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The Regional Hub of Civil Service in Astana seeks submissions to its journal, the International Journal of Civil Service Reform and Practice. The journal has successfully published two issues, and seeks to publish manuscripts of interest to participants of the Regional Hub. The Regional Hub was established in 2013. The Hub was initiated through a joint project between the United Nations Development Programme and the Agency for Civil Service Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Hub has over 30 participating countries and 5 international organizations.
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Manitex International, Inc. Named to Forbes List of America's Best Small Companies
Company is Named 44th on the List of the Top 100 Companies in 2013
Achieves Second Consecutive Top-100 List Ranking
Oct 15, 2013, 08:30 ET from Manitex International, Inc.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill., Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Manitex International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MNTX), a leading provider of engineered lifting solutions including boom truck and rough terrain cranes, rough terrain forklifts, special mission oriented vehicles, container handling equipment and specialized engineered trailers today announced that for the second straight year it has been named to the Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Small Companies" list, coming in at #44 on the list for 2013.
According to Forbes, this list compiles "an annual ranking of America's Best Small Companies that have experienced strong growth over the past five years. The 2013 list highlights public companies with sales under $1 billion, which are ranked based on return on equity, sales growth and earnings growth over the past year and the past five years." Forbes methodology also factored in stock performance versus each company's peer group during the last 12 months. Through September 30, 2013, MNTX shares were up 53% Year-to-Date.
The company is honored to again be in such elite company with the top 100-ranked small public companies and remains committed to growing the company through a focused strategy of acquiring, developing, and supporting lifting products that fit demanding customers' needs in a diverse group of industrial end-markets.
The company wishes to recognize and thank its employees, customers, vendors and shareholders and share this honor with them.
About Manitex International, Inc.
Manitex International, Inc. is a leading provider of engineered lifting solutions including cranes, reach stackers and associated container handling equipment, rough terrain forklifts, indoor electric forklifts and special mission oriented vehicles, including parts support.
Our Manitex subsidiary manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of boom trucks and sign cranes through a national and international dealership network. Our boom trucks and crane products are primarily used in industrial projects, energy exploration and infrastructure development, including roads, bridges, and commercial construction. Additionally, Badger Equipment Company, a subsidiary located in Winona, Minnesota, manufactures specialized rough terrain cranes and material handling products. Badger primarily serves the needs of the construction, municipality, and railroad industries. Our Italian subsidiary, CVS Ferrari, srl, designs and manufactures a range of reach stackers and associated lifting equipment for the global container handling market, which is sold through a broad dealer network. Our Manitex Liftking subsidiary is a provider of material handling equipment including the Noble straight-mast rough terrain forklift product line, Lowry high capacity cushion tired forklift and Schaeff electric indoor forklifts as well as specialized carriers, heavy material handling transporters and steel mill equipment. Manitex Liftking's rough terrain forklifts are used in both commercial and military applications. Our subsidiary, Manitex Load King located in Elk Point, South Dakota is a manufacturer of specialized engineered trailers and hauling systems, typically used for transporting heavy equipment. Manitex Sabre located in Knox, Indiana, is a manufacturer of specialized equipment for mobile, above ground, liquid storage and containment solutions.
Our Crane and Machinery division is a Chicago based distributor of cranes including Terex truck and rough terrain cranes, and our own Manitex and Badger product lines. Crane and Machinery provides aftermarket service in its local market as well as being a leading distributor of OEM crane parts, supplying parts to customers throughout the United States and internationally. The division also provides a wide range of used lifting and construction equipment of various ages and conditions, and has the capability to refurbish the equipment to the customer's specifications.
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The legislation in this petition has failed, but lawmakers are back trying to push through another version they're calling the Property Protection Act (SB433/HB405), which would make it illegal to take audio or visual recordings at farms or slaughterhouses. Please keep speaking up for farm animals by sharing this petition!
North Carolina lawmakers are still considering an ag gag bill that would ban taking photos at a place of employment, make it a crime for anyone to make false statements on a job application and add a 24 hour reporting requirement, that would hinder investigators' ability to prove patterns of abuse over time.
This time, lawmakers are claiming its not an ag gag law because it doesn't specifically target agricultural operations, but the fact that it includes all industries only makes it even more dangerous.
Many believe it was introduced in response to undercover investigations exposing cruelty to birds at Butterball facilities conducted by Mercy for Animals in the state. A 2011 investigation resulted in a raid that led to animal cruelty charges, including the first-ever felony cruelty conviction involving birds used in food production, and the ousting of a top official from the state's Department of Agriculture over obstruction of justice charges.
Instead of holding companies accountable for their actions, lawmakers acted swiftly to ensure they would be protected from public scrutiny and the consequences of their actions.
Undercover investigations have played an important role in exposing not only egregious abuse and unsanitary living conditions that farm animals are forced to endure, but have also drawn attention to standard industry practices that don't fit into the mainstream idea of humane treatment of animals.
Yet another recently released investigation has showed the horrors baby turkeys face at Butterball hatcheries that are considered normal by industry standards.
North Carolina shouldn't be considering legislation that shield companies with something to hide at the expense of animal welfare, its residents, consumer safety and the First Amendment.
Please sign the petition asking North Carolina lawmakers not to support whistleblower suppression legislation that would affect any industry.
As someone who is concerned with animal welfare, food safety and workers' rights I was disappointed to learn that North Carolina is considering legislation aimed at silencing whistleblowers.
The Property Protection Act (SB433/HB405) would make it illegal to take video and audio recordings at farms and slaughterhouses. The fact that it doesn't specifically target agricultural operations only makes it even more disturbing.
