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Miscellaneous Archive
Ever wanted to rob a bank? Me too, but I don't fancy prison so this "what if?" project will have to do. Ilona Gaynor has been quietly planning a highly organised heist of five major banks in the downtown Los Angeles area for the past two years, and is now reaching out for some funding to allow her to complete her mission.
It's competition time again folks and we've got a great opportunity for an incredibly talented illustrator to provide the packaging design for next year's Beefeater 24 super premium gin.
We've all been there, cruising through Ikea's giant field of homeware dreams only to find that the geometric patterned rug you've travelled for hours to purchase isn't available on the shop floor. Off you go to find the nearest assistant to fetch you one from out back, and then you freeze. How do you even pronounce the name of the thing? "Hall-knop," you mutter apologetically. "Haller-um…" the disdainful look from the yellow-clad employee is enough to send you scurrying away so that no other customers can overhear your linguistic failings. You head straight for the door and return to your woefully spartan flat empty-handed.
Yeah nice one May, just be wet and miserable and make my hair go all fluffy at the back. Really good work. Anyway despite your best meteorological efforts to crush our spirits we will not be broken! As if to prove it, we are dialling up the enthusiasm factor to 11 as we are thrilled to introduce our newest editorial intern Maisie Skidmore. And to help you get to know her better we fired some questions at Maisie on her very first day which she was good enough to answer. So without further ado…
There's something overwhelming about turning up in an unfamiliar city during one of the major design jamborees and it can be hard to know where to start. But a new initiative from HTC and Wallpaper* provides carefully-curated guides to a several design-savvy cities showcasing shops, bars and galleries far from the madding crowds.
When you're walking along and you see a pigeon nibbling at some weave-strewn chicken in the gutter, or when you're watching someone dressed in a Pikachu costume being sick at a party, or browsing the gift section of a provincial corner store, you may be unwittingly witnessing things that Jamie Lee Curtis Taete manages to actually capture with his lens. Most of us pass by these tawdry, depressing sights without a second thought, but it takes someone like him to record it for the good of civilisation.
I know the trend for men these days is a long-on-top-and-short-on-the-sides, but to me a mullet and a moustache truly is the sign of a real man. Look at these footballers' sweaty brows; a toxic lather of sweat and wet-look gel accumulating on their foreheads. This archive of serious sports hunks is Old School Panini, a blog set up by Alexandre Bourouf who, after finding his old Panini football sticker album decided to start seriously collecting these gems from yore.
A corollary of the triumphant return of Daft Punk – which has dominated the cultural scene for what seems like weeks now – is a lavishing of attention on the humble helmet. And as if to prove that it's not just their music-making compatriots who understand the power and the glory of this kind of headwear, Paris-based Ill Studio have collaborated with high-end motorbike helmet makers Ruby to create this super limited edition series. Ill created a bespoke pattern for the range called Venecia, "echoing the works of redesign and ornamentation by post modernist artists from the beginning of the 1980s such as Alessandro Mendini or Robert Venturi." Stylish, restrained and undeniably hyper-cool, let's have three huzzahs for helmets and all who wear them!
There's few things I enjoy more than needlessly convoluted creative solutions for "problems" barely worthy of the term. But if you were hellbent on separating the cookie sections from the filling of Oreo biscuits then Dentaku, aka Yuri Suzuki and Mark McKeague, have just the thing. The Oreo Wheel developed in conjunction with Wieden + Kennedy Portland "frees the biscuit from the creme" by way of a small ferris wheel and two scalpels. It's super-fun nonsense of the highest order but this video does prove the value of perseverance in any design process.
One of the problems with the constant Instagram culture is that it all feels a bit disposable – images ceaselessly captured, rated, forgotten. But for their Untamed campaign, to celebrate the new CLA, Mercedes-Benz put a call for Instagram snapshots that would "tickle our senses and expand our collective horizon." They weren't after the stereotypical Instagram staples, they wanted images that were unique, unexpected and unusual and the best were given a second life in a digital photo installation in Paris last month.
Yes you heard us right, thanks to Claude Frisse-Greene, an early British pioneer of film, London has been injected with soft hues instead of the usual black and white we normally associate with the early 20th century. Claude takes us on a journey around London's famous landmarks, from Hyde Park along the River Thames and right across Tower Bridge. Incredible footage of a nation in-between two world wars, plus the fact that the BBC didn't start broadcasting colour for another forty years means that old Claude is a full-on cinematographic legend deserving of your posthumous respect.
Internet pranksters have targeted the the world of baffling, boring and downright bad stock photography before this newest example made us chuckle. Seemingly produced by someone called Bob Sleigh, it's takes a swipe at this strange phenomenon by way of a song to the tune of a Bruce Springsteen classic. If nothing else, watch it for the line "Cyber woman holding corn"…
If, like me, you spent your teenage years holed up in a dark room playing The Sims for a minimum of two hours a day, you might enjoy this. Did you use the cheats to remove the hot tub while they were "playing?" Did you ever lock them in a room and take away the doors or make them go swimming and take away the ladders? Course you bloody did. We all did. So here's a blog that highlights the beautiful, glitchy moments in The Sims when things go unpredictably wrong, weird, or broken. What I can predict, however, is that if you never played The Sims this will probably be entirely lost on you. Sorry.
Politics and comedy is not always a good mix – remember Tony Blair's excruciating "Am I bovvered skit?" or Gordon Brown dancing with JLS. But how about this as an exception to prove the rule, and politicians don't come much bigger than the leader of the free world. The annual White House Correspondents' dinner is always the chance for the president to show off his funny bones and this year Barack Obama joined forces with Steven Spielberg for this spoof. The set-up is simple enough – Spielberg is working on the President's biopic – but it all gets weird as method actor par excellence Daniel Day-Lewis speaks about bringing Obama to the silver screen. Enjoy, but for sanity's sake don't read the Youtube comments…
Occasionally you may ponder upon the process of installing a huge statue or maybe how the precious Monet painting you are looking at got there. Thankfully the world of Tumblr has brought us Installator. With the strap-line "wrapit-tapeit-walkit-placeit", it reveals painstaking processes behind creating and setting up exhibitions and artwork. From big trucks hauling enormous sculptures, to the care taken with valuable paintings, photographs range from the beginning of the 20th Century all the way to the present day. Modern-day heroes, these people make the world a better place.
We've got an interesting new design competition for you, bringing together a Scottish whisky brand and a really worthy cause. The Bunnahabhain distillery has partnered with The Fishermen's Mission to challenge designers to come up with a new label for the bottle, putting a contemporary slant on the brand's longstanding identity based around a travelling helmsman returning to the safety of the distillery.
Hey gang – prepare for your Tuesday to get at least 50 per cent more tremendous courtesy of the wonderful Times Haiku blog. Subtitled "Serendipitous Poetry from The New York Times," the project is the result of an algorithm designed by the newspaper's own technical team which sweeps the Times' website for snippets of articles which fit the syllable criteria for a haiku. The best are then posted on the site.
