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You can apply now for the programme starting in August 2016
If you are interested and wish to find out whether you are eligible for admission, please register by filling in the Study Link application form on the KABK website. In reply, you will receive an email with the information about application deadlines, required documents and the admission procedure, which can also be found below. Please note: for a complete application all candidates must register by filling in the application form, as well as sending the required documents to email@example.com. See the steps in the 'application procedures' section below.
Admission requirements
Candidates must be BA or MA graduates of an art or design academy and must present their reasons for wishing to enrol in this course on the basis of a portfolio of their work and an accompanying letter. Candidates are expected to have developed an interdisciplinary approach to interior architecture, to feel a fascination for human needs and behaviour in a world whose social and cultural parameters are constantly changing, and to be well informed about recent developments in their specific field.
Application deadlines
Application deadline round 1 is 1st of March 2016
Application deadline round 2 is 1st of May 2016 (non EU/non EEA applicants)
Application deadline round 3 is 1st of June 2016
***Please note: Non EU/EEA applicants requiring an entry visa (MVV) need to apply before 1 May. Non-EU/EA applications received after 1 May will not be accepted.***
Required application documents:
The following documents are necessary for admission:
– a motivation letter
– a PDF portfolio (max 5 MB , larger files are not accepted)
– a copy of your passport (and visa if applicable)
– a copy of relevant diplomas
– an application for a Nuffic certificate (if applicable)
– a scan of your passport photo
– a scanned proof of payment of your application fee
The portfolio should give an impression of your motivation, ideas and skills relevant for a Master in interior architecture. Your PDF portfolio contains relevant work of your BA study and/or working experience or other creative activities like drawings, paintings, projects with renderings, pictures of models.
Send the Portfolio and the documents with Wetransfer to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Application fee 2016/2016
The application fee is 25 euros. Add a scanned proof of payment to your application. See http://www.kabk.nl/pagewideEN.php?id=0694 for payment instructions.
Tuition fee 2016/2017
Compared to other countries, tuition fees are relatively low in the Netherlands due to favorable Dutch regulations.
Tuition fees for 2015-/2016 are for European students 1.951 euros, for non European students 5.500 euros. Tuition fees can be adapted each year. Please check the latest info at http://www.kabk.nl/docu/collgeldKABK2015-2016ENGELSdef.pdf.
English test
We do not require a specific English certificate, but your English should have the same level as IELTS 6 (overall score) or Toelf 83. We will test this in a Skype interview. If your English is not up to this level, we will require a certificate.
Chinese applicants, however, are required to hand in a Nuffic certificate.
Student quota
We focus on 21 students first year students; 7 students per studio.
General information to study in The Netherlands
International students
International students can find specific information here: http://www.kabk.nl/pageen.php?id=0602
For visa requirements visit: http://english.ind.nl/
Health and liability insurance
Please be aware that all students need a valid health and liability insurance in order to stay and study in the Netherlands. Check your insurance policies for covering when you go abroad on a study trip.
Please check AON for more information.
Grant and scholarships
The KABK does not offer scholarships for master studies. To look for grants and scholarships elsewhere, you can find information on the following websites:
– Grantfinder
– Erasmus Mundus
Working in the Netherlands after Graduation
With an INSIDE Master Diploma, Non-EU students can apply for an "Orientation Year" after their Graduation. This Residence Permit allows you to work for a full year in the Netherlands without your employer needing to apply for a working permit/visa. See: https://ind.nl/EN/individuals/residence-wizard/work/orientation-year-for-graduates-in-the-netherlands
Registration in the Dutch Register of Architects
The titles of architect, urban designer, landscape architect and interior architect are protected by the Dutch Architect's Title Act. In the Netherlands, only persons who are entered in the Dutch Register of Architects are permitted to use these titles.
From 1 January 2015, you must complete a professional traineeship after receiving your (master's) diploma before you can enter your name in the Dutch Register of Architects. For more information: http://www.beroepservaringperiode.nl/en
Useful links
If you need additional information, send an email to Marja van der Burgh, Coordinator of INSIDE. Email address: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This past Friday, after opening worldwide a few weeks earlier and performing like gangbusters, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," the ninth Marvel Studios movie to date, arrived in the U.S., and swiftly proceeded to be the biggest opening of 2014 to date, smashing April records with a hefty $96 ...Read More »
He might not be a space Viking or a talking raccoon, but Captain America was almost as tricky a character to bring to the screen in the 21st century as some of his Marvel contemporaries — standing for sincerity and purity in an age of grittiness and irony, and wearing the stars-and-stripes in an age...Read More »
Marvel already knows "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is going to be a success, and back in January, they started development on the inevitable third movie, rehiring directors Anthony and Joe Russo for "Captain America 3." And as you might expect, with press rounds beginning for 'The Winter Sol...Read More »

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Welcome to the Chamber of Mines
Mining industry overview
In the 46 years of its existence, the Chamber of Mines of Namibia has grown to a membership of 112 members (as at 4 March, 2015) and represents the interests of all major mining and exploration companies active in the country.
Major Mines
Namibia is a world-class producer of gem quality rough diamonds, uranium oxide, special high-grade zinc, gold bullion, blister copper, and lead concentrate as well a salt and dimension stone. A number of world-class companies using state-of-the-art mining and processing technologies are members of the Chamber. Rio Tinto plc and Vedanta plc mining companies, produce uranium oxide at Rossing mine and special high-grade zinc at the Skorpion mine and refinery respectively. Paladin Energy's Langer Heinrich Uranium mine is in full production and achieved nameplate production sustainably in 2013.
The world's number one diamond producer, De Beers, works with the Government of the Republic of Namibia (GRN) through Namdeb Holdings in a 50:50 joint venture, producing some of the world's finest gem diamonds. Namdeb's output increasingly comes from under the sea, thanks to the technical expertise of Debmarine Namibia. Further value addition is boosted by about 11 diamond cutting and manufacturing factories that utilise about 16 percent of diamond production by Namdeb Holdings.
QKR Namibia produces gold bullion at Navachab Mine near Karibib. Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation produces zinc and lead concentrates at Rosh Pinah. Weatherly Mining Namibia operates the copper mines and Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb produces blister copper at the Tsumeb smelter, from imported copper concentrates.
The mining industry continues to make reinvestments into the sector, as evidenced by the commissioning of Namdeb's Sendelingsdrif mine and their state of the art sorting facility, the new Red Area Complex on 7 November, 2014. Furthermore, Vedanta announced its decision to convert the Skorpion zinc refinery to process zinc sulphide concentrates at an investment of N$1.6 billion.
New Mines & Development Projects
The development of the new mines continue to reach significant milestones, with two of them already in production. B2Gold's Otjikoto gold mine produced their first kilogram of gold on 11 December, 2014 and are set to ramp up to full production towards the end of 2015. Weatherly's Tschudi mine produced the first copper cathode in the history of Namibia in February 2015, paving the way for possible investment in further down-stream value addition activities.
The construction of Swakop Uranium's Husab mine remains on track and is expected to come into to production at the end of 2016, with ramp up to full production at the end of 2017.
Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb (DPMT), which owns Namibia's copper smelter, is constructing a sulphuric acid plant that will utilise off-gases from the smelter operations to produce sulphuric acid. The plant is scheduled to come into production in July 2015 and will produce 340,000 tonnes of sulphuric acid per annum. Through offtake agreements with Rössing and Tschudi, DPMT has already committed to sell the planned production to these two mines. This positive development verifies that when the mining industry grows, the up-stream and services sector also expands, through which spin-offs are created in other sectors of the Namibian economy.