Undercover investigations have played an important role in exposing not only egregious abuse and unsanitary living conditions that farm animals are forced to endure, but have also drawn attention to standard industry practices that don't fit into the mainstream idea of humane treatment of animals and in some cases have resulted in criminal charges and new laws.
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text: Hi Experts, I bought a Samsung i5503, but I am oberving a strange problem, which is annoying me a lot, after mobile randonly disconnects from Wifi router, no matter what I do it does not re-connect, I used wifi fixer as well but no use. The only option that works is reload of the wifi Router, I use NetGear ADSL wireless router. I had no problem with Nokia 5800 or my laptop. Is it a bug with Andriod 2.1? Is it fixed in 2.2? or a h/w issue with mobile? If there is a workaround please let me know. Please let me know awaiting your reply. Thanks in advance.


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Trade in Energy Services - GATS and India
Energy plays a vital role in the development of any economy and given its unequal distribution trade in energy, especially fossil fuels, is an important component of international trade. In the past, due to its public good characteristics, energy-related services were mostly supplied by the government. With liberalization and globalization the sector underwent significant transformation. Many new services developed and large multinationals emerged which increased global trade in energy services. Energy services is now an important component of all trade agreements. In the above context, this paper examines Indias opportunities and constraints to trade in energy services within the GATS framework. The study found that India has the capability of exporting high-skilled manpower at competitive prices but is facing various market access, discriminatory and regulatory barriers in markets of export interest. With the entry of energy producing countries such as Saudi Arabia into the WTO, the Doha negotiations provide an important platform to offensively push for liberalization in this sector. India needs foreign investment, technical know-how and international best practices in energy. The country has progressively liberalized this sector and there are no major entry barriers. However, India has not been successful in attracting large foreign investment and technology. This is due to various domestic barriers which make it difficult to set up a competitive operation. The study lists the reform measures which will help the sector become globally competitive, protect the interests of consumers and meet the energy needs of society. Since this sector is sensitive and is closely monitored by governments across the world, government-to-government collaborations would ease the entry process for Indian companies in foreign markets, diversify our energy resource base and improve energy security.
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The major U.S. stock indexes are climbing, but the critical U.S. jobs market continues to languish and that's a reason investors should worry.
The weekly initial jobless claims data, which measure the number of people who have filed for unemployment benefits for the first time, have not shown improvement for the past three months.
Initial jobless claims for the week of March 13, which are scheduled for release today, are forecast at 455,000, compared with 462,000 during the previous week.
"It's surprising that we have not seen improvement in initial claims," said Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Economy.com.
The data suggests that the recovery in the economy has stalled.
"It's hard to see how we will see substantive jobs growth until those claims are reduced. It worries me that jobless claims are not coming down."
What are the expectations? Although the unemployment rate appears to have peaked, initial jobless claims are still well above levels consistent with the stabilization of the job market, said economists with UBS Securities LLC in a report to clients.
"We think they probably have to fall to around 425,000."
The lacklustre recovery in the U.S. jobs market is one of the key reasons the U.S. Federal Reserve Board is holding interest rates down, economists say.
"That's exactly the kind of thing we are trying to highlight," said Paul Dales, the U.S. economist for Capital Economics Ltd.
"We think the economic recovery is going to be subdued," he said.
The financial markets, on the other hand, are looking for a robust recovery that typically occurs during the two years following a recession, he said.
Although Capital Economics forecast the U.S. economy will grow by 3 per cent in 2010, it is looking for growth of only 1.5 per cent in 2011.
"That will be very disappointing to the markets," Mr. Dales said.
"Employment doesn't tend to be a leading indicator, but it has been lagging a bit," said Pascal Gauthier, an economist with TD Securities Inc.
There has been a reluctance by firms to hire, but he expects the jobs picture will improve in the second quarter as a result of hiring for the U.S. census along with private-sector hiring.
"I think the tide should turn in the spring," he said.
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If you are receiving this error message on ALL workstations when you try to open the OfficeMate Suite, and you are using the OfficeMate Suite with a Microsoft Access (not Microsoft SQL) database, run the Repair Utility (see the linked article below for instructions on running the Repair Utility). Note: Do not run the Repair Utility if you are using a Microsoft SQL database.
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When: Through Sunday.
Where: Megasport Arena, Moscow, Russia.
What: The annual world championships were originally scheduled to be held in Tokyo last month but were moved to Moscow following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Ladies: Alissa Czisny and Del Mar's Rachael Flatt try to become the first U.S. women on a world podium since 2006. But it will be tough, with the return of 2010 Olympic gold medalist Kim Yu-na of South Korea to competitive skating along with Japanese stars Mao Asada and Miki Ando.
Men: Canada's Patrick Chan has an 11-point lead over Japan's Nobunari Oda and defending world champion Daisuke Takahashi after the short program. U.S. champion Ryan Bradley is 12th.
Pairs: Defending champs Pang Qing and Tong Jian of China and world runners-up Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany are 1-2 after the short program. The top U.S. team, Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin, is eighth.
Dance: Olympic silver medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White are favored to become the first U.S. team to win a world ice dancing title. But the five-week delay helps Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir heal from injuries that have derailed their season.
Schedule: Thursday: men's and pairs free skate. Friday: ladies and dance short program. Saturday: ladies and dance free program.
TV: Daily at 3 p.m. on Universal Sports through Saturday, plus additional broadcasts at 5 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday. (Telecasts are repeated regularly.) The full competition can be viewed on a subscription basis at www.icenetwork.com or www.universalspor...>
Rachael Flatt has been working with a specialist at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., on a "jet lag protocol" to ease the adjustment to the dizzying time change in Russia this week for the World Figure Skating Championships.
