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February 2013
Are industries obsolete?
Until recently, the concept of standalone industries made sense. From the Industrial Revolution on, the world's economy has consisted of dozens of compartmentalized collections of companies, each serving its own markets, teaming up with its own suppliers and pursuing its own ways of capturing value. In more settled times, this paradigm worked well; staying within an industry's established lines of business and ways of doing things made competition comparatively straightforward and was the normal path to profitability. In fact, lacking today's digital means to change the game or global opportunities to form new business models, breaking out of the industry box was all but impossible.
Today, however, disruptions in everything from the flow of raw materials to the nature of end markets have conspired to knock even well-rooted industries off-kilter. Fortunately, companies have a variety of technology-enabled ways to smash through the confines of industry walls and unlock new value-laden synergies in pursuit of collaborative opportunities that stretch across multiple business sectors.
The new ecosystems
Cross-industry collaborations can be structured to meet multiple objectives, such as reaching the digital consumer or mastering mobile commerce, and can span multiple industries.
Welcome to the bold new world of business ecosystems, a term first coined two decades ago by James F. Moore, an expert on leadership and change in large-scale systems, in a Harvard Business Review article. Instead of being rigidly grouped around a specific business or branch of manufacturing, ecosystems draw together mutually supportive companies from multiple industries that collectively seek to create differentiated offerings and capture value they could not reach alone. Consider, for instance, how Apple leads an ecosystem that spans at least four industries—personal computers, consumer electronics, information and communications—and now encompasses even more, such as music and TV (see chart).
Breaking out
Because of today's advanced connectivity solutions and value-laden emerging markets, many companies have never been better positioned to engage in multi-industry collaborations. But few have broken out of the static industry box.
They had better figure out a way to do so soon. Several Accenture studies suggest that future growth opportunities will increasingly emerge outside a company's traditional business. And each of these opportunities will require disruptive new approaches and collaborative models.
Meanwhile, the new competitive dynamics will be shaped by two important factors. The first is collectively known as Big Data—increasingly vast pools of information that empower companies to link previously distinct industries.
But even though Big Data is blazing countless fresh paths to growth, in many cases, companies need new ecosystem partners to pursue them. These cohorts can help make up for a lack of internal competence or provide access to information. What's more, the intimate knowledge housed in an organization's customer databases can open potential new revenue streams beyond a company's core business.
The pursuit of new business opportunities depends on the availability of increasingly scarce financing, which is the second factor shaping the new competitive dynamics. This scarcity, along with the instability in financial markets, is spurring the emergence of innovative ways for companies to obtain the capital they need.
At the same time, burgeoning public debt is forcing governments to reposition themselves as project initiators that depend on outside sources of funding when it comes to public-sector procurement. (see Sidebar). Sharing costs and risks has therefore become a necessity for both private- and public-sector companies.
For these new multi-industry collaborations, opportunities will be found in three broad areas: emerging markets, the environment and maturing Western markets.
Emerging markets are expected to drive up to 70 percent of future growth for multinational corporations. But penetrating these markets can present serious obstacles for most companies. In many cases, organizations will need to develop innovative business models to meet specific local market needs.
Leading companies no longer view environmental concerns as a barrier to growth, seeing them instead as opportunities to be pursued with partner enterprises. The new sources of growth being created by environmental issues often require a collaborative strategy that crosses industries. For example, offerings focused on energy efficiency are already being created by ecosystems of energy providers, technology providers, construction companies and more.
Maturing Western markets still contain significant numbers of sophisticated, affluent consumers. Instead of writing off these markets, companies need to capture value by pursuing new sources of competitive differentiation. Positioning an organization as an innovative market disruptor can be both risky and difficult, but it remains one of the best ways to generate significant profitable growth.
These growth opportunities have been spotted by a number of organizations that have already seen the benefits of collaboration and have created cross-industry ecosystems.
Consider so-called smart cities. In the Netherlands, the city of Amsterdam teamed with energy network company Alliander, telecom operator KPN and city-affiliated agency Amsterdam Innovation Motor (AIM) to create an experimental cross-industry public-private ecosystem to reduce the city's carbon footprint. Looking beyond a basic commitment to funding clean infrastructure, the project partners built a platform where a diverse array of different-size companies can share expertise and jointly lead projects to improve urban living, working and mobility, and, at the same time, reduce the impact these projects have on the environment.
