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"West Side Story" inspires Seattle anti-gang program
Fifty years ago, the Jets and the Sharks first fought their gang turf war on the streets of New York City with greased-back hair, switchblades...
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Fifty years ago, the Jets and the Sharks first fought their gang turf war on the streets of New York City with greased-back hair, switchblades and dance.
The legendary musical "West Side Story" not only provided a 20th-century twist on "Romeo and Juliet," it also offered a commentary on the senselessness of gang violence long before drive-by shootings and the proliferation of assault rifles.
Though the musical was first produced in 1957, Seattle police Detective Kim Bogucki said its message about gang violence still resonates with today's youth.
That's the idea behind the West Side Story Project, an effort by Seattle police, high-school students and the Seattle theater community to engage people in discussions about youth-violence prevention.
Using the musical as a catalyst, the program will include youth summits on gang violence, a workshop and a performance of the musical featuring a cast of Seattle high-school students.
"These were issues 50 years ago that are similar to issues now," Bogucki said. "It's not a problem we'll solve overnight, but we need to keep having the conversation."
Anna Laszlo, wife of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, said the idea to use "West Side Story" to ignite discussions about youth violence hit her last year while watching the 1961 film version of the musical. She told Kerlikowske and approached top officials at the 5th Avenue Theatre, where Laszlo, a criminal-justice consultant, is a board member. She said her husband and top administrators at the theater helped make her idea happen.
Students, police and staff at the 5th Avenue Theatre started working together on the project late last year. Events will include:
• On Friday and on April 17, nearly 30 students from Ballard, Chief Sealth, Garfield and Roosevelt high schools will lead two five-hour youth summits focusing on gang violence. Each youth summit will have three workshops set around scenes from the film.
• From April 25-28, Bogucki and several of the teenage participants and 5th Avenue Theatre cast members will present parts of the West Side Story Project at the Police Executive Research Forum national conference in Chicago. The forum is a national organization of police from the largest city, county and state law-enforcement agencies.
• On May 15, students from across the Puget Sound region will act out a modern-day performance of the musical, created with help from the 5th Avenue Theatre. The performance will be at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in the Central Area.
• On May 22, a workshop at Town Hall will feature members of the 5th Avenue cast performing "Officer Krupke," a song from the musical. Kerlikowske, a judge, a youth social-services expert and a child psychologist will speak about the juvenile-justice system.
• The Seattle Police Foundation and other donors are helping pay for 200 students to attend the 5th Avenue Theatre's professional performance of "West Side Story," which runs May 26 through June 17.
Roxie Torres, 16, joined the West Side Story Project late last year, after prodding from her school basketball coach.
Torres believes that even though gangs are more "harsh" now, the teens who participate in the workshops and watch the modern-day play will think twice about committing crime.
"It's us teenagers that need to talk to our kind of people instead of adults," said Torres, a freshman at Chief Sealth. "Teenagers can be kind of stubborn. If we can get to one kid, we can get to a lot."
On Friday, about 140 high-school students from Seattle and Burien will crowd into the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center for three workshops set around scenes from the film version of "West Side Story."
A similar summit in April is expected to draw nearly 150 middle-school students.
The teens who attend the workshop will watch scenes from the film before talking about gang prevention, cultural diversity and youth interaction with police, Bogucki said. The final workshop will include Seattle police officers doing a role reversal with teenage participants.
Bogucki, who has been working closely with at-risk youth the past eight years, said this is the first time she's used theater to introduce crime issues to teenagers.
"I would love to do it every year if we could find a performance we could directly relate to things going on in kids' lives," Bogucki said.
