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Discussion in 'Photo & Video Gallery' started by Davandy, Oct 7, 2007.
Jamie in his younger days :rofl: :lol:
I must protest...I did not goopy weld that, I swear :rofl:
erhm.....what can you say to that?
I'm guessing if they were racing for pinks, that the winner probably didn't want the loser's car after that.
Ohhhhh, That SUX so bad!!!! LOL
Funny as hell though!
that gave me a good laugh
That was so hillarious, I couldn't stop laughing. see? --> :rofl:
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Amref has filed its latest report on the work it has been doing in Katine. The information details everything the NGO did in Katine sub-county during the last fortnight, some of which has been covered elsewhere on the Katine website by our roving reporter Richard M Kavuma.
What do you think of Amref's project work to date? Has it addressed any of the concerns you had in our previous update? Bear in mind that Amref is still working on getting its rapid community needs assessment to us, and we're almost ready to publish Amref's budget for the entire project.
I welcome all of your comments below or you can email me at: email@example.com. Apologies for all the acronyms below.
Health* Submitted activity reports for the training of 19 traditional birth attendants that took place between 28 and 29 January
* Finalised preparation for training of 64 voluntary health team (VHT) members in Ochuloi parish scheduled to begin on Monday 18 February. Training content focuses on home-based management of childhood illnesses such as malaria, diarrhoea, skin infections, eye infections, etc. Facilitators are the Soroti District trainers of VHTs
* Received 500 insecticide-treated mosquito nets for distribution after VHT training is complete (week commencing Monday 3 March)
* Training of 64 VHT members from the 16 villages in Ochuloi parish
Education* Conducted three-day residential training for five Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and nine School Management Committees (SMC) representatives from four schools; Ojago, Obiarai, Merok and Ajonyi. Facilitators were from the District Education Office, Sub-County Centre Co-ordinating Tutors and partner organizations like Link Community Development. Post-training activity report begun too
* Identified facilitators for the upcoming teacher training on local material development (encouraging the use of local materials to facilitate teaching and learning in schools), which will take place on Monday 25 February
* Commenced Joint Support Supervision of Primary Schools on 12 February to continue throughout the term - a joint exercise that pools resources from the Soroti District Education Office, District Inspector of Schools and Amref
* A monitoring tool developed by the district is being improved together with Amref to include issues not previously captured such as: school personal hygiene and sanitation education activities; existence of school health clubs; functionality of the PTA/SMC, etc.
* Preparation began on the training of teachers to develop local materials, and the development of teaching and learning materials that include locally-made puzzles, pictures, etc
* Preparation of awareness materials for a children's event scheduled for 3 March
* Amref participates in the ongoing support supervision of primary schools in Adamasiko, Olwelai, and Ajonyi
* Receive "Final District Planner" approvals for District Education Office-approved classroom construction plans
Water and Sanitation* Completed the distribution of sanitation kits to Ojago, Ojom, Katine Atiriri, Katine, Ajonyi, Adamasiko, Merok and Obyarai primary schools
* Collection of school latrine construction workplans after the delivery of sanitation kits, to determine when latrine construction should begin in individual schools
* Established Parish Sanitation Committees in all parishes of Merok, Katine, Ojom, Ochuloi, Olwelai and Ojama
* Training of Parish Sanitation Committees in all parishes
* Water quality surveillance tests conducted
* Monitor latrine pit-digging progress in primary schools
* Distribute sanitation kits
Livelihoods* Completed community selection and formation of 14 farmers groups (each including 30 members) and election of group leaders. A total of 18 groups will be formed in Katine sub-county (the remaining four groups will be formed this week)
* Serere National Agricultural Research Organization meeting to establish areas of co-operation and possible research in the livelihoods component
Governance (community empowerment)* Began to choose external facilitators for the training of Amref project staff on "Rights Based Approach". Training will orient staff on the RBA approach
* Consulted with Soroti District partners on RBA to establish existing knowledge levels and experience. Community empowerment through RBA will inevitably create demand for basic services and thus Amref will bring on board District partners from the onset to build consensus and buy-in
* Finalized Terms of Reference and project budget for the proposed District update meeting due to be held mid/end March
* Community mobilisation in the establishment of Parish Sanitation Committees
* Consultative discussions with project staff and district partners on the development of messages from the VHT teams to be broadcast in radio programs
* Preparation of materials (on information, education, and communication) to be shared with local government
Monitoring and evaluation* Baseline Household Survey data entry reported complete and overall quality of the data looks good
Other issues* A second transfer of funds was sent from Kampala of UGX100,000,000 (£30,000)
* Two small (5KVA) generators were made available for loan to Katine and sent to Soroti. One generator is connected and functional, allowing the Amref project team to operate four computers and a photocopier at the newly-opened Katine office


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The Forest City Summer Lunch program is in full swing this year as the school district attempts to reach out to kids who may not be able to get a good breakfast or lunch in while parents may be at work. Forest City Community School District Superintendent Darwin Lehmann explains:
The program has seen great success over the three years it has been in place according to Lehmann. This year, they would like to see more participation especially in cooperation with the YMCA program, but Lehmann likes what he sees.:


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Newcastle striker Demba Ba has agreed to join Chelsea on a three-and-a-half-year contract.
Ba joins the European champions for an undisclosed fee, believed to match the £7.5m release clause in his contract at Newcastle.
The striker, who scored 29 goals in 54 league appearances during his time on Tyneside, will wear the No 29 shirt at Stamford Bridge.
He told the Chelsea website: "It feels good to be here, I'm very happy and very proud.
"It was important for me, and for Newcastle, to get my future sorted and now we can move on. Now they have the whole month to buy someone and for me as well, the sooner the better. Now I am here I just need to get settled in.
"When the club who won the Champions League wants you, the decision is very easy. This club is massive and that's something that helped the decision a lot. It was not a hard one.
"This club is at another level - it isn't West Ham or Newcastle. They are both big clubs with a strong history, but Chelsea is Chelsea and you cannot compare.
"It will be easier with world-class players around, who make the football look so easy."