But if she thinks her head is spinning from traveling across nine time zones, wait till next year. Jet lag will feel like a mosquito bite.
Flatt is competing at her third worlds against a field that includes three former world champions and 11 of the 12 ladies medalists since 2007, along with the disruption of the event being moved from Tokyo in mid-March to Moscow in late April following the 9.0 earthquake and killer tsunamis in Japan last month. The short program is Friday, the free program Saturday. That's the easy part.
Flatt, 18, will enroll at Stanford as a freshman in the fall. And take a full course load toward a major in chemical engineering, "just to see how it goes."
And continue to skate competitively.
"I'm not expecting anything less than a huge challenge in front of me," Flatt says.
In the next breath, she adds: "But I'm certainly looking forward to it."
That's how Flatt rolls. Merely trying to keep her body upright on a sheet of ice while executing back-to-back triple jumps with three bulging discs in her back has never been good enough for the kid who learned how to skate at the rink in the UTC shopping mall. A year ago, she won the U.S. Championships and skated in the Winter Olympics while taking four Advanced Placement courses at Cheyenne Mountain High in Colorado Springs; she wrote her senior paper on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" between practice sessions in Vancouver.
Stanford? ChemE? Daily commutes to rinks (Stanford doesn't have one) for 5 a.m. practices? Dorm food? Missed classes for overseas competitions? Squeezing in an equilibrium thermodynamics midterm between trips to Toronto to work with her choreographer?
Why not?
"I think at this point I've showed that I'm fairly mentally tough when it comes to training at an elite level as well as maintaining a really good academic track record," says Flatt, the daughter of a biochemical engineer (dad) and molecular biologist (mom) who both have doctorate degrees. "Taking four AP classes last year certainly was a test on top of making the Olympic team. I maintained straight A's. You know, I'm pretty proud of that, but at the same time I know Stanford's academic rigor will be a lot more challenging.
"I'll just have to wait and see what happens. I know it will be difficult. But I'm prepared for that."
These worlds will be Flatt's final competition skating for the famed Broadmoor club in Colorado Springs and with longtime coach Tom Zakrajsek, and she admits it will be "definitely bittersweet for me … definitely sad for me."
Her father, Jim, has already relocated to Del Mar and is working as chief technology officer at Synthetic Genomics, a local biotech firm. Her mother, Jody, plans to complete the move over the summer. Flatt will shift her training base to the Bay Area during the school year and, most likely, somewhere in San Diego County during breaks and summers.
"A new chapter in my life," she calls it.
Flatt deferred enrollment to Stanford for a year so she could concentrate solely on skating this season, and the results were mixed due a string of injuries. She finished second at both her Grand Prix events, then bombed at the Grand Prix final and was last. She was second at the U.S. nationals behind Alissa Czisny and fourth at the Four Continents Championships after scoring a career-best 118.08 points in her free skate.
Last season her free program was her stronger half. This season it's the opposite; her "East of Eden" short program has been called the best in the world by some judges, and she's struggled to land triple-triple jump combinations in the free.
Which is another way of saying: Who knows what we'll get in Moscow this week from the girl previously known for her unnerving consistency? There's also the radical venue change, and the five-week delay, and the enormous pressure on the Japanese skaters to cast a ray of sunshine on their beleaguered homeland.
"Our bodies are all a little bit tired," says Flatt, who finished fifth and ninth in her two previous World Championships. "Our season has lasted a lot longer than we expected. I think it's kind of anyone's game at this point. It makes the competition a lot more unexpected and exciting.
"I don't think worlds this year is really going to be about who skates a clean program. I think it's really going to be about who's willing to fight the most and give it their all. I'm certainly looking forward to that type of competition."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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VBI Progressing with Vaccines That Don't Require Refrigeration
Expect to hear more about the vaccine developer VBI this year. The company has made some progress in addressing a major bugaboo in the vaccine field—the need to keep the vast majority of them at cool or freezing temperatures or risk spoilage.
VBI (formerly called Variation Biotechnologies), which moved its headquarters from Canada to offices closer to its venture backers in Cambridge, MA, in 2009, has been in potential partnership talks with large vaccine manufacturers and also expects to raise an additional round of venture capital this year, chief executive Jeff Baxter tells me. Recent interest in the company might stem from preclinical data on its lead vaccine for influenza, which showed that it could remain effective after enduring a year of storage in a hot environment. Today's flu vaccines would become worthless if stored in such conditions.
Global health advocates have been calling for the development of thermostable vaccines (which are those that don't require refrigeration) for years, and organizations such as the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have poured millions of dollars into research that could lead to such treatments. But the scientists and industry haven't been able to bring to market thermostable vaccines for many of the world's most devastating infections. In a December interview with the New York Times, Bill Gates said: "Back then (five years ago), I thought: 'Wow – we'll have a bunch of thermostable vaccines by 2010.' But we're not even close to that. I'd be surprised if we have even one by 2015."
Earlier this month, Gates's foundation, which typically provides grant funding, said it made an unprecedented equity investment of $10 million of in Research Triangle Park, NC-based Liquidia Technologies, after showing particular interest in the company's way of manufacturing nanoparticle vaccines.
To hear VBI's Baxter tell it, the need for thermostable vaccines exists in both the developing world, where cold storage in many areas can be difficult, and in established markets in North America and Europe. Many remote parts of Africa, for example, lack stable sources of electricity to keep refrigerators and freezers running around the clock. The problems with cold vaccine storage aren't entirely limited to Africa, either. Vaccines spoil in the States too, sometimes leading to outbreaks.
