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Special Assistance Service
Royal Air Maroc pays special attention to passengers requiring special assistance and strives to guarantee optimal conditions of comfort and safety throughout the trip.
Royal Air Maroc offers a wide range of services tailored to your needs (motor / auditory / visual and / or mental): to facilitate each step of your trip: when booking, assistance at the airport, during the flight, during connecting flights etc.General booking conditions of our special assistance service
- To guarantee assistance tailored to your needs during your trip, please indicate your need for assistance at least 48 hours before departure.
After this period, we cannot guarantee the provision of appropriate services.
Refer to the guide corresponding to your need.
- Requests for special assistance can be made online.
- If your sate of health requires a medical clearance to be issued by Royal Air Moroc, the issuance of your ticket depends on this clearance. Once the travel authorisation has been given by the company, you can then pay your ticket.
- Miles of the loyalty program Safar Flyer are not valid for payment of assistance services (stretcher, extra seat etc.), with the exception of the UM service which can be paid in Safar Flyer miles.
- Code share flights: some Royal Air Maroc flights can be made by our partner airlines. Do not hesitate to contact our Call Centre or nearest RAM agency to confirm the possibility of offering the assistance required.
- In some cases and depending on your state of health, you need to get a medical clearance from our medical department to travel. The presence of a companion may also be required.
Contact our special assistance service (click here ) or by e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Special ROYAL AIR MAROC Assistance service
00212 522 48 97 51 (cost of a local call if it is a national call)
Opening hours
Mondays to Sundays from 9 am to 6 pm
After 6 pm
Or visit your nearest RAM agency (consult the list)
Is your mobility reduced?
We provide wheelchairs in the airports we serve.
Our dedicated staff is available to assist you in your movements from the check-in area until you board the plane.
To allow our staff to provide the best possible service, please request the wheelchair service when booking at least 48 hours before departure.
Consult all the necessary information below.
3 categories of wheelchairs are available:
Type of wheelchair to request
Level of mobility
How to book? (1)
WCHR (Ramp)
You can move alone, climb / go down stairs and move in the cabin.
Please contact our call centre directly or go to the nearest Royal Air Maroc agency
WCHS (Steps)
You can move alone in the cabin but you cannot climb or go down stairs?
Please contact our call centre directly or go to the nearest Royal Air Maroc agency
WCHC (Cabin)
You cannot move alone?
Please contact our call centre directly or go to the nearest Royal Air Maroc agency
A medical clearance to be issued by our Royal Air Maroc medical service and the presence of a companion during the flight may be required in some cases
- The wheelchair request service is available on all Royal Air Maroc flights (domestic and international network), in all travel classes.
- If you are obliged to travel lying down, please book for a stretcher.
- From 10 passengers travelling on wheelchairs, a clearance to be delivered by the Company will be required: for more information, visit your agency or contact our call centre.
- The provision of a wheelchair by Royal Air Maroc is free.
- Items needed for your mobility (such as wheelchairs, a pair of crutches, orthopaedic devices) will also be transported free of charge in the hold provided they meet the standards in terms of volume, weight, size (know more).
- For some types of devices and chairs, the number of cabin seats is limited. Book this service well in advance to benefit from it.
- For easy access, we will endeavour to put you on a seat with removable armrests.
- When booking and to prepare for your trip calmly, our Royal Air Maroc staff is entirely at your disposal to provide you with all the information : location of seats with movable armrests, unallocated seats, limitations on the possibility of loading mobility equipment or other aids, in the cabin or in the aircraft hold including the loading of wheelchairs...
Our staff is particularly qualified and trained on different types of handicaps and disabilities as well as their care.
If your request was made at least 48 hours before departure, our special assistance service will help you in your movements and proceed to check you in with your luggage and mobility equipment.
- Reporting time: we recommend that you report at least 90 minutes before the close of check-in, so as to arrange the assistance you need.
- Priority check-in :
- You will benefit from priority check-in. Report to one of the check-in counters of your travel class. If you are a holder of our Safar Flyer Ambassador / Gold / Silver card, you will be checked in at the Business class counter.
- At the Casablanca Hub, report to the "Special Assistance" area if you checked in at Terminal 1: you will be assisted by our dedicated staff for all necessary check-in formalities.
- Luggage
- Checked baggage
- In addition to your baggage allowance authorised on your ticket, you can carry free of charge in the hold: a wheelchair (consult the acceptance conditions) or any other orthopaedic device, which will be delivered to you first.
- In case of loss or damage of your wheelchair or mobility aid equipment, you shall be covered in accordance with the regulations in force. We recommend that you purchase travel insurance suitable for the equipment you are carrying.
- Cabin baggage: in addition to your cabin baggage (which should not exceed 10 kg and the dimensions must not exceed 55 x 35 x 25 cm), you can transport free of charge a device such as a POC: oxygen concentrator for respiratory failure (consult the conditions of acceptance of POC here) or prosthetic device. Walking sticks / crutches are also accepted as cabin baggage.Travelling with your own wheelchair or assistive deviceGeneral acceptance conditions for personal wheelchairs
To keep your wheelchair safely once entrusted at check-in, you must take some precautions:
- When booking, you will be informed by our Royal Air Maroc staff of the terms and conditions of acceptance of personal chairs: by type of chairs, depending on battery type (dry or wet / Lithium or not), size (length * width * height).
- Royal Air Maroc accepts wheelchairs, motorised or not, as well as mobility assistance devices, provided they comply with the regulations in force regarding the dimensions.
- To prevent any accidental use, please carry along the wheelchair manufacturer's instructions with you to the airport.
- Your presence or that of your companion is required for dismantling and reassembling your device.
- Irrespective of the type of your electric wheelchair, you must register it as a luggage when checking -in.
You can if necessary have your personal wheelchair until boarding. It will then be returned to you when your luggage is being delivered.
Loading your wheelchair in the aircraft hold must meet certain requirements, in accordance with air transport regulations in force:
Wheelchair with spillable battery / dry battery
The battery can remain attached to the wheelchair or mobility device but in this case it must be securely fastened.
- The battery terminals do not need to be disconnected if they are already put in a battery container, or isolated to avoid any short-circuit.
Wheelchair with non-spillable battery / Wet battery
- The battery can remain attached to the wheelchair / mobility device or be removed when the vertical position of the chair cannot be guaranteed throughout the process.
Non-disassembled non-spillable battery
- When the battery is not removed, it must be securely attached to the wheelchair or the mobility device.
- The terminals must be disconnected and covered with an adhesive tape to avoid any short-circuit
Disassembled non-spillable battery
- When separated from the chair, the wet battery must be placed in a vertical position in a solid, rigid and fluid-tight battery packaging.
- Inside, the battery must be protected from any short circuit and surrounded by a sufficiently absorbent material to soak up all the liquid it contains.
Wheelchairs with lithium batteries
They should be removed in all cases and kept protected in the cabin under your care.
Chairs with liquid batteries
Liquid batteries can only be transported if they are used to power a wheelchair. If your mobility aid uses a liquid battery, we may be forced to remove it for safety reasons during transportation. To simplify our task, do not hesitate to bring the manufacturer's instructions with you to the airport.
