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More advice has been written about leadership than just about any other topic in the social sciences. My clients often ask me if I can distill this leadership wisdom into a very short synopsis that's tailored to lawyers in senior leadership roles. I've resisted doing this because there are so many good books on leadership… Continue Reading
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The Well-Rounded LawyerPosted in Change Management, Millennials, People Skills, Selection, Talent
This blog post was originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site, on December 19, 2016 (http://tinyurl.com/futurelawyer): We in the legal profession — especially those of us in Big Law — have always been very clear about our criteria for what kind of lawyer we'd like to hire. Indeed, there's nearly universal agreement that we… Continue Reading
Podcasts: The Stress of Change . . . and What To Do About ItPosted in Change Management, Leadership, Millennials, Resilience
These two podcasts were originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site. Podcast #1 discusses why change is hard for lawyers, and Podcast #2 discusses what you can do about it. I was recently interviewed by Gregg Wirth, the Content Manager for the LEI blog site. On July 18th, 2016, he interviewed me about the psychological consequences of… Continue Reading
Toward Better Leadership: Self-Development, Focusing on Strengths & Accepting FlawsPosted in Leadership, Performance, Strengths
This article first appeared on Tuesday May 17, 2016, on the Legal Executive Institute blog site, which is curated by Thomson Reuters. One of my favorite leadership books is The Extraordinary Leader by John Zenger and Joe Folkman. In this book, the authors offer a number of findings from their own empirical research about what makes… Continue Reading
Leading Like a PsychologistPosted in Change Management, Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, People Skills, Performance, Positive Psychology, Uncategorized
This post was originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site, on September 16, 2015: In my conversations with law firm leaders, I am hearing more and more concern expressed about their partners failing to meet expectations. Here are some examples: "They've retired at their desks." "Everyone's focused on their own… Continue Reading
Tea Reading or Testing—What's the Best Way to Hire?Posted in Assessment, Feedback, Leadership, Personality, Selection
This post was originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site, on July 29, 2015: Amidst the head-spinning change and the increased competition that all law firms face today, there is an increased emphasis on—some say a frenzy to—hire the best people. The cost of making a hiring mistake is growing, and… Continue Reading
Making Your Law Firm a Great Place to WorkPosted in Engagement, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, People Skills, Performance
This post was originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site, on May 13, 2015: The Great Place to Work Institute publishes an annual list of the "100 Best Places to Work". This year, 20 of the companies on the list are in the "Professional Services Firms" category. And of these, five… Continue Reading
Leading Lawyers: Your Most Potent Tool is Your MindsetPosted in Change Management, Influence, Leadership, People Skills
This post was originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site, on April 15, 2015: Are you a practicing lawyer who is transitioning into a leadership role? Whether it's as a managing partner, practice group leader, office managing partner, or executive committee member—in all cases, to be effective as a leader, you… Continue Reading
Lawyers Are Skeptical — Can You Believe It???Posted in Leadership, Personality
This post is a reprint of an article that I wrote for the ABA's "Legal Career Central" website. It was originally published on November 15, 2015: The Lawyer Personality: Why Lawyers Are Skeptical I've been gathering data on lawyers' personalities since the early 1980's. Personality traits are typically measured on a percentile scale ranging from… Continue Reading
The Psychologically Savvy LeaderPosted in Change Management, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, People Skills, Resilience, Self-Management
In talking to law firm leaders these days, what I am hearing most frequently are their concerns about disruptive change and its impact on their ability to maintain a profitable and competitive firm. One consequence of this increased focus on change is that rank-and-file partners are being asked to do more with less—to take on… Continue Reading
We need a Chief Resilience OfficerPosted in Change Management, Leadership, Positive Psychology, Resilience
As I've talked with law firm leaders over the past six months, increasingly I've heard them describe a troubling list of symptoms that they're seeing in their lawyers. In their own words, here's what they're observing: Malaise, complacency, burnout, an attitude of hopelessness, weariness, a "giving up" mindset; Increased conflict; not playing nicely in the… Continue Reading
Succession Planning for Baby Boomer LeadersPosted in Leadership
Baby Boomers are beginning to retire. In the legal profession, one microcosm of that trend is that managing partners are beginning to retire. In the old days, managing partners were mainly full-time lawyers who also carried out administrative responsibilities part-time. But in more recent years, the role has grown into a full-blown leadership role with… Continue Reading
Accountability 101 – Part fourPosted in Accountability, Change Management
In three previous posts, I've discussed the psychology of how to hold partners accountable. I focused primarily on approaches that work well with individuals. In this post, I want to introduce you to three approaches that are more strategic, and work well with teams, groups or an entire firm. As a consequence, they have broader… Continue Reading
Accountability 101 – Part threePosted in Accountability, Change Management
In a previous post (Accountability 101 – Part two) I mentioned that to achieve accountability on the part of partners, you need to: Use a buy-in approach. Avoid either coercive or "incentivizing" approaches. Be proactive, not reactive. Use multiple interventions, not just one. In this post, I want to address the third point, "Use multiple interventions,… Continue Reading
Accountability 101 – Part twoPosted in Accountability, Change Management
This is part two of a series of posts on partner accountability. To recap, in order to achieve accountability, you need to: Use a buy-in approach. Avoid either coercive or "incentivizing" approaches. Be proactive, not reactive. Use multiple interventions, not just one. In a previous post (https://www.lawyerbrainblog.com/?p=198), I explained the importance of the buy-in approach…. Continue Reading
Accountability 101 – Part onePosted in Accountability, Change Management
How do you "hold partners accountable?" It's the beginning of the year, and many law firm leaders are still struggling to get their partners to complete some of the non-billable tasks that are vital to the firm's success. In the past several weeks, I've spoken to a number of law firm leaders who have raised… Continue Reading
The Lawyer Personality: Why Lawyers Are SkepticalPosted in Assessment, Personality
I've been gathering data on lawyers' personalities since the early 1980's. Personality traits are typically measured on a percentile scale ranging from zero % to 100%. When large samples of the general public are tested, individuals' scores on a given trait typically form a classic bell curve, with the mean average for any given trait… Continue Reading
Losing Weight and Keeping It OffPosted in Self-Management
Although I usually write about leadership, change and resilience, today I want to address weight loss. I know it seems unrelated to the preceding topics, but there's actually a connection, which we'll get to in a minute. My main reason for writing this post is to respond to all of my clients and colleagues who… Continue Reading
Why Skeptics Make Good Lawyers and Lousy LeadersPosted in Leadership
I recently finished conducting a 6-month-long "Action Learning" leadership program with a mid-size law firm. The idea is to train lawyers to be leaders by actually placing them into real live leadership situations, and teaching through experience, instead of using a "death by Power Point" approach. At the end of our capstone meeting, one of… Continue Reading
Why Leaders Need Empathy and FlexibilityPosted in Leadership
When I design a leadership course for a law firm, I usually include an assessment component. Effective leaders need to be self-aware–they need to understand their strengths and weaknesses, their possible blind spots, and the style of leadership to which they gravitate. To gain this kind of insight requires feedback. The two most common types… Continue Reading
Getting the structure right is only half the battlePosted in Leadership
Recently I was working with a group of leaders in a mid-size law firm who were wrestling with the issue of how to make the "income partner" role more attractive so as to stem departures. Much of the conversation focused on how to "structure" the role of income partner in the right way–Should this category… Continue Reading


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Academic Profile: Professor Bent Flyvbjerg
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Academic Background
Bent Flyvbjerg (傅以斌) is the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne's College. He works for better management of megaprojects and cities. He also writes about the philosophy and methodology of social science.
