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Source: Truth-out, By Jason Leopold,12/01/2013
The US military aircraft carrying the cargo is only used for missions like this.
Muhammed Farhan Latif and other members of his family waited at a gatehouse at Al-Dailami Air Base in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, for the plane to arrive from Ramstein Air Base in Germany. It touched down at around 9 PM on Saturday, December 15.
The special security detail assigned to the mission unloaded the cargo - a plain aluminum box - from the aircraft. A man and a woman from the US Embassy entered the gatehouse. They had papers they wanted Muhammed to sign, but they were written in English and Muhammed doesn't speak the language.
Muhammed requested that an interpreter who accompanied him to the air base translate the documents, but the embassy officials rebuffed him, so he declined to sign the paperwork.
The aluminum box was loaded into an ambulance destined for the police hospital. Muhammed, his family and the interpreter followed the vehicle.
Nearly 11 years to the day after he was sold into a "piece of hell"- the US military base at Guantanamo Bay - for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif was finally home. The mystery of how he died alone in his cell remains locked in the files of Gitmo. The confusing and often conflicting details have trickled out since his family was advised of his death in September. First it appeared to be suicide, then it wasn't suicide, then suicide again, then "acute pneumonia" played a role.
A statement issued by United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) December 15, the day Latif's remains were repatriated, however, was definite about the manner of his death.
"The medical examiner concluded that the death was a suicide. Mr. Latif died of a self-induced overdose of prescription medication," the statement said.
Now an inquiry by United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has also found that some of the prison's standard operating procedures were not being followed and the failures played a role in facilitating Adnan's death.
Adnan never belonged at Guantanamo. Two administrations determined as much over a long and tortuous decade. But neurological damage he suffered in a 1994 car accident put him in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Muhammed wasn't sure if he and his family would ever get the opportunity to bury and properly mourn Adnan, who left their village near the city of Taiz in the summer of 2001 in search of medical care that was largely unavailable in Yemen.
On December 13, a representative of the Yemeni human rights organization HOOD passed a message from Yemen's Ministry of Human Rights to Adnan's family which said that his remains would be returned in two days.
So Muhammed and other member of his family of drove five hours to Sana'a to the Ministry of Justice to meet with the chief prosecutor to obtain permission to go to the hospital to see their brother's body.
Before they traveled to Al-Dailami Air Base, they stopped over at the home of Minister of the Interior Abdul Qader Qahtan to demand a copy of Adnan's autopsy report. The minister, reading from what Muhammed believes was a ten-page translation of the document, said Adnan died "from an overdose of medication he had smuggled into his cell."
"We would like a copy of this," Muhammed told the minister.
"Soon," he replied.
At the hospital, Muhammed was led into a room by police investigators and a medical examiner to identify Adnan's remains. The box was opened. Adnan was wrapped in three layers of shroud.
"I recognized the body of my brother," Muhammed told Truthout, speaking through an interpreter. "But with great difficulty. His eyes were missing and his body was in an advanced stage of disintegration. Still, I could tell it was Adnan."
Muhammed requested the medical examiner perform another autopsy on his brother. The medical examiner agreed. Muhammed and his brothers waited in another room. An hour or so later, the medical examiner returned.
"He was very upset," Muhammed said. "He told me he could not perform another autopsy because his organs were removed and the body was in bad shape."
Adnan's body was held for three months at Ramstein Air Base. Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman, told Truthout the "entirety" of Adnan's remains were returned to Yemen "for disposition."
"The condition of Mr. Latif's body is not at all dissimilar from the condition of any number of post-mortem autopsies, especially given how long ago the autopsy took place," Breasseale said. "The US returned his remains complete, though to be sure, after months of our adherence to the customs and practices of his religious faith and culture (he was not embalmed), the condition of the body presents in such a way as to make yet another autopsy difficult. While it is standard practice for small, if not trace samples of tissue and organs to be retained by the medical examiner, no complete organs remain in US possession."
Truthout spoke with the Yemeni medical examiner, Dr. Mokhtar Ahmed Alhrani, through an interpreter. He said he was unable to perform a second autopsy "because of the urgency shown by the relatives of the deceased for the burial of the body."
"Therefore, we were unable to repeat the autopsy or take sample for pathological and poison examination," Alhrani said.
He added that he is still trying to gain access to Latif's autopsy report, "which we were able to skim parts of in a hurried manner" and is also preparing his own medical report that he will submit to "the concerned authorities in Yemen."
At around 2:30 AM on the morning of December 16, Muhammed and his brothers left Sana'a and drove back to Taiz.
Although Muhammed had previously told Truthout that he would not accept his brother's remains without first receiving a complete copy of his autopsy report, he changed his mind after seeing his brother lying in a box.
"I could not leave him," Muhammed said.
Adnan's remains were brought into the Shawlak mosque in Taiz just before noon prayer. Hundreds of people were in attendance for what turned out to be his funeral. [Click here to watch a powerful New York Times Op-Doc directed by filmmaker Laura Poitras on Adnan Latif's tragic return home.]
Adnan's 14-year-old son, Ezzi Deen, who had not seen his father since he was a toddler, looked down at his father's remains and wept loudly.
"You told me in your last letter, you're coming to me and you will never leave me again, father," Ezzi Deen said, according to Yemen journalist Nasser Arrabyee, who attended the funeral and reported on the procession.
Adnan's mother did not attend the funeral. Muhammed told her the condition of her son's remains would destroy her. Since his burial, she has been bedridden and refuses to speak with anyone, Muhammed said.
Arrabyee reported that Adnan's father, Farhan Abdul Latif, told villagers who attended the funeral, "We are patient, and we are waiting for Allah's justice and punishments for America's crimes."
Arrabyee reported that a caravan of mourners took Latif's remains from the mosque to be buried at a cemetery for martyrs.
Lingering Questions
Back in the US, meanwhile, questions about Latif's death go unanswered.
At first, the military medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on Latif believed the Guantanamo prisoner's sudden death was the result of "acute pneumonia."
Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) and SOUTHCOM officials reacted with surprise upon learning that that the high-profile prisoner, who was found face down on the floor of his cell on the afternoon of September 8, had developed the respiratory condition.
After all, Latif was medically cleared for transfer from the detention hospital where he was housed with hunger strikers to a punishment wing in Camp 5, a maximum security section of the prison, for allegedly throwing a "cocktail" of a mixture of bodily fluids at a guard a day or two prior to his death, according to unclassified notes Latif's attorney provided to Truthout.
Locations where Latif was held prior to his death in September.
Apparently, no one at Guantanamo was aware that Latif was suffering from acute pneumonia, one miltary official told Truthout.
Dr. Steven M. Simons, a pulmonary disease specialist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, who was formerly chief of staff at Cedars-Sinai Health System and is also a clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, said that in his experience, the majority of cases of pneumonia discovered at autopsy in patients who die of drug overdose are caused by aspiration.
"Aspiration means that material either from the mouth or stomach gets down into the lungs because the person has lost the ability to protect their airway, usually owing to a depressed level of consciousness secondary to the drug," Simons said.
As a frequent hunger striker who was routinely force-fed with the nutritional supplement Ensure, Latif was at risk of developing pneumonia due to the practice of force-feeding. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) noted in an April 2009 letter to then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the "debilitating risks of force-feeding include major infections, pneumonia and collapsed lungs."
