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Steven Greenhut: Power and secrecy a recipe for abuse
By STEVEN GREENHUT
Many Americans who pay attention to politics believe the nation's great ideological chasm separates "red state" Republicans and "blue state" Democrats. While the nation's two major parties have their differences, the real divide is, and always has been, between Americans who reflexively trust the authorities and those who recognize that their ow
Sat Jun 15, 2013
Reinflating debate about suburbia
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real estate prices through the floor in many places, some influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of something they had always derided: the suburbs. In their view, the kind of homes and neighborhoods many of us live in are tacky, ug
Sat Jun 08, 2013
Addicted to scare tactics
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – "As many as 100,000 crack babies are born every year," reported the Los Angeles Times in an overheated 1990 article echoing the results of a Department of Health and Human Services study. The feds were calling for a massive influx of tax dollars to fund social programs for a new generation of Americans born to mothers who used
Sat Jun 01, 2013
America can guard only its own freedoms
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – It's hard to believe, but the current tax scandal will eventually fade away, just as all Washington, D.C., scandals run their course. It's easier to believe that the IRS will remain an unpopular and abusive agency, subject perhaps to some reforms and personnel changes that, ultimately, will do nothing to change its character.
Sat May 25, 2013
Scandals show need for revived civil-liberties coalition
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix, between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department's grabbing of phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors. There are few things more fun to watch t
Sat May 18, 2013
Does more regulation prevent tragedies?
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – California and Texas officials have been having an ongoing feud over which of the nation's two megastates is the better place to live and do business – which has become a proxy issue for the broader philosophical debate over the proper size and scope of government. In California, Democrats control every state con
Sat May 11, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Green cars burn taxpayer green
By STEVEN GREENHUT
We're used to political races revolving around pointless slogans, but sometimes an important race focuses the public's attention on a meaningful and relevant issue. For instance, the Virginia governorship may hinge on voters' increasing distaste for insider-enrichment deals known as "crony capitalism." Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Sat Apr 27, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Perks pose risk to all of us
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – The horrific Boston bombings have led to irrational calls for more security cameras and more police officers, with some Democrats absurdly using this tragedy to argue for halting the slight sequester-mandated cuts in federal spending growth. Never mind that police spending primarily is a local function. The bigger ques
Sat Apr 20, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Water plan threatens taxpayers, environment
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – In Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," a priest recalls the words of a man who confessed: "The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular." We can all think of people like that – folks of varied political persuasions who rally to "save" humanity, but become so consumed by their cause that the
Sat Apr 13, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Has California been saved?
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Ever since California's voters approved in November the Proposition 30 increases in sales taxes and income taxes, many left-of-center commentators have been gloating about the resurgence of the Golden State after many years of predictions of doom and gloom. Their evidence: Higher taxes seem to have cleared up the state
Mon Apr 08, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Pensions at heart of bankruptcy
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Few nonlocal people typically pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold Rush-era industrial city of about 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley, at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But bondholders, taxpayers and government officials throughout the country will be li
Sat Mar 30, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Attack of the artificial crises
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Not many of my friends or neighbors are sitting on pins and needles, worrying that the world as we know it will end as the federal government "slashes" spending as part of the automatic sequester cuts mandated by a previous budget bill. And not many people have been thinking, "Geesh, there's nothing we need more than h
Sat Mar 23, 2013
Steven Greenhut: U.S. skies grow militarized
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Don't you hate it when life starts to resemble one of those bleak, futuristic dystopian movies? I'm thinking of an almost unfathomable reality – local and state governments are joining the feds in buying unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – to patrol the skies. Many uses for drones are innocent enough,
Sat Mar 16, 2013
Steven Greenhut: California GOP needs ideas, not just money
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Most of the activists, insiders and lobbyists I talked to during this month's California Republican Party convention in Sacramento expressed optimism about their party despite blistering election losses and persistently falling voter registration levels. Their optimism came from the election of former lawmaker Jim Brul
Sat Mar 09, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Immigration debate over in California
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – As the cliché goes, elections have consequences. And the Nov. 6 election results have had dramatic consequences in California. The debate over immigration – legal and otherwise, but, especially, otherwise – is over. Even some Republicans are joining with Democrats to promote the "path to citizenship"
Sat Mar 02, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Supreme Court's spotty record on civil liberties
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – The Supreme Court's recent decisions regarding police powers were mixed, thus offering a reminder to civil libertarians that they cannot depend upon the high court to protect the public from unwarranted government intrusions. "The U.S. Supreme Court handed police one victory and one loss on Tuesday," reported National
Sun Feb 24, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Dorner manhunt raises policing issues
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Police typically say that their paramount mission is to protect public safety. But the recently concluded manhunt for former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner, accused of murdering four people after releasing a manifesto decrying his 2008 firing from the force, raises concerns about where the public's ac
Sat Feb 16, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Democrats now see downside of CEQA
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Although many of California's legislative Democrats are eager to "test drive" the new two-thirds majorities their caucuses hold in the Assembly and Senate – i.e., pushing the limits of their power to advance their progressive agenda – others are focusing on a sensible reform that almost everyone knows is slowing jo
Sat Feb 09, 2013
Steven Greenhut: California a model for other states?
