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Mumbai: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Rakesh Mohan, who quit the central bank in May to take up an assignment at the Stanford Center for International Development at Stanford University in the US, is now set to join global consultancy McKinsey and Co.'s economic research wing.
Mohan, 61, who had moved to Stanford Center as a distinguished consulting professor, will be a global adviser at the McKinsey Global Institute, or MGI. McKinsey and Co. is a management consulting firm that advises leading companies on issues such as strategy, organization, technology and operations.
Shifting gears:Former RBI deputy governor Rakesh Mohan. Ashesh Shah / Mint
The first deputy governor born after India's independence in 1947, Mohan came to RBI in September 2002, but moved to the finance ministry as secretary, department of economic affairs, in October 2004 before his three-year term ended. He returned to RBI in July 2005 and left in June this year, seven months before his term was due to end.
Mohan, a former chief economic adviser to the finance minister, was seen as a strong contender for the top job at the Indian central bank when Y.V. Reddy retired in September, but was pipped to the post by D. Subbarao, then finance secretary.
Confirming the development, McKinsey said in an email on Saturday that he "will join the McKinsey Global Institute as a part-time global adviser starting this fall". Fall is autumn in North American English.
Mohan said in an email: "I understand that you have got a statement from McKinsey's. I am in full concurrence with that."
Mohan's assignment at Stanford was for six months, beginning 15 June, and it is not known whether he will cut short his stint.
Set up in 1990, MGI's primary purpose is to undertake original research on critical economic issues facing businesses and governments around the world. Its research is funded by the partners of McKinsey and not commissioned by any business, government, or other institutions.
By integrating economics and management, MGI has insights into the microeconomic underpinnings of broad trends shaping the global economy.
As a global adviser, Mohan joins a long list of prominent academics providing insights and perspectives on a range of MGI research projects. Martin Baily, a senior fellow at the Institute of International Economics who headed former US president Bill Clinton's council of economic advisers, is currently an MGI senior adviser.
Other academic advisers on recent projects include Richard Freeman of Harvard University and Olivier Blanchard, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, on offshoring research, and Richard Cooper and Kenneth Rogoff, both of Harvard, on capital markets work.
The list of past advisers includes Diana Farrell, deputy director of the National Economic Council and deputy economic adviser in the administration of US President Barack Obama.
At RBI, Mohan was in charge of monetary policy, financial markets, economic research and statistics, secretary's department and communication.
Recently, he headed the committee on financial sector assessment that conducted a stress test on the Indian financial system.
In an interview in end-May, Mohan said he drew comfort and optimism from the fact that fiscal and monetary measures taken by the government and RBI were working and said there was some room left for the government to provide more fiscal stimulus to bolster the economy. He also said there was scope for specific capital expenditure and accelerating projects that the government could identify in such sectors as roads and urban infrastructure.


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Lehman: 'Culmination of a journey'
Never before had a player won such honors on all three Tours operated by the PGA TOUR. Lehman, who won the award on the then-Hogan Tour (now Nationwide Tour) in 1991 and the PGA TOUR in 1996, knew he was fortunate to be in such a position by age as much as accomplishment. No other former Hogan/Nationwide Tour Player of the Year is toiling regularly on the 50-and-over circuit.
But Wednesday, upon officially being named Champions Tour Player of the Year, thus completing the triple play, Lehman could fully appreciate the accomplishment and come clean a little bit about just how much he wanted it.
"I think it's every bit as significant simply because it's a goal that I set," Lehman said. "I think anytime you set a goal that's a lofty goal, and this one was lofty because no one had done it before. I was aware of that.
"Because of that reason, it's significant. It's the culmination of a journey. It's a journey that's been a lot of fun. There's no guarantees. There were no promises that I could achieve that. It took a lot of good playing and also some good fortune for me to win."
Lehman was strong all year on the Champions Tour, having won three times including a major title. He took over the Schwab Cup points lead after the season's second event and never looked back, though the points race did tighten up at the season finale as Mark Calcavecchia bid to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and take the $1 million season prize. Calc came up short, and Lehman had the Schwab Cup.
"There's a lot of things happened this past year that went in my favor. John Cook lost in two playoffs. Calc almost came back and won the Schwab Cup," Lehman said. "Those guys had great years, played great golf, but things kind of tipped my way.
"When you work so hard and you want it so badly, you chase that dream, then the dream does come true, it's significant. I was very, very aware over the last couple years I had a chance to do something that no one's done before, at least to this point."
MORE: Lehman wins POY, Kenny Perry and Chip Beck also honored | Lehman's 2011 results


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So I guess Dark Tranquillity's previously announced (see above video) Zero Distance project is really just a music video for a b-side that didn't make it on the first release of their new album, We Are The Void, but will appear on the tour edition slated for release on October 24.
Right? I'm fuzzy on the details.
The video for Zero Distance, which can be viewed below courtesy of Metal Hammer, was shot and directed by the recently launched Aduro Labs, a production company launched by DT's own Niklas Sudin. Watch:
What do you think about band's releasing other, "special" editions of their album a year after the fact? Didn't we already buy the album once? Isn't that enough? Bollocks, I say!
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Esteban Creste is joining WXTV, the Univision station in New York, as news director, MediaMoves reports. It is a return to New York for Creste, who began his career as a reporter, host and managing editor at Telemundo New York.
"After a very enriching life on the road, I'm going back home. I'm very happy," he told MediaMoves.
For the past three years, Creste has been the executive producer and news director for Fox Deportes in Mexico City. He begins at WXTV on July 1.


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We knew more tracks in the form of downloadable content was on its way for the hip-hop/rap music game,
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.Today, 4mm announced what the list of downloadable content will look like when it is available on Xbox Live and the PSN soon.
The list, which is fully viewable after the jump, is a long line of various hip-hop tracks from LL Cool J to DMX to Flo Rida and others. Read on for said list, as well as pricing details.
NEW YORK – Oct. 28, 2010 – 4mm Games, Def Jam Interactive and Terminal Reality are proud to announce new tracks and instrumental beats now available in the Def Jam Rapstar Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.
From recent smash hits including Kanye West's seminal "Can't Tell Me Nothing" to the debut of the Black Eyed Peas with "My Humps", "Say Something" by Timbaland featuring Drake, Lil' Wayne's "Got Money", Soulja Boy's "Crank That" and Gucci Mane's party anthem "Wasted" to classic tracks including LL Cool J's ode to "Around The Way Girls", the Geto Boyz with "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" and Warren G's "Regulate", these tracks and more are now available for Def Jam Rapstar via Xbox Live for 160 Microsoft Points per song, and will be coming soon to the PlayStation Network for $1.99 USD per song.
In addition to new licensed tracks, Def Jam Rapstar is also proud to offer new freestyle beats from Cool & Dre ("Lavish), Bangladash ("Tango Cash), Nitti ("Playmaker") and Danja ("Wyld Money") for those aspiring emcee's out there.
From Hip Hop classics like Eric B and Rakim's "Paid In Full" to The Pharcyde's "Passin' Me By", to current bangers like Fabolous featuring Ne-Yo's "You Make Me Better" and New Boyz "You're A Jerk", and more downloadable content coming in the weeks and months ahead, Def Jam Rapstar has you covered.
Complete list of Def Jam Rapstar tracks available for download:
Black Eyed Peas-My Humps ***
Chamillionaire-Ridin' Dirty
Clipse-Grindin' ***
DJ Khaled featuring T-Pain, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Lil' Wayne, Birdman, Fat Joe & Rick Ross-I'm So Hood (Remix)
DMX-Party Up ***
Dorrough-Ice Cream Paint Job ***
Eric B. & Rakim-Paid In Full
Fabolous featuring Ne-Yo-You Make Me Better ***
Flo Rida-Low
Geto Boyz-Mind Is Playing Tricks On Me ***
Gucci Mane-Wasted ***
Kanye West-Can't Tell Me Nothing ***
Lil' Wayne-Got Money ***
LL Cool J-Around The Way Girl ***
Luniz-I Got 5 On It
Maino featuring T-Pain-All The Above
Mims-This Is Why I'm Hot
New Boyz-You're A Jerk
Puff Daddy-Bad Boy For Life
Rich Boy-Throw Some D's ***
Shawty Lo-Dey Know ***
Soulja Boy-Crank That ***
The Pharcyde-Passin' Me By
The Sugar Hill Gang-Rapper's Delight
Timbaland featuring Drake-Say Something ***
Warren G.-Regulate ***
Young Dro-Shoulder Lean ***
Complete list of Freestyle beats available for download:
Bangladesh-Tango & Cash ***
Cool & Dre-Lavish ***
Danja-Wyld Money ***
Nitti-Playmaker ***
Tracks with *** are currently only available on Xbox Live and will be available on PlayStation Network soon
The premiere emcee experience for video game consoles Def Jam Rapstar makes the world your stage by rhyming along to the greatest Hip Hop tracks ever created. Use your console camera to record and customize your video using the in-game editing tools, then upload your video to the fully integrated Def Jam Rapstar community at www.defjamrapstar.com, where you can share your videos across your social networks, Battle other emcees, comment on videos and much more. Def Jam Rapstar also offers you the ability to freestyle over tracks by some of the hottest hip hop producers and upload your freestyle performances for the world to decide how good you really are.
Def Jam Rapstar offers a software only version of the game that retails for $59.99 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3 and $49.99 on Wii, as well as a bundled version that includes software and one wired microphone for $69.99 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3 and for $59.99 on Wii.
Def Jam Rapstar is rated "T" for Teen (mild blood, mild violence, strong lyrics, drug reference, sexual themes, partial nudity, use of alcohol, use of tobacco) by the ESRB. Music downloads are not rated by the ESRB.
For more information of Def Jam Rapstar please go to www.defjamrapstar.com.
To follow Def Jam Rapstar on Twitter please visit www.twitter.com/defjamrapstar.
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- Supercar acceleration
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- Range below 200 miles when driven hard
- Primitive amenities
- Utter lack of storage in cockpit
- Recharging cord costs $600 to $3,000 extra
The 2009 Tesla Roadster delivers jaw-dropping green performance and handling in a classic open two-seater, but the aggressive driving it encourages may cut range to less than 200 miles.
The 2009 Tesla Roadster is an electric-powered two-seat sportscar based around some components of the Lotus Elise. Unveiled to the public in 2006 and originally promised for delivery in early 2008, the all-electric Tesla Roadster is finally in production.
The Tesla's audacious acceleration—a factory-quoted 0-to-60 mph in just 3.9 seconds—comes courtesy of a 185-kilowatt (248 horsepower) electric motor powered by a 53-kilowatt-hour battery pack, weighing 990 pounds, and mounted just behind the driver, where the engine would be in the Elise. Inside it are 6,831 lithium-ion cells like the ones that power laptop computers, plus a great deal of instrumentation, circuitry, cooling, and careful engineering to prevent mishaps if a cell goes bad. Behind the battery pack sits the electric motor, coupled to the transmission that drives the rear wheels.
Although the 2009 Tesla Roadster is a completely new model, it keeps quite closely with the proportions of the Lotus Elise on which it's based. But a little added length, combined with its sleeker snout and smooth, contoured flanks leading into the rear wheel wells—in place of the Elise's prominent side air intake—gives it an overall look that's quite different from some angles.
The result is a low-slung, racy sportscar with a radiator visible through the slots in the front decklid. The 2009 Roadster has carbon fiber panels, but they could just as easily be steel or fiberglass; there's nothing to indicate their unique construction.
The Tesla Roadster starts with carbon-fiber body panels from France that are attached to a chassis manufactured at the Lotus factory in Hethel, England. The unpowered "glider" is then shipped to the United States, where the battery and powertrain are added in Menlo Park, California. Cells from Japan are built into the battery pack a few miles away in San Carlos; the motor is made in Taiwan. It all adds up, apparently, to a "U.S.-built" car.
Switching on the "ignition" of a 2009 Tesla—more accurately, powering up the car—lights up the instrument cluster. A "bong" tone indicates the car is ready to roll. The "shifter" has just three positions: neutral, drive, and reverse.
In front of the driver are two gauges, a rev counter for the electric motor, and a 150-mph speedometer, plus a slew of warning lights. A small, seemingly flimsy JVC stereo and navigation system is mounted in the center of the dash. Just above the driver's left knee is a touch screen showing the state of battery charge. It lets the driver select one of five operating modes; Standard is the default. Maximum Performance allows the powertrain to run closer to its thermal limits. Maximum Range reduces power to preserve battery life; while Valet Mode cuts acceleration in half and limits both top speed and range. Finally, Storage mode keeps the pack at its optimum temperature with a high-voltage equivalent of trickle charging.
Without a gearbox, the rev counter and speedo move in sync. A motor speed of 8,000 rpm corresponded to 70 mph, and 100 mph was slightly over 11,000 rpm. The motor is redlined from 13,000 to 15,000 rpm, for the Roadster's quoted top speed of 125 mph.
Driving a Tesla Roadster requires reprogramming your old gasoline-car habits. The clever coders at Tesla have made the regenerative braking aggressive enough that you can drive the car almost entirely on the accelerator. More pressure equals more speed. Lift off, and the car slows—just like engine braking, but quieter. With a bit of pre-planning, you'll hit the Brembo brakes only when you slow down to 3 mph, when the simulated "idle creep" kicks in.
In almost three hours of spirited driving, mostly on twisty, hilly roads, our Roadster was resolutely eager. We didn't do formal timing tests, but in performance mode, the quoted 3.9-second 0-60 time was completely credible. The great thing about electric drive is that the torque is all there at any speed. We used the sheer, raw, relentless power over and over again, just for the hell of it. The instant in which 70 mph turned into 90 mph proved particularly alluring.
The 2009 Tesla Roadster is so powerful that you need to make sure it's pointed exactly where you intend to go when you floor it. Otherwise, it straightens abruptly and you'll accelerate right through the outside of your curve. Can you say "lift-off tuck-in"?
Contrary to popular wisdom, a Tesla Roadster isn't completely silent. The battery cooling system whirs behind the driver, and the motor hums on acceleration like a "Star Wars" flying scooter. But above 30 mph, those sounds are drowned out by wind noise.
The Roadster's passenger compartment is larger and easier to get into than that of the Elise, but don't expect a vast expanse. Seating space is narrow, with my right knee resting uncomfortably against the hard central spine that holds the climate control switches and the "gear" lever. Worst of all, the Tesla Roadster has zero storage space, except for one very slippery curved metal lip running transversely below the dash above the passenger's knees. We don't expect cup holders, but door pockets for papers and maps would add a lot.
There's a wide, shallow storage space under the rear deck, behind the battery pack. We advise soft luggage. Inside is the charging cord for standard 110-volt power (a $600 option); a full recharge can take up to 8 hours. The $3,000 high-voltage system that many owners will likely install in their garages cuts that to 3.5 hours, and a partial "fill" takes less. One irksome practice: Any recharging cord costs extra.
Our battery had an indicated 202 miles of range when we got the car. That fell to 110 miles remaining after our drive, which covered 58 road miles; aggressive driving will drain the batteries in the 2009 Tesla Roadster much quicker than steady-speed cruising.
One safety compromise: Tesla was granted a three-year waiver from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to build the Roadster without the latest occupant-sensing airbags. Instead, the Roadster carries older, less expensive standard front airbags for driver and passenger.
The Roadster comes standard with an anti-lock braking system, traction control, tire-pressure monitors, and the requisite airbags and seatbelt pre-tensioners. It also offers a Valet mode that cuts acceleration in half and limits both top speed and range.
The base Tesla Roadster costs $109,000, with the faster Sport model coming in at $128,500. Options include premium seats, leather interior, metallic paint, a hardtop, forged wheels, and more; a heavy hand on the list can up the price by $25,000 or more.
In the end, the 2009 Tesla Roadster does exactly what it promises: It offers the first green alternative to gasoline sportscars. It provides kick-ass all-electric performance in a classic, almost primitive two-seater drop-top: maximum driving pleasure with minimum eco impact. The fact that it's in production at all is one giant step for motorkind.
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Winner and loser of the week in Fla politics
Winner of the week: Jim Greer. Ridiculed as a blustery buffoon by critics, the former state GOP Chairman managed to outsmart a former House Speaker, John Thrasher, and two incoming legislative leaders, Dean Cannon and Mike Haridopolos, and convince them to sign a potentially illegal severance package.
Loser of the week: Charlie Crist. First he failed to take knock down Marco Rubio in a televised debate and then he stood by a supporters bigoted comments about Rubio. Finally the governor lost his anti-corruption cred with revelations his hand-picked party chairman and close advisor Jim Greer, is facing a criminal inquiry into his actions at the GOP. Runners up: John Thrasher, Dean Cannon and Mike Haridopolos. If they had the judgement to sign a possibly unethical severance package for Greer, what kind of judgement should we expect as they run Florida's legislature? Runner up II: Kendrick Meek. His toes may look divine, but it's hard to campaign as Mr. Common Man/former state trooper when you're getting pedicures.


text: Pierre, I know you did some preliminary work on helping to make sure that doing operations on masked arrays doesn't change the underlying data. I ran into the following today. import numpy as np a = np.ma.array([1,2,3], mask=[False, True, False]) b = a * 10 c = 10 * a print b.data # Prints [10 2 30] Good! print c.data # Prints [10 10 30] Oops. I tracked it down to __call__ on the _MaskedBinaryOperation class. If there's a mask on the data, you use: result = np.where(m, da, self.f(da, db, *args, **kwargs)) You can see that if a (and hence da) is a scalar, your masked values end up with the value of the scalar. If this is getting too hairy to handle not touching data, I understand. I just thought I should point out the inconsistency here. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma


text: "Tom Allison" <firstname.lastname@example.com> writes: > I just installed Debian 2.2r2 on my Thinkpad. > I was previously running Slackware on this machine and decided to give > Debian a try. > > Maybe this is a newbie Q but... > > How the heck to you configure gnome & sawmill to work together? > I have ~/.xsession with the one line: > gnome-session & exec sawmill you only need "exec gnome-session". The rest is taken care of by GNOME itself. If you want to use GNOME (not just a panel), you have to select your WM from gnome control center (*NOT* in .xsession). > And this doesn't quite do it. Apparently sawmill and gnome are not binding > together properly. They do, see above :) > I've checked the Debian and Gnome web site for docs. What I have here is > not covered - it's assumed I've gotten this far... > > Also, is there someway I can set this as the global default? Yes. You have to edit system-wide xsession (in /etc/X11 I think). Another way is to use alternatives (seems to be more elegant). You can configure x-window-manager to be gnome-session and it will be started by default (someone, correct my if I'm wrong here). Peter.


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What started life as a short post on user adoption seems to have turned into the monster blog prose you see before you. If the length scares you then jump to the end for the summary version!
If you're going to tackle the long version then let's begin…
The topic of corporate culture and social computing has been done to death but still seems to rumble on as an undercurrent for many blog posts. Views range from the suggestion that corporate culture needs to be right for social computing to succeed all the way through to suggestions that social computing can act as a catalyst for cultural change. Of course its never as clear as either of those academic stances and when you listen to people in workshops saying, "it's not about the technology, it's about the people," in the same breath as, "the platform has to be perfect," it becomes very apparent very quickly that there is confusion over where the optimum balance lies.
No doubt the academic debate will continue but sometimes it's good to stop talking and start doing. Which leads to the question… What is the right balance and how do you achieve it?
Let me start by saying the final aim of any social business program shouldn't be to find balance between technology and culture. The final aim of a social business program should be to excel at both culture and technology, relative to your aims. The balance you need to find is in the early stages, as you're growing your network or community. If you have an excellent culture and fail to match it with excellent technology then you stand to underwhelm people and have them turn away. If you have poor culture but excellent, deeply functional, technology then you'll probably end up with a very shiny toy that no-one uses. In that sense the art of balance in a social business implementation is to be able to quickly understand the culture of an organisation and marry the technology to it. That way you'll be able to achieve a balance between the two components of social business in the early stages of implementation and it will be easier to accelerate the program towards success.
In a practical sense what does that mean? Let's start with a scenario which includes what I consider the ideal culture for social business and then we'll flip it round.
In my mind the culture for social business success is something many companies strive to achieve already. It's a culture where people feel free to voice opinions. Where opinions are respectfully considered and responded to. Where people are at ease crossing organisational and hierarchical boundaries to achieve their aims. You'll find it in a vibrant working environment where people are happy to chat socially before a meeting but who settle into a meeting quickly and efficiently. A good indicator for excellent culture can usually be seen when someone pulls rank. It'll be done with minimal fuss, calmly and quickly and with little discourse or wrangle from other employees. It'll happen this way because the person laying down the law will be respected and they'll be respected based on evidence that has been visible to most, if not all, employees. The only downside to trying to observe this indicator is that you won't be able to do so very often since the teams you observe will work well enough together to self-govern.
Of course this situation doesn't often exist in reality but it gives you something to aim for!
When approaching a team or an organisation like the one outlined above some people would be tempted to just slap a huge great shiny social platform, something like IBM Connections or Jive SBS, down and just let them get on with it. That's a risky strategy and definitely one that, in my mind, would rely too heavily on the 'build it and they will come' mentality. Even in teams like this people still need to be introduced to new ways of doing things and to new software. That introduction is likely to come in the form of small workflow improvements and efficiency gains. For instance, where employees have been using a heavyweight content management system to control document versioning and produce final versions of things like SOPs etc you may introduce them to a wiki for collaborative authoring where the wiki has in-built functionality to produce a signed, sealed and delivered document at the end of the process. Where people have been used to heavy administration around meetings you could introduce them to something like meeting workspaces in SharePoint. The point of this introductory stage is to get people comfortable with the new technology. Once people are comfortable with the technology then you'll need to be prepared to move quickly since the chances are that in this team you'll already have achieved a nice balance. You'll need to shift into a mode where you can start turning on large swathes of functionality. You'll need to switch into a mode where you can start saying things like, "Here's the new functionality to help you with this workflow, oh, and by the way, because we've turned on that it also enables you to do this, this and this other cool stuff." You'll still need to stick around and do some hand-holding when people make mistakes but generally people will start to discover ways of doing things by themselves and all you'll need to do is provide guidance and grease the wheels a little.
Now let's flip the situation.
You walk into a workshop or meeting room and the atmosphere is tense. No-one speaks except for when it's to agree with the most senior person in the room. You start talking to the group, asking why they're at the meeting and you get responses like, "Oh my boss told me to come." You give your presentation and everyone shifts around uncomfortably because you have no bullet points on your slides and they are forced to actually look at you and listen to what you're saying. The first question following your presentation is, "What I want to know is what's the ROI of this?" The second, "Could you run us through the permission model and how you'd prevent access to sensitive documents?" Both perfectly valid questions but taking them so early shows that you're dealing with a risk averse culture. The attention people pay to their Blackberries as you answer them shows how much they care. As you wrap up the meeting the boss says thanks and mentions they're looking forward to working on the project. The rest of the meeting room take this is their cue to start over-egging their praise and mentioning how, "this visionary technology represents a paradigm shift in how they do business and they'll look forward to collating the key performance metrics to demonstrate the up-scale in social capital." As you leave you remember that you were there by invitation so you know at least one person has got your back.
Of course that's a melodramatic way of describing a culture that doesn't lend itself to social media but it gets the point across.
Approaching the group above you are forced to focus on improving the culture otherwise you'll never achieve anything resembling a successful social business implementation. Some people would be tempted to focus purely on showing the efficiency gains that can be achieved using a social approach to business. It's something that you'll need to do but you'll also need to remember that efficiency gains don't mean much otherwise this organisation would already be using their already existing tools in a much more efficient way. There's many ways to start an implementation of this nature. Whether you look for influential groups to work with first or whether you start from the top and work down, it's a personal and a project choice. The fundamental similarity in any approach should be, in my mind, to strip away all things that prevent people from taking a long hard look at themselves. In a technolo
gical sense it means taking your social offering and nailing the user experience. Rather than focussing on social elements the focus should be on simplicity, another trait of Web2/E2.0/Social computing. Using a simple and crude example lets say you work in a research driven organisation and you want people to share more of their research. Currently in most organisations people would have the option of calling a meeting, putting documents in a document management system, emailing people etc etc. In a company with a good culture they'd see the benefit of sharing and make the best of the tools they have. In a poor culture, one where there is fear or dislike of sharing, it's easy for people to use the drawbacks of the technology or process as an excuse not to share. "It's too cumbersome to upload a document," "It's too difficult to find a time when everyone is available for a meeting." In this case an answer would be to set-up a blog platform. Make the blog platform easy to use. Make the process of posting to the blog wonderfully simple. Those people who didn't share simple because the ways of sharing in the past weren't good enough will now be able to share. Those who used technology as an excuse will still not share. This is where user adoption gets tough. You need to enter a phase akin to nurturing embers into a blazing fire. You need to find the good examples of sharing and publicly reward them. You need to encourage and guide people who are fearful of sharing their ideas with a wider audience. Most of all you need to be patient.
So after the mammoth post let's cut to the chase with a graph and a summary.
Basically, two components come together to make a successful social business, culture and technology:
- if you have a good culture and good technology you'll be able to adopt a social approach to business fairly quickly and you'll be pretty successful doing so.
- if you have a poor culture but good technology then you'll need to work through some difficult issues before you'll see the benefits of social business. The technology will help remove excuses but you'll need a good implementation strategy to see any real success.
- if you have poor culture and poor technology then you're going to struggle. A good implementation strategy will help you gain some success but it will never be as good as you want it to be.
- finally if your culture sucks, your technology sucks and there's no-one capable of leading a good implementation then you're probably best of using you Web2.0 skills to get yourself another job.
That's it, I'm done. I think I've even bored myself. So much for, "let's stop talking and start doing!"


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Valverde wins eighth stage, Rodriguez retains lead
Spain's Alejandro Valverde won the eighth stage of the Tour of Spain as Joaquim Rodriguez retained possession of the leader's red jersey.
Valverde, riding for the Movistar team, was adding this 174.7km ride from Lleida to Collada de la Gallina in Andorra to his win in the third stage in Alcaniz.
The 32-year-old, back this season after a two year suspension for drugs, prevailed in a sprint from Rodriguez and Saxo-Bank's Alberto Contador after the concluding climb up the Col de la Gallina.
Team Sky's Christopher Froome crossed the line in fourth, 15 seconds behind this trio.
In the overall standings Rodriguez continues to hold command from Froome, who lost ground to be placed 33sec behind the leader, and Contador, 40 seconds adrift, with Valverde 50 seconds off the pace.
Contador, winner of the Vuelta in 2008, appeared best placed to win the stage when he opened up a gap of around 100m only for Rodriguez and eventual winner Valverde to dig deep and catch him to set up the final dash for the line.
Valverde, who picked up a stage win in the Tour de France this year, said: "I launched the first attack on the final climb and I almost paid for that effort.
"But in the closing stages I managed to impose in the sprint by following 'Purito' (Rodriguez).
"I was fully aware that he knew this climb by heart."
Despite Saturday's success he suggested overall victory was going to be tough.
"Of all the favourites in the race I'm the one who has put in the most effort this season and then before that I'm the one who had the most period of inactivity (due to his suspension).
"But I'll go as far as I can."
The day was marked by a six-man breakaway comprising Amael Moinard (BMC) and Michael Buffaz (Cofidis), Australia's Cameron Meyer (Orica-Greenedge), Javier Aramendia (Caja Rural), Javier Ramirez Abeja (Andalucia) and Matijn Keizer.
At the foot of the final climb Meyer made a bid for glory only to be reeled in by the chasing favourites.
The ninth stage, the longest in the event at 196.3km long from Andorra to Barcelona, is tailor-made for sprinters.


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Elsewhere online
February 05, 2013
Membership Drop, Faith Issues Underlie Scouts' Move on Gays
The New York Times examines issues underlying the Boy Scouts of America's potential abandonment of its longstanding ban on homosexual scouts and troop leaders.
A proposal to drop the national youth group's prohibition on gays tops the agenda at a three-day meeting of its executive board that began Monday in Irving, Texas. Scouts volunteers involved in the debate described the decision as a proxy vote on how the organization can stay relevant in a changing social climate.
Participation in the Boy Scouts declined by 19 percent from 2000 to 2011, and the organization now has a largely religious cast, with more than 69 percent of troops affiliated with faith-based groups primarily from the Mormon, United Methodist, and Roman Catholic churches.


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I posted this on hackers on 15 sept (see http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-09/msg00938.php ) ---------------------------- After installing the following into my msys/mingw set: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/bison-1.875.0-2003.02.10-1.exe?download and http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/mingw32/flex-2_5_4a.zip <http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Emain/mingw32/flex-2_5_4a.zip> (Not sure if this was needed, but I did it anyway) and then running "configure --without-zlib --without-readline", I was able to "make" the branch right through to the stage where it fails to link because of missing fork/signmask/etc. Bison ran just fine, apparently. If you do this make sure you install everything in default locations - the bison binary has a hardcoded location for m4 (yuck). ---------------------- The platform is WindowsXP-HE cheers andrew Merlin Moncure wrote: >Where did you get your flex and bison? Were there any special steps to >setting up MinGW environment that would be helpful to know? > >Merlin > >-----Original Message----- >From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net] >Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:33 PM >To: Postgresql Hackers; pgsql-hackers-win32 >Subject: [pgsql-hackers-win32] initdb > > >I now have a C implementation of initdb, which successfully runs with >"make check" on my several linux machines, and compiles on Windows/MinGW > >too (can't run make check on Windows because we haven't got a native >postgres yet - I'm going to create a small dummy Windows postgres that >will let me check if this program works there). ><snip> > > >
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Old Brush pottery spittoon, marked Brush - USA, measuring about 6 1/4" in diameter. This is very heavy, glazed inside and out, and is in nice clean condition.
This would make a good flower pot or planter, it's a lovely cool blue-green color. It's in very good shape, no chips or cracks.


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If ever there was a guitar designed for Darth Vader and Clint Eastwood, this is THE guitar. I just could not help myself with this one. I've always had a "secret" love affair with Gretsch guitars but have always been weary of taking the plunge on a guitar that I wouldn't use that often, never mind carving up the top to fit a PAF style humbucker. Enter the Starplayer TV Outlaw. Our Dusenberg rep Mike Gregory had me at the faux Alligator hide finish. (Insert long sigh here_____________). What can I say that hasn't been thought or said? Stunning looks aside; the guitar truly is a marvel of tone with its humbucker/ P90 configuration. Sporting a hollow body construction with a sustain block, this guitar is right at home with Rockabilly and Hard Rock. The fretwork, courtesy of PLEK, makes this guitar a dream to play. The addition of a Bigsby style tremolo unit adds even more mojo to this beauty. The fact that it works flawlessly makes it even more of a marvel. I'm asked on a daily basis…"Mike, which guitar is your favorite guitar in the store right now". Without one shred of doubt, it would have to unequivocally be this guitar.
– Mike McAvan
* Hollow body with sustain block and bowed sides
* Arched multi layer spruce top
* Arched multi layer flame maple back
* 22 fret traditional set in neck
* Mahogany neck
*Rosewood fingerboard
* Low profile neck shape
* 1 11/16″ nutwidth
* 25.5″ scale length
* Duesenberg Diamond deluxe tremolo
* Duesenberg Domino single coil neck pickup
* Duesenberg Grand Vintage bridge Humbucker
* Binding on headstock, fingerboard, body top and back, and F hole
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Melbourne breaks record for conferences held in 2013-14
- Published by Vedat
"Melbourne is half way through its most successful two years on record in terms of international association conferences held", said Karen Bolinger, Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB).
Ms Bolinger said that in 2013 and 2014, the number of events coming to Melbourne had risen by 37%, delegate numbers by over half and economic impact by over a third compared to 2011 and 2012. "This success is largely due to the fact that Melbourne will be the first city in the world to host three of the largest and most prestigious health-related conferences in the space of a year," Ms Bolinger said.
"In December 2013, the 22nd World Diabetes Congress attracted more than 10,000 delegates from 140 countries and generated approximately $63 million for the state's economy.
"In May, the city will welcome 9000 delegates for the World Congress of Cardiology, and in July, in excess of 14,000 delegates for the 20th International AIDS Conference, which will be the largest health related conference ever hosted in Australia.
"As most major international conferences are held every two years at a minimum and are on a regional rotation with hundreds of cities to choose from, it is very unlikely that any other city in the world will ever be able to emulate this feat."
Ms Bolinger said the city was certainly living up to its status as Australasia's Leading Meetings and Conference Destination as voted in the 2013 World Travel Awards.


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Hills Bank announces three promotions
New hires
Chad Smeby (see photo) joined Skogman Carlson Insurance in Cedar Rapids. Smeby was previously with Integrity Insurance.
Phil Zajdel joined Metro Wire and Cable in Iowa City as sales consultant. He had worked at the company�s southeast distribution facility in Lawrenceville, Ga.
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department announced the promotion of Doug LeClere (see photo) to shift fire captain. LeClere was previously shift firefighter.
Michelle Wolter (see photo) was promoted to employee benefits specialist within the financial services department at AW Welt Ambrisco Insurance in Iowa City. Wolter has been with the agency since 2003.
CliftonLarsonAllen in Cedar Rapids announced Josh Barta (see photo) was promoted to manager and Missy Emerson (see photo) was promoted to senior associate.
Hills Bank and Trust Co. announced the following promotions: John Baxter (see photo) to information systems officer, systems administration in the Hills office; Dave Kriz (see photo) to vice president branch manager at the Iowa City Muscatine Avenue and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics offices; Brenda Langenberg (see photo) to vice president branch manager of the Mount Vernon and Lisbon offices.
CIVCO Medical Solutions in Coralville announced two management appointments. Robin Therme was promoted to senior vice president and general manager of CIVCO�s Multi-Modality Imaging business unit. Nat Geissel will lead CIVCO�s Radiation Oncology business unit as senior vice president and general manager.
Board Members
Horizons, A Family Service Alliance, named two new board members: Christy Venne (see photo), Cargill Corn Milling, and Casey Drew (see photo) with the city of Cedar Rapids.
The Crisis Center of Johnson County�s officers of its board of directors for 2012-2013 include Jan Leff (see photo), retired from Iowa City Community School District; Christopher McDonnell (see photo), Two Rivers Bank; and John Spitzer (see photo), University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business.
Three new members were named to Brucemore�s executive committee of the board of trustees: Brenda Duello (photo), University of Iowa Department of Medicine, as president; Echo Batson (see photo), Rockwell Collins, as vice president; and Tom Peffer (see photo), Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, as secretary.
Michael Pugh (see photo), Bradley & Riley, was accredited by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED Green Associate.
Tom Slockett, Johnson County auditor, was named Auditor of the Year by the Iowa State Association of County Auditors.
For the seventh straight quarter, the University of Iowa Community Credit Union was ranked first in the nation for Return of the Member, as calculated quarterly by independent research firm Callahan & Associates.
Kehl Management Co., which operates Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, received an Iowa Venture Award from the Iowa Area Development Group, on behalf of Iowa�s rural electric cooperatives and member municipal electric systems.
Lil� Drug Store Products Inc., based in Cedar Rapids, announced Convenience Store News chose the company�s EZ OTC convenience-sized over-the-counter drug products to receive the 2012 Best New Products Award in the health and beauty care category.
Brian McConnell (see photo) with AW Welt Ambrisco Insurance in Iowa City was Ambassador of the Year for the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce.
SeminarBrand Driven Digital, the social media and digital marketing division of Westergaard agency, will hold the Social Strategy Boot Camp Jan. 24 at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Cost for the all-day event is $95 through Dec. 31, then changes to $115. Fusionfarm, part of Iowa SourceMedia Group, parent company of The Gazette, is a media sponsor. To register, visit socialstrategybootcamp.com.
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JDRDC Courtroom Technology Reservation Request
The Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court uses the Courtroom Technology Management System ( CTMS) which offers multimedia evidence presentation and audio/video conferencing capabilities in each of our nine courtrooms. The CTMS enables attorney's to present electronic evidence simultaneously to everyone in the courtroom through a network of microphones, monitors and flat screen displays
While the CTMS is user-friendly, orientation prior to use of the equipment is strongly encouraged. Please contact the J&DR Court IT Department at (703) 246-3434 to set up an appointment. If you need to bring your own equipment into the courthouse, please contact the Sheriff's Office at (703) 246-3279 to have it cleared with Courthouse security staff.
Attorneys interested in reserving specific equipment or conducting audio/video conferencing must fill out and submit the form below, all fields are required. At least ten business days notification is required. The systems are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
With the exception of the initial AV conferencing tests and connection, the systems are run by the attorneys, not by court staff.
Should the case settle or be continued it is the responsibility of the attorney to submit a cancellation form. A new reservation form will be required for the new continued date.
Failure to adhere to these policies may jeopardize future requests and reservations of courtroom technology.
For additional information regarding CTMS and courtroom technology, please visit the Courtroom Technology Office (CrTO) webpage.
* Fairfax County Court's high-tech courtrooms offer video teleconference (VTC) capability for local and remote prisoner arraignments, remote witnesses, protected witnesses, etc. VTC is made possible through the use of high-end, secure videoconferencing technology using high-speed ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) data transfer lines. The use of home based systems utilizing private services such as Skype is not permitted.
To utilize these features the following requirements are necessary:
- Approval from the court (judge) to use VTC. Obtain a signed court order to allow video teleconferencing during trial prior to submitting the form above. Request must be made at least ten (10) business days prior to the scheduled trial.
- Access to an external video teleconference system. Must be compatible with the Court's ISDN based videoconference system. Technical Specifications: H.320-compatible, ISDN-BRI with minimum connection speeds starting at 128kbps and as high as 512kbps. The higher the kbps connection the better the quality of the audio and video.
- Reservation of a high-tech courtroom. A party may request to use a high-tech courtroom with video-conference functionality by completing the on-line courtroom RESERVATION REQUEST form above.
Absent an emergency, completion of the RESERVATION REQUEST form is required at least 10 business days prior to trial and must include in the description field:
- Name of judge who signed the order
- Date the order was signed
- Planned schedule
- Coordinating all arrangements. Once authorized, requesting party is responsible for making all necessary arrangements with the appropriate court. Court policies and procedures require conducting a test call to the courthouse prior to the event and the morning of such event.
- The reservation must include two test connections ( the first between 12:30pm-2:00pm EST at least two business days prior to trial and the second at 8:00am EST the day of trial
- Test connections must be successful or the reservation is subject to cancellation
- The Court should be notified of any changes immediately
Failure to adhere to the above requirements may invalidate your use of this technology!
Fully integrated video conference rooms or an integrated desktop system may be available from public/private resources to include major hotels, colleges, universities or businesses such as FedEx/ Kinko's, etc. The user is responsible for these arrangements. The Court's bear NO responsibility for the quality of service provided by external providers NOR is the court obligated to provide technical services to support external providers or users.
The user is also responsible for any and all external costs associated with this event and arranging for technical support, if necessary, during testing and the actual conference from the external provider. No internal courthouse charges will be incurred by the user as long as the connecting call is made to the courthouse from an external source.


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Im new to this side of the US, and I'm planning to spend about 10 days driving up the "left" coast and throwing bugs as much as possible. Im looking for rivers and streams that I can wade (not bringing the yak or shredder) with camping close to the water.
Have rods and gear ranging from 3wt to 12wt so any species could be game. I do not want to surf cast, not this time..
Steelies are best choice but anything in the trout family is the goal..
Starting in SOCAL and turning around in BC..
The rig can handle mostly any terrain I will fish in, so thats not too much of a worry..
Would be a bonus to meet other bug slingers and see some of the backcountry.. (either 4x4 or hiking)
Any information or additional Expos are always welcome...
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Anfield must have felt a very different kind of place for Gerard Houllier as he shuffled out to the edge of his training area on Friday to supervise the substitutions. For a start, there was no booing of the manager by the Liverpool fans, and the two goals scored early in the second half of the 3-1 win over Bolton Wanderers lifted the pressure on him, for the near future at least.
Liverpool's third goal, which arrived after 54 minutes, was headed in by Vladimir Smicer, who finished his side's woeful defeat by Southampton two weeks ago in dispute with a portion of the Kop. That will remind Houllier how quickly fortunes can change. But the fundamental question at Liverpool remains: are they serious contenders for the Champions League?
Before Sami Hyypia headed in their first goal after half an hour there was plenty more of the soporific attacking that had driven Anfield to distraction during the game against Southampton.
Harry Kewell was back in the attack alongside Florent Sinama-Pongolle, but the Australian did not look completely fit. In midfield the story was the same again; Steven Gerrard was doing the work of two men.
Quite how Houllier carried the misery of that defeat to Southampton through the cancellation of the Wolves game and past Christmas only his family will know, but the Liverpool manager appeared after this match with a smile and a joke.
It came as no surprise that he saw the first half as a triumph for Hyypia and Igor Biscan over the lone threat of Kevin Davies, but he has also lost goalkeeper Chris Kirkland for a month with a fractured finger.
"I am disappointed that we didn't keep a clean sheet but I could feel a strength and solidity about us," Houllier said. "You need to have a strong defensive performance. Everyone seemed to work for each other and run the extra yard.
"Bolton had one chance in the first half but I would say that the solidity of the team seems to have come back. It may be pragmatic but when you have players out as we have you need that.
"We chased the game but when things were not going well we didn't panic. In any game of football you have good spells but I thought we kept our cool and composure."
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Women's Basketball: Raiders snare second place with rout of Panthers
March 1, 2014
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Less than 48 hours after Wright State's 79-72 overtime loss to conference leader Green Bay, the Raiders were afforded an opportunity to take out any frustrations they had left against the Milwaukee Panthers.
WSU bounced back with a dominant defensive effort en route to a 94-70 blowout win Saturday afternoon at the Nutter Center.
Raiders head coach Mike Bradbury said the Raiders' performance Saturday was exactly what he expected from his players.
"They did what I thought they were going to do," Bradbury said. "They're good kids, they're resilient and they're competitive. We haven't lost two games in a row all year. There are not many people who can say that. They've done this time and time again and I'm proud of them."
Ivory James led WSU with 22 points, Tay'ler Mingo scored 19, added five assists and five steals and Kim Demmings added 15 points and eight rebounds in the win.
The Raiders (21-8, 10-4) took control of second place in the Horizon League with the win and were aided by Detroit's 75-60 upset win over Youngstown State (13-14, 9-5).
The Raiders will take on the Penguins Wednesday night in Youngstown in a game that will have big implications on the No.2 and No.3 seeds in the Horizon League Tournament. Tip off between the Raiders and Penguins is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Beeghly Center in Youngstown.
"I definitely think that we just came in focused," Demmings said. "We needed this win, so I feel like…we had to take it out on somebody and obviously they were the next ones."
WSU took a 12-point lead into halftime after ending the first half on a 20-10 run during the final 7:43.
The Raiders' lead continued to balloon when three WSU free throws capped off a 14-2 run during the first four minutes of the second half.
A part of the Raiders' success in the second half revolved around keeping UMW's leading scorer Angela Rodriguez under wraps. Rodriguez kept WSU on its heels in the opening 20 minutes, leading all players with 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting in the first half.
When the second half began, the Raiders put on the clamps, and Rodriguez was unable to get comfortable, thanks in part to numerous double teams the Raiders threw her way. The senior point guard was held to just four points in the second half and made one field goal.
Mingo, who spent much of the game shadowing Rodriguez, said the Raiders' game plan was to push Rodriguez off her spot and make her feel uneasy.
"We know that she's a really great player when she's comfortable, so we tried to get her to where she wasn't as comfortable. And I felt like we tried to do that for the most part, but our communication was a little slow in the beginning, but we put it together in the second half and we really guarded it how we play defense," Mingo said.
The Raiders turned 25 Panthers turnovers into 23 points and outscored UMW 46-24 in the paint, one game after being outscored 38-18 in the paint by Green Bay.


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Six hours of clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists took place today in Fatah Land in southern Lebanon. Israeli infantrymen entered the area, under cover of heavy fire, in pursuit of terrorists, at least two of whom were reported killed. The Israelis returned to their own territory late in the afternoon. Military authorities said the maneuver had been carried out in response to signs of increased terrorist activity in the area, especially the guerrillas' attempts to reorganize following the escape of many of them to Israel during the Jordanian Army's crackdown on them. Two Israeli soldiers were reported injured. (In Beirut, the Lebanese newspaper Al Kifah said the Lebanese Army was becoming restless over Egypt's seeming delay in reopening the shooting war with Israel.)


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Editor's note: Each of the following items was taken from police reports at the separate law enforcement agencies.
Editor�s note: Each of the following items was taken from police reports at the separate law enforcement agencies.
Columbia Police
Monday, Feb. 4
Travis Blake Wiseman, 20, 232 Nowlin Court, was arrested and charged with disobeying a traffic control signal, driving on a suspended license, possession of Schedule III drugs for resale, possession of Schedule IV drugs for resale, possession of marijuana for resale and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released from jail on $37,000 bond.
Columbia Fire Department
Tuesday, Feb. 5
12:33 a.m. EMS call, 715 S. James Campbell Blvd.
2:08 a.m. EMS call, 653 Chestnut Drive.
3:11 a.m. Medical assist, assist EMS crew, 1260 McBride Circle.
9:37 a.m. EMS call, 4009 Park Drive.
Monday, Feb. 4
1:16 a.m. EMS call, 1105 Woodland St.
1:38 a.m. EMS call, Nashville Highway under bridge.
2:45 a.m. Public service, 212 Lyons Lane.
3:56 a.m. Steam, vapor, fog or dust thought to be smoke, 2536 Nashville Highway.
7:07 a.m. EMS call, 3 Park Plus Court.
7:15 a.m. Smoke detector activation, no fire, unintentional, 221 Valley Drive.
1:00 p.m. EMS call, 2206 Oakland Parkway.
8:37 p.m. EMS call, 101 McMeen Drive.
11:18 p.m. EMS call, 203 Dyer St.
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Theme | Rules | Entries | Winning Projects | Contact
The international jury consisting in
- President
- Pere RIERA, Spain
- Zeno BOGDANESCU, Romania
- Leo van BROCEK, Belgium
- Maurizio DE VITA, Italy
- Urs HIRSCHBERG, Austria
- Johannes KAFERSTEIN, Switzerland
- Lafarge
- Leopold LOMBARD, France
- Manager
- Françoise PAMFIL, Romania
"Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest_UAUIM with the European Association for Architectural Education_AEEA in quality of organizers together with LAFARGE Romania as exclusive sponsor congratulate the winners of the international competition for students in architecture entitled "unknown – housing as open problem". Nine universities from six european countries (Belgium, Italy, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Romania ) participated during the academic year 2011 – 2012 within the general debate on housing as open problem.
The international exhibition opened online on 11th of February 2013 and displayed in UAUIM exhibition hall on the 20th of February consisted in 42 panels. The jury met during the 22nd and 23rd of February. The complexity of responses to the theme open excellent discussions both during the international jury and in the special conferences organized around the event.
Looking forward in discussing the results of this competition and finding together the theme for the next one 2013 – 2015 please accept again our admiration for the quality of each entry that endorses the decision to continue this common endeavor.
Prof.Ph.D. Arch. Emil BARBU POPESCU,
President of UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania
Please find attached the following documents:
- UNKNOWN_winners.xls [30K]
- UNKNOWN_jury_report.doc [37K]
- UNKNOWN_jury_comments.doc [37K]
- UNKNOWN_winner-banking-details.doc [37K] – that each awarded student is kindly asked to send back, via email, by 11th of March 2013


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How Healthy Is Our Game?
Hank Haney is most famous for his prominent role as Tiger Woods' teacher, but long before he started working with the world's No. 1 player—and charging $500 for an hour lesson—Haney was a shrewd golf businessman.
Starting with a ranch he bought from World War II hero and movie star Audie Murphy in 1991, Haney expanded that McKinney (Tex.) range into seven practice facilities and three golf courses across the state.
Seventeen years later, despite a struggling economy, the most famous athlete in the world is a professional golfer (and a $100million Nike Golf endorsee), PGA Tour purses are at all-time highs, the largest equipment manufacturers are reporting record sales, and industry groups are noting that the overall golf "economy"—including equipment sales, golf tourism, and golf course real estate development—has never been larger.
But many people affiliated with the golf industry aren't celebrating. A series of studies shows that rounds played are flat or declining. Television ratings for PGA Tour events have plateaued. Traditional hot spots for vacation golf activity such as Myrtle Beach and northern Michigan have seen a raft of course closures—either from a lack of play or because of the tough business credit climate. Even Haney's flagship golf ranch became a more enticing business proposition as a real estate play than it was as a driving range, and he sold to developers.
So is the patient sick or healthy?
Many of the recent participation surveys undertaken by the National Golf Foundation, the National Sporting Goods Assn., and the industry consortium Golf 20/20 are less than comprehensive or cover only a period up to 2005. So, in spring 2008 Golf Digest and BusinessWeek commissioned Longitudes Group, an Omaha-based research and marketing company, to take the current temperature of the golf industry by exhaustively analyzing market supply trends and geo-demographic data.
The resulting picture of the industry—a mix of Longitudes' research and the existing surveys and economic data—is a complicated one. Interest in the game among sports fans and kids has never been greater. But a combination of a weak economy, the rise in airfares caused by soaring fuel costs, and fiercer competition for consumers' time and entertainment dollars has crunched margins at resorts, mid-range country clubs, small retail stores, and daily- fee courses.
The most-cited participation surveys show a game that's at best treading water and might be dipping under. The National Sporting Goods Assn.'s 2008 survey shows golf's player pool shrank 7.3% from 2003 to 2007. The National Golf Foundation's latest report shows rounds played are down 3.5% for the first quarter of 2008 and basically flat since 2005. It also shows the number of core golfers has declined.
Longitudes' research includes information from its database of 6 million golfers, analysis of golf-facility supply and demand, and interviews with hundreds of private-club and thousands of public-course managers nationwide. The group studied the relationship between the supply of public courses in the 27 largest markets across the country and the green fees at those courses, and compared the changes in fees over the last five years with changes in the Consumer Price Index.
Results show that course operators are facing problems more complicated than just a reduced flow of customers. Courses' peak fees have gone up at the same rate as inflation, but off-peak rates—which account for a majority of the rounds played—increased 33% more than the CPI. In other words, prices have risen even in the face of flat or reduced demand. That doesn't bode well for attracting new and younger golfers in a weak economy. "Energy costs are going up, and the cost of fertilizer has doubled in the last two years," says Longitudes President Sara Killeen. "Course operators had to raise rates or go under—and the number of daily-fee courses has dropped 2.5% in five years. They're feeling it from all sides.
The successful ones are working very hard on their business 365 days a year and managing the details very astutely."
But like a teacher assessing a tour player's round more by how the ball is hit than by the number on the scorecard, some industry insiders say the negative participation trends and business forecasts don't tell the full story.
"We do a pretty good job keeping score both on and off the course in the golf industry," says Joe Steranka, CEO of the PGA of America, which represents 28,000 club professionals. "Our figures tell us participation is up 2% [NGF, 2000 to 2006], and we've had real economic growth in the game. We went from a $62 billion industry in 2000 to $76 billion in 2005. We've grown from a boutique industry to a real industry."
Although surveys like the ones done by Longitudes and Golf 20/20—a group that includes the PGA, PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, and USGA—are consumer samples or estimates of market size, net sales figures from the major manufacturers reflect the total of real merchandise changing hands. Callaway sold $912 million in clubs in 2007, a 13% improvement over 2006 and its most ever. Fortune Brands' golf division, which includes Titleist, FootJoy, Cobra, and Pinnacle, moved $1.4 billion in equipment, a 7% increase over the year before. Callaway reported record first-quarter net sales of $366.5 million, a 9.5% increase over the $334.6 million in sales for the same period last year. Fewer players might have played fewer rounds, but $500 FT-i drivers and $46 dozen-ball boxes of ProV1s were still being sold.
The biggest change has come in how players are buying that equipment, says Leigh Bader, who has been in the equipment-retail business since the early 1970s, first at the store he co-owns in South Easton, Mass., Joe & Leigh's Discount Golf Pro Shop, and now online at 3Balls.com. "The numbers are telling the story that dollar sales are up, but in our store, the numbers have leveled off," says Bader. "You could walk out my door and go to any one of 13 Dick's Sporting Goods and buy equipment. That's put a lot of independents out of business. We consider it a victory that we've survived."
In the same way the equipment manufacturing business is distilling to the four or five largest companies—Callaway, Titleist, TaylorMade, and Nike accounted for 65%, or $4.1 billion, of total golf equipment sales in 2007—small retailers are being pushed out by big-box stores like Dick's and megaretailer Edwin Watts. According to Longitudes' retail data, the number of off-course retail locations has shrunk by a staggering 25% in the last five years. But the square-footage devoted to retail golf equipment sales has increased by 7% over the same period.
A growing—and harder to measure—piece of the equipment pie is the used-club market, flourishing online through auction sites like eBay. "I see our brick-and-mortar business staying healthy, though not trending up, but online sales and the secondary market are very promising," says Bader, whose online used-equipment store sells more clubs on eBay—400,000 last year—than anyone. "We're all chasing the same core group of avid players, but so much of golf is consumables—things like balls—and that's a function of rounds played. I've never seen a cycle like this one."
Industry experts joust about the validity of participation surveys—and even the golf business' prognosis—but they agree on one point: The game needs to find more players and encourage them to stick with a sport that can be daunting for beginners.
"If you go back and read state-of-the-game stories from the 1920s, 1940s, and 1960s, they have the same industry focus," says Steranka. "Time, money, and skill are still the barriers to entering this game. We asked people to rate what the most important element of the golf experience was in terms of enjoying it, and it's hitting good shots."
To that end, the PGA started its Play Golf America program in 2004. One aspect of the initiative connects potential players with teachers through its Free 10-minute Lesson Program (started by Golf Digest and the PGA), with hopes that they develop a long-term interest in the sport. "When we track the people who come in for a free lesson, 30% are new customers to the facility," says Steranka. "Each of those facilities that participates ends up getting a $2,400 lift from the program, in terms of what those people spend on green fees, lessons, or equipment."
The First Tee program has introduced the game to millions of kids since 2000, and CEO Joe Louis Barrow Jr. believes the same kind of initiative could work to bring adults to the sport. "I'd partner with the 16,000 golf courses out there to offer a set program for adults to learn the game and develop a love for it," says Barrow. "We found that if you introduce people to the game in a set curriculum, then ask them to come back with people they learned with, they push through that learning barrier that exists at the start."
If the recruitment drives are successful and more people take up the game, it won't be as easy to get a tee time as it has been over the past five years. That might be a good problem to have, but it's still a significant one for a sport that has an established—and parochial—player population. Many of those players don't look at empty golf courses or reduced initiation fees at country clubs with the same concern club managers do.
"Golf is not beginner-friendly," says Haney, who is spending more time at his International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head, S.C. "Everything is designed for people who already play. Juniors are a noble cause. But what we need are 50- and 60-year-olds to get into it, because they're real, live consumers. They have an interest in playing, but nobody's making it easier for them."
How well the industry makes those aging boomers feel welcome will define the game's next five-year phase. Fail, and it's a long wait—and more course closings—before that generation of juniors Haney mentions get their own checking accounts.
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Blistex Lip Medex Reviews
BLISStex!!!My husband plays the trumpet as a back-up for famous bands at times. He also teaches band and music students. He advised me when we first met to use a medicated product on lips to keep them in the best shape. This is rich with petrolatum, cocoa butter, and mixed waxes, but it also has soothing camphor, oil of cloves, menthol, and phenol. Keeps my lips soft and very smooth! — 4 years, 3 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
A must have and a very good option for guys as well!I must admit that I personally use the beige one (the non-medicated one) more, simply because I like the scent so much and my lips are not very chapped, so I don't necessarily need the medication. But!!! I do use this one quite often as, well and my boyfriend actually swears by it. He plays a lot of hockey, so he spends a lot of time in arenas and in the cold in general, and this stuff really ...read moreworks! And I can definitely testify to that better than anyone else. And it's not that he's just used to using this one - not at all... He tried other ones, but he always tells me that there is nothing better than the blue Blistex. I think all of us, every once in a blue moon, try different products because someone else will say that it's a miracle and it makes us feel like we are missing out. But in this case, we decided not to mess with a good thing. So we always have a couple of lip products in our night table, and in the kitchen, as well as some other random areas of the house, but this one (as the beige one as well) are always around. My boyfriend actually remembers that we need to get it when we run out of it, and he NEVER remembers anything we need to get when we go out shopping... ;) So if you need a little extra moisture on your lips, especially if you live in a cold climate, or if you bite your lips a lot, I would definitely recommend this as a lip product. And for all the guys out there, don't forget that you need to take care of your lips and make sure that they are always kissable and girl-friendly! ;) — 3 years, 10 months agoNikatron | 150 reviews
