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TheRex | #31 Subject: i agree Posted: 07/20/2005 15:44:08 |
asians are hot
Izuna | #32 Subject: Has anyone played.. Posted: 07/20/2005 15:56:59 |
..advent rising?
docterLOBOTO | #33 Subject: Well... Posted: 07/20/2005 18:12:12 |
...if you like those pics theres more from where that came from.
edub-and-ja.1up.com OR find the emma watson and jessica alba fan club on 1up. Peace marc bingles |
TheFear | #34 Subject: hey Posted: 07/20/2005 22:37:40 |
advent rising the only thng good is the story evrything else sucks
Izuna | #35 Subject: I liked it. Posted: 07/20/2005 23:27:15 |
Litalover69 | #36 Subject: Does any one Posted: 07/21/2005 02:34:38 |
Like or love Conker Live and reloaded because i love it
TheFear | #37 Subject: conker Posted: 07/21/2005 04:11:54 |
yeah i like conker i heard if you beat it once the game then becaomes uncensored
Gishu | #38 Subject: ??? Posted: 07/21/2005 09:33:41 |
the game was allright but egmmag gave it 5 5 and 6..=/
Thompson-Bom... | #39 Subject: What? Posted: 07/21/2005 18:58:23 |
you mean the game is rated M and it censores stuff. that sucks
docterLOBOTO | #40 Subject: Conker live and reloaded... Posted: 07/21/2005 19:30:50 |
... is one of the funnest games i have ever played... even for a reinstallment of the game it is fricking awesome... Right know i am stuck at the part where you use the airboard to catch up and beat up the prehostoric punks.
any one here like Jessica Alba. free pix at edub-and-Ja-club.1up.com just copy and paste onto search bar. feel free to save photos from that club and insert them into this one. MARC BINGLES |
Izuna | #41 Subject: censored... Posted: 07/21/2005 20:09:09 |
..conker has bleeped out curses?
docterLOBOTO | #42 Subject: u guys are f'n Stupid Posted: 07/24/2005 23:17:32 |
this F*cking club is gay i cant beleive you took those pix of jessica alba out the moderator of this club is a asian loving son-of-a-bitch scumbag you are all anime,hentai,asian sexist bastards you can all rot in hell
docterLOBOTO | #43 Subject: u guys are f'n Stupid part 2 Posted: 07/24/2005 23:19:58 |
...and if you have girl friends they're gilliable pieces of shit cauase you are ally gay... who really loves anime you fucking watch pieces of fucking paper with color on them for a 1/2 an hour. jesus christ please us Jesus. god save the fucking world and get rid of these scum bags
x_suzushii_x | #44 Subject: what the? Posted: 07/24/2005 23:28:26 |
i love how he told us off..with what has to be kindergarden level english.
wonderful. thumbs up to the guy with horrible english! |
Izuna | #45 Subject: I didnt.. Posted: 07/25/2005 03:45:36 |
..even know we had Jessica Alba pics?!?
Izuna | #46 Subject: I sent that guy a violent email... Posted: 07/25/2005 03:57:09 |
..what an ass.
foreplay77 | #47 Subject: that guy has anger problems Posted: 07/25/2005 04:24:22 |
hey every body im new here and since im 17 i figured i should join the club so i can enjoy it before i got too old and since you said i can ass shit fuck and im good
Izuna | #48 Subject: Sup man? Posted: 07/25/2005 04:42:09 |
Yeah ghost in the shell is phat. Whos your fav charachter?
MR_Hankey | #49 Subject: We can cuss? Posted: 07/25/2005 05:13:15 |
Wow! I'm very happy that I can finally fucking cuss! I've posted at the Gamespot forums and they are a bunch of anti-cussing Nazis and Pussies. Fuck that motherfucking bitch ass nigga!! That felt good... wassup muthafuckas!
Izuna | #50 Subject: Fuck yeah! Posted: 07/25/2005 05:19:49 |
Bastard fuck!
Dante_Grim | #51 Subject: HELL MOTHER FUCKING YES MOTHER FUCKER! Posted: 07/25/2005 05:43:41 |
I JUST found OUT that my pc can handle Half-Life 2....perfectly. i have thought it was a piece of shit for years. so now i'm saving my money and stealing what i can to get the actual game(i just DLed the demo and 0wned!) then i'm loading up CS Source and playing for hours, owning everything in sight(i've played that game a lot, at friends houses, LAN parties...ya know). yes now after that i think i'll buy a good headset so i can talk to people.
Izuna | #52 Subject: Does any body watch samurai champloo? Posted: 07/26/2005 02:44:48 |
Its the fuckin bomb shit!
