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All this good weather has meant that I have been spending most of my time watering plants and hardly any time painting. I did get round to this chappie though. Now, I like Alternative Army sculpts - I see them as the spiritual heirs to Citadel, as I think they get the mix of oddball humour and unpleasantness just right. This sculpt is a great example - I mean, it is genuinely unpleasant, but it brings a smirk to my face at the thought of unleashing it on unsuspected adventurers. As with all AA sculpts, it was a pleasure to paint - a dark gray base coat, then a blue wash, then dry brushing and picking out the detail. The red really worked well, I thought. Simples! I can see this one getting a LOT of table top time.
A record of my ongoing attempt to paint the vast mountain of 1980's lead critters that I've accumulated!
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It's always a pleasure seeing a nicely done figure I've never seen painted before. I agree with your summary and like what you've done with him. Nice ghoulish skin with gross red warts/pustules/whatever-they-are.ReplyDeleteReplies
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The hacking to death of Nazimuddin Samad, the sixth secular Bangladeshi blogger to be murdered in the last 14 months, has no doubt been carried out by religious fanatics but the government also cannot wash its hands off the responsibility for the killing, feels Shireen Huq of NariPokkho, a women's rights organisation in Bangladesh.
Samad, 28, was vocal against radical Islam and used social media to regularly post feminist and atheist criticism of the religion. A student of the state-run Jagannath University, Samad was returning home after his classes on Thursday night when he was waylaid near Old Dhaka's Sutrapur area by machete-wielding assailants. They slashed at him and then pumped a bullet into his head, just to be sure.
Samad was an activist of Bangladesh's Gonojagoron Moncho (platform for popular uprising), a social movement that began in Dhaka's Shahbag Square in February 2013, calling for the death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes committed in 1971. The organisation also seeks to resist the politics of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party
On his Facebook page, Samad was regularly critical of both the Jamaat and the BNP, but he also didn't spare the ruling Awami League, criticising the failings of the current government. His last post, in fact, implied that Sheikh Hasina's party will fall if it did not make swift changes, writing (in Bengali): "The situation of the country, the deterioration of law and order is an indication that maybe you cannot stay long in power."
The breakdown of the law and order in Bangladesh, which Samad pointed out before he was killed, and the total lack of trust between the citizens and the state are issues that cropped up repeatedly during Firstpost's conversation with Huq as she blamed the government for tolerating the intolerance. Huq says that by its inaction and apathy, the state has made it easier for acts of violence to take place.
"The murder of Samad is a targeted killing," she says. "It is very much a planned attack as were the ones before. The most worrying part is that there are groups organised, armed, motivated by hatred and ready to kill anyone for their belief...However, this also represents a certain level of intolerance that is being tolerated by the government. So far, none of the murder cases have been solved. There have been a few face-saver arrests, but none of the perpetrators of the heinous killings have so far been brought to book. That sends a very poor signal," says Huq.
"Instead of a thorough probe and trial, what we have seen in the contrary is less-than-satisfactory response from the government," says the founder-member of NariPokkho, the organization that is fighting for human rights, ending of violence against women and a number of other issues ever since it was formed in 1983.
Even as Bangladesh sees unprecedented, bloody attacks on secular bloggers and activists who are vocal against religious fundamentalism, war crimes, minority issues, corruption and injustice against women, the government prefers to look the other way, sometimes even blaming the Bangladeshi writers instead.
"We have very senior and responsible members of the government turning against the bloggers themselves, saying that the writers should refrain from expressing their opinions which run contrary to the view of the majority, thereby implying that if they continue to do so, they stand the risk of exposing themselves to more attacks. As if violence is inevitable if you don't fall in line."
This, says Huq, is a dangerous line of thought, one that seeks to justify violence and shrinks the space for dissent in a democracy.
"This opinion from the top, that attacks are inevitable if you do not conform, is unfortunately seeping through into the society. The space for people with different views or dissenting views is becoming even smaller. When you have senior government functionaries making statements like that, then you are sending a message to the people that these bloggers are wrongdoers. And that is deeply worrying," pauses Huq. "People who have dissenting views are caught between the proverbial devil and the deep sea," she adds.
"On the one hand you have the state clamping down on people with divergent opinion in various ways; increasing number of disappearances, for instance, in which state agencies are found to be directly involved and you have contempt laws being used injudiciously. The whole general atmosphere of intolerance is being nurtured and spread by the intolerance of the government," says the human rights activist.
"And on the other hand, of course, you have the religious fanatics who are ready to kill for their faith."
Huq believes the deaths could be stopped if the police do their job. Which sadly, she says, they are not.
"Widespread corruption is a factor and our police force is no exception. One of the reasons why people are not surprised at the lack of arrests or prosecution is that there is so much corruption. On the whole, the wheeling and dealing around crimes has become commonplace."
"It is of course no surprise that the law-keepers would be corrupted in a country where senior politicians are accused of corruption at the highest level."
Though there have been reports in the international media about the presence of ISIS behind the murders, Huq says there is no dearth of fanatics in Bangladesh to kill the secular bloggers.
"Whether there is an Islamic State connection is not, I don't know. Our government has repeatedly denied such reports. But whether or not it is Islamic State, the fact remains that these are organised killings, not spur-of-the-moment crimes.
"And sadly, the government is not doing enough to prevent it. It is not sending a strong enough message that there must be space for differing views in democracy, space for different beliefs and equal rights for minorities. This is partly because the government is exercising the same kind of intolerance towards political rivals or civil society criticism."
The Constitution of Bangladesh was amended in 1988 to make Islam a state religion though a subsequent amendment in 2011 has reinstated secularism as a fundamental principle. Huq believes this is a contradiction.
"Islam was introduced as a state religion 17 years after Independence as the 8th Constitutional amendment. In the 15th amendment which took place in 2011 — when present ruling party Awami League enjoyed a majority in Parliament — secularism was reinstated as a principle but Islam remained as the state religion. This immediately gave rise to a conflict. You cannot have a secular state and then keep a faith as the state religion. Although we were the first people to go to court against this Constitutional amendment, over the years I personally don't think the status as the state religion has made much of a difference in the practice of Islam," she said.
"But where it has made a difference is introduce a notion of unequal citizenship. And that can lend a degree of license to people who may think that it is right to attack people of other religion and that they have the moral authority. The killing of bloggers are being done by extremists. Having Islam as the state religion doesn't necessarily lead to such attacks; its effect, if any, is less dramatic. But it certainly encourages daily discrimination and makes the minorities more vulnerable to appropriation of properties or desecration of their places of worship."
Huq feels that there has been a late increase in social conservatism in Bangladesh. In her area of work, she has also witnessed a spike in attack against women.