We've all got objects we can't live without, be it your favourite pen that enables you to be a better draughtsman, or the tin opener that helps you open tins like a total pro — to lose these objects is to lose a part of yourself. It took Time magazine to collect some of the world's most influential brains and ask them about their sacred objects, and the results are fascinating, in a pleasantly humdrum kind of way. Behold, Michelle Obama's gardening gloves, Sam Yagan's Algorithm for Lovediagram and a book Perry Chen turns to for inspiration. So great.
I remember when making your own time capsule used to be a big deal, the pressure to compress your life into a small space was not to be taken lightly. Now the fine folk from Retronaut have used the internet and its infinite space to bring us Anywhen. The concept is still the same, but with the ability to categorise the date, and theme of the item, you can spend hours, even days, just looking through bizarre and kooky fragments of the past. Expect anything, from an early Michelin Man sporting a cigar and roller-skates, to strange Japanese map illustrations.
Ohhhh this is so nice. Last November, while you were perhaps been toiling away at a tax return or flicking numb-eyed through the Argos catalogue that you found on the bus, friends and occasional artistic collaborators Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton were up to something very special indeed. Every day in November Michael and Lenka would create one drawing of something they had witnessed first hand that day, using only a typewriter as their medium.
Hot diggity damn! It seems like Coney Island in the 1970s was the place to be. Beach babes in every direction, and no one captured it better than Bruce Gilden. POINT have produced over four hours of material with Bruce Gilden and have given us a short excerpt with the man. Comments like he is only nice with his "wife and cats, and sometimes my daughter," and exclaiming that he doesn't want his subjects feel special, you can't help but start to love the guy for his indirect charm. The complete version will be shown at the POINT Authenticity Conference at RIBA on May 2-3.
Our jolly good friend Paul Smith (that clunking sound was the BIGGEST name being dropped) is opening a new shop in London's Soho and he wants you to help decorate it. Paul gets sent the most extraordinary array of things from around the world and his studio is jam-packed with everything from scale models to hand-knitted blankets. He is always particularly struck by the beautiful envelopes and packages that arrive at his offices every day and that gave him an idea. So for his new Beak Street store he plans to showcase some of the weird and wonderful envelopes that he receives – you can send them to Paul Smith, 46 Beak Street, London, W1F 9RJ and make sure you include a return address as well. The closing date for entries is May 27.
If you're the sort of person who has ever sat inside on a summer afternoon paint- bombing the walls of the frigate in Goldeneye, or spending countless hours zooming in on villagers' faces in the market square of Hyrule, you'll probably be into this. Andy Kelly, who writes reviews of video games and other "modern lyfe" accessories for fine publications such as Edge, The Guardian, PC Gamer and Total Film, and many other fine publications, has created this fantastic compilation of all the toilets featured in video games.
In today's creative community, it's all about convergence. Multi-skilled practitioners are well-versed in producing stupendously good results by combining different genres, collaborating with different peers and colliding different visual styles. That goes to the heart of the new campaign for adidas originals, with the brand partnering with Talenthouse to offer you the chance to remix their look and feel in whatever way you see fit, and win £5,000.
We've all been there, I'm just going to go out and say it. Whether it's your own darling offspring, or someone else's that you've had the pleasure of looking after, sometimes kids are real jerks. Considering that everyone is super-nice to them and panders to their every need every single second of the day, you'd think they'd be a little more grateful wouldn't you?
These houses are amazing, and that's before you even realise that they are actually teeny tiny miniature reproductions of real houses! Crafted by Narcissa Ward Thorne, known more commonly as Mrs James Ward Thorne, in the 1920s and 1930s, they're exact replicas of classical interior and exterior architecture that define the periods they were designed in. From contemporary dining rooms to classic English libraries, the mind-boggling craftsmanship that have gone into these works of art is pretty staggering.
We're all prone to a bit of gormless down-time, scrolling through seemingly infinite lists of collated failures and funnies, it's just the cultural climate, amiright? The other seemingly infinite thing that takes up an allotted slot in our day is commuting, so what could possibly better than to have a funny list of commuting photobombs? Some clever people has been folding their free newspapers and magazines into clever masks for unsuspecting commuters making for a seriously hilarious collection of photobombs. Well done people!
There's been a fair amount of chatter around the launch of the HTC One and now they've partnered with Talenthouse to give you the chance to help define the look and feel of the national billboard ad campaign. As well as the exposure, there's also £1,000 prize money and the chance to win £5,000 for a charity of your choice.
Technically this isn't art or design, it's science, pure and simple; psychology to be precise. But we're prepared to bend the rules a little here, because the one thing you can't deny is that these mind-blowing visual illusions are insanely creative. Produced by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a psychology professor at the Ritsumaikan University in Kyoto, Japan, who specialises in visual perception, these experimental images are intended to reveal quirks in the mechanical and cognitive systems that contribute to our personal perceptions of the world. It's mind-bending stuff, so take care, if you're susceptible to dizziness then the following pictures might not be your thing.
Our brand new intern bowled up at It's Nice That HQ this morning, ready, willing and able to write the heck out of some top art and design over the next ten weeks. So we are delighted introduce Holly Wilkins – everyone this is Holly, Holly meet everyone. Read on to find out about what she learned about living in Los Angeles, what really goes well with peanut butter and which Power Ranger she most wanted to be…
This week I was lucky enough to go to The Future Laboroatory's LSN Global Trend Briefing in London where one of the sessions focussed on the rise of the i Generation. These are the children who have grown up with technology as something constant and ubiquitous in their lives, and amid the fascinating insights and LSN 's love for a portmanteau (sharenting anyone?) they played this video created by Soulpancake featuring their regular character Kid President. Now I know there's something a bit light entertainment about kids behaving in adult ways but cast aside your misgivings because this is BRILLIANT. Really nicely shot, undoubtedly uplifting and with some absolutely killer lines ("Not cool Robert Frost") it's no surprise this has been viewed 14 million times. Believe me this will get you pumped up and ready for the weekend and remember – "What will be your Space Jam?"
From Lernert and Sander, the genii that brought you the melting chocolate bunny and the woman with a year's worth of make-up on her face comes a rather extraordinary new venture into the world of perfume. Endorsed by celebrities and brands since, well, forever, perfume and the idea of marketing a scent that represents a brand is a continuously fascinating subject. Lernert and Sander have, like with every project they do, hit the nail firmly on the head with Everything: a potent combination of every single one of the 1400 fragrances released in 2012.
It took a lot of energy to not start crying at the thought of a platform game about my favourite novel, but I just about managed. After all, it's hard to cry and control NES Nick Carraway running through Gatsby's mansion, picking up bonus cocktails and shooting down waiters. This has to be one of the best things on the whole internet at this moment: a true work of art of a game that is so true to the novel and the NES style. Oh God it's amazing. I'm going to go and play it again now (I haven't got past the garden stage yet) and then I'm going to write to Charlie Hoey at The Barbarian Group, who made this incredible game, and thank him profusely. You should too.