Litalover69 | #53 Subject: Naw Posted: 07/26/2005 03:23:19 |
Naw me or my supa **BLEEP** named King kong watch that does any one think that show has a dumbass name
foreplay77 | #54 Subject: my fav ghost in the shell Posted: 07/26/2005 04:04:17 |
that would i think bato i dont know if i spelled that right or not but yeah hes got cool eye things but the majors pretty cool to and hot for an anime and i dont watch samurai champloo on a regular basis but ive seen a few and its pretty good and fuck fuckity fuck fuck
Chik_N_Finga... | #55 Subject: ..... Posted: 07/26/2005 15:26:41 |
This club is ridiculous. All you are doing is feeding the stereotypes that teenagers are all about rap and cussing and stupid crap like that. So you what if you can cuss here, you wouldn't look like such idiots if you decided not to.
himura_kensh... | #56 Subject: understanding Posted: 07/26/2005 15:38:03 |
For the previous post,
It seems today's society of teenagers are of this manner, so, it's only possible that there is a club for this. You do have a point of the stereotypes but, teenagers are this, they will forever change but for now this is the decade of the stereotype fed teenagers. This club does make no sense if it says it talks about anime and stuff but ppl are talking mindless crap and that's another point yo have, but let them be, they no nothiung better. |
foreplay77 | #57 Subject: just not true Posted: 07/27/2005 01:39:58 |
I dont know if that dumbass is going to came back and see what was said about his post but what the FUCK yeah hahaha jackass i can cuss and you cant stop me haha fuck shit fuck ass whore fuck hehe alright im done and its just not true i dont like rap that much i like rock alot as youd know if you look at my page rock, rock, rock but rap is ok and y is it a stereotype that teens cuss pretty much everybody i know cusses except for a little nancy boy that goes to my school never cusses and well non of the guys hangout with him he always hangs around girl and actully the little freshmen girls cause the girls our age dont like him are you one of those like to hang around the middle school kids or elem. cause they dont cuss yep those words can be scary i screamed may atime when i hear people swearing fuck aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh lol
Chik_N_Finga... | #58 Subject: wow Posted: 07/27/2005 21:50:12 |
How do I respond to that? You know that was only one sentence, right? And you basically proved your title wrong by doing everything you said teenager don't do, you fed the stereotype blah blah. Doesn't matter if I can't stop you from cussing, doesn't matter if you like rock, because I would want nothing to do with someone who would act like that just to try to prove a point, which, I will add, you didn't.
foreplay77 | #59 Subject: why Posted: 07/27/2005 22:07:32 |
If your just going to post negative stuff why are you part of this club and like i said everyone cusses so thats not a sterotype so yeah well anyway other members of the culb that are ok when are new ghost in the shells on
Gishu | #60 Subject: alll this for? Posted: 07/27/2005 22:12:11 |
was all this for the ghost in the shell stuff?


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NCAA Tournament: Four Teams You Need to KnowLets start the dance! Here are four teams that may surprise everyone this year in the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Florida State Seminoles This team is steam rolling into the tournament by winning the ACC Championship. I know this is a sexy pick in a lot of brackets now, but they beat UNC and Duke two times a piece, once at Durham. They start four seniors and one junior guard so experience is a strength for them. Very big in the frontcourt and the backcourt as well. The Seminoles could be a final four team. Player to Watch Junior G Michael Snaer is averaging 14.5 PPG and 3.8 RPG. He's very good from the free throw line at almost 85%, but what really stands out is his percentage from behind the arc at 42%. Snaer is a bigger guard at 6'5" and can score from posting up smaller guards. Big Wins North Carolina 2X; @ Duke and vs. Duke; Virginia Belmont Bruins Belmont suffered an early season loss to Duke by one point and have all the makings of being an upset specialist. They come into the tournament red hot having won 14 in a row. This is the fifth time in seven years that the Bruins have made the tournament and each time they haven't gotten out of the first round. This team can score. They're forth in the nation in PPG at 81.5 and fifth in the nation APG 17.4. This team shoots the ball well from the field as a team at 48%. If Belmont can get out of the first round against a streaky Georgetown team, I can see them making it to the Sweet 16 and possibly the Elite 8. If they can finally get out of the first round(or second that is). Player to Watch This whole team shoots the ball very well from the outside, but senior G Drew Hanlen maybe the best. At 5'11" he might have trouble shooting over the bigger teams Belmont may run into. He shoots 48% from the 3-point line and if he gets hot from out there they could upset Georgetown early on. Big Wins None, but lost to Duke by 1 point in their first game of the year. Marquette Golden Eagles The Golden Eagles finished the regular season 25-7 overall and 14-4 in the Big East. Buzz Williams has this team playing at a very high level. They're fast, athletic and tenacious on defense. A great perimeter team, they lack size on the inside, but what they lack in height, they more than make up for it in the transition game. Player to Watch Marquette has the Big East Player of the Year in senior F Jae Crowder. He can play in the post and can hit shots from the 3-point line as well. His versatility allows Marquette to create matchup nightmares for opposng teams. He's averaging 17.4 PPG, 8.1 RPG and 2.4 steals a game. Big Wins @ Wisconsin; Georgetown; Louisville UNLV Rebels The Mountain West isn't considered a power conference in the NCAA basketball world, but four teams were invited to the "Big Dance" and UNLV may be the best of the four. The Rebels bring a veteran team to the tournament that shares the ball well. They have a solid frontcourt with length inside as they rotate four guys 6'8" and above. They started the season very well, but come into round one in streaky fashion with a 5-5 record in their last 10 games. Not being a good free throw shooting team could hurt them as well. Player to Watch Sophomore F Mike Moser is averaging a double-double in really his first full season at UNLV. At 14.1 PPG and 10.6 RPG Moser is a beast. Named 1st Team All-Mountain West. Moser was also named to the All-Defensive Team and has a good group of leadership around him to excel in this years tournament. Big Wins North Carolina; San Diego St.; New Mexico; California; Illinois |
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West Allis - During the Greater Metro Conference season, the West Allis Central boys basketball team will have to play in some tough venues, such as Wauwatosa East and Marquette.
