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Aqueduct: Two more fatal injuries bring meet total to three
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Following the fatal injuries suffered Sunday by Wildcat's Smile and Bomber Boy, there have been three racing-related fatalities in the first 14 cards of racing over the inner track since the meet began on Dec. 12.
Last winter, when there were 21 fatalities during the inner-track season, the third fatality occurred on Jan. 8, 2012, the 25th day of the meet.
Wildcat's Smile suffered a condylar fracture and a sesamoid fracture in her right foreleg while racing on the lead of Sunday's Cat Cay Stakes. She had to be euthanized on track.
One race earlier, Bomber Boy was pulled up and was vanned off. Later he was found to have a sesamoid fracture to his right foreleg and was euthanized.
El Macho suffered a fractured right foreleg in the first race run over the inner track on Dec. 12.
The article doesn't mention it, but there was also a Claiborne farm bred maiden winner that took a bad step and broke down right after the finish line at Aqueduct on New Year's Eve. Fortunately, she was able to get up, run off and was apprehended in the barn area. Strange as it may seem from personal observances, these occurrences are not happening when the races are being run in inclement weather, something the inner dirt meet here in New York has not been experiencing much the past two winters.
I really wonder about printing this article, especially with limited information. Reminding people about the total to date versus a note on the day of a specific catastrophic breakdown has what purpose? I and am sure most feel terribly about the fatalities. We reach out to the connections of these horses. It must be the hardest thing for them to handle. Now, comparing this years rate to date versus last year has no significance now. The comparison may raise needless alarm. There may be less going forward. The plan by the Jockey Club to collect data on injuries and fatalities is the way to go. Hopefully they are getting specific information on each horse, including care and history coming into the tradgidy. Only a deep review by the industry and vets will help make the sport safer. The numbers don't help the general public at least not with such limited information. We are not Vets, Trainers, jockeys and track owners. We look forward to the strides that hopefully will be made of the next 2 or 3 years. RD
:( i liked wildcat smile
This article sounds completely like a cheap shot from the old NYRA mgmt to the new. Low blow!
That's said that this happens but sadly it is what happens


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ERIE, Pa. - The Lakers scored the first four goals of the game as the Holy Cross men's hockey team fell to Mercyhurst, 4-1, on Saturday afternoon at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. With the loss, the Crusaders fall to 3-7-2 (3-5-2 Atlantic Hockey), while the Lakers improve to 4-9-1 (4-5-1 Atlantic Hockey). The Lakers win the season series 2-0-0 as they won yesterday by a score of 5-1.
The Lakers jumped out to a 1-0 lead at 1:13 of the first period with a goal by Scott Pitt. Then at 17:35, Jeff Terminesi made it a 2-0 score. For the period, the Lakers outshot Holy Cross, 10-6, while each team went 0-1 on the power play.
At 7:32 of the second period, the Lakers increased their lead to 3-0 when Brandon Coccimiglio found the back of the net. The Crusaders outshot the Lakers by a 15-11 margin, while Holy Cross went 0-3 on the man-advantage and the Lakers went 0-1.
At 12:37 of the third period, the Lakers scored a power play goal as Coccimiglio netted his second goal of the contest to make it a 4-0 game. Freshman Erik Vos (Carlisle, Ontario) scored Holy Cross' lone goal with just 35 seconds left as freshman Evan Zych (Kilbride, Ontario) recorded his first collegiate point with an assist. The goal was Vos' third of the season.
Holy Cross freshman goalie Thomas Tysowsky (Amherst, N.Y.) made 22 saves and falls to 3-6-2, while Ryan Zapolski stopped 32 shots and improves to 4-8-1. Holy Cross outshot the Lakers, 33-26, while the Crusaders went 0-5 on the power play and the Lakers went 1-4.
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In liturgical prayer, especially the Eucharist, and - formats of the liturgy - in every prayer, we do not speak as single individuals, rather we enter into the "we" of the Church that prays. And we need to transform our "I" entering into this "we".
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Keywords: Liturgy, Mass, Holy Mass, Sacrifice of the Mass, Eucharist, Holy Eucharist, Pope Benedict XVI, Worship, Deacon Keith Fournier
VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) - Pope Benedict XVI is one of the great liturgists of our age. His seminal book, The Spirit of the Liturgy , written when he was still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, is required reading in most seminaries and should be read by every Catholic.
There is a Latin maxim that addresses the centrality of worship in the life, identity and mission of the Catholic Church; "Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi". The phrase in Latin literally means the law of prayer ("the way we worship"), and the law of belief ("what we believe"). It is sometimes written as, "lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi", further deepening the implications of this truth - how we worship reflects what we believe and determines how we will live.
To the Catholic, how we worship not only reveals and guards what we believe but guides us in how we live our Christian faith and fulfill our Christian mission in the world. Liturgical Worship is not an "add on". It is the foundation of Catholic identity; expressing our highest purpose. Worship reveals what we truly believe and how we view ourselves in relationship to God, one another and the world into which we are sent to carry forward the redemptive mission of Jesus Christ.
The Pope used his Wednesday Audience of October 3, 2012, to continue a new series he has begun on the Liturgy and its primary role in our life together in the Church. We present it in its entirety below because of its beauty and importance for all of us.This theologian/teacher Pope needs to be read closely by all who desire to grow in holiness of life and enter into the full riches of the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the last catechesis I began speaking about one of the privileged sources of Christian prayer: the sacred liturgy, which - as the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms - is "participation in Christ's own prayer addressed to the Father in the Holy Spirit" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1073). In the liturgy, all Christian prayer finds its source and goal."(n. 1073). Today I would like us to ask ourselves: in my life, do I reserve enough space for prayer and, above all, what place does liturgical prayer have in my relationship with God, especially the Mass, as participation in the common prayer of the Body of Christ which is the Church ?
In answering this question we must first remember that prayer is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure, with his Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit (cf. ibid., 2565). Therefore, the life of prayer lies in habitually being in the presence of God and being conscious of it, in living our relationship with God just as we live the usual relationships of our lives, those with close family members, and with real friends; indeed our relationship with the Lord gives light to all of our other relationships. This communion of life with God, One and Triune, is possible because, through Baptism we have been inserted into Christ, we have begun to be one with Him (cf. Rom 6:5).