Now VBI appears to have a shot at delivering on the promise of thermostable vaccines. Its thermostable vaccine for flu virus is expected to be ready for human trials in less than a year. At the same time, the company says that its proprietary way of formulating vaccines to keep them thermostable can be applied to both existing and developmental vaccines. And Baxter says that, unlike some of his competitors, his firm's technology requires an extra step at the end of current processes for manufacturing vaccines and doesn't require any changes at earlier stages of production.
"This will be one of those things where once thermostable vaccines start extending the current market, then very quickly you will see thermostable vaccines becoming the norm," Baxter said. "Because it is such a competitive advantage to take vaccines out of the cold chain and to reduce the risk of spoilage."
Heat alters the molecular structure of traditional vaccines and protein drugs, which are reliant on the shape of the molecules to be effective. VBI's technology is designed to keep vaccine antigens stable inside separate particles during swings in temperature.
Baxter, a former managing partner of a Bay Area venture firm called The Column Group, took over as CEO of VBI in September 2009. Shortly after he took the helm at the startup, the biotech company initiated its lead vaccine program for seasonal flu. In addition to its injected flu vaccine, the firm is researching formulations of vaccines for flu and Shigella, which can be taken orally, not through an injection. Its other vaccine programs include ones for hepatitis A and cytomegalovirus, which can be passed from pregnant women to fetuses and cause birth defects.
The firm has developed way of entrapping vaccine antigens inside of liposomal-based particles. Baxter described the technology in simple terms as like a "soap bubble" that protects antigens from heat exposure. His firm says that its flu vaccine remains stable after up to a year of storage at the relatively hot temperatures of 104 degrees Fahrenheit (or 40 degrees Celsius). The company has also shown that its vaccine formulation can be frozen and thawed multiple times and remain effective.
Based on the firm's early promise, VBI raised a Series A round of $35.7 million in January 2007 from a syndicate of venture backers that included 5AM Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, and Clarus Ventures. Baxter says that a condition of the financing was for the company to establish an office in the Boston area, where lead investor Clarus of Cambridge is headquartered. Yet the company has kept its research operations and most of its employees in Ottawa. VBI is now planning to raise a Series B round of venture capital in the middle of this year, Baxter says.
Given the high costs of vaccine development, Baxter sees the quickest route to the market through a partnership with an existing vaccine manufacturer. While he didn't have anything to report on that front, he mentioned that his firm has had discussions with all of the major vaccine players. (In fact, Baxter used to work for one of the largest vaccine producers, GlaxoSmithKline, where he held multiple jobs and finished his time at the London-based drug company as senior vice president of R&D finance and operations).
According to Baxter, companies have had trouble commercializing vaccines that don't require refrigeration because their technologies require re-engineering how vaccine antigens are manufactured. That can be expensive. VBI, on the other hand, can apply its technology to existing vaccines that are "off the shelf," Baxter says, so their technology wouldn't require investments in altering antigen production, he says.


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in the interim the Pheonix burns I have the best story.. I went up to a man that looked much like my friend Neil Alexander & asked"NEIL"? I thought he didn't hear me & when I said it again….he kneeled down before me….. I didn't know what to say!!!! what a beginning of a day …
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I went to the Tate Modern last week. It has the perfect spot for Flood Wall. On inquiry I was given a document that said: "Exhibition proposals may be sent to Paul McAree in Exhibitions and Displays at the Tate Modern. All proposals will be considered by curatorial staff, however, it must be stressed that …
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This CEO Says Self Driving Cars Will "Own The Road" Soon
28 Sep
In the now very public battle between ride sharing apps Lyft and Uber, stakeholders were shocked to hear that Lyft's CEO John Zimmer believes that his app will feature self-driving cars by the year 2021.
Zimmer claims that most of his fleet will be autonomous in just 5 years time, and recently revealed his 10 year "third transportation revolution" rollout plan.
If everything goes as planned, Lyft will become an "on-demand network of autonomous vehicles" which mirrors rival company Uber's plan. Uber has already started testing their driverless vehicles in Pittsburgh. These "driverless" cars still have an operator in the passenger seat as a precautionary measure.
"If you live in San Francisco or Phoenix, you may have seen these cars on the road, and within five years a fully autonomous fleet of cars will provide the majority of Lyft rides across the country," Zimmer said.
While Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk predicts that society is evolving towards sharing privately owned cars with strangers, Zimmer disagrees. He stated that he believes a new era of commuting is coming and that private vehicle ownership will "all but end" in the coming decades. He compared his theory to the music industry, citing the preference for music sharing and streaming services like Pandora over purchasing CDs.
When asked to describe the user experience in one of his new autonomous vehicles, he equated it to a "bar car" – think couches, TVs and even happy hour? The possibilities are endless according to Zimmer.
This evolution in transportation is set to change the face of commuting as we know it, with cars taking up less space on the roads and traffic jams becoming a thing of the past. Parking lots will be non-existent and all of the space dedicating to vehicles can be repurposed.
Zimmer's opinion is that all of this space is a waste and that 96% of a car's life is spent stationary. "In 2011, researchers estimated that there are at least 700 million parking spaces in the US. That means our country has more than 6,000 square miles of parking — bigger than my home state of Connecticut."
Does Lyft have what it takes to change the face of ridesharing and public transportation as we know it? Will privately owned vehicles be phased out by luxury ride-sharing services? Only time will tell, and we look forward to seeing what takes shape in the next decade.