Chelsea's interim manager Rafa Benitez said: "He gives us a different option up front. We are very happy with this signing. He can pass, he's good in the air, has good movement and can score goals."
Read more: http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8379782/Demba-Ba-completes-Chelsea-move-and-signs-three-and-a-half-year-contract


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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:00:49 +0100
Hi there,
Does anyone know whether the user-written command for censored quantile regressions -clad- can be used in combination with sampling weights (pweights)?
Can I somehow just multiply the weights if no option is available?
Also, the data are in clusters, so is there any way to tell -clad- that standard errors should take account of clustering?
For other regressions than -clad- I use the svyset-setup, which in my case is defined as:
svyset vid [pweight=weightlong], fpc(one) || _n, strata(strataID) fpc(ssrlong) singleunit(scaled)
In other words, it is the above framework I somehow would like to implement in a censored quantile regression.
Any help on weights or clusters would be highly appreciated.
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Aston Villa shocks Arsenal in opener; Premier League roundup
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- Two spectacular goals from Robin van Persie helped Manchester United begin its Premier League title defense with a 4-1 win at Swansea, while the alarm bells are ringing at his former club Arsenal just one game into the new season.
David Moyes' first league match in charge of United couldn't have gone any better, with Van Persie matching Danny Welbeck's brace with two brilliant goals of his own to signal his intent on finishing top scorer in England for a third straight season.
There is already an air of discontent at Arsenal, however, after a 3-1 home loss to Aston Villa, which ended with fans booing the team off and voicing their anger at manager Arsene Wenger's failure to strengthen his threadbare squad in the close season.
Christian Benteke scored twice for Villa, with Laurent Koscielny's second-half sending-off after two yellow cards compounding Arsenal's misery.
Liverpool relied on Daniel Sturridge's first-half goal and a late penalty save by debutant Simon Mignolet to clinch a 1-0 victory against Stoke, while West Ham, Southampton and Fulham also opened an eagerly anticipated campaign with wins. Norwich drew 2-2 with Everton.
After securing his first piece of silverware at United by winning the Community Shield last weekend, Moyes now has a maiden league victory to savor. Suddenly, the pressure of filling the boots of predecessor Alex Ferguson, who won 38 major titles in nearly 27 years at Old Trafford before retiring in May, doesn't feel so heavy.
"It's one game in 38 and, from that point of view, it's just the start for me," Moyes said.
It helps having someone like Van Persie on your team.
The Netherlands striker was the main reason why United was able to reclaim the league title from Manchester City last season and he has picked up where he left off, putting United ahead with an acrobatic volley in the 34th minute and then virtually sealing victory in the 72nd by smashing a 20-yarder into the top corner.
With Welbeck also weighing in with two goals - the second a deft chip in injury time - it justified Moyes' decision to leave unsettled striker Wayne Rooney on the bench until the 61st minute. Rooney, who has been pushing for a move away from United, received a generous welcome by the travelling support when he entered and set up Welbeck's second goal in a sharp cameo.
Wilfried Bony's debut goal for Swansea made it 3-1 but Swansea faded after a bright start, with its defense unable to cope with the movement of Van Persie and Welbeck.
As with United, it's a case of new season, same old story for Arsenal.
Wenger's team is unlikely to be challenging for the title this season unless the club, which is awash with cash, can recruit some marquee names to add to a squad that the French manager acknowledged on Friday was light on numbers. Wenger was hit with chants including "You don't know what you're doing" and "Spend some (expletive) money" minutes as the final whistle approached against Villa.
"My job is to make the fans happy, but we haven't lost a game because of that (not spending)," Wenger said. "We are ready to spend, but until we buy players we have to win football games and it is not an excuse not to win the game today."
Olivier Giroud gave Arsenal the lead in the sixth minute but Benteke, who put in and then withdrew a transfer request over the summer, equalized in the 22nd when he headed home a rebound after his penalty was saved by goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.
The Belgium striker then converted a 66th-minute penalty following Koscielny's clumsy foul on Gabriel Agbonlahor, earning the defender a first yellow card, and debutant Antonio Luna sealed the points in the 85th for Villa by racing clear on the break to score in the bottom corner.


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Fans of Cooking Light magazine will be able to scan every recipe into their smartphones starting wtih the January/February 2013 issue
All 79 recipes in that issue will be digitally watermarked, making it the first magazine brand to make every recipe in a single issue scannable via this technology, a press release states. Smartphone users will need to download the free Digimarc Discover app, available from the iTunes App Store and Google Play. By scanning recipe photos to their phones, they will be automatically connected to the recipe page on the sister-site, MyRecipes.com. Once there, they can save recipes to their recipe file, share favorites with friends, organize menus and make grocery shopping lists.
Cooking Light promotes the new feature on the cover of its January/February issue. Inside, a red icon with instructions identifies which recipe images on a page are interactive.
The January/February 2013 issue of Cooking Light is available on newsstands Dec. 28.
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Rival Chair KG002 by Konstantin Grcic
Artek presents Rival, the result of the first collaboration between Konstantin Grcic and Artek. Rival is a universal chair suited for home, public spaces and offices. Decidedly rooted in the Artek furniture tradition, it represents a modern and fresh approach to the wooden chair.
But what at first glance might look like a typical wooden chair has the functionality and comfort of a task chair. Concealed in a bowl under the upholstered seat sits an intelligent "knot", a mechanism that gives the Rival its characteristic swivel function.
The KG002 is the high back armchair version, a low back armchair is also available - KG001.
Frame available in clear, black, white or red lacquered Birch. Polipropylene shell with swivel mechanism. Leather Upholstery.
Width 59cm x Depth 52cm x Height 78cm
Seat Height 46cm
Delivery8-10 weeks
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These are files containing cloud images of the Debian GNU/Linux
operating system designed for OpenStack.
The files in this directory are specifically for
amd64 architecture.
The files here are qcow2 or raw images, ready to use.
Once you have downloaded the image, you would typically need to upload it to Glance, using a command like this one:
glance image-create --name="Debian Jessie 64-bit" \ --disk-format=qcow2 --container-format=bare \ --property architecture=x86_64 \ --progress \ --file debian-8.0.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
Then you can boot a new virtual machine instance using the uploaded image ID.
