economic and social forces' (Anderson, 2007, p. 483) that govern the management of the structural costs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9242
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En beslutningsstøttemodel for niveauet for en virksomheds langsigtede reklameindsats under konkurrenceOlsen, Jørgen Kai (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Koss Rasmussen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In CMS, debates on methodology have typically taken second stage to those on epistemology and ontology as the field embraced a plurality of methods. Recent work pushing for CMS to engage more strongly with mainstream theory, however, raises the need for a discussion on how to use methods recognizable to the mainstream in progressive ways. This paper seeks to remedy this lacunae by linking the concept of Critical Performativity (Spicer, Alvesson & Kärreman, 2009) to case study research and shows how case studies informed by Critical Realism (Easton, 2010a) can be generalized to "what could be" (Schofield, 2002). In this way, employing case studies in a progressive fashion may serve as a valuable means for a critically perfomative CMS to achieve greater impact through influence on mainstream theory building, business school education and management practice. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8298
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Project Management Challenges in Small Software Shops in PakistanShakir, Shahid N.; Nørbjerg, Jacob (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Most software development companies are very small with only 1-10 employees. In developing countries such companies play an important role both locally and as providers of software and services to customers in other parts of the world. Understanding and improving their project management (PM) practices are, therefore, important not only in the local context, but also in the context of globalized software development. This paper explores actual PM practices in Pakistani Small Software development Shops (SSDS). We find PM challenges in addition to challenges reported by software engineering literature, and we have described the implications of those challenges on quality and productivity of Pakistani SSDSs. We also find that some Pakistani SSDS practices are similar to what is reported from SSDSs in other parts of the world, but other practices are related to the companies' position in the global software development chain. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8791
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Petersen, Christian; Plenborg, Thomas (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6743
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Lyse Hansen, Thomas; Astrup Jensen, Bjarne (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: It is a delicate matter to trade spot products and financial derivatives in energy markets. Op- posite to bond and stock markets, the underlying assets are real products and a significant part of the demand for them represents a real need for the products, which can only be substituted away with some difficulties or, in some cases, only in a prohibitively costly manner. This is particularly true in the spot market, where the demand is almost always met, but where the spot price processes can be quite different from the spot price processes conventionally used in the pricing of derivatives. This pattern of real demand is also the main reason for the existence of the well-known convenience yield in energy markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7185
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Mellemlederens oplevelse af forandringsmodstand i organisatoriske forandringerHansen, Richard Ledborg (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Forandringer er på den globale dagsorden i alle dets mange afskygninger. Den fremstår i det nære som en sammenlægning af to enheder i en mellemstor virksomhed. I det fjerne som opkøb af en komplimenterende virksomhed. Såvel i det offentlige som i det private sker forandringer hele tiden. Behovet for at tilpasse de indre ressourcekrav til ydre omstændigheder øges i både hyppighed og hastighed. De mange forskellige omstændigheder og rationaler skaber en kontekstuel varians, der synes uendelig. Med dette, som den helt overordnede kontekstmarkør, bliver succesfulde forandringer en presserende nødvendighed for enhver virksomhed, der løbende søger at tilpasse sit virke. Hvorvidt det lykkedes for virksomheden, i hvilket omfang og hvorfor det falder ud som det gør er baggrunden for dette forskningsprojekt. Dette projekt undersøger fænomenet modstand mod forandring, da dette begreb er den hyppigst angivne årsag til forandringer, der ikke lykkedes. Fænomenet undersøges fra en særlig organisatorisk position; mellemlederen. En position der tilsvarende hyppigt angives som både kritisk omdrejningspunkt samt afgørende drivkraft for en succesfuld implementering af forandringer. Rolle som forandringsagent er således en dimension af rollen som mellemleder og dermed forskningsmæssigt interessant. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9506
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Nielsen, Lene (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: design ideas. The concept of engaging personas and narrative scenario explores personas in the light of what what it is to identify with and have empathy with a character. The concept of narrative scenarios views the narrative as aid for exploration of design ideas. Both concepts incorporate a distinktion between creating, writing and reading. Keywords: personas, scenarios, user-centered design, HCI URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6448
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Integrating Wind Power into the Danish Electricity SystemJenle, Rasmus Ploug (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The present study involves an inquiry into the making of a Danish energy system based on renewable energy sources. Focusing specifically on one of the major barriers to the introduction of renewable energy sources known as the intermittency problem, emphasis is put on how fluctuating electricity generation from wind turbines has been integrated into the Danish electricity system. The study focuses on the ways in which the integration of wind power in Denmark has involved the introduction and reconfiguration of a series electricity markets known as Nord Pool. Significantly, these electricity markets are engineered as control arrangements for electricity system equilibrium maintenance. When attempting to integrate wind power into the Danish electricity system by introducing or reconfiguring these control system market arrangements, metrics from economics are used to describe the ideal outcome or objective to be attained through market construction. Coupling these empirical observations with a line of inquiry concentrating on the use of knowledge, skills, and know-how in market design and management associated with the 'performativity programme' in the social and human sciences and especially economic sociology the thesis is framed by the following research question: How have control systems engineering and economics been mobilized in the endeavor to integrate wind power into the Danish electricity system through electricity market design and management? Answering this research question involves an analysis of three different instances of electricity market construction. All three cases demonstrate how integrating wind power into the Danish electricity system has been approached as a matter of electricity market construction increasing the capacity of Nord Pool to exert control and maintain equilibrium in the electricity system. In addition to producing insights into how the intermittency problem is being handled in Denmark, the present study seeks to augment the performativity programme in two ways. One way is to show how control systems engineering, being an understudied form of expertise within the performativity programme, has played a crucial role in the design and management of a series of markets. The other is to show how economics, being a form of expertise studied extensively by the members of the performativity programme in other empirical settings, has had heretofore undescribed functions in market design and management. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9191