"The number of attacks on women, and of gangrapes, appear to have definitely gone up. Since the Nirbhaya case in Delhi, there have been reports of women being raped in moving buses in Bangladesh as well. The media recently reported the rape and murder of a young woman in a military cantonment area. Though government announced quoting forensic report says that there was no sexual violation. Nobody is prepared to believe this, there is a complete breakdown of trust between citizens and the state."
"Therefore the killings of bloggers, while a distinct phenomenon, must be contextualised within the larger state of lawlessness and violence with impunity that Bangladesh is witnessing," says Huq.
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A few weeks ago, I received a shipment of samples from Betty Lou's, which focuses on making healthy, all natural gluten-free products that taste great. It was an interesting assortment of foods, and I was eager to give them a try. Here's the rundown:
Betty Lou's Nut Butter Balls
At first glance, this product looks like an Everlasting Gobstopper – large and round. But instead of being a globe of sugar, it's made from healthful ingredients like almond butter and ginger. There's even a flavor that includes spirulina – one of the new buzzwords in nutritional supplements. Overall, the Nut Butter Balls taste like a low sugar, nutty taffy, which makes them tasty but rather difficult to eat on the go. They're calorie-dense – more than 200 calories per ball – so one will be plenty to satisfy your sweet tooth and your appetite. Fortunately, those calories are accompanied by a good amount of protein, so it will keep you fueled for a while, without a nasty sugar spike.
Betty Lou's Gluten-Free Fruit Bars
These reminded me of those popular fruit-filled breakfast bars, except they're free from gluten and preservatives. Like the Nut Butter Balls, the bars pack a lot of calories into a few bites, so don't mistake them for a low-calorie snack. The soft cereal part of the bar has excellent flavor and texture, with no weird aftertaste. The fruit filling is very sweet, which I think makes it almost like a handheld gluten-free version of pie. In fact, I would recommend heating the bar slightly, then topping with ice cream or fresh whipped cream for a single-serve dessert.
Betty Lou's Low Glycemic Protein Shake – Vanilla
Recently, I've been following an exercise regimen that calls for protein shakes, so I've become familiar with the wide range of protein powders available. This product added volume to my shake and enough sweetness to offset the bitter greens that I typically blend in. There is a slightly gritty aftertaste if you hand-stir the powder into a glass of milk, but it's not noticeable if you use a blender or stir the powder into a thicker mixture with yogurt or fresh fruit. Knowing how much sugar some brands pack into their powders, I was happy to find that this one contained zero grams of sugar.
Betty Lou's Just Great Stuff Organic Powdered Peanut Butter
This was by far my favorite product in the batch. I had heard of powdered peanut butter for about a year, but never tried it. To be honest, I wasn't quite sure how to use it. First, I added a little water to a small spoonful of the powder. It quickly turned into a liquid-y peanut butter; delicious flavor, but you'll need to get the proportions right to make it spreadable. The true benefit I found is using the powder in any other substance, like yogurt, gluten-free oatmeal and smoothies. It quickly transforms the food, adding a distinct peanut butter flavor. The possibilities for use seem endless – ice cream, gluten-free pancakes, gluten-free cookie batter. Plus, it's just plain fun.
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I tried these bars in two flavors: Chocolate Dream Greens and Superberry Acai. They're vegan, gluten-free and reminded me of a very soft fruit leather – all one consistent texture; no rice crisps, fudgy coating or cake-y layers. While both were tasty, I preferred the Chocolate flavor, which actually contained a mixture of carrots, bananas and green vegetables. I found that it was enough of a treat without being syrupy sweet.
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Brent falls close to $69 after Saudi price cut
SHAFAQNA – Brent crude fell close to $69 a barrel on Friday, putting it on track for a second weekly decline, as cuts to official selling prices from Saudi Arabiareverberated across the market.
Some analysts said the Saudi cuts to monthly prices for crude it sells to the United States and Asia show it is stepping up its battle for market share a week after refusing to support OPEC output cuts.
"It's been weighing on the market, showing that OPEC is not ready to end its price war," said Commerzbank analyst Eugen Weinberg. "The lower the better seems to be the new paradigm for OPEC."
The January Brent crude contract LCOc1 dropped 53 cents to $69.11 a barrel by 0926 GMT. U.S. crude CLc1 was down 55 cents at $66.26.
A strong dollar, which recently hit two-year highs versus the euro, is another bearish factor for oil prices, as its strength makes dollar-denominated crude more expensive in other currencies.
Investors are looking ahead to the government's non-farm payrolls report for November, due before the U.S. market opens on Friday. Expectations are that the U.S. economy created 230,000 jobs last month.
The battle for market share could intensify next year when Iraq starts to export more oil after Baghdad reached a temporary agreement with the Kurdish regional government.
Adding to supply, Libya is set to restart its largest oilfield, El Sharara, once a pipeline blockage is cleared.
The combined pressure is preventing Brent from rebounding from a near 13-percent plunge last week. Brent hit a five-year low of $63.72 a barrel on Monday after averaging around $110 a barrel from 2011 to 2013.
But some analysts expect oil prices to rebound in the next two years as the market stabilizes following the steep losses, according to a Reuters monthly poll.
Brent will average $82.50 a barrel in 2015 and its premium to U.S. crude CL-LCO1=R will narrow to $4.50 a barrel, the poll showed.
The price plunge may put global oil and gas exploration projects worth more than $150 billion on hold next year, potentially curbing supplies by the end of the decade.
But lower prices could support global economic growth by boosting consumer purchasing power in the United States, said Jade Fu, investment manager at Heartwood Investment Management in London.
"We believe that the expected boost to the U.S. consumer from falling oil prices outweighs the risks to the energy sector," Fu said. "That's good news for global growth."
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Bastrop has always been one of my favorite day trips, and it's one of the few places in Central Texas that reminds me of my Piney Woods hometown. I was quite nervous the first time I returned after the devastating fires of 2011, but what I found was a town offering more hope and opportunity than ever.
8:30 a.m. While the wildfires destroyed more than 34,000 acres in the area, Bastrop's downtown was untouched and remains a charming glimpse into the city's past and its claim as "The Most Historic Small Town in
Texas." I squeezed into an open seat at Maxine's Cafe for some coffee and a massive country breakfast consisting of sausage, eggs, and a "griddle cake" so big that it hung off the plate in every direction. Needless to say, I didn't come close to finishing it.
9:45 a.m. Originally settled in the early 1800s, Bastrop was strategically placed at a crossing along the Colorado River. Eager to explore the river itself, I head-ed to Rising Phoenix Adventures outfitters for a kayak
trip down the El Camino Real Paddling Trail. Setting out from Fisherman's Park, I spent the next few hours bobbing along a slow-moving stretch of the Colorado, stopping every now and then for a dip in the water or to try out an inviting rope swing. My six-mile trip ended at the Lost Pines Recreational Trails, and
the Rising Phoenix crew shut-tled me back to my car.
