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33 Stores That Don't Ask You To Leave Your Dog Outside While You Shop
*Note: If your dog is not a service dog, do not bring them into a store that is not dog-friendly. Additionally, many chain stores (including ones on this list) leave it up to the manager to decide whether their individual locations allow dogs or not. The best way to ensure you can bring your pooch inside is to call ahead and find out that specific store's policy.
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The leaves are turning, the mulled wine is flowing, the marshmallows are toasting. While the change in season signifies the start of many wonderful and time-honored traditions, it also means 'tis about to be the season for lots and lots of shopping.
The daunting task of checking every box on your list can seem a little more manageable when you've got your trusty sidekick in tow. More and more stores have adopted a dog-friendly policy, check out our roundup of 33 national stores that making the holidays a lot less waggravating.
"Look! I'm a lab-rarian!"
2. Gander Mtn
"I'm basically a wolf."
3. Academy
"New friend, please gimme a ball…"
"All those long walks have paid off!"
5. Michaels
"Left! LEFT! DIY dog treat kit!"
6. Hobby Lobby
"Too big, or just right?"
7. Ross
"Ross has a snack aisle?! I love Ross!"
8. Sephora
"Beauty school drop out? More like beauty school knock out!"
9. Anny Taylor/Ann Taylor Loft
"Put the pants in the bag, and I promise I won't eat them."
10. Tiffany & Co.
"I'm a diamond, a diamond in the ruff."
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12. Hallmark
"Shop till you drop, or down-stay, I always say!"
13. Lowe's
***UPDATE 5/29/15*** According to their Facebook page, Lowes is no longer a dog-friendly store.
"No I will not help you put together that lamp, but I will judge you for trying!"
14. Home Depot
"Please choose the blue paint, it will look great when I step in it and walk all over the house!"
15. Pottery Barn
"My tail has broken 63 things in here today… is that a new record?"
16. Macy's
"Is this where you disappear to on the weekends while I have to pee?? Smells weird".
17. Bass Pro Shops
"Are those real fish??"
18. Barnes and Noble
"Not sure if green floor is grass or not, will pee on it anyway".
19. LUSH Cosmetics
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"I mean… if I'm going to jump on the couch as soon as you leave anyways I might as well make sure it's comfortable".
21. Gap
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24. Anthropologie
"Mom that dress looks great! Can we go now?"
25. Free People
"That. Does. Not. Fit. You".
26. Foot Locker
"Are these the kind that make you jump higher? I need mad ups."
27. Bebe
"My outfit still looks better #AuNaturel".
28. Nordstrom
"We've been here six hours, I'm hiding in the basement next time I hear you say Half Yearly Sale".
29. Old Navy
"Day 16, Humans still think I am part of display".
"I always wear pearls while shopping at Saks… duh".
"I need 100 bags of dog food! No questions please! Oh, and throw in all that Turkey Jerky".
32. The Apple Store
"Dude. The iWatch is laaaaaaaaame."
33. Strand Bookstore
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The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend
Leigh Montville
Doubleday: 400 pp., $27.50
For men of a certain age, Evel Knievel is a touchstone of innocence lost, vaguely held in the memory bank as an emblem of how easily and simply wonderment once came to a fan-boy of American sports.
In the 1970s, Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil clad in a white jumpsuit, flew over cars and buses and canyons (well, he had issues with the canyons) and became a branded entity on ABC's "Wide World of Sports," on which he would appear 17 times in 10 years, and drew the highest ratings in the show's history (some 55 million viewers) when he jumped over 14 Greyhound buses at the Kings Island Amusement Park near Cincinnati in 1975.
The jump was one of his patented comebacks; earlier that year Knievel attempted to jump 13 single-decker buses at London's Wembley Stadium. He didn't make it (he always seemed to hit that last bus or van or safety ramp) and suffered, among other things, a broken right hand, a compressed fracture of the fourth and fifth vertebrae in the lower part of his spine, and a fractured left pelvis.
"The question always was about how many bones he had broken," Leigh Montville writes in his engrossing new biography, "Evel." "The answers varied — at the end of his career, he would settle on 37 major bones, 14 operations."
There are resonances in revisiting a kooky legend like Knievel, not least of which is that when Knievel was big, televised sport consisted of a choice-less three broadcast networks. Whatever "Wide World" served up each week came with a certain arch, unchecked authority.
Was Knievel, who died at age 69 in 2007, an athlete? "Evel" doesn't debate this (it's unclear whether the daredevil even exercised). But his stunts deserve a place in the pantheon of televised sports as an iconic kind of cinéma vérité that played at the intersection of physical daring and Romanesque voyeurism.
"He was a creation of network television," Montville quotes boxing promoter Bob Arum as saying. "It was totally non-purposeful …, totally crap. That was what he was. That was what that was. There's always a market for that."
But that assessment seems uncharitable if understandable coming from Arum, who was exposed to Knievel's anti-Semitic remarks while promoting the infamous Skycycle jump attempt over Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8, 1974.
The Snake River episode — lavishly recounted by Montville over several chapters, the tension building alongside the hijinks — encapsulated Knievel's strange magnetism and the buzz he could create. There was chaos at the campgrounds (portable toilets set ablaze, free sex), hubris (Knievel jetting around in a Lear to promote the event, drinking, carousing and shooting his mouth off), issues with the vehicle ("Work on the Skycycle, the rocket, had hit a snag …") and a dud climax, Knievel's parachute deploying before the rocket left the launch track.
Knievel, in the end, drifted down, down, down to the canyon floor. That morning, President Gerald R. Ford had pardoned former President Richard M. Nixon. America pardoned Knievel, but only to a point. The daredevil had committed what we now know is a cardinal sin of televised sport: He failed to produce a highlight.
Montville, a former Boston Globe columnist and Sports Illustrated staffer who has tackled sports legends known ("Ted Williams") and less known ("The Mysterious Montague"), has an obvious passion for the era of sports that would abide a unique character like Knievel, who by various accounts was a hard-drinking, abusive lout, his swagger and high living always this side of unattractive or pathetic.
In the pre-Enlightenment era of sports watching (no strength-of-schedule rationalism or "fantasy impact stats," no quest for absolute certainty brought on by the referee's announcement, "The play on the field is under review"), fans and sports journalism were more enamored with storytelling, real or manufactured. This raconteur-ish approach fits "Evel" even if it muddles the journalism with the provenance of quotes at times sacrificed in the interest of pacing. Of course, much about Knievel veers into the apocryphal. When actor George Hamilton was engaged to portray Knievel in a biopic, Montville writes, "Hamilton interviewed a bunch of the young emerging screenwriters, including George Lucas and Paul Schraeder and maybe even Spielberg."