Flyvbjerg is the most cited scholar in the world in megaproject management, and among the most cited in social science methodology. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His publications have been translated into 20 languages.
Flyvbjerg serves as advisor and consultant to government and business, including the US and UK governments and several Fortune 500 companies. He is an external advisor to McKinsey and other consultancies. He has worked on some of the largest projects in the world, on all aspects from front-end planning, delivery, and rescue of failing projects.
Flyvbjerg's research has been covered by Science, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, China Daily, The BBC, CNN, Charlie Rose, and many other media. He is a frequent commentator in the news.
Flyvbjerg has received numerous honors and awards, including Harvard Business Review's "Ideas Watch" for the most important new idea to follow and the Project Management Institute's and Project Management Journal's "Paper of the Year Award." Flyvbjerg was twice a Fulbright Scholar and received a knighthood in 2002.
Flyvbjerg explains megaprojects to The New Yorker, here: http://nyr.kr/1aIAd8X
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2014 is coming to a close and 2015 is on us.
at the end of every year, i count my blessings
and share with those who mean the most to me - family and friends.
all of us have different degrees of friendships with different people. there are those who are casual acquaintances, pinterest followers, twitter followers, etc. there are friends whom we see every week and we talk sports (football), music, movies, weather, go out to dinner, go shopping and if we work with them - talk job related items. there are others who are in our life for a season and then we reconnect via social media.
then there are the friends of the heart.
heart friends can be young, old, long-standing, new, different, alike
but they all have common elements.
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my heart friends love Jehovah God with the same kind of passion that i have.
they are seekers and long for His presence.
their relationship with God is not built around what they do, but who they are in God.
the other attribute of my heart friends is unerring trust.
they are my best friends and i trust them with my heart and my life.
they love me when i am happy or sad, successful or in trouble
they love me in spite of myself.
we laugh, we cry, we plan, we have fun
we eat good food and communicate
we dream
we share life.
my heart friends communicate their love and support in special ways:
they take me in when i need a place to hide
they innately know when i need prayer
they celebrate my successes
they love me through my failures and are there to lift me up
they walk with me through the shadow of the valley of death.
they are friends who would lay down their life for me - and i them.
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as 2014 draws to an end - i am so grateful for my friends.
no matter what kind of friendship we experience - acquaintance or heart friend
thank you for being my friend - you make my life rich and meaningful.


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But in general, the switch has begun toward halogen bulbs (a more efficient type of incandescent), CFLs (the spiral shaped fluorescents), and LEDs.
If you're confused about your options, how to understand new light bulb packages, how the bulbs compare to incandescents, and how much money each type will save you ... never fear! We've created a brief video and an light bulb infographic that walk you through everything you need to know.
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On a final note, LED bulbs now mimic the color of incandescent bulbs very well, they have no mercury, and although they're a bit more expensive, they can pay for themselves in around one year where a bulb is used about 3 hours a day. After that, they will put money in your pocket every year! Check out some of our best deals on LED replacement bulbs for the home and office!


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This brand new flagship Xiaomi phone has been labelled the Mi 5, and it's a humble and understated model name for a phone that offers a great combination of high-tech features and highly desirable style and design cues to boot.
This particular Xiaomi phone comes powered by Xiaomi's very own MIUI version of the Android platform. This particular mobile operating system offering uses warm and understated colors in conjunction with flat scripts. Built atop the Android 6.0 Marshmallow, this operating system makes it easier than ever to navigate through the Xiaomi phone's various functions so you can make total use of its 3 GB of RAM and its considerable device storage.
This Xiaomi phone is truly a bold offering due to the unique operating system, something that marks this out as one of Xiaomi's most ambitious products yet.
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A ritual that's practically become a necessity for women today, waxing has taken a few centuries to become a social norm. Legs, arms, armpits, eyebrows, bikini line, everything goes now: a study led by Patinel in 2006 showed that 20% of young French women only wax in the summer, and the remaining 80% wax all year round.
In ancient Egypt, body hair was considered to be impure and a symbol of animality: pharaohs and the religious had to remove all body hair, and women weren't allowed hair in their pubic region. Muslims were very early to wax their legs, using sugar-based wax that they prepared themselves. But the arrival of Catholicism in the West prevented the spread of such practices. Catherine de Médicis even went as far as banning female hair removal, apart from plucking the forehead which was fashionable during the Renaissance. Waxing as we know it didn't take off until much later, in the 1920s, with the arrival of short dresses, followed by paid holidays (1936) and transparent nylon stockings from the United States (1946). The first advertisement for female waxing (see opposite) appeared in 1915, it reads: "Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair." huarache femme1 Comment
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Academic journal article The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
They Sought a Land: A Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley, 1840-1870
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They Sought a Land: A Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley, 1840-1870. By William Oates Ragsdale. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 139. Acknowledgments, notes, sources, index. $24.00.)
They Sought a Land is William Oates Ragsdale's focused study of the migration of Scots-Irish farmers from Pisgah, Lincoln County, North Carolina to Pope County, Arkansas. Relatively prosperous in North Carolina, they nonetheless uprooted their families for the opportunities afforded by the inexpensive, plentiful, and fertile farmland of the Arkansas River Valley. In contrast to Arkansas, by the mid-1800s good farmland was becoming scarce, expensive, and depleted in North Carolina.
The migrations began slowly in the 1840s and increased substantially in the 1850s. Traveling in covered wagons, the settlers came up the Arkansas River to an area just east of present-day Russellville. Families from North Carolina were joined in Arkansas by relatives and acquaintances from South Carolina and Tennessee. This "web of family connection" (p. 5) played an important role in persuading Carolina farmers to resettle in Arkansas. Through family letters and unpublished family histories, Ragsdale recounts the arguments families in Arkansas used to encourage their Carolina kin to join them in Pope County.
