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- ColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Marlene Bea...ColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
KatherineColombiaRetailFunding via Fundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD)
Gloria Estefany
Update on Gloria EstefanyGloria is very satisfied with the investment that she made with her first Kiva loan, because she bought a number of items to sell that her customers were demanding at the time. With this investment she was able to satisfy their preferences and increase her family income. She is requesting a loan again so that she can continue to buy more handcrafted items made from wood such as vases, tables, lamps, rocking chairs, sectional benches, and a variety of other items. Gloria is a restless youth with a strong desire to excel and build her business into a large company. Ever since she was granted her first loan, Gloria has been enrolled in accounting and finance classes in a public institution that offers professional programs; she has completed 5 modules there. This makes her very happy, and she works every day to make her dream a reality. She wants to organize her business inside her house, giving it more space so that it can be seen by passers-by. Her message for all the Kiva lenders is the following: "Thanks to all of you, I am striving toward my goals, and maintaining a firm intention to continue ahead so that I can achieve each and every one of my goals. Thank you so much for your support."
Previous Loan DetailsGloria, age 20, is a dynamic and enterprising young woman who works in the retail sector. She sells handicrafts and other types of merchandise that are brought in from Sampués, a town in the Department of Sucre. Gloria distributes her goods to her customers who include neighbors, relatives, fri... More from Gloria Estefany's previous loan »
Additional Information
About Fundación Mario Santo DomingoFundación Mario Santo Domingo (FMSD) is a non-profit organization in northern Colombia dedicated to developing programs for the country's poorest communities. In addition to numerous social services, FMSD runs a microfinance program to strengthen micro-businesses in the areas where it works. The organization also offers several non-financial components as part of this program, including training to help entrepreneurs start their own businesses.
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
About Colombia
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 14 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Jun 13, 2012
- Listed
- Jun 22, 2012
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Jan 25, 2014


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Pre-Natal yoga is designed to help prepare Mom's to be for a healthy, more pain free pregnancy and a less stressful delivery. Yoga can help to build strength, increase flexibility, range of motion and teach helpful breathing techniques (pranayama) to aid through labor and delivery and encourage the mind and body connection.
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Suitable for almost all levels of students, YIN YOGA is a perfect complement to the dynamic and muscular (yang) styles of yoga that emphasize internal heat and the lengthening and contracting of our muscles. Yin Yoga generally targets the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine, but can be done for the entire body.
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Hi All,
I am new here. I have been a road rider since the age of 9 (1979). I was the geeky guy on a 10-spd when everyone else was on a BMX.
I grew up in Scottsdale Arizona and moved to Chicago with my family when I was in college. I started to ride track at that time. I have owned a few bikes...some which I regret selling. I hope I can contribute.
I included a picture of me with Mr. Pinarello last year in Treviso Italy at the factory store. I just bought the Gios frame, and the picture of it is the one the seller provided. I am going to do some work to it. Thanks for looking.
Some of the bikes in my 30 years...I will look for some older pics as well:
San Rensho Track
Tommasini Prestige/Campy
Bianchi (Pantani model)/Campy
Colnago Dream Pista
DeRosa Pista
Carrera Stephen Roche track
Colnago C50/Campy (present)
Pinarello Paris/Campy (present)
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Graeme McDowell Leading With At Hilton Head Along With Matt Every
Professional golfer from Northern Ireland, Graeme McDowell is currently sharing the lead with Matt Every after the first round of RBC Heritage at Hilton Head. McDowell plays for PGA as well as in European tour. He achieved the biggest milestone of his career in 2010 by winning the US open.
It was quite a difficult condition today in South Carolina for players because of strong winds and cold weather. It was difficult to score birdies but they took advantage of slightly better conditions during the afternoon wave. Every managed six before a bogey on the 18th and McDowell matched him only in reverse after making a bogey on the 1st. Graeme is yet to win any title in his PGA tour. On other hand Every just won another title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and is looking for his second victory this year.
Before entering the professional golf in 2002 G-Mac had a successful amateur career in Ireland and United States. In June 2010, McDowell became the first Northern Irishman to win the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
Bae Sang-moon from South Korea is in the third position at 4 under ahead of a five-way tie for the fourth position between Kevin Kisner, Morgan Hoffman, Scott Langley, Cameron Smith and Matt Kuchar. Matt kuchar is the defending champion and is 3 under.
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Graeme McDowell Movie Ranking: four / five
Graeme McDowell will return to France for the French Open
Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has confirmed that he will return to France for the 99th edition of the famous Alstom Open de France, or simply, the French Open which is scheduled to take place between the 2nd and 5th of July as he attempts to become only the second golfer in the history of the illustrious event to win the title three times on the bounce.
Having successfully managed to defend his title last year, the Northern Irishman will be aiming to emulate the only person who has managed a hat-trick in the event – Frenchman Marcel Dallemagne who won his three titles at Saint-Germain in 1936, Saint-Cloud in 1937 and Fourqueux in 1938.
Speaking to the media, McDowell said that obviously he would be returning to defend his title, adding that it would be a beautiful thing to win the title three times in a row. Graeme McDowell who is currently ranked at number 22 in the Official World Golf Rankings and is a winner of the US Open, won his tenth title on the Tour when he managed to take advantage of a slip from the leader Versailles last year on the final day.
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With a roster boasting heavyweights like Blackalicious, DJ
Shadow and Lyrics Born fans have come to expect great
things from the Quannum crew's brand of conscious Hip Hop.
Back for their sophomore outing, Portland trio Lifesavas have
taken on the personas of Sleepy Floyd, Bumpy Johnson, and Jimmy
Slimwater, portrayed by Jumbo the Garbageman, Vursatyl,
and DJ Shines respectively. Billed as an original soundtrack - albeit
to a movie that doesn't exist - Gutterfly is a journey through the
mean streets of Razorblade City, a setting right out of a blaxploitation flick,
where funk is king. They rhyming is handled by Vurs and Jumbo,
who also handles most of the production while mixing in lots of live
instrumentation as well.