"Maybe even" Spielberg? According to Hamilton's own autobiography, quoted here, Knievel, angered by what he'd been told was a critical portrayal of him, summoned Hamilton to his Hollywood motel and ordered the actor to read the script at gunpoint.
Ah, the '70s, not just in Hollywood but at the Southern California racing ovals of Indio, Gardena and Ontario. As Montville hints, Knievel exuded a kind of "Boogie Nights" aura — "his own musk smell," as one promoter puts it — wherever he went as a star (he liked Filthy McNasty's on the Sunset Strip).
Despite all that, he was never far, literally or figuratively, from his Butte, Mont., roots; Knievel had married a Butte girl and kept a home and family there after he got famous. Born Robert Craig Knievel, he had been "a classic semi-orphan Butte kid" who was left with his paternal grandparents as a child, in a hard place where the predominant activities were copper mining and drinking. Knievel went from high-school dropout to inveterate thief and shakedown artist to regional salesman for the Combined Life Insurance Co., out of Chicago.
This last stop, as Montville theorizes, is where Knievel really found himself — as an acolyte of Combined's founder, W. Clement Stone, whose principles included, "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
In Knievel's case, he
a star by missing.
Montville wisely whips through the many jumps Knievel successfully made ("drunk, with his right hand taped to the handlebars, he flawlessly cleared eighteen Dodge colts and one Dodge van..."), while lingering on the behind-the-scenes bacchanals and bone-crushing postscripts of his failures.
It was by crashing (the daredevil eschewed things like speedometers) that Knievel's life choice could seem meta, even if he was more cowboy than ironist. At the outset of the book Montville posits Knievel as some sort of counter to the counterculture figure at a time of cynicism over Watergate and Vietnam. Into this maelstrom entered this "young Elvis dropped from a previous generation of pegged-pants, duck's-ass rebellion into the Age of Aquarius, more about trouble and excitement than peace and love."
But "Evel" is not a cultural study of an icon (lacking an examination of Knievel's comedic doppelganger, Bob "Super Dave Osborne" Einstein),as it is a wild ride on the back of Knievel's cycle. "I don't know if I'm an athlete, a daredevil, a hoax, or just a nut," Knievel said at the press conference to announce the Snake River Canyon jump. "But when I make that jump, I'll be competing against the toughest opponent of all — and that's death."
In that sense Knievel went undefeated in his sport. His last nationally televised stunt was in prime time on CBS in January 1977, in Chicago's International Amphitheatre.
It was winter. Knievel's obstacle was a tankful of supposedly "man-eating sharks" (this was months before Fonzie popularized the stunt on the sitcom "Happy Days," sending a metaphor into our future lexicon).
The shark tank show was a highly rated fiasco. Knievel crashed doing a practice run, and half of the sharks shipped in for the stunt ended up dying, Montville reports.
Evel survived, of course.
Brownfield is a New York-based writer and critic. email@example.com


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ST. LOUIS >> The Dodgers have ordered a second x-ray on Yasiel Puig's swollen left hand, an injury that forced the all-star right fielder to miss Sunday's game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.
Puig was hit by a pitch in the third inning of the Dodgers' 4-2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday. A fluoroscan x-ray of Puig's left hand taken after the game at Busch Stadium was negative, meaning it revealed no broken bones.
However, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said that Puig won't participate in any baseball activities until the second x-ray — scheduled for today in Pittsburgh — comes back clean.
"I think they just want to be cautious," Mattingly said. "We think he'll be OK."
Puig stayed in Saturday's game after absorbing an 84-mph changeup from Joe Kelly. He batted once more, popping out, and played five innings in the field. The hand was visibly swollen after the game.
"He's still sore and I think a little bit swollen," Mattingly said Sunday. "Obviously we're going to be cautious at this point."
Coincidentally, Kelly hit Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez with a pitch in last year's National League Championship Series, breaking a rib.
The Dodgers begin a three-game series against the Pirates today.
Andre Ethier started in right field for the first time since May 6, with Scott Van Slyke in center field and Matt Kemp in left against Cardinals right-hander Carlos Martinez.
All-stars split on Japan
In June, MLB and the MLB Players' Association jointly announced that a team of "all-stars and other accomplished major leaguers" would play a five-game touring series against Japanese all-stars in Japan this November.
The Dodgers sent four players to the All-Star Game in Minnesota last week. Two, pitchers Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, said they have no intention of playing in the Japan series.
"I don't think it has any chance of benefitting the Dodgers as a baseball team," Greinke said. "I've never done USA stuff after the season. If it's going to take away from team stuff, I think pitching more innings has a better chance of hurting than helping."
Greinke expects that most pitchers would decline the invitation for the same reason, regardless of how large a bonus they might receive for participating in the series.
"Some pitchers would," he said, "but I would assume if he threw 200 innings, he wouldn't want to do it."
Two other Dodgers participated in this year's all-star game: second baseman Dee Gordon and Puig. Puig declined comment. Gordon offered an emphatic "heck yeah" when asked if he would go to Japan.
"Either that or winter ball," he said.
Greinke, Kershaw and Gordon said they haven't received formal invitations to participate in the series.
Dodgers infielder Alex Guerrero collected one hit, a double, in his first rehab game with Single-A Rancho Cucamonga. … Utility player Chone Figgins got a day off from his rehab assignment at Triple-A Albuquerque. He'll play nine innings at shortstop today, Mattingly said. … Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford and Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday were chosen for induction into the Arizona Fall League's Hall of Fame. The 2014 class will be inducted in November. Crawford played for the Maryvale Saguaros in 2001. … Former Dodgers pitcher and current broadcaster Orel Hershiser was inducted into the Albuquerque Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday night in Albuquerque. Hershiser played for the Triple-A Albuquerque Dukes in 1982 and 1983. … Hershiser was joined by former Dodgers outfielder Von Joshua and current New York Mets manager Terry Collins, who managed Albuquerque from 1984-88.


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In our recent stories on how, and how not, to take a laptop PC through airport security, we asked readers to recount their favorite tales of checkpoint complications. And they responded with gusto.
The comments included debates over the effectiveness of the Transportation Security Administration's random searches and apparent fears of being accused of profiling, to whether government-issued IDs ought to be good enough for TSA. There was also plenty of advice on how to get through security efficiently. But there were also some offbeat and funny stories of their personal experiences. We recount some of the best of them here.
