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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The moon laughs and whispers...
Morning friends!
Today we are doing a review preview of some of the newest stamps just released over at All That Scraps. I took this as the perfect reason to ink up Joe Joe the Werewolf once again. ;)
His sweet expression gets me every time and I love that despite him being a 'big, bad, scary Halloween monster' it looks like he's way more afraid of the black cat there than it is of him. Part of that may be because I have a tendency to color Joe Joe up so that he resembles my little Yorkie, who is hardly a frightening beast, LOL!
The card layout is pretty simple since my mojo is still on walk-about, so I relied heavily on the cool Fancy Pants papers to do most of the work for me. Heck, that great sentiment even came on one of the sheets in the paper pad.
Well, considering how close we are getting to the month of October and all of the Halloween goodness that comes with it Joe Joe and the rest of his SN Fiendish Friends are jumping at the chance to play on even more cards before the season ends. :)
Ok, time for me to scoot...thanks for stopping by!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- Fancy Pants (October 31st)
stamp- Sweet November (Joe-Joe the Werewolf), CC Designs (Halloween Scene), Basic Grey (cat)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox black pigment
Pebbles candy dots
Copic markers:
clothes- Y38, YR04, YR18, R05, C5, C7, C9
cat- C5, C7, C9, YG25
moon- Y0000, Y000, Y00, 0
31 comments:
- chrilvian said...
oooooo he is so cute
great coloring
- September 20, 2011 at 5:18 AM
- Sudha said...
Wow very pretty.
- September 20, 2011 at 5:23 AM
- Beth aka BR-T said...
Oh this is so fun Amy!!
- September 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- corryskaart said...
hoi amy
wat heb je een leuke en lieve kaart gemaakt
groetjes van corry
- September 20, 2011 at 7:19 AM
- Виола said...
beautiful! interesting idea
- September 20, 2011 at 7:36 AM
- Lau W said...
Oh superb !!! Love all autumn colors, and the little cat is very nice !
- September 20, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- Rhonda Miller said...
Wow, this is fangtastic. TFS.
- September 20, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Nancy Thomas said...
Joe Joe couldn't be skeery if he tried!! So cute and furry - I love that big fat moon in the background.
- September 20, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Anne B. said...
What a cute werewolf! Your coloring is excellent.
- September 20, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Annette Allen said...
Awwwwww i love it...
- September 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Creations by Shirl said...
Joe joe is darn cute Amy~
He is a very happy wolf and his pretty cat friend is been inquisitive.... Luv the papers too... Fab card...
- September 20, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Cindy H. said...
Joe Joe's adorable face and your beautiful coloring sure make me smile!!
- September 20, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Anne-Marie said...
What a great card...love the image and the papers are lovely...great layout, too!
- September 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Dotty Jo said...
Great card Amy! I tried to come up with a corny werewolf quip but could only manage 'just wanted to tell you howl wonderful this card is'! So, so sorry, Jo x
- September 20, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Heidi Brawley said...
OMG I LOOOOOOVE this!!!! Joe Joe looks AWESOME!!!! Seeing your awesome creation brightens my very sad day!!!! hugs, Heidi Brawley
- September 20, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Danni said...
Very cute, made me smile!
- September 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Digi Darla said...
Well done card. Your coloring is super wow! Can't say enough about it :).
(who would love a visit sometime over at digidarla.com :)
- September 20, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- kris said...
cute cute cute and i LOVE it!! gorgeous coloring on Joe joe!! =D
- September 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- yvon said...
He's so adorable.
Hugs, Yvon
- September 20, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Crafty Loops said...
Oh my word, I think he's so cute. This card is brilliant Amy and I love the poem too. Lee x
- September 20, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Amy I think Joe Joe is so terribly adorable. I can see why you love coloring him like your doggy. :O) I am thinking a little Glee in your life tonight just might get the mojo flowing...... If not at least you'll have had a great hour of new entertainment. Love your card even if you think it is a simple design. lol.. Hope you had a great day. I am still beat, but pushing through. Hugs, Lisa
- September 20, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Kelly Schelske said...
That is so adorable Amy!
- September 20, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- RiNNE said...
Funtabulous card!!! Love the way you colored the furry cutie (maybe a tutorial on how to color fur when you have a chance?). Likin' the Victorian feel of the papers!
- September 20, 2011 at 7:45 PM
- Leanne said...
He's awesome Amy! I love the cat too. U have the best papers and I'm not seeing any lost mojo here. Hope all is well with you. :)
- September 20, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Unknown said...
Awww how fabulous, love the colours and Joe the warewolf is so so cute... errm or should I say spooky he he , love it xxx
- September 21, 2011 at 12:23 AM
- AmyJRockstar said...
I cannot believe you colored that! It's so perfect, I thought for sure that it was printed. Love the awesome little quip as well. You did a great job on this!
Be sure to stop by my blog to enter my 500 followers giveaway!
XO ~ Amy Jo (follower)
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- September 21, 2011 at 1:25 AM
- donna mikasa said...
Love Joe Joe! From his cute expression to his furry tummy and too small shirt! Too cute!
- September 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM
- Marley said...
Oh he is so cute! i love how you colored him! hugs Marley
- September 22, 2011 at 3:30 AM
- Ida said...
What a fun card. Halloween is a favorite holiday of mine and you really captured all the fun and thrill of the holiday with this card.
- September 23, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Zima said...
Great card!
- September 24, 2011 at 10:02 PM
- Juls said...
gorgeous!! Lovely mix of papers!! Hugs Juls
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In 2004, Conservative justice critic Vic Toews criticized then Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler for appointing his former chief of staff, Yves de Montigny, to the federal court.
Toews acknowledged that de Montigny was qualified, reporter Janice Tibbetts wrote, but said it looked bad all the same.
"It's just one more illustration of how who you know gets you on the bench," Toews said.
In opposition, Toews complained bitterly about a federal judicial appointments process that was obviously rigged to put Liberals on the bench.
In 2005 a Canwest News Service analysis found that more than 60 per cent of federal judicial appointees had donated to the party in the five years before their appointment.
Toews wanted the system changed, so that the government would appoint judges from a short list chosen by an independent advisory panel. When he became Stephen Harper's first justice minister in 2006, though, he had a change of heart, describing the process as a "relatively well-working mechanism."
He tweaked it slightly, adding representatives of law enforcement to the advisory panels that review lists of potential judges, in keeping with a government that often emphasizes the order part of law and order.
Before long, the Tories were being accused, rightly, of appointing their own to the bench, just as the Liberals did before them. The Conservatives influence the advisory committees by naming some members. The Manitoba committee includes three members who are said to be close to Toews, including former provincial Tory strategist Marni Larkin, who the Tories also put on the CBC board.
Back in 2008, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that Toews had tired of federal politics and was looking to get appointed to the bench in Manitoba.
Columnist Don Martin wrote then: "The mind reels. If the Conservatives under Harper stood for anything while in Official Opposition with Toews as the justice critic, it was a clean bench kept clear of patronage deadwood."
The blowback seemed to spook the government, and Toews stayed in cabinet, moving first to treasury board and then to public safety.
He was rumoured to be seeking a way out, though, because he was weary of politics, particularly the tricky business of supervising the RCMP. But a second marriage, a young child and an expensive divorce meant that he needed a big paycheque.