In the second half of 2014, Craton Mining & Exploration and Lodestone Namibia received mining licences to develop the Omitiomire copper oxide and Dordabis iron ore projects respectively.
Mining Industry Performance in 2014
Gross Domestic Product
Preliminary statistics produced from the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) show that the mining sector made a direct contribution of 13% to GDP in 2014, up from 12.6% in 2013. It must be noted that the National Accounts have created new categories for mining, namely; diamonds; uranium; metal ores and other mining and quarrying. Previously, mining consisted of two categories; diamonds and other mining. In real terms, the mining industry contracted by 4.6 percent. This contraction is as a result of reduced output from the mining sector during the year, particularly for uranium.
Commodity prices remained subdued during 2014.Uranium prices bottomed out at U$28.5/lb towards the end of June 2014. The depressed market caused uranium mines to scale back on production, resulting in a reduction of yellow cake output.
Once again, the diamond sub sector flourished posting a growth of 11.1 percent in real value added and posted record production levels. This growth was not enough to offset the contractions posted by uranium and other mining and quarrying, which contracted by 9.9 percent and 42.7 percent respectively.
The Chamber is confident, however, that the industry will indeed expand within the next five years, with B2Gold's Otjikoto mine already in production, and the scheduled start-ups of the Husab and Tschudi mines. The Chamber predicts that the direct contribution by mining will increase to 17% by 2017/18.
Chamber statistics show that Namibia's mining industry generated a revenue of N$21.61 billion in 2014, a 3.25 percent increase from 2013 which totalled N$20.93 billion. Total revenue from non-diamond mining reached N$ 10.76 billion, which includes revenue from zinc refining and diamond mining earned N$10.87 billion.
Fixed Investment
It needs to be noted, that although the mining sector contracted in real terms, significant investments by the industry continued to occur in 2014. Chamber statistics show that fixed investment doubled from N$8.5 billion in 2013 to N$17.26 billion in 2014. Of this, Swakop Uranium injected approximately N$11 billion into the Namibian economy, which equates to 7.5 percent of Namibia's nominal GDP. The development of three new mines in Namibia has produced significant economic gains, through job creation and the procurement of local goods and services.
At the end of 2014, Chamber members directly employed 7,903 permanent employees, 947 temporary employees and 8,920 contractors. These Chamber members collectively paid out more than N$3.46 billion in wages and salaries during the course of last year.
Chamber members spent some N$93.8 million on skills development in 2014, an increase of 60% from the N$58.5 million spent in 2013. They also awarded a total of 40 new bursaries in 2014 for tertiary education at institutions in Namibia and South Africa, as well as vocational training at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT).
In 2014/15 the Ministry of Finance (MoF) received profits taxes from the mining industry totalling N$1.97 billion from diamond mining and N$71.2 million from other mining according to their preliminary figures. Diamond royalty tax contributed N$734.8 million and royalties from other minerals provided N$117.4 million to the fiscus. Total revenue received from mining in 2014/15 amounted to N$3.6 billion, a significant increase from the N$1.45 billion collected in the previous financial year. According to statistics produced by the Chamber of Mines, in 2014 the mining industry paid out a total of N$3.39 billion in corporate taxes and royalties, a 22.8 percent increase from the 2013 total of N$2.76 billion.


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What is Themed Foliage?
Themed foliage is the process by which a designer selects a pallet of artificial foliage from hundreds of foliage varieties in order to be used in combination together to create a desired theme.
What types of themes can be created with foliage?
The most typical theme is a tropical theme and is mostly seen at themed restaurants and entertainment venues. Additional themes include; north woods, wilderness, southwest, asian and more.
For commercial settings and themes, a flame resistant foliage is usually a regulation. Our imported flame retardant artificial foliages are available in many varieties for all of your landscape design needs.
How are the foliages used to create the theme?
The artificial landscape designer will be experienced in the art of both design and manufacturing in order to create the desired theme. The designer must know both how a single fire retardant foliage branch can be used individually in the display as well as how the foliage branch can be used in the crafting of a larger themed custom tree or plant. Often times the designer will need to know how to use a multitude of different materials including epoxies, urethanes, foam and paint to manufacture the finished artificial plant on-site. In addition, the designer will need to be aware of the many crossover applications of trees, plants and foliages.
A Maple tree for example, depending upon its color, shape, and density, can be used in a residential boulevard setting, a forest diorama, a winter scene or a graveyard. Boxwood has been applied as ceiling and wall applications in this whimsical underground lounge as well as formed into topiary shapes that sculpt an English Garden. Customization of products, either by the manufacturer or on site is critical in achieving the desired effect. Commercial Silk's landscape design team has worked with architects as well as scenic fabricators to developer some of the most pronounced flame resistant wildlife themes to lush tropical themes with our fire retardant foliage varieties.
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Don't Hold Back
Planning and executing an indoor rainforest using artificial Palm trees isn't for the timid at heart. Think dense and diverse plants and trees, exotic and dangerous species, and thick air you can cut with a knife. Think waterfalls, estuaries, and bold toucan colors. While you may not be able to procure replica parrots, your artificial Palm trees should be just as exotic and varied as the rainforest you're aspiring to replicate. Like most endeavors, you'll get out what you in. Building a rainforest with silk Palms is no exception.
Go Palm or Go HomePalm trees vary throughout the world, from the coconut Palms of Florida and the desert Palms of California and the middle East, to the more rainforest specific Palms of the Americas and Asia. A combination of Areca Palms, Fishtail Palms, and Bamboo Palms, for example, will provide a richly authentic rainforest look indigenous to Asia and the South Pacific. We can provide you with a brief history of Palm trees to help choose the varieties in your landscape.
To accentuate your Palm trees, select a few artificial plant varieties to round out the theme.[more]
Know The Fire CodeDon't design your rainforest and discover that it won't pass state fire code requirements. Instead, sort it out beforehand. Make sure to use fire retardant foliage and study fire codes throughly, as most states will be very particular at the time of inspection. When it comes to choosing a fire retardant artificial plant there are a few choices: inherently fire retardant foliage or topically fire retardant foliage. See a fire retardant requirement guide for more information.
Allocate Resources
The odds are that, if you're designing a rainforest exhibit, you'll be installing in a high end museum, eatery, or other attraction. Allocate a dedicated team of seasoned veterans to get the job done quickly and expertly in order to ensure the project is constructed without interfering with other business generating activities.
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Decorative branches from Commercial Silk Int'l have become a new collection consisting of many popular decorative tree branch varieties that continues to expand with exclusive items. Our selection of tree branches, poles, stems and trunks are harvested from natural wood, and our team disguises any natural blemishes that are undesirable. Our decorative tree branches can be purchased as cutback trunks or they can be purchased in a natural tree form, original to a harvested branches.[more]
Our growing collection of branches includes stems from tree varieties such as Birch and Cedar, and our team custom manufactures decorative wooden stick art forms from hand-selected tree branches in large quantities. Our varieties of tree decor are endless, so if your project theme calls for an usual variety of natural wood, our team can locate tree branches to your size and specifications. Harvested wood branches, both rustic and contemporary, are used to theme many venues. Our latest decorative branch project was a rooftop bar that used the tree branches as custom lighting fixtures.