1:00 p.m. For lunch, I stopped at Billy's Pit BBQ, a Bastrop temple of smoked meats. Housed in an unassuming metal building, what Billy's lacks in appearance, it more than makes up for in meat, and my sliced brisket sandwich hit the spot.
2:15 p.m. Ready to see the aftermath of the 2011 wildfires, I took a short drive down Texas 71. Just past town, the vibrant green forest turned to an ex-panse of charred trees reminiscent of something from an extraterrestrial landscape. The majestic trees I once knew had been reduced to black trunks.
3:00 p.m. One area hit particularly hard by the fires was Bastrop State Park. I entered the park and was happy to see all of the major CCC structures still standing. However, as I took a walk with Park Ranger Reagan Faught (at right in photo), the true devastation set in. The park is taking great measures to restore the area to a thriving pine forest and to ensure the future of the endangered Houston Toad. The opened trails offered me the rare opportunity to hike through the heart of a scorched forest. While it will take many decades to restore the forest, I'm excited about the chance my children will have to enjoy the next generation of Lost Pines.
6:00 p.m. Just outside the park sits Roadhouse, one of the best burger joints in Texas. I found the restau-rant packed with folks lending their patronage to Bastrop. I ordered the house specialty, the Jalapeño-Cream Cheese Burger, and as my mouth siz-zled, it occurred to me that supporting a community had never tasted better.
7:30 p.m. In spite of all the trips I've made to Bastrop, one tradition I had always missed was the chance to "spit off the bridge" at the historic Colorado River Bridge. Inspired by an Andy Griffith Show episode, Bastrop's S.O.B.S. (Society of Bridge Spitters) formed to honor this time-tested activity. After singing the required song, I reared back and sent one flying as far as I could. It disappeared below me until it hit the water with the smallest ripple and drifted downstream. I was now a full-fledged member of the S.O.B.S.
Though Bastrop suffered through the worst wildfire season in Texas history, the town is filled with the collective resilience to march forward toward recovery. On this trip, it became clear that the town isn't really "back," but in truth, it never left. So, whether you follow my footsteps or forge your own path, I hope
to see you on the road.
Contact the Bastrop Visitor Center online or call 512/303-0904.
Chet Garner is the host of The Daytripper™ travel show on PBS.


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The New Year always inspires us to refresh and renew. Popular resolutions include losing weight, getting more active or taking control of your finances. But it's also a good time to work on honing your skills in photography as well. In this article, we're hoping to give you some ideas and some further reading to help you improve your skills as a photographer.
Projects & Clubs
There's nothing more inspiring than to push your creative mind into a routine. If you do nothing else this coming year, I believe you should at least get into the habit of shooting regularly with your camera. Carry a camera with you often (if not always) and experiment with different subjects and compositions. If that's not enough, consider getting some additional creative boosts by participating in a project or a club.
A project is as simple as setting some goals and working to achieve them. For example, you could set a goal to create a calendar or a coffee table book featuring a specific theme. It could also be a weekly or daily photo challenge, both of which can be very demanding and sometimes difficult to achieve, but your craft can really grow as a result. Beware of setting the bar too high: An overly-complicated challenge could also result in loathing and bitterness towards your camera. We don't want that.
For a more free-form and social approach, you may wish to consider joining a club. If you search around, there is probably a photography club very near you. Hopefully you have a few to choose from and you can try one out to ensure a good fit. Lately, I've been participating in an international club called Drink and Click. It's a fairly informal club that may very well have a chapter near you (and if not, you can volunteer to set one up). The concept is simple: Go out on a photo walk about once a month, then socialize in a pub or restaurant. Then there are competitions every month, with prizes, based on a specific theme.
Go Manual
Even professionals don't shoot manual all the time, but there are a great number of reasons to learn how to do it. Manual affords you the creative control over the exposure. In some ways, it allows you to push the envelope where your camera – and it's ideal view of a "perfect exposure" – cannot deviate. Here are a few articles from our past that will help you learn more:
- Reasons to Break Away From Automatic Shooting
- Same Insanity, Same Results (Your Camera Doesn't Learn)
- How To Use Exposure Compensation (And Why I Don't Use It)
- Proper Manual Focusing Technique
- Shooting in Manual: Easier Than You Think
- Depth of Field: Your Camera's Viewfinder Cannot Be Trusted
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If your holiday gift cards are burning holes in your pockets, let me caution you to do your research. That dream camera you're looking at may very well be a great toy, but it isn't likely to improve your photography. On the flip side, the same money could be used for tools or other upgrades that will make a much more significant impact on your photography. To help you upgrade intelligently, here's a few articles we wrote on the topic, starting with the philosophy of our Camera and Gear Buying Guide:


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Interview: Chris Nolan
You can sum Christopher Nolan up in one word: British. He's your stereotypical British gentlemen. He speaks quietly yet distinctly with a pronounced British accent. When listening he sips from a cup of tea sitting in front of him.  Very polite and gracious. Way more intelligent that either your or I combined. At the INSOMNIA press junket, I had the opportunity to sit with Chris and talk about the difficulties of following-up MEMENTO, telling Al Pacino what to do and harnessing the awesome power that is Robin Williams.
What went into your decision to make INSOMNIA?
Well, really simply because when I saw the original movie, which I loved, I didn't think it needed new improvements, but I thought there was an interesting set of situations there, and if you put it into the form of American kind of 'cop drama', a morality tale, when you take this heroic figure and you put him through this, my feeling was that you get a very different take on the picture.
Would you say that INSOMNIA's story is different from your previous two films,
FOLLOWING and MEMENTO, in that this one is more straight-forward?
I don't see the film as straight-forward at all in a narrative sense. Structurally, it is linear and it is conventional and familiar. Therefore the audience feels comfortable passing through it. And I think my interest was having made two films before that constantly reminded the audience that they were watching a film, constantly reminding the audience that they were being manipulated in those terms, I was interested in trying to make use of familiar grammar. And what that gives you, I think, is the ability to really directly connect the audience with the thematic elements that you're interested in, in the story. But to me, the complexities of the film are not structural. They're really more to do with the murkiness of the situation. The notion of intention versus action, that sort of thing. Because ironically, in comparison to the plot of MEMENTO, the plot is far more complicated.
