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Talent management is in the DNA of global engineering giant Fluor Corp. It's also in the company's computer systems.
Executives at Irving, Texas-based Fluor are required to identify and mentor high-performing employees, and at any given time 10 percent of the 42,000 global employees are being tracked through Fluor's leadership development program. To keep tabs on its pipeline of high performers around the world, Fluor relies on a talent management software program from Lumesse, called ETWeb Enterprise. ETWeb's capabilities include learning and performance management, assessment tools, and skills and competency tracking.
"Promotion is part of our culture," says Glenn Gilkey, senior vice president of human resources and administration. "I don't know how a company like ours could do this without the technology."
Every employee who is being tracked through Fluor's high-performing leadership program is required to have a development plan in the system that includes detailed information about their work experiences, assignments, training, mentoring, language skills, willingness to work abroad, and future goals. When new leadership opportunities come up, Fluor executives use the database to search for individuals with the specific talents and experiences to fill those roles.
"Having a single source for this information ensures they don't lose track of people," says Bry Hutchison, senior account manager for Lumesse in Austin, Texas. Lumesse split off from its parent StepStone Solutions in 2010, and later acquired talent management software firm MrTed. Hutchison says ETWeb cuts the time it takes to manage Fluor's large employee population. "With one search they can pull up a short list of the best candidates for any position."
Fluor is proud of its talent management system. The same can't be said of most organizations. A recent Deloitte survey found that only 17 percent of executives consider their talent management programs to be "world-class." The other 83 percent say their programs need significant work.
That work has become a priority as these executives look to the future. One-third of them ranked developing leaders and succession planning as today's top talent priority—the highest of any response in the survey. And 29 percent predict it will remain the top talent concern for the next three years.
For Fluor, the top talent concern is making sure it aligns its global talent development efforts with long-term strategic plans.
The company has begun using talent management data to predict the types of talent it will need over the next decade in each of the 30 countries where it operates. Gilkey uses data stored in the ETWeb database about high-performing employees' experiences, training, mentoring and career goals to match talent development with future growth projections, making sure the talent pipeline is the right size in every country.
In Asia-Pacific and South America, for example, the company anticipates rapid growth over the next 10 years, so executives in those regions are aggressively searching for leadership candidates. In the U.S. and the European Union, however, growth projections are more steady, and the company is already tracking a sizable talent pool in these regions, so those executives are dialing back recruiting efforts.
"Knowing how many people we track in every country helps us fine-tune our efforts," Gilkey says. "You can't create a senior mechanical engineer overnight. It takes years."
To ensure the best and brightest employees are identified in every region, Fluor hosts local, regional and national leadership forums. Executives across the company run these groups, which allow senior leaders to discuss talent management efforts, keep tabs on up–and-coming leaders, and to look for candidates to match to upcoming opportunities.
Each forum meets four times a year, and technology plays a key role. Although some discussions take place face-to-face, Fluor also depends on teleconferencing and videoconferencing. The data forum leaders gather—such as ratings of high-potential employees and possible promotions—gets recorded in the employees' profiles and stored in the ETWeb database. The higher-level forums can see the data collected by the forums below them, creating a pyramid of talent management information and accountability.
The regional and national forum leaders focus broadly, aligning long-term strategic goals with talent management efforts across the globe.
Local forums decide which up-and-coming employees to bring into the leadership development program.
"These groups are critical to Fluor's ability to develop the local talent worldwide," Gilkey says. "I can't make those decisions from Dallas."
For global organizations such as Fluor, comprehensive talent data are vital, says Katherine Jones, director of human resources and talent management research at Bersin & Associates in San Francisco. "In large companies, the key is to be able to track both the talent and the location, and to always be sure you have the right quality people certified to do the necessary work in that country."
To do that requires robust talent management tools and systems. "Leading-edge companies invest in big-picture global talent management because it saves them money," Jones says. "When you can predict where your HR needs are going to be and you have people ready to take on those opportunities, you don't have to manage by crisis."
But Gilkey is quick to point out that an effective global talent management system requires more than just a quality piece of software. Having a corporate culture that values promotion, and leaders that are held accountable for tracking and mentoring the next generation is what makes Fluor's talent management program so successful, he says. "The technology is central to our decision-making, but it's the processes we use that make it work."
Sarah Fister Gale is a freelance writer based in the Chicago area. To comment, email firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Novak Djokovic was spotted with father Srdjan and brother Djordje at the Gale Muskatirovic sports center, the site of the upcoming Serbia Open.
According to his site Fernando Verdasco, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Moya, Ivan Ljubicic and Radek Stepanek will most likely take part in the event along with Nole. Pete Sampras is mentioned as a promoter.