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Game piracy activity vs. metacritic scoreDrachen, Anders; Bauer, Kevin; Veitch, Robert W. D. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The practice of illegally copying and distributing digital games is at the heart of one of the most heated and divisive debates in the international games environment, with stakeholders typically viewing it as a very positive (pirates) or very negative (the industry, policy makers). Despite the substantial interest in game piracy, there is very little objective information available about its magnitude or its distribution across game titles and game genres. This paper presents a large-scale analysis of the illegal distribution of digital game titles, which was conducted by monitoring the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol. The sample includes 173 games and a collection period of three months from late 2010 to early 2011. A total of 12.6 million unique peers were identified, making this the largest examination of game piracy via P2P networks to date. The ten most pirated titles encompass 5.27 million aggregated unique peers alone. In addition to genre, review scores were found to be positively correlated with the logarithm of the number of unique peers per game (p<0.05). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8501
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Does Design Affect Participation?Høgenhaven, Thomas (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Governments in more than 55 countries have signed the international Open Gov-ernment Partnership and are currently implementing open government initia-tives, aiming to make governments and public sectors more collaborative, participatory, transparent, and technology-driven. If successfully implemented, such open government initiatives can improve democracy, efficiency, and innovation. As history demonstrates, it is hard to build sustainable online participation. Merely 25% of online communities gather more than 1,000 members in their lifetime. Most of the other 75 % fail due to lack of participation. Many open gov-ernment communities have shared or are likely to share the same destiny. Giving citizens, companies, and non-governmental organizations the chance to participate in government does not necessarily mean they will do it. Consequently, open government communities face a participation challenge. Current research shows that the design of the community plays a critical role in participation. Some design patterns foster participation while other patterns discourage it. Existing research also demonstrates that insights from the social sciences can be translated into design ideas and thereby help solve the participation problem. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8768
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Mikkelsen, Line; Hardt, Daniel; Ørsnes, Bjarne (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Overt VP anaphors like do so, do it and do the same can host a following PP (Culicover & Jackendoff (2005:285–6), Huddleston & Pullum (2002:1533), Miller (2011:5–6), Sobin (2008:150, 155–157)): (1) The House is set to take up the final version of the funding bill tomorrow. The Senate will do the same on Thursday. [COCA] (2) You have jilted two previous fiances and I expect you would do the same to me. [COCA] Using (1) to fix terminology, the ANAPHOR is do the same, the ANTECEDENT is take up the final version of the funding bill, the ORPHAN is on Tuesday, and the CORRELATE is tomorrow. Examples like (2) are of particular interest because the correlate (two previous fiances) is inside the antecedent and, consequently, the orphan and the antecedent must interact to produce the interpretation of the clause containing the anaphor. In order to arrive at the interpretation 'you would jilt me', the me of the orphan must take the place of two previous fiances inside the antecedent VP. A superficially similar situation arises with remnants of ellipsis, including pseudogapping (3), sluicing (4), and fragment answers (5). In each case, the interpretation of the ellipsis clause combines part of the antecedent with all or part of the remnant. (3) I wouldn't say that to my mother, but I would to you. (4) I know he gave the dresser away, but I don't know to who. (5) Q: Who did he give the dresser to? A: To me. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8469
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The case of video production at the BBC Digital Media InitiativeMariategui, Jose-Carlos; Marton, Attila (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The unfolding of the paradoxical interplay between overarching institutional orders and domain-specific, situated practices has been a central theme of organization studies. With the rise of information and communication technology (ICT), digital infrastructures and the standards they foster are disseminating on a global scale based on the computational rationale of binary-based digitalization. The following paper will delve into this paradoxical interplay by studying digital video as it travels across work practices of broadcasting qua computational standards and processes. Using BBC's Digital Media Initiative (DMI) as a case study, we seek to assess how work practices are affected by the use of digital video throughout the editing process. In particular, we take a semiological approach in order to understand two distinctive image-intensive practices, news and long-form productions, and the ways they changed due to the implementation of a digital infrastructure. Thus conceived, we demonstrate how digitalization as a technical process decontextualizes digital video information, while the work practices related to their management rely on highly contextualized and situated information. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8771
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Generating Cross-domain Knowledge about Connecting Work Analysis and Interaction DesignClemmensen, Torkil; Sandblad, Bengt; Lopes, Arminda; Abdelnour- Nocera, Jose; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for IT-Ledelse; ITM; Department of IT Management; ITM (Cape Town, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Proceedings of Workshop at INTERACT 2013 – 14th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2013 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8751