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – California's modern-day progressive Democrats keep crowing about the huge success they've had in taming the state's budget deficit, thanks to Proposition 30's tax increases and other "reforms," and now are championing the Jerry Brown model as a blueprint for the nation. Is that realistic? It's one thing that ot
Sat Feb 02, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Affluence Police tee off on Mickelson
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – After hearing the criticism directed toward golfer Phil Mickelson for his modest comments about California's highest-in-the-nation tax rates giving him cause to consider relocating, I was left wondering: what country do we live in? Did you ever have one of those moments? "If you add up all the federal, and you look at
Sat Jan 26, 2013
Steven Greenhut: Brown still not scaling 'wall of debt'
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown continues to pose as an iconoclast who is willing to make the tough choices necessary to keep California afloat, but his new budget is more evidence that he remains the cat's-paw for the state's public-sector unions. "I want to advance the progressive agenda," Brown said at the news conference unveilin
Tue Jan 22, 2013
Steven Greenhut: More to crime-fighting than just hiring more cops
By STEVEN GREENHUT
SACRAMENTO – As California's toughest cities struggle with violent crime, we are hearing a familiar refrain: "Hire more police officers." While more cops may be the right answer in some places, public officials need to consider a wider array of crime-fighting options and examine ways to stretch their existing budgets. Willi
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Please nominate my cover for the Cover Art Cafe
Hi, readers of IMHO. If you liked the cover of THE PROMISE, I would love to have it nominated for Best 2009 Historical Romance cover in the annual cover art contest at Cover Cafe. Just click on this link and complete the following information. It's quick and easy, and while you are there, you can check out their website.
Book Title: THE PROMISE
Author: TJ BENNETT
(if known): MEDALLION PRESS
Art Credits
(if known): ARTURO DELGADO
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(if available) http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Legacy-TJ-Bennett/dp/1933836962/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245863007&sr=8-1
Thanks for taking the time to do this. I love my cover and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.
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- etirv said...
I just submitted my vote! Truly deserving of a nom!
- 12:19 PM, June 25, 2009
- Judy said...
TJ, consider yourself nominated. I think it is a beautiful cover.
- 2:39 PM, June 25, 2009
- TJ Bennett said...
Thanks, folks!
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- dag888888 said...
Turned in my nom for The Promise cover today!
- 8:36 PM, June 25, 2009
- Virginia said...
I just nominated your book TJ, good luck!
- 8:39 PM, June 25, 2009
- TJ Bennett said...
Thank you!!! Y'all are great!
TJB - 9:41 PM, June 25, 2009
- Susan said...
I LOVE the cover! It definitely deserves to win!
- 10:37 PM, July 01, 2009
- Susan said...
I nominated it and hope you win!
- 10:44 PM, July 01, 2009
- TJ Bennett said...
Thanks, Susan, and everyone else for taking the time!
TJB - 10:13 AM, July 02, 2009
- Leanne said...
TJB, me want The Promise! I think you will win---this looks like a book of great substance and intrigue.
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Posted: Apr Sun 10, 2005 5:10 pm
Post subject: Sunday's food/exercise
Well, today has been a good day food and exercise wise.
B- 2 scrambled eggs, leftover steak (prob 2 oz), 1 cup 1/2 reg, 1/2 decaf coffee, cream
S - string cheese
L- went out with a girlfriend - grilled chicken, broccoli, salad with italian dressing, 1 pint Miller lite, lots of laughing
D - just a handful of almonds and 3 strawberries with peach whipped cream- not hungry after a big lunch
Exercise - walked around the park with friend for 1 hour - worked up a sweat for 1/2 of it, meandered for the other 1/2. Cleaning house for 2 hours (vaccuming, laundry, etc)
Hope your day was good too!