The third-ranked baller sounded pleased with the progress:
I'm pleasantly surprised how much has been done already. Everything's going well according to the plan, which makes me happy. I can't wait to see how everything will look, when all the work is done on April 15.The event is scheduled to take place from May 2nd - 10th and prize money is 450,000 euros.
I still find it strange Nole will be allowed to compete in a tourney he partially owns. Isn't it a conflict of interest? Anyone??
(images via novakdjokovic.rs)
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Nole visits site of Serbia Open, entered into tourney's draw - WTF?
Labels: Belgrade, Novak Djokovic, player quotes, Serbia Open, tennis
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I can only imagine how the crowd will be and "impartial" the umpire and line judges will be.ReplyDelete
That is a very interesting point, Rich! I hope someone can tell us the answer because I'd love to know, too.ReplyDelete
If I didn't love Nole, I'd say that he probably shouldn't be allowed to compete. But being honest, I wouldn't be able to be impartial in the face of his sexiness...Just putting it out there.ReplyDelete
We need to investigate this matter further although I wonder if there's even a precedent for this situation? In the past, has an actively playing baller ever bought any shares of a tourney??ReplyDelete
I wonder - maybe it's a question for Jon Wertheim!
It is indeed an interesting question. If he's allowed to be both owner and player, will we see a lot of other players buying tournaments?ReplyDelete
*buys and sponsors "5 Hours on the Court Naked with Rafa" tournament*ReplyDelete
Where's my prize?! Where's my prize?! Do I get to hand him to myself???
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2009 at 2:50 PM
The buildings behind him in the second picture look like government housing.ReplyDelete
@ anon 5:50- it's just typical infrastructure in Balcan, it's actually just an apartment area for citizens to buy apartments and live there.We have a lot of buildings like that.ReplyDelete
- johanneMarch 4, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Maybe Nole would donate his prize money and/or any other money he'd otherwise be paid?? Like put the money back into the tournament perhaps? Hmmmmm...ReplyDelete
Oh and why is the bigger question on my mind why Nole looks twice his age in these pics, and dare I say it, kinda dorky?! WTF!
In first pic he totally looks dorky, but he always pulls this **I'm trying to be serious look and I'm wearing glasses** when on time off.I kinda like it.But look how hot he looks on the second pic, his walk, mmmmm, so straight and look at that legs!Love Nole.And his brother Marko as well!The kid is in Grigor's hot new generation department!ReplyDelete


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What do Palestinians want?
Already a new peace process has broken down over land disputes and a U.S.-Israeli 'crisis.' In America the evangelical community emphasizes what Israel wants. But what about day-to-day life for those on the other side? And for the Christians living on both sides?
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JERUSALEM and the WEST BANK-Atop Mt. Zion sits the Cenacle, considered by historians the likely setting of the Last Supper. High tourist season in Jerusalem arrives a few weeks before Easter, so on a recent weekday the main floor (cena means dinner) was filled to capacity: Roman Catholics from the Philippines prayed and sang together in one corner; Italians listened to a tour guide in another; Russian Orthodox nearby studied the Armenian capitals that top columns in the Crusader-era vault; and a group of evangelicals from Alaska waited their turn outside in midday sun. From the Jewish school at the site came the sounds of male prayer chanting.
A synagogue was here long before the apostles reportedly established it as a place of worship following Jesus' death and resurrection. It was destroyed by Persians in 614, rebuilt, destroyed by Muslims in 1009, regained by Crusaders in 1099, who built the basilica that partially survives today. The Franciscans took it over until another Muslim invasion-when it was transformed into a mosque and closed to Christians until the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Since the Six Day War in 1967, the Diaspora Yeshiva has run the compound.
The Cenacle is hardly unique: Most sites in tourist brochures of "the Holy Land" are layered with competing religious significance and conflicting historiography. Holiday or no, it's tough for tourists to escape the political implications of these controversies-fallout that feeds the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wider conflict between the Arab world and the West.
"Holy places have become the symbol of the conflict," said Yitzhak Reiter, professor of Middle East politics and Islamic studies at Hebrew University. "Every space where someone can find some holy connection becomes part of the conflict."
The phenomenon isn't new. A stone doorway leading into the Cenacle's basilica has a chink for the mezuzah, the Hebrew scripture traditionally tucked into doorposts. The mezuzah is gone, and next to it some long-dead graffiti artist has chiseled "Allah" in Arabic. For the last 10 years, Israel and the Vatican have been in negotiations over ceding control to Rome.
Age-old disputes morphed into what some called an international crisis during Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem last month.