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Unity in diversity as Europe's vocation and conflicts law as Europe's constitutional form
'Unity in Diversity' was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon. This essay argues that it deserves to be kept alive albeit in a new constitutional perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European law as 'new type of conflicts law'. The new type of conflicts law which the paper advocates is not concerned with selecting the proper legal system in cases with connections to various jurisdictions. It is instead meant to respond to the increasing interdependence of formerly more autonomous legal orders and to the democracy failure of constitutional states which result from the external effects of their laws and legal decisions on non-nationals. Europe has many means to compensate these shortcomings. It can derive its legitimacy from that compensatory potential without developing federal aspirations. The paper illustrates this approach with the help of two topical examples. The first is the conflict between European economic freedoms and national industrial relations (collective labour) law. The recent jurisprudence of the ECJ in Viking, Laval, and Rüffert in which the Court established the supremacy of the freedoms over national labour law is criticised as a counter-productive deepening of Europe's constitutional asymmetry and its social deficit. The second example from environmental law concerns the conflict between Austria and the Czech Republic over the Temelín nuclear power plant. The paper criticises the reasoning of the ECJ which supports the Czech pro-nuclear policy. It does not suggest an alternative legal outcome but questions the legitimacy of legal rather than political decision-making. The introductory and the concluding sections generalise the perspectives of the conflicts-law approach. The introductory section takes issue with Max Weber's national state. The concluding section suggests a three-dimensional differentiation of the approach which seeks to respond to the need for transnational regulation and governance.
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Insider Trading Summary in Nielsen Hldg NV, eBay, Constellation Brands, Newmont Mining, Sirius XM Radio, and Huntington Bancshares
Pennystocksinsiders.com (PSI) released insider trading reports for investors as tool to trace the following active stocks and penny stocks: Nielsen Hldg NV (NYSE:NLSN), eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ), Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM), Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI), and Huntington Bancshares (NASDAQ:HBAN).
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Nielsen Hldg NV (NYSE:NLSN): By the end of last trading session, the shares of Nielsen Hldg NV (NYSE:NLSN) earned 0.69% (or US$2.07) to US$33.97 with 9.95 million shares exchanged hands, compared to its average daily volume 2.15 million shares. Pennystocksinsiders.com found company President, Steve Hasker, sold his shares at price of US$33.55 on July 1, while the company insiders sold his/her shares at price of US$33.55 – US$36.32 for about US$4.15 billion in the last three months. Pennystocksinsiders.com thinks that it is a clever way to check if insiders like CEOs, CFOs, and Directors in Nielsen Hldg NV are starting to buy or sell more company shares. Check this insider trade report for NLSN here.
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eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY): By the end of last trading session, eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) shares rose 0.80% (or US$0.43) to US$53.33 with about 8.20 million shares exchanged hands for the session, compared to its average volume of 10.48 million shares. Pennystocksinsiders.com found company SVP, Alan Lee Marks, sold his shares at price of US$50.86 on June 24. Pennystocksinsiders.com thinks that it is a clever way to check if insiders like CEOs, CFOs, and Directors in eBay are starting to buy or sell more company shares. See insider trade report for EBAY here.
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Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE:STZ): By the end of last trading, Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ) shares lost US$1.90 (or 3.57%) to US$51.25 with about 8.25 million shares exchanged hands for the session, compared to its average volume of 1.99 million shares. Pennystocksinsiders.com found insiders sold his/her shares at price of US$48.00 – US$53.75 for about US$56.59 million when the share reached its 52-week high of US$54.64. Want to know when company insiders will buy their shares? Want to monitor this company on an on-going basis?
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With an operational background and some experience using systems dynamics modeling to hypothesize and understand complex relationships and systems, my focus and interest is on looking at problems from a systemic and macro perspective. For example, how do customers learn about your business, experience your business, and form their impressions of it? That involves public information sources, private advisors (analysts, consultants and other influencers), your marketing content and messages, interaction with your employees, interaction with your products in the customer's setting/context, interaction with your support channels, and interactions with other customers. There are a lot of levers available to companies to influence prospects and customers - how do you choose?
Interested in chatting? You can reach me at rachel at thesocialorganization.com or you can follow me on Twitter.
- Community Management Fundamentals
- The Naked CEO
- Eight Competencies to Socializing Your Organization
- The Powers & Perils of Online Communities
- Using Twitter to Drive Awareness (Case Study)
JiveWorld16 - Becoming a Community Ninja: 5 Secrets of Community Black OpsHigher Logic Super Forum 2015 Keynote: The Quantified Community
Video - SMB #15 The Power & Perils of Online CommunityVideo - Girls In Tech, May 2009
Quoted In
The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Frankfurter Allgemeine, InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, PCWorld, USA Today, Baseline Magazine, Variety, TechWorld, InformationWeek and others
Interviewed by NPR, WBUR
Recent public speaking
JiveWorld; HigherLogic Super Forum; NYC, New Hampshire & Boston Social Media Breakfasts, MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer, Mass TLC, PRSA's Digital Impact Conference, New Marketing Summit, Gilbane San Francisco, Gilbane Boston, Enterprise 2.0, IDC Directions, and IDC's CMO Advisory Board Meeting.
In 2007, I was IDC's Rookie of the Year and was presented with research quality awards for "Modeling the Digital Marketplace" and "The Landscape of the Digital Marketplace".