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Knudsen, Morten (, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Workingpaperet er en guide til litteratur om metode, analysestrategi og videnskabsteori med relevans for problemorienteret samfundsvidenskabeligt projektarbejde på videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner. En række temaer præsenteres og relevant litteratur angives. Temaerne er ordnet under tre overskrifter: I. Genstand, II. Analyse og metode III. Proces, kvalitet og formalia. Guiden er skrevet specifikt til brug på masteruddannelsen Master of Health Management på CBS, men vil også kunne finde bredere anvendelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7786
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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Diets of European ChildrenGwozdz, Wencke; Reisch, Lucia A.; DeHenauw, Stefaan; Lissner, Lauren; Moreno, Luis; Tornaritis, Michael; Molnar, Denes; Siani, Alfonso; Veidebaum, Toomas; Pigeot, Iris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Because interventions related to diet and other health behaviours are seldom successful and/or sustainable, it is extremely important to identify the individual factors that contribute to a healthier or unhealthier diet. To this end, we use cross-sectional data from the IDEFICS study to analyse the dietary behaviour of children aged between 2 and 9 years in eight European countries. We model the complex nature of these individual factors using structural equation modelling. Our results show that both sedentary behaviour and food exposure are strong contributors to children's dietary choices. However, although we find a positive relation between a healthy diet and weight status for girls, weight status appears independent of diet quality for boys. These outcomes, although they permit no firm conclusions on health policy strategies, clearly suggest that further research based on longitudinal data could provide valuable insights for the design of successful prevention and intervention strategies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8334
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ASHLAND, VA - Quarterback Austin Faulkner threw a career-high five touchdown passes as Randolph-Macon topped visiting Shenandoah 42-14 Saturday afternoon in college football action. R-MC is now 3-0 for the first time since 1986, while Shenandoah drops to 0-3 on the season.
Three of Faulkner's scoring strikes came in the first half as the Yellow Jackets jumped out to a 28-0 lead, scoring on all four, first half possessions. The Yellow Jackets held the ball for 22:37 of the first stanza, scoring on a nine-yard run by Thaddeus Scruggs on the opening drive of the game and then getting TD receptions from Dan Crouch (17 yards), Zack Midulla (3 yards) and Crouch from one yard out with just 15 seconds remaining in the half.
For the game, Faulkner finished 25-of-32 with 267 yards to go along with the five touchdown tosses. Earl Peoples caught 17 passes from Faulkner for 170 yards and two second-half scores. Crouch finished the day with four grabs for 49 yards. Scruggs helped the Jackets ground game gain 173 yards, with 91 yards on 21 carries.
R-MC rolled up 25 first downs, 440 yards of offense and logged 40:15 of possession in the win. Randolph-Macon ran 77 plays on the day to Shenandoah's 46 and scored on all six trips to the Red Zone.
The Yellow Jackets defense held SU to just 143 total yards, including just 72 through the air. The Hornets were just 3-of-11 on third down on the afternoon. Trey Haddon had a team-high seven tackles, including two behind the line of scrimmage. Ian Candelaria had five stops, including a sack for R-MC.
SU got on the board after its first drive of the second half, when Keone Kyle capped off a 65 yard drive with a one-yard plunge to make the score 28-7.
Two fourth quarter touchdowns by Peoples extended the R-MC lead to 42-7, before Daniel Wright found Brian Calloway from 22 yards out to close out the scoring, making it 42-14, with 1:22 to go in the game.
Randolph-Macon will be back in action next Saturday at home when it hosts Frostburg State at 1:00 p.m.
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No matter what President Barack Obama says, he is not concerned about weaning America off foreign oil. On the contrary, his policies will drastically drive up our dependence - dangerously so.
A stance against the use of fossil fuels on the grounds that they contribute to global warming makes little sense in the face of reality: Fossil fuels will continue to be our priority energy resource for years to come. No other alternative technology will even come close to being a viable energy source tomorrow, next year, next decade or next generation. This is a fact of life, a fact of science and a fact of national security.
That is not to say we as a country, as a leader in technology and as a developed nation with a responsibility toward resource management should not endeavor toward alternative solutions. Our survival will depend on new discoveries that can sustain us in the long term. Our attention on the exploration of wind, wave, solar, biofuels and yet unknown technologies should continue, and expand, as time goes on and fossil fuels diminish.
However, the most dangerous thing we can do now, both in terms of our economy and national security, is to pursue alternative energy development at the expense of fossil fuel development. Unfortunately that is exactly what is happening.
Consider what the following agencies have in common: Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Agriculture and the Securities Exchange Commission. At varying levels, each are working to regulate and limit the practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and natural gas from shale. Consider that nine out of 10 gas wells today use this method. And the recent explosion of oil production in North Dakota, now second only to Texas, is because of hydraulic fracturing. The regulatory onslaught means that, in spite of advancement in technology that allows us to tap vast resources never before available, competitive advantages are nullified and prices skyrocket needlessly. More pressure comes from the current administration with increasing fees to drill or frac offshore or on federal or Indian lands.
With our fossil fuels industries reeling and dumbfounded, attention from our government and billions of dollars are being refocused on green initiatives.
The assertion by many progressive environmentalists - that advancement in alternative energies is an end-sum game that can only be achieved by artificial manipulation of the markets - is untenable. Inflating the price on fossil fuels through burdensome regulation and exorbitant fees while subsidizing costs of so-called 'green fuels' will not only fail, it will place our country in a very precarious position in the current global race. The U.S. market is no longer the only game in town - suddenly there are other buyers with insatiable appetites at the table. The new world players will continue to consume fossil fuels at a frantic pace - and at true market rates - while we turn toward low-power alternatives at high-power prices.