The flashpoint was 1,600 new housing units that Israel announced March 10 it planned to build in East Jerusalem. But they are only part of a larger tableau. Arab residents are locked in legal and other battles with Israelis over contested sites around Jerusalem. City fathers are wrestling over approximately 88 Arab homes planned for demolition near excavations for the City of David. In Sheikh Jarrah, another contested area of mostly Arab housing, 3,000 Arab and Jewish residents turned out to protest planned evictions two days before Biden's arrival.
Israelis, for their part, say that illegal building in the Arab areas of Jerusalem has reached a crisis point: Unlicensed units now number 1,000 per year, according to Justus Reid Weiner of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The mostly Palestinian and Arab residents of East Jerusalem say they are discriminated against in the issuing of building permits, while 650 housing units in the city have been demolished since 2000 to make way for Israeli projects, according to the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem.
The backdrop-sparking almost daily confrontation between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police-is the failure to resolve internal borders between Israeli and Palestinian areas. The 1993 Oslo Accords granted limited self-rule to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Gaza, but further talks have stalled. Controversial building projects by both sides threaten the ability to finalize the agreed-upon two-state solution. And whether Jerusalem is to remain a unified city under Israeli or international control, or a divided city that is capital to both Israel and the state of Palestine is a question both sides say is being determined by "creating facts on the ground"-staking claims via building and development.
Reiter calls the unrest a "cold intifada"-reminiscent of previous Palestinian uprisings that led to massive violence and Israeli counterattacks. The "low-scale violence" of recent weeks, he said, isn't going away because Palestinians believe Israel wants to "Judaize" Arab portions of Jerusalem-and the West Bank-in the absence of a negotiated solution on who controls what.
Last month U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, head of Central Command, sounded a similar alarm. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he listed the conflict first in a list of "major drivers of instability" in the region, warning that it "foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel" and "limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples [in the region]."
It's also costing American taxpayers a lot of money. Since 1971 U.S. aid to Israel has averaged $2.6 billion a year. Now the United States through USAID provides $800 million a year in development aid to the West Bank and Gaza-more than USAID provides anywhere else in the world except Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Israeli security interests featured prominently at last week's American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington. But what about the interests of the region's 2.5 million Palestinians-including approximately 60,000 who identify themselves as Christians-who also have a stake in the peace process?
To understand their situation and perspective, a good place to begin is at the beginning: Bethlehem. Long before it became the birthplace of Jesus, it was where Jacob buried his wife Rachel, the home of Boaz and Ruth, and the birthplace of David. Today the old city is mostly inaccessible to Jews living in Israel. And Christians from Bethlehem, who like to call themselves the descendents of the shepherds keeping watch during Jesus' birth, find it hard if not impossible to travel to Jerusalem-although it's only five miles away.
That's largely because Islamic militants launched attacks from Bethlehem on Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and a nearby Jewish settlement during the second intifada. In 2002 the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade took up positions inside the Church of the Nativity and held it for 39 days. The terrorist group spread fear throughout the city, as attacks on Christians (including rapes of women) rose, and the militants forcibly took over areas of the city once dominated by Christian families.
By 2005 the violence had subsided but Israel did not forget: The military built a concrete security wall that partly surrounds Bethlehem, with one section running directly into town, where a corner observation tower rises only two blocks from the five-star hotel where Biden met with PA president Mahmoud Abbas last month.
The wall is 25 feet high and built of reinforced concrete sections-part of the 440-mile security barrier project Israel has said it will complete this year. Here the wall cuts over 10 miles inside the West Bank, worrying residents that it will become the de facto boundary with Israel should a two-state solution someday be formalized.
"It's the first time in history that Jerusalem and Bethlehem have been segregated," said Jad Isaac, a Palestinian Christian who heads the Applied Research Institute in Beit Sahour, a town next door to Bethlehem. Israelis like to call the security wall a "fence," but in Bethlehem it is a wall-dividing the city from dozens of its own established residential homes and cordoning off Rachel's Tomb from Palestinian residents.
Overall the security wall has reduced suicide bomb attacks against Israel; estimates range anywhere from 70 percent to 90 percent. But security for Israelis has come at a high price for Palestinians. Unemployment in Bethlehem shot to over 60 percent following its construction, according to Isaac, and tourism has plummeted. Tour buses from Jerusalem now make day excursions to Bethlehem and discourage visitors from staying overnight in its hotels. Israel has constructed bypass roads on the other side of the wall that further reduce commerce-roads that Palestinian identity card holders are prohibited from entering at checkpoints.
Since the Oslo Accords, Israelis and the 1.5 million Israeli Arabs who hold Israeli citizenship carry blue identity cards. Palestinians carry green identity cards. "I could lose my mobile [phone] and all my money," a businessman in Bethlehem named Elias told me, "but I live in fear of losing my identity card."