The new Pisgah in Pope County was a relatively homogeneous community of Scots-Irish yeoman farmers. The families came from the same background, enjoyed strong family ties, and were members of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The church was a unifying force in the community, a center for worship and socializing. However, as Arkansas was the frontier, it was often difficult for the community to secure the services of any but an itinerant preacher. In 1853 one such preacher, the Rev. John Patrick, guided community leaders in organizing the Pisgah Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. …


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The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has given Foster and Partners' 'World Squares For All' masterplan a major boost by backing the £17 million first phase proposals at its latest design review meeting.
cabe said last week it 'strongly supports the scheme', which will prove useful ammunition both for when the project passes before the capital's incoming mayor, and against criticism by client group member Westminster City Council's own planning and transport committee (aj 30.3.00).
'We regard this scheme as an elegant and inventive solution to a complex problem and we would like to see it go ahead,' said cabe.
The commission added that it thought that new pedestrianised spaces in Irving Place and St Martin's Place, north of the square, are 'very important and offer considerable benefits' and should be an integral part of the scheme - whose key plank is pedestrianising the north side of Trafalgar Square to link it to the National Gallery.
A 'delighted' Fosters' partner Spencer de Grey told the AJ that he felt the cabe support was important in setting up the scheme for the mayor's approval: 'It could be enacted in his or her first term and I think everybody would welcome a better balance between pedestrians and traffic', he said. 'And this could be a blueprint for other sites elsewhere in the capital'. A planning application will be submitted 'in the second half of this year' and the project could be complete in two years time.
cabe 's reservations concern the enlarged island to the south of Trafalgar Square, proposed to give the Charles I statue there a better setting, which it thought is 'compromised' and in need of 'stronger expression', but de Grey said more work would be done. cabe also wants less tree-planting.
World Squares aims to set what Foster has called 'an international standard for city living' along the lines of places like Barcelona. The full £50 million plans include an enhanced Whitehall as a proposed second phase, the pedestrianisation of the south side of Parliament Square as a third and final phase, but other smaller, incremental steps such as the closure of Horse Guards Road.
cabe also saw a scheme by epr Architects for a 47,000m2 office and retail complex in Westminster's Victoria Street (AJ 9.3.00). It applauded the attempt to make 'a new piece of city which connects with its surroundings', but attacked its 'strange and unsatisfactory relationship to the edge of the glazed canopy' and 'overplayed' glazed roof.
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A court official in Babylon who issued a proclamation from King Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 3: 4), but in Isa. 40: 9 one who announces good tidings. Paul is similarly called a herald of good news in 1 Tim. 2: 7, as is Noah ('a herald of righteousness', NRSV; 'who proclaimed righteousness', REB; 'the preacher', NJB, in 2 Pet. 2: 5).
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Bologna coach Alberto Malesani says they must accept their points penalty and simply try to win their games to make up for it.
Malesani urged Bologna to beat Cesena so that they can make up for the one-point penalty. "We need to make up ground."
The Rossoblu were docked one point this week due to financial irregularities, as President Sergio Porcedda failed to make specific tax payments.
"I'd like to say many things, but I think it would be a mistake. I limit myself to my work, which is on the field," commented Coach Malesani.
"We need to get points against Cesena and Chievo so that we can immediately cover ourselves in case there are further penalties. The sooner we do that, the better."
Bologna are expected to be docked another two points as the investigation into the financial problems at the club continue.
"We know there is that risk. If we make up the lost ground beforehand, then we are stronger mentally," argued Malesani.
"It's a good group of lads and we want to honour our profession right to the end, so we can have no regrets."


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Study demonstrates effectiveness of cell-based anti-cancer therapy
The study led by Peng Li, a PhD student from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, focused on Bcl11b, a gene essential for normal development of immune system cells. Researchers sought out to modify the developmental fate of immune system cells to produce a novel type that could be of great value in cancer treatment.
To begin the study, the research team first demonstrated that the Bcl11b gene was active only in T cells in the immune system and that its activity was needed at the earliest stages of T-cell production. When the team knocked out the Bcl11b gene, the mice produced no T cells.
"Remarkably, the mice lacking the Bcl11b gene produced a new type of immune system cell - the Induced T to Natural Killer (ITNK) cells," explained Pentao Liu, PhD, senior author on the project from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "This is the first time we have seen these cells and the first time a gene regulator like Bcl11b has been shown to carry out such an important role in T cells."
Researchers also reported that the ITNK cells killed melanoma and lymphoma cells in experiment test tubes and were much more efficient than unmodified Natural Killer cells in the mouse and in human.
Furthermore, when tumor cells were injected into mice, they produced at least ten-fold few tumor foci in the Bcl11b-deficient than in Bcl11b-competent mice. "The reprogrammed killer cells were effective in preventing metastasis - spread of tumor in mice," explained Francesco Colucci, MD, from the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. "The killing seems to be specific to the tumor cells and the normal cells seem to be spared."


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- Why Japan?
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When seeking to do business abroad, it is essential to first get to know the country that you are targeting. Awareness about Japan's politics, economics and social environment is a considerable asset. To help you improve your knowledge about Japan, and in accordance with the project of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROWTH) to develop a global platform providing EU businesses with relevant information about business with third countries, the EU-Japan Centre has created this online information portal for European companies seeking to break into the Japanese market. It aims to bring together and make available all online information which could be beneficial to EU companies wishing to develop business in or with Japan.
The EU Business in Japan (EUBIJ) project was officially launched in January 2014.
To gain full access to the information contained on this site, as well as to the numerous side activities, you must be a member.
To be eligible as a member, you should:
Either work for an EU company wishing to work with/in Japan or work for an EU non-profit organisation aiming at directly supporting EU companies in their internationalisation process with Japan;
If you work for an EU company wishing to work with/in Japan, you must also be the end-user of the information/services made available. Companies providing business, marketing, communication, branding or similar intermediary consultancy services are not eligible for membership;
Feel free to register now (for free!). You will be informed if your registration has been accepted or rejected. Please be aware that the EU-Japan Centre is providing this content for free. Neither the information contained on this site nor the side activities may be used for commercial purposes.
The EU-Japan Centre has screened more than 1,600 links to Japan-related information and is pleased to make its findings available to you online. This website comprises several chapters covering every aspect of doing business in or with Japan.
There are numerous reasons for investing in Japan: For starters, Japan is a large country which offers diverse business opportunities for those wishing to embark upon a potantially lucrative project. Forty seven prefectures spanning from the metropolitan area of Tokyo to the snow covered tops of Hokkaido each present a wide range of opportunities to explore. Cultural and commercial events fill the calendar, and a mix of traditional customs and the latest trends characterise the day to day life of the Japanese. The proportion of elderly people and single women is skyrocketing revealing new growing sectors of activity. Due to its unique and highly dynamic character, the Japanese market is an opportunity worth seizing with both hands!
