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FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. — Percy Harvin trade talk is all the rage as the Vikings front office enters the NFL combine this week, but their mercurial wide receiver still is not commenting.
Harvin, who went to retrieve something from his silver Mercedes, waved off an approaching reporter in the driveway of the former Pro Bowler's Florida home Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 19. Speculation about Harvin's future in Minnesota has been swirling, with the receiver entering the final year of his rookie deal.
"I got nothing to say about any of that," Harvin said before retreating into his house and closing the front door.
Harvin has not addressed his situation since issuing a statement through the Vikings on Dec. 6 saying he was "disappointed" his Week 9 ankle injury forced him to be placed on season-ending injured reserve. He has not spoken to the media since hobbling into the locker room on crutches Nov. 5, the day after he was injured in a loss at Seattle.
Harvin has been rehabbing at a clinic at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Dressed in a black tank top, white athletic shorts and matching basketball shoes, he walked without a noticeable limp outside his beige, two-story stucco home in Fleming Island.
More than three hours north of where the Twins have started spring training, this upper-middle-class bedroom community is in a development of mostly single-family homes. Harvin, 24, purchased his house for $387,500 in December 2010, according to Clay County property records. It is nestled on a quiet street, where children played lacrosse and basketball in cul-de-sacs and people walked their dogs around mailboxes with American flags flapping in the warm breeze.
Last week, Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said the team has "no intent" to trade Harvin and expects him to report to training camp in July. But speculation and commentary continue about what will happen to Harvin, from a contract extension to a trade to a holdout. He is scheduled to earn $2.9 million in 2013.
Before Harvin was placed on IR, he got into a heated argument with coach Leslie Frazier in front of teammates and staff members at Winter Park, 1500ESPN.com reported in December.
Last June, Harvin told reporters he was unhappy about his status in Minnesota, but he declined to elaborate. Then he skipped a mandatory workout and demanded to be traded before returning to Winter Park the following day. In October, the receiver/kick returner revealed that he had been frustrated over confusion about his position.
Brian Murphy was in Florida covering Twins spring training


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6-8-11 PNC Park
After a dismal two ball day yesterday, things got off to a much better start. I snagged two balls within the first fifteen seconds today. That's right, it took a full BP to get just two yesterday.
Upon running in, there were several fans already in the stands for a season ticket holder batting practice viewing event. They were near the bullpen, so I ran towards the foul pole, where I found ball #1 in the third row back. Also, a home run landed near the foul pole as I entered the bleachers and was picked up by a Pirates season ticket representative. He tossed it to me for ball #2.
My third ball was glove tricked directly behind the left field foul pole after the Diamondbacks came out to hit.
(By the way, the Pirates ran off the field at 5:05. Perhaps at 90 degrees it was too hot to take a full BP?)
By the way, the entire first group of Diamondbacks were ALL left handed, so there was virtually no chance of any batted balls landing in left field. Rather than go over and play the Riverwalk for deep home runs, I elected to stay in left field and hope for a toss up. It paid off as Josh Collmenter tossed me ball #4 of the day.
I had planned on running over to right field as four home runs landed there during the Diamondbacks first group, but I watched as the ushers systematically scanned each and every row and picked up all four. So, figuring that there wasn't much to be found in right, I ran over to foul territory to see if a foul ball that had been hit earlier in batting practice was still there.
It paid off as I found ball #5 in the handicapped section in foul territory. As I was leaving to return to the right field bleachers, a batter hit a foul ball into the upper seats. I simply turned around to go claim it. I had seen where the ball landed, but I couldn't find it. Two other ballhawks started to come over to look and claim it for themselves, so I pulled some trickery and bent down as if I had found it, and stood back up holding the previous ball that I had found. This bought me another minute or two, as the other ballhawks went back to their spots along front row in foul territory. Eventually, I found the ball, it had rolled the whole way down to row A in section 130. It was ball #6.
Back in left field, there wasn't much action to be had. I went the next twenty five minutes without anything until Xavier Nady hit a ground rule double that I snagged here:
The entire batting practice there were three home runs to left field. That's it. It didn't help that the Diamondbacks were being frugal and were tossing up precious few baseballs. Nick Pelescak capped off batting practice by shouting at the Diamondbacks as they ran off the field, "You're all a bunch of cheapskates!"
The D'Backs BP has been the worst I've seen this year. One more game with them this year on Thursday, and then the Mets come into town for 4. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 7 balls (2 hit, 2 thrown, 1 device, 2 found)
Season: 186 balls (71 hit, 42 thrown, 48 device, 25 found)
Games: 31 games
Average: 6.00 balls per game
Career: 1,308 balls
Attendance: 14,015

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ADATA announced its newest addition to the SSD lineup, the enterprise grade SX1000L SSDs. To be available in 100GB and 200GB capacities, the SX1000L SSDs are based on MLC NAND flash memory combined with Sandforce controller and offer a quite decent performance.
The new SX1000L line of SSD uses static wear-leveling technology to maximize device MTBP to 1,500,000 hours, something that is quite required when you are talking about high density computing and heavy load server operations.
The new SX1000L SSDs are packed in a standard 2.5-inch SATA 6Gbps form factor and use LSI's Sandforce SF-2281 controller combined with MLC NAND flash memory with enhanced NAND sorting methodology. The maximum performance is 560MB/s for sequential read and 340MB/s for sequential write while maximum 4K random read and write are at 73k and 45k IOPS.
The ADATA SX1000L SSDs are backed by a five year warranty but the precise price and launch date have not been announced.


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LONG BEACH, Calif., Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Boeing announced it completed delivery of its 223rd C-17 Globemaster aircraft to the U.S. Air Force under a production contract issued more than 20 years ago.
The airlifter is being assigned to an air base in South Carolina.
"Thank you for delivering to our nation combat airlift -- that is the definition of the C-17 -- the most versatile, most capable, most ready airlifter ever built," said U.S. Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, commander, Air Mobility Command. "What you have done with this aircraft speaks volumes about your character."
The C-17 was delivered Thursday.
Although production of the plane for the U.S. Air Force has ceased, Boeing will keep manufacturing the transport for overseas customers and will maintain and sustain the aircraft through the C-17 Globemaster Integrated Sustainment Program.
"C-17s are the workhorse for the U.S. Air Force in wartime and in peace," said Chris Chadwick, Boeing Military Aircraft president. "So while this is the last new C-17 to be added to the Air Force fleet, the mission does not stop here. The C-17 delivers hope and saves lives, and with the Air Force in the pilot's seat, it will continue to do so well into the future."
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Star Trek Into Darkness - Live In Concert
The Royal Albert Hall will host the UK Premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness - Live In Concert, celebrating the extraordinary collaboration between J.J Abrams' 2013 blockbuster hit and its soundtrack.
Following on from Star Trek - Live In Concert at the Hall the day before , Star Trek Into Darkness will also see Michael Giacchino's score brought to life on stage by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Ludwig Wicki, whilst J.J Abrams' critically acclaimed film is shown simultaneously in high definition on the big screen.
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Saturday, 31st May 2014
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(15mins) Take Exhibition Road up to Prince Consort Road where you turn left; take the right leading you to Kensington Gore.