In fact, only in Christ we can talk to God the Father as children, otherwise it is not possible, but in communion with the Son, we too can say, as he said "Abba", because only in communion with Christ, can we know God as our true Father (cf. Mt 11:27). For this Christian prayer lies in constantly looking, in an ever new way, at Christ, talking with Him, being in silence with Him, listening to Him, acting and suffering with Him. The Christian rediscovers his true identity in Christ, "the firstborn of every creature », in whom all things were created (cf. Col 1:15 ff). By identifying with Him, being one with Him, I discover my personal identity, that of the true child who sees God as a Father full of love.
But do not forget: we discover Christ, we know him as a living Person, in the Church. It is "his Body." This embodiment can be understood from the biblical words on man and woman: the two shall become one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24, Ephesians 5.30 ff. 1 Cor 6.16 s). The unbreakable bond between Christ and the Church, through the unifying power of love, does not negate the 'you' or 'I', but raises them to their most profound unity.
Finding one's true identity in Christ means achieving communion with him, that does not cancel me out, but raises me to the highest dignity, that of a child of God in Christ, "the love-story between God and man consists in the very fact that this communion of will increases in a communion of thought and sentiment, and thus our will and God's will increasingly coincide "(Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, 17). To pray means to rising towards the heights of God through a necessary gradual transformation of our being.
Thus, participating in the liturgy, we make ours the language of the Mother Church, we learn to speak it and for it. Of course, as I have already said, this takes place in a gradual manner, little by little. I have to progressively immerge myself in the words of the Church, with my prayer, my life, my suffering, my joy, my thoughts. It is a journey that transforms us.
Thus I think that these reflections enable us to answer the question that we posed at the beginning: how do I learn to pray, how can I grow in my prayer? Looking at the model that Jesus taught us, the Pater Noster [Our Father], we see that the first word is "Father" and the second is "our." The answer, then, is clear: I learn to pray, I nourish my prayer, addressing God as Father and praying-with-others, praying with the Church, accepting the gift of his words, which gradually become familiar and rich in meaning.
The dialogue that God establishes with each of us, and we with Him, in prayer always includes a "with", you can not pray to God in an individualistic manner. In liturgical prayer, especially the Eucharist, and - formats of the liturgy - in every prayer, we do not speak as single individuals, rather we enter into the "we" of the Church that prays. And we need to transform our "I" entering into this "we".
I would like to recall another important aspect. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church we read: " In the liturgy of the New Covenant every liturgical action, especially the celebration of the Eucharist and the sacraments, is an encounter between Christ and the Church" (n. 1097); so it is the "whole Christ" , throughout the Community, the Body of Christ united with its Head, that celebrates. Thus the liturgy is not a kind of "self-manifestation" of a community, but it is emerging from the simple "being-oneself", being closed in on ourselves, and accessing the great banquet, entering the great living community in which God nourishes us.
The liturgy implies universality and our awareness of this universal character must always be renewed. The Christian liturgy is the worship of the universal temple which is the Risen Christ, whose arms are stretched out on the cross to draw us all into the embrace that is the eternal love of God. It is the cult of the open skies. It is never only the event of a single community, in a given time and space. It is important that every Christian feels and really is part of this universal "we", which provides the foundation and refuge to the "I" in the Body of Christ which is the Church.
In this we must be aware of and accept the logic of the Incarnation of God: He has drawn near, present, entering into history and human nature, becoming one of us. And this presence continues in the Church, his Body. The liturgy then is not the memory of past events, but it is the living presence of Christ's Paschal Mystery that transcends and unites all times and spaces. If the centrality of Christ does not emerge in the celebration, then it is not a Christian liturgy, totally dependent on the Lord and sustained by his creative presence. God acts through Christ and we can only act through him and in him. Every day the conviction must grow in us that the liturgy is not our, my, 'action', but the action of God in us and with us.
It is not the individual - priest or layman - or the group that celebrates the liturgy, but it is primarily God's action through the Church, which has its own history, its rich tradition and creativity. This universality and fundamental openness, which is characteristic of the entire liturgy is one of the reasons why it can not be created or amended by the individual community or by experts, but must be faithful to the forms of the universal Church.
The entire Church is always present, even in the liturgy of the smallest community. For this reason there are no "foreigners" in the liturgical community. The entire Church participates in every liturgical celebration, heaven and earth, God and man. The Christian liturgy, even if it is celebrated in a concrete place and space, and expresses the "yes" of a particular community, it is inherently Catholic, it comes from everything and leads to everything, in union with the Pope, the Bishops , with believers of all times and all places. The more a celebration is animated by this consciousness, the more fruitful the true sense of the liturgy is realized in it.
Dear friends, the Church is made visible in many ways: in its charitable work, in mission projects, in the personal apostolate that every Christian must realize in his or her own environment. But the place where it is fully experienced as a Church is in the liturgy: it is the act in which we believe that God enters into our reality and we can meet Him, we can touch Him. It is the act in which we come into contact with God, He comes to us, and we are enlightened by Him.
So when in the reflections on the liturgy we concentrate all our attention on how to make it attractive, interesting and beautiful, we risk forgetting the essential: the liturgy is celebrated for God and not for ourselves, it is His work, He is the subject, and we must open ourselves to Him and be guided by Him and His Body which is the Church.
Let us ask the Lord to learn every day to live the sacred liturgy, especially the Eucharistic celebration, praying in the "we" of the Church, that directs its gaze not in on itself, but to God, and feeling part of the living Church of all places and of all time. Thank you.
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7. Get your fruits dried. Dried fruits are very portable and have a long shelf life. Take them to work, on shopping trips, or even on vacation. Raisins and prunes are classic choices. Also try dried cranberries and blueberries, which are extremely high in phytonutrients, or dried apricots, which are chock-full of beta-carotene, says Mary Gregg, R.D., director of Human Care Services for NutriSystem, Inc. Other options include dates, figs, dried peaches, dried pears, and dried bananas.
8. Bring fruit with you anytime you plan on driving your car for more than an hour. Once you are on the highway and cruising along, an apple or a nectarine tastes great and helps break the tedium.
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- Monday. Red. Apples, cherries, cranberries, red grapes, plums, strawberries.
- Tuesday. Orange. Apricots, cantaloupes, kumquats, nectarines, oranges, papaya,
- Wednesday. Yellow or white. Bananas, yellow apples, grapefruit, mangoes, pineapple.