Our decorative tree branch collection is not to be confused with our silk leaves and branches collection. These branches are imported and most often carried in stock for your theme foliage venues. Popular varieties here are molded from silk, polyester and pvc, and are used to manufacture silk trees. These branches are also inhibited with either our Class A fire retardant chemicals or our UV resistant chemicals for indoor and outdoor applications. Here, you will find silk Cherry Blossom branches and artificial Palm branches.
So whether your decor can benefit from Birch poles or tropical Palm foliage, contact us for an array of silk tree branches today!
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Live plants are often the first choice for corporate or business office settings. In many cases, though, silk plants and trees are a more appropriate option. The following is a run-down of environmental, maintenance, cost, and other factors to take into consideration while planning your next commercial interior landscaping project.
Installing silk trees in a lobby area is an effective way to make a good first impression on visitors. At the same time, these areas are often drafty and subject to temperature swings, making for poor conditions for indoor tropical plants. Silk plants, meanwhile, are durable, weatherproof alternatives for casinos and other commercial projects.
Live plants require proper lighting conditions. Silk plant products, in contrast, are a viable choice for darker conference rooms, offices, or other indoor office settings with little available natural light.
Hard-to-reach areas and areas with electrical equipment can be precarious for maintaining live green plants. Silk plants and trees don't require watering and other routine maintenance that could put your staff in potentially dangerous situations, making them a safer alternative.
Load Bearing
Live tropical plants can be very heavy due to the weight of the soil and water they require. When the load bearing capacity of an area is a concern, silk trees are a much lighter alternative. As an added benefit, they can also bolt securely to the floor.
Secure Areas
Maintenance is an important part of the health of green plants. In private offices, and secure areas, this can pose regularly scheduled maintenance challenges. Here, low maintenance silk plants are a smart choice.
Creating an attractive theme requires authenticity. Sourcing indoor tropical plants for jungle or rainforest themes, though, often requires placing palm trees and other tropical species in an unnatural setting, leading to high maintenance costs and continual upkeep. In contrast, silk versions are a low maintenance and truly authentic looking when constructed by a reputable manufacturer; in addition plants can be used to define spaces and provide scale.
Last, live plants require watering, cleaning, fertilizing, pruning, and disease and insect control treatments. Silk plants only require light dusting from time to time. Although installation costs for Replica plants are typically a bit higher, their lower maintenance costs make them less expensive over the long haul and worth considering for your next commercial project.
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Fishtail Palms, native to Asia, Indonesia, and the South Pacific, now also grow in Suriname as well as in nurseries in southern Florida. The living Palm tree has slender stem clumps that grow to thirty feet high. Mop-like clusters of flowers develop from the top of a mature Fishtail Palm, and subsequent flower clusters continue to emerge below. The flowers appear in threes, one female flower in between two male ones. Because the Fishtail Palm is monocarpic, the stem dies after the cluster has reached the ground. The Palm clump survives this process as numerous suckers grow at the base of the Palm, producing more stems.
Fishtail palm trees are named for their exotic triangular leaflets, which can reach nine feet in length. The leaves are deep green and leathery with a ragged edge, and Fishtail is the only palm with leaves that are subdivided twice. Similar to other palm trees however, the Fishtail palm tree cannot be pruned back to reduce height, as new growth comes from a high central growing point.
As a leading silk tree and artificial plant manufacturer, our team designs and manufactures silk Fishtail Palm trees at our Minneapolis, MN location. We've designed both a silk Fishtail Palm and a Giant Fishtail Palm tree which is modeled after the living Caryota Mitis Palm. Our silk Fishtail Palm trees can be crafted with our inherently fire retardant foliage, to insure consistent fire protection for your project's specifications. Our silk Fishtail Palm trees are so unique and realistic, our silk Palms and other trees are complimented because they really appears alive and healthy. Our silk Palm leaves resembles the tail fin of an ornamental fish, just like the living Palm, and our silk Palm fronds are light and airy. Fishtail Palm trees are a dominant artificial tree in many faux landscapes. In addition to premium grade foliage specifications, our silk Fishtail Palms are built with natural wood stems.
Silk Palm trees add a wonderful tropical element to indoor habitats. If your commercial project specifies for distinct fake Palm varieties in addition to more common varieties - like Bamboo Palm or Kentia Palm, our team of designers and silk tree manufacturers can implement a custom design for your space. Many faux landscapes have already been emnhanced with a tropical themes that include our Fishtail Palms.
Our team has a combines 50 years of experience in installing our silk trees and artificial plants. We can help you take your tropical themed project from blue print stage to grand opening! We now offer a great source of specification files created in CAD, available by request for Architects and Designers, which include elevation views and plan details.
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Bamboo trees serve many purposes in different cultures. In addition to designing a landscape theme, they are considered sacred in Asian cultures. The plants are often planted near Buddhist temples; in India, Bamboo is used as a friendship symbol and is used in Chinese medicine for treating infections. You can see that Bamboos are very useful plants. It has been estimated that they are used by more than half of the world's human population every day.
Silk Bamboo trees, manufactured by Commercial Silk Int'l, are replicated after the fastest growing plant on Earth. Living Bamboo trees grow to their full height in a single growing season of 3 to 4 months. The makes for a short life of the tree, but it allows for harvesting tall canes at an early age. It is possible to harvest Bamboo as early as 5 years.
Our artificial Bamboo trees and groves can be crafted in groves from 5'-25' or as a single silk plant to be placed in a plant container. Artificial Bamboo can be crafted with our fire retardant foliage, to insure consistent fire protection for your artificial landscaping design. In addition, we craft our artificial Bamboo with natural wood stems when building silk groves and plants. Our silk trees are so unique and realistic that they appear alive and healthy, and they are a dominant artificial tree that can be featured in any faux landscape area.
Use a silk Bamboo tree to add an exotic element to a faux landscape. The trees inspire both tropical and asian landscaping themes, and the foliage appears very ornate and delicate, when in fact it is very strong. Silk Bamboos are attractive in rainforest themes too. Learn how to create a tropical rainforest theme using Bamboo and palm trees.
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Set the Theme
Use silk Palm trees as the driving force for a powerful jungle, beach, or tropical theme. There are variety of Palm species, so make sure to understand the different personalities of each. The Areca Palm, for example, is found naturally in the humid forests of Asia and is a good fit for jungle or rainforest themes. Butterfly Palms, meanwhile, more closely resemble the coconut Palms natural to the beaches of Florida and other vacation locales. With your artificial Palm varieties selected, round out your theme with mosses, grasses and other artificial plants.
Reduce Stress
Even if you aren't adding a full-scale beach or jungle theme, silk Palms can have a substantial effect on a commercial space. Integrating Palms into a lobby area injects a sense of relaxation to the room and helps businesses break the ice with prospective clients. In an office setting, Palms can reduce stress and increase employee productivity by adding a fun, creative element to the environment.
Provide TextureFor commercial spaces lacking charm, use silk Palm trees to inject a dose of character. Ideal for shopping centers and other public areas, a tropical Palm like the Giant Fishtail will spice up your space and can provide a elegant counterbalance to an otherwise staid environment.
Divide the RoomIn addition to summoning a specific mood and sense of place, lush artificial Palm trees can cover up unsightly building areas and divide spaces. Palms with dense foliage along the entire trunk line like the Kentia and Rhapis will pull double duty expressing a distinct personality while shaping your space.
The history of Palm trees may put landscaping with artificial Palm trees into a cultural perspective for your next commercial project.