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HuffPost OWN will include selections from this year's list of Oprah's Favorite Things from O, The Oprah Magazine's Holiday O List, featured in the December issue, one of the most popular and recognized traditions of the Oprah Winfrey brand. The site will also exclusively feature Favorite Things trivia, a video montage of the best Favorite Things moments from "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and an inside look at celebrity gifts that Oprah added to her Favorite short list.
"Oprah was about engagement and authenticity long before engagement and authenticity ruled the web," said Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group. "And since those qualities are deeply embedded in the DNA of both OWN and HuffPost, I'm delighted that we'll be working together to enlarge and deepen the conversation on living our best lives, as Oprah puts it."
"I am delighted to join the conversation online at The Huffington Post," said Oprah Winfrey. "We'll be sharing some of the very best from OWN – life lessons and soul shifting moments as well as expert advice from some of today's most inspirational thought leaders – all designed to help you have a happier, more fulfilled life."
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Vetterlein, Antje; Brown, Dana; Roemer-Mahler, Anne (København, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: An increasing number of firms are engaging in social and environmental initiatives beyond their core business activities. While much has been written on the question of why business should be spending resources on social and environmental causes, relatively few studies have systematically addressed the question of why companies actually do engage in such activities. A notable exception is literature on the 'business case' for corporate social responsibility, which argues that good social and environmental performance will positively affect a company's financial results. Empirical evidence, however, has failed to prove this. Moreover, even if there is an economic rationale, it is not clear why some companies engage in social activities while others do not. And, why do many more companies today 'see' the business case than in the past? Our paper attempts to conceptualise the motives of companies to engage or not to engage in such activities. Drawing on theories from Management Studies, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, we suggest modifying the notion of the business case by opening the black box of the corporation's identity as a social actor. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7337
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Lando, Henrik (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article derives key variables in the analysis of standards of proof in criminal law from basic conditional probabilities. The variables derived are the probability of correct and wrongful conviction, the expected sanction and society's incarceration costs, while the basic conditional probabilities are the probability of observing (any given) evidence against individual i given that individual j committed the crime (for any j including j equal to i). The variables are derived from the conditional probabilities as a function of the standard of the proof using simple Bayesian updating. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7225
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Beukel, Karin (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Empirical studies show that only a small number of all innovations created are valuable innovations. In spite of this, most innovation research focuses on identifying the determinants of innovation, rather than determining the factors influential in generating valuable innovations. The current knowledge therefore can guide organizations to increase innovation output, but not to increase the value of the innovation output. The purpose of this PhD research is to contribute to our understanding of the determinants of valuable innovations by investigating how different intraorganizational factors and uncertainty influence organizations' abilities to generate valuable innovations. This thesis is comprised of four papers, a general introduction and a conclusion. The papers rely on both qualitative and quantitative research methods. One builds on interview data gathered at a Danish university and a firm, one relies on data from the Scandinavian biotech industry, and two papers rely on data from the global hydrocracking industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8828
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Human Capital Inputs and the Survival of New StartupsRocha, Vera; Van Praag, Mirjam; Carneiro, Anabela (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper studies three related questions: To what extent otherwise similar startups employ different quantities and qualities of human capital at the moment of entry? How persistent are initial human capital choices over time? And how does deviating from human capital benchmarks influence firm survival? The analysis is based on a matched employer-employee dataset and covers about 17,500 startups in manufacturing and services. We adopt a new procedure to estimate individual benchmarks for the quantity and quality of initial human resources, acknowledging correlations between hiring decisions, founders human capital, and the ownership structure of startups (solo entrepreneurs versus entrepreneurial teams). We then study the survival implications of exogenous deviations from these benchmarks, based on spline models for survival data. Our results indicate that (especially negative) deviations from the benchmark can be substantial, are persistent over time, and hinder the survival of firms. The implications may, however, vary according to the sector and the ownership structure at entry. Given the stickiness of initial choices, wrong human capital decisions at entry turn out to be a close to irreversible matter with significant survival penalties. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9150
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Collective Learning Beyond the ClusterCole, Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The co-location of industry in agglomerations of similar and related firms is one of the salient features of the contemporary global economy. Over the last thirty years, a large body of theory and case-literature has addressed this phenomenon and sought to understand the advantages that accrue when industries are spatially clustered. Contemporary scholars in this tradition have focused on the advantages of face-toface interaction and the access to spatially sticky information in the form of buzz available to cluster agents. They have further suggested that the development of local conventions and a local idiom facilitate knowledge circulation and collaboration within clusters while perhaps frustrating access to outsiders. The resultant learning views of agglomeration have become dominant within the field of economic geography. In the past decade, however, this dominant view has been challenged by a counterview challenging the idea that physical proximity is neither necessary nor sufficient for economic learning. First, it has been noted that much of the learning that occurs in clusters may actually be organized through various forms temporary proximity. Secondly, it has been argued that knowledge circulates not by virtue of spatial proximity, but through participation in knowledge communities that share a basic epistemological framework and common purpose. These communities may be spatially clustered or may be widely dispersed. The research presented in this dissertation aims to contribute to this debate on the relative importance of physical and relational proximity to processes of economic learning. It does so through a qualitative study of the European Animation Industry and its attempt to build supportive networks and institutions resembling those found in successful geographic clusters, but in the context of a spatially dispersed industry. It demonstrates how through the extensive use of temporary proximity in the form of conferences, market places, and workshops, European animation was able to create a dense social fabric supporting learning and collaboration among firms that were both geographically and culturally distant. The dissertation is developed in three distinct articles written for journal publication. These are followed by Appendix One discussing methodological issue related to the research, Appendix Two providing empirical introduction to European Animation, the object of the dissertation's case study. They are followed by a brief conclusion discussing the dissertations findings. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8966
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or, why there is still so much to learn from the theory of the growth of the firmFoss, Nicolai Juul (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
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A Taxonomy of Knowledge Transfer CostsHusman, Tina Brandt (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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A Role Model Story?Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van (Bonn, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context in shaping i ndividual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become entrepreneurs themselves? Using Danish register data of newly founded firms and their entrepreneurs and employees between 2003 and 2012, and employing methods that allow causal inferences, we show that entrepreneurial bosses indeed affect their employees' future entrepreneurship choices, especially if both boss and employee are female. We investigate two alternative underlying mechanisms that may shape the (female) boss' influence on (female) workers' entrepreneurship decisions. Our results consistently suggest that entrepreneurial bosses may act as role models for the entrepreneurship activities of their employees, especially between pairs of female bosses and female employees. We do not find any evidence on female bosses acting as "queen bees" at the workplace. Female entrepreneurial bosses may, thus, act as a lever to reducing the gender gaps in entrepreneurship rates. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9347
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Dahl, Michael; Van Praag, Mirjam; Thompson, Peter (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find evidence that couples often establish a business together because one spouse ? most commonly the female ? has limited outside opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in co-entrepreneurial firms, both during the life of the business and post-dissolution. The start-up of co-entrepreneurial firms seems therefore a sound in-vestment in the human capital of both spouses as well as in the reduction of income inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8961
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Empirical Investigations into Entrepreneurial Activities of Hackers and MakersHalbinger, Maria (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: New ventures are central to an economy's welfare and substantial promoters of technological change and innovation. Extant research has identified individuals and their role in entrepreneurial processes as the core pillars of entrepreneurship. This PhD dissertation aims to refine our understanding of the fundamental relationship between individuals and their entrepreneurial activities. In order to empirically test the hypotheses built, the analyses are based on a unique dataset on individuals in hacker- and makerspaces, i.e. open communities with physical workspaces where individuals with a common interest in technology, computing, science, art and hacking culture can meet, socialize and collaborate. Given that hackers and makers engage in various entrepreneurial activities, this empirical setting offers crucial benefits when analyzing entrepreneurial individuals. The thesis combines the literatures on psychology and entrepreneurship and consists of three essays. The first essay focuses on the early activities in the entrepreneurial process and depicts how the individual's creativity as well as different forms of motivation influence different process activities including the discovery and exploitation of opportunities. The second essay consists of a longitudinal analysis and examines how the identity of the founder relates to firm exit. The third essay applies computational linguistic tools on haiku poems written by hackers to investigate how self-confidence, social awareness and social influence are related with entrepreneurial experience, defined by the number of times the individual has been involved in new firm establishments. Overall, the thesis aims to contribute to the field of entrepreneurship by providing empirical evidence on the individual-level factors that shape entrepreneurial activities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8931
