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Monday, July 16, 2012
The Peace Business
With J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Open Zion, Uri L'Tzedek and Americans for Peace Now, just to name a few, all boasting more column inches in the media than members, the revival of IPF is about as timely as opening up a bank dedicated to subprime loans. The market for Israel-bashing, like the market for underwater homes, is falling as fast as Obama's approval ratings.
In 2008, shortly before IPF merged with CAP, it sent out a letter urging Condoleezza Rice to find a way to bring Hamas into the peace process. So far, the Israel Policy Forum has had no luck with Hamas, but it has dragged in the usual left-wing Jewish millionaires and billionaires looking to ride roughshod over Israel and the Jewish community.
Israel Policy Forum, like Peter Beinart's Open Zion, is funded in part by Peter A. Joseph, who also serves as IPF's president. Joseph presides over Palladium Equity Partners, the kind of private equity firm that liberals pretend to bash when it's associated with Romney, but which they welcome when it's associated with a lefty. Like so many other lefties with big pockets and bigger egos, Joseph's money causes him to believe that he can hijack the Jewish community by spending money to create organizations full of fellow lefty millionaires and a few famous names with business ties to them.
The new IPF features David Avital, of the MTP Investment Group who founded Seeds of Peace. There's hedge fund billionaire Donald Sussman, Neil Barsky of Alson Capital Partners, Lawrence Zicklin, formerly of Neuberger Berman Financial Services, and James E. Walker III, who isn't actually Jewish, but is also an Obama donor and in the money management business. Finally there's Marcia Riklis, the daughter of corporate raider Meshulam Riklis, and another Obama donor.
Naturally all the financial guys brought along their lawyers and Israel Policy Forum is full of them, the slimiest of whom may be Melvyn Weiss who specialized in securities class action lawsuits, pleaded guilty to kickback charges and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Weiss also had ties to Blagojevich and has been disbarred, but he's back out of prison and back at IPF..
With all these Wall Street guys and layers, IPF looks a lot like a hostile takeover and that's just what it is. It's one more attempt by the Anti-Israel left to stage a hostile takeover of the Jewish community and swing the agenda their way. But it didn't work with J Street and it won't work with IPF.
The tycoons and lawyers have brought along some of their clients and pet "rabbis" to make the IPF look like something other than a group of left-wing millionaires and billionaires trying to forcibly set the agenda for the Jewish community. And they're going about it in the usual way, by authoring letters to heads of state telling them what to do, because when you're playing at that level, that's just the sort of thing you do.
The IPF has relaunched its bid for policymaking power with a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu telling him to ignore the Levy Report, which found that Israel is not an Occupying Power, and that there is no reason to discriminate against Jewish homes in any part of Israel. The letter claims to represent a larger consensus, which it does not, despite being chock full of presidents and former presidents of Jewish organizations, who were not elected by any Jewish community, but whose paths to power were paid for, either by them or by those wealthy donors who truly control them.
Then there are a few others, like Deborah Lipstadt who occupies the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History chair at Emory U. Dorot is partnered with the far-left New Israel Fund and a number of other Anti-Israel groups. Dorot has given grants to J Street, and its assets are partly managed by Neuberger Berman Financial Services, mentioned above.
Daniel Gordis' last book was jointly co-authored with David Ellenson, a member of IPF's Advisory Council. Ellenson is the president of Hebrew Union College, on whose board of governors IPF president Peter A. Joseph sits. Ellenson and Gordis have been described as "good friends".
Attempting to defend his signature on the IPF letter, Gordis did not take issue with the legal basis for the Levy Report, arguing that even though, "Israel has no partner with which to make peace", accepting it would make it appear that Israel is no longer committed to creating a Palestinian state. And it would be a terrible thing if Israel stopped being committed to an unworkable program that is destroying its diplomacy and killing its people.
"Hope" has been the only selling point of the Two-State Solution. There is no logical argument to be made for empowering terrorists as a path to peace. By 2012, the only way to still peddle peace is by irrationally insisting that every Israeli leader and every Israeli concession somehow fell short of achieving peace or even a cessation of violence because they didn't go far enough.
While presenting "Hope" as an argument may remind some people of hippies on park lawns, it reminds me of a more conventional form of marketing. When you can't sell your product based on the tangibles, you have to sell it on the intangibles. Appeasement, especially with a twenty year track record of failing to work, is a hard sell. But rename it "Hope" and suddenly it's flying off the shelves. And once you've sold people a few bags of "Hope" and they realize there's nothing inside, then you can tell them that it's Israel's fault.
The Merchants of False Hope know that they have no wares, but they still have to move a product. The real product they're moving isn't "Hope". The true product comes in a variety of flavors. There's "Make Israel Stop Embarrassing Me" and "I Want Things My Way" and the old popular, "Destroy the Jewish State". It's not always possible to know which merchant is selling which wares, most of them are labeled the same way. But the attitudes of the merchants give us an occasional clue.
However the truly significant question is whose interests does the peace business serve. It certainly doesn't serve Israel's interests. A quick comparison between Israel's international position and domestic security in 1982, 1992, 2002 and 2012 makes that rather painfully clear. It isn't in America's interests either, though plenty of domestic appeasers have tried to make that case over the years.
Destructive ideas go away after having failed enough times, but a destructive idea that is extensively funded and subsidized is like Dracula; no matter how often you kill it, it pops up again with a cry of "Blood" or "Hope."
"Two State Solution" doesn't rhyme with "Hope". It rhymes with "Dissolution" which is exactly what it accomplishes. But everyone has their own interests and their own agenda.
In the small towns in Judea and Samaria, farmers and herders are just trying to survive, battling government bureaucracy, judicial activism and Islamic terror. But for a lot of investors, Israel is just a troubled company that needs to dump those people and their towns, sell off whatever resources it has to make a deal with the terrorists, and then reap the benefits of legitimacy and stability. They call their program the "Two State Solution."
The Israeli left is an alliance between Israeli and American oligarchs who would be perfectly happy with a country the size of Singapore, a city-state stretching across the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, a place with a bustling stock exchange, a lot of good restaurants and start up companies coming up with clever new gimmicks for them to invest in. A properly liberal place at peace with its Muslim neighbors, with gay bars side-by-side with mosques and experimental theaters putting on the latest revolutionary plays.
That such a country is completely nonviable doesn't interest them; it's what Israeli leaders have led them to believe is possible. Most of all though it's what they want, and they are used to getting what they want. And if the people, Israeli and American Jews, aren't as enthusiastic about this vision as they are, they will find people to sell it to them as "Hope".
Anything can be sold with the right marketing. Throw together enough organizations, inject peace and the Two-State Solution into every conceivable arena until it seems as inseparable a part of Israel as the Tembel, and just as foolish, and keep pushing the politicians to deliver this "Peace" thing. If there's no peace, hire some experts, give them a few organizations and let them work out why there isn't any peace and how the government, and those farmers and herders in Judea and Samaria are to blame.
The Peace Business is bad under Netanyahu, so the hedge funders get together, summon their lawyers, bring in a few of their more famous friends, and draft a letter telling the Prime Minister of Israel to stop paying attention to the law and start paying attention to them. And it he doesn't, then he had better stay tuned for the next letter and the next phony organization they create to harass Israel.
Israel is in a range war, not only with Muslim terrorists, but with lefty billionaires who would like to see a few hundred thousand farmers, herders and small businessmen kicked off their land in the hope of securing the rest of the country within the 48 borders. The Levy Report bothers the peace barons, as does every new house and barn that goes up, every new field planted and every new vineyard tended, because it tells them that they may not get their wish. That despite their money and the organizations that they create; the victory will in Israel's range war will not go to the billionaire on Wall Street, but the farmers and herders of Judea.
6 comments:
- Adam said...
I had a run in recently with that traitor Daniel Gordis. Can you believe that pos actually calls himself a Rabbi? He writes an article about the Alice Walker calling her an anti-Semite, while in the same article continues to exclaim, "Israel can do better." How, just accept the rocket fire as a natural event like rain? This guy is the worst type of Jew and quite frankly I'm sick of these types. Jews that are proud of their heritage and believe they have a right to exist and believe God's words need to stand up to and put an end to these self loathing Jews who aid our enemies.
- 17/7/12
- Keliata said...
Anything involving the words Israel, Jews and solution should set off alarms
- 17/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Didn't the great one sell himself as "hope and change"? We can see the hope and change brought upon America in the past 4years. My fear is that you are going to be 4 more years with the hope and change and Israel is going to pay the price
- 17/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Does anyone support Israel?