"Rachel is one of the rare people who really understands the emerging and accelerating areas of social media, Enterprise 2.0, virtual communities, including best practices and rising players in this whole space. On top of understanding, she has shown genuine insight into trends and models, and best: she used her reputation and influence to communicate and advocate in this space. Rachel's presentations, conversations, position papers, and her personal blog all provide value and insight." July 24, 2008
Mark Yolton, SVP SAP Community Network
"Rachel is a thoroughly knowledgeable, resourceful and personally engaged professional who provided immense value to me and my team on multiple occasions. Her understanding of social networking technology, their real-world applications--and limitations, and how to apply them in myriad settings resulted in better marketing and communications strategies for me and my clients. What's more, Rachel is reliable, personable and just a pleasure to work with. My team and I wish her every success." July 23, 2008
Joshua Reynolds, Practice Director at Hill & Knowlton
"Rachel is incredibly knowledgeable about the Digital Business Economy and her insight has helped our company shape its strategy and direction. She is a consummate professional who takes her time to really listen and understand your goals, give thoughtful feedback and provide valuable recommendations. I would recommend Rachel to anyone who is trying to understand the new business models and strategies that go along with surviving in today's new Web 2.0 World." July 31, 2008
Silvie Casanova, Director of PR/AR, FAST, a Microsoft Subsidiary
"With the economy being what it is, I've seen a dramatic increase in the number of LinkedIn Recommendations I've been asked to write. In this particular case however, I have the opportunity to write a recommendation for someone that has not only become a good friend over the last couple of years, but is also one of the smartest and most talented people in the online community/social media industry I could write a lot about Rachel but instead, I'm going to stick to three bullets (Rachel will appreciate the inside humor of this approach):
1) Rachel is articulate, writes well and is not afraid to tell you whats on her mind. Some of the BEST conversations I ever had about community and social media were with Rachel and I have to admit, I always came away with a new view on how I looked at things.
2) She is a GREAT product manager/leader. Rachel brings the unique blend of vision and an ability to live in the details, two aspects I see as crucial in the world of product management. To that end, I believe Rachel could do product management for almost anything but was particularly strong in the world of social tools/online community platform.
3) Rachel has a WONDERFUL sense of humor and does not take herself too seriously. For someone as smart and talented as she is, this is a refreshing quality.
Did I mention that Rachel is a great blogger? And that she has done an amazing job using Twitter for business without coming off as stiff and corporate. She's also a rockstar on webinars -- I know first hand because I've done a few with her. Got more questions about Rachel? Feel free to call me on my cell phone because I will gladly endorse her any day of the week. 617.957.4254." January 9, 2009Aaron Strout, VP Marketing, Powered
"Rachel is an extremely pragmatic leader who accepts all challenges thrown her way. Her ability to communicate across all levels of a company help keep everyone focused on the important issues and, ultimately, serve the customer, whether by solving a current customer problem or recognizing future customer needs." November 17, 2006
Doug Stein, Director, IT Operations, Bitpass
"Rachel's combination of technical understanding and project management expertise made her a rare pleasure to work with. She was open to the ideas of her subordinates, encouraged communications, and set a very high standard of excellence that one could not help but respect. Rachel led by example, encouraged and mentored her subordinates, and provided her team with ample opportunities for personal and professional growth in both individual and team projects. I would not hesitate to recommend her and would be delighted to find myself working with her again." September 3, 2008
Lea Norton, Manager, Customer Service, Bitpass


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If you needed evidence that the Internet is growing in popularity then you only have to look at the latest figures on domain name registrations to confirm it.{ad}
In total the number of registered domains has gone past the 177 million mark. The rate at which new domains are being registered also seems to be gaining pace. Last year 24 million were registered and 10.1 million of those were claimed in the last 3 months of the year.
The figures come from the latest VeriSign Industry Brief which also broke down the figures by top-level domain. The largest top-level domains include .com, .cn, .de, .net, and .org. The .com and .net domains are clearly the most popular accounting for 90.4 million of all domains registered.
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Matthew's Opinion
I wonder what triggered the rush for domain names at the end of last year? It was a time when the economic downturn was really starting to hit hard so it could be that more people were simply staying at home in front of their machines and creating websites.
The number of new registrations is clearly growing and you have to wonder how long it will be until all the usable domains have been registered. When I say usable I mean domains that aren't too long and actual make sense when read.
There is also the introduction of generic top level domains coming soon. They will allow any 64 characters to be used at the end of a domain name. So instead of geek.com we could have geek.tech or geek.reviews. That will certainly open up new domain names, but will be limited to companies that can afford to run them.
Internationalization of domain names may make sense for domestic markets, but I do think different language versions of a site will be more popular. If you run a site that is only accessible by typing in the Japanese or Chinese character set then you severely limit your potential user base.


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new association: CADILLAC, Copenhagen Association for Dynamics, Interaction, Logic, Language And Computation
* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * ! C.A.D.I.L.L.A.C ! * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * BIGGER THAN A SUBARU... CADILLAC - Copenhagen Association for Dynamics, Interaction, Logic, Language and Computation [http://cadillac-dk.weebly.com/] CADILLAC is a loose association of logicians, computer scientists, linguists and philosophers based in the greater Copenhagen area. The association aims to provide an informal forum for the growing interest in a cluster of related topics, such as: * Social and formal epistemology and their links with tools such as game theory. * The dynamics of information and how to model it using temporal, epistemic and other logics. * The use of AI paradigms such as planning and logic programming to capture aspects of cognition and interaction. We are also interested in foundational themes from linguistics (particularly pragmatics) and philosophy (for example, the work of Paul Grice and David Lewis). The association is new and mostly made up of students and researchers from universities in and around Copenhagen. The aim is to hold meetings, seminars and reading groups, and to disseminate information about meetings on relevant topics via this website and the CADILLAC mailing list (for a list of previous and upcoming CADILLAC events see here [/cadillac-news.html] ).


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The current crop of military robots includes small, tank-like unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), more specialized types like large autonomous vehicles, and both large and small winged robots, one carrying its own fuel cell.
Our current crop of military robots includes some of the familiar small, tank-like unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) that move on treads or wheels. It also includes more specialized types like large autonomous vehicles that can drive themselves and carry big loads, along with remote-controlled versions of earth-moving machines.
Other military robots have wings and can be launched by hand or by tube. Larger versions have vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) abilities and can be sent to and from otherwise inaccessible locations. Most of these robots carry a wide range of audio, video, sensor, and communications abilities. One being developed by the US Navy carries its own fuel cell.
Click the image below for a slideshow 10 of the most intimidating robots employed by the US military.
Story originally published on Design News.
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This is nicely put together with Tony Blair's speech the other night.
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The School for Violence
A conversation with Riane Eisler
by Helen Knode
Riane Eisler is a macro-historian; systems and cultural-transformation
theorist; international activist for peace, human rights and the
environment; and president of the Center for Partnership Studies. In The
Chalice and the Blade (1987), an international best-seller, she reviewed
Western history in a radical new way, and introduced the models of
domination and partnership as two underlying possibilities for human
organization. In Sacred Pleasure (1995), she applied these models to the
erotic; in Tomorrowąs Children (2000), she applied them to child
development and education. Her next book, The Power of Partnership, due
in spring 2002, is a wildly original self-help book. We canąt help
ourselves, she says, outside the complex web of our relationships ‹ from
family, to nation, to the Earth. She devotes a chapter to international
relations, and the subject of terrorism comes up again and again. Eisler
discusses terrorism and transformation with novelist and former L.A.
Weekly staff writer Helen Knode.
RIANE EISLER: Look, this is not about the U.S. and the Arabs. It goes
much deeper ‹ and we need to understand this to deal with the long-range
implications of post-industrial terrorism. We need to distinguish between
what lies behind anti-American sentiment and what lies behind these acts
of terrorism. I ask myself two questions. Whatąs at the bottom of these
virulent acts against the U.S.? And what kind of family produces a person
willing to fly an airplane into a building full of people heąs never met,
who arenąt armed, whoąve never done anything to hurt him directly?
HELEN KNODE: Family? Discussions of the Middle East donąt usually start
But itąs where I start, because gender relations and parent-child
relations are the critical, formative relations. This is where we first
learn whatąs normal and moral, where we learn values and behaviors.
Including terror and its uses, you mean.
Precisely. Terror and hate have a context. My research shows that
underneath conventional classifications ‹ religious versus secular,
tribal versus industrial, right versus left, capitalist versus communist
‹ are two underlying ways of structuring relations. Theyąre actually two
opposite poles, with a continuum in between. At one end of this continuum
is the dominator society. Dominator societies have existed throughout
history and have the same basic plan, whether itąs Attilaąs Huns,
Hitlerąs Germany or the Talibanąs Afghanistan. These societies consist of
rigid top-down rankings, of łsuperiors˛ over łinferiors,˛ men over women,
adults over children, łin-groups˛ over łout-groups˛ ‹ rankings backed up
by force and the threat of force in homes, in society, and between
societies in chronic wars.
Terror is built into the dominator system, and these bombings are the
latest manifestation of that fact. Muslim fundamentalists are extremely
dominator, in a bizarrely feudal way. Itąs as if they have one foot in
the Middle Ages and another in our postmodern world with its powerful
technologies of communication and destruction.
Youąre saying that their family structure is feudal, too.
Yes, but first I want to be clear that this isnąt an anti-Muslim
diatribe. There are dominator elements in every country, and weąve seen a
worldwide dominator regression in recent years. We see it in
multinational sweatshops, environmental rollbacks, the widening gap
between haves and have-nots, the IMFąs structural-adjustment policies.
And we see it in resurgent religious fundamentalism, in the East and
West, aimed at putting women back in łtheir place˛ and reinstating the
absolute authority of the father.
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson call submissive women the cure ‹ free
women anger God, and weąre being punished.
Yes, their initial response to this horrible tragedy was to use it to
incite more hate and persecution of the groups theyąre after ‹ feminists,
secularists, abortionists, gays, lesbians, even People for the American
Way. Itąs grotesque. I know Falwell apologized under pressure. But
unfortunately itąs not surprising that our own fundamentalists have
introduced the first divisive note into a cataclysm that, above all,
requires unity and sanity.
Do they think bin Laden cares if any Christian God is worshipped?
You see how the dominator mindset works. What they call the cure, I call
a central problem ‹ I, and every person who truly values freedom and
We were talking about the feudal family and terrorism.
Yes. Because in rigid dominator families, whether in the Muslim world or
elsewhere, you learn from childhood that itąs okay to impose your will by
force on those weaker than you ‹ women and children ‹ that itąs your
God-given right to do so. And you learn never to express your anger or
resentment against those who cause you pain, for fear of more pain. So
you have a lot of stored rage that can be redirected toward łout-groups,˛
in pogroms and lynchings and łholy wars.˛
But you canąt think that family is the only factor here? Youąre no
No, of course not. The family and society are profoundly interconnected.
A mark of where a nation is on the dominator/partnership scale is how it
treats women and children. Even if your family is less authoritarian, in
a Muslim fundamentalist context, you still live in a culture where, for
example, women get acid thrown in their face because they arenąt wearing
a burka, or get killed by members of their own family because they
exhibit sexual independence. You live in a culture that worships
strong-arm rule and male violence.