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My favorite experience was a few years ago, before you had to take your shoes off. I got selected for extra screening at the gate. The wand beeped by my feet. Off with the shoes. The wand beeped. Rolled up my pants leg. Wand still beeped. Asked if I had pins in my ankle? Nope. Still beeped. Finally a supervisor came over. Had me move to a platform. Finally no problem. He told the new inspector, "You're picking up the rebar in the concrete floor." We all had a good laugh and I assured the new guy I wasn't offended and went on my way. You just have to have a sense of humor about this.
From Randy:
To put things in perspective, it might be interesting to describe security and screening when you check in for a flight departing Tel Aviv. I have had: 1) one laptop was dropped by the inspector and the display shattered. 2) Another time I had a laptop with a bad hard drive. Since the computer would not boot up, they kept the laptop and shipped it to my destination on a different flight. 3) One time, they took the laptop to a back room and came back 10 minutes later and asked me to log onto the computer. They took the computer to the back room again and after another 10 minutes, gave me my laptop and let me go. I can only guess they copied the hard drive. In comparison, TSA security is relatively painless.
From David Penney, Scott AFB, Ill.:
My favorite Airport Security story occurred in the late 1980s in Saudi Arabia. I was returning from a visit to a long-range remote radar construction site in the company of a USAF major. The major had his portable computer with him which he had used to make notes on the construction progress. At the airport, the Airport Security Police refused to let him take his computer in the cabin area and insisted that he bring it aboard as checked baggage. The major was reluctant to entrust his delicate computer to care of the Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) baggage handlers and a heated discussion ensued. The captain of our Saudia flight intervened and offered to keep the computer in his custody for the duration of the flight, thus ending the debate and allowing the Airport Security Police officer to save face. On the walk across the tarmac to the airplane, when we were out of site of the terminal, the captain quietly returned the computer to the major.
From Chris:
My funniest experience was in late 2001 when they were weighing laptops in Germany and comparing against a book of known laptop weights. Mine came in heavy... but when I told them it was probably because the hard drive was full they nodded knowingly and let me through!
Of course, it's not all fun and games. People with medical conditions offered a couple examples.
From mnm:
On a recent flight I carried my iPad but had my big laptop in checked luggage. Because of a medical condition, I may have to take pills at any moment. Water may not always be convenient, so I carry a bottle of water with me. Most TSA agents accept my explanation and allow me to keep my water. On my most recent trip I was told that I could carry (opaque) orange juice, but not water. The agent insisted on taking my water and told me to buy (overpriced) water on the other side of the checkpoint. I asked if I could dump out the water and carry the empty bottle through the checkpoint, and then fill it from a water fountain. She said that there could still be some dangerous explosive residue in the bottle after pouring out the water. She would not explain how she could insure the innocence of an orange-colored fluid. I sure feel much safer now.
TSA has many ridiculous processes and yet refuses to update them. In my case, I have traveled extensively in the U.S. and to Europe with one, sometimes two laptops. Never had an issue UNTIL I underwent a total knee replacement. Even with a card from the surgical practice, I am subjected to the "touchy -feely" TSA extra attention every time I fly. My concern is the agents attention to my belongings, in several tubs, while I am undergoing the wand check, the pat down, and have to turn my back on my property sometimes. The trusted traveler program needs to be invoked to a common standard that can allow law-abiding citizens to travel without the issues we face today.
On the debate over identification cards, one writer summed up the opinion of several others about government ID.
Any FedGov/DOD/Contractor with an HPSD-12 compliant ID (CAC or the civilian equivalents) has ALREADY HAD an extensive background check, and in the case of DOD, probably has a higher security clearance than the TSA staffer doing the screening. In a logical world, they should be waved through. At a minimum, doing 'supplemental screening' on them adds NOTHING to the level of security. When this was pointed out to TSA, they said they could not trust background checks run by other agencies. Recognizing HPSD-12 ID's as valid for "Trusted Traveler" would speed things up a lot at airports with lots of federal fliers. TSA Just Doesn't Get It.
Quite a few readers offered advice on getting through security smoothly, mostly recommending a common-sense approach of planning ahead, as this reader does.
During my last job, I routinely traveled with anywhere from three to six laptops. I pulled each one out and put each into its own tub. All the cables, spare batteries and such were in zip up bags and thus were put into their own tub. The appropriate preparation meant I never got stopped by TSA, Canadian/US customs or anyone else.
And others get by without a laptop at all.
From chuckmeister of Waikiki:
I have used over the past seven years what today is referred to as a Netbook. That is until I found this ingenious method of reducing ones entire computer to a simple teeny tiny less than 1 ounce jump drive. 128GB are out and can be had on the web under $100 but even a 64GB or 32GB will also work. You create your entire HD onto the jump drive and then wear it around your neck. Kingmax can be left in the ocean or North Pole or Nevada dessert without any problems. It goes through ALL TSA equipment, even the Pentagon still without declaring it and around my neck. THEN when I get to where ever I am going I plug this chewing gum drive into the nearest USB and my DeskTop appears just like back home or the office. Mahalo & Blue Skies
Finally, several readers sought to remind people of why the checkpoints are there in the first place.
From Cliff:
The cost of being safe in an airline or in any other means of passenger travel is worth the inconvenience. I don't like having to take my laptop out of the bag to send it through the screeners but it is done for an obvious reason that I am more than willing to bear and cooperate to the fullest. Complaining can only cause delay and further frustration. The best thing to do is to let the TSA personnel to what they are suppose to do so any one person can move on and get to where he/she is going. Let TSA focus on the bad guys, whoever they may be.
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I was going through security when it started bleeping and they searched my entire body (including my pockets which have been properly empty since I purchased the jumper) after 20 minuets we discover it was the metal hook on my bra.
My favorite laptop story: An older well-tanned guy with a beard and constant smile, I am frequently blessed with additional screening. Traveling one-day early to Florida for a series of meetings, I checked my bag and carried my laptop. Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, expedition shorts, belt, boat shoes, and (remembering mom's advice) my best underwear, I was bounced from airport to airport along the east coast as the airline did its best to get me around thunderstorms to my destination. At what turned out to be my last connection, the airline was holding a plane and rushing me to the gate where a security screener was stationed at a folding table. I made eye contact, probably a mistake, and could tell by his look that I was going to be searched. Sure enough he asked me to open my case and boot the laptop. Then he asked me to remove my belt. I did, and my shorts promptly fell around my ankles. A look of embarrassment appeared on the faces of the screener and airline attendant. Says the screener: "You didn't have to do that." Through my laughter, I replied: "Yes, I did. When you asked me to remove my belt, it was inevitable." Returning shorts and belt to their proper place, I was rushed aboard. Always listen to, and put into practice, Mom's advice!