One thing we really love about our jobs is having the freedom to trawl the web for some of the strangest, most obsessive creative projects out there. We like it when people do great things for no good reason other than having an inexplicable passion for something niche and far too much time on their hands. Which is why we like Glasgow-based artist Adam Shield, a man with an unhealthy interest in abandoned mattresses that he's channeled into a bizarre creative project.
I seriously hope you're not coming here for answers as to how this man constructed these super fun 1950s underwater photographs, including persuading those beautiful pin-up girls to hold their breath for that long, because to be honest we have no idea. What we do know is that Bruce constructed a makeshift underwater camera shortly after arriving in New York (as you do) and took it straight to the big dogs in Hollywood where it was immediately put to use.
The great thing about Fred Perry is that the classic polo t-shirt is not just a great wardrobe staple, it's synonymous with everything from This is England-esque skinhead party scenes to strawberries on the lawns of the mansions of famous tennis players. Now this classic brand is turning the ripe old age of 60, it has summoned some of the best creatives in the world of art and fashion to reinterpret the t-shirt as they see fit.
Good afternoon everyone this is your editor speaking. We are currently cruising at the optimum It's Nice That altitude and are looking forward to a turbulence free month of March.
Everyone loves Olly Moss, and do you know why? Because he's one of the only graphic designers out there who makes genuinely good homages to pop culture. Remember his Star Wars posters that made the knees of every nerd in the country knock together in wonder? He did those. Remember the spectacularly clever Oscars diagram where every Best Film winner was represented as an award? He did that too.
And now the end is near and so The Ideal Studio faces its final curtain. For the past four weeks we've been working with Represent Recruitment on a quest to discover which factors designers, studio managers and experts believe contribute to a productive creative environment. For this final week we lined up a diverse group who brought a really fascinating set of ideas to the project, rounding us off in style.
Rightly or wrongly, Instagram has become something of trek through the mundane and formulaic – the sunset, a trendy burger, infinite cats. But Jung von Matt and Alster are trying to turn those cliches on their head with their new Untamed campaign for Mercedes. The challenge is simple – Instagram users are invited to take and upload an image which encompasses the idea of "the natural enemy of the average." They're looking for unusual, intriguing, provocative and inspirational photographs with the best projected as part of a digital installation in Paris throughout April. So spare us another snap of your dinner and let's start seeing something out of the ordinary.


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Social Change through Social Intervention 1 Social Learning through Social Intervention The Evolution of a Social Research Institute Towards a Learning Organisation A case study of Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund Hans-Werner Franz Paper submitted to the VET FORUM Learning in Learning Organisations and VET Culture Wageningen 23-25 November 2000 Dortmund, February 2000 Social Change through Social Intervention 2 Inhalt 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 3 2 Promoting PPP networking ............................................................................ 5 2.1 The evolution of self-definition .......................................................................... 5 2.2 sfs - a network .................................................................................................. 7 2.3 sfs - a network in a network .............................................................................. 8 2.3.1 Spin-offs ........................................................................................................ 9 2.3.2 Decentralised centres .................................................................................. 10 2.4 sfs - a network in a network of networks ......................................................... 12 3 Paradigmatic change .................................................................................... 16 Social Change through Social Intervention 3 1 Introduction sfs, Social Research Centre Dortmund, is a public institute which has gone market dedicating its primary effort to structural change in an old industrial region, the Ruhr, and building on a specific interpretation of public private partnership as its broadway to success in this endeavour and to its own survival. The paper describes a learning and transformation process partly also shaped by the author. Therefore, it is mix of a struc- tured interpretation and personal look back without anger. Public private partnership is a purposeful collaboration of public and private entities in order to attain mutually wanted advantages in a common reference framework. The public entity in this case study is primarily a public social research centre, Sozialfor- schungsstelle Dortmund, sfs. This is where I work. The private entities are all sorts of companies, old ones, new ones, renewed ones. In one of them I work, too. Public and private is also the funding of many of the projects carried out in this pursuit.. The com- mon reference framework is structural change in Dortmund and beyond Dortmund in the whole of the old industrial region on the river Ruhr, the Ruhr Area or, in German, Ruhr- gebiet. The mutually wanted advantages are sought by mastering structural change, avoiding decline, saving and creating qualified, economically viable employment, main- taining living and cultural standards. This is where we work all together. Dortmund is situated in the East of the Ruhr Area, has some 620,000 inhabitants, and looks relatively wealthy, not exactly a boom town but evidently a town where many things are tackled and under construction. Dortmund till the late eighties, used to be coal and steel and beer and all sorts of services around them. Dortmund today is no coal, some steel left due to be closed down within a year, and two out of formerly nine breweries left – and about 15 per cent of unemployment. Dortmund today also is 70 per cent of the active population working in services like insurance companies, commerce, software development and applications, multi media and communications, chip produc- tion, two universities and a considerable variety of major research activities. Among these, applied social sciences are one important stronghold with a wide range of activi- ties. Social Change through Social Intervention 4 sfs is a Landesinstitut, a public corporation immediately belonging to the federal state or land of North Rhine Westphalia. Established in 1972 by the federal state parliament, the Landtag, it has the mission of "accompanying industrial change" by empirical research. Originally it was founded in 1946, right after WW II, as an institute of the University of Münster – on the Ruhr, there was not a single university at that time –in the fifties and sixties it became a large institute with top reputation. With few exceptions, the whole post-war promotion of German professors in social sciences worked at some time in this centre. After the creation of a series of universities in the Ruhr Area during the sixties, in 1972, the institute became a pure research centre without teaching fully financed by the federal state budget, holding a total staff of 9 scientists and some assistance functions in secretariats and the library. Today sfs is an institute with a EUR 6 million turnover (2000) and more than 100 employees of which about 50 are scientific staff covering the whole range of work related research, transfer and consultancy on areas like vocational education and training (VET), organisation development, HRD, quality and ecological management, flexible working time arrangements, issues of (internal and external) la- bour markets and regional development, gender aspects, health and safety organisa- tion, etc. But the central purpose of this paper does not lie in describing the structural change of a region or an individual institute. Therefore, regional change issues are treated very loosely. The main focus of my paper is oriented towards the description of the results and the implications of a social, individual and organisational learning and transforma- tion process based on PPP networking as well as the reconstruction of the process it- self. Social Change through Social Intervention 5 2 Promoting PPP networking Whereas the old Sozialforschungsstelle was an academic breeder of university aca- demics with top reputation in the scientific community, the new institute founded in 1972 had primarily a societal and social mission of accompanying industrial change inscribed in the document of birth and the centre's statutes by a parliament with a social democ- ratic majority. At all times, sfs has sought to pursue this mission, although with less academic success, without underestimating the value of recognition by the scientific community. Nevertheless, there have been substantive shifts in the (self-) definition of how this was to be achieved. PPP networking has always played an important role, but what has been a spontaneous necessity in the beginnings, by the years, has become a purposeful strategy of contributing to structural change and mastering structural change in the own organisation. 