I was told that the prime minister had quietly told him he could go to the bench, but there would have to be a six-month cooling off period.
Toews pooh-poohed that kind of talk, chiding journalists for their unseemly speculation.
But then he retired in the summer, and sure enough, nine months later, on Friday afternoon, the government appointed Toews to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.
He will make $288,100 a year, $51,000 more than the $236,900 he made as a cabinet minister, plus his MP pension, which ought to make those enormous alimony payments easier.
As Martin wrote in 2008: "It's difficult to fathom why the Conservatives would risk so much political karma on such a move."
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It's not to say that Toews isn't qualified to sit on the bench. As a former Crown prosecutor and a provincial and federal attorney general he has been wrestling with difficult legal issues for many years, and appears to be intelligent, although he often seemed to enjoy playing dumb in front of the cameras.
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The Toews appointment — less than a year from cabinet table to the bench — seems to set a new standard for blatant patronage, which shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who has watched Harper appoint senators.
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Years ago, when I was writing columns criticizing then-justice minister Anne McLellan for appointing her old schoolmate — Heather Robertson — to the bench in Nova Scotia, I got a call from another judge who had taken Robertson under his wing.
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NEW YORK -- Brett Gardner's left foot was still sore a day after getting hit by Angels reliever Ernesto Frieri in the eighth inning of Saturday's game.
Gardner underwent an X-ray after the Yankees' 4-3 win over Los Angeles, and it came back negative. Before Sunday's game, New York manager Joe Girardi said Gardner told him his foot was feeling better despite the lingering soreness.
The speedy outfielder continued to undergo pregame treatment, and Girardi said that if he came through it OK, he could be available to play at some point in the Yankees' series finale.
But the preference is to avoid using him.
"If you could, you would like to," Girardi said. "I've got to see if he's available after a couple hours."
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A Newport man was convicted of armed robbery this week in Carteret County Superior Court.
A Newport man was convicted of armed robbery this week in Carteret County Superior Court.
Gregory Duane Anderson, 47, pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to a prison term of 55 to 79 months, according to District Attorney Scott Thomas.
On Sept. 20, 2011, Anderson pushed his mother down a flight of stairs when she refused to give him her prescription medication. He took the medication and her pistol and headed for Jones County.
During a stop at Pap�s Grill in Stella, Anderson stole a 40-ounce beer and a glass tube. When the store clerk attempted to stop him, he pulled the pistol on her and fled in his car.
He crossed into Jones County and was pursued by authorities at a high rate of speed and ended up crashing his car into a sheriff�s car on Catfish Lake Road.
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His mother refused to prosecute him for the assault.
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The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense.
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Episode 1 - The Skank Reflex AnalysisRelease Date: 2011-09-22
Penny is worried with how damaged her friendship with the guys will be in the aftermath of her sleeping with Raj while Sheldon becomes the leader of the paintball team.
Episode 2 - The Infestation HypothesisRelease Date: 2011-09-22
A fight between Sheldon and Penny leaves Amy caught in the middle, while Leonard tries to spice up his long-distance relationship with Priya.
Episode 3 - The Pulled Groin ExtrapolationRelease Date: 2011-09-29
Leonard and Amy get to know each other better, while Howard and Bernadette spend the weekend with Mrs. Wolowitz.
Episode 4 - The Wiggly Finger CatalystRelease Date: 2011-10-06
Penny plays Matchmaker for Raj, which results in him finding a girl he is comfortable talking to.
Episode 5 - The Russian Rocket ReactionRelease Date: 2011-10-13
Sheldon and Leonard get invited to a party at Wil Wheaton's house, and Howard gets an out-of-this-world opportunity.
Episode 6 - The Rhinitis RevelationRelease Date: 2011-10-20
Sheldon's mother, Mary Cooper, comes to visit, but Sheldon is annoyed that she also spends time with the rest of the gang, instead of catering to his every demand.
Episode 7 - The Good Guy FluctuationRelease Date: 2011-10-27
A cute comic book artist puts Leonard and Priya's relationship to the test, while Sheldon tries to scare the guys for Halloween.
Episode 8 - The Isolation PermutationRelease Date: 2011-11-03
Amy becomes heartbroken when she discovers that Penny and Bernadette went wedding dress shopping without her.
Episode 9 - The Ornithophobia DiffusionRelease Date: 2011-11-10
Leonard and Penny try hanging out as friends on a 'non-date', but end up purposely ruining each others chances with perspective dates. Meanwhile, Sheldon enlists the help of Bernadette and Amy to overcome his fear of birds.
Episode 10 - The Flaming Spittoon AcquisitionRelease Date: 2011-11-17
When Stuart asks Amy out on a date, Sheldon must confront his feelings and consider where his relationship with Amy is going.
Episode 11 - The Speckerman RecurrenceRelease Date: 2011-12-08
Leonard must face his fears after being contacted by his high school tormentor.
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Sheldon gets in trouble with Amy when he isn't impressed by her recent accomplishment, and Howard must come to grips with Bernadette's dislike of children.
Episode 13 - The Recombination HypothesisRelease Date: 2012-01-19
Leonard, who broke up with Priya, asks Penny out to a spur-of the-moment romantic dinner for two, and the duo contemplates on their relationship.
Episode 14 - The Beta Test InitiationRelease Date: 2012-01-26
Leonard and Penny deal with the idea of starting a relationship again and Raj finally finds a "woman" he can talk to without being drunk, in the form of Siri on his new phone. Meanwhile, Sheldon decides to start a YouTube series entitled "Sheldon Cooper presents Fun with Flags" with the help of Amy.
Episode 15 - The Friendship ContractionRelease Date: 2012-02-02
Sheldon's selfish demands force Leonard to reconsider their friendship. Meanwhile, Wolowitz tries to pick his astronaut nickname.
Episode 16 - The Vacation SolutionRelease Date: 2012-02-09
When Sheldon is forced to take his vacation, he goes to work with Amy in her neurobiology lab.
Episode 17 - The Rothman DisintegrationRelease Date: 2012-02-16
Penny is horrified when Amy gives her a gift: a huge, quite horrible painting of the two of them. With no good way to avoid displaying it, she only hangs it up when Amy is over. When Amy catches her taking the painting down, she's embarrassed and angry until Penny lies and says the gift made Bernadette jealous. When the deranged Professor Rothman is forced to retire, both Sheldon and Kripke vie for his office. President Siebert refuses to resolve the dispute, so Leonard arranges a one-on-one basketball game to decide (since they're both equally bad at sports). Neither one can even make a single basket, so they end up deciding by seeing who can bounce the ball the highest. Sheldon wins; unfortunately, the office is not what he'd hoped for: the thermostat is located in the office of a professor going through the hot flashes of menopause (thus Sheldon is too cold), the mockingbird outside his window is off-key with the annoying windchimes, the perpetually naked Professor Rothman refuses to vacate, and the Geology Department upstairs makes too much noise. Finally, Sheldon gets his head stuck in the wall in an existing hole, after which Leonard takes his picture before he goes for help.
Episode 18 - The Werewolf TransformationRelease Date: 2012-02-23
Sheldon becomes agitated when his regular barber is out sick. Astronaut training causes Howard to reconsider wanting to go into space. Penny beats Leonard in chess, the first time she plays.
Episode 19 - The Weekend VortexRelease Date: 2012-03-08
Sheldon must choose between joining Amy at her aunt's birthday party or playing videogames all weekend with the guys.