The cards allow Palestinians entry into Bethlehem and other parts of the West Bank-but not Jerusalem. Likewise, blue card holders may not enter Bethlehem and other West Bank cities. Anyone is free to apply for a special permit from the Israeli government, but most requests are denied except for humanitarian or medical reasons. Those who receive permits say they may expire in seven days, or six months-making it difficult to plan for business and other travel purposes. Elias partners in an olive wood export business using a U.S. distributor; given the security barriers, it's easier to do business overseas, he said, than to try to build the business within the region.
One of his partners, also a Palestinian identity card holder, is married to an Israeli Arab. Both are Christians. The husband, who like most Palestinian Christians asked not to be named in print, explained to me that because of security restrictions he cannot travel with his wife to Jericho, a city also within the West Bank and about 25 miles away. His wife with her blue card must travel using the Israeli roads west of town and into Jerusalem. He with his green card must use the roads for Palestinians that run east and north out of Bethlehem.
What happens if they try to go together since they can prove they are married, I ask? Unthinkable, he said. He would be arrested for unauthorized entry at any checkpoint, while she could be arrested for smuggling a Palestinian into Israel.
"Like many from this area, I can trace my family from 1563 living on the same piece of land, and I have more Hebrew blood in myself than 95 percent of the Israelis. But still I am treated as a foreigner," said Isaac. "For Israel I don't exist because my family homeland is behind the wall."
The daily restrictions of checkpoints and security barriers help to explain why Christians living in the West Bank grow to identify first with Palestinian Muslims, rather than the U.S.-based Christian groups that support Israel. "For most American Christians," said Elias, "we simply don't exist."
Except during periods of heightened security restrictions, most U.S. citizens may enter and exit the West Bank on a U.S. passport with an Israeli entry stamp," reads the State Department's consular information sheet on visiting the West Bank. (It's more complicated for Palestinian Americans, who even though they hold a U.S. passport are subject to restrictions.)
I took advantage of my Israeli-authorized travel privileges to follow the Palestinian roads from Bethlehem, which wind through the Judean wilderness and along the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives. To the west the venerable Jerusalem skyline, its domes and minarets, is plainly visible. But as the road enters East Jerusalem the cityscape disappears behind the security wall, which cuts across the Arab neighborhoods and comes down literally upon the roadbed, leaving no room to walk or pull over by the roadside, as it enters a suburb called al-Zariyyah.
Al-Zariyyah once was called Bethany, the town where Jesus retreated from Jerusalem after His triumphal entry and possibly stayed with Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead, and his sisters Mary and Martha. Jesus also stayed with Simon the leper, according to the Gospel writer Matthew, and at his home Mary anointed Him with an expensive perfumed oil before His crucifixion.
The wall cuts through al-Zariyyah directly behind the cave marked as the tomb of Lazarus, dividing in half the now mostly Muslim city, and its historical Christian churches and sites. To go back and forth to Jerusalem, as Jesus did during Passover, now requires traveling north to the road to Jericho and entering Jerusalem via a checkpoint. It's a question worth pondering: What color identity card would Jesus have?
Further north, the same security barrier has isolated the town of Taibe from Jerusalem-a 100 percent historically Christian area of about 1,300. An outsider is tempted to describe the town as caught between two warring factions, facing economic isolation from Israel-with its gated industrial zones covering the hills around Taibe but no commerce between them-and the aggression of Muslim militants. In 2005 a Muslim mob descended on Taibe, set fire to 166 houses and several businesses, and came through the streets with clubs before Palestinian police dispersed them. The provocation: a relationship between a Muslim woman from a nearby village and a Christian man from Taibe. The woman was allegedly poisoned to death in an "honor killing" carried out by the mob, but there were no deaths among the Christians in Taibe.
But Raed Abusaliah, the town's Catholic priest, says that relations with nearby Muslim communities have eased, and he rejects the "caught" description: "Somehow that comes with the mentality that you are afraid, persecuted, that Christians are leaving or have to leave. People are leaving because of the political instability of the region, the economic instability. Muslims are leaving, too. They all would like to live a normal life. If they have peace in this land they will remain."
Abusaliah acknowledges that the town's population is dropping. He takes it personally when a home goes up for sale, and he tries to talk local families out of leaving. He paces and rocks as he talks, animated and agitated about what's happening to Christians in the West Bank. "The importance of the Christian community does not come from its numbers but from our presence and our service and our witness for Jesus Christ," he said. "But we are here since 2,000 years and will remain. We will not disappear. We will be here until He comes again."
Abusaliah has launched microenterprises-an olive press that makes not only oil but soap and candles, and a ceramics factory-to give residents more reasons to stay. These supply olive oil to the Red Cross, along with exports to France and the United States. His church established a home for the elderly, a direct result of the loss of easy access to Jerusalem for medical and other needs, he said.