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Buus Lassen, Niels; Madsen, Rene; Vatrapu, Ravi (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent research in the field of computational social science have shown how data resulting from the widespread adoption and use of social media channels such as twitter can be used to predict outcomes such as movie revenues, election winners, localized moods, and epidemic outbreaks. Underlying assumptions for this research stream on predictive analytics are that social media actions such as tweeting, liking, commenting and rating are proxies for user/consumer's attention to a particular object/product and that the shared digital artefact that is persistent can create social influence. In this paper, we demonstrate how social media data from twitter can be used to predict the sales of iPhones. Based on a conceptual model of social data consisting of social graph (actors, actions, activities, and artefacts) and social text (topics, keywords, pronouns, and sentiments), we develop and evaluate a linear regression model that transforms iPhone tweets into a prediction of the quarterly iPhone sales with an average error close to the established prediction models from investment banks. This strong correlation between iPhone tweets and iPhone sales becomes marginally stronger after incorporating sentiments of tweets. We discuss the findings and conclude with implications for predictive analytics with big social data. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8985
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Second International Cashless Society Roundtable (ICSR)Carton, Fergal; Hedman, Jonas; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for IT-Ledelse; ITM; Department of IT Management; ITM (København, 2013)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8752
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Bødker, Mads; Nawaz, Ather; Skou Petersen, Gitte; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for IT-Ledelse; ITM; Department of IT Management; ITM (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8359
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Marton, Attila; Avital, Michel; Blegind Jensen, Tina (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent developments in the techniques and technologies of collecting, sharing and analysing data are challenging the field of information systems (IS) research let alone the boundaries of organizations and the established practices of decision-making. Coined 'open data' and 'big data', these developments introduce an unprecedented level of societal and organizational engagement with the potential of computational data to generate new insights and information. Based on the commonalities shared by open data and big data, we develop a research framework that we refer to as open big data (OBD) by employing the dimensions of 'order' and 'relationality'. We argue that these dimensions offer a viable approach for IS research on open and big data because they address one of the core value propositions of IS; i.e. how to support organizing with computational data. We contrast these dimensions with two other categories that stem from computer science and engineering, namely 'big/small' and 'open/closed' to address the complex interplay between people and data, social interaction and technological operations. Thus conceived, this paper contributes an alternative approach for the study of open and big data as well as laying the theoretical groundwork for its future empirical research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8739
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Abstract: Denne rapport sætter fokus på robotstøvsugning på større, ensartede gulvarealer i den offentlige sektor. Med udgangspunkt i et rammeværktøj (den såkaldte CIVO-model), er den opsigtsvækkende konklusion i rapporten, at der kan opnåes et højere rengøringsresultat ved hjælp af robotstøvsugning sammenlignet med konventionel rengøring. Opretholdes samme rengøringsniveau målt ved vægten af indsamlet støv og snavs, er besparelsespotentialet 25%-75% af de medgåede omkostninger til støvsugning og tørmobning af gulvarealer. Samlet set vurderes det, at der rengøres godt 18 millioner m2 gulvarealer i den offentlige sektor. Hvis hele dette areal skal støvsuges med robotter, vil det kræve en indsats af mere end 225.000 robotter. Rapportens udgangspunkt er den aktuelle markedsmodning af robotstøvsugere til større arealer. De større producenter enten har eller er tæt på at markedsføre støvsugere med større rækkevidde og bedre navigationssystemer. Dermed er vejen banet for at bl.a. rådhuse, skoler, plejecentre, styrelser og ministerier kan begynde ibragtagningen af robotstøvsugerne. Kommunerne har haft en relativ aggressiv kurs med lancering af robotstøvsugerne i visitationen til bl.a. ældre. Rapporten peger på, at der kan hentes mindst lige så store driftgevinster ved at rette fokus på den offentlige sektors egen brug af støvsugerne. Det langsomme optag i den offentlige sektor tilskrives i rapporten, at den tekniske modning af støvsugerne først i 2011 og 2012 er slået igennem for robotterne til større arealer samt at der er en vis inerti p.g.a. eksisterende udbudskontrakter og manglende erfaring med at indbygge krav til dette i udbudsmaterialet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8454