łI and the public know, what all schoolchildren learn. Those to whom evil
is done, do evil in return.˛
Auden is right. My research shows a definite link between intimate
violence and international violence. People in dominator societies learn
to accept control from the top, gross inequities in living standards, a
high degree of violence and fear in day-to-day life. The basic model for
domination is the punitive parent, specifically the punitive male head of
household. And since you canąt go against this powerful figure, you learn
to project onto łevil enemies.˛
Although the U.S. isnąt an entirely innocent victim. There are reasons
why weąre perceived as an enemy.
Certainly. Our policies ‹ for example, insistence on cutbacks in social
services and privatization by debtor nations, alliances with oppressive
dictatorships ‹ have caused enormous suffering. But the goal of this
terrorism is not justice or equity for the women, children and men who
live in Arab countries. Osama bin Laden has enormous wealth, but does he
do anything to help the hungry Afghan people? Do you realize how wealthy
the Saudi elites are, in contrast to the mass of Arab people? No, this
terrorism is about control and power through fear and force. They want to
be the worldąs governing economic, religious and political power, and the
West has that power.
Iąve never heard this argument before. There are real grievances about
oil, territory and multinational corporations, but you think the hate and
violence mask another agenda.
I do. Where dictators or repressive mullahs rule, they cultivate hatred
of the U.S., and the West in general, for two reasons. One is fear of our
cultural influence ‹ freedom for women, the undermining of traditional
authority, and Western democracy, as imperfect as it is. They see the
threat this poses to their domination, and to a system based on rigid
rankings. The other reason is that fanning hatred against the West
deflects anger and rebellion from themselves. That keeps the people from
turning against the elites, who benefit enormously from their ties to the
West, while few if any of these benefits go to the average Arab.
So whatąs your solution to terrorism? How do we fight it?
Thereąs a short-term strategy and a long-term strategy ‹ and they have to
be simultaneous. In the short term, Iąm afraid that military response
against terrorist bases in nations that fund and support terrorism is
Youąve shocked me. The New Age community, the Dalai Lama, are calling for
peace and love. I associate you with them philosophically.
The pure łpeace and love˛ response is the flip side of the łkill and
hate˛ response. Neither is realistic, and both ignore the psychosocial
dynamics of terrorism weąve been talking about. Unfortunately, failure to
respond will encourage more terrorism. In the dominator mind, there are
only those who dominate and those who are dominated. Nonviolence is
equated with women, with whatąs despised, whatąs controlled and is
legitimately, and easily, terrorized into submission.
But violence only breeds violence, you said it yourself.
If youąve got a psychopath lunging at you with a knife, thatąs not the
time to talk about peace and love. Itąs the time to defend yourself to
save your life. The time to talk about peace and love, and to put them
into action, is before that person becomes a psychopath. If weąre to
effectively address the festering problems that breed terrorism, we have
to deal with the foundations of violence. We have to think of the long
term. Any war on terrorism is doomed to fail, just like the war on drugs,
unless we address the deepest historical, cultural, social, economic,
political and psychic forces that produce terrorism. This is urgent in
our high-technology age.
You know people argue that humans are naturally violent.
This argument comes straight out of the dominator view of human nature.
Evolutionary science shows we carry genes for both violence and caring.
The decisive issue is our experiences, and particularly the influences of
childhood. These experiences actually affect brain chemistry and synaptic
development, and with that the propensity toward violence or caring.
Weąll never eliminate violence completely, but we can eliminate
structural violence, violence built into the system.
So addressing the foundations of violence would entail what?
Cultural transformation. I spoke of two underlying ways of structuring
relations ‹ one is the dominator model, the other is what I call the
partnership or respect model. Here power is nurturing and empowering,
rather than fear-and-force-based and disempowering. The male and female
halves of humanity are valued equally, and thereąs a high value placed on
caregiving, empathy and nonviolence, qualities that are part of the
biological repertoire of both men and women.
The U.S. is divided between partnership and domination. It does awful
things and wonderful things. Think of the NGOs spending billions to help
people worldwide ‹ peace, human rights, feeding hunger. It behooves us to
throw our resources into a shift toward partnership, at home and abroad.
Did you know thereąs a new House bill to create a Department of Peace? We
make a mistake to deal with dictatorships to protect our oil interests.
Weąre safer in the long run to join with pro-democratic forces in the
region. There are many people in the Muslim world who would welcome U.S.
help. I know some of them. Theyąre working for religious freedom, the
human rights of women and children, family planning ‹ real democracy, not
just a vote.
We have to stop exporting our violent media. We have to re-examine the
values behind globalization. If itąs only to promote what we inaccurately
call free enterprise, which primarily benefits the elites of the
developing and developed world, then weąre actually strengthening the
top-down socioeconomic structures integral to the dominator model from
which violence inevitably comes. On the other hand, if we back an
international campaign involving heads of state and clergy to end
intimate violence, weąre dealing with foundational matters, with the
school for violence. If we channel economic aid and training to the
grassroots, if we channel health-care, nutrition and educational programs
directly to women and children and make their implementation a keystone
of globalization, weąre addressing foundational matters.
Youąre thinking multilevel solutions for a multilevel phenomenon.
Let us call it the partnership response to terrorism. We need a
long-range plan, and we need to do this together with people all over the
world. And if we only talk violent solutions, we fuel the dominator
regression that will be fatal to everything we Americans yearn for and
aspire to. We have to change the foundational dynamics of terrorism.
Without this, weąll never have lasting peace or security.
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