In those two films you were able to explore and delve into issues of existence
while still telling an intriguing story. Is there room in commercial cinema for such
open-ended, personal questions? Does the artist have a responsibility to address such
Filmmakers have a responsibility, given the opportunity to make films, which is a pretty elusive thing, to use it in the best way they possibly can. And I think there is all kinds of range to put those ideas into stories. In the case of INSOMNIAâ¦at the heart of it, what I saw was a combination of genre, or idiom, combined with a situation that gives you a moral paradox that's interesting to me. And that's the basis, I think for me, of a fascinating story. And I don't think the genre elements of it, or the size of it, chip away at that. Because if you look back at the successful mainstream films of the past, the studio films of the past, they tend to have a very sophisticated moral basis or thematic basis. And that's why, in some of them, they just kind of grab people's imaginations. But I think the trick, and I think the thing that I'm interested in is to not be too self-conscious. That's, to me, in some sense, the distinction between art cinema and mainstream films, and it's about the degree to which you try to slip these things into the fabric and make you feel them rather than consciously recognize them.
What about the original film compelled you so much that you had to remake it?
I thought the film was perfectly realized andâ¦unimprovable. What I was interested in was the plot turns, the situation, if you recast it in a different idiom. Because I think that, thematically and in moral terms, you get a very different feeling by changing the characters and changing the audience's relationship to the characters. Hopefully you create something new, certainly something different from the original, with different intentions. And so it's not easy for me to say specifically about the originalâ¦it's more to do with the plot turns.
What's it like working with Al Pacino, and why was he your choice?
He's one of the only actors I know of that can project moral intelligence. His is a character who can't express anything, he can't tell anybody what he's really thinking or why he's doing the things he's doing, because in my version of the plot, he's prevented from doing that. As a filmmaker you can't use dialogue the way you usually do which is to sort of clarify things for the audience. We didn't want to use voice-overs because it didn't really feel right. You have to have an actor who can, just through his eyes and gestures, really make the audience really understand what's going on. You can only understand this story by looking into his eyes and seeing his intentions and struggle. I don't really know of anyone else who can do it. He's a great actor, he can do anything you want him to do, really anything. He's a gift from the Gods, and an incredibly hard worker.
After casting Pacino, what went into the decision of casting Robin Williams?
We'd be sitting there going OK now we have Al Pacino playing the cop, and that's a pretty big league presence. We were looking for a similarly fascinating presence onscreen. So when Robin's name came up, and he expressed an interest, everyone was excited. When I met with him, it was very clear that he got the character the way I did. The character is a very unexceptional human being. I really don't think he's ever played anybody like that. That's kinda fun.
How did you negotiate Pacino's and Williams' two different acting styles?
They were both very focused and very much stayed within the construction that we were all agreed on as we were working. I think they felt that that was the tone of the piece and that was the direction we were going in. So nothing wild and crazy, always within the appropriate framework and just exploring different nuances. I think they figured out early on that I was going to stick the camera up their noses the whole time, so anything we did on that mental level, it's all there onscreen. I think it's frustrating when directors play the whole scene from a wide shot. Really sophisticated film actors like these guys actually somehow tune their energy to where the camera is. Without even being self-conscious, they just automatically do this.
So then what was the overall goal of the film in relationship to the original?
It was more like - thoroughly enjoying the film, but immediately thinking that situation, that set of plot turns, that brings these two characters together. If you applied that to the Hollywood "cop drama," that the studios used to be really great at making about fifteen years ago, we'd have an iconic, heroic figure at the center of it who could take the audience to this place. And it's a very exciting basis for that kind of movie, but it's a very different kind of movie in that sense. And that's, to me, the pointâ¦because to me there's no interest in re-making a great movie.
Who are your cinematic influences?
Really it's just kind of a boring list of all the great movie directors. You know, there's Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick. I've always been very partial to Ridley Scott's films. I think this film probably was most influenced by Hitchcock. He was so adapt at bringing characters together who really shouldn't be.
What's next on your schedule?
I'm writing a film about the life of Howard Hughes that Jim Carrey is going to star in. But there is a huge time between sitting down now and trying to make it all work. It is a monumental subject.
Reporter groans at the thought of Jim Carrey playing Howard Hughes
(Smiling) No, Jim is absolutely perfect. If you look at Hughes' life and you look at the extremities of the guy, I don't think that there's anyone else who can play it.
Do you also have faith in Carrey's range and his ability to do dramatic work?
Yeah, he's a great performer. I just had a wonderful experience working with Robin Williams, doing something that some people might be skeptical about him doing. To me, I think part of my job is to be able to look at a performer and decide what I think he's capable of. Robin is an actor, not just a comedian. He's tremendous, and Jim is tremendous as well.
Read JoBlo's review of INSOMNIA
Read the rest of the INSOMNIA interviews including Pacino and Williams


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First Air's president resigns Dec. 14
"It's kind of a shock"
Scott Bateman, the president and chief executive officer of First Air, abruptly resigned from his post, the airline confirmed Dec. 14.
The airline did not issue a press release on the departure of its president, although First Air's 1,100 employees were notified of Bateman's departure through an email circulated Wednesday afternoon.
"We were very surprised to hear he was resigning," said Pita Aatami, the president of Makivik Corp., which owns the airline. "Scott's been with us for 32 years and we've had a very good relationship over the years. It's kind of a shock."
Aatami told Nunatsiaq News in a phone interview that Bateman's decision to leave the airline was entirely his own.
Bateman sat at the helm of First Air for the past four years, although his work with the northern airline industry goes back three decades.
Bateman worked with Makivik's other wholly-owned airline, Air Inuit, for many years before he headed up NWT Air when Makivik acquired that airline in 1997.
Bateman took over from former First Air president Bob Davis in 2008.
But like other airlines, First Air struggled to stay afloat with the economic downturn in recent years.
And then the airline was dealt a fatal blow when one of its Boeing 737 jets crashed just outside of Resolute Bay this past August, killing 12 people aboard.
"It has not been an easy year for First Air," Aatami said. "It's really affected Scott and it's also affected me.
"To go through something as traumatic as losing that many people and then having to answer to their families…..it's been horrific."
But Aatami said the airline is "in good hands," while First Air's vice-president of finance, Kris Dolinki, has been named interim president.
Dolinki, who has been with First Air since 2009, is the former president of Zoom Airlines, a Canadian discount airline that operated until 2008.


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Kotak Mahindra group is looking for ward to expand its operations and eyeing targets potential acquisition in banking, asset management, broking and other areas of the banking sector.
"We are looking for attractive acquisition targets and hopefully there would be some deal this year," the group head and eminent banker Mr. Uday Kotak said.
Kotak Mahindra group is present in various segments of the financial services industry including banking, insurance, asset management, broking and equity research.