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Shollo, Arisa (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This Ph.D. thesis is concerned with the role of the business intelligence (BI) output in organizational decision-making processes. The primary focus of this thesis is to investigate how this BI output is employed and deployed by decision-makers to shape collective judgement and to reach organizational decisions. Concerning the role of the BI output in decision-making the BI literature is characterized by normative ideas of how the BI output should be used in decision-making and how it can enable people to make better decisions. Most previous work has concerned methods and technologies to collect, store and analyze BI. It has also, assumed a rational approach to decision making where data from information systems are used to inform decisions either by reducing uncertainty, ambiguity or complexity. This study attempts to establish knowledge about the role of the BI output in the IT project prioritization process of the Group IT of the Danske Bank Group. Hence, the starting point of this thesis is a 16-month long interpretive study from March 2010 till July 2011 during which I observed the prioritization process and collected various forms of data. I use a rich dataset built from this longitudinal study of the IT project prioritization process in Group IT where thematic analysis is used to analyze the data. Overall, the study operates under the interpretive paradigm, which assumes that the world and knowledge are socially constructed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8664
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Case Studies of Two VendorsRiis, Philip Holst; Beringer, Joerg; Winther, Jacob (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of role-‐oriented enterprise systems by investigating motivations for and approaches to constructing and reflecting predefined organizational roles in user interfaces of packaged enterprise systems. The research is conducted as case studies of Microsoft and SAP, constructed from interviews, documents, and examples of role-‐oriented enterprise system packages from both vendors. The research indicates that the primary motivation of the vendors for including predefined roles is to complement a function-‐centric approach with a user-‐centric approach to the design of user interfaces of enterprise systems. The research furthermore identifies strategies of an embedded and an independent approach to modeling the role concept and a unified and a componentized approach to reflecting role aggregation in user interfaces. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8347
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The canonization of digital cultural artefactsAttila, Marton (Gothenburg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Memory institutions and their practices of canonization are closely tied to the emergence of a social memory based on material artefacts and communication media. As libraries, archives and museums are stepping into the online world of digitality and computational operations, the question arises as to how these institutions and their processes of canonization change. Based on Elena Esposito's system theoretical concept of memory as an operation of forgetting and on David Weinberger's three orders of ordering artefacts, the paper analyses the canonization of digital cultural artefacts according to the practices of selection, order and preservation. Against this backdrop, the theme of transversal forgetting is developed as a cyclical process of forgetting-as-data that cuts across the boundaries of libraries, archives and museums and their traditionally separated rationale of what to select and how to order and to preserve the selected. The concept, therefore, is an argument against the still dominating metaphor of social memory being an externalized storage. Thus conceived, transversal forgetting attempts to capture memory institutions as part of the wider information environment of bits and bytes, networks and algorithms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8901
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Exploring Sources of Ineffectiveness in Multi-Level IT UseStein, Mari-Klara; Lim, Eric T. K.; Tan, Chee-Wee (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There is a notable paucity of multi-level analyses of IT use in IS research. Often, analyses limited to a single level are problematic, as multi-level effects cannot be accounted for. For example, online communities, such as the one examined in this paper, build on network effects: they can provide more value to all members collectively whenever each individual member participates more actively. This example also highlights the importance of usage effectiveness – the rather commonsense, yet often explicitly unexamined, idea that IT systems are not used for their own sake, but to attain relevant goals. Given these challenges, we set out to explore what factors contribute to ineffectiveness in multi-level IT use in the context of an online community. Our initial analysis reveals two novel concepts – frictions and tensions – that could help researchers and practitioners in better understanding the obstacles to achieving effective multi-level IT use. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9027
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A model of individual decisions for digital product product acquisitionVeitch, Robert W. D.; Constantiou, Ioanna (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ten years after the fall of Napster, digital piracy remains an issue for media and software companies. While scholars often treat digital piracy as a behaviour that needs to be prevented or punished, the user's decision about how to acquire a digital product involves more than the piracy option. However, the decision between legal alternatives and piracy has received limited attention. Moreover, existing models used in piracy research emphasize some elements of the acquisition decision, but disregard other important influences. This has led to a body of literature that is fragmented and has decontextualised digital piracy by not examining how available legal alternatives are evaluated. This paper makes an attempt to address these issues and presents a model of the user's digital product acquisition decision in the context of piracy, integrating elements of previous models to reflect the decision's complexity. Specifically, we use a consumer decision-making perspective as a framework for integrating elements of previous models used in digital piracy research, including those from social psychology, business ethics, criminology, and consumer behaviour. In the model, we depict the acquisition decision as being influenced by the user's product desire, price perceptions, perceived risks, internal regulators of behaviour, resources, and product availability. Theoretical and empirical evidence from the existing literature is drawn upon in order to provide support for the elements of the model. The paper concludes with an outline for future research and a brief discussion of its contribution. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8500