Obama's energy policies that attempt to clean the air and cool the planet will do neither - and thus he will fail to even placate the misguided groups demanding he move 'forward.'
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On the surface, a bipartisan group made up of elected officials and citizens - called the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, or LATFOR - drew the new district lines. However, behind the scenes, it's whichever party controls the legislature that really takes control of the process, and in the State Senate that is the Republican Party.
The new district lines played all sorts of games with sitting state senators, most notably State Senator Michael Gianaris. The new district lines took a sliver of Astoria - the sliver where Gianaris lives - and attached it to the majority of the district currently represented by State Senator Jose Peralta.
The new district is nearly 60 percent Hispanic, which is, of course, bad for Gianaris on two fronts: Peralta holds the edge as far as demographics, and he has the name recognition having represented a majority of the district not only in the State Senate, but formerly in the Assembly as well.
That probably didn't have anything to do with Gianaris being the chair of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee or the fact that he is an outspoken critic of the whole redistricting process.
Elsewhere in Queens, a new district would force incumbents Toby Ann Stavisky and Tony Avella into the same district, and the same was done with incumbent Eric Adams and Velmanette Montgomery in Brooklyn.
And in a real piece of forward-thinking, a new district in south Brooklyn would include the residences of current Councilman Lew Fidler and the leader of the Democratic Conference, State Senator John Sampson.
This is especially tricky because Fidler isn't even in the State Senate, but he is considered one of the favorites in a special election to replace disgraced State Senator Carl Kruger, who was recently sent to jail for extorting money. If he is indeed elected to fill the seat, in the future he would have to run against Sampson.
All of this isn't to say that we think the Democrats should be redrawing the district lines, either. Whichever party is in control of the process is, of course, going to manipulate it to its advantage.
But the excessive gerrymandering - many news outlets took great joy in imagining what animals and shapes the new districts resembled - just reinforces that fact that redistricting has to be a nonpartisan undertaking.


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NASHVILLE – Nashville Predators captain Shea Weber scored twice Thursday to move into a tie for the NHL lead among defensemen with 20 goals.
However, he was much more eager to talk about how Nashville snapped a six-game losing streak at Bridgestone Arena with a 6-1 victory against the Buffalo Sabres and about two Predators rookies who each scored his first NHL goal.
"A big win for us," Weber responded when asked about reaching 20 goals for the second time in his nine seasons.
Nashville (32-31-11) is 2-6-1 at home in its past eight games and had gone 0-5-1 in its previous six. The rough home stretch contributed to the Predators falling out of the Western Conference's wild-card race. Nashville began the day nine points behind the Phoenix Coyotes for the final wild-card spot into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Phoenix beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 in a shootout Thursday.
"We talked about that the last few games is we've got to play better at home," said Weber, who was bleeding from his upper lip after getting hit by a clearing attempt by Buffalo's Drew Stafford in the third period. "We've always been a team in the past that takes pride in winning at home and we haven't done that lately, so we need to change that."
Predators rookie centers Colton Sissons and Calle Jarnkrok each scored his first NHL goal as Nashville jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first period.
Sissons scored at 6:26 to give Nashville a 1-0 lead. Rich Clune, with his back to the net from close range, put a backhander on goal, and Sissons charged the net to flip in the rebound.
"It has been in the back of my mind," said Sissons, who has played in 14 NHL games, all this season, and has 24 goals in the American Hockey League this season. "No doubt. I'd be lying if I didn't say so. It's definitely nice to get the monkey off my back and just focus on my game now."
Colin Wilson scored his first goal since Dec. 30, a span of 33 games, at 11:44 to make it 2-0. Viktor Stalberg threw the puck at the end and it bounced off Buffalo defenseman Christian Ehrhoff. Wilson poked it in past Buffalo goalie Matt Hackett for his eighth goal before Ehrhoff could figure out where it was.
"I feel like I've been getting my chances lately, they just haven't been going in," Wilson said. "Hopefully, this opens something the last couple of games here."
The Predators struck again nine seconds later when forward Gabriel Bourque dug a puck out of the corner and threw it into the slot to a wide-open Jarnkrok, who snapped it past Hackett.
"That's a sniper's goal," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said.
Jarnkrok, acquired from the Detroit Red Wings at the NHL Trade Deadline in exchange for David Legwand, has had a point in each of his first four NHL games (one goal, three assists) since the Predators called him up. He also has had a plus rating in each game.
Injuries to forwards Paul Gaustad and Patrick Eaves, as well as poor performances by some others, opened the door for Sissons and Jarnkrok.
"That's always exciting. I'm real happy for both those guys," Weber said. "Obviously, Siss has been here a little bit longer and he's been working hard for us, and Calle's come over and been great for us as well, so both of those guys are well deserved and a lot more for both of those guys to come."
Weber scored his first goal of the game on a 5-on-3 power play with his trademark slap shot. Eight seconds after the Sabres were called for too many men on the ice, Buffalo forward Johan Larsson, called up on an emergency basis earlier in the day, was whistled for closing his hand on the puck.
Weber settled a loose puck and calmly slapped it in from 35 feet out with 43 seconds left in the period to give Nashville a 4-0 lead.
Sabres coach Ted Nolan replaced Hackett with Nathan Lieuwen to start the second period. Hackett made 11 saves on 15 shots.
Buffalo responded with a goal at 2:06. Rookie defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, called up on an emergency basis earlier in the day because of Tyler Myers' undisclosed injury, connected on a slap shot for his second goal.
After recording four shots on goal in the first period, Buffalo pelted Predators goalie Carter Hutton with 29 in the final two periods. Hutton made 32 saves to earn his 17th win.
Hutton, who entered the season having played in one NHL game, is now tied with the Detroit Red Wings' Jimmy Howard and New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur in wins, mostly owing to the four-month absence of Predators starting goalie Pekka Rinne due to a hip infection.
Hutton chuckled when that fact was mentioned to him.
"That's all right," he said. "I guess when I came in here I didn't even expect to play that many games. So, it's obviously great. Tonight, it's a team victory. We put up six. If I can't close that one out, you know what I mean?"
Weber made it 5-1 with his second goal, 20th of the season, tying him with the Ottawa Senators' Erik Karlsson for the League lead among defensemen. He beat Lieuwen with a slap shot from the top of the right circle high to the blocker side at 6:19 of the second.
Eric Nystrom scored the Predators' sixth goal with 40 seconds left in the third period. He converted Clune's pass from behind the net with a wrist shot from the slot; it was Clune's second assist of the game.
Buffalo (20-45-8) has lost 10 of its past 12. The Sabres have the worst record in the League and had eight players sit out Thursday with injuries. Left wing Ville Leino played 58 seconds over two first-period shifts before leaving the game due to what the team said was "light-headedness."
"It's just one of those things (that) in order to rebuild and to retool, you rebuild and retool with the right people, and it's never changed from 20 years ago to today," Nolan said. "You need the right people with the right makeup with the right character with the right drive and ambition. You don't just show up."


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Carrying over its momentum from last week's win, the North Central College football team left no doubt in its Saturday evening encounter with Millikin University, quickly establishing a comfortable lead and cruising to a 55-7 smash of the Big Blue at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium.
After a strong second half in last Saturday's 31-14 win at Elmhurst College, the fourth-ranked Cardinals followed with an encore performance in the first half against the Big Blue. North Central found the end zone three times in the first period and owned a 41-0 lead at halftime before allowing its younger players to close out the win.
"That was our one goal," said senior defensive end Alex Tripp, who led the Cardinals' defense with seven tackles, a quarterback sack and a forced fumble. "We wanted to come out like we did in the second half against Elmhurst, and to repeat it the entire game was great to see."
North Central quarterback Spencer Stanek broke his own single-game school record for completion percentage, connecting on 15 of 16 passing attempts (93.8 percent). He got the rout started by throwing three first-quarter touchdown passes, the first of which was a 40-yard strike down the middle to A.J. Thomas on the game's first possession.
After a Millikin punt, the Cardinals drove into Big Blue territory before a pair of bad snaps from center and a penalty left the hosts with a third down-and-30 from the Millikin 36. Stanek cleaned up the mess on the next play, sending a 36-yard TD pass into the hands of Chad O'Kane with 9:11 still to play in the opening period.
North Central defensive back Shane Dierking snagged his fifth interception of the season on the next drive, returning the ball 44 yards to set up North Central's next score just four plays later. Stanek found Thomas for a second time, this time from five yards out, and the Cardinals owned a 20-0 advantage at the end of the opening quarter.
Dierking is now tied with Josh McLeod '12 for second place in North Central history with 13 career interceptions. He is two picks shy of tying Norman Robinson '00 for the career record.
The Cardinals' next touchdown was Stanek's fifth rushing TD of the season, as he capped off a 10-play, 61-yard drive with a six-yard scoring run with 14:09 on the clock in the second period. Cornerback Jordan Dean snared his first interception of the season three plays later, and after a 23-yard pass from Stanek to Ryne Rezac, Matt Randolph took a handoff and crossed the goal line for a two-yard touchdown run and a 34-0 lead.
"It felt great to be back on the team competing," said Randolph, who ran eight times for 44 yards and caught three passes for 25 yards after missing the Cardinals' previous three games due to injury. "We came out and got the win, it was awesome."
North Central's final first-half scoring drive started at its own 37-yard line. After throwing twice to Peter Sorenson and once to Randolph, Stanek gained 11 yards on a scramble before handing off three straight times to Oshayne Brown. Brown's third carry came from one yard away and got him across the goal line for his first collegiate touchdown with 3:18 on the clock.
A 38-yard punt return by John Skokna set up the Cardinals' first score of the second half, as the hosts needed to travel just 14 yards to get across the goal line. Backup quarterback Tyler Dicken did the honors, scoring on a one-yard run to extend the lead to 48-0.
Millikin managed its first score later in the third period. After being backed up to their own four-yard line by a Kevin Looff punt, the Big Blue found themselves in the end zone just three plays later. Quarterback Nick Pippin lofted a 41-yard pass to Brady Cufaude, then zipped a 50-yard pass to Mike Blakely on a flea-flicker before running back Nick Dunning ran for a two-yard TD to break up the shutout with 6:00 left in the quarter.
The final TD of the night came on the next drive. Running back Zack Pattat opened the drive with a 29-yard run, and later added runs of 21 and 15 yards before a two-yard scoring run. Pattat gained a team-high 149 yards on just 12 carries and is now the Cardinals' leading rusher for the season with 293 yards.
The Cardinals owned a 550-212 advantage in total yards, gaining 318 yards on the ground. North Central owned a 33:14-26:46 advantage in time of possession and converted 8 of 12 third-down attempts. The Cardinals' defense managed 12 tackles for loss and four quarterback sacks, with Michael Monterrubio and Alex Ibarra each recovering fumbles.