When asked about the places where the Kotak Mahindra group was looking for acquisitions, Mr. Kotak said: "We are mainly looking domestically (within India) for potential acquisition targets."
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Well, at least they got the disappointment out of the way before the finale… right? "Across the Sea" sets out to shed some light (no pun intended) on Jacob and Man in Black's relationship while also delivering some key answers to longstanding mysteries. While it succeeds at both, to an extent, "Across the Sea" ends up raising far more questions than answers, and at this point in the story that's just plain frustrating.
The entire first half hour of "Across the Sea" drags along at a slow pace, never establishing any clear narrative direction; it's just a series of scenes desperately trying to establish the relationship between MiB, Jacob and his mother. Unfortunately, the young actors who play the two brothers aren't convincing and Allison Janney has had better performances.
It's hard to fault Janney, though; the script never makes clear her character's motivation, making it frustrating to empathize with her situation. She kills Claudia at the beginning of the episode because she doesn't want the boys to be taken back to the men she feels are bad. Why does she believe this? Why is she the one who has to protect the island? None of this is clear and is muddled in mystical mumbo jumbo about a mysterious light. One of the reasons I enjoy Lost is due to the fact that I can empathize with the characters on this show, both the good and the bad. I feel nothing for Janney's character. She's a murky concept wrapped in an unsure script.
We didn't expect the Lost bible to be handed to us on a platter during this episode -- there are a few hours left to go after all -- but it's frustrating when, at this late stage in the story, questions are being answered with more questions. Two specific examples come to mind. First, we discover that MiB designed the magic donkey wheel of time, yet the only explanation we have as to how he thought up such a brilliant idea is that "he's special." What does that even mean?
Second, the origin story of MiB as the Smoke Monster was exciting to see, but all we know is that the Light did something to him that is worse than death. Again, it's frustrating to come out of this episode almost feeling like we know less than when we went in. I'm confident the source of the Light will be explained by the end of the series as it appears to tie directly into the electromagnetism on the island. And we all know who can survive a great deal of electromagnetic energy. Someone very special. Still, it would have been nice to leave this episode with at least a hint as to what that Light is and why the Smoke Monster emerged from it.
If the intention of "Across the Sea" was to make the audience sympathize, once again, with MiB's character -- it worked. After MiB's actions at the conclusion of "The Candidate," I couldn't imagine sympathizing with his character again. Now that we've seen him raised by a mother who lied to him for years and then betrayed him when all he wanted to do was leave the island, it's not hard to see where he's coming from. Titus Welliver's performance brought a lot to the character as well. His passionate take on the Man in Black's thirst for freedom did a great job of solidifying his reasons for killing his own, so called, mother.
As for Jacob, the story reveals that he's an angry, whiny and reluctant guardian of the island. This isn't a complaint -- in fact, his actions over the course of the season have reflected someone who is extremely passive and doesn't seem to care what happens to those who follow him. We saw this with Ricardus in "Ab Aeterno," and his recent absence prior to the death of Jin, Sun and Sayid reveals a man, or whatever he is, with an utter disregard for human life. I'd go as far as to say that Jacob is just as responsible for the deaths in "The Candidate" as MiB is.
The conclusion was uncomfortable to watch. The revelation that the MiB (well at least his body) and his mother (names for these characters would be great) are actually the Adam and Eve skeletons from way back in Season 1 felt incredibly forced. Cutting to Jack and Kate's discovery of the skeletons didn't help at all either and seemed more like Lindelof and Cuse trying to reinforce the fact that they had this all planned out from the beginning.
Well, for those of you who have watched "House of the Rising Sun" recently, you would probably remember the rest of the scene and the fact that Jack mentions that the remains look no more than 40-50 years old. Now, maybe we'll get some sort of weird time travel explanation for this, but as it stands this looks really sloppy. They should know their audiences' meticulous attention to detail. Conveniently dismissing Jack's important bit of dialogue in that scene makes it seem as if they are now covering their tracks. This is one Lost ending I'd rather forget.
There is one interesting debate that has emerged from "Across the Sea" regarding whether or not the Man in Black (Titus Welliver) is indeed the Smoke Monster. Since we now know that MiB's body did die and decompose in the cave, is it possible that whatever the Smoke Monster is has simply assumed the form of Titus' MiB just as it did with Locke? It's important to point out that Titus' incarnation of MiB has specifically referenced his past as a child and his own, crazy, mother. So the theory that they are separate entities doesn't hold much water.


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YAPoEA (Yet Another Picture of Emma Asleep)
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The Frog and the Panda – A Story by Emma
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This is a story Emma told yesterday (with some slight editorial license to tighten up the plot a little bit):
Deep in the jungle, there lived a frog and a panda. They were a happy family.
But one day, a scary ghost came. It was Duck, pretending to be a ghost!
Frog and Panda ran and ran. When they got to a river, Frog hopped across the lily pads and Panda swam.
They ran through the forest, until they met a pile of mean and nasty bears.
They kept running down the road until they met Wormy Churmy, and they all hid in a leaf bush.
Duck, still dressed as the ghost came and scared the bears, and they ran and hid in a bigger leaf bush.
Frog and Panda put on some sheets, and scared Duck!
Everyone went home and got in bed and pulled their covers over their heads and went to sleep.
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Where does she get these things?
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So it's 10:15, she's been in bed for an hour and a half. I go in to check on her, and…
(shuffling pages)
"Emma, you're supposed to be asleep!"
"I'm reading about Curious George making pancakes, she informs me. "And taking a nap!"
I gently correct her. "Emma, you're not asleep, your eyes have to be closed to be asleep. To bed!"
I go to leave, and she asks "Dad? Can I keep one eye open?"
I'm not Emma, I'm Eeyore!
Reading in her sleep…again!
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But I don't WANT my picture taken in the bluebonnets
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Picture of the Week: The Unbearable Joy of Kites
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Emma at the Zilker Kite Festival today
Some HDR and B&W goodness. Or badness, depending on your point of view.
Nothing fancy here. Just a little boost to the saturation and some judicious cropping.
In Memoriam: T.C.
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June, 1990 – February 8, 2008
For the first time in seventeen and a half years, I am unable to claim ownership by a cat. T.C. finally began suffering the effects of chronic renal failure, and so I made the decision to have him put to sleep.
Photo Credit: Carol Stanley, Faith and Danger Photography, faithanddangerphotography.com
Surely I could own no sweeter cat, no more affectionate cat, no more forgiving cat. And perhaps no tougher cat. Tests done earlier in the day revealed levels of BUN and creatinine much much higher than normal, and much higher than cats generally tolerate.
I adopted T.C. from a coworker's pet store as a kitten, in July or August of 1990, between my first and second years at Indiana University. He lived long enough to see me finally graduate college, in August of 2007.