-- Spanky
- 17/7/12
- NormanF said...
I've said my piece on Yisrael Medad's site and I won't repeat it here.
What does need to be said is while money can buy politicians and influence in high places, money has never made an idea work.
The Jewish people built their state long before the peace barons of the Israel Policy Forum were a gleam in the eye of history. Their investment in telling Israel to commit national suicide is up against the Jewish people who made Zionism a living reality.
As Jewish history has repeatedly shown us, those little shepherds and villagers in ancient Israel humiliated the most powerful empires in human history. The peace barons of the IPF may have found their match in their descendants who now populate that same land.
- 18/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Thank you for exposing more signers to the letter, but it would be nice to read a list and the entire letter, which dos not seem to be posted anywhere.
These people are intolerable and cannot stand that they have no standing, in fact. Worse, they are underhanded
corruptors of at least two governments. However, one of the largest obstacles to actually achieving a Peace Accord of any kind is the sheer amount of very well-funded jobs it provides, each with a seemingly, unending expense account. It's huge business, and provides an area for those out of real power to maintain influence and obtain free press.
furthermore, these 'barons' are so narcissistic they will do themselves in in time. They are, also, apparently, oblivious to historical fact and current degree of anti-Semitism, including in D.C. as well as those like them whom the US government seems to find something indictable in their record, whether it exists , or not. No Jewish baron has ever been exempt from ethnic cleansing, expulsion, a government witch hunt, or anti-Semitic campaigns.
Note the history of the Rothschilds, who supported the UK against France in the early 1800's as well as being an integral part of the banking community in France and Germany. They were simply at the top of the heap of lies in one country after another.
These people, also, lack an essential mechanism, thank goodness. It's called an army.
In the end, it is absolutely true, a man's Narcissism will always do him in ( sorry about the preposition).
The ultimate question these leaders , elected ,or not, must answer is : does the U.S. want to live in perpetuity with the burden of having destroyed the state of Israel and another 6.2Million Jews? That is what you can pose to these idiots. It will be associated with their historic legacies, and that of all of their descendants - never to be able to be erased.
Daniel, ask them.Then, it cannot be said, the deaths of these Jews . Christians, and Muslims in what was Israel was an unknown, or unintended, consequence.
CS Goldstein
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Anyone reading this that has been tricked into believing Iglu & Hartly are "just a bit of fun" and said "That song is actually rather catchy..." PLEASE SEEK HELP. You are suffering from a severe case of Radio One-induced 'Familiarity not Fondness' disease. Solitary confinement is the only cure. To mince no words; Iglu & Hartly are perhaps the worst band to reach mass acclaim since their musical forefathers Crazy Town (and they had a rapper who called himself Shifty Shellshock).
Everything about the band screams corporate soulless jock-rock horror, from the topless live performances spewed on every TV show going to the band's MySpace page featuring a countdown to the album release date amidst links to Bebo, Facebook, Youtube and Street Team pages. It's a multimedia assault on the nation's senses and like the spineless cretins so many people are they have caved in and started buying the damn bands whole shtick.
Said shtick is this: Red Hot Chilli Peppers funk guitars meets Beastie Boys teen party raps. It's all achingly nu-metal without the angst or sense of irony. There is a show currently airing on BBC2's youth orientated Switch section called _Scene Stealers_ in which one member of a 'tribe' has to infiltrate another, so an emo kid must become a chav for the day for example. Iglu & Hartly sound like Stifler from the _American Pie_ films trying toe curlingly hard to become a rapper. Everything sounds unprofessional and done on the cheap to maximise profit for the bosses. 90% of _& Then Boom_ lacks even the basic hooks of the aforementioned 'In This City'.
The bands two rappers go by the names of Jarvis Anderson and Simon Katz both of whom appear to take their vocal inspiration from somewhere between Black Eyed Peas 'My Humps' and Fred Durst at a keg party. It's sloppy, mono paced and utterly inconsequential. What is truly astonishing about this album is not its lack of quality; there are countless awful bands in every town in the world. It is the fact that said rubbish has infiltrated its way onto a relatively respectful label (Mercury is the home to, amongst others, Arcade Fire and Ryan Adams) and into peoples homes and MP3 players. The whole record sounds like an over extensive home demo packed full of bad ideas, poor musicianship and a vastly out of date concept. Why it was not thrown out of the nearest window is a mystery.
I might be preaching to the converted here but someone has to stand up against soulless tripe like this. There is not a single redeemable factor to be taken from _& Then Boom_ ( - even the title is nonsensical) and all parties should take a long hard look at themselves. Corporate, bandwagon jumping, money grabbing opportunism is one thing but this is just an insult to the whole nation, a joke nobody seems to have caught onto. Iglu & Hartly are collectively giving the nation a wedgy and nobody seems to even care, that is why this is the worst album of the year.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests these bike-safety guidelines for children:
- Establish rules on where a child is allowed to ride, and where else is off-limits. Rules should be based on the child's age, maturity and ability to follow basic rules of the road.
- Mandatory rules should include riding with traffic, always stopping at intersections, using hand signals and looking carefully before turning.
- Every time children ride, they should wear government-approved bike helmets that fit properly.
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CONCORD — A superior court judge has denied Exeter Hospital's request to limit the state's access to its patient records amid an ongoing hepatitis C outbreak investigation.
CONCORD — A superior court judge has denied Exeter Hospital's request to limit the state's access to its patient records amid an ongoing hepatitis C outbreak investigation.
Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Richard McNamara ruled Wednesday that Exeter Hospital produced no evidence to suggest that the Department of Health and Human Services failed to comply with state and federal law in its investigation at Exeter Hospital.
The court recognized that state law "explicitly bestows the responsibility of conducting outbreak investigations while simultaneously protecting certain health information to the trained professionals of the DHHS," according to an announcement released by the attorney general's office Thursday.
"The court ruled that the state's outstanding requests for information from Exeter Hospital regarding the hepatitis C outbreak are lawful and appropriate," Associate Attorney General Anne M. Edwards said in a prepared statement. "The court rejected all of Exeter Hospital's arguments to the contrary."
Attorneys for the hospital had asked the judge to keep its patient records shielded from state health officials until they provide more information about the nature of their hepatitis C investigation. They called for a judgement declaring the state must first identify the patient records investigators wish to review, and allow Exeter Hospital to view the records first.
"With the court's clear pronouncement of Public Health's authority, we trust that Exeter Hospital will fully cooperate with the investigation and provide access to its business and medical records and staff for interviews so that we can efficiently and effectively determine the scope of the outbreak, identify all patients who may have been exposed so that they may get access to care and determine the mechanism in all cases so that future incidents may be avoided," Dr. Jose Montero, director of the Division of Public Health Services, said in a prepared statement.


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Nobody's Perfect: Jamie Fox VS the Brits
Nobody's Perfect
I should have posted the video yesteday…as it was all over the internet. But…of course…it's been taken down, (I think) because Jamie Fox said, for all the world to hear, that he got to kill white people in his movie and he really enjoyed it! It was such a WONDERFUL black thing to do!
If Jamie keeps this up…I'm almost SURE he will get next year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Mmmmmmm…..silence. Notice NOBODY on the liberal networks are even talking about this?
Nobody suggests that all white people boycott that movie. But of course they won't. There are too many stupid white people….who think that's funny…black men wanting to kill them because they are white. I guess since Jamie is such good friends with Obama, he feels he can say he would like all white people dead and enjoy the moment? And uh…
So, if Jamie Fox can declare he would love killing white people, then any white person in the country should be able to say they love killing black people. Right? Free speech, after all.
I wonder how the "white" producers of Jamie's new movie are going to go for that. They just lost a major portion of their profits. I'm not going to even RENT it.
On the other side of the loony bin last week, were the Brits. It seems Prince Williams' Kate was very sick in the hospital when some Australian DJ's decided to call up the hospital and pretend they were the Prince and the Queen, and since the nurse was NOT of British birth, she believed them and gave them information she shouldn't have. Like, she was having trouble with the royal pregnancy.
Uh-oh. Big mistake.
So she killed herself. In true liberal guilt fashion, every one in the media now is more concerned about the two idiot DJ's than the family___
The family of the tragic nurse who took the hoax call to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was staying have been given less support than the Australian DJs behind the stunt, an MP said yesterday. 'We have the Australian DJs who are getting all this counselling, but what about the family? What about support for them?