Obviously with a blaxploitation theme there is a heavy 70's funk and soul
influence, and that vibe is definitely created successfully. The problem with
that is not only that it gets redundant after awhile, but also that it tends to
blend together in spots and fails to really hold attention. While there are no
tracks that fail miserably, there aren't very many truly amazing moments
either. The most shining exception would be "Freedom Walk" featuring Dead
Prez and Vernon Reid of Living Colour, who lends his
talents on the guitar.
Another gem is "Night
Out," a two part tale of racial profiling and a robbery gone awry
featuring The King of Interplanetary Funksmanship himself, George
Clinton. The thing both of these songs have in common is the fact that
they have a lot of substance to them, which is important when you're making a
concept album that only utilizes a vague resemblance of a cohesive story.
Another similarity I think it's important to point out is that both of these
songs feature other artists contributions, and it seems like said situation
seems to really push Vurs and Jumbo to step
it up themselves. That being said, when forced to hold it down on their own
things can get a little dull. A prime example is "Shine Language," a song with a
great name that has duo trying too hard over a very monotonous beat.
For the most part, the flaws of this record have a lot to do with "style
over substance". The overall funkiness is amazing, and done well, but not very
original at all. Vursatyle has been quoted as saying "The
goal was anybody who picked up the Lifesavas
record could dig it. Anybody could take something from the Lifesavas record and enjoy it," but it seems like they may
have played it a little too safe. None of the music seems to challenge the
listener or the artists and that makes it feel a little blander than it actually
is. In short, this is the type of music that ends up becoming background
atmosphere, and not the type of record I would go and recommend to a friend
(which I did with Spirit In Stone). It's worth checking out just for
the consistent smoothness of the production and several stellar guest
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air sampling Companies in Washington
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HI-Q Environmental Products Company
based in San Diego, CALIFORNIA (USA)
HI-Q Environmental Products Company (HI-Q) has been a leading manufacturer of Air Sampling & Radiation Monitoring Equipment, Systems & Accessories since 1973. HI-Q started primarily as a manufacturer of activated carbon cartridges and high/low volume air sampling pumps intended to be used as "Record Samplers" in the collection of radioiodine and radioactive dust ...
Laboratory Connection Services (LCS)
based in London, ONTARIO (CANADA)
Laboratory Connection Services (LCS) AIHA and ISO 17025 accredited laboratory is created to provide Canadian and International Client's with best in industry laboratory services, affordable instrument rental, and consumables. The LCS laboratory is located in London, Ontario, Canada.
Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H.
based in Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
IONICON is the world's leading producer of trace gas analyzers with market-leading, real-time, single-digit pptv-level detection limits for VOCs using the unique Proton Transfer Reaction – Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS) and Selective Reagent Ionization – Mass Spectrometry (SRI-MS) technology. IONICON also produces trace calibration devices for analytical instruments and ...
NILU - The Norwegian Institute for Air Research
based in Kjeller, NORWAY
NILU is an independent research institute founded in 1969. NILU`s environmental building on Kjeller, the outskirt of Lillestrøm and Oslo, became the permanent headquarter in 1994. The institute conducts environmental research with emphasis on the sources of airborne pollution, atmospheric transport, transformation and deposition and is also involved in the ...
GE Healthcare UK Limited
based in Little Chalfont, UNITED KINGDOM
For generations, Whatman has earned a reputation for innovation and quality, and is a well-known global brand in separations technology. Since 2008, Whatman has continued in the tradition of innovative, high quality products as part of GE Healthcare Life Sciences. In addition to traditional offerings such as Whatman filter papers, membranes, and syringe filters, our ...
based in St. Petersburg, FLORIDA (USA)
Industrial and Environmental Health and Safety Instrumentation: Air Sampling Pumps, Calibrators, Equipment, and Accessories. Colorimetric Gas Detector Tubes. Point Gas Monitors. Open Path Gas Detection. Sound, Noise, and Vibration Measurement Instruments. Real-time Dust Monitors. Flame Detectors.
BÜCHI Labortechnik AG
based in Postfach, SWITZERLAND
Determining pollutants in environmental and food matrices requires efficient sample preparation.BUCHI offers a wide range of solutions for reliable, efficient, flexible and safe sample processingprocedures in the laboratory work flow to enhancing productivity and quality.
Sigma-Aldrich Co., LLC
based in Bellefonte, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company whose biochemical, organic chemical products, kits and services are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical, diagnostics and high technology manufacturing. ...
Geotechnical Services, Inc
based in Tustin, CALIFORNIA (USA)
Your Environmental supply source for Portable Field Testing and Sampling Instruments to: sample soil, sample and test water quality, passive product skimmers, measure depth, pH, conductivity, temperature, turbidity, Dissolved Oxygen and ORP. We stock Safety Equipment and Clothing. Distributor of XRF Elemental Analysis instruments for, contaminants in soils, PMI ,Precious ...
Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd - a Halma company
based in Milton Park, UNITED KINGDOM
Crowcon Detection Instruments develop, manufacture and market a complete range of portable and fixed gas detection products you can trust to protect people and plant against gas hazards. Established over 40 years the company has strong regional centres in North America, Singapore, The Netherlands and India, with a mature network of trained distributors covering almost ...


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If anyone in the debt relief industry didn't see this coming, they are stone-cold blind. Student loan assistance has become the next wave of profitable debt relief services to sell with horrible advice. In an atmosphere that is ripe for picking off consumers for these services, the companies know better and should have learned lessons from the problematic debt settlement ... Read More »
Legal Helpers Debt Resolution Sues Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois
On November 8, 2011 Legal Helpers Debt Resolution aka Macey, Aleman, Hyslip & Searns filed suit against Lisa magian, Attorney General of Illinois and Bret Adams, Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. The case was filed by James Abbott of Litchfield Cavo LLP and Richard Epstein and Rebecca Bratter of Greenspoon Marder, PA. The suit claims ... Read More »
It's Been A Year Since The TSR – What's Changed With Debt Settlement?