T.C. also saw me get married, moved with us to St. Louis, moved with us to Austin, saw the purchase of our first home, and the birth of our daughter. In fact, save my parents, I have lived in the company of no living being longer.
One of my favorite memories is the time I came home to find he'd knocked a bag of flour off a pantry shelf. The kitchen floor, and his black fur, were covered in flour. How could I be angry; it was so cute! Then there was the time he decided he didn't like eggs, so he dragged the shirt I'd dropped on the floor, over the plate which formerly held the eggs, which I'd also put on the floor.
He had, until his later years, a compulsion to hide in empty boxes, and empty bags.
He liked to sleep beside me in bed, until Ellington usurped his place. He started sleeping beside me again a few months before he succumbed.
He would greet me with a chirp when I entered the room. Woke me up reliably around 4:00am if he had eaten all his food. Remained playful until nearly the very end.
Groomed my beard, my hair, my arms – sometimes to the point of causing discomfort.
Insanely protective of his turf, he once took a chunk out of my face when I interrupted his warning caterwauling at a feline interloper on the other side of the apartment door.
Ever a cat of sensible intuition, I knew to head for cover if he sought a safe place during severe weather.
He enjoyed sitting on the papers on which one was working, and sitting on one's lap, even if the timing was inopportune. I even found him, in his last few months, curled up on our laptop computer keyboards.
He liked head butting, sometimes fairly forcefully, and rubbing cheeks. I'm no fool. I know he was marking me as "his."
He also answered to "Goof" and "buddy."
T.C. was preceded in death by Ellington, an intruder who he generally tolerated fairly well. But – not always. Ellington was supposed to be a companion for play to help keep T.C. trim. T.C. instead taught Ellington how to be chunky.
T.C., you too, will be missed, sweet boy.
Picture of the Week: Reading in my Sleep
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She likes to take books to bed to "read." Well, tonight she fell asleep while "reading" her book, "Hand, Hand, Fingers, ZZZzzzzzzzzzz"


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Dan's cousin Kelly joins us on the show!
Excerpts from Episode 5 where Holly shares more funny stories.
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This past weekend I visited an old friend, H, back in my VAYO days. VAYO stands for Vietnamese-American Youth Organization. Surely we are no longer youths, both "old" men with wife and children. Seriously, the youth in VAYO refers to the people for which the group was founded, not its founders.
It is amazing how time flies. Not too long ago I drove out to South Brunswick to visit H and his wife because they just had a son. This past weekend's visit the son was already three years old, running all over the house! Every time I visited H, I want to move out of New York City, to some place bigger. He has a front yard, a backyard big enough to house a trampoline, guest bedroom, the kids can play on the street, etc. That's H's daughters and son having fun on the trampoline. The older daughter, in pink, is really good at it and can even do forward flip.
I knew H from my college days. I don't remember the exact circumstance, but I do recall he had a limp at the time, probably from some recent accident. I was a bona fide Cooper Union engineering student while he was a in a dual-degree from New York University. Yes, when he graduated, he had a degree from NYU and another, Electrical Engineering, I think, from CU. And I thought Cooper was difficult enough.
H and some friends of his founded VAYO to provide a place for Vietnamese-American kids to hang out, instead of getting into troubles with the law or worse. It was the 1990s with Born To Kill gang giving Vietnamese a bad reputation. I am not sure if Vietnamese gangs still exist today, probably just not as violent as back then. Some things just never go away.
My involvement with VAYO started with its Vietnamese school in the Bronx. I was living in Long Island City and a VAYO member, DD, lived in nearby Astoria. Almost every Saturday he would drive me to St. Nicholas of Tolentine church at University Avenue and Fordham Road in the Bronx. The church provided the space for free or for a nominal contribution. The primary teacher for VAYO was Tr, who lived not far from the church. Together, we taught kids of various ages the Vietnamese language. I only learned Vietnamese up to the fifth grade so I stuck with teaching the little kids the basic stuff. My drawing skill came in handy at times to keep the kids entertained. Some kids were with the program for many years and became teenagers capable of reading and writing Vietnamese. Sadly, when we tried to raise money for VAYO by asking for donation, most parents stopped sending their kids to the Vietnamese school. With almost zero attendance, the VAYO school was closed. Fortunately, I heard from H this past weekend that Tr still teaches Vietnamese at St. Nicholas for some other school programs run by the church. Good for him!


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Due to its mouth watering aroma and delicious taste it is often used in various recipes, including desserts, smoothies and baked goods. This soft, rich creamy and delicious fruit is packed with multiple nutrients and essential vitamins. Banana is a good source of carbohydrates, dietary fiber, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, and potassium. Let's have a look on some best Health and Beauty Benefits of Bananas.
30 Health and Beauty Benefits of Banana
1. Prevent Constipation
High fiber in bananas can help normalize bowel motility and prevent constipation. Pectin present in Bananas, help to alleviate constipation and improves bowel function.
2. Relieve Stomach Ulcers
Bananas helps a lot to relieve stomach ulcers by coating the lining of the stomach against corrosive acids. Certain substances in bananas stimulate the cells which make up the stomach lining, this enables production of a thicker protective mucus barrier against stomach acids. A substance known as protease inhibitors in banana, help getting rid of bacteria in the stomach that produces stomach ulcers, thus protecting against damage of stomach and ulcer.
3. Piles Cure
Fully ripe bananas help regulate bowel movement and help a lot in curing piles as well as constipation. You can mash a ripe banana and mix it with some milk. Have this mixture at least 3-4 times day to get relief from the pain of piles.
4. Diarrhoea Treatment
Raw bananas are astringent in nature and are effective in treatment for diarrhoea. Bananas are soothing to the digestive tract and help restore lost electrolytes after diarrhea. They also regulate fluid balance.
5. Enhances Digestive Ability
Banana improve the performance of digestive track. Banana is rich in the substance known as fructooligosaccharide which acts as a probiotic (friendly bacteria). It stimulates the growth and activity of probiotics in the colon and produces enzymes that enable absorption of nutrients thus enhancing the digestive ability and preventing unfriendly bacteria from harming the body.
6. Reduce the Risk of Bowel Cancer
Rich in antioxidants and dietary fibre, consumption of bananas reduce risk of bowel cancer.
7. Eyesight Protection
Recent scientific research has proved that persons who regularly consume at least 3 servings of fruit per day, have less chances of developing age-related macular degeneration, the primary cause of vision loss in older adults, compared to persons who consume less than 1.5 servings of fruit daily.
8. Decreases the Risk of Stroke
Studies indicate that regular intake of bananas in daily diet helps reduce the occurrence of stroke and this is due to the high amount of potassium.