Abusaliah, like many Palestinian Christians I spoke to, is weary of the maneuvering for a two-state solution. "I have another idea: the one-state solution," he said. "Normally we don't have any problem with Jews. We consider them our elder brothers and have our roots in the Old Testament. Our problem is not with Judaism; it is with soldiers and settlers."
He also believes that the importance of the ancient Christian communities in the West Bank is overlooked: "We are a continuation of first century community. We are the descendants of the apostles. Without Christians you have old stones here-museums-but we are living stones."
The divide between Israelis and Palestinians is growing, according to Salim Munayer, a professor and former academic dean at Bethlehem Bible College. Younger generations live in increasingly barricaded communities, walled off from daily contact with one another and more dependent on media and political parties to characterize their differences.
Growing up in the 1950s south of Tel Aviv, Munayer attended Arab and Christian schools and then went to a Jewish high school. Munayer's family then was Greek Orthodox with little more than historic ties to Christianity. His uncle one day put an ad in the Jerusalem Post for someone "to teach his children the New Testament." Munayer says a Bible teacher responded and "what came together was a mixed group-Greek Orthodox, secular, traditional, and Messianic Jews. Many levels of religious faith and belief. In that context I found Jesus answering questions not only of my identity but the beginning of answers concerning the conflict."
The group helped transform Munayer from "a bitter, angry teenager, knowing the ceiling was very low, and without hope." In 1980 he left Israel for the United States, studying at Fuller Seminary and later at Oxford, but he returned in 1985. In 1990 he founded Musalaha, a nonprofit dedicated to reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
"We started naïvely, passionately, and learning by trials and errors. And by studying other people's experiences, by going to the Bible, and understanding the difficulty of people coming together," said Munayer. One thing he has learned is that conflicts the world describes as "intractable" don't have to be. Take Northern Ireland and Bosnia, two long-running conflicts now largely resolved, which Munayer says have a lot in common with the Middle East. "You have different people living in close proximity, competing for the same resources, and conflict is marked by their identity, with a lot of pain and victimization mentality-what's perceived as zero sum conflict."
But Munayer has lived in Israel and the West Bank long enough to remember it differently: "I grew up with Muslims, I grew up with Jews, we used to play, we used to fight. The communities mixed with each other. It's not happening anymore. Our communities are segregated, not only because people are making choices but because of government programs."
Musalaha emphasizes working with youth to recreate that kind of cultural melting pot, bringing together youth from Messianic Jewish congregations with Arab-Israeli and Palestinian Christians. Joel Goldberg is one such leader, a Messianic Jew who heads a ministry near Tel Aviv-the only youth program among Israel's 150 Messianic congregations. As the ministry has grown, it has embraced Arabic-speaking Israelis, and these in turn have helped connect the youth ministry to Arabic-speaking Christians from the West Bank.
They cannot meet on one another's turf because of the internal restrictions, but working with Munayer, Goldberg has organized meetings overseas. ("To someone from Bethlehem, Cyprus is closer than Jerusalem," said Goldberg.) Now Goldberg and Munayer have found a way to hold the first joint meeting: In June Messianic Jewish youth, Arab-Israeli youth, and Palestinian youth will meet at a boarding school and vocational training center that sits exactly on the border between Israeli and Palestinian territory, not far from Bethlehem. Those with green Palestinian identity cards can enter via a gate on the Palestinian side, while those with blue Israeli IDs will enter via a gate on the Israeli side of the campus.
"I will speak in Hebrew with translation into Arabic. I feel very honored to have this opportunity," said Goldberg. But he doesn't expect miracles: "Physically there is a fence. There is a wall. There is a war between our people. Even the last weeks we see a growing divide among our people. Do I believe the physical walls will be removed? Not soon. But doing what we do changes people's worldview. It changes the way that Jewish youth view Arabs when they join the army, for example. Not just any Arab person is the enemy, but there are those among them who can be the enemy."
Munayer said, "I often feel that I am living inside of two realities-a political reality that is hopeless and a spiritual reality that is not. So which reality do you go with?" He believes that for too long resolution has been focused on the externals-the holy sites around Jerusalem and border disputes-while the internal challenge of winning hearts and minds went neglected. "Here's the place where I am now: God is absorbing evil like a sponge and transforming it for good. A lot of it is hidden but it is happening in people's hearts."
Under a series of agreements signed through 1999, Israel transferred to the Palestinian Authority (PA) security and civilian responsibility for many Palestinian-populated areas of the West Bank and Gaza. The current PA government in the West Bank is led by independent Salam Fayyad, the prime minister.