It is unknown whether Latif, although housed with hunger strikers at the prison's detention hospital prior to his death, was on hunger strike at the time immediately leading up to his death, and if so, whether he was force-fed. JTF-GTMO spokespeople would not comment on the matter.
About two weeks after the completion of the autopsy report, the medical examiner concluded Latif's death wasn't the result of acute pneumonia, but that the pneumonia was instead a "contributing factor" to his death.
The toxicology test results the medical examiner received showed massive quantities of psychotropic medication Latif had been prescribed in his bloodstream, according to US officials who were briefed about the autopsy report, which remains under wraps. These officials requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
The only logical conclusion, according to the medical examiner, was that Latif committed suicide. But Capt. Robert Durand, a JTF-GTMO spokesman, told Truthout in October 2012 that although Latif "had a history of self-harm acts," he "generally refrained from activities which would potentially cause his death" and "his recent actions, activities and statements to therapists indicated that he did not appear to want to end his life."
SOPs Not Followed
Working from the autopsy report's conclusion that Latif died of a drug overdose, investigators with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and a SOUTHCOM Commander's inquiry referred to as an AR 15-6 started to probe how he was able to accumulate so much medication and successfully avoid detection by surveillance cameras and by guards who check on prisoners, at minimum, every three minutes and search prisoners' cells for contraband several times a day; additionally, corpsmen who administer medication are supposed to ensure prisoners have swallowed it by checking their mouths.
"Detainees are supposed to go into a little cage, an enclosure. Once they are in there they are provided their medication and once they take the medicine they are let out. They can't leave the enclosure until they take it," one US military official told Truthout, describing the medication administration procedures.
The SOUTHCOM inquiry into Latif's death determined that some of the prison's long-standing standard operating procedures (SOPs) were not being followed nor were they enforced, according to US officials who were briefed about the commander's inquiry.
Several military officials who were familiar with guards' written reports on Latif's behavior told Truthout Latif was considered a "belligerent" prisoner who only appeared to "calm down" when he was given his medication. But whoever was responsible for passing Latif his medication never checked to ensure he took it, US officials briefed about the commander's inquiry said.
In an investigative story published last month, Truthout reported that the only way Latif would be able to have concealed any medication was if there was a total breakdown of the SOPs at the prison facility.
Deviating from the SOP is considered to be an Article 92 violation - failure to obey an order or regulation - under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). US officials said they did not know if any JTF-GTMO personnel have been reprimanded for allegedly failing to follow the SOPs.
SOUTHCOM will make public the findings of its inquiry, possibly as early as next week.
Even if the SOPs were not followed, as the commander's inquiry found, where would Latif keep a lethal dose of medication given that in the month leading up to his death he was moved to different cells and camps and searched for contraband?
According to accounts provided to Latif's attorney, David Remes, by other prisoners, in the month leading up to his death, Latif was shuttled from Camp 6 to the camp psych ward, then to the camp hospital and finally to the disciplinary wing of Camp 5, where he was held in solitary confinement.
When prisoners are moved from their cells, their wrists and ankles are shackled. Remes' notes state that when Latif was moved from Camp 6 to the psych ward for an incident that took place in a recreation yard in August 2012, during Ramadan, he was not permitted to take any items from his cell with him.
US officials briefed about a separate, NCIS investigation into Latif's death said several theories investigators have floated include whether Latif hid his pills on his body, inside his cell and/or in his Koran. The officials pointed to an incident that took place in mid-May 2006 in which one prisoner had hidden "a cache of drugs" in his toilet.
"Other detainees had apparently saved and transferred their prescribed drugs to designated suicide victims in support of a martyrdom operation," according to an article written in the May 26, 2006, edition of The Wire, a weekly newsletter published by JTF-GTMO.
Following that incident, the guard force immediately searched prisoners' cells and other pills were allegedly found "hidden in the bindings" of some prisoners' Korans. According to Capt. Alvin Phillips, a JTF-GTMO spokesman, the May 2006 incident "resulted in the SOP that no uniform personnel are allowed to handle the Koran." Phillips did not respond to follow-up questions as to how the introduction of the new SOP would help avoid such incidents in the future.
"In the event of a need for the Koran to be searched all linguists can do so," Phillips told Truthout. Linguists "are all civilian, not military, and it removes the potential for allegations of Koran abuse by the guard force," he said.
It is unknown whether Latif had a Koran in his cell at the time of his death. Neither Phillips nor Durand would respond to questions about it. A 2009 Pentagon report that reviewed the conditions at Guantanamo said all prisoners, "regardless of disciplinary status," are given a Koran.
SOP Failures Not an Isolated Incident
SOUTHCOM will also release two other commander's inquiry reports about two other deaths at Guantanamo which occurred in February and May of 2011. One of those deaths was reportedly a suicide. The commander's inquiry determined that SOPs were also not adhered to in the case of the prisoner who assertedly committed suicide in May 2011, Hajji Nassim, an Afghan known simply as Inayatullah at Guantanamo, according to the commander's inquiry.
Nassim, according to statements released at the time by military officials, was somehow able to take a bedsheet into a prison recreation yard and hang himself. Like Latif, Nassim had a history of psychological problems and spent time in the prison's psych ward. Details surrounding his death have been shrouded in secrecy for nearly two years.
The other prisoner whose death is addressed in a commander's inquiry, Awal Gul, apparently died from a heart attack after working out on an elliptical machine.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ron Flanders, a spokesman for SOUTHCOM, would not comment on the substance of the reports. He said SOUTHCOM filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with itself last year to have the two earlier commander's inquiry reports declassified and released. Those reports have been going through a declassification review since then.
"We initiated a FOIA ourselves so it would go through appropriate redaction process," Flanders said."
The inquiry into Latif's death was completed in mid-November, Flanders said, and has been put on a fast track for declassification review and release.
Suspicions Raised About Military's Account
Breasseale, the Pentagon spokesman, said he could not comment on whether any specific changes to the prison's SOPs were made in the wake of Latif's death.
"The JTF consistently reviews its standard operating procedures and updates them as conditions warrant," Breasseale said. "Changes are made to address any gaps in the SOPs that can be, or have been, exploited by detainees. We do not generally discuss specific SOPs (or our updates to them) for obvious operational and force protection concerns."
Remes sees shortcomings in the military's attempt to construct a suicide narrative around Latif's death. He pointed out that to Muslims, hiding something in a Koran would be considered an insult to the holy book.
"SOUTHCOM has to explain the presence of a lethal amount of medication in the locked cell of the most closely watched detainee in the camp," said Remes.
"Given the number and frequency of the searches Adnan was put through, the thoroughness of the searches, and the continuous monitoring, the smuggling scenario seems impossible," he said. "It will be fascinating to see how SOUTHCOM puts it all together."


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Wis. bride accused of stealing rings worth $1K
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- Authorities arrested a Wisconsin bride after her wedding reception for allegedly stealing rings that were on display.
The La Crosse Tribune ( reports the 58-year-old Onalaska woman was caught on surveillance video at a La Crosse hotel and restaurant where her wedding reception was held. She allegedly was seen taking a small case displaying rings from a local jeweler that was set up near the hostess station. An employee found the bride's bra insert near where the case had been.