A year ago this month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) barred debt settlement companies that used telemarketing from accepting up-front fees. Although it's been an entire year since this change we are still see companies trying sneak in those up-front fees with businesses trying to exploit loopholes. The whole purpose of the Telemarketing Sales Ruling was to help consumers from ... Read More »
65 Percent of People That Enroll in Debt Settlement Programs Bail Before Creditors Contacted
An interesting article out of illinois, Our Opinion: Put curbs on debt settlement companies, contains a very interesting quote from the Attorney General of Illinois, Lisa Madigan. "What we have learned is that 65 percent of people who initially enroll with debt settlement companies drop out before any communication (with creditors) has been made. Before any of their debt has ... Read More »
Debt Settlement Legislation to Prohibit Up-Front or Monthly Fees and Cap Fees at 5%
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is backing legislation to ban debt-settlement companies from charging upfront or monthly fees and that caps payments to firms promising to reduce credit card debt. The legislation would cap fees at 5 percent of the savings resulting from settling a debt, rather than a percentage of debt enrolled. It also would allow cancellation of a ... Read More »


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Mass Effect 3 Launches Today with Epic Trailer
Shepard's story concludes starting today with the release of Mass Effect 3 for PC, PS3, and 360.Read More
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Reverb Publishing Gets Unreal Engine 3 Deal
Reverb Publising has nailed a deal with Epic Games to make use of Unreal Engine 3 with titles published under their label. This includes titles for PC, Xbox Live, and PSN.Read More
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Assassin's Creed III Trailer Revealed With Many Other Details
Ubisoft revealed numerous tidbits about their next iteration of the Assassin's Creed franchise alongside a new trailer this morning.Read More
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Lumines Electronic Symphony Review
Lumines Electronic Symphony is the game you want to have for your new PlayStation Vita. On the surface it seems like the same game we've been playing since 2005, but a few teaks give gamers a fresh take on the classic puzzler.Read More
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Persona 4: Arena Coming To NA This Summer; Atlus Attempting To Retain Original Cast
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PS Vita Weekend Round-up
Hard to believe the PlayStation Vita has been out officially for more than a week! The staff here at Vivid Gamer have been busy covering the new portable, giving you the latest news and reviews related to the Vita. In case you missed any of our coverage, you can catch up on the highlights in this week's round-up.Read More
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Assassin's Creed III Screens Emerge
Today, a few days' short of the official announcement, some screens have emerged, showing a bit of what we can expect from the game.Read More
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Sumioni: The Demon Arts Goes Gold, Releases March 20
XSEED revealed today that Sumioni: The Demon Arts has gone gold and will launch as a PSN Vita exclusive on March 20, 2012.Read More
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Sleeping Dogs New Story Trailer Released
Sleeping Dogs is the re-named title of True Crime: Hong Kong after Square-Enix picked up the game when Activision canceled development. Since then they've been hyping up the game as much as possible. They've already released a Live Action trailer exclusively on Facebook, which is awesome and kind of makes me wish it was a trailer for a movie. They've also released a ton of screenshots, and yesterday they released a story trailer. Hit the break to check out the new trailer.Read More
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Kingdoms Of Amalur World Expanding With DLC
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is getting its first major DLC pack later this March. And it appears that it will a fairly significant package as well.Read More


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This Twitch plays Pokemon is ridiculous. I really can't believe over 75% of people wanted anrchy to reign... and so you know, we just accidentally used Dig in Rockt Headquarters... before we got to Giovanni. And now, back to the maze...
This Twitch plays Pokemon is ridiculous. I really can't believe over 75% of people wanted anrchy to reign... and so you know, we just accidentally used Dig in Rockt Headquarters... before we got to Giovanni. And now, back to the maze...
My friends, if perfect insanity was fire, I'd be the person to use a roman candle to light a firework next to a max-power oven while wearing 3 wool sweaters with a TV on for 20 days straight non-stop while my house is on fire. Yeah, I'm that crazy.
Name: Noob Saibot
Adopt one yourself! @Pokémon Orphanage
So, in other words, I suppose that I support Anarchy - but this vote has to cease.
3DS XL FC for Pokemon Y 2595-0724-5772 IGN SmeargleRocks
Shiny Number 1268
Self caught shinies on Y 24
Omega Ruby First Dexnav Shiny Sealeo Lv44 in Shoal Cave
first successfull (and accidental) MM Shelmet timid 31/1/19/31/31/31 4:25 pm EST 4/14/14
Shiny XD Gale of Darkness Zubat caught September 17th 2012 @ 4:24 pm EST cave PokeSpot
ALL Gen6 6IV Event pokemon are hacked
I play Destiny on PS4, hit me up if you want to do strikes or mayhem when its up
So you guys have seen the promotion that Nintendo is doing, right?
If you register a 3DS and one of these games in March, you get a free X or Y code:
Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, and the upcoming Yoshi's New Island.
Luckily I haven't registered my 3DS or Mario Kart 7 yet. I'm going to get a free Y version since I already have X. I have a complete Pokedex on X, and tons of bred Pokemon, so I can use the Y version as a game to goof around in (Nuzlockes, solo-runs, monotype teams, etc.).
My friend safari: Noibat, Gabite, Druddigon
Seems strange to me, but then again I'm not qualified in marketing techniques. I've seen a lot of people commenting on websites saying that they'll register their console and games they bought in the last few months....I would love to be able to do the same thing(I already have a copy of X & Y), but is this really going to help Nintendo?
Also X and Y hasn't even been out 6 months........if it had been out longer I could understand.
3DS XL Username - Cloud; Pokemon X In-Game Name - Squall - Online very regularly on my 3DS XL, as well as the forum
Friend Safari. Type - Bug (Pinsir, Butterfree, Volbeat)
Currently: Filling up my Pokedex; Breeding & Training my Pokemon; Looking for Casual Battles with common Pokemon from X & Y (I don't use Game Chat, but I use PMs here for messaging, and also Miiverse)
Miiverse username - Cloud (United Kingdom)
I'm sure they're aware of people who may already own the required merchandise and will be able to take advantage of the promotion with no further purchases and I'm equally sure that their own internal weighing of scales tells them they aren't a significant worry - they got the money from these people already, it was just in the past few months as opposed to in the month ahead.
