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Sigmund Freud thought that sometimes -- just sometimes -- a cigar could be just that, a cigar. Well, I doubt he never envisioned a Camacho Select between Harmony's lips. What's this mean? A new year is upon us, and Camacho's latest calendar is on the market. The "making of" video has followed quickly. Now, you can get a feel for how the tobacco hotties wound up on the pages that adorn the walls of your favorite cigar lounges (or possibly your apartment).
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(Retitled from "Array in CS 6 NOT WORKING" and originally posted at May 23, 2012 4:06 PM in the InDesign Scripting forum)
I have used this var from CS3 to CS5.5 and it works but when I try and pass this in CS6 I get undefined.
var myJobEven=["68p2","-45p9","69p4.4","-39"];
Any Ideas. I am sending this info to a text box creation.
This variable is not the problem. The problem is when I open a CS3 or CS4 document in CS6 the document setup does not reflect the actual demensions of the document. The document setup shows letter. But the document is not letter. I am going to post this in someother places as well. Thanks.
I am sorry for the confusion. The problem is that this variable gets passed by in a try because it does not recieve the right info. The reason for this wich I tried to describe is because. When I try and open CS3 or CS4 Files in CS6 the application describes the size as letter. wich is not phisically the case. When the script recieves the wrong dimensions it passes on my array. So when I try to build the text box its demensions are undefined. When I run my script opening a document saved in CS5 or CS5.5 still running from 6 I have no problems. Because the script recieves the right size.
Your words are just not clear enough.
Can you please post a small self-contained script example that demonstrates the problem?
It should be small, only enough code to show the problem. (The process of making it small may help you
find the problem.)
It should be self-contained, so we can run it ourselves and test it. Only then can we be sure we understand your problem.
You can move it if you wish.
My file is a custom size. The document size in doc setup changes to letter when I open it in CS6. This does effect my script because my script reads the document size.
Well, please give us details. Post the screenshot of the file size in CS3 and then the file in CS6.
Maybe the problem is more subtle than you suggest.
Saying "my file is a custom size" does not let us help you. If yo usay, "My file is 105mm x 176mm with facing pages" that might be more helpful. But I suggest a screenshot of the whole dialog, because I suspect it is more complicated than you suggest.
This is the screen shot of the CS3 Document in CS3. Notice the page size says Custom.
This is the same document opened in CS6. Notice the page size is now changed to letter.
This does not however effect the physical document. However my script reads page size. When the page size changes to letter
I am unable to get the acurate results of my page size.
> This does not however effect the physical document.
Your second screenshot shows "51p, 66p" as its document size, but your document is still "47p, 75p" as shown in the first one?
>However my script reads page size.
Does this "read" page size exactly match the second -- wrong size -- screenshot value? (I guess it does, but just to make sure...) Just out of curiosity, as I don't have CS6 to experiment with: I guess you are reading "document" page sizes. Can you check what page[x].bounds reports as page size?
OK, I have done more work on this issue. It appears to be at a document level. The perticular files I am working with seem to be the only files with this problem.
I can not quite understand how an issue on the document level would effect the application in this way. For now I can only wonder.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPageSize=myDoc.pages.item(0).bounds;
This gives me a value of -1,-47,74,0 wich is closer to describing the true nature of this page however. When I go to document set up it still gives a value of 51p 66p should be 47 bt 75. To make this easier I put the zero point in the upper left 0,0,75,47.
You know Jongaware, your question I think has given me a solution to my problem. Because I am using
var myPageHeight = (documentPreferences.pageHeight);
var myPageWidth = (documentPreferences.pageWidth);
To find the heighth and width of this page.
Wich is giving me the wrong value because CS6 is giving the wrong value.
But if I use what you suggested.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPageSize=myDoc.pages.item(0).bounds;
I get acurate info. This does not totally make me understand what is happening here. But this is definitley a way forward.
Thank you.
You said this is present only in this one document. That could easily mean there is minor corruption that miught be cleaned by exporting. Did you try the suggestion to export to .inx that I made earlier?
For what it's worth, there have been enough posts here on the forum about problems with converting legacy files in CS5 and CS5.5, many of which do not show up until a file has been editied and overwritten, that I no longer attempt to open any CS3 file in a newer version directly. Export to .inx, and opening that, and resaving with a new name to avoid overwriting the original has proved to be a very reliable workflow.
So I went from
var myPageHeight = (documentPreferences.pageHeight);
var myPageWidth = (documentPreferences.pageWidth);
to this to get my page size and I have solved my problem.
It does not explain why InDesign is giving me letter but I have worked around it.
var myPageSize=myDocument.pages.item(0).bounds;
I tried Exporting to inx. When I open the document in CS6 all the elements are shifted to the left. 6 different documents
Do you have the same problem with IDML?
You should probably file a bug with Adobe Support (http://adobe.com/go/support). I'd point you at http://adobe.com/go/wish but that doesn't allow you to attach files, which may be a problem here.
Alternatively, can you provide me with one of the CS3 files that demonstrates this problem?
Do you have the same problem with IDML?
Not an option in CS3...
Ah, yes. Well, the question is whether CS3's INX is at fault or CS6's INX reading (or some fuzzy area). So I guess we ought to know how that CS3 INX is read in CS4/CS5, and whether IDML from CS4/CS5 causes the same problem.


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Mets to honor Gary Carter with #8 uniform patch
Posted by Anthony in Citi Field, Spring Training, tags: Gary Carter, mets, patch, RIPThe Mets will honor the late Gary Carter this season with a "KID 8" patch on all players and coaches uniforms.
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It certainly could, Susan, though EU regulations on roaming are also tending to make the wireless network appear more seamless. I wonder whether the consolidation process has been thought through from an implementation perspective, though. It seems that "logical consolidation" in the form of open roaming would achieve much of the benefit of physical consolidation, and if everyone retails their own customers and billing I wonder if what we're essentially doing is creating a "MVNO host" and letting everyone else be tenants? If that's the case it may require changes in technology to make it work.
Thank you, Tom, for the good news. I believe this is good for the EU. It will make things easier. :)


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Well I just had a question in mind that a wealthy investor invest his money in any IPO before it goes public.Said that I am referring through recent Goldman Sachs and Facebook deal worth $450 Million at a valuation of $50 Billion dollars.
1.I want to know what is its procedure and how are these valuations made prior the company goes public.
2.Is is possible that a investor raise capital from investment banks,private equity or commercial banks to invest in pre-IPO at some valuation.Knowing that angel investors doesn't provide so much money,can they play their role here with a normal investor?
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Martin's donates $26,215 to Christmas Mother program
Martin's Dumbarton Square store manager Bill Balderson (center) presented a check for $26,215 to a host of Henrico Christmas Mother program volunteers – and Christmas Mothers past – Dec. 22 at the store. The money was donated in part by shoppers at Martin's Henrico stores through a donation program that ran in stores during the fall months, as well as a contribution from Martin's. Each of the company's stores in Henrico witnessed an increase in the amount donated by shoppers this year, compared to last year; the Dumbarton store showed the highest percentage increase, according to Martin's spokeswoman Vicki Kiger. Pictured above, left to right, are Trish Foster, Lane Foster, Dorothy Tatum, Betty Lyon, Fran Garrett, Balderson, Shelly Poole, Ruth Radzisauskas, Robin Smith and Reed Smith. The Christmas Mother program assisted about 1,950 families (6,000 people) this year, Poole said. Program officials won't have a final tally on the amount of donations made to the program until February, but signs so far indicate that the number may exceed last year's, Poole said. |
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The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
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It's the final weekend before Christmas – but it doesn't have to be a nightmare! Relax with half-a-million twinkling lights, enjoy Theatre IV on Tour's production of "A Christmas Carol" or experience the 11th annual "Miracle of Christmas – Live at the Metro Richmond Zoo." Another way to relax before the Big Day is with a good book. You can find a vast array of books, covering many genres, and meet authors at the Celebrate with a Book event on Saturday. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Charismatic Bo shakes the leadership stakes
Posted Mar 12th 2010, 12:00am by Shi Jiangtao
... to contend for higher positions because he had left the political centre stage at a crucial time. But now, Bo, 60, a Politburo member with a populist touch and a member of a faction of the party ... as an indicator leadership succession and attracts much attention. There is little doubt that Bo, son of Bo Yibo, once one of the party's most influential elders, has reaped most of the political ...
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Filipinos in HK start voting for president
Posted Apr 11th 2010, 12:00am by John Carney
... They say that elections prove Christianity works, because on polling day voters are miraculously resurrected from the dead. But things went smoothly yesterday as polling opened at the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Centre for Hong Kong's Philippine workers t ...
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Concession offered on reform plan
Posted Oct 30th 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter
... Fanny W. Y. Fung The Federation of Trade Unions has put forward an electoral-reform proposal that is more liberal than both the rejected 2005 package and the one expected to be rolled out by the government next month. The proposal is the first concession ...
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Political left turn in the making?
Posted May 13th 2009, 12:00am by Julian Ryall
... as soon as they are in a position of power. 'The opposition is effectively a pseudo-LDP and, even if they do win the next election, I see no chance of improvements in the political, economic ... the personal secretary of Ichiro Ozawa - who resigned on Monday as head of the Democratic Party of Japan - over a political funding scandal, but stopped short of arresting Mr Ozawa. The scandal has, ...
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Clinton pragmatic in approach to Beijing
Posted Feb 23rd 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter
... Kristine Kwok When Hillary Rodham Clinton's best-selling autobiography, Living History, hit mainland bookshelves in 2003, she was reportedly outraged to hear that criticisms she had made while on a previous trip to Beijing about the suppression of wo ...
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India loses patience with inept leadership
Posted Dec 06th 2008, 12:00am by Maseeh Rahman
... But the primary responsibility for the failure lay not with the Dr Singh, 76, but with his political mentor, Mrs Gandhi. Reclusive, insecure and indecisive, Mrs Gandhi values loyalty above everything else ... by Islamist and right-wing Hindu extremists, to the challenge from communist guerillas in the tribal heartland, to a violent Hindu-Muslim political confrontation in Kashmir, and to the bloody attacks ...
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Walking into Lehman Auditorium, guests were met with waves of flowers and grief for Pam Arbogast's memorial service. The lead custodian of University Commons had worked within Eastern Mennonite University's custodial services for the past fifteen years. Friends and family... 13/12/06/campus-grieves-with-friends-and-family-of-pam-arbogast-the-mourning-of-loss-and-the-celebration-of-life/" class="read-more">Read More ›
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Recent initiatives from the board and administration regarding EMU's hiring policy are reflexive of a larger shift in church and national politics. Loren Swartzendruber details the various influences and intentions of the upcoming listening process, which will review the hiring... 13/12/06/interview-with-emu-president-loren-swartzendruber/" class="read-more">Read More ›
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Theater New Voices: The Crowleys of Tobias -photos by Jon Styer/Eastern Mennonite University (EMU Art and Digital Media Graduate 2007) Play info: Written by Senior Michael Bodner Directed by Seniors Amanda Chandler and Jenn Orantes "The Crowleys of Tobias" portrays... 13/12/06/theater-new-voices-the-crowleys-of-tobias/" class="read-more">Read More ›
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Last week you might have heard about the non-discovery of an island called Sandy that appears on Google Maps. There has been a lot of fun had at the expense of Google Maps for showing an island in the Coral Sea that doesn't actually exist but today I can reveal the true villain of this mapping error:
Captain J W Robinson, captain of the brig Velocity in 1876
The Back Story
Last week scientists from the University of Sydney revealed that they had sailed to where Google Maps shows a Pacific island called Sandy and had found no island and just a whole lot of sea.
Today the Auckland Museum revealed that a trawl through their huge collection of historical maps turned up a 1908 map which shows the island. According to the map the island was discovered by the Velocity in 1876.
The Velocity
Searching on the National Library of Australia website I discovered that the Velocity was a whaling brig. Amazingly the library actually has photos of the ship. This one was taken at dry dock in 1870, six years before she 'discovered' Sandy.
Even more amazingly the library has a photograph of William John Maguire (see the top of this post), described as a 'sailor on the brig Velocity'. The photo is dated to 1870, so it is quite possible that Mr Maguire was actually on board Velocity in 1876 when it 'discovered' Sandy. However Mr Maguire is not the villain of our mapping error, that award must go to the captain of the Velocity, who in 1876 was one J W Robinson.
Here is a newspaper report from The (Hobart) Mercury, dated 11th March 1876, which names the Velocity's captain:
"THE whaling brig Velocity returned from an unsuccessful voyage yesterday. She brings 3 tuns of sperm oil. Captain Robinson reports that he sailed from this port on the 12th March 1875, and proceeded to Cato's Bank. After cruising there for some time without success he proceeded to the Middle Ground. Had seen only three whales during the voyage, one of which, a small one, yielded the quantity which constitutes the Velocity's take".
Sandy Island was not the only island 'discovered' by Captain Robinson. Captain Robinson also 'discovered' Heard Island. This island also features on Google Maps and actually seems to exist and is clearly visible in Google Maps satellite view.
The (Hobart) Mercury reported in 1929 that Captain Robinson, "in exploring, discovered that there was an island previously uncharted here, and named it Heard Island." Unfortunately however this seems to be another unfortunate 'discovery' for J W Robinson. According to Wikipedia Heard Island was actually discovered by an American sealer, Captain John Heard, who sighted the island on 25 November 1853 and had the island named after him.
The History of Velocity
Whilst researching Velocity I have managed to put together a brief history of the ship. The ship was originally built at Haldon, Devonshire, UK in 1827. In its early life it seems to have plied its trade carrying cargo back and forth between Britain and the Americas.
In 1830, when returning from the Americas with a valuable cargo, the ship was boarded and captured by a Portuguese ship. The Portuguese captain who took over the ship was one Maurico Jose-Alves. Another British captain approached the Velocity only to be met by a hostile reception. He reported that Maurico,
"made use of the most abusive and insulting language and ... the officer then threw a square kettle, which struck me with great force on the head."
Sometime after this date the Velocity sailed to Australia. The Australasian Chronicle has a report dated the 24th November 1841 that says the Velocity 'has arrived from England'. This may have been its first arrival in Australia.
As well as operating as a whaling brig the ship had a less illustrious career as a 'blackbirder'. Blackbirding was the recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work as labourers. The Blackbird website says that "blackbirding in Australia began with the first acknowledged Blackbirder Captain William Boyd in 1847 when his schooner Velocity landed sixty-five men from the New Hebrides."
It appears that the Velocity was bringing cheap (forced) labour from the Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Rotuma, Gilbert and Ellice Islands to Australia. It is in this general vicinity of the Pacific that in 1870 that the Velocity 'discovered' and mapped Sandy Island.
The ship was eventually bought at auction on the 28 August 1885, to be broken up. It was sunk at her moorings in the River Derwent, Tasmania.


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The Case of Business School RankingsRasche, Andreas; Hommel, Ulrich; Cornuel, Eric (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Drawing on the case of business school rankings, we study how institutions are maintained and remain persistent despite their contested nature. We argue that rankings as institutions can be maintained through subtle disciplinary practices that freeze power relations in recipient organizations. Our analysis rests on a Foucauldian understanding of control emphasizing that rankings discipline (1) by enhancing the visibility of individuals' performance, (2) by defining 'normal' behavior, and (3) by shaping how people understand themselves and the world around them. We show that these three disciplining effects support rankings' durability, reproducibility, and communicability enhancing their overall stability and diffusion. Our arguments demonstrate that rankings' relevance and impact is not entirely based on the legitimacy they are able to offer to ranked schools. Rather rankings impel a variety of disciplinary effects within business schools which help to stabilize and diffuse the institution. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8729 Files in this item: 1
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A Qualitative Case StudySøderberg, Anne-Marie (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Previous research tends to overemphasize frictions, cultural clashes and communication breakdowns in virtual teams. The author aims at exploring positive aspects of cross-cultural collaboration and identifying some of the conditions underlying trust-building, employee motivation and team effectiveness. Whereas much research on virtual teams has taken its point of departure in Western MNCs and primarily addressed headquarter concerns, this case study of a Danish MNC´s Indian R & D site gives voice to Indian managers and employees and explores through semi-structured interviews and observations how they perceive communication and collaboration within multinational and multicultural R & D teams, and how they try to find common ground. Based on the interviews accounts, there are several enablers of virtual team collaboration: advanced information and communication technology facilitated virtual communication, and high English-language proficiency among the engineers at different R & D sites made dialogue and knowledge exchange feasible. Moreover, team members shared a strong professional identity as engineers and technicians, and they displayed a strong identification with the MNC, a world leader in the wind power industry. Perceived national differences in leadership and communication style played a minor role, maybe because the majority of Indian managers and employees had previous experience working in other Western MNCs. Some of the Indian managers and employees were even able to act as boundary-spanners between headquarters and the Indian R&D site due to their study and work experiences in other business environments. Culture courses that introduced the Danish and Indian team members to a North European communication and management style, and to an Indian respectively, were introduced on the initiative of the Danish managing director, who - in contrast to the HR department - recognized the importance of facilitating the virtual teamwork through cultural awareness training. Suggestions for further cultural learning processes are given. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8566 Files in this item: 1
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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Diets of European ChildrenGwozdz, Wencke; Reisch, Lucia A.; DeHenauw, Stefaan; Lissner, Lauren; Moreno, Luis; Tornaritis, Michael; Molnar, Denes; Siani, Alfonso; Veidebaum, Toomas; Pigeot, Iris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Because interventions related to diet and other health behaviours are seldom successful and/or sustainable, it is extremely important to identify the individual factors that contribute to a healthier or unhealthier diet. To this end, we use cross-sectional data from the IDEFICS study to analyse the dietary behaviour of children aged between 2 and 9 years in eight European countries. We model the complex nature of these individual factors using structural equation modelling. Our results show that both sedentary behaviour and food exposure are strong contributors to children's dietary choices. However, although we find a positive relation between a healthy diet and weight status for girls, weight status appears independent of diet quality for boys. These outcomes, although they permit no firm conclusions on health policy strategies, clearly suggest that further research based on longitudinal data could provide valuable insights for the design of successful prevention and intervention strategies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8334 Files in this item: 1
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Danish Foundations, CSR Legislation, and how Tradition Facilitates Compettive AdvantageBlom, Karen Sofie; Kaus, Kristine; Biering-Sørensen, Anna Sophie; Tackney, Charles T. (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In stark contrast to other national settings, the commercial foundation is a rather common form of ownership of enterprises in Denmark. Today, there are around 1,300 Danish commercial foundations. Familiar foundations include AP Møller Mærsk, Carlsberg, Egmont, and Novo Nordisk. Our paper aims to facilitate an understanding of this unique Danish tradition and explore its profound contemporary relevance.The significance of Danish commercial foundations, their societal and compassionate role, has manifested itself through philanthropic projects for centuries. We explore the dual identities that inhere in contemporary Danish commercial foundations, and how these impact contemporary society. There are also challenges and opportunities for such foundations in light of recent Danish corporate social responsibility (CSR) legislation. We explore these through a contextual analysis of legal structures that govern Danish commercial foundations. Extended Foundational Corporate Citizenship (EFCC) is presented in the paper as a communications model or tool to help resolve the inherent tension between a commercial foundation's contemporary business and philanthropic units, offering an aid to strategic advantage identification. The EFCC model and associated modes of communication proposed may further serve to manage legislative pressures presented to commercial foundations. Moreover, the traditional commercial foundation structure, coupled with EFCC model deployment, appears theoretically and strategically anticipatory of emerging Danish legislative obligations. Isomorphic processes within commercial foundations shed light on the links between the internal communicative challenge and CSR legislation. Such isomorphism appears between the business - philanthropic configuration and the company - CSR configuration. These processes aid recognition of the potential benefit of the inherent structure of a commercial foundation in relation to the emerging focus on CSR legislation. An additional purpose of illustrating the isomorphic processes was to facilitate clarification of a potential strategic advantage of commercial foundations, indicating how such traditional foundations may not only exist in society but operate "ahead of" emerging CSR legislative reporting obligations. The contemporary proliferation of CSR, as a legal matter, is a potent source of consumer interest. It is also a research field that provides commercial foundations with a number of opportunities to explore. Legislative obligations may appear to be little more than a reporting obligation for commercial foundations' business units. Yet, our research suggests the structure of a commercial foundation already contains a latent communicative advantage for the good, not only of commercial foundations, but also contemporary society. We believe that our research findings in the Danish case of foundation organization and management theory may be of interest to an international audience. Within the structure of a commercial foundation one may find inherent notions of compassion coupled with authentic commercial and profit-making intentions. Indeed, we hope the results offer a path to successfully anticipate current, as well as future, stakeholder and public expectations for an organizational form of historical interest and future merit. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8612 Files in this item: 1
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The Impact of the Global Economic and Financial Crises over Developing Countries' Automobile IndustryWad, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the Global South automobile production evolved behind protectionist walls and was promoted by infant industry policies and outright national automotive projects from the 1950s. In recent decades, many developing countries have liberalized their automotive markets and allowed automobile TNCs to take majority control over joint ventures, transforming domestic automotive industries into foreign controlled sectors while leaving a few national automakers in India, Malaysia and China. Decomposing and reorganizing the national value chain into regional and global automobile value chains OEMs and TNC original equipment suppliers (OESs) have off-shored and outsourced component and parts production to developing countries. Again, local auto suppliers have been acquired or relegated to lower 'tier' positions if not forced out of the market. However, with economic growth and development in the Global South during the 1990s and 2000s automobile sales have boomed, and the automobile sectors in Latin America and Asia have become "brown sunrise" industries generating investment, technological upgrading and employment. The present global financial and economic crisis has not profoundly changed this trajectory. The global crisis did not impact automotive markets in developing countries severely, except for automotive exporting countries like Mexico, Thailand and South Africa. Only in 2009 automotive sales and production declined across the board in the Global South, but key markets turned around in the end of the year. Thus, the automobile crisis is a downward business cycle, not a structural crisis of the industry. Companies in the automotive industry responded with traditional crisis management (temporary downsizing, cost reductions, retraining, consolidation, innovation), and governments launched traditional stimuli packages (cash-for-clunkers, tax reductions on smaller and/or cleaner cars etc). Strategic initiatives were taken to improve the competitiveness of the domestic industry (consolidation, liberalization) on the one hand and to transform it from a brown industry to a "greener" industry on the other hand (tightening environmental regulations, fuel efficiency and emission standards, subsidizing purchases of smaller and "greener" cars, investing in appropriate infrastructure and green technology R&D). Thereby, some developing countries and their surviving local automakers and parts makers are leapfrogging into "clean" technology frontiers competing head-to-head with global automakers or partnering with foreign firms in their common endeavor to manufacture green automobiles. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8180 Files in this item: 1
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An Ethnography of a Juried Ceramic Art Exhibition in JapanMoeran, Brian (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article discusses the social processes among members of a panel of jurors required to award a major prize to one of the submissions to a national ceramics exhibition in Japan. Uniquely based on participant observation-style fieldwork, the article details the voting procedures and (inconclusive) results, before analysing why one particular potter's submission was selected for the Princess Chichibu Cup. It shows how social relations, rather than aesthetic taste, influenced the final choice, since jury members operated according to an informal pecking order that depended on pre-existing networks and reputations, themselves determined by seniority and age. The fact that judges did not overtly resort to aesthetic criteria when making their evaluations meant that they considered each submission in relation to other submissions, rather than on their own particular merits. They thus ended up comparing 'incommensurate flaws', rather than making a selection according to agreed 'merit'. And yet 'meritocratic principles' seem to prevail in the longer term cumulative recognition of potters who are awarded prizes at such exhibitions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8510 Files in this item: 1
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Cultural Cognition and U.S. Labor RelationsTackney, Charles T.; Sato, Toyoko (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Our study explores cultural cognition in comparative U.S. – Japan employment relations through interdisciplinary analysis of Japanese Supreme Court regulation of the post-World War II lifetime employment system and the latest data available on Japan's collective bargaining-based approach to employee participation in managerial prerogative. The comparative social policy aim is to examine and account for observed employment relations variance in the U.S. and Japan, given their similar labor legislation. Japan's Supreme Court recognizes lifetime employment as an institutionalized practice and we report all 236 references to the term "lifetime employment" in Japanese case law: 178 regional cases, 43 regional superior cases, and 15 Supreme Court cases. Quantitative analysis of Supreme Court cases contextualizes these references in post-World War II history; qualitative analysis focuses on the Court's discourse. Causally related to this recognition, management councils (a form of employee participation in managerial prerogative) are also a defining feature of Japanese employment relations at the enterprise level. Despite unionization rate declines in both nations, the persistence of Japan's participatory employee relations system contrasts sharply with recent U.S. state-based legislative assaults on long-standing collective bargaining, particularly for public sector unions. The concept of cultural cognition, recently deployed in legal studies to account for domestic U.S. risk, public policy and voting preferences, offers theoretical grounds for better understanding of the observed comparative variance in employment practices. We conclude with proposals for organized labor in the U.S. to strengthen prospects for informal network proliferation and employee participation, with the goal of enhancing national competitiveness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8613 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: This is an exploration, using Japanese language primary sources, of management policies and relat-ed industrial sector ecology of the post-World War II machine tools industry. From postwar devas-tation to global leader in worldwide market share by the mid-1980s, remarkably little is know of the factors that contributed to this sucess. Paralleling Max Holland's 1989 Burgmaster case study method of the U.S. firm's and industry failure, this study examines the history of Okuma Corpora-tion, an Aichi Prefecture machine tools producer. The role of management leaders and government support for viable firms is shown to provide the necessary industrial ecology for machine tools pro-ducers to recover, innovate, deal with successive oil shocks, and achieve a leadership role in the machine tools sector. Comparative reflections on the parallel decline of the U.S. machine tools in-dustrial sector conclude the paper. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8614 Files in this item: 1
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Colleoni, Elanor; Arvidsson, Adam; Hansen, Lars K.; Marchesini, Andrea (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In recent years, new digital media have become important for social networking and content sharing. Due to their large diffusion, social media platforms have also both increased the strategic importance of managing corporate reputation and rendered this more difficult. Companies are increasingly apprehensive about information and opinions that can spread through online communities rapidly without any control. While social media platforms increase the power of stakeholders, they also represent a large-scale source of information about feelings, opinions and sentiments of people that allow us to measure and monitor reputation through the analysis of user generated content in real-time. In this paper, we show how social media content can be used to measure the online reputation of a company. Furthermore, we present an open platform that uses a sentiment analysis algorithm on twitter traffic to monitor the real time evolution of company reputation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8730 Files in this item: 1
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Baron, Irene (Odense, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Strand, Strand; Copenhagen Business School. CBS; Institut for Interkulturel Kommunikation og Ledelse; IKL; Department of Intercultural Communication and Management; ICM (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
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CPH Kids and Danish Children's FashionCsaba, Fabian Faurholt; Larsen, Frederik (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: During the Copenhagen Fashion Week A/W 2010, CPH Kids opened as the first independent trade fair for children's clothing. Despite considerable resistance, the fair managed to establish itself and challenge the established order by providing a venue devoted fully to children's clothing and luring away exhibitors and visitors looking for change. In this paper, we analyze the dynamic development and distinctive traits of the children's clothing sector symbolized at the new fair. Our study contributes to inquiry into the role of fairs and festivals in the creative industries by examining the special case of coinciding, competing trade fairs. We introduce and build on three closely related, but in our view complementary, concepts applied and developed in analyses of festivals, trade shows and other kinds of temporary, usually competitive events, namely tournament rituals, field configuring events and tournaments of value. We establish the common ground of the three approaches, particular their assertion of the rich research potential and vital significance of festivals, fairs and similar events for many fields, whether deemed creative or not. We also single out particular strengths of each approach, which inform our inquiry.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8238 Files in this item: 1
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Gilbert, Dirk Ulirch; Heinicke, Patrick; Rasche, Andreas (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper examines the factors that drive the success of multinational corporations (MNCs) in their pursuit of regional strategies. We develop a comprehensive regional success factor model to investigate the effects of regional management autonomy and regional product/service adaption on the regional success of MNCs. Using structural equation modelling, we also analyze the interaction effects of regional orientation and inter-regional distance. We evaluate our model by means of both primary and secondary data for Fortune Gloval 500 firms. Our findings show that appropriate degrees of regional management autonomy and regional product/service adaption are higly contingent upon contextual influences on MNCs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8728 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: This working paper, delivered at the ©reative Encounters workshop on the Business of Ethnography in June 2012, and in part (the sections on advertising and anthropology) at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting in San Francisco in November the same year, recounts the author's personal experiences as a fieldworker to consider what it is that defines the newly emergent sub-discipline of business anthropology. The underlying argument is that all kinds of ethnographic research not overtly conducted on 'business organizations' may be counted as an anthropology of business, which itself is not strictly defined by the word 'business' per se, but includes such features as kinship and household organization, creative and craft practices, community structures, and so on. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8511 Files in this item: 1
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Corporate Social Responsibility Versus Regulation. A Study of a Trust-Recovery ProcessLauesen, Linne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: After the recent financial crisis issues of trust1breakdown in various business sectors and the public sector have occurred. The question of whether corporate social responsibility can be used as a link of trust between business and society is the issue that this paper wants to explore. This paper investigate how trust in businesses and institutions can be recovered and which role if any corporate social responsibility plays in it. A study of a process from trust1 breakdown to trust1recovery in the Danish water sector from 2003 till 2013 is revealed, which can be used to inform other kinds of trust1recovery processes in the aftermath of the financial crisis. From this study trust1recovery is found to depend on stakeholders' mutual engagement with each other and their willingness to share knowledge and learn from each other's professional and institutional cultures and languages. An alignment of vocabularies of motives between regulation and voluntary corporate social responsibility is found viable for building trust between the conflicting parties. The findings have prospects reaching out of its local context and can be used in processing trust1recovery in other sectors that suffers from severe trust1breakdowns in the aftermath of the global economic crisis such as governance systems in both the public and private sector. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8776 Files in this item: 1
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an Organic ModelLauesen, Linne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Stakeholder management has for the last three decades been concerned either with strategic business management or business ethics, values and quality. Many models have been developed, but recently the literature asks for more dynamic models instead of the staticism that characterizes some models. This paper offers an 'Organic Stakeholder Model' based on decision making theory, risk assessment and adaption to a rapidly changing world combined with appropriate stakeholder theory for ethical purposes in decision making processes in businesses. The 'Organic Stakeholder Model' is based on empirical evidence from hybrid organizations as Publicly Owned Enterprises (POEs) mixed of private corporations and political administration. The model offers a new way of combining risk management with ethical decisionmaking processes by the inclusion of multiple stakeholders. Not only does the model apply to these kinds of hybrid organizations, but it is easily adopted and tested for other private business models too. The findings and the conceptualization of the model enhances business ethics in decision making by managing and balancing stakeholder concerns with the same concerns as the traditional risk management models does – for the sake of the wider social responsibilities of the businesses and its stakeholders. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8734 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: This paper presents stories from fieldwork among parking patrol officers and managers in a Danish municipal centre. The stories are about the hiring, firing and retention of parking officers. The centre is renowned for management's active and ambitious work to improve the work environment for parking patrol officers, the quality of parking services and to employ diversity management. As many other types of unskilled work in Denmark, the job as parking patrol officer is a possible entry point to the labour market for people without formal education or people who have been worn out in other occupations. By presenting stories told by parking patrol officers and their managers at Centre for Parking, I wish to contribute to our understanding of the role of the public sector as an employer: the ambitions and limits of the public sector in regard to employing people for unskilled work and the dilemmas that follow. The aim of the paper is to show how these stories shape the simultaneous processes of professionalizing the traditionally unskilled work of parking patrolling and fulfilling a role as a socially inclusive workplace. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8604 Files in this item: 1
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Abstract: The development of an information economy, and in particular its more recent "social economy" phase, has seen the "pluralisation" of conceptions of value (Stark, 2009). The rise of brands, the growing importance of reputation, both for individuals and for companies, the need to attract affective investments and in general to establish a positive large-scale recognition for companies are all manifestation of this. While companies have clearly identified the strategic importance of these intangible assets, an adequate and broadly accepted interpretation of how such immaterial wealth is transformed into tangible monetary value still lack. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8731 Files in this item: 1
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The case of municipal parking officesDahl, Dorte Boesby (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is about the work and management of parking patrol officers in a Danish municipal department responsible for parking law enforcement. The job as a parking officer is un-skilled and fairly light in terms of physical demands, but quite demanding in terms of contact and coping with disgruntled car-drivers. In recent years the municipality has developed a strict policy in regard to parking, increasing both the enforcement of parking rules and the prices for parking. Alongside this development, the municipal department has become renowned for management's active and ambitious work to improve the working environment for parking officers, and to employ diversity management. Regarding parking officers as street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky 2010), the paper addresses the characteristics of their work and the challenges posed to the individual employee and manager. Becoming a parking officer is not only a matter of being able to cope with people on the street, but also being able to cope with colleagues and managements' particular expectations to your personality. Since the department of parking is part of a public organisation these expectations become all the more complicated (Hoggett 1996). They rely not only on the revenue from parking tickets and organizational credibility, but also on the availability of unskilled work for job-seekers and integration and retention efforts in staff-management. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8605 Files in this item: 1
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So, why did this seemingly innocuous little film do so well? Because it had amazing performances? No silly, it starred Gwyneth Paltrow, for goodness sakes. Did it have a riveting plot line? No, it was about a girl in a bad relationship with a cheating boyfriend- ask any girl and you'll get a similar real life story. Did it employ amazing new technology? No, it makes no attempt to use anything other than the cut, fade and blur motion tools in an editing programme- it may as well have been put together with Sellotape. Did it star Michael J Fox? No, sadly no, you can't have everything... So why did your common and garden cinema going bod like it so much? Reason: because it tapped into a key question in life: "What if?"
Just about everyone can look back on their life and find the key "What if?" moment. I know I can. You don't know it at the time, but looking back you can pin point a happening that shaped your life forever. Mine was a phonecall to my Mum from a cafe in Zarautz, Spain.
I was working in Zarautz in the Basque Country teaching English. It was a little bit on the ropey side. The guy that owned the language academy was a nice enough American bloke from Boulder, Colorado, who loved collecting obscure languages, and whilst on a trip to the Basque Country to collect another one met his wife and stayed to teach. Unfortunately two weeks after he employed me he got involved in a partnership with another bloke from Cork, who looked as if he'd been on a beach holiday, got too pissed, lost his passport and couldn't find the airport, so he decided to stay and set up an English school because it looked like a piece of piss. He made his money by withholding the wages of those who worked for him.
I won't go into the details but I was fed up with this job but still keen to stay in Spain and find another one. I made enquiries to that effect. Unfortunately a long weekend loomed where the only people I knew in Zarautz, my flatmate Martin and a couple of other teachers, all went travelling for the weekend. I spent four days reading Agatha Christie novels from the school's library and walking along the beachfront alone, speaking to myself because I could only speak Spanish, not Basque, and the Basques don't like you speaking Spanish to them. They get a bit upset about it, in fact. By Sunday I was pretty low and fed up of wily Belgian detectives and languages that have three X's in each word. I did something you should normally never do when you are at a low ebb; I phoned home.
Two minutes into the phonecall from a payphone in a cafe my Mum said these immortal words, "Just come home, Pet". That Tuesday when work opened I handed in my notice and booked a flight home. I gave no notice because I'd only just managed to prise my last month's wages out of the Irishman and didn't see the point in earning any more for him to keep in his pocket for three months. That week, back home, I met a bloke in Ma Camerons pub in Aberdeen who'll you'll all know as Meeester M. One month later my post got forwarded onto me from Zarautz. In amongst it all was a letter from my friend Ann who was teaching in Bilbao telling me she could easily get me a job at her school and I could rent a room in her flat. When could I get there? Hmmm, don't really feel so much like teaching anymore.....funny that. I stayed put.
And that my friends is why Sliding Doors got bums on seats. The "What If?" question is the basis for all good stories. In German they call it the "Wendepunkt" which is a great name for a band if your looking for one. What's your "What If?" moment. Go and tell us in that there comments box. Or better still, link to one of your own posts in your own blog about your "What If?" moment.


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But there they go!!!
In a dozen or so backyard gardens around Colorado Springs, urban farmers are nervously nurturing pumpkin plants in a race to grow the largest pumpkin in the city.
Most grow Atlantic Giant pumpkin seeds, developed by Howard Dill, the godfather of immense pumpkins.
The reigning Colorado Springs champion is Marc Sawtelle, who has repeatedly produced 1,000-pound behemoths.
Here's a photo the Gazette's Jerilee Bennett took of Sawtelle in 2007 with one of his monsters.
Sawtelle started growing enormous pumpkins in 1990. He said his young daughter saw a photo in The Gazette of Richard Plush with a big pumpkin he had grown in his garden at his home in the Patty Jewett neighborhood.
Sawtelle said the pumpkin was 120 pounds and a city record.
"She said, Daddy why don't you grow me a big pumpkin like that?" Sawtelle said. "So I tried it and I grew one about 82 pounds."
Sawtelle planted pumpkins behind his southeast-area home near Fountain and Union boulevards. At the weigh-off, he met Plush. Now they compete every year for big pumpkin honors.
Here's another Bennett photo of Plush carving Sawtelle's pumpkin in October 2008. That is Sawtelle's legs hanging out of the pumpkin.
"I was pretty much hooked," Sawtelle said. "Today, my daughter's 22 and she thinks her dad is nuts."
Last year, Sawtelle grew his largest pumpkin ever at 1,111 pounds. He also grew his second-largest at 1,109. They have to be moved with a small bulldozer and a crane.
Plush still grows pumpkins and has produced 400-pounders routinely. But he has not achieved the size of Sawtelle's fruit. This is the first year in 22 that he hasn't planted a pumpkin vine because of recent hip replacement surgery. His friends, however, are going to help him.
Brothers Ron and Doug Franzen also compete for the largest pumpkin.
Ron grew a 632 pounder last year, grown behind his home near Institute and Fillmore streets. He hopes to break his personal record this year. He also grows enormous gourds, including a 53-pounder last year.
Doug's biggest was 225 pounds, grown at his Cragmor neighborhood home.
Huge pumpkins don't grow by accident. It takes a lot of tender, loving care. And horse manure, ground tree leaves, grass clippings, hoop huts and hail nets.
Here's a hoop house from ColoradoPumpkins.com
Here's a look at Sawtelle's yard covered by hail netting last summer. His record-setting pumpkins are visible amid the miles of vines.
The pumpkin patches are scattered across the area. Here's a look at Sawtelle's pumpkin patch under his hail net from www.FlashEarth.com. His house is in the center, facing Fountain Boulevard:
These guys are serious about pumpkins. Many are members of the Rocky Mountain Giant Vegetable Growers Association.
Here's a nice story by the Gazette's Andrea Brown about the 2007 weigh-off.


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Karen Shaeffer wrote: > Hi Joel, > Yes, but a separate and distinct power distribution for that +5 volt > supply will then need to be implemented on the system board to support > a full IPMI implementation residing on the system board. That was my > point. You are confusing power source with implemented PCB power > distribution. Hi Karen I haven't seen IPMI cards that get their power from any other place than the motherboard slot. There may be some that have a separate supply, but I haven't run across them. That is, as long as the power supply is "on", the main system power does not need to be, and the IPMI is powered over a similar bus to that which powers the motherboard network cards. I don't think Joel was confused on this. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615
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