9. Banana Enhances Brain Power
Banana is a rich source of B vitamins and therefore boosts nerve function. Potassium, in banana improves mental faculties and enhances learning abilities.
10. Build Healthy Bones
Probiotic bacteria present in bananas have the ability to absorb calcium in the body. Hence, consuming bananas help in building better bones.
11. Provide Instant Energy
After consuming bananas they provide instant energy to body. It does this by converting the natural sugars into energy instantly and this is one of the reasons sportsmen consume it during intervals. Bananas are an excellent breakfast for kids and adults as it provides required energy throughout the day.
12. Lower Blood Cholesterol
Pectin which is a soluble fiber in banana helps to lower Cholesterol level. Soluble fiber in banana, helps slow the absorption of cholesterol and sugar in your bloodstream, reducing LDL (bad) cholesterol and blood glucose levels.
13. Keep Blood Pressure Under Control
Potassium present in banana keeps blood pressure under control and improved consumption of calcium, potassium and magnesium can also help decrease high blood pressure. Bananas are rich in potassium, calcium & magnesium, so it is a healthy option for regulating blood pressure.
14. Bananas help in Curing Anaemia
Bananas are good for Anaemic patients as they contain high levels of iron which help regulate the haemoglobin levels in the body and help a lot to cure anemia.
15. Help in Smoking Withdrawal
Vitamins B6 and B12 along with magnesium and Potassium in Bananas helps recover from nicotine addiction and speed recovery from the effects of smoking withdrawal.
16. Bananas Help Recover from Hangover
Banana is also very helpful in getting rid of hangover and relieve morning sickness. A mixture of Bananas along with honey and yoghurt helps a lot to recover from symptoms of hangover.
Note: Drinking alcohol is hazardous to health So better to avoid alcohol.
17. Prevent Insomnia
Bananas are rich in amino acids known as Tryptophan. This substance triggers production of melatonin (sleep hormone) which induces sleep. Eating banana a few hours before bedtime help a lot to get a peaceful sleep.
18. Help Overcome Depression
Bananas help overcome depression due high levels of tryptophan,
which is converted into serotonin the happy-mood brain
19. Protect against Muscle Cramps
Mineral deficiency often cause muscle cramps. Banana is a rich source of potassium and protect against muscle cramps during workouts and night time leg cramps.
20. Relieve Itching and irritation of Bug or Mosquito Bite
Itching and swelling caused by bug or mosquito bites can be reduced by rubbing the inside of a banana peel on it.Rub a bug or mosquito bite with the inside of the banana peel to relieve itching and irritation.
21. Prevent Kidney Cancer
Bananas being a rich source of potassium, if consumed regularly in moderation, promote renal health and prevent kidney cancer.
22. Weight Gain
Bananas are excellent food for weight gain specially for thin and under weight persons. Banana milkshake enhances weight gain quickly. Bananas provide the body with necessary natural sugars and milk provides protein, both are important for healthy weight gain.
23. Stress Relief
Bananas are high in potassium, which helps normalize the heartbeat and regulate the body's water balance. During periods of high stress, our body's potassium levels decreases rapidly: eating bananas is a healthy way to rebalance them without using drugs.
24. Remove Wart
You can remove a wart by placing the inside of a piece of banana peel against
the wart.Bind your wart with a banana peel. Cut out a section of the peel so it's slightly smaller than the tape you'll be using. Rub the inside of a banana peel onto the wart and then secure with duct tape. Keep it on the wart for a day before removing. Repeat until wart is fully removed.
25. Promote Healthy Scalp and Prevent Dandruff
Bananas contain potassium, natural oils, carbohydrates, essential vitamins. Bananas not only promote healthy scalp but also prevent dandruff.
26. Promote Hair growth and Prevent Split Ends
Natural oils present in banana not only promote hair growth but also help in softening hair, protecting its natural elasticity, prevents split ends and breakage.
27. Natural Moisturizer
Banana is a great natural moisturiser for your skin. The Vitamin A present in banana restores the lost moisture and repairs the damaged, dull and dry skin. To instantly moisturise dry and dull skin, you need to follow the given instructions.
- Mash a ripe banana and apply it on your face and neck.
- Leave it on your skin for 15-20 minutes.
- Wash it away with lukewarm water.
- You will feel a baby soft and supple skin.
28. Prevent Wrinkles
Banana is an excellent natural anti-aging food and prevent premature fine lines and wrinkles. Nutrients in banana helps in fighting wrinkles and keeps the skin youthful. Due to its wonderful anti-aging properties, banana is used in various skin masks and packs to cure wrinkles and fine lines. To prevent and get rid of wrinkles at home you need to follow the given instructions.
- Take a pulp of 1 fully ripe banana and mix with few drops of olive oil.
- Apply this mixture on the wrinkle affected areas specially under eyes, around mouth and over neck.
- Let it stay at least for 20 minutes and then wash off.
29. Cure Puffy Eyes
Banana also help a lot to get rid off puffy eyes. Potassium rich banana draws out excess fluid from under your skin and reduces the swelling immediately. To get rid of puffy eyes you need to follow the given instructions.
- Mash half a banana and apply generously around the puffy eyes.
- Let it sit for 15-20 minutes
- Rinse off with cool water. The puffiness will vanish instantly.
30. Cure Cracked Heels
The wonderful moisturizing property of banana can be used to get rid of cracked heels. All you need to follow the given instructions.
- Mash the pulp of 1 ripe banana and apply this pulp on clean, dry heels.
- Leave it on for 10 minutes and rinse the feet clean.
- The banana pulp will penetrate deep into dry, cracked skin to create soft and supple heels.
- Regular application will give you excellent result within few days.
Banana Nutritional Value Per 100g Fruit
Banana fruit (Musa acuminata colla),
Nutritive Value per 100 g
(Source: USDA National Nutrient data base)
|90 Kcal
|22.84 g
|Total Fat
|0.33 g
|0 mg
|Dietary Fiber
|2.60 g
|20 µg
|0.665 mg
|Pantothenic acid
|0.334 mg
|0.367 mg
|0.073 mg
|0.031 mg
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
|8.7 mg
|Vitamin E
|0.10 mg
|Vitamin K
|0.5 µg
|1 mg
|358 mg
|5 mg
|0.078 mg
|0.26 mg
|27 mg
|0.270 mg
|22 mg
|1.0 µg
|0.15 mg
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This case is a three-dimensional model of a supermarket. Customers' comfort is affected both by sun when shining on the side of a big glass window and by two large freezers. Air is constantly exchanged through 8 air-conditioning vents and 6 extracting openings. Turbulence is modelled using the LVEL model.