Land area: 8,356 sq miles
Population: 7,233,701*
Religion: Jewish 76.4%
Muslim 16%
Arab Christians 1.7%
other Christian 0.4%
Druze 1.6%
unspecified 3.9%
GDP: $205.2 billion or $28,400 (2009 est.) per capita
Unemployment: 8%
Land area: 2,178 sq miles
Population: 2,461,267
Religion: Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni)
Jewish 17%
Christian and other 8%
GDP: $12.79 billion or $2,900 (2008 est.) per capita
Unemployment: 19%
*note: includes about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, about 20,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem
source: CIA World Factbook


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Time To Release 28 Classified Pages Of The 9/11 Commission Report
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St. Paul, MN (Sports Network) - Matt Duchene tied the game in the third period
and scored in the shootout, as the Colorado Avalanche edged the Minnesota
Wild, 4-3, at Xcel Energy Center.
Colorado goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere turned away a backhander from Zach
Parise to begin the penalty-shot tiebreaker. Birthday boy Milan Hejduk, who
netted a power-play goal in the second period for his 800th career point, used
the same move to beat Minnesota's Niklas Backstrom.
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Santa Clara, CA (Sports Network) - The San Francisco 49ers sought to
distance themselves from comments made by cornerback Chris Culliver during
Tuesday's media day, issuing a statement on Wednesday.
"The San Francisco 49ers reject the comments that were made yesterday, and
have addressed the matter with Chris," the club said in an issued statement.
"There is no place for discrimination within our organization at any level. We
have and always will proudly support the LGBT community."
Culliver was asked by former Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange if there were
any gay players on the 49ers, to which Culliver reportedly said -- as revealed
in the San Francisco Chronicle: "No, we don't got no gay people on the team,
they gotta get up out of here if they do ... can't be with that sweet stuff.
Nah ... can't be ... in the locker room man."
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Dear Indecisive:
While taking a flight to a client engagement, I once found myself seated next to a professional-society member who was en route to an industrial psychology conference. We struck up a conversation about workplace motivation, wherein my new friend shared this observation: "Coercion elicits resistance."
In other words, you can't coerce people to agree. Well, not successfully in the long run, anyway.
The case you need to make to management is direct and has business implications. When employees (not just top brass) are involved in decisions that affect them, the more likely they are to accept and support them. Conversely, if they are excluded from the decision process, employees are more likely to feel coerced into supporting a decision they dislike.
If top-level decisions are hurting the business, consider making this point—diplomatically, of course—with your executive management. Request that more people be included in future deliberations, especially when the outcome will affect them. Use data to demonstrate the benefits of involving more people in decisions. Show how the input of additional participants leads to more informed decisions and better business results. Plus, employees are less likely to bemoan a decision they helped to make.
It isn't practical to involve a lot of people in every decision. But trying to include others should boost the odds your employees will be more engaged and supportive of such decisions.
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7383 - Mac only - The configured mail mode does not change when the server is rebooted.
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Special Issue | Andrew Carnegie's old home displays methods of helping the poor that the old millionaire would have liked
As Paul Collier points out, aid can be distributed intelligently or foolishly. A further dimension of aid involves helping the poor to help themselves by developing and selling inexpensive products with names like "MoneyMaker"-and therein lies a tale.
Let's begin it with Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), who grew up poor in Scotland, became rich in America, and then gave away most of his money, the equivalent today of $5 billion. He paid for the construction of over 2,500 public libraries. He created institutions like Carnegie Hall, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He believed that giving the poor opportunities to gain education and build businesses would contribute to world peace.
After J.P. Morgan in 1901 bought Carnegie's company and made it the centerpiece of a massive new concern, U.S. Steel, Carnegie retired to a home on New York's swank Fifth Avenue. That building now houses the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. It now has three floors exhibiting elegant gadgets like iPods, robots, sleek chairs, and stairway lights tracking movement. It also has, in a side yard until Sept. 23, a "Design for the Other 90%" exhibit of products for the poor in developing countries.
Among the products: the Super MoneyMaker Pump, a user-powered treadle pump-it operates like a gym stair-stepper-that allows a farmer, or his children, to irrigate two acres in eight hours. Another product is the MoneyMaker Block Press, which allows half a dozen workers to produce each day 600 strong and durable building blocks made from soil mixed with a small percentage of cement.
Carnegie would have liked that block press, because he always looked for ways to do simple tasks more efficiently. He wouldn't have been fooled by the pretty sight of women and girls, particularly in Africa, walking along the road balancing jugs of water on their heads. (When they do that mile after mile, day after day, some end up crippled.) He would have admired the display of a simple but elegant Q Drum, a big, lime-green plastic donut, wide as a truck tire but hollow, with a screw-in cap on one side: Even a child can put a rope through the Q Drum's hole and roll 20 gallons of water to a village.