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today i've had:
b-2slices ham and cheese quiche, 1blueberry muffin, cup of green tea with 2spenda and half and half.
lunch-meat lasagna, and a green salad with tomatoes, radish, cucumbers, bacon bits, sunflower seeds and carbwell ranch dressing.
supper- planning on 2 pieces baked talapia, with oven roasted zucchini, yellow squash, and turnips
snack-salt and vinegar pork rinds.
so far 60oz water and 1 dite rite soda
if anyone sees a problem here please let me know.
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Today's menu was as follows:
Breakfast: 2 pieces of bacon, 1/2 Atkins shake
No lunch
Supper: Salad with 0 carb dressing and a hamburger patty
I'm recovering from some kind of crud I brought back from Disney...no appetite:-(
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I should really pay attention to what I'm eating... not that I cheat, but there's times I don't remember. I usually have the same thing, but it never gets old. I wake up around 3pm (we go to bed really late... or early, so we wake up around 1-3pm), so would that mean breakfast is actually lunch?
Breakfast: Chorizo with eggs
Lunch: Egg salad
Dinner: none
Snacks: pork rinds with cream cheese and LOTS of low carb ice cream. I'm getting... ahem... bloated, so I'm craving sweets.
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I try to be really good. Watch what i eat, and read labels. I think I should start again writing my daily food intake down. I dunno. At times I'm so lost here. but I will tell you....I tend to eat alot of Macadamias. It's my cheat. My filler. i dunno..just know i cant stay away from them. Maybe its the salt or the crunch. I have other stuff that crunchs. I can lick the salt shaker if I wanna. So whats the deal? This is an 8.5 oz can. and I'll go through 2-3 of em a week. sooo cheap at Wal Mart. I left home one morning bout 2 am to get a can when I was out.
I have a half a can sitting right here beside me. And just for today, I'm not gonna open the can. sighs............
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Lissa - put those nuts into individual baggies!
I find that individual servings stops me from mindless overeating.
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Trish, I went right to the store and got some of those lil snack bags. They are about half the size of a reg. sm. zip bag. and just for today........i did NOT open the can. I have not put the nuts in the bags yet LOL to do that I have to "open" the can.
maybe tomorrow.. TY Trish!!
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Sorry I missed this good thread. I am trying to set a good example by reading and replying to every post in the group. It is 7:15 AM and some might say I am crazy. If my wife wasn't also up doing taxes in the other room, well, I might feel a little looney. But I married well, so there. Two looneys in a bin.
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What does this joke mean? "Utility knickers - one Yank, and they're off." I've heard it in the movie, Enigma by Michael Apted and have no idea what that refers to. There was nothing in the context that could help either. By the way, the story takes place during the World War II (if you haven't seen the movie.)
My read on the joke is as follows (explaining the funny element of a joke is always hard, keep in mind):
"utility knickers"--acts as if these are a new-fangled kind of knickers (underwear) that make them easier/handier,etc. (hence, "utility")
"one yank and they're off"--this works on two levels. It takes just one "yank" (or tug/pull,etc) and they're off. It also could just take one "Yank" and they're off, which is the humorous read, as "Yank" refers to a northern Yankee....befitting the WWII setting.
I hope that helps, ~sarah
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Thanks Sarah, I did not know the other meaning of "yank." So it apparently pans with "yank" and "Yank." I'm sure of that because I checked the subtitle for "hard of hearing" and Yank was capitalized.
But I think the word "utility" refers to something more than being handy or any direct sense of the word. I guess it's some organization or maybe a brand or something having to do with Germans I suppose or something to that extent. I'm just guessing.
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Utility (or CC41) clothing was produced in Britain as part of the war effort. Look at this:
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Forgive me for asking, but does anyone know if utility knickers are, or were, similar to modesty knickers?
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I don't want to state the obvious, but in case you missed Sarah's point, a "Yank" is a derogatory name for an american. This joke probably pokes at the putatively lecherous, grasping american soldiers taking advantage of British girls, when the soldiers were stationed in great numbers in Britain during WWII. All it would take was one "Yank" in the room and he'd have her knickers off. As opposed to a room filled with British men, who would respect her dignity. Brits are often portrayed as having better social skills than the archetypically loud, brash americans. Even american movies and such will portray this stereotype, except that we will usually come to find that the loudmouth guy was really the one who had better character, courage, etc.
Thanks for finding a fun expression.