The Bulldogs got a taste of what that might be like on Friday when they played at Destiny, a Milwaukee school with 289 students.
"That is a tight, small gym, and very loud," head coach Dave Mlachnik said.
Central, though, escaped with a tough 80-74 victory to open its 2012-13 season.
Sophomore Brandon Key led the way with 21 points, along with eight assists and eight steals, while Ron Turkvan added 15 points.
Both players were regarded as keys this season for Central, which is trying to recover from the loss of several players to graduation and the moving on of point guard Jarvis Garrett, who moved to a prep school in the East.
Mlachnik said both Key and Turkvan played well, but received plenty of help from others.
Anthony Phillips earned 10 points, Jaquan Martin contributed seven points and 10 rebounds while playing active defense, Mlachnik said, and Jequan Carson chipped in with seven points and six assists.
Keeping Destiny well within range was Jerrelle Deberry with 38 points, including 14-of-22 from the free throw line. Deberry took just six fewer free throws than the entire Central team.
"We've got a ways to go," Mlachnik said of the Bulldogs, "but we showed a good effort, and we trusted one another. We certainly have some things to clean up in practice this week, though."
Mlachnik likes his team's depth, as 11 players got in the game and 10 scored.
Central met Kenosha Indian Trail in its home opener on Tuesday and will play in a special event pitting Milwaukee-area teams against Madison squads this weekend. The Bulldogs will meet Madison East at Madison West High School on Friday.
Central then will not play again until Friday, Dec. 7, when it opens the GMC season at Sussex Hamilton, which features top scorer Brady Ellingson.
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China's banks are expected to have lent 550 billion yuan ($88.28 billion) in
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China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, are expected to have
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BOC International 3.320 13.5 450.0 15.5
Bank of Communications ~ 14.1 650.0 ~
BofAML ~ 13.8 500.0 15.2
CDB Securities ~ 13.8 550.0 15.6
China Construction Bank 3.300 14.2 620.0 15.3
CITIC Securities ~ 14.2 500.0 ~
Goldman Sachs ~ 13.7 500.0 15.2
Guangdong Development Bank ~ 13.9 550.0 10.5
Haitong Securities ~ 13.7 580.0 ~
High Frequency Economics 3.310 13.2 673.0 ~
Hwabao Trust 3.300 14.0 500.0 15.1
Industrial Bank ~ 14.3 550.0 15.1
JPMorgan Chase ~ 13.2 550.0 15.1
Merchant Securities ~ 14.0 500.0 ~
Mizuho 3.300 14.0 550.0 15.5
Peking First Advisory 3.290 14.0 495.0 15.0
Shenyin & Wanguo ~ 13.7 560.6 15.2
Standard Chartered 3.330 14.0 550.0 ~
Zheshang Securities 3.340 14.0 560.0 15.5
Median 3.305 14.0 550.0 15.2
High 3.370 14.3 673.0 15.6
Low 3.290 13.2 450.0 10.5
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($1 = 6.2303 Chinese yuan)
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"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
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Reflections from the Experiment in Morocco
On my last day as an Experimenter in Morocco I made sure to take in everything. The heavy smells of spices and oranges hung over the crowded streets of Rabat. The booming voices of vendors swarmed in my ears as I navigated the Medina. The sweet taste of mint tea still sat on my lips from breakfast. One last time, dissecting an unfamiliar language and weaving my way through identical winding streets. What once felt like a hectic routine, easy to get lost, now felt comfortable and safe. After four weeks of travel and immersion into many different aspects of Moroccan society, I had gained a newfound sense of independence and confidence that seemed to lead the way.
