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TALLADEGA, Ala. Pick your partner, go around and around.
It may sound like a call at a Saturday night square dance but it is what 43 NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers will be trying to get right on Sunday when the green flag falls on the Aarons 499 at Talladega Superspeedway.
On a track where speeds of more than 200 m.p.h. are the norm, Cup drivers have figured out that if they partner up nose to tail they can push those speeds close to 215 m.p.h. in a two-car draft even with horsepower robbing restrictor plates that NASCAR hopes will slow them down.
The problem, of course, is that these are professional athletes who would rather run over their mothers than finish second so pushing a competitor to the front is not something that comes naturally.
In fact Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, doesnt even consider it racing at all.
I dont know if you call it racing, or what to call it really, but its definitely a different dynamic here at Talladega and Daytona, he said.
Busch said he doesnt like the fact he has to worry about the guy he is drafting with as much as he has to worry about his own team.
It really wears on you a little bit mentally kind of makes you tired, he said. The other thing too, is when youre in the two-car draft and youre pushing each other, youre more worried about not spinning that guy out than anything else.
So, youre up on edge most of the time.
Kevin Harvick said he agrees with Busch. He doesnt like the idea of putting the fate of his No. 29 Richard Childress Racing team in anyones hands but his own.
The way that it is now, if you are the second car you are 100% committed to the guy in front of you and if he piles into something you are just going to pile in with him, Harvick said.
Buschs older brother, Kurt Busch, said in the end you just have to trust that the guy you are partnered up with knows what he is doing.
It really gets down to survival, the elder Busch said. You really have to trust the guy in front of you to guide you through the different holes and not close in too quickly and make an abrupt move.
Harvick said that unless you are in the car it is hard for the average fan to understand the level of difficulty involved at racing at speeds above 200 m.p.h. right on the bumper of the car in front.
Its hard to keep the cars connected and we saw a lot of wrecks (at Daytona) because of the fact that the cars were pulling up on groups of cars and you didnt have anywhere to go, Harvick said. (At Talladega) you have a lot more space so it might be easier for that but I still think its going to be very similar to Daytona.
That, folks, means lots of wrecks come Sunday.

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|November 4, 2011, 11:19 AM
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I just watched that video. Very sad. Was it wagging it's tail out of submission at the end or reflex? Some dog owners need to step up to the plate with their training.
Food for thought:
If you are able to carry a 22 of a given size, depending on the gun you may be able to carry a larger caliber without anymore burden than the 22 would have been. That way you'd be covered for a wider variety of situations too.
That is unless you go for something like the NAA guardian (difficult to operate quickly) or one of the Taurus 22's. Or unless recoil on irritated joints is an issue.
Best of luck to you.
- Whoops, commented on the wrong video. I had followed a link to where 2 policemen had to put down a restrained dog with 2 shots, not the one where the dog approached the policeman as linked. It didn't look like the dog was charging since it was moving pretty slowly but I guess those dogs weren't where they were supposed to be!
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|November 4, 2011, 11:54 AM
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Totally different ballgame when an animal is charging at you. The other thing to keep in mind is the attack may totally take you by surprise. I had a dog charge me once at night and because of the visability I didn't see the dog until he was almost already on top of me. His owner called to him and he broke it off. He actually started his charge about a half block away - I just didn't see him.
You can get taken by surprise from behind or by animals coming out of bushes...
My opinion is you're going to need something to make up for how difficult shot placement is going to be - either a really powerful round or something that shoots multiple projectiles.
|November 4, 2011, 12:32 PM
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Pit Bulls and coyotes have killed people.
Wouldn't want to try and stop a charging dog (in attack mode) with a 22 cal handgun.
Trail gun used to be a S&W 29, but switched that out to a mild mannered S&W 22-4 revolver (45 ACP).
Why take a chance with a 22 when a 45 will do, your life is worth it.
At a minimum...a 38 spl or 9mm.
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|November 4, 2011, 12:51 PM
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Go ahead and carry a 22 and if it doesn't stop the threat immediately you can always beat them with the gun!
|November 4, 2011, 07:41 PM
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Grew up using a .22lr and never once felt like it was a toy or "not powerful enough" a large part of that is due to when that is the only thing you have you learn to hunt and base your stratagies around your weapon. Had more than a few encounters with coyots than i care to have had and killed alot of coyots with a 22lr and it dropped them grave yard dead and rarely took more than one shot. Also after the first one goes down the others rarely i mean rarely stick around. They are usualy more scared of you than you are of them. I have also killed a charging german shepard with a ruger mark 2, waited until he was about five yards away and shot two shots back to back at his head, one hit him square between the eyes and the other went into the middle of his shoulder blades...the head shot was a instant kill. I have shot charging wild hogs, snarling coyots, alligators that didnt like me playing on there mudslide at the river ( i was just a kid and didnt know what it was ) loads of snakes and lots of other things with a 22lr.
However i will say this. In my personal opinion a 22 is a great offensive caliber and if you are and only if you are a very good marksmen is it a good defensive caliber. The reason it isnt my first choice of a carry gun is that i think ( which i may be wrong ) is that if i am ever in a position where i need to pull my pistol then i am in a serious "oh crap" situation and may not have time for that perfect shot or i may not have the same steadiness as when facing a charging animal ( i am sure it is different when you are looking down a gun barrel ) to get that perfect shot off. so if all i can manage is a gut shot or something then i want the biggest and most powerful handgun i can get to do the job as best it can. just me though
Two weapons that was designed by the same man still in use by the us military 100 years later...1911 and m2...is there anything that comes close.....lol annd maybe perhaps a sig sauer p226 tac ops edition..
|November 4, 2011, 08:25 PM
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one of the important points to my mind is that in this sort of defensive situation, as well as in hunting, a second shot is not always going to be possible. Imagine if you will, a dog, large or small, coming at you rapidly, and you have maybe a second to decide. you have maybe one more second to draw and get ready to fire. At that point, charging bear, charging dog, cat, so forth, it may already be on top of you. You may have only one shot, and you can count on the fact that after your free shot, the animal will be engaging in high speed evasive maneuvers, hit or miss.
So, if the banger down the street has a really antisocial rottweiler that he has let out, and it's bearing down on you, I suggest that a 22, and the single round that you may be able to get into thethings body, is just not going to do it.
If you're someone who can pop out a 22 pistol and empty a magazine into a moving target in a few seconds, then yes, a .22 is good enough. Otherwise, you need something that is going to disable the thing with a single body shot.
|November 4, 2011, 09:18 PM
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.22lr will do the job
I've got a ruger 22/45 5.5 inch barreled pistol. With Velocitors I'm shooten 40grains at around 1200 fps. 10 rounds and literally no recoil + a red dot for very easy aquisition.
I know a lot would say its just not enough to be sure... but I'd be very happy indeed to hold this type of power in my hands. I'm certain that just one of those slugs crackin against the noggen of a a pit or rott would cast immediate changes in it's intentions, if not killing it.
Yes I'd rather have a .357 mag etc. but the .22lr is no toy or joke.
|November 4, 2011, 09:45 PM
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A .22 has plenty of "firepower", which is defined as number of rounds.
"Power" is altogether different. A .357 Mag or a .45 acp has "power", defined as lb/ft delivered on the target.
To take the definitions to their logical/ludicrous conclusions, a 100-round BB gun has maximum "firepower", while a 105mm Howitzer with one shell has maximum "power".
No matter how you look at it, two entirely different things. I would not use a .22 to shoot anything larger than a paper target, or a squirrel.
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|November 4, 2011, 09:47 PM
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What ChadStrickland said. The .22lr is plenty of gun for most of your shooting chores IMHO.
|November 6, 2011, 02:51 AM
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I would say a .22 would be a tie with a sharp stick.