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So quick to blame the Yanks... :p
Maybe the British female is more attracted to the outgoing Americans and has nothing to do with any perceived lechery.
And thou it may have been meant as such, "Yank" was not perceived as derogatory by Americans. The word today is virtually neutral, but from the time of the American Revolution to WWII it was used as a term of pride. "The Yanks are coming!"
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Actually, Ingis, I would argue your statement:
>>>And thou it may have been meant as such, "Yank" was not perceived as derogatory by Americans. The word today is virtually neutral, but from the time of the American Revolution to WWII it was used as a term of pride. "The Yanks are coming!"<<<<
The brash American alluded to in this joke is not synonymous with a Southerner. In fact, I believe Southerners are as suited to compare with the Yankees as the British are.
***sidenote, no, I'm not a Southerner...Kansas City-native (and no, Kansas City is not in the South!!), Denver-resident***
Northerners maintain their specific nickname "Yank" because there is an entirely different way of life, logic, beliefs, and customs common to the North (past and present).
Certainly, the connotation of a Yankee has broadened some since Scarlett O'Hara was sobbing in the fields about "Yankees in Tara?!"
But to add two more cents to this debate, I, for one, would not like to be referred to as a Yank or Yankee although I am an American.
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Without going wildly off-topic and getting into value and historical arguments, suffice it to say that Northerners see "Yank" as a patriotic term for Americans but Southerners... who knows.
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I don't believe the British make any distinction between Northerners and Southerners when they use the term "Yank".
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I like this detour into the term Yank and will only add that as a Chicagoan, I don't mind being called a Yank by a fellow Yank, but to be called such by a southerner or a foreigner, I think I would have to judge the use by its context. In the present example, I should think that its a derisive intent, and that this is a joke told to best effect between two damn Brits:)
And to respect the call to get back on topic, I will say that a bra that came off eaily, with one yank, would actually have been quite desirable by the wearers, since in the past I suspect that women have had to entangle themselves in all manner of contraptions.
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Actually, let me correct myself. Knickers probably refers to underpants. We don't use the term knickers in the US, in spite of the New York Knicks (knickerbockers).
And yes, Inghis, the women could have been jumping on the outgoing, macho americans. At least, that would be the interpretation if one Yank told the joke to another.
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I see it's time for an english explanation...
My mother, 19 in 1940, is my source for definitive answers. First, Utility is as opposed to luxury. Not an improved design, far from it, and nothing to do with modesty.
In a country at war, under siege, blockaded, goods were scarce, what came in on those ships that survived the atlantic convoys was apportioned by rationing. New clothes were scarce, the term make-do and mend was prevalent. Prior to the war, women might wear underclothes that were loose, made of fine fabrics, and stylish. But the maximum number of garments had to be made from the minimum amount of cloth, so utility clothing was significantly less desirable. Silk was unavailable, it was needed for parachutes and folding maps, light yet strong cordage, certainly not to be wasted on underclothes.
Britain had been at war, fighting, working hard, bombed, for a long time before America joined in. All the young, fit men were in uniform, and most were far away, fighting, dead, captured, wounded. Those who were in england had little time off base for meeting girls. Then Pearl Harbour. And suddenly britain was filled with young americans, fit, healthy, well fed, well paid, and with plenty of leisure time at first. They were resented a bit, because they had no idea of the hardships people here were under, and saw all the girls as available, regardless of circumstance.
To the british, they were all yanks, it was not a derogatory term, the distinctions of north and south meant nothing to people here, you are people of one country, not two.
So yank was not an insult to southerners, just a friendly name for americans.
These young men were immensely rich, and had candy bars, chocolate, could give girls silk and nylon stockings, could bring canned food to their homes and give the family, who existed on rations, a banquet. No surprise, then that some girls abandoned their distant boyfriends and husbands to party with americans.
Servicemen bartered sex for goodies, as ever.
Another british joke of the time was "I came home on the first leave in two years and found I'd got a new baby-'Must have been those passionate letters you wrote', she said"
So. One Yank and they were often off. A lot of those girls were G.I. brides and were shipped by the hundreds to have their babies in america.
But over here we haven't forgotten either, that those young men died on the Normandy beaches, in the skies over europe, fought their way to berlin, bled on english earth, although there will always be a rivalry between us, we don't forget that those young men came from a safe place to fight for freedom here. And many stayed forever.
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Soubriquet - A very insightful viewpoint. Thanks for the history lesson.
