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NEW YORK, N.Y. - There's a change in the pecking order for country music's competing awards shows, at least for this season.
The Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday were seen by an estimated 15.5 million people, the Nielsen company said. It is believed to be the first time the ACM awards outdrew the more established Country Music Association awards, which took place in November.
A much-anticipated musical pairing of George Strait and Garth Brooks, performing in a tribute to the late Dick Clark, was a highlight of Sunday's show. Luke Bryan was paired with Blake Shelton of "The Voice" as co-host, then beat him for entertainer of the year in what was considered an upset.
The Los Angeles-based Academy of Country Music was formed in the 1960s in response to the Nashville-based Country Music Association, and the two have been rivals for attention in the industry. The CMA's first televised awards show came in 1968, with the ACM following in 1972. The CMA awards have been more popular in every year since the advent of Nielsen's "people meter" ratings system in 1988, and presumably before that.
The CMA awards had 13.7 million viewers in November, Nielsen said. But ABC points out that it was televised only a few days after Superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast and left millions of people without power; the same awards show had 16.4 million people the year before.
The prime-time Final Four matchup between Michigan and Syracuse gave CBS another big audience on Saturday, traditionally a quiet night of TV viewing. It was seen by 17.1 million people.
Last week also had an unusual sight: two episodes of "American Idol" finishing outside of Nielsen's 10 most popular programs. ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and NBC's "The Voice" were both more popular. In fact, it was largely due to "The Voice" that NBC finished ahead of Fox among younger viewers.
ABC's new sitcom "How to Live With Your Parents" had a strong debut with 8.4 million viewers, helped by following the popular "Modern Family" on the schedule. NBC's "Hannibal," a drama that the struggling network had pinned some high hopes upon, was seen by 4.4 million, Nielsen said.
CBS won the week handily in prime time, averaging 11.3 million viewers (7.0 rating, 11 share). ABC was second with a 6.7 million viewer average (4.4, 7), NBC had 5.24 million viewers (3.3, 5), Fox had 5.15 million (3.2, 5), the CW had 1.12 million (0.7, 1) and ION Television had 1.1 million (0.8, 1).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a 3.6 million prime-time average (1.9, 3), Telemundo had 1.4 million (0.7, 1), UniMas had 520,000 (0.3, 0), Estrella had 190,000 and Azteca 100,000 (both 0.1, 0).
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.4 million viewers (5.6, 11). ABC's "World News" was second with 7.4 million (5.1, 11) and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.4 million viewers (4.3, 8).
A ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 per cent of the nation's estimated 114.7 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of April 1-7, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.24 million; NCAA Final Four: Syracuse vs Michigan, CBS, 17.1 million people; Academy of Country Music Awards," CBS, 15.51 million. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.57 million; "NCAA Basketball Bridge Show," CBS, 14.33 million; "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 13.98 million; "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 13.93 million; "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 13.91 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.71 million; "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 13.31 million.
ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox and My Network TV are units of News Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TeleFutura is a division of Univision. Azteca America is a wholly owned subsidiary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.


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just riding...
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Write your caption below.
just riding...
Everyone has a place where he feels the most comfortable
all places can be a place to study
looking for inspiration for work can be obtained from the ocean and loose winds.
You can study everywhere.
Chillin on the edge of the cliff
find wherever you can find inspiration
Sound of the wave are the best harmony to work
When your mom asked you to go for a walk, but you can not leave your PC.
ICT Lesson on the top of a mountain!
I am doing a project about cliff.So why not going to the cliff and do field survey!
Searching Google...
Where to find Wi- Fi?
ı need wifi !
Iternet should work from here!!!!!!
here it should work internet
Burning with PC facing the sea.....!
On the edge.
Awesome view but strong wind can blow his laptop away =))
Hey Quos!
You're awesome! Aha ha!
(๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و !!
Thanks, you still remember me =))))))
=͟͟͞͞( ✌`◟ 、) ✌
I love my leptop <3
This is beautifull!I don't know what is it but I would like to be there.
I am afraid!
I think that person doesnt have WIFI and he prefers going to the beach to relax.
That is a beautiful place to study with relaxed and nice weather
*changes facebook status to* Atop a cliff, About to Die! :p
Checking out if there is Wi-Fi connection over here!!!!!!!!!
this is my point of veiw.
To: Nnafannya.
OK,OK, but let me be somewhere nearby since it's not the safest place on the Earth.
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Star Indy 500 couple Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti are getting a divorce. Now we get to use this seemingly appropriate but entirely wrong image of milk-drenched euphoria that suddenly appears like sadness.
Being the glamorous pair of America's most prestigious motor race, Judd and Franchitti have had some dramatic moments in front of the cameras since their 2001 marriage. This picture was taken just after Dario won last year's Indy, but we can't pass on the opportunity to use the scene in a moment of pain — their tears mixing together with the celebratory milk, the distance between the two figures, Ashley's weeping worthy of a scene in The Notebook.
Hey, we're not the only ones doing it. USA Today couldn't help but use the same picture, too.
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mrtrosen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 57 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
DishTheRock / SportsMentality
I'm a recreational basketball player and a software engineer. I have trouble finding new places to play basketball, so I'm creating a website where people can say where they play basketball, put statistics about themselves online, track leagues in their area, etc. I want the website to be in the fashion of Nike Basketball, And1, Adidas Basketball, etc. Basketball players have a bit of attitude, think Michael Jordan / Kobe Bryant / Lebron James, etc.. that attitude carries over in recreational/amateur basketball, which I want to portray in the website.
DishTheRock is a website for basketball players to create profiles of themselves: height, experience, player position (ie center, shooting guard), places they play basketball, leagues they play in, etc. A place to find new places to play basketball, leagues to play in, etc, and then display their statistics for each league, etc.
Basketball players have a bit of attitude... think Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan, but on the recreational level (everyone wants to be like Mike!)
PSD Only:
1. Landing Page -
the landing page will be generic for the entire site, but then I'll have a secondary landing page that, once someone has indicated where they are in the US (or world in the future), that secondary page will be the one they get directed to (based off cookies). This secondary landing page has things like: 'Starting Five', a highlight of 5 of the most recent players joined in the region, or the 5 highest rated payers, etc, latest added locations for the region, latest 'news' for the region, etc.
2. Player profile page
This will list the player information.. profile image, height, weight, position, experience level. It will also list all the locations that the player has selected as a place they play, the leagues they're currently in, and have played in in the past. There will be a section for current league stats, and career stats. A section for images (ie, possibly a sliding gallery of images that popup into a light box when selected), and also a video's section at some point. A couple examples of info that could be displayed are:
3. Location profile page
This has information about a location people play basketball at. General information about the location (name, address, phone number, # of courts, etc). with a comment section for player comments


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Hefty fines, blackpoints penalties and massive awarness campaigns by the police seem to have failed as nearly 60 per cent of drivers still use phones without handsfree devices, a survey has revealed.
On in three of drivers surveyed said they were answering a call or dialling a number always or mostly when they are behind the steering wheel, and 43.92 per cent of drivers talk on their phones sometimes while only 31.76 per cent said that they never use their mobiles when driving.
According to UAE federal traffic law, the use of hand-held mobile phones while driving is banned and offenders pay fines of Dh200 and get four black points on their driving license, and over 59,000 tickets were issued in Abu Dhabi and Dubai last year for the violation.
"This is not a temporary campaign against mobile phone users but an ongoing crackdown in which those using hand-held mobile phones while driving are punished for endangering their lives and the lives of others," Major General Mohammad Saif Al Zafein, Director of the Traffic Department, said.
The findings of the independent survey by Zarca Interactive, a feedback management specialist, are yet another reason of concern for the country's police forces who say that motorists continue to ignore risk of mobile phone use despite aggressive campaigns to stamp it out.
According to Dubai Police's Traffic Department, 15,233 tickets were issued for the violation in the first four months of 2012.
Nearly 88 per cent of those who participated in the survey said that they always use their seat belts with the rest indicating that they don't always make use of it and 0.68 per cent admitted that they never make use of the seat belt.
Some 95 per cent of those surveyed said that they always, mostly or sometimes make sure that other passengers are buckled in. High was also the percentage of those drivers who insist that children are seated on child seats with only four per cent saying that they never make sure of that.
Some 77 per cent of those asked said that they always, mostly or sometimes indulge in the odd burger or fizzy drink while driving with less than 20.95 per cent saying that they never do it, and 58.78 per cent of those asked stated that they use hazard lights during foggy weather, something which the police vehemently opposes as it is the cause of many road accidents.