It would work if you hit the pit bull straight on in the middle of the skull otherwise it would glance off where as a 45 would glance off too if not in direct line with skull but it would hit MUCH harder giving you a chance for a second shot.
|November 7, 2011, 10:22 AM
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Agree with Mike1234 ... my issue with .22lr is the number of failures I've encountered with several handguns, including from Smith and Ruger ... I carry an NAA Pug on dog walks for animal defense; have never had a .22mag fail to fire ... ammo is more expensive than .22lr, but far less costly than 9mm, so you can practice a lot ... and there are .22mag shot cartridges available, I've never used one ...
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|November 8, 2011, 03:23 PM
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There are a lot of cases where a .22lr is as good as anything else but can't think of any time it's better. Personally, I think all the worry about critter attacks is so over blown it's not even funny. And that's coming from a guy that had to fight off 3 heelers at the same time with nothing but my feet and hands. Ten rounds of .22lr would of been nice, 6 from my .32H&R or .357 just as good or maybe even better. Personally I wouldn't worry to much about critters and a .22 is a fine woods bummin gun for that little extra when needed/wanted.
|November 8, 2011, 05:54 PM
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I shot a rabid coyote in my front yard. Hit three times with a 22 lr. It ran off after I shot it. Game and fish recovered it and had it tested.
In Ar while fishing the Ouachita River and the associated swamps and Ox bow lakes we had a problem with cottonmouths dropping into the boat. The solution was a 45LC/410 single shot derringer. The 410 would kill the snake but not put a hole in the boat.
I still carry the derringer for snakes when working my property. I also carry slug loads, and a special reload loaded with 3 100 grain 30 cal plinkers per round.
|November 8, 2011, 07:10 PM
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There is the ideal and there is the real world
The best gun for any specific job is....wells, the BEST the closer you get to that "ideal" the better for that job.
HOWEVER>>> any gun is better than no gun for any threat. I would not recommend going out and buying a 22 LR for defense against dogs, but I would not tell you it's worthless either.
If I KNEW I was going to have to defend myself or another person against a dog I'd be caring a 12 gauge autoloader loaded with #4 Buck Shot.
But we don't usually KNOW when we will need a gun.
I live in Wyoming near places where bad bears are not at all uncommon. I carry a 45 auto or a 357 ever day, but if I leave the ranch and the area, and I go up in the mountains where the bears live I switch to my 454 Casull. If I were to have my 454 in a town and got attacked by a pit bull I am sure I would use it, but I would have to be concerned with the fact that the 370 grain LBT bullet exits moose and Bison so it IS going to exit a Pit Bull. My 357 would be a better weapon, but I'd use what I had at the time. If I had a 22, I'd use that. If I had the 44 mag, I'd use that. If I could get to my 270 I'd use that
My point is that any gun is better then no gun. If you have one, use it until you get something better.
|November 14, 2011, 12:20 PM
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Just out of curiousity, does anyone have a links to articles where any animal except a bear or moose continued to severly maul or kill a person in N.A. after being shot with any gun? After decades of reading hunting magazines, shooting magazines, watching the news and the internet I've never heard of such a case.
|November 14, 2011, 06:20 PM
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I know of a hunting trip when i shot a feral boar hog I'n the shoulder with a 30-06 and when i went I'n to retrieve him I'n thick cover he jumped on me and was eating my a-" up when i shot him a second time I'n the face at point blank to end him. So yes, you go ahead and use a 22. If that's all i had i would too but I'n a scenario with a charging animal give me a 357 or a 40 cal
|November 16, 2011, 12:50 PM
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Listen, Ive heard of certain neighbors who have bad dogs and for some reason these neighbors dont ever seem to keep their dogs put up in their own yards. (bad neighbors) And then you have to worry about walking up and down your own road or your children playing outside in their own yard. So for those bad neighbors, dont ask them about their dogs and if youre worried about shooting their dogs if they are threatning you but youre worried about being prosecuted (Iwould shoot them in a heartbeat and have, without being prosecuted. The Sheriff told me that even if the put a toenail in my yard to drop them). Anyway, Ive always heard that a can of dogfood and go to the store and get gopher bait (grainules) put a handful in dogfood. mix with a stick drive by at night and chunk can out and dogs love it. In 5 minutes problem solved and then some of these people on here who say youre bad and dont have to shoot a dog can no longer say that because you didnt shoot a dog. Atleast I heard the dogfood works in 5 minutes. Give or take a minute!
|November 16, 2011, 01:18 PM
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Taking out an unfriendly animal on your own property is one thing, but this...ya know, I don't even know where to start, so lets just go ahead and let previous statement say it all...
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|November 16, 2011, 01:36 PM
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I don't think I'd want to rely on a .22 for any kind of defense. I've never had a reliability issue from a .22 pistol... but .22 ammo is another story. Been way too many times that I pulled the trigger and just got a click... dud rounds.
|November 16, 2011, 01:36 PM
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Interesting question...
About 3 years ago two of my (female) friends were out for an afternoon walk. Towards the end of their walk they were approached by a Pitbull. The dog attacked one of the females and had her pinned on the ground.
Luckily the other friend happens to be a competitive target shooter and they were just outside of her home. She immediately ran inside ad grabbed her pistol, a .22lr semi-auto. Upon returning, the attack was turning pretty vicious. The pit had ahold of a leg and was intent on keeping it.
At nearly point blank range, the friend with the gun fired 6 shots to the head of the pitbull. The first 5 shots didn't even phase the dog as it continued to attack. I remember her mentioning that she didn't think the rounds were penetrating the skull at all.
The 6th shot dropped the dog for good, but not before it did some significant damage to the girls leg and thigh area.
A few things I took from this situation... always carry your gun! They were lucky to be so close to home. A .22lr may well drop a good sized animal, but it also may not. Those "odds" are not good enough for me. There are plenty of good centerfire pistols that are small enough to carry ANYWHERE.
I'm not taking my chances with a .22 for SD/HD firearm. I'll save my .22lr's for plinking and squirrels
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|November 16, 2011, 08:02 PM
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You're killing "every" animal that eats your poisoned bait. What's the sense in that? IMHO, it's just senseless killing and downright lazy.
I wouldn't use a .22LR unless I didn't have a better choice, e.g. 9mm or .45 ACP, but I wouldn't hesitate to do so given the "proper" circumstances.
|November 16, 2011, 10:43 PM
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Mike you should try when you're reading to understand what you read. I personally said I'd rather shoot a bad dog myself! And i said I heard that a can of laced dogwood also works wonders on bad dogs. Either way if you're a responsible dog owner you shouldn't have to worry bout this anyhow, right? And if you live down the road from me and you have mean dogs and can't keep or fail to keep em I'n your own yard and one night they end up dead and there's a empty dogwood can I'n your ditch then it's probably not me! But if my kids or myself is walking down the road and your mean dogs come out of your yard I'n a threatening manner then I'll shoot them while you watch!
|November 17, 2011, 05:33 AM
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farmerboy... My reading comprehension is fine. Poisoned bait is indiscriminate killing of any animal that eats it.
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|November 17, 2011, 09:38 AM
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.22s are great guns, and I carry them often, but I've seen enough squirrels require a followup shot that I'd be hesitant to use them for defense, unless recoil or concealment are extreme issues. .22 magnum is better, but centerfire is best. Rimfire will never be 99% reliable in all firearms. I've never had a dud centerfire that wasn't a reload (not mine) or the fault of the firearm.
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If Chris Bosh has said it once this season, he has said it 100 times. It's at the point now where he even apologizes for being repetitive.
Win or lose, good game or bad, Bosh at one point in his post-game discussion brings up the need for the Raptors to be more aggressive going to the basket.
Bosh has heard that from Day 1 from Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell and has heeded that advice far more often than not. Too often though he has been a gang of one.
A group effort last night of driving to the basket resulted in a lopsided 116-91 win over the Sacramento Kings.