If your platform supports the EC2 style metadata server (which is contacted by cloud-init), and also supports an HDD image (using either raw or qcow2 format), then most likely it will work. Note that it will not work on Amazon EC2 if you are not using the HVM mode.
There are files here (SHA1SUMS, SHA256SUMS, etc.) which contain checksums of the images. These checksum files are also signed - see SHA1SUMS.sign, SHA256SUMS.sign, etc. Once you've downloaded an image, you can check:
For more information about how to do these steps, read the verification guide.
The default login account for this image is "debian". It is in this account that cloud-init will write the public key to allow ssh logins.
Other questions can be forwarded to the OpenStack packaging team: openstack-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org.
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A Mount Maunganui Lotto outlet is celebrating after selling a winning $9.83 million Powerball ticket.
The owner of Mount Paper Power, Tere Crookes, told the Bay of Plenty Times she was in disbelief when staff told her the store had sold the winning Lotto ticket.
The store has sold plenty of second-division winning Lotto tickets since Ms Crookes bought the business nine years ago but it was the first time it had sold a first-division winning ticket.
"I'm so happy and I don't even know who's won," Ms Crookes said.
"We are hoping it's one of the regulars. Most of them would probably come in to check if they won when they buy their new one."
A lotteries spokeswoman confirmed last night that no one had come forward to claim the prize, made up of $9,355,737 from Powerball First Division and $500,000 from Lotto First Division.
Ms Crookes was told of the winning ticket sale during a ladies' lunch with her two staff Yvonne Retter and Val Eastlake yesterday.
"We are just over the moon," she said.
Because the store does not open on Sundays, Ms Crookes anticipated it would be busy today.
Lotto spokeswoman Katy Atkin said if the $9.85m ticket holder was a regular Lotto player, it was likely they would claim their ticket in the two days following the win.
By edition time last night the prize had still not been claimed.
"It's definitely a waiting game until they come forward," Ms Atkin said. "At the moment, it's early days."
Ms Atkin said Lotto encouraged its big winners to travel to Wellington to claim their prize.
"Then we can talk them through the process of winning. Sometimes they are happy just to do it on their own, sometimes it can be a big thing to take in."
Ms Atkin said the win would mean a "massive change" for the winner.
"It's a life-changing win for them," she said.
"We are keen for them to get in touch."
Strike was also won by a lucky player in Tauranga, who has won $479,069.
The winning ticket was sold on NZ Lotteries online channel MyLotto, by a player in Tauranga.
The $9.83 million win comes after a Tauranga man in his 20s won Lotto's third biggest win of $27m in September.
The single man described himself as a "typical Kiwi bloke" who cares about the planet.
Anyone who bought their ticket from Mount Paper Power is encouraged to write their name on the back of the ticket and check it immediately at any Lotto outlet or online at MyLotto.co.nz.
Big Lotto wins
A Tauranga man in his 20s wins Lotto's third biggest win of $27m in 2012 .
Speculation is rife in Te Puke in April 2011 after the town sells a $1 million winning Lotto ticket.
A young Western Bay family wins $13.3 million in Lotto Powerball in January 2008.
An $8.6 million Big Wednesday ticket is sold in Tauranga in July 2007.
A Tauranga couple wins $1 million in Lotto in November 2007.


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- 18 May 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Reversing the Losing Streak on Sesame Street
When CEO Jeffrey Dunn took over Sesame Street in 2014 and made a licensing arrangement with HBO, many people were skeptical this would take the program in the right direction. But with a new mission to, "Make kids smarter, stronger, and kinder," and a lot more innovation, it seems the opposite is in the works. Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who wrote the case with Assistant Professor Ryan Raffaelli, talks about reversing a losing streak with new partnerships and in the process determining how to answer foundational questions like, "Who are we if we make this deal?" Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.
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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
As long as we're talking about a trillion-dollar government-industry initiative on infrastructure, why not invest in humans as well as bridges? asks James Heskett. What do YOU think? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.
- 29 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Story of Why Humans Are So Careless With Their Phones
Consumers act more recklessly with the products they own when better versions become available, according to research by Silvia Bellezza, Joshua M. Ackerman and Francesca Gino. This comic by Josh Neufeld explains. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.
- 06 Dec 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment
Assortment rotation is the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers throughout a selling season. It is used by both brick-and-mortar and online retailers as a strategy for gaining competitive advantage. This paper studies assortment rotation in product categories such as apparel, accessories, and toys, where consumers typically make multiple purchases during a season. The authors identify and explain a new reason for retailers to frequently rotate their assortment: Consumers may purchase more products throughout the selling season if a retailer conceals a portion of its full product catalog from consumers by rotating its assortment. Aside from its scholarly contributions, the paper provides practical insights to retailers to guide their assortment rotation strategy decisions.
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
For better or for worse, it's fallen to multinational corporations to police the overseas factories of suppliers in their supply chains—and perhaps make them better. Michael W. Toffel examines how. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Air rage is often blamed on overcrowded flights and postage stamp-size seats, but researchers Michael Norton and Katherine A. DeCelles find another culprit: resentment toward passengers in first class. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.
- 18 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains
Global supply chain factories improve their working conditions to a greater extent when their buyers take a cooperative approach to monitoring them, when the auditors are more highly trained, and when the factories face greater risk of poor conditions being exposed, according to findings in this research.
- 07 Mar 2016
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Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs
Shane Greenstein and colleagues identify the economic dimensions involved with net neutrality and show that many questions can be informed by simple economic models of the market for internet services.
- 03 Dec 2015
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Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail
Ron Johnson's career path has featured stops at some of the world's largest and most innovative retailers, including Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney. At each stop, Johnson learned invaluable lessons like how to build on success, how to keep growing as an individual, and how to embrace missteps. Professor Das Narayandas examines Johnson's career trajectory and discusses the importance of personal accountability and creative planning in the rapidly-changing world of retail. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.
- 20 Oct 2015
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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
Manufacturing activities that used to be performed in close proximity are increasingly fragmented across firms and countries. This paper provides strong evidence that considerations driven by contractual frictions critically shape firms' ownership decisions along their value chains.
