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Circulating References and Matters of ConcernYu, Lichen Alex (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The main finding of this thesis is that when actors are fabricating the S&OP process, local actors create emergent, ongoing and multiple matters of concern around the S&OP process. The group demand chain, the actor who is responsible for guiding the implementation of the process, delegates the attempts to close these matters of concern to local actors located in separate times and spaces. As a result, constituents of the S&OP process are dispersed in diverse local times and spaces rather than being coordinated in a single time and space by the group demand chain. When local actors are closing these matters of concern, they create new properties on the S&OP process and new management possibilities in relation to integration. These new management possibilities may include, for instance, generating different primary keys of forecasting in different divisions, mobilising different inscriptions in different settings, using mean error to evaluate forecasting accuracy, connecting different visualisations such as ABC analysis and items with high growth rate and value to collaborators' intelligence, creating new potentials for more consistent decision making and more proactive customer serving, creating new actions to help the under-estimated sales forecast, and transforming the minimal configurations of the S&OP process. Consequently, integration on the demand chain becomes uncertain because actors are always creating new possibilities to move towards integration but will never arrive at the destination of integration. To integrate is, thus, to postpone integration because there are always emergent matters of concern around the technology to foster integration. Because constituents of the S&OP process are separated in diverse times and spaces, to integrate is also to separate constituents of integration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8719
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Uldam, Julie (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the wake of increasing disillusion with the potential of alternative online media for providing social movements with a virtual space for self-representation and visibility (Atton, 2002; Downing, 2001; Rodriguez, 2001) activists have been adopting online social media into their media practices. With their popular appeal and multimodal affordances social media such as YouTube and Facebook have reinvigorated hopes for the potential of the internet for providing social movements such as the Global Justice Movement, which is often misrepresented as a homogeneous and in a negative light in the mass media (Gamson and Wolfsfeld, 1993; Juris, 2008), with new possibilities for promoting self-representations to wider publics – beyond the echo chambers of alternative media (Cammaerts, 2007; Sunstein, 2001). In the mediation of institutional politics the increasing use of popular online spaces has brought about the term 'YouTube‐ification of Politics' (Turnsek and Jankowski, 2008). However, two challenges remain: the first relates to fragmentation – the internet's properties as a 'pull-medium' is argued to merely connect likeminded users (Cammaerts, 2007: 138). The second relates to 'lazy politics' – the internet's ephemeral properties are argued to facilitate brief participation in single-issue campaigns that fails to foster political engagement (Fenton, 2008a: 52). This thesis focuses on the latter. It addresses the possibilities of popular online spaces for fostering collective solidarity and political engagement in social movement organisations. It explores how these possibilities are played out in the online arena of popular sites employed by the two London-based social movement organisations: the World Development Movement (WDM) and War on Want. Drawing on the cases of WDM and War on Want, the thesis addresses three dimensions of these practices, exploring (1) rationales for using popular online spaces to promote the SMO agenda; (2) the social movement organisations' online campaigns; and (3) members' identifications with the campaigns through discourse analysis and interviews with SMO directors, campaign, outreach and web officers as well as SMO members. It is by analysing how SMOs use different online spaces as locations for strategic framing and the formation of political identities that we can begin to study how the internet may contribute to an agonistic public sphere where also voices of dissent are heard. The thesis is based on Mouffe's understanding of politics and the political as grounded in discourse but also based on a view of political engagement as conflictual, affective and sometimes irrational (Cammaerts, 2007; Fenton, 2009; Mouffe, 2005). Even though this does not mean that SMOs do not apply rational considerations in planning their strategic agendas for public visibility and legitimacy, it does mean that the study of these considerations need to take into account this dual character of political discourse as both rational and affective (Hajer and Versteeg, 2005). Therefore, we need to consider instrumental and affective issues to understand the relationship between strategic protest and the underlying dynamics of intragroup commitment (Griggs and Howarth, 2002; Snow et al., 1986) – the interconnections between strategy and identity, external resonance and internal commitment. In this way, the democratic potentialities of the internet can be seen as not only related to the ways in which SMOs communicate their agenda but also to potentialities for forging political identities and commitment (Fenton, 2008a). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8211
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Design af levende billeder i film og tv-serierWille, Jakob Ion (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ph.d.-afhandlingen Film som Design undersøger, beskriver og kortlægger design og designerens arbejde i filmens og det levende billedes verden for på den baggrund at bidrage med indsigter i og foreslå analytisk håndtering af det, der bredt forstås ved det levende billedes design. Generelt behandler filmens teorier det levnende billedes stil og design som en reaktion på filmens eller tvseriens dominerende narrativ. Omvendt opfatter designtænkningen generelt filmens eller tv-seriens design som repræsentation af designartefakter. Mens disse forståelser i og for sig er rimelige, udtrykker de også en begrænset indsigt i filmisk design. Det primære mål for afhandlingen er derfor at udvide forståelsen og betydningen af design i den filmiske produktion og det filmiske værk. Dette sker gennem empiriske studier af film- og tv-produktioner og ved at overføre begreber og metodeforståelse fra designverdenen til filmens verden. Der tages på den måde hovedsageligt udgangspunkt i eksisterende filmvidenskabelig og designfaglig teori, der søges appliceret på filmens design for på den bagrund 1) at formidle og udvikle ny viden om området og foreslå anvendelsesorienteret metode til analytisk arbejde med dette samt 2) at revurdere og evt. revidere opfattelsen af designets betydning for skabelsen af det filmiske værk. På den måde tydeliggøres på den ene side designeren og designets betydning for skabelsen og oplevelsen af det visuelle værk, mens denne forståelse på den anden side søges instrumentaliseret i både praktisk anvendelsesorienteret og analytisk metode. For at differentiere sig fra mere kontekstorienterede diskurser arbejdes der i afhandlingen hovedsagligt med en formalistisk forståelse af det levende billede, inspireret af en poetik, hvor det levende billedes design primært opfattes som et resultat af kunstneriske eller designmæssige valg. Implicit i denne forestilling findes samtidig idéen om designeren som væsentlig medskaber (eller demiurg) af filmen eller tv-seriens fiktive univers. Disse og andre forestillinger fremstillet i afhandlingen sandsynliggøres gennem et empirisk materiale, der blandt andet indeholder studier af designarbejdet i så forskellige film som Lars von Triers Melancholia (2011) og Steven Spielbergs Minority Report (2001). Dertil bygger afhandlingen blandt andet på eksempler fra danske og internationale tv-serier samt på erfaringer fra et eksperimenterende samarbejde mellem manuskript- og producerelever fra Den Danske Filmskole, studerende fra Det Danske Kunstakademis Skole for Design og Danmarks Radio, TV-DRAMA. Endelig trækker afhandlingen på en bred vifte af eksempler på filmisk design fra det vestlige korpus af klassiske film fra George Méliès Le voyage à travers l'impossible (1904) til Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9106
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The Implications for Whole Farm Risk ManagementFriis Pedersen, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis analyzes the institutional framework around risk management in Danish agriculture, with the two main sectors, the hog and the dairy sector in mind, and it suggests a new more active role for the cooperatives in these sectors, with regard to the reallocation of price risk among members. The thesis consists of a general introduction, three linked but independent and self-contained papers and a conclusion. The first paper introduces a measure of credit capacity using Data Envelopment Analysis. This is a novel application of a well-known methodology from production economics on financial issues. The paper was motivated by the fact that most literature on risk management explains the rationale for risk management activities such as hedging, with increased ability to obtain finance via debt. However, no hedging had been performed on the output side for Danish pig or dairy farms, while access to debt capital seemed abundant. It seemed that farmers may have been thinking "Why hedge, if you can borrow?" The perception of the abundant availability of liquidity in the form of credit reserves may have been an explanation for the absence of other risk management activities in the sectors and why a measure and empirical analysis of the development in credit capacity was needed. However, existing measures of access to credit had focused on the dichotomous question of whether firms are financially constrained or not, while the relative unconstrainedness of firms (farms) would have explained the absence of risk management. An analysis of some 92,000 farm accounts from 1996 to 2009 found that access to credit roughly doubled during the period. This may have been an important explaining factor for the (absent) development of risk management institutions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8817