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E3 2009: Warriors: Legends of Troy Announced
Written Tuesday, June 02, 2009 By Jason Debelyak
Koei today announced Warriors: Legends of Troy. Taking place three thousand years ago, players will do battle as the Trojans and the Greeks. Playing through both storylines, the player will be able to see the war from two completely different perspectives. The game will not only feature co-op play, but will also have online competitive play for up to 4 players. The game will launch in Spring 2010, but for now check out the trailer!


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- No. 18
A Happy Nicole Kidman
Bouncing Back From A Painful Divorce With Two Critically Acclaimed Movies In Tow, Nicole Has Something To Smile About
And that's saying something, since these days Kidman is up to her curls in compliments. Hollywood loves a good comeback story, and hers is a doozy. In the difficult months since she was blind-sided by Tom Cruise's bombshell decision to file for divorce in February 2001, she has enjoyed the most rewarding stretch of her movie career—even as her broken heart has yet to fully heal. "I feel like I went through something, and I really went through it," says Kidman, who shares custody of Isabella, 9, and Connor, 7, with Cruise. "I didn't try to hide from it or run away from the grief, which I think is important. There are times when I still get sad, but I'm much happier now."
And why not? The one-two punch of Moulin Rouge, which earned her a Golden Globe award and a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her whimsical turn as a Parisian courtesan, and The Others, a surprise hit thriller that raked in more than $96 million at the box office, proved Kidman is an A-list talent in her own right. She "always did good work, but half the world thought of her as Mrs. Tom Cruise," says producer-director Sydney Pollack, a close friend of both Tom and Nicole. "Now she has finally come into her own."
Once considered icy and aloof, Kidman has become a movie star to root for. "The big shock when I met her was that she was the complete opposite of all the things you imagine from pictures of her and Tom in magazines," says Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. "She's this really Aussie girl who's full of life and has this loud, honking laugh." A laugh, says Kidman's close friend, The Guardian's Simon Baker, which "is definitely more mule than human."
The actress welcomes the change in the way audiences perceive her. "People didn't know me before and I had no idea," she says. "I must have really been cut off. I was quiet, really quiet. But in the last 18 months, that has just kind of evaporated." Kidman gracefully handled the probing questions about her heartache from Oprah and Letterman and everyone else as she tirelessly promoted Moulin Rouge and The Others. "So many women come up to me now, and a lot of them have gone through the same thing," she says. "Whether it's divorce or a breakup, there's a kind of camaraderie that's very poignant."
Kidman would be the first to admit how weird it feels to suddenly be eligible for a part on The Bachelor 2. "My children say, 'Mom, get a boyfriend,' but I'm in no rush," she says. "I've had so few relationships in my life. I've been with the same man since I was 22! I'm a novice, and I can sort of chatter away and then get extremely shy. It's a little bit overwhelming." While Cruise, 39, quickly rebounded into the arms of his Vanilla Sky costar Penélope Cruz, Kidman has been seeing only one man: a big green guy named Shrek. "Watching videos and eating Chinese food with a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old—I'm very comfortable with that," she says. "There is something to be said for hibernating with your children and then going, 'Okay, I can kind of enter life again and look at it as something I can be excited about, instead of something that I'm frightened of.' "
During her first few months without Cruise in her corner, Kidman relied on the support of her closest friends—actresses Naomi Watts and Rebecca Rigg and actor Russell Crowe—members of Hollywood's so-called Aussie Posse. Watts, 33, best known for last year's Mulholland Drive, even briefly moved into Kidman's Pacific Palisades home after the split. "They were these really, really strong, extraordinary people who just said, 'We're going to hold your hand and help you through this,' " says Kidman. "That makes you feel so protected. It's lovely."
Just as important was the support of her parents, Janelle and Antony, and her sister Antonia—particularly after Kidman suffered a miscarriage in March of last year. Kidman spent as much free time as she could in her native Sydney, where she and Cruise had a waterfront home that she got to keep in the divorce settlement, and where her family still lives. One silver lining to the end of her marriage, says Kidman, is the time she got to spend with Antony, a psychologist (Janelle is a nurse educator). "I'd always been much closer to my mother," she says, "and suddenly my father stepped forward and said, 'Lean on me.' "
As comfortable as things are for Kidman in Australia today, she felt like a fish out of water growing up on Sydney's suburban north shore. "Everyone in Sydney looks like a California beach girl, but Nicole didn't," says Watts, Kidman's friend since they were teens. "She looked like someone who belonged in another time." Between Kidman and younger sister Antonia, 31, "I was the plain one," says Nicole. "She has brown skin and beautiful brown hair, and I was always sort of the one who needed to have a personality. We'd walk down the street and people would go, 'Oh, Nicole, isn't your sister gorgeous?' "
Flirting for Nicole meant "spitting water in a boy's face," she says, but she still always managed to find somebody special. "I was a one-boy girl," she says. "I had a steady boyfriend from an early age, so I wasn't off flirting around." Her friends, though, remember that Kidman has never had a problem attracting attention. Says Watts: "People would definitely fall in love with Nicole all over the place."
For one thing, she always had a keen sense of style, favoring vintage dresses and leather jackets. "She did have some great stuff," says Antonia, a television journalist who lives in Sydney with husband Angus Hawley, a businessman, and their children Lucia, 3, and Hamish, 18 months. "She kept her room a bit off-limits to me, but she'd be away and I used to sneak her clothes." As Kidman remembers it, "she'd get changed in the bushes and then put it all back in the morning. That's a younger sister for you."
One thing the siblings couldn't share was hairstyles. Kidman's red mop made her feel "awkward and repulsive," she says. "When I was little I had curls down to my bum, and people would always pull at my hair and say, 'Ohhhh, she's got currrrls!' And I hated that." At the elite North Sydney Girls' High School, Kidman rebelled by "wearing my hair real wild on top of my head. The principal would say, 'You can't wear your hair like that to school!' " She would also defiantly dye her tresses a rainbow of colors. "I'd go from magenta to a lighter red to about four different colors at once," she recalls. "I was pretty naughty, but I always got great grades, so I could get away with a lot." Even today, Kidman likes to wear her hair blown out straight. "The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you," she says. "Russell [Crowe] always says, 'Nic, just wear your hair curly and leave your glasses on. That's how you look best.' "
Another hindrance to young Nicole was her 5'10" height. "You're head and shoulders above everyone else, and you feel strange," she says. "My mum described me as a colt because I had these really long legs and I didn't know quite what to do with them." There was also her milky complexion, which today is a prized asset. "You can do a lot with makeup, but you can't create that luminosity," says Baz Luhrmann. Though Kidman "hated being so pale as a kid," she says, today she knows she must pamper her delicate skin. "Nicole won't even cross the road without a hat," says Watts. "She's really disciplined about that and it pays off. Her skin is like a perfect china cup."
In the end, Kidman's distinctive features helped shape the person she became. "There's something you hate about looking different and then there's something that it gives you," she says. "It makes you develop your personality. Because you don't conform, you have to find different ways of expressing yourself."
For Kidman, one way to do that was acting, which she first tried in school. "I started a drama club," she recalls, "but that sort of fell apart because we became more interested in parties and motorbikes." Her big break came with 1989's Dead Calm, a high-seas yarn in which Kidman, with barely any dialogue, made an indelible impression. That summer, screenwriter Robert Towne arranged to have the film screened for a certain star he was working with. They were casting the part of Tom Cruise's love interest in the race-car epic Days of Thunder and together met with Kidman at Toscana, a cozy Italian restaurant in west Los Angeles. "I remember him saying over and over what a knockout she was," says Towne. "I mean, Tom is an enthusiastic guy, but that day his exuberance level was at full tide." Kidman, at 22, won the part and the leading man. "She went from my living room floor—actually, I think we gave her a bed—to being married to Tom Cruise and being a big star," says her friend Deborra-lee Furness, an actress and the wife of Hugh Jackman. "The transition was just so normal. It was like she knew where she was going."