Electric vehicles also offer a compelling illustration of how cross-industry ecosystems can usher in major paradigm shifts. Better Place, a venture capital-backed company, is structuring a new collaboration that ranges from the development of EVs with removable batteries by automakers to the installation of networks of battery charging and swapping stations.
Better Place wants to introduce a totally new transportation business model by positioning itself as the provider of an end-to-end network and service solution for electric vehicles. The company has established an ecosystem that links public authorities, which support development through tax credits; automakers, which develop EV technology; battery suppliers; energy suppliers; and investors.
At the same time, disruptive initiatives involving multiple industries are transforming the way we travel. Some ecosystems have already successfully deployed tools like location-based smartphone apps in airports. The "My Way Aéroports de Paris" smartphone app enables Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport terminals and Android smartphone providers to collaborate to help travelers navigate their way to airport shops, restaurants, parking terminals and, ultimately, their flights.
Other companies could develop ecosystems using location-based technology as well. Clothing retailer Gap, for instance, in partnership with a credit-card company, has introduced the Gap Mobile4U location-based service for text-enabled mobile phones, which sends Gap customers text messages with personal offers for deals at the nearest store.
More generally, highly diverse segments of the population have come to expect uninterrupted connectivity and virtual interaction. As a result, consumers no longer perceive travel as a solitary experience; regardless of age or whether their trip is for business or pleasure, today's travelers want to be connected throughout their trips. Transportation providers, Internet service providers and a vast array of other businesses can collaborate to enhance the travel experience and address this emerging trend.
Successful cross-industry ecosystem plays will differ markedly based on whether they are in emerging or developed markets.
Emerging markets offer particularly fertile ground for developing cross-industry ecosystems, in part because ways of doing business and customer expectations both tend to be more flexible than those in developed economies. In some emerging markets, for example, many consumers have long preferred mobile over fixed-line telephony due to the decrepit state of most landline networks. As a consequence, companies have an easier time launching such cross-industry plays as mobile payments or e-healthcare.
In Pakistan, Telenor Pakistan partnered with Tameer Microfinance Bank in 2009 to introduce branchless banking for the first time to the country. Launched under the brand Easypaisa, the service is available to anyone in Pakistan through any authorized shop, Telenor Franchise, Telenor Sales & Service Center or Tameer Bank branch. Customers can, among other things, pay bills, send and receive money from either within the country or from abroad, purchase airtime for their handsets and open a mobile bank account. Currently, there are 18,000 Easypaisa shops operating in 700 cities across Pakistan.
Health services players have adopted an innovative model that integrates information and communications technologies with healthcare to create new value for patients and caregivers alike. In Mali, ecosystems of telecom and healthcare partners have introduced remote X-ray image analysis performed at often-distant regional hospitals. Alcatel-Lucent, Fondation Orange Mali, Afrique Initiatives, Medicament Export (Medex) and Kafo Yeredeme worked together to develop Pesinet, a service that offsets the country's shortage of doctors by greatly reducing physicians' need to travel, allowing them to focus on diagnostics and advice from afar. Partnering with the Ministry of Health in Mali, Pesinet provides remote access to primary healthcare for children by capturing data and transmitting it over the GSM mobile network to doctors for offsite monitoring.
In mature, extremely competitive markets, cross-industry collaborations need to create significant value or they will likely fail. Energy performance contracts provide a viable example of what works.
These contracts add value in what may seem like static markets—buildings are already constructed, customers have existing agreements with their utility and consumption patterns are established. With a performance contract, however, an ecosystem of partners, typically from the energy, construction and financial services industries, commits to reducing a home or building owner's energy bill, carrying out any necessary refurbishment or upgrades of energy-efficient equipment and systems and encouraging behavioral changes to reduce consumption. If energy consumption is lower than the target set by the owner in the contract, the company or ecosystem managing the contract receives a performance fee.