- 24 Aug 2015
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Multi-Product Duopoly with Cross-Product Cost Interdependencies
Multi-product firms in many industries lack the flexibility to choose different quality tiers for different product lines. Once committed to a certain quality tier, either high or low, in one product line, it is usually more costly to offer another product line in a different quality tier instead of offering it in the same tier. This paper probes the strategic implications of this combination of brand stickiness and operational complexity for duopoly competition.
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn't Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
In today's global markets, companies have many choices to procure what they need to develop, build, and sell product. So who needs a manufacturing cluster, such as Detroit? Research by Gary Pisano and Giulio Buciuni shows that in some industries, location still matters. Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.
- 06 Jul 2015
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Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
Bonus programs are effective for motivating sales people, but also costly for companies to maintain. Doug Chung and Das Narayandas study several compensation schemes to see which work best. Open for comment; 11 Comment(s) posted.
- 21 May 2015
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Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
Sales force compensation is a key instrument available to firms for motivating and enhancing sales performance. What are the most effective forms of compensation? In a field experiment involving four regional sales forces of a prominent firm in India, the authors examined the impact of conditional and unconditional bonus schemes. Findings from this study provide guidance to firms on how to use conditional and unconditional compensation to enhance sales rep productivity and better manage the achievement of sales forecasts. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Gaining the community's trust is vital to building a successful business with crowdsourcing. Open for comment; 1 Comment(s) posted.
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The growing popularity of online shopping is remaking the world of offline shopping—stores are getting smaller, malls are getting scarcer. Rajiv Lal and José Alvarez look ahead five years at our radically transforming shopping experience. Plus: Book excerpt. Open for comment; 13 Comment(s) posted.
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Part 1: The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick and Mortar Store Survive? argues that ecommerce is about to deal severe blows to many familiar store-based brands—even including Walmart. Here's how retailers can fight back, according to Rajiv Lal, José Alvarez, and Dan Greenberg. Open for comment; 7 Comment(s) posted.
- 29 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?
Created in the 1930s, outlet stores allowed retailers to dispose of unpopular items at fire-sale prices. Today, outlets seem outmoded and unnecessary-stores have bargain racks, after all. Donald K. Ngwe explains why outlets still exist. Open for comment; 7 Comment(s) posted.
- 11 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
A number of studies document how organizations go through numerous stages as they increase their commitment to sustainability over time. However, we still know little about the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in this process. Using survey and interview data, the authors of this paper analyze how CSOs' authority and responsibilities differ across organizations that are in different stages of sustainability commitment. The study documents the increased authority that CSOs have in companies that are in more advanced stages of sustainability. But while CSOs assume more responsibilities initially as the organization's commitment to sustainability increases, CSOs decentralize decision rights and allocate responsibilities to the different functions and business units. Furthermore, the authors document that a firm's sustainability strategy becomes significantly more idiosyncratic in the later stages of sustainability, a factor that influences significantly where in the organization responsibility for sustainability issues is located. The study also reflects on the best avenues for future research about CSOs and transformation at the institutional, organizational, and individual levels. This article is a chapter of the forthcoming book Leading Sustainable Change (Oxford University Press). Key concepts include: As a CSO gains more authority, she becomes less central in in the organization by allocating decision rights and responsibilities to the functions and business units. While most companies have fairly generic sustainability strategies in the initial stages, it is in the latter Innovation stage that different organizations more closely customize their sustainability strategy to the needs of the organization. The sustainability strategy is driven by the demands of the markets where an organization has a presence or plans to expand in the future. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
The equivalent of an entire sales force is replaced at many firms every four years, so it's critical that go-to-market initiatives remain tied to strategic goals. Frank Cespedes explains how in his book, Aligning Strategy and Sales. Closed for comment; 3 Comment(s) posted.
- 03 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure
Companies are increasingly being held accountable for their suppliers' labor and environmental performance. The reputation of Apple, for example, suffered after harsh working conditions were exposed at Foxconn, one of its key suppliers in China. Despite the possibility of major reputational risk when problems are revealed, however, companies face tough challenges managing this risk because obtaining information about suppliers' labor and environmental practices can be very costly. Furthermore, buyers can seldom discern whether the information suppliers provide a fair representation of their performance or whether it glosses over problem areas. The authors investigate whether and how "commit-and-report" voluntary programs, which require companies to make public commitments and to issue public progress reports (instead of requiring costly third-party audits), can serve as a reliable screening mechanism for buyers. Studying the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42 countries of whether to participate in the UN Global Compact, the authors find the risk of stakeholder scrutiny deters companies with misrepresentative disclosures from participating in the Global Compact. Moreover, this deterrence effect is especially strong 1) for smaller companies and 2) in countries with stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Overall, this research reveals the critical role for stakeholder scrutiny to enable buyers to use "commit-and-report" voluntary programs as a reliable mechanism for screening suppliers. Key concepts include: The potential for stakeholder scrutiny deters companies whose prior reports misrepresent their performance from joining a commit-and-report voluntary program. Smaller companies whose reports are misrepresentative are especially deterred from joining commit-and-report programs. Commit-and-report programs can serve as credible screening mechanisms, especially in countries with more activist pressure and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.


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Germ-killing plastic wrap
By Janet Raloff, 15:48 PM April 15, 2008
Biodegradable plastic that releases germ killers provides an example of what's known as active packaging, and scientists report progress toward taking this concept to market.
Paul Dawson and his colleagues at Clemson (S.C.) University are fashioning plastics from proteins found in corn, soy, and wheat. While these biodegradable polymers are being heated or compressed to make a thin film, the food scientists add a sprinkling of a natural antimicrobial agent–usually nisin. This is a bacteriocin...
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It has been over a Month and a half and "Safe-Guard Products Intl." or my GAP Insurance has still NOT paid their portion. They have had all of the required paperwork to file the claim. Yet I call everyday to find out where my claim is at and continue to be told it's in the process. I leave messages for my adjuster at Safe-Guard to return my call and have yet to be called. I ask to speak with the next person on the chain and they say there is no one else to talk to.