Carnegie would have liked having his yard display ingeniously simple solutions to formerly intractable problems. For example, contaminated drinking water often spreads waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. Solution: the LifeStraw, a 10-inch-long plastic tube with an interior carbon filter that, when water is sucked through it, removes dangerous particulates. Second solution: Aquastar Plus, which exposes water put into a bottle to ultraviolet light, which makes pathogens non-infective.
Carnegie in his time or ours could see that ordinary bicycles are not made to carry hundreds of pounds to market. Here's the solution: the Big Boda load-carrying bicycle, which has a big steel cargo support and an extended wheel base that lowers the center of gravity. Or, how about the problem of food spoilage in hot climates due to lack of cool food storage areas? Solution: a pot-in-pot cooler made up of two nested earthenware pots, with sand and water in between. The evaporating water draws heat from the inner pot and can keep produce such as tomatoes cool for up to 20 days, so that farmers have more time to sell their crops.
The exhibit in Carnegie's yard is provocative, but another part of Carnegie's life rubs some the wrong way: He believed in making a lot of money and giving most of it away, but he also spent a lot. The New York house that is now the Cooper-Hewitt museum had 64 rooms. Its sub-basement had rail tracks for cars filled with coal to feed a row of furnaces. Carnegie burned up to a ton of coal on winter days to keep his house warm. His wine cellar had over 1,500 expensive bottles, and he ordered 50-gallon casks of Dewars when he threw a party.
That history, along with some current practices of others among the rich, fuels rage. One radical weblog, Art for a Change, excoriated the Cooper-Hewitt exhibit: "'Design for the Other 90%' seems more an insult than a solution. Even the name stinks of privilege and imperial arrogance. 'We,' the 10%, can go on enjoying our luxury chrome plated Hummers and other accoutrements of a thoroughly unsustainable lifestyle, and we can do so guilt-free as we've devised consumer goods for the other 90% of the world's population."
Art for a Change was not impressed by the cleverness of the life-saving objects at the exhibit: "No amount of spiffily-designed water purifiers and latrine kits sold to the impoverished will end poverty-only a fair distribution of wealth and resources can do that." Ah, there's the rub: What is fair? Equality of result? Equality of opportunity? The opportunity immigrants to America have had to work hard so their children have greater opportunity?
Martin J. Fisher, co-founder of KickStart International, creator of those human-powered water pumps that make possible longer growing seasons and higher incomes for small farmers in poor countries, argues that "what poor people need most is a way to make money." He happily tells reporters of customers who skipped meals for weeks to save the money to buy a treadle pump. The ambitious farmers multiplied their investment of $30 to $90 10-fold in one year by growing grain in the dry season, when it fetches three times the normal price.
And yet, the idea that anyone should skip a meal upsets the stomachs of many. Why should anyone have to work something like a stair-climber for hours to pump water when we have motorized pumps? But, in Fisher's words, affluent people "buy time-saving and labor-saving devices, and many of those aren't that relevant for the poor. They have a fair lot of time and labor. What they don't have is very much money." By giving people the opportunity to make money, KickStart International says it has helped 230,000 people escape poverty.
Shouldn't we give pumps to the poor? Why make them skip meals?
KickStart insists on selling its pumps because "no giveaway program can be sustainable. By selling our pumps, we create a sustainable supply chain." Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises, tells reporters, "When you give things away, you lack discipline in how you design them because you don't have to get feedback from the customer."
The Cooper-Hewitt exhibit emphasizes small: Don't construct hydroelectric dams, construct cheap shelter that people can buy to protect themselves from the elements. The exhibit embraces using human power rather than machines and gasoline because use of machinery requires continued infusions of Western cash. The goal is for local economies to function independently: People power can crank radios, pump water, and drive bicycles.
The Cooper-Hewitt exhibit displays ingenuity and also forces us to confront our own charitable notions. Do we emphasize giving to all of the poor rather than helping those who are able-bodied to glean their sustenance? Do we ignore sustainability and create long-term dependence?
The Bible strongly emphasizes help to the helpless-most obviously, widows and orphans-but expects widows to be busy with good deeds and not busybodies. The Bible offers hope to the disabled and demands work from the able: In the apostle Paul's punchy words to the Thessalonians, "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat." The Cooper-Hewitt exhibit shows simple yet elegant tools; a major goal now should be to make sure that eager hands have access to them.


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student-athletes and the first Butler football team to advance to
the NCAA playoffs into the Butler University Athletic Hall of Fame
on Saturday, Sept. 24. The induction dinner/ceremony will be
held in the Riley Room in Atherton Center on the Butler campus,
starting at 6 p.m. (ET).