Bosh led the way with 31 points on 11-of-12 shooting and nine of 10 from the free-throw line. Being more aggressive on offence still is a work in progress, but lately Bosh is finding more of his teammates following his lead.
Anthony Parker, for instance, as great an outside shooter as he is, is showing signs of expanding his offensive game. His baseline drive last night that culminated in a dunk three minutes into the second half was the second time he has made that move in the past three games. Both times he came back up the court looking like he was ready to explode.
Jamario Moon, a guy with probably more ability to drive and score than anyone on the team, has been reluctant for whatever reason. Seven minutes into the third quarter last night, Moon went hard to the hole and while he didn't wind up scoring, he got the ball into Bosh's hands under the basket. Bosh was fouled and went to the line for an easy two points.
Mitchell, from the other end of the court got Moon's attention with his arms and could be heard asking Moon: "See what happens?"
"I threatened Jamario that if he did not drive I was going to take him out of the game, but he drove and dropped the ball off to Chris who go fouled for free throws," Mitchell said.
It's an on-going battle for Mitchell with a team of mostly finesse shooters, but the Raptors coach knows his team has to be more than just a one-dimensional team if it is to have any long-term success.
"I break it down to them like this," Bosh said. "You can shoot the ball at any point in the game. You can get a jump shot easy. Taking the ball to the basket is not easy. When you're not doing that it means you're settling and that doesn't put much pressure on the defence. It makes it easier for them if you're not hitting your shots and it's a lower-percentage shot. When you drive you have more options. You can kick to an open teammate or finish at the rim and that makes the defence collapse."
Carlos Delfino, one of the few Raptors who always has been a drive-first guy, had a career night with 26 points on 8-of-11 shooting.
Jose Calderon, another guy who shows no reluctance going to the basket had 17 points and 14 assists.
The Kings finally have all their injured players back, but it's obvious they are going to need some reaquainting time before they smooth out the rough edges. Point guard Mike Bibby, who showed few rough edges at all in a 19-point evening, was making his season debut after a torn ligament in his left thumb cost him the first 36 games of the year.
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1. Red Velvet: HannaH's (San Jose)
2. S'mores: Kara's Cupcakes (San Jose)
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I love this combo of chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker.
3. Black & White: Sprinkles (Palo Alto)
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Because sometimes its hard to just choose one.
4. Drum Stick: Love's Cupcakes (Downtown San Jose)
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Taste exactly like an chocolate dipped ice cream cone minus the ice cream. It's delicious
5. Cotton Candy: American Cupcake (San Francisco)
Pretty infused cotton candy blue frosting on vanilla cake. Reminds me of a ride on a ferris wheel.
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BUSINESSES in the centre of Chester-le-Street hope to win more trade from passing coach parties.
Two coach bays have been created in Cone Terrace at the north end of the town opposite the market place and Civic Heart.
Chester-le-Street, which was originally home to the monks who fled Lindisfarne carrying St Cuthbert's coffin and who eventually settled in Durham, attracts thousands of cricket fans each summer to Durham County Cricket Club's stadium on the Riverside.
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The town is hoping to cash this August when the ground hosts its first England v Australia Ashes match.
Shops, bars and restaurants in the town hope to attract more passing trade from coaches travelling on the nearby A1(M) by providing somewhere in the town centre where they can stop.
The coach bay scheme has been carried out by the Chester-le-Street and District Area Action Partnership (AAP), part of Durham County Council,.
The coach stop was one of the proposals contained in the town's Destination Development Plan (tourism plan), which the AAP and tourism development organisation Visit County Durham drew up with residents and businesses.
Chester-le-Street Business Association vice-chairman Alex Nelson, of Chester-Le-Track, which runs the town's railway station, said: "The businesses of Chester-le-Street are delighted to welcome coach visitors to the town."
Mr Nelson added: "We can offer more than a motorway service station, all with step-free access. Come for a little dose of history in the town where the Lindisfarne Gospels were first translated into English."
Adrian White, Durham County Council's head of transport and contract services, said: "The council is committed to supporting local businesses and the new bus bays will make it even easier for tourists to visit Chester-le-Street's shops, bars and cafes."
Chester-le-Street AAP officer Derek Snaith said: "We have worked alongside the local business association to undertake projects which have a positive economic benefit for the town and this is another significant step forward."
The Confederation of Passenger Transport UK has helped the county council to make better provision in the centre of Chester-le-Street for coach parking.


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Well, enjoy having two Thundercrackers.xyl360 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If you own any of the Thrilling 30 Generations, you could set him over on an IDW shelf with them separate from the WFC/FOC figures.xyl360 wrote:Well crap, it looks like I should have skipped that Hasbro Thundercracker after all . Oh well, he can become a generic WfC/FoC seeker I guess.
No, actually I can't because I don't read the comics. The Thrilling 30 line is just more Generations/Classics/whatever to me and just because Hasbro and IDW decided to repurpose an existing mold from a different continuity (sorry, but this IS an FoC mold, period) doesn't mean that I have to .


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I updated with an Ironman variant cover I did a few month ago. MArvel had a bunch of different artists create an ironman redesign throughout the ages. I got to do WW1, I really like how it turned out. (ps - it will be the variant cover for secret warriors #15)
Word up Gang! Sorry for not posting any art in a long while or even sticking my head in here to say hi, Ive been very busy working, but here is a preview of something I did last year among other things.
Also, I will be instructing at the MADE workshop in Berlin along with many many great people! Its going to be insane! check out the MADE site or the MADE forums here on CA for more info!
VIKING an original comic series I did with author Ivan Brandon for Image comics. Its a Viking crime story.
Since the Hardcover collection (152 pages of AWESOME!) came out last week I wanted to pimp it here. your local comic shop should have it, go take a look!!
Here is some Preview art:
the HC
and HC with single issues
the HC cover art with design by the talented Tom Muller ( http://www.hellomuller.com/ )
some single issues covers
some pages, in no order
All artwork is done by me, colors and all, I did the whole series in a traditional manner ie all on paper, the colors are digital, all painted elements are also analogue.
and last but not least here is the WS flyer again, IF you missed it
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Actually, having read all of epicyclo's post now, I think she might be my sister
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Parents now live in Australia and speak to them about once every two months. Me and my two brothers can go 6 months without speaking but it's like we've never been apart when we are together. Some families are just like that.
This topic has just prompted me to call them. Turns out they are now both immigrating to Australia as well!
I think I'm probably quite like your brother so I can give a perspective that might be helpful.
I'm actually pretty close to my family - we all get on well, always did when I was young and always have a great time when we're together.
But, I'm a pretty independent person and I don't need to talk to people regularly to feel close to them - same goes for close friends actually - so I don't have the inherent triggers to constantly call/talk/text them that say my wife does with her family. It's definitely a bloke thing to some extent but also just how some people are.
For me, from the point when I moved out of home to go to uni (eg the last time we lived together), I saw/talked to them a lot less and didn't really 'miss' the contact as I knew they were always there and that essentially nothing had changed.
That said, I guess as I've got older and had kids, I've become more aware that how I perceive things isn't necessarily how other people do and so I do actively make the effort to call my family regularly simply because I know they might feel how emma does otherwise. For me it doesn't make me feel any closer as I don't need that contact for that but I know that they've appreciated it.
So, emma, maybe your brother just hasn't realised that side of it and next time you talk to him maybe just mention in a non-judgemental way that you'd love to talk to him more often...
Me and our kid (ickle sister) are really close. We always have been. We always knocked around together, and made a real effort to see each other, despite her being in London and me oop north. I've had some of the best times of my life with her and love her to bits! She was my best man and everyfink
The thing is, people always remark on how well we get on. And how its nothing like the relationship they have with their siblings. It certainly seems to be the exception, rather than the rule
And we don't phone each other all the time, or owt like that. She's like a bloke in that respect. We just have a right laugh when we're together and immediately revert to behaving like kids
I've got an incredibly needy sister-in-law you can have..