- Thursday. Blue or violet. Blackberries, black raspberries, grapes, plums, figs.
- Friday. Green. Limes, pears, kiwi.
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Welcome to the 2015 Nantucket Triathlon weekend! We would like to thank all of our athletes for their incredible support over the last seven years and for bringing great energy to the island in the middle of the summer. We help show the Town of Nantucket - its officials, its residents and its visitors - that triathlons are a positive influence on the island on every level!Our 2015 athletes will have an opportunity to race in the Sprint Distance race on Saturday, July 18 or the Olympic Distance (Hero Triathlon) race on Sunday, July 19 or compete in both! What's more, we are proud to continue to give back to important causes. Since our inaugural event, the Nantucket Triathlon has donated over $125,000.00 to the Town of Nantucket Scholarship Fund which provide scholarship opportunities for Nantucket students. The Olympic Distance race has also made an impact in improving the lives of our veterans by giving back to two veteran charities. We encourage you to register now to secure a spot in this popular event!
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- Identify the direction of Ekman transport in a major ocean gyre.
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Welcome to the Terrapin Community! This page provides an overview of some important events throughout the year, as well as useful links and resources.
GRADE LEVEL ACTIVITIESThe sense of unity within each class is strengthened through several programs and retreats at the start of each school year. Watch your mailbox for a schedule with details about each grade level outing.
OPENING CONVOCATION & THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOLSchool begins on Monday, August 18 as students update their iPads and participate in various activities with their class. Students are given instructions on how to obtain all resources (ebooks, books and apps) during the first week of classes. For more information about the iPad initiative, visit www.tampaprep.org/ipad. *PLEASE NOTE: There is no need to purchase textbooks or eBooks prior to the start of school.
On Monday, August 25, we officially kick off the school year with Opening Convocation (formal attire), where students hear from several speakers. Parents are welcome to attend. NEW PARENT SHINDIGNew Parent Shindig is a social event for PARENTS ONLY on August 21 from 6pm-8:30pm. Parents with students new to the school enjoy dinner and drinks with other parents and meet several key members of the School community.PARENTS NIGHTAt Parents Night on Thursday, September 11, parents follow their child's schedule to meet each teacher and advisor. Pick up a School Directory, meet Tampa Prep Parents Alliance members, hear about ways you can get involved and learn about the Clubs and Activities available to our students.THANKSGIVING CONVOCATIONThanksgiving Convocation is a Tampa Prep tradition that celebrates the arts in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. The concert features performances by our Terrapin musicians, as well as spoken word tributes from students and faculty. Mark your calendar for this joyful celebration!
HEADMASTERS' CHALLENGE Headmasters' Challenge is an annual tradition honoring our rivalry with Berkeley Preparatory School. Winter Sports teams at the Middle School, Junior Varsity and Varsity level compete. This day of demanding contests and friendly sportsmanship between two rival schools is always a family favorite. Berkeley hosts this year, so be ready to bring your RED and GOLD spirit to cheer on our teams!GRANDPARENTS DAYGrandparents Day is a school favorite! Grandparents and special friends are invited to accompany students to class for a half-day of fun and camaraderie. Grandparents are treated to special performances and join their grandchildren in classes to experience Tampa Prep firsthand! Families enjoy lunch together to end the celebration. If we do not have contact information for your child's grandparents, please submit the Family Profile Addendum at www.tampaprep.org/forms so they will receive an invitation.TERRAPIN DAYWhile Tampa Prep students "go beyond" on a regular basis, the annual Terrapin Service Day exemplifies the school's mission of "a higher purpose than self." Students look beyond our campus' borders to volunteer in various ways throughout the community. Each grade level takes on a different cause and donates their day to the organization or task.TAMPA PREP'S FUNDRAISING GALAFor 29 years, the Tampa Prep community has gathered to celebrate and raise money for our school. This year's event will feature music, great food, fantastic auction items and an elegant evening that benefits the students of Tampa Prep! We would love for you to be part of the fun! SPRING MUSICALThe Upper School will put on a spring musical in the Smith Black Box Theater. These productions are always a hit and you won't want to miss it! Watch the weekly newsletter for details.
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IPAD INFORMATION: www.tampaprep.org/ipad- All you need to know about the iPad 1:1 Initiative!
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One of the main ways in which typhoid infection spreads is via contaminated water and food. The disease is not transmitted from animals and only spreads between humans. One of the primary preventive measures of typhoid is therefore ensuring clean drinking water and maintaining good hygiene and sanitation standards.
Examples of measures that can be taken in preventing typhoid are given below:
Examples of ways in which good hygiene and sanitation can be maintained include hand washing and ensuring drinking water pipes are well separated from sewage pipes.
Food should be carefully prepared and food handlers need to be especially vigilant with regard to hand washing and wearing gloves. Avoiding raw and uncooked food can also prevent the spread of typhoid and food that has been left over from a previous meal should be re-heated adequately before being eaten.
Health education and information about good hygiene practices is of crucial importance in typhoid prevention.
A vaccine against typhoid fever was developed during the Second World War by Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff. At present there are two vaccines against typhoid fever that have been approved by the World Health Organization for the prevention of typhoid. These include:
Live, oral Ty21a vaccine - This contains live but weakened or attenuated typhoid bacteria that can be taken orally in the form of liquid drops.
Injectable typhoid polysaccharide vaccine which is administered as an injection.
These vaccines offer around 50 to 80% protection against typhoid fever and are usually recommended in cases where people are travelling to areas where typhoid is widespread. An oral vaccine needs to be repeated every 2 years and the injection every 5 years for continued protection.
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From www.pillsbury.com: Our classy update of the popular tuna-noodle casserole pairs tortellini and Alfredo sauce with flaked white tuna.
1 (9-oz.) pkg. refrigerated cheese-filled tortellini
1/2 cups Green Giant Select® Frozen Broccoli Florets, large pieces cut up
1 (10-oz.) container refrigerated light Alfredo sauce
1 (6-oz.) can water-packed white tuna, drained, flaked
1 tablespoon butter, melted
1/4 cup Progresso® Italian Style Bread Crumbs
Cook tortellini to desired doneness as directed on package, adding broccoli during last 4 minutes of cooking time. Drain; return to saucepan.