Episode 20 - The Transporter MalfunctionRelease Date: 2012-03-29
Penny buys Leonard and Sheldon "Star Trek" collectibles as a thank-you, leading Sheldon to be haunted by Mr. Spock. Meanwhile, Raj decides he has met the "Future Mrs. Koothrappali" after his parents set him up on a date.
Episode 21 - The Hawking ExcitationRelease Date: 2012-04-05
When Wolowitz gets to work with Stephen Hawking, Sheldon is willing to do anything to meet his hero.
Episode 22 - The Stag ConvergenceRelease Date: 2012-04-26
After the guys throw Howard a bachelor party, Bernadette reconsiders marrying him after learning about his sexual history.
Episode 23 - The Launch AccelerationRelease Date: 2012-05-03
When NASA moves up Howard's mission, he must face his fears and Bernadette's dad, thus putting the wedding plans in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Leonard says something surprising to Penny in the bedroom.
Episode 24 - The Countdown ReflectionRelease Date: 2012-05-10
The fifth season ends with Howard and Bernadette deciding to get married before his NASA mission, causing the gang to scurry into overdrive in an effort to stage the wedding. NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has a cameo as himself.


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The QualiGlobe Experience of Production EfficiencyHolm Larsen, Michael; Lynggard, Hans Jørgen B. (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of using product models to support product lifecycle activities with particular focus on the production phase. The motivation of the research is that products are produced more costly and with longer lead-time than necessary. The paper provides a review of product modelling technologies and approaches, and the overall architecture for the Product State Model (PSM) Environment as a basis for quality monitoring. Especially, the paper focuses on the circumstances prevailing in a one-of-a-kind manufacturing environment like the shipbuilding industry, where product modelling technologies already have proved their worth in the design and engineering phases of shipbuilding and in the operation phase. However, the handling of product information on the shop floor is not yet equally developed. The paper reports from the Brite-Euram project (No. BE97-4510) QualiGlobe focusing on the development activities of the PSM architecture. An example discusses how to handle product related information on the shop floor in a manufacturing company and focuses on how dynamically updated product data can improve control of production activities. This prototype example of welding a joint between two steel plates serves as proof of concept for the PSM architecture. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6517
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Enterprise Achitecture versus Total Cost of OwnershipHolm Larsen, Michael; Holck, Jesper; Kühn Pedersen, Mogens (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract: The paper presents an explorative study of Open Source Software (OSS) focusing on the managerial decisions for acquisition of OSS. Based on three case studies we argue that whereas small organizations often may chose adoption of OSS expecting significant cost savings, a major barrier for larger organizations' adoption of OSS lies in the organizations' consolidation of the enterprise architectures, in addition to that OSS will not be adopted before satisfactory delivery and procurement models for OSS are established. Keywords: Open Source Software, OSS, Enterprise Architecture, Total Cost of Ownership, Delivery and Procurement Model. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6490
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the case of decision support in health care administrationKühn Pedersen, Mogens; Holm Larsen, Michael (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6458
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Holck, Jesper; Holm Larsen, Michael; Kühn Pedersen, Mogens (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The main research interest in Open Source Software (OSS) has been in answering the questions of why individuals and organizations without economic compensation contribute to OSS projects and how these projects are organized. In this paper we instead focus on managerial decisions for acquisition of OSS and discuss potential barriers for widespread use of OSS. Based on existing literature and a small case study, we develop and discuss the hypothesis that a major barrier may be the "customer" organizations' uncertainty and unfamiliarity with the relationships with OSS "vendors". To develop viable models for these relationships is an important challenge, which we will deal with in a research project, of which this paper should be seen as a first step. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6511
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Impact Of It In The Danish Banking Industry, With Specific Illustrations From The Nordea Group And Lån & Spar BankBjørn-Andersen, Niels; Viborg Andersen, Kim; Holm Larsen, Michael; Schou, Peter (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Danish banks have traditionally been in the absolute forefront globally as regards the automation and introduction of IT since the mid 60'ies. But when the e-commerce opportunities emerged in the late 90'ies, the majority of the Danish banks resisted the development. They saw no reason to be the prime movers in cannibalising their own key competitive advantage, the 2.500+ retail-outlets (branches) placed on all the best locations on corners of the shopping streets1. However, once pure Internet banks were introduced in 1998 - 2000, all major banks (and the computing centres servicing the smaller banks) launched massive initiatives to bring the brick-and-mortar banks back into the driver seat using Internet banking. At the end of 2003 more than 30% of all Danish bank customers are using Internet. This development in the banking industry is illustrated using two cases. The first is one of the most ambitious attempts at creating a Nordic based large international financial service company, capable of spearheading the transition to the digital economy - the case of Nordea. This bank is in the midst of various transformation processes across the organisation due to several years of multiple cross boarder mergers and acquisitions, new composition of the group executive management, increasing thrives towards automation of business processes to reduce costs, and different innovations involving a change of the roles of value network partners. The other case is Lån & Spar Bank, which is one of the smaller Danish banks, who have its basic IT services done at a joint computing centre owned with many other smaller banks, but have its own IT development for strategic purposed done in-house in close collaboration with the business units. This bank has been in the forefornt in adopting new IT-solutions. This report consists of an analysis of the background for the development of the Danish banking sectors, the key processes in the Danish banking industry, the environmental and policy actors influencing the development, the e-commerce readiness in the Danish banking sector, the diffusion of e-commerce, and finally the impact on efficiency, industry structure and competition. The main results are that there are more Danish financial institutions having Internet technologies and Internet applications than in the other nine countries in the GEC survey. Furthermore, we suspect that they have had it for a longer period on average than found elsewhere in the sample. However, when we compare the figures in the GEC-survey on the ' Use of Internet for the different business processes', and 'On-line support', the number of Danish financial institutions having Internet applications is not higher than in the other countries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6483
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Beyond the Business CaseHolck, Jesper; Kühn Pedersen, Mogens; Holm Larsen, Michael (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Lately we have seen a growing interest from both public and private organisations to adopt Open Source Software (OSS), not only for a few, specific applications but also on a more general level throughout the organisation. As a consequence, the organisations' decisions on adoption of OSS are becoming increasingly more important and complex. We present three perspectives organisations can employ in their decisions: seeing OSS acquisition as a business case, as COTS acquisition, and as architectural change within a governance framework. We present case studies of decisions on OSS adoption, and categorise the decision criteria we have found. Our results indicate that for large-scale adoption of OSS, focus will be on architectural considerations: enterprise-wide architectures will at first be a barrier, but in the long term OSS's support of open standards can be a major enabler for OSS adoption. In contrast, in smaller organisations and in small-scale adoption of OSS, the cheap price of OSS is a major enabler, as it provides a good opportunity for experiments and short-term economic benefits. For small organisations these experiments can lead to development of a common IT-architecture, and in larger organisations OSS can be adopted in niche-areas, without significantly violating an existing IT-architecture. Keywords: open source, COTS, IT architecture, governance URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6471
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Holm Larsen, Michael; Klischewski, Ralf (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6492
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Kühn Pedersen, Mogens; Holm Larsen, Michael (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In globalizing competitive markets knowledge exchange between business organizations requires incentive mechanisms to ensure tactical purposes while strategic purposes are subject to joint organization and other forms of contractual obligations. Where property of knowledge (e.g. patents and copyrights) and contractbased knowledge exchange do not obtain network effectiveness because of prohibitive transaction costs in reducing uncertainty, we suggest a robust model for peer produced knowledge within a distributed setting. The peer produced knowledge exchange model relies upon a double loop knowledge conversion with symmetric incentives in a network since the production of actor specific knowledge makes any knowledge appropriation by use of property rights by the actors irrelevant. Without property rights in knowledge the actor network generates opportunity for incentive symmetry over a period of time. The model merges specific knowledge with knowledge from other actors into a decision support system specific for each actor in the network in recognition of actor role differences. The article suggests a set of 9 static and 5 dynamic propositions for the model to maintain symmetric incentives between different actor networks. The model is proposed for business networks. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6487
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Abstract: As deals are becoming more complex, and as technology, and the people supporting it, are becoming key drivers of merger and acquisition processes, planning of information and communication technologies in early stages of the integration process is vital to the realization of benefits of an Merger & Acquisition process. This statement is substantiated through review of literature from academics as well as practitioners, and case exemplifications of the financial service organization, the Nordea Group. Keywords: ICT Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Nordea Group. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6446
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Choreography by: Liam Scarlett
Music by: Francis Poulenc
Set to an arresting Poulenc organ concerto, Liam Scarlett's first work for NYCB oscillates between touching pas de deux and sweeping ensemble sections — a piece that is at turns sensual and somber.