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Klein, Peter (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Experience and Entrepreneurial OutcomeToft-Kehler, Rasmus Vendler (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Entrepreneurs and investors alike rely on prior entrepreneurial experience and talent as vital clues for anticipating entrepreneurial performance. However, the extent to which entrepreneurial expertise accumulates and the extent to which entrepreneurial talent can be defined and measured remain open for debate. Therefore, the studies of this dissertation have been conducted with the aim of advancing our understanding of how entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial talent relate to entrepreneurial performance and behavior. Each study offers insights into how entrepreneurial expertise accumulates and is therefore of relevance to multiple stakeholders URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9597
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between the "unification" and "fragmentation" trapKnudsen, Christian (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
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Studied in the context of medical device activities at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S in the period 1980-2008Stjernholm Madsen, Arne (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Increased globalization in business competition makes the ability to innovate and to redefine strategy crucial to a company. An interesting question however is if a management team can control innovation and strategic renewal of the company at all; or do such changes emerge, driven by external events or by bottom-up processes in the organization? The present research project addresses some of these issues through the overall research question "How does innovation strategy evolve?" The research question is examined in a specific empirical context. Since 2001, I have worked as an internal innovation consultant at Novo Nordisk A/S; a pharmaceutical firm founded in 1923 operating in a well established industry (insulin for diabetes treatment), characterized by intensive investments in Research and Development. I took advantage of this unique access to the internal life of an organization and consequently set up my research project as a longitudinal in-depth case study of the medical device innovation activities at Novo Nordisk A/S covering the period 1980-2008. The study specifically analyzes the relationship between the classic core product of the firm (insulin) and complementary products (medical devices, such as insulin 'pens'), which hold the potential to either enhance the value of the core product, or to become a distinct business of its own. Burgelman's evolutionary theory of strategy making, especially his 'internal ecology model' (Burgelman 1991, 2002), has been chosen as the basic theoretical framework for the project. Some expansions of this framework, however, were needed. First, the present study puts greater emphasis on analyzing the external environment and its influence on internal strategy processes. Second, the analysis includes the role of management cognition, especially the notion of the corporate dominant logic (Prahalad & Bettis, 1986; Bettis & Prahalad, 1995), understood as an enduring top management worldview or mindset based on reinforcement of experiences from the past. With regard to results, the present study identifies a more entrepreneurial role of the top management driven induced strategy process than traditionally described in evolutionary theory. In this case study, strategic variation and trial-and-error learning is not restricted to the autonomous initiatives in the 'internal ecology'; on the contrary, top management cognition creates strategic visions or hypotheses, which are enacted as experiments in the market, for example in the form of new product categories. External feedback determines the destiny of these strategic experiments. Thereby innovation strategy (in case, for medical devices) serves as a strategic laboratory at corporate level, so to speak. The device-based strategic experiments face the challenge of escaping the gravity of the dominant logic, which repeatedly pulls the strategy back towards the well-known success formula, centered on the drug itself (i.e. the insulin). Thus, the induced strategy process mediates core assets (pharmaceutical drugs) and complementary assets (medical devices), by swinging the pendulum between cycles of innovation strategy which define the devices as core or complementary respectively. Hence, the balance between what is defined as core and what is defined as complementary in the corporate innovation strategy seems to be dynamic and negotiable. As a consequence of the cycles of strategic experimentation, the corporate induced strategy process acts as a force of strategic entrepreneurship, seen over extended time. The implications for research point towards a new paradigm of strategic research in the 'middle ground' between rational choice theory and evolutionary theory, as proposed by Gavetti & Levinthal (2004). The present research project suggests that a firm's ability for strategic adaptation depends both on strategic context determination of autonomous initiatives in the 'internal ecology' and on ability to enact induced strategic experiments with alternating innovation strategies in the market. This theory of 'inbound' and 'outbound' strategic search establishes a dynamic understanding of the corporate induced strategy process. In this understanding, innovation strategies act as hypotheses, which create strategic dissonance between vision and reality and thereby drive strategic learning. The implications for management practice are first recognition of how fortunate it has been for Novo Nordisk to sustain the core business strategy, protected by the dominant logic. This fact relates to a background where the core market proved to hold immense growth potential, and the industry was relatively stable compared to for instance the IT industry. On the other hand, Novo Nordisk's success is partly due to cycles of strategic experiments with complementary assets for innovation, in case medical devices. Top management initiated these explorative experiments and the learning was utilized for expansion of the position within the core business. Hence, one can conclude that a company should explore and utilize the value of complementary assets, since these are perfect tools for strategic experimentation without risking the core business. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8453
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Loasby, Brian J. (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7283
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Essays on the Micro-Foundations of Firms' Search for InnovationMarkus, Arjan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Innovation is at the heart of firm competitiveness. Due to the limited potential for knowledge recombination within organizational boundaries, companies are increasingly forced to span boundaries and tap into external knowledge sources in order to innovate. The role that skilled individuals play in this process of harnessing external knowledge for firm innovation is an increasingly studied phenomenon. However, the conditions under which external knowledge sourcing impacts firm innovation remain underexplored. The research question that guides this dissertation is formulated as follows: How does external knowledge sourcing affect firm-level innovative activity? The purpose of this thesis is to examine how recruitment of skilled individuals, and to a lesser extent collaboration and licensing, affects firm-level innovation, and which individual- and firm-level characteristics moderate this relationship. The dissertation consists of four empirical essays, an introduction, and a conclusion. The basis for three of these essays is The Integrated Database for Labor Market Research (IDA) provided by Statistics Denmark which is matched to patent data from the European Patent Office (EPO) and survey data on firm innovation from the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA). One essay relies on a combination of the Deloitte Recap Database and patent data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The combination of datasets used in each essay allows us to study the role of scientists and engineers and in particular their movement across organizational boundaries in great detail. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8854
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Abstract: Licensing contracts represent one of the most widely used mechanisms to exchange technologies and transfer know-how between firms. Due to the opportunities that licensing creates for firms operating on both sides of the markets for technology, it has increasingly become an integral part of firms' R&D strategies. On the supply side, the existing literature has been focused on understanding how technology licensing can be used by firms as a mechanism to recover investments in innovative activities and to foster learning opportunities. On the demand side, it has been shown that licensing is an important source that firms can tap into to feed their internal needs for innovative knowledge. While several studies have examined technology licensing through the lens of the licensor, research on how firms rely on licensing contracts to acquire knowledge and improve their innovation performance still leaves much to be investigated. Furthermore, with few exceptions, neither organizational nor contractual characteristics related to the licensing deals have received enough attention as determinants of the capacity of the acquiring firm to benefit from licensing in a new technology. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between technology licensing and firm innovation, also examining how the characteristics of the acquiring firm and the use of specific contractual clauses affect this main relationship. The papers in this dissertation build on a different set of theoretical perspectives connected to the licensing literature. The dissertation consists of a general introduction, four papers, and a conclusion. Although all the papers build on the same main dataset related to licensing contracts in the global pharmaceutical industry, supplementary information from different data sources was connected to the licensing contracts to answer the specific research questions. Indeed, each paper, from a different perspective, contemplates and contributes to the existing literature by examining the relationship between technology licensing and specific dimensions of firm innovation. Understanding how licensing deals affect the performance of licensees and licensors is critical to understanding how markets for technology function. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8868
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Abstract: This paper draws attention to the importance of the understanding of voluntary actions in the free market construct. Failing to understand the role of voluntary actions in the free market construct will often result in discussions of capitalism versus socialism focusing on asset ownership and not consumer sovereignty. I argue that asset ownership is less important than true consumer sovereignty, which again is the essential argument for why capitalism is the superior mode of resource allocation and social organization. The paper analyzes how our understanding of markets and voluntary actions are essential to the construct of consumer sovereignty. Understanding the degree of voluntary actions in a given commercial setting has implications for both business strategy and policy making. This paper thus aims to contribute to explain why restricted markets become crony capitalism. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9491
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OK, you're not despairing for humanity enough. You need to see this: Google celebrated Cesar Chavez's birthday yesterday, on 31 March. Wingnuts saw this, and went apeshit on twitter: how dare they honor a foreign communist dictator!
As if that weren't enough, a subset of them are praising Bing for paying respect to the religious holiday by showing pictures of Easter eggs. All hail the divine ruler of the universe, the Easter Bunny.
Religious people are among the dumbest people on the planet, I'm afraid.