I recall waiting in line at the New Orleans Airport to get my boarding pass back in March 2010 on my returning flight to DC. The large TSA machine was right next to the line and where TSA was x-raying and opening luggage sfor inspection. I was wondering what several of the other passengers were all looking at and realize they were watching two TSA employees. One was opening a locked luggage with a big screwdriver and pliers. After 15-20 minutes of destroying the luggage locking mechanism and essentially destroying a perfectly good luggage, she casually just wrapped duct taped it back, around and around with duct tape. Off course the duct tape had the TSA inscriptions on it. My question is, was it so hard to when that person had dropped off the luggage to be X-rayed to have a sign and also to tell the passenger to please have it unlocked or it will be forced opened and your luggage would be damaged in the process? Now the other TSA employee was opening up a gift wrapped shirt box, of another passengers luggage. Now how is it that their super expensive large x-ray sort of machine could not see that that it was only a shirt in the shirt box that was wrapped? Also to top it off as insult to injury, she then proceed to open and read the gift card in its envelope. Now tell me, what can you hide in a gift card or after you have destroyed the gift wrapped shirt box, what makes you think there is something in the gift card that was not bulging and what makes you read the card? I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Shame on TSA for such poor conduct and training of its employees and lack of common courtesy in the execution of security measures of our Nation. This is a perfect example where little minds given power of authority over others have abused it in its treatment of others.
No system is 100% perfect, but relying on CAC for any significant percentage of travelers would be a net gain over what they have now. CAC would not and should not keep luggage and body from being screened, just eliminate the pointless triple-checking and questioning. Hey, we are used to the security perimeters at the office and on-base. All I am advocating is treating CAC-holders like they do LEOs, who also get lightly screened, but not hassled.
In reference to the CAC card part of the story. Remember that the Major who shot and killed fellow Army soldiers at Ft. Hood had a CAC card.
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Along Daytona Beach's 23-mile stretch of sun-kissed coastline, there's no shortage of things to do. Parasailers soar above the ocean, scuba divers delve beneath the surface, stock cars zoom around the track at the Daytona International Speedway, and families stroll past glittering amusement-park rides on the Daytona Beach boardwalk. Acapulco Hotel & Resort sits on a narrow barrier island just a short drive south of Daytona Beach, offering easy access to the area's fun-filled attractions and beaches.
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My new favorite approach to acute UTIs is primarily based around Cranberries/Blueberries and Bee Balm (Monarda spp.) While I've messed with what seems like a thousand different variations on good UTI formulas including Uva Ursi/Manzanita, Horsetail, Yarrow, Echinacea, Cornsilk and so on, I've had inconsistent results. Recent experiences have given me very good results with this regimen, and I thought I'd share, since UTIs are so VERY unpleasant, as are the antibiotics regularly prescribed for them in mainstream medicine.
I use Cranberry because it's easily available to most people in either juice, whole berry or concentrate capsules. Close relative Blueberry is great too and has a similar effect, but is less irritating to the gut. Leaves or berries can both be used successfully. I've even tinctured the berries and used that.
Cranberry/Blueberry helps adjust the PH of the urine, and also discourages the bacteria from clinging to the urinary tract, and also makes an excellent urinary tract tonic to prevent further episodes of infection. Use large doses at first to get symptoms under control then reduce down to a maintenance level.
The Bee Balm has an anti-inflammatory effect, assists in the elimination of the bacteria and (I believe) nourishes the mucus membranes, among other things (first learned this use from Matt Wood). I use a tincture made of fresh flowering tops of M. fistulosa var. menthaefolia, with a dosage of about 1/4 -1/3 dropperful every two hours until the symptoms lessen and then slowly reduce to three times a day, continue for about two-three days after symptoms have disappeared. This is the same dosage I use for treating yeast infections, and this will also help prevent the UTI from the growing into a vaginal infection.
This combination has given me the quickest results of all the variations I've tried and is also very simple. Endless adjustments are possible, I especially like Mallow/Nettle infusion, Silk Tassel tincture in small amounts for severe pain and bladder spasms, Alder or Echinacea if there's an accompanying systemic infection or heat, Elderberry for immune support, Goldenrod if there's kidney involvement and probiotics/fermented food to enhance the body's bacterial balance. Skullcap can be very helpful when there's great anxiety around the pain, and constant need to urinate, and can help provide sleep.
I would be remiss if I didn't point out the need to rest, avoid sugar and drink lots of water during the recovery process. And, if your UTIs consistently occur after sex, be sure that you urinate directly afterwards (no, two hours later doesn't count) and consider using Blueberry/Cranberry as a preventative.
Also, treatment for chronic long term UTIs where there's boggy membranes requires a somewhat different treatment. Yerba Mansa can be nice here, or Bidens.
Being such a commonplace and untalked about condition, I talk to many women who actively repress symptoms and feel as if they have no right to express the often excruciating pain (I personally have had UTIs that hurt at least as much as giving birth, and certainly more than breaking a bone). Therapeutically, I find that voicing this pain can dramatically shorten recovery time. Whether this means screaming into your pillow, sobbing for an hour or shooting holes in a tin can is up to the individual, the important thing is to find a way to move the energy.


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Tallahassee Area Pet Stores Take 'Puppy Friendly' Pledge
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Several Tallahassee area pet stores have signed The Humane Society of the United States' puppy friendly pet store pledge — committing not to sell puppies, but instead support local animal adoption programs or provide literature that helps customers learn how to locate a reputable breeder. The HSUS applauds these independent retailers because their actions prove it is not necessary to support the puppy mill trade to operate a successful pet-related business.
"These stores have set a positive example of corporate responsibility for other businesses to follow," said Stephanie Shain, senior director of The HSUS' puppy mills campaign. "Pet stores that profit from the cruel puppy mill industry need to step up and do the right thing by stopping their puppy sales. Shelters and rescues are brimming with all types of dogs in need of homes."
Store owners and managers who sign The HSUS' pledge receive a placard proclaiming, "We love puppies; that's why we don't sell them," to display in the store, as well as materials about adopting a dog or finding a responsible breeder. The HSUS encourages shoppers to purchase pet supplies at stores displaying the puppy-friendly sign.