Liam Scarlett's first work for New York City Ballet is set to Francis Poulenc's organ concerto. Scarlett, who is artist in residence at The Royal Ballet, where he was a former first artist, employs three principal couples and a male soloist, plus a corps de ballet of 10 dancers, in Acheron, a title of Greek origin. The ballet features costumes designed by Scarlett together with the NYCB Costume Shop and lighting designed by Mark Stanley.


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Hearing for accused Colo. shooter to begin Monday
- Holmes faces 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges
- Preliminary hearing on evidence against Holmes to begin Monday
- Relatives of victims reject invitation to attend theater's reopening
CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Prosecutors next week will begin laying out their case against James Holmes, the University of Colorado graduate school dropout accused of fatally shooting 12 people this summer during a crowded midnight movie premiere in Aurora.
Holmes faces 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges in connection with the July 20 shootings at The Dark Knight Rises premiere that also wounded 58 people.
During a short court hearing Wednesday morning, prosecutors and Holmes' defense attorneys said they are ready to proceed with a preliminary hearing on the evidence against Holmes. The hearing, scheduled to begin Monday, is expected to last a week.
At that hearing, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester will decide whether there's enough evidence to allow the case against Holmes to proceed. The hearing will be the public's first opportunity to hear the prosecution's evidence -- photos, videos and witness testimony-- and how defense attorneys intended to counter it.
Word that the preliminary hearing would begin came as relatives of nine of the 12 theatergoers killed said they had rejected an invitation to attend the Jan. 17 reopening of the movie theater. In a letter to theater owner Cinemark, victims' family members said the company had not reached out to offer condolences and said the company refused to meet with them without lawyers present.
The families said they were asked to attend an "evening of remembrance" followed by a movie when the Aurora theater reopens on Jan. 17 in invitations sent two days after Christmas. Gov. John Hickenlooper is among those planning to attend.
The families of some victims have sued Cinemark. The father of the youngest person killed in the shooting, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, is among them. He didn't sign the letter - which called Cinemark's invitation "disgusting," but the girl's grandparents did.
Holmes' attorneys say he is mentally ill, raising the possibility of an insanity defense. Holmes attended Wednesday's hearing but did not speak with anyone.
Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will seek the death penalty. A decision on that is expected later this year.
Holmes was enrolled in a Ph.D. neuroscience program at the university. He allegedly began stockpiling firearms and ammunition while taking classes in the spring.
In June, he made threats to a professor and on June 10 filed withdrawal papers after failing a year-end exam, prosecutors said. The next day he saw his school psychiatrist, who tried to report him to a campus security committee, according to Holmes' lawyers.
Hughes also reports for The Coloradoan in Fort Collins, Colo. Contributing: Associated Press, Gary Strauss


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Machine and Plant Engineering
Retrofitting a major process plant for aluminium production
The Task
Achieving a more environmentally friendly aluminum production with increased production capacity. All mechanical switches are to be monitored for lead breakage and several hundred valves in the exhaust gas purification system are to be automated. Although there is a great number of widely distributed inductive and optical sensors, cable trees and junction boxes are to be avoided. The system is to be realized in several steps and will contain an integrated safety concept.
The Implementation
During the 3-year project phase of this major plant, the automation technology was adapted to AS-Interface in 3 steps. The exhaust gas systems and the transport systems for the electrodes as well as the safety systems (including crane systems) are controlled via AS-Interface. The overall length of the cable network with several masters and repeaters amounts to approximately 3 kilometers.
Customers´ Benefit
Gradual changeover to new automation technology. Low capital expenditure and simple integration of the safety systems. Hardly any production interruption during the simple and quick changeover to AS-Interface.


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Now, we CAN tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street.
Just take the 1 train to Lincoln Center and walk down to 64th Street.
Starting Tuesday that's where you'll find the famous street sign that has unofficially been a symbol of New York for decades.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
In honor of the show's 40th anniversary, New York City has proclaimed Nov. 10, "Sesame Street Day," and will temporarily name a piece of Columbus Ave. at 64th Street in the show's honor.
Charles Rosen, the show's designer created the brownstoney, urban set based on several blocks on the Upper West Side, Harlem and the Bronx. But despite the inspiration culled from New York's landscape, the show was not intended to be New York based.
A possible name for the show, "123 Avenue B" was actually scrapped for being too New York-centric, New York Magazine reported.
First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on the fortieth anniversary show, to talk about eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
Brooklynites can celebrate the kid's program at the Brooklyn Public Library, which will be hosting a three-month-long exhibition of Sesame Street memorabilia.


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None of these pictures were taken by me. I was too busy enjoying the JUNGLE MUSIC and the CANDY COLORS.
If you've ever been to the Detroit Metro Airport, you already know about the Psychedelic Party Tunnel. If you haven't, the only thing you need to know is that the Psychedelic Party Tunnel is THE GREATEST TUNNEL OF ALL TIME.
Seven hundred feet of strange music synchronized to sweeping color. Traveling on its moving walkways is something akin to accepting a boat ride from Willy Wonka.
It is more than enough to distract oneself from that whole Nigerian terrorist thing.
So here I am. In Detroit. With an eight hour layover. Doo dee doo.
Oh, by the way?
I'm renting a (teeny tiny) apartment on the Île Saint-Louis, one of two natural islands in the center of Paris. (The other is the Île de la Cité, home of my favorite Famous French Thing, Notre-Dame). Here's a description from About.com, because I'm too lazy to think of a better one:
"This small island is like an oasis from the rush of the city. It's almost as if someone dropped a small French village into the center of Paris, as it features markets, bakeries, fromageries and cafés. While much of Paris has modernized over the years, the ile remains romantically frozen in the 17th century."
Charming, non?
And I'll be living there for the ENTIRE MONTH of January.
Me. In Paris! Staying here:
After spending the last few years reading book after book on the subject, it's difficult to believe I'll actually BE there. Tomorrow. I'll walk where my characters walk, eat what they eat, see what they see.