North Central travels to Chicago to face North Park University (1-4, 1-1) next week. The Vikings lost a 52-21 decision at Illinois Wesleyan University on Saturday. Kickoff at the Holmgren Athletic Complex is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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OTTAWA, Canada — Canadian and U.S. officials will introduce new safety standards for the kind of tanker cars involved in a recent spate of fiery oil-by-rail accidents "fairly soon," Canadian Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.
The focus is on whether to require older versions of the DOT-111 tankers to be upgraded to stronger standards or phased out. Since October 2011, new cars have been built to safer requirements, but the vast majority of cars used are of the older variety deemed more vulnerable to leaks and explosions.
Raitt also said it was possible that the more volatile crude from the Bakken region of North Dakota might need to go in a safer car altogether.
The question of the safety of oil by rail, growing rapidly as production in North Dakota and Western Canada rises without a concomitant increase in pipeline capacity, came to the fore again after Tuesday's derailment in New Brunswick, involving cars carrying crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas.
Raitt has been talking the issue over with U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and she told CBC Radio in Saturday's broadcast that she would be discussing it further with him.
"If it's something about retirement of stock, if it is about retrofitting of stock or replacement of stock, those are the things that are on the table. Those are the things we're discussing with the U.S. administration," she said.
"And we hope to be coming forward fairly soon with respect to what we'd like to do."
North Dakota Republican Senator John Hoeven said on Thursday that Foxx had promised tougher standards on the DOT-111s "in weeks, not months."
Because of the unified nature of the U.S.-Canadian market, with cars traveling across the borders sometimes more than once in a trip, the two countries have to act together on tank car regulations.
Among the derailed cars in Tuesday's Canadian National Railway Co accident were three DOT-111 cars built to the higher standards and two older ones, but it was not yet clear whether the newer ones fared any better.
The question of the safety of transporting Bakken oil came to prominence in July, when a runaway train carrying Bakken light crude exploded in the heart of the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47. That train included DOT-111 cars.
"Perhaps where we end up getting is maybe these cars aren't acceptable for this kind of oil. I don't know what the answer to that is. It's certainly something that's being looked at in the United States, and it's being looked at by us as well," Raitt said.
Opposition New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Olivia Chow said on the same CBC program that the important thing was to set out a timetable for cars to be upgraded or phased out, whether it was six months or a year or two.
"If we don't put a deadline, then things won't get done," she said.
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Apex Alpine Resort [1] is a ski village in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. The closest city is Penticton
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The only method into the village is by road. It is about a 45 minute drive from Penticton. The road comes to a 'Y' junction at the Apex Guest Ranch. Turn left (east) to Penticton, and right (west) to Keremeos. You can also take your chances on the Hedley Corkscrew Road which winds down the mountain to Hedley via a system of switchbacks. This is not recommended in the winter without a very good 4x4 vehicle.
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Well, you will want to ski of course! You can ski from the upper village to the main part, where the hotels and restaurants are. Otherwise, you will have to drive or snowmobile. Snowmobile rental is available.
There is also a Horse-drawn cart ride available, though this is not a practical method of transportation.
Apex has a brief season in the summer for mountain biking. Most on-hill facilities are shutdown during the summer, so you may have to make it a day trip from Penticton unless you know someone. Although there are some year-round residents at Apex, in the summer it generally resembles a ghost town.
You can also go fishing at nearby Nickel Plate Lake or travel a bit further and visit the Historic Mascot Mine. If you plan to fish make absolute sure you have a valid fishing license, as conservation officials are able to confiscate all your gear including boats or vehicles and hit you with a stiff fine.
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Canon is a concept which cannot be uniformly applied to J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. As Wayne G. Hammond put it,
[...] there are Tolkien's latest thoughts, his best thoughts, and his published thoughts and these are not necessarily the same.
—Wayne G. Hammond in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth[1]
A consistent Tolkien "canon" could only exist if a group or an individual decided what should be considered "canon" and what should not. For Tolkien Gateway editors to make such judgements would be for them to portray their own views on such matters, thus violating the principles of an encylopedia. The search of objectivity can only reveal that Tolkien's thoughts on particular concepts changed over the course time for various reasons.
There are many famous inconsistencies in Tolkien's personal writings. For instance, at different points while working on his legendarium, Tolkien considered two very different accounts of the origins of Celeborn. In one version he was a kinsman of Thingol living in Doriath, where he met Galadriel.[2] In another writing Celeborn was a Teler of Alqualondë, where he met Galadriel.[3] Since neither of those versions was established in his published works during Tolkien's lifetime, Tolkien Gateway should favour neither version of events and both should be presented and explained to the reader.
It should be noted that the Tolkien Gateway's old policy was to attempt to reconcile inconsistencies in order to produce a consistent canon.[4] The content of many articles will still reflect this old policy whilst they await a rewrite.
A new canon policy was agreed at Tolkien Gateway's July 2012 meeting.
- Tolkien Gateway editors should not judge what is canon and what is not.
- Where there are inconsistencies, this should be explained in the content of the article. This discussion should be placed in a "canonicity" section.
- Only concepts not created by Tolkien (i.e. those made up in adaptations) should be considered "non-canon". Template:Adaptation should be applied to these articles.
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond, "A Continuing and Evolving Creation", in Tolkien's Legendarium, ed. by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter (New York: Greenwood Press, 2000)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Return of the Noldor"; J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn"
- ↑ "Tolkien Gateway:Canon" dated 4 November 2011, Tolkien Gateway (accessed 8 August 2012)


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The top names in pop music turned out on Saturday night for Sony music exec Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hilton.
Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am acknowledged all the talent in the room while trying to rouse the crowd during his group's performance. "These are the elite mother[bleep]ers of the music industry, but y'all are acting like some mother[bleep]s!" he said to laughs, adding that he was enthusiastic about the future of the industry despite the financial "horrors of the biz."