There are a wide range of possible strategies for entering the Japanese market. In order to choose the most suitable one for your business you have to be aware of the logistical difficulties to investing in Japan. In addition to understanding the unique behaviour of Japanese consumers and businessmen (see "Culture") you must be prepared for a wide range of potential legal and regulatory issues. Japan is a relatively closed market and you need to be well informed in order to overcome its various potential obstacles. This chapter will provide you with information and advice on operational and financial issues in order to prepare you for when investment and business opportunities begin to appear. Furthermore if you are more of a researcher, we can also provide you with data on various R&D centres and clusters. This chapter looks at cross-cutting operational issues which companies may face when starting or developing their activities in Japan or with Japanese businesses.
Despite an overall economic slowdown beginning in the 1990s, Japanese industries remain amongst the most highly advanced and innovative worldwide. In many manufacturing industries – particularly in the electronics and automotive sectors – the term "Japanese" is synonymous with high quality and technologically advanced products, and in a wide variety of sectors, Japanese companies are world leaders in both production and technological advancements in their respective fields.
In 2012, industry accounted for 27.5% of Japan's GDP. Major Japanese industries include automotive, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, and processed foods. Despite this, it is services which comprise the biggest part of the Japanese economy, responsible for 71.4% of GDP in 2012. Major services in Japan include banking, insurance, retailing, transportation and telecommunications. Agriculture is responsible for the remainder, and although its contribution to GDP is small, agriculture is still a highly important element of Japan's economy and society.
The objective of this chapter is to provide you with a portal to all publicly available online information relating to the current status of and recent developments within Japanese industries and business sectors.
Cross-Cultural Issues
For hundreds of years, Japan was almost completely cut off from the outside world, and the effects of this policy of isolationism can still be felt today. Despite being an economic and cultural superpower, Japan's unique geographical and historical circumstances have resulted in the emergence of a distinctive society and culture which may seem intimidating for European entrepreneurs seeking to invest in Japan. Indeed, our surveys of EU businesses with offices and subsidiaries in Japan have concluded that the most common difficulties for European businesses seeking to enter the Japanese market are usually related to cultural matters and to understanding the Japanese approach to business. Therefore, acquiring this culture-related knowledge is of fundamental importance.
The aim of this chapter is to provide you with information on the various cultural barriers to entering the Japanese market.
In order to benefit from wider support, members will have exclusive access to:
In addition to the information pages available on this site and side activities, EUBIJ members have exclusive access to an extensive library of additional material, such as:
Members wishing to be kept informed will be notified of any updates that may interest them
"About Japan" Webinars Series
To give participants the opportunity to improve their knowledge of Japan from the comfort of their desks, we have launched our "About Japan" webinar series, which began on the 21st of January 2014 and will continue throughout the year. This webinar series will cover a wide range of important topics such as sector-related information and cross-cutting or cross-cultural issues.
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Chavan ton virtually shuts door on MP
Madhya Pradesh 250 for 3 (N Ojha 85, M Mishra 61*, Birla 55) and
192 (Birla 63, Kulkarni 5-74) lead Mumbai 434 (K Pawar 161, Chavan
102*, Sudhindra 5-96) by eight runs
Mumbai's ruthlessness was on display as their last pair stretched their lead to a 242, almost taking them to the semi-final barring an improbable second-innings collapse. Ankeet Chavan made his maiden first-class hundred, at No. 9, and added 68 with No. 11 Balwinder Sandhu to dash whatever little hopes of a comeback remained in the MP camp. The hosts batted fluently in their second innings to knock off the deficit, but it's very difficult to come back once a team concedes such a big lead in a four-day knockout game.
Mumbai had been 60 for 5, 139 for 6 and 217 for 7 at various stages but after Kaustubh Pawar had bailed them out of trouble yesterday, Chavan further demoralized MP today. The hosts had removed Pawar and Ramesh Powar early in the morning, the latter falling leg-before to give the tireless TP Sudhindra a deserved five-for. MP's openers had begun stretching but Chavan and Sandhu batted with the assuredness of a top-order pair.
Chavan's straight drives stood out as he kept forcing the MP fast bowlers down the ground. A dab to the third-man boundary brought up an emotional hundred as Chavan held his arms aloft, punched the air hard and waved his bat to the Mumbai dressing room. Sandhu, who drove confidently through the off side after some jittery moments, finally played a heave befitting his position in the batting order to be bowled for 24. By that time, Mumbai's last four wickets had batted for 83.5 overs, nearly a day's play.
MP had no choice but to score quickly, which they did, the Mumbai attack not troubling them at all on a pitch that had flattened out. Naman Ojha continued a prolific season with the kind of free-spirited batting that is his wont, something that was surprisingly lacking in the first innings. He began by swinging Powar for consecutive sixes over mid-on in his first over of the game. Wasim Jaffer went back to fetch the ball and kept himself at long-on for the next delivery. This time Ojha made some room and lofted Powar over mid-off, who also went back immediately.
With runs flowing now, Mumbai set defensive fields for the remainder of the day. Jaffer chose to bowl Powar and Chavan ahead of his third quick Kshemal Waingankar. Chavan ended up bowling his slow left-armers for 24 of the 64 overs MP batted, operating from over the stumps with short fine leg, deep square leg, deep midwicket, long-on and long-off in place. Ojha still managed to score runs against Chavan, stepping out and driving him inside out through extra cover repeatedly. The restrictive line finally got to him, though, when he stepped out and swung Chavan straight to midwicket to throw away what would have been his fourth century of the tournament.
Udit Birla came in and punched and swept his way to his second aggressive fifty of the match. With Mishra driving as well as he had in the first innings, the pair soon took MP into the lead. Their prospects of setting a reasonable target for Mumbai tomorrow were dealt a blow, though, when Birla went caught behind to Suryakumar Yadav in the penultimate over of the day. How MP would wish they had batted as confidently in the first innings as they did today.
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Tyler Arnason and Brad Richardson scored in regulation for the Avalanche. Jose Theodore made 30 saves and turned aside shots by Selanne, Ryan Shannon and Ryan Getzlaf in the shootout to win a rematch of last season's Western Conference semifinal.
Selanne became the 36th player in NHL history to reach the milestone. He joined Jari Kurri as the only Finnish-born NHL players to score 500 goals.
The 36-year-old Selanne sent a wrist shot past Colorado goalie Jose Theodore at 14:54 of the second period. Andy McDonald set up the goal with a cross-ice pass.
Dustin Penner also scored for the Ducks and Chris Pronger had two assists. Jean-Sebastian Giguere stopped 41 shots and had his shutout streak snapped at 85 minutes, 44 seconds.