2.1 The evolution of the institute's self-definition The financial development chart of sfs provides clear evidence of how the institute's evolution can be subdivided in three neatly discernable periods. Of course, none of these developments was initiated by far-sighted management decisions only; broader societal and social changes induced shifts in the way of thinking, public and semi-public programmes (e.g. of foundations) with new promotion focuses created new opportuni- ties leading to different dynamics of project acquisition, and, last not least, changes in the personal constellations and coalitions within the institute had major influence on these transformations. As always in life, looking back on a specific evolution highlights a specific mix of inci- dence, necessity and deliberate decisions. Neither the analysis of these influences nor their assessment is at the core of the following periodic scheme. It is merely meant to reconstruct in broad strokes the major differences of its stages from a PPP perspective, i.e. to situate the public institute with reference to the private interests, to the surround- ing society and region and to the research markets. Social Change through Social Intervention 6 The seventies were characterised by mostly self-sufficient research with a relatively vague reference to specific societal problems but not without the benevolent inten- tion of influencing political choices and strategies, primarily of the trade unions and of social democracy. Only part of the work was organised in clearly structured pro- jects. A substantial change occurred after the decision taken in 1978 to go much more for the socially relevant research market which at that time was the Federal Government's Humanisation of Worklife Programme oriented towards the moderni- sation of work organisation structures. The eighties were characterised by this decision leading to a slowly growing compo- nent of research projects acquired on the public and semi-public research market. Research, very much of it action research, was focused on so-called socially com- patible in-company organisation 12 12 and technology on the one hand, Drittm itte l 10 Drittm itte l Ha u s h a lt pilot projects in VET and re- 10 Ha u s h a lt 8 gional development on the other 8 6 hand. The main social partners 6 4 still were the trade unions, works 4 2 councils and social democracy, 2 0 although no longer in the Fed- 07 2 7 4 76 7 8 8 0 8 2 84 8 6 8 8 9 0 92 9 4 9 5 96 9 7 9 8 9 9 7 2 7 4 76 7 8 8 0 8 2 84 8 6 8 8 9 0 92 9 4 9 5 96 9 7 9 8 9 9 eral Government. With growing unemployment in Dortmund and the Ruhr Area, first individual initiatives without di- rect reference to the institute's official policies led to a closer implication of parts of sfs in local labour market efforts. sfs started considering itself an indigenous factor of (mostly but not only) regional economic and social development. In the mid-eighties, European projects were taken up, at the beginning as a special activity of few people who lay the foundations for a considerable enlargement of activities in the nineties. At the end of the eighties, all work was organised in projects with external and/or in- ternal funding, the latter being the exception. The institute's new Ex. Dir. dismissed the only person who denied working in projects and won a lasting legal dispute en- forcing this rule. The nineties were marked by the decision taken in the late eighties, of going into the market more systematically. Step by step, work at the institute became nearly com- pletely focused on applied research, transfer activities and (pilot) consultancy sec- onding much more closely regional development, also by using European funds Social Change through Social Intervention 7 more systematically. Acquisition of projects, in the seventies and eighties very much depending on employment security, seniority and hierarchy, became a generalised competence requirement for working in the institute. Along with good relations to trade unions and works councils, more and more, good relations to companies, management, employers associations and chambers became a necessary condition of facilitating access to companies and local or branch networks. But the decisive difference now was that the projects had to give real-time answers to questions and problems which were no longer defined by research interests alone but by real re- gions, real labour markets, real companies and real workers. What I mean by this will be explained further on. In the course of all these generically described developments, sfs became/has become a regional competence centre more and more profoundly integrated in a number of lo- cal, regional, national and EU networks, partly also global networks; and all of them, without any exception are PPP networks. In times of globalisation, this special mix of network ranges is one of the characteristics which make sfs interesting for local and regional partners. Evidently these evolutions have had major impact on the internal and context organisation of sfs. 2.2 sfs - a network sfs is a public institute with an Executive Director. The sfs organisation chart November 1996 director used to be an important person. The acquisi- tion of important projects was not possible without the important person. Although highly informal in general, many seemingly informal procedures in the institute were extremely sensitive matters of seniority and hi- erarchy. The organisation chart of the old organisa- tion shows a flat hierarchy with strong demarcations between the research areas. Individual responsibility for the acquisition of projects has logically induced high degrees of individualism leading to individual choices of collabo- ration, frequently beyond practical or professional logics. Consequently, a series of re- organisation steps of the institute led to a more flexible and open structure, internally Social Change through Social Intervention 8 and externally oriented towards networking. The successive shifts towards a more im- Uni Do Wissen- mediate market orientation has turned schaftlicher MSWWF 11 1 Beirat Kooperations- direction in the formal sense into a ser- OE-IB- 10 stelle Wiss.- Beratung 2 Arbeitswelt Neue Formen Dienst- leistungsarbeit vice function for a great number of der Arbeit Bildung- semi-autonomous thematic areas. Hier- 9 Arbeitszeit Geschäftsführender Direktor Arbeit 3 Beteiligung Forschungsrat archy has further lost importance Belegschafts- Arbeit und 8 strukturen/PE Gesundheit 4 whereas the aspect of leadership in a Betrieb und Neue Strukturwandel Umwelt- Mobilität-TA Medien scientific organisation remains open to Arbeitskreise 7 5 Kommissionen 6 further experience. 2.3 sfs - a network in a network Being a public institute under the responsibility of the federal state Ministry of Science and Education (not Labour as could be expected), sfs works under the legal framework of universities. The formal employer is the federal state. One of the stipulations of the law says that within five years the organisation can have any number of temporary con- tracts with one person, but after five years this person will get no contract at all with this federal state any more unless it will be to occupy a regular unlimited Civil Service posi- tion which must be free at present. This is opposed to German Labour Law in general which says that the third successive temporary work contract with a person will give this person automatically the legal status of unlimited employment. This special employment stipulation was no problem as long as the institute had not gone market. There were nine scientific posts paid by the land and the few people with temporary project-related contracts usually could find a job elsewhere or slip into one of the posts if one of the permanent job holders had left the institute. With the growing number of projects and a quickly increasing temporary staff the employment structure became much more of a problem, the more so since professional market-related re- search needs a certain stability and continuity of professional competence. With the given organisation, any experienced researcher who had learned to carry out projects with defined objectives, time and money and to talk normal non-academic German with management or workers in companies, had to be "sacked" after five years unless someone had gone or died. A serious dilemma. The normal solution throughout Europe Social Change through Social Intervention 9 for this problem is to contract in free lancers who voluntarily or not are in a precarious working position. We did not want to go that way. The problem could only be solved by creating an internal external labour market around the institute. We have achieved this with two complementary strategies, by creating our own private partners and by enlarging our stable co-operation context. 