My mind wandered back to my homestay in a small, rural village called Aberdi. During my two week stay there was no electricity or running water. I went to the bathroom outside and lived amongst the family's animals. I slept on the ground with my whole family in just one room. It was a simpler, more relaxed way of living which I grew to love. I would wake up to the sound of roosters without the worry of showers or what to wear. Instead, this time would be spent sipping tea and laughing with my host mother, or picking pears with my host brother. I learned to wander the long dirt roads that spanned across my village, feeling utterly safe and confident. Whether it was weaving with the local mothers, teaching English to the village children, or dancing Ahidous with the village fathers, I was constantly absorbing and learning.
A language gap that once seemed huge slowly closed between my host family and me. Through survival language lessons and miming, we shared many stories and laughs ranging from light topics, such as family and friends, to heavier ones comparing Moroccan and American clothing, religion, and marriage traditions. My host family opened my eyes to a different, yet valuable, way of living. They taught me acceptance, compassion, and empathy. The homestay reminded me never to judge the unfamiliar, and taught me to embrace those who are different, for they also have the most to teach.
As I left my homestay, after the two most rewarding weeks of my life, I sobbed. I could not imagine leaving the people I had grown to love but I was so grateful for the invaluable chance to meet and learn from them in the first place. And of course the learning did not stop there. Whether it was riding camels in the Sahara desert, exploring ancient Mosques, or learning to bargain, everyday my mind seemed to open and grow in a way I had never known before. Needless to say, on that last day navigating my way through the vibrant Rabat streets with all my senses being engaged, I was not the same person who had entered Morocco nearly four weeks previously; I had grown into so much more. I am so grateful to The Experiment [EIL] for giving me this opportunity that will forever be imprinted in my mind.
Jenna lives with her family in Cambridge, MA. She is currently a student at Concord Academy, where she is anA Better Chance Scholar.


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CALGARY, Alberta, May 31 (Reuters) - Canada should refine more crude from its vast oil sands to create jobs and boost economic benefits rather than build pipelines to ship the raw material overseas, the leader of federal opposition party said after his first visit to the massive Alberta production facilities on Th urs day.
New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair, who toured Suncor Energy Inc's sprawling oil sands operation, also said he did not advocate imposing new environmental legislation on the energy sector, only demanding the federal government enforce laws that are already on the books.
Mulcair, who hails from Quebec, has come under fire in Alberta for saying the booming oil sands industry is partly responsible for driving up Canadian dollar's value, which in turn has led to a struggling manufacturing sector as goods for exports became too expensive.
Following his high-profile trip to the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, he insisted his left-wing NDP supports measured, long-term economic growth and was not anti-tar sands.
"That means building a diversified economy that includes value-added jobs and a thriving export industry. It means upgrading and refining our own natural resources right there in Canada and particularly in Alberta, instead of building pipelines to ship raw bitumen, for example, overseas," Mulcair said in Edmonton.
"It means making polluters pay for the pollution they create rather than leaving that cleanup to future generations. Governments have an obligation of result."
Following a surprise second-place showing in last year's federal election, Mulcair and his party have made big strides in opinion polls and in some have surpassed Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives, although Canadians do not head to the polls again until October 2015.
Alberta Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford was angered by Mulcair's remarks about the oil sands' national economic impact, and attended an economic forum in the United States on Thursday rather than meet with him. Instead, Mulcair had meetings with Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk and Fort McMurray Mayor Melissa Blake.
Interestingly, calls to refine more bitumen from the oil sands within Alberta have come from politicians in the province for years, the last being Redford's predecessor, Ed Stelmach.
However, some analysts warn a big increase in upgrading and refining capacity in Alberta could result in prices for the products slumping after numerous U.S. refineries have added equipment to process heavy Canadian bitumen. Redford has said the market should decide.
Meanwhile, she and the Harper government have promoted pipelines to Texas and Canada's Pacific Coast to diversify markets for Canadian crude, projects that face staunch opposition from environmental groups.
Both governments have said the industry is developing the resource, which is the world's third-largest crude deposit, responsibly under their watchful eye. They have set up new monitoring programs after formal scientific reviews found studies of ecological impact lacking.
Mulcair said the Harper government is to blame for much of the environmental damage, by not enforcing acts pertaining to migratory birds, navigable waters and species at risk.
"It affects animal life, it affects ecosystems and ultimately it affects human life as well, so these are things that we take seriously as obligations of the federal government, and we don't think that Stephen Harper's Conservatives in particular have been living up to those obligations," he said.
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Welcome High Potentials, Class of 2013 to New York!