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The marketing firm announced through the Halls Brazil Facebook page that they will work to select to random strangers who are willing to tie the knot.
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Hi, in the LCDproc project we have a driver which uses pthread_create to spin off a new thread. For a reason I don't understand, that call does never return neither success nor any error.
Even threading code that does work well as a standalone program does not work when copied into the driver.
The file in question can be found here: http://lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lcdproc/lcdproc/server/drivers/lis.c
The thread's start_routine is at line 290 (lis_read_thread) and the thread creation is at line 514, copied here for reference (but please look at the complete file linked to above):
int lis_read_thread(void *arg) { Driver *drvthis; PrivateData *p; char unsigned buffer[64]; int size; drvthis = (Driver *)arg; p = (PrivateData *) drvthis->private_data; while(! p->child_flag) { for (size = ftdi_read_data(&p->ftdic, buffer, 64); size > 0; size = ftdi_read_data(&p->ftdic, buffer, 64)) ; if (size < 0) { p->parent_flag = 0; return size; } } p->parent_flag = 0; return 0; } // Later in init... // create a thread to keep a read up on the device err = pthread_create( &read_thread, NULL, (void *) lis_read_thread, drvthis ); if (err) { report(RPT_ERR, "%s: pthread_create() - %s", drvthis->name, strerror(err)); goto err_framebuf; } report(RPT_INFO, "%s: read thread created"); p->parent_flag = 1; // show we're now a happy parent, birth successful.
Please, have a look at it and help us getting this to work on FreeBSD. Thank you!
Edit: System is FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE.
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root@kirika:lcdproc-anon# gdb server/LCDd GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"... (gdb) b lis.c:514 No source file named lis.c. Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y Breakpoint 1 (lis.c:514) pending. (gdb) run -c ./LCDd.conf -r 4 -f Starting program: /usr/home/mmd/devel/lcdproc-anon/server/LCDd -c ./LCDd.conf -r 4 -f LCDd version 0.5dev starting Built on Dec 16 2010, protocol version 0.3, API version 0.5 Using Configuration File: ./LCDd.conf Set report level to 4, output to stderr LCDd 0.5dev, LCDproc Protocol 0.3 Part of the LCDproc suite Copyright (C) 1998-2010 William Ferrell, Scott Scriven and many other contributors This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Server running in foreground Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666 [New LWP 100112] Breakpoint 2 at 0x281ad394: file lis.c, line 514. Pending breakpoint "lis.c:514" resolved [New Thread 0x28213040 (LWP 100112)] [Switching to Thread 0x28213040 (LWP 100112)] Breakpoint 2, lis_init (drvthis=0x28211060) at lis.c:514 514 err = pthread_create( &read_thread, (gdb) s ^C <<<< Here I pressed Ctrl-C because program hang Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0x281ce215 in __error () from /lib/libthr.so.3 (gdb) bt #0 0x281ce215 in __error () from /lib/libthr.so.3 #1 0x281ce02b in __error () from /lib/libthr.so.3 #2 0x281d0d20 in _thread_state_running () from /lib/libthr.so.3 #3 0x00000011 in ?? () #4 0x00000000 in ?? () #5 0x00000000 in ?? () #6 0x00000000 in ?? () #7 0xbfbfe804 in ?? () #8 0x28069d29 in _rtld_error () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #9 0x281c87c7 in pthread_mutex_getyieldloops_np () from /lib/libthr.so.3 #10 0x00018710 in ?? () #11 0x28097400 in ?? () #12 0x00018710 in ?? () #13 0x28097800 in ?? () #14 0x28097a00 in ?? () #15 0x280960e4 in ?? () #16 0x281cfbcc in ?? () from /lib/libthr.so.3 #17 0x00000000 in ?? () #18 0x28213040 in ?? () #19 0xbfbfe7d8 in ?? () #20 0x281c90fb in pthread_mutex_trylock () from /lib/libthr.so.3 Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) (gdb) kill Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y
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Don't read, just watch the video. Even when you know trickery is coming, you're probably going to lose track of the football. Imagine how tough it was for Ball State defenders.
Arkansas State twice came from behind to take the GoDaddy Bowl, capping it off with a 59-yard game-winning drive in 1:01. But the highlight came late in the second quarter, when 5'9" receiver R.J. Fleming crouched behind the offensive line, took the ball, and waited until Fredi Knighten feinted a fake handoff before taking off. Watch the replay at 0:15 from behind the Ball State line—Fleming's invisible. He scampered 27 yards, the biggest play on a drive that would end in a TD to tie the game up at the half.
This one's a Gus Malzahn staple; The former Red Wolves and current Auburn coach had it in his arsenal long before he arrived at Jonesboro. But if this was meant a tribute to Malzahn the night before his BCS title game, it might also mean the element of surprise is now lost.