Emma, don't give up on him. He probably values your relationship very much, but he might just have the type of personality which makes it difficult to keep in touch. I'm very similar - I love my sister very much, but I'm always forgetting to contact her, because something more immediate comes up, or I forget, or other. I don't care about her any less.
Maybe just mention it to him (not in a nagging way) and say you'd like to hear from him more often. Certainly don't assume it's resentment or indifference.
My sister might say the same about me! Well, not quite- she's got the kids and I do make some effort, but as said above people are different and I don't feel the need to be in touch with my family all the time- doesn't mean I don't care about them.
clubber sums it up nicely for me.
I have a 2 years younger brother, we are close, get on great when we meet up, like the same things, similar group of friends, usual stuff. I was best man at his wedding, he will be best man at mine.
It is not uncommon for us not to speak for a couple of months, and it is not uncommon for us to not see each other for 6 months. We are both independent, both busy and neither of us ones for just calling for a chat.
It's a bloke thing in my eyes, I am the same with my friends as well, I get in contact when I have news (actually, I don't, people just hear it on the grapevine unless it is really big) or fancy meeting up. All male parties seem happy as we are all of similar mind sets.
So in summary, don't panic, he is a bloke.
Our family lives separate lives, they live one end of the country I live the other, it's always been like that. Having left Uni to return to my home county Shropshire they promptly upped sticks and moved to Cambridge where my Sis married and had 4 kiddos in succession, Mother remained there to help out, Father died of bowel cancer shortly after….
So I'd make the effort to visit, every month I'd pop down and for a while we carried on as a family, only after a couple of issues we had to face bang on the nose did we start to drift apart. I moved south for sailing and been here 20 years, they've stayed where they are and in that time we've hardly spent any time together. I rarely go up, she's been down once, we chat twice a year. My Mothers a different matter, she's always in contact, in fact if it wasn't for her I'd rarely talk to her for weeks on end then I'll get a text saying "Hi, it's your Mom" and we start up all over again.. then I'll drift off and we go round in these circles over the years. We've recently had some rather bad news, my Nephew and my Niece's Fiancé were killed at the weekend, totally devastating news for my Sis and family and yes we've spoken and it's like we're still Bro and Sis, nothing changes, we've always been the same, always been there for each other..
But, the over riding feeling I have in all this is simple, I love them all, but I'm happy with my family and to me that's the most important thing.
I guess a lot of guys are like this, those that I've spoken to about it are similar, we'll be astrainged but not really, we do appreciate the affection from our family, but we're happy on our own or with our own family.
I do envy those with close knit families though, you know those with Mum/Dad/Sis/Bro all living close by, all sharing each other..
I don't really have that, but I don't think I've ever had that either.
The saddest thing for us is that my wife's parents are both no longer with us and mine are. Her parents did everything they could to involve themselves with us and our son but both died in their mid sixties. Mine never visit and rarely call despite managing to spend two months of every winter in Palm Springs and have told me and my sister not to visit at the same time with our families because too many people in the house stresses them.
Bloody hell - being an only child seems to have some advantages.
It's not always like that.
However in my case it's somewhere in the middle. My 18 months older sister is not really like me at all, neither is my Mum, but we do make the effort to do family stuff fairly often. It's not too much of a chore but it is rather frustrating. I can't really be fully myself as they don't really get me very well, but of course I'm used to that since it's how I grew up. Fortunately I have Mrs Grips for being myself with And, somewhat strangely, the rest of her family.
I have to hold my hand up and admit that I'm not very good at communication, but the rest of my family is great so I don't think it's much of a problem. My Mum gets a little peeved when I haven't called for a while and I just love winding her up with one word responses to her emails
My old Man is a nightmare, you call him and after 'hello' it seems he want to go, but that's just him. He's cr*p on the phone.
Most important thing is do you actually get along when together? As long as someone makes the effort and you talk or see each other on a fairly regular basis them what's the problem.
Wow.. some very tough stories there.
My Mum had a sister, they fell out 35 years ago (when I was 3) and never spoke, I only ever set eyes on her once at a funeral about 5 years ago. last year my Mum sent me a text which read - 'just found out my sister died, and the funeral was last week, I guess some families just don't work out'
My Dad has a brother who never makes the effort - he is a grade A sh*t - my Grandmother passed away earlier this year, and I doubt any of us will ever see him again now...
My wifes family is a nightmare, her Mum is a nasty cow, who has fallen out with her entire family, my wife has two needy sisters who tend to only make a big effort when they want something..
The whole family have regular 'Springer show' style rows (Christmas day is a favorite) and are just hard work...
I have a younger brother, who is 34 (4 years younger than me) we speak most weeks, and probably see each other monthly, he has a life-limiting illness (the big C) and realistically is unlikely to see his 40th birthday, I'm going to find this tough as although we're not 'best mates' we've got a healthy sibling relationhip and do need each other.
If the reason you don't see/hear from your siblings is purely down to laziness then please at least send them the odd text, as you never know when they'll be gone for good...
Fascinating thread this.
One of my brothers is a little odd and I only see him at Christmas - and then not every year. The other brother and sister I see occasionally and we don't call each other much just at family stuff. We get on fine though. Just families and work etc.
I have more problems with my daughter (26) who never contacts me. A couple of years ago I decided to not call her to see what would happen and the answer is nothing. I do call her for her birthday and Christmas as I do not want to lose touch. Whenever we speak she is great, happy to talk and stuff. Seeing her in London this Sunday which will be the first time this year - and not sure if I saw her last year. That hurts me more than my siblings.
It would appear that some of you blokes don't make an effort.
Yep you are right C_G, im a right lazy bugger and really need to make more of an effort. ALl my family are very good at keeping in touch considering we live on opposite sides of the world. My fault when it slides though
I am pretty rubbish with my Mum and brother, but they're in Oz so the time difference plus the fact that Mum lives in the shed most weekends makes phoning difficult. Emails every few weeks with Mum, probably speak to my Bro once every 3 months but we both have small children so that does make it harder. Need to make more effort really. My sister is spending a few years in the UK and I definitely haven't seen her enough. Really missed seeing her grow up.
I think you shouldn't take it personally that you have to make the effort as long as things are good between you. My brother and I are definitely a little like that which means we go longer without speaking, but I love him very much and always think about how his life is going. Hope your brother is the same. Maybe tell him how you feel?
My bother moved to NZ about twenty years ago. We didnt always keep in touch until the last 5 years or so. He died suddenly last april. Glad i made the effort, maybe some on here might think about how they might feel if something happend to tske away the option.
To those who think it's "sad" or "tough" that some siblings don't chat very often; why do you think that. To me, it's perfectly natural. I have friends with whom I have a lot in common. We share interests, care about each other, maybe even disagree on stuff. Through an accident of birth, I also have a brother. I have absolutely nothing in common with him. Why would I want to keep in touch?
I think it is sad though Druidh, you grow up with someone so there must be some kind of bond there? but I guess I'm just being sentimental.
For those that asked - no I haven't ever said anything because I think it is just a bloke thing by the looks of it, he's just very laid back and to be honest, I think he's like that with everyone. Like others have said I know he'd be there if I needed it, he's just completely useless at keeping in contact. I don't mind being the one chasing but just once every now and then it would be nice to get a response to a text!
My brother lives in Ireland. I reckon he moved there so he could detach himself from the family - I think he finds it easier that way. He never got on well with my Dad and we've always had a strained relationship. Sad really, he's a good bloke and if he wanted to talk about how he feels I reckon he'd get a positive response from us.