"There ain't no Tower Records, ain't no Sam Goody, but I don't give a [bleep]," he ad-libbed while singing. "We gonna keep making music."
"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest's toast to Davis fell a little flat. "Not a single thing he said got a laugh," said a spy. "He made a lame joke about how Clive Davis' ears look like the actual Grammy statue. It was awkward."
When Fergie took the stage to perform a cover of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" with guitarist Slash, Jamie Foxx leaped to his feet to shoot video. He later denied to Page Six that he was going to take over Simon Cowell's gig at "American Idol."
"I'd love to, but I don't think I have the time, man," Foxx said. "I don't think I could fill that guy's shoes."
Also holding court in the front of the room were Jay-Z, Rihanna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chace Crawford, and newly engaged couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand. Brand declined to offer any details about his upcoming nuptials, telling Page Six that things were still "up in the air."
Foxx himself had a busy weekend: The night before, his own pre-Grammy bash at the L'Ermitage Beverly Hills drew Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Jake Gyllenhaal and Gerard Butler.
"They had to move the party from the roof to the hotel lobby because it was so packed," said a spy. "Gerard must not be dating Jennifer Aniston that seriously, because he was swarmed by girls all night" — including "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Stacy Keibler. "He was chatting her up all night," said our spy.


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North Charleston resident Charles Eichman, 76, tried to make an appointment for his annual flu shot on Sept. 12.
The health department told him to call back in October.
On Oct. 1, he tried again and learned that the vaccine hadn't arrived yet and that he should call in mid-October.
He tried once more this week to schedule that appointment and found out he won't be able to get the flu shot at all this year through the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control because the department is no longer offering them to patients with Medicare, Medicaid or private health insurance.
"They didn't say a word about that when I made the other two phones calls — not a word," said Eichman, who is insured by Medicare. "In other words, I just wasted a lot of time and I could have had my flu shot back in September if I had known that."
Flu shots are no longer available at county-level health departments across the state for patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid or private health insurance, DHEC spokesman Mark Plowden confirmed via email Thursday.
It's the first flu season that the department is testing this new policy.
"We have been making the public aware of our policy since last year by providing the following information in all of our communications, including our website materials," Plowden wrote.
Even so, it was news to Eichman, who said he's been getting his flu shot at the Charleston County clinic for more than two decades.
"I said 'Why did they make the change of policy?' "
He said a DHEC supervisor told him: "Due to a shortage of money."
Plowden said in an email that information was incorrect.
A statement on DHEC's website explains, "DHEC will focus its limited resources on people who are uninsured and underinsured and those who cannot receive a flu vaccine elsewhere."
Plowden wrote that some of the flu vaccines are back-ordered at DHEC clinics and that the order is expected to be filled by Nov. 1. Insured patients can get their vaccine through DHEC after the order is filled, he wrote.
The sticker price for a flu shot through the department is $25 for adults and $13 for children. That fee was waived for patients at county clinics covered by Medicare or Medicaid because DHEC billed the government for the cost of those patients' shots. But now, Medicaid and Medicare patients can't get their flu vaccinations through DHEC. Plowden said an uninsured patient's ability to pay the $25 fee will be discussed and can be negotiated at the time of service. Plowden and DHEC Director Catherine Templeton were unavailable to discuss the new policy on the phone.
A $25 fee for a flu shot is comparable to other health care facilities or private pharmacies, many of which offer seasonal discounts or coupons to reduce its cost.
Cases of the flu have already been confirmed in South Carolina this season, including at least one case in Charleston County.
The 2012-2013 flu season was considered "active" compared with past years. More than 60,000 South Carolinians tested positive for influenza by a rapid antigen test and 46 residents died from the disease.
While DHEC is limiting who qualifies to receive the shot at its clinics, the department is still emphasizing almost everyone needs one. Last flu season, the department administered 36,389 vaccine doses across the state.
"Absolutely the best way to prevent getting the flu is to get the flu vaccine every year," said Dr. Riyadh Muhammad, a DHEC medical consultant.


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If for any triangle ABC tan(A - B) + tan(B - C) + tan(C - A) = 0
what can you say about the triangle?
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Hey guys! Here today with another St. Patrick's Day inspired mani. Super easy and quick to do! All you need is a few colors and some dotting tools (which could be bobby pins, or toothpicks) and you're good to go!
I started with two coats of Kleancolor neon green, and used a white and China Glaze papaya punch for the polka dots by using different sizes of dotting tools, overlapping a few here and there. I wanted to top it all off with the spectraflare topcoat I got in my secret swap, but it changed the color too much (I'll show a picture at the end) so I ended up 86ing that.
Another problem I have with my white is it tends to get stringy quick with nail art brushes or dotting tools, anyone have any ideas why it does that? Or have a recommendation on a good white?
See the spectraflare topcoat as beautiful as it is just changed the color too much, so I took it off, but other than that I loved this one :)
What do you think?
Until next time! Happy painting!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Irish Polka Dots
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Hip-hop super couple Beyonce and Jay-Z have jetted to Cuba to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.
The pair headed to the capital city of Havana earlier this week, and they were spotted enjoying dinner with their mothers at popular restaurant La Guarida on Wednesday.
They spent their anniversary on Thursday touring colonial Old Havana, before heading to a rooftop eatery with breathtaking views of the harbor.


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Mr. Colby wrote:I like this. I can't envision long-term sustainable success in Kansas City, though I'm not an economist.
Seattle could work out well, those west-coast teams have actually succeeded. It's better than Phoenix because it isn't a bunch of older transplants that already have their own teams to root for. That's half the problem with the Panthers. And why Vegas probably wouldn't work out so well.