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Statutory Address: ROYAL ARSENAL THE BOARD ROOM, PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18
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Board Room for Officers of the Ordnance Board and Cadets' Training Academy, later pattern room, Royal Military Academy, and officers' mess. 1718-20, attributed to both Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, for the Board of Ordnance, extended c1741. Red brick with rear lateral stacks and slate hipped roof. PLAN: Single-depth plan with N Board Room and S Academy, rear stair tower, enclosed by c1741 extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range, with 3-storey and attic; 6-window rear wing. A symmetrical front has a cornice and parapet, central pedimented entrance bay set forward with a ground-floor porch with banded jambs, shallow-arched lintel and deeply-set doorway and C20 door, and flanking deeply-set narrow windows; above, a tall round arch with plain balcony, flanking round plinths with lion and unicorn figures, a recessed round-arched window beneath a clock, narrow flanking windows, and above the impost band small oculi either side of a wind dial, with an iron weather vane on the pediment. Outer sections have tall round-arched 6/6-pane sashes and oculi above. Left-hand end has a single ground-floor window and 2 oculi, with a raised central parapet section. Right-hand end has a full-height header bond bow with raised parapet, 3 round-arched windows and flat-headed raised panels above each. Rear 6-window extension has segmental-arched windows, gables and parapet. Interior contains an entrance hall with stone and slate floor, round-arched doors each side with 8 raised panels and a panelled fanlight and panelled reveals, to a rear dogleg stair with stick balusters, uncut string and moulded rail; right-hand full-height former Academy Room with oak panelling and moulded skirting, flagged floor, good stone fireplace with architrave, consoles and cornice set forward to the sides, left-hand Board Room with an inserted floor across a C18 grisaille wall painting of trophies, and matching fireplace. HISTORICAL NOTE: Built on the site of Tower Place, the original residence of the Lieutenant General of Ordnance bought by the Crown in 1671, and used as the office of the Board of Ordnance. The left-hand room was used from its foundation in 1741 by the Royal Military Academy until it moved to Woolwich Common in 1806, and later as a model or pattern room for foundry patterns. The lion and unicorn probably those formerly on the gateway into the Royal Laboratory yard. A robust and strongly-articulated building, characteristic of the early C18 Baroque manner of the Ordnance Board associated with Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, and of considerable historic significance for its connection with both the Board and the early RMC. Vanbrugh is associated with the early expansion of the Arsenal after the Board of Ordnance moved gun founding to the site in 1716. (Pevsner N and Cherry B, The Buildings of England: London South, London, 1983, p.288; Hewlings R, English Architecture, Public and Private, in (ed), 1993, pp.215-229; Hogg O F G, The Royal Arsenal, Oxford, 1963, pp.252-273; RCHME report, 1994; Wesley H, The Royal Arsenal: a brief history, London, 1987, p.16)
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Hogg, O F G, The Royal Arsenal, (1963), 252-273
Wesley, H , The Royal Arsenal: A Brief History, (1987), 16
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Of the 200 tickets sold, five will be held back and raffled off during the course of the night. This is a reverse raffle — the last ticket drawn is the grand prize winner. First prize is $5,000, second prize is $1,000, third and fourth prizes are $500 each. Additional prizes will be given out as ticket numbers are drawn.
A $100 ticket holder is entitled to an all-you-can-eat dinner and open bar. This will be a semi-formal event. A guest ticket for $40 will also be sold. The event will begin with a 7 p.m. social hour, with dinner being served at 8 p.m. and the raffle beginning at 9 p.m.


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The Strategic Plan is the document – strategic planning is a process and something we as an organization will continue to work on as we move forward.
The 2015-2018 Strategic Plan has been approved by Council. Now, administration will respond by showing how the organization plans to deliver upon Council's direction – this is the strategic implementation. It consists of elements such as charters for each theme area, projects, policy, work plans and budgets. These form a reasonable interpretation of the strategic direction set by Council.
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Unless I am mistaken the concept of church and the western leisure related life-style would add to the decline of men attending a Christian based church. [Figures show this is not so for other religions Tearfund Stats]
The other religions tend to be culturally fixed within their religious practises, [Westerners less so] ,and men are considered more 'important' or 'worthy' than women in such religions. Not in a subversive way, though sadly it can be and often is, but in a culturally accepted way.
As the western life-style tends to bring female behaviour in line with male behaviour, rather than women striving to achieve or live as they could as women/female, they tend to ape male behaviour, normally of the worst kind - a ladette for example. The church has to see this and like single parenthood work with it and through it. No good whining "oh the shame of them". It is as it is work with it.
The fact that there are [apparently[ more men leaving the church than women can show two things, irrelevance of church moral ethics to them, which are less so for a female, and leadership identification.
If we take the latter, which I believe the why church site is using as the reason, it it necessary to match men leaving churches led by women in comparison to churches led by men. [I am working on such data]
In all my years of church visiting and attending from 1980 onwards I have noted the ratio of about 3:1 in favour of women attendees. Reasons given were that the men were: at work, home from work, watching sport, gone to the pub, can't be bothered and leaving it to the wife to take the kids if that's what they want. To be honest not once was I told that it was because, especially when, of course, women were accepted as ministers by the Church of England, bear in mind that other church denominations have had women ministers for a long time, it was a woman in charge.
Considering the gender gap in attendance then church programs to some extent will and must reflect this, that there are more women to cater for than men ; concentrating on holding events or programs just for those at are missing and might turn up - why would they - is both costly and demoralising.
That does not mean that churches should not try, but it is a circular argument to say that men are not in attendance and then say that it is because most church programs are female orientated or run, and it is because women are in charge. Those two are unlikely reasons in our Christian western culture. The church attendance by men started declining long before that. I believe the decline was noted as from 1950 onwards - both a decline in church attendance by men and women, which was not about feminisation of the church, and then a societal change of life style behaviour, which took men away from church as individualism and independence from fatherhood and traditional family values became the norm; and promoted by society, but then ignored then rallied against negatively by the church establishment. Too little too late. That is why Independent, Free and some Evangelical churches are seeing an increase in numbers. What the gender ratio for those churches I have yet found statistics for. My initial thought is much the same 3 or 4:1.
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Canon U.S.A. Launches New Commercial Printing Microsite For Latin America
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MELVILLE, N.Y. - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the launch of a new microsite - Commercial Printing for Latin America - providing local authorized Océ dealers with a more custom and interactive experience through a single point-of-entry portal on the Canon U.S.A. website.
Demonstrating a wide variety of innovation, Canon has developed new commercial printing products such as wide format printers, large format scanners, and digital software. The new microsite was made exclusively for Latin America and is being used for dealers as a tool to give their customers background on the Canon product lineup and services available in their market.