An effective energy performance ecosystem will focus on results rather than resources. It will deploy expertise in new construction and energy installations, and offer a financing solution (with the investment repaid by the resulting energy savings) as well as an insurance solution (given the uncertainty of the gains). Germany has been a pioneer in this type of contract, which is now being adopted in other countries.
These approaches remain experimental and are not easy to get right. To succeed, it is essential for service providers to develop innovative tools, techniques and expertise that can reduce the customer's energy consumption even more than expected.
Although cross-industry initiatives have already proven their value, most companies still have not created an ecosystem. Here are some suggestions for jump-starting these partnerships.
A successful ecosystem requires strong governance. Significant project resources must be allocated to forging links among partners, which means much more than simply ensuring that everyone is aligned with common objectives or when resolving conflicts. At each stage, project managers need to make use of the wealth of stakeholder expertise to multiply the value created and address issues as they arise. Project managers must also ensure open access to data and find innovative ways to use the collective database.
A balanced collaborative project management model will include several elements. Objectives and timelines must be clear and shared, for example, and the remuneration for each of the partners needs to be spelled out. In addition, leaders must authorize all trials and pilot initiatives.
Moreover, a systematic approach and specific tools will be essential for key project components such as business case management. In particular, project managers need to shepherd the creation and implementation of forward-facing business models that align with the interests of all stakeholders.
Information systems play a fundamental role in deploying and operating these new ecosystems. An open information platform enables companies to integrate the critical components of a smart city or other ecosystem and make them "interoperable" across different systems and stakeholders.
State-of-the-art solutions also include cross-functional information platforms that are hosted in the cloud and available as a service. This approach has multiple advantages: New features and services can be deployed faster, the platform's partner companies do not need to build their own systems and all can access cross-industry data regarding their common end customers. As a result, the information system is no longer simply a function but rather a customer-centered growth driver.
What's more, the entire ecosystem needs an entrepreneurial dynamic and a "test and learn" philosophy that sees trials as learning opportunities. That means pursuing several possible scenarios at once, welcoming new ideas and innovative concepts, and acquiring the knowledge needed to implement them.
The key to a successful disruptive strategy lies in the ability to manage the different aspects of these explorations and to chart a course to concrete, viable results. This strategy works best when a fully engaged top management team empowers a leader to meld the different and often far-flung elements of the ecosystem into a cohesive whole.
The Amsterdam Smart City platform, for example, spans a range of urban planning and environmental projects. A pivotal clause in the partnership agreement stipulates that the platform must act as a vehicle to cascade best practices among partners, small and medium enterprises, industrial companies and local authorities.
The platform is "open" not only because it allows information exchange and participant involvement but also because it ensures that interdependencies and loyalties between partners are taken into account. Being open also enables the platform to support the development of differentiating business intelligence and analytic approaches.
Shift from being owners to collaborators
Being part of an extended, open ecosystem supports a shift from a sense of ownership—of customers, suppliers, innovations—to a collaborative, networking mindset that wants to develop ideas and share successes.
A variety of possible alliance structures exist, each having a larger or smaller impact on their member organizations. Integrating an appropriate, flexible ecosystem can represent the first step toward this new strategy, avoiding the often-costly process of fully merging with a partner that might have a fundamentally different culture and operating model.
While reports of the demise of traditional industries might be greatly exaggerated, new opportunities to reach across industries to capture growth unavailable within traditional sector confines have become feasible for a growing number of companies. Even though the strategy is in its infancy, companies have only a limited timeframe to lock in desirable partners and build sustainable ecosystems.
For many leaders, moving out of the industry comfort zone can be a difficult decision, but changing market dynamics and increased pressure on growth can make it a necessary one.
Although originally, multiparty, cross-industry collaboration mainly consisted of public-private partnerships, it actually encompassed a wide variety of different models. More than half of these partnerships in emerging countries between 1990 and 2001 involved cooperation between the government and the private sector that was limited to the founding contract. These agreements also included technical and quality objectives, although they were secondary to the initial issue of financing.
Today, traditional public-private partnership contracts are considered too complex; they are also considered inflexible because they lock participants in for extended periods (often 20 to 60 years), making it extremely difficult to adapt to unexpected shifts in technology or environmental concerns. In the area of municipal services, however, an entirely different approach is emerging.