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I was born in London in 1944 and I remember 'utility' things, with the CC mark. This is mainly because anything marked 'utility' lasted for years and years. Of course, during the war commodities such as clothing and furniture could not be replaced easily, so anything that was made, was made to last, unlike the present day when everything is 'throw-away'. I think low-income people would welcome 'utility' quality in this day and age.
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Bravo, Soubriquet!
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Get in the zone
From Australia to Finland, knowledge innovation zones (KIZ) are emerging in the quest for sustainable growth and economic development within cities, regions, countries and enterprises. Debra Amidon and Bryan Elliot Davis explain the role of KIZs within the KM arena and discuss combatting the global collaboration challenge.
A knowledge innovation zone (KIZ) is a geographic region, economic sector or community of practice in which knowledge flows from origin to the point of highest need or opportunity to improve economic performance and socio-political wellbeing.
There are variations on this theme within KIZs as the zones encompass knowledge flows in urban cities such as Barcelona, Melbourne, Montreal and Manchester, as well as those in the rural or aboriginal communities of the Australian desert. What is common, however, is the desire to create thriving hubs of interaction that are smart, connected, highly educated, creative, liveable, safe, healthy and attractive to talented people and investors. Leaders are learning and followers are slowly awakening to the benefits KIZs can offer.
There is, though, a risk that inadequately prepared communities will jump onto the KIZ bandwagon without considering the architecture required in order to build upon their shared vision heritage. Many communities have experimented with building wired towns and cities and some governments have promised to build wired infrastructures. The knowledge focus has previously been on ICT infrastructures; an understanding of the human elements has been minimal at best and, in some cases, completely overlooked. Therefore, many KM projects have failed.
In the current climate, a similar fate awaits communities that focus on digital platforms rather than paying attention to KIZ citizen involvement. Some communities vigorously pursue new development paths while marginalising those left behind, creating not only a digital, but also a social divide.
Knowledgeable executives recognise intellectual wealth is the economic engine. Their leadership is ushering in an era of competitive collaborative advantage. Successful knowledge-based initiatives require a fundamental understanding of knowledge-performance indicators, networked structures, knowledge roles and skills, innovation processes and collaborative technologies.
Lessons learnt
In the mid-1980s, experts were then analysing why companies were failing to achieve bottom-line results, despite IT-based modernisation. This dilemma the technology paradox was later labelled the productivity paradox. Productivity relates output to input and is a multi-variable rather than a linear problem. New rules for intangible and intellectual value to unravel the paradox have since been developed, tested, and in some cases, proven.
Three emerging rules, termed the laws of knowledge dynamics, have been identified: [1]
- 1st law knowledge multiplies when it is shared. Knowledge is a limitless and expandable source of economic wealth. Intellectual assets effectively exploited through innovation are the most valuable resource to manage;
- 2nd law value is created when knowledge moves from the point of origin to the point of highest need or opportunity. Innovation encompasses the full spectrum, from idea creation to commercialisation, and successful innovation involves converting knowledge flows into marketable goods and services;
- 3rd law collaboration for mutual leverage provides optimal utilisation of tangible and intangible resources within and across boundaries. Collaboration replaces the competitive (win/lose) paradigm prevalent today. Win/win benefits are based on pooling and leveraging competencies: knowledge, know-how and skills.
While not always explicitly recognised, these laws have driven and governed the efforts made to achieve stakeholder sustainability and prosperity from ERP-software-application developers and users, to ISPs and now KIZs.
KIZ foundations
The explicit management of knowledge or intellectual capital as a strategic resource is still evolving. In 1987, Managing the knowledge assets into the 21st century was one of the first conferences to focus on enterprise productivity from this perspective and KM moved swiftly on to meso-economic levels of national economies. The World Bank developed new economic indicators, followed by the OECD and the United Nations, as organisations began to learn from the progressive steps others were taking in the KM field.
The internet has facilitated the growth of KIZs. What began as an attempt to catalyse co-operation among economic sectors, including government, industry and academia (now termed cross-sector integration), has matured into initiatives that sustain interdependencies within and across industries, municipalities, national and regional borders.
Knowledge innovation zones are evolving to capitalise on stakeholder collaboration and sustainability. Knowledge cities, when developed intelligently and in harmony with their environment, are good models for strategic intent on both a local and a global platform.