April 22, 2013 • by JWT
This morning, the High Potentials, Class of 2013 arrived in the New York office for their Leadership Training Session. The program, which is also known as the HiP Club, is comprised of JWT talent from a variety of countries, offices and disciplines. Now in its tenth year, the program aims to recognize, reward, train and develop the "rising stars" and future leaders of JWT.


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Learning is social by nature
Without going all the way back to the theories of Vygotsky or Albert Bandura, the simplest way to explain social learning is perhaps to look at the work of Richard J. Legers (Harvard Graduate School of Education), who has shown that one of the most important factors for success in higher education is a student's ability to form and/or participate in small study groups. In comparison to those who had worked alone, those students who had studied in a group, even only once a week, were more involved and better prepared. The students from these groups were able to ask questions to resolve uncertainties and improve their own understanding of the subject by hearing the answers to other students' questions. The most powerful element was the ability to play the role of teacher to other students, as it has been shown that the best way to learn is to teach.
The philosophy of social learning is in contrast to the traditional Cartesian view of education. In the Cartesian model, knowledge is a kind of substance and learning is a way for teachers to transfer this substance to their students. Instead of basing itself on the Cartesian principle "I think, therefore I am", the social conception of learning holds that "We participate, therefore we are".
It is in society that we learn. Observation, discussion and collaboration are also opportunities to learn. The social aspect of learning is fundamental. Social learning is therefore not a novelty that has appeared alongside Web 2.0.
Learning is not an event
When we talk about learning, we immediately think about formal learning; in other words, about training and education. However, this kind of organized learning only represents about 20% of everything we learn in our lives (see the works of Cofer).
Solving problems, design, creativity, research, experimentation and innovation are full-fledged learning experiences. Sharing experiences, observations, discussion, helping one another and cooperation are also kinds of learning. 80% of our learning is therefore unexpected, unplanned and informal.
From this point of view, the emphasis is less on the content and more on the activities and the human interactions that take place around the content. Indeed, real learning can be found in all the nuances of our way of collaborating, sharing and working. Learning is not something that takes place outside of work. Learning and work are in fact part of a single stream; it's a continuous process, a skill, an ability to act.
Enterprise 2.0 = Learning 2.0
In our businesses, we know that informal learning takes place all the time, most of the time however, the answers and the experts most capable of solving a problem are not connected with the person who is attempting to tackle it. Social learning networks can remedy this situation by giving everyone access to a much larger group of people who can help them.
2.0 technologies are enabling technologies that connect us with each other, facilitating communication and collaboration. But they are not only technologies; and social learning, by allowing us to capitalise on the ever-increasing streams of knowledge that have made the walls of our organisations porous, fills the empty barrels of 2.0.
4Cs for Enterprise 2.0
Because social learning necessitates design, training, support, leadership, oversight and highlighting successes both big and small, we have developed an innovative and pragmatic approach in order to support our clients throughout their projects, both internally (tools and collaborative learning) and externally (social media). This approach facilitates acquiring and diffusing knowledge within social networks via an iterative and fractal process that can be summarised in four steps: Comprehension, Conversation, Collaboration and Capitalization.
Our 4C method is based on two indirect consequences of 2.0, which are vital for the success of any Enterprise 2.0 project: visibility and transparency.
Making work visible and transparent
One unexpected and rarely-acknowledged consequence of the first generation of IT tools (email, word processing) which make up our day-to-day work environment is to render the work process less visible, precisely at the moment when we need it to be as visible as possible.
The end products of our work are highly refined abstractions. For example, this article tells you nothing about the initial idea or its evolution. Likewise, it doesn't give you any information about the exchanges I may have had with my peers (via social networks or face-to-face), or about my own experiences that have shaped my thinking.
In business, the gains in personal productivity produced by these IT tools are often made at the detriment of organisational learning.
In the 1.0 world, I worked in an events management company. I was in charge of organizing a professional trade show, and for a beginner like myself, the sales targets seemed unreachable. The only way to meet them was to bring together all the stakeholders of the project whilst meeting their needs (explicit or otherwise). I couldn't rely on the planning boards from previous years' shows, or on the sales databases, and even less on the dry minutes of old meetings to help me understand.
I was lucky enough to have a managing director who gave me access to his office for several months. I was able to access all his notes, emails and his address book. I participated in all the formal and informal exchanges on the topic. Within a few months I was able to sketch a reasonably accurate map of the world of Florence that I had to navigate and proposed a strategy to make this trade show an unmissable event. By allowing me to observe his work, the director gave me an invaluable learning opportunity.
Transparency is the key to social learning and to Enterprise 2.0. This transparency encourages access to the people and information that we may need to make good decisions. It is the consequence of the open and multidirectional communication made possible by social tools. It can't be imposed or forced. Transparency in Enterprise 2.0 involves making our actions and decisions visible to others. It's about sharing information and knowing who has provided it. We're talking about accountability and recognition. By bringing people and their experiences and ideas together, social learning allows us to increase our confidence in the shared information and in those who created it.