Do you think the punishments for driving and dialling should be worse? Tell us below.
Via SyndiGate.info
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xkcd is a web comic drawn by Randall Munroe. It is hosted at xkcd.com. New comics are typically posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The comic often draws upon Randall's scientific background (particularly math and physics), but also draws on social situations and general everyday topics. The strip is generally geared towards humor, although occasionally strips are intended to be informative or intriguing rather than humorous. Each comic is generally accompanied by a further comment from Randall in the title text of the comic image.
xkcd began as a series of Randall Munroe's hand-drawn sketches which were first posted on Randall's LiveJournal account named xkcd_drawings. The first sketches were posted Friday, September 30, 2005. Randall posted 13 sketches that night from 8:34 pm to 8:46 pm. Most comics were titled and accompanied by a comment from Randall (similar to what would become title text in xkcd). The 8:40 pm post included the first link to xkcd.com in respect of a comic strip drawn during a NASA lecture.
The next post was on Sunday, October 2, 2005 in which Randall indicated that he would begin posting comics on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (the post, made just before midnight, was Monday's drawing). xkcd has generally been posted on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule ever since, other than during the 2005 winter break between December 5, 2005 and January 4, 2006 when no comics were posted.
Randall posted comics on LiveJournal until Monday, January 30, 2006, when Randall announced that he would be posting his comics on xkcd.com and had set up an RSS feed an an automated posting method with the help of someone named Derek. Randall created a syndicated RSS feed account for LiveJournal called "xkcd_rss". The original LiveJournal account was therefore no longer necessary and would be shut down. The next post, on Sunday, April 23, 2006, advised that Randall was about to delete the original LiveJournal account, and credited "davean" for helping with the automated posting script. For unknown reasons, all of the comics originally posted before January 1, 2006 (i.e. before 45: Schrodinger) were all dated January 1, 2006 when the comics were posted on xkcd.com, and the strip numbering of those comics are not all in the same order as originally posted on the LiveJournal account.
When comics were archived at xkcd.com, they were given numbers which did not entirely match the order in which the strips were originally posted to LiveJournal. As it is currently numbered, xkcd premieres with Barrel - Part 1 - the first part of a five-part story whose parts were distributed amongst the first thirty-one strips. Following the premiere strip, five of the next seven strips are simply one-panel sketches with no hidden meaning or comic purpose. One is clearly marked as a sketch from Randall's 11th grade Spanish class which was originally the first sketch posted on the LiveJournal account. This comic clearly was a scanned pencil sketch with slightly-askew graph-paper grid visible.
The light-blue graph paper grid were a part of the style of early xkcd, beginning with the 2: Petit Trees (sketch) through 22: Barrel - Part 3 (except for 15: Just Alerting You). The grid evolved to the point where in some strips in only appeared without the outlines of the individual panels of a strip. It is unclear if all of the strips were drawn on graph paper and the grid was scanned in, or whether some had the grid added digitally.
For the next twenty strips, there was inconsistent use of the grid; some strips had no grid; others had a black grid; others had the normal light-blue grid; on some the grid was faint as if it was poorly scanned or Randall had attempted to erase it (he noted having done this on 11: Barrel - Part 2. The last comic (by number) to use the grid was 44: Love, which was actually posted relatively early on the LiveJournal account but received a high number when the comics were renumbered. The last comic by date to use gridlines was 39: Bowl, although even these comics may have been posted on LiveJournal out of order. The faint remains of gridlines in comics 26: Fourier and 27: Meat Cereals suggest that Randall may have erased gridlines in these and other comics as well. In 2012, Randall revived the blue grid as a background image for what if?.
Similarly, the art process has evolved. The first comics appear to have been physical sketches (pencil or ink) which were scanned and directly posted; although some comics occasionally featured a digitally added caption. The first comic that appears to have had digital inking and effects (although it could also just be a different physical medium) is 23: T-shirts. The comics continued to be hand drawn, and hand lettered, with possibly a bit more digital polish. The comic slowly evolved to apparently become entirely digitally inked and lettered. Although early comics included sentence-case text, beginning with comic 90: Jacket, Randall began using all-caps (although it took several strips for the all-caps to become the standard format).
xkcd comics are usually plain, black-and-white line drawings, featuring stick figures, some of whom form a cast of recurring characters. From time to time, Randall posts things that aren't his every-day comics, but does something a little above-and-beyond. Whether it's a case of user-interactivity, leveraging certain behaviors of HTTP or the graphic medium, or even just commemorating the passing of an influential person, these few comics stand apart from the usual Cueball and Megan antics.
Meaning of xkcd
According to the xkcd FAQ, xkcd is "not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings."
However, it has been noted ([1] [2]) that if you assign each letter of the alphabet a value from 1 to 26, the sum of the values for X, K, C, and D is equal to 42. The value may be significant since this is the answer given to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything by the supercomputer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In April 2005 the film adaptation opened, the same year that Randall later posted his first comics to LiveJournal. The book is also referenced in 548: Kindle.
See also 207: What xkcd Means.


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Recently we did a practice GCSE statistics paper at school, and here is the question everyone got wrong:
Freddie has 10 innings during the cricket season.
His scores were as follows:
0, 12, 65, 74, 34, 125, 98, 4, 6, 36
Q1: What was his median score?
Q2: What was the range of his scores?
Q3: Which type of average is best suited to the data? Median (Middle No.), Mode (No. that appears most) or Mean (sum of data divided by how many pieces of data)
Q1 and 2 are straightfoward, nearly everyone got them right.
But almost everyone got Q3 wrong, as the answer was median and not mean.
This means that according to the marker, the best way to work out a batting average is to line up all the scores low to high and pick the middle number, not the mean which is a normal cricket average.
Two points: I wrote mean as soon as I had read the question, as it is common knowledge a batting average is runs/times out. The only people who got it right had no knowledge of cricket averages at all. Surely the majority of the world (the cricket community) is right?
And in the possibility of a median average being the correct answer, why do we use the mean instead of the median. (Form, year by year analysis, accuracy, fluctuating numbers)
For example:
Smiths 'median average' is 50. In his next four innings he scores: 300, 200, 35 and 40, yet as the 50 will still be the middle number, his 'median' does not change.
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NBC Chicago – The man who once backed Jesse Jackson Jr. for Illinois' 2nd District is supporting the former congressman's likely successor.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday endorsed Robin Kelly in the race to replace Jackson, who resigned from the seat last year amid a federal investigation and later pleaded guilty to misspending hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds.
"I share Robin's passionate advocacy to end gun violence with common sense solutions because like her, I believe families impacted by gun violence – especially in my home city of Chicago – deserve a vote," Obama said in a statement. "I urge you to elect Robin Kelly as your representative in the United State Congress."
All in all, Kelly is a pretty safe endorsement. She easily won the Democratic primary, beating top rivals Debbie Halvorson and Ald. Anthony Beale with 51.9 percent of the vote thanks to a little help from ads funded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's SuperPAC.
In a Democrat-heavy area, there are few doubts she will go on to beat her Republican opponent, and her agenda is abundantly clear. During her victory speech in February, Kelly didn't shy from her stance on guns, saying she would stand with Obama to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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"Zynga for real men": a troubling blend of FX trading and social gaming
Online platform eToro is opening up the complex world of foreign exchange trading to the masses through a simple and social user interface - but is this democratization of currency speculation good for the market?
Much like online prediction markets, eToro makes trading easy and fun, with leaderboards, discussion threads, and neat visualizations, but the truth is that the FX market is not fun and games. Participants are not betting with fake cash on who will win the World Cup in the pursuit of prizes, but rather are speculating on the currencies of real countries. The FX market serves a very important purpose: to facilitate transactions worldwide in all currencies. A collapse in currency can have very a real impact on individuals who never have even heard of the FX market and certainly never chose to gamble their future on it (ask the people of Malaysia or Thailand in 1997).
Admittedly, the concept behind eToro is brilliant: providing access to the largest financial market in the world that has largely been the domain of large financial institutions. Even better, the market is entirely over-the-counter with no regulation or central oversight. So you can short at will, there is no up-tick rule, it operates 24 hours a day during the week, and the concept of insider trading doesn't exist. But herein lies the danger. Already, most trades are purely speculative (a full 80% where no currency ever actually changes hands) and while this influx of cash daily gives the market tremendous liquidity which is good for trade, it also puts the fate of countries' economic well-being in the hands of bankers. Adding in novice traders allured by what investor Howard Lindzon described as "Zynga for real men" would seem to make the market more volatile, not stable.