Since her divorce, Kidman is less certain where life is taking her. She has, however, found solace in work, immersing herself in complex roles. Last summer she donned a prosthetic nose to portray Virginia Woolf in The Hours, due this fall. "She went into character and stayed there for most of the shoot," says the film's director, Stephen Daldry. "Once, a journalist came into her trailer, and after a while Nicole said, 'Who are you looking for?' And the journalist said, 'I'm waiting to interview Nicole Kidman.' "
During the winter Kidman spent eight weeks in Trollhättan, in southern Sweden, filming Lars von Trier's Dogville, an intimate character study. "We did not see the sun for days, it was so dark and rainy," says producer Vibeke Windelov. "But Nicole poured her heart into this."
The biggest drawback to her success (she's now filming a thriller, The Human Stain, with Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris in Canada) is that she has to leave her children for long stretches. "With divorce you have to adjust, and it's horrible," she says. "But I talk to my kids every night. I fax, send letters, e-mail them. Thank God for the computer." Her children, says Baz Luhrmann, "put it all in perspective. When they're around she strikes me as extremely ordinary. Children are a greater force than being a superstar." Clearly, Connor and Isabella have helped lift Kidman's spirits. After an Easter egg hunt this March, "I was the one raiding their eggs," she says. "I said to my son, 'I ate four of your eggs last night.' He was cool about it. He's not a chocoholic. My daughter and I are chocoholics."
Kidman does not believe in depriving herself. "I love bread with olive oil and parmesan cheese," she says. "Put me on a desert island with that and I'll be fine." A casual exerciser, she admits, "I never go to gyms. I'll go six months where I don't exercise and then six months where I swim." She doesn't log hours in front of the mirror either. "I've been with her where we've gotten ready and out the door in 15 minutes," says Watts. "It's more about getting there and enjoying it than primping for hours."
That seems clearer every day, as Kidman continues to put her divorce behind her and revel in what lies ahead. Giggling softly, she says that she is "open" to romance but wants to take things one step at a time. "I just want to be true to my kids, true to myself, true to my work and good to the people around me, and out of that something will come." And when it does, Kidman will be ready. Not the icy femme fatale or the regal Hollywood wife but the earthy Aussie gal with the loud, honking laugh. "I don't feel comfortable saying, 'Okay, now I'm going to be beautiful,' " she says. "That leaves me feeling shy and embarrassed. I can do it as a character, but I would never do it as Nicole. I'm not really into the full-on seduction stuff. I much prefer just being who I am."
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- Timo Leino, Timo Saarinen, Stefan Klein:
Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, The European IS Profession in the Global Networking Environment, ECIS 2004, Turku, Finland, June 14-16, 2004. 2004
- David Sammon, Paul Hanley:
100 percent E-corporation: identifying issues of concern in pursuing an e-supply chain strategy. 1646-1659
- Lucian Vasiu:
A conceptual framework of e-fraud control in an integrated supply chain. 1916-1923
- Amr Ali Eldin, René W. Wagenaar:
A fuzzy logic based approach to support users self-control of their private contextual data retrieval. 475-487
- Cocky Hilhorst, Martin Smits:
A resource based and real options perspective on IT infrastructure investments aiming for strategic flexibility. 698-709
- Bernd Heinrich, Robert Winter:
A strategy modelling technique for financial services. 686-697
- Reyes-G. Gonzalez, Jose Gasco, Juan Llopis:
A study of information systems outsourcing risks. 590-601
- Chad Lin, Graham P. Pervan, Hsiu-Yuan Tsao, Koong H.-C. Lin:
A survey on evaluating and realizing IS/IT benefits in Taiwanese b2bec companies. 1075-1087
- Mary Meldrum, Jeremy Rose:
Activity Based generation of requirements for web-based information systems: the SSM/ICDT approach. 1212-1223
- Christian Heine, Stefan Kirn:
Adapt at agent.hospital - agent based support of clinical processes. 672-685
- Per Backlund:
Adopting the Knowledge Embedded in New Methods - The Challange of Aligning Old and New Practices. 103-114
- Anna Sell, Erkki Patokorpi, Pirkko Walden, Bill Anckar:
Adoption of mobile communication technology: an empirical study on females working in elderly care. 1758-1766
- Reeva M. Lederman:
Adverse Events in Hospitals: The Contribution of Poor Information Systems. 999-1006
- Richard Baskerville:
Agile Security For Information Warfare: A Call For Research. 155-164
- Nikolaj Hansen, Jan Pries-Heje:
Aligning customer relationship and product strategy at internet speed. 641-652
- Helana Scheepers, Judy McKay:
An empirical assessment of the business value derived from implementing mobile technology: a case study of two organisations. 1693-1705
- Michael Ribbert, Björn Niehaves, Alexander Dreiling, Roland Holten:
An Epistemological Foundation of Conceptual Modeling. 1557-1568
- Debra Howcroft, Robert McDonald:
An ethnographic study of IS investment appraisal. 779-792
- Peter E. D. Love, Zahir Irani, Marinos Themistocleous:
An Exploratory Study of Psychological Adjustment and Coping among Information Technology Personnel in Australia. 1100-1112
- Jyoti Choudrie, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi:
Analysing the factors of broadband adoption in the household. 372-383
- Mikko J. Rajanen, Timo Jokela:
Analysis of Usability cost-benefit models. 1535-1545
- Benjamin Mosse, Edgar A. Whitley:
Assessing UK e-government websites: classification and benchmarking. 1272-1281
- Hazel Gillard:
At What Price Inclusion? Some Pedagogic Implications of the Digital Divide. 566-576
- Sean B. Eom:
Author cocitation analysis using custom bibliographic databases: a exploratory tool for digging up reference disciplines. 488-498
- Ranjan Dutta, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Kerem Tomak:
Behavioural economics of digital content. 466-474
- Rebecca A. Hill, Ian Owens, Paul Beynon-Davies, Michael D. Williams:
Beyond Access: Bridging the Digital Divide. 710-717
- Audrey Dunne, Tom Butler:
Beyond Knowledge Management - Introducing a framework for Learning Management Systems. 455-465
- Michel Avital:
Bolstering Knowledge Management Systems with Appreciative Inquiry. 89-102
- Alf Westelius, Pablo Valiente:
Bringing The Enterprise System To The Frontline - Intertwining Computerised And Conventional Communication At BT Europe. 1977-1988
- Ioanna D. Constantiou, Jan Damsgaard:
Bundle pricing for location-based mobile services. 384-391
- Ronald Batenburg, Johan Versendaal:
Business alignment in the CRM domain: predicting CRM performance. 165-176
- Gerrit Versteeg, Harry Bouwman:
Business architecture: a new paradigm to relate e-business strategy to ICT. 1948-1960
- Sang-Yong Tom Lee, Zhaoli Meng:
Calculative-based trust and social welfare. 1007-1016
- Amit Mitra, Jenny Lau:
Challenges of developing an interactive knowledge warehouse within the media industry: Significance of emergent frameworks. 1247-1258
- Ilkka Kemppainen:
Change management perspectives in an ERP implementation. 919-927
- Laurence Brooks, Christopher J. Davis, Mark Lycett:
Change management: the contribution of personal construct theory (PCT). 303-314
- Britt-Marie Johansson, Karin Axelsson:
Communication Media in Distance Selling - Business Interactions in a B2C Setting. 847-857
- Jennie Carroll:
Completing design in use: closing the appropriation cycle. 337-347
- Chee-Wee Tan, Shan Ling Pan, Eric Tze Kuan Lim, Calvin Meng Lai Chan:
Conflicts in Knowledge Management: Visiting the Hidden Partner. 1865-1876
- Ravi Shankar Mayasandra, Shan Ling Pan:
Consequences of implementing knowledge management initiatives in different organizational subcultures. 1166-1177
- Paul Beynon-Davies:
Constructing electronic government: the case of the UK inland revenue. 228-239
- Licinio Roque, Ana Almeida, António Dias de Figueiredo:
Context Engineering: An IS Development Research Agenda. 1582-1595
- Lauri Salmivalli, Jussi Nissilä:
Curing health care information systems with open source software. 1621-1633
- Marianna Sigala:
Customer relationship management (CRM) evaluation: diffusing crm benefits into business processes. 1789-1800
- Anders Mårtensson, Pablo Valiente:
Decoupling Application Roles and Technology Generations: A Life-Cycle Approach. 1154-1165
- Judy McKay, Peter Marshall:
Deriving business value from IT: converting IT expenditures into assets with desired impacts. 1186-1198
- Nabeel A. Y. Al-Qirim, Brian J. Corbitt:
Determinants of electronic commerce usage in small businesses in New Zealand. 42-52
- Philip Joyce, Graham Winch:
Developing and Codifying business models and process models in e-business design. 858-871
- Göran Goldkuhl, Mikael Lind:
Developing e-interaction - a framework for business capabilities and exchanges. 577-589
- Peter H. Carstensen:
Developments in WIS development. 348-359
- Somasundaram Ramanathan:
Diffusion of e-procurement in the public sector - revisiting centralization versus decentralization debates as a twist in the tale. 1546-1556
- Claudia Löbbecke:
Digital video recorder-driven impacts on the video content Services industry. 1088-1099
- Tatyana V. Bondarouk, Huub J. M. Ruël:
Discourse analysis: making complex methodology simple. 266-279
- Huub J. M. Ruël, Tatyana V. Bondarouk:
E-HRM: innovation or irritation - explorative empirical study in five large companies on web-based HRM. 1596-1608
- Julian M. Sims, Philip Powell, Richard T. Vidgen:
E-learning: planned and emergent strategies. 1801-1813
- Aleksi Horsti, Jyrki Tolonen, Malin Brännback:
Electronic business models: five cases from five industries. 730-741
- Sandy Chong:
Electronic commerce adoption by small- and medium-sized enterprises in Australia: an empirical study of influencing factors. 360-371
- Duncan R. Shaw, Christopher P. Holland, Peter Kawalek, Bob Snowdon, Brian Warboys:
Electronic commerce strategy in the U.K. electricity industry: the case of Electric Co and Dataflow Software. 1780-1788
- Yvette Blount, Tanya Castleman, Paula M. C. Swatman:
Employee development strategies in the B2C banking environment: Two Australian case studies. 244-255
- Sven A. Carlsson:
Enhancing product development through ICT-based relationships with customers and consumers. 325-336
- Anis Benammar:
Enhancing query reformulation by combinig content and hypertext analyses. 200-210
- Joe Nandhakumar, Jari M. Talvinen, Matti Rossi:
ERP revelations: the dynamics of contextual forces of ERP implementation. 1309-1321
- Khalil Khoumbati, Marinos Themistocleous, Zahir Irani:
Evaluating integration approaches benefits adopted by healthcare organisations. 928-936
- Pradipta K. Sarkar, Jacob L. Cybulski:
Evaluation of phenomenological findings in IS research: a study in developing web-based IS. 1681-1692
- Mickey Howard, Richard T. Vidgen, Philip Powell:
Exploring industry dynamics in e-procurement: sense making by collaborative investigation. 767-778
- Adi Prananto, Judy McKay, Peter Marshall:
Exploring the perceptions of inhibitors and drivers of e-business progression among SMEs at different stages of e-business maturity. 1510-1521
- Irem Sevinc, John D'Ambra:
Extending media richness theory: the influence of a shared social construction. 1767-1779
- Dick Stenmark:
Failures of reward-driven behaviour in industry: a case of systems, management and creativity. 1841-1852
- Edoardo Jacucci, Miria Grisot, Ole Hanseth:
Fight risk with risk: reflexivity of risk and globalization in IS. 825-835
- Johan Magnusson, Andreas Nilsson, Fredrik Carlsson:
Forecasting ERP implementation success - Towards a grounded framework. 1125-1133
- Krishna Venkitachalam, Rens Scheepers:
Formulating an organizational knowledge strategy: the influence of existing IT infrastructure. 1924-1935
- Matthew W. Guah, Wendy L. Currie:
From asp to web services: identifying key performance areas and indicators for healthcare. 602-615
- Brian O'Flaherty, Jason Whalley:
From intranets to wrestling information infrastructures. 1430-1441
- Frank Thomas Piller, Petra Schubert, Michael Koch, Kathrin M. Möslein:
From mass customization to collaborative customer co-design. 1497-1509
- Julie Fisher, Annemieke Craig:
From websites to portals: success factors for business community portals. 532-543
- Melanie Wilson, Anita Greenhill:
Gender & teleworking identities: reconstructing the research agenda. 1989-2001
- Pär J. Ågerfalk:
Grounding through operationalization: constructing tangible theory in IS research. 22-33
- Jerry van Leeuwen, Hans van der Heijden, Reinhard Kronsteiner, Gabriele Kotsis:
Group Decision Support for Resource Allocation Decisions in Three-person Groups. 1905-1915
- G. Harindranath:
Hungarian IT: Coping with Economic Transition and Globalisation. 653-663
- Murray Scott, William Golden, Martin Hughes:
Implementation Strategies for E-Government: A Stakeholder Analysis Approach. 1719-1731
- Christopher J. Davis, Ellen M. Hufnagel:
Implementing Information Systems to support knowledge work: an exploration of work motifs. 447-454
- Marko Mäkipää, Jaakko Riihimaa, Mikko J. Ruohonen:
Implementing mass customisation strategy to enhance customer value - findings from e-business research of Finnish metal and electronics companies. 1134-1141
- Petter Nielsen:
Implementing Public platforms for mobile phone content services: Standardization in an era of convergence. 1375-1385
- Hooi Yee Ng, Beverley G. Hope:
Information requirements for Customer Relationship Management: A case study in a New Zealand Bank. 1322-1335
- Francesco Contini, Antonio Cordella:
Information system and information infrastructure deployment: the challenge of the Italian e-justice approach. 392-404
- Oded Nov, Matthew Jones:
Information systems and creativity management in the media and advertising industries: a critical view. 1422-1429
- Keith S. Horton, Elisabeth Davenport:
Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice. 742-752
- Silvina Santana:
Inserting ICT and IS in a complex organisational environment using an organisational learning model. 1660-1668
- Maria Alaranta, Maarit Viljanen:
Integrating the IS personnel after a merger - managing challenges and opportunities. 34-41
- Karsten Klose, Marit Schallert, Roland Holten, Jörg Becker, Michael Rosemann:
Integrative Teaching Aspects for the IS Profession: Development and Application of a Teaching Framework. 951-962
- Mark Borman:
Inter-organisational infrastructure in the Australian travel sector. 292-302
- Mickey Howard, Philip Powell, Richard T. Vidgen:
Inter-organizational collaboration and value creation in the automotive industry. 753-766