But..That's not all the Brits are doing. They are determined to control cow flatulence! While Hillary is taking taxpayers' money we have, to build Mosques in Cairo, the British government is spending money on the flatulence of cows. Here's what one reporter from the Daily Mail found out:
Millions of pounds of British taxpayers' money has been spent on a scheme aimed at reducing the flatulence of Colombian cattle, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
A £15million grant to ranchers and other organisations in the South American country was part of a £2.9billion package of 'climate aid' to developing countries which critics called 'ludicrous'.
The initiative aimed to improve animal diets by cultivating trees and plants on their grazing lands – in doing so reducing the amount of methane escaping through belching and flatulence.
- A total of £14million of climate aid finance to projects in Uganda, despite the Government recently stopping all aid to the country because of corruption.
- £31million of British money going to Turkey – a middle-ranking economy – to help develop geo-thermal and wind power.
- The Department for International Development (DFID) funding meetings between tribal 'rain-makers' and meteorologists in Kenya.
- Who wins the nutjob of the week? You decide. I'm too tired. BUT…put me in a field of flatulent cows anyday…where I can be SURE I won't run into Jamie Fox. I'd be just fine.
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Re the tragic outcome to the hoax call. The Australian spirit is alive and well.
The Staff Christmas Party has been cancelled.
This is life imitating jokes. Like the one about the wedding reception where they ran out of beer. The MC stopped the proceedings to announce, "The party's over folks. The beers all gone and the best man is upstairs shagging the bride"
As the guests filed out disgruntled, he again shouted out, "It's OK everyone. The bastard has apologised and he's found a slab of Fosters."
Comment by Amfortas | December 11, 2012 |
Britain has gone 'down the tube' into the sewer, I'm sorry to say. It has decended into sheer stupidity, capitulation and abandonment of all sensible national Worth.
You know me. I am like Chingachgook; I am the Last of the Englishmen. I mourn the passing of my tribe (made up as it is by the bloodlines of many nations and peoples).
But where did America go? It was once full of itself proclaiming 'Freedom', 'Inalienable Rights' and extolling its origins, but carefully omiting to mention its theft of all the blood and treasure put in by British people, ordinary farmers and builders, tradesmen and traders, yes and their staunch, hard working, sacrificing womenfolk too.
Resting on a foundation of cant and hypocricy, self delusion and excuse it had only one way to go: Upward into honesty and redemption.
It chose not to take that route.
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Photographer's Note
Australia has endured heatwaves all summer. In Brisbane, it has been hot dry, yet humid summer with few storms. However, when a storm came, it a violent one, with harsh heavy rain, lightning strikes, it was quite a show.
I stood outside my work building to test the winds and snapped a couple of brave (foolish?)souls out in the elements.
Taken with a Samsung Galaxy Phone and Vignette App.
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rigoletto (34279) 2014-01-30 5:45
hell yeah, hallelujah :)
coming back to the basic quote: "one doesn't need to own an expensive camera to be a good photographer". i also like the result of this vintage app. koreans know how to do it...
Hi Justin
Good picture of the bad weather, doubled by the glass reflection, but the left half of the picture is empty, could be removed. The grainy aspect of the B&W adds a lot of mood
adidas5nb (5743) 2014-01-30 8:28
this is fantastic .just love the whole emotional content of the shot.great pp choices.love it.
willperrett (13574) 2014-01-30 9:54
Hello Justin
Welcome back! This is a clever shot, using the glass shop window to reflect the trauma going on outside in the street. I usually like tight framing, but here the wide angle of your 'phone has created an airy feel that shows us the extent and violence of the storm. A great grab.
brianmcc (6221) 2014-01-30 10:44
hi justin,
this is a great image perfectly captured. your framing is excellent with the lady placed just right and the lines of the pavement leading towards her. i love the black and white format.
JanArie (657) 2014-01-30 13:32
Hi, I like this old looking style mirror photo!
tfs, Jan-Arie
daddo (28726) 2014-01-30 13:38
Hi Justin. Eerie, moody and a strong visual representation of the title. A shot that would illustrate so well a Haruki Murakami novel where his world hovers between ours and some other, ethereal one. Regards. Klaudio.
bostankorkulugu (42808) 2014-01-31 5:02
love it mate, so moody, so cool...
cheers ;)
delpeoples (60326) 2014-02-11 3:33
Gidday Justin
Happy New Year to you and yours, good to see you back. Sorry I'm so slack with the critiques, but have had my hands full with an ill mum etc. I love this. It's arty, original, superbly composed and pretty bl**dy spooky. Superb choice the vertical cut and I love the vignette which really has accentuated those amazing silhouetted reflections. And taken on a phone too, wow, congrats.
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- Genre: People
- Medium: Black & White
- Date Taken: 2014-01-20
- Categories: Daily Life, Event, Decisive Moment
- Camera: Samsung Galaxy S2
- Photo Version: Original Version
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Abstract: Social science has a major task in today's world: there is a long list of major gains in the situation of human beings on a global scale, as measured against the Millennium Goals; but the UN (2019) does, however, also list serious problems that lie ahead. Challenges to the Environment, and to the systems of international transactions, especially, demand action on a global scale, as does the increasing social and economic inequality. New forms of governance are clearly required to meet these challenges, but the UN does not attempt to identify which organizational measures are necessary and possible in this respect. A major effort of social science is required to start the process of that identification. Such an effort has been initiated by the International Panel of Social Progress. In its 2018 Report, the IPSP analyzes in depth the concept and situation of social progress – a broad term covering much of the agenda also for the global challenges – and then proceeds to outline in depth the possible ways ahead for progressing, the organizational forms and global/societal governance measures. A Manifesto on Social Progress, published subsequently by five leading IPSP researchers, presents the overall picture in a readable, compressed manner, and discusses organizational forms for reaching social progress. This paper departs from the analyses in the Manifesto, and then tries to go further, attempting to identify the forces that work against social progress, against the governance and regulation formats that must be developed to enable social progress? Those forces - active and powerful regressive forces – can be identified by comparing some of the major developments in contemporary governance. Using examples from countries around the globe, the paper shows how serious these regressive forces are, illustrates how they work, and points to mechanisms that make them emerge and grow. Moreover, the paper suggests a particular role for the social sciences in this context. A true social science cannot be nihilistic or passively compliant. It can and must point to myriads of organizational forms that have been employed to advance the situation of people in all sorts of societies. Social science has to be practical and normative – if not pointing the way, at least mapping the course. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9744
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On the Determinants of Tax HavensSchrøter Joensen, Juanna; Weihe, Guðrið (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the role of social capital (trust) vis-à-vis the propensity of a country to be a tax haven. The empirical analysis corroborates that better governed countries have a higher ceteris paribus probability to be tax havens. However, social capital counteracts the effect of governance quality. This effect is so strong that the partial effect of governance quality is reversed for countries with the trust index in the top quartile – making these high trust countries less likely to be tax havens – even as governance quality is increased. Thus it is crucial to consider the interaction between institutions and social capital, since the same governance institutions have a different impact on the tax haven propensity for countries with different social capital. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8750
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Minbaeva, Dana B.; Pedersen, Torben (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The emerging Knowledge Governance Approach asserts the need to build microfoundations grounded in individual action. Toward this goal, using the Theory of Planned Behavior, we aim to explain individual knowledge sharing behavior as being determined by the intention to share knowledge and its antecedents: attitude toward knowledge sharing, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. In addition, we consider managerial interventions (governance mechanisms) that managers can employ to influence the identified antecedents and thereby govern individual knowledge sharing behavior. We test the model arrived at on a dataset collected among individuals engaged in knowledge sharing in two competing firms. Results of the LISREL analysis show that the use of rewards affects attitudes toward knowledge sharing negatively, while the use of reciprocal schemes and communication mechanisms have a positive effect on subjective norms and perceived behavioral control, respectively. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8017
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The Strategic Human Resource Management DimensionFoss, Nicolai J.; Minbaeva, Dana B. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: SHRM increasingly emphasizes HRM practices as means to build strategic knowledge resources such as superior capabilities. While the knowledge-based view increasingly pays attention to micro-foundations, the SHRM field neglects these and emphasizes collective constructs such as "human capital pools," "HRM architectures", etc. As a result, causal links between HRM practices, knowledge and organizational performance are black-boxed. We propose a program for research and identify some of the key issues that future research must deal with. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7756