Add Alfredo sauce and tuna; mix well. Cook and stir over medium heat until thoroughly heated. Spoon into ungreased shallow 1-quart casserole or gratin dish. In small bowl, combine butter and crumbs; mix well. Sprinkle over top.
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Coral reefs in Thailand have become extensively bleached during the past few weeks. Many of the reefs in the Andaman Sea west of Thailand have lost their brilliant colour from the shallow reef flat down to a depth of about 8 metres. Precisely what triggers coral bleaching is not known, and researchers are still divided over whether such events are evidence of a link to global warming.
Hansa Chansang and Niphon Phongsuwan of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre in Thailand along with Barbara Brown of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne have studied the reefs for the past 15 years. They say that some reefs have been damaged during this period, but that nothing on this scale has ever happened there before.
Corals turn white when they lose some or all of their symbiotic algae or the coloured chlorophyll that these contain. There is increasing concern about the extent of ...
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When making study guides or taking notes on your computer that you plan on printing out, widen the margins and reduce the font size to utilize maximum page space. I typically widen my top and bottom margins from 1″ to 1/4″ – 1/8," use size ten font, and Arial Narrow. Also, avoid double spacing. This […] [Read More]
World Water Day 2012
Happy World Water Day 2012! United Nations put aside this international day to celebrate freshwater and to focus our attention on the importance of freshwater and advocate for sustainable management of freshwater resources. Each year, the UN chooses a focus for World Water Day and 2012's focus is about water and food security. The importance […] [Read More]
Natural Sunlight vs Gas/Electric Dryer
As we hang up our turtlenecks and coats and say goodbye to Winter, we are giving a warm welcome to Spring's sunlight and warm temperatures! Increased temperatures send out personal invitations for humans and other species to interact in the warm and friendly outdoors. This increase in heat energy also allows us to utilize the […] [Read More]
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Why spend money on light when there is perfectly available sunlight outside for everyone? Open your blinds and utilize the sun's glow to light up your home or workplace. There is no need to turn on any lights when there is bright sunshine right outside to do the job for you. By replacing natural light […] [Read More]
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Drink filtered tap water instead of bottled water. Not only is filtered tap water healthier for your body and better for the environment (refer to Green FAQ), it is a lot cheaper. The average cost of a water bottle is about a dollar or more, and the price of tap water in a bottle amount […] [Read More]
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On Thursday, Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin Beckner says heâll bring up the idea of giving health care benefits to the unmarried domestic partners of county employees.
Nadine Smith is executive director of the LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida. On Tuesday afternoon her group sent out a mass e-mail to supporters urging them to call and email county commissioners in support of Becknerâs idea.
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At least six inauguration-watching parties occurred throughout the Tampa Bay area today. More than 1,000 enthusiastic supporters watched President Barack Obama deliver his inaugural address on the screen of the Tampa Theatre. Nearly 200 people watched at the Bible Based Fellowship Church in Carrollwood. WMNFâs Seán Kinane has this report.
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With 11 million Americans out of work and trillions of dollars lost in the stock market's tumble, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama emphasized that his biggest challenge is to repair the tattered economy left behind by outgoing President George W. Bush.
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In the current issue, music critic and Vassar Professor Hua Hsuâs cover story entitled âThe End of White America?â reflects on a report by the U.S. Census Bureau, that those groups currently categorized as racial minorities - blacks and Latinos, East Asians and South Asians â...Be the first to comment
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RiseUpTampaBay in collaboration with Code Pink, Florida Peace Action Network, St. Pete for Peace, Veterans for Peace and 9/11 Truth planned the celebration of President George Bushâs departure from office. The main organizer of the event was Michael Fox, the state organizer for Progressive Democrats of America and a member of Rise Up Tampa Bay, a coalit...Be the first to comment
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Edie Daly (Energetic Edie) and Christina Bellamy of AVP (Alternatives to Violence Project or Alternative Visions of Peace) provide a monthly full-weekend workshop for women inmates at Coleman Prison. They talked about the work they do at the prison and the upcoming art show and sale to benefit the project.
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A federal judge in Virginia ruled today that Sami Al-Arian should stand trial in March for criminal contempt.
The ruling was a blow to the former USF professor, who was released on bail by Judge Leonie Brinkema back in September after being incarcerated in numerous prisons and jails since his arrest in February 2003 on federal terrorism charges.
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Bennett is one of what could many candidates who will vie to replace Rick Baker, who is leaving City Hall this fall because of term limits.
Businessman Deveron Gibbons, real estate investor Scott Wagman, former City Councilman Bill Foster and Minister Sharon Russ have already announced their intent to run.
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Deborah Cox-Rousch owns a catering business and told the Tiger Bay audience that there was a simple reason why she decided to run for Republican chair.
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PAVI was established in 2006 to provide job training for bilingual immigrants interested in the healthcare field. PAVI offers training for Certified Nurse Assistants, Home Health Aides and Vocational ESL for healthcare workers.
In 2013, PAVI trained 96 Home Health Aides and employed 608 full and part-time Home Health Aides, the majority of whom spoke one or more Asian language.
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According to the latest reports from several news sources over 2500 people have died due to earthquakes that happened in Nepal over the weekend. This includes 71 killed by avalanches set off by the quake on Mount Everest. All hospitals are over capacity and emergency personal have had to treat victims outdoors. Thousands who have been displaced by the disaster have also been forced to take shelter where they can outdoors in makeshift tent cities. There are several aid agencies who are responding to the crisis. If you can, please donate to help their efforts:
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Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance's Rock the Boat Fundraiser
Rock the Boat is a tasting and music event that will highlight local-dayboat seafood tastings from area restauraunts, live music, chef demos, a fisheries-focused art exhibit, raffle and an auction! The evening will be joined by folk rock singer-songwriter Chelsea Barry and the Bob Marley tribute reggae band, Hope Road.
Ticket price will also include one free drink. Attendees will have a chance to taste the bounty of the ocean, learn about sustainable fisheries, dance to the music and bid on an awesome lineup of auction prizes while raising funds for a great organization.
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Don't like what your doctor had to say? Ask someone else.
No one likes to be second-guessed. It hurts your feelings and causes you to feel you're not trusted. But when it comes to your health, getting a second opinion at certain times is vital. Here are three answers to your second-opinion questions.
When should I get a second opinion?