- Kostas Kafentzis, Dimitris Apostolou, Gregoris Mentzas:
Inter-organizational knowledge management systems: typology and cases. 880-892
- Erja Mustonen-Ollila:
IS Process Innovation Unlearning in Organisations. 1282-1293
- Olayele Adelakun:
It outsourcing maturity model. 13-21
- J. Dewald Roode, Hilary Speight, Michael Pollock, Russell Webber:
It's not the Digital Divide - It's the Socio-Techno Divide! 1569-1581
- Petra Schubert, Mathias Kummer, Uwe Leimstoll:
Legal issues of personalized e-commerce applications. 1706-1718
- Xiu-Xian Ho, Michael T. K. Tan:
Leveraging Methodological Pluralism in interpretive IS research: The example of ERP as a complex phenomenon. 718-729
- Jo-Ann Siregar, Michael T. K. Tan:
Leveraging Theoretical Pluralism in qualitative IS research: The example of IS professionals' identity as a complex phenomenon. 1814-1826
- Tawfik Jelassi, Albrecht Enders:
Leveraging wireless technology for mobile advertising. 836-846
- Anna Börjesson, Lars Mathiassen:
Making SPI Happen: The Roads to Process Implementation. 280-291
- Ravi T. Seethamraju:
Measurement of user-perceived web quality. 1745-1757
- Philip O'Reilly, Sean Dunne:
Measuring CRM performance: an exploratory case. 1453-1463
- Darshana Sedera, Guy G. Gable, Taizan Chan:
Measuring enterprise systems success: the importance of a multiple stakeholder perspective. 1732-1744
- Jan Damsgaard, Ping Gao:
Mobile telecommunications market innovation: the transformation from 2g to 3g. 419-425
- Shengnan Han, Ville Harkke, Pekka Mustonen, Matti Seppänen, Markku Kallio:
Mobilizing medical information and knowledge: some insights from a survey. 616-627
- George Kuk:
Network analysis of disconnect in the hollow state: the case of e-government service portals. 963-974
- Eetu Luoma, Jarmo Järvi:
On integration of digital rights management processes preceding content publishing. 1113-1124
- Paul Jackson:
Ontology and business: creating structure for storing and accessing organisational knowledge on intranets. 813-824
- Donna D. Mommsen-Ghosh:
Ontology-based repository for specifying investment advisory services as a knowledge services. 1259-1271
- Flavia Blumetti, Paolo Ferri, Cristiano Ghiringhelli, Francesco Paoletti, Barbara Quacquarelli:
Open University vs. Consorzio Nettuno: an institutional analysis of two techonology enabled higher educational systems. 256-265
- Diederik W. van Liere, Lorike Hagdorn van der Meijden, Martijn R. Hoogeweegen, Peter H. M. Vervest:
Organizational Performance of a Firm in a Modular Business Network. 1052-1061
- Albert A. Angehrn, Federico Rajola:
Panel: Change and innovation management in IS/IT: A simulation approach. 61-65
- Alf Westelius:
Panel: Knowledge management - a fad or a field with a future? 1976
- Pirkko Walden, Bill Anckar, Stefan Klein, Maria Sigala, Hannes Werthner:
Panel: Mobile challenges for travel and tourism. 1961-1963
- Bo-Christer Björk:
Panel: Open acces - the new Internet enabled business model for scientific publishing. 240-243
- Robert Winter:
Panel: Teradata University Network. 2002-2005
- Anders Mårtensson:
Patterns in Application Development Sourcing in the Financial Industry. 1142-1153
- Tibert Verhagen, Yao-Hua Tan:
Perceived risk and trust associated with purchasing at electronic marketplaces. 1936-1947
- Joze Kuzic, Judy McKay:
Pitfalls of Electronic Commerce in Large Corporations. 975-985
- LeMai Nguyen, Luba Torlina, Konrad J. Peszynski, Brian J. Corbitt:
Power relations in cyber communities. 1348-1360
- Sami Leppimäki, Mari Tammi, Tarja Meristö:
Professional Skills in the ICT industry - Turbulent Times Resulting Contradictions and New Combinations. 1029-1039
- Brian O'Flaherty, Jason Whalley:
Qualitative Analysis Software applied to IS Research - Developing a coding strategy. 1442-1452
- Ben Light, Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou:
Reasons Behind ERP Package Adoption: A Diffusion of Innovations Perspective. 1062-1074
- Jyri Naarmala:
Reflections on technology acceptance in higher education. 1294-1300
- Denise Gengatharen, Craig Standing:
Regional e-marketplaces: towards a unified theoretical framework for assessing facilitators and inhibitors of success. 553-565
- Maria Edith Burke:
Relations between organisational design and information processing systems: a passionate affair or a stormy interlude? 315-324
- Shivraj Kanungo, Vikas Jain:
Relationship between risk and intention to purchase in an online context: role of gender and product category. 893-905
- Jo Hanisch, Brian J. Corbitt:
Requirements Engineering During Global Software Development: Some Impediments to the Requirements Engineering Process: a case study. 628-640
- Horst Treiblmaier, Andreas Pinterits, Roman Dapeci:
Retention by entertainment: how companies utilize websites to strengthen customer relationships. 1877-1885
- Martin Hughes, Philip Powell, Niki Panteli, William Golden:
Risk Mitigation and Risk Absorption in IOS: A Proposed Investigative Study. 793-800
- Carlos Barca, Antonio Cordella:
Seconds out, round two: contextualising e-government projects within their institutional milieu - a London local authority case study. 139-154
- Tuomas Valtonen, Tero Reuna, Kalle Luhtinen:
Security and privacy in a structured information network. 1886-1893
- Donal J. Flynn, Zahid Hussain:
Seeking legitimation for an information system: a preliminary process model. 544-552
- Alison Adam, Ben Light:
Selling Packaged Software: An Ethical Analysis . 1-12
- Martin Beckinsale, Margi Levy:
SMEs and internet adoption strategy: who do SMEs listen to? 177-188
- Antonio Cordella:
Standardization in action. 405-418
- Philip O'Reilly, Pat Finnegan:
Strategic alliances and shared IS/IT infrastructrues in b2b marketplaces: an exploratory case. 1464-1475
- Margi Levy, Philip Powell, Les Worrall:
Strategic intent and e-business in SMEs: enablers and inhibitors. 1040-1051
- Markus Lammers, Nils Loehndorf, Tim Weitzel:
Strategic Sourcing in Banking - A Framework. 986-998
- Kim Viborg Andersen, Helle Zinner Henriksen, Amar Shazad Ahmed, Haukur Arnthórsson:
Stray dogs and wild cats tracking down information systems in government? 53-60
- Hendry Sumilo Santoso, Hee-Woong Kim:
Structurational analysis of IT-enabled organizational change: a case of public organization in singapore. 1669-1680
- Jan Damsgaard, Aleksi Horsti, Olle Nilsson:
Sustainable evolution of business model: cases from Scandinavian internet portal market. 426-438
- Martin M. T. Ng, Michael T. K. Tan:
Symbolic Processes in ERP versus Legacy System Support. 1336-1347
- José Leopoldo Nhampossa:
The challenge of translating health information systems from one developing country context to another: case study from Mozambique. 1361-1374
- Honest C. Kimaro, José Leopoldo Nhampossa:
The challenges of sustainability of health information systems in developing countries: comparative case studies of Mozambique and Tanzania. 937-950
- Miriam Daum, Oliver Häberle, Inge Lischka, Helmut Krcmar:
The chief information officer in Germany - some empirical findings. 439-446
- Xin Wei Wang, Michael T. K. Tan, Kwok Kee Wei, K. S. Raman:
The development of an augmented constrained-efficiency framework for the adoption of electronic interorganizational governance. 1964-1975
- Susan H. Nielsen, Liisa von Hellens, Jenine P. Beekhuyzen:
The Discursive Divide: Women in IT Industry. 1386-1397
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How you treat people you don't necessarily know is very telling of the kind of person you are.