Emma and Murray Cornwell, owners of Paws, have signed The HSUS' pledge and state, "Not selling puppies is an effective way for us to take a stance against the puppy mill trade. We have been advocates for pet adoption for years and a big motivation for opening a local store was that we can support and promote local rescue groups and help showcase adoptable pets."
The independent retailers in the Tallahassee area that have most recently signed the puppy friendly pledge to not sell puppies are:
- Panhandle Pet Supply (Two stores on Monroe Street, one on Capital Circle SE)
- Paws (Thomasville Road)
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The majority of pet stores that sell puppies carry dogs from puppy mills, which are mass production facilities that churn out large numbers of puppies under inhumane conditions. The breeding dogs at puppy mills spend their entire lives in cramped cages or kennels with little or no personal attention or quality of life. Consumers who purchase puppies from pet stores or over the Internet without seeing a breeder's home firsthand are often unknowingly supporting this cruel puppy mill industry.
- Approximately one-third of the nation's 9,000 independent pet stores sell puppies.
- The HSUS estimates that 2 million to 4 million puppy mill puppies are sold each year in the United States.
- Documented puppy mill conditions include over-breeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor food and shelter, crowded cages and lack of socialization.
- Dogs kept for breeding in puppy mills suffer for years in continual confinement. They are bred as often as possible and then destroyed or discarded once they can no longer produce puppies.
- Pet stores and online sellers often use attractive Web sites to hide the truth and to dupe consumers into thinking that they are dealing with a small reputable breeder.
- Reputable breeders never sell puppies over the Internet or through a pet store and will insist on meeting the family who will be purchasing the dog.
- Puppy mills contribute to the pet overpopulation problem, which results in millions of unwanted dogs euthanized at shelters every year.
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Franeker (Friesland, Netherlands)
Franeker (1947 population 9,050 with 211 Mennonites; 2006 pop. 12,996) is an old town in the Dutch province of Friesland, about 10 miles (16 km) west of the Frisian capital Leeuwarden. It is the seat of a Mennonite congregation which has had a varied and interesting; history. Of its oldest history there are only a few bits of information from direct sources; of the rich archives of the Franeker congregations not much has been saved; the membership list begins with 1722; the children's book dates a few years later; the earliest minutes of the church board date only to 1800.
There must have been Anabaptists here from the earliest times: an edict of 9 March 1535 orders that owners of land and houses are forbidden to lease them to Anabaptists, and if this had happened those Anabaptists should be driven out; and in a second edict of 7 July 1537, the magistrate of Franeker is charged to exercise close supervision on "Lutherans, Sacramentists and Anabaptists." But the city government seems to have been rather tolerant, for there are no martyrs from this town.
In the second half of the 16th century, when the Mennonites were organized into a congregation, they must have been very numerous. For the year 1560 they are estimated at about 620 members (1,300 souls). The number of members had largely increased, especially by the activity of Elder Leenaert Bouwens, who baptized at Franeker 16 persons in 1551-1554; 45 in 1554-1556; 37 in 1557-1561; 381 in 1563-1565; and 360 in 1568-1582; total, 839. But in this period Franeker played a not very admirable, though important role in Mennonite history. First of all in 1555 or 1556 a group of more progressive members, who were averse to strict banning and shunning and disappointed by the fact that Menno Simons at a conference in nearby Harlingen agreed with Leenaert Bouwens and the stricter wing of Mennonites, separated from the main body. Their leader was Hendrik Naeldeman, and their adherents in other congregations were at first called Franekeraars; later on they were usually called Waterlanders.
After ten years it was again in Franeker that a new quarrel arose. From Flanders many Mennonites had fled to the Netherlands and a number of them had settled in Franeker; in the Mennonite congregation, the Flemish at first were accorded a brotherly welcome, but soon both Flemish and native Frisians mutually considered one another as much deviated from the old Mennonite plain style of living, the Frisians looking upon the less plain dress and manners of the Flemish as worldly, and the Flemish regarding the care the Frisians bestowed upon their houses and furniture as a great evil. In the congregation the Frisians outnumbered the Flemish. (In 1566 there were only 30 brethren from Flanders.) Then it happened that Leenaert Bouwens, because of a fault he had committed, was suspended from his service of elder (1565), and Ebbe Pietersz, elder at Harlingen, was also unable to travel about the churches. So the Franeker congregation decided to choose a preacher. The Flemish succeeded in having Jeroen Tinnegieter, a Flemish immigrant, chosen as a preacher. But he was not accepted by the Frisians. This was the origin of the Flemish-Frisian schism, which divided (1567) the Mennonites throughout the Netherlands, and even in West Prussia (see Flemish Mennonites).
Twenty years later, in 1586, Franeker was the scene of a new schism. Thomas Bintgens, elder of the Flemish congregation, bought a house intended for a meetinghouse, but when it became clear that the deal had not been above reproach, a quarrel arose in the congregation. By this Huiskooper dispute the Flemish church was divided into Huiskoopers or Old Flemish Mennonites and Contra-Huiskoopers or (Mild) Flemish. The leader of the Huiskoopers was Thomas Bintgens, and leader of the other party was the deacon Jacob Keest. This conflict too was not limited to Franeker only; nearly all the Flemish congregations were divided.
So after the Huiskooper dispute there were at Franeker at least four congregations: (a) Waterlanders, (b) Frisians, (c) Huiskoopers (Old Flemish), (d) Flemish. At the beginning of the 17th century there must have existed here at least three more congregations: (e) Jan Jacobsgezinden, (f) a congregation of unknown type, presumably a separated Frisian church, maybe of Pieter-Jeltjesvolk. Finally mention is made of the existence of (g) a High German congregation in 1614, which still existed in 1640, in which year it was involved in a quarrel.
But little is known of these congregations because of lack of documents. Of the Jan-Jacobsgezinden we know that Elder Joris Jacobsz baptized 29 persons here in 1640-1644. Soon the membership decreased. In the 18th century it had strong contacts with the Jan-Jacobsgezinden at neighboring Menaldum. Wybe Jans (d. 1778) was its last preacher, from 1729 on. In 1762 it merged with the only other then existing congregation; it then numbered 13 brethren, the number of sisters being unknown. About most of the other Franeker congregations there is still less information. The Waterlanders (a) sent a representative to the Waterlander conference held at Amsterdam in 1647. About 1670 this congregation must have united with one of the other churches. The Huiskoopers or Old Flemish (b), of whom Jelle Daniel Keest was a preacher in 1640 and Agge Classen in 1648, had their meetinghouse, called "het Valkje," in the Schoolsteeg.