"Our goal is to create an online presence that is seamless for our customers to understand and navigate," said Kenji Kobayashi, vice president Latin America Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "This microsite will provide our business partners with important information regarding our products and offerings for the Latin America regions."
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Jose Aviles qualified for the Big West Championships in the shot put ... finished 11th with a season-best throw of 46-8.25 (14.23) ... finished eighth with a mark of 46-6.25 (14.18) at the Occidental Invitational ... also had season-bests of 147-2 (44.87) in the hammer and 119-0 (36.27) in the discus ... placed 10th in the weight throw and 17th in the shot put at the MPSF Indoor Championships ... posted an indoor season-best 45-9.75 (13.96) in the weight throw and 45-9.75 (13.96) in the shot put.
Aviles earned letters in both track & field and football at La Jolla High School in La Jolla, Calif. ... was named track & field team MVP in both 2008 and 2009 ... earned All-Western League honors in the shot put in 2008, 2009 and 2010 ... also earned all-league honors as a lineman for the Vikings football team ... graduated in 2010 with a 3.43 grade point average.
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'The Only Way Is Essex' star Ferne McCann is urging her boyfriend, Arthur Collins, to contact the police, following a statement from the Met that reveals he is wanted for questioning in relation to a nightclub acid attack.
Two people suffered serious injuries and 10 others were left with burns after the incident, which took place at East London venue Mangle in the early hours of Monday (17 April) morning.
Following the news that police are now looking for Arthur, a representative for Ferne has released a statement.
It reads (via the Mirror): "Ferne is aware that the police wish to speak to Arthur Collins and the nature of the accusations against him.
"Obviously these are highly shocking and Ferne has cooperated with the police in their inquiries.
"She was not with Arthur on Sunday night, was not at Mangle and has no direct knowledge of the events that unfolded.
"As much as anybody she wants to know the truth and urges Arthur to co-operate fully with the police and attend a police station immediately."
On Tuesday (18 April), the Met police released their own, which read: "Arthur Collins, 25, of Hertfordshire, is wanted for questioning by police.
"Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact with investigators.
"He should not be approached by members of the public. If seen the public are advised to call 999 immediately."
The Mail reports that police raided Arthur's home, but found that he was not at the address at the time.
While Ferne was not in attendance at the club, a number of her fellow 'TOWIE' stars, including Jamie Reed and Chloe Meadows, were.
Ferne and Arthur went public with their romance earlier this year, and appear in the current issue of OK! Magazine together.
In the interview which accompanies their glossy photoshoot, Ferne discussed taking their relationship to the next level, revealing talk of marriage.
"We've spoken about our wedding. We want to get married on a beach. I want it to be a party and a celebration," she said. "I want these long extensions, mermaid-style hair covering my boobs, with flowers in my hair and no shoes.
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Readers may not recognize the author's name, but he has been fighting for the rights of underdogs for nearly 60 years. His autobiography describes his entry into the world of political activism with the modesty often found in those who overachieve.
During his days at Brooklyn Law School in the 1940s, Lane (Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, 2011, etc.) began his fight for the rights of the voiceless. He became the student leader of the National Lawyers Guild, a society formed in answer to the American Bar Association's conservative, occasionally racist policies. After admission to the bar, Lane's life as an activist took off as one pro bono case after another introduced him to all the main players of the period. He dined with W.E.B. Du Bois, invited blacklisted Pete Seeger to play at a fundraiser, fought the House Un-American Activities Committee and led the effort to clean up the draconian policies of the Wassaic State School for Mental Defectives. Lane ran for and was elected to the New York State Assembly in order to open the door for minorities, and the reputation he built introduced him to many of the movers and shakers of the late 20th century: Eleanor Roosevelt, John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Dick Gregory, William F. Buckley, Jane Fonda, Bertrand Russell, among others. He worked with anyone struggling for a voice, from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to the Black Panthers. He rode as a Freedom Rider, worked for JFK and then wrote Rush to Judgment (1966) to exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald. As one would expect of a person of this caliber, Lane's story focuses on the needs of those he served rather than the extraordinary part he played in so many lives.
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As the fall harvest begins, I was finding several different bags of fruit in the freezer from last year that we hadn't used yet. On top of that, we had an obnoxious amount of rhubarb this spring already! What started to be a batch of Huckleberry jam, turned into an afternoon of making jam and sauces!
The jams I used from last year's berries were huckleberry, raspberry, strawberry rhubarb and cherry. My favorite recipe book is The Ball Complete Book of Canning, which if you don't have, you should get! It has every recipe that you could possibly use and more. Only one recipe have we not likde and that was the Cherry Jam, where the optional ingredients we didn't like. We leave them out and we love it!
I still had over 30 bags of rhubarb in my freezer (what can I say we love rhubarb coffee cake all winter long, but this was a little much!) so was checking out the recipes in my canning book. I've made Strawberry Rhubarb Pie filling and Rhubarb sauce, which my family didn't care for the texture. Then I found a recipe for Victorian BBQ, which used rhubarb and raisons in it. I thought, why not? The jars in the far right row of the picture are the BBQ sauce. I slow cooked a roast with the Victorian BBQ over it and it was a hit with the whole family!
This took me about three hours in one afternoon, and I now have about 35 jars of jam, 7 jars of Victorian BBQ sauce, and more room in the freezer for the incoming harvest!
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You would expect the leaders of multinational brands such as Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Chick-fil-A to make decisions reflecting the amazing foresight and logical thinking that catapulted their businesses to their current valuations. Then weeks such as this take place that make your brain synapses fire off the thought "What was I thinking?" In moves paralleling the "so what?" decision by General Mills (NYSE:GIS) to make original Cheerios -- one of 12 varieties of the cereal -- free of ingredients produced by genetically modified organisms, Chevron and Chick-fil-A took the corporate bar for stupid to new heights. Netflix is now officially off the hook.
Sorry for blowing up your town -- have a pizza!
The tiny blue-collar town of Dilliner, Pa., located 50 miles south of Pittsburgh (where I live), was almost erased from the map on Feb. 11, when a natural gas well operated by Chevron exploded. OK, so the town was never in danger of being blown off of the map, but that doesn't change reality. A natural gas well exploded, ignited itself and an adjacent well for five days, and left one worker dead.
Chevron actually did a tremendous job to quickly quarantine the area and monitor the situation for safety personnel and workers, and it will soon move to cap the wells. That would have been a good place to leave the situation, but the company decided to reach out to the surrounding area.
With pizza.
And sodas (er, "pop", in Western Pennsylvania).
The multinational energy company purchased 100 gift certificates from Bobtown Pizza to hand out to residents as an apology for the disruption to their daily lives. (You can't make this stuff up.) As you can imagine, the gesture wasn't well received by everyone. What was Chevron thinking?