Try to keep Phoenix out west, then move the next team to QC, whether it's NYI, NJ, Florida, Nashville
Kansas City might have the fan base, but not enough corporate support. Although I've been pleasantly surprised how many small local companies are supporting Kansas City's minor league team (Missouri Mavericks of the CHL); but the only thing KC has are small, local companies. That's why Seattle should look so good. There's a bevy of Fortune 500 companies with headquarters in the Seattle area.


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The Business Management 421 final project report is an operational review of Manhattan's Tallgrass Brewing Company done in 2008 by Amy Bice, Nick Doll, Nick Edwards, and Anthony Pfeifer.


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School supply collection at STEP
Donations are being sought through Aug. 17 for STEP's annual Back to School Program, which distributes free school supplies to qualifying children who live in St. Louis Park.
Spiral notebooks, crayons and tape are among the many items STEP is collecting to stock backpacks for kids. For a complete list, go to http://www.stepslp.org/.
Supplies can be dropped off at STEP at 6812 W. Lake St. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday; from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and from 8 a.m. to noon Friday.
Volunteers who are at least 18 are needed to sort, assemble and distribute school supplies. To volunteer, contact Julie Jergens at email@example.com
Program aims to train fledgling hunters
The Minnesota Waterfowl Association and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering a Young Waterfowlers program for kids ages 11 to 15 who have never hunted waterfowl or are just getting started.
The only requirement is an interest in hunting birds and successful completion of the offered firearms safety course.
The program's goal is to introduce kids from non-hunting families to waterfowl hunting.
The program will include a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Firearms Safety course with information on waterfowl and being a safe and ethical hunter.
Adult mentors will assist students in training sessions and accompany students on a hunting trip in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 7 or 14.
Class dates are Aug. 20, 22, 27, 28, 29 and Sept. 3 and 5 from 6 to 9 p.m. Classes are at the refuge's Carver Rapids Education and Visitors Center, 15865 Carver Highlands Dr., Carver.
To sign up, submit the youth's name, address, birthday, parent's name, and phone and e-mail contact information to email@example.com, with Young Waterfowler's Program in the subject line.
Questions can also be answered at 952-767-0320.
Police academy runs Sept. 12-Nov. 21
The South Lake Minnetonka Police Department will hold a citizens' police academy this fall on Thursday nights starting Sept. 12 and concluding Nov. 21. Ten classes will be held — none on Halloween — with classes starting at 7 p.m. and ending at 9:30 p.m.
Topics include traffic enforcement, criminal investigations, narcotics enforcement, courts and prosecution, a tour of the Hennepin County 911 dispatch facility, a K9 demonstration and a tour of the police department's emergency operations center.
Applicants must be at least 18, live or work within the South Lake Minnetonka Police Department jurisdiction and pass a background check. For more information, call Sgt. Mark Geyer at 952-474-3261 or go to www.southlakepd.com for an application.
Salon 300 to show art not accepted for fair
Salon 300, an annual exhibit at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, again will showcase Minnesota-made artwork submitted but not chosen for the fine arts exhibition at the Minnesota State Fair.
Artists who pick up their unselected artwork at the fairgrounds have the option of bringing it directly to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. All work brought from the fair with a registration form is accepted into the Hopkins show.
A free public opening reception is scheduled from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday and many of the artists participating in Salon 300 will be on hand. The exhibit will continue through Sept. 1.
The name "Salon 300" stems from the style of exhibition, which stacks work of different shapes and sizes to maximize gallery wall space.
In its early days, Salon 300 — which is in its ninth year — did include about 300 pieces of artwork in a show. In the last couple of years, however, the State Fair has refined its review process, making the first cut online, which results in fewer works brought to the fairgrounds for the final cut.
This means that now there are fewer artworks in the pool at the fairgrounds from which Salon 300 draws. So Salon 300 has become a smaller show, but more consistent in terms of quality of work, the Hopkins Center for Art says.
The arts center is at 1111 Mainstreet in Hopkins. Hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Arboretum program blends art, greenery
Combining art and nature, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum will host an art crawl Aug. 17-18, with its landscapes and gardens providing the setting for the exhibition.
"Art Crawl Through the Gardens 2013," a show and sale of local arts and crafts, will feature a range of works, from photography and paintings to fabric bags and birdhouses, plus live music. Exhibitors will set up along Three-Mile Drive, and on Sunday, a local group, The BZ Girls, will perform live in the Nelson Shrub Rose Garden from noon to 4 p.m.
Hours for the event are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18. For more information, go to www.arboretum.umn.edu. The arboretum is located 9 miles west of I-494 on Hwy. 5 in Chanhassen.
Art exhibit features 'Town and Country'
The Bloomington Theatre and Art Center will feature "Town and Country," an art exhibition of the paintings of Fred Dingler, through Sept. 22.
After 40 years as an illustrator in advertising, Dingler paints in multiple media, including oil, watercolor and acrylic, with subjects ranging from a festival crowd to a lonely barn on a vast field.
The Bloomington Theatre and Art Center is at 1800 W. Old Shakopee Road in Bloomington. The Atrium Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 10 p.m. Sunday. There is no admission charge.
For information, go to www.btacmn.org or call 952-563-8575.
Citizens academy deadline is Aug. 30
Applications for this year's Public Safety Citizens Academy are due by Aug. 30, with the free 12-week course meeting 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays, beginning Sept. 12.
The 36-hour course will cover the work of the police and fire departments.
Through lectures and hands-on demonstrations, the class will cover the history and evolution of policing, patrol operations, investigations, emergency communications, police tactics and use of force, a K-9 demonstration, narcotics, SWAT, the DWI process, public safety education, crime prevention efforts and shooting scenarios.