I wonder why they're doing this so soon though...
Because of poor Wii U sales?
My friend safari: Noibat, Gabite, Druddigon
People, this isn't that big or complex of a deal. It's your local bar doing 2-for-1 boneless wing night every month. Nothing overly complicated.
You're paying Nintendo a lot more than the cost of one game to get that free game.
It sounds like Nintendo is cutting online services to their DS and Wii games.
Affected titles include all main Pokémon games in the 4th and 5th gen, as well as Pokémon Battle Revolution, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers, Pokémon Ranger titles, and Pokémon Conquest. Oh, and Smash Bros Brawl. That deserves a mention.As of May 20th, 2014, the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service will be discontinued and it will no longer be possible to use online features of Nintendo DS/DSi and Wii software such as online play, matchmaking and leaderboards.
It looks like our trade shop forums for 4th and 5th gen will also die with it.
Guess it was bound to happen eventually.
I have a probably dumb question does that mean that I can no longer transfer any pokemon from my older games to to my Black and White 2 after May 20?
What about local trades when both DS are in the same room, will I still be able to do those?
East Sea Shellos (blue) with HA available
All 18 non-event Vivillon patterns for trade. Ask!
Dex 718/718 Thank you ShinyPanda!
Mystic of the Week: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
My Friend Code: 1907-9797-0140. In game name: Sage.
My safari Electric: Spheal, Bergmite and Cloyster.
LLR on PI Forums
Credit for the button: DA's Noscium
Does anyone know if we can still go to the Entralink to get all our dream world Pokemon? I have a bunch I haven't caught and I don't want to leave them until it's too late :/
Friend Code: 1633-5265-3070
Friend Safari: Normal
Pokemon: Smeargle, Audino, Dunsparce
One big issue with me is the timing. 3DS/2DS/3DS XL sales (and game sales) would have been very high in November and December in the run up to Christmas, and potentially also in the January sales. I imagine a lot of those owners wouldn't have registered their systems or games yet....in the month of March though, when people are dealing with the debt they incurred on Christmas gifts, and general economic problems, buying a 3DS will not be high on the priority list. The only thing I can think of that would convince me of the usefulness of this is that Nintendo will be bringing out extra content for Pokemon X/Y that they will charge for.
3DS XL Username - Cloud; Pokemon X In-Game Name - Squall - Online very regularly on my 3DS XL, as well as the forum
Friend Safari. Type - Bug (Pinsir, Butterfree, Volbeat)
Currently: Filling up my Pokedex; Breeding & Training my Pokemon; Looking for Casual Battles with common Pokemon from X & Y (I don't use Game Chat, but I use PMs here for messaging, and also Miiverse)
Miiverse username - Cloud (United Kingdom)
Again, this isn't a big deal at all. Nintendo isn't running this promotion because it's going to generate a huge spike in sales. It ultimately costs them giving you a free game when you've already spent the money on hardware and another game, i.e. not much in context. It's a simple small incentive to buy in March. Nothing more. Their fiscal year doesn't hinge on this.
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THE GOOD news: Analog-to-digital audio
conversion and "in the box" algorithms
continue to improve. The bad news:
Deficiencies in the analog elements feeding
your DAW become more apparent. In that
respect, Grace Design was a bit ahead of the
curve with the single-rackspace m103—an all-analog,
mono channel strip dedicated to signal
purity. But as more people concern themselves
with getting the signal right at the source,
before it hits the converters, the m103's time
has come.
Interfacing Separate mic and line XLR ins,
with separate XLR mic pre and main outs,
complement three additional 1/4" jacks for
unbalanced mic pre out, balanced main out,
and unbalanced main out; a front-panel 1/4"
jack provides a hi-Z instrument input (2.5M
balanced, 5M balanced). The 1/4" sidechain
compressor input jack is switch-selectable to
provide a stereo link when using two units, while
the IEC cable jack feeds a global (100-240V) supply.
Preamp The transformerless preamp
sounds—well, it doesn't "sound," really; it
just amplifies, with a range of 10 to 65 dB of
gain in 12 steps. It has a clip indicator, mic/
line switch, phantom power enable, and
75Hz (12 dB/octave) highpass filter. Enabling
the innovative "ribbon" switch simultaneously
increases input impedance, disables phantom
power, and bypasses the phantom-power coupling
capacitors. I also like this position with dynamic
mics, due to the input impedance increase.
EQ This is not your surgical, digital EQ—do
that in the DAW. Rather, the EQ's three bands
gently correct for deficiencies at the source.
The mid band (500Hz to 4kHz) is parametric, with variable Q. The lower and upper bands
can switch between shelving or bell response,
with the low frequency variable from 20Hz to
750Hz; highs range from 3kHz to 20kHz. Gain
for all stages is ±12 dB. The fixed Q for bell
mode isn't specified, but sounds fairly broad;
I tended to use the shelf mode more, although
the bell response is useful when you want,
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I am a sucker for uplifting videos about UK internet statistics. Particularly if accompanied by a happy jingle and sprinkled with start-up success stories. It's warming for us little-islanders to occasionally feel important "we're on the map!" And here's a video that delivers just that.
According to the film, produced by The Boston Consulting Group, "In the global internet league table, the UK sits at number six. Ahead of the US, Germany and France". Nice.
I hope you enjoy it and the cameo from @Acton who is starting to look like a Moshi Monster.


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City Of Belgrade: Clean after your dog, 2
For beautiful city. Clean after your dog.
Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Belgrade, Serbia
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Can't say I don't love it but... who's their target? not quite understanding how does this work, need help please :)
Clunky headline pun and no big idea... but an attention getting visual. Not bad.
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The message they're trying to send is for viewers to remember to pick up their dogshit. The the ass symbolizes something beautiful, in this case the city of Belgrade and they like to keep it that way. The person on the pictures is leaning forward to pick up dogpoop, thus the dog in the picture.