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Carton, Fergal; Hedman, Jonas; Damsgaard, jan; Tan, Kay-Ti; McCarthy, JB (Como, Ita., 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper derives a theoretical framework for consideration of both the technologically driven dimensions of mobile payment solutions, and the associated value proposition for customers. Banks promote traditional payment instruments whose value proposition is the management of risk for both consumers and merchants. These instruments are centralised, costly and lack decision support functionality. The ubiquity of the mobile phone has provided a decentralised platform for managing payment processes in a new way, but the value proposition for customers has yet to be elaborated clearly. This inertia has stalled the design of sustainable revenue models for a mobile payments ecosystem. Merchants and consumers in the meantime are being seduced by the convenience of online and mobile payment solutions. Adopting the purchase and payment process as the unit of analysis, the current mobile payment landscape is reviewed with respect to the creation and consumption of customer value. From this analysis, a framework is derived juxtaposing customer value, related to what is being paid for, with payment integration, related to how payments are being made. The framework provides a theoretical and practical basis for considering the contribution of mobile technologies to the payments industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8348
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Salling Pedersen, Allan; Bjørn-Andersen, Niels (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: ITIL has been proposed and indeed adopted by many as a framework for solving the problem of IT Service Management. It has been available for organizations for more than 10 years and initial adoption has been high. However, consultancy surveys of ITIL adoption, implementation and institutionalization show that there are only few complete and institutionalized ITIL implementations. This paper presents work in progress on a comprehensive ITIL literature review, focussing on critical success factors and benefits documented in scientific literature about ITIL implementation. Based on this, the paper presents a draft framework aiming at assisting organizations during their decisions regarding ITIL adoption, implementation and institutionalization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8431
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A Comparative Study of Four European SolutionsKazan, Erol; Damsgaard, Jan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper focuses on the triumph march of mobile phones that currently are annexing music players, navigation devices, and cameras as separate physical objects. The next target is set on payment. Through synthesizing available literature, we construct a framework for studying digital payment platforms that combines platform, technology and business design aspects. The framework is applied to conduct a comparative case study of digital payment platforms. Four types of market actors are considered: banks, mobile network operators, merchants, and startups, which are incumbents and disrupters in the payment industry. These actors issue four types of payment systems, and we can observe that three of four platforms types can be classified as multi-sided platforms (MSP). All alternatives seek foothold by issuing evolutionary payment instruments, which are intertwined with digital payment platforms. By hosting third-party services, payment instruments are evolving from single-purpose to multi-functional ones. Our research extends existing payment literature from the MSP perspective to emphasize certain digital payment platform components, which impact strategies and complementary products. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8833
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A Comparative Study of Centralized & Decentralized Digital Payment ProvidersKazan, Erol; Tan, Chee-Wee; Lim, Eric T. K. (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Digital platforms are disruptive information technology (IT) artifacts that erode conventional business logic associated with traditional market structures. This paper presents a framework for examining the disruptive potential of digital platforms whereby we postulate that the strategic interplay of governance regimes and platform layers is deterministic of whether disruptive derivatives are permitted to flourish. This framework has been employed in a comparative case study between centralized (i.e., PayPal) and decentralized (i.e., Coinkite) digital payment platforms to illustrate its applicability and yield propositions on the nature and impact of digital platform disruptions. Preliminary findings indicate that centralized digital platforms attempt to create unique configurals to obtain monopolistic power by tightly coupling platform layers, which are difficult to replicate. Conversely, decentralized digital platforms purposely decouple platform layers, to foster open innovation and accelerate market disruption. This paper therefore represents a first concrete step aimed at unravelling the disruptive potential of digital platforms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9026
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Literature Review, Taxonomy, and Research AgendaKunst, Katrine; Vatrapu, Ravi (Atlanta, GA, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent years have seen an increased sharing of consumptive practices, experiences and evaluations on social media platforms. Such socially shared consumption can range from electronic word-of-mouth to formal online reviews as well as automated product mentions facilitated by social media applications Based on a review of extant emerging literature on this topic as well as of literature on relevant topics such as social influence, online reviews, theories of the extended self and conspicuous consumption, this paper proposes a new concept, "socially shared consumption" and a taxonomy for better understanding and analysing the growing phenomenon of consumers' social sharing of consumption on social media platforms The taxonomy consists of five dimensions of socially shared consumption: Phase, Automation, Formality, Expressiveness, and Sentiment. The primary contributions of this research-in-progress paper are (a) description and definition of the new concept of socially shared consumption, (b) preliminary proposal of a taxonomy of socially shared consumption, and (c) outline of a research agenda to conduct theory-based empirical studies of socially shared consumption phenomena. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8971