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Atta Pearl. You are only about 4 months old, and already you are making your dad Jake Owen a better man. "Having a family gives me a whole lot more purpose in life," Owen told People magazine , admitting that in his pre-Pearl days, he was occasionally selfish. "I think it'll make me a better man." His favorite time of day with his baby girl is the morning because she's always laughing. "She's always happy in the morning, unlike her dad. I usually tend to be a bit disgruntled or moody," he said. "But Pearl has made me grow into having a happier outlook on life." And even though Owen revealed he can picture Pearl on her first day of school, he's trying not to rush things. "Time does fly in life," he said, "but right now, I'm really trying to slow it down."


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Burger Fusion at Beacon in Culver City, California
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It could reasonably be argued that all contemporary cuisine is fusion cuisine. Cooking traditions have been so thoroughly seasoned by cultural exchange that attempts to argue for the purity of one is akin to trying to uncook a soup. Rather than usher in an era of big tent cooking theory, the inherent difficulty in parsing difference in cuisine has meant international rows over the origin of a chicken dish.
Of course, when we say fusion there is very little about the notion that is tied to facts; rather, we are summoning abstract ideas of what makes cultures different. We can't necessarily define it, but we know it when we taste it. In California, the sine qua non of the fusion cooking conversation is Asian fusion. Popularized by Wolfgang Puck, the idea of mixing a little miso into the meal became as American as apple pie (or is it strudel?). It was looked upon as a revolution in cooking, but in its architecture, it was simply another version of the American formula: a mix of national and ethnic traditions coming together as one.
Beacon in Culver City describes itself as an "Asian café" which, in Los Angeles, means that the menu is a Pan-Asian admixture of dishes that rub up against American and European standbys. I, as you might imagine, stand by burgers in all forms, so I ordered the Beacon version and found myself in the midst of one of the better fusions I've come across.
Chef Kazuto Matsusaka is a Japanese native who emigrated to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming a chef. At least, that's how his bio reads, but whether finding his way into a kitchen in Los Angeles was all by design or a matter of happenstance, when you hear that he found his way into a Wolfgang Puck restaurant, their seems a bit of grand design to it. Matsusaka made his way through both Japanese and French kitchens until finding a long time home at Puck's legendary Chinois On Main. After a few years of international cheffing, Matsusaka came back to Los Angeles and opened Beacon with his wife Vicki Fan. The pair are hands-on owners which always charms me, but meeting their preternaturally cute daughter, Olivia, was almost too much to handle. Luckily I tried the burger before cuteness dulled my critical faculties.
Beacon's Grilled Half-Pound Burger is a lunch-only option so I made my way there early in the day to sample it. The burger is served with caramelized onions, Nueske bacon, and Gruyère. The patty gets a sweet soy glaze and comes on a ciabatta-style bun.
My first impression of the burger was that it was too much. That is to say, there were too many ingredients added to a sandwich that, for me, is balanced by its very nature. The smokiness of the bacon and the nuttiness of the Gruyère felt out of sync with the sweetness of the soy glaze. Then it hit me: I generally don't like bacon on burgers, and certainly it wasn't needed on this one. I opted to remove it and the Gruyère.
My slightly redesigned version of this burger was delicious. The high-quality, perfectly cooked beef had a heavy char that gave way to a beautiful pink center. The soy glaze added a hint of sweetness that made ketchup (yes, I like ketchup!) unnecessary. The ciabatta roll worried me a bit when I first saw it, but rather than the traditional airy, crusty texture, Beacon's version has a soft, doughy quality that stands up nicely to a burger. There was a healthy amount of juice as well that made each mouthful a nice play of textures.
While I needed to make some minor adjustments to Beacon's burger to find its (salty and) sweet spot, the recommendation is unalloyed. Theirs is a beautiful and balanced burger that expertly expresses the chef's California-Asian fusion background. It could be argued that a burger is, even in its traditional form, an expression of fusion cuisine. That would make Beacon's burger one fusion on top of another. Perhaps Beacon isn't so much an Asian café as it is, quite simply, an American one.
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Huntersville, NC – To no one's surprise, Joe Gibbs Racing announced on Tuesday that Matt Kenseth will drive the No. 20 Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series, beginning in 2013.
Kenseth had been widely rumored to join JGR next year since he revealed in June that he was leaving Roush Fenway Racing at season's end. He will replace Joey Logano, who is expected to sign with Penske Racing to drive the No. 22 car for the upcoming season.
"Surprise," Kenseth said when he was introduced at JGR's headquarters.
Crew chief Jason Ratcliffe as well as sponsors The Home Depot and Dollar General will remain with the No. 20 team next year. Neither the length nor the financial terms of Kenseth's contract with JGR were disclosed.
Kenseth, the 2003 champion in NASCAR's premier series, has been with Jack Roush's team since his 2000 rookie-of-the-year season. He has 22 race wins to his credit, including victories in the 2009 and 2012 Daytona 500s. Kenseth officially clinched a spot in this year's Chase for the Sprint Cup championship after the Aug. 25 race at Bristol. He is currently third in the point standings.
"I'm excited to announce what the next chapter in my career will be," Kenseth said. "I remain totally committed to this season and working with my current team toward a championship, and having this settled will only help my focus.
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TULSA � The driver of one of two freight trains that collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year, killing three railroad workers, had complained that he couldn't distinguish between red and green signals, an investigator told the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday.
TULSA � The driver of one of two freight trains that collided in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year, killing three railroad workers, had complained that he couldn�t distinguish between red and green signals, an investigator told the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday.
Dr. Mary Pat McKay was among several investigators presenting evidence to an NTSB panel in Washington charged with determining the cause of the June 24, 2012, crash near Goodwell.
Inspectors said signals warned the eastbound train to slow down and stop at a siding so a westbound train could pass. The westbound train slowed down, but the eastbound train did not, roaring past the siding at 68 mph and colliding with the oncoming train.
McKay told the panel said that driver of the eastbound train had suffered from glaucoma and cataracts, and that from 2006 to 2009 he complained about the deteriorating vision in his left eye.
�He repeatedly complained that his vision fluctuated and was described as OK one day, not OK the next,� McKay told the board.
The panel voted 5-0 that the train operator�s failing eyesight was the probable cause of the collision.
The Federal Railway Administration does not require comprehensive medical screening, instead relying on operators to report medical conditions to the company, McKay said. Since 2009, the driver of the eastbound train had undergone 12 separate eye procedures and complained that he was having trouble reading train signals. Doctors diagnosed him with protonosis, in which red and green are perceived as a shade of yellow, she said.
�Had the railroad tested the eastbound engineer�s vision in 2010, medical records demonstrate that he would have failed � any of the standard color vision tests,� McKay said.
Deborah Hersman, NTSB chairman said the company is responsible for ensuring employees are capable of fulfilling their roles safely.
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Another investigator said controlling trains remotely, through a system known as Positive Train Control, rather than relying on train drivers to read trackside signals, would have eliminated the possibility of an accident that day.
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Software development is an ever changing industry. Tools, frameworks and even standards used in a project one year can be outdated the next year. The new and fancy project becomes a legacy system in no-time. It's often too expensive to rebuild such a system with state of the art tools, especially large ones. The ability to integrate and communicate with these systems is strongly dependent on the APIs they provide, possibly forcing old technologies to be used even in new projects – and this is a problem.
Improving your business model with web accessibility
To increase the chances of succeeding with your business model you need to consider what problem your customer really needs help with. One way for this is to study barriers leading to the need of assistance from you. In this white paper we use a model based upon the customer's lack of accessibility, skill, time, or monetary funds.
Benefits of having focus on web accessibility
Almost every Swede has the possibility to connect to the Internet, often from a wide array of devices. But some people have difficulties to access the web due to disabilities. Disabilities that can present themselves in a variety of ways and can arise due to different causes, such as results of accidents, birth defects or fallout due to aging. There are two ways to handle this, to have good web accessibility and with aiding technology for people with needs, though some of these aids need the websites to be developed in a certain and accessible way to work properly. The challenge thereby is to find out how companies, both developers and clients, can create as well as gain value by working with web accessibility, as well as to find what these values can be. The conducted study has lead to results showing that web accessibility can be value creating for businesses as well as for the users. Among the benefits are financial gains, lowered needs for customer support, reduced risk of legal actions, gains of good will and public relations, and the possibility of more potential customers.
Evaluating agile methodologies considering strategic priorities
The use of agile methods is becoming widespread in the system development industry. Organization's varying needs and environments results in context specific adjustments of agile methods. Still, the evaluation of agile work is often based on how well the organization complies with a commercial method. However, in this study, compliance of practices to strategic priorities is considered. The aim has been to identify how gaps between practice and priority can be measured. A case study has been conducted to measure the perceptual performance of five Scrum practices with consideration to the prioritization of seven agile aspects. The results show that the studied agile aspects are considered essential in the organization and that practices in some cases underperform or overperform. The study is a first attempt to consider strategic consensus in agile system development, and the measurement can be used to indicate an organizations strategic direction and identify practices that are not performing in alignment with strategic priorities.