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The Exploit-Explore Sweet Spot
16/09/2014 Barcelona
Kodak, Polaroid, Sears, Britannica/Encarta were once legends. Then they became history. "Those that are the best, when there is a technical change or other discontinuity, there is a huge crisis. They either die or are reborn," Professor Michael Tushman of Harvard Business School told an audience of IESE alumni on Monday, September 15, 2014.
In the case of Sears, it was the Wal-Mart tsunami. For others it was a change or discontinuity of a similar magnitude. "So what is it that happens when the world shifts?" he asked the audience. Complacency, short-term business thinking, and lack of investment and research can stymy a company's fortunes. As well as a stagnant, inward looking culture and poor leadership.
Most of all, says Tushman, there is a tension between past and future that many companies are unable to overcome. The lack of an overarching identity can stop corporations transitioning from "best today" to continuing competitive advantage as the world changes.
Playing two different games
Tushman is an expert on the relationships between technological change, executive leadership and organization adaptation, as well as innovation streams and organization designs. His research reveals that companies must shed a traditional "either-or" approach to organizational structures and senior teams, or risk tumbling from success into oblivion.
"The better you are at exploiting what you currently do, the worse you are when there is an architectural change," he explains. "You have to play two different games well at the same time: exploitation and exploration."
Finding the balance within paradox
Bridging these two different strategies requires organizational ambidexterity - something that is highly complex and fraught with obstacles and risk. There is a constant paradox that organizations face, says Tushman. On the one hand, the short-term demands alignment and building a strong culture, but at the same time this generates inertia and often isolation at the top. The demography of the senior team - how long that team has been together - is an important source of inertia that holds everyone hostage. "As teams get older, the performance of the organization drops," he says.
The solution to the inertia pathology comes back to structural ambidexterity. It requires splitting the past from the future. It also means building strong senior team integration with a cognitively complex model that can respond to the demands of exploration and exploitation. The team must be able to coherently communicate both messages to more junior teams.
The secret ingredients
There are many household names that have been able to successfully exploit their mature markets while exploring and then scaling new ones. A lesser-known name – the Ball Corporation – has been doing so since 1880. Professor Tushman cites Ball as an example of how robust the explore-exploit cycle can be. From wooden buckets to metal cans and plastic bottles, the Ball Corporation has been exploiting present success while exploring new opportunities for more than a century. The glue that has kept it all together is a leadership capable of articulating an overarching sense of identity. "We aspire to be the world's greatest container corporation" is a statement of identity that has helped them convert every disruptive threat into an enhancing force for change.
In addition to these key ingredients underpinning longevity, Tushman had this piece of advice: "the only way to get to the future is through punctuated change." And it never hurts to be in the right place, at the right time, with great execution.


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Press Release Says, Hunting Permits to Be Announced April 9
Drawing, Tier I, and Tier II permit results will be released by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Friday, April 9th.
This is the first year for drawing, Tier I, and Tier II hunts to be consolidated into a single application period, in part to increase the amount of time hunters have to make arrangements for permit hunts.
Although it was anticipated that results would be announced by the end of March, ADF&G's Information Services team had to redesign the application processing system and write a new computer program, which took longer than expected.
In addition to the redesign, all applications received on paper had to be entered into the computer lottery by hand.
"Since this is the first time results are being processed in the new system, we felt it was necessary to verify the results prior to their release," said Information Management Supervisor Kurt Kamletz. "We know delays are difficult for hunters, so we're working to release the lists as soon as we can. It's better to make sure the lists are correct than to release them before the winners are verified."
On April 9th at 5pm the Draw, Tier I, and Tier II results will be posted to the Division of Wildlife Conservation's website. They will also be released to the media.
Applications for all hunts for the 2010-11 season were due last December 31. In recent years hunters faced application deadlines in May and also in November-December.
In addition to combining both application openings, several changes made by the Board of Game in the last few years forced the redesign. Department officials expect the process to run smoothly in the future. "Challenges we face the first year with a new system will diminish as we gain experience in future years," Kamletz noted.
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Teacher, Self and Peer Evaluation of Lesson Plans Written by Preservice Teachers
Ozogul, Gamze; Olina, Zane; Sullivan, Howard
Educational Technology Research and Development, v56 n2 p181-201 Apr 2008
The study investigated the effects of three types of evaluation on preservice teachers' performance, knowledge and attitudes related to writing lesson plans that incorporate technology. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of the three treatment conditions: teacher-evaluation, self-evaluation or peer-evaluation. All groups completed three class periods of instruction on writing lesson plans, then each subject submitted his/her draft lesson plan. The drafts were evaluated by assigned evaluators (teacher, self or peer), who provided scores and written feedback on a 15-item rubric. Students then revised their lesson plans into final form. All three treatment groups improved their lesson plans significantly from draft version to final version, with the teacher-evaluation group showing significantly greater improvement and writing significantly better final lesson plans than each of the other two groups. Teacher-evaluation and self-evaluation groups had significantly higher scores on a knowledge-based posttest than the peer-evaluation group. Several suggestions are discussed for making further improvements in the self-evaluation and peer-evaluation processes.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Lesson Plans, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Evaluation Methods, Planning, Student Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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TT'ians: I, too, am interested in loading a (future) tribander's boom on 40, so I read some QST articles referred to in previous threads on the subject. Apparently, the Yagi's Refl and Dir elements must be electrically connected to the boom; insulated elements a' la Force 12, Skyhawk won't form the "horizontally-bent-at-the-ends dipole" that the technique requires. All you have to play with as a radiating element for these and similar Yagis is the boom, however long it is. Anyone have any experience in loading insulated-element Yagis this way? I hope I'm wrong; I'm going to be disappointed if I can't use the above-mentioned antennas on 40/30. :>( Gene Smar AD3F firstname.lastname@example.com -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: email@example.com <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Stacked tri-banders and 40m dipole - which antennawhere? > > > >On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:07:26 -0700 "Curtis, David B" ><email@example.com> writes: > >>So... why can't one build a 40M dipole and then use it *directly* >>as the boom for a tri-bander? > >If you search the Towertalk archives, you will find a very >nice article on gamma-matching the boom of a tribander for >use on 40 meters. Apparently it works quite well. > >Dave Hachadorian, K6LL >San Diego, CA >firstname.lastname@example.com > > >___________________________________________________________________ >Get the Internet just the way you want it. >Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! >Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. > >-- >FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html >Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com >Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com >Problems: email@example.com >Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search.htm > > -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com Administrative requests: email@example.com Problems: email@example.com Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search.htm
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In The Focused Organization Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success. Using his own research and work experience he explains how and why those organisations that focus on just a few key initiatives can perform significantly better than unfocused organisations, not only financially but also in achieving their strategic objectives and motivating their staff.
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