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Athens, Louisiana
|Athens, Louisiana
Athens Town Hall
|United States
|302 ft (92 m)
|2.2 sq mi (5.7 km2)
|- land
|2.2 sq mi (6 km2)
|- water
|0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0%
|249 (2010)
|111.2 / sq mi (42.9 / km2)
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Athens is a village in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 249 at the 2010 census.[1]
The Pilgrim's Pride poultry hatchery in Athens was designated for closure early in 2009, along with other company businesses in nearby Arcadia in Bienville Parish, Choudrant in Lincoln Parish, and Farmerville in Union Parish, where the company maintained a processing and protein conversion plant.[2] Several weeks later, however, Pilgrim's Pride accepted an $80 million offer from Foster Farms of California to purchase the operations. In addition to the 1,300 direct jobs, mostly in Farmerville, the purchase spares the small farms of some three hundred independent growers. Foster Farms put up $40 million and the State of Louisiana a matching $40 million. Foster Farms will further invest $10 million in capital improvements at the Farmerville plant, to be matched by the state, in an agreement announced by Governor Bobby Jindal.[3]
The village was named after the ancient city of Athens, capital of Greece.[4]
Athens is located at 32°39′1″N 93°1′28″W / 32.65028°N 93.02444°W (32.650219, -93.024492).[5]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 5.7 km2 (2.2 sq mi), all land.
As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 262 people, 112 households, and 73 families residing in the village. The population density was 119.2 inhabitants per square mile (46.0/km²). There were 137 housing units at an average density of 62.3 per square mile (24.0/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 72.52% White, 24.05% African American, 2.29% Native American, 0.38% Pacific Islander, and 0.76% from two or more races.
There were 112 households out of which 34.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.9% were married couples living together, 16.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.8% were non-families. 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.93.
In the village the population was spread out with 28.6% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 83.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 78.1 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $18,750, and the median income for a family was $26,750. Males had a median income of $23,393 versus $22,250 for females. The per capita income for the village was $13,033. About 7.0% of families and 14.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.6% of those under the age of eighteen and 20.0% of those sixty five or over.
Government and infrastructure[edit]
The United States Postal Service operates the Athens Post Office.[7]
Claiborne Parish School Board operates Athens High School, a PreK–12 high school, in Athens.[8]
The Mt. Olive Christian School, pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, operates in the former Athens High School building, constructed in 1930, with the last graduating class there in 1969.[9]
Notable people[edit]
- Henry L. Bridges (1874–1939), a businessman originally from Athens; mayor of nearby Minden, Louisiana, from 1928 to 1932 and 1934 to 1936[10]
- Maggie Renfro (1895–2010), born in Athens, one of the world's oldest supercentenarians[11]
- Kenneth L. Volentine, former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, with service from 1988 to 1992,[12] and sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1996 to 2004
- ^ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Athens village, Louisiana". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
- ^ "Greg Hilburn and Robbie Evans, "Pilgrim's Pride decision a bombshell: Sites closing in Arcadia, Athens, Choudrant, Farmerville". Shreveport Times. Retrieved March 1, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Greg Hilburn (March 21, 2009). "Saved: 1,300 jobs". Monroe News Star. Retrieved March 21, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Leeper, Clare D'Artois (19 October 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-8071-4740-5.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "Post Office Location - ATHENS." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on October 2, 2010.
- ^ "Welcome to Athens High School." Claiborne Parish Schools. Retrieved on October 2, 2010.
- ^ "Mt. Olive Christian School". privateschoolreview.com. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ^ "Bridges Rites Held Monday: Former Mayor Succumbs to Heart Attack", Minden Herald, April 14, 1939, p. 1
- ^ Vickie Welborn, "Minden woman, 112, is state's oldest living person", Shreveport Times, November 14, 2007
- ^ "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives". legis.state.la.us. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
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Kelly Osbourne really does not like Christina Aguilera. She's come out hard against the singer's weight again, saying she was never as fat as Christina is now.
Just two months ago, the E! Fashion Police co-host blatantly called Aguilera a fat bitch and the c-word to boot. Osbourne has never been one to mince words.
When co-host George Kotsiopoulous defended Christina's get-up at the Michael Jackson tribute concert, saying she's "still probably a size 2/4," Kelly scoffed.
"Trust me," she sniped. "I'm a 2/4. That is not a 2/4. I was never that fat."
Christina Aguilera at this month's concert and in January 2010.