So, basically I had a wreck, that was NOT my fault, they picked up my car, took my rental car and have left me without a vehicle. And no one will finance me another car with a OPEN car loan NOT PAID OFF. It does NOT make sense to me how they threaten you when you do Not pay, but will Not pay when THEY have to.
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Wavion and ADC Telecommunications Inc. have announced that the two companies are cooperating to create an open architecture for municipal Wi-Fi networks. This new architecture is the outcome of the integration of ADC's SG-1 service gateway product with Wavion's WS410 spatially adaptive outdoor access point (AP). This unique combination is creating a powerful and open environment in which the strength of both companies is combined, offering customers a best-of-breed solution while still enabling them to seamlessly combine other vendors' products into their networks.
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Today's attendance: 110,231
Michigan claimed its 79th homecoming victory (79-24-0 overall).
Head coach Lloyd Carr won his 50th career game at Michigan Stadium. Carr has compiled a 50-6 record at Michigan Stadium, with his .893 winning percentage ranking tops among all Wolverine coaches at the "Big House."
With 35 points in the first half, Michigan has scored 30 or more points in two consecutive halves, dating back to last game. Michigan put up 38 points in the second half against Minnesota (Oct. 10).
John Navarre surpassed the 2,000-yard passing mark on the season with a 17-yard strike to Jason Avant in the third quarter. Navarre finished the game with 203 yards on 18 of 27 passing and one touchdown. He is 166 for 286 on the season for 2,046 yards and 14 TDs. Navarre completed passes to more than 10 different receivers for the second straight game.
Navarre has thrown for more than 200 yards five times this season, extending his Michigan career record to 23 games.
Senior Luke Perl saw his first career action at kicker in the second quarter.
Freshman LaMarr Woodley earned his first career start on defense against Illinois and had two tackles.
With three touchdowns against the Illini, senior running back Chris Perry moved into fourth place on Michigan's career rushing touchdowns list with 33. He entered the game with 30 touchdowns, tying him with Tom Harmon (1938-40) for sixth all-time. Perry also passed Billy Taylor (1969-71) and Steve Smith (1980-83), who both had 31 touchdowns each. Perry is one shy of Rick Leach (34, 1975-78) for third place.
Junior wide receiver Braylon Edwards pushed his consecutive games with a reception streak to 21 games. It is the sixth longest streak in U-M history.
Perry has scored two or more touchdowns in five of the eight games Michigan has played this season. Perry finished the game with 140 yards on 24 carries and three TDs. He has rushed for over 100 yards in five games this season. Perry's six-yard run in the final two minutes of the second quarter put him over 3,000 rushing yards for his career.
With his 74-yard punt return for a touchdown in the second quarter, Steve Breaston broke the U-M single-season record in punt return yardage. Breaston passed Tripp Welborne (1987-90), who had 455 yards in 1990. Breaston finished the game with 72 punt return yards, moving his season total to 476. His play was the longest punt return since Charles Woodson's 78-yard return against Ohio State in 1997. Breaston has two punt return TDs this season.
John Navarre threw his first incompletion of the game with 2:48 left in the second quarter after completing his first nine passes for 81 yards.
Fifth-year senior tight end Andy Mignery scored his first career touchdown on a nine-yard pass from Navarre late in the second quarter.
Michigan has not given up any points in the first half at home this season.
Senior wide receiver Calvin Bell tied a career long with a 47-yard reception in the closing seconds of the first half. The play set up Chris Perry's one-yard plunge for his third TD of the game to put U-M up 35-0.
Senior running back Tim Bracken scored his second career touchdown on a career-long run of 27 yards in the third quarter.
Junior defensive back Ernest Shazor collected his first interception early in the fourth quarter. His 22-yard return set up Matt Gutierrez's 21-yard touchdown pass to Tim Massaquoi to put U-M ahead 49-7.
Gutierrez's TD pass to Massaquoi was the first of his career. It was also Massaquoi's first career touchdown.
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Audio: Cherokee genealogist says it's time for Elizabeth Warren to come clean
posted at 8:58 pm on May 16, 2012 by Allahpundit
Via William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, who's owned this story along with the Breitbart team. Her name is Twila Barnes, she's 7/32 Cherokee, and she just dropped a truth bomb on the Democrats' favorite non-minority "minority":
You see, Ms. Warren, some of us have independently done our own research and we know you have no documentation supporting your claim of Cherokee ancestry.* We wonder why you believe you have the right to claim Cherokee ancestry and to call yourself a Native American when you have no evidence to support your claim. While you cling to a family story and the inaccurate report that ONE document was found that supports your claim, we real Cherokees understand that those things mean nothing. You see, we Cherokees have lots and lots and lots of documentation supporting our claims of our ancestry. Our Cherokee ancestors are found on every roll of the Cherokee Nation (30+ rolls!) dating back to before the removal and in all sorts of other documentation, including but not limited to claims against the US government for lost property; the Moravian missionary records; ration lists before and after the forced removal, etc…yet your ancestors are found in NONE of those records…
Of course, you say you only "checked the box" in an attempt to meet others like you, but that doesn't make sense. If one is claiming to be Cherokee and wants to meet other Cherokees, they don't "check a box" on a job application or in a directory for their profession! They go to where Cherokees are…
*Note – Several people who are experienced researchers in Cherokee genealogy have been working together exploring Elizabeth Warren's ancestry. They have uncovered many documents that, combined, paint a very clear picture that Warren descends from white people who had no connection whatsoever to the Cherokee Nation. These documents will be posted soon.
At this point she really would be better off calling a presser and putting this thing to bed by acknowledging that she has no proof of her ancestry. She could profess innocence: "My parents told me I was part Cherokee, they had no reason to lie, but I realize I should have confirmed the oral history with documentary evidence before listing it in a professional guide." She's held off on doing that because she needs to stand firm to impress the left when those darned wingnuts are in attack mode, but now that she has bona fide Cherokee taking her to task for claiming their heritage without proof, she's facing a far more politically sympathetic antagonist. Says Larry Sabato, "It's glued to her now. This is going to be with her throughout the campaign… I don't know how it goes away when you have so many unanswered questions." I think it'll go away, more or less, if she does what I've suggested. We'll still goof on her for it but the daily drip-drip-drip will at least be over for undecided voters in Massachusetts.