In 1663 there were three Mennonite congregations in Franeker, one, of which Jouke Wybes was a preacher (membership 30), a second, of which Watse Watses was a preacher (membership 50), and a third, of which Isbrant Japiks (or Jacobs) was a preacher (membership 41). The membership of those three churches had in one century decreased from 620 to 121. (In a census of the town of Franeker of 1667 there are found, however, 107 Mennonite family names; names of non-taxpayers— wives, minors, and poor people not being included in this number. If the total number of Mennonites of the census list is true, the membership must have been much more than the 121 mentioned in 1663.) These three churches, which are said to have met in het Valkje, in the Eerste Noord, and in ,the Tweede Noord, are not easy to identify; the one meeting in het Valkje was that of the Huiskoopers (c), of which either Isbrant Japiks or Watse Watses was the preacher. Jouke Wybes was preacher, of the Waterlanders (a), for he was in 1647 in Amsterdam as a representative. The third congregation must have been that of Jan Jacobsgezinden (c).
In 1695 at the founding of the Conference of Mennonite Churches in the province of Friesland (see Friese Sociëteit), there were only two congregations at Franeker, one called Old Flemish (the Jan-Jacobsgezinden) and the other called the United Flemish-Frisian-Waterlander and High German congregation, later usually called Flemish and Waterlander church, or simply United congregation. This united church, whose membership numbered 216 in 1695 (this number must be a mistake; it must have been lower), joined the Conference of Mennonite congregations in Friesland. Paulus Tiesma and Tiepke Abbema, both members of it, were members of the first board of the conference. From now the information is more frequent and clearer. In 1711 the United congregation, which held its meetings in the old church on the Tweede Noord, requested permission to rebuild the meetinghouse, but the States of Friesland refused. Preachers of this congregation were Melle Takema 1721-ca. 1750, and Ate Sierds of Poppingewier (died 20 August 1770) 1720-1765. In 1760 the meetinghouse was enlarged and on 22 July 1762, the Jan-Jacobsgezinden merged with this congregation. Shortly before, on 1 July 1766, the congregation of nearby Tjummarum had also united with it. Until this time the congregations had been served by untrained ministers. In 1765 Franeker wished to call an educated minister, for whom the church board obtained a yearly subsidy from the Lamist congregation at Amsterdam, and on 29 July 1765 Jan Lippens, a ministerial candidate who had finished his study at the Amsterdam Mennonite Theological Seminary, preached his induction sermon at Franeker. He stayed here only one year, receiving a call to the Amsterdam congregation in December 1766. Wopko Molenaar, his successor, served here 1767-70, then moved to Krefeld. Pieter Stinstra (born 1743 at Franeker), nephew of Johannes Stinstra) minister of Harlingen, served his native church 1770-1800. Whether Wepke Tyssen Feenstra (died 1779), who in the [[Naamlijst der tegenwoordig in dienst zijnde predikanten der Mennoniten in de Vereenigde Nederlanden|Naamlijst]] of 1775 is listed as having been a preacher at Franeker since 1773, but who is not mentioned in the following Naamlijsten, served this church as a minister or not, cannot be determined. Stinstra was followed by Bern. Cremer 1801-1811, Klaas J. Overbeek 1812-1847, Matthys E. van Delden 1848-1872, H. Boetje 1873-1879, C. J. Bakker 1879-1899, M. Honigh 1900-1932, G. J. W. den Herder 1933-1939, C. C. de Maar 1940-1946, A. J. de Kam 1947-1950, and G. Kater since 1951.
On 29 May 1863 a new church on the Voorstraat was dedicated; the old characteristic meetinghouse, was then sold to the Baptists. The Voorstraat church of 1863 was in use by the Mennonites until 1960; the organ was renovated in 1899.
In 1899 Miss Sytske Stinstra, a member of the congregation, bequeathed her stately house to the church (now parsonage) and willed in addition a considerable amount of money, which is managed by the church board as the Stinstra Fund.
During the last quarter of the 19th and the first part of the 20th centuries (preachers Boetje, Bakker, and Honigh) the congregation turned to a rather radical modernism (theological liberalism). Even the Lord's Supper was not observed here from 1915 to 1934.
The membership, which is said to have been 212 in 1695, was about 90 in 1796, 49 in 1812, 95 in 1838, 114 in 1861, 128 in 1900, and 140 in 1953, of whom 90 lived in the city of Franeker and 50 in neighboring towns and on farms in the neighborhood. Church activities were a Sunday school for children, youth group called "Hendrik Naeldeman," ladies' circle, choir.
The city of Franeker was the seat of a university from 1585 to 1842. At first there was no contact between the Mennonites and the university, the Mennonites having lay preachers (untrained ministers) and being averse to scholarly theology, and the professors of the university, who were all Calvinists, regarding the Mennonites more or less as heretics, like Prof. Henricus Antonides, who in 1585 orated against the Mennonites and their "false doctrines." But in the 18th century many Mennonites studied at the Franeker University, especially medicine. From about 1730, 25 young men attended the theological lectures of this university before finishing their study at the Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary, among whom were a number of outstanding Mennonite ministers, such as Klaas de Vries, Heere Oosterbaan, Hoito Tichelaar, Pieter Stinstra, Pieter Feenstra, and Jan ter Borg.
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Friesland. Leeuwarden: W. Eekhoff, 1839: 67, 88, 91, 104, 133, 157, 169, 188, 191, 220, 224, 246, 247, 254.
Delden, M. E. van. Leerrede, uitgesproken bij gelegenheid der laalsle godsdienstoefening in het oude kerkgebouw. Franeker, n.d., 1863.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1864), 163; (1879), 2, 89; (1893), 1-90 (passim); (1900), 225.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 674 f.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, Nos. 477, 479, 557, 558-III; II, Nos. 1721-35.
Kühler, Wilhelmus Johannes. Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Doopsgezinden in de Zestiende Eeuw. Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1932: passim.
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PORT JERVIS — A slew of law enforcement, public health and community outreach professionals aiming to prevent crime in the region's smallest city made their voices heard Thursday night.
PORT JERVIS — A slew of law enforcement, public health and community outreach professionals aiming to prevent crime in the region's smallest city made their voices heard Thursday night.
About 50 attended the crime prevention seminar held at the Drew United Methodist Church, sponsored by Port Jervis' neighborhood watch, Orange County's drug and alcohol abuse council and the city's police, who said the effort is part of their overall strategy to combat crime and drug use in the area.