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Theoretical Foundations and Research OpportunitiesFoss, Nicolai; Husted, Kenneth; Michailova, Snejina; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: An under-researched issue in work within the "knowledge movement" is the relation between organizational issues and knowledge processes (i.e., sharing and creating knowledge). We argue that managers can shape formal organization structure and organization forms and can influence the more informal organizational practices in order to foster knowledge sharing and creation. Theoretically, we unfold this argument by relying on key ideas of organizational economics and organizational behaviour studies. We put forward a number of refutable propositions derived from this reasoning. Acknowledgments We are grateful to Anna Grandori for numerous excellent comments on an earlier draft. The standard disclaimer applies. Keywords: Knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, governance, organizational economics, organizational behavior. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7311
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Technology versus institutionsKallinikos, Jannis; Orebro, Hans Hasselbladh; Marton, Attila (Lisabon, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper claims that technology and institutions both epitomize the construction of artificial orders through which a primary reality is shaped to something other than it is by logical operations that share essential affinities. Drawing on this, we work our way to showing how technology operates as governing regime and how tasks and operations that are carried out by the human enactment of expert rules and procedures can considerably be embodied onto technological sequences with which human experts have limited and severely structured interaction. These ideas are illustrated by reference to cultural memory organizations (e.g. libraries, archives, museums) and the ways the deepening infiltration of their operations by computing technologies redefines their goals and the skills, practices and arrangements through which these goals have traditionally been pursued. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8902
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Transformations of a hegemonic discourseSalskov-Iversen, Dorte; Krause Hansen, Hans; Bislev, Sven (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7014
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Lond, Rigmor Magdaleine (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6383
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Abstract: This paper builds insight into how globalization impacts cultural clusters, through a case study of Bollywood, the Indian film cluster in Mumbai. The paper's analysis of the recent growth and consolidation of Bollywood, as well as the cluster's development of a new film formula, illustrates that globalization does not necessarily entail westernization of culture. Instead, the paper suggests that early-mover advantages held by the world's core cultural clusters may be eroded by globalization, as it creates pipelines of information, talent and capital, allowing hitherto peripheral cultural clusters to access export markets and develop exportable products. Analyzing the role of the Indian diasporas for the export growth of Bollywood, the paper also offers a discussion of the difference between two different aspects of globalization: Global flows of people and global bridgeheads of people. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7796
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Abstract: Grammatikundervisningens indhold og omfang i sproguddannelserne i Danmark har ændret sig ganske markant i takt med at fokus i fremmedsprogsundervisningen i stadig højere grad er kommet til at ligge på kommunikative færdigheder på bekostning af korrekthed og idiomatik. Dette gælder også på cand.ling.merc.-uddannelserne på CBS, som nok ellers betragtes som en højborg for uddannelse i sproglig formidling og bearbejdning af vanskelige faglige domæner med den højeste grad af korrekthed, idiomatik og præcision. Det ændrede fokus i uddannelserne gør det til en stadig mere spændende udfordring at skrue grammatikforløb sammen, som kan give de studerende et brugbart udbytte. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8722
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A study of the pathologies of performativityJohnsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Temaet for denne afhandling er en undersøgelse af tre historiske 'formationer' organiseret omkring en 'ting' i kroppen i melankoliens brede og farverige historie i et forsøg på at skabe baggrund for en filosofisk undersøgelse af sammenhængen mellem patologi, arbejde og performativitet i samtiden. I denne forstand er der tale om et stykke filosofisk grundforskning, der forsøger at etablere og åbne et felt for mødet mellem de klassiske, filosofiske discipliner, og temaer i organisationsteori og ledelsesfilosofi. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7929
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A Study on Markets and the Natural EnvironmentReijonen, Satu (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling fokuserer på konstruktion af markeder for miljørigtige produkter gennem et casestudie af, hvordan miljøvenlighed som produktkvalitet er blevet udført (enacted) og forhandlet i markedet for urinposer. Afhandlingen bygger på et konstruktivistisk perspektiv på markeder: markeder og produktkvaliteter og egenskaber i urinposer anses således som emergerende og konstruerede i forskellige markedskonstituerende praksisser. De primære teoretiske begreber i afhandlingen er koordinering (coordination)(Mol et al. 2002) og kvalificering- (re)kvalificering (qualification-(re)qualification)(Callon et al. 2002). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7049
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Abstract: This paper proposes a model of how incumbents and new entrants engage in sustainable entrepreneurship. We suggest that in the early stages of an industry's sustainability transformation, new entrants ('Emerging Davids') are more likely than incumbents to pursue sustainability-related opportunities. Incumbents react to the activities of new entrants by engaging in corporate sustainable entrepreneurship activities. While these 'Greening Goliaths' are often less ambitious in their environmental and social goals, they may have a broader reach due to their established market presence. This paper analyses the interplay between 'Greening Goliaths' and 'Emerging Davids' and theorizes about how it is their compounded impact that promotes the sustainable transformation of industries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7122
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Abstract: Greenland is the largest island of the world. It is mostly covered by an ice cap, but with an ice free territory of the same size as the territory of Sweden and 8 times the territory of Denmark. The size of the population in Greenland has been stable since 1970's and include 56.000 persons. Until Second World War Greenland was an almost closed territory, you had to have a permission to go there, and only few permissions were given. The size of the population at that time was less than 4000. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8736
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The Impact of the Global Economic and Financial Crises over Developing Countries' Automobile IndustryWad, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the Global South automobile production evolved behind protectionist walls and was promoted by infant industry policies and outright national automotive projects from the 1950s. In recent decades, many developing countries have liberalized their automotive markets and allowed automobile TNCs to take majority control over joint ventures, transforming domestic automotive industries into foreign controlled sectors while leaving a few national automakers in India, Malaysia and China. Decomposing and reorganizing the national value chain into regional and global automobile value chains OEMs and TNC original equipment suppliers (OESs) have off-shored and outsourced component and parts production to developing countries. Again, local auto suppliers have been acquired or relegated to lower 'tier' positions if not forced out of the market. However, with economic growth and development in the Global South during the 1990s and 2000s automobile sales have boomed, and the automobile sectors in Latin America and Asia have become "brown sunrise" industries generating investment, technological upgrading and employment. The present global financial and economic crisis has not profoundly changed this trajectory. The global crisis did not impact automotive markets in developing countries severely, except for automotive exporting countries like Mexico, Thailand and South Africa. Only in 2009 automotive sales and production declined across the board in the Global South, but key markets turned around in the end of the year. Thus, the automobile crisis is a downward business cycle, not a structural crisis of the industry. Companies in the automotive industry responded with traditional crisis management (temporary downsizing, cost reductions, retraining, consolidation, innovation), and governments launched traditional stimuli packages (cash-for-clunkers, tax reductions on smaller and/or cleaner cars etc). Strategic initiatives were taken to improve the competitiveness of the domestic industry (consolidation, liberalization) on the one hand and to transform it from a brown industry to a "greener" industry on the other hand (tightening environmental regulations, fuel efficiency and emission standards, subsidizing purchases of smaller and "greener" cars, investing in appropriate infrastructure and green technology R&D). Thereby, some developing countries and their surviving local automakers and parts makers are leapfrogging into "clean" technology frontiers competing head-to-head with global automakers or partnering with foreign firms in their common endeavor to manufacture green automobiles. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8180
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Sox should be proud of last year's accomplishments
Before turning page on 2013, club celebrates World Series title one more time
BOSTON -- The Red Sox rolled another championship banner down Fenway Park's magnificent Green Monster on a Friday afternoon filled with celebration and remembrance.
It was a touching ceremony, touching and joyous and perfect on every level. The 2014 Red Sox don't want to make this season about the 2013 Red Sox. From the first hour of Spring Training, they've been reluctant to look back. As their T-shirts proclaim, "Turn the page."
They would not even speak of repeating as champions, because that was about last season.
"We're just thinking of being good today," manager John Farrell said during Spring Training.
Farrell meant that he had a smart, driven group of players, a group that trusts the process. That is, good work in the cages or the bullpens can translate to good things in September and October.
On this day, though, the Red Sox happily looked back. Once the banner was draped across the Monster, players, coaches and staff trotted out one by one to get their championship rings and gather in center field.
"As each player was shown on the video board, so many thoughts flashed back to a year ago," Farrell said.
Players felt it, too.
"Very emotional," third baseman Will Middlebrooks said. "A lot of guys play baseball for a lot of years and don't get to experience anything like that."
David Ortiz was the final player to receive his ring and got the loudest cheers. He also got an extra ring, for being the World Series Most Valuable Player.
"It was beautiful," Ortiz said.