True-Song 7 years
I care very deeply about the respect of strangers on the internet.
harmonyfrance 7 years
I love bella! :hug: I love red meat, shoes, and cheesy 80s music!
bluesarahlou 7 years
I have conservative friends...we bond over other things. Like our mutual love of shoes, red meat, and cheezy 80's music. And I know this wasn't directed at me, but I hardly consider my liberal self Anti-American. I think both sides could definitely ease up on the stereotyping. :froggy:
bellaressa 7 years
You tell em Har - I love Har!!! :hug:
harmonyfrance 7 years
I'm taking about everyone not just the liberals.
StolzeMama 7 years
hmmm I guess I just saw it the Laine did. There are pack of liberals on this site, but when I come on here with a different opinion it must be because I am related to someone in sugarland or I am a duplicate poster... I see I see
piper23 7 years
I'm going to miss Alan Colmes. He disagreed with conservatives but at least he did respectfully.
harmonyfrance 7 years
Jeeze what is it kindergarten in here? There is no need for this.
BRANDYNICOLE730 7 years
And, for all you sensitves, that was a joke. It's just not as funny when you put "j/k" after it.
BRANDYNICOLE730 7 years
It's not that Republican friendships are a conspiracy. Just can't see how anyone would want to befriend one...
indielove 7 years
Fiddlesticks! Keep on truckin'...down to that Bridge to Nowhere...
Jude-C 7 years
Yes, but Indie, if you haven't been shooting poor people out of a helicopter, it still doesn't count ;)
Cassandra57 7 years
^^ More evidence. Gee, nothing interesting here, time to move along. :bored:
indielove 7 years
Ooh, look at me. I'm all-knowing and superior. I love deregulation and I'm a bitter, gun-clinger(wielder, if you will). I worship Rush Limbaugh and hunt wolves and caribou to offer as a sacrifice to him. I believe that paying taxes is a crime and poor people are losers. I RAWK.
Cassandra57 7 years
Just an observation. Obviously an accurate one. Thanks for proving my point. ;) No victim mentality? Puh-leeze. That's the second foundation of the modern Dem party. Right after anti-Americanism.
Jude-C 7 years
You know you're my hero too, Indie :hug: I read this great article about the right-wing radio talk show hosts and their techniques for keeping their listeners angry, and the first principle explained was maintaining the perception of victimization, conspiracies and the like. Interesting stuff.
indielove 7 years
:sing: Cry me a river... :sing: I love when people complain...it makes me chuckle. At least we libs don't b!tch about conspiracies, we know they're there but we could care less. We don't act like victims every chance we get.
Cassandra57 7 years
Ah, I see Citizen hasn't changed since the election. The liberals travel in packs, but conservative friendships are a conspiracy. :oy:
indielove 7 years
Hey! What about me? :(
Jude-C 7 years
Jill is my idol.
StolzeMama 7 years
it was an observation, not an attack
Jillness 7 years
"You are entitled to your opinion but like lil said, thin veiled attacks are still attacks Indie I bet you post in follow up to my post as it seems you have to have the last word." It is amazing when people attack and get hypocritical, all in one sentance! Bravo.
indielove 7 years
Alrighty, Hainan. I'll take you at your word. It's just really interesting what goes on behind the scenes around here. Cliques and alliances, everyone has at least one. Some people take it to a whole 'nother level. It's hilarious when people take the internet so seriously. Trust me, when I leave here, I don't care about whatever personal attacks were slung my way on here. It just doesn't matter.
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All very true, Indie.


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William Henry Edwards (March 15, 1822 – April 4, 1909) was an important entomologist in the United States.
Edwards was born in Hunter, Greene County, New York. He is remembered for his trip to the Amazon in 1846, that he recorded in his book A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará[1] (1847), that inspired Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates to make their famous trip to the region (and Bates to write The Naturalist on the River Amazons); Para is modern Belem. Edwards published the first major study of "The Butterflies of North America" (finished in 1897). He was an observer of the American Civil War and a correspondent of Darwin. He died at his home "Bellefleur" in Coalburg, West Virginia.[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[3]
His writings included A Voyage up the River Amazon (16mo, 256 pp. New York: 1847. New edition, 12mo, 8 + 210 pp. London, 1855); The Butterflies of North America, series 1-3 (4to, illus. New York and Boston : 1868-1897);[4] Synopsis of North American Butterflies (410, 5+52 pp. Philadelphia: 1872); "Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico " (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Vol. 6, pp. 1–68) ; "Revised Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico " (8vo, pp. 95. Philadelphia : 1884). He published over two hundred and fifty scientific papers.[5]
Edwards published a few works on matters other than his own speciality, entomology, including a monograph calling into question the authorship of the accepted works of Shakespeare,[6] and his grandfather's memoirs.[7]
- ^ "A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará"
- ^ Michael J. Pauley (January 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: William H. & William S. Edwards House" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ Calhoun, John V. 2013. The extraordinary story of an artistic and scientific masterpiece: The Butterflies of North America by William Henry Edwards, 1868-1897. J. Lepid. Soc. 67:73-110.http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/2010s/2013/2013-67-2-073.pdf
- ^ Weeks, A. G. (1910) Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera.
- ^ Edwards, William Henry (1900). Shaksper not Shakespeare. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke.
- ^ Edwards, William, 1770-1851; Edwards, William W., 1796-1876; Edwards, William Henry, 1822-1909; Memoirs of Col. William Edwards, formerly of Stockbridge and Northampton, Mass., later of Hunter, Greene Co., N. Y., and of Brooklyn, N. Y.; written by himself, in his 76th year, 1847, with notes and additions by his son, William W. Edwards, and by his grandson, William Henry Edwards (1897); Washington, D. C., Press of W. F. Roberts. [1]
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Brancaccio: Some sort of lame sports bar.
Rico Gagliano: Bridget Bodnar, production assistant, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?
Bridget Bodnar: I'm going to be talking about the playlist for NASA's robot on Mars, Curiosity. These NASA scientists have programmed various music to wake it up in the morning.
Gagliano: Oh, so what's on it?
Bodnar: We've got "Good Morning Good Morning" by The Beatles. I went through it -- I was born in 1989 -- and there's only one song released after I was born.
Gagliano: Which is?
Bodnar: "Got The Time" by Antrhax, 1998.
Gagliano: I don't know. You've got to be careful what you wish for. You don't want Curiosity blasting Mars with Justin Bieber. That could happen.
Bodnar: OK. What about a little Spice Girls?
Newnam: Dave Shaw, what's your story?
Dave Shaw: A printer that can make a house.
Newnam: Computer printer?
Shaw: Uhh, sort of. It's a 3D printer. Instead of printer ink, it's got this concrete-like material. It was invented by a professor at the University of Southern California.
Newnam: Wow. How much would that cost?
Shaw: Given what printer ink will run you, I don't even want to know.
Ryssdal: The radio show Rico and Brendan do is called The Dinner Party.