Some health maladies call for a second opinion. Any time you are diagnosed with a life-threatening disease or a disease that will require substantial treatment that will interfere with your daily life, you'll want a second opinion. In fact, physicians will often recommend you get a second opinion in order for you to have peace of mind about the diagnosis you've received. They may also recommend you get a second opinion so you'll feel comfortable about the treatment you are being recommended to undergo.
While most second opinions will be to confirm a diagnosis or a treatment choice, second opinions aren't always used for that purpose. Sometimes, your body is telling you that something bad is going on, but your doctor simply doesn't see it. When you feel your doctor may have overlooked a health malady, don't simply go home and worry. Instead, contact another physician to get a second look. If there is indeed something going on inside your body that needs medical attention, getting a second opinion may mean the difference between good or bad health or in rare situations, the difference between life and death.
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How do I go about getting a second opinion?
Getting a second opinion is a fairly easy process. One of the fastest ways to get one is to ask your main physician for a recommended doctor to see. You can also ask trusted family and friends for suggestions. This will help you find a physician you feel comfortable with, despite never having met him or her.
In order to get a true second opinion, make sure it is received face to face.
Though you may get good advice on the Internet or on the phone, a second opinion always requires an in person visit with a second physician. This allows the physician to examine you physically, which may help determine if other tests are required or if your first opinion was indeed spot on!
Finally, before scheduling an appointment with a doctor for a second opinion, check with your insurance company to make sure the visit will be covered. Any peace of mind you may receive from a second opinion could be ruined by a hefty medical bill that you are required to cover out of your savings account.
Won't my physician be offended?
Doctors are very accustomed to their patients seeking second opinions. For the most part, doctors encourage second opinions, as physicians understand the value of having well-educated patients. So they should not get offended when they learn you're seeking a second opinion.
If you think your doctor will be offended, don't try to get a second opinion behind his or her back. During the process of getting a second opinion, you'll have to have your medical files sent to the physician you plan to use for a second opinion, so your primary doctor will find out one way or the other. By letting your physician know you plan to get a second opinion, you avoid creating any awkward moments in the future. Regardless of whether your physician also feels awkward, these unwanted feelings may keep you from being as honest with your doctor in the future, which can put your good health at risk.


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Whitman Mission National Historic Site
About the Park
The 1847 Whitman "Massacre" horrified Americans and impacted the lives of the peoples of the Columbia Plateau for decades afterwards. The circumstances that surround this tragic event resonate with modern issues of cultural interaction and differing perspectives. Whitman Mission National Historic Site includes the original mission site, a mass grave where Marcus and Narcissa Whitman are buried, the Whitman memorial shaft, and a Visitor Center with a small museum. The park is located in southeastern Washington, seven miles west of Walla Walla off of Highway 12. Other sites of interest are located in Walla Walla and the surrounding area.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site has committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 17.5% below 2007 levels by 2016. The Climate Friendly Parks Action Plan identifies steps that Whitman Mission National Historic Site can undertake to reduce GHG emissions and mitigate its impact on climate change. The plan presents the park's emission reduction goals, and associated reduction actions to achieve the park's goals. Strategies and action plan items were developed by working groups at the North Coast & Cascade and Upper Columbia Basin Climate Friendly Parks Workshop.
Emissions Profile
GHG emissions result from the combustion of fossil fuels for transportation and energy (e.g., boilers, electricity generation), the decomposition of waste and other organic matter, and the volatilization or release of gases from various other sources (e.g., fertilizers and refrigerants).
In 2007, GHG emissions within Whitman Missions National Historic Site totaled 88 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2E). This includes emissions from park and concessioner operations and visitor activities, including vehicle use within the park. For perspective, a typical single family home in the U.S. produces approximately 12 MTCO2 per year (U.S. EPA, Greenhouse Gases Equivalencies Calculators – Calculations and References, Retrieved; Website: http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html). Thus, the combined emissions from park and concessioner operations and visitor activities within the Park are roughly equivalent to the emissions from the electricity use of seven households each year.
The largest emission sector for Whitman Mission National Historic Site is energy, totaling 59 MTCO2E, followed by transportation 22 MTCO2E, and waste with seven MTCO2E. Energy consumption includes stationary combustion on site, along with emissions from electricity purchased from the local utility. Of the total emissions from transportation, 11 MTCO2E resulted from park operations, and 11 MTCO2E resulted from visitor vehicle use. Whitman Mission National Historical Site is a small, remotely located park, and has little paved area, and as a result emissions are much lower than in many other national parks.
The graph below, taken from our Action Plan, shows our baseline emissions in 2007 broken down into sectors.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site has committed to reduce GHG emissions from the park to 17.5 % below 2006 levels by the year 2016 by implementing emission mitigation actions identified by the park.
To read more about what we are doing at Whitman Mission National Historic Site about climate change, check out our Action Plan!


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Bruce Little, the chairman of the Camden Municipal Election Commission (CMES), is scheduled to speak at Tuesday's Camden City Council meeting. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. following a 5 p.m. work session. Both meetings are open to the public and are held on the second floor of Camden City Hall on Lyttleton Street.
Dot Goodwin said she was in Camden's city hall when Camden City Council was discussing the then-pending hospitality tax several years ago when she noticed something.
Camden City Council focused on financial reports and electric utility projects during its Dec. 13 work session. The meeting was a split one, starting at 5 p.m. ahead of a long 6:30 p.m. regular meeting and picking up again around 8 p.m. that evening. Rickie Tiller of Cantey, Tiller, Pierce & Green LLP, presented a brief report on the city's Fiscal Year 2011 audit. Assistant City Manager Mel Pearson followed Tiller's report with a fiscal year-end report of his own. Those reports were given in the first half of the work session. Bronson followed the ...
In February 1974, New York Magazine published a long, in-depth article about the fight between the then-current backers of the existing New York Coliseum and the supporters of a proposed convention center. Among the supporters: Mayor John Lindsay. About half-way through the story, readers are introduced to someone helping the opponents of the proposed project: Herbert J. Farber. Opponents hired his public relations firm to "immediately begin orchestrating the resistance," according to writer Nicholas Pileggi.
S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal was a special guest of the Camden Rotary Club at its weekly meeting Thursday, speaking to the crowd of Rotarians on a variety of issues facing the state's judicial system.