Changing models: from "command & control" to "connect & animate"
It is transparency that is proving the greatest challenge to the classic "command and control" management model. Managers have to accept that information is created and spread more quickly over networks. They must also accept that this movement will most often happen outside of their control.
Lately, one of our clients told me that "the problem with your approach is that if you give everyone the right to speak, they might just take you up on it!" It's precisely this commitment to openness and transparency, which goes hand in hand with Enterprise 2.0, which must pressure management to innovate and adopt a "connect and animate" model.
Your IT department and in-house lawyers will tell you that it's risky. But these risks can be managed. The value created by greater transparency in business is much greater than the potential cost. On the contrary, the real risks are attached to a lack of transparency, to bad decision-making, to making the same mistakes again or redoing the same work, to an inability to innovate or to understand and satisfy client needs.
Until now competitive advantages have been built on information asymmetry. In the future, we will be mistaken if we think that exclusive access to information is an advantage. In today's complex environment, real competitive advantages are created by people who can find relevant information, transform it into practical knowledge and use it to create value. The challenge is to find, attract and hold on to these people; the challenge is to create an environment in which their talent can be developed and used to its fullest; and transparency is essential in such an environment.
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hope Ben feels limber this season. I suggest yoga.
I think the Ravens have the best pass rushing combo in the league.
hope Ben feels limber this season. I suggest yoga.
I think the Ravens have the best pass rushing combo in the league.
1 Mike Evans WR Texas A&M
2 Stephen Tuitt DE Notre Dame
3c Keith McGill CB Utah
4 Ross Cockrell CB Duke
5 Jordan Zumwalt ILB UCLA
5c Anton Exum S Va Tech
6 Trey Millard FB/TE Oklahoma
7 Cody Latimer WR Indiana
7c DeAnthony Thomas RB Oregon
We'll have to protect our tackle with TE's, run a lot and throw short quick pass's to slow them down.
Looks like the Ravens got outworked with the no huddle. Altitude helped. Im hoping the emphasis on playing with pads this training camp will pay dividends on our conditioning.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentations of their women.
Denver is a tough tuff place to start a season off with. I agree, the altitude the travel etc.
" We'll do the same thing we always do, we'll take every situation from week to week and do what we think is best for that week and evaluate it on that basis.. If cheating will give us the edge as it has always done then, we will continue to cheat. " Bill Belichick
When are our Raven games? Hopefully the conditions will be messy, playing in a slop. At least one of the games.
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Honestly, a cardboard cut out of Max Starks would make a better lineman than Guy Whimper. They really need to cut Whimper and bring back Starks. I'm not even saying Starks has to start, but he's a much better backup than Whimper despite his struggles with San Diego in the preseason.
A lot of good having the best pass rush combo in the league after last nights blowout.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Third Annual Kanawha Valley Sustainability Fair will have a new feature for gardeners, thanks to Aimee Figgatt. She's organizing a seed swap at the free event, set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 24 at Columbia Gas Transmission Building, 1700 MacCorkle Ave. SE.
The theme is "Celebrate YOUR HOME on Planet Earth," and it will feature family-friendly activities and entertainment, all related to sustainable local agriculture, ecology, businesses, transportation, energy, health, arts, family and community resources.
Organized by Kanawha Valley Connections, last year's fair drew more than 2,800 visitors and included more than 100 on-site and affiliated exhibitors.
"In previous years, we were at Habitat ReStore, but quickly outgrew it," Figgatt said. She's hoping many gardeners will participate in the seed swap.
Figgatt, owner of Tyler Creek Farms, on Little Tyler Mountain, outside Charleston, raises free-range hens and sells farm-fresh eggs. She also raises and sells herbs and produce. She got the idea for the seed swap at a conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.
"I attended the PASA conference this year and they had a wonderful seed swap -- so much fun. I hope to keep it up and make it tradition!" Figgatt said.
She suggests bringing seeds to swap in paper envelopes.
"The smaller the better -- letter size -- but I see no reason to be picky. A picture of the plant could be a plus, if they feel inclined. They can write on the outside.
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Asma Jahangir Speaks Against Courts When Anti-Pakistanis Penalized
12 June, 2012Islamabad: Human Rights activist Asma Jahangir upheld her habbit of supporting anti-Pakistani elements on Tuesday when the memo commission's report was read in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, declaring that Mr Hussain Haqqani was behind the memo sent to US, seeking their support against the Pakistan army.