2.3.1 Spin-offs In the eighties the problem could still be tackled by "parking" competent people in a small and noble non-profit association called Society for the Promotion of Social Re- search in Dortmund (GFS) which unites representatives of important companies as well as all relevant social and political forces in Dortmund. It was traditionally chaired by the Labour Director of the large steel company who had its legal seat in Dortmund. The ex- ecutive manager of GFS was – for 13 years myself – and is occupied as a side job by a senior researcher employed at sfs. People who had reached the five year threshold were formally employed by GFS in projects financed by sfs, sitting in rooms of sfs and participating in the internal life of sfs without hardly any restrictions. When one of the permanent jobs at sfs became free, in some cases also half jobs by job sharing, one of the colleagues "parked" at GFS, returned to sfs. In the early nineties the problem became more and more urgent since the fluctuation in the permanent jobs at sfs slowed down and the by-pass of holding competent people by parking them at GFS led to the logical effect that the internal labour market of sfs/GFS was composed by more senior people. As the whole workforce kept growing during the nineties (cf. the financial chart above), the GFS by-pass became more and more risky due to the fact that at GFS the Labour Law allowed two subsequent temporary contracts only. Permanent employment was considered to be a financial risk which the Board of Presidents was not willing to incur. Being a public institute, sfs was/is not allowed to invest money in a private venture. So a number of people pooled private funds and founded two limited companies with different approaches and thematic focuses. One is called social innovation and the majority of its 14 employees (2000) work in projects acquired under the sfs label in the framework of a subcontract with sfs, in the offices of sfs, with the same calculation as sfs and fully inte- Social Change through Social Intervention 10 grated in the common horizontal and vertical organisation. They form part of the re- search areas of sfs. Few others have shifted their activities more strictly to private con- sultancy activities and will not or not fully form part of the common work context. The connections are manifold: There are people who have half a job at sfs, another half at SI. Another colleague who is fully employed by SI has been elected member of the Re- search Council of sfs. The present chairman of the Works Council of sfs is fully em- ployed by SI. Myself, I am fully employed by sfs and one of two executive managers of SI, the other being fully employed by SI and focusing increasingly on activities separate from sfs. GAUS Ltd., Society for Applied Enterprise Research and Social Statistics, has about half of its eight employees within the sfs work context, the other half working independ- ently of sfs. They also employed the computer experts who service our internal com- puter network. Meanwhile these colleagues have split away and mounted their own business, but still servicing the sfs computer network. Since mid-1999, sfs is running a pilot project called "Integrated TeleHouse" where a number of women are developing an employment and training strategy for unemployed women (which they were themselves till the project started) who want to start tele- working activities. The project has been acquired with the explicit objective of making it a self-sustained business at the end. This new type of projects which is applied re- search, development and employment creation at the same time, is a logical continua- tion of the evolution sfs has taken itself. 2.3.2 Decentralised centres In the first half of the eighties, the City of Dortmund together with the local Savings Bank and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce developed a rather daring strategy for a technology centre which did not indulge in the simplistic "make it easy to start a busi- ness" manner that used to be fashionable at that time. It was relatively expensive to get start-up space in this technology centre founded in 1984, thus stimulating a positive se- lection of new promising companies. Today there are three technology centres as breeders in the Dortmund Technology Park, a whole new and rapidly expanding busi- ness area with more than 7000 employments at present. Social Change through Social Intervention 11 "What is good for technology cannot be bad for research and employment", I thought and launched the idea of setting up, along with the technology centre, an employment and training centre for unemployed people and a labour-related research and transfer centre with the explicit mission to accompany the profound structural change Dortmund and the whole of the Ruhr Area were and would be undergoing. 18.104.22.168 The Dortmund Development Centre The Dortmund Development Centre (EWZ) was founded in 1985 as an employment and training initiative backed by the Trade Union Confederation (DGB) of Dortmund and to a certain degree by the city. I was one of two chairmen of its board till 1997 when it be- came a limited company based in the Centre for Labour and Social Sciences. The De- velopment Centre has employed and trained more than 700 long-term unemployed people and founded an ecologically oriented enterprise centre in a 32 companies with a total of 240 employees are based now in these buildings which have been completely refurbished by the workers of employment and training measures run by EWZ. The De- velopment Centre itself stopped organising employment measures in 1993 due to wors- ened financial conditions, left the ecological enterprise centre and became a continuing training centre for employed and unemployed people and for migrants based at the Centre for Labour and Social Sciences. 188.8.131.52 The Centre for Labour and Social Sciences on the premises of the former col- liery "Minister Stein" Whereas the Development Centre could be implemented soon after conceiving it, the Centre for Labour and Social Sciences (Arbeits- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Zentrum ASZ) turned out to be a long-term mission temporarily threatened to become a mission impossible. To tell a long story in few words, it took us ten years of persuasion and promotion until the dream came true, with GFS (the Honourable Society) as the main driver. In 1995, the first half of sfs moved to the north of Dortmund into the refurbished administration buildings of a former coal mine called Minister Stein, the last one to be closed in Dort- mund in 1987. The other half moved in the first days of 1997 into a new building which Social Change through Social Intervention 12 completed the old compound. But the clue of the concept was not (only) to get a new building for sfs (which for certain was badly necessary), the charm of the centre concept lay in the idea of concentrating the great number of not university-based public and pri- vate entities in Dortmund dedicated to applied labour-related social research, consul- tancy and training activities in one large decentralised centre in order to enhance the existing supply potentials in these fields by improved co-operation pos- sibilities and structures, and to enhance the specific labour market for this sort of activities by establishing some- thing like an internal labour market for applied social research. At present, 20 institutes, most of them small private companies and associations with a focus on consultancy in organisation and personnel development and continuing train- ing, with a total of 320 employees are concentrated on the premises of the former mine which used to be the heart of the town quarter of Eving – a (net-) working symbol for structural change in an old industrial area. sfs as the largest institute with a focus on labour and social research is the centre of the centre and plays a protagonist role. All other institutes and companies can use the ex- cellent library and its facilities for meetings. GFS, up to date primarily a promotion soci- ety for sfs, now provides its co-ordination and marketing services for the whole centre and will eventually change its name into Society for the Promotion of Structural Change. Another large public Institute for Regional and Urban Development recently joined the centre. Since their focus does not fully fit into the concept of labour and social sciences and the training providers could not find themselves in this denomination either, the cen- tre members have agreed to market the centre as ZMS which stands for Zentrum Minis- ter Stein for Science, Consultancy and Continuing Training. The centre's third largest institute is a semi-private association which formally runs the Institute for (social issues of) Gerontology associated to the University of Dortmund. 2.4 sfs - a network in a network of networks All these events and developments in themselves are part of and contribution to the structural change Dortmund is undergoing. But the PPP networking strategy is intended Social Change through Social Intervention 13 to promote and foster structural change not only by our institute(s) being part of it. Be- yond being components we want to be contributors, active assistants, helpers for self- help, thinkers and implementers of sustainable structural change. There is no intervention in structural change exclusively based on scientific studies, books and papers. Transfer of knowledge does not work without the knowledge of prac- tical transfer mechanisms. The specific offer of sfs and our fellow institutes in the Centre is not only that we know how to help others competently to master structural change in a socially compatible way. The offer is made more attractive, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, because we know from where and how to attract funds which allow us to do this. Although most managers pay lip service to a German saying which in English could be "no cost, no use", they eventually cherish the idea to get competent assistance for no or small money. Networks help to tell them that we can help them. This is our immediate interest in networks. But of course, networking does not function when it only serves marketing interests. It only functions if all networkers receive at least relevant parts of what they expected from participating when they joined the network. Nevertheless, their expectations might change once they are in the network and due to the frequent circumstance that network- ing offers them unexpected possibilities. This is why networks can have very different and changing purposes even without a change of the networkers. For a scientific institute like sfs with the declared mission and intention to assist structural change, networking is the only practical