... absolved ofthe [6] Google said that the conviction of its top Italian managers “attacks the ‘principles of freedom’ ofthe Internet and poses a serious threat to the web.” [7] Following the conviction, ... Saylor.org Prize–winning author ofThe World Is Flat: A Brief History ofthe Twenty-First Century andThe Lexus andthe Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization Because of this flattening effect, Internet ... organizations In some cases, these foreign offices are carbon copies ofthe parent firm; that is, they have all the value creation and support activities, just in a different country In other cases, the foreign...
... society in the United States The media andthe message came together in a way such that the right word, emotionally charged, reach[ed] the whole person and change[d] the relationships of men” (Stephen ... in the minds of millions The day that a black pastor from Atlanta, Georgia, stood before 250,000 people on the National Mall in the capital city ofthe United States The day that a moment of ... WORLD He was a figurehead ofthe Civil Rights movement, a key player in the political and social change ofthe early 1960s in the United States and ultimately across the world But what is more...
... is the trigger andthe symptom at the same time, the underlying cause andthe realization And it is leading us into a world where the unlikely andthe improbable are becoming probable Where the ... bridging the divide between the old world of Europe andthe new world of North and South 16 The Flat World America This period (from the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century) was one of ... to be wrong and then we shouldn’t be too far from the truth Flat, Wild, and Wacky The flat world is the result of globalization of people coming together to share, collaborate, and interact in...
... them a platform to vent their everyday, run -of -the- mill qualms and complaints This created the expectation that if the candidate were elected, the issues would be dealt with And in the end, the ... jackets Some who were not brave enough wore them inside their clothes Then people started lighting candles in their windows 34 The Flat World “It was December 1989, after the fall ofthe Berlin ... can as I wish and I can achieve what I am capable of Something changed in the environment, and you can be the cork that pops out ofthe bottle For me this was the biggest value ofthe changes—individual...
... provided the tools andthe availability of information necessary to all this But then this trend of total choice and empowerment through the flat world soon spread out ofthe domain ofthe mega-rich and ... boundaries the realities ofthe flat world 59 Chapter Two The Realities ofthe Flat World Young Chinese, Indians, and Poles are not racing us to the bottom They are racing us to the top They not ... want to choose who they gave their money to on the basis of criteria that they were deciding on instead of us deciding for them Enter Guidestar, Charity Navigator, andthe start of what is becoming...
... have seen the value in nonprofit Think of Dove, a soap brand from one ofthe largest industrial multinationals 86 The Realities ofthe Flat World in the world, Unilever In 2005, the Dove brand launched ... to the fore of public debate, andof course, increased the sales of Dove soap But such a move into the world of nonprofit values marketing would not have been complete without the creation ofsome ... together individuals with needs and individuals with the capacity to give—in other words, in bringing together the two markets of nonprofits without the nonprofit in the middle By cutting us out, the...
... redefining our profession They don’t know the rules of fundraising, and there is nothing more powerful than someone who is determined and passionate, and doesn’t know the rules The rules are there as ... missions, they had beneficiaries, and they had donors Mostly, the beneficiaries had a need ofsome sort that they couldn’t pay for or weren’t aware of, the donors had money and goodwill, andthe charities ... communities in the United Kingdom as an example It is the same for Mexican funds into the United States Again, the concept ofthe need being in India andthe funds being in the UK, or the need being...
... great and what makes a real difference And then it more and better And give the rest to someone else to Use the huge possibilities opened up by the flat world platform to collaborate, effectively and ... because they are in one ofthe most difficult industries—with growing demand being continually offset by things like 9/11 and rising fuel prices Whatever the reasons, we can learn from them Let’s ... you to avoid the scrum and get on the plane straightaway Then you turn up at the airport If you have no bags, you go straight through security andthe first time you see an employee ofthe airline...
... site) Then one friend gets behind the terminal and starts going through the sites, while the other grabs a pen and paper to note down what you say You, from the other side ofthe room, call out the ... idea of whether you want to talk to them from observing them across the room You will interpret their reactions, their facial expressions, the way they stand or sit in relation to anyone they ... this information And let’s be honest; most of us don’t use it enough, if at all Above and beyond the obvious implications of Dr Mehrabian’s work (and that of Richard Bandler and other neurolinguistic...
... linking the strength of community and innovation The paper found that the stronger the community, the less it innovated and grew economically Andthe less the community was linked and tied together, ... broke the story ofthe Ethiopian famine and sent these images into our living rooms for the first time And it got a reaction then—Band Aid, Live Aid, and others But let’s return to the tsunami and ... or whether they managed the communication around the announcement in an optimum way or not, is beside the point Because the point is that there were other conflicts and other crises in the world,...