Camden Mayor Jeffrey Graham, 29, his voice strained, told a packed-to-capacity crowd at Camden City Hall Tuesday night that he deliberately chose to return to Camden after college because he "believes in the people that raised me in this community to be who I am today."
The city of Camden and the Camden Parks and Trees Commission honored local outreach organizations during a special Arbor Day tree dedication ceremony Friday at Monument Square.
More than five people are already signed up to speak in public forum during Camden City Council's meeting Tuesday. At least some of the speakers are long associated with an effort to get a referendum on a city ballot so citizens can vote on whether to fund the construction of a possibly YMCA of Columbia-run sports complex.
A group of citizens and others supporting a referendum concerning a proposed YMCA-managed sports complex in Camden said Mayor Jeffrey Graham rebuffed its efforts to turn in signatures connected to a petition seeking the referendum.
Ward Ratz is setting up The Dog House again, this time back at his first location between Kmart and Big Lots on West DeKalb Street. Ratz lost an appeal of a decision by the city of Camden to repeal a one-year business license he received to operate on Broad Street. During an interview Thursday, Ratz said he planned to set up shop again at Kmart beginning today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Charles McQuirt took great pride in being from Camden. He was born and raised in Kershaw County and after earning both a B.A. and M.S. from Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering and later a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Purdue University's School of Aeronautics, Astronautics and Engineering Sciences, he returned to his home town.
Camden's "horse history" in a nutshell.
The Kershaw County Voter Registration Office and a citizens group both denied requests to release copies of signatures on a referendum petition to the Chronicle-Independent.
On a split, 4-1, vote Tuesday morning, Camden City Council chose to move forward with a "full facility" option for the proposed construction of a new sports complex. That complex is likely to be managed by the YMCA of Columbia.
Camden City Council and citizens will finally get to see what a proposed sports complex might look like during council's meeting Tuesday. That's when council's Sports Complex Advisory Committee will present plans designed by JHS Architecture Integrated Design. The committee will also present two design alternatives based on JHS' full plans.
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With one hand on a Bible held by his wife and family and friends looking on, Clay Carruth officially took the oath of office as the city of Camden's newest municipal judge during a swearing-in ceremony June 30 in Camden City Hall.
South Carolina's top judge swore in a Camden attorney as the state's newest administrative law court judge on June 29.
Sylvia Upton "Sibby" Wood passed away Wednesday in St. Joseph, Mich. She was 81.
To the average person, it's an empty field.
As he made his way onto the track at Springdale Race Course for a photo shoot in late winter 2012, Dale Thiel was asked how he was doing.
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Despite impending snow, I layered up with the warmest items from my wardrobe
Later on, I had a nice chat with subscriber Rebecca Chambers who runs I Heart Vintage. A woman of impeccable taste, she bought a sweet vintage puzzle to sell in her online shop and a retro letter rack from the H&A stall.
She said that she has a 'buy one to sell and one to keep' policy when she's out and the letter rack is the item that will be moving in with her!
Next door was The Vintageware Store – a new venture set up by Fleur Wainhouse. She runs a little shop in Presteigne in Mid Wales and attends fairs most weekends. Fleur is trying to turn her passion for 'objects' into a career at the same time as bringing up three small children. I loved what she was selling and wished I had had room in the car for a cute child's desk and chair for my writing mad five-year-old son.
The fair was also a great place for people watching and many were sporting the odd victory roll or two courtesy of the vintage hairdressers giving their time in aid of Sue Ryder. The charity is raising vital funds throughout February with a hair-based initiative. Visit sueryder.org for more information.


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Resurrected: KBluetooth
KDE developer Alex Fiestas has taken on the orphaned KDE Bluetooth. The first release under his supervision, Kbluetooth 0.4, has now been released.
According to Fiestas, data transmission and receive now works with every Bluetooth device. Input pairing functions with almost all devices, he says in his blog.
The developer has greatly improved the user interface and more importantly, fixed a huge number of bugs. Application crashes have become a thing of the past, he says, and the program is now compatible with KDE, versions from 4.3.
Kbluetooth is under GPL and has its own page at KDE Apps. Currently only a tarball is available. Alex Fiestas would like users to ask their distros for finished packages.
Resurrected: KBluetoothKDE developer Alex Fiestas has taken on the orphaned KDE Bluetooth. The first release under his supervision, Kbluetooth 0.4, has now been released. For those who feel that the concept of this story is insightful, the probability is you are thinking about using Linux as your number one or simply a substitute Operating system when you find yourself simply sick and tired of your old OS. Though the majority feel that Linux is too difficult that it is attractive only to geeks, Linux-magazine.com can certainly demonstrate that this awesome operating-system is essentially for all people. It is regularly entertaining to find out about Resurrected: KBluetooth.
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Resurrected: KBluetoothSuch insight KDE developer Alex Fiestas has taken on the orphaned KDE Bluetooth. The first release under his supervision, Kbluetooth 0.4, has now been released should be actually unusual.
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Colorado National Guard doing 'Vigilant Guard' exercises in Colorado Springs and metro Denver area
Expect to see activity at the Pepsi Center today
DENVER - The Colorado National Guard will be conducting large-scale, multi-agency emergency exercises in Colorado Springs and the Denver metro area this week.
The "Vigilant Guard" exercise started Monday morning in Colorado Springs. It focused on coordinating agencies to handle domestic emergencies and disasters.
The entire week's exercise scenarios are based on a wildfire burning into an urban area, and also involve severe weather including tornadoes.
Participants will practice storm damage assessment, hazmat identification, abatement and decontamination, search and rescue, patient extraction, triage and other emergency-response measures, according to officials.
Monday's exercises included a mock plane crash and a search and rescue mission hosted by the U.S. Air Force Academy Fire Department, officials said.
"Patients" received simulated medical treatment from emergency responders. Then they were transported to a mock hospital at Fort Carson.
Army National Guard helicopters and Fort Carson firefighters also conducted water drop training operations at Fort Carson. The training is designed to emphasize air-ground communications.
National Guard units from Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming will be participating.
You may see uniformed military members and Guardsmen wearing chemical protective equipment during the training.