Here's Barnes on with Howie Carr earlier today. Click the image to listen.
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My Carolina Experience: Damion Grant
By Zoya Johnson, GoHeels.com
How many athletes do you know that can say they played their sport for just a year and a half before getting a full scholarship to one of the top universities in America? Damion Grant is one the very few who can.
As a native of Hope Bay, a small fishing town about 10 miles east of Port Antonio, Jamaica, he grew up playing soccer and cricket and running track. At 16, he left the island with dreams of playing basketball. He was given the opportunity to play in Kensington, Md., and then in New Hampshire, where he shone as a leader of his team despite his lack of experience on the court.
In his senior year, Grant led Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., to its first-ever appearance in the New England Prep School Class A Tournament, and he earned all-tournament honors at the Maine Central Institute's Tournament. Grant's athleticism as an agile, almost seven footer who could jump got him a few collegiate offers and visits, but once he took his visit to the University of North Carolina he knew he had to be there in the fall.
Thinking back on his visit to campus Grant says, "It was January 3, 2002. I don't know why I remember that date, but I remember there was an ice storm and there was no one on campus. I remember walking through campus with Coach Q (former assistant coach Fred Quartlebaum) and thinking how beautiful it was. Of course, I went to the Wake Forest game that night and we got blown out by like 30 points at home but still there was just something about it. I visited other schools and I was like, 'I have to be at UNC.'"
Coming into college, Grant had his sights set on playing professionally, but while in school he was plagued by injury so he was never playing at his full potential, nor was he ever fully healthy. During a summer session before his senior year Grant hurt his ankle and had to have surgery simply to be able to walk comfortably. It was then that he made the decision to stop playing basketball in order to be able to live a healthy adult life.
After hanging up his basketball shoes, Grant remembers being in a depressed state. Basketball had been the reason he'd come to America and up until his decision to stop playing, it made up a huge part of his life. Although he had made it a point not to allow basketball to become the only thing people knew him for, his dedication to the sport had caused him to put other aspects of himself on the backburner.
"I remember setting up a meeting with Coach Williams to let him know that I didn't think that I would be able to play the game of basketball anymore. He said something to me that has stuck with me to this day. He said that he has never seen someone fight so hard to be healthy, or fight so hard to give so much, but my body just wasn't able to keep up. I could tell that he was sad to lose me as a player, I was the biggest guy on the team and I was prepared to make a huge impact my senior year, but that wasn't God's plan.
"I had three key people that stuck by me after basketball, Brian Foushee, Jermaine McDaniel, and Jeremy Dewitt. Even though basketball didn't define me, I still had a goal that I knew I wasn't going to be able to reach and they knew it was difficult for me to have to give up the game. However, they never talked about me not playing basketball anymore, or what could have been. Instead we were always focusing on the future and where we would go from here."
Grant also attributes his growth and transition from athlete to working professional in the following years to his wife Candice, whom he met in college, and for Tar Heel point guard King Rice. Rice helped keep the young Grant on track by checking in with him and making sure he was focused on graduating, and when Grant thought law school was his next step Rice helped him get an internship at a law firm. Although going to law school did not pan out, Grant remains thankful to Rice for his mentorship and for opening doors that he would not have had access to otherwise.
Grant now works for an elite agent of US Cellular as a District Manager who has made a name for himself as a part of the company's leadership team. The four-person team keeps US Cellular moving in a progressive direction and also helps the company maintain its spot as the largest cellular agent in Eastern North Carolina.
For years, in his spare time, Grant has volunteered with a non-profit organization called Sports Evangelism and Missions based in Rocky Mount, teaching basketball clinics. A few years ago, he was approached by the founder of SEAM, Kenny Dickerson, who does sports clinics all over the world, about doing a basketball clinic in Jamaica. At the time, Grant said yes not really thinking there would be any follow through but two-and-a-half years later he has just returned from the organization's second year conducting the camp.
In the camp's inaugural year, the organization brought down old high school jerseys and shorts along with three volunteers. After noticing that many of the campers came to play in flip flops or no shoes at all, they made it a point to collect shoes and socks for the children who would be participating the following year. Thanks to donations from individuals and an organization called Samaritan's Feet they were able to bring down about 150 pairs of shoes this year. They also went from having three volunteers to 13, and through SEAM they were able to provide handbags filled with toiletries for the female participants of the camp as well as bibles and socks for all of the children.
Grant's humility about the direction the camp may take in the future says everything about him. "That's God's doing. Jawad Williams and David Noel have expressed interest and said they would want to be involved in it next year. I would like to see it grow into something I can do island wide and do it a few times throughout the year. I would also like to bring some of my old teammates or even some of the current guys to really see what life is like outside of their shell and be able to meet some of the kids that actually look up to them. They would be able to tell their own story and encourage another kid to look forward to something bigger than where they are now."
The next camp is set for the weekend of July 4, 2015, and they are always looking for volunteers and donations to make each year better than the last.
Grant feels a great deal of pride in his alma mater. "I think about my sons now and I go back and forth as to whether I would want to push them towards going to UNC or another school that they would prefer. It is something that's got to be good for you. You have to be able to walk on that campus and feel a connection the way I felt it, if you can then you know it's the place for you. I have not spoken to anyone that has been on UNC's campus and never felt that, so if I were to talk to a recruit I would say take the opportunity to visit campus. You wouldn't even necessarily have to walk through the Smith Center, just take the opportunity to walk through campus and the main quad; even though it's a big University you don't feel lost."
Although it may sound farfetched most of UNC's alums can attest to exactly what it is Grant means. If you were to ask most any UNC alum why they made the decision to come to Carolina they would say it had something to do with a gut feeling rather than one of logic or reason. Being at Carolina and truly appreciating all that it has to offer is something that is felt more than it can ever be explained.