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the best!this is the best lip balm ever! it gives a cooling, tingling sensation on my lips, which is very hydrating. it also it very sheer, so it goes on like a smooth lipgloss, leaving shine. also, even thoough this must be applied with fingers and its easy to overdo it, it does not cake up on my lips. very great quality! — 6 years, 5 months agokenya | 504 reviews
blistex lip medexi love this product sooo greatt — 5 years, 10 months agoNicole2814 | 30 reviews
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Helps lips fastMakes your sore lips feel relief instant. Not too thick. Great texture. Smells great and good price..CHEAP. — 9 years, 4 months agomissheatherette | 438 reviews
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PERFECTWonderful for severely cracked lips. When regular chapstick just doesn't cut it anymore, I use this. Slather it really thick before bed and wake up with soft, lush lips that are not longer painful or peeling. Love the tingling sensation from the menthol too. My only complaint is the same one another reviewer mentioned- you have to dip your finger in, so this is not something I keep in my purse since I can't use it on the go. — 7 years, 9 months agoModernDayWriter | 205 reviews
Love this!I have seborrheic dermatitis and sometimes it flares up on my lips. This makes the flakes and bumps disappear faster than anything else. The natural peppermint oils cool and soothe the delicate skin while killing yeast and bacteria. It's not sticky. It glides on smoothly and thinly. It doesn't feel slippery or greasy either. This really helps to protect my lips by sealing in moisture so they don't...read more dry out further. It's very cheap and easy to find too. I only wish it came in a squeeze tube because the little pot is a bit unsanitary and it gets under your nail when you try to get it out because the opening is narrow. Over all this is a must-have for me, though. — 4 years, 3 months agoanimakeupgrrl42 | 85 reviews
Not Quite Carmex, But GoodFor me, this simply doesn't help my chapped lips quite to the same degree as Carmex does. Still, I own it and like to have it on hand in the winter, and my husband actually prefers it over Carmex. It definitely does the trick when my Carmex stash runs low! — 2 years, 2 months agoSomeGeekyGirl | 116 reviews
Worth every penny you spend on itFirst of all, it's pretty cheap. Around 2-4 bucks 2nd of all, pretty nice chilly smell 3rd of all, has a nice chilling/cooking formula that soothes your lips the second you put it on 4th of all, it's just a really good product. Better than those over rated lip balms like eos and baby lips — 2 years, 6 months agonikadari | 6 reviews
Very GoodI've always loved regular Blistex, because it's the only thing that can cure my extremely chapped and cracked lips. This is great because it's the same medication in a lip balm texture, like a 2 in 1 lip conditioner. You'll still need to exfoliate to get rid of the flakes but it's great for leaving on overnight for that extra conditioning. With that said, it comes pretty close to being perfect — 2 years, 8 months agohoperita | 1 reviews
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The films stars a number of Indian actors and the famous Kuwaiti actor Dawood Hussein also will appear in the film.
According to the London daily Elaph, a celebration marking the screening of the film will be sponsored by Zain Communication Company and Kuwait Continental Hotel.
The film is written and directed by Tee Bush from India, with the help of the director assistant Aref Kazi.
The story is about an Indian businessman who has been living with his wife and daughter in Kuwaiti for the past 25 years.
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|UNMC alumnus Travis Anderson and his wife Natalie, pictured with their daughters, Alexa, older, and Brooklyn Paige, recently appeared on an episode of HGTV's "House Hunters" as they searched for a house in Illinois. One of the show's viewers became interested in clinical profusion -- Anderson's profession -- while watching the show and is now a potential applicant to UNMC's School of Allied Health Professions.
The guy had never heard of perfusion until just recently, he said, but it sounded like something he might be interested in as a career. And he knew UNMC was the place to go.
Holt always asks -- he knows no one grows up dreaming of becoming a perfusionist; outside of the medical community, you never hear about it. What made the guy become so interested in perfusion?
Well, he was watching his favorite show, when ...
"I heard about it on HGTV," the prospective applicant said.
In the episode, in addition to showing the Andersons tour houses, there was an introductory segment that mentioned that Travis was a clinical perfusionist (he works for Life Services, Inc., which works with Peoria's two hospitals), and that he'd studied at UNMC.
|The Anderson's new house in Peoria, Ill.
Holt said the caller has since come to campus and done a couple of job shadows. He may yet become an official applicant to the program.
Thanks to seeing it on "House Hunters."
Note: Perfusionists ensure patients have proper blood flow and oxygen levels, often in open-heart surgery.
Second note: Yes, the Andersons got their house. And it's beautiful. (See the image above.)
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Heidenheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, 2014/08/04 - At this year's IAA Voith will presend its product and service competency under the motto "Driven by Efficiency" - Voith.com. FSE: VO2A
In Hall 17 on Stand A 14, the recently awarded VIAB Turbo Retarder Clutch, the multiple prize- winning Aquatarder SWR (Secondary Water Retarder) braking system and the DIWA.6 automatic transmission for city and long-distance buses are on show. Voith also exhibits its newly developed VR 115 CT hydraulic retarder for the Chinese market, its LP 725 and LP 490 air compressors, the 115 HV Oil Retarder "remanufactured by Voith as well as the DIWA SmartNet telemetric system. This year's exhibition concept is also accompanied by a multimedial testimonial campaign.
Award-Winning VIAB Turbo Retarder Clutch
The VIAB Turbo Retarder Clutch is one of the most prominent Voith products at this year's IAA. It combines turbo coupling and retarder in one hydrodynamic circuit and thus ensures wear-free starting and braking. This allows highly sensitive maneuvering and starting of the vehicle even with particularly heavy loads and on difficult terrain. The system is more compact, lighter and more efficient than conventional torque converter clutches and does not overheat even during intensive maneuvering, on uneven ground or starting at extreme inclines while the vehicle is fully laden. Efficiency, sustainability and fuel economy were in the foreground during the development of this cutting-edge system, which is now also available for the Mercedes-Benz Arocs construction truck. The readers of the trade magazine Logistra recently voted the VIAB as "Best Practice Innovation 2014.
Braking with Water - the Aquatarder SWR
At the center of the Voith exhibition appearance at the IAA are also the Aquatarder SWR and the Voith DIWA.6 automatic transmission. Both products are energy-efficient, resource-sparing components for buses, coaches and trucks. The Voith Aquatarder SWR is the first secondary retarder to brake with water, using the cooling agent of the engine for the process. This means that it does not need an additional operating medium and is able to perform up to 90 percent of all vehicle braking operations wear-free. In addition, it requires only half the installation space compared with its predecessor - the Aquatarder SWR is 35 kg lighter. The braking system has already made a name for itself on several occasions. In 2013 the Aquatarder SWR was awarded with the ECW Innovation Label at Busworld in Kortrijk, Belgium. In 2012, the publishing house Huss Verlag in Munich presented the Aquatarder SWR with the European Transport Prize fir Sustainability for outstanding achievements in the commercial vehicle industry.
DIWA.6: the Best Choice for City and Long-Distance Buses
The new DIWA.6 automatic transmission is Voith's response to the rising demand for clean and fuel-efficient vehicles, especially in the context of the Euro-6 requirements. Specifically developed for citybuses, DIWA automatic transmissions are the best prerequisite for economical operations. Compared with its predecessor model, the DIWA.6 can save almost another five percent fuel. Apart from utilizing the topography-dependent gear-shifting program SensoTop, this is made possible by the need-based reduction of the operating pressure and an intelligent start-up management that avoids starting against the active service brake. With the optimized Automatic Neutral Shift (ANS) function the transmission can stay decoupled from the engine for longer, which also saves fuel. Numerous bus operators in Europe rely on the transmission in demanding inner city traffic. Among the customers of the DIWA.6 automatic transmission are, for example, Wiener Linien and the three Belgian operators Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel (MIVB/STIB), VVM-De Lijn and Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport (SRWT)
Air Compressors for Euro-6 Engines
The air compressors type LP 725 and LP 490 shown on the stand have also been developed for the new EURO-6 engines. Produced in aluminum lightweight design, the two-stage compressors are a series-feature of the latest Daimler engine generation. This includes the Mercedes-Benz Actros and Antos, as well as the Travego and Citaro. Thanks to its two-stage principle, the Voith air compressor saves up to 1 liter of diesel per 100 kilometers. Since 2012, Voith has produced over 100,000 air compressors at its location in Zschopau, which are in service in buses and trucks all over the world.
Designed for the Chinese Market: VR 115 CT Hydraulic Retarder
Voith also presents the first locally-produced hydraulic retarder for China, the VR 115 CT (China Truck). It has been designed specifically for Chinese trucks, is very robust and fully geared towards the working environment of heavy trucks in China. The new retarder offers higher economic advantages than local Chinese products and engine brakes. It meets the requirements of the Chinese domestic customers on high braking quality for trucks as well as high economy due to shorter payback times.
The VR 115 CT is very compact and weighs only 48 kg. Thanks to its parallel design it is suitable for a wide range of transmission types. Due its simple construction in modular design, combined with high accessibility in the vehicle, the VR 115 CT, which is produced exclusively in China, is extremely maintenance and service friendly.
Remanufactured by Voith
Apart from offering technical support and comprehensive advice, the worldwide Voith service network also provides spare parts and exchange units "remanufactured by Voith. The Voith exhibition stand will therefore also feature an example of a fully overhauled 115 HV Retarder. With this exchange retarder, the operator gets a unit that is on the same technical level as a new one. With the telemetric system DIWA SmartNet 2.0 Voith also presents a future-oriented solution for transmission diagnosis. With this new generation, data can now also be transmitted via W-LAN, which results in significant savings compared to the mobile radio solution.
Multimedial Show Concept
The benefits and the high performance of the Voith components are illustrated at the Voith exhibition stand not only through full-size exhibits and product animations but also by multimedial presentations. In these media clips, end users and operators from South America, Europe and Asia have their say, talking about their experiences with the products and services from Voith in everyday business life.
Voith Turbo, a Group Division of Voith GmbH, is a specialist for intelligent drive solutions. Customers from highly diverse industries such as oil and gas, energy, mining and metal processing, ship technology, rail and commercial vehicles rely on advanced technologies from Voith Turbo.
Voith (voith.com) sets standards in the markets energy, oil & gas, paper, raw materials and transportation & automotive. Founded in 1867, Voith employs almost 43 000 people, generates 5.7 billion in sales, operates in about 50 countries around the world and is today one of the biggest family-owned companies in Europe.
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