Each speaker tackled different aspects of how to prevent crime and the consequences of it once it reached their individual institution.
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Her boyfriend has been charged by Port Jervis police with slashing her throat and burning their home to hide the crime.
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Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7253
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Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G.; Klein, Sandra K. (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Several writers link entrepreneurship to asset ownership, trying to incorporate the theory of entrepreneurship into the theory of the firm. The critical link, we argue, is capital heterogeneity. Transaction cost, property rights, and resourcebased approaches to the firm assume that assets, both tangible and intangible, are heterogeneous; arranging these assets to minimize contractual hazards, to provide efficient investment incentives, or to exploit competitive advantage is conceived as the prime task of economic organization. None of these approaches, however, is based on a systematic theory of capital heterogeneity. In this paper we outline the approach to capital developed by the Austrian school of economics and integrate it into an entrepreneurial theory of the firm. We refine Austrian capital theory by defining capital heterogeneity in terms of subjectively perceived attributes, that is, the functions, characteristics, and uses of capital assets. Such attributes are not given, but have to be discovered by means of entrepreneurial action. Thinking of entrepreneurship as the organization of heterogeneous capital provides new insights into the emergence, boundaries, and internal organization of the firm, and it suggests testable implications about how and where entrepreneurship is manifested. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, heterogeneous assets, judgment, ownership, firm boundaries, internal organization. JEL Codes: B53, D23, L2 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7292
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tensions, credible delegation and implications for new organizational formsFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6915
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Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The notion of distributed knowledge is increasingly often invoked in discussions of economic organization. In particular, the claim that authority is inefficient as a means of coordination in the context of distributed knowledge has become widespread. However, very little analysis has been dedicated to the relation between economic organization and distributed knowledge. In this paper, we concentrate on the role of authority as a coordination mechanism under conditions of distributed knowledge, and also briefly discuss other issues of economic organization. We clarify the meanings of authority and distributed knowledge, and criticize the above claim by arguing that authority may be a superior mechanism of coordination under distributed knowledge. We also discuss how distributed knowledge influences the boundaries of firms. Our arguments rely on insights in problem-solving and on ideas from organizational economics. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6894
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A Case of Kuhnian Lost ContentFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Among the many seminal contributions of Ronald Coase, founding property rights economics is a truly major one. This approach impacted a number if fields in economics in particularly the 1960s and 1970s, but gradually lost influence. What is called property rights economics in modern economics, mainly originated by Oliver Hart, is very different from the original property rights economics of Coase, Demsetz, Alchian, Cheung, Umbeck, Barzel, etc. in terms of analytical style and explanatory scope. Based on our earlier work on the subject (Foss and Foss, 2001), we argue that the change from Mark I to Mark II property rights economics led to Kuhnian loss of content. This is related to the strong assumptions concerning the definition and enforcement of ownership rights made in the latter approach which leads to many real life institutions and governance arrangements being excluded from consideration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8875
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a property rights-based view of competitive strategyFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7223
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Foss, Kirsten (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7245
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Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Foss, Nicolai Juul; Foss, Kirsten (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper responds to Kim and Mahoney's "How Property Rights Economics Furthers the Resource-Based View: Resources, Transaction Costs and Entrepreneurial Discovery" (a comment on Foss and Foss, 2005). While we agree with many of their arguments, we argue that they fail to recognize how exactly transaction costs and property rights shape the process of entrepreneurial discovery. We provide a sketch of the mechanisms that link entrepreneurship, property rights, and transaction costs in a resource-based setting, contributing further to the attempt to take the RBV in a more dynamic direction. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7476
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How Organizational Design Can Make Delegation CredibleFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Credible delegation of discretion obtains when it is a rational strategy for managers not to overrule employee decisions that are based on delegated decision rights or renege on the level of delegated discretion (and this is common knowledge). Making delegation of discretion credible becomes a crucial issue when organizations want to sustain the advantages that may flow from delegation: Such advantages are dependent on motivated employees, and managerial overruling or reneging is harmful to motivation. However, little work has been done on how organizations can make delegation credible. We argue that key elements of organizations (i.e., organizational structure, coordination mechanisms, reward structures, and interdependencies between activities) and how these fit influence the credibility of delegation. Fit configurations of organizational elements reduce the probability of managerial intervention that may harm employee motivation. This introduces a neglected incentive dimension to the organizational design literature. Moreover, it is argued that harmful intervention may be reduced by increasing managers' costs of intervening. Refutable propositions are derived. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7427
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Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In his seminal 1945 essay Hayek argued that the dispersed nature of much commercially relevant knowledge places strong constraints on the feasibility of centralized allocation and coordination mechanisms, but that there remains a problem of making efficient use of such knowledge (the first Hayekian knowledge problem). He realized that firms, because they make use of authority, are also challenged by dispersed knowledge, and his emphasis on delegation as a response to dispersed knowledge may lead to the prediction that (large) firms shouldn't exist. Yet (large) firms obviously do exist (the second Hayekian knowledge problem). Recently, many management and organizational scholars have echoed Hayek's argument that centralized coordination mechanisms, such as authority, may fail in the presence of dispersed knowledge. We examine these modern arguments and argue that they rest on shaky foundations: dispersed knowledge is a less strong constraint on authority than is often thought. We examine the wider implications of this for knowledge-based arguments in management and organizational theory, and call for more research into the micro-foundations of such arguments. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7462
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Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul; Klein, Peter G.; Klein, Sandra K. (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7232
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an organizational economics perspectiveFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7288
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how much do they really differ? And how does it matter?Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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knowledge-based and property rights perspectivesFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai Juul (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6921
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Authority under "Distributed Knowledge"Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We examine the argument, put forward by modern management writers and, in a somewhat different guise by Austrian economists, that authority is not a viable mechanism of coordination in the presence of "distributed knowledge" (which corresponds to Hayek's treatment of the use of dispersed knowledge in society). We define authority and distributed knowledge and argue that authority is compatible with distributed knowledge. Moreover, it is not clear on theoretical grounds how distributed knowledge impacts on economic organization. An implication is that the Austrian argument that designed orders are strongly constrained by the Hayekian knowledge problem (Hayek, Kirzner, Sautet) is shaky. The positive flipside of this argument is that Austrians confront an exciting research agenda in theorizing how distributed knowledge impacts economic organization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7291