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The Daily Bell, which had previously blasted Alexa as an "elite methodology," only to later adopt it, has had 5 Alexa reviews in just 8 days since October 29, 2012.
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The Daily Bell started in 2008, and had only received one Alexa review prior to October 29, 2012 — on December 2, 2010.
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"I enjoy the incisive analysis of current events by The Daily Bell's talented team of staff reporters who dissect daily news stories from various mainstream media outlets and analyze them from a free market, libertarian perspective. In addition to the excellent staff reports, The Daily Bell has done an incredible job of assembling many of the leading libertarian thinkers and voices and runs a steady stream of editorials by an impressive team of contributing editors, such as Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Tibor Machan, Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Holland, John Browne, Peter Schiff, Bill Bonner and Anthony Wile, Founder and Chief Editor of The Daily Bell. One of my favorite days to read The Daily Bell is Sunday. Every Sunday The Daily Bell features a guest interview with some of the world's most prominent libertarians. Some of the recent interviews conducted by The Daily Bell have been with Jim Rogers, Brian Doherty, Ed Griffin, Rick Rule, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Doug Casey, Gerald Celente, Jeff Berwick, Axel Merk, Richard Ebeling, Mark Skousen and Robert Ould…to name just a few. The Daily Bell is a must read for those interested in thought provoking articles written from an Austrian School of Economics point of view."
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A federal magistrate judge in Sioux City has entered a consent decree resolving a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against one of the nation's largest food distributors for restaurant chains, Meadowbrook Meat Company, Inc.
According to the EEOC's suit, Meadowbrook, doing business as MBM Corporation, failed for months to remove racist graffiti, including the "N-word," a swastika, and references to the Ku Klux Klan, from its Mason City, Iowa warehouse.
The lawsuit claimed that in May 2011, an African-American employee complained to MBM's management that he had seen graffiti reading "N*****s STINK" in a men's restroom. The EEOC alleged that MBM supervisors, including the black employee's supervisor, used that restroom, yet the racist message remained for 30 days after he complained. The EEOC's suit also alleged that, about a week after MBM finally removed the graffiti, a second message appeared, this time stating "KKK I hate N*****s." The EEOC alleged that this second message remained visible for over three months after the employee alerted the EEOC to the situation. MBM denied the allegations.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits race discrimination, including racial harassment. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Meadowbrook Meat Co., d/b/a MBM Corp., No. 12cv3069-MWB) in September 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The consent decree settling the suit, entered on June 24, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Leonard T. Strand, provides that MBM will pay $15,000 in compensatory damages to three former employees who saw the graffiti at the warehouse. MBM also agreed to paint the men's restrooms with graffiti-resistant paint, adopt a policy prohibiting racist imagery, create an incentive program to encourage compliance with that policy and conduct surveys to determine whether employees are familiar with its anti-harassment policies. Also, MBM will train its employees, managers and supervisors regarding race discrimination, an employer's obligations, and the rights of employees under Title VII.
"Racial hatred has no place anywhere in America," said John C. Hendrickson, regional attorney of the EEOC's Chicago District Office, which is responsible for EEOC litigation in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. "We are as committed as ever to eradicating race discrimination in the workplace. We appreciate MBM's willingness to provide monetary relief for the black employees affected by the race discrimination and to work with us to prevent race discrimination in its facilities."
Rocky Mount, N.C.-based MBM, purchased in 2012 by McLane Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, has over 3,300 employees and owns 38 distribution centers across the country, distributing food products to customers in nearly all 50 states and internationally.
The EEOC's litigation efforts were led by trial attorneys Camille A. Monahan and César J. del Peral from its Milwaukee Area Office and were supervised by Associate Regional Attorney Jean Kamp.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. Further information about the Commission is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Skjold, Else (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this PhD thesis, The Daily Selection, I will be addressing the overall question of how research on wardrobes can contribute to a more effective connection between the production and the consumption of dress objects. The thesis builds on exemplary studies of people in their wardrobes, with the aim of focusing on theoretical and methodological concerns and implications. It is structured in three parts, each of which consists -‐ independently -‐ of its own introductory framing, its own literature review, its own methods chapter, its own field work study, and its own conclusive reflections. As such, the parts, when taken as a whole, represent an evolving process through which my overall research questions are being filtered and reflected. My scholarly approach builds on the fusing of fashion and dress research and design research, in this way closing a gap between dress practice as, on the one hand, symbolic discourse and, on the other, as an embodied practice that is 'physically embedded' in the material capacities of dress objects. In Part I, I frame this view by addressing the concept of dressing as a 'bodily situated practice', as defined by Entwistle (2000), combined with a processual view on design and everyday practices, as defined by Shove et al. (2008). Based on these perspectives, I contribute with my own explanatory frameworks of 'sartorial systems' and 'sensory anchoring', on which I base the entire thesis. In order to operationalise these frameworks in my field work, I have developed a personal methodology for the wardrobe method that embraces the sensory and temporal aspects of dress practice. In Part II, I filter this through the vehicle of a collaborative project with Danish designer Mads Nørgaard, wherein I observe how dress objects from Nørgaard's collection are appropriated and used in the wardrobes of informants. In this way, I point to discrepancies between the production and the dissemination of dress objects that take place in the fashion industry, and to the ways that people use and experience these objects in their everyday lives. In Part III, I conduct a series of 'wardrobe sessions' with informants in collaboration with a designer, in order to explore how use practice might cast reflections back onto design processes. In my concluding chapter, I argue that my thesis contributes with a more facetted and reflected set of thinking in relation to dress practice, and that this way of thinking could potentially bring about radical changes in the way dress objects are currently produced, disseminated and sold. All together, this thesis shows that in order to establish a more tight fit between the production and consumption of dress objects, there is very good reason to look into the dress practices that are taking place in people's wardrobes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8992
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Abstract: Stød is a prosodic feature in Danish spoken language that is able to distinguish lexemes. This distinction can also identify word class and has the potential to improve the performance of automatic speech recognisers for Danish spoken language. Stød manifestation exhibits a large amount of variability and may be perceptual in nature, because stød in some cases can be audibly perceived yet not be visible in a spectrogram. The variability is the primary reason there is currently no agreed upon acoustic or phonetic definition of stød. The working definition of stød is ". . . a kind of creaky voice" (Grønnum, 2005) and "stød is not just creak" (Hansen, 2015). In the present work, we investigate whether stød can be exploited in automatic speech recognition. To exploit stød without an acoustic or phonetic definition, we need to use a (almost) zero-knowledge datadriven approach which is based on a number of assumptions that we investigate prior to conducting ASR experimentation. We assume that stød can be detected in audio input, using acoustic features. To detect stød, we need to identify features that signal stød, which requires annotated data. To select the right features, the stød annotation must be reliable and accurate. We therefore conduct a reliability study of stød annotation with inter-annotator agreement measures, rank acoustic features for stød detection according to feature importance using a forest of randomised decision trees and experiment with stød detection as a binary and multi-class classification task. The experiments identify a set of features important or stød detection and confirms that we can detect stød in audio. Lastly, we model stød in automatic speech recognition and show that significant improvements in word error rate can be gained simply by annotating stød in the phonetic dictionary at the expense of decoding speed. Extending the acoustic feature vectors with pitch-related features and other features of voice quality also give significant performance improvement on both read-aloud speech and spontaneous speech. Decoding speed increases when we extend the acoustic feature vectors and actually improve decoding speed over the baseline where stød is not modelled. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9336
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I et internationalt og komparativt perspektivKoerver Schmidt, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Emnet for denne afhandling er dansk skatteretlig CFC-lovgivning. Denne form for lovgivning går kort fortalt ud på, at aktionæren i et selskab under særlige omstændigheder skal medregne en andel af selskabets indkomst til sin egen skattepligtige indkomst, selvom selskabet ikke har udloddet udbytte til aktionæren. I international sammenhæng er CFC en forkortelse for Controlled Foreign Corporation (eller Company), og som forkortelsen antyder, finder sådanne regler normalt kun anvendelse, hvis selskabet er kontrolleret af aktionæren og er hjemmehørende i udlandet. Med andre ord angår CFC-beskatning normalt indkomsten i udenlandske datterselskaber. Uden CFC-regler vil beskatningen af aktionæren normalt være udskudt til det tidspunkt, hvor det udenlandske datterselskab udlodder udbytte til aktionæren, eller hvor aktionæren afstår sin aktiepost i det udenlandske datterselskab. I andre tilfælde vil beskatning hos aktionæren slet ikke finde sted. Såfremt det land, hvori det udenlandske datterselskab er hjemmehørende, ikke beskatter datterselskabets indkomst eller kun beskatter indkomsten med en lav sats, er der således mulighed for at skatteudskydelse eller skatteundgåelse kan forekomme, hvis aktionæren indretter sig således, at indkomst oppebæres af det udenlandske datterselskab i stedet for hos aktionæren selv. Det grundlæggende formål med afhandlingen er – ved anvendelse at den retsdogmatiske metode – at analysere dansk CFC-lovgivning og praksis med henblik på at udlede gældende ret på området – de lege lata. I den forbindelse er det tillige hensigten at identificere uklarheder samt vurdere, om de danske CFCregler strider mod indgåede dobbeltbeskatningsoverenskomster eller EU-retten. Et yderligere formål med afhandlingen er at vurdere, hvorvidt dansk CFC-lovgivning kan anses for at imødekomme visse retspolitiske hensyn, og såfremt dette ikke er tilfældet at komme med alternative bud på, hvordan de danske CFC-regler med fordel kan udformes. Med andre ord har afhandlingen også haft til formål at komme med betragtninger de lege ferenda URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8928
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Haulrich, Martin (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Parallel treebanks have received increasing attention in the past few years, primarily due to their potential use in statistical machine translation. Creating parallel treebanks manually is a time-consuming and expensive task and for this reason there is considerable interest in creating treebanks automatically. This task can be solved using standard tools such as parsers and aligners. However, because parallel treebanks are based on parallel corpora, we are in a special situation where the same meaning is represented in two different ways. This thesis is about how we can exploit this information to create better parallel treebanks than we can by using standard tools.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8385
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Stenheim, Tonny (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The dissertation investigates the decision usefulness of goodwill-accounting numbers. Theory and methodology from value relevance, earnings-management and corporate-governance literature are employed in order to investigate the decision usefulness. The dissertation compares the value relevance of goodwill reported under the impairment-only method (current IFRS) with the value relevance of goodwill reported under alternative accounting methods. It also investigates the extent to which goodwill-impairment losses under IFRS are associated with variables for economic impairment and/or earnings-management incentives. And finally, it investigates whether an estimate of misrepresentation of economic impairment in goodwill is associated with earnings-management incentives and/or corporate-governance mechanisms. The results suggest that the impairment-only method provides accounting numbers that more faithfully depict economic fundamentals as reflected in stock prices. The results also suggest that reported goodwill-impairment losses are not strongly affected by earnings-management incentives. Still, misrepresentation of economic impairment in goodwill does not seem to be constrained by corporate-governance mechanisms. In overall, these findings support the recently implemented impairment-only method under current IFRS URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8398
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Social innovation i en forretningsmæssig kontekstSønderskov, Thomas Stengade (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Hvilken funktion og rolle har ledelse for CSI? Med afsæt i ovenstående forskningsspørgsmål rapporterer denne afhandling fra et 3-årigt aktionsforskningsprojekt med et forandringsintenderende sigte inden for forskningsfeltet social innovation. Afhandlingen placerer sig i forlængelse af ovenstående interesse og udfolder social innovation i relation til ledelse i en forretningsmæssig kontekst – et forskningsområde, der internationalt også kaldes Corporate Social Innovation (CSI),(Kanter 1999, Jupp 2002). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8329
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Co-existence of institutional logics in the recorded music industrySigurdardottir, Margrét Sigrún (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The concept of institutional logics, notably a choice between multiple logics, has been offered as a foundation to theoretically explain heterogeneity of organisation. The thesis focuses on how this heterogeneity of organisation is possible through a study of how decision makers deal with conflicting yet coexisting logics in their every day work. The field chosen for the empirical study is the recorded music industry, where two opposing logics, the artistic and the commercial, necessarily co‐exist. Through semi‐structured interviews, decision makers in the recorded music industry in the UK were asked about their work processes. Their descriptions revealed two very different ways of acting based on either the artistic logic or the commercial logic. The study further shows that even if there were some attempts to take both logics into account, all the respondents emphasised one logic over the other, but not the same logic, leading to the established major/independent duality in the structure of the field. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7992
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Östlund, Christian (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is about designing technology that supports and enhances learning in and for the workplace. This is realized through an e-training system of web lectures. Designing e-training means designing for interaction in a user friendly way while accommodating for the pedagogical and instructional strategies that are inherent in learning systems. The objective of this thesis is to inform how technology can be designed to support workplace training by acknowledging the context demands of every day work. The context for this thesis is the government authority in Sweden called the county administration. The research in this thesis follows the approach of design science research and design principles for e-training through web lectures emerged in collaboration with members of the county administration through four design cycles of problem awareness: conceptual suggestion, system development, and evaluation. The perspective on learning adopts that of socio-cultural learning since it acknowledges the importance of context by stressing the relationship between learning and the context in which the learning occurs. A framework called authentic e-learning with nine core design principles was chosen as a kernel theory. The first version of the web lecture application was based on the unchanged design principles of authentic e-learning. The design principles were then evaluated in the context of a work place and after four design cycles some of the original design principles was still unaltered, some was adapted to the conditions of work place learning and new principles emerged from the evaluation process. The thesis concludes with eight design principles for e-training through web lectures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9478
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A closer look on the role of design choices in framing coordination and motivationGevoll, Linn (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The motivation of this study was to explore how the design choices created when developing Performance Management (hereafter PM), produces proposals of how to coordinate and motivate operational employees in performing their tasks, and to which extent they are successful in doing so. PM is often postulated as a management resource in organizing employee contribution to value creation. Here, it is often suggested that carefully designed PM promotes organizational value creation, by facilitating the motivation and coordination of employees' contribution. However, the way in which design choices function to suggest how to define the boundaries of what it means to coordinate and motivate employees in practice is less clear. I therefore set out to study the different design choices made on three central elements in a new operational Performance Management System (PMS hereafter), to explore how these design choices propose ideas of how to coordinate and motivate employees' value creation in daily operations. My study follow the design choices made with regard to leading indicators (e.g. performance measures), performance targets and feedback over a period of three years (2012-2014). I do so, to investigate how design choices made on these three elements play a significant role in assigning specific property to what motivation and coordination of operational employees entails in practice. For example, the study illustrate how the choice to design leading indicators as key behavioral indicators (KBIs hereafter) propose that coordination of employees contribution means to point out what they should do when performing key activities. Detailed accounts such as this, provides rich insight into how design choices suggest distinctive, meaning to how to coordinate and/or motivate employees in their daily operations, which produce the boundaries of desired action. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9175
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Beukel, Karin (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Empirical studies show that only a small number of all innovations created are valuable innovations. In spite of this, most innovation research focuses on identifying the determinants of innovation, rather than determining the factors influential in generating valuable innovations. The current knowledge therefore can guide organizations to increase innovation output, but not to increase the value of the innovation output. The purpose of this PhD research is to contribute to our understanding of the determinants of valuable innovations by investigating how different intraorganizational factors and uncertainty influence organizations' abilities to generate valuable innovations. This thesis is comprised of four papers, a general introduction and a conclusion. The papers rely on both qualitative and quantitative research methods. One builds on interview data gathered at a Danish university and a firm, one relies on data from the Scandinavian biotech industry, and two papers rely on data from the global hydrocracking industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8828
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Førsokratisk informeret, ny-aristotelisk ἦθος-tænkning hos Martin HeideggerMoesby Jensen, Tommy (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingens tematiske sag er en genvindelse af Heideggers tænkning og tænkevej som en før-sokratisk informeret, ny-aristotelisk ἦθος-tænkning og dette som en rekonstruktion af antik selv-ledelses-tænkning. I Komposition, referencer, oversættelser og forkortelser udvikles blandt andet en særlig forbindelse mellem referentialitet og afhandlingens komposition, under inspiration fra Heideggers egen brug af inter- og intra-tekstualitet, og vigtige kilder og formalia præsenteres. Kompositionen og dermed afhandlingens enkelte §'er er tænkt således, at en række temaer gennem afhandlingen ofte forbinder sig med tidligere udviklede temaer, som nu sættes anderledes i spil og ind i nye sammenhænge, og herved oplyses det tidligere og det senere udviklede i en gensidighed. Sagt på en anden måde, så vil en lang række forberedende behandlinger finde en senere udfoldelse, og dette angivet som en tendens i kompositionen....... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8028
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Towards Sustainable LawyeringHøedt-Rasmussen, Inger (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The role of the lawyer is in transition and the formerly predominantly homogeneous profes-sion has become a heterogeneous group of lawyers with diverging perceptions of the lawyer's identity and of the main characteristics of the profession. The European Union has extended the perception of democracy and the fundamental rights to include more collective rights, social concerns, global responsibility and sustainability. The dissertation's main question is: How can the identity and competences of lawyers be developed so that they can practise sustainable and proactive lawyering in the European Union? Theoretically as well as methodologically this research constitutes an interdisciplinary study, where legal science meets sociology and social learning theories. Identity development is perceived as a reflective project; there is a range of lifestyle choices which contribute to a composed but constantly shifting maintenance of self-identity in relation to democratic principles and the ideal of justice connected to the role of lawyers. The study builds on Anthony Giddens's structuration theory. This involves looking at how lawyers connect the questions 'What to do?' (societal level) and 'How to act?' (professional level) with 'Who to be?' (personal level). The study depicts a European identity ideal based on legal sources while empirical data from focus groups and individual interviews makes it possible to identify six different identities among Danish practising lawyers. It is possible to recognise the following identities: lawyer-businessman, lawyer-performer, lawyer-entrepreneur, lawyer-humanist, lawyer-integrator and lawyer-statesman. The fragmentation of the profession, with greater demand for specialist knowledge, in-creased individualisation and participation in new communities of practice, requires each lawyer to reflect on their identity and establish criteria for what, when and how they will use their lawyering skills. For this to succeed, lawyers' identities and competences will depend more on self-directed learning and individual learning plans, where the legal identity combines (global) societal responsibility with job satisfaction, authenticity and adherence to personal values. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8908
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Janning, Finn (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: There is a story about two companies, and how the one was supported and dominated by the other. Even today, more than 13 years after their separation, the support and domination of one company over the other seems to continue. In 2001 NNE (Novo Nordisk Engineering A/S), celebrated its tenth anniversary as an independent affiliate within the Novo Group. The anniversary was celebrated with a huge party at the Øksnehallen Exhibition Centre located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here NNE launched its new Corporate Visual Identity (CVI). The CVI was created in order for NNE to show the world that it strived to become the market leader in the growing fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Equally important, NNE wanted to detach itself from its supporter and dominator, the company Novo Nordisk A/S. To begin with, NNE changed its name from Novo Nordisk Engineering A/S to NNE; secondly it created a new logo; and last, as a brand promise, it stated: Unique Know How. In fact, NNE changed all of its visual identity (i.e. CVI) in a manner like that of pirates who want to change identity by raising another flag on the mast before anchoring at a harbor. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7128
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Humanitarian Discourse in the Age of MediatizationVestergaard, Anne (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis explores the history of humanitarian organizations as agents in public life. When taking on the role as mediators between Western publics and distant sufferers, what conception of social responsibility do humanitarian organizations promote? What are the consequences of the institutional context of these organizations on the form of social responsibility that they are able to promote? In a historical perspective, what changes in these conceptualizations can we observe and to what extent can we understand them as resulting from institutional changes? These questions are asked with the assumption that the discourse of humanitarian organizations is at once a reflection of and a force in the configuration of dispositions in target publics. Enquiring about the history of humanitarian organizations as agents in public life, thus, means enquiring about the ways in which over the past 40 years, these organizations have given meaning to our relation to different sufferers and contributed to shaping our individual and collective conception of the scope and nature of our social responsibility.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8318
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Collective Learning Beyond the ClusterCole, Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The co-location of industry in agglomerations of similar and related firms is one of the salient features of the contemporary global economy. Over the last thirty years, a large body of theory and case-literature has addressed this phenomenon and sought to understand the advantages that accrue when industries are spatially clustered. Contemporary scholars in this tradition have focused on the advantages of face-toface interaction and the access to spatially sticky information in the form of buzz available to cluster agents. They have further suggested that the development of local conventions and a local idiom facilitate knowledge circulation and collaboration within clusters while perhaps frustrating access to outsiders. The resultant learning views of agglomeration have become dominant within the field of economic geography. In the past decade, however, this dominant view has been challenged by a counterview challenging the idea that physical proximity is neither necessary nor sufficient for economic learning. First, it has been noted that much of the learning that occurs in clusters may actually be organized through various forms temporary proximity. Secondly, it has been argued that knowledge circulates not by virtue of spatial proximity, but through participation in knowledge communities that share a basic epistemological framework and common purpose. These communities may be spatially clustered or may be widely dispersed. The research presented in this dissertation aims to contribute to this debate on the relative importance of physical and relational proximity to processes of economic learning. It does so through a qualitative study of the European Animation Industry and its attempt to build supportive networks and institutions resembling those found in successful geographic clusters, but in the context of a spatially dispersed industry. It demonstrates how through the extensive use of temporary proximity in the form of conferences, market places, and workshops, European animation was able to create a dense social fabric supporting learning and collaboration among firms that were both geographically and culturally distant. The dissertation is developed in three distinct articles written for journal publication. These are followed by Appendix One discussing methodological issue related to the research, Appendix Two providing empirical introduction to European Animation, the object of the dissertation's case study. They are followed by a brief conclusion discussing the dissertations findings. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8966
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Analysis of the influence of the Chicago School on European Union competition policyBartalevich, Dzmitry (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Adopting the (institutionalist) premise that ideas and the economic theories within which they are embedded influence policy, the dissertation investigates the influence of the Chicago School of antitrust analysis on the competition policy of the European Union (EU). The dissertation encapsulates three articles. The first article employs qualitative content analysis to assess whether and the extent to which the European Commission incorporates Chicago School theory into EU competition policy. It does so on the basis of current Commission Guidelines, Notices, and Block Exemption Regulations that address EU antitrust rules and EU merger control. The second article is exploratory; it narrows the focus on EU merger control and employs descriptive network analysis to investigate the overall composition of mergers cleared by the Commission during the period 2004– 2015 and attempts to reinforce the results of the analysis in the first article. The third article expands on the findings of the first and second articles and employs inferential network analysis with exponential random graph models to analyze, on the basis of Commission merger cases cleared during the period 2004–2015, whether the Harvard School, the Freiburg School, and considerations for Single Market integration underpin EU merger control, in addition to the influence of the Chicago School. The analysis presented in the articles suggests that the Chicago School has exerted considerable influence over EU competition policy. The findings further indicate that there is a strong presence of financial institutions among merger and acquisition transactions with an EU dimension in EU merger control. Finally, the findings show that the Commission appears to have a particular approach to EU competition policy that, despite being influenced by the Chicago School, cannot be explained entirely by it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9530
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Cross Functional Integration in the Process of Product InnovationBaunsgaard, Vibeke Vad (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Integration across departments, functions, and knowledge areas is important for success in the process of product innovation. Research of organizations, whether private or public, demonstrates, however, that cross functional integration is difficult to achieve in praxis. This problem area: Why is cross functional integration – in SMEs – in the process of product innovation so difficult in praxis? – sets up the foundation for this PhD. By focusing on cross functional integration in small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and by utilizing a qualitative research design in studies of the micro politics of cross functional integration, the PhD makes a novel contribution within an area of research largely overlooked by previous literatures.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8325
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Fayyaz, Anjum (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD thesis is an outcome of the author's own reflections and efforts to come to terms with his experience working as the National Project Coordinator of the Industrial Cluster Development Program of an international donor agency in Pakistan, the IDA, for more than 8 years between 2001 and 2009. Thus, the author seeks to answer two interrelated questions in this thesis: a) How did the IDA interventions affect SME networks in the Lahore garments and Sialkot football clusters in Pakistan? b) Why did the IDA-supported SME networks in these clusters continue or discontinue after the IDA withdrew from both clusters? In this thesis, it is argued that a very limited number of empirical studies have addressed the subject of private sector development aid in industrial clusters in developing countries. In particular, very few studies aim at studying the sustainability of donor-financed interventions in industrial clusters in the Global South. Two articles in the thesis are dedicated to extending the very limited existing work on this topic. Both articles – the first on the Lahore garments cluster and the second on the Sialkot football manufacturing cluster in Pakistan – seek to analyze how the IDA's interventions affected the long-term sustainability of SME networks present in both clusters. In the case of the Lahore garments cluster, the IDA supported two networks in the cluster. One was known as the Lahore Garments Consortium and the other was named the Lahore Fashion Apparel Network. Both IDA financed networks initially seemed to flourish as they engaged in information sharing and joint action initiatives such as the joint procurement of raw materials for their production units. In the final analysis, it turned out however that the Lahore Garments Consortium continued to function long after the IDA had discontinued its support to the cluster whereas the Lahore Fashion Apparel Network was terminated after a very brief period in existence. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9463
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Christoffersen, Jeppe (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In recent years, we have witnessed multinational enterprises (MNEs) changing strategies to exploit opportunities for division of labor on a global scale (Hansen et al. 2009). In consequence these have received growing interest among researchers and governments as 'agents of host country economic development' (Scott-Kennel and Enderwick 2005, p.105). A general consensus of this research is that 'FDI [Foreign Direct Investment] offers an additional channel for introduction of technology, innovation, new ideas, different organizational practices and new skills to a host country' (Scott-Kennel and Enderwick 2005, p.112). Another consensus is that these knowledge resources were introduced into the host country through linkages between the MNEs and a local firm and would in the longer term diffuse to other firms through e.g. demonstration effects and labor turnover (Giroud and Scott-Kennel 2009).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8332
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An Empirical Study of Website Quality in the Public SectorSørum, Hanne (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the public sector, we find that traditional face-to-face interaction has, in many cases, been replaced by online communication and transactions during the last decade. The quality of public sector websites is, therefore, of particular importance in order to ensure quality participation in an increasingly digital society by all the citizens. In view of the fact that Norway and Denmark aim to be world leaders of the Web, with regard to innovations, technical standards and user-centred development, easily accessible facilitation for high quality interactions assumes considerable significance. With reference to this particular aspect, the following Ph.D. thesis focusses on perceptions and measurement of website quality and success, by emphasising and highlighting the performance of public sector websites in the Scandinavian countries (respectively Norway and Denmark). This thesis draws on both qualitative and quantitative data collected during the research process. A grounded theory approach is applied in order to investigate explanations of website quality and statistical analysis is performed to examine perceptions of quality and success in websites. In this regard, the webmasters' perspectives are emphasised, as they are found to be pivotal figures and key contributors in website quality improvements. Website quality criteria, obligated by the central governments are also discussed. These criteria aim to minimise a gap between the governments and the citizens for provision of online information and digital services. The findings and explanations of website quality cover a variety of features and range from technical standards to a broad definition of usability. Pertaining to this fact, added emphasis is placed on actual usage and subjective issues concerning user-friendliness and ease of use, compared to the criteria implemented by the governments, which focus more on objective technical measures. This may explain why users are not actually satisfied with high quality websites, when compared to low quality websites, in an annual assessment of hundreds of public websites based on these criteria. Accordingly, explanations and measurements of quality within the public sector are perceived differently, when taking into account the citizens' (users') needs and requirements from websites. Based on the use of quality criteria and evaluation methods applied to such evaluations, there exists a potential argument for adopting an additional user-centred focus. Furthermore, user satisfaction is emphasised as a measure of success in websites and user-centred development is found to be a key contributor. In view of this fact, the findings also prove that the public sector in general should improve and extend their feedback channels, by extending frequency and methods applied in user testing and continuous quality improvements. The fact that government bodies perform testing to a minimal extent and that more sophisticated methods should be included, demonstrates a potential for advances in facilitation for improved and refined user experiences in online communication between citizens and the public sector. In this regard, organisations which perform user testing tend to see a stronger correlation between website quality, user satisfaction and net (user) benefits. The concluding observations in the thesis, suggest that further research can decrease a gap between the governments' perceptions of quality, and the citizens' needs and requirements from public websites. Future investments and quality improvements should devote increased attention to testing and issues concerning inclusion of real users, and the benefits of such actions. Implications for practice are also provided in order to move the sector forward and facilitation for improved and refined user experiences and success on the Web. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8922
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pitpok wrote:That is the sickest most gross thing i have ever seen and heard of. My stomach is really ill knowing what that dog went thru. If i live in Ill. i would for sure consider adopting that wonderfuil looking pi boo.
SHe looks a lot better and i know that some one cant pass her up to join there family.
As disgusting as it is, and as sick as it makes me, it's not the worst i've seen - some sickening stories follow, just a warning for those with weak stomachs. Here in Oz a few years back someone poured petrol over a staffordshire bull terrier and set it alight. She was nursed back to health and adopted.
I also read a rescue story online recently about an Australian Shepherd bitch rescued from a puppy mill in the US. The dog was infested with maggots and stank beyond description apparently. The rescuer was going to take her to the vet, and nurse her back to health etc. But when she got the bitch home, she realised that the maggots had eaten their way right up into her anus and the wounds were too great. The dog had to be put to sleep instead. :naughty: :naughty:
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SANTA CLARA — After Dashon Goldson said Tuesday he is determined to avoid another franchise tag, his case for a multiyear contract got a boost from coach Jim Harbaugh, who called the 49ers free safety "somebody that I think you reward."
Harbaugh was less definitive about the status of backup quarterback Alex Smith, who remains under contract for 2013 but might be nearing the end of tumultuous stay in San Francisco.
Goldson and Smith represent two of the 49ers' biggest roster decisions as the team shakes off its Super Bowl hangover and heads into the offseason. Players cleaned out their lockers at team headquarters Tuesday, two days after a 34-31 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans.
Goldson recognized that he might be packing up his belongings for the last time in Santa Clara.
"Hopefully, I will be with this team," he said, "but I'm open to all 32 teams."
The All-Pro free safety tried to nail down a multiyear agreement a year ago, but the sides were still far apart when the 49ers used the franchise tag, locking Goldson up on a one-year tender worth $6.2 million.
The 49ers could tag him again in 2013, this time for $7.45 million, but Goldson wants no part of another season in limbo.
"The franchise tag, it's cool. It's not that bad with the money, but everybody wants security," Goldson, 28, said. "In the job that I do, and the position I play, there's a lot that comes with the territory. Security is something that you want at my position, for sure."
Goldson, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, said he will take some time off before returning to training while letting his agent, Ben Dogra, handle the next step in negotiations.
Originally a fourth-round pick in the 2007 draft, Goldson has emerged as one of the NFL's best safeties because of his size (6-2, 200), range and aggressiveness. His fans include Harbaugh, who was uncharacteristically direct when asked if re-signing Goldson was a priority.
"He's somebody that I think you reward," Harbaugh said. "You know he's out there, and opposing offenses know that he's out there. He tackles and does everything that you'd want a safety to do. I feel like you reward those types of people. Who do you reward if you don't reward those types of people?"
Smith, meanwhile, faces an uncertain future. The eight-year veteran wants to be a starting quarterback next season, a role that looks impossible in San Francisco now that Colin Kaepernick looks like a budding star.
The 49ers could give Smith a fresh start by cutting him loose, but Harbaugh indicated that doing so would be a business decision and not because the 49ers owe the quarterback any favors.
"I don't think any player has those wishes granted when they're under contract," Harbaugh said when asked whether Smith had earned the right to have some input into what happens next.
"Everything is different and every scenario is unique. Certainly something that we're not going to delve into and get into specifics at this point."
Smith suffered a concussion and lost his job to Kaepernick at midseason. If Smith is still on the roster beyond April 1, the 49ers will owe him about $8.5 million. That's expensive for a backup, but his experience — and Kaepernick's lack of it — make it plausible that both QBs would stick around.
"We feel good, great, about our quarterback situation," Harbaugh said. "You can't have enough good quarterbacks."
Smith was unavailable for comment Tuesday. One of his teammates, strong safety Donte Whitner, was asked about the possibility that Smith might be elsewhere next season.
"I wish Alex the best. He was a great teammate. If this is his last time … I know he'll go and use the situation this year and what he's been through to fuel him to go get wins and push his team to the playoffs," Whitner said.
"I truly believe that. I truly believe there's something out there for Alex."
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Ohio State's Urban Gaming Club is just one example of all the zany and niche student groups you can find on a huge campus like Ohio State. Currently the UGC is running their fall game of "Infection", with over 200 students playing a week-long, campus wide game of tag. Except with nerf guns. And one team is zombies. Fast zombies that will chase you in between your classes.
Of course there are plenty of precautions taken to ensure everyone's safety during the game (players and onlookers alike). The club's golden rule is this – the "No D-Bag" rule. While there are club officers who overlook play, the game is largely self-regulated with players using the honor code to make sure the game is fun and fair for everyone. And when someone breaks a rule, all the players can call them out for being a "d-bag" and the transgression can be recorded online at the UGC's Infection website.
The game's stats can be tracked online as well. The most recent "casualties" are up for everyone to see, so players can see the human numbers quickly dwindling as the week goes on. Aside from the skirmishes that happen on campus between classes (sometimes you might see some poor sap with a nerf gun being chased by four "zombies" during your lunch break), the game features night missions with specific objectives aimed at larger-scale engagements. Last year the game ended with a huge night mission extraction, where the small amount of remaining human players had to survive on campus while the zombies searched for them. At the end of the night they all gathered around Thompson library to be extracted by a giant cardboard tank (driven Flintstones style) and make it off campus alive and well. It was really a blast to watch.
UGC runs other games through the year, including capture-the-flag matches and a week game of Assassins, which is like Infection with less zombies and more skullduggery. It can be a really entertaining group to be a part of.
Some of us imagine what life might ever be like if there were a zombie apocalypse. UGC's Infection might be the closest you can comfortably get to a similar situation. Get on campus, grab a few like-minded friends and sign-up for some of the UGC games. I can only imagine the kind of camaraderie born from a week-long nerf gun survival fest. You never know how much you valued your friends until you've had to leave them behind for the horde.
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The tradition and practice of Christian Meditation - 4
Reconnecting with inner silence is not only important for adults but even more so in our noisy world for children and young people.
Last week there was a Meditatio Seminar on the teaching of Meditation with Children in Dublin, Ireland. The majority of the audience were teachers and Principals of schools and many were there from Diocesan Education Councils. The presentations were very enthusiastically received – already 20 schools requested to be part of the pilot project to introduce meditation into their schools.
I would like to share with you the introductory talk Laurence Freeman OSB gave on the tradition of our practice of meditation. "Every time we meditate we enter into a great tradition. This sense of tradition is essentially what defines Christian meditation – because meditation itself, of course, is one of the oldest and most universal elements of human wisdom. The meaning and purpose of meditation is described differently but it is found in all the great religious traditions – the contemplative core of religion itself. From a religious point of view human consciousness itself has evolved from and continues to expand into this experience of the transcendent, the infinitely distant and infinitely close mystery of our source of being and the fulfilment of being, God.
Cardinal Newman said that 'the best evidence for God lies within us'. In modern times the existence of God as God came into question. At a philosophical and theological level God is often dismissed, using the scientific method, as a product of human imagination or a projection of human need. This challenge of the idea of God as conventionally defended and asserted by religious institutions has deeply disturbed and unsettled religious complacency. Religious people have had to reconsider fundamental meanings of what they have long taken for granted and what has long been embedded in their social power structures. The advent of the secular age has changed the playing field on which religion encounters other major institutions. Religion can no longer claim automatic social or political privileges. It must argue for itself and be judged on its performance. The Dalai Lama says that the test of all religion is 'does it make people nicer?' that is a fair test but a tough one.
In response to this sea change of modernity Christian faith has been challenged to revisit its own tradition in radical ways – that is, it is forced to go back to its roots. Cardinal Martini's dying words that the church is out of date and needs to reconnect to the spiritual needs of the modern world simply states the obvious truth but, since the Council anyway, one not often expressed by its leadership. Yet there is nothing so new in this need for a renewal of the Church from its roots. Other great periods of renewal like the 11th century reforms which addressed the structures of the church or the 20th century which addressed the liturgy and theological relation to modernity also looked back to their roots as a way of renewal. If a third ecumenical council happens it will perhaps address the spiritual life of the church and its understanding and practice of prayer. We are already in an era that has reclaimed deep and long-neglected aspects of our spiritual tradition. (Laurence Freeman OSB).
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Producer Clay Mitchell of Buckingham, IA, is well known for his knowledge and extensive use of precision ag technologies. Ask Mitchell to gaze into precision agriculture's crystal ball, and he'll tell you about new technologies that will make it possible to apply key crop inputs with highly precise uniformity, dramatically increasing yields.
He sees a future where small robots, ground-penetrating radar or other technologies will detect, map and help replace century-old tile lines, which now crumble unseen, robbing untold yield across the Midwest.
His also envisions technologies that will automatically gather critical information about a farming operation in real time and provide instant access to it in the tractor, in the office, or anywhere with Internet access. A grower will be able to make solid decisions based on information he didn't even know he had gathered.
What Mitchell doesn't think will have a big role anytime soon is variable-rate application. He claims that variable-rate technologies have had negligible benefits to date. In an article titled "Future of Farming Technology" on his farm's Web site (www.mitchellfarm.com), he writes that variable-rate application "is and will be for a long time, hampered by voodoo yield-response estimates that can cause more harm than good." He says there are notable exceptions, such as pivot irrigation field corners, but mostly, uniform applications are far more desirable.
As these trends evolve, use of guidance systems will continue to proliferate. "Automated steering systems are standard on large farms today," Mitchell says. "By some estimates, half of all acres in the U.S. are now covered by some form of steering guidance system."
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Mitchell, who farms with his father Wade in east-central Iowa, thinks that what he call "extreme precision" will be an important contributor to increased productivity in the future. Extreme precision refers to the ability to apply inputs at highly precise rates. Accomplishing that is no small task, especially with fertilizer.
Section-control devices are examples of extreme precision. These devices, which farmers have rapidly adopted over the past two or three years, allow the effective application widths of planters, sprayers and fertilizer rigs to be altered to prevent overlap when coupled with guidance systems.
In addition to using row clutches on his planter to control seed and fertilizer, Mitchell has split his sprayer into 30 sections to reduce spray overlap. He predicts that the trend toward control of ever-finer sections will broaden to include all crop inputs, resulting in savings of both time and inputs.
The potential for input savings from section control already is well documented. "The input savings from section control can be relatively small, but they are quite predictable," Mitchell says.
Section control also saves time, which can be significant. For example, before adopting section control on his sprayer, Mitchell typically spent an hour spraying field and waterway boundaries on a 150-acre field, and another two hours spraying the interior. With section control, outlining the field and waterways isn't required. That saves him an hour, reducing the time to spray the field by a third.
Sophisticated control and monitoring systems also will be critical to the extreme precision trend, Mitchell says. Right now, these systems are available for planters. Similar capabilities will become available for sprayers and fertilizer application rigs over the next decade, he says.
"We haven't paid enough attention to how even fertilizer is applied across the machine," he says. "When universities have studied it, they have found it to be horrendous. It is just not even."
Uneven fertilizer application typically is difficult to see in the field unless it is extreme, Mitchell says. However, evening out applications could boost yields substantially in many instances. "Today, there are fertilizer spread quality issues that can reduce yields by 20%," he says.
The solution in the short term is to regularly calibrate sprayers and fertilizer applicators and to check them frequently to make sure hoses and nozzles aren't plugged. However, it's hard to detect a compressed fertilizer hose, Mitchell notes. "That's where real-time monitoring would be real important," he says.
Long term, Mitchell is confident that real-time monitoring of fertilizer and pesticide delivery will become a reality. "Right now, there are blockage sensors that are kind of crude," he says. "In 10 years, accurate control and monitoring systems will become standard."
Improved water management
Water management in cropping systems also will undergo a revolution. Several manufacturers, including AutoFarm, John Deere, Topcon and Trimble, have introduced real-time kinematic (RTK) tools for ditching, building terraces and levees.
"The biggest difficulty with drainage is just knowing where the old tile lines are and where they have restrictions," Mitchell says. "In the future, when new lines are installed, recording their location with RTK mapping will aid future generations in finding them, but we still need new technologies for detecting old tile."
Research on surface detection using technologies like ground-penetrating radar has yielded only limited success, and millions of dollars spent on subsurface detection technologies for the similar problem of detecting land mines have not solved the challenge.
As an alternative, pipe-crawling robots hooked to video cameras now used in pipelines and city water and sewer lines may come to the rescue, Mitchell says. When linked with RTK systems, these robots will make it possible to develop three-dimensional tile line maps. Making repairs will be far more feasible, too.
"There are only a few crawling robots that will fit in a 4-in.-dia. tile line on the market right now," Mitchell says. "The cheapest ones cost $80,000, but they are out there."
Information at your fingertips
In Mitchell's vision of the future, the logging of critical data about cropping operations will be largely automated. Transferring data from the field to an office computer will be automated as well.
"Farmers have experience with recording information in various software applications," he says. "There is a lot of opportunity for error. And it's often annoying."
Mitchell's system of the future will gather and log a full array of real-time operating data from your tractor's electronic control unit, as well as control and monitoring data from your planter. The same types of data will be automatically logged from other field operations from spraying through harvest.
All this data will be collected in the background in a giant GIS database, where it will remain until you need it. Then you'll be able to call it up via a Google Earth-style graphical interface.
The key to its usability, Mitchell says, is that the reams of data you collect will be available if you need it, but won't require your management time if you don't.
For example, if you're trying to decide on the economics of a tillage operation, you will be able to call up a fuel use map to help in your decision. "You didn't know you collected it, you didn't know you saved it, but you imagined it, and in three taps on the screen, it is there, color gradients showing the fuel usage across the whole field," he notes in his online article.
Mitchell says you will be able to access the information on this system via computers in the field and the office using cellular, satellite or other communications systems as a backbone. The system also will allow real-time monitoring of key implements and monitoring and control of fixed-location assets, such as grain dryers.
Mitchell Farms already has much of this monitoring and control system in place via a full-farm radio and Internet-based communications network. However, the automated information-gathering portion of the system resides mostly in Mitchell's mind's eye.


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You see the following error code and message when you try to download an update to your Xbox 360 console:
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If your Xbox 360 console has been tampered with or modified, it can no longer connect to Xbox Live, install software updates, or play new games that require a console software update. You can still play your existing games offline. Here's how:
Your console can now play your existing games offline. However, any future attempts to sign in to Xbox Live or update your console software will result in an error.
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