The future for KIZs
There is now a mass of sufficient resource and practice material to produce a definitive report on state-of-the-art KM and create a guidepost for the future. Standards will emerge that will be based on a sound understanding of next-generation knowledge-based economics and culture. A knowledge-cities manifesto has been drafted in order to illustrate how human development depends not on having more but by being more becoming a co-creator of the future of humanity.[2]
For the past five years, we have been tracking over 100 initiatives that exemplify this new mindset. The product of our learnings can be viewed at www.inthekzone.com. The global knowledge-zone map has been designed as a knowledge-sharing tool that provides links to the initiatives, comparative rankings, recommended readings, and conferences and symposia information.
Organisations have outlined programmes for interdependence and have succeeded in closing the digital divide and promoting a more equitable society and quality of life, both in the workplace and at home. There is a renewed sense of interest in an individuals relationship with the environment, the ecology of management systems and the enterprises role and responsibility. There has been a sea change from the focus on limited resources financial, human and technological that defined the industrial age. Through its research into knowledge-innovation trends, Entovation was able to clearly see that knowledge is the new, renewable asset (see box out on page 28).
Our research has shown us that we need a redirected focus on financial capital. Innovation is key to realising the intangible value hidden in interactions between people, nations and societies.
Continuing in-depth analysis of past and ongoing initiatives will provide a snapshot of the frames, business models, cultural imperatives and performance indicators what works and what doesnt. Based upon our preliminary analysis of KIZ activity, there are primary indicators of emerging innovation practices that can gauge the strength of KIZ activity:
- Human capital high education levels and deep pools of talent (including artists, scientists, entrepreneurs);
- Intellectual capital advanced mental models, mindsets, values, IC metrics, intellectual-property patents and licensing activity;
- Infrastructure capital directories and maps to knowledge repositories, resources, expertise, networks, and communities of interest and practice and networks of institutions of higher learning, such as libraries, universities, R&D labs, institutes, think tanks and art schools;
- Social capital shared culture and a spirit of creativity and innovation, as well as collective respect for indigenous and local knowledge and customs;
- Relationship and network capital extensive knowledge-oriented alliances and partnerships, intangible reputation capital, respect for others and adaptability.
Concepts in practice: contrasting models
In Australia, City Plan 2010 is Melbourne City Councils primary planning strategy, which sets out a vision for development over the next ten years. As part of the city plan, which has an innovative and vital business theme, the council required a study of factors to consider when developing and maintaining a knowledge city and a set of strategic actions to realise this vision. These included:
- A state economy with sufficient critical mass to support world competitive specialisation;
- Dependable regulatory institutions;
- Responsive and creative bureaucracies;
- A high quality of life that would attract and retain knowledge workers;
- Research excellence;
- A competitive and collaborative business culture;
- A connective infrastructure;
- Networks of commercial influence;
- Market access and awareness;
- An inclusive, open and tolerant society;
- A collaborative model for implementation.
In a strategic plan that outlined culture as the motor of a knowledge city, executives and government officials embraced the idea that a city and culture are not only inter-related, but are two sides of the same coin. Culture is conceived as a fabric of living social relations and, at the same time, a product of these social relations. This central idea, that the city is the space where culture takes shape, must be assumed by all the public bodies so that city governments can be endowed with the necessary competences and resources, making the public management of culture more effective. From this position the city of Barcelona stimulated its role as the cultural capital of Catalonia, and eventually Forum 2004, by employing the following elements:
- Instruments that make knowledge accessible to citizens;
- A network of public libraries;
- Access to new communication technologies for all citizens;
- Cultural facilities and services that have a central educational strategy;
- A level of literacy that is in line with the average European level;
- A network of schools connected with artistic instruction;
- Respect for the diversity of cultural practices of its citizens;
- Civic centres that are open to diversity and that foster face-to-face relations;
- Availability of the tools required for citizens from all territories to express themselves;
- Instruments to make knowledge accessible.
However, these initiatives need to be linked to cross-fertilise intent and aspiration. Potential KIZ building blocks are emerging that could facilitate the construction of economies of scale, scope and learning, such as:
- Prototyping mechanisms to ensure the best concepts and theories being developed and practised provide a solid foundation for optimal performance;
- A knowledge-valuation process to chart direction and resolve the productivity paradox;
- Universal innovation metrics to ensure its future;
- The mindset and technology to enable people to share learning to eliminate unnecessary duplication of effort, destructive competition and re-invention.
Oresund region a cross-border example
In an experiment for the Oresund region, an initiative between Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden, we examined the benefits of creating an economic zone by constructing a bridge across the Baltic. We explored the initiative from a management construct designed to link performance, structure, people, process and technology, using these elements to explore the interdependence of variables for an enterprise, nation or region with cross-border/boundary opportunities.