I'm not convinced that this is a good piece of advertizing though, too much focus on the ass. I'm not gonna remember the actual message when i stop lookin at the picture and i'll still associate
poop with asses wont i? The only thing this image does good is getting my attention, but thats it...
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Operation Backpack is an annual drive that takes place from June 9th to the beginning of August. Throughout these months, school supplies and backpacks are collected by donors, companies, churches, and other partners of Volunteers of America of IL (VOA of IL) and assembled for students of area Chicago Public Schools neighboring our housing developments for Veterans and the children we serve in our programs. These backpacks then are distributed at the end of August at a back-to-school event hosted by VOA of IL. Operation Backpack is made possible because of the generous support of HSBC and generous individuals and company donors.
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- Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Examination of the Phenomenon and Relationships with Firm Capabilities
- The field of strategic management addresses challenges that firms encounter in an attempt to remain competitive. The ability to explain variation in firm success through examination of knowledge flows has become a prominent focus of research in the strategic management literature. Specifically, researchers have sought to further examine how firms convert knowledge, a phenomenon conceptualized as absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity is the firm's ability to acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit knowledge. Few studies have captured the richness and multi-dimensionality of absorptive capacity, and it remains to be understood how the dimensions of the phenomenon convert knowledge. Furthermore, how absorptive capacity influences the firm remains to be understood. To address these research gaps, this dissertation seeks to (1) determine how absorptive capacity converts knowledge, and (2) determine how absorptive capacity influences firm capabilities. The research questions are investigated using structural modeling techniques to analyze data collected from software-industry firms. The findings offer contributions to the absorptive capacity and capability literatures. For example, absorptive capacity is hypothesized to consist of complex relationships among its internal dimensions. However, findings of this study suggest the relationships among the dimensions are linear in nature. This finding is in line with the theoretical foundations of and early literature on absorptive capacity but contrary to recent conceptualizations, which suggests relationships among the dimensions are more closely related to the theoretical origins of absorptive capacity. Additionally, to examine how absorptive capacity influences the firm, a capability-based perspective is used to hypothesize the influence of absorptive capacity on firm capabilities. Findings suggest absorptive capacity positively influences each dimension of firm capabilities (e.g., operational, customer, and innovation capabilities); thus, absorptive capacity influences the firm by altering firm capabilities. Given the richness of the findings, numerous fields are likely to benefit from this investigation. Through an examination of absorptive capacity and capabilities, this study contributes to the understanding of the absorptive capacity phenomenon and offers insight into how the phenomenon influences the firm. Furthermore, practical implications are offered for managers interested in enhancing firm competitiveness. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115064/
- An Emotional Business: the Role of Emotional Intelligence in Entrepreneurial Success
- Successful entrepreneurial activity is important for a healthy economy and can be a major source of job creation. While the concept of entrepreneurship has been around for quite some time, researchers continue to explore the factors that underlie entrepreneurial performance. Specifically, researchers have sought to further examine why some entrepreneurial ventures are more successful than others. the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) has gained the attention of researchers and practitioners alike. Practitioners have realized that employees can no longer be perceived as biological machines that are capable of leaving their feelings, norms, and attitudes at home when they go to work. Researchers are embracing the concept of emotional intelligence because of its relationship with efficiency, productivity, sales, revenues, quality of service, customer loyalty, employee recruitment and retention, employee commitment, employee health and satisfaction, and morale. While there is considerable evidence documenting the effects of emotional intelligence on leadership performance, job performance in large firms, and educational performance, very little research has examined how emotional intelligence affects entrepreneurial performance and the variables that account for this relationship. Individuals in entrepreneurial occupations face business situations that necessitate unique skills and abilities in social interactions. Emotional intelligence has implications for entrepreneurial situations and social interactions such as negotiation, obtaining and organizing resources, identifying and exploiting opportunities, managing stress, obtaining and maintaining customers, and providing leadership. the primary purpose of this study is to investigate emotional intelligence in the context of entrepreneurship. in addition, the study will shed light on the mediating effects of individual competencies, organizational tasks, and the environmental culture and climate. the results of the study provide insights for emotional intelligence researchers, entrepreneurship researchers, individuals with entrepreneurial aspirations, academic institutions, as well as government and financial entities that provide resources to new ventures. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115117/
- An Examination of the Similarities and Differences Between Transformational and Authentic Leadership and Their Relationship to Followers' Outcomes
- To date there is no comprehensive understanding of what leadership is, nor is there an agreement among different theorists on what a good or effective leader should be. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the theoretical and empirical similarities and differences of two styles of leadership – transformational and authentic leadership. Follower outcomes, as well as, the effects of trust and psychological capital within these paradigms are of particular interest. Although theoretical differences are proposed for the leadership style, the extent of overlap suggests the need to more closely examine each theory. Pilot studies were created to validate original scenarios created for the study as well as to examine the validity and reliability of new measurement instruments. The dissertation is designed to determine whether the relationships between authentic leadership and a variety of follower outcomes including performance, affective commitment, satisfaction, trust, and organizational citizenship behavior are similar to those between transformational leadership and these outcomes. In addition, variables more unique to authentic leadership research including psychological capital and follower well-being were examined within both paradigms to determine whether their relationships are similar to each type of leadership style. An experimental study using Qualtrics was used to collect the data with the expectation that there would be significant differences in the two styles of leadership such that each explains unique variance in follower behavior. The results of this dissertation support the lack of perceptual difference between the two theories of leadership. The results of this experiment do not come completely unexpected because of the ethical overlap between the two styles of leadership. Although subjects in the experiment could differentiate authentic leadership from transformational leadership based on the manipulations, authentic leadership effects were not significantly different when compared to transformational leadership effects. As a result, analyses in my research do not support previous theoretical development of authentic leadership as a separate theory from transformational leadership. Consequently, lack of support for my hypotheses actually provides valuable information to the study of leadership and calls into question the continued pursuit of research on authentic leadership. Although this dissertation was constructed to investigate the differences between authentic leadership and transformational leadership relative to follower outcomes, results found for gender differences may highlight an additional component to these leadership paradigms not previously considered. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc283823/