A number of "smart city" initiatives reflect renewed interest in both public-private and private-private partnerships based on simple and innovative collaborative business models. These partnerships provide innovative ways for cities and their stakeholders to work together to access the resources needed to effect change. (Back to story)
About the authors
Cedric Vatier leads Accenture's Strategy and Sustainability groups in France, Mauritius, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. He is based in Paris.


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Koster review: The hilarious Izzard of '13
Mashantucket — Anyone who's ever studied Latin knows it's a bitch of a language. And the ablative case? What were they thinking?!
Eddie Izzard's take: that in fact Roman foot soldiers had such a difficult time trying to negotiate the various ablative declensions, in describing the wily efforts of the Punic Carthaginian military genius Hannibal, that their own language brought about the Empire's downfall.
If that sounds arcane and, frankly, not all that interesting or even funny, you've gravely underestimated the comic brilliance of Izzard.
This out-of-nowhere bit comprised the British comedian's encore after an 85-minute performance Friday in the mostly-full MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods. Also an accomplished actor, Izzard's impression of a menial soldier mentally ticking off the various -us, -um Latin endings — like an awkward schoolboy — as he tries to impart valuable reconnaissance info to his commander, was one of the funniest things I've seen.
It's also fairly typical subject matter for the acutely intelligent Izzard — which is to say, there's no logical way to write a flowchart for what he might talk about during any given concert. Those familiar know and love his frenetic style: He speaks rapidly in a voice filled with joy and cynical wonder, frequently pausing to act out whatever joke or observation he's communicating. It's also a much-anticipated trait that Izzard frequently goes off-topic into new bits or anecdotes.
These are then brought to sudden halts as he realizes how far astray he's wandered, and are punctuated by one of two catchphrases: "And so anyway," or "So ... what was I talking about?" Though these are certainly part of the act by this point, it's also astonishingly obvious that Izzard is frequently ad-libbing new stuff even as it speeds through his brain.
It's said that Kierkegaard's greatest frustration was that ideas occurred to him with such dazzling quickness he couldn't write them down before he forgot them.
Watching Izzard, you get the same impression. His brain is a wasp's nest of information overload about how odd and frequently moronic our world is — and humor is his therapeutic way of coping. In that spirit, Friday's performance seemed to be Izzard's difficulty with the idea of the existence of God.
He managed to tie this theme to myriad and otherwise disassociative topics: why one doesn't need fingering to play a trumpet; how ironic it would be if a Native American casino was built on a Native American graveyard; human and goat sacrifice; the difficulty of computing fractions in "The Lord of the Rings;" why anything said while smoking a pipe sounds wise; and how sad it is that men with high-pitched voices can never be great leaders ...
... At least until the MGM crowd heard Izzard's falsetto version of Shakespeare's "Into the breech" gallantry from "Henry V." At that point, we'd have followed Eddie anywhere.
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- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 (15-oonce) can white hominy, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped country or serrano ham (optional)
- 1/2 cup diced (1/4 inch) onion
- 1/2 cup diced (1/4 inch) green bell pepper
- 1/2 cup diced (1/4 inch) red bell pepper
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1/8 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes
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- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
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- Toss cauliflower with oil, kosher salt, and pepper in a bowl. Spread in 1 layer in a shallow (1-inch-deep) baking pan and roast, turning over with tongs halfway through roasting, until golden brown and tender, 20 to 25 minutes total. Transfer cauliflower with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, then carefully pour oil from baking pan through a fine-mesh sieve into a small bowl.
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- Meanwhile, heat butter and 2 tablespoons strained oil in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat until foam subsides, then cook ham (if using), stirring, 2 minutes. Add onion and bell peppers and cook, stirring, until softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in garlic, red pepper flakes, and bay leaf and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add vinegar and stock and simmer briskly, uncovered, until liquid is reduced by about half, 12 to 15 minutes.
- Stir in hominy mixture and corn and simmer, uncovered, 2 minutes. Add cauliflower and salt to taste and simmer, stirring once or twice, until heated through, about 2 minutes. Stir in parsley.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories434
- Carbohydrates22 g(7%)
- Fat38 g(58%)
- Protein6 g(11%)
- Saturated Fat14 g(72%)
- Sodium406 mg(17%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber5 g(22%)
- Monounsaturated Fat19 g
- Cholesterol65 mg(22%)


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Baseball Trick Shots
Check out these guys showcasing their bat control. Pretty great use of props too. I'm not sure if you guys know what Fungo Golf is, but it's a game mostly pitchers play to pass the time. Walk around the field, pick out a target to hit, and hit it with a baseball using a fungo. Something tells me these dudes would be All-Star Fungo Golf players.
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At our charity fundraising night at Sandplace in the Looe Valley, we raised £454.50 for Help for Heroes – the British charity providing direct, practical support to wounded, injured and sick service personnel, veterans, and their families. 1940's crooner Andy Marshall entertained local residents during a Gourmet Bangers and Mash meal at a community based fundraising event 'Crooning for Christmas'.
Throwing the doors open in aid of Help for Heroes, we decided to support this worthy cause for the second year running. Our hotel, Polraen Country House Hotel at Sandplace, is an ideal venue to host a community party, and we were supported by fellow Sandplace residents including Adam Grundy and Caroline Foster, (seen here with 1940s Crooner Andy Marshall, dressed as a Land Army Girl).
Planned some time ago to foster community spirit, the event brought out the best of British in the face of adversity as it couldn't have taken place at a better time to help lift the spirits of local residents. The previous two weeks had been a frustrating time for everyone in the Looe Valley. An unprecedented combination of scheduled roadworks and a landslide in Looe following recent heavy rains had isolated communities severing bus routes and creating traffic chaos on the back lanes as we were forced to cope with 'rat run' detours. We're pleased the scheduled roadworks on the A387 are now complete and the road is now fully open between Widegates and Sandplace. Not only was this event for a really worthy cause, it helped us to send out a strong message that businesses in the Looe Valley are open for business as usual, including Sunday roast lunch. We're particularly relieved the public transport is back on track. The Looe Valley train is running and the 573 bus has resumed a service from Looe, detouring via Widegates and Morval to reach Sandplace, Duloe, St Keyne and Liskeard.
We owe a lot of thanks to Andy Marshall, 1940's crooner, a brilliant talent with an amazing voice, who generously travelled up from St Columb Major near Newquay to Croon for Christmas at Polraen. Thanks Andy!


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The family of a special education student has filed a claim with the Temecula Valley Unified School District for unspecified damages after district officials knowingly exposed their son to "difficult social interactions with an undercover police officer, placing him in harm's way" during an on-campus drug sting that led to his arrest in December.
The family filed a claim -- which is a precursor to filing a lawsuit -- with the district last week, more than a month after an administrative law judge barred the district's attempts to expel the student.
The student, who is not being named because he was 17 at the time of the bust, was left "to fend for himself, anxious and alone, against an undercover police officer," Judge Marian H. Tully wrote in March.
According to the family's claim, district personnel knew the student suffered from a number of disorders -- including autism and bi-polar, anxiety and impulse control disorders -- when they subjected him to an investigation that caused him to be "entrapped, arrested, interrogated, incarcerated, prosecuted and sustain significant emotional distress, physical injuries and severe anxiety."
The family also claims that the district failed to notify them in a timely manner when their son was arrested in December. He was caught up in the sting at three Temecula high schools with 21 other students suspected of possessing and selling drugs -- including marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, heroin, LSD and prescription drugs. The family learned of the student's arrest upon calling Chaparral High when he did not return from school, according to the claim.
According to testimony during a series of hearings in February, an undercover officer had befriended the student shortly after the teen transferred to Chaparral. The officer repeatedly requested the teen to purchase marijuana for him at a cost of $20, which the student ultimately did.
Although the student was reinstated at Chaparral after the judge overruled the district's attempts to expel him, "the district, not (Chaparral), has begun a course of retaliatory and harassing conduct" against the student and his family, according to the claim.
Temecula Valley Unified officials deny any wrongdoing and are continuing to research options to address the judge's opinion, district attorney Sarah Sutherland said in a statement.
"The district continues to act lawfully and in furtherance of its mission to educate students and better prepare them for successful adulthood," Sutherland said. "Any and all claims filed against the district will be considered and processed in accordance with district policy and procedure, and the law."


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Creative writing is one of the most fulfilling ways to express yourself, and you're never too young or too old to give it a try. Come on in. The water's fine.
This course includes both fiction and nonfiction prose.
The 101 courses do not include workshopping of student projects, but students write and receive feedback on writing exercises and assignments.
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This course explores fiction and types of creative nonfiction, and the techniques that go with them. Course components:
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Less then seven weeks to go!!!
"The Hunger Games" has delivered a new trailer, one that offers little new insight into the film, though we do get some close-ups of Elizabeth Banks and Stanley Tucci looking super creepy. We do get to see Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen sporting four different hairstyles--so hard to choose a favorite.
You know the story by now (or you don't care, in which case what are you doing here?), Katniss lives in a world where every year 24 kids are selected to represent their community in a fight to the death and she volunteers when her little sister's name is chosen during the lottery. And true to the "Twilight" formula, there are two dreamy bohunks, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth vying for her affections. Check it:
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The Speakers Bureau—under the auspices of YU's Center for the Jewish Future—offers more than 115 faculty from the University's undergraduate, graduate and professional schools and affiliates to serve as keynote speakers and panelists on over 150 areas for lectures, conferences and symposia at schools, community centers, civic organizations and synagogues throughout North America.
The Speakers Bureau serves to inform the public about the wealth of impressive faculty at YU and encourage synagogues, organizations, nonprofit organizations and other colleges and universities to engage our speakers. The Speakers Bureau website provides detailed information on the speakers and the critical topics they address. There are full resumes and photos of faculty and their areas of expertise, as well as the types of events in which they have previously participated. Visitors to the site can also access information and tools to promote their events, establish budgets and procedures for hiring speakers.


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Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when this is happening. (i.e. it's not time machine.) and I have plenty of free memory (800MB to 1.3GB out of 6GB total) so it shouldn't be paging. I don't see any apps in top that are blocked on I/O when this starts. (once it's going then I see things start to pile up... but everything I see in there appears to be victim.)
What tools can I use to get a sense for what process is causing the disk io?
I think it started with 10.6.6. :( I don't recall ever hitting this with 10.6.5.


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Ryan Clark officially was ruled out Sunday against the Washington Redskins because of a concussion.
The Pittsburgh Steelers safety suffered the head injury on a third-quarter tackle. Clark was replaced by Ryan Mundy, leaving Pittsburgh without both of its starting safeties in a 27-12 victory.
Will Allen started in place of Troy Polamalu, who was ruled out again this week because of the strained calf he reinjured in Week 5.
The Steelers weren't tested by the Redskins' passing game, but losing Clark against the New York Giants next Sunday would only further compromise the team's back four. The 33-year-old safety has played in six consecutive games since missing the season opener.
UPDATE: Clark told CBSSports.com's Jason La Canfora in a text message that he feels good and recalls the details of the game, including his hit on Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III.
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Exposing Misunderstandings
The opposite of good is "best intentions". And to what extent "best intentions" can deviate from their goal is currently demonstrated by the conflict between Femen activists and feminist Muslims. The activists of Femen, so it goes, are understood to be the embodiment of "good", standing for liberalism, freedom, and emancipation.
And so that this is clear to everyone, the women of Femen promote their cause through nudity at every occasion, thereby highlighting their vulnerability. They first managed to achieve great success with their many manifestations against sexism and the trafficking of women during the 2012 Soccer World Cup held in the Ukraine, Femen's country of origin. The activists demonstrated naked, yet were unobtainable. This image functioned well as a form of protest against prostitution.
However, the message of bare breasts does not translate well into every culture. This was made evident during the latest large-scale event by Femen – the "Topless Jihad Day" held on 4 April. Around the world, women exposed themselves in front of mosques and Tunisian embassies with the message "Fuck your morals" emblazoned on their chests. Since then, Femen's web site features two naked Islam-green breasts under the slogan "Titslamism" and the demand "Free Amina".
The Tunisian Amina Tyler had herself photographed bare-breasted and with the words "Fuck your morals" painted in black on her upper torso. After publicizing the photos on Facebook, the Islamic preacher Adel Almi demanded that Tyler be flogged or stoned to death. The 19-year-old Tyler appeared on Tunisian television in mid-March and said she wanted to demonstrate for the liberation of women.
"We don't need you," say Muslim women
At the same time that Tyler was holding a video interview with the French television station Canal Plus on the weekend, thanking Femen for its support and relating how she has had death threats and warnings of an acid attack on her face via Facebook and telephone, thousands of women Muslims were mobilizing against Femen. Members of the group "Muslim Women Against Femen" issued an open letter making their position clear. "We don't need you," it said.
The case of Amina, which served as the trigger for "Topless Jihad Day", has thereby been shunted to one side. In their open letter, the Muslim women are opposed to being represented by Femen as a helpless group that needs to be emancipated by outsiders. "Muslim women are able to defend themselves," the letter states and advises Femen to "occupy yourselves with fighting against male dominance, but not against Islam."
The Femen activist Inna Shevchenko has not been dissuaded from her course by the public expressions of anger or the thousands of messages via Facebook and Twitter from the "Muslimah Pride" movement. "The entire history of the human race is full of stories of slaves claiming they were not slaves." Shevchenko, a co-founder of Femen, refuses to grant her opponents the same right to define who is a slave or not. In a commentary in the English edition of the Huffington Post, she said, "They write on their posters that they don't need to be freed, but you can see in their eyes that they are crying out for help."
The headscarf as a symbol of bondage
The supposed common commitment to the emancipation of women has been transformed into a conflict about condescension and ignorance. "We don't have to conform to your ways in order to be emancipated," writes one of the supporters of "Muslimah Pride Day", which started as an on-line campaign the day after "Topless Jihad Day". Hundreds of women have uploaded their photos on the corresponding Facebook page under the slogans "Nudity does not liberate me and I do not need saving" or simply "I am free."
In the eyes of Femen activists, the fact that many of the women in the photos are wearing a headscarf is proof that they are not free. "Stockholm syndrome" comments a Twitter user under #MuslimahPride, following the same vein as Shevchenko with her slave rhetoric. The Stockholm syndrome refers to the phenomenon in which hostages express feelings of sympathy towards their captors.
This is exactly the kind of logic that denies Muslim women the ability to judge with a clear head, and it infuriates the anti-Femen movement. "We are fed up with privileged women constantly propagating the same stereotype of helpless Muslim women needing support from the West," write the Muslim activists in their open letter against Femen. The struggle of "women against their oppressors" proclaimed by Femen has turned into a conflict of the "West against Muslims."
Nadia Pantel
© Qantara.de 2013
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de


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Well, here's everything that's good about drifting.
Beater cars, as sideways as possible, bashing into each other. And it all went down at my favorite track, Englishtown Raceway down in Old Bridge, NJ.
It's the new Thrash Brothers video, better than the last one. Probably because of that jump Mister Miata Dave pulled off.


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Jim Prisciandaro
posted on Sunday, March 06, 2011 - 4:47 pm
Hello Drs. Muthen,
I was wondering if it were possible to estimate a bivariate HMM model in Mplus, similar to an auto-regressive cross-lag panel model but with latent categorical variables instead of observed continuous variables (i.e., two univariate hidden markov processes with across-construct cross-lags)? I tried to estimate such a model, and the output suggested that the order of some of my regressions (i.e., the cross lags) were not allowable. Construct one was represented by c1-c3 and construct two was represented by c4-c6; the error was specifically in regards to C3 ON C5, but I'm guessing it wasn't the only problematic ON statement.
If such a bivariate model is indeed not possible, is there another latent variable model that you can think of that would be appropriate for looking at occasion by occasion, cross-construct associations between two repeatedly measured variables?