This was a special group, the 2013 Red Sox, widely picked to finish last in the American League East. General manager Ben Cherington brilliantly remade the club, not with superstars, but with tough-minded, team-first guys who embraced the idea of being in a place where scrutiny is intense and expectations high.
Still, it's one thing to have a close group determined to work hard and overachieve. It's another to turn all those dreams into winning a World Series. So even during a day that included a 6-2 loss to the Brewers, the Red Sox could appreciate 2013 one final time.
"It was awesome. I'll remember it forever," second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. "It happens so fast, you try to slow it down and take it all in. All of it was awesome."
It came at the end of a quick turnaround. After a late night victory in Baltimore, the Red Sox flew home, grabbed a few hours sleep and headed to Fenway Park. Still, they were ready.
"Everyone was fired up," Pedroia said.
One of the things that made the 2013 Red Sox special was how they changed the focus of an entire city, perhaps just a bit, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.
"Today was a chance to go back and maybe think of some things that took place last year," Farrell said.
Players did hours of work in visiting hospitals and bringing people touched by the tragedy to Fenway Park. The Red Sox know they can only do so much to ease the pain of people who've suffered incomprehensible loss, but they saw their work as part of being a good citizen of a community.
The Red Sox honored the Boston Marathon bombing victims again on Friday afternoon. Among them were the parents and sibling of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who died in the blast. Also at Fenway was Richard Donohue, the MBTA police officer who was shot and badly injured during a shootout with the suspects a few days after the bombing.
Red Sox players and staff greeted them one by one in front of the home dugout. And then the team held a moment of silence in remembrance of Boston firefighters Edward J. Walsh and Michael R. Kennedy, who died last week during a nine-alarm blaze near Fenway Park.
It was all a reminder that baseball teams are important to the fabric of a community. They bond us together and rally us, and in the toughest of times, they have the power to offer an opportunity to grieve and to honor those who've lost so much.
"All you can do is pray for the families and try to help support them," Ortiz said.
There'll be more normalcy as the season settles into its usual routines. The Red Sox are anxious for this. But they should also be proud of what 2013 meant. They did it right from start to finish.


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Now start up a new ROOT session with bbrroot and load
the root file with
TFile *f = new TFile("example.root"); //load the file
This ROOT file has a more complicated
directory structure than the simple file used in the first Workbook
section on ROOT. To have a look
around the directories and files in example.root use
f->ls(); (list the directories, histograms and ntuples)
root [1] f->ls();
TFile** example.root
TFile* example.root
KEY: TDirectory event_dir;1 Event Property Histograms
KEY: TDirectory pipi_dir;1 pi pi Histograms
KEY: TDirectory bkg_dir;1 Background events
KEY: TDirectory track_dir;1 Track Histograms
KEY: TDirectory gamma_dir;1 gamma Histograms
KEY: TDirectory pi0_dir;1 pi0 Histograms
gDirectory->cd("event_dir"); //or, possibly best
f->cd("event_dir"); //where f is the name of the currently
//open file
gDirectory->ls(); //or
root [5] f->ls()
TFile** example.root
TFile* example.root
TDirectory* event_dir Event Property Histograms
KEY: TH1F eTag_p_CM;1 eTag_p_CM
KEY: TDirectory event_dir;1 Event Property Histograms
KEY: TDirectory pipi_dir;1 pi pi Histograms
KEY: TDirectory bkg_dir;1 Background events
KEY: TDirectory track_dir;1 Track Histograms
KEY: TDirectory gamma_dir;1 gamma Histograms
KEY: TDirectory pi0_dir;1 pi0 Histograms
To change into the base directory of the ROOT file:
root [12] f->ls()
TDirectory* gamma_dir gamma Histograms
OBJ: TH2F gammaEvsMassM gammaEvsMassM : 0
KEY: TH1F num_good_neutM;1 num_good_neutM
KEY: TH1F num_good_neutD;1 num_good_neutD
KEY: TH1F lateralMomentM38;1 Cluster Lateral Moment
KEY: TH1F lateralMomentD38;1 Cluster Lateral Moment
KEY: TH1F lateralMomentSig38;1 Cluster Lateral Moment
KEY: TH1F gammaEM38;1 gammaEM
KEY: TH1F gammaED38;1 gammaED
KEY: TH1F gammaESig38;1 gammaESig
KEY: TH1F nCrysM38;1 nCrysM
KEY: TH1F nCrysD38;1 nCrysD
KEY: TH1F nCrysSig38;1 nCrysSig
KEY: TH1F gammaCosThM38;1 gammaCosThM
KEY: TH1F gammaCosThD38;1 gammaCosThD
KEY: TH1F gammaCosThSig38;1 gammaCosThSig
KEY: TH1F lateralMomentM;1 Cluster Lateral Moment
KEY: TH1F lateralMomentD;1 Cluster Lateral Moment
KEY: TH1F lateralMomentSig;1 Cluster Lateral Moment
KEY: TH1F gammaEM;1 gammaEM
KEY: TH1F gammaED;1 gammaED
KEY: TH1F gammaESig;1 gammaESig
KEY: TH1F gammaEMFine;1 gammaEMFine
KEY: TH1F gammaEDFine;1 gammaEDFine
KEY: TH1F gammaESigFine;1 gammaESigFine
KEY: TH2F gammaEvsMassD;1 gammaEvsMassD
KEY: TH2F gammaEvsMassM;1 gammaEvsMassM
KEY: TH2F gammaEvsMassSig;1 gammaEvsMassSig
KEY: TH1F nCrysM;1 nCrysM
KEY: TH1F nCrysD;1 nCrysD
KEY: TH1F nCrysSig;1 nCrysSig
KEY: TH1F gammaThetaM;1 gammaThetaM
KEY: TH1F gammaThetaD;1 gammaThetaD
KEY: TH1F gammaThetaSig;1 gammaThetaSig
KEY: TH1F gammaCosThM;1 gammaCosThM
KEY: TH1F gammaCosThD;1 gammaCosThD
KEY: TH1F gammaCosThSig;1 gammaCosThSig
gammaEvsMassM.Draw("surf4"); //display 2-d histogram (surf4 is a
//display command specifying a surface style)
nCrysM.Draw(); //display 1-d histogram called nCrysD
Note that you can always check which directory you are in by typing
root [42] gDirectory->pwd()
To zoom and unzoom:
nCrysM->SetAxisRange(10, 30.5, "x");
gPad->Modified(); // Needs a refresh from the command line
nCrysM->Draw("p"); //draw with points - not joined up
nCrysM->SetMarkerStyle(20); //round dots
nCrysM->SetMarkerSize(1.); //fat, round dots
nCrysM->SetMarkerColor(kBlue); //fat, blue, round dots
nCrysM->SetTitleSize(0.06, "x"); // Title size, offset and text
nCrysM->SetTitleOffset(1., "x");
nCrysM->SetXTitle("Axis title text");
nCrysM->GetXaxis()->CenterTitle(1); // center the name of the x-axis
You can modify the binning of your histo with the command:
To define a function with predefined components:
TF1 *f1a = new TF1("f1a","sin(x)", -5., 5.);
// built-in, this defines the function over the range -5<x<+5
TF1 *f1b = new TF1("f1b","x*sin(x)", -2., 2.); // combined
TF1 *f1c = new TF1("f1c", "[0]*x + [1] + gaus(2)",0.,15.);
f1c->SetParameters(0.1, 10., 50., 0.5, 0.01);
TF2 *f2 = new TF2("f2", "sin(x)*sin(y)", -10., 10., -10., 10.);
f1c->Draw("p"); // use markers
f1c->Draw("h"); // histogram
2D functions are handled in a very similar manner
f2.Draw(); //2-d projection - not very impressive
f2.Draw("surf4"); // surface plot - much nicer
gStyle->SetPalette(1) //and plot again
TF1 *f1=new TF1("f1","sin(x)",0,10);
f1.Draw(); // need to draw the function first!
TF2 *f2 = new TF2("fun2","sin(x)*sin(y)",0.,3.14,0.,3.14);
The macro basic.C can be used to
read in data from an ascii file containing numbers laid out in
columns. The file basic.C is a simple macro which expects the input to
come from a simple ascii file, called basic.dat containing, in this example,
three columns of numbers.
To run this macro, from within ROOT execute the following command:
.x basic.C
The file reads in the numbers from basic.dat, histograms
the values from the first column, and writes all the entries into an
ntuple. This output, the histogram and ntuple, are saved to a file
called basic.root. This output
file can then be studied, ntuple entries printed, and cuts performed
on the three histogrammed quantities just like any other ROOT file.