way to penetrate with continuity into the local and re- gional or branch web of eco- nomic and social activities. This may happen in very different ways and contexts. They can be Social Change through Social Intervention 14 stable networks with long-term objectives or networks established by and for specific projects which may not survive the end of the project. A few examples of networks initi- ated by sfs or built with active support from sfs may show the various modalities. KIM, the Co-operation Initiative for Dortmund's Metal Manufacturing Industry, has been launched in the mid-nineties as a joint initiative of some of the Centre's (ASZ) institutes and companies together with the Association of the Metal Manufacturing Industry and Metal Union (IG Metall) for Dortmund. The objective was to foster and promote organisational change and modernisation in the mostly small and medium- sized metal manufacturing enterprises based in Dortmund by mobilising the joint po- tentials of the institutes and by drawing in external funding from various federal state, national or EU programmes in order to facilitate this process. As a background information, it must be said that since the late eighties the federal state government had more and more adopted a decentralised and bottom-up approach for funding structural change by building on the indigenous factors and self-organisation capaci- ties of the regions. So networking in the regions and defining regional development objectives had become an official requirement for obtaining funds. Dortmunder Forum Frau & Wirtschaft: The Dortmund Forum Women & Economy is a long-term initiative founded with active assistance of sfs by the Department for Economic and Employment Development of City of Dortmund and a number of women in relevant management positions including works councils. They develop and organise positive action to facilitate information and support for and on women's possibilities for success in enterprises. ACTAB is a working party on technology assessment on the level of the land of North Rhine Westphalia. It serves as a permanent discourse platform for scientists, practitioners and politicians on the social and societal impacts and consequences of new technologies. euroNET:WORK&EDUCATION, originally founded in the end-eighties by sfs, the Spanish partner CIREM (Barcelona) and the Dutch partner its (Nijmegen), has be- come a stable co-operation context for European projects. Each member institute, normally one per EU member state, is considered to be the first or access partner when you are looking for a project partner in the respective country. When this part- ner is not able or does not want to co-operate at present on a specific subject, they will know who is best or next best in their country and will facilitate contact. Of course, besides euroNET which within the wide range of work and education is a Social Change through Social Intervention 15 thematically unspecific network, there are several other frequently less stable and more accidental thematic networks. BWH, Bildungswerk Witten/Hattingen, is a major vocational training provider based in Witten and Hattingen, two small towns south of Dortmund which also were and partially still are steel towns. BWH originally was the vocational training departments and workshops of the two large steel works based there. When they began fading away in the late eighties, a large coalition of the towns, the unions, the steel compa- nies etc. opted for maintaining these facilities as a part of the indigenous potential of and for the region. sfs accompanied this spin-off process by consulting and evaluat- ing its management. A whole series of projects with sfs and funds from the EU and other sources has helped BWH to develop new training activities and to establish it- self in the region. As a former large industry facility the regional SMEs had not taken notice of it since it was inward-bound. Now as an outward-bound training provider, BWH had to adopt a market-oriented networking approach to establish and build up contacts and trust in its capacities. It has grown in this process from a relatively small training provider with 19 employees to a large training and employment pro- vider with 120 employees and some 200 people working in employment measures refurbishing and clearing the steelworks premises for future enterprise settlements. So BWH, like sfs, is something like a network spider spinning its own web and open- ing it, at the same time, for further activities with sfs as there is no similar centre in this district called Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Social Change through Social Intervention 16 3 Paradigmatic change In the beginning we – at least many of us - thought we could be catalysts of change, change agents without changing ourselves. We have learnt that it is impossible to be a change agent without changing and being changed ourselves. In a nutshell, we had to change everything. And it was a long and uncomfortable process which has not fin- ished. It will never finish since we have to learn and change together with our customers and stakeholders. Not enough, we must learn and change before our customers do. Customer orientation in research, transfer activities and consultancy has profound con- sequences for the whole way of thinking and working. Embedded ourselves in the process of structural change, we had to change nearly eve- rything. We had to change our customers and fields of action. Traditional social labour re- search used to be – and still is very frequently - oriented towards large, industrial companies and contexts, in our case very often even more restricted to coal and steel and the chemical industry. Since the most important action programmes of the EU and national ministries have a clear SME focus, we had to shift our attention to SMEs which is a very different world, and more and more to services. From large to small companies. From industry to services. From research orientation to customer and stakeholder orientation. From supply to demand orientation. We had to change our products. The traditional products of a traditional research institute are publications. Of course, we still (must) produce publications since our researchers also need a publication record for their individual career and for the sci- entific community. But most of our customers do not want a book or an article in a scientific review. They want something they can use in their normal and current ac- tivity. They want results in a language they can understand and in a format they can use for their work. Often they want tools. Normally we must convince them that they cannot have recipes. So we have now two different groups of customers, the scien- tific community and the economic or political world, and we must strive to avoid dou- ble work by optimising the work and its products. We had to change our methods. There is a large difference between an analytical research position and a situation where you must come to practical conclusions for Social Change through Social Intervention 17 action and implementation. The traditional position of a researcher usually is a pas- sive and contemplative one, at most participative observation. A consultant re- searcher (institute) in the role of a change agent must think in strategic terms or in terms of problem solving and feasibility under conditions of restricted time and other resources, self-evidently without loosing the capacity of critical analysis. Help for self help must be the main approach in consultancy and action research which necessar- ily includes a participative way of working involving all relevant actors in a given field. It includes the recognition that the actors in a given field are and must stay the ex- perts of their work. The central requirement becomes to organise progress as a par- ticipative learning process among all people implied, including ourselves. We had to change our tools. Traditional research and researchers were used to work in the communication structures often still practised at universities: open (seemingly) unlimited and unrestricted process-oriented discourse. Result-oriented communication needs completely different tools of structuring time, information and outcomes maintaining open discourse, though, as a necessary source of creativity and openness. First of all, it needs a change in the language as non-academic pro- ject partners are experts in their own rights and have completely different cultures and terminologies. It also forces us to change our personal work styles. Of course, these changes could not only be changes towards the external work context, they had to have consequences for our own internal work contexts. For example, individ- ual time and task management have changed considerably. Reliable project and network management have become a must. We had to change our organisation. Working for the market and for SMEs requires to become an SME yourself. The structural change of our (scientific) work organisa- tion has been described above. But beyond this, the whole of the institute's internal functioning and procedures had to change. The whole management of resources has become much more flexible. We had to skip the old cameralistic way of budget- ing which is normal for public institutes. We had to adopt cost unit accounting and calculations in daily work packages. Management got much more of a service role than before. The functions of the secretariats changed completely from typing pools to flexible project assistance. The institute has become a medium-sized research and consultancy company with a lot of employed free lancers working in internal and external networks. All this says: We had to change our way of thinking. We had to change ourselves.
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Q: (ravin) Is there any way we can have a separate small craft list and Starship list to free up ship slots without having to decommission our small craft?
Dstahl: We are still considering this issue. We agree that maintaining a large Fleet of ships is daunting and requires decommissioning and reclaiming in order to shuffle between the various ships you command. In the meantime, you will need to continue to swap your active ship roster and reclaim old ships in order to get around the ship cap.
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|Pastor: Rev. (Chris) Krzysztof Korcz
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Dudley, MA 01571
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"Return - Renew – Rejoice - Reconciliation"
REKOLEKCJE WIEKOPOSTNE – 22-25 Marca
Our first "Return - Renew - Rejoice" Parish Mission is scheduled during Lent with Fr. Gregory Zielinski, an energetic young priest as our guest preacher. He is a student at the Lateran University in Rome and at Boston College Law School working on his doctoral degree. He comes to us with a reputation for being a dynamic, humorous and engaging speaker, whose preaching is challenging and inspiring.
Rekolekcje poprowadzi ks. Grzegorz
Zeliński, który jest studentem Uniwersytetu Laterańskiego,
pracującym nad doktoratem z prawa cywilnego i kanonicznego w Boston
St. Andrew Bobola Church will be hosting a Baked
Scrod Dinner on Ash Wednesday - February 18, 2015 from 4pm - 6pm and every
Friday during Lent. The Friday
hours are 11:30am - 2:00pm and 4:00pm - 6:30pm. The dinners will be eat in
or take out from the church hall. The cost per adult dinner is $9.50 and child's
dinner $5.00. Proceeds from the Scrod Dinner will be for the heating system in the
The cost per adult dinner is $9.50 and child's
dinner $5.00.
Proceeds from the Scrod Dinner will be for the heating system in the
St. Andrew Bobola Parish invites
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zaprasza parafian i całą Polonię na
2015 od 6pm do 1am do sali Parafialnej
Robert. Cena biletu $35. Dobra Muzyka, smaczny Polski Bufet i wiele atrakcji.
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If you feel there is something lacking in your life... Join us every Sunday and rediscover your relationship with God.
"For no matter where man looks, no matter how he strives, if he wanders far from God, he will not enjoy nature's tranquility, which he seeks, nor harmony and peace of soul; he will be restless and harassed, as though tossed by fever.
In seeking earthly riches, conveniences, and pleasures, in putting his trust in these, man pursues what escapes him, clings to what is crumbling down. For without God and His most holy law no right order is given man, no happiness worthy of the name, since man then lacks that solid basic norm by which to order his life; men in civil authority lack the basic norm for governing; and the community lacks the very foundation of moderation. And as you well know, only heavenly joys, which are eternal, and not what is in flux and transitory, can fill and satisfy the soul."
From the Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on St. Andrew Bobola, May 16, 1957
Unless Your Faith is Firm - You are not Firm!
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text: Like a Watercolor: Vernazza, a Gem of the Cinque Terre The long and narrow pastel color houses, perched on the rocks overlooking the blue Tyrrhenian Sea, are one of the most distinctive features of the Italian Cinque Terre.The 5 lovely villages along the stunning coastal path, from which the name 'Cinque Terre' derives, look like a lovely watercolor, the tiny little streets with the ubiquitous laundry hanging out the windows are charming and the little wooden boats evoke the close by past of a harsh region populated by fishermen, winemakers and farmers, working hard to ensure their own subsistence.Every town has its own charm, but Vernazza occupies a special place in my heart.Share this if you like it!FacebookTwitterGooglePinterestTumblrStumbleUponLinkedIn 19 Responses Jodi September 5th, 2011 Lovely photo! Reply waitinginthedark September 5th, 2011 Thank you, Jodi! Reply Barbara April 11th, 2011 This is really a nice picture! Hope to visit Vernazza soon! Ciao Barbara Reply Robin | My Melange March 30th, 2011 Magical photo Simone. Reply waitinginthedark March 31st, 2011 It's the place that is magic! Reply Donna Hull October 9th, 2010 So beautiful and a photographer's dream. I'll be walking part of the coastal path in October. I'm hoping we see your favorite village, Vernazza. Reply waitinginthedark October 10th, 2010 I look forward to see Alan's (if I understood well, he is the official wonderful photographer…) shots! Enjoy your Italian journey. Such a pity we won't meet… Reply Lori September 22nd, 2010 Wow – it looks amazing! I can understand why this place occupies a special place in your heart, Simon! Great photo! Reply admin September 23rd, 2010 Yes, Vernazza really has some kind of magic. Thank you Lori. Hugs! Reply Steve September 10th, 2010 That's a beautiful photo. It really is like a watercolor painting. Reply admin September 18th, 2010 @Steve, @nothingprofound and @Mark – Huge thanks for the lovely comments. Hope you'll stop by again soon. Reply nothingprofound September 9th, 2010 Breathtaking view! There is much beauty in this world. Reply Mark H September 9th, 2010 Super photogenic villages. I wrote an article (http://www.travel-wonders.com/2008/05/hiking-confection-villages-cinque-terre.html) some time ago describing walking the path between the villages (magic day) including some photos. Reply Gray September 8th, 2010 Gorgeous! Reply waitinginthedark September 9th, 2010 Thank you, Gray. Indeed the place is amazing! Reply Juno September 7th, 2010 Absolute gorgeous!! Look at the color!! Oh my god. Please take me there!! Reply waitinginthedark September 7th, 2010 As soon as your virtual RTW becomes true and you'll come and visit me in Italy, I'll bring you there! A big hug! Reply ciki September 7th, 2010 yes it truly is beautiful like a watercolor painting! well spotted simon;) Reply waitinginthedark September 7th, 2010 Thank you Ciki! When you'll come, I'll bring you here! Reply Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.Name* Email* Website 9 + = 13Comment


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I'm having trouble keeping some of my xCryptbergias alive. The greener ones that seem to be more Billbergia than Cryptanthus are getting to a decent size and then dying off. The pink/red ones that look most like the Cryptanthus side of the family seem to be doing fine. The colored ones also have a much firmer leaf, more like a Cryptanthus.
I have been keeping these plenty moist, but no different than any of my other seedlings. I have Alcantarea, Aechmea and Neoregelia seedlings that are getting the exact same treatment and none of them have died. I'm wondering if it is just bad genes or bad care.
I continue to kill of my xCryptbergias. I've pretty much decided that the addition of a tank to a cryptanthus isn't a good thing. My current hypothosis is that these plants are getting bigger and holding water and that is killing them.
The one xCryptbergia that I have that is doing the best seems to have very little Cryptanthus in it. Its leaves are thin and don't have that thick Cryptanthus center. Unfortunately, it isn't all that good looking. The cool pink ones that are mostly Cryptanthus are dead except for the one I put aside as a test. It's been kept rather dry and I only water the soil, no water on the leaves.
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Most mobile users in the Middle East and North Africa will have a smartphone by this time next year, forecasts the market research firm TNS.
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Globally, the average is 30 percent of users, TNS said. That is set to grow further over the next year, said James Fergusson, the global head of the digital and technology practice at TNS.
"The majority of mobile-phone users in the Middle East will be using smartphones by this time next year," said Mr. Fergusson. "Smartphones [are] rapidly replacing feature phones ... That penetration will increase again dramatically over the next 12 months," he added.
Factors behind this include the affluence of markets such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the urban population and the declining cost of handsets, said Mr. Fergusson.
Smartphones are now available for as little as US$80 (Dh293.85), and are forecast to further decline in price. "By the end of this year that will be down to somewhere around $60 to $70, if not lower," said Mr. Fergusson. "They're really getting into the emerging middle class ... in markets such as Egypt."
Higher adoption of smartphones is good news for Middle East telecommunications operators, which have been hit by greater competition and the rise of free calling and SMS services.
The average revenue per user for mobile customers has been steadily falling in several regional markets, according to the Arab Advisors Group. The average mobile-phone user in the UAE spent US$34 a month in 2009, compared with $30 last year. Mr. Fergusson said mobile-data subscriptions could help stem declining revenues.
"Traditionally the cash cow for mobile operators has been voice calls. "What we see is the value of voice calls declining," he said. "So it's absolutely critical that operators across the world increase their data subscriptions. And the rapid adoption of smartphones facilitates this."
The TNS Mobile Life study surveyed mobile use among 48,000 people in 58 countries. It found that location-based services - such as maps and the friends locator service such as Foursquare - are set to grow the most.
One area of growth in the Middle East is offers and discounts that target mobile phone users according to their location, Mr. Fergusson said.
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great picture!
oooh thanks! :)
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Oh this fits the mood today. The days before sunny and hot and today rain rain rain and it got pretty cold too.
Anyway………………….love your shot, feel like a bug, who is hiding in the grass.
super thanks kim! :)
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This is just sublime! I love the colouring and the whole series. :)
i am so glad sean, fab mate! ;)
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awesome series. love it! xoxoxoxox
wicked, so glad, cheers! :)
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Fabulous series!!
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Great macro and well captured..love the B&W
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Meryl Streep22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
65 years
Don Gummer
Meryl Streep is considered by most movie critics as being the greatest film actress alive. Has won two Oscars, for Kramer vs. Kramer and Sophie's Choice, but has been nominated 14 and still holds the record for most nominations! Educated at Yale and Vassar College. Married to Don Gummer since 1978, they have four children.
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Behind the Scenes at the Academy Awards!
Sunday 12:22 PM, 07/03/2010
We don't think anyone has missed the fact that tomorrow is Oscars night in Hollywood but what you may not know is how much work goes into the event! Staff have been working around the clock to get everything ready for the big night and they still have lots to do! Tomorrow it's time again for the celebrities to walk the red carpet and hopefully all the preparations have gone as planned!
Tags: Oscars / Celebrity party / Red Carpet
Anne Hathaway Kicks Off the Oscars Buzz!
Wednesday 10:15 AM, 03/02/2010
Oscars Season is here, officially! Actress Anne Hathaway and the President of the Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences (phew), Tom Sherak, announced all the Oscar nominees last night! No real suprises either, George Clooney was nominated for best actor, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock for best actress and of course Avatar is up for multiple awards, as is Inglorious Basterds! The big ceremony will take place on March 7th, we can't wait! (Click here for full list of nominees)
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Here they are: The Golden Globe Nominations!
Wednesday 11:43 AM, 16/12/2009
Hilarious pop star Justin Timberlake, Hollywood fashionista Diane Kruger and The Office cutie John Krasinski presented the Golden Globe nominees yesterday on live TV and we have to say, there weren't too many surprises. The usual suspects like George Clooney and Meryl Streep have been nominated for acting awards and big new movies Nine and Avatar have both been nominated for multiple awards! We are also happy that hot TV show True Blood has been nominated too! The Golden Globes are usually a good way to tell who will be up for the Oscars, so its always exciting to watch! The glitzy Golden Globe awards show will air on the 17th of January 2010. (Click here for the full list of Golden Globe Nominations)
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George Clooney: So In Love On Red Carpet!
Thursday 2:35 PM, 15/10/2009
The premiere for George Clooney's latest movie The Fantastic Mr. Fox took place last night in London. George doesn't often show up to red carpet events with a date, but lately things between him and Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis have been getting more serious and so she was by his side and looking gorgeous as usual! The movie is animated and other stars who lent their voices for the film alongside George were Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Meryl Streep. They were all there on the red carpet last night, but all eyes were on George, who has never looked this much in love!
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Jack Nicholson - The Perfect Model
Monday 9:01 PM, 10/08/2009
A bunch of young Hollywood stars like Twilight's Ashley Greene, Beverly Hills 90210 star Shenae Grimes and Swedish starlet Malin Åkerman all got together at the Madame Taussauds Wax musuem in Hollywood last night for a good cause. They were there to support teen charity DoSomething.org , who were celebrating the power young people have to make changes in their world. Guess who everyone's favourite wax model was? None other than legendary Hollywood star Jack Nicholson! Everyone wanted to pose with him, it must be because of his big reputation as one of the most fun guys in Hollywood (not to mention a ladies'man!).
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Top List: Highest Earning Femal Actors!
Friday 2:15 PM, 03/07/2009
Forbes Magazine has come out with another one of their famous top lists! A few weeks back we brought you the top highest earning Hollywood leading men and now it is the ladies' turn. No big surprises here as Angelina Jolie tops the list with Jennifer Aniston right behind her! See where super stars like Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Nicole Kidman ended up this year down below!
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