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When the majority of your templates use the same headers and footers, it
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what page you are coming from? You can pass the title to the header
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PIMCO's Bill Gross is mad as hell about money and ain't gonna keep his no more. He wants the wealthy to pay more taxes and support other efforts to improve our country's future.
Plus, he's putting his money where his mouth is and has one-upped fellow billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn by committing to give away not half but all of his fortune to charity.
Rising income inequality clearly has become an issue that policymakers, politicians and the wealthy are trying to come to grips with — along with, of course, those at the other end of the economic spectrum, as well as the shrinking middle class.
How can advisors respond?
On the practical side, a shrinking level of income for the 99% means that social programs are likely to expand and not shrink in the future. This, naturally, could lead to rising taxes and perhaps cutbacks in Social Security or other programs for the wealthiest Americans.
Some clients who may have assumed they'd have enough for retirement could benefit from a careful review of their nest eggs. In particular, an examination of what assumptions regarding taxes and social benefits went into their financial plans should be in order.
And what about the philanthropic side of your clients' plans?
This is an area where advisors can prove very helpful and resourceful.
Some clients might want to visit with you to discuss how much of their wealth they can leave to their favorite charity. This entails looking at estate and inheritance taxes (which could be bumped up in the future) and minimizing taxes with estate planning and gifting (which could be tinkered with by lawmakers or regulators).
In addition, it might be valuable to meet with clients or host a seminar or workshop for both clients and prospects about giving plans. These plans, which are designed to make charitable giving easy, can also help advisors turn inherited assets into long-term legacy assets, experts at MFS Funds and other groups say.
Giving plans help clients take a strategic approach to their philanthropic goals. For instance, you could ask them to break down the organizations and donation amounts they would like to give annually by funding area: culture and arts, education, environment, pets/animals, religious affiliations, scientific research, social programs and so on.
You could follow up on such plans and their associated legacy wishes by meeting with clients and their children. You also may want to host an educational event on this aspect of multigenerational wealth planning. Events that highlight charitable volunteer opportunities for clients might be popular as well.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller of Yale University said last month, "The most important problem that we are facing now today, I think, is rising inequality in the United States and elsewhere in the world."
The issue is incredibly complex and could prove highly disruptive. Yet there are ways advisors can work with their high-net-worth clients to make a difference.
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product line - eastern earthenware
eastern earthenware features over 30 glazes that are highly textured, gloriously imperfect and infused with the most unexpected color variations. this concert of elements can only be derived from an artisan's hand using unfiltered elements freshly mined from nature and further distinguished by the use of a volatile firing atmosphere.
we encourage you to explore this series for any of your bath or kitchen splashes, your walls and floors, and your interior or exterior spaces.
how much variation should i expect?
eastern earthenware is created from natural glazes, pigments and terra cotta clay. every one of these natural materials is completely unfiltered allowing for maximum variation and irregularities created by firing in hand made kilns. all of this hand craft is what makes eastern earthenware so magically varied- tile to tile. please enjoy the extreme variation of color, shade and surface texture. what does this mean to you? your eastern earthenware order will contain the following:
- size variation
- thickness variation
- cracked tiles
- chipped edges (from hand chiseling each tile)
- pitted glaze surfaces (from the unfiltered terra cotta reacting with the kiln heat)
- crazing (from the glaze and the clay body cooling at different temperatures)
please note that, once installed properly and grouted, the above issues will bring you the textured eastern earthenware look that promises a distressed and imperfect surface of incomparable character.
HOWEVER, if the above irregularities differ from your expectations for a less distressed installation, then clé highly recommends that you select another tile that will yield more surface regularity.
what is the standard grout joint size for eastern earthenware?
because all eastern earthenware is hand cut after firing into the individual tiles, they are crafted to allow for a very tight grout joint. please look at our resources/specification guide.
where can i use eastern earthenware tiles?
almost everywhere! but please see the "usage" section for more details.
how does the tile ship?
clé tiles ship on pallets via truck.
restrictions and exclusions
High-zone delivery areas - fees vary depending on zone
Shipping to an island or peninsula
Inside delivery, whiteglove service - add $175 per pallet.
why do you suggest i order 10% to 15% more than my measurements?
there is always the potential of breakage during moving and shipping tiles (2% to 3%). also, you should always have additional tiles for making tile cuts during your installation, and to store for possible future repair needs.
what are the minimum order requirements?
number generated on the product page square feet
when can i expect my order?
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can i cancel my order?
you have 3 hours to cancel your order. artists' tiles are not eligible for refunds or exchanges.
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It's hard to know exactly what the growing number of senators who've signed on to a sanctions bill against Iran think they're doing.
If they want to torpedo the interim nuclear deal that the United States and five other nations struck with Iran, then they should say so. But that's not what many say. They claim they support diplomacy and are only trying to assist the Obama administration in the next round of talks by pushing the Iranians "to negotiate honestly and seriously," to quote an op-ed by New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who has signed on to the legislation, likewise said through a spokesman that "he supports the president's diplomatic efforts, and the threat of even tougher sanctions will help keep Iran honest as negotiations move forward."
The trouble is, the Obama administration considers the Senate bill a violation of the deal the senators profess to respect. So do the Iranians, wh0 vow to walk away from the table should anything like it pass. And yet The Washington Post has reported that "a near filibuster-proof majority of senators [are] now willing to approve fresh legislation, according to senior Senate aides."
The Post also noted that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has no plans for a vote. If that remains the case, perhaps the bill is a political gesture — a way for senators of both parties to adopt a tough public posture toward Iran.
We're skeptics about Iran's intentions, too, but support the next stage of talks because the interim agreement, which takes effect Jan. 20, includes constructive concessions from Iran in return for a slight easing of sanctions.
Most important, Iran agreed to stop enriching uranium above 5 percent and to degrade the stock of 20 percent fuel that it holds.
Yes, those stocks can be re-enriched. And, yes, any permanent agreement must further reduce the risk of an Iranian nuclear "breakout," whereby it produces enough weapons-grade uranium for bombs. That means the agreement, to be successful, will have to address Iran's nuclear infrastructure, too.
It's a tall order. But if Iran abides by the interim agreement, it will be further than it is today from breakout. And if it doesn't comply, the U.S. will know at once and can respond appropriately.