Breaking news: We're buying chickens in 2019
Consumer activism has reached new heights with the simultaneous rise of social media platforms and use of biotech crops, which a loud minority of consumers opposes. While using antibiotics to raise livestock and using the tools of biotechnology to create better products are two unique issues, both share a connection to the surge in consumer demands to the food industry in recent years.
Examples include Johnson & Johnson's removing of formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane from its baby shampoo, Subway's removing of a preservative from its bread, and Kraft Foods' removing of two dyes from its foods. And of course, General Mills' offering of GMO-free Cheerios, although the move required little effort on the company's part, didn't change its stance on GMOs, and only makes up a small sliver of its product portfolio. It was only a matter of time before antibiotic-free meats made their way onto the list of demands.
As natural gas wells were ablaze in Dilliner, Chick-fil-A announced that it will serve only antibiotic-free chicken within the next five years:
We are collaborating with national and regional poultry suppliers to build a supply chain based on chickens raised with no antibiotics. We are asking suppliers to work with the USDA to verify that antibiotics are never administered from the hatchery to the processing plant.
What seems like a monumental step by Chick-fil-A is nothing more than a hyped press release that piggybacks on what the poultry market will resemble in 2019. You see, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is already moving to finalize a voluntary program for animal pharmaceutical companies -- Zoetis, Elanco, Merial, Merck Animal Health, and the like -- to make the changes necessary for an antibiotic-free meat supply. From the initiative:
[A]nimal pharmaceutical companies can work with the agency to voluntarily remove growth enhancement and feed efficiency indications from the approved uses of their medically important antimicrobial drug products, and move the therapeutic uses of these products from over-the-counter (OTC) availability to marketing status requiring veterinary oversight.
Antibiotics are often added to animal feed to boost the growth of various livestock. However, antibiotics are not always used in chicken production, and many suppliers already offer antibiotic-free options. That, coupled with the new program from the FDA, means it's highly likely most major retail food outlets will be serving antibiotic-free chicken in the next five years. Why does Chick-fil-A get a press release?
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Chevron, Chick-fil-A, and General Mills understand that it's important to win the hearts and minds of consumers. The oil and gas industry doesn't face consumers directly, so perhaps that partially explains the swing-and-miss pizza and pop offering to the town of Dilliner, but it doesn't make the olive branch any more bearable. Meanwhile, Chick-fil-A and General Mills do interact directly with consumers, which explains their attempts to grab headlines whenever possible. Unfortunately, that doesn't make their desperation any less obvious.
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If you've got the hang of 1-D motion, you should have no trouble at all with 2-D motion. The motion of any object moving in two dimensions can be broken into x- and y-components. Then it's just a matter of solving two separate 1-D kinematic equations.
The most common problems of this kind on SAT II Physics involve projectile motion: the motion of an object that is shot, thrown, or in some other way launched into the air. Note that the motion or trajectory of a projectile is a parabola.
If we break this motion into x- and y-components, the motion becomes easy to understand. In the y direction, the ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of and experiences a constant downward acceleration of g = –9.8 m/s2. This is exactly the kind of motion we examined in the previous section: if we ignore the x-component, the motion of a projectile is identical to the motion of an object thrown directly up in the air.
In the x direction, the ball is thrown forward with an initial velocity of and there is no acceleration acting in the x direction to change this velocity. We have a very simple situation where and is constant.
SAT II Physics will probably not expect you to do much calculating in questions dealing with projectile motion. Most likely, it will ask about the relative velocity of the projectile at different points in its trajectory. We can calculate the x- and y-components separately and then combine them to find the velocity of the projectile at any given point:
Because is constant, the speed will be greater or lesser depending on the magnitude of . To determine where the speed is least or greatest, we follow the same method as we would with the one-dimensional example we had in the previous section. That means that the speed of the projectile in the figure above is at its greatest at positionF, and at its least at position C. We also know that the speed is equal at position B and position D, and at position A and position E.
The key with two-dimensional motion is to remember that you are not dealing with one complex equation of motion, but rather with two simple equations.
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Costco in Lewisville, Texas, housed a family whom were survivors of 1992's Hurricane
that had fled from New Orleans for two Andrew—helped a member load several
weeks. "When I heard about a family in need semi-trailers full of water, toiletries and food
through my son's schoolteacher, I wanted to for delivery to Biloxi. The employees also col-see if there was any way I could help them," lected donations, matching the member's
says Munoz, who lived near the epicenter of donations pallet for pallet.
the 1994 earthquake in Northridge, Many Costco employees continue to vol-California. "The thing this mother and her 5- unteer at shelters housing flood victims, and
year-old daughter really needed was a place to some have adopted families, buying children
stay. It was just natural for us to open our back-to-school suppliesand clothesand help-home to them." ing with housing and other basic needs.
Roy DeLoach, business marketing repre- Costco's headquarters in Issaquah,
sentative at the Costco in Arlington, Texas, Washington, also responded to the relief
helped with the spiritual and emotional needs efforts, immediately donating $1 million to On September 2, the Myrtle Beach, South
of the hurricane victims. An ordained minister, the American Red Cross. Carolina Costco teamed up with the
DeLoach worked with Victim Relief Ministries "Hurricane Katrina created the most cata- American Red Cross and a local radio sta-
and Victim Relief Chaplains ( www.victimre- strophic disaster in the history of our nation," tion to raise money for Katrina victims.
lief.org) at the request of the American Red says Jim Sinegal, Costco's president and CEO. Three popular radio personalities, Mad
Cross, assigning chaplains to shelters in Texas. "The extent of suffering and misery has been Max, Abby and Jersey Boy, did a live
His warehouse manager paid his wages for sev- devastating to us all as we read and watch broadcast in front of the Building. Costco
eral days so he could continue helping hurri- events unfold. As we grieve for our country- provided hotdogs, chips, soda and water
cane victims. men, -women and children, I know we can that the radio personalities cooked and
In Florida, Costco employees—some of count on our entire Costco family to help." C served for six hours, raising $7,000.
AFFORDABILITY AND VERSATILITY have
made printers more popular than ever at
home and in the office. But with this boom
has come a huge problem: the disposal of
spent inkjet and toner cartridges. It's estimated that 1. 5 million printer cartridges go to
landfills each month.
At home, place the empty cartridge in the
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➤ Online, go to costco.com and click on
"Office Products," then "Recycle Ink and
Toner" to print a postage-paid, preaddressed label. Place the empty cartridge
or cartridges in a package, attach the label
and mail it.