Applicants must be 18 and live, work or own a business in Plymouth, and all participants must pass a background check.
Space is limited to the first 30 eligible applicants.
For more information, call community relations officer Jim Long at 763-509-5135.
Nonprofit celebrates annual campaign
The Plymouth nonprofit Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners (IOCP) will celebrate its annual "Learning for a Lifetime" campaign this month.
Participants can join the center at a hands-on event from 5:30-7 p.m. Aug. 19 (ages 16 and older) or 10–11:30 a.m. Aug. 20 at IOCP, 1605 County Road 101 N., Plymouth.
The event is free and open to the community.
Register by Aug. 15 at https://iocp.ejoinme.org/LifetimeLearning2013. For more, visit www.iocp.org.
City to host session on emerald ash borer
The city of Minnetonka will hold an emerald ash borer information session on Wednesday.
The event will take place from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the Minnetonka Community Center, 14600 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka.
From 5:30-6:30 p.m., there will be exhibits featuring local tree care companies. From 6:30-7:15 p.m., a city forester will give a presentation on the emerald ash borer. And from 7:15-8 p.m., a panel discussion will take place, followed by a Q&A with panelists from 8-8:30 p.m.
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It hasn't been an easy five months for White, the rookie wide receiver out of Western Michigan who had an impressive rookie minicamp then was injured just a couple weeks later during Organized Team Activities (OTAs). White had to undergo surgery for a broken fifth metatarsal in his foot, having a screw placed into the foot and he is just now starting to get back to the form that saw him become the talk of rookie minicamp.
It was a non-contact injury that he suffered during a special teams drill when he made a bad cut, the result perhaps of a pre-existing stress fracture.
Either way, it forced White to the sidelines and saw him miss valuable time this summer.
"I think I'm ready, this week I've felt the best I've felt since I've been here; just been continuing to improve," White told The Jets Blog. "I think I've had a few good days, just trying to put together back-to-back good practices."
The timing is ideal for White as the Jets group of pass catchers is thin both in numbers but also in terms of talent. Only this past week did tight end Dustin Keller and second round pick wide receiver Stephen Hill return to full health from their hamstring injuries. If White continues to progress, there's a very good chance he can move from the practice squad to the 53-man roster.
And from there to the game day roster; it is a conversation he's had with wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal.
"I see myself obviously being the next guy up, I'm ready to contribute. I've talked to Sanjay about it, he said to be ready. Study the playbook, study the opponent, be ready," White said.
"For me, it's just stay healthy for one and then also be consistent. A lot of competition here obviously going up against the best cornerbacks in the league and a host of safeties and other cornerbacks who play at a high level."
His development, he says, is coming along well. A consensus All-American last year at Western Michigan, White is a proven pass catcher who just needs to get better and grow. There isn't one particular part of his game that needs to improve but just the overall affect.
"I'm not getting held up on one thing in particular, it is really the whole curve," White said. "It isn't just one thing, it is getting all around better and a lot of people coming out of college have to do that, especially receivers."
Kristian R. Dyer covers the Jets for Metro New York and contributes to The Jets Blog @KristianRDyer


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^ It's funny you feel that way, because I absolutely adored Chihiro and hope we see more of her soon. She's so sweet and thoughtful (that's saying a lot considering how nice everyone in this show is!) Although I'm a big fan of her VA, so that makes me quite biased.
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Yeah, I got teary-eyed too. Haven't heard Junichi Satou's name mentioned since the end of Umi Monogatari, but damn, maybe I should pay more attention. The OVAs are downloading right now.
At the same time, I expect the emotional impact will die down and we'll end up with a warm relaxing series. Doesn't seem like the OVA watchers took as much of a beating from this episode.
You can only get so far with pure fluff for a story. I never made it all the way through Aria, myself, for one thing (maybe it was a bad idea to try to marathon it). For the moment, though, Tamayura has jumped straight up my (admittedly short) list for the top Fall 2011 show of this season.
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Ooh, I quite liked the OVAs, and they kept what's good and improved the characterisation. Due to the extremely cosy atmosphere, one episode per week is probably the optimal dose, too.
I'm going to look forward to this one each week.
@Chihiro: I found her utterly annoying, too, but I still love her and want to see more of her.
ETA: My fave scene was Fu asking her mom for the camera. That scene shows what I love about the show.
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I still expect it to be a warm and relaxed series, best consumed in small doses. But, as I said in my other post, I also expect it to be more of a character show, while retaining the picture book quality I loved about the OVAs.
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So first episode is out then, been waiting for this for so long and not even the low quality of the video I got is going to tonw down how happy I am with this show.
But let's break this down for fun:
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Oh wow! UTW picked this one up in a co-labor with Mazui! YAY!
This is the main series I have been looking forward to this season.
Edit: Well, I just finished watching the first ep.
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I didn't find it that sad either, and I don't think it was supposed to be. It was touching for sure, but it was so full of positive vibes and fluffiness it warmed my heart. I got exactly what I came for.
I enjoyed learning more about Fu's past and what led her to move back to the city she spent her childhood at. Chihiro the crybaby is a nice addition to the cast, and I hope we'll see more of her. If the OP is any indication, then we will.
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Simply put, some people find heartwarming scenes more tearjerking than sad scenes, and that's definitely what moves me to tears (depressing scenes usually just leave me numb, while heartwarming scenes can get to me).
But then, some people find depressing scenes more tearjerking than heartwarming scenes.
While watching Anohana, I often wondered why I was not as emotionally moved as most viewers seemed to be, and this is probably part of the reason why.
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