"I'm thankful for the opportunity to have had an education and to graduate from the best university in the world. I'm thankful to have been a part of a historic and storied basketball program. I'm thankful to have played a part in adding to that history with the 2005 national championship, and I'm thankful for teammates that I still consider brothers to this day. I wouldn't change that for the world."


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I have had the battery out to change intakes on my 02 SVT.
After I put it all back together, I turn the car on and I get no radio.
I let it go for a couple months and just played cd's. When I would check to see if I got reception, it would be erradic. Sounded alright for a couple minutes or less then cut out again.
I changed my intake again today, back to stock for winter. Same thing happens. No reception.
When I had reconnected the battery it had been in the garage.
I tried backing the car outside and disconnecting the battery, even both terminals and waiting for over 30 min.
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Stock antenna and basic SVT head unit.
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Jean-Guy's Basque-Spiced Leg of Lamb
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- Servings: 6-8
- 1/2 cup (12.5 cl) extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup (80 g) coarse-grain Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon finely ground hot red pepper (such as Piment d'Espelette)
- 1/4 cup (65 g) sheep's milk full-fat yogurt
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 legs of lamb, each about 1 3/4 pounds (around 800 grams), bones and trimming reserved
- 3 tablespoons peanut oil
- Sea salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste
How to make this recipe
Combine all the marinade ingredients. Place the legs of lamb in a roasting pan that will hold the meat snugly. With a pastry brush, brush the marinade over all sides of the legs of lamb. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate at room temperature for at least 8 hours.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
In a large skillet, heat the peanut oil over high heat. Remove the legs of lamb from the marinade, drain, and sear the lamb on all sides, 2 to 3 minutes per side.
Return the lamb to the roasting pan with the marinade and any bones and reserved trimming.
Place in the center of the oven and roast, allowing 10 to 12 minutes per pound (500 g) for medium rare, 15 minutes for medium. (Lamb is medium rare at an internal temperature of 140 degrees F (60 degrees C), medium to well done at 145 to 175 degrees F (63 to 80 degrees C). Turn the lamb several times during roasting and baste occasionally.
Remove lamb from the oven and season generously with salt and pepper. Transfer the lamb to a platter, and place on an angle against the edge of an overturned plate. Cover loosely with foil. Turn off the oven and place the platter in the oven, with the door open. Let rest a minimum of 10 minutes and up to 30 minutes. The lamb will continue to cook during this resting time.
7. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: Place the baking dish over moderate heat, scraping up any bits that cling to the bottom. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, scraping and stirring until the liquid is almost caramelized. Do not let it burn. Spoon off and discard any excess fat. Add several tablespoons cold water to deglaze (hot water will cloud the sauce). Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes.
While the sauce is cooking, carve the lamb and place on a warmed platter.
Strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve and pour into a sauce boat. Serve immediately, with the lamb.


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A well dressed urban hobo that uses his better dressed and well kempt appearance to disarm those who they come upon before they panhandle a smoke, some cash or a beer from you.
"Wow man, that guy was an Executive hobo - I thought it was just some old guy hangin out in the park and making conversation but he asked me for one of my beers, some change and your Mom's phone number"!
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Posted by Stefan Ried on February 28, 2011
Forrester's Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010 has quantified for the first time how enterprise demand is shifting from traditional licensing models to subscriptions and other licensing models, such as financing and license leasing. However, the shift to subscriptions for business-applications-as-a-service is the major driver of this change. Traditional enterprise licenses are slowly decreasing, and Forrester predicts that subscriptions for SaaS applications will drive alternative license spending up to 29% — as early as 2011. This demand-side change goes beyond front-office applications like CRM. In 2011 and 2012, enterprises will opt for "as-a-service" subscriptions for more back-office applications, such as ERP, instead of licensed and on-premise installations. Detailed data cuts by company size and region are available to clients from our Forrsights service.
Base: 622 (2007), 1,026 (2008), 537 (2009), and 930 (2010) software decision-makers predicting license spending for the coming year
Source: Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2007; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2009; Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010
What does this means for existing independent software vendors (ISVs) and infrastructure vendors?
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This week at ISSCC, Intel made its first detailed public disclosures about its upcoming "Poulson" next-generation Itanium CPU. While not in any sense complete, the details they did disclose paint a picture of a competent product that will continue to keep the heat on in the high-end UNIX systems market. Highlights include:
Posted by Richard Fichera on February 14, 2011
Since its introduction of its Core 2 architecture, Intel reversed much of the damage done to it by AMD in the server space, with attendant publicity. AMD, however, has been quietly reclaiming some ground with its 12-core 6100 series CPUs, showing strength in benchmarks that emphasize high throughput in process-rich environments as opposed to maximum performance per core. Several AMD-based system products have also been cited by their manufacturers to us as enjoying very strong customer acceptance due to the throughput of the 12-core CPUs combined with their attractive pricing. As a fillip to this success, AMD this past week announced speed bumps for the 6100-series products to give a slight performance boost as they continue to compete with Intel's Xeon 5600 and 7500 products (Intel's Sandy Bridge server products have not yet been announced).
But the real news last week was the quiet subtext that the anticipated 16-core Interlagos products based on the new Bulldozer core appear to be on schedule for Q2 '11 shipments system partners, who should probably be able to ship systems during Q3, and that AMD is still certifying them as compatible with the current sockets used for the 12-core 6000 CPUs. This implies that system partners will be able to quickly deliver products based on the new parts very rapidly.
Actual performance of these systems will obviously be dependent on the workloads being run, but our gut feeling is that while they will not rival the per-core performance of the Intel Xeon 7500 CPUs, for large throughput-oriented environments with high numbers of processes, a description that fits a large number of web and middleware environments, these CPUs, each with up to a 50% performance advantage per core over the current AMD CPUs, may deliver some impressive benchmarks and keep the competition in the server space at a boil, which in the end is always helpful to customers.


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U.S. tablet shipments soar during holidays, threaten to surpass PCs
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's prediction that tablets would one day outsell personal computers appears to be coming true.
Holiday season shipments of tablet computers touched a record 52.5 million, up 75 percent from a year ago, as consumers snapped up a wide range of the touch-enabled mobile devices and lower priced offerings, according to International Data Corp (IDC), which tracks both markets.