I'm choking up — in this very public airport — just thinking about it.
My sister has graciously offered to accompany me the first week. This is because I am, in short, a Giant Weenie. And my sister is brave. So when I'm too terrified to leave the apartment in fear of offending someone with my heinous American ways (even when I know better than to think that!), my sister will kick my butt out the door. And when I'm too scared to say something in fear of butchering their beautiful language, my sister can botch the words for me. Ha!*
[NOTE TO MY SISTER: You did agree to this, right? Right??]
The second week, I'll be solo. Which will be . . . good for me. And the third and fourth weeks, my husband will be there.
I'm going to Paris.
Weird, huh? I mean, it's not weird. It's perfectly natural. People go to Paris all the time. But . . . it still feels weird. France means something different to me. The only thing I can compare it to is if C.S. Lewis got to vacation in Narnia. Even though Paris is a real, tangible place — one I've even been to, albeit years ago — it doesn't feel that way anymore. I've created something there. I have inserted false memories into its monuments, restaurants, and parks.
And I'm about to see those places.
If all goes according to plan, I'll be blogging and tweeting my adventures. Expect tales of pastries, cemeteries, and Famous Stuff! I will try my best to be brave for you.** Please send happy, warm, fuzzy thoughts my way.***
And HAPPY NEW YEAR! Feel free to leave bogus resolutions in my comments.
* The handful of people who have already read Anna will recognize something in this paragraph. Yeah. Those first few chapters? The similarities are most certainly intentional.
** Seriously, you guys. I am really nervous. Did you know they speak FRENCH in France? Did you know that I do NOT speak French?
*** I mean, it's awesome, right? The going to France thing? So why can't I breathe? Should I take another ride in the Psychedelic Party Tunnel? When is my sister getting here?? WHEN DOES SHE ARRIVE???


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Bigearthracing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 170 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
Big Earth Racing
We are a triathlon promotion company. Big Earth Racing's primary goal is to produce memorable racing events with quality venues, courses, volunteers, and staff. As amateur triathletes, we strive to create an event that we would like to do ourselves. We also make every effort to reduce our company's environmental impact and carbon footprint by promoting sustainable products, companies, and practices at every event.
We want a logo that reflects the strength and challenge of our races and the environmentally related focus of our team.
Our main target audience is triathlon participants and corporate sponsors (that we want to attract to provide support to our races through both cash and product). We need our logo to be able to be presented to corporate sponsors and convey a professional race firm.
Race particpants are both men and women who range in age mainly from mid 20's to early fifties, but also span college to 60's and 70's - racers also span economic lines, but the majority are middle to upper middle class. In addition our logo will be seen by volunteers, staff, vendors and family and friends of the particpants.
Our logo will be used on our website, business cards, t-shirt front pockets, and race day banners so it needs to fit those spaces and we need to be able to send it to printers in a format that will let them resize it. We will have separate race themes / logos for shirts and promotional posters for example, but our business logo will be present on them.
1. First and foremost we want our name to be distinctive but clearly legible. 2. We are leaning toward having the "big" and "earth" in blockier lettering (ICBM ss-25 is an example) with "racing" thinner or slanted to express speed. We have also liked seeing the word big be smaller and on top of the larger sized word earth, but this is not mandatory.
3. We would very much like to have the stick figure or minimalized icons for swimmers, runners, bikers in the design so it is clear we are triathlons as our name is more generic (racing could be anything) - these can be smaller.
4. We are interested in having a larger picture or icon as part of the design, but this is not mandatory. Maybe something earth / eco related like a leaf or sunrise? - we need creative help here big time, but no birds and we have yet to see a goodglobe.
5. Perhaps the words big and earth could have a texture or mixed color. We are interested mainly in blue and or green, black and white as main colors, but are open to surprises (avoid feminine colors please)
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InstForPolicyStudies necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
New Economy Working Group
NEWGroup envisions a healthy planetary system of cooperative, equitable, locally rooted, rule-based market economies that:
-Provide everyone the opportunity for a healthy, dignified and fulfilling life,
-Restore and maintain the vitality of Earth's natural systems,
-Grow the relationships of strong caring communities,
-Encourage economic cooperation framed by rules for enterprises and the market that reflect the public interest and democratically determined priorities,
-Allocate resources equitably to socially and environmentally beneficial uses, and
-Support the democratic ideal of one-person, one-vote citizen sovereignty.
Social justice organizations and interested individuals.
We need 10 icons/symbols for navigation similar in style to the frontpage navigation icons found on http://www.endpoverty2015.org/ .
The icons will link to our "visions" for a new economy. Listed below are the particular visions along with some suggested (but not necessarily required) icon depictions. If you have a better icon idea we'd love to see it!
* New Economy Story - light bulb
* Living Wealth Indicators -
* Real Wealth Money System - money
* Shared Prosperity - stick figures holding hands
* Living Enterprise - a plant
* Global Rules -
* Local/Living Economies
* Peace Economy - peace sign
* Real Democracy - vote box
* Popular Education - book or something that conveys social learning
We need each of the symbols/icons to be around 100px in height and width.
The symbols/icons should be essentially white with a dark blue background of #010088 to match our site theme.
Deliverables in PSD format preferable.


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Weekend "Jinx" DREAM9
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Weekend officially formed in 2009 around the nucleus of long-time friends Shaun Durkan (vocalist/bassist/guitarist) and Kevin Johnson (guitarist), along with drummer Taylor Valentino. The trio recorded the album Sports throughout 2009 with long-time friend and producer/engineer Monte Vallier. The textured and challenging post-punk squall of Sports made the band an instant sensation, with great reviews coming from Pitchfork, NME, Vice and more.
Throughout the next two years, the band found itself touring internationally with the Kills (Europe) and Wire (UK and US) and in Japan in support of the 2011's Red EP, which marked a sonic departure from the band's initial signature addiction to noise over clarity. Red (which was also produced by Monte Vallier and featured then-new and current drummer Abe Pedroza) saw the band embrace sweeter melodies that encouraged Shaun to display his vocal abilities free from any distortion overlap.
The band spent most of 2012 writing, recording, and painstakingly mixing the 10 songs that comprise Jinx, once again with Monte Vallier at Ruminator. During this time, Weekend relocated cross-country to the already heavily saturated Brooklyn music scene. The trio had collectively grown weary of the trappings of home. Durkan states, "Feeling at home is evidence of stagnation and so I'm happy to say New York still feels alien to me." Despite the drastic change of scenery, he maintains "Geographically-based music scenes are for the most part defunct due to the internet but I don't think we'll ever be part of any scene. We stand on our own."
When asked to describe the album in three adjectives, Durkan stated: "Volatile. Cathartic. Bittersweet. The record is a collage of inspiration and ideas from each member of the band. Shards of experiences, images, smells, sounds molded into something we can collectively call ours." The album visually represents the music as well, through personal possessions of each band member that "had singular and emotional connections to and democratize it through a physical process. Painting the objects black adds a new, collective ownership over the previous personal meaning. [There is] the coalescence of our individual art to make something new, stark, and powerful."