He made me Godfather to his two boys which was great and was a positive gesture but I'm b*ggered if I can get any communication from him at all. Text, email, Facebook. Nothing. He must just delete them without thinking... Had something of a personal crisis this year, got no message of support from him at all, except the time I called him... I have to say that's pretty poor, it only takes 30 seconds to send a text.
One of my best mates is a couple of years older than me. I've never said it to him but when we first met I saw him as a proxy older brother. He's not that close to his younger brother so I guess it's something that works for both of us.
I reckon happy and non-dysfunctional families are as rare as hen's teeth. Most people I know have issues at some level with siblings or parents.
emma82 - MemberI have friends with whom I have grown up for longer than I was sharing a house with my brother. I also have ex-friends I haven't seen for decades. It's no different.
I think it is sad though Druidh, you grow up with someone so there must be some kind of bond there? but I guess I'm just being sentimental.
I'd say it's sad because as siblings you might have a lot of shared experiences. When I think about the good things in my life, lots of them are related to my family in some way. If you don't have that outlook then yes, I'd say that was a shame because it's something precious.
It's precious to you because you have lots of shared happy memories. For me, those are with my folks and/or my friends. So, I haven't lost anything and there's nothing to be sad about.
I have 2 younger brothers.
One lives in Stoke and the other in Liverpool but I couldn't tell you where.
They never call me or get in touch with my kids.
We all like music but have nothing else in common.
It's a shame but thats life I feel.
Did your parents keep your brother in the basement or something?
Did your parents keep your brother in the basement or something?
Was that for me Rich? He wasn't kept in a basement but actually there were a lot of unpleasant things happened to us as we were growing up courtesy of our bell end father, brother got the brunt of it though but weirdly has forgiven/forgotten and sees him quite often. I however cant be in the same room as said sperm donor without wanting to to physically harm him. I do sometimes wonder if that causes problems, it's an elephant in the room, we don't talk about it.
We were quite close as a family growing up. We stayed out of town and there weren't many other families about.
It started off with me distancing myself from my elder brother (and family) as they just weren't interested in me or my life. I was glad when they moved abroad but i do miss my nieces (who I love to bits) but hey ho I'm not that great an uncle to them. they usually say hi when passing through (bless 'em).
I guess that when I went through a rough patch splitting up with a long time partner I distanced myself from the rest of my family as I thought that I wasnt going to be about for much longer so it would be easier on them I guess.
Turns out I was a little premature on that score but the 'bond' has kind of been broken. I still make the odd token effort but I can't recall anybody really making an effort to contact me.
To be honest I 'cut out' a lot of people. I guess thats the way it goes.
That's my bed, so I'll lie in it.
I'm getting slowly a bit closer to my brother as we get older. But we have never been that close.
Haven't seen my father for 25 years - but may change that soon.
People who have entirely textbook families have real difficulty understanding that it isn't always that way as this thread shows...
I find myself agreeing with druidh. Must be an age thing.
You can choose your friends but cant choose your family. Seems logical that you wont always like your family.
I think it is sad though Druidh, you grow up with someone so there must be some kind of bond there?
There is. I know this because when my sister was ill, close to death, I prayed for her. And am so grateful she has returned to health.
I suspect a lot of siblings have issues that derive from parental attention problems, perhaps that the elder envies the necessary attention paid to the younger. And this carries on hidden by layers of life-events.
I have no real memory of any kind of relationship with my sister when I was small - we just avoided each other. It was only after both our parents died that she and her new husband decided to care for me. It was a difficult situation to develop a relationship and there was a lot of tension. But I have not forgotten, despite the aggro, what she did for me.
We'll never be really close, but we get along better now then we ever have because we are older and can look back at events with better understanding.
I will ring her at the weekend.
Like 'iseedarkness' i made a semi-consious decision to cut people out of what passed for my life at the time, although they weren't family but friends - i'd already cut the family away.
Like the above i think i was thinking similar thoughts for my sins.
Not good.
I called my sister last night to arrange meeting up over Xmas and what to buy the kids. It was during that conversation that we both realised we hadn't spoken since before their summer holiday. Nothing deliberate, just a failure to do much outside the day to day, week to week routine.
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The Affordable Care Act requires employers that provide health insurance to employees to provide contraceptive coverage for women. Religious organizations that oppose contraception have argued that this violates their religious beliefs and have gone to court to say that they should be exempt under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that prevents the government from taking actions that would "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion" unless there is a "compelling governmental interest" and the action is the "least restrictive" it can take.
Three kinds of groups have gone to court and their cases are at different stages.
One consists of private for-profit business. Two such companies Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties have argued that the religious beliefs of the owners of these companies pass through to the companies themselves and thus the companies should be exempt from government rules that violate their religious beliefs. They won their case at the Appeals Court level and the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 25, 2014.
But explicitly religious organizations have also challenged the requirement. When the Catholic church and other religious groups objected, the Obama administration created an accommodation for them, saying that that they could claim a religious exemption from providing and paying for such contraceptive services and shift the responsibility and cost to the health insurance companies that still had to provide the services but which would recoup their costs in other ways. All the religious organization had to do was submit a form to the government that would enable them to be exempt from paying for the coverage and inform their insurance companies to that effect.
But even this modest requirement was too much for them. A Catholic religious order known as Little Sisters of the Poor said that merely filling out such a form exempting themselves violated their religious beliefs and they took their case to court. (Note that despite its faux-humble name, this organization of nuns is a big worldwide operation and employing many people.) While their case was pending, they asked for an injunction that would excuse them from complying with the requirement that took effect on January 1, 2014. The District Court denied their request for an injunction, as did the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. They made an emergency appeal to US Supreme Court and justice Sonia Sotomayor granted it on December 31, 2013. The full Supreme Court affirmed her injunction on January 24, 2014 saying: "To meet the condition for injunction pending appeal, applicants need not use the form prescribed by the Government and need not send copies to third-party administrators. The Court issues this order based on all of the circumstances of the case, and this order should not be construed as an expression of the Court's views on the merits." So we will have to await the outcome of that case as its works its way through the lower courts.
The third category lies between the other two and consists of nonprofit organizations that are not explicitly religious but have a religious orientation and also want to avoid complying with the ACA mandates. They are making the same claim as Little Sisters, that filling out the form constitutes a violation of their religious beliefs under RFRA. Such a claim was brought by the University of Notre Dame and rejected by a US District Judge. The university then appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that last Friday also ruled against them.
Its opinion first scolded Notre Dame for waiting until the last minute to file its suit and sending in the form anyway as a precaution against having files levied against it and otherwise botching the whole process. But then the court went on to address the merits of their arguments and it was quite sarcastic.
Under RFRA, the government cannot impose an undue burden on religious people and must show compelling interest in doing so. But as the court noted, the burden here is hardly onerous.
The form is two pages long—737 words, most of it boring boilerplate; the passages we quoted earlier, the only ones of consequence, consist of only 95 words. Signing the form and mailing it to Meritain and Aetna could have taken no more than five minutes. The university claims that there are other paperwork requirements; there aren't. The only colorable burden it complains about has nothing to do with time or cost; it is that by filling out the form and sending it to the companies it "triggers" their coverage of the contraception costs of the university's female employees and students, and that this makes the university an accomplice in the provision of contraception, in violation of Catholic doctrine, which in the name of avoiding "scandal" forbids the encouragement (equivalent to aiding and abetting) of sinful acts. (p. 13)
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The novelty of Notre Dame's claim—not for the exemption, which it has, but for the right to have it without having to ask for it—deserves emphasis. United States law and public policy have a history of accommodating religious beliefs, as by allowing conscientious objection to the military draft—and now exempting churches and religious institutions from the Affordable Care Act's requirements of coverage of contraceptive services. What makes this case and others like it involving the contraception exemption paradoxical and virtually unprecedented is that the beneficiaries of the religious exemption are claiming that the exemption process itself imposes a substantial burden on their religious faiths. The closest analogues we have found are cases in which churches seeking rezoning or variances claim that the process for obtaining permission is so cumbersome as to constitute a substantial burden on religious practice. (p. 20) [My italics-MS]
The court was incredulous at some of the oral arguments made by the counsel for Notre Dame, who said that by sending in such a form, the university would be 'triggering' the coverage by another party and thus still violating its religious beliefs.