- Recommended reporting time: It is preferable to go to the airport well in advance to calmly go through the check-in formalities. This applies particularly to foreign airports if you have never been there.
It is recommended to report at the airport at least 02 hours before your departure time.
- Once you have checked in, our staff will assist you from the customs formalities until you board the plane.
- To enable you sit comfortably and put your equipment in racks reserved for this purpose, you will be pre - boarded except there is an operational necessity. We will make a priority boarding announcement at the boarding gate.
On board
- Our crew will be at your disposal if you need help to :
- Keep your hand luggage when boarding
- Moving between your seat and the toilet
- During meals, for the opening of certain containers and food identification
- Our crew is not authorized to administer injections or drugs.
- Meals: if the request was made when booking, a special meal adapted to your diet (food without salt, sugar etc.) will be served you first.
- Wheelchairs, called "cabin transfer chairs "are available on board some of our aircrafts to facilitate your movements from the cabin to / from the toilet. Please ask our crew.
- Walking sticks / crutches should be kept under your seat before takeoff and landing. They should be laid flat on the ground, without blocking the passage or emergency exits.
Upon arrival, you will be assisted by our staff to leave the plane last.
If this was requested when booking, you will be assisted by a dedicated agent who will retrieve your checked baggage and your mobility equipment, which will be delivered first.
You will also be escorted until you leave the airport.
If you have to continue on another flight to your destination, if you are using a multi-leg (end to end) ticket, a dedicated agent will accompany you to the connecting flight area until you are taken over by the dedicated agent of the onward flight company.
NB: For aircrafts on remote stand, an ambulift have to be used for passengers embarkation
In transit
If you have to continue on another flight to your destination, if you are using a multi-leg (end to end) ticket, a dedicated agent will accompany you to the connecting flight area until you are taken over by the dedicated agent of the onward flight company.
Short transit: The commercial operating agent assist you from the arrival to the boarding lounge through the transit service according to the type of assistance (R or C or S)
Long transit: The commercial operating agent assist you to the type of assistance (R or C or s) from the arrival to the waiting lounge or the hotel. You will recovered by commercial operating agent to finalize the process of the transit.Air Carrier Access Act Expand
You can get a copy of Part 382 from the Department of Transportation by:
- Calling the hotline for air travelers with disabilities at 800-778-4838 or 800-455-9880 (TTY)
- Calling the Aviation Consumer Protection Division at 202-366-2220 or 202-366-0511 (TTY)
- Writing to the Air Consumer Protection Division, C-75, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., West Building, Room W96-432, Washington, DC 20590
- Visiting the Aviation Consumer Protection Division website .
Let your children travel
Is your child travelling alone? At the airport, on board or by connecting flight, our Royal Air Maroc staff will assist him and ensure his safety and comfort.
Aware of the importance and the responsibility of this task, be rest assured that we will take all necessary measures to ensure your child travels in comfort.
Specific conditions apply for the care of unaccompanied children depending on the age group.
Can you use our UM service?
Less than 4 years
The UM service is not available. Your child must travel with a companion who is aged above 18. *
Between 4 and 12 years
The UM service is mandatory for an unaccompanied child.
Your child will be accompanied by one of our agents from check-in until boarding, and then shall be entrusted to our hostesses on board. Once at the destination airport, your child will be handed over.
Between 12 and 16 years
The UM service is available on request but not mandatory.
(*) The companion may be below 18 years of age in the case of the father, mother or legal guardian,
The following guide will give you all the information on how we care for your child as well as what is required of parents / guardians.
1- Between 4 and 12 years
Your child is between 4 and 12 years and has to travel alone?
Get all information on our special assistance service reserved for unaccompanied children (UM) to ensure their safety and comfort throughout the trip.
In requesting our assistance service for your child (UM Unaccompanied Minor), he can thus travel safely, without being attended to by an adult (parents or family members).
They will thus benefit from the UM service that ensures your child receives constant attention and support from the company staff, from check-in until he is received on arrival by the person you would have designated.
Booking the service
- Time limit: Apply for this service at least 48 hours before the departure date.
- Fee:
- Enjoy our UM service, which is free on all our domestic flights all year round!
- The UM service is however not free on international flights for unaccompanied children aged 4 to 12. Available all year round, you apply for it when booking
- The UM service has a specific fee to be paid as you book the flight: contact our call centres or visit your nearest agency.
- Booking formalities
You can book our "UM Special assistance " service only through our call centres (consult the list here) or at our Royal Air Maroc agencies and travel agencies.
This service is not available on our website www.royalairmaroc.com.
If you buy a ticket for your child via the Internet and he is aged between 4 and 12, you will need to pay the UM service at the agency or by contacting our call centre.
Download and print the following documents which must be presented on the day of travel:
- An UM route sheet indicating all the information about your child and his itinerary, which will allow us to take all necessary steps to watch over your child.
- A disclaimer. You can download the form here.These forms are also available at our agencies (consult the list of RAM agencies)
- Rules can be applied for unaccompanied minors in some countries. Check with the authorities concerned.
- Quota: The number of beneficiaries for this exception is limited depending on the type of device. For this, do not hesitate to request this service well in advance.
- Meals: When booking, remember to request for a Kid's meal 48 hours before departure.
- Seat
- Book the flight well in advance to have a wide choice of seats.
- Children travelling as UM will not be put on the emergency exit-row seats
- Conditions of acceptance
- Children aged 4 to 12 at the commencement date of the trip may travel alone (without being accompanied by an adult) by subscribing to the UM assistance service and be accompanied by an attendant of the company). The UM service is mandatory for children aged 4 to 12 and optional for those aged 12 to 16.
- If your child has a medical condition, consult our "medical clearance" section. In some cases, a medical clearance is required and the child may not travel as an UM.
- UMs cannot be allowed to board a flight without the required documents and they must be accompanied by their parents / guardians at both departure and arrival.
- The ticket must be confirmed throughout the itinerary.
- A child travelling as UM cannot travel with a pet.
- Preparing for the trip :
- Before the trip, we recommend that you talk to your child and explain to him clearly how the flight will look like: care by the Royal Air Maroc ground staff, assistance by the hostesses on board the aircraft. In this way, your child will be reassured and can travel completely relaxed.
- Educate your child that the UM pouch that will be placed around his neck, must not be removed throughout the trip.
- Acceptance rules of cabin baggage also apply to your child's cabin baggage. (access the link)
- Avoid putting any valuable thing inside and remember to put his favourite blanket or toy.
We first check-in any child travelling as an UM (Unaccompanied Minor). To do this, you just need to go to one of our counters (Business class) in the different airports we serve.
In order to check in your child on the flight, the person accompanying the child will be asked to submit the following to the check-in agent:
- The UM route sheet (fact sheet) and the disclaimer duly filled and signed. (download here).
Submit three copies of each of these documents for each stage of the flight until the final destination.
The UM route sheet contains
- The personal information of your child as well as his flight number,
- The names and addresses of the people who will meet your child at the destination,
- The signed authorization from the parent or guardian of the child.
- a valid personal identification document of the person accompanying the child. Only original documents are accepted (no photocopies):
- Your child should be in possession of current travel documents of the country of destination (passport and possibly a visa and a vaccination certificate). Always contact the local authorities of your child's country of destination or departure to inform you about the regulations, documentation and visas they will need to travel.
NB: Check-in at the self-service kiosks is not allowed.
- To ensure the safety of your child, the information sheet must be signed on arrival by the person expressly designated to pick up the child.
- Luggage
- Cabin Baggage: Acceptance rules of cabin baggage also apply to your child's cabin baggage. (access the link)
- Avoid putting any valuable thing inside. To ensure a comfortable flight for your child, remember to pack warm clothing, medication, his favourite blanket / toys /games and some basic needs (wet wipes etc.)
- Also put some candy or chewing gum to suck or chew during takeoff and landing. Since children's ears are very sensitive to pressure changes, this will avoid any discomfort.
- Your child's checked baggage will be delivered first on arrival.
- An identification pouch is placed around the neck of the child
Your child will have to wear it throughout the trip.
- Reporting for check-in
- Please report early enough for check-in; at least two hours before the departure of the flight. In this way, all documents submitted will be checked.
- During peak periods (end-of-year holidays, school holidays etc.), we recommend that you report early enough at the airport which is likely to be crowded.
- Royal Air Maroc will take responsibility for unaccompanied minors only 30 minutes before check-in closes.
- You are also requested to remain at the airport until your child's flight takes off. After takeoff, stay reachable. In this way, Royal Air Maroc will contact you in case of any irregularities as the flight progresses.
Note: The UM service will not be guaranteed if you wait until the day of the flight to request for the service
- Once your child has checked in, a Royal Air Maroc agent will take care of him; assist him from the customs formalities to boarding, where he will be entrusted to our staff on board who will take charge.
- To ensure maximum comfort for unaccompanied minors (UM) during their wait before their flight, an area has been specially designed for them at the Casablanca airport. Located in the bonded departure area, our UM lounge is designed to allow children rest and play before the flight (television screens, games consoles). This area has all the necessary amenities to ensure that each child feels comfortable: comfortable chairs, television screens, games (Play Station 3) books ... Photos.
- We will ensure that your child enjoys his flight
- Your child will also be boarded first. This will allow us to sit your child comfortably and put his hand luggage in the racks dedicated for this purpose.
- If your child has a connection at Casablanca airport, he will remain under the supervision of our Royal Air Maroc staff. In the case where the connection requires accommodation (duration more than 8 hours), Royal Air Maroc will not accept UMs.
- Be rest assured that Royal Air Maroc will pay special attention to your child throughout his trip.
On board
- Once seated on board by one of our hostesses, your child will be constantly attended to throughout the flight. Our crew will ensure that your child will have everything he needs during the flight. He will also be well attended to during meals and when moving in the cabin.
- If the request was made when booking, your child will be served a kid's meal, adapted to his tastes and needs.
- We will endeavour to offer your child an activity pack " Univers Magique " with many toys and games appropriate for his age (less than 2 years, between 3 and 6 years, between 7 to 12 years) to allow him play and have fun.
- Depending on the duration of the flight, he can watch many movies, cartoons and short films.
- Once the plane lands, we will ask your child to please remain seated until he is attended to by our staff.
Upon arrival
Throughout the Arrival stage, your child will be assisted by our ground staff.
They will assist your child with the formalities and procedures on arrival and will retrieve his luggage, which will be delivered first.
Your child will be handed over only to the person mentioned on the document filled at the departure station.
The details of the person to pick up the child must be duly mentioned on the UM route sheet.
Between 12 and 16 years
This service is optional (and is paid for) if the child is aged between 12 and 14. You can apply at your Royal Air Maroc agency or at our call centres (link to access the list).
Less than 4 years: the UM service is not available. Your child must travel with a companion aged over 18.
We inform you that for flights departing from Geneva, UMNR (unaccompanied minor passengers) must be accompanied by an adult to the boarding gate.
To make the pass for the accompanying person, the latter must provide a written authorization signed by the parent (s) with a photocopy of the document (s) authorizing the child to be accompanied by a person who does not have the same family name.


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Apple's Legal Wranglings: Much Ado About NothingJanuary 31st, 2013
All right, Apple has fought with the competition in the courts over patents for several years. There have been a few wins, a few losses, and a few draws. But at the end of the day, how have these legal skirmishes changed what you or I can buy? Except for some minor software revisions as workarounds, the end result is that people are still buying iPhones and Samsung Galaxies in huge numbers, and ignoring most of the rest of the pack.
Certainly, the legal teams that have managed all these cases have prospered, and the cash hoards of the companies involved have been reduced somewhat. Of course, with Apple, it's all just chump change. But at the end of the day, it's hard to say that the industry has changed at all.
Now this doesn't mean that a company shouldn't protect intellectual property. Apple's designers have created all sorts of amazing and not-so-amazing products, and every single nook and cranny is subject to a patent application of some sort. You almost wonder if the lawyers are always in call, days, nights, or weekends, to rush the applications to the patent office as soon as the details of a new invention are set down.
The patent portfolios continue to grow to incredible numbers. In recent intellectual property auctions, thousands have changed hands, and sometimes these auctions involve several companies who decide to work together to share the technology, rather than fight in the courtroom.
You almost imagine that, every time a new tech gadget is available, competing companies will buy up a few of them, take them apart and examine the components, the design, and the software to see what, if anything, might infringe on their intellectual property. With so many thousands of patents running around, that itself must involve an incredible and time-consuming effort.
I suppose you might compare it to a fire station. The personnel wait for the alarm to sound so they can put on their uniforms, or suits, race to the trucks, and rush to the scene of the disaster. Or maybe envision the scene in the 1960's version of "Batman," where, pressed into action, the "Caped Crusader" and the "Boy Wonder" raced down a fire poll to reach the Batmobile and speed on their way to the scene of the crime.
Now in an ideal world, these tech companies would happily license industry standard patents to all comers who are willing to pay the price. Proprietary features would remain proprietary, and a company will make sure that their new products aren't infringing somehow on another company's product, though there are expansive gray areas. It may also be that management will often decide to take a chance where they regard a feature as possibly infringing on someone else's patent, hoping to fly under the radar, or escape an import ban or other legal action. In the end, the cost of litigation may be less than the sales achieved by incorporating that feature. So it's a risk worth taking.
But the real culprit may be lax patent laws, where even minor revisions to existing technology might receive approval. The new "first to file" scheme in the U.S. probably won't change the situation all that much. In a world where Amazon's "1-Click" feature is protected — and Apple and other companies license that all-so-obvious technology from Amazon — you wonder how such an "invention" got protection.
Of course that's not the only case of a questionable patent. What about being able to record one TV show on a DVR while watching another? It's just common sense, right? Well, not to TiVO, which owns the patents for that technology and has probably earned far more money from selling the rights and suing the infringers (such as Dish Network) than from the sale of hardware and software.
You also have companies that have never invented a thing, never sold a thing. Instead, the business plan is to buy up loads of patents, and then demand payments from companies who appear to be using the technologies they represent. If they don't pay, they are sued. But these patent trolls don't just file suits anywhere. For some reason, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has become a patent lawsuit haven, a venue where the patent trolls seem to stand a far better chance for victory.
Now most companies, faced with uncertain legal outcomes if they fight, would rather just write checks to the patent trolls and move on. Some sue, with mixed results. Again, you wonder about patent laws that have allowed such paper pushing and paper shuffling companies to prosper without actually advancing the state of the art in any respect.
The recent technology sharing pact with Apple and HTC, and the decision of the U.S. government to order Motorola Mobility to license industry-standard patents fairly may indicate that the current level of legal skirmishes are due to die down. Certainly Apple's victory against Samsung last year in a Northern California courtroom is hollow. They won some money, but the infringement wasn't considered "willful" and no products were banned. So was it worth the bother? Probably not, and if more courts act that way, perhaps a little sanity will eventually prevail.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 8, 2013) – ETSU head coach Scott Calabrese announced Monday the 2013 men's soccer fall schedule, complete with contests against seven teams who ranked in the RPI top-75 last season including four who competed in the 2012 NCAA College Cup.
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Yoga is really popular, wouldn't you agree? As with most things, along with soaring popularity comes a fair amount of skepticism and critique. A recent article in Time Magazine very briefly explored the casualties of the current yoga surge. According to the article, entitled "When Yoga Hurts," 13,000 of the current 14 million practitioners are winding up with injuries directly linked to Hatha Yoga. By my calculations this is less than one percent (0.09285% to be exact), and I can't speak for everyone, but to me this seems to be a vote in favor of the practice, its practitioners, and its teachers. Imagine if any other physical activity maintained such a low occurrence of injury.
Now, I should add that I'm biased. I have been practicing yoga for over a decade, and teaching for half of one. And admittedly, I have suffered an injury or two as the result of an overzealous practice coupled with a lack of respect for the state of my body at the time. Yet I'm a fanatic believer in the power of the practice. Yes, injuries do happen, and the spectrum of fault is about as wide as the injuries themselves. In my experience, injuries occur most often as a result of our tendency toward the extreme activity and stimulation, known as rajas in some yogic circles. And yes, sometimes injury occurs as a result of an improper adjustment from the teacher. In fact, I just returned from a five day training with my teacher, who led off with the statement that "teaching yoga is one of the most under regulated and overly invasive professions around." In many ways this is true. It is not required that you complete dozens of trainings or years of study to teach this practice, and indeed there are probably thousands of "yoga teachers" out there who know very little about the safety and risks of yoga asana. In the years since I received my 200 hour certification I have run the gamut of adjusting from very hands on to very hands off, and I have definitely ended up on the conservative side. From the perspective of a teacher, I do my best to approach the class experience as individual to each student. So, with the exception of safety and the occasional deepening, I do not feel that it is my place to alter their experience of asana simply because I might have a toolbox of techniques and experiments. As practitioners, we all know how much we love a good smoosh in child's pose or a crank in prayer twist. But as we begin to bring awareness to the subtleties of the experience instead of expectations of an observer, we begin to deepen our sense of what Yoga can accomplish both on and off the mat.
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However, if yoga injuries are on the rise, even a fraction, then we as students, practitioners, and teachers might do well to reevaluate our intentions for the practice and reframe our experience as the process of deepening our awareness of our bodies, our minds, and our selves. In addition, maybe we as students should take more responsibility in choosing a qualified, well trained teacher. We can consider our role in the shift from a one on one, teacher student driven practice to an aerobics class that has been edited for content and renamed Hatha Yoga.
Finally, the Time article states that the practice of yoga does not offer a "comprehensive way to get fit," though it seems to point to the fact that a dilution of the practice could be the culprit. In contrast, there are many studies, such as the one on the Mayo Clinic website, that have shown that the practice of Hatha Yoga has a significant effect on the levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol, in the body. And as you probably know, so many of the illnesses and disorders in today's world are a result of or intensified by our current levels of stress. If we can manage to keep that little monster under control, so many of the other issues like diet, exercise and rest, begin to take care of themselves. So, my recommendation would be, choose your teacher wisely, understand that there is a lot more to the practice than breaking a sweat or stretching your hamstrings, and be respectful of your body, no matter what anyone else may suggest.


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Veteran broadcaster Paul Holmes says rumours he has been given only weeks to live are "rubbish".
Holmes was responding to suggestions on a television blog that he has been diagnosed with terminal congenital heart failure.
The blogger, Regan on throng.co.nz, wrote on Wednesday he had heard a rumour Holmes "had been given only weeks to live".
The website said neither TVNZ, Q&A producer Tim Watkin or Paul Holmes' wife Deborah would talk to them about it.
Regan said Holmes appeared on current affairs show Q+A "looking and sounding rather unwell" on Sunday.
"Paul thrives on the big interviews but this time he lacked his usual energy," he wrote.
However Holmes said the rumours were "rubbish".
"Nothing is really wrong with me," Holmes told The Diary in today's Herald.
Earlier this month he was re-admitted to Hawke's Bay Hospital for observation after a bladder infection.
"The prostate cancer came back a bit and gave me a bit of a worry, but that's the extent of it. I'm fine."
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Michael Simmons has been busy lately. A few days ago he sent me a link to an article claiming Elvis was Jewish. Now he provides a video (best viewed in full screen mode) by Thelma Blitz (aka clairedelune49) "made…without my knowledge or consent" (though evidently with his ex post facto approval). Here are his notes:
The song is "Instant Forget" by Michael Simmons & Slewfoot, written by Rob Stoner, recorded live at The Other End in December 1977. This is around the time Creem magazine called me "The Father Of Country Punk" and named Slewfoot one of the best punk rock bands in New York — even though we were emphatically not punk, except in attitude.
The visual is a Foto Funny I wrote (and starred in) for my 1980s Lampoon column "Drinking Tips & Other War Stories." The strip was shot by director Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School), the other male dinner guest is the late, great transgressive comedian Budge Threlkeld, the brunette is Allan's wife Joanne Palace, the blonde is jazz singer Michele Winding. The waiter is an actor who was also a real waiter.
It ain't high art, although I was usually high.
Addendum: The Drinking Tips illustration was by my friend Drew Friedman and the point of my column was to JUST SAY DEFINITELY during the JUST SAY NO era.
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Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta
Easy wins again! I'm on day 6 of an 8 day work week, so that means two things: I'm tired and I'm hungry. Quick skillet pasta dishes like this Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta are perfect for such an occasion. They require only a few ingredients, cook up super fast, and leave me feeling full and happy! :)
Anyway, tomorrow is Monday (again) and the week will be long, so I hope this recipe helps make dinner time a little faster, easier, and more enjoyable for you this week! Enjoy!
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Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta
What to Serve with Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta
This Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta recipe is kind of a meal on its own, but you may want to add a side dish, like crusty Garlic Bread or No Knead Focaccia Rolls. You can also beef up the recipe by adding some Herb Roasted Chicken Breasts, or add a dessert, like Fudge Brownie Pots (for two).
This version of Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta uses just a touch of cream cheese and Parmesan to make a regular tomato sauce ultra rich and creamy. If you're not into cream cheese, you could also add a splash (1/4 cup or so) of half and half to achieve a similar effect.
I used regular pasta, but whole wheat would actually be pretty good in this and would add some extra fiber and nutrients to make it a more well rounded meal.
I was lucky enough to get spinach on sale for $0.99 per bag (score!), but if fresh spinach is just out of your price range, this would also be really good with sliced mushrooms. Just cook the mushrooms along with the onions and garlic in the beginning. Or, hey, you could always do a plain creamy tomato sauce. Nothin' wrong with that!
Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta
- 1/2 lb penne pasta ($0.89)
- 1 small onion ($0.25)
- 2 cloves garlic ($0.16)
- 1 Tbsp olive oil ($0.16)
- 15 oz can diced tomatoes ($0.59)
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano ($0.03)
- 1/2 tsp dried basil ($0.03)
- pinch red pepper flakes (optional) ($0.02)
- 1/2 tsp salt ($0.03)
- freshly cracked pepper to taste ($0.05)
- 2 Tbsp tomato paste ($0.11)
- 2 oz cream cheese ($0.48)
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan ($0.42)
- 1/2 9 oz. bag fresh spinach ($0.50)
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook until tender (7-10) minutes. Drain the pasta in a colander.
- While waiting for the pasta to cook, dice the onion and mince the garlic. Cook both in a large skillet with the olive oil over medium-low heat until softened and transparent (about 5 minutes).
- Add the diced tomatoes (with juices), oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, salt, and some freshly cracked pepper to the skillet with the onions and garlic. Stir to combine. Add the tomato paste and a 1/2 cup of water to the skillet and stir until the tomato paste is dissolved into the sauce.
- Turn the heat down to low. Cut the cream cheese into a few pieces and then add them to the skillet with the tomato sauce. Use a whisk to stir the sauce until the cream cheese has fully melted in and the sauce is creamy. Add half of the Parmesan to the skillet and whisk until it is melted in. Add the remainder of the parmesan and whisk until melted in again.
- Add the fresh spinach and gently stir it into the sauce until it has wilted (3-5 minutes). Add the pasta and stir until it is well coated in the creamy tomato sauce. Taste and adjust the salt and pepper as needed. Serve warm.
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How to Make Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta – Step by Step Photos
Start by bringing a large pot of water to a boil so that the pasta can cook while you prepare the sauce. Dice the onion and mince the garlic. Cook them both in a skillet with the olive oil over medium-low heat until they are soft and transparent.
Once the onions have softened, add the can of diced tomatoes (with the juices), dried oregano, dried basil, red pepper flakes, salt, and some freshly cracked pepper, then stir it all together.
I wanted it a little "saucier" so I also added 2 Tbsp of tomato paste and about 1/2 cup of water. This is what it looked like *after* adding the tomato paste and water.
I have to pause for a second to tell you a crazy story. This is the second can opener in the past month that has spontaneously stopped working. It works one day and then the next thing I know the gears suddenly don't match up, it won't clamp on the can correctly, and when it finally does start to cut, it cuts through the side rather than the top of the can. I broke a sweat opening this can of tomato paste and finally had to use a fork to pry it open just enough to scoop some out. Weird, right? Hopefully the third can opener will be a winner.
Anyway, at some point the water will be boiling, so you can add the pasta and let that cook while you finish the sauce.
Turn the heat under the skillet down to low. Cut the cream cheese into a few chunks and then add it to the skillet with the sauce. Use a whisk to stir it in as it melts…
It will look kind of chunky or grainy at first, but just keep stirring…
Eventually it will begin to melt in and get all creamy and delicious. Once the cream cheese is melted in, add about half of the Parmesan and stir it until it is melted in. Add the second half and stir until melted in again.
Add the fresh spinach…
And gently stir it in until it has wilted. This can get kinda messy, so stir gently so that the spinach doesn't fly out of the skillet.
Finally, add the cooked and DRAINED pasta. You can use any shape, but I like a tubular pasta the best because the sauce gets all up inside those holes and makes it SO good. My next choice would have been bow-tie pasta.
Mmmmm… How can you resist this Creamy Tomato and Spinach Pasta?
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ReThink: Why Housing Matters
Founded in 1939, the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NNRHA) is the primary provider of new homebuyer opportunities and affordable housing for lower and moderate income families on the Virginia peninsula. The NNRHA is the redevelopment arm for the City of Newport News and acquires property for redevelopment, undertakes property rehabilitation and manages the City's Consolidated Housing and Community Development programs.
Additionally, NNRHA administers over 2200 Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) and owns and manages over 1600 affordable rental housing units across the City.
The mission of NNRHA is to maintain and create affordable housing, viable neighborhoods, and opportunities for self-sufficiency that enhance the quality of life of all citizens of Newport News. The Authority has established strong partnerships with public and private organizations to provide an array of services to NNRHA clients and the community.
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The case of Hewlett-PackardSøren Nymark (Frederiksberg, 2000)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Learning organizations' enable companies to remove hierarchical levels and to introduce a flatter organizational structure, which can lead to reduced costs and increased productivity. A recent Danish study has proved coherence between a flat, integrative organizational structure and an increased productivity. This enables a kind of management in which the managerial form is not as direct as it is in more traditional structured companies. Value-based management is advanced as a possible answer to the question of which managerial form that is appropriate for these kind of companies. In the article, value-based management is described as well as the underlying factors that are affected by such a managerial form. Required managerial elements in relation to value-based management are advanced. Examples from Hewlett-Packard are used to illustrate both the use of value-based management in practice and the underlying factors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8077
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A Paradigmatic ApproachLlerena, Patrick; Matt, Mireille (Frederiksberg, 2000)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The main objective of the paper is to provide an analytical framework based on evolutionary arguments, explaining the role and rationale of technology policies based on inter-organisation cooperations. We try to combine different arguments developped in the literature in order to define a coherent approach of technology policies : organisational, failure and paradigmatic approaches. We will argue that the role of technological policies and their design are contingent on whether knowledge creation emerges in an existing technological paradigm or will be at the origin of a new one. In the first part of the paper, we will define two broad kinds of cooperative policy : one (pre-paradigmatic) devoted to create radically new knowledge by exploring new avenues in order to initiate a new technological paradigm and the other (paradigmatic) devoted to create new knowledge by using exploitation mechanisms in order to maintain technological options and variety, inducing innovation and reducing negative lock-in effects. We specify also for each situation the kind of intervention (coordination, institutional structure) compatible with the objective of the policy. In the second part of the paper, we will illustrate our theoretical arguments by focusing on two types of cooperative programme : one devoted to create a new knowledge base in a pre-paradigmatic phase (the development of a digital switching system in France) and the other more devoted to foster knowledge in existing paradigms (the case of Brite-Euram). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8084
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Effects on Performance in Danish and Swedish Biotechnology ByValentin, Finn; Dahlgren, Henrich; Lund Jensen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Although biotech start-ups fail or succeed based on their research few attempts have been made to examine if and how they strategize in this core of their activity. Popular views on Dedicated Biotech Firms (DBFs) see the inherent uncertainty of research as defying notions of strategizing, directing instead the attention to the quality of their science, or the roles of boards, management, and collaborative networks etc. Using a unique comprehensive dataset on Danish and Swedish biotech start-ups in drug discovery this paper analyzes their research strategies. Adopting a Simonean point of departure we develop a contingency view on complex problem solving which structures the argument into three steps: 1) Characterising the problem architectures addressed by different types of DBFs; 2) Testing and confirming that DBFs form requisite research strategies, by which we refer to problem solving approaches developed as congruent responses to problem architectures; 3) Testing and confirming that financial valuation of firms is driven by achievements conforming to requisite research strategies. These strategies, in turn, require careful combination of multiple dimensions of research. Findings demonstrate that Shonhoovens classical argument that "strategy matters" is valid not only for the larger high-tech firms covered by her study, but also for small research-based start-ups operating at the very well springs of knowledge where science directly interacts with technologies. Even though a lot more research is needed along these lines, these findings offer new implications for the understanding, management, and financing of these firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7879
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Product Experimentation in the Music IndustryLorenzen, Mark; Frederiksen, Lars (Frederiksberg, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper is conceptual, combining project and economic organization literatures in order to explain the organization and management of market-based projects. It dedicates particular focus to projects set up in order to facilitate product innovation through experimentation. It investigates the internal vs. market economies of scale and scope related to projects, as well as the issues of governance, planning and coordination related to reaping such economies. Incorporating transaction cost perspectives as well as considerations of labour markets, the paper explains the management of market-organized innovation projects by virtue of localized project ecologies and local labour markets of leaders and boundary spanners. It illustrates its arguments with a case study of the Recorded Music industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7881
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The Importance of Sectoral Differences in the Application of (Complementary) HRM Practices for Innovation PerformanceLaursen, Keld (Frederiksberg, 2001)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent theoretical and empirical analysis in the field of economic organisation has focussed almost exclusively on identifying organisational practices and complementarities between such practices, invariant to the type of activity in question. However, this paper takes its point of departure in the observation from organisational theory that more knowledge-intensive production activities often involve higher degrees of strategic uncertainty for firms and performance ambiguity in relation to individual employees. Therefore, the "organic" or "clan" form of organisation — involving the application of "new" HRM practices — is expected to yield a higher outcome in terms of performance within knowledge-intensive sectors of the economy, as compared to other sectors. Moreover, knowledge-intensive activities are likely to require the utilisation of local knowledge to a higher degree than less knowledge-intensive activities. Given that the application of new HRM practices is one way of supporting such local knowledge, it should also for this reason be expected that the application of HRM practices are more effective for knowledge-intensive production activities. A sample of 726 Danish firms with more than 50 employees in manufacturing and private services is applied. The results show that HRM practices are more effective in influencing innovation performance when applied together, rather than when applied alone. In other words, organisational complementarities obtain. Moreover, it is shown that the application of (complementary) HRM practices is more effective in what is normally perceived to be more knowledge-intensive sectors as compared to less knowledge-intensive sectors. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7897
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Internationalization of Indian Film IndustryLorenzen, Mark; Taeube, Florian Arun (Frederiksberg, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the context of an emerging economy, the paper analyzes indigenous growth and internationalization. Using novel and original data, the paper studies the Indian film cluster in Mumbai, Bollywood. It argues that as the world's biggest commercial film cluster and a conspicuous growth phenomenon in an emerging economy context, Bollywood can be seen as a paradigmatic case for adding to our understanding of the development of film clusters outside the USA, as well as suggesting more general insights into the growth and internationalization of industries in emerging economies. The empirical analysis of the paper points to the importance of home market, government regulation, and industry structure for Bollywood's recent export growth. The paper discusses how the existence of a well-defined and geographically centered social network among producers, directors and other key roles in filmmaking in Mumbai supports the development of a 'Bollywood model' of filmmaking with a industry structure remarkably different from Hollywood's. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7872
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Davis, Lee (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since they do not engage in production or commercialization, but focus solely on invention. While considerable anecdotal evidence exists about these IP vendors, there has been no systematic investigation of how they use licensing to appropriate value from their investments in R&D. In this paper, we suggest that the licensing strategies they pursue can be differentiated along two main dimensions: whether the driving force behind the inventive process is "technology push" or "market pull", and the degree to which the innovative activities carried out by the IP vendor are mutually dependent upon the innovative activities of the other relevant market players. On this basis, four main licensing strategies are identified. We investigate the relative benefits and costs of these four strategies, and the factors affecting licensing choices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7878
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Interfirm Linkages and the Vertical Structure and Dynamics of the Danish Trucking and Congress Tourism IndustriesSornn-Friese, Henrik; Jensen, Søren Henning (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper questions the overall role of interfirm linkages in industrial dynamics. Studying Danish trucking and congress tourism, the paper addresses a number of particular questions concerning how industry responds to changing conditions. In trucking, the important interfirm linkages are pecuniary and entails nontrivial exchange among multiple dispersed agents, while in congress tourism Inter-organizational linkages are more strategic, with the activities of multiple agents forming together into products, without direct exchange. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7874
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A Sceptical LookFelin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Organizational routines and capabilities have become key constructs not only in evolutionary economics, but more recently also in business administration, specifically strategic management. In this chapter we explicate some of the underlying theoretical problems of these concepts, and discuss the need for micro-foundations. Specifically, we focus on some of the explanatory problems of collective-level theorizing, and what we think are tenuous assumptions about human beings. We argue that individual-level considerations deserve significantly more consideration, and that evolutionary economics and strategic management would be well served by building on methodological individualism. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7891
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When to Ally with Weak PartnersOverby, Mikkel Lucas (Frederiksberg, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In many emergent markets, cross-industry alliances are necessary to develop and market new products and services. The resource-based view suggests that firms form alliances to access or acquire valuable, rare, non-imitable and non-substitutable resources, and that such access determines the level of profits. Hence, firms confronted with the choice between partners with strong versus partners with weak resource endowments should choose the former. We contest this view and argue that firms benefit from allying with weak partners at certain times. In essence, we suggest that partner selection involves assessing the relative importance of strong resource endowments and aligned strategic aspirations over time. By adopting an evolutionary approach, we show that appropriate partner selection criteria are dynamic and may involve allying with weak partners in the initial exploratory stage, with weak and/or strong partners in the development stage and with strong partners in the maturity stage. Our findings suggest that the resource-based understanding of strategic alliances should be extended to include a more profound role for a partner firm's strategic aspiration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7888
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On Behavioral Assumptions in the Theory of the FirmFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2001)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I discuss and compare alternative approaches to integrating bounded rationality with the theory of economic organization, concentrating on the organizational capabilities approach, which is strongly influenced by the works of Nelson and Winter, organizational economics, particularly transaction cost economics, and, finally, a small subset of the literature on biases to judgment and cognition. I argue that, contrary to the conventional view, both the organizational capabilities approach and transaction cost economics treat bounded rationality rather "thinly," the former being in actuality more taken up with organizational routines than individual boundedly rational behavior, the latter only invoking bounded rationality to the extent that it helps explaining incompleteness of contracting. The rich literature on cognitive biases, etc. suggests a "thick" approach to bounded rationality that may be helpful with respect to furthering the theory of economic organization. Examples pertaining to the internal organization of firms are provided. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7895
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Present Use and (Some)Future PossibilitiesFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2001)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The way in which bounded rationality enters contemporary organizational economics theorizing is examined. It is argued that, as it is being used, bounded rationality is neither necessary nor sufficient for producing the results of organizational economics. It is at best a rhetorical device, used for the purpose of loosely explaining incomplete contracts. However, it is possible to incorporate much richer notions of bounded rationality, founded on research in cognitive psychology, and to illuminate the study of economic organization by means of such notions. A number of examples are provided. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7896
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Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld (Frederiksberg, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then focus on how key agents — lead users — facilitate knowledge sharing in this setting and the features that moderate such sharing. Our results show that lead users are central to search and integration of knowledge from different external sources of relevance to their communities. Inside the community lead users are active in both "giving and taking" knowledge. Further, as users build up experience they tend to give more knowledge, thus suggesting a dynamic pattern of knowledge sharing in which increases in experience make way for important knowledge diffusion processes in the community. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7870
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A Rank-Size AnalysisLorenzen, Mark; Vaarst Andersen, Kristina (Frederiksberg, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Using novel statistical data, the paper analyzes the geographical distribution of Richard Florida's creative class among 445 European cities. The paper demonstrates that size matters, i.e. cities with a high proportion of creative class tend to get more creative through attraction of still more creative labor. More specifically, the distribution of the European creative class falls into three phases, each approximating a rank-size rule, with different exponents (i.e., inequality). The exponent for the smallest cities is profoundly more negative than for the middle-sized cities, and this tendency is stronger for the creative class than for the general population. Furthermore, the exponent of the largest cities is slightly less negative than the middle-sized cities, and this tendency is also stronger for the creative class. In order to explain this, the paper presents four propositions about how effects of large and small population sizes of cities may be more detrimental to attracting the creative class than attracting the population in general. Below a population size of approximately 70,000 inhabitants, there is a rapid drop of attractiveness to the creative class with decreasing city size. We propose that this may be because below this size, cities begin to drop below minimum efficient market sizes for particular creative services, below minimum labor market sizes for particular creative job types, and below minimum levels of political representation by the creative class. Above a European city population size of approximately 1,2 million inhabitants, the attractiveness of increasing city size for the creative class drops, and we propose that the creative class may respond particularly adversely to urban congestion. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7871
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What Can Organizational Economics Contribute?Foss, Nicolai J.; Mahnke, Volker (Frederiksberg, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Knowledge management has emerged as a very successful organization practice and has been extensively treated in a large body of academic work. Surprisingly, however, organizational economics (i.e., transaction cost economics, agency theory, team theory and property rights theory) has played no role in the development of knowledge management. We argue that organizational economics insights can further the theory and practice of knowledge management in several ways. Specifically, we apply notions of contracting, team production, complementaries, hold-up, etc. to knowledge management issues (i.e., creating and integration knowledge, rewarding knowledge workers, etc.) , and derive refutable implications that are novel to the knowledge management field from our discussion. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7892
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Cross-national Transfer of Socially Responsible InvestmentBoxenbaum, Eva; Gond, Jean-Pascal (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines how individuals select and mobilize local institutions when they transfer business practices across societies that are construed as dissimilar to one another. We investigate empirically how the American business practice of socially responsible investment (SRI) was transferred to France and Quebec. Our analysis identifies five micro-strategies that were employed to contextualize SRI, namely filtering, rerouting, stowing, defusing, and coupling. This repertoire of micro-strategies extends previous research on contextualization, translation, and institutional transfers and links them to one another. They may also help explain why some transfers succeed while others fail. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7875
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Some Cross-Country EvidenceBjørnskov, Christian; Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship by differences in economic policy and institutional design. Specifically, we use measures of economic freedom from the Economic Freedom of the World database to examine which elements of economic policy making and the institutional framework are responsible for the supply of entrepreneurship Our data on entrepreneurship are derived from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The combination of these two datasets is unique in the literature. We find that the size of government is negatively correlated with entrepreneurial activity but that sound money is positively correlated with entrepreneurial activity. Other measures of economic freedom are not significantly correlated with entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7876
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Insights from Austrian Capital and Entrepreneurship TheoryFoss, Nicolai J.; Ishikawa, Ibuki (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Over the last two decades the resource-based view ("RBV") has become dominant in the strategic management field. It has often been observed that the RBV is lacking in the dynamic dimension. For example, processes of building competitive advantages by means of combining existing complementary resources in novel ways are not inquired into. We argue that the RBV may profitably draw on insights in entrepreneurship and capital theory, drawn from Austrian economists as well as Frank Knight, in order to strengthen its dynamic dimension. We link the RBV and Austrian ideas in the context of the theory of complex systems pioneered by Herbert Simon. We draw a number of implications for strategic management from this synthesis, notably into resource value and sustainability of competitive advantage. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7877
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Challenges and CharacteristicsFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The "knowledge governance approach" is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms influences knowledge processes, such as sharing, retaining and creating knowledge. It insists on clear micro (behavioural) foundations, adopts an economizing perspective, and examines the links between knowledge-based units of analysis with diverse characteristics and governance mechanisms with diverse capabilities of handling these transactions. Research issues that the knowledge governance approach illuminates are sketched. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7880
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The Role of Temporary ClustersMaskell, Peter; Bathelt, Harald; Malmberg, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of relative competitive positions and form future plans. Such events exhibit many of the characteristics ascribed to permanent spatial clusters, albeit in a temporary and intensified form. These short-lived hotspots of intense knowledge exchange, network building and idea generation can thus be seen as temporary clusters. The present paper compares temporary clusters with permanent clusters and other types of inter-firm interactions. If regular participation in temporary clusters can satisfy a firm's need to learn through interaction with suppliers, customers, peers and rivals, why is the phenomenon of permanent spatial clustering of similar and related economic activity so pervasive? The answer, it is claimed, lies in the restrictions imposed upon economic activity when knowledge and ideas are transformed into valuable products and services. The paper sheds new light on how interaction among firms in current clusters coincides with knowledge-intensive pipelines between firms in different regions or clusters. In doing so, it offers a novel way of understanding how interfirm knowledge relationships are organized spatially and temporally. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7883
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We've briefly mentioned a few of our future plans for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 in the past, but today we'd like to share a preview of how secure enterprise mobility management is growing and evolving to meet the needs of businesses worldwide with Secure Work Space for iOS and Android devices. BlackBerry has and continues to be the only choice for enterprises with security, functionality, and collaborative mobile strategies in mind. As needs evolve and IT departments face an ever-growing variety of devices being brought into the workplace, we're building our solutions to match your needs and priorities.
BlackBerry security capabilities for data-at-rest and data-in-transit will soon be extended to iOS and Android devices; both for smartphones and tablets. A separate and secure work space will hold corporate apps, work email, calendar, contacts, and more. Administrators can configure, secure, wipe, and interact with the Secure Work Space, while employees can enjoy a work and personal experience on a single device. Check out just a few of the benefits:
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Secure Work Space for iOS and Android devices allows businesses to meet the needs (and pressures) of employees with the trusted legacy of BlackBerry security applied. Additionally, considerable effort and expense is saved as no expensive and complex VPN infrastructure is required. You're provided with one vendor who has designed the Secure Work Space solution, the industry-leading security standards, the enterprise mobility management solution, and who provides global technical support at flexible tiers.
Closed beta testing for Secure Work Space on iOS and Android devices is already underway. General availability will be offered by the end of the second quarter, calendar year 2013. We're excited to share many more details at our BlackBerry Live conference in May 2013.


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BALTIMORE -- When catcher Matt Wieters threw out Tampa Bay's Desmond Jennings on a stolen-base attempt Thursday, it raised the Orioles' MLB-best caught stealing percentage to 80 percent (8-of-10). Wieters has thrown out 7-of-9 runners, while Taylor Teagarden threw out the only baserunner he faced.
Baltimore's catchers have thrown out more would-be base stealers than the next two best American League clubs combined -- Cleveland has four and Houston has three.
"Do you know how hard that is? To catch a ball, frame it for a strike, try not to get up too quick and block the umpire, throw accurately to second base, second baseman or shortstop catches the ball and tags him," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "J.J. [Hardy] is a great tagger. [Ryan] Flaherty had a great tag the other day. That's a tool we talk about with the infielders. What kind of tagger are they? There are some guys who aren't very good taggers."


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Protein may represent a switch to turn off B cell lymphoma
Researchers studying the molecular signals that drive a specific type of lymphoma have discovered a key biological pathway leading to this type of cancer. Cancerous cells have been described as being "addicted" to certain oncogenes (cancer-causing genes), and the new research may lay the groundwork for breaking that addiction and effectively treating aggressive types of B cell lymphoma.
B cell lymphomas, which occur both in children and adults, are cancers that attack B cells in the immune system.
"Our research suggests ways to devise more specific therapies to selectively kill tumor cells in a subset of lymphomas," said study leader Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Ph.D., an oncology researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The study, conducted in animal cells and human cell cultures, appeared May 1 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
An oncogene is a type of gene that normally produces a protein active in cell growth or regulation. However, when the gene is mutated or otherwise overproduced, it can cause cancer. One family of oncogenes is called MYC, and the current study focused on how the MYC oncogene drives B cell lymphoma. MYC codes for Myc, a type of protein called a transcription factor. At high levels, Myc causes the uncontrolled cell growth that is a hallmark of cancer.
The researchers focused on the crucial role of the cell surface receptor CD19, a protein residing on the surface of all B cells that normally recognizes foreign invaders. "We found that CD19 is absolutely required to stabilize the Myc protein," said Thomas-Tikhonenko. "When Myc is stable and present in high levels, it fuels cancer." Patients with high levels of the Myc protein are more likely to die of lymphoma.
Patients with high levels of Myc also had high levels of CD19, and the current study describes a previously unknown molecular pathway that depends on CD19. It also implicates CD19 as a molecular on-off switch on that pathway. Usually, said Thomas-Tikhonenko, when you inhibit one pathway, another pathway compensates to produce the same end result. But in this case, there is no such redundant pathway: "Without CD19, there is no Myc," he added, "so controlling that on-off switch could represent a powerful tool against lymphoma."
The findings are particularly relevant, said Thomas-Tikhonenko, to current oncology clinical trials that are testing antibodies that act broadly against the CD19 receptor. Such antibodies kill all B cells, and thus weaken the immune system. His study suggests that understanding the CD19 pathway could enable researchers to design a more specific therapy that selectively kills tumor cells while sparing healthy B cells.
Further studies in his lab, he added, will further investigate these molecular pathways and how to translate this knowledge into future anti-cancer treatments.
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The Dr. John Black Scholarship at East Georgia State College has been awarded to Shalisa Harswell. The daughter of Susan and Willie J. Harswell of Soperton, Shalisa is a freshman at East Georgia State College Statesboro.
A 2013 honor graduate of Treutlen High School, Shalisa was awarded the academic scholarship on the basis of outstanding academic achievements and student life involvement. She also wrote an essay on "How School Involvement has Affected Her."
Established by East Georgia State College's Student Government Association (SGA), the Black Scholarship honors the service Dr. John Black has made to EGSC as vice president for academic affairs and as the fourth president of EGSC from 1994 to 2011. Dr. Black is committed to the success of students and believes that involvement in student life is an integral part of that success. To apply for the scholarship, students need to be involved in EGSC student life, maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or higher, have completed 15 or more credit hours of college coursework, submit a letter of recommendation from a school official, and write an essay of 250 words minimum on "How School Involvement has Affected Me." Only current students are eligible to apply.
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Junior Max Fabian (Keene, N.H./Oak Meadow) and rookie Joanna Murphy (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview High School) rewrote the Brandeis record book this weekend at the University Athletic Association Swimming & Diving Championships. The duo combined to set new benchmarks in five different distance events, part of numerous impressive individual performances by Brandeis swimmers at the meet. Both Fabian and Murphy broke records in the 500-meter and 1650-meter races. Fabian also lowered his own mark in the 1000.
The UAA Championships were altered this year because weather prevented several teams from reaching Atlanta, where Emory hosted. A satellite meet was held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The meet includes Case, the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester, and will not conclude until later today. Because of the delay, final UAA results will not be available until tomorrow.
Fabian set a new school record in the 500 in the preliminaries, then lowered it in the final. His time of 4:43.23 in prelims was one second faster than the old Brandeis record and qualified him for the "B" final. The junior turned in a 4:42.76 in the final.
Like he did at UAAs a year ago, Fabian killed two birds with one stone, breaking both the 1000 and 1650 in the same swim. Fabian swam the 1650 in 16:10.36, 3.47 seconds faster than the record that he set one year ago. The 1000 split time is recorded during the mile, and Fabian's time of 9:49.54 was nearly two seconds faster than his mark last year. He was more than six seconds under the NCAA B Standard time, leaving an outside chance that Fabian will be selected for the NCAA Championships
In her first individual event, Murphy obliterated a nine-year old record in the 500. She swam a 5:10.17 in the preliminary run, easily surpassing Sharon Makowsky's '06 mark of 5:14.51. Murphy was even better in the final, finishing in 5:04.95. She had the eighth-fastest time in Atlanta and finished second in the "B" final.
Murphy was possibly even more impressive in the 1650, shattering a 15-year old record by more than 17 seconds. Murphy timed in at 17:38.05, good for fifth place in Atlanta. It was also an NCAA B Standard time.
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Susan Bailey presents imagery from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and little kitten in a wheel chair to illustrate the power of the Pope's message that "every creature, particularly a living creature, has an intrinsic value."