That stark black visual sheen complements the songs that embody Jinx. Memories and experiences have been reinterpreted and recalled into existence from haunting, beautiful places. Each song on the album charges through a polarizing emotion through an ebb and flow of sounds both ominous and soothing. Lastly, the LP's presumably superstitious title compliments this body of work thematically. Shaun recalls his father's stage name, "Jinks," which played a ghostly role in the creation of this album. That name, like all the inspirations, emotions and experiences has returned to haunt the band – this time delivered with a lustrous and magnificent black sheen.


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Global Sports Supplements Market: Overview
Sports supplements are dietary products designed to meet nutritional needs of a sports person. Nutritional ingredients used in these sports supplements are proteins, vitamins, amino acids, minerals, and others. However, due to increasing life-taking diseases, people move towards healthy lifestyle through fitness clubs and healthy diets. These sports supplements provide a nutritional diet to enhance the overall performance of the body. The major function of this product is to provide physical strength in sports.
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Many health and fitness clubs are the major driving factors of the global sports supplements market. The increasing acceptance of supplements in order to maintain healthy physic is driving the demand sports supplements of around the world. The market is propelled by increasing income of people and spending power. Moreover, people getting more conscious about their health will also impact the market in the coming years. Rising consumer health awareness is also expected to boost the global sports supplements market. In addition, people are opting for yoga, healthy food, and gym to lead a healthy lifestyle. Growing demand for dietary and health supplements will foster the growth of the global sports supplements market. Further, product promotions of the sports supplements by fitness shows will also impact the growth in a positive way. However, low-quality products and high cost are anticipated to hamper the growth of the global market in future. Also, the presence of local brands and lack of proper regulations may restrain the market growth.
Global Sports Supplements Market: Key Segments
The global sports supplements market is segmented on the basis of distribution channel as fitness clubs, drug stores, supermarkets, online, health food stores, and pharmacies. Out of which, food stores segment accounted for highest market globally. Also, the online segment is anticipated to show significant growth in the market in the near future. Based on the product, the global market is segmented as protein and non-protein products. The protein products segment is the leading segment in the global market and is expected to continue this trend in future.
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North America holds the largest market share in the global sports supplements market. The U.S. and Europe also contributed majorly to the overall growth of the market for sports supplement products owing to economic stability. Asia Pacific is expected to be the emerging market for the sports supplements.
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Global Sports Supplements Market: Companies Involved
Some of the key players dominating the global sports supplements market include Plethico Pharmaceuticals Limited, Glanbia Plc., Universal Nutrition, GNC Holdings, Inc., and NBTY. Other key players in the global market are Creative Edge Nutrition, Scitec Nutrition, MaxiNutrition, Enervit S.p.A., and Herbalife Ltd.
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- North America
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Asia Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- Latin America
- Brazil
- The Middle East and Africa
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Bumgarner struggles in loss
AP Sports Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) – One of the last decisions San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy has to make is his starting rotation for the playoffs.
Madison Bumgarner probably will be in the rotation, despite having some struggles since the end of August.
Bumgarner lost 7-3 to San Diego on Saturday night, when Chase Headley hit his 30th home run and had three RBIs to tie Milwaukee's Ryan Braun for the NL lead with 112.
Bumgarner said he struggled with his mechanics.
"We definitely have some time to work on it," he said. "I'm not worried about anything. I have to be able to make pitches when it counts."
He said his confidence is good. "I'm not worried," he said.
"Like anybody, he's gone through a little rut here. He pitched well last start but today he was really fighting himself out there," said Bochy, whose Giants clinched the NL West title a week ago with an 8-4 home victory over San Diego.
Bumgarner (16-11) allowed five runs, four earned, and four hits in four innings. He struck out four and walked two. Bumgarner had won his last four decisions against San Diego, including going 3-0 with a 3.08 ERA in four previous starts against the Padres this season.
"The problem may be I'm thinking about it instead of just going out there and throwing it," Bumgarner said.
San Francisco's Buster Posey, who started at catcher a night after being hit in the throat with a wild pitch, went 2 for 2 with a to raise his average to .337 and increase his lead in the NL batting race over Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen. McCutcheon went 1 for 5 to drop to .329. Suspended outfielder Melky Cabrera of the Giants has a .346 mark but won't qualify for the batting crown at his own request after a positive drug test.
Headley hit a two-run homer off Madison Bumgarner in the third to give the Padres a 4-3 lead. It's San Diego's first 30-homer season since Adrian Gonzalez had 31 in 2010, and the 17th time it's been done in team history. Headley also had an RBI grounder in the first and scored three runs.
The Padres scored as many runs Saturday night as they did in being outscored 19-7 during a three-game losing streak. Chris Denorfia had three hits and scored twice.
San Francisco's Hunter Pence hit a three-run homer off Eric Stults in the first, his 23rd. Pablo Sandoval was aboard on a walk and Posey on a single, both with two outs. Center fielder Cameron Maybin then made a spectacular leaping catch to rob Xavier Nady of a home run.
San Diego got two runs back in the bottom of the first on Headley's RBI grounder and Yasmani Grandal's sacrifice fly.
Jesus Guzman and Grandal each drove in two runs for the Padres. Guzman hit a solo homer with two outs in the third and an RBI double in the fifth. Grandal hit an RBI single in the fifth.
Stults (8-3) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings, struck out five and walked three.
San Francisco's Marco Scutaro singled in the fifth to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 17 games, the longest active streak in the majors.
NOTES: Posey was replaced by Eli Whiteside starting the bottom of the sixth. Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Posey was sore and his voice was raspy after being shaken up Friday night when a pitch from Ryan Vogelsong bounced in the dirt, ricocheted up and hit right underneath his hockey-style catcher's mask. Bochy said Posey is scheduled to have Sunday off, as are a number of other players. … The series concludes Sunday when Tim Lincecum (10-15, 5.15) is scheduled to start opposite San Diego's Edinson Volquez (11-11, 4.13). Lincecum is coming off a 7-2 loss to Arizona in which he tied his season high by allowing seven earned runs.


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Flying time: 66 seconds
Heads up, beachcombers! Scotland has two quirky superlatives related to flying: the only commercial airport on a beach and the world's shortest scheduled flight.
Crunching and crackling, the all-terrain vehicle crosses the beach, its wheels leaving tracks and a trail of crushed shells in the wet sand. On the far side of the dunes, a seemingly South Seas vista opens up, complete with turquoise waters and a snow-white beach. Small wonder that the Scottish island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides is jokingly referred to as "Barrabados." On sunny days, it indeed beckons with close to Caribbean charm – if it weren't for the temperature. "Even 18 degrees is a warm day for us here," says Joe Gillies, who is wrapped in a thick, high-visibility parka. The workday begins at 9 a.m. for this Barrachian, as the people of Barra call themselves, with a bizarre tour of inspection of a most unusual airport. "Often I have to remove seaweed or trash lying on the beach. That could endanger aircraft, otherwise."
Gillies officially works as a fireman, but at Barra Airport, where he has been since 1999, he does a little bit of everything, including helping out in the tower and in the tiny terminal. "First we put the windsocks on to make people aware that the airport is active," he explains. Barra Airport opened in 1936, and it's the only airport of its kind. It has three officially designated runways, the longest of which is roughly 850 meters long, but all you actually see in front of the terminal building on the bay of Tràigh Mhòr (Big Beach) is an expanse of hard-packed sand with poles marking either end. Barra can only operate at low tide and is the only commercial airport in the world to be situated on a beach. "These flights are the lifeline for the 1200 or so people on the island, and tourists come from all over the world to see this," says Gillies proudly.