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Behavioral Aspects and the Impact of Personal CharacteristicsStæhr, Simone (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is broadly concentrated on decision making under uncertainty. It seeks to investigate how agents in financial markets make decisions at the individual level and how these decisions can sometimes be affected by personal traits and cognitive biases rather than being perfectly rational. The primary focus is on financial analysts in the task of conducting earnings forecasts while a secondary focus is on investors' abilities to interpret and make use of these forecasts. Simply put, financial analysts can be seen as information intermediators receiving inputs to their analyses from firm management and providing outputs to the investors. Amongst various outputs from the analysts are forecasts of earnings. According to decision theories mostly from the literature in psychology all humans are affected by cognitive constraints to some degree. These constraints may lead to unintentional biases in the decision making and the magnitude of these constraints does sometimes vary with personal traits. Therefore, to the extent that financial analysts are subjects to behavioral biases their outputs to the investors are likely to be biased by their interpretation of information. Because investors need accuracy in the financial forecasts on which they base investment decisions they may end up losing money as a consequence of biased forecasts. Thus, relying primarily on decision theories such as social comparison theory and theories on confirmation bias this thesis investigates how and why pronounced biases in financial analysts' forecasts documented at the market level by prior literature occur at the individual level and which personal traits interact in this process. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9492
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Implications for Early Option Exercise and Realized VolatilityJensen, Mads Vestergaard (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A call option on a stock is a common and widely used derivative. On an average trading day in 2015, more than 800,000 such options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest options exchange in the United States. Each option grants its owner the right to buy 100 of a specific stock at a pre-specified price, no later than a pre-specified date. For example, an option can grant the right to buy 100 General Electric shares for USD 31 each no later than October 21, 2016. An interesting issue is determining when an option is optimally exercised. Merton (1973) shows that in a world without frictions, a call option should never be exercised early, but only at expiration or just before the underlying stock pays a dividend. Chapter one of this thesis shows that suffciently severe frictions can make early exercise optimal. Short-sale costs especially represent an important driver of early exercise. Chapter two shows that when option owners exercise early, it predicts stock returns, consistent with option owners acting on private information. Chapter three does not include options but shows that demand shifts in the shorting market for stocks predict the volatility of the affected stocks, which is consistent with increases in differences of opinions among market participants. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9386
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Impact and ConsequencesOlsen, Carsten Allerslev (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation explores how financial reporting enforcement differs in Europe and how these differences influence the materiality assessment and disclosure decisions made by the preparers of the financial statement. Furthermore, it analyses how financial reporting enforcement influences the auditors' auditing efforts, which are made in conjunction with the impact of the enforcement of auditors and limitations on the auditors' liability. However, research indicates that strict enforcement is a prerequisite for ensuring compliance with accounting regulations (Hail and Leuz 2006, Daske et al. 2008, 2013, Ernstberger et al. 2012, Christensen et al. 2013, Leuz and Wysocki 2016). Nevertheless, enforcement remains at the discretion of the individual member states, which has led to heterogeneous enforcement despite recent attempts to strengthen and harmonise it (Hirtz et al. 2012, Christensen et al. 2013, Brown et al. 2014). This heterogeneous enforcement has created a particular need to understand how enforcement influences financial reporting if the primary users must be able to use it as a reliable source of information. This issue is investigated in the following three papers that compose this dissertation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9613
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Insights from the Hearing Aid IndustryKirkegaard, Matilde Fogh (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Through an investigation of individual decision-making behavior and the impact it has on the perceived value of innovation, this thesis offers novel perspectives on key strategic management issues. We demonstrate how the value of innovation, when identified as a subjectively realized value by the consumer, specifically, perceived product benefits, can help identify the role of individual decision-making as well as behavioral factors guiding value creation of innovation. In the intersection between behavioral science and strategic management of innovation, these insights take the perspective of both the firm-side and demand-side of a value chain by identifying innovation performance as value created at the levels of the manufacturer, the salesperson and the consumer. Hence, this thesis contributes to the strategic management literature on innovation and value creation by answering the following research question: To what extent do decision-making heuristics at the individual level affect value creation at the firm-side and the demand-side of the value chain, and what management practices can facilitate decision-making for improved value creation? By attending to both the manufacturer and product market, the three papers constituting this thesis identify opportunities to augment value creation by exploring whether systematic behavioral bounds determine the likelihood of innovations to fulfill firms' expectations for innovation performance. The thesis introduces specific behavioral strategies for the decisionmaking context that are critical to realizing business outcomes and identifying the key observations and challenges that managers face that affect value creation along dimensions of firm activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9660
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Et aktør-netværksteoretisk ledelsesstudie af politiske evalueringsreformers betydning for ledelse i den danske folkeskoleGylling Olesen, Kristian (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Med en række evalueringsreformer har danske politikere siden sen-80´erne forsøgt at gøre op med lærernes autonome undervisning for at få lærere til gennem evalueringer at forbedre elevernes læring. I 90´erne blev der bl.a. introduceret frivillige kvalitetsprogrammer og teamarbejde, og i 00´erne fulgte nationale læringsmål, -test og skriftlige elevplaner. Mere indflydelse til skolelederen er blevet set som et politisk svar på, hvordan evalueringsreformerne kan blive gennemført ude i skolerne, så eleverne lærer mere. Samtidig har den evidensbaserede skoleledelsesforskning givet en række svar på, hvilke generelle ledelsespraktikker og succesfulde personlighedstræk hos skoleledere der kan fremme elevernes læring og faglige udbytte i folkeskolen. Ifølge denne ph.d.-afhandling er den politiske og evidensbaserede forståelse af skoleledelse for entydig. Afhandlingen argumenterer i stedet for, at skoleledelse ikke opstår entydigt eller klart, når politikerne introducerer nye evalueringsreformer i folkeskolen. Der er snarere tale om, at skoleledelse opstår forskelligt og med skiftende aktører – skoleledelse emergerer flertydigt. I lokale kontekster spiller en række forhold ind og får betydning for, hvem der leder hvem, hvordan, hvor og hvornår. Ud fra et toårigt studie i to folkeskoler på den københavnske vestegn og med brug af aktør-netværksteori undersøger afhandlingen, hvordan forskelligt praktisk udstyr og taktiske manøvrer ud fra lokale dagsordner oversætter de politiske evalueringsreformer ude i skolerne, og hvad disse oversættelser betyder for flertydig og emergerende ledelse. Skolerne, som i afhandlingen bliver kaldt ABC Skolen og Byskolen, er blevet undersøgt med interviews, fotos og logs samt observationer. Afhandlingen er en artikelafhandling, som består af tre videnskabelige artikler udarbejdet på engelsk og en dansk ramme, der introducerer afhandlingen, præsenterer baggrundsanalyser, reviewer dansk og international skoleledelseslitteratur, udvikler ledelsesanalytik og metodisk setup samt præsenterer analysestrategiske valg og foretager en samlende konklusion. Den teoretiske inspiration kommer primært fra aktør-netværksteori (Bruno Latour, Michel Callon og John Law). Samtidig inddrager afhandlingen Mats Alvesson og Andrew Spicers (2010) flertydighedscentrerede ledelsesanalytik samt postbureaukratisk ledelsesteori, teori om evaluering og læringsledelse samt teori om ledelse med social kapital. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8979
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Om kulturel produktion på Roskilde FestivalMunkgård Pedersen, Kristine (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The dissertation explores how cultural production is unfolding at Roskilde Festival – the biggest music- and culture festival in Denmark. The overall question being adressed is how the festival is assembled. The question is explored through four subquestions related to the cultural expressions, identity and materiality of the festival. The first part of the dissertation investigates the specificity of the festival's audience- based culture. The symbolic and historical connections between the festival and the 1960s' cultural activism is argued to be of an importance to the socioaesthetics, performed jointly by audience as well as performers. The dissertation further investigates how the identity of the festival is being negotiated between a number of different commercial and cultural actors: sponsors, volunteers and artists among others. The many different economic and cultural practices and values converge when the festival ground is being transformed from anonymous space to festival space embracing both cultural and commercial content. In this regard the dissertation investigates how the valuebased economic logics of subcultural production is debated and negotiated during the pratices of materializing space. It is argued that the complexity of the festival identity adds to the credibility of the festival and its many different producers. The second part of the dissertation is a socio-material analysis of two festival projects. One is the hybrid festival area Cosmopol, the other is the Orange Stage area. The analyses are based on a research agenda developed by the Actor- Network-Theory (ANT) which explores how ideas are materialised through proceses of interaction, translation and involvement. The explorations explain how subcultural attitudes, practices of transgression and oppositional identity are distributed through an ephemeral network of actors including humans (volunteers, artists, performers) and things (scenes, art works, graffiti, pictures and music) which forge performative alliances with the festival audience. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8058