... improve the quality of life through the causes they serve They serve the ideal of philanthropy, are committed to the preservation and enhancement of volunteerism; and hold stewardship of these ... business, agree to abide (and to ensure, to the best of their ability, that all members of their staff abide) by the AFP standards Violation ofthe standards may subject the member to disciplinary ... concepts as the overriding direction of their professional life They recognize their responsibility to ensure that needed resources are vigorously and ethically sought and that the intent ofthe donor...
... to standard output Once all lines have been processed, the complete output is sent via e-mail to the specified RECIPIENT by the e-mail command in the final element ofthe command pipeline The ... Notification" $RECIPIENT The loop processes each line ofthe file using the eval statement, which causes the variables to be replaced with their string values The expanded line is assigned to the variable ... REMAINING there are before the account is frozen The ENVIRONMENT variable specifies the environment from which the message is being sent The occurrences of these variables must be replaced with their...
... Most ofthe financial and entrepreneurial elite and many ofthe most skilled artisans of Flanders and Brabant emigrated to the new republic The Dutch blockaded the river Scheldt andthe port of ... notion of a sudden take–off in the second half ofthe eighteenth century in England Recent research on the Netherlands shows income to have been higher there than in the United Kingdom at the end of ... but on the basis ofthe “price of labour” and other evidence, his ordinal ranking from the top downwards was as follows for the 1770s: 46 The Contours of World Development Netherlands England France...
... pathlength of mm Because of these opposing effects, the fluorescence ofthe peptide is quenched, and it contributes a smaller proportion ofthe total fluorescence ofthe system However, in the presence of ... To further study the mechanism of action of bacitracin, the reduction of insulin was analyzed in the presence ofthe PDI a domain and DsbA, which are capable of catalyzing the oxidation and reduction ... mechanism of action, the reaction conditions ofthe assay were varied The removal of EDTA from the reaction significantly reduced the noncatalyzed rate (Fig 2C; P < 0.05) andthe catalysis of insulin...
... the atom-pistol as they stole through the dark ship and out ofthe space-door Outside, they paused in the darkness The scene was one of magic, unearthly beauty The metal bulk ofthe cruiser and ... bursts ofthe tail rocket-tubes to bring them out ofthespin in which they were falling The brake-rockets in the bow were gone The ship was crippled, almost impossible to handle Andthe dark ... Murdock and Robbie Kenniston andthe Jovian were last to emerge, under the watchful guns of their guards The crew and passengers were looking around with wonder and revulsion The silvery bulk of the...
... were the most hyped immersive component ofthe game, the proliferation of diegetic sites on the Web was actually the largest and arguably most affecting component ofthe immersive experience The ... with the passage of time in the players’ lives The puppetmasters used a variety of temporal clues, including the header content of faxes and emails from game characters andthe datelines of articles ... navigate the massive digital systems ofthe game and to create a wide variety of digital documents and applications in support ofthe game, the Beast changed their subjective experience of that...
... straight the two uses ofthe word, the old use andthe new use Even then one must remember that the customers of social networks are not the members of those networks The real customer is the advertiser ... someofthe common hive mind failure modes The balancing of influence between people and collectives is the heart ofthe design of democracies, scientific communities, and many other long-standing ... least some aspects of their designs, such as the comments, instead ofthe proud extroversion that characterized the first wave of web culture Instead of people being treated as the sources of their...
... proof is cast in terms ofthe formalism of head grammar (Pollard, 1984; Roach, 1987), which is known to be equivalent to TAG (Vijay-Shanker and Weir, 1994) The key to our proof is the notion of ... descendants of nodes with short labels One important property ofthe string z is the following: Lemma If z = x1 vx2 and ψ(v) ∈ [−2, 2] × [−2, 2], then either v or x1 x2 is short The maximal length of ... , x2 ) with the subtree of D rooted at the left child of μ, to obtain a new 2-decomposition of z In either case, the result is a normal 2-decomposition of z with fewer instances of concatenation...
... by the people profiled in Get a Life, Not a Job and hope you will be too When you read the profiles of these people, you will notice that someof them work for themselves andsome work for others—other ... in the organization—or those with the greatest number of degrees—but they know how they contribute to the organization’s success, and they have a realistic sense of their value across each of their ... any ofthe following features? ✓ Do they have multiple professional career acts? The individuals who have the most fulfilling careers often have jobs across a variety of career acts Someof these...
... data of one ofthe phases, a mono- Results and Discussion The title compound is initially isolated from the hydrothermal reaction of WO , en, NaOH and H O in polycrystalline form Replacement of ... indicating the release of en molecules Ž calc, 8.0% The infrared spectra of present the following information: strong absorption bands at 935 and 975 cmy1 are ascribed to Õ ŽW s O., andthe features ... occupy interstrand regions 4y ofthe W6 O 20 chains and exhibit strong hydrogen bond network to terminal and bridging oxo groups ofthe anionic 4y chains of W6 O 20 X Crystal data for the monoclinic...