I often see orcas from the cockpit, sometimes even breaching
The first of two daily flights will be arriving soon. Coming from Glasgow, it takes the twin-engine Twin Otter about an hour to reach the beach. "The strobe goes on when the aircraft is ten miles out to let walkers and cockle pickers on the beach know that a landing is imminent," explains Gillies. Very often, he or a colleague still has to drive out and disperse onlookers who have strayed too close to the runway. Just before the first landing, a coach arrives and a group of visitors alights to crowd the fence, cameras in hand.
They are eager to see the Twin Otter come in, a Canadian-made propeller plane sporting the Scots colors, blue and white. Construction of this workhorse of the air was resumed about ten years ago. The pilot tilts the plane's nose downward and starts banking to the left. Weight restrictions for the flight to Barra mean that Cochrane may only take 13 people in the 18-seater, since the fuel would not be sufficient for the return flight otherwise. He is assisted by the Belgian copilot Laura Roper, whose hair is tied back in a blond ponytail. One of only two women among the 13 island pilots, she has been flying to Barra up to five times a week since 2016. With her left hand on the thrust levers, she slowly throttles the power of the two Pratt & Whitney engines, and the drone of the propellers diminishes.
Looking down, first-time passengers on this route could easily become anxious: Where is the runway? The Twin Otter continues its descent over the seemingly endless expanse of sand. On the right, the terminal building whooshes past beneath the wings, but all you see out of the cockpit window (there's no door between the cabin and the cockpit) are pools of water and tidal flats. Then the unique event that draws people all the way from Australia occurs: A scheduled flight lands on a beach.
With a little hop, the Twin Otter touches down. Even in the cabin, you can feel the plane shudder as it rolls over the sandy riffles created by the water. It's low tide, but still there's water on the "runway." The water sprays waist-high from both wheels of the main landing gear, but the aircraft plows right through it like an off-road vehicle and quickly brakes. Then the pilots bring the plane to a full stop on the dry sand beside the terminal. Flight LM451 from Glasgow has arrived right on time.
Joe Gillies drives up to the plane. Now working as a baggage handler, he unloads the passengers' luggage. The pilots don't have much time on the ground. Roper gets herself a soft drink and potato chips from the airport café. Then it's off back to Glasgow. Not long afterwards, the second flight of the day arrives. Then it's time for a little break during which the three runways disappear – as they always do – beneath the rising tide. Joe Gillies still has work to do, however. "We are always busy and no day is the same," says the all-rounder, laughing.
Nearly 350 kilometers away to the northeast: another group of islands, just as remote. "I often see orcas from the cockpit, sometimes even breaching," says Colin McAllister enthusiastically. He is one of only three Loganair pilots who regularly flies to six of about 20 inhabited Orkney islands from Kirkwall, the capital of the Orkney archipelago, which is located about an hour's flight north of Glasgow. McAllister loves his job: "I don't want to be locked away in a big jet," he says, "I want to fly with a smile every day, see the pleasure or fear in my passenger's faces." McAllister takes off and lands 10 times a day. Each flight is a really short haul taking no longer than 15 minutes. In his small twin-engine Britten Norman Islander, he flies mostly Orkney islanders back and forth.
For people here, island hopping is like taking the bus, and it's much faster than the ferry. Many commuters know the pilots so well they consider them good acquaintances. Visitors come to the Orkneys from far and wide, but it's not primarily to see these islands. They come to take the scheduled hop between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray that has been on the flight timetable since September 1967. The distance between the "terminals" on each island is a good 3000 meters, and the flying distance between them, roughly 2700. For comparison's sake, this is about the length of Frankfurt Airport's shortest runway. In 1974, the chief pilot at the time came up with the idea of promoting the route as an attraction and entering "the world's shortest scheduled flight" in the Guiness Book of World Records. Passengers even receive a certificate for the flight. "With so much interest from tourists it's often not easy for locals to secure a seat," Colin McAllister explains.
As you wait for your flight, you can see the plane approaching from afar. Today, flight LM348 from Kirkwall lands on the smaller island of Papa Westray (PPW) first. After a little hands-on help from a ground crewman (actually a farmer), McAllister turns the aircraft's nose into the wind, accelerates and lifts off. Green grass, boulders and a short stretch of water rush past beneath the belly of the plane before the captain lands on Westray (WRY), calling out proudly: "66 seconds." After about two minutes, his passengers can disembark. The record crossing on this route is actually 53 seconds, but pilot and passengers beam broadly nevertheless.
Getting there
In February, Lufthansa flies daily from Frankfurt (FRA) and up to five times weekly from Munich (MUC) to Glasglow (GLA). From there, there are two daily Loganair connections to Barra (BRR) – or via Kirkwall (KOI) to Westray (WRY) and Papa Westray (PPW). Use the app to calculate your miles: miles-and-more.com/app


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Red Rosemary Vinegar
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Roasted Asparagus
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How Corporate Sovereignty Threatens Democracy
from the at-most dept
As people have begun to learn about corporate sovereignty through plans to include it in TAFTA/TTIP, the European Commission has been trying to scotch the idea that it might allow corporations to dictate policies to nations. Here, for example, is a comment in the Commission's main TTIP FAQ, which tries to answer the question "Why is the EU including Investor to State Dispute Settlement in the TTIP?":
Including measures to protect investors does not prevent governments from passing laws, nor does it lead to laws being repealed. At most, it can lead to compensation being paid.
Those are all true statements in theory, but that's probably not much comfort to Romania, which has been discovering the harsh reality in the long-running discussions over whether to allow a Canadian company to create a huge open-cast gold and silver mine in the country. Here's what happened last year:
Gabriel Resources Ltd. (GBU), backed by billionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson, threatened to seek as much as $4 billion of damages should Romanian lawmakers vote to oppose its gold mine project in the country.
As the European Commission notes, the existence of a bilateral investment treaty with Canada that includes a dispute settlement mechanism did not, in itself, stop the Romanian politicians from blocking the gold mine project in the parliamentary vote, which took place in December 2013. So everything's fine, right? Democracy prevailed, and the people were heard. After all, "at most", as the FAQ helpfully reminds us, Romania will have to pay $4 billion damages at some point.
"We have a very, very robust case, and we believe we have claims up to $4 billion that we can send to the Romanian state," Gabriel Resources Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Henry said today in a telephone interview. "We will go ahead and do that if the vote is against."
Except that, for a country with a GDP of less than $200 billion in 2013, this represents 2% of the country's entire economic production. That seems an incredibly high price to pay for the exercise of basic democracy. The danger is that faced with the threat of such enormous fines, other parliaments will lack the courage shown by Romanian's politicians, and choose to ignore the will of their people by meekly acquiescing to corporate demands.
Does GBU deserve some compensation if a project is cancelled by the local government because of widespread public concerns about its safety? Perhaps -- although business always involves some risk, and foreign investment is no different. If a company is really worried about that aspect, it can take out insurance -- from the World Bank, for example. Does GBU deserve to be awarded 2% of a country's GDP, paid for by the citizens of a land struggling to raise its living standards? That hardly seems fair. And yet it's precisely what ISDS could allow, because the arbitration panel that decides such corporate sovereignty cases is unconstrained in what it can award, and not at all concerned with what the knock-on effects might be.