➤ If you have a larger toner cartridge to recycle, box it (in the original container, if you "The plastic used in these cartridges can
still have it), affix the label and mail it. You take more than 100 years to decompose,"
can also order free boxes from costco.com points out Green Treks Network, an environ-for bulk shipments. mental awareness organization in Philadel-
"This is an easy way for members to get phia. "Excess ink and toner can also filter into
rid of used cartridges," says Shannon Axthelm, our water supply."
who oversees the program for Costco. "There's Also, manufacturing new inkjet and toner
no reason for them to end up in the garbage cartridges requires oil—more than 375 mil-
Costco is making it easy for members to
dispose of empty ink and toner cartridges by
offering a new recycling program. The free
program is available in the warehouses and
through costco.com. Here's how it works.
➤ In the warehouses, go to the ink and
toner area and pick up a return packet.
➤ If you have several empty cartridges, pick have a serious impact on the environment. "There are many good reasons to recy-up a postage-paid, preaddressed label. Estimates vary, but it is believed that only cle," says Shannon. "We invite our members
Package the cartridges, attach the label about 10 percent of the used cartridges are to take advantage of this convenient new pro-and mail it. recycled. That leaves millions in landfills. gram at Costco."—Tim Talevich


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Welcome Letter from the PTSA President
Welcome to the start of another great school year at Coral Gables Preparatory Academy! The PTSA is looking forward to once again providing enriching and enjoyable programs, activities and incentives for the students. Whether you are new to our school or a returning family, our primary focus is the same — the children!
As PTSA President for a third year, I am looking forward to continuing the long-standing working partnership we have established with our esteemed CGPA administration as well as our amazing teachers and staff to provide an excellent learning experience for our children.
We will be supporting "old favorites" as well as exciting additions this year. In order to make all these things happen, we need your support and assistance, especially via volunteering. I encourage each and every one of you to join our team. As a member of the PTSA, you are a voice for our students and part of the largest child advocacy program in the world! It is such a rewarding experience! Becoming a member of our PTSA is a wonderful opportunity to be involved, "Be Informed, Be Active, Be your child's biggest fan. Be PTSA." Don't miss out, join today.
Volunteering and becoming involved at your child's school won't just benefit your child, his/her schoolmates and the community; it will also benefit you. There are many opportunities to help and we appreciate your time and effort spent making our organization successful.
I look forward to working together in the coming year!
Thank you and have a great year!
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Since 2003, owner and main photographer Alice has been photographing professionally, full time, around the United States and the world. Her international upbringing carries through to today with her yearly trips to Europe, where she was born (Rome, Italy). A little bit of Italy shows up in the photography style: "Mosca" is Italian for "Fly" describing the "Fly On The Wall" approach to wedding photography: casual, classic, fun, spontaneous and timeless...
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Last summer's vacation took us northward on a road trip through western New England and into Quebec. We stopped at the Bread & Puppet Museum in Gower, Vermont (see my posting on Abyssal Plain for more images and information!). This was a life changing event for me and has caused me to rethink an entire curriculum.
For many years the 3D Foundations class included an introduction to ceramics. The subject matter that seemed to work the best was masks. I would start the unit around Carnival time (Mardi Gras) and the students would find a culture of their choice to explore online. They wrote a brief paper on the celebratory customs of one of the regions in the world that participate in this rite. You would be amazed at the diversity of festivals. We would discuss culture and religion and how local beliefs can influence more universal belief systems (the Catholic Church).
We looked at PowerPoints on how masks were used in various cultures and eras. Students, again selected a region to explore and research in order to interpret the culture through a mask design. Obviously we also learned a lot about clay... wedging, rolling, slab construction, embossing, glazing, etc., etc.
A student's interpretation of Northwest Tribal art
I had used paper mache for making masks a few times. The beauty of this method is that it allows both large and small forms to be made relatively cheaply and easily.
Large student masks. Note, they choose the scale of their masks. The armature is chicken wire and foam core.
Now, although we had looked at Carnival celebrations and parades, African tribal group dances and images of Native Americans in ceremonial masks, until I visited the Bread & Puppet I did not put the pieces together...masks need to be a part of a performance!
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Puppetry is an artform that I have not explored. Narrative art is so powerful...why had I not thought of it?
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Again, the props can be made from everyday materials.
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Collaborative projects are fun and students could be divided into teams to build theatres, costumes, puppets, write stories and dialogue. Next time maybe I will get it right!


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U.S. consumer confidence improved in December, offering some hope for retailers during the key holiday season. The University of Michigan preliminary December sentiment index rose to 91.8 from a final November reading of 91.3. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had predicted the early December index would rise to 92.0. "While the preliminary December reading was largely unchanged from last month, consumers evaluated current economic conditions more favorably and expected future prospects less favorably," said Richard Curtin, the survey's chief economist. Consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of overall economic output in the U.S., and retailers are hoping continued low gasoline prices and a robust job market will propel shoppers into their stores. Write to Harriet Torry at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Take Command full review
Take Command is an excellent tool for anyone who regularly has to interact with the Windows command line (You know, that little window with the "C:\" prompt).
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) -- Priceline.com, the U.S. Internet retailer, announced late Monday that it will launch its "name your own price online retailing" service in Japan starting this fall in a joint venture with a unit of Softbank.
Under the agreement, Priceline.com (PCLN) and Softbank E-commerce Corp. will set up a joint venture, Priceline.com Japan Corp., to be capitalized at 960 million yen ($8.8 million).
The equally-owned joint venture will start offering travel-related products such as airline tickets and hotels, Softbank e-commerce said.
The venture will license Priceline's business method while Softbank E-commerce, a wholly-owned unit of Masayoshi Son's Internet investment vehicle, will recruit and build the venture's management team.
The new company will pay Priceline.com an annual licensing fee to license Priceline.com's intellectual property. Priceline.com will buy a convertible bond allowing it to take a "significant equity position" in the new company under certain conditions.
"Any Internet company looking to build a successful worldwide business and brand must have a significant presence and commitment to the Japanese market," said Richard Braddock, Priceline.com chairman.
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Softbank's shares turned upward for the first time in 10 trading days, rising 1.1 percent, or 100 yen, to close at 9,250 yen. Priceline's shares closed at 23 5/8, down 7/8 or 3.57 percent, on Monday.
Separately, Softbank announced Tuesday it has decided to scrap a plan to list shares of its holding companies for each of its five corporate sectors. See full story.


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For the past two weekends, Burbank police officers have issued theft-prevention notices in parking garages and lots to vehicles that appear to be prime bait for burglars.
The citations, which do not include a fine, warn drivers of risk factors that increase the chances of being a victim of theft, including unlocked doors, windows not rolled up and personal belongings, such as docking stations and connecting cables for electronic devices, left in full view.
"We found many cars with their doors unlocked and purses and shopping bags sitting out in plain view," said Community Resource Officer Cindy Guillen.