How to fit histograms with predefined functions (these commands
assume you are running ROOT from the same directory as you have saved
the example file myrootfile.root):
TFile f("myrootfile.root");
h1->Fit("landau","R", "", 1., 5.);
// where "R" indicates to fit only in
// a range, given in the last two arguments
h1->Fit("landau","R", "P", 1., 5.);
// where "P" is an option indicating
// to plot markers instead of histograms
In a file myfunc.C define
double myfunc(double *x, double *par) {
double arg = 0;
if (par[2]) arg = (x[0] - par[1])/par[2];
return par[0]*TMath::Exp(-0.5*arg*arg);
.L myfunc.C
TF1 *f1 = new TF1("f1",myfunc, -1., 1., 3); // where 3 is the number of
// parameters for the function
f1->SetParameters(10.,h1->GetMean(), h1->GetRMS());
Move the pointer over the histogram line (the cursor should change
from cross to arrow) and click on the right mouse button. A context
menu on TH1 should appear, from which you can choose
The FitPanel "slider" can be used to graphically restrict the fit
range. The slider is the grey bar near the bottom of the fit panel,
directly above the words "Fit", "Default", and "Close". If you move
the mouse pointer over this slider, at the ends of its ranges the
pointer changes from a cross to "|<-" at the left-hand edge and "->|"
at the right-hand edge. When the pointer is displayed in this way, you
can change the fit ranges by holding down the left mouse button and
dragging the left- or right-hand edge of the slider to a new
position. The changing fit range is shown graphically on your canvas
as a vertical line that moves along as you move the slider.
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The ROOT file in this example contains two separate ntuples, or
trees. Trees are discussed later in this workbook
chapter, but for now, is it sufficienct to follow the instructions
below to access one of the trees in this file.
First open the file and access the tree called h2013:
TFile* myfile = new TFile("taufile.root");
TTree* mytree = (TTree*)gDirectory->Get("h2013");
A cut is defined in ROOT by way of a TCut object. For example,
TCut *cut1= new TCut("nPi0s>2");
where here the fully correct C++ syntax is provided to allow this
command to be used in a macro. "nPi0s" is a property of the
objects about which information is to be plotted. This could be used,
for example, to plot thrust vs the minimum angle between particles in
each hemisphere of an event for events, but only selecting those
events in which there were more than two pi0s detected. The object
would then be drawn with, e.g.
c1->Update(); //update canvas called c1
In this case it is assumed that there is one entry in the ntuple
(compare: one row in a spreadsheet, where the columns represent
different information about that entry). Note also that in the
Draw(...) function call, the actual TCut object (*cut1)
is passed, rather than just the pointer (cut1).
Also, to plot only a section of the data:
The above command displays "ch_px_cms", where
"ch_px_cms" is greater than zero. (Compare with the result
when plotting without the cut). In this case, the cut wasn't defined
as a TCut object, instead it was simply included in the
Draw(...) function call, in quotes.
You can use more than one cut, using logical operators to choose the
inter-relation of the cuts, for example
While you can clearly use cuts without having to define a TCut object,
it does become cumbersome, particularly if several cuts are to be
used, or if the cut is to be used repeatedly and the value of it might
be changed. In which case it is much better to define several TCut
objects at the start of your code and only have to edit them in one
well-defined place.
A ROOT Object Browser is instantiated with a command like
TBrowser* tb = new TBrowser();
TBrowser tb
Now start a TBrowser with:
root[0] TBrowser tb
You can now look at the contents of this file by double-clicking on
ROOT files (in the right-hand pane of the TBrowser) and
then double-clicking on the filename. This file contains a single tree
(see the Trees section later in this WorkBook
chapter) called SimpleTree. To look at the contents of the tree,
double-click on that. The display will now list the contents of the
tree - namely E, Px, Py, Pz, n.
ROOT files
E, Px, Py, Pz, n
You can display the data in any of these leaves of the tree by
double-clicking on the name of the leaf. Try this by double-clicking
on the Px label. You should see a histogram which
looks like this file.
Now click on Options in the menu bar of the canvas and
select Event Status. Click on the Canvas again and point
to the histogram line with the mouse pointer. You should see a display
of the bin contents (and other things) in the lowest row of the
canvas - this is particularly useful when looking at a log plot to
determine the x and y coordinates of a particular point on a line.
Event Status
Now get the Editor by clicking on Edit->Editor in
the menu bar of the canvas containing the histogram:
Get a DrawPanel by moving the mouse pointer to the histogram line in any
bin (the pointer should change from a cross to a pointer), clicking
the right mouse button and choosing DrawPanel:
Have a play with some of the options (lego1 is nice) by clicking on
the option and then clicking on "Draw".
Get a FitPanel by moving the mouse pointer to the histogram line in any
bin (the pointer should change from a cross to a pointer), clicking
the right mouse button and choosing FitPanel:
Again, have a go by clicking some options and then clicking
"Fit" (we'll do a bit more with this later in this Workbook
Back in the ROOT Browser: Show the variables contained in the tree by
double clicking on the tree icon (SimpleTree):
Display the variable by double-clicking on its name:
Try clicking the right mouse button on the SimpleTree icon, you'll
get a context menu. To start the GUI for working with Trees, choose
StartViewer from this context menu. (If a pop-up window
appears prompting you for width (ww) and height (wh) settings, select
OK in that window.
First load in a root file as above, e.g. myrootfile.root, and display the
By right-clicking on different areas of the canvas, you are
presented with a drop-down menu with different options for displaying
your picture. For example (assuming the graph is displayed with a
legend and a stats box):
zone 2 2
Assuming you have a canvas c1, the CINT way is
c1->Divide(2,2); // divisions in x and y
c1->cd(3); //where c1 is the canvas name, and 3 is one of
//the subdivisions of the 2x2 canvas
(You can test this by plotting your histogram again,
h1->Draw(); and seeing that it appears in the 3rd place.)
The GUI-way is to right-button click on the canvas, choose
"Properties", then select "Divide" and fill in the
nx and ny attributes. You can then move the mouse
pointer over the pad you want to access and click the middle button.
c1->Clear(); //clear the contents of the current canvas
TFile f("example.root");
f.ls(); //just to check what's there
f.cd("pi0_dir"); //to change into a subdirectory of the file
TPad *npad = new TPad("npad", "", 0.6, 0.2, 0.9, 0.5);
The following command clears the canvas and returns it to having just
one pad on the canvas:
That said, CINT is great for all the interactive display stuff
usually needed for getting plots into a form suited for presentation.
CINT completes partially typed commands, provides you with a list
of arguments a given function expects and completes filenames you have
to enter. Try
root[0] TFi<TAB>
root[1] TFile f(<TAB>
root[2] TFile f("fr<TAB>
Further, if you type in a variable followed by an arrow, for
gStyle-> and then enter a tab
gStyle->SetOptStat( and then a tab
CINT allows you to scroll through your history of commands with the
arrow keys (just like PAW). It keeps this history between sessions and
you can scroll through previous sessions (unlike PAW). This is a very
useful feature.
CINT also provides you with a search facility in its history,
accessible with <Ctrl-r>. Try
root[3] <CTRL-r> TF
The equivalent of pawlogon.kumac. It is good to keep it as short as
This text file stores a history of the commands you entered during a ROOT
session. These commands can be copied out of this text file and into a
macro (see below) to be used later.
In the section about fitting you created a
macro called myfunc.C to define a new function,
myfunc();. A macro is a C++ function defined with the
return_type function_name(arg1_type arg1_name, arg2_type,
arg2_name, ...) {
commands with ";%quot; at the end of each line;
.L mymacro.C
function_name(parm1, parm2...);
.x myfile.C
.L myfunc.C
TF1 *f1 = new TF1("f1", myfunc, -1.,1., 3);
// here 3 is the number of parameters for the function
You can also write unnamed macros as a bunch of commands, enclosed in
braces, and with each line ending in a semi-colon, and put them in a
file (e.g. macro1.C)
// macro.C
cout << "hello world" <<
.x macro1.C
void helloWorld() {
cout << "Hello World" << endl;
root[2] .L macro2.C
root[3] helloWorld()
root[3] helloWo<TAB>
input_data( TChain* dataChain )
A single ROOT file can hold several trees, as in the example file
taufile.root first introduced in the Cuts section in this workbook chapter. Each tree is
independent, like an individual file, and it is not possible to plot
quantities in one tree subject to cuts on quantities in another tree.