But the politicians making up the European Commission should be, since they are supposed to represent the 500 million European citizens that pay their salaries. The fact that they are pushing as hard as they can for ISDS in TAFTA/TTIP shows which side they are really on, and that they are quite happy to put corporations before nations, and profits before people.
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Filed Under: canada, corporate sovereignty, democracy, romania, tafta, tpp, trade agreements, ttip
Companies: gabriel resources ltd., gbu


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What happened next was truly astounding. Analysts began questioning whether Cutler had taken himself out, Twitter exploded with Cutler-induced vitriol, and current players quickly joined the lynch mob. The crazy thing? Nobody knew the severity of Cutler's injury. Almost everyone in the media just assumed that it wasn't that bad, and that Cutler must have quit on his team.
Why were so many media members so willing to ignore the facts and assume Cutler wasn't hurt that badly? Because it fit the narrative that most media members wanted. Jay Cutler has never been a friend to the media. His personality isn't one that blooms in front of the cameras, and the media take offense to that. All you have to do is read Rick Reilly's piece on Cutler to understand the relationship. In it, Reilly takes a shot at Cutler for not wanting to be interviewed by a reporter about the charity work he had done with a children's hospital. Good point, Rick. It's not what you do, it's whether you get in front of a camera and talk about it. They hate that he has the nerve to not make them part of his everyday life, and when the time came, they made him pay for it. Sure, Cutler may rub many people the wrong way, fans included, but nobody deserves the kind of character assassination that went on Sunday afternoon.
But Jay Cutler has a track record of being soft, right? Not even close. Cutler faces massive hurdles that no other QB in the NFL faces. He's a Type 1 diabetic playing QB in the NFL, and that in itself is enough to prove his toughness. Just one of the side effects of diabetes is that cortisone shots aren't a viable option due to their tendency to cause adverse blood sugar reactions. Anyone familiar with the world of professional sports knows that cortisone shots have long been the remedy of choice for players in pain. Even pain killers can be a dicey subject with a diabetic. Yet, Cutler has overcome his disease and in the process, become an inspiration to kids with diabetes throughout the country.
Even without the aid of cortisone shots and some pain medications, Jay Cutler has missed exactly one game in his career. He played behind one of the worst O-Lines in football this year while leading the league in sacks taken, and his only missed game was the result of the NFL's new concussions policy. Defensive players hammered him over and over, but Cutler kept getting back up. Ask Bears fans about him and many will admit that they're surprised he made it this far without a major injury. That's how bad things were this year, but, outside of the concussion, Cutler was on the field competing every single Sunday. People should feel free to criticize Cutler's performance on the field or even his demeanor, but there should never be any questioning of his toughness.
Peyton Manning. Tom Brady. Brett Favre. All of these QBs would have gotten the benefit of the doubt had they been on the sideline with a knee injury on Sunday. Those are the perks that go along with being a media darling. Whereas the guy who purposefully makes himself a media outcast gets unfair speculation that he quit on his team. Once again, Jason Whitlock (Is it a coincidence this article came out today?) lead the way with his absurdity. Whitlock not only bashed Cutler for being soft, but he also made the assertion on Twitter that it wouldn't matter whether Cutler's injury turned out to be serious. Why wouldn't that matter you ask? Because Whitlock supposedly played his last season with a torn ACL. Now assuming that's even accurate, where does that logic stop? The great Jason Whitlock played O-Line at Ball State with a torn ACL (allegedly) so how can any NFL player dare to leave the field? Someone get in touch with all of the players on injured reserve with ACL tears to let them know that they're soft. Wait, don't forget to criticize everyone who missed games this year due to an MCL tear. If they truly loved the game, they wouldn't be missing games. Unfortunately, Whitlock wasn't the exception in this case, he was the rule. Why should the media care about the facts when given an opportunity to bury Cutler? To them, he doesn't deserve any better because he has the nerve to avoid fully embracing his place in the spotlight.
Whitlock's comments also bring about another way of thinking that needs to be put to rest. Every player's body is different, and they all respond differently. Ronnie Lott once decided he'd rather have part of his finger amputated than miss the next season. Does that mean that every player should be expected to make the same decision or face being called soft? Absolutely not. Some people are just blessed with extraordinary pain tolerance. I know it's popular for everyone sitting on their couch to offer that they wouldn't have left the field without a stretcher, but how can anyone know for certain? The only way to truly know how you would respond to that kind of situation is to experience it yourself. Until that happens, the Monday morning QBs need to take the hyperbole down a notch or twelve.
Even worse, were the attacks on Cutler coming from players and former players around the league. Here's a collection of some of those attacks. As Brian Urlacher angrily pointed out:
"Who cares what they think? That's my response to them. They are not playing in this game. Jay was hurt, obviously. There's no reason for him to be out there if he can't get it done. He was obviously hurt pretty bad or he would have played.
"For them to question his toughness is stupid to me."Urlacher is right, the attacks on Cutler reeked of jealousy. Deion Sanders captained the NFL Network assault on Cutler while forgetting that he only played eleven games due to a toe injury in 1998. Maurice Jones-Drew tweeted: "All I'm saying is that he can finish the game on a hurt knee... I played the whole season on one..." MJD apparently already forgot that he missed the last two games of the season when the Jaguars were fighting their asses off to earn a playoff bid. Some analysts cited Tom Brady's playing an entire season with a stress fracture in his foot, but they conveniently left out the fact that Brady left the AFC Championship Game in 2001 due to injury. Again, the facts are inconvenient little buggers.
A Barry Cofield quote from Matt Mosley's ESPN article rings especially true in this situation.
"A wise man once told me that it's easy to be tough with somebody else's body"
At some point, doing what's best for the team took a back seat to being tough. Players who gritted out injuries are lauded for their devotion to the team, but playing hurt isn't always what's best for the team. Philip Rivers get's praised for playing in the 2007 AFC Championship Game with a torn ACL, but no one pays attention to HOW he played. While it was certainly gutsy for Rivers to play, I think his backup, Billy Volek, could have thrown up a 46.1 QB rating. Especially when you consider that Volek was instrumental in helping the Chargers finish off the Colts after Rivers was forced out of the game. It's entirely possible that Rivers hurt his team by playing at well below 100% health.
Can we honestly say that Cutler, with an injured knee that felt unstable, prevented him from planting, and kept him from pushing off during the throw, was the best option for the Bears at that point? Now, he didn't make the call to remove himself, but it seems to me that that call could very well have been the right one for the team (The bigger blunder was having Hanie as the third string QB instead of the second). To highlight this point, I'll take you to the famous AFC Championship comeback that propelled Peyton Manning to his first Super Bowl victory. During the second-to-last drive of the game, Peyton smashed his thumb against a lineman's helmet. On the sidelines, it was obvious that he was having trouble gripping the ball, and at one point the camera's caught him telling Jim Sorgi to be ready. Peyton seemed to realize that if he couldn't grip the ball, Sorgi gave them the best chance to win. Now, Peyton was going to do everything in his power to play, but if it wasn't going to work, it was better to give way to someone that could get the job done if it meant the Colts would have a chance to win. Being able to step aside and let the more effective player take the field is the sign of a true team player.
In the end, the damage has been done. Jay Cutler's toughness and reputation have been unfairly tarnished by a controversy that never should have gotten started in the first place.


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