Slated for induction as Butler's 21st Hall of Fame Class are Paul Page (football, 1983-86), Stacia Mellinger (volleyball, 1987-90), Jermaine Guice (men's basketball, 1991-94) and Jeremy Aldrich (men's soccer, 1995-98), plus the 1983 football team. The inductees will be recognized during the first half of Butler's football game against Drake, which starts at noon. The formal ceremony in the Riley Room will include a 5 p.m., cocktail reception.
Page was a standout wide receiver on Butler's football teams in the mid-1980s, including a pair of conference championship squads. He was a two-time Butler Offensive Most Valuable Player and a two-time, first team All-Heartland Collegiate Conference wide receiver. He held Butler's single season (998) and career (1,937) records for receiving yards at the time of his graduation, and he still ranks in the "Top Five" in both categories. A three-year varsity starter, Page finished his Butler career with 117 receptions for 1,937 yards and 14 touchdowns. He caught more than 50 passes in each of his final two seasons.
Mellinger, named Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now Horizon League) Volleyball Co-Player of the Year in 1990, is one of just 14 players in league history to be named first team All-League three times (1988 1989 and 1990). She helped lead Butler to four consecutive league regular season championships and one league tournament title. Mellinger finished her career in second place on Butler's all-time list for assists (4,838), and she currently stands seventh in the Horizon League in all-time assists. She also ranks seventh all-time at Butler in service aces (133).
Guice was a high-scoring guard on Butler's basketball teams in the early 1990s, and he helped engineer a turnaround in the Bulldogs' basketball fortunes. He helped lead the Bulldogs to an 18-11 campaign in 1990-91, Butler's first winning season in six years, and then sparked a 21-10 record the following season, just the third 20-win season in Butler basketball history. A two-time Butler MVP and two-time All-Midwestern Collegiate Conference performer, Guice finished his career in sixth place (he currently stands eighth) on Butler's all-time scoring list with 1,607 career points. He led Butler in scoring in each of his final two seasons. The 6-4 guard still ranks 10th on Butler's all-time list for three-point field goals (174).
Aldrich became just the second player in Butler men's soccer history (Hall of Fame member Steve Weiger was the first) to earn NSCAA/adidas All-America recognition when he was picked to the second team in 1998. The versatile defender was a three-time, first team All-Horizon League player, and he was named league Player of the Year in 1998. He was a two-time All-Great Lakes Region pick, and a two-time Horizon League All-Tournament player. Aldrich was named the Most Valuable Player on Butler's 19-5-1 squad in 1998, the winningest team in Butler men's soccer history.
The 1983 Butler football team completed the regular season with an unbeaten (9-0-1) record and became the first team in Heartland Collegiate Conference history to advance to the NCAA Division II playoffs. Coached by Bill Sylvester, who was named Region 3 "Coach of the Year", the Bulldogs won the HCC championship, earned a No. 8 national ranking and captured a second consecutive NCAA Division II Rushing Defense national title. Butler traveled to UC Davis, runner-up in the previous year's Division II national championship, for the national playoffs and fell, 25-6.
The Butler Hall of Fame was created in 1991 to provide a forum in which those who have brought honor and respect to Butler University and its athletic program could be acknowledged and permanently enshrined in Hinkle Fieldhouse. Inductees have made exceptional contributions to the prestige of the University in the field of athletics, and continued to demonstrate in their lives the values imparted by athletics. The Hall of Fame enshrinement wall is located at the front entrance to Hinkle Fieldhouse.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND. -- Butler will induct four former
student-athletes and the first Butler football team to advance to
the NCAA playoffs into the Butler University Athletic Hall of Fame
on Saturday, Sept. 24. The induction dinner/ceremony will be
held in the Riley Room in Atherton Center on the Butler campus,
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Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Dirk Nowitzki scored his team's final eight
points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2.9 seconds left that vaulted the
Dallas Mavericks to a 100-98 win over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday at
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Nowitzki shot a scorching 14-of-17 from the field, including 5-of-6 from 3-
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Brandan Wright donated a double-double with 17 points and 13 rebounds to help
Dallas bounce back from Thursday's 103-78 setback against Indiana.
Carlos Boozer recorded a double-double with 25 points and 11 boards, while
Luol Deng and Nate Robinson also added 25 points apiece for the Bulls, who had
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Charlotte, NC (Sports Network) - Ramon Sessions put home the game-winning
bucket with 28.3 seconds to play and the Charlotte Bobcats hung on for a 98-97
win over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday at Time Warner Cable Arena.
Sessions finished with 14 points and six assists. Kemba Walker scored a team-
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