Opening the example file:
root [0] TFile *myfile=new TFile("taufile.root");
We can list the objects (trees and histograms) contained in the file:
root [1] myfile.ls()
TFile** taufile.root HBOOK file: .../tau-1571.hbook converted to ROOT
TFile* taufile.root HBOOK file: .../tau-1571.hbook converted to ROOT
KEY: TTree h2013;1 1-3
KEY: TTree h2033;1 3-3
This tells you the irrelevant information that this file was actually
made by converting a PAW file to ROOT format. It also shows that there
are two trees in the file, h2013 and h2033,
and no histograms.
To access the contents of a tree, you can make a tree object which
holds the contents of one of the trees in the file:
myfile.cd() //make sure ROOT's focus is on myfile
TTree* mytree = (TTree*)gDirectory->Get("h2013");
By calling TTree functions of the mytree object, you
can now access the contents of the tree h2013 from taufile.root. For
example, to get a list of branch or leaf names, enter:
Executing the example with
.x roottest.C
The resulting tree is written into a file called SimpleTree.root. This root file, and the
tree in it can be inspected in the manner described in this Workbook
chapter, and in Introduction to ROOT.
.x someMacro.cc > outFile.txt
ofstream fout;
int count;
for (count=0; count<total; ++count) {
fout << sig[count].name << " "
<< sig[count].slope << " "
<< sig[count].coeff << endl;
ntp->Print(); > output.log
ntp1->Scan("momentum"); > output.log
.! command
.! ls
Follow the link above for instructions for setting up and using
RooFit for BaBar analyses. During BaBar Collaboration meetings, there
are often RooFit tutorials conducted by experts.
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The Vista Recycle Bin
I did something really stupid tonight. I was trying to get a little bit of work done while I was talking on the phone with my grandmother, and I accidentlly deleted the Recycle Bin on one of my workstations. Actually, I don't feel too bad, because the option to delete the Recycle Bin is on the same menu as the option to empty the Recycle Bin (which is what I was trying to do). It's easy to click on the wrong option. Fortunately, it is also easy to get the Recycle Bin back.
To do so, open the Control Panel, and click on the Appearance and Personalization link, followed by the Personalization link. The pane on the left contains a Change Desktop Icons option. Click on this option, and then select the Recycle Bin check box, and click OK. That's all there is to bringing the Recycle Bin back!
The latest E-mail scam
Lately, it seems as though I have been getting a lot more spam in my spam filters than I have had in a while. Yesterday though, I got something new that I thought was worth mentioning. The message appeared to be an IT related newsletter that I actually subscribe to. I don't want to mention the name of the newsletter, but I will tell you that it wasn't a TechTarget publication.
At any rate, I was about to click on a story that I wanted to read, and I got distracted. It was just dumb luck that when I turned back toward my computer screen my mouse was still above the link, and the URL was showing. As you have probably already figured out, the bogus newsletter was directed toward a phishing site.
Phishing messages are certainly nothing new, and I like to think that I am up on all of the latest ways to keep myself safe from these types of scams. This one almost got me though. After I realized that the newsletter was fraudulent, I started looking for tell tale signs. The scary part was that the newsletter appeared 100% legitimate in every way. It appears that the spammer took this site's current newsletter, changed the embedded URL, and then sent it back out while spoofing the organization's identity. The wierd thing was that I got the fake newsletter before I even got the real one. The two newsletters were identical aside from the embedded URLs.
My point is that you can no longer implicitly trust messages that were previously considered trustworthy. I would never advise anyone to give up the newsletters that they subscribe to. Newsletters are a great way to keep up with the latest information, and I rely on them myself. What I am saying is that it may not be a bad idea to get in the habit of verifying URLs before you click on them, even if the message seems to come from a trustworthy source.
Behind the times
As someone who writes about technology for a living, I pretty much have to use the latest version of all of the software that I write about. As such, it is easy to forget that there are people out there who do not always keep their systems up to date.
Yesterday I got a phone call from an old friend who is a business owner, but who is not involved in the IT industry. He had been seeing all of the Windows 7 commercials on TV, and wanted to know what I thought about it. After giving him my honest critique of the new operating system, he asked me a question that just floored me. The question was "Is it better than Windows 98".
Obviously, WIndows 98 has worked well for my friend, or he wouldn't have continued to use it for all this time. I shudder to even think about what the migration process is going to be like though. I guarantee that Microsoft doesn't have a Windows 98 to Windows 7 migration path documented on the Internet anywhere. I just can't help but wonder if there are other organizations who are still running pre-Windows XP operating systems and have decided that this is the time to upgrade.
More Windows 7 Themes
I was playing around with Windows 7 earlier today, and I stumbled on to something that I had to pass along. Like every other version of Windows in recent memory, Windows 7 comes with some built in themes and wallpapers, and also allows you to use custom themes. What I didn't realize until today though, is that Windows 7's themes are regional in nature. For example, I live in the United States, so many of the wallpapers that are available to me by default are photos that were taken at different locations in the USA. If you activate the various international themes though, you can get wallpapers from around the world. Maybe this isn't such a big deal for some people, but I absolutely love foreign travel, so I got a real kick out of this.
To get to the themes, just open WIndows Explorer and go to \Windows\Globalization\MCT\. From there, there are several regional folders. Open the folder of your choice and then go into the Theme sub folder and double click on the theme file within the folder to activate the theme.
Virtual Conferences
A few days ago, I mentioned that I was schedule to speak at a virtual conference today, and that I was curious how the attendance would be. I have no way of knowing how many people were at the conference, because there were multiple tracks going on. I couldn't keep a constant watch on the participant counter because I had to focus on my presentation, but it seemed that about 60 people attended my session. By way of comparison, the last live presentation that I did at a physical conference only had about ten people. I am really starting to think that there might be something to virtual conferences.
My presentation was on disaster recovery for virtual servers. Yes, I spoke about virtualization at a virtual conference. Kind of ironic isn't it? At any rate, I am told that a recording of my presentation will soon be available for download. Whenever I get a link to the recording, I will pass it along.
Virtual Conferences
Every year I make it a point to travel to as many technology conferences as I can in the interest of keeping my education current. Given the state of the economy, I don't think that it would come as much of a surprise to anyone that attendance at IT conferences has been way down this year. Between the price of admission and travel expenses the costs of attending a conference really add up, and IT conferences make an easy target for managers who are looking to trim the bottom line.
Next week I am scheduled to speak at a virtual conference. I have done Webcasts before, but I have never done a virtual conference before. This afternoon I got to take a tour of the virtual conference "facility". I have to say that I was really impressed by how well thought out the Web application was. It kind of makes me wonder if virtual conferences are going to be the big thing in the future. I really hope that traditional conferences still continue to have their place because I enjoy traveling, and there is nothing like being able to talk to other IT professionals face to face. Even so, it is hard to argue with the cost savings that virtual conferences provide. It will be interesting to see how attendance is next week.
Posey is Back!
Those of you who assumed that I had completely abandoned my blog will be happy to know that I'm finally back online. I am sorry for having such a prolonged absence but unfortunately it could not be helped. Without going into too much detail, an injury resulted in three weeks of blindness. Even though I continued to write some articles during that time the process was painfully slow and required the assistance of others. I am happy to report though, that I have most of my eyesight back and can use a computer without assistance.
On a more technical note, I have been using Windows 7 on my primary workstation since it was released last month. So far, the operating system seems to be rocksolid. I have run into a few unexpected glitches that there hasn't been anything major. For example, my soundcard driver refused to work even though it was designed for Windows Vista. Thankfully, Creative Labs offers a Windows 7 version of the driver. I also discovered that after I switched to Windows 7, Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10 had to be reactivated. Aside from those particular issues, Windows 7 appears to be working well for me.
Windows 7 Device Drivers
I ran into something interesting this morning that I wanted to tell you about. As you are no doubt aware, Windows 7 is built on the Vista kernel. In fact, some critics have referred to Windows 7 as Windows Vista 2.0.
Being that Windows 7 and Vista are so closely related, I had assumed that I would be able to use Windows Vista device drivers. Apparently that isn't always the case though. This morning I had to replace the sound card in one of my computers. When the new sound card didn't work, I decided to look for Windows 7 specific drivers. Sure enough, once I downloaded the Windows 7 drivers, the card began working.