- Examining Curvilinearity and Moderation in the Relationship between the Degree of Relatedness of Individual Diversification Actions and Firm Performance
- Corporate diversification continues to be an important phenomenon in the modern business world. More than thirty years of research on diversification suggests that the degree of relatedness among a firm's business units is a factor that can affect firm performance, but the true effect of diversification relatedness on firm performance is still inconclusive. The purpose of this dissertation is to shed more light on this inconclusive association. However, attention is focused on the performance implications of individual diversification actions (e.g., acquisitions and joint ventures) rather than on the overall performance of firms with different levels of diversification. A non-experimental, longitudinal analysis of secondary data was conducted on over 450 unique acquisitions and on more than 210 joint ventures. Results suggest that even when individual diversification actions rather than entire business portfolios are examined, an inverted curvilinear association between diversification relatedness and performance is likely to emerge. This pattern is observed in both acquisitions and joint ventures. However, the association between diversification relatedness and performance in acquisitions is moderated by the level of industry adversity, though factors such as corporate coherence and heterogeneous experience do not moderate the association between diversification relatedness and performance. This study augments the body of knowledge on diversification and adds refinement to the traditional curvilinear finding regarding relatedness. By studying acquisitions and joint ventures independently, the results reveal differences in both slope and inflection points that suggest the relative impact of relatedness may vary depending on the mode of diversification. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67967/
- Explicating the Managerial Processes of Dynamic Capabilities and Investigating How the Reconceptualized Construct Influences the Alignment of Ordinary Capabilities
- In the last three decades, strategic management scholars have explored the organization's need to reconfigure its capabilities to leverage opportunities in a changing environment. The first objective of this study was to identify the underlying elements of the managerial processes of dynamic capabilities, and to offer a reconceptualization of the dynamic capabilities construct. The second objective of this investigation was to determine how the reconceptualized dynamic capabilities construct could influence the alignment of ordinary capabilities. Findings from this investigation indicate that organizational processes and managerial processes are unique components of dynamic capabilities. In addition, these organizational processes were found to be significantly and positively correlated with the alignment of ordinary capabilities. Furthermore, managerial processes were found to moderate the relationship between organizational processes and one type of ordinary capability alignment (i.e. innovation-operations capability alignment). Taken together, the findings of this study support the notion that dynamic capabilities are context specific, and that understanding how they influence the organization's ability to change is complex. The developments and findings in this study offer a reconceptualized and empirically tested framework for the capability alignment process, thereby providing a more comprehensive picture of the underlying processes. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700096/
- High Risk Occupations: Employee Stress and Behavior Under Crisis
- The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships between stress and outcomes including organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), job satisfaction, and burnout in high-risk occupations. Moreover, how personality, emotions, coping, and leadership influence this relationship is investigated. Data were collected from 379 officers in 9 police organizations located in the Southern and Southwest United States. The primary research question addressed within this dissertation is: What is the relationship between stress and behavioral and affective outcomes in high-risk occupations as governed by coping, leadership, and crisis? The majority of the hypothesized relationships were supported, and inconsistencies center on methodological and theoretical factors. Findings indicate that occupational stressors negatively influence individuals in high-risk occupations. Moreover, crisis events exacerbate these influences. The use of adaptive coping strategies is most effective under conditions of low stress, but less so under highly stressful circumstances. Similarly, transformational leader behaviors most effectively influence how individuals in high-risk occupations are affected by lower, but not higher levels of stress. Profiles of personality characteristics and levels of emotional dissonance also influence the chosen coping strategies of those working in high-risk occupations. Prescriptively, it is important to understand the influences among the variables assessed in this study, because negative outcomes in high-risk occupations are potentially more harmful to workers and more costly to organizations. Thus, this dissertation answers the research question, but much work in this area remains to be done. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84269/
- Incumbent Response to Radical Technological Innovation: the Influence of Competitive Dynamics on Strategic Choice
- Prior research on incumbent firm response to radical technological innovation identifies firm, technology, and environmental factors associated with incumbents' performance after a technology shift. What remains unexplored are factors affecting choice of response made before a technological shift occurs. Such ex ante choices are important intermediate outcomes affecting long-term performance outcomes. Competitive considerations may be influential inputs in choice processes because technological innovation is often related to competitive strategy. The resulting research question for this study is: What role do competitive considerations play in incumbent firms' ex ante strategic choices in response to potentially radical technological innovations? Findings from a survey of key informants in the electronics industry whose firms face a potential technological disruption (n=120) suggest that incumbents' response choices are affected by competitor-related orientations and by perceptions of relative strength of their strategic assets. Limited support is found for a moderating effect of perceptions of the competitive environment. The results of this study extend theory on incumbent response to radical technological change by shedding light on the influence of competitor interdependence. Findings also suggest the importance of strategic choice as an intermediate variable in understanding incumbents' long-term performance. Research examining choice factors at varied stages of a technology's diffusion can further advance understanding of the evolving nature of strategic response choices and the effects they have on long-term performance. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804843/
- Optimal design of Dutch auctions with discrete bid levels.