Of course, eToro's influence on the market is negligible. While $100 billion already traded on the platform is some nice volume, FX trading accounts for nearly $4 trillion daily. So novice traders can have fun and muse publicly on the geopolitical factors that will cause X country's currency to depreciate, raising their individual stature on an eToro leaderboard and maybe getting new followers to mimic their trading habits. Michael Arrington describes this all as very fun and as it goes more social, increasingly "funner".
Yet let's remember that foreign exchange trading has a real impact on lives and is not just a game. Of course, there is no reason to think that institutional investors take this into consideration, but as an individual, I can choose differently. That is why I invest in Lending Club, a platform that is also fun, but also transparent about risks, returns, and the impact on the people participating (and without the potentially devastating externalities to people outside of the market altogether).
Addendum: Hacker News has a great comment thread on this post.


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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
The Hives are one of the finest rock bands to come out of Sweden in the early 2000s (are those enough qualifiers?). This song was played on repeat for a few months when I was younger, and I still really enjoy it.
I hope you do too.


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BBright to Extended BB30 (92mm Axle) Racing Edition (Orange) Bottom Bracket
This bottom bracket is designed to interface a Crankset with an EXTENDED BB30 (30mm diameter x ~90-92mm long) axle with a bike frame that uses a BBright Shell (46mm diameter X 79mm width). It will not work with any short length BB30 axles or any 86.5mm long axles.
This bottom bracket is designed to interface a Crankset with an EXTENDED BB30 (30mm diameter x ~90-92mm long) axle with a bike frame that uses a BBright Shell (46mm diameter X 79mm width). It will not work with any short length BB30 axles or any 86.5mm long axles.
- Hambini Proprietary heat treated alloy, >20% stiffer than standard supply
- Aerospace tolerances, guarantee a no slop fit with good retention
- One Piece design is inherently creak free
- Super Precision NTN/SKF/NSK ultra low friction bearings
- No Hammers to install or remove
- Fully serviceable Design, the bearings are designed to be replaced quickly and easily
- 1 year warranty on the bottom bracket body
- Made in Cologne, Germany
- Supplied with fitting adaptors, a press or studbar in M12 size will be required
- All Hambini one piece bottom brackets require obstruction free access to your bottom bracket shell Click Here for Bike Specific Application Guide
Hambini Racing Bottom Brackets are amongst the lowest friction bottom brackets in the world. They are used by recreational cyclists, road racers, triathletes and time trialists from around the globe. They are of proven design and are manufactured to Aerospace tolerances using Aerospace materials by an Aerospace Engineer. These bottom brackets are supplied to a number of Continental teams.
These units are of a one piece construction which makes them inherently resistant to creak, they will maintain perfect bearing alignment and function under loads in excess of 4000W. They are equipped with Super Precision NTN/SKF/NSK ultra low friction bearings - in testing, these have been found to offer long life and low rolling friction
All Hambini bottom brackets can be installed and removed with a conventional bearing press, they use a controlled method of installation using provided fitting adaptors, they require no hammers or specialized tooling for removal. Additionally, the wearing component - the bearings - can be removed and serviced in situ. Essentially the bottom bracket has been designed to be fully rebuildable
Please click on the reviews to get more opinions
Spin Test
Spin tests are not good measures of friction as the bearings are unloaded but this video highlights the benefit of good bearing alignment on friction and bearing life. This particular bottom bracket had completed 10,000km.
For installation, you will require a bottom bracket press or a piece of M12 studbar and some nuts. A video showing the method of installation is linked below, the picture and text installation guide is available here
For removal, you will require a bottom bracket press or a piece of M12 studbar and some nuts. A video showing the method of removal is linked below
Hambini Bottom brackets are designed so you can service the wearing component (the bearings) quickly and easily. The bottom bracket service procedure is shown below
Design Process
The process through which Hambini Bottom Brackets are designed is shown in the video below
Frequently Asked Questions
I have rounded up some of the most frequently asked questions that I get asked and put them in the list below
Q. Why are Hambini Bottom Brackets more expensive than everybody else?
A. Hambini Bottom Brackets are made in the UK where costs are considerably higher than the far east. Additionally as a private individual, I do not have the economies of scale that contract manufacturing companies are able to obtain.
Q. What is the difference between a Hambini Bottom Bracket and a mass market bottom bracket?
A. From a technical perspective, mass market bottom brackets are made to poorer tolerances and are therefore more likely to creak or result in poor bearing life. They are also designed to look aesthetically pleasing but compromise on areas where you cannot see (such as the fits and bearings). Hambini Bottom brackets are completely machined as opposed to moulded (Shimano/SRAM/Plastic). The Hambini Bottom Bracket tolerances are typically 10x tighter than Shimano/SRAM/Rotor/RaceFace/Token. Mass market bottom brackets often use poor quality bearings from the far east to maximise their margin. As an example, the bearings on Hambini Bottom Brackets (which are typically NTN) cost more than an entire bottom bracket from RaceFace/Token/SRAM.
Q. Why don't you use Ceramic Bearings?
A. I have found ceramic bearings to have poor performance in bicycle applications. The ceramic bearings are not 100% ceramic, they are hybrid. A Hybrid bearing consists of ceramic balls sandwiched between a steel innner and outer race. The ceramic balls have a tendency to cut a groove into the steel and this results in poorer performance after only a few 100km. The majority of friction (>80%) in a bearing comes from the seal, grease and cage type. The ceramic balls make up a small fraction of the friction and have the negative effect of rapid bearing degradation. These are the main reasons I do not supply bottom brackets with ceramic bearings
Q. What is the difference between the Racing editions and the standard units?
A. The Racing Bottom brackets are made with superior materials, they are stiffer and slightly lighter. Racing bottom brackets are equipped wih Super Precision bearings.
Q. How long will the bearings last?
A. I cannot place a life on the bearings as life is largely dictated by the conditions they are subjected to. Having high loadings will increase their rate of wear as will riding in wet conditions. The bearings in all Hambini Bottom brackets are branded and meet minimum ISO standards so they are the best that are commercially available. Typical usage will be somewhere in the region of 2000km to 10,000km. As an example, those who watch my youtube channel will know my fastiduous maintenance schedule which consists of weekly jet washing - I change the bearings twice a year, ie 8000km between changes. Due to the low speeds involved keeping them clean is more important than keeping them greased.


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This thread is about minor terrain features. They are not settings or even whole areas, these are things you can "drop" into the world to add color and verisimilitude. These are going to be one to three line listings, so I expect a couple of these per post.
Don't include things that need to be fleshed out to be useful (such as where do the doors that lead to the underground city go, floating cities, and somesuch), their presence requires a scenario to resolve (why is that riot happening?), things that are just so darn odd that there has to be some historical or mythical backstory behind it (pools of cool lava, places where gravity works in reverse), or things who's existence will seriously impact the world (Apple Trees that make real Golden Apples).
Note: things that might serve as a minor plothook are okay.
Additional Ideas (22)
2* A giant carve head. A left over from a previous civilization.
3* A huge column of rock, with an equally huge arch at the top, supporting an enormous bell, which is operated by machinery inside the column and tolls once per hour, with the sound audible for miles around.
4* A tree with a trunk so thick it would take six grown men linking hands to span the radius.
5* A sun-baked mud flat with giant foot prints.
6* A tribe of barbarian lived in caves dug into the sides of these "cliffs". They left carved hand holds and stairs to reach them.
7* A rocky desert area which is, one day a year, covered in a particular flower that grows nowhere else, and that is bare rock the rest of the year.
8* A field of bright red flowers.
9* A river that twists through the landscape in such a way that, when you climb to the top of a nearby mountain and look down, it traces the exact same shape as one of the constellations.
10* A salt flat -- a great bay whose "neck" to the ocean is above high tide and below low tide, so an area of hundreds of acres spends half the day underwater and half of it dry (well, moist), and the interesting plant and animal life that lives there.
11* Series of islands in an east-west line; the east end of each is a gentle, sandy slope into the sea, and the west end of each is a harsh rocky cliff dropping off into the sea.
12* A hall of paintings, showing dignified men and women dressed in an antique style. Every so often, when no-one is looking, certain figures will move from one painting to another.
12*Updated: There is a cliff that would lead down to the river. A good distance away, you see a cliff on the other side. There is only a tiny ribbon of water between these two cliffs.
14* A plain studded with great grassy mounds.
15* A large crater, about 100 feet across.
16* A line of pillars that stretches straight across the plains and through the ocean to the other side of the world.
17* A region of small hills and valleys. Each hill is topped with a ruined fort. Each valley is filled with the remains of ancient battles.