Windows 7 Installation
Last week Microsoft released Windows 7 to some of their customers. Over the weekend I decided to try installing Windows 7 on a couple of machines. One of the machines was an older desktop that had already been upgraded from XP to Vista. Rather than doing a clean install, I wanted to see if Vista could be used as a way of indirectly upgrading from WIndows XP to Windows 7. I am happy to say that the process worked flawlessly.
For my other deployment, I wanted to see how well Windows 7 would do with a Vista upgrade on a newer machine that had never had XP installed. The machine that I ran the test on was a brand new Toshiba laptop. During the installation process I received a warning message indicating that my wireless network adapter wouldn't work after the upgrade. I wanted to see what would happen, so I went ahead with the upgrade. Surprisingly, the wireless NIC continued to function after the upgrade with no adverse side effects.
More Windows 7 News
In a recent post I mentioned that Windows 7 would be available, preloaded on new PCs in October. Today Microsoft sent out a much more detailed E-mail message disclosing the release dates. Here is when Windows 7 will be available through various channels:
Volume license customers with the software assurance plan: August 7th
TechNet subscribers: August 6th
Non English versions of Windows 7 should be available through these channels as of October 1st.


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This week, Maryland's congressional delegation will be called on to vote on a matter of the gravest national importance: President Barack Obama has asked lawmakers to authorize punishing military strikes against Syria in response to that government's use of chemical weapons last month to murder more than 1,400 of its own citizens, including 400 children. We urge our representatives in Washington to stand behind the president's resolve not to allow these heinous crimes to go unpunished. The use of military force is always a serious matter and never one to be undertaken lightly. But there are times when it becomes absolutely necessary because the alternatives are far worse. This is one of them.
After more than a decade of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans are understandably wary of becoming entangled in another protracted and potentially dangerous Mideast conflict. In Maryland, which voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama in last year's presidential election, public sentiment is just as lopsidedly against any U.S. military intervention in Syria. Members of the state's congressional delegation are keenly aware their constituents want no part of another overseas adventure that drains resources from projects at home and may end badly no matter what we do.
But Syria's use of chemical weapons against civilians represents the crossing of a line that the world cannot abide, and it must not go unanswered. The indiscriminate killing of innocent men, women and children with deadly poison gas is truly a "moral obscenity," in the words of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, that has rightly been condemned by international convention as beyond the pale of acceptable actions for any government, even during wartime.
To act now is not to say that the 1,400 Syrians killed by Mr. Assad's gas attacks matter more than the 100,000 killed by other means. They don't. What demands our intervention now is the dangerous precedent the unchecked use of these abhorrent weapons portends. Failing to enforce a decades old and nearly universal international norm against the use of chemical weapons would open the door to the wholesale slaughter of millions more people around the world by governments that felt no compunction against mass murder and genocide.
That's why Maryland's lawmakers in Washington must be very clear on what the upcoming vote in Congress is about — and what it is not. It is not about taking sides in Syria's ongoing civil and sectarian war. It is not about strengthening the "moderate" elements of the Syrian opposition or weakening "extremist" factions, which we have been unable to do so far, and it is not about repeating our mistakes in Iraq, where we invaded a country that posed no threat to us based on flawed intelligence about weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. There is no question that Syria possesses chemical weapons and, as even skeptics of a U.S. intervention in Syria concede, no doubt that it used them against its own people.
What this week's vote is really about is whether the U.S. will stand by and do nothing while such atrocities occur. It's about whether a government that uses chemical weapons to flagrantly violate a bedrock principle of international law and decency will be allowed to commit unspeakably savage war crimes with impunity. And it's about whether the U.S. can summon the will to respond forcefully in upholding a world order that protects our citizens and those of our allies as well as the Syrian people from these awful weapons.
That responsibility that has been thrust upon us not because we are "the world's policeman" but because we are only country in the world that has the ability and moral clarity to punish Mr. Assad for his crimes against humanity. No lawmaker wants to buck the tide of popular sentiment, but faced with the monstrous evil the Assad government has, against all constraints of law and morality, set loose in the world, Maryland's representatives in Washington must take a principled stand alongside the president and support a limited but firm response aimed at convincing Mr. Assad and anyone else who may be contemplating using chemical weapons that they will pay a steep price for doing so.
This is a decisive moment for Maryland legislators and for a Congress that has not distinguished itself when it comes to getting the nation's most important business done. Authorizing military action in Syria is one of the most difficult decisions lawmakers will ever face, and we sincerely wish there were other credible options for them to choose from. But that's not the world we live in, which is full of risk and uncertainty. The only thing we can be sure of is that the consequences of doing nothing are likely to be even worse.


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News, reviews and photographs of Modern Fashion Dolls including Kingdom Doll, Fashion Royalty, Sybarite, Tonner Doll, Gene Marshall, Barbie and my own experiences as a doll collector.
Barbie and Ken as "Mad Men" Characters
NY Times article.
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Love the fashions but the dolls look nothing like the characters. Poppy Parker looks more like Betty Draper than any Silkie ever will. I wonder who could be Joan Holloway - Dania maybe?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/10/10, 10:21 AM
Ugh I want the redhead so bad..ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/10/10, 1:25 PM
Nice! I wish the men looked a little more like Don and Roger, but otherwise very cute. I will have to have Betty & Joan.ReplyDelete
I think Roger and Don look pretty good. Not exact but a good attempt. Joan and Betty look like regular Silkstones,no creativity there what so ever.ReplyDelete
- Carine3/10/10, 8:35 PM
I hope to get the Eiffel Tower dressed doll. She is gorgeous, and the dress is superb.ReplyDelete
I am surprise that the Silkstone men don't look as goofy as I thought they would.
WOW Mattel not only canceled "gay" ..ahem Sugar dady Ken but they went with a homophobic show ( I don't mean the actors or producers personally but the show it self is not a great example of where society was back them..the cheating-abusive husband...the submisive wife...barbie whent from president to kept woman that allows her husband to cheat...ReplyDelete
@ Stratos: Yes, the clothes and styles of the dolls really look good here, but I think the designer just copied the "styles and fashion" of the characters from Mad Men, and not totally copy them, or else it will loss the so called "inspiration. Don looks the best by the way.. =)ReplyDelete


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Rreze Duli's father was born in Southern Serbia, her Albanian mother comes from Macedonia. She sees herself as a Kosovar. Rreze represents a new generation of women in Pristina, where she lives alone with her daughter Hana. Being a single mother in Kosovo is not easy:
"It is only possible because I work a lot, from half past seven in the morning until six o'clock in the evening. Then I can take care of my daughter."
Rreze still recalls the 'golden years' before the arrival of Slobodan Milosevic. She was a student of mechanical engineering in the 1980s. Back then, she could travel freely in Yugoslavia and most of Europe. In 1989 Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic imposed Belgrade's rule in Kosovo. An estimated 130,000 Kosovo Albanians lost their jobs.
During the 1990s Rreze and most of her family worked for international organisations. She worked for Mercy Corps.
"The situation was critical; many people were laid off from work. At that time, I began to work for an American aid organization. I wanted to help Kosovo; we distributed relief funds, especially flour, stoves and hygiene packs."
After 1999 Rreze worked for a number of international agencies. In March 2003 she joined the Lessons Learned and Analysis Unit of the EU Pillar of UNMIK, run by ESI. With ESI, Rreze undertook research on economic and social developments in villages and towns across Kosovo, and on the economic situation of Kosovo Serbs. She contributed to a number of ESI reports, including The Lausanne Principle and Cutting the Lifeline.
What Rreze saw doing field research in rural Kosovo shocked her.
"When I worked with ESI in 2003, I would visit the villages every day. We carried out intensive research and realized that the villagers don't have any perspective to live off agriculture. The small plots of land cannot provide for the many inhabitants."
Field-research in rural Kosovo
2007 Rreze returned to the villages she had earlier studied.
"In fact, nothing changed for the better. There was hope – but I see that only the school that was started to be built three years ago is finished now. There's no other change. The situation is worse than before."
Today Rreze again works for an NGO, one funded by USAID. While she welcomes Kosovo's independence she is concerned about the possible departure of international organisations.
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Opacity: Apply two even coats for perfect coverage.
Size: 10ml/.34 fl.oz
The Gelous?™ colour system applies like polish and cures in 30-60 seconds in an LED lamp (2 minutes in a traditional UV lamp). Our 7-Free formula's extreme durability lasts on nails up to 21 days with no smudging, chipping, or peeling! It protects the natural nail with quick and easy soak-off removal in 6-10 minutes.
We recommend use of the NCLA Gelous?™ specially formulated top coat Top Of The Game which requires no alcohol wipe down!