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- Department
- Center for Integrated Pest Management
- Publication Date
- Dec. 18, 2019
- Authors
- Shew
- Butler, et. al.
Other Publications in 2020 North Carolina Agricultural Chemicals Manual
North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University commit themselves to positive action to secure equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, age, veteran status or disability. In addition, the two Universities welcome all persons without regard to sexual orientation.
This publication printed on: June 07, 2020


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Greg Walden, Mike Simpson lead meeting with FDA to voice concerns about new water quality rules affecting fruit and vegetable growers
Greg Walden, Mike Simpson lead meeting with FDA to voice concerns about new water quality rules affecting fruit and vegetable growers
Oregon Rep. Greg Walden (second from right) and Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson (right) meet with FDA officials to share fruit and vegetable growers' concerns about new water quality rules. At left is Mike Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine (More photos available upon request)
WASHINGTON, D.C.— U.S. Reps. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) today led a meeting with other members of Congress and top officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to directly convey concerns they have heard from Oregon and Idaho onion farmers and fruit growers about new water quality rules that could cripple family farms nationwide.
Walden and Simpson invited the FDA officials to travel to Oregon and Idaho, and the officials are planning a trip to Oregon, Idaho, and Washington next month to hear from Northwest growers first-hand.
"When I heard concerns from eastern Oregon farmers, particularly onion growers, about new water quality rules the FDA is drafting, I asked for a meeting with the agency to air these concerns directly. I'm pleased that the agency has agreed to work with farmers as the rules are drafted, and that they are willing to travel to eastern Oregon and Idaho to hear from onion producers and other growers there directly," Walden said. "A practical, common-sense rule will help achieve the goal of greater food safety without placing unnecessary regulatory burdens on American farm families that could drive them out of business."
"I'm greatly concerned about the impact the FDA's proposed rule will have on agriculture in Idaho," said Simpson. "With an administration that seems to issue an abundance of rules and regulations for all industry, it is especially important that we seek input from Idaho producers to ensure that we reach an effective and sensible solution."
The FDA delegation was led by Mike Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine. Other members of Congress present included Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), and Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Mich.).
On June 21, Walden traveled to Nyssa, Ore. and met with onion growers who are concerned that the new regulations, as currently drafted, could force them out of business. Additionally, Walden has heard similar concerns from apple and cherry growers in the Columbia Gorge.
Many farmers have pointed out that the proposed rule lacks common sense and a crop-specific approach, resulting in many of the proposed provisions being unworkable in the field, literally speaking. Walden and Simpson have heard from growers who are worried that grouping over 200 crops together in one category fails to account for differing risk profiles and production practices, which has led to the proposed requirements that may be unworkable for particular crops.


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XJ Torque Converter Swap For Mileage And Power
Better Slushy
We embarked upon our '98 Cherokee project during a time of astronomically high gas prices. Our goal initially was to build it to go off-road while not losing any on-road commuter-type mileage. We've stayed pretty close to the original plan, but over the last year or so we've been underwhelmed by the performance we were seeing.
The transmission was getting too hot. Downshifting only made things worse. Then we started getting codes that the torque converter wasn't locking up. Now, we knew the torque converter was hurting. We'd been hearing that death rattle every time we took the Jeep wheeling, and with 245,000 miles on the original transmission and torque converter, it was no big surprise.
But was a full transmission rebuild necessary, or was our torque converter the sole culprit as we suspected? We figured a torque converter swap could be done in a day. However, living 20 miles from the nearest parts store, and with no other Jeeps on hand if something went wrong in the driveway, we decided to enlist some expert help. We took the Jeep and the new torque converter down to Jeeps R Us in Laguna Hills, California. The crew had the install done in one morning, and we were back on the road before afternoon rush hour hit.
The results? Our suspicions were confirmed. Our gamble to change only the torque converter paid off this time around. We immediately noticed a seat-of-the-pants improvement in power, which the dyno verified. However, we were surprised to see that our power improvement didn't translate into any increased mileage at the pump. So if your converter is chattery, your Jeep sluggish off the line, or your fluid temperature is inexplicably climbing, an inexpensive torque converter swap could buy many more miles for your automatic before a full rebuild is necessary.