Consider this further example illustrative of our doubts. Suppose it is wartime, there is a draft, and a Quaker is called up. Many Quakers are pacifists, and their pacifism is a tenet of their religion. Suppose the Quaker who's been called up tells the selective service system that he's a conscientious objector. The selective service officer to whom he makes this pitch accepts the sincerity of his refusal to bear arms and excuses him. But as the Quaker leaves the selective service office, he's told: "you know this means we'll have to draft someone in place of you" and the Quaker replies indignantly that if the government does that, it will be violating his religious beliefs. Because his religion teaches that no one should bear arms, drafting another person in his place would make him responsible for the military activities of his replacement, and by doing so would substantially burden his own sincere religious beliefs. Would this mean that by exempting him the government had forced him to "trigger" the drafting of a replacement who was not a conscientious objector, and that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act would require a draft exemption for both the Quaker and his non‐Quaker replacement? That seems a fantastic suggestion. Yet confronted with this hypothetical at the oral argument, Notre Dame's counsel acknowledged its applicability and said that drafting a replacement indeed would substantially burden the Quaker's religion.
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Two classic rock artists have become part of the day's political news cycle.
First, there's Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who's turned to the rousing theme of Simon and Garfunkel's "America" for a new ad in advance of the Iowa caucuses. The television spot, which you can watch above, pairs the duo's 1968 classic with shots of every-day Americans at work and cheering crowds at Sanders' campaign events. (Iowa's first-in-the-nation voting takes place 11 days from now, as the campaign for a successor to President Barack Obama gets underway.)
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Date Added: 25/05/2015Carolina Herrera 212 s a crisp, present day and city feel like fragrance. Gives you vitality and a youthful feeling. its not the exemplary crisp fragrance however, it has a particular note too, so not exhausting by any means. I had it couple of years back and I would purchase it again and again...by Mary
Date Added: 30/03/2015Carolina Herrera 212 is a refreshing, contemporary and city type of fragrance. It has a vibe of energy and a brings a youthful sensation. Setting itself apart from the vintage fresh perfumes having a unique element making it really interesting. this goes back some years for me and would easily buy it again.by Elizabeth
Date Added: 17/11/2012My experience with 212 was a love-at-first-sniff one. I instantly knew this perfume is going to be on the top of my list for a very long time. Why, because it's perfectly gentle, fresh, with a shy touch of beautiful flowers. because it makes me feel classy and sexy because it lingers forever...and people keep asking me how do I manage to smell so damn lovely all the time. Also, i love the scent of lilies and it's the only note i can distinguish (besides the sandalwood)....while the rest remains an amazing mystery to me.... I highly recommend this modern and mild scent....hard to find a combination like that!!!by sea breeze
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Narendra is a Fellow of the Ashridge Centre for Research in Executive Development. He is a management educator and consultant, who specialises in strategic innovation, execution, the challenges of building market-focused organisations, and leader development.
Narendra has consulted at senior management/board level with a large number of international organisations such as Bauer Media, BT, Lafarge, Lexis Nexis, and Western Union. He has undertaken management development projects for diverse clients such as Alcatel, BBC, Bayer Crop Science, Danfoss, Molnlycke, Philips, SAB Miller, and Sinopec. He has also made numerous appearances as a keynote speaker at client conferences, as well as at Cornell, Duke, Stellenbosch, and INSEAD business schools.
In 2008, Narendra was awarded the Doctor of Business Administration degree at Cranfield University in England for his research into the dimensions, development, and deployment of strategic leader capability. He also has degrees in economics and management.
Narendra started his career with ICI, and worked with this chemical multinational for 15 years in a range of general management roles in the UK, Belgium and India. He joined Ashridge Business School in 1995 and worked there until 2015, most recently as Dean of Graduate Studies.
Laljani, N. and Peters, K. (2015) 'The Future of Management Development: A Manifesto'. In Hind, P. (Ed) Management Development that Works, Libri Publishing Ltd
Peters, B.K.G., and Laljani, N.,(2012) The Value of an MBA in Germany, Wirtschaft und Weiterbildung, as well as Schwertfeger-MBA-Channel , May
Paine Schofield, C., Honore, S. & Laljani, N. (2011) Generation Y: Bridging the gulf to make them tomorrow's leaders, NHRD Network Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 4
Peters, B.K.G. and Laljani, N. (2010) Executive Education, Ambition, Association of MBAs
Over the last eighteen months of economic turmoil, leaders, their ethics, morals and judgement have been scrutinised and questioned. Indeed
the whole topic of leadership and its role in business, politics and wider society has been the subject of great debate. 360° brought together three of Ashridge's leadership experts, Dave Bond, Narendra Laljani and Stefan Wills, to get their views on how the broad subject of leadership is evolving – and importantly – what are the leadership development challenges for business schools and other learning providers.
Bond, D., Laljani, N. & Wills, S. (2009) Perspectives: Leadership challenges, 360° The Ashridge Journal, pp. 33 - 36, Winter
Motivated by a desire to improve the effectiveness of the development of strategic leaders, Narendra challenges much of the received wisdom of the leadership development industry and offers new approaches, including a new model of strategic leadership capability, and suggests how it could be developed and deployed effectively.
Laljani, N. (2009) Making Strategic Leaders, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978 0 230 57749 7
Peters, B.K.G. & Laljani, N. (2009) Management Education and Global Experience, Global Study Magazine
Kai Peters and Narendra Laljani on the global trends in Business Education, and their implications for potential international students.
Peters, B.K.G. & Laljani, N. (2008) Study Abroad Trends, Global Study Magazine
Kai Peters and Narendra Laljani write on the ever expanding MBA market
Peters, B.K.G. & Laljani, N. (2008) The Evolving MBA, Global Study Magazine, pp. 6 - 9
Laljani, N. (2007) The Dimensions, Development and Deployment of Strategic Leader Capability, Thesis for Doctorate
India's offshoring sector has been driven by cheap labour and a competitive culture. But as the country's low-cost advantage diminishes, Indian firms will need to find innovative ways to stay ahead of new emerging economies. With an annual economic growth rate of around seven to eight per cent, India has emerged as a future economic superpower. But is the country's impressive growth down to lower costs alone? Once India's cost advantage diminishes, will future growth shift to companies in other low-cost economies? We believe that cheap labour is the beginning, not the end.
Vedala, S., Peters, B.K.G., Laljani, N. (2006) The India Effect, European Business Forum, (EBF), Autumn, Issue 26, pp. 31 - 35
Laljani, N. (2005) MBA Programme Design, CEEman Annual Conference, Kiev.
Presentation describing the development of a partnership between Ashridge and the BBC for the delivery of management development for the Corporation.
Laljani, N. (2005) New Learning Partnerships, CEEMAN conference, Talinn and EFMD conference, Kiev, September.
Laljani, N. (2005) Dirty Little Secret or Untidy Quilt? A Critique of the Strategic Process Literature, Cranfield Working Paper Series


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Staggering photo shows incredible moment container ship narrowly avoids bolt of lightning
THEY say lightning never strikes the same place twice – which makes this once-in-a-lifetime photograph of a lightning bolt narrowly missing a container ship even more spectacular.
The staggering photograph shows the ship carefully navigating its way through five white-hot forks of lightning – one appearing to miss the vessel by mere inches.
The container ship was on-course for Koper, in Southwest Slovenia when the stunning storm flared up.