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The theory of auction has become an active research area spanning multiple disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing and management science. But a close examination of it reveals that most of the existing studies deal with ascending (i.e., English) auctions in which it is assumed that the bid increments are continuous. There is a clear lack of research on optimal descending (i.e., Dutch) auction design with discrete bid levels. This dissertation aims to fill this void by considering single-unit, open-bid, first price Dutch auctions in which the bid levels are restricted to a finite set of values, the number of bidders may be certain or uncertain, and a secret reserve price may be present or absent. These types of auctions are most attractive for selling products that are perishable (e.g., flowers) or whose value decreases with time (e.g., air flight seats and concert tickets) (Carare and Rothkopf, 2005). I began by conducting a comprehensive survey of the current literature to identify the key dimensions of an auction model. I then zeroed in on the particular combination of parameters that characterize the Dutch auctions of interest. As a significant departure from the traditional methods employed by applied economists and game theorists, a novel approach is taken by formulating the auctioning problem as a constrained mathematical program and applying standard nonlinear optimization techniques to solve it. In each of the basic Dutch auction model and its two extensions, interesting properties possessed by the optimal bid levels and the auctioneer's maximum expected revenue are uncovered. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the major propositions where appropriate. The superiority of the optimal strategy recommended in this study over two commonly-used heuristic procedures for setting bid levels is also demonstrated both theoretically and empirically. Finally, economic as well as managerial implications of the findings reported in this dissertation research are discussed. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28450/
- Psychological Diversity Climate and Its Effects: the Role of Organizational Identification
- Organizations have begun to focus heavily on diversity. As a result, organizations spend time and resources creating diversity policies and investing extensively in diversity training programs. While an abundance of research exists on demographic diversity, research has just begun to incorporate employees' perceptions of diversity as an influential factor affecting organizationally relevant employee outcomes. Employees are a crucial reference in understanding whether organizations benefit from engaging in such actions. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of diversity climate on employees' organizational identification. Furthermore, I investigate how organizational identification mediates the relationship between diversity climate perceptions and outcomes including turnover intentions, job satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behavior. I refine our understanding by identifying personal characteristics that influence the diversity climate (PDC) – organizational identification (OID) relationship. This research offers several contributions to management literature and scholars as well as practitioners. First this study empirically examines the relationship between PDC and OID. This connection is important as it identifies the psychological mechanism linking PDC to subsequent outcomes as well as showing how positive climate perception can influence an employee's sense of belonging. The second contribution is the in-depth identification of personal characteristics and their role in this relationship specifically, demographics, values, and attachment to demographic category. Individuals will differ in their beliefs and thus their attachment based on climate perceptions. Finally, this study links diversity climate to organizationally relevant outcomes through organizational identification. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407849/
- Social Innovation in Venture Capital Firms: Strategy, Structure, and Performance
- Social innovations are solutions related to humanistic needs and the betterment of mankind with the intent of creating social value and eventual societal level changes. Social innovation therefore broadens traditional views of innovation to include processes of societal transformations and human behaviors. These social innovations are becoming more commonplace across all sectors, including capital markets. Private equity and venture capital firms in the capital markets sector engage in social innovation by investing capital with the goal of delivering both economic and social value. Despite the critical importance of venture capital (VC) in the success of social innovations through socially responsible investing, there is a paucity of research in understanding the factors that affect the performance of these social VC firms. This research gap is addressed by asking the following primary research question: What is the role of strategic and structural factors in the performance of socially innovative venture capital firms? The firm level research is theoretically based on the well-established design school. This framework highlights the overarching importance of strategy and structure in the accomplishment of firm goals. In the context of the venture capital industry, it was hypothesized that certain unique strategic and structural factors (i.e., stage of investment, age, size, and network relationships) would influence the performance of socially innovative VC firms. A moderated mediation model was proposed to examine these factors and their influence on performance variation. The sample of socially innovative VC firms was generated from the ThomsonOne Private Equity Database. The research design and methodology followed a systematic and objective process. This included identification of the sample of 381 VC firms, collection of mission statements for each VC firm, development of key word list pertaining to social innovation for content analysis and the collection of archival data on each VC firm. Content analysis was then used to identify the degree to which the firm's strategic orientation (mission statement) was related to social innovation. Finally, both traditional and more cutting edge statistical analyses (Preacher & Hayes, 2008) were used to evaluate the moderated mediation model. The results of this study provide several key take-a-ways for both researchers and practitioners focusing on social venture capital. Firstly, results indicated that firms adopt distinct foci of social investing that directs their strategic orientation. These various foci have vastly differing effects on the firm's overall performance, the strategic decisions they make, and the architecture of their structural design. It is therefore necessary to treat each focus area separately given differences in strategies, industry and investment focus, and market orientations. Secondly, including socially related language in the firm's mission statement does not guarantee that a VC firm will actually implement a social orientation or seek to create the social value inherent in social innovation. Thirdly, certain investment strategies appear to be more advantageous depending of the size of the firm and the socialness of the firm's orientation. Lastly, results supported that the adoption of a social orientation did not negatively influence firm performance. Overall, results suggest that pursuing a social orientation is viable and effective in delivering blended value strategies for VC firms engaging in social innovation. These findings offers socially oriented venture capital firms insights into strategic and structural aspects that are important to their success in achieving positive exists of their portfolio companies, thus increasing both financial and social value. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407767/
- A Study of Effective Leadership in the Chinese Context