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Video: Some of the entries in this year's competition, including Ofer Amram's physical theater work Sanatorium
I took a detour from writing strictly about dance when I accepted an assignment to cover the Acco Fringe Theater Festival for the Jerusalem Post. Though I've never been to this event, I've heard that it's one of the most adventurous and intriguing festivals in the country – and I was certainly intrigued by how many programs in this theater festival are movement based.
Some shows are billed as dance theater (Yoav Bertel and Avigail Rubin's A Compensating Experience), physical theater (Ofer Amram's Sanatorium), or motion theater (the group Makhol). Others are outright dance works, like the Acco Dance Greenhouse ensemble's Neuronirvana, which was shown this summer as part of the Maholohet festival at Suzanne Dellal.
The international selections also feature a good dose of movement. 3Some, from Germany, was created by Israeli choreographer and actor Nir De-Wolf with Knut Berger, while The Vengeance Cell is by Japanese butoh artists Taketeru Kudo and Jun Wakabayash. The Teatro Pavana street theater group from the Netherlands includes stilt-walkers, and the German group Grotest Maru employs physical theater techniques in The Waters of Acco – A Dance on the Shore.
To learn more about this year's Acco Fringe Theater Festival, read my article below, which was initially published in the Jerusalem Post.
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Alternative Acco
In the midst of the Jewish holiday of Succot, modern-day Israelis added a new celebration. Just as the ancient Israelites journeyed to Jerusalem for the holiday, hundreds of thousands of hungry culture-goers flock annually to the old city of Acco during Hol Hamoed to witness the latest harvest of alternative theater. Now in its 30th season, the Acco Fringe Theater Festival is as adventurous as ever with 450 diverse performances challenging typical notions of theater.
Smadar Ya'aron, who is co-directing the festival for the first time with Moni Yosef, explains, "We are looking for pieces of theater which propose another approach, whether it's visually, or concerning the content or other aspects of the theatrical event . . . What is also important for us is that the theater will be daring . . . To dare to do a step, to dare to say something which is maybe not so popular, to dare to try and explore."


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Danbury, Connecticut: Pizza Parlor Pizza at Nick's Restaurant
Nick's Restaurant
4 Starr Street, Danbury CT Map; nicksdanbury.com
Price: pizzas, $9.50 to $20.25
Notes: Family restaurant; gigantic portions
Unapologetically cheesy, with a hefty crust and a side of homespun hospitality, the pizza at Nick's Restaurant & Pizza feels both instantly familiar and timeless.
The anchor to this family-run operation is a full menu of Italian American specialties, a couple of gas powered ovens and a tangy signature sauce. They aren't trying to compete with trends or geographical labels. This is a family restaurant serving pizza their way. It's pizza parlor pizza in all its glory.
Dining in on a Wednesday night revealed a steady stream of friends and locals who return here weekly for both the pizza and house specialties such as Eggplant a la Nick with dinner-sized portions teetering on family-sized excess.
Their pizzas are just as hefty. The pepperoni pie is a pleasantly spiced affair, the culmination of a very light dusting of dried oregano atop a dense layer of low moisture mozzarella covering thick and complex layers of pepperoni, tangy sauce and a thick crust. With each bite, you're treated to pleasant bursts of pepperoni and garlic hiding under a blanket of cheese.
A more heavily accessorized sausage and vegetable pizza held bundles of crumbled sweet Italian sausage and thin slices of fresh onions and peppers that wilted and caramelized slightly under the heat of the gas oven, as most likely well from an initial quick blanching. This pie was slightly more well done, calling attention to its thick undercrust. Unlike the pepperoni, the vegetables were front and center, layered on top of the cheese.
With both pies, the crust plays second fiddle to the sauce, an unsuspectingly tangy and garlicky affair. Overall, I enjoyed the cheesy subterfuge of the pepperoni pie much more than the sausage and vegetable pie. Nick's pizzas aren't trying to be anything other than what they are: solid pizza parlor pizza in a warm neighborhood spot.
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SABITECH Co.ltd was founded by a group of persons who have a combined experience of more than 30 years in the industry.
People who work in the company and those who lead it have excellent expertise and lengthy experience in design and manufacturing of bakery equipment.
Our engineers have developed an innovative design that meets or exceeds the industries expectations in the 21st century. The performance and appearance of the manufactured lines and machines reflect our attention to every detail. The machine is simple and reliable which is the synthesis of diligent planning and design to give to the customer a product of excellent performance, durability, user-friendly operation and maintenance free.
In accomplishment of our objectives toward our customers SABITECH is offering a wide range of bakery and pastry machineries for the production of various European bread and specially the French bread.
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Going green is a concept for people to learn how to make environmentally friendly choices. The green movement is dedicated to helping people become more aware of how daily choices affect the planet. Going green is also a concept that advocates making small changes to promote healthier and more environmentally friendly living.
Going green means making responsible daily decisions that benefit the environment and help reduce waste and pollution. The concept also promotes a lifestyle of using chemical-free products, recycling, using alternative energy sources such as solar and wind, and reducing dependency on fossil fuels for energy.
Going green doesn't necessarily mean huge changes. Going green involves small changes in daily decisions that are environmentally friendly and responsible. For example, buying an organic product or changing light bulbs to energy efficient ones is part of going green.
"The idea is that if everyone does a small part, those actions will add up to bigger changes."
Sabitech thought of every single way how to add up to a bigger change and save the environment. The machine that are used, were created in a way where it does not lose big amount of energy. Furthermore, Sabitech is one of the companies who is trying to help in reducing wastes of useful producs and have begun going green.


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2.5 out of 5 Stars
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Writer: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber
Genre: Action, drama
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of gun violence and action, and for brief strong language
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) - Synopsis: When his family is trapped in a burning, high-tech skyscraper, Will Sawyer will stop at nothing to save them.
Review: Trapped somewhere between "Towering Inferno," "Die Hard," "Mission: Impossible" and "MacGyver," "Skyscraper" is the latest Dwayne Johnson action film to hit the multiplexes. Thankfully, the film is better than his last effort, "Rampage," but be warned that "Skyscraper" is on the darker and more violent side of his recent films.
I tend to like Johnson more than I like the films in which he appears. He's a prototypical action star in the sense that he hasn't shown much range as an actor and his roles all blur together, but he oozes tough-guy charisma and many careers have been built on less.
"Skyscraper" isn't a smart film, but it does feature the sort of over-the-top stunts that help compensate for aspects of the narrative that don't make much sense. There's a little bit of near-future science fiction at play in the movie as a wealthy businessman is on the cusp of opening his ultra-high-tech skyscraper that feels like an updated take on the building featured at the center of J.G. Ballard's novel "High-Rise" in that it is self-sustaining and offers the amenities that would allow its residents to never need to leave the structure.
Johnson stars as Will Sawyer, a small-time security specialist with a military background, who is offered the opportunity by an old friend to assess the ultra-modern building's safety and security as part of the final checks before the structure's residential levels will officially open. Sawyer's wife and twin children have come along in hopes of catching a glimpse of Hong Kong's pandas.
Common sense gets thrown out the window as the building's designers have created a facility that is completely automated and controlled from an off-site facility. There's no real manual backup available on site. What could possibly go wrong?
What follows is a predictable action film that edges further and further away from reality as it goes along. It entertains, but there isn't much substance to latch on to. The film's antagonist is generic and unmemorable, the secondary characters -- both good and bad -- are equally as nondescript. We have good guys, bad guys and bystanders. It's a world made of cardboard characters with Johnson grinning in the middle of it all. It's nice to see Neve Campbell back on the screen, even if she isn't really given much to do.
If you like Johnson and nearly-mindless action films, you'll probably enjoy "Skyscraper." If you're looking for a movie with memorable characters and a gripping or inventive storyline, you won't find that here.


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Vintage Hair Clip - Dorothy
Regular price $8.00
Set of 2 Vintage Hair Clips. These have some signs of age but haven't been used. They have just been sitting idle! They are from about the 50s or 60s. They measure about 1.5" long and 1" tall. Also available in other names!