Locations for the exercise will be:
-- July 22: Colorado National Guard Joint Operations Center, Fort Carson Airfield and U.S. Air Force Academy Fire Department
-- July 24: Colorado National Guard Joint Operations Center, North Metro Fire Training Complex, West Metro Fire Training Center, North Suburban Medical Center, University of Denver, Denver International Airport, Community College of Aurora
-- July 25: Colorado National Guard Joint Operations Center, North Metro Fire Training Complex, Porter Adventist Hospital, Pepsi Center, Dick's Sporting Goods Park
-- July 26: Colorado National Guard Joint Operations Center


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By Dr. Carlos Bezos Daleske, responsible for Corporate Development at DaimlerChrysler España Holding – September 14, 2004
The following article describes a PAR (participatory action research) experience in a business environment (DaimlerChrysler, Spain), where the research method has been strongly ethnographic. It was divided in two parts for easier reading. Part II of the article presents the action plan derived from the case study reported in Part I, reports the results and derives some lessons for practitioners and researchers from the experience.
Part I of the article provides an introduction to the field, presents the methodology used, and reports a case study.
With the evidence collected from research and everyday practice, the action plan had to focus on the following key factors: increase knowledge of employees, optimization via participation, reskilling and emerging of knowledge, and the value of accounting, including awareness at management and employee level and displacement of processes control from operational units towards accounting.
A new, consulting-like, human resources (HR) process based on variable payments by target fulfillment and performance was set up. Also training as a goal of the annual planning process was a novelty for the former administration area. Capacity planning, job valuations and other classical HR tools never used before for accountants aimed at professionalizing tabor relations. This new instrumentarium produced fears and resistance among workers and middle management: many had the intuition that the old industrial system would disappear and with it, status quo, privileges and even jobs. The first fear proved right, but the second was false. Nevertheless, the various forms of resistance, passivity and other forms of blocking were the primary research material that allowed us to find out how the actual system worked.
The balanced scorecard, a tool to measure process performance, organizational development and to link both parameters to financial performance was a first attempt to involve workers in projects. As a participation project, it clearly failed, but it revealed the patterns to be used later in PAR-projects, especially concerning the use of a worker-close language and a worker close-activity. The issue of process efficiency was a key observing point for analyzing the contribution of accounting processes to the overall performance of the car-selling business.
Observations and data gathered in both projects nourished the ethnographic research and produced experience for the action process. Both instruments acted also as an organizational frame for linking the research and action plan.
Figure 2: The process of research, action and participation at DaimlerChrysler in Spain (click image for larger version)
The new HR process established that training was a strategic matter and therefore also to be planned bottom-up and this work was fully participative because it not only involved managers but also employees. They could themselves plan their skilling via an annual interview with their superior which was to be introduced in the training plans. In this conversation, they could speak openly about their weaknesses, needs, and professional development, as well as the skills they thought would be useful in the future.
The action factor consisted in the implementation of these plans. Their evaluation became a new reference point for research: Were they useful? Were they profitable? Did they meet goals? The collected data allowed the initiation of a process of reflection and correction. One of the results was to find out that there was a serious lack of knowledge of SAP. The consequence was a large collective plan that allowed every employee to reach the same SAP level so that the knowledge gap between individuals almost disappeared (some would always retain an advantage, as in any diverse group).
This SAP training was immediately applied, so that the employees and the company enjoyed an early payoff. The training achieved something more important than providing a knowledge base to employees; it put the staff on a knowledge level that allowed employees to move from mere bookkeeping to information analysis and research, as well as to propose process optimization and automation opportunities. Many of those proposals were turned into actions.
As another positive effect, people started to be able to manage more abstract accounting and IT concepts, so that they could have a deeper understanding of the processes they were working on. Thanks to this, they could be involved in process analysis and optimization. Yet, if the company had not bet on transformation rather than outsourcing and redundancy, fear of losing their jobs would have prevented anybody from helping in process optimization and would have increased resistance.
This involvement was not easy; at the beginning, many employees did not understand what they were being asked to do. They were used to being passive subjects and they did not know how to operate outside the logic of production. They lacked a process view. As soon as they were getting used to this reframing – which took some months – lots of hidden knowledge about their day-to-day realities in processes emerged. This was a knowledge that no external consultant could have found, nor would most human resources specialists have thought to look for among people that "have been doing the same job for the past 20 years".
It is true that many employees lacked any theoretical concept that allowed them to express this knowledge. But they were working in teams with people that handled those meanings more comfortably and so a process of action learning took place that helped to generate a common language and common concepts.
Soon it was discovered that the most positive role for employees in projects was not necessarily asking them how they work; making them objects of research. Instead, it was a better to give them an "expert role" in consultation sessions. When the "process experts" performed the workers' actual job, while the real job owners acted as supervisors, positive effects were achieved. First, they appreciated that the "experts" and the people close to management "got their hands dirty". That way, the "process experts" could really appreciate the everyday difficulties employees had to struggle with and all the invisible problems they solved without being asked and paid for it. Second, as supervisors, they corrected and directed other project members in an iterative way about the best way of working. By doing so, they had to describe actual work in everyday language, causing many hidden tasks to be named and procedures to be coded.
Of course, real knowledge gaps still existed: working this way, employees on projects could identify what knowledge they lacked and suggest training measures that needed to be taken. This meant that they could organize their own training using the knowledge resources that other employees – closer to more qualified functions like balance or process analysis – already had. They knew this knowledge existed and demanded it, because they worked together with them on the optimization projects.
This experience led the shared services center to reflect on the gaps in theoretical accounting and financial knowledge, but also on the amount of hidden knowledge that employees – apparently deskilled – possessed. For this reason, in the third year, when the Group used the PAR approach to build its qualification policy, a double strategy was adopted. On one hand, self-managed internal trainings were used to fill the qualification gap. On the other, these trainings were put together by the employees themselves on the basis of their daily work. In that way, they were forced to investigate themselves the necessary theoretical frame they needed and to codify what they knew in a way comprehensible to their colleagues.
At this point there should be no need to say that one of the general internal trainings for all the employees and management was on the "value of accounting". This was almost the only "ideological" approach made to employees. After some negative experiences during the research phase and while introducing the HR system, workers were never told what to be or to think. In other words, there was little of the typical discursive work on what consultants tend to call "business culture". Instead, little by little, employees were permitted to perceive for themselves that things were changing for the better. The needed training on the "value of accounting" was done when results were already visible and a sense of pride and value for the work done could be transmitted. This also extended to an overall picture of why each one was doing her or his actual tasks, giving them an organizational meaning.