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Biography (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
The literary genre favored by Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (luh-kahn) was the academic lecture, into which he mixed the forms of psychoanalytic discourse, academic rhetoric, philosophy, literary criticism, and poetry. It was largely through the spoken word, both as psychoanalyst and teacher, that Lacan was able to revise radically the status of Sigmund Freud's writings in French culture, in the discipline of psychoanalysis, and in the practice of literary criticism. Lacan was born in Paris, son of Alfred Lacan, a businessman, and Émilie Baudry. Lacan's attendance at a Jesuit school for his primary education is blamed by some for the mysticism and obscurity of his later thought. Surrealism, which openly acknowledged its debt to Freud in emphasizing the unconscious sources of artistic production, interested Lacan more than religion; he associated with poets and painters such as Salvador Dalí during his student days, and among his earliest publications were contributions to the Surrealist journal Minotaure. Thus Lacan's interest in psychiatry, for which he received a doctorate in 1932, seemed to grow out of an interest in artistic and cultural processes rather than an interest in medicine—although he did receive medical training. This conflict of priorities between medical and linguistic theories of the unconscious, always the subject of dissension between Lacan and other analysts, led him to form a secessionist French Psychoanalytic School in 1953.
In the same year, at the meeting of the International Psychoanalytic Society in Rome, Lacan directly confronted both the ego psychologists and the medical personnel with one of his most important lectures, The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis. Besides excoriating Lacan's colleagues, this lecture brings together many of Lacan's basic ideas: that psychoanalysis is based in the discourse of the patient—or more accurately, in the dialectic between analyst and patient—rather than in his physiology; that the ego is a symptom of rather than a source of strength for the patient; and that three basic orders form the human subject, the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real. Interestingly, the lecture ends with the same quotation from the Upanishads that the poet T. S. Eliot had used to close The Waste Land (1922): "Damyata, Datta, Dayadhvam" ("Submission, Gift, Grace").
For three decades, Lacan lectured, worked, and trained analysts far from the public eye, at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris. Several events in the mid-1960's suddenly made Lacan a household name. First, in 1964, the French Psychoanalytic School, in order to remain within the International Psychoanalytic Society, which was unhappy with Lacan, expelled its cofounder; Lacan responded by forming the École Freudienne de Paris and finding a new lecture hall at the École Normale Superieure, where he began to reach a much broader audience of students,...
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Bibliography (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Althusser, Louis. "Freud and Lacan." In Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays. Translated by Ben Brewster. 1971. Reprint. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. A seminal Marxist literary theorist discusses Lacanian psychoanalysis and art.
Benvenuto, Bice, and Roger Kennedy. The Works of Jacques Lacan: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. A straightforward, chronologically oriented discussion of Jacques Lacan's key writings from his early years until his death.
Bowie, Malcolm. "Jacques Lacan." In Structuralism and Since: From Lévi-Strauss to Derrida, edited by John Sturrock. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1979. This essay provides a brief introduction to Lacan's thought and is a good place to begin reading about him.
Clark, Michael. Jacques Lacan: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988. A good guide to the many Lacanian studies, which also contains biographical information and its own introduction to Lacan's thought.
Evans, Dylan. An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1996. A lucid explanation of many of Lacan's technical terms, how he came to change them during his career, and some of his influences.
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Biography (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Article abstract: Lacan was the single most important figure in the development of psychoanalysis in twentieth century France. His powerful rereading of Freud's work and rethinking of Freud's fundamental concepts made him a key figure in French intellectual life from the 1950's until his death.
Early Life
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901, into an upper-middle-class Parisian family. His academic training focused first on medicine, then on psychiatry. He studied with the distinguished French psychiatrist Louis-Nicholas Clérambault, receiving his doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on the relationship of paranoia to personality structure. While still working as a psychiatrist, Lacan began studying psychoanalysis with the distinguished Freudian analyst Rudolf Loewenstein and in 1934 became a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society.
During the 1930's, a complex set of influences helped form the mind of the young Lacan, laying the foundation for the mature work that would make him a luminary in the febrile Parisian atmosphere of the decades following World War II. In addition to his growing absorption in the thought and teaching of Sigmund Freud, Lacan associated closely with the Surrealist circle of artists and writers and contributed essays and poems to Surrealist publications. This Surrealist connection attests his lifelong fascination with language and its power to shape human life.
Lacan was also strongly influenced, as were many others of his generation, by the teaching of the Russian émigré thinker Alexandre Kojève. It was primarily through Kojève's lectures between 1933 and 1939, at the École Normale Supérieure, on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel—with particular emphasis on the Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807; The Phenomenology of Spirit, 1872; also known as The Phenomenology of Mind, 1910)—that the work of the great German philosopher had a major impact on French thought. Thus, at the same time that Lacan was immersing himself in Freud's theories, he was attending Kojève's lectures emphasizing the Hegelian account of the problems for the development of human self-consciousness. This complex of Lacan's interests in the 1930's—psychiatry, Freud, Surrealism, Hegel—typifies what would always mark his work: a breathtaking catholicity of scope buttressed by remarkable erudition, reminiscent of Freud himself.