What we have learnt: [3]
- In knowledge economics, what we count matters. As imprecise as it may seem, we need to measure intangible, hidden, intellectual wealth and the way in which it is created and leveraged;
- Knowledge structures operate as holonomies a nesting of networks that have both local and global scope. We need to understand how they connect as communities and spheres of influence;
- Although originally described as high technology or white collar, we are all knowledge workers. We need to determine what motivates constructive behaviours, modes of interdependence and collaboration;
- Knowledge processes can fit under the rubric of innovation but an innovation redefined according to flow of knowledge. We need to discover ways to measure how knowledge is created, shared and applied;
- The power of knowledge-processing technology is advancing beyond expectation. Technology isnt an end but a means and we must take advantage of technology to facilitate the evolution of KIZs.
The dialogue has been launched; our challenge now is to create collaborative advantage on a worldwide scale. We anticipate massive global investment in the KIZ concept over the next decade. To ensure a positive ROI, we can measure tangibles and monitor the performance of any system such that inputs are calibrated against the outputs of value: products and services. For organisations, a network of businesses, a country or a global inter-related set of countries, this dynamic measure is a step towards the evolution of a new economy. This focus has put us on the path to understanding the real value of intangible wealth, how it is created and how it contributes to profitability and prosperity.
We need to review the emergence and expression of KIZs in real situations and profile leading contenders, selective cases and conduct interviews. A new taxonomy is required to organise, classify, categorise and make sense of a family of inter-related concepts and ideas. It is also essential to examine and disseminate the creation of fresh opportunities, profit from leading insights, the tools of knowledge exchange and knowledge arbitrage.
World leaders met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. There, Henry Morganthau outlined plans for the creation of a dynamic world community in which the peoples of every nation will be able to realise their potentialities for peace. The leaders abandoned gold as a world monetary standard because it was limiting the global economy.
We have now entered the innovation frontier. Intellectual capital, properly leveraged via innovation, is the new currency that provides a different paradigm from previous agricultural, industrial or service economies. It is a currency that rests on the value of human potential and how it can be leveraged. The world is now our landscape and history will document our success.
Knowledge innovation trends observed
- Networks the influence of computing, network grids, business, and community networks is spreading, particularly the communities-of-practice phenomenon. Enterprises are operating as holonomies: the network is becoming the business;
- Change being flexible, adaptive, open to change, open to new ideas and willing to unlearn old ones, are essential management qualities. Innovation is the implementation of effective change management.However, rapid change is also elevating risks and stress;
- The internet has spawned new communication capabilities, connectivity, market opportunities, communities, content and innovations, and pre-empted the arrival of the e-economy. It has also enabled the migration and shift from place to space, facilitating real-time service-delivery;
- Competition between business models as well as products and services. Patents are being awarded for innovative and original business models;
- A free agent nation and the talent war the dynamic marketplace for know-how, expertise and experience is expanding. This leads to the need for effective personalisation of services, better one-to-one customer relations and a focus on customer/stakeholder success;
- The virtualisation of markets for everything we are seeing a shift towards fast-paced electronic markets and the spread of virtual organisations and communities as knowledge flows freely across boundaries;
- Globalisation interdependency and interconnectedness is facilitating the death of distance. Mergers and acquisitions create an ever larger global conglomeration. Peoples intangible value, in interaction with one another, is the critical performance metric;
- Open source open-source software is growing and citizens desire openness and transparency in governance, while a parallel counter-trend towards securing intellectual-property rights is also in evidence;
- Growing value of intangibles creativity, innovativeness, reputation, technological prowess, diversity and brand are enabling the growth of weightless wealth and digital and intellectual capital. Ideas are the new currency and reporting is now required by FASB and the IASB;
- From industrial to digital economy the global economy is shifting to one centred on information, creative ideas, knowledge and the bio-economy;
- I visualise, therefore I can do imagination and visualisation technologies are pre-cursors to deep-knowledge mastery, high levels of expertise and improved performance. Computer-enhanced visualisation technologies are enabling us to model, simulate, understand and then act; [4]
- The emergence of knowledge zones the expansion of the knowledge-based economy is spawning a growing interest in deep-knowledge clustering, pools of expertise and high-tech facilities in KIZs.
- These zones are enabling new forms of enterprise, collaboration, co-operation, R&D, innovation, knowledge sharing, and commercialisation of ideas, between the private sector, government and academia.