On the level of middle management, strategy for changing social perceptions on the value of accounting was developed through coaching and workshops. In the final stage of the project, managers were made to participate in a strategy workshop, where through a systemic approach, they became aware of the dangers of the de-location of so called administrative functions. They were urged to discover the real value of their activities or become prepared to outsource them to Poland, India, or any other low-cost country. They were asked to show what their contribution to car sales was. This caused them to make up in their minds about what the study of the car sales operation described above already proved: that they were an inextricable part of the business and had to focus primarily on providing it with information and process knowledge. As a result, the managers developed a strategy based on constant improvement of processes.
Management also changed the system of pricing for the accounting services. Instead of billing by the number of people dedicated to accounting (normal practice when a service is considered a "cost factor"), they classified the services as "transactional, management information and process consulting". This was very important, because it resulted in the visibility of accounting and of the contribution to business by the users of accounting services. It also separated the cost of service from the cost of personnel.
Regarding power, the old administrative area found itself being responsible for the accounting of nine of the companies the automotive Group had in Spain. It had become a major control unit. Besides that, it managed the financial transactions of those companies. Financial transaction processes reflect selling processes like a mirror; accounting gets all the data produced by operational work. Therefore accounting is an excellent position from which to observe the potential for improvements all over the company (nine companies in this case), because every practice that is not standard will show up in the accounting processes. From this point of view, the shared services center started to impose its conditions on the operative processes of its customer units. After some initial conflicts, process control shifted to accounting. Process control means a very close interaction with the main business decision makers. Greater awareness on value led to empowerment and to power shifts. It must be added, that the power shift was eased by the passing of the Sarbanes Oxley Act by the U.S. Congress in late 2002. According to this law, a reaction to the Enron scandal, financial directors and chief executive officers bear criminal liability for irregularities in the books.
This policy generated tangible results on both the organizational and economic levels. For example, the internal trainings in accounting saved over 100.000 €, which equaled the cost of external trainings. Besides that, they were far more effective than external trainings, since they were directly related to issues and problems of day-to-day work. The savings in SAP skilling were even higher, since they were provided cost free by a consulting firm of the Group in exchange of financial training: their consultants needed skills in the financial processes of the SAP program.
The increase of the staff's qualification levels allowed 40% of the employees to do analytical tasks instead of rough bookkeeping (though still keeping their transactional work). Before, only 10% of staff, all of them in the balance sheet department, were able to do these more skilled jobs. Also, 28% of staff now participates in process improvement tasks on a routine basis.
This way, the savings of the shared service center (a significant part of administrative costs (1)) not only came from process automation and from providing service to more companies with the same resources. They came also from the migration of workers from transactional to analytical and consulting tasks for which customers were ready to pay more. The constant process optimization driven also by the employees also produced more savings of costs in a sort of "virtuous circle".
According to measures done for the balanced scorecard, within three years the general qualification level of the center rose by 54%, the accounting skill level by 39%, while the SAP qualification level grew by 60% (results measured by the number of employees that attended to trainings in that skills (2) and use actually the learned knowledge in their daily work).
Not all the results were positive. Still 50% of employees are working only on transactional tasks when a task mix would be more desirable. The project failed too in creating real awareness of these issues at middle management levels and these middle managers easily fall back into a production-oriented mind when the workshops and coaching stop.
The aim of this paper was to describe a PAR experience in a business environment, where the research method has been strongly ethnographic. This is something unusual, at least in Spain. Some lessons for practitioners and researchers can be derived from the experience.
The case confirms the thesis of Dulmanis, McKenzie, Krooglik and Pejnovic (2004), that using PAR in business enables an interesting amount of tacit knowledge to emerge, empowerment to be produced, and for awareness to rise while political action is tied to research. The present shared services organization has coded most of the invisible and unnamed everyday knowledge of workers. That way, the general skill level has risen, especially since this knowledge has been disseminated via internal trainings.
Empowerment is a clear result of the process. The former administrative staff are now skilled accountants with significantly higher employability than three years ago. Many of them work in analytical and some of them in consulting tasks. It is true that between 40% and 50% are still employed in transactional work; but even these have a higher knowledge level.
Awareness on the value of accounting has been a key change driver for management and employees. Here, PAR strategies have been successful in raising consciousness. This, however, is not so when it has come to establishing a more general sense of the importance on employee participation in projects and self-managed training. The idea that workers bear knowledge has not penetrated middle management, probably because many of the middle managers were not directly involved in optimization projects (in order to allow a space free of hierarchical power for employees and let everybody have equal roles – something that seems impossible when middle managers are present).
The action taken was a result of awareness in higher levels of the company of the value of accounting: it is due to this awareness that the shared service center has been able to produce a displacement of power towards accounting. Process control and involvement with core business processes are the result.
Ethnography proved to be a useful tool for organizational analysis in a case where complexity made it necessary to understand the social dynamics of the case. It provided a welcome balance to the deployment of the usual business tools. The time invested in deep research was repaid by quick implementation of the action plan. More importantly, no second plan was needed, nor further time and morale consuming restructuring.
Participant observation helped to unveil the industrial-like labor relations behind the surface of "modern" human resources practices. Without participant observation it would have been difficult to see the forms deskilling adopted in this particular company and link them to labor relations, age, class and gender and to the quest for efficiency: probably the most shocking result for the company.
The social sciences approach also helped to make visible the economic value of accounting as a core business process. The relationship between the symptoms observed by management at the beginning of the project (deskilling, demotivation, low performance) and undervaluation of accounting was key in creating the change strategy. It seems clear that age and original skill levels (upon entering the company) are not necessarily related to performance, ability to adopt new technologies or openness to organizational change. Rather job standardization without task development and fear for future are responsible for underperformance (3).
In-depth research on organizations and the participation of employees in projects and their own trainings has tangible results in form of revenue (savings in this case), performance, efficiency and productivity as well as in form of a general improvement of skills, awareness and morale. And just as important, the company now counts on a staff that they see as ready for functional flexibility as processes and technologies develop further.
Innovation is more profitable than the ordinary cost cutting approach. A shared services center, a typical outsourcing strategy, would have saved a significant part of administrative costs but only until decreasing performance would have forced the company to relocate the supplier or to start a new restructuring process. But due to constant improvement, every year new ways of saving money are found, thanks also to employee participation in internal process consulting.