The Voice judge has been the source of criticism for pairing a tight-fitting black bodysuit with fishnets, heavy-handed makeup and massive hair at the show.
It's unclear exactly why Osbourne hates her so much, but this summer, she said, "She called me fat for f*cking years, so you know what? You're fat, too."
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mmm.. I'm on kellys side. She has gone through alot and i don't liem the fact that x-tina has called her fat. that's mean man.. but serriously, why can't the just stop it?
Kelly Osbourne is a fat, ugly slob with a huge head.
Have we all forgotten Kelly started this when she said she wanted to fing kill herself after hearing Christina's My Kind Of Christmas.Christina never called her fat Kelly really needs to take a long look in the mirror you're not prefect bitch and you never will be.Lets look at the facts here Christina is famous because her voice,songs,and songwriting Kelly is only famous because of her father hurts don't it bitch stay mad.
Whoa you bitch ass kelly do you have a kid no I didn't think so you ass so go to hell Xtina is 100 times sexier than you you only said that on live TV because your jealous so take your slutty ugly lookin as somewhere else back to london because sweetie i'll tell ya no one wants a bithcin america
Sorry Kelly, but have you had a child? No you were just fat for no reason. You're are all high and mighty yet you're famous 'cause your parents are. Is Christina's family famous so now she is?? No she actually has a talent. Picking on her 'cause she is 'fat' still 10 times prettier than you.
Christina is not a model,or an athlete- she's a singer, what counts is her voice. I dont expect to see singers to get up on stage and wear skimpy clothes and fishnets; ok, guys do right? How many guys do you see making comments on here? maybe Kelly (what does she do again?) and Christina should team up against whoever expects them to be bone racks (in other words bony with big boobs) instead of fighting over whoever was the fattest!
Kelly--Needs to stfu. She was 10 times fatter the Christian!
Sorry but Kelly was fat she knows she was fat she said it herself and besides she was was bigger than christina looks in that pic with her lyin self just like she tryin to say she went from 160 to 118 no boo boo you didnt weigh no 160 you looked like you weighed at least 200 lbs so insetead of lyin about your weight loss and hatin on christina be happy you lost weight and get over it plus.. Oh and p.s Christina had a baby bit** whats ur excuse for being a cow..
@Thembi: But before Christina called Kelly fat, Kelly had trashed-talked Christina on tv. Why am I the only one who remembers this?
lol wow christina gets hated on so much because she such a wonderful talented human ! and fat ....no ...thick ..yea .. kelly started talking bull long time ago with that christmas cd christina debuted ...christina confronted her and she acted like she never said anything lol you can tell she just wannts attention. and who doesnt have a bad hair day? or has moments where you gain some pounds and the loose them..seriously SHE NEED TO STOP acting like snotty little teen and grow up! and fyi kelly is just a famous persons daughter but she can never compare to christina aguilera.... shes alright but she aint nothing big. well other than still being a fata** jealus girl....


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Seven Israeli industrial plants in the complex known as Geshuri in Palestine, to the north of the West Bank, have caused serious environmental pollution in the area and six workers died as a result.
The release of toxic gases and solid and liquid waste in the area penetrate the soil reaching the underground layers, thus the alarming cases of breathing diseases and cancer. This concerns environmental activists, researchers and trade unionists, among other local and national actors.
The mission of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) in Palestine, visited the General Trade Union of Food and Agriculture Industries in the West Bank. There, the members of the Executive Committee of several countries and members of the federation's International Secretariat (based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands), spoke with trade union leader Mohammed Blede.
The first one was a gas production plant, the second one manufactured filters for agriculture and the third one recycled plastic. The third plant closed down. He Geshuri complex, which now hosts seven plants, was torn down and rebuilt twice between 1970 to 1983, because the Israeli authorities did not allow the plant in their territory because of the level of pollution. This is why they took a shortcut: the third time the industrial complex was built on Palestinian territory and it does not have to comply with the Israeli standards, even though it hosts Israeli industries.
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The plants built after the first three manufacture fertilizers, pesticides, paint, etc. If the wind blows from the west and the pollution reaches the Palestinian side the plants operate. But if there is wind from the east, the plants close so that the Israelis do not have to put up with breathing the polluting and pestilent air we breathed today on site, and which the Palestinians of Tulkarem and surrounding areas breathe every day. In any case, the eastern wind is rather exceptional.
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