- Leadership has attracted a significant amount of scholarly attention in the past few decades. However, most research and theory contributions are to a great extent limited to accounting for leadership practices in the West (Littrell, 2002). This study is designed to develop an effective leadership model that works in the Chinese context. Paternalistic leadership, a dominant leadership style in an Eastern business environment, is compared with transformational leadership, a dominant leadership style in a Western business environment. The notion of transformational leadership was developed under the tutelage of Bernard Bass (1998). Transformational leadership is found to be compatible with collectivistic values (Walumbwa & Lwwler, 2003) and is believed to be appealing and generalizable to Chinese leadership situations (Chen & Farh, 1999). Other researchers have found that within Chinese organizations, leader behaviors are quite distinct from transformational leadership, referring to this leader style as paternalistic leadership (Redding, 1990; Cheng, 1995). The questions are asked, "Transformational or paternalistic leadership, which one is more effective in Chinese organizations? Is one type of leadership superior to the other one in the Chinese culture?" To answer these questions, a model is proposed to clarify the mediating effects of trust and harmony on the relationship between leadership style and its effectiveness, and to interpret the moderating effects of generation on the relationships between both paternalistic and transformational leadership with trust and harmony. Most theories of leadership in organizational behavior originated in the United States and Western Europe and are hypothesized to be universally applicable to non-Western contexts. Departing from this tradition, the current study proposes a Chinese culture-specific leadership theory, built on traditional Confucianism. The principle aim is to examine and articulate a culturally informed and warranted ground for a leadership model in the Chinese context. The results of the study provide a new perspective on leadership in the Chinese context by focusing on three dimensions of paternalistic leadership (authoritative, benevolent, and moral leadership) that are ignored in the Western leadership literature. The results also suggest that trust in the leader and harmonious relationships in an organization are key mechanisms for explaining effective leadership in Chinese organizations regardless of whether paternalistic or transformational leadership is used. What's more, as the younger generation is becoming the dominant workforce, a successful leader in China should use Western practices and integrate them to fit in Chinese organizations in a way that also acknowledges Chinese traditions. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149628/
- Unethical Prosocial Behavior: Theory Development and Experimental Findings
- Job performance has historically been divided into two subsets, that which is prescribed and that which is discretionary. Further, discretionary workplace behavior has typically been described as either helpful or ethical (i.e. organizational citizenship behavior) or harmful and unethical (i.e. workplace deviance behavior) with behavior that is both helpful and unethical rarely discussed. I term this lesser discussed type of discretionary workplace behavior unethical prosocial behavior and define it as discretionary actions that are intended to benefit a specific referent outside the self, either an individual or a group, that are illegal and/or morally inappropriate to larger society. In addition to defining unethical prosocial behavior, this paper places the behavior in an organizing framework of discretionary workplace behaviors and tests several hypotheses regarding unethical prosocial behavior. The hypotheses address three primary research questions. First, are there contextual conditions that make it more likely that a person will engage in unethical prosocial behavior? Second, does the nature of the relationship between the actor and the beneficiary make unethical prosocial behavior more or less likely? And third, are there individual characteristics that serve to either constrain or enhance the likelihood that and individual will engage in unethical prosocial behavior? A 2 x 2 experimental design was used to test these hypotheses. As expected, in-group (vs. out-group) salience increased the likelihood of UPB. Individuals in the in-group condition engaged in significantly greater UPBs than those in the out-group condition. Contrary to expectations, shared reward (vs. no reward) decreased the likelihood of UPB. Individuals who were due a reward engaged less in UPBs than those who were not due a reward. Possible explanations for this relationship (both methodological and theoretical) are explored. While the overall effect of reward structure on UPB was in the opposite direction from that which was expected, propensity to morally disengage had the anticipated effect on the relationship between rewards and UPB. Those high in propensity to morally disengage were more likely to engage in UPB when a shared reward was offered (vs. no reward). Due to the nature of the task and the data collected, it was possible to operationalize UPB as a continuous measure as well as a dichotomous event (UPB/no UPB). This lead to a supplemental analysis that shed additional light on the nature of the relationship between group salience and UPB. The analysis shows that not only do subjects tend to over report the scores for fellow in-group members, but they also tend to underreport scores for out-group members. Fruitful areas for future work on the nascent UPB construct are discussed. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804877/
- The Value of Ties: Impact of Director Interlocks on Acquisition Premium and Post-acquisition Performance
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) evolved as alternative governance structures for firms seeking to combine resources with other firms, access larger markets, or acquire strategic assets. In spite of managers' enthusiasm about the practice, studies show mixed results regarding post-acquisition performance of acquiring firms. The impact of acquisitions on the performance of acquiring firms has therefore remained inconclusive. A few reasons for this have been suggested and recent meta-analytic research efforts indicate that studies in M&A may have ignored variables that have significant effects on post-acquisition performance. In a bid to extend the literature on M&A and identify cogent variables that impact on acquisition performance, this dissertation draws on social network theory to advance a proposition for the value-of-ties. This was done by examining the impact of directorate interlocks on acquisitions specifically and organizational strategy in general. A non-experimental cross-sectional study of 98 interlocked directorate companies simultaneously involved in acquisitions was conducted. Several multiple regression analyses were conducted and the results obtained suggest that there is a positive linear relationship between director interlocks and post-acquisition performance and that to some extent this relationship is moderated by acquisition experience. The study also showed that director interlocks have a negative linear relationship with acquisition premium. This study complements the body of knowledge on acquisitions and network theory. It also successfully combined a multi-level approach to research on organizations and strategic management. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500147/
- When and Where Does It Pay to Be Green: Intra- and Inter-organizational Factors Influencing the Environmental/Financial Performance Link
- Managers are coming under increasing pressure from a wide array of stakeholders to improve the environmental performance of their firms while still achieving financial performance objectives. One of the most researched questions in the business and the natural environment (B&NE) literature is whether it pays to be green. Despite more than three decades of research, scholars have been unable to clearly answer this question. The purpose of this dissertation was to attempt to identify the antecedents that lead to increased, firm-level environmental performance and the conditions in which firms are then able to profit from enhanced environmental performance. First, I assessed three intra-organizational factors of top management teams (i.e. female representation, concern for non-financial stakeholders, and risk-seeking propensity) that theory indicated are associated with increased corporate environmental performance (CEP). Theory also leads us to believe that top management teams with these attributes should perform better in dynamic settings, so I tested to see if industry dynamism moderates these relationships. Second, I then examined industry-level forces that theory indicates would moderate the relationship between CEP and corporate financial performance (CFP). These moderating forces include industry profitability, industry dynamism, and the degree of industry environmental regulation. Hypotheses were tested using panel data obtained from the KLD, Compustat, and Environmental Protection Agency databases for the years 2000 to 2011. The sample consists of firms comprising the Standard and Poor's 500 and was analyzed using fixed-effect regression and moderating variables were analyzed using the Johnson-Neyman technique. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500091/


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Can anyone tell me if the SB600 is cable of firing multiple flashes when set up remotely, please. (only one unit/slave) ?-- hide signature --
Using CLS, it can't be used as a commander, only as a slave. It can be fired by a pop up flash.
In manual mode it can be used to trigger any number of flashes equipped with an optical slave set to SU-4 mode. SB900 and SB80dx are two that spring to mind.
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