It was a spectacular lightning show, and there were multiple strikes that lit up the night sky
Meteorologist and photographer Marko Korosec took the photograph after waiting for hours on a dark coastal road between Koper and Izola – looking out at the building storm over the Adriatic Sea.
He said: "At first the storm was behind the ship but in a moment it was just over it, the weather can change so quickly.
"It was a spectacular lightning show, and there were multiple strikes that lit up the night sky"
Luckily for those aboard the lumbering container ship the fork of lightning was not as dangerously close as it appears in the photo.
The bolt actually struck a few hundred metres to the right of the boat, creating a nail-biting optical illusion.
Mr Korosec, who watched the entire storm, said: "The whole thing lasted around two hours, the lightning strikes were absolutely stunning to watch.
"The weather reports and lightning detectors showed that the strikes were all hitting the gulf, I'd say this storm was around 5-10km away from my position"


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PORTSMOUTH — Prescott Park Arts Festival has just announced another stellar act to join this summer's renowned River House Restaurant Concert Series. On Wednesday, Aug. 21, the Festival will welcome acclaimed Americana bluegrass singer songwriter, Ruth Moody, to the FairPoint Communications Mainstage. The lead Soprano singer of the well-loved folk group The Wailin' Jennys will debut her solo music starting at 7 p.m.
Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ruth Moody is a two-time Juno Award winning singer-songwriter. Best known as a founding member of the internationally renowned, Billboard-charting trio The Wailin' Jennys, and former lead singer of the Canadian roots band Scruj MacDuhk, Moody has performed in sold-out venues around the world, made numerous critically-acclaimed albums, received five Juno awards nominations, and has appeared more than a dozen times on the American national radio show A Prairie Home Companion. In 2010, Ruth released her first solo album, The Garden, to rave reviews in 2011. Produced by David Travers-Smith, The Garden was nominated for two Juno awards, a Western Canadian Music Award and three Canadian Folk Music Awards. Her most recent solo album, These Wilder Things, has thoroughly impressed critics and she continues to receive high praise for her blossoming solo career.
"Ruth Moody is an amazingly talented singer and songwriter," says Executive Director Ben Anderson. "The Wailin' Jennys' performance in the Park two years ago revealed Moody's uncanny ability to mesmerize the audience with her ethereal voice, and her effortless rotation of instruments. Her recent solo work has clearly demonstrated a new depth of talent that she holds, and couldn't be more excited for her return."
As with all Prescott Park Arts Festival events, events are free and open to the public, with a suggested $5-$10 donation. Blanket reservations and tables on the Federal Savings Bank VIP Seating Deck are available through the Festival's website: www.prescottpark.org or by calling 603-436-2848. All are encouraged to come to Prescott Park enjoy this stellar concert with their own chairs and blankets.
Visit the Festival's website, www.prescottpark.org, for a full schedule, reservation information, and details.
Prescott Park Arts Festival, a nonprofit organization, is the Seacoast's premier outdoor performing arts venue, offering a uniquely accessible experience of high quality live theater and music — no fixed admissions fees — in an idyllic natural setting.


text: just love it when I download a blackbox 95% of the way and drop it (for a reason of course), i see alot of ppl crying they cant rank up and it takes forever, and blah blah blah, whatever you cant get xp unless you shoot another player. back to the point i didnt just drop the box at 95% for some dumb ass noob to run along and end the game woo hoo i just got 200xp and the noob that ended the game got 150xp. lets utilize the time we have been alotted to gain that xp. i mean the point of the game is to either capture or destroy the box, but adding a twist in the rules will only advance you quicker in the game, lets not just fill the meter lets play keep away!


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Yeah right
Who's going to take a voluntary pay cut?
And who's betting that once the economic situation improves pay will not?
Companies which follow computer maker Hewlett-Packard's lead and attempt to cut staff wages risk triggering redundancy law payouts if they do not consult staff properly, an employment lawyer has warned. Hewlett-Packard is seeking to cut the pay of its 300,000 staff by between 2.5% and 15%, depending on the level of job they …
Who's going to take a voluntary pay cut?
And who's betting that once the economic situation improves pay will not?
Less pay, less jobs or pensions destroyed by collapsed share prices. Unite have to pick on.
Union Unite has opposed the move to cut wages at HP, however. The UK's largest union said that its members would be "astonished" at being asked to take a pay cut.
they'd be even more astonished when they compare their dole money to their supposed newly agreed wage with pay cut.
Take less money or find yourself a new job........................ oh and you are also putting all you mates jobs at risk as well.
Now if I worked at a bank and not Jaguar it wouldn't be an issues because old Mandy has loads of money for the banks... just no bright idea's for the rest of the country!
I'll get my coat. A bit obvious that one really
The problem with using HP as an example of 'innovative' thinking is that the company has form - and employees remember.
A few years ago under the fragrant Carly, in (a difficult) quarter, employees were asked to take a 10% pay cut for the quarter - to 'save jobs'. All of my team (I got the report) took the hit and I believe uptake was high. There was a good sense of camaraderie. A short time after the close, a substantial and well planned redundancy programme was announced.
Now it might have been the case that the pay cut was not well enough subscribed and this was plan B. It might also have been the case that this was a cynical move to both reduce costs and remove unnecessary workforce.
Within the company you can guess what the prevailing mood was. I think the 'fool me once...' ethos for those workers who do not have to take the pay cut will prevail.
Talking to people within the company, the death of the old (generous) pension scheme is widely anticipated, redundancy benefits for many workers have been reduced by 15% in the last three months and there is an expectation that HP will cut them further based on 'industry benchmarks' - funny how they always fall... Taking an unnecessary pay cut may well mean that existing workers in the UK (a) have their pension rights reduced, (b) have their redundancy benefits cut twice - once based on pay and then cut again and (c) get fired anyway.
Only if I had a written guarantee that Management also took a percentage cut of at least the same size.
And even then, I'd want to run it by a solicitor to make sure it was hydrogen-tight.
I would be more inclined to accept something like this (as opposed to mass involuntary redundancies) if it were a flat paycut across ALL levels (including senior management) and the managers were told 'no bonuses this year'.
But like that's going to happen! Probably the management will be given large bonuses for 'keeping staff salary costs minimised'....
Lay off 30% of management for 12 months and cut the other 70% exec salaries by 15%.
That alone would probably save the workers jobs and pay rate!
Eat the management.
If your job is surplus to requirement they will fire you anyway. The only time a pay cut is in order is if they really need your job but the company will be fucked without it. HP would not come under that category. Sounds like cut pay then slash and burn anyway.
Taking a pay cut never saves jobs that are redundant anyway. Remember that.
The concept of reduced pay to preserve people working is seductive, but as has been pointed out the issue is that the pay never recovers. A better potential solution is to pay 20% less, but require 20% less work. This also doesn't really work, since the workload is not reduced, and if you can do 100% of your work in 80% of the time, you should be made redundant for being a slacker and gold bricker.
Interestingly, few if any companies realize how to run efficiently. The problem is the cruft processes that build up. If white collar workers are laid off, not all the processes can any longer be managed -- so some processes are discarded. Hello? Why were these wasteful processes still being done if they clearly were unnecessary as demonstrated by the process disappearance after a layoff? If management was more than a pack of dullards they would realize that processes should be actively pruned and the spare work hours put to good use improving products and increasing sales, or doing whatever it is that makes your work valuable to someone else.
The incompetence of the world's industry is astonishing (and we won't even touch the government, where an empire of useless processes is the preferred method for increasing one's pay).


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KANSAS CITY The fifth time was far from the charm for Tim Wakefield and his trusty knuckleball in the pitchers personal quest for 200 career wins.