1. Amidon, D.M., Formica, P. & Mercier-Laurent, E., Knowledge Economics: Principles, Practices and Policies (scheduled for release by Tartu University Press, Autumn 2004)
2. www.entovation.com/mailing/june1504.htm
3. Excerpts from Amidon, D.M., The Innovation SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Sustainable Collaborative Advantage (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002)
4. www.corporatelongitude.com
Debra Amidon, founder and CEO of Entovation, email@example.com
Bryan Elliot Davis, president of The Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management, email@example.com


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Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday tried to calm the jittery financial sector stating that the rise in non-performing assets (NPAs) of public sector banks (PSBs) is marginal and not alarming.
NPAs are a sum of those loans that are vulnerable to go bad or default out of the total lending a bank has done. The PSBs' total NPAs had gone up to 3.3 percent in 2011-12 from 2.3 percent in 2010-11.
According to some estimates, the gross NPAs of PSBs grew by Rs.39,000 crore in 2011-12, compared to only Rs.500 crore in the case of private banks. The reason for such a spike was attributed to rise in the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) in sectors like aviation, real estate, power and telecom due to upward movement in interest rates, volatile currency and commodity markets.
With the downturn in the economy and some parts of the country experiencing drought, there are fears the NPAs would rise, affecting the health of the PSBs.
"NPAs have risen marginally for the year ended March 2012. The situation is not alarming. NPAs reflect a slowdown in the economy, but it is very marginal," Chidambaram told reporters here after meeting heads of PSBs.
"For all the public sector banks, their NPAs for the year ended March 2012 stood at 3.17 percent. I am confident as the economy picks up we will be able to improve the NPAS. Their is enough profit for taking care of gross NPAs."
According to Chidambaram, he has reviewed the performance of loans given to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), real estate and farm sector. He emphasised that there was no danger of farm loan default due to a drought-like situation.
"Sixty percent of the farm loans have availed the three percent interest subvention scheme that we provide over the nominal interest rate of seven percent. This means that 60 percent of all farm loans do not default," Chidambaram said.
The finance minister assured that all PSBs have been asked to aid farmers in drought-hit areas and that all possible credit will be provided to them.
The agriculture credit target for the current fiscal stands at Rs.575,000 lakh crore, which is expected to cross the Rs.6 lakh crore mark.
The Finance Minister pointed out that there was a need for a increasing the reach and access of banking services to all, as only 58.7 percent of all house holds in the country have access to banking service either though a branch or a banking correspondent.
There is even a greater need to mobilise savings, said Chidambaram, pointing out that there is Rs.11 lakh crore in cash with people and this money should be stored with the banking system.
The PSBs have been given a target to double the number of ATM machines in the country from the current 63,000 in the next two years and that these machines should also be equipped to accept cash to mobilise savings.
Chidambaram added that the country's financial system is strong. "It was all together a re-education for me about the state of our banking industry. I am very proud that the backbone of our economy is the financial sector and the spine of that backbone is our public sector banks."
Saturday's meeting was the first interaction Chidamabram had with the PSB chiefs since he took charge of the finance ministry Aug 1, 2012.


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3 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.[a] "
4 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You[c] must be born again.' 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
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The Nichols Prize, endowed by the family of J.C. Nichols, honors the legacy of the legendary Kansas City, Missouri, developer. A founding ULI member, J.C. Nichols (1880-1950) is widely regarded as one of America's most influential entrepreneurs in land use during the first half of the 1900s. He pioneered the development of sustainable, mass market residential neighborhoods built for permanence, and automobile-oriented shopping centers. The Country Club district, a model residential community; Country Club Plaza, a 77-year-old shopping center and multi-use development; and numerous well-preserved suburban communities south of downtown Kansas City attest to his enduring legacy in Kansas City. Vincent Scully, 2003 laureate of the Nichols Prize said of J.C. Nichols, "There is no one involved with the American city who does not owe J.C. Nichols a debt for his vision and method in the planning and development of residential communities. His example has helped this generation to take on that basic program intelligently once again."


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The Karoo Erdvark Trail starts approximately 80km from Beaufort West, in the Northern Cape's Nuweland Mountains. This green flag accredited hiking trail is located on a working sheep farm, offering a variety of hiking terrain.
Participants start from the same point each day, but complete four different hiking trails in as many days. Accommodation options on the farm include a traditional Karoo farmhouse or a shed, both of which come with all the basic amenities.
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