Lacan's position as an important thinker within Freudian psychoanalysis was first established for an international audience in 1936, when he spoke at the Fourteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In this address, Lacan presented his theory of the mirror stage. He argued that the earliest development of the human ego (somewhere between six and eighteen months) occurred on the basis of the infant's imagined relationship with its own body as first perceived in a mirror and with that of the significant others—typically the mother—in its life. Lacan's conclusion was that the human ego is never a coherent entity, even from its very inception. This moment, 1936, at which Lacan chose to present his developing theory is significant, for it was at this time that Freud's daughter Anna and others following her lead were beginning to argue for the coherence of the ego and to elaborate its varied mechanisms of defense and adaptation. Thus Lacan's first step onto the international psychoanalytical stage veered toward a possible schism from the keepers of Freudian orthodoxy, thereby prefiguring the series of rifts and splits within the psychoanalytic movement that Lacan would repeatedly provoke later in his career.
Life's Work
Lacan was a dominant intellectual presence in French cultural life for three decades, and his influence radiated far outward from its psychoanalytic base into disciplines such as philosophy, literary criticism, and linguistics and into broader, interdisciplinary fields such as feminism and some variants of Marxism. The extent of Lacan's impact both within and beyond psychoanalysis highlights what he himself considered to be his primary purpose as analyst and writer: to revivify psychoanalysis by a radical return to Freud's work and to do so by putting Freud's thought in touch with the latest developments in contemporary thought. For Lacan, these two intentions were inextricable, and together they define the originality of his contribution to twentieth century thought and the breadth of his influence.
Lacan's published work consisted primarily of essays, the most important of which were collected and published as Écrits: A Selection. Yet his most immediate impact on the French intellectual public came not from his writings but rather through the biweekly seminars (actually public lectures) that he conducted for more than three decades, very few of which appeared in print during his lifetime. Lacan's verbal brilliance, personal flamboyance, and intellectual charisma fused in lectures that became veritable performances attended by important thinkers from many fields in French culture.
The impact Lacan had on French psychoanalysis was pervasive as well as divisive. No one escaped his influence, but that influence provoked repeated divisions and splits. In 1953, Lacan and several colleagues broke with the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, the official French branch of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and formed a new Société Française de Psychanalyse. Then in 1964, Lacan reformed his analytic society, calling it L'École Freudienne de Paris, only to dissolve it in 1980 to create a new organization he called La Cause Freudienne. These schismatic moves bear witness to Lacan's growing worry that his teachings were becoming too institutionalized and thereby rigid and narrow, a fear similar to Freud's earlier concern that the professionalization of psychoanalysis as a branch of medicine would unduly constrict its applicability in the broad arenas such as education, where Freud hoped his science's impact would be most profound. Lacan's ambitions for his own rethinking of...
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Good Bye LoudMalibu, I have a feeling your done here.
Ban him for the rest of his pitiful life
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speaking of busses. Heres one I did a while back. I was going for a super custom effect. then I messed around and got the "shortened" bus.. I really like how it turned out.
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Please, Jon, Moderator, whoever...get rid of the profanity that "LM" has posted.. we have no use for it, and it makes the club look bad. Chad Desbien.

 72 chevy, I would suggest sending Jon a PM with any info about Malibu's posts. He has asked us to not delete posts but to refer them to him. [quote]Don't delete posts or threads. Just move them to the Dump. If something contains remarkably offensive content, let me know.

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It must be frustrating to sit and look at those posts and wonder why the admin doesn't just step in and quickly delete them. I realize it happens more quickly at other boards.
After someone alerts me to a post, if I think it warrants editing, I'll communicate with the offending member in an effort to get him or her to edit the post without my intervention. 9 times out of 10, we'll come to an agreement, and that member will agree to edit the post. Even though deleting a post is a 5 second task for an admin or a mod, I'll sometimes spend days trying to resolve an issue with a member over PM's or emails. The post sits there on the board, and the drama level rises. But the end result is that the member often agrees to edit their own post, and they get a chance to fix their own mistake. We have some members here who have made good on that chance, and because of that, have become important parts of our community. This wasn't one of those times. I tried. Failed. The post was bound to be forcibly edited, especially as moving this most excellent thread to the Dump would have been a travesty. Some people come in here and insult us, and lie to us, and treat us like crap. And we still try to make good with them, and give them another chance, and do everything we can to turn them into hotrodders. When every effort at a peaceful resolution fails, we edit or delete posts. Force is a last resort. Case closed. Let's check out more of those virtual kustomz -- those v-dubs bring back some great memories .
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