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Schachtenhaufen, Ruben (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Med udgangspunkt i det danske talesprogskorpus DanPASS undersøges tilbøjeligheden til fonetisk reduktion i dansk talesprog i forhold til en række intralingvistiske faktorer. I undersøgelsen udføres en kortlægning mellem 300.000 fonemer og foner. På baggrund af denne kortlægning er det muligt at danne et meget detaljeret billede af både hvor i sproget den fonetiske realisering afviger fra den fonologisk forudsagte form, og naturen af denne afvigelse. I afhandlingen fokuseres der på den type afvigelser der kan karakteriseres som reduktioner, dvs. svækkelse og bortfald af de enkelte lydsegmenter. De reducerede forekomster sammenlignes med de øvrige annoterede lag i korpusset, herunder grammatiske, informationsstrukturelle og prosodiske forhold. Det demonstreres at tilbøjeligheden til reduktion, såvel som reduktionernes fonetisk resultat, i høj grad er knyttet til lingvistisk faktorer, såsom ordklasse, grammatisk funktion, ny vs. kendt information, fokus, emfase mm. foruden en række fonologiske faktorer. Reduktioner bliver ofte betragtet som sprogligt ukrudt, men på baggrund af den systematiske sammenhæng med informationsbærende elementer i sproget, virker det rimeligt at betragte reduktioner som funktionelle elementer, der er understøttende for kommunikationen snarere end forstyrrende. I afhandlingen udforskes og dokumenteres en række tilbøjeligheder som ikke tidligere er undersøgt i dansk, og kun sparsomt i internationale sammenhænge. Herigennem opnås et dybere indblik i dansk lydstruktur og de mønstre som reduktioner generelt ser ud til at følge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8676
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Sestoft, Christine (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: E-business is marching on in several markets, but not in one important one: the grocery market. The lesson learned in the last ten, fifteen years, from brick-and-mortar supermarkets going online, is, that it is very difficult to profit from digitalizing the daily buying of groceries. All consumption research shows that online grocery business still has a lot of functional, e.g. technical and sensory, disadvantages to offline ditto. Apparently it is not much easier to plan, choose and buy groceries online than in the traditional retailer/supermarket. Some of the relative few experienced grocery consumers supports the theory that one may save some time and effort getting ones groceries packed and delivered, but to the majority this is obviously just not good enough, especially when accounting the delivery fee. However, the functional disadvantage explanation cannot stand alone as an answer to why online grocery business is not more of a success - and it may even be overrated. New sales channels have always had the "disadvantage" of not functioning like/as good as the old ones. To me, another interesting issue to the subject seems to be about consumer values and how their practising is not supported in this new sales channel.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7737
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Entry timing and mode choiceJakobsen, Kristian (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation consists of an introduction followed by four papers on issues related to the choice of entry timing and entry mode in transition economies. Below is a list of the papers that is included in the dissertation with information about their current publication status and coauthorships. * Jakobsen, K. 2007. First mover advantages in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative analysis of performance measures, Journal of East-West Business, 13(1), 35-61. * Jakobsen, K. 2008. Competition for Markets in the Brewing Industry in Central and Eastern Europe. In J. Larimo (Ed.) Perspectives on Internationalization and International Management, Vassan Yliopiston Julkaisuja, p. 299-316. ISBN 978-952-476-228-1 * Jakobsen, K., & Meyer, K. E. 2008. Partial Acquisition: The overlooked entry mode. In J. H. Dunning and P. Gugler (eds.) Progress in International Business Research 2, Elsevier Science, p. 203-226. ISBN 978-0-7623-1475-1. * Jakobsen, K., & Meyer, K. E. 2007. Negotiating entry modes: Partial acquisitions in transition economies. Revise and resubmit at International Business Review URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7681
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Skabelse af forestillinger i læge- og plejegrupperne angående relevans af nye idéer om kvalitetsudvikling gennem tolkningsprocesserAlbæk, Jens (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to identify how ideas of organisational development are incorporated into and employed in hospital departments. The dissertation focuses on the conceptions of professional identity among doctors and nurses, their conceptions of clinical practice and the ideas of development they are introduced to. The health professionals' conceptions of development and practice are connected to their perception of 'professional relevance' in the dissertation. This conception of 'professional relevance' thereby forms a recurring expression of conceptions among the actors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7806
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Humle, Didde Maria (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling er en artikelbaseret afhandling bestående af fire artikler og en kappe. Afhandlingen er et narrativt og etnografisk casestudie af, hvordan job- og personalekonsulenter i en specifik konsulentvirksomhed gennem arbejdspraksisfortællinger om selv, arbejde og organisation arbejder med at skabe mening og identitet (individuel, kollektiv og organisatorisk) i forhold til deres daglige arbejde og organisationen. Konsulenternes daglige arbejde er kendetegnet ved at være immaterielt videnarbejde (Alvesson, 2000; Ipsen, 2006), hvor både input (konsulenternes viden og erfaringer) og output (kandidater, kunder og samarbejdspartneres tilfredshed og fremdrift) er af en immateriel karakter. Herunder fremstår det centralt, at en stor del af arbejdet er at etablere og "være i" relationer til kandidater, kunder, virksomheder og samarbejdspartnere, og at konsulenterne er centrum for mange, til tider modsatrettede, krav og forventninger fra kunder, kandidater, kollegaer, ledelse osv. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8778
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Security sector reform in Sierra LeoneAlbrecht, Peter Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis argues that security sector reform (SSR) has failed according to its own ambition of establishing a 'centrally governed state'. A primary reason for this failure is found in the concept of authority that state-building projects and much of the academic work that underpins it. Since the late 1990s, internationally supported efforts to make and consolidate peace in Sierra Leone have been synonymous with SSR. Support was given by the United Kingdom (UK) in particular to contain and ultimately overhaul the armed forces, which staged two coups in 1992 and 1997. Support was also provided to the central government to institute national security coordination and intelligence organizations, and to reestablish the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). The collapsed, but internationally recognized state was to be rebuilt, and security was seen as not only a prerequisite for this process to begin, but its very foundation. The first question of the thesis revolves around why the western universalist state concept came to guide SSR in Sierra Leone, and why it was considered of such fundamental importance to stability internationally. The second question revolves around how to conceptualize authority when actors such as paramount and lesser chiefs that may neither be categorized as state nor non-state are the primary makers of order in rural areas of the country. Speaking of the weakness or failure of a state is a way of describing what it is not, namely a centrally governed set of institutions that is able to make order within the territorial space that defines it. A focus on the state as an analytical concept does not, however, tell us much about how order is then made, and by whom it is made in Sierra Leone. The thesis rethinks what authority is in a way that does not privilege 'the state' as an analytical category, a tendency that has dominated much policy and academic thinking. The thesis' empirical basis of doing so is data relating to international policy-making processes, interviews among the key actors of Sierra Leone's SSR process, and ethnographic fieldwork in Peyima, a small diamond mining town in Kamara Chiefdom, Kono District. In a view of authority tied to 'the state' lies the conceptualization of a political entity, a bordered power container, which stands above, is detached from, and at the same time encompasses, controls and regulates society. In UK support of Sierra Leone's statebuilding efforts, the practices of traditional leaders and their productive effects in the justice and security field, and enforcing order, were acknowledged. However, failure to respond adequately to their central role in governing Sierra Leone's countryside came in two ways, both of which are related to concepts of the western universalist state that continue to guide SSR. The first failure was embedded in misrecognizing the resilience and productivity of local actors and institutions, and their authority to appropriate, interpret, translate and above all shape the elements of what was offered through SSR. The second failure came in not recognizing the hybrid nature of all actors in the justice and security field, based on the fact that they draw authority to act within the field from numerous sources across physical and symbolic space, in local and national domains. Hybridity is integral to state formation in Sierra Leone. It is foundational, and is historically grounded in the colonial era, articulating an infinite mixture of various forms of authority (from state legislation to status of autochthony and secret society membership). Inevitably, this order was reproduced by SSR, even if the aim of the international actors who supported this process of change had been to eradicate it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8549
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Moreira, Solon (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Licensing contracts represent one of the most widely used mechanisms to exchange technologies and transfer know-how between firms. Due to the opportunities that licensing creates for firms operating on both sides of the markets for technology, it has increasingly become an integral part of firms' R&D strategies. On the supply side, the existing literature has been focused on understanding how technology licensing can be used by firms as a mechanism to recover investments in innovative activities and to foster learning opportunities. On the demand side, it has been shown that licensing is an important source that firms can tap into to feed their internal needs for innovative knowledge. While several studies have examined technology licensing through the lens of the licensor, research on how firms rely on licensing contracts to acquire knowledge and improve their innovation performance still leaves much to be investigated. Furthermore, with few exceptions, neither organizational nor contractual characteristics related to the licensing deals have received enough attention as determinants of the capacity of the acquiring firm to benefit from licensing in a new technology. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between technology licensing and firm innovation, also examining how the characteristics of the acquiring firm and the use of specific contractual clauses affect this main relationship. The papers in this dissertation build on a different set of theoretical perspectives connected to the licensing literature. The dissertation consists of a general introduction, four papers, and a conclusion. Although all the papers build on the same main dataset related to licensing contracts in the global pharmaceutical industry, supplementary information from different data sources was connected to the licensing contracts to answer the specific research questions. Indeed, each paper, from a different perspective, contemplates and contributes to the existing literature by examining the relationship between technology licensing and specific dimensions of firm innovation. Understanding how licensing deals affect the performance of licensees and licensors is critical to understanding how markets for technology function. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8868
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En skatteretlig analyse af SEL §§ 11, 11B og 11CTell, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Emnet for denne afhandling er rentefradragsbegrænsningsreglerne i selskabsskattelovens §§ 11, 11B og 11C. Selskabets valg af finansiering består grundlæggende af et valg mellem egenkapital og fremmedkapital (gæld). Valget herimellem påvirker indkomstopgørelsen forskelligt. Ved gældsfinansiering flyttes beskatningen fra selskabsniveau til investorniveau, hvorved selskabsbeskatningen kontra investorbeskatningen er afgørende for de skattemæssige incitamenter ved valget mellem egen- og fremmedkapital. En lavere beskatning af investor, eksempelvis ved en ikke-hjemmehørende investor, skaber incitament til en højere gældsandel på selskabsniveau, hvorved at indkomst flyttes til beskatning udenfor Danmark.1251 Rentefradragsbegrænsningsreglerne i SEL §§ 11, 11B og 11C skal hindre en sådan udflytning af skattetilsvar i specifikke situationer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8427
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Franske adjektivisk afledte adverbier, der tager præpositionssyntagmer indledt med præpositionen à som argumenterEn valensgrammatisk undersøgelseSkot-Hansen, Annemette (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to map the valency structure of a subset of the French adverbs. More specifically, the dissertation seeks to answer the following questions: What valency structure follows from the lexical content of the adverbs investigated? What is the nature of the semantic relation established? What is the status of the valents relative to the adverb and relative to other valents? The empirical object of investigation is focused on adverbs derived from adjectives which take prepositional phrases headed by the preposition à as their complement. In addition, the delimitation chosen for this dissertation is a class of adverbs which share the feature that they carry the suffix -ment, which developed from the Latin noun mens, meaning "spirit/thought/mood/tenor". It is argued that the fusion of an adverb and mens establishes the general meaning [in an adjective spirit/thought/mood/tenor], i.e. the adverb retains the general quality denoted by the adjective, but the meaning targets the verb situation (at clause level) or the quality (at phrasal level) which saturates the argument of the adverb. Following tradition, the analysis adopted here, takes the verb situation to be realised by the predicate, and the quality to be realised by an adjective phrase, which may be realised by a past participle or, in rare cases, by another adverb. Since the valent is required by the lexical content of the adverb, it is assumed, following Herslund and Sørensen, that the valent is a fundamental valent. Another important feature of the adverbs which are analysed in this dissertation is that they establish a relation between two entities. This means that in addition to its fundamental valent, the adverb takes a further valent which it links with the fundamental valent. This second valent is referred to as the second valent of the adverb. The two valents are analysed as two relata in a relation. Unlike the fundamental valent, the second valent is always at phrasal level. When the adverb functions at clausal level, the second valent is realised as the prepositional object of the preposition phrase headed by à. This realisation is, however, not possible when the adverb functions at phrasal level. It is argued that this is a consequence of the fact that it is impossible to insert other constituents between the adverb and the adjective, adverb or participle which is modified by the adverb. The result is that where the second valent is realised, the adverb moves from preposition to postposition relative to its fundamental valent. In the data investigated the second valent denotes very different entities such as situations denoted by verbs and qualities, but also objects and abstract entities. The individual adverbs which are investigated here each determine their valency. In general there are different sources that allow us to uncover the core meaning of a word. The sources chosen in this dissertation are: the semantic roles assigned by the adverbs, their symmetry, elements of shared semantics or partial synonymy, their morphology and etymological roots. In order to bring together these different sources, the dissertation postulates a denotation design for each adverb. The etymology of the adverbs has been a particularly helpful in determining the relation and valency they establish. In addition to adverb and adjective suffixes, the majority of the adverbs investigated have a preposition in their synchronic morphological make-up which denotes a relation between two entities: some adverbs contain both a preposition and a morpheme from another word class, e.g. comparativement and subséquemment, while others contain only a preposition, e.g. antérieurement and postérieurement. A very small subset does not contain a preposition, but only a single adverb morpheme which denotes the relation in question, so, for instance, the adjectives par and similis, which have formed pareillement and semblablement, denote a relation between two relata. From an etymological perspective, a few adverbs, such as latéralement, do not denote a relation – so it is only through the formal realisation of the preposition phrase that the relation is established. The dissertation maps the etymological and morphological structure of the adverb and the range of functions that the adverb and its valents can have at clausal and phrasal level. The function of the adverb is relevant to the extent that the function affects its semantics and its valency structure. The effect of function is seen in some adverbs when they operate on clausal or on phrasal level and in other adverbs when they modify entire clauses or just the verb. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7944
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Towards Relational Leadership In the Cultural SectorFriis Møller, Søren (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis is an inquiry into how leadership is performed narratively in the cultural sector. Chapter 1 draws the cultural sector as a narrative landscape, and the reader is invited on a tour around this narrative landscape as seen through the eyes of some of the top guns in the cultural sector. Seen from this vantage, leadership in the cultural sector seems to be predominantly performed by relating narratives with reference to the metanarrative of the Enlightenment. The inquiry, however, draws on Lyotard (1984) to argue that such extralinguistic legitimization is in a crisis of legitimacy, wherefore the inquiry embarks on a problematization of the dominant understanding of leadership in the cultural sector with the activist aspiration of suggesting a postmoderning understanding of leadership in the cultural sector being performatively legitimized. Chapter 2 argues in favor of a relational, non-entitative understanding of narratives and it points to emplotment as a process of finding the best fit. This relational understanding of narratives allows the project to inquire into leadership performed narratively in all kinds of empirical settings, not confining itself to formal leadership contexts. Chapter 3 offers a genealogic approach to what the project has defined as the dominant narrative in the cultural sector, the narrative of art for art's sake (the AFAS narrative), which the project argues function as an implicit standard. This includes notions of aesthetic autonomy such as suggested by Kant in 1790, artistic freedom and art for its own sake such as claimed by artists in the Romantic era, and the arm's length principle as the 'constitution of cultural policies' in the post WW2 Western world. Chapter 4 provides an overview of alternative voices which have challenged the dominant narrative. These include post colonial studies, cultural entrepreneurial studies and consumer behavior studies which in various ways propose alternative ways to lead and support the cultural sector. Chapter 5 links the discussions in chapter 3 and chapter 4 to leadership studies, notably to discussions of leader-centered orientations versus leading relationally orientations. The chapter concludes by suggesting a new sensibility towards understanding leadership and meditates on how this might be achieved, paying attentions to the possibilities of overcoming the putative crisis of legitimacy the inquiry is placed in. Chapter 6 relates a case-study of Malmoe City Library which endeavors into a difficult, yet very promising process of reformulating what a library may become in a contemporary context. This process challenges the dominant narrative and thus the current understanding of what a library should be, and this deviation from the dominant narrative challenges leadership. Chapter 7 assembles three different approaches to challenges the dominant narrative and to make new interpretive resources available to the understanding of leadership in the cultural sector. First, givrum.nu, a social movement working with arts, second, Mogens Holm, a leader in the cultural sector in a transition phase, and third, Copenhagen Phil, a classical symphony orchestra striving to avoid becoming a parallel society phenomenon. These case studies are conducted as written interviews with the cases, in an attempted un-edited form to also introduce relational processes informed by a power with relation to my own research project. Chapter 8 reflects on the case-studies in chapter 6 and chapter 7 in light of the two approaches to leadership discussed in chapter 5. It does so by linking my study to relational leadership theory in order to see how this theoretical field might inform my inquiry and how my inquiry might inform this field. It equally offers five possible reconstructions of the cases before concluding the research project by summing up contributions to the empirical field and the research fields, as well as by pointing to areas which could be further developed in future research. In line with the aspirations of the relational constructionist framework of the project, the inquiry does not offer a conclusion. Instead it encourages further reconstructions, thus submitting itself to the performative legitimization it argues in favor of. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8590
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Joe,There are a few things you need to read before making your choice. The first is an ORIGINAL THREAD regarding springs on the old forum. There's a link in one of the replies that will take you to a 1969 Camaro spring calculator. Although it's for a 69, it will get you close enough if you can determine (approximate) what options you car originally had. To be honest, I don't think there are that many versions of the rear springs available, and any set you get would probably be okay. However, your original question was to do with 4 or 5 leaf and if you can give me the spring code you come up with, I should be able to tell you if it was originally a 4 or 5 leaf setup.Ed
Steve,Nowadays I'm not sure how much you'll get out of it. It seems that there are really only a few options when it comes to rear springs on our cars. Places like Ricks, Ground Up, Classic Industries, etc... only sell one or two versions at most. Kind of a "one size fits all" mentality. That's probably why people experience problems when trying to fit these things onto their cars. Some folks complain that the car is too high, others complain of just the opposite! Since GM had hundreds of versions of the same basic spring for each car, we can immediately rule out the "one size fits all" spring.However, there IS hope! Places like Eaton or Triangle appear to be the answer. (At least according to their ads!!) Therefore, if dealing with one of these type of companies, it's best if you know what you're talking about before contacting a salesman. IF you can give them a rear spring rate and/or a spring code to go by, there's a much better possibility that what you come away with will be much closer to what your car originally came with in the first place.In some cases, I can look up original codes and/or Part Numbers in the P&A and give you an exact spring count and spring rate. I can't do that with all applications since the P&A doesn't list every spring that came on these cars, but I can probably get you in the ballpark. So in these cases, it would be benificial if you knew the code at the bottom of the calculation program.If you can get me the code, I'll give it a shot!Ed
Steve,The "BK" Standard rear spring is P/N 3955740, the "BM" (F41) rear spring is P/N 3934894 and the "BL" (G31) rear spring is P/N 3955743. Unfortunately, my September, 1968 P&A 34 only shows one spring listing for 1969 rears (P/N 3934894). Luckily, it's your F41 option and is a 5 leaf. The other two aren't shown in my book since it's "new" for 1969. Hopefully someone with a later P&A will be able to give you the other two listings.Ed


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Deep in post-production on his weird but wonderful sci-fi romance "Her" this past March, Spike Jonze made the difficult decision to — as the old editing edict goes — kill one of his darlings.
The nuanced vocal performance turned in by British actress Samantha Morton, who was portraying a Siri-esque computer operating system who finds herself in a state of deep romantic longing with Joaquin Phoenix's lovelorn, all-too-human divorced character, in the end "wasn't right" for the film.
And with "Her" set to premiere at the New York Film Festival in October ahead of its Dec. 18 Academy Awards-qualifying run in theaters, drastic action was needed. With Morton's blessing, Jonze — the quirky Oscar-nominated visionary behind "Where the Wild Things Are," "Adaptation." and "Being John Malkovich" — decided to recast the part. "She totally understood we had to go with what the film needed," Jonze said.
Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson was halfway through her marquee run in a Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" when Jonze approached her about the role — that of a disembodied voice that must provide the emotional thrust of the film. The actress was daunted by the part's seeming complexity but agreed to an informal rehearsal at Jonze's New York apartment.
That work session evolved into a freewheeling seven-hour discussion of life, love and the "feelings of inadequacy" acutely experienced by Johansson's never-seen character, Samantha, "that stem from the fact she doesn't have a physical body and can't fulfill what a person of the flesh could," Johansson said.
After accepting the part, she and Jonze conducted rehearsals for "Her" concurrent with the actress' "Cat" commitments. "A couple of times, we'd be there on Maggie the Cat's bed going over the scenes," Johansson said. "We wanted the character to be — I almost said 'fleshed out' — there was a certain kind of self-assuredness we needed to develop. That work we did during that time built a wonderful trust between Spike and I. We shared so much of ourselves in that process."
In the movie, Phoenix portrays Theodore Twombly, an emotionally stilted denizen of megalopolis Los Angeles in the not-too-distant future whose job at a company called BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com entails dictating personal messages for strangers. Theodore's new OS — a frisky digital presence blessed with artificial intelligence, an intense thirst for new experiences and Johansson's dusky vocal timbre — breathes unexpected life into his quotidian existence. And a kind of techno-romance blooms between the two — they go on excursions, vacations, even double dates (with human friends) before unforeseen complications threaten to unplug the couple's connection.
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In the wake of "Her's" festival debut last month, Johansson's finely calibrated vocal characterization have left critics fumbling for superlatives. "She creates a complex, full-bodied character without any body at all," wrote Variety critic Scott Foundas.
"The character is such a brave one because Samantha allows herself to be vulnerable and completely unaffected," Johansson said recently from Paris, where she was shooting the sci-fi thriller "Lucy" for French auteur Luc Besson. "She doesn't have any preconceived ideas about anything. She's experiencing everything for the first time."
The "Avengers" star recorded most of her performance last spring at a West Hollywood dubbing stage concurrent with filming her part as superheroine Black Widow in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." Although Phoenix had already wrapped principal photography on "Her" months earlier, when Morton was on board, and was preparing for a role in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie at the time, the actor returned for about half of Johansson's vocal sessions, feeding her lines and re-recording some of his own dialogue.
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For her part, Johansson, found the recording sessions challenging but liberating.
"You're liberated from your body. You're liberated from any kind of judgment that other people might place on your appearance," she said. "And the work is so particular. There's such a journey in each scene.
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VANCOUVER, BC - Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today their annual team awards - presented by BMO - with right fullback Young-Pyo Lee voted as the club's 2012 'Player of the Year'. Rookie striker Darren Mattocks won the 'Most Promising Player' award, while midfielder Jun Marques Davidson was the recipient of the 2012 'Jock MacDonald Unsung Hero Award'. Youngster Omar Salgado was honoured as this year's 'Humanitarian of the Year'.
Whitecaps FC honoured the 2012 Awards Winners in a pre-match ceremony prior to Vancouver's final regular season home match versus Pacific Northwest rivals Portland Timbers on Bell Pitch at BC Place on Sunday afternoon.
In honour of Lee being voted as Whitecaps FC Player of the Year, BMO Bank of Montreal awarded Alessandro Hojabrpour from the Whitecaps FC U-13 Pre-Residency team with a $500 Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) before Sunday's kickoff.
"When over 300 Whitecaps FC fans turned up at BMO's Coquitlam branch recently to meet Young-Pyo Lee, we realized he had a great local following," said Joanne Gassman, Senior Vice President, BC, BMO Bank of Montreal. "We're very pleased to present the annual team awards as part of our commitment to the beautiful game in Vancouver."
PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Young-Pyo Lee
Presented to the winner by BMO, the 'Player of the Year' honour was awarded to Young-Pyo Lee after Whitecaps FC supporters selected the former South Korean international for his efforts throughout the 2012 MLS campaign. The tireless defender has been one of the first names that 'Caps head coach Martin Rennie writes down in his starting XI. Prior to today's match, the 35-year-old has made a team-high 31 appearances and amassed 2,790 minutes of action this season. In doing so, the former PSV Eindhoven and Tottenham Hotspur FC man has ensured Whitecaps FC have maintained some semblance of familiarity at right fullback through 2012. With a strong work ethic, Lee ranks second in the team for assists with four. He even scored a fortuitous match-winning goal at Columbus Crew on April 28. The defender's industrious work on the right flank has twice won him the Budweiser Man of the Match award.
MOST PROMISING PLAYER - Darren Mattocks
The 2012 'Most Promising Player' award was presented to Darren Mattocks, with the honour selecting a younger player from either Whitecaps FC or Whitecaps FC Residency program that exemplifies noticeable development throughout an individual season. The first-year striker has made an instant impact for Whitecaps FC after the club selected him with the second overall pick in this year's MLS SuperDraft. The 22-year-old's electrifying pace and clinical finishing has him in contention for MLS Rookie of the Year honours. Prior to today's match, the recently-capped Jamaican international has scored seven goals and added one assist in 19 MLS appearances. Mattocks leads the Blue and White with two game-winning goals in 2012 and was recently named the best MLS player under the age of 24 in MLSsoccer.com's '24 under 24' list for 2012.
JOCK MacDONALD UNSUNG HERO AWARD - Jun Marques Davidson
The 2012 'Jock MacDonald Unsung Hero Award' was awarded to Jun Marques Davidson in memory of Jock MacDonald's dedication to Whitecaps FC. Jock was a founding member of Vancouver 86ers and a key individual to resurrecting professional soccer in the Lower Mainland. His gracious personality and contributions were an important part of the club's success. In his first season in MLS, Davidson's contributions as a holding midfielder have played an important role in the considerable improvement of Whitecaps FC as an MLS outfit. Prior to today's match, the 29-year-old has started all 24 of his league appearances for 2,115 minutes of action. His efforts have earned him the Budweiser Man of the Match award on two occasions this season.
HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR - Omar Salgado
The 2012 'Humanitarian of the Year' was awarded to Omar Salgado, which highlights a player that has shown an active willingness to give back to the community by volunteering and participating in club and community initiatives beyond the regular call of duty. The 19-year-old was a regular contributor to Whitecaps FC's various community initiatives during the 2012 season. His enthusiasm and commitment helped Whitecaps FC continue with their mission and vision to be a significant asset in the community. Prior to today's match, Salgado started all but one of his six league appearances, recording one assist, before a foot injury in early June put him on the sidelines for an extended period of time. Despite seeing limited action this season, the United States youth international was selected #23 in MLSsoccer.com's '24 Under 24' list.
With two matches remaining in the 2012 regular season, Darren Mattocks is in pole position to claim the 'Domenic Mobilio Golden Boot' award as Whitecaps FC top goalscorer for 2012. Prior to today's match, the former University of Akron star has scored seven goals in MLS to go with his single goal in this year's Amway Canadian Championship for a total of eight. Last season's top scorer Camilo Sanvezzo is second with five league goals in 2012, while three players - Gershon Koffie, Dane Richards, and Barry Robson - are tied with three MLS goals each. The award is named in honour of Domenic Mobilio, who in 15 seasons with Vancouver 86ers scored 170 goals, more than double the club's next leading scorer. In memory of his great accomplishments, the Domenic Mobilio Golden Boot - a bronzed trophy made from one of Domenic's left boots - is awarded annually by the Mobilio family to the Whitecaps FC men's player who scores the most goals in a single season.
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Users of HealthCare.gov are being asked to change their passwords due to the federal exchange's potential vulnerability to the Heartbleed security flaw, and the warning is troubling, analysts say, as medical information is hotter than ever for criminals looking to make a quick profit.
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The federal insurance exchange site posted a warning on Saturday alerting users of the potential compromise. Aaron Albright, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokesperson, told FOXBusiness.com the administration is continuing to monitor and take precautions to protect consumer data.
Healthcare.gov does not store medical records or payment information.
"HealthCare.gov uses many layers of protections to secure consumers' information. While there is no indication that the Heartbleed vulnerability has been used against HealthCare.gov or that any personal information has ever been at risk, we have taken steps to address Heartbleed issues and reset consumers' passwords out of abundance of caution. Consumers are being notified with instructions on how to change their passwords the next time they log on."
Identify theft has evolved over the years, it's not just credit card and bank account numbers scammers are after—medical records are much more valuable. These records are all encompassing and less easily replaced than credit card data. According to The Ponemon Institute's March report, the health care and insurance industries are facing a 100% increase of criminal attacks since 2010. In 2014, 40% of health-care organizations reported attacks on their sensitive data.
Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, says medical records are infinitely more valuable to criminals than personal information. "If I want to basically create a financial identity theft crime, I can do it just as easily with a health record, because it's a collection of pieces of information that individually might be valuable," he says.
The Heartbleed bug was found in some versions of OpenSSL, an open-source software that many websites use to encrypt communication on the web. The security flaw puts usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and anything else stored on a server's memory at risk.
The bug was discovered at the beginning of April by researchers at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), but has been around for nearly two years. Several major companies use OpenSSL code, including Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) and Microsoft Outlook (NASDAQ:MSFT). Fraudsters can't request specific user data with the Heartbleed flaw, but they can gather enough information to piece it together, according to reports.
Healthcare.gov operates in 34 states that opted not to set up their own insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. The law mandates every individual in the country to have insurance or face a fine of $95 a year for failing to comply. As of April 17, the White House says 8 million people had selected plans on both state and federal exchanges.
Rob Sadowski, director, technology solutions for cyber security firm RSA, says the Heartbleed bug is particularly troubling to Healthcare.gov, because health information brings major financial returns for criminals.
"Health care is a $3 trillion industry and we are seeing a lot of fraud in there," Sadowski says. "It can only increase as more and more of these services move online, if they aren't protected effectively. Criminals are always really good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that lead to big gains."
Security and Server Transfers
Healthcare.gov is in the middle of a server transfer to move users' information to a new contractor's servers. Terremark (a subsidiary of Verizon) was hired to operate the data center on Healthcare.gov for its inaugural rollout, and its contract was set to expire this spring. It has been renewed to facilitate the changing of servers to Hewlett-Packard ahead of November's 2015 open enrollment period.
"CMS is undertaking the necessary activities to transition the data center over to HP. As such, we extended Terremark's contract term in order to ensure a successful transition between the two contractors. HP and Terremark will work together so that the site runs smoothly for consumers during the remaining weeks of open enrollment," Albright said in an email message.
Ponemon says both Verizon and HP are top-notch when it comes to sever security, but adds security risks are always present anytime data is being transferred to a new server.
"It's just system glitches, mistakes and human error. I don't expect it to be a significant problem, but this is Healthcare.gov and the perception of it having significant insecurities is out there."
While Sadowski says the specifics of the server transfer are not clear, hacking into a site like Healthcare.gov is a high-profile move for a criminal looking for access and notoriety within the underworld.
"Healthcare.gov is a clearinghouse," he says. "Would you rather hack into 10 different sites, or go to the one with the most information on it? Heartbleed is almost a front door to gain access to user information or credentials to exploit online services."


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|Pres. Obama with 51-star flag favored by many Puerto Ricans
The point here is that the state of Puerto Rico isn't necessarily going to vote Democratic. Many Latinos are conservative on social issues, and thus vote Republican. The current governor of the island, Luis Fortuño, is a Republican.
One crafty GOP strategy would be to advocate statehood (and grab Latino votes nationwide) by evoking the Lincoln-esque notion that the US should not have any second-class citizens. The talking points would go like this: Puerto Ricans fight in American wars, but they cannot vote for the commander-in-chief. While Luis Fortuño could run for President of the United States, he cannot, by law, vote for himself. This is the kind of injustice Republicans fought and died for 150 years ago. Alas, today, they seem quite happy to ignore the plight of second-class citizens in Puerto Rico—and prefer to let Democrats take the high road on this issue. Regardless of which party carries the ball, the goal should be statehood OR independence. The middle ground—of second-class citizenship—isn't the American way.


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The England full-back Mike Brown has won the 2014 RBS Six Nations player of the championship award.
Brown, who was in blistering form throughout the Six Nations campaign, secured more than 34% of a public vote to claim an accolade that went to the Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny last season. Around 68,000 people took part in the vote, with Brown's share of that being just over 23,400.
The Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll finished second on 28%, with his team-mate Andrew Trimble third.
O'Driscoll bowed out of Test rugby last weekend when he helped Ireland beat France to land a first Six Nations title since 2009 in the process. A 16-man shortlist was drawn up based on match statistics and analysis across a set of criteria, before the public voted.
The Ireland fly-half Jonathan Sexton took fourth spot, ahead of Rob Kearney, with the Scotland No8 David Denton sixth and the England scrum-half Danny Care seventh.
Brown, of Harlequins, scored four tries for England during the campaign, had 65 carries and beat 25 defenders, while conceding no penalties and gaining more than 540 metres.
"I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who voted for me to be RBS Six Nations Player of the Championship," Brown said. "I am extremely grateful and proud to win this award, particularly as it's decided by the supporters. It was disappointing not to win the tournament overall, but congratulations to Ireland, and I am sure we will come back stronger next season.
"Finally, a big thank you to all my team-mates, back-room staff, and coaches for all the help they've given me through the tournament. I couldn't perform on the field without them, and it's great to have that support."
England's head coach, Stuart Lancaster, added: "Congratulations to Mike for winning this accolade. He has been consistently strong for us throughout the competition and put in some outstanding performances.
"I am very proud of what Mike and the whole squad – players, coaches and management – have achieved this RBS Six Nations. We are really looking forward to building on this as we head to New Zealand in the summer for our tour."


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Making a sofa table~
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going on now, its such a great project.
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What is the burning policy in the City of Jefferson?
Burning of garbage is prohibited. Yard waste and brush are allowed to be burned during daylight hours and fires must be attended. You are not allowed to burn on city streets or alleys. If the county has declared a burning ban, all burning shall cease. Be aware of wind conditions and be considerate of neighbors.
When an emergency vehicle is approaching displaying emergency lights and sirens, what should I do?
By Iowa law, you shall pull to the right and stop. This allows fire apparatus adequate and clear lanes to safely and quickly continue its response.
Who do I call about a fire extinguisher that doesn't work?
You may contact Fire Chief Randy Love at 515/386-3112.
Who do I call to recharge my fire extinguisher?
You may contact Chris Lansman in Grand Junction. His number is 515-738-2669. Chris is the only person in the area that provides this service.
Why do fire trucks respond to motor vehicle accidents?
There are two reasons. First, automobile accidents present other hazards such as potential fire, ruptured fuel tanks, and/or the presence of hazardous materials. Second, firefighters are trained and have the equipment to in extricate (remove) trapped occupants from the vehicle.
Why do firefighters respond to medical calls?
Jefferson Firefighters are also first responders. They carry medical equipment in the trucks and arrive to assist the paramedics. When they first arrive they are able to begin a patient history, take vitals and assess to transferring the care of the patient quickly to the paramedics.
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As explained in the previous answer, sometimes several units are dispatched to the same incident. The first arriving unit can assess the situation and call off the unneeded units. They are, then, put back in service and ready for other calls.
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Fire Department units are dispatched according to information received by the 9-1-1 operator. A structure fire requires a number of people to do all the assigned tasks. Firefighting teams are assigned certain responsibilities such as fire suppression, search and rescue, ventilation, salvage, safety, accountability, and rapid intervention teams when firefighters become trapped or injured. The Jefferson Fire Department would rather be overcautious when they respond to citizens in need of help. They are always prepared to deal with the worst that could happen. Discovering that more units are needed once they arrive is often too late. The Department has learned it is better to have too much help than not enough.


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Reading 3: The Memoir of Nancy Morton Staples
Nancy Morton Staples was 31 years old and living on the southwest side of the Prairie Grove Battlefield at the time of the conflict. This is her account:
On the 7th day of December, 1862, the advance guard met south of the grove, killing one man. Early in the day the battle commenced on the Borden farm east of the grove, lasting until sunset, winding up on the Morton farm one mile west. The families were ordered west to the first cellar, which was Morton's. Those in the cellar during the battle were N. J. and J. M. Morton, William Morton, William D. Rogers, wife and three children, A. Borden, wife and five children, Eliza Borden, Dr. Rogers, wife and two children. We all remained in the cellar till dark, but I went into the house several times to get victuals [food supplies] and some bedclothes and wraps for the children. They fought through and around the house, the shots flying like hail in every direction, only a few cannon balls striking close. Mrs. Borden's pony stood hitched close to the cookroom, saddled, and was not hurt, and after the firing ceased, she with her...children mounted the pony, passed the guards and rode to Mrs. Mock's in safety.
...the day after the battle we did all we could to relieve the wounded and dying. Such pitiful wails and cries that came from those poor men. We made them tea from herbs and did all we could for their comfort.... After the battle Will[iam] Rogers went south, leaving his wife and...children with us. The oldest and youngest were taken sick, the oldest dying one day after the battle, the other the next day....
Another shocking affair was my helping to bury Mr. Borden, a brother of A[rchibald] Borden, who was brutally killed in the Pittman lane. He had lain there all night when Eliza and Mary Borden, Martha Butler and myself got there. Two old men who had previously dug the grave helped us carry him to it and being afraid of scouts they left us to fill the grave. All the implements we had were an old hoe and pieces of boards. We blistered our hands and were worn out when we got home, as we had to walk.
...Another trying hour on us was the robbers [who] came and burned my father's feet to make him give up his money. At first they pretended to be friends and mother and I went to the cellar and got them apples. They talked, enjoyed the apples and were great southern men, of course. My father had gone to bed. After a while one of them went up to the bed and said, "Old man, it's not your politics I care for, it's your money, and we're going to have it."
I cannot express my feelings when they pulled him out and tied him, taking four of them to do it. They heated two shovels, for the night was cold and we had a big fire, and they began burning the bottoms of his feet. I threw water on the shovels with one of them pointing a pistol in my face and striking me over the back and arms until I was black and blue. I then threw water on the fire putting it out. One of them threw a shovel of hot coals on his body, but having on heavy all-wool underwear he was not burned. Then they took him out to hang him, as they had not succeeded in getting him to tell where he had money. They choked my mother for screaming and abused us for looking out of the window. After compelling him to tell them what they wanted to know, they brought him back into the house and ransacked everything in the house, carrying off what paper money he had and destroying some notes. We all then went to bed shivering with cold, afraid to make a fire or light.... There was nothing but sorrow, trouble, and worry till peace was declared....
Questions for Reading 3
For some of the questions you may need to refer back to Readings 1 and 2.
1. What events were particularly vivid in Nancy's memory?
2. What evidence do you have about how and why the Morton and West families cared for the wounded soldiers, as well as for the sick and dying of their own community?
3. How old was Nancy when these events occurred? How many years later were her recollections written down?
4. How would you compare the tone of the three accounts? In particular, how did each react to what happened, and who did each blame?
5. Which of the three accounts you read seems the most reliable? Why? (You might consider each woman's age during the war, when their accounts were written, the level of detail, and the degree to which the speaker seems to take a particular side.)
Reading 3 was excerpted from an oral history of Nancy Morton Staples, quoted from a manuscript written by Mrs. Staples at Prairie Grove about 1896. Courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission.


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Bruce and Dawn Eveleth of Estherville announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica, to Andrew Weis, son of Greg and Roz Weis of Decorah.
Jessica is a graduate of Estherville High School, Iowa Lakes Community College and the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.
Andy is a graduate of Decorah High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis.
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Jessica is a pharmacist at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, and also is on the faculty at Texas Tech University College of Pharmacy.
Andy is a science teacher in the Abilene School District.
The couple will exchange vows Saturday, July 16, at 2 p.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Estherville. A reception will follow at Gull Point State Park Lodge at Spirit Lake. They are making their home in Abilene.


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Response team
After Horton is hit, Bruins pound Canucks
The way its caretakers view it, the spoked-B represents a philosophy as much as a team. For as long as the organization has been in existence, the Bruins have been about hard work, emotion, pride, and teamwork.
Especially when a brother goes down.
At 5:07 of the first period last night, a late, blindside wallop by Canucks defenseman Aaron Rome left Nathan Horton flat on the ice, his right arm aiming skyward in a sickly fashion. Rome's hit and its stomach-turning consequences — Horton was carried off on a stretcher and transported to Massachusetts General Hospital — only deepened the Bruins' commitment to upholding what their brand is all about.
"I think it definitely made us realize that we all needed to pick it up and step up for him,'' Daniel Paille said. "He's been great for us all playoffs. Obviously, to lose him at this point hurts us. It was nice to see us all come out.''
It was no coincidence, then, that the Bruins played their sharpest after one of their best players went down. After a scoreless first period, the Bruins busted Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final open in the second with four strikes — two even-strength, one on the power play, and another shorthanded — while executing the game plan that has always been in their DNA.
They punished the Canucks. They smothered their best players. They turned to their goaltender to make timely stops. And whenever the Canucks were clinging to the cliff's edge, the Bruins, without a shred of mercy, stomped on their fingers and sent them to an 8-1 demise.
There were countless stars. Tim Thomas (40 saves) was one stop away from a shutout. Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg helped turn Henrik and Daniel Sedin into the Doublemint Twins (two total shots). Mark Recchi scored two goals.
But at night's end, the game jacket presented after every win to the player who contributes the most hadn't moved. Horton was its last owner, courtesy of his winning goal in the 1-0 win over Tampa Bay in Game 7 of the conference finals. Last night, the jacket remained in Horton's stall.
"Guys were a little nervous about Horty and worried about him,'' Brad Marchand said of the mood after the first period. "We still had a game to play. We really wanted to get the win tonight. We made sure to refocus and do it for him.''
In Games 1 and 2, the Bruins treated the puck as if it were pyrite instead of platinum. They fumbled it away in the neutral zone. They didn't dump the puck into areas where their forwards could hunt it down. They didn't get enough speed rolling through center ice to make the Vancouver defensemen backtrack.
All that changed last night. The Bruins treated the puck with love. Whenever it was off their sticks, they were desperate to get it back. After Horton was wheeled off, the Bruins made it their primary action to bury the Canucks. Not for revenge, but to set the tone, make them hear footsteps, and send their faces into the glass all with one purpose in mind: make them scared to play the puck.
It worked.
After an untimely stick snap by Alexander Edler — the defenseman's twig broke shortly after the opening faceoff of the second — the Bruins went on the attack. Rich Peverley, taking a shift in Horton's spot on the first line, pressured the puck, then got it to Andrew Ference. The defenseman sent a long-distance shot that appeared to deflect off traffic and carom past Roberto Luongo at 0:11 of the period.
That triggered the avalanche. Shawn Thornton drew a hooking penalty on Jeff Tambellini. On the power play, Michael Ryder sent a perfect cross-ice seam pass to Mark Recchi. The alternate captain tried to hit Peverley at the other side of the crease, but Ryan Kesler deflected the puck past Luongo.
The third goal was the killer, although it didn't look promising for the Bruins at the time. At 10:30, Milan Lucic was called for slashing.
With a power-play goal, the Canucks could have made it 2-1. Instead, a minute after going on the power play, the puck was behind Luongo after Marchand abused Vancouver's best players.
First, Marchand stripped Daniel Sedin of the puck in center ice. Marchand then whirred through the neutral zone, threw a self-pass off the right wall, and blew past Edler. Marchand muscled off the backcheck of Kesler. Then Marchand sliced through the crease, waited for Luongo to hit the deck, and roofed a shorthanded goal into the net at 11:30 to give the Bruins a 3-0 lead.
With one rush, Marchand undressed most of Vancouver's traveling contingent to Las Vegas for the NHL's annual awards show: Sedin (Hart Trophy), Kesler (Selke), and Luongo (Vezina).
"Obviously, it's one I'm one proud of,'' Marchand said. "Couple lucky bounces there. Couple guys poked at it. It was kind of rolling at times.''
Things got rough in the third.
At 11:16, Lucic was tagged with slashing, roughing, and a 10-minute misconduct penalties. He had tangled with Alex Burrows, whose chompers drew blood from Patrice Bergeron's right index finger in Game 1. Lucic took off his right glove and waved his bare fingers in front of Burrows. In Game 2, Maxim Lapierre had done something similar to Bergeron.
Yesterday morning, Julien ripped Lapierre for his actions.
"If it's acceptable for them, then so be it,'' Julien said. "It certainly wouldn't be acceptable on our end of it. The NHL rules on something. If they decide to make a mockery of it, that's totally up to them. If that's their way of handling things, so be it.''
Last night, Julien had similar criticism for Lucic.
"I don't want that stuff in our game,'' Julien said. "I think we have to be better than that. Emotions are running high. It was a very physical game. There was a lot of stuff going on. You can live with that kind of stuff. But the other stuff, I don't want to see.''
That wasn't all. Thomas dumped Henrik Sedin with a check in front. Seidenberg dropped the gloves with Kesler.
"We play our best hockey when we play on the edge,'' Recchi said. "When we play that way, we play physical, we're passionate about it, we're involved. We played this like a Game 7.''
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Starting Avira System Scanner from the command line
Many download managers and backup programs allow you to scan files with a virus scanner, using the command line. In this way, you can use the graphical user interface of Avira software, configuring it with the following parameters (the syntax is not case-sensitive, but the paths have to be inserted in double-quotes):
/CFG="<path to the scan profile file>"
/PATH="<path to the folder or file to be scanned>"
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Avira\Antivirus\avscan.exe" /CFG="%PROGRAMFILES%\Avira\Antivirus\scan.avp"
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Avira\Antivirus\avscan.exe" /PATH="%WINDIR%"
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Avira\Antivirus\avscan.exe" /PATH="C:\Downloads\"
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Avira\Antivirus\avscan.exe" /PATH="C:\Downloads\%1"
Avira System Scanner uses the configuration set in Avira product, the menu wheel → PC Protection → System Scanner. So, if you activated the option Scan master boot sectors, they will be scanned every time avscan.exe starts.
In case you do not want to use this option, because the scanning takes longer, there is a work-around, for scanning only the selected files.
- Download this profile file (right-click the link and select Save link as): filescan.avp
- Save the file on your hard disk, then right-click it and select Properties. Activate the option Read only and press OK.
Now you have to apply this profile to the /CFG parameter. For example, to use Avira products with WinRAR, you have to use the following parameters:
System Scanner name:
System Scanner parameter:
/CFG="C:\filescan.avp" /PATH="%f"
Affected products
- Avira Professional Security [Windows]
- Avira Free Antivirus [Windows]
- Avira Antivirus Premium 2013 [Windows]
- Avira Antivirus Pro [Windows]
- Avira Internet Security [Windows]
- Avira Internet Security Suite [Windows]
- Avira Ultimate Protection Suite [Windows]
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