18* A huge rock carved to look like a clenched fist.
19* A small copse of trees that grow in a perfect circle.
20* A huge stone platform made from massive stone blocks. The blocks are so closely fit that a knife-blade cannot be inserted between them.
21* A mountain with a massive staircase cut into the side.
23* A forest where Dryads walk from tree to tree
24* A road that winds amongst great barrows
25* A stone gate that marks the entrance to an underground city
26* A great wall made of fool's gold
27* A range of mountains where the mountains seem to lower themselves every night like waves in the sea, but a lot slower
29* A recent landslide has exposed a fossil.
30* Ruins of a castle/monastery on a local prominence. (No current storyline significance.)
31* An old forest fire site: Burn-scarred tree trunks, some dead snags and lots of noticeably younger, smaller growth than has been seen for the last several days travel.
32* From a high vantage point, a distant column of smoke from an ongoing forest fire (beware that your players will go off to investigate).
33* A village that uses an unusual roofing material or dominant color nearly exclusively: E.g., iridescent green tile roofs, or vivid goldenrod-colored walls. Explanation is nothing other than local resource or custom.
34* A small, elaborately eroded pocket canyon.
35* An isolated serpentine rock wall that appears to separate nothing and have no obvious purpose (check out Andy Goldsworthy's environmental sculptures for a dozen more such ideas).
37* A natural spring bubbles quietly, bringing water and the stink of sulphur to the surface. The soil around is colored from brown to red to yellow and even white.
38* An old tree carries a construction resembling a bed on its top, open to the winds and sky. Local tribes use it for their dead, or shamanic dream voyages.
39* There is a strong invisibility spell still in function here; some twenty feet in radius, a sphere that hides bushes, grass, and parts of trees, looking like a hole in the ground. Anything inside is invisible.
40* The wind has eroded a stone boulder, its underside now a pillar, carrying a nicely formed wing of great size.
41* A large group of barren trees stands here. From afar, they look very much like tall spears pointed to the heavens.
43* The foundation of a burned out manor sized home. It has been decades and the forest is reclaiming the space.
44* Graveyard with markerstones. The locals are quite artistic, so many are more elaborate than you have ever seen.
45* A herd of wild horses. These escaped from some invaders decades ago, and now run free.
47* An abandoned farming village, complete with overgrown cropfields or a rice paddy that is turning into a swamp.
48* A series of alkali-water ponds in a very dry area. The ponds are littered with the bones of a couple oxen or other animals.
49* A ghost-town.
50* A beautiful beach containing the ruins of an old lighthouse.
51* Crumbling walls half-buried in sand dunes.
52* A forest of petrified trees.
54* A tapped spring that sends water up a narrow pipe structure and then flows down a gutter 9 feet off the ground into another stone sculpture like a rain cloud that spreads the falling water like rain. (shower) Near a village and a well used path.
55* On a steep, smooth hill (that can be used for a good lookout point) there is a series of knotted ropes going all the way to the top just laying on the hill. The hill isn't that difficult to climb though. In the winter time locals from many areas come around to climb the hill to go sledding. They left the ropes from last winter.
56* A flat corridor between mountain passes has many many windmills dotting the landscape due to the constant and unvarying wind flow.
57* When the tide is out a series of reef walkways lead to a small circular reef of bright colors. In the center is a fresh water spring that pools during low tide and creates the odd but beautiful reef.
58* A series of trees drop super spiny seeds to the ground. Only the most durable shoes can keep the spines from stabbing through.
59* A section of the plains they are crossing crack and snap as they walk across. Digging down it is the result of a few different kind of loose rocks scraping and pushing against each other.
60* A section of the plains, if they stand still, sinks when weight is placed on it and gathers water. Footsteps fill with water until the land slowly rises back to normal. Not sure how far they may sink if they camp.
61* Reeds in a nearby pool clatter together in a mystic harmony and when the wind blows across them strong enough an eerie chorus seems to sing.
62* A lone tree in a meadow not too far from a small town. All around the tree the grass is trampled dirt in odd radii. The tree is basically made out of a rubbery substance. Cannot be cut or destroyed in any way. The dirt is from where the kids from the local village can swing on the rubbery branches like rope and spin themselves around. Any number of branches give a number of different swings.
63* An area where sudden winds of extreme cold and extreme hot wave across in bursts of wind.
On this one were based the Rose Trees. A great set of ideas, Strolen!
64* A large, deep depression in the ground that appears to be covered in smooth, gray-black glass. If one slips and falls in, it is very difficult to get out. At the edges, it fades into the soil, and there is grass growing in cracks in it. If broken, it is very sharp. There are several animal skeletons at the bottom.
65* An ancient set of foundations. A town once stood here. There is an open well that still works at the back of the ruins. The water of the well tastes strangely metallic.
66* A forest with interesting karst caves and clay tunnels. In some places, the ground is very ready to collapse and dump the heroes into the wet clay pits below.
67* A cenote so deep that the water appears black. On an underwater shelf on the edge of visible depth, there are bundled skeletons. Sacrafices were made to a water god here.
68* A field of nodding sunflowers. The blossoms conceal the body of a dead traveller.
69* A gallows-tree, with a dead man hanging from it's branches.
70* An open field with small regions of spongy, soft ground. When heroes step on it, a soft, downy dust arises.
71* A little village where there are no adult men.
72* A large donut-shaped stone. Frequently, priests of the God of Travel can be found praying within this "Earth Wheel".
74* Bunnies with horns can be seen in the grassy fields.
75* Tall vertical tube like insect hives are seen just off the road. The reddish wasp like insects have never been seen before. (The insects are "invigorated" in the presence of magic and they can sting something fierce).
76* A herd of deer rumble across the tree lined forest roadway at a full run.
77* The full moon has an icy halo abound it. It is a time of magic.
78* A boarded up manor house can be seen a distance off the road. The grounds look like they have fallen to seed.
79* The foundation stones and a few burned support beams are all that remain of a waystation.
81* A temple that has been burned down quite a while ago.
82* Potholes in the roadway. Lots of them.
83* A magnificent sun rise, a corona of reds, oranges, yellow, and a flash of green.
84* Clothes strewn about the path/ road. It looks like someone's chest of clothes was leaking.
85* A gallows away from the city. It is currently empty.
86* A headstone where someone had died off the main road.
88* A poster of a local ruler, put up in the *middle of nowhere*
89* A sign that says "Do not throw things at this sign", which bears the marks from many stones thrown at it.
91* 200 yards from the road, in the middle of a field, a *giant* cross/sun sigil/ironwork ankh/other religious symbol.
92* A road running along the foothills of a mountain chain: the smell of smoke hangs in the air and ahead the hillside is clearly blackened by recently/currently active fires.
93* Two perfectly ordinary cities are connected by a well-maintained road. However, both sides of this road are saturated with sparsely occupied, recently-built, and sadly similar small houses.
94* A cranberry bog: farmers with rakes harvest the berries and fill small rafts dragged by water buffalo.
95* Though the ocean view is lovely to behold, it is low tide and a hundred yards of mudflats are exposed: the pungent stench of decomposing vegetation and rotting fish nauseates the unfamiliar traveler.
97* The bridge crossing a moderate creek/ small river is an elaborate stone affair, with smooth carved stone and has elaborate artistic reliefs carved in the arched sides and supports.
98* A burned out stone buildings is a crumbling due to plants nd weathers.
99* A field of beautiful orange flowers that you have never seen anwywhere else.
100* The neighborhood has an glyphic identity. Every lamp post and many buildings all carry a banner, streamer, or pennant of green and white, with a gryphon on them. A local park in its center, has a low wall around it. Each entry point is flanked by two gryphons.
101*A length of road is flanked by alternating shade and fruit trees. A gift to travelers from someone long gone.
102*Not far from the road is a massive sink hole. The hole is nearly twenty feet (8m) deep.
103*The local field grass is "stinky". Anything that has tramped through the grass will smell as well.
104*The local birds are loud singers (and might be from far away)
105*Off on the horizon is a dark, dark cloud. It is practically purple. The lightning is striking the ground 30-50 miles (50-75kms) away.
106*The rain is excessive and windy, even by local standards, this season.
108* The endless winds of the desert have sanded the stones upon this baked plain into psychedelic forms, huge spiny stone heads balanced upon tiny pillars of scoured rock standing periodically in enigmatic rows and clusters.
109* Winter has come to this northerly wasteland, and the hills of rocky sand and flat stony scrubs have been dressed in a thin coating of hard icy snow. Bitter winds skirl across the open expanses, lashing grit and snow into swirling columns that rise into the empty vault of the blue sky.
110* The vagaries of the rising and sinking oceans have revealed a lonely sandbar, crowned with worn boulders, here in the midst of the open ocean. One of the stones, toppled in three pieces, seems almost to resemble a carven idol, but alas, it is too smoothworn to say if this is anything more than fancy.
111* The road here is lined with the deadhouses of the locals, squat stone structures where corpses are stacked, with their spines broken so that they can be folded to fit neatly.
112* At this crossroads, a statue of eerie and unsettling aspect has been erected, resembling both a robed death, a bent crone, and some kind of snaky tentacled creature, rolled into one hunched form. Someone has left for this strange waygod an offering of a raw haunch of deer, dry and odorous and pecked by birds but new enough to be untouched by wolves or other creatures.
113* Some old bloodcult lurked in the cave that can be seen above this mountain path, and when they departed or where driven out, their gruesome rack of skulls and the pylons they built from stacked human thighbones were left untouched, grim sentinels along either side of the traverse.
114* Small copses of cacti stand like watchmen in the narrow defiles above the road that runs along a brackish desert lake. Groups of llamas and huanacos wander amongst the spiny towers eating the damp blossoms from their tops.
115* Across this blinding-white polar wasteland, black nunataks seem almost to burn, so sharply are they visible against the empty icescape and the infinite clear sky. The sound of the wind that shrieks through their peaks makes out of this white flatness an otherworldly domain of lost souls.
116* Though the land is tropical, the ungodly heat of the dry season has caused this parched forest to shed its leaves in great brown drifts. Far off the path amongst the naked trunks, a group of deer lurch to the escape and bellow as a spotted leopard slams down on one of their number, an animal drama beyond which the heroes pass unnoticed.
118* An old road, the pavement/ stones broken by weeds and such, veers off the current road into the thicket.
119* A small store (mini-inn/ common house/ trading post) on the side of the road here in the middle of no where. It is an odd, but welcome relief to a traveler.
120* The pieces of a giant wood siege engine is in the ditch at the side of the road. It looks like it fell over into the ditch and they were unable to get it out. Now it is falling apart.
121* In the thawing snow a face down traveller begins to appear.
122* A burned tree, seeingly lit afire stands apart from the other trees.
123* A grave marker is on the side of the road
124* A raptor is picking on a road kill in the middle of the road. It has one eye upon you as your approach, ready to fly off.
125* A mudslide has blocked the roadway along the hillside. It can take a while, but you can get around it.
126* The biggest pile of crap you have ever seen is on the right hand side of the road.
127* It looks like some misc. camping gear dropped off the back of a wagon traveling the road.
128* The road is clear and smooth. It has recently been worked on.
129* There is a Cairn here. It marks a place along the side of the road with a beautiful view - if the weather is right.
131* A house with decrepit holiday decorations still up, months before the holiday is to be celebrated (left up since last year?).
132* A common house with a grand fountain in the front, though it is totally out of place for the home and area.
133* A windmill tower still slowly spinning in the wind.
134* People well dressed moving along, heading towards a wedding celebration. You can hear the sounds of the after party, just out of sight.
135* A tree that has fallen. It was once across the road, but now only partially obstructs the road, as someone has dragged it out of the way.
136* A freshly painted fence runs along the road.
137* Cows stare at you lazily as you pass by.
138* From just out of sight, you can hear the sound of Dogs fighting.
139* A house cat is in the tree. It is not distressed. In fact, it looks like it is stalking you, about to pounce on you or some other unwary traveller.
140* The trees rustle in the wind. The various shades of green dance about. Dappled sunlight shows through the shade under them.
141* You pass a bunch of people walking out to the fields. (migrant workers if you are of the appropriate era).
142* Family craft stand is set up at the end of farm by the road.
143* Besides the road is a very, very steep drainage ditch. A trickle of water still runs along the bottom.
144* Patches of snow is still found on the shady side of the hill facing the road.
145* A couple of kids are "grass sledding" using some kind of cloth sack on the rain slicked grass on the hill.
146* A building that seems out of place, designed and decorated in a "national style" from far away.
147* There are some people in various states of skimpy dress and wetness being chased towards the road by a cranky old voice. You can barely make out the pond through the trees. (You might even hear the report of a shotgun).
148* Some people are fixing a trailer on the side of the road. (be it attached to a wagon or car or somesuch). They are swearing at each other while they do it. They have all the parts.
149* The local low hills are akin to the rolling ocean. They are amber waves of grass flowing in waves in the wind.
150* There is an old well on the side of the road. It is dry. There is a smaler, newer water source just a few yards away.
152* On the meadows there are many large anthills, placed in triangles, about equally distant from others. Kids like to play here games of war.
153* It is a simple crossroads on an unimportant road as many others, beaten earth strewn with little stones to even it out. A good look will show, that the bumps on it must have belonged to the roots of a tree, a very large tree. Where the stump was, there is only stone, but some trace of the giant remains.
154* It was raining yesterday, and now you see the proof: two streams join together - one of them crystal clear, the other muddy brown. Below, people are taking the water by buckets, not caring how dirty it is.
157* An enormous hole in the ground that has clearly been dug out by shovels. It used to be a diamond mine, but has long since been abandoned.
158* A group of caravan traders stopped by the side of the road. They nod politely as you pass, sitting in a circle and smoking a hookah.
159* A finely carved wooden bridge that goes over a small creek. One could cross the creek without it, so it's probably just for show.
160* A series of small, grass-covered "hills" surrounding the road. Hundreds of years ago, this was a primitive village with earthen structures, but they've long since eroded away.
161* A walking stick laying beside the rode. It is intricately carved, wrapped with a leather handle, and unfortunately cracked in half.
162* Traveling in winter, a family of snowmen has been built by the side of the road. One of them is headless.
163* Little gusts of wind form tiny cyclones, blowing leaves and debris into a spiral before scattering them above your head.
164* A tall totem shrine carved out of wood. It appears to represent a shark, and is decorated with some shells.
165* This desert steppe is bitter cold. Pure white snow blows across sandy dunes in an odd contrast.
167-A cermetary on one side of the road.
168* Off the road, not far from the village/town, obscured by some bushes, is a good sized pond. The squeel of girls is heard as they swim there.
169* A small pack of dogs darts across your path, obviously chasing something.
170* The Humans who own the dogs are following behind tiredly.
171* The local bridge over a good sized stream is a white covered bridge. This connects two villages
172* On a hill that sticks up in the middle of a flat area, a lone tree stands.
173* The nice original road is interrupted by a huge sinkhole. There is a hastely constructed detour "road" leading around it. Yet the edges of the road are not far from the new edges of the sinkhole.
174* a pond with bright red algea in it.
175* A very broken wagon is on the side of the road deteriorating. There are ox bones in the immediate area.
177-A sign put up by vigilantes warns "ROBBERS AND HORSE THIEVES WILL BE HANGED ."
178-A skull of some long forgotten traitor is impaled on a spike
179-A beach with huge waves breaking on it and a red flag flying, warning of the dangers of swimming.
180-A pass with a manned toll-gate in the centre of it.


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Cincinnati narrowly beats Houston 61-60
HOUSTON (AP) — Sean Kilpatrick had 17 points as the Cincinnati Bearcats withstood a Houston rally in the second half to pull out a 61-60 win over the Cougars Tuesday night for their seventh straight win.
Jermaine Sanders added 11 points on 4 of 6 shooting, and Titus Rubles chipped in 7 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Bearcats (14-2, 3-0 American), which shot 37 percent from the field and 53 percent from the free throw line.
Brandon Morris led Houston (10-6, 2-1) with 17 points on 5 of 8 shooting from behind the arc. Jherrod Stiggers had 11 off the bench, and TaShawn Thomas added 10 points and nine rebounds for Houston, which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.
Houston hit 7 of 10 from behind the arc in the second half, shooting 47 percent for the game, but hit 9 of 18 from the free throw line, including 3 of 9 in the second half.
Kilpatrick hit one of two free throws to up Cincinnati's lead to 59-54 with 51 seconds left. Stiggers was fouled shooting a 3-pointer with 33 seconds remaining, but hit just one of three free throws.
Justin Jackson missed both free throws for Cincinnati, and Thomas grabbed the rebound and his basket cut the lead to 59-57 with 12 seconds remaining.
Kevin Johnson hit two free throws with 11 seconds to go to push the lead back to four.
After the Cougars had cut Cincinnati's lead to three with just under 10 minutes remaining, the Bearcats held Houston scoreless for the next 8:02, using an 8-0 run to push its lead to 58-47 on a Tony Caupain layup with 3:19 left.
Danrad Knowles ended the drought with a tip-in with 1:54 remaining, starting a 7-0 run, capped by a Stiggers 3-pointer with 53 seconds left to cut Houston's deficit to four.
Cincinnati opened the second half with the first three points to push its lead up to 19 points, but Houston responded with a 9-0 run to cut the lead to 43-33 on a Knowles jumper with 15:38 left in the game, prompting a Bearcats timeout.
After Cincinnati pushed the lead to 48-36 on a Sanders' 3-pointer with 12 minutes remaining, Houston answered again, this time with an 11-2 run to close within three on consecutive 3-pointers by Morris with 9:56 remaining.
Cincinnati used an 11-2 run over a five-minute stretch of the first half to open up a 26-13 lead with 7:24 left in the first half on two Titus Robles free throws.
Houston responded, closed the lead to 26-20, but the Bearcats ended the half on a 14-4 run to open up a 40-24 halftime advantage.


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After the FCC Form 461(Request for Services Form) has been posted on the USAC website for a minimum of 28 days, the consortium leader must evaluate all bids received to determine which service provider can provide the most cost-effective services that meet the applicant's requirements.
Evaluation criteria submitted with the FCC Form 461, or listed in the RFP, must be used to evaluate bids and select a service provider. Developing the criteria in advance helps ensure that all service providers are evaluated by the same standards and helps USAC understand how the applicant made its decision.
Applicants must consider all valid bids received during the competitive bidding period and must document how they evaluated each bid. All applicants subject to competitive bidding are required to certify to USAC that the services and/or infrastructure selected are, to the best of the applicant's knowledge, the most cost-effective option available.
"Most cost-effective" is defined by the FCC as the method that costs the least after consideration of the features, quality of transmission, reliability, and other factors that the applicant deems relevant to choosing a method of providing the required services.
Once the service provider has been selected, the applicant may enter into a service agreement or sign a contract with the selected provider on or after the Allowable Contract Selection Date (ACSD), the day after the FCC Form 461 posting end date. Applicants that enter into a contract or service agreement before the ASCD will be denied funding.
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The Adaptive Organization and Fast-Slow Systems
Torben Juul Andersen and Carina Antonia Hallin
Contemporary organizations operate under turbulent business conditions and must adapt their strategies to ongoing changes. Sustainable performance can be achieved when the organization engages in interactive processes that link emerging opportunities to forward-looking analytics. But few organizations are able to practice this consistently. Fast processes performed by managers at the frontline respond to ongoing environmental stimuli and slow processes initiated by managers at the center interpret events and reasons about updated strategic actions. Current experiential insights from the fast processes can be aggregated systematically to inform the slow processes of reasoning. When the fast and slow processes interact they can form a dynamic system that adapts organizational activities to changing conditions.
Business Groups as an Organizational Model
Asli M. Colpan and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
Business groups are an organizational model in which collections of legally independent firms bounded together with formal and informal ties use collaborative arrangements to enhance their collective welfare. Among the different varieties of business groups, diversified business groups that exhibit unrelated product diversification under central control, and often containing chains of publicly listed firms, are the most-studied type in the management literature. The reason is that they challenge two traditionally held assumptions. First, broad and especially unrelated diversification have a negative impact on performance, and thus business groups should focus on a narrow scope of related businesses. Second, such diversification is only sustainable in emerging economies in which market and institutional underdevelopment are more common and where business groups can provide a solution to such imperfections. However, a historical perspective indicates that diversified business groups are a long-lived organizational model and are present in emerging and advanced economies, illustrating how business groups adapt to different market and institutional settings. This evolutionary approach also highlights the importance of going beyond diversification when studying business groups and redirecting studies toward the evolution of the group structure, their internal administrative mechanisms, and other strategic actions beyond diversification such as internationalization.
Executive Severance Agreements: Making Sense of an Emerging, Yet Fragmented, Research Field
Felice B. Klein, Kevin McSweeney, Cynthia E. Devers, Gerry McNamara, and Spenser Blosser
Scholars have devoted significant attention to understanding the determinants and consequences of executive compensation. Yet, one form of compensation, executive severance agreements, has flown under the radar. Severance agreements specify the expected payments and benefits promised executives, upon voluntary or involuntary termination. Although these agreements are popular among executives, critics continually question their worth. Yet severance agreements potentially offer three important (but less readily recognized) strategic benefits. First, severance agreements are viewed as a means of mitigating the potential risks associated with job changes; thus, they can serve as a recruitment tool to attract top executive talent. Second, because severance agreements guarantee executives previously specified compensation in the event of termination, they can help limit the downside risk naturally risk-averse executives face, facilitating executive-shareholder interest alignment. Third, severance agreements can aid in firm exit, as executives and directors are likely to be more open to termination, in the presence of adequate protection against the downside.
Severance agreements can contain provisions for ten possible termination events. Three events refer to change in control (CIC), which occurs under a change in ownership. These are (1) CIC without termination, (2) CIC with termination without cause, and (3) CIC with termination for cause. Cause is generally defined by events such as felony, fraud, embezzlement, neglect of duties, or violation of noncompete provisions. Additional events include (4) voluntary retirement, (5) resignation without good reason, (6) voluntary termination for good reason, (7) involuntary termination without cause, (8) involuntary termination with cause, (9) death, and (10) disability. Voluntary retirement and resignation without good reason occurs when CEOs either retire or leave under their own volition, and voluntary termination with good reason occurs in response to changes in employment terms (e.g., relocation of headquarters). Involuntary termination refers to termination due to any reason not listed above and is often triggered by unsatisfactory performance.
Although some prior work has addressed the antecedents, consequences, and moderators of severance, the findings from this literature remain unclear, as many of the results are mixed. Future severance scholars have the opportunity to further clarify these relationships by addressing how severance agreements can help firms attract, align the interests of, and facilitate the exit of executives.
Institutional Logics
Heather A. Haveman and Gillian Gualtieri
Research on institutional logics surveys systems of cultural elements (values, beliefs, and normative expectations) by which people, groups, and organizations make sense of and evaluate their everyday activities, and organize those activities in time and space. Although there were scattered mentions of this concept before 1990, this literature really began with the 1991 publication of a theory piece by Roger Friedland and Robert Alford. Since that time, it has become a large and diverse area of organizational research. Several books and thousands of papers and book chapters have been published on this topic, addressing institutional logics in sites as different as climate change proceedings of the United Nations, local banks in the United States, and business groups in Taiwan. Several intellectual precursors to institutional logics provide a detailed explanation of the concept and the theory surrounding it. These literatures developed over time within the broader framework of theory and empirical work in sociology, political science, and anthropology. Papers published in ten major sociology and management journals in the United States and Europe (between 1990 and 2015) provide analysis and help to identify trends in theoretical development and empirical findings. Evaluting these trends suggest three gentle corrections and potentially useful extensions to the literature help to guide future research: (1) limiting the definition of institutional logic to cultural-cognitive phenomena, rather than including material phenomena; (2) recognizing both "cold" (purely rational) cognition and "hot" (emotion-laden) cognition; and (3) developing and testing a theory (or multiple related theories), meaning a logically interconnected set of propositions concerning a delimited set of social phenomena, derived from assumptions about essential facts (axioms), that details causal mechanisms and yields empirically testable (falsifiable) hypotheses, by being more consistent about how we use concepts in theoretical statements; assessing the reliability and validity of our empirical measures; and conducting meta-analyses of the many inductive studies that have been published, to develop deductive theories.
Men, Masculinities, and Gender Relations
Jeff Hearn and David Collinson
Even though gender and gender analysis are still often equated with women, men and masculinities are equally gendered. This applies throughout society, including within organizations. Following pioneering feminist scholarship on work and organizations, explicitly gendered studies on men and masculinities have increased since the 1980s. The need to include the gendered analysis of men and masculinities as part of gender studies of organizations, leadership, and management, is now widely recognized at least within gender research. Yet, this insight continues to be ignored or downplayed in mainstream work and even in some studies seen as "critical." Indeed the vast majority of mainstream work on organizations still has either no gender analysis whatsoever or relies on a very simplistic and rather crude understanding of gender dynamics.
Research on men and masculinities has been wide ranging and has raised important new issues about gendered dynamics in organizations, including cultures and countercultures on factory shopfloors; historical transformations of men and management in reproducing patriarchies; the relations of bureaucracy, men, and masculinities; management-labor relations as interrelations of masculinities; managerial and professional identity formation; managerial homosociality; and the interplay of diverse occupational masculinities. Research has revealed how structures, cultures, and practices of men and masculinities continue to persist and to dominate in many contemporary organizations. Having said this, the concepts of gender, of men and masculinities, and of organization have all been subject to complex and contradictory processes that entail both their explicit naming and their simultaneous deconstruction and critique. This is illustrated, respectively, in the intersectional construction of gender; the pressing need to name men as men in analysis of organizational dominance, but also deconstruct the category of men as provisional; and in the multiplication of organizational forms as, for example, interorganizational relations, net-organizations, and cyberorganizations.
These contradictory historical and conceptual namings and deconstructions are especially important in the analysis of transnational organizations operating within the context of globalization, transnationalizations, production, reproduction, and trans(national) patriarchies. Within transnational organizations such as large gendered multinational enterprises, the taken-for-granted nature of transnational gendered hierarchies and cultures persists in management, maintained partly through commonalities across difference, gendered horizontal specializations, and controls. Transnational organizations are key sites for the production of a variety of developing forms of (transnational) business masculinities, some more individualistic, some marriage based, some nation based, some transcending nation. These masculinities have clear implications for gendered practices in private spheres, including the provision of domestic servicing often by Black and minority ethnic women. The growth of the knowledge economy brings further complications to these transnational patterns, through elaboration of techno-masculinities, and interactions of men, masculinities, and information and communication technologies. This is particularly relevant in the international financial sector, where constructions of men and masculinities are impacted by the gendering of capital and financial crisis, and gender regimes of financial institutions, as in men financiers' risky behavior. Further studies are needed addressing the "gender-neutral" hegemony of organizations, leaderships, and managements, especially in transnational arenas, and organizations subject to changing technologies. Other key research issues concern analysis of neglected intersectionalities, including intersectional privileges, male/masculine/men's bodies, and the taken-for-granted category of "men" in and around organizations.
Organizational Innovation
Fariborz Damanpour
Innovation is a complex construct and overlaps with a few other prevalent concepts such as technology, creativity, and change. Research on innovation spans many fields of inquiry including business, economics, engineering, and public administration. Scholars have studied innovation at different levels of analysis such as individual, group, organization, industry, and economy. The term organizational innovation refers to the studies of innovation in business and public organizations.
Studies of innovations in organizations are multidimensional, multilevel, and context-dependent. They investigate what external and internal conditions induce innovation, how organizations manage innovation process, and in what ways innovation changes organizational conduct and outcome. Indiscreet application of findings from one discipline or context to another, lack of distinction between generating (creating) and adopting (using) innovations, and likening organizational innovation with technological innovation have clouded the understanding of this important concept, hampering its advancement. This article organizes studies of organizational innovation to make them more accessible to interested scholars and combines insights from various strands of innovation research to help them design and conduct new studies to advance the field.
The perspectives of organizational competition and performance and organizational adaptation and progression are introduced to serve as platforms to position organizational innovation in the midst of innovation concepts, elaborate differences between innovating and innovativeness, and decipher key typologies, primary sets of antecedents, and performance consequences of generating and adopting innovations. The antecedents of organizational innovation are organized into three dimensions of environmental (external, contextual), organizational (structure, culture), and managerial (leadership, human capital). A five-step heuristic based on innovation type and process is proposed to ease understanding of the existing studies and select suitable dimensions and factors for conducting new studies. The rationale for the innovation–performance relationship in strands of organizational innovation research, and the employment of types of innovation and performance indicators, is articulated by first-mover advantage and performance gap theory, in conjunction with the perspectives of competition and performance and of adaptation and progression. Differences between effects of technological and nontechnological innovation and stand-alone and synchronous innovations are discussed to articulate how and to what extent patterns of the introduction of different types of innovation could contribute to organizational performance or effectiveness. In conclusion, ideas are proposed to demystify organizational innovation to allure new researches, facilitate their learning, and provide opportunities for the development of new studies to advance the state of knowledge on organizational innovation.
Organizational Learning and Adaptation
Henrich R. Greve
Organizational learning theory is motivated by the observation that organizations learn by encoding inferences from experience into their behavior. It seeks to answer the questions of what kinds of experiences influence behaviors, how and under what circumstances behaviors change, and how new behaviors are stabilized and have consequences for organizations' adaptation to their environment. Organizational learning research has as key mechanisms innovations and other triggering events that lead to major behavioral change, knowledge accumulation and experimentation that encourage incremental change, and interpretations that guide each of these processes. Organizational learning research has gained a central position in organizational theory because it has implications for organizational behaviors that also affect other theoretical perspectives such as institutional theory, organizational ecology, and resource dependence.
Key research topics in organizational learning and adaptation are (a) organizational routines and their stability and change, (b) performance feedback and its consequences for organizational search and change, (c) managerial goal formation and coalition building, (d) managerial attention to goals and organizational activities, and (e) adaptive consequences of learning procedures. Each of these topics has seen significant research, but they are far from completing their empirical agenda. Recently, organizational learning research has been very active, especially on the topics of routines, performance feedback, and attention, resulting in a strong increase in learning and adaptation research in management journals.
The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance
Michael K. Bednar
Corporate governance scholars have long been interested in understanding the mechanisms through which firms and their leaders are held accountable for their actions. Recently, there has been increased interest in viewing the media as a type of corporate governance mechanism. Because the media makes evaluations of firms and leaders, and can broadcast information to a wide audience, it has the potential to influence the reputation of firms and firm leaders in both positive and negative ways and thereby play a role in corporate governance.
The media can play a governance role and even influence firm outcomes by simply reporting about firm actions, giving stakeholders a larger voice with which to exert influence, and through independent investigation. However, despite the potential for the media to play a significant governance role, several barriers limit its effectiveness in this capacity. For example, media outlets have their own set of interests that they must strive to fulfill, and journalists often succumb to several cognitive biases that could limit their ability to successfully hold leaders accountable.
While significant progress has been made in understanding the governance role of the media, future research is needed to better understand the specific conditions in which the media is effective in this role. Understanding how social media is changing the nature of journalism is just one example of the many exciting avenues for future research in this area.


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Explainer: The debt supercommittee
This 12-member panel is tasked with finding $1.5 trillion more in debt savings. It has until Nov. 23 to propose ways to reduce deficits. Those proposals must be voted on by Dec. 23.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
Kyl has served in Congress since 1987, with four terms in the House before winning his Senate seat in 1994. He's retiring at the end of 2012. He has served as Senate Republican whip since 2007. Kyl has served on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee since 2001.Story: Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee
He has been an adept and dogged debater throughout his career, but draw scorn from Democrats when he said in April, "If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." The fact-checking site, Politifact said Kyl's estimate was far off.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Toomey worked on Wall Street in the 1980s and as a restaurateur in Allentown, Pa., then served in the House for three terms. In 2004, he challenged Sen. Arlen Specter, who was then a Republican, in a primary, losing by less than 2 percentage points.Story: Exclusive: Republican Dave Camp rules nothing out for debt panel
After heading the anti-tax group Club for Growth, Toomey returned to Pennsylvania in 2010 and won the Senate nomination, Specter having left the Republican Party. Toomey won the general election by 2 percentage points over Democrat Joe Sestak, partly by attacking him for voting for the 2008 Wall Street bailout.Story: Latest picks for debt panel spark some pessimism
When he worked on Wall Street, Toomey told viewers in a campaign ad, "I learned that Wall Street is the last place that should ever get a taxpayer bailout." He voted against the budget and debt ceiling deal negotiated by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, arguing, "Not only will our debt grow each year under this plan, it will continue to grow even as a percentage of our economy ... I am concerned that the long-term cuts over the next decade will not materialize."
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio
Although a first-term senator, Portman has worked in Washington, on and off, since his days as a lawyer for an influential Washington lobbying firm in the 1980s and then as associate White House counsel and congressional liaison for President George H. W. Bush, starting in 1989. He served seven terms in the House, beginning in 1993, and then did stints under President George W. Bush as U.S. Trade Representative and as budget director.Story: Latest picks for debt panel spark some pessimism
In last fall's election, Portman easily defeated an underfunded Democratic opponent, getting 57 percent of the vote – this in a state which Barack Obama had won in 2008 with 51 percent. He brings a deep knowledge of both politics and budget details to the committee.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash./Co-chair
Murray, as the self-described "mom in tennis shoes" and with scanty political experience, won her Senate seat in 1992 and has proven to be a durable politician and a skillful member of the chamber's Appropriations Committee.Story: Sen. Murray to co-chair debt 'super committee'
Despite her re-election race last year being rated a tossup in late summer, she defeated Republican opponent Dino Rossi, winning 52 percent of the vote. Some reform groups have criticized her for serving on the deficit reduction committee while she is chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the fundraising and candidate recruiting arm of her party. But Murray's response hearkens back to her "mom in tennis shoes" persona: "Multitasking is something every mom knows how to do."
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.
Although rarely seen on television and not given to flamboyant speechmaking, Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is one of the most powerful people in Washington. His first job in Washington was in 1967 as an attorney for a now-defunct federal agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board. Baucus won a House seat in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal and was elected to the Senate in 1978.Story: Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee
Since 2001, with one interruption when Republicans were in control of the Senate, he has chaired the Finance Committee, playing decisive roles in writing the 2001 tax cuts into law and in designing last year's health care overhaul.Story: Simpson Blasts Baucus on Super Committee
Last year, he served on the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission, but voted against its recommendations, such as raising the eligibility age for Social Security retirement benefits and raising the gasoline tax, which he said "would hurt people in states like Montana who often have to travel long distances."
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, Kerry brings the perspective of a party leader and a 26-year Senate veteran. He has served on the Senate Finance Committee for many years and was a strong advocate of President Obama's health care overhaul. He tried last year to design climate change legislation in partnership with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., contrasting it with the health care bill. "Health care never, ever became bipartisan," he said. But in end, Kerry's effort couldn't gain enough momentum.Story: Kerry says he will run for Senate re-election
He complained shortly before the 2010 elections that Republicans were creating "a period of know-nothing-ism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics."
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas/Co-Chair
The Texan is probably the most conservative member of the joint committee. He opposed the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program which bailed out Wall Street firms, saying TARP was "a step down the slippery slope to socialism."Story: Deficit "super" panelists studying others' work
In the 1990's, he served as an aide to Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, helping run the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Last year, he served on the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission, but voted against its recommendations which included tax increases (by phasing out deductions and credits) and reductions in entitlement spending. Explaining his "no" vote, Hensarling said, "If I believed that the increased revenue would actually be used for deficit reduction, you know, I might reluctantly come to the table ... ." But he said when he looked at Reagan's agreeing to tax increases in 1982 and George H.W. Bush's tax reversal in 1990, "It just seems to me that somehow the spending restraint never quite materializes, and yet the increased revenues do, and it seems like the increased revenues simply chase more spending.
Rep. David Camp, R-Mich.
Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, which writes tax law and runs the entitlement programs (Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid), Camp is a 21-year House veteran. Like many other members of Congress, Camp worked on the Hill as a staffer — in his case, as chief of staff in the 1980s for the Republican who once held the same seat he now holds.Story: Exclusive: Republican Dave Camp rules nothing out for debt panel
Neither flashy, nor particularly charismatic, Camp is a wonkish, detail-oriented legislator. He voted for the 2008 financial sector bailout and the auto industry bailout, but is staunchly conservative on most issues. President Barack Obama carried his Michigan district with 50 percent of the vote in the 2008 election.
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.
Of the six Republicans serving on the committee, Upton is the only one who might be called "moderate" or who has occasionally deviated from the party line on a major issue (he opposed President Bush's 2007 Iraq troop surge). After the 2010 election gave Republicans control of the House, some conservatives tried to block Upton from becoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.Story: Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee
FreedomWorks, a group headed former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, assailed his votes to bail out the auto industry and financial firms. "He has consistently been one of the least fiscally conservative Republicans in the House," FreedomWorks Max Pappas told Congressional Quarterly. But Upton, an ally of Speaker John Boehner, prevailed. Like fellow committee member and fellow Michigander Dave Camp, Upton has been on Capitol Hill for decades, having won his seat in 1986. Before that, Upton worked as a staffer for Rep. David Stockman, and then went with Stockman when he became President Ronald Reagan's budget director in 1981. Obama carried his district with 54 percent of the vote in the 2008 election, but Bush won it in 2004 with 53 percent.
Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C.
Clyburn, first elected to the House in 1992, served as Democratic whip when his party had the majority from 2007 to the end of 2010. He represents one of the nation' poorest and most heavily Democratic congressional districts. After the 2010 GOP wave, Clyburn was left as the only Democrat in his state's six-member congressional delegation.Story: House Democrats tap 3 for deficit super committee
Referring to the deficit and the national debt, Clyburn told a South Carolina newspaper just before his appointment to the deficit reduction committee, "Entitlements aren't causing these problems. This is just blaming poor people ... when fat cats in the upper 2 percent (of Americans) are getting tax cuts."
Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.
Elected in 1992, Becerra represents a district in Los Angeles which President Obama won in 2008 with 80 percent of the vote. He serves on the House Ways & Means Committee, and also served on the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission, but voted against its recommendations, complaining that the deficit and debt had been created mostly by President Bush and Republicans in Congress.
"We cut taxes for the wealthy in a time of war and recession and never paid for it," he said. He also said, "We cannot balance the federal budget with 15 million Americans out of work." And he contended that "short-term deficits, incurred for policies that promote economic recovery and investment, are not incompatible with responsible, long-term deficit reduction."
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
Senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Van Hollen is perhaps the House Democrats' most ubiquitous spokesman on national television, rarely missing a chance to do battle with Republicans. He chaired his party's House campaign committee — in both good times for Democrats (2008) and during the 2010 election debacle.Story: House Democrats tap 3 for deficit super committee
He opposes short-term deficit reduction, saying, "This focus on the near term on just cutting, cutting, cutting is actually the opposite course that we should take. We need a long term plan to reduce the deficit. But in the short term it is counterproductive to make these deep cuts."


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When living in a city anywhere that spans three to seven square miles (as Black Rock City is depending on whom you talk to), walking alone is not going to get it done.
Most citizens wisely bring a bike as the main means of transportation, but for others there are a plethora of art cars to hop on to be whisked across the playa.
This year, for one reason or another, there seems to be a large influx of boat art cars, reminiscent of the Floating World theme from 2002.
My favorite nautical art car of the year, and by far the largest, is Christina. She is a 30,000 pound yacht from Lake Tahoe that has been cut into three sections. Christina was loaded onto two semi trucks and shipped out to the desert where it floats above the playa on top of a Peterbuilt cement mixer.
"She's probably the biggest, most Mad Max art car out here," claimed owner Jake Jacobson.
I think the D.P.W. (Department of Public Works, aka, "We build this city"), might differ in opinion on that one, but that doesn't hide the fact that anyone watching a 30,000 pound yacht cruise across the playa has to take stop and take a second look to not only make sure what they are seeing is real, but also to make sure they don't get run over.


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Junona necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
A small, but innovative company
We develop websites for companies etc, online stores, online social communities, blogs etc
At the same time we have 10 years experience in management consulting
We are unique because we develop websites but at the same time we offer high quality consulting and research to companies, how they can succeed using internet. Our results: business plans, strategic plans, economic studies, researches etc.
Our services
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- consulting (internet, for entrepreneurs...)
We outsource a lot. So we will need a lot of services like the one you will hopefully provide for InternetNova.
All types of companies and organisations (mainly small and medium sized business).
Soon we will focus a bit more on companies, that are more advanced, ambicious, want to expand their business etc.
They are not only interested in website development, but also in getting high quality management / entrepreneurial consulting how to maximize their success with the help of internet.
You can see the site on http://enova.oceanoflove.info
We would like to get:
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The structure of the pages will stay as it is.
However, on the first page we want to include a small banner for special offers (beneath the form for E-Newsletter).
Also for the right navigation
(see http://enova.oceanoflove.info/izdel…trani.html beneath "Kaj dobite v InternetNova?" should be designed in a way that the link to the page on which you are at the moment is colored diferently.
We like bright colors, but they should be typical for a web development & consulting business, but are open for suggestions.
If possible include some icons, because we have a lot of text.
The files we will require are:
Print file format only for the logo - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)


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Events Calendar
Job Fair Hosted by Monroe County
Print out fresh copies of your résumé and wow potential employers during the Monroe County Job Fair.
Date: May 7, 2019 - May 7, 2019
Time: Noon - 3 p.m.
Location: Cleary Family Auditorium, Kearney Hall
Hosted by Monroe County and the Center for Career and Academic Planning
More than 45 companies will be on hand promoting 500+ job opportunities. The first hour of the job fair (noon to 1 p.m.) is open exclusively for veterans and their family members. The remainder of the fair (1 to 3 p.m.) is open to students, recent graduates, and the general public.


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