Growth of the tablet market handily outpaced that of personal computers, with PC shipments sliding 6.4 percent to 89.8 million in the October-December period.
In another sign of the rise of tablets, Apple, the No. 1 seller of tablets, shipped 22 million of them in the fourth quarter, compared with 15 million personal computers shipped by No. 1 PC seller Hewlett-Packard Co during the same period.
But increasing competition means that Apple's one-time stranglehold on the tablet market continues to loosen. The market share of its iPad fell to 43.1 percent in the fourth quarter from 51.7 percent the previous year, IDC said.
Samsung Electronics, the No. 2 seller of tablets with its flagship Galaxy brand, captured 15.1 percent of the market, more than double its 7.3 percent share a year earlier.
Software maker Microsoft Corp, which launched its Surface with Windows RT tablet during the holidays, shipped about 900,000 units, IDC said.
Microsoft has been banking on Surface to showcase its new Windows 8 software to compete with Google Inc's Android-based tablets and the iPad. Continued...


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After our week in the Northland, we drove all the way back down past Auckland, then through to Hamilton to crash for the night in a motel. Before we turned in for the night, we had dinner at a great Thai place in town called.... "The Original Thai Restaurant" -- kinda catchy, eh? The reason I mention this place is that I had the best Thai food of my life there. It was (big surprise) pork-based, called Crispy Pork Curry. Little cubes of succulent pork tossed in a light spicy coconut milk with all sorts of yummy veggies over perfectly cooked rice. Yum. Anyway, the next day, we returned the car in Rotorua where we spent four days exploring. This is the geothermal capital of NZ and for some strange reason I didn't feel like eating eggs the whole time I was there! One day we took the bus (public transit alert) to the Kiwi Encounter. I think I talk a bit about them in one of the photo captions. They are doing great animal conservation work hatching kiwi chicks and then introducing them into the wild when they are about six months old and large enough to fend for themselves. But dogs, possums and stoats (a ferret like creature) are still killing them at an amazing rate so for the time being these strange and fascinating birds are still endangered. We saw a newborn chick as part of the tour and you got a real sense of how committed the employees are to the cause.
Rotorua is a heavily touristed town in the middle of the North Island. There is a heavy Maori influence and geothermal activity all over the place. I could care less about the thermal pools when they smell like rotten eggs (sulphur). The whole town smells that way. The first day you're thinking...I gotta get myself out of here and the next it seems almost normal. We went to a traditional Maori feast called a hangi which is steamed food cooked in the earth. It's usually root veggies, chicken, fish and lamb. The fish was great and the rest alright. There is also a history lesson incorporated into the evening. Unlike other aboriginal peoples the Maori were not massacred to the same extent with guns and germs. Supposedly the germs couldn't travel that far on explorers' ships and the Maori were smart enough to trade for guns when the Europeans began arriving in the early 1800's. Yeah, NZ is actually younger than the US in terms of its arrival of Caucasians. Amanda and I belive that explains a few strong similarities NZ has to the US, i'll talk about that later. Not that land wasn't taken from the Maori -- it was but there are no "Reservations" I know of like we have in the US and Maori culture is very well integrated into almost everything. For instance most of the street signs also have the Maori language. The feast was great and the history lesson interesting!
Since I'm not hot about the thermal pools (no pun intended) we went Zorbing which is a uniquely NZ invention and there are many examples throughout the country. Zorbing is getting inside a giant plastic ball filled with 10 gallons of water and being pushed down a hill. You're laughing the whole time because you don't know what else to do and it's loads of fun. $30 USD for 10 seconds of fun....that's a business model that should work. Check out the pics and I HIGHLY recommend it.
Except for a couple of nice 100 year old buildings like the museum and tourist center (which were both old bath houses), Rotorua looks like it was built in the 1950's and 60's with a couple really ugly buildings from the 70s and 80s thrown in for kicks. John kept getting lost because all the buildings in the downtown area looked the same, generic two-story buildings with a cafe or shop in the bottom level. I told him that he could use this one hideous communist looking cement 6-story building as a point of reference. At one point we had the guide book out looking for the post office and a woman stopped to help us. When she heard where we wanted to go, she said "You see that really hideous building over there? It's right next door" and she meant the same one I had pointed out to John the day before. So even the locals use it as a reference! Something to keep in mind: pedestrians do NOT have the right of way. It's very hard to get used to. You have to stop for the cars at most intersections or if you are walking across a driveway and they are turning into it. You only have the right of way at a specific type of crosswalk is marked with the "zebra" poles or if the light changes and you have a Walk signal.
Favorite food: I already mentioned the Pork Curry, but in Rotorua we went to the Fat Dog Cafe twice because we got hooked on the "kumara" fries. The kumara (which is actually pronounced "KOO-ma-dah" with a rolled R, and not "koo-MAR-ra" like I first thought) is the NZ sweet potato and they usually serve the fries with a chive sour cream or aoli. It's different then our sweet potatoes. hard to explain.
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Hmmm.. we had so many different ones but the Zorbing was definitely fun and different!
So... yes, yes. we have been very negligent with our blog this past month. So we are behind with our word contest. I'll go ahead and reveal the first two answers and then let everyone have a go at this week's entry.
Dodgy Ticker: a bad heart (perhaps the british influence on the language)
Slip, Slop, Slap: to apply sunscreen. Not sure how this one got started but people definitely say it and we even saw a Public Service Announcement to "Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap" so they've added a fourth piece of advice of putting on long-sleeved clothing. We have paid the price of forgetting to put on the sunscreen or missing a body part here or there but now have a pretty good base tan. well, as good as i'll ever get which is still pretty damn pale!! It's amazing that you can go out for ten minutes on a cloudy day and realize you are already getting burned, being so close to the hole in ozone.
ok, this week's entry:
A) our new addiction: pecan shortbread cookies
B) slang for the beetles you see everywhere
C) oddly enough, flip flops (or "thongs" as they say in Hawaii)
Next entry -- the Tongariro National Park and Lake Taupo in the exact center of the North Island