Jim Prisciandaro
posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 - 8:44 am
Just wanted to clarify, the model I am referring to is known as a "coupled hidden markov model" or "CHMM" in the HMM literature (I realized "bivariate" could refer to a lot of different scenarios). I believe the model was originally developed by Matthew Brand:
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 - 10:01 am
I think you should be able to do that simply by relabeling the class variables. Construct one should be represented by c1 c3 and c5. Construct two should be represented by c2 c4 and c6. The way you currently have it C3 ON C5 is not allowed because C3 would be assumed to have been determined earlier in time than C5.
Jim Prisciandaro
posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 - 2:27 pm
Thank you Tihomir for this amazingly simple solution!
However, I have a question regarding the timing of the latent
categories. The coupled HMM model I described consists of two
univariate HMM processes that are related to one another through
cross-lags (construct 1 to construct 2 and vice versa). If construct 1
= c1, c3, and c5, and construct 2 = c2, c4, and c6, does this imply in
the model that c1 occurred in time before c2 (and c3 before c4, etc)?
In reality, c1 and c2 were measured at the same time, c3 and c4 at the
same time, etc (i.e., 3 waves of data).
Relatedly, I am confused by my output which gives me transition
probabilities for c1 by c2, c2 by c3 and so on, even though some of
these pairs/associations are not specified in my model (e.g., c1 and
c2, which represents "time 1" for both constructs). So, I have two
questions: 1) Is it problematic that relations among latent categories
appear to have been estimated that I didn't specify, and 2) How would
I obtain the transition probabilities I am interested in (e.g., c1 and
c3, c3 and c5).
In general, is my model representing two univariate HMMs interacting
via cross-lags (i.e., what I want); or something else I am not aware
of (e.g., a single HMM chain that criss-crosses between construct 1
and 2)?
Thanks - Jim
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 - 4:13 pm
The setup does not imply that C1 occurs before C2. It implies that C1 can be used as a predictor for C2, however it doesn't have to be.
The transition probabilities that Mplus computes are designed for a single HMM, so I think you should ignore those. Instead you should compute them from the model, see Chapter 14 in the users guide "LOGISTIC REGRESSION PARAMETERIZATION".
Jim Prisciandaro
posted on Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 12:22 pm
Thank you Tihomir,
I tried calculating the transition probabilities from the model parameters, but the formulas provided in Chapter 14 in the users guide are not working for me; whereas the formulas are for single HMMs, each latent categorical variable in my HMM is predicted by the previous latent variable of the same construct (AR) and the previous latent variable of the second construct (cross-lag). I tried modifying the formulas to incorporate the cross-lags, but I am coming up with incorrect probabilities (using the one or two printed transition matrices in mplus that are relevant to my model as a reference). I calculated the transition probabilities correctly for a separate, single HMM model, so I know I am generally using the formulas correctly, I am just not extending them properly. Would you please provide me with the formulas mplus uses to compute transition probabilities for an HMM model when more than one latent categorical variable (i.e., AR and cross-lag) is specified as predicting a subsequent latent categorical variable?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 - 11:14 am
We would have to see your run to efficiently guide you with this. So this is a support question. Please send your input, output, data, and valid license number to
Jim Prisciandaro
posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 - 11:39 am
Hi Bengt,
I don't have an up to date support contract, which is what I'm guessing you mean by "valid" license number.
Given, then, that you can't help me with my particular model, I'm hoping you can provide me with a general formula that MPlus uses to construct transition matrices in cases where a latent categorical variable is predicted by two other latent categorical variables (as opposed to one)? My situation is a "coupled HMM" or HMM cross-lag panel model, but I believe this question would equally apply to an HMM with first and second order markov relationships allowed. I can't find mention of how transition matrices are generally calculated in MPlus in these situations in the manual or technical appendices. I've been able to find formulas for calculating transition matrices in the face of covariates elsewhere on the forum, but not in the face of multiple preceding latent categorical variables.
Thanks for your help,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 - 4:01 pm
The formula is a direct generalization of the one Tihomir pointed to in the UG - the top of page 447 table for a single predictor variable c1. For your case of c3 regressed on c1 and c2, c3 on c1 adds one b parameter and c3 on c2 adds another b parameter; when either c1 or c2 are at their last category, they don't contribute.
Jim Prisciandaro
posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 - 4:50 pm
Thank you, Bengt!
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