Wakefield was once again denied in his attempt to become the only active 200 game-winner in the big leagues despite carrying a 4-1 lead into the sixth inning, and instead helplessly watched a complete bullpen meltdown lead to a 9-4 drubbing at the hands of the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
Wakefield was cruising into the sixth frame with six hits and only a single run allowed to Kansas City, but the Royals started punishing the 45-year-old twirler once he neared the 90-pitch range. After a Billy Butler strikeout to start the frame Eric Hosmer, Jeff Francouer and Mike Moustakas each tagged Wakefield for a hit and closed it to a one-run game with Wakefields milestone and a three-game Sox winning streak on the line.
Terry Francona pulled Wakefield from the game and instead called on a struggling Matt Albers, who imploded on the Kansas City mound after showing plenty of signs of struggle over the last few weeks. Albers recorded only one out and allowed four runs on three hits and a pair of walks while doing a fascinating impersonation of a batting practice pitcher as his ERA ballooned to 3.71 for the season.
Albers is sporting a bloated 11.25 ERA in seven appearances and eight innings pitched during the month of August, and appears in danger of falling out of favor in the Sox bullpen.
The big blow was an Alex Gordon double to left-center field that ripped things open for the Royals, and it was much too late by the time Franklin Morales entered the game for the Sox.
The disastrous eight-run sixth inning tied for their worst of the season wiped out solid offensive performances from the bottom third of the lineup and the first two-hit game and Major League RBI for rookie Ryan Lavarnway.
Player of the Game: Alex Gordon has been a thorn in Bostons side all season, and that continued on Saturday night with a game-high three hits, two doubles and 2 RBI during the great Wakefieldbullpen implosion of 2011. Not only is Gordon really breaking through to another level of baseball stardom in Kansas City, but hes turned into a certified Red Sox killer while hitting .360 (31-for-86) with 15 extra base hits and 15 RBI and an OPS over 1.000 in 24 career games against Boston.
Honorable Mention: Ryan Lavarnway picked up a couple of hits and his first Major League RBI in defeat, and has displayed some pretty mature approaches at the plate over the last couple of games. It appears that the designated hittercatcherright-handed bat is going to be able to help out the Sox while they wait for some of their injured players to return to the fold.
The Goat: Matt Albers walked one of the most wildly free-swinging hitters in the Major Leagues, Salvador Perez, upon entering a jam in the sixth inning while protecting a one-run lead, and he threw gasoline on the fire from there. Albers finished with four runs and three hits allowed in 13 of an inning and took the loss in one of Bostons worst innings this season. Albers has an 11.25 ERA in seven games during the month of August, and it might be time for Sox manager Terry Francona to give Dan Wheeler a look in that bullpen role directly behind Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon.
Turning Point: Tim Wakefield had the game well in hand with a 4-1 lead heading into the sixth inning and got one out very quickly, but he couldnt get through the sixth to protect his 200th career win. Once the Royals put up two quick runs on Wakefield and dug into the Sox bullpen, the game was essentially over and Wakefields search for 200 career wins reached at least six games.
By the Numbers: 10 the number of scoreless games in a row that Dan Wheeler has tossed for the Red Sox while pitching his best baseball of the season.
QUOTE TO NOTE: Im not frustrated. It hasnt happened in the last five starts. Im trying to treat it like its a normal start, and Im just trying to give us quality innings and quality starts. I had a bad sixth inning. Tim Wakefield, who appeared the picture of frustration after his chances for his 200th career win fell apart in the sixth inning.
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Johannesburg - The case against four Mountain Rise policemen accused of corruption was moved to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday, the National Prosecuting Authority said.
NPA spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga said the case was postponed to August 20.
Former police director Hariram Badul, Suresh Maraindath, Yunus Khan, Bhekumuzi Nkabini and businessman Sigamoney Pillay face charges ranging from corruption to racketeering, fraud, money laundering and theft, allegedly committed between 2007 and 2009
The policemen were stationed at Mountain Rise police station in Pietermaritzburg when the offences were allegedly committed.
Badul has since been dismissed from the police service and disciplinary action is pending against his colleagues.
Mhaga said a team was dispatched to the station after whistleblowers alerted the authorities about fraudulent activities.
Their investigation found that assets could not be accounted for. Some of these were allegedly recovered at a farm owned by Badul.


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Happiest dream of a Chinese is of China fighting Japan and winning. Last month hotheaded southern warlords of Kwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces notified Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that he must either declare war at once on Japan or be prepared to stop their armies from marching northward, in the general direction of Japan, the immediate direction of Chiang's capital at Nanking. What looked to the Chinese masses like the long-awaited war with Japan was soon revealed to be just plain old-fashioned civil war, as Chiang's Press asserted that the ostensibly anti-Japanese Southerners...
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Edu rejoins Jeonbuk Hyundai
July 22, 2016 | Korea | | Photo : Getty|
Brazilian striker Edu has rejoined South Korean club Jeonbuk Hyundai after spending a year playing for Chinese Super League outfit Hebei China Fortune.
Previously, Edu had a short spell with Jeonbuk Hyundai in 2015, where he scored 11 league goals in 20 matches. The prolific striker then joined Hebei China Fortune in the same year.
Although he impressed in the Chinese Super Leauge with 12 league goals in 15 appearances, Hebei China Fortune decided against keeping him at the club.
Before making his name in Asia, Edu had spells with various German club, including Schalke 04, where he won the DFB-Pokal Cup and DFL-Supercup in 2011. He also won the Korean league title as well as the domestic cup with Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
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The Cardiovascular Benefits of Reducing Personal Exposure to Air Pollution
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Profile: Femi Anikulapo-Kuti
Femi Anikulapo-Kuti of Nigeria is an international star of Afro-beat music that combines African rhythms with jazz, hip-hop and funk. Both a saxophonist and a singer, Femi is the son of the legendary Nigerian bandleader, saxophonist and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, who is credited with originating the Afro-beat in the early 1970s by blending African music with American jazz and soul music. When Fela died of AIDS in 1997, Femi decided to speak out about the disease to help protect others from it. In Femi's view, "AIDS will wipe out the future generations of Africa. If I can use my music to stop that, I should. I see this as a very important, vital issue." Now, during his concerts, he talks to audiences about the dangers of AIDS.
Femi says that the impetus for his latest album, Shoki Shoki, is "Letting the world know exactly what is going on in Africa, with my people, with my culture, who I am." His politically charged themes include love, empowerment and consciousness-raising in songs such as 'Blackman Know Thyself'. (All videos and audios are in Real format. To view these you will need the RealPlayer, available from Real Networks.)
Born in London in 1962, Femi spent most of his childhood in Lagos. Beginning at the age of 16, he played with his father's 40-piece orchestra, Egypt '80, for many years. He first rose to prominence in 1985, when in his father's absence he led the band at the Hollywood Bowl and gave a rousing performance that thrilled the audience. Two years later, Femi formed his own 16-member band, The Positive Force. His wife, Funke, now sings with the group, which has had several highly successful tours in Europe, the United States and within Africa.
In 1999, Femi received top honors at the Kora All Africa Music Awards, including Best Male Artist in Africa and Best Song for 'Beng, Beng, Beng'. In May 2000, Femi received a World Music Award as the Best-Selling African Artist for 'Beng, Beng, Beng'.
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SEC Nation is heading to Rocky Top for the Vols' showdown with the Crimson Tide.
The show, similar to ESPN's College Gameday, will broadcast from the lawn in front of Ayres Hall from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
The "third Saturday in October" has almost always been a bout this traditional SEC rivalry, which has been a little one-sided in the past decade with Alabama on a nine-game win streak. Tennessee and Alabama haven't played on the third Saturday in October since 2012.
The resurgent Vols are hoping this is the year they will get the win. Tennessee and top-ranked Alabama were both undefeated going into games against Texas A&M and Arkansas, respectively.
Many analysts believe Saturday's game could be a preview of the SEC Championship game this December in Atlanta if both teams continue their winning ways.
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