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A knowledge governance perspectiveFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: A critical knowledge governance problem concerns the consequences for the use of the authority if the knowledge that is essential in a work setting is partially unknown to the person who is to exercise authority. Is it possible to rationally direct work and activities and efficiently utilize knowledge under such conditions? Recently, many scholars have given negative answers to this question, arguing that authority relations are becoming strained by the increasingly distributed nature of knowledge in and between firms. We analyze this argument on the basis of definitions of "authority" and "distributed knowledge." This allows us to show that --- while intuitively appealing --- the argument that authority cannot be an efficient coordination mechanism in the presence of distributed knowledge is at best problematic. The argument is based on the flawed inference that because the holder of authority is ignorant about some of the knowledge held by employees, he cannot rationally direct them. However, it is correct that the quality of centralized direction (planning, authority) may be compromised by distributed knowledge, leading to choices of other governance mechanisms and structures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7425
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Toward a Dynamic Property Rights PerspectiveFoss, Nicolai J.; Foss, Kirsten (Frederiksberg, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7851
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Toward a Dynamic Property Rights PerspectiveFoss, Kirsten; J. Foss, Nicolai (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We discuss the relations between alternative conceptualizations of the market process - neoclassical, Austrian and radical subjectivist/evolutionary - and alternative approaches to economic organization, for example, nexus of contract theory, Williamsonian transaction cost economics and the dynamic transaction cost approach of Langlois and Robertson. We argue that there is a distinct need for more firmly grounding theories of economic organization in theories of the market process, and that key ideas of the more dynamic conceptualizations of the market are likely to substantially enrichen the theory of economic organization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8102
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Controlling Intervention Hazards in the Network MNCFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J.; Nell, Phillip C. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The MNC literature treats the (parent) HQ as entirely benevolent with respect to their perceived and actual intentions when they intervene at lower levels of the MNC. However, HQ may intervene in subsidiaries in ways that demotivate subsidiary employees and managers (and therefore harm value-creation). This may happen even if such intervention is benevolent in its intentions. We argue that the movement away from more traditional hierarchical forms of the MNC and towards network MNCs placed in more dynamic environments gives rise to more occasions for potentially harmful intervention by HQ. Network MNCs should therefore be particularly careful to anticipate and take precautions against "intervention hazards." Following earlier research, we point to the role of normative integration and procedural justice, but argue that they also serve to control harmful HQ intervention (and not just subsidiary opportunism). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8380
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Ron Guth: 1872-S Half Dimes are found in two major varieties: one with the mintmark within the wreath (below DIME) and another with the mintmark below the wreath. There does not appear to be an official explanation for this difference; rather, it seems that the placement of the mintmark was at the discretion of the die-sinker at the Philadelphia Mint (where the vast majority of mintmarks were added to the diesd before being shipped to the appropriate branch mint). There is ample precedent for the "travelling" mintmark. From 1838-1859, the mintmarks on Half Dimes were placed within the wreath. From 1860-1869, the mintmarks are below the wreath. From 1870-1872, the mintmark moved back to below the wreath, except for the 1872 variety with the mintmark within the wreath. Was a leftover die from 1869 or earlier re-used in 1872? It appears not, as the mintmark in 1872 is a different size and shape from that on the 1869.
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Column: Will Sochi be secure in wake of threats?
Until recently, the most interest about the Black Sea resort of Sochi was the staggering $51 billion tab the Russians are picking up to host the Winter Olympics in President Vladimir Putin's backyard.
It's a pricey party that will go down as the most expensive Olympics in history. It's also a pet project for Putin, whose prestige will be on the line in February when the traveling carnival show that is the Olympics takes place just a snowball's throw from his luxurious presidential palace.
And, despite pledges by Russia to make the games "the safest Olympics in history,"' it's also the biggest target imaginable in a region unsettled by an Islamist insurgency.
If the prospect of going for the gold in Sochi wasn't making Olympians nervous before, it should be now. Anyone planning to watch the show might think twice, too, no matter how often Russian authorities assure everyone that things will be just fine.
That was made clear this week when a top Chechen rebel warlord called on militants to disrupt the Olympics, describing them as "satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors." Doku Umarov told his followers to do everything possible to cause havoc at the games, a particularly chilling statement considering his group is blamed for bombing a Moscow airport, two subway stations and a train in different attacks over the last three years.
The response to the threat was both predictable and quick, with organizers and government officials saying 37,000 police officers and a complex and multilayered security system will protect both athletes and spectators in Sochi and its surrounding mountains.
"We get threats before every Olympics," former Olympian Jean-Claude Killy, who heads the International Olympic Committee coordination commission for Sochi. "This cannot be taken lightly. I think the Russians are well equipped to face the challenge."
They may well be. Olympic security has been an evolving science since Palestinian terrorists massacred Israeli athletes after invading the Olympic village in Munich in 1972. Aside from the bombing in Atlanta in 1996 that killed one person, the games have for the most part been extremely safe.
And, so far at least, U.S. athletes aren't exactly panicking about the prospects of competing in Sochi.
"At this point we haven't had anyone express concern," said Patrick Sandusky, spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee. "Security is always a top concern for us and our athletes and we take it all very seriously."
Still, you have to wonder whose idea it was to plunk an Olympics into a region beset by an insurgency – no matter how much money is spent to protect it. The Russians will undoubtedly pull out all stops to make the games secure – athletes at test events in January and February talked about patrols of guards with assault rifles – but these won't exactly be the laid-back Winter Games of 2010 in Vancouver.
Security questions weren't even at the top of the list when Sochi won the Olympics in 2007, beating out Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Salzburg, Austria, in a secret vote by IOC members. Putin traveled to the meeting in Guatemala to personally lobby the members and lead the final presentation.
But the Islamic insurgency active in the North Caucasus mountains that tower over the seaside resort of Sochi presents a very real challenge, even for a security plan backed by the full weight of the Russian government. The two Chechen brothers charged with the Boston Marathon bombings showed that rudimentary bombs that are relatively easy to make can cause terrible damage even in a tightly secured area.
Big sporting events can make attractive targets, and they don't get any bigger than an Olympics. Thankfully, Sochi has something going for it that Rio won't when Brazil hosts the Summer Olympics in 2016 – a government security apparatus devoted to making the games incident free.
You won't see it while watching on television and, in the end, the Olympics are just one long television show. Assuming there is snow in the mountains – another worry of the games – Sochi should look beautiful on TV and Putin will realize his goal of showcasing the aging resort city to the world.
No, it may not be the wisest place to hold an Olympics. But Olympic officials don't always make the wisest choices.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg