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the same time we do not, as a general rule, believe it to be the best way to animate and
express devotional feeling. We have known some who, by the use of forms of prayer
in the family, have succeeded in overcoming their oppressive timidity, and afterwards,
without their aid, have directed the devotions of others in an edifying manner. Extem-
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The authors believe that this will also improve the quality of generation.
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Work to Rule- Direct from the District
Pia Parekh, Annika Yong, Prahalad Chari, and Justin Kim
With work to rule creating high tensions between the Fremont Unified School District (FUSD) and its teachers, some misconceptions of the district's budget and perspective have been spread. The Voice interviewed the district to get their perspective on the issue.
The district is currently facing a structural deficit, meaning that their revenue is less than their expenditures. The state is not providing FUSD with the money that they need to make ends meet. While it seems like the district just needs to cut its spending, it isn't that simple.
"The district doesn't have a surplus," said Mr. Raul Parungao, FUSD assistant superintendent. "It's not because we don't know how to spend our money but, rather, because the demand is more than what the state could provide us."
About 84.8% of the district's budget is spent on paying the salaries and benefits for teachers, janitors, paraeducators, etc. This percentage is set to increase as the district is expected to pay more in benefits in the coming years, hence the difficulty in raising wages for teachers.
A lack of funding is another prominent issue. Due to the Assembly Bill 1469 pertaining to State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) contributions signed by the Governor into law in 2014, the district has to pay pension contributions, a specific cut of money given to the teachers annually during retirement.
However, the mandated amount towards pension contribution increases every year until 2021. Last year, there was a 1.8% increase in required pension contributions, but the district only received a 1.56% increase in funding. This forced the district to reach into its savings account and pay the rest. This year, they received a net of 1.7% increase in funding after paying for the pension fund.
A substantial amount of the budget is directed towards the special education program. The state mandates certain services be provided for special education—the cost about $78 million this year—yet the state only funded $31 million in revenue. The widening discrepancy between revenues offered by the state and required expenditures left the district reaching into their reserves once again.
"The problem that we're facing right now is actually due to insufficient funds from the state. The state has to do something about funding school districts, providing an additional amount for us to be able to address the basic needs," said Mr. Parungao. "The state and the federal government have to fully fund or at least make advances towards funding the pension contribution and special education."
If the state was able to completely fund the special education program, the district would gain $46.5 million, more than enough for a 4% raise for all district employees (a 1% raise costs $3.194 million), and fill up the reserve.
While the district did indeed end with a $19 million ending balance, $11.7 million was set aside for state-mandated and board-designated reserves, which a 3% mandatory amount. The remaining money was spent on things like salary increases, one-time expenditures, and prepaid expenditures.
With the current situation, the district doesn't have enough incoming revenue. Among the 50 states, California ranks 45th in per. student funding, and FUSD ranks last among all school districts in the Alameda County.
"Every household is levied 73 dollars for the parcel tax. When [homeowners] pay property tax, they pay an extra 73 bucks for it," Mr. Parungao said. "When you collect that 73 dollars in aggregate, it amounts to $4.3 million dollars for [all of] Fremont."
Comparatively, other districts pay significantly more. For instance, homeowners in Palo Alto pay $758 per parcel, plus an additional 2 percent increase for 6 years since 2015—a little over 10 times the more than the $73 per parcel for homeowners in Fremont.
Therefore, the lack of funding and the structural deficit led to district-wide budget cuts. The reserve funds are running dry and cannot support the district nor the teachers; further funding will be needed in order to compensate for losses and any pay raises to occur.
"The cost of one percent salary increase for all the employees in the district is $3,194,000," Mr. Parungao said. "If we give $3,194,000 and we're barely meeting the mandatory 3% in our savings right now, then the $12 million falls below 3%. The problem is finding this $3 million."
One possible way to combat this issue is to decrease the reserves of California's rainy day fund. After California got out of its economic slump due to the Great Recession, governor Jerry Brown mandated a separate reserve of money to prepare for the next economic crisis. Since then, this funding was never used and has eventually stockpiled to $18 billion. By removing some of this funding and directing it towards state funding to schools, the district will be able to restore its reserves and give teachers a higher salary.
"We hope to get to a settlement. An agreement is a meeting of the minds, which means we need to come up with a number that is workable for [the teachers] and for the district," Mr. Parungao said. "It's just difficult for the district to find the money to give what they're asking for."
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David Shinar
EPUB (439 KB)
Traffic Safety and Human Behavior
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78635-221-720162027
"This theatre is a part of me" contrasting brand attitude and brand attachment as drivers of audience behaviour
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of brand attitude and brand attachment on different categories of visitors' behaviour.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of brand attitude and brand attachment on different categories of visitors' behaviour.
The paper adapts a model from the classical brand research on the cultural sector. This model is tested by a visitor survey for an independent theatre and the soft modelling approach PLS.
Brand attitude and brand attachment explain similar simple types of consumer behaviour in the cultural and arts context. However, most difficult visitors' behaviour like volunteering or demonstration is only explained by brand attachment.
Cultural manager should consider brand attachment as an additional construct in classical visitor surveys. Furthermore, cultural manager should develop and implement measures for increasing the brand attachment via a higher level of brand identification and brand prominence.
This paper is the first research, which integrates the construct brand attachment in the cultural sector. Furthermore, the distinction between different categories of visitors' behaviour is new and fruitful for further brand research in the cultural sector. Finally, the discussed measures for improving the brand attachment opens directions for further research.
Arts Marketing: An International Journal, vol. 4 no. 1/2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/AM-01-2014-0007
Brand identification
Brand attachment
Brand attitude
Brand prominence
Cultural brand
Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya and Sumi Jha
EPUB (27 KB)
Strategic Leadership Models and Theories: Indian Perspectives
Is co-creation really a booster for brand equity? The role of co-creation in observer-based brand equity (OBBE)
Samuel Kristal, Carsten Baumgarth, Carolin Behnke and Jörg Henseler
This paper aims to analyse the general effect of co-created products on the brand equity of observers (OBBE). The influence of different implementations of the co-creation…
This paper aims to analyse the general effect of co-created products on the brand equity of observers (OBBE). The influence of different implementations of the co-creation approach on the OBBE is tested. It is also discussed whether co-creation can be a strategic method for companies to positively affect the OBBE in the mass market.
A between-subject experiment with a 2 (intensity of integration: democratically voted vs commonly created) × 2 (expert knowledge: no expert knowledge vs expert knowledge) design plus one control group (zero co-creation) is conducted for two brands to test the postulated hypotheses.
Co-creation can have a weak positive effect on the OBBE. Integration intensity and expertise of integrated consumer also affect the OBBE only marginally.
Research limitations/implications
Further research might investigate whether the initial brand equity has a moderating effect. Also brand image and underlying product category could influence the relation between co-creation and the OBBE and would be valuable for future studies.
Brand managers should aim to convert observers into participants, instead of setting the focus on the presentation of the user-designed product to the mass market.
This study is one of the few analyzing the effects of co-creation on observers in terms of brand equity. In addition to existing research, the concept of expertise in combination with co-creation and its influence on the OBBE is explored.
Journal of Product & Brand Management, vol. 25 no. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-05-2015-0893
Intensity of integration
Non-integrated consumers
Observer-based brand equity
Brand management and the world of the arts: collaboration, co-operation, co-creation, and inspiration
This paper aims to present historical examples of collaborations between brand strategists and artists; provide an extensive, structured overview of existing published…
This paper aims to present historical examples of collaborations between brand strategists and artists; provide an extensive, structured overview of existing published research on such collaborations and their effects; present seven papers comprising this special issue; and discuss ideas for further research into brand–art collaboration.
This is an editorial based mainly on an extensive and broad literature review.
First, this editorial underpins the relevance of brand–art collaboration in the past and present by reference to real examples. Second, it structures the diverse literature into four key aspects of the topic: inspiration, insights, identity and image. Third, it provides a glimpse of the seven papers selected for this special issue. Fourth and finally, it identifies a total of 16 avenues for further research, on four levels (artist, brand owner, consumer and cooperation process).
This editorial and the entire special issue together represent the first anthology on the topic of the interface between brand management and arts. The collection and classification of the existing literature, the formulation of ideas for future research and the content of the seven papers are collectively excellent starting springboards for new and fresh brand research projects.
Art-infusion effect
Arts-based brand research
Brand art
Sales force impact on B‐to‐B brand equity: conceptual framework and empirical test
Carsten Baumgarth and Lars Binckebanck
This paper aims to develop and empirically test a conceptual framework explaining the influence of the sales force on brand equity relative to the product and promotion…
This paper aims to develop and empirically test a conceptual framework explaining the influence of the sales force on brand equity relative to the product and promotion elements of the marketing mix, in the context of business‐to‐business marketing.
Six research hypotheses, relating to the effects of four key drivers of B‐to‐B brand equity identified in a review of the relevant literature, were empirically tested with a sample of 201 respondents in B‐to‐B firms in Germany, using partial least squares analysis.
The results confirm the high relevance of the sales force to the building and maintenance of a strong B‐to‐B brand. The most important driver of brand equity in this environment is the salesperson's behaviour, followed in sequence by his or her personality, product quality and non‐personal marketing communications.
The sample size permits only a general analysis and conclusions. The choice of PLS analysis and formative scales limits the rigorousness of scale and model evaluation. The decision to interview one manager per company may have introduced informant bias.
The study identifies controllable variables that are critical to the effective management of a B‐to‐B brand and offers an alternative approach to the measurement of brand equity in B‐to‐B marketing.
This is the first study to test the widely claimed influence of the sales force on B‐to‐B brand equity empirically, developing a simple but powerful framework to integrate sales management and brand management in this context.
B‐to‐B branding
Sales force behaviour and personality
Publication date: 1 August 1996
Transboundary environmental problems and new trade rules
Carsten Helm
Increased environmental pollution and the globalization of economies have initiated an academic debate on the relationship between international trade and the environment…
Increased environmental pollution and the globalization of economies have initiated an academic debate on the relationship between international trade and the environment. Addresses the question of whether the present GATT/WTO regime conflicts with effective policies to cope with transboundary environmental problems, including the protection of global commons. Analyses the welfare effects of transboundary pollution tariffs by using a simple partial equilibrium framework. Contrasts the results with an assessment of the existing GATT/WTO regime, in which no distinction between national and transboundary environmental problems has been made. Outlines, in conclusion, some basic elements of a necessary reform of the GATT/WTO regime. These proposals would allow border tax adjustment for certain types of production‐related environmental charge without undermining an open and non‐discriminatory multilateral trading system.
International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 23 no. 8
Environmental management strategy
Publication date: 3 May 2011
Path planning for mobile robot in a 2.5‐dimensional grid‐based map
Jiajun Gu and Qixin Cao
Two and one half‐dimensional (2.5D) grid maps are useful for navigation in outdoor environment or on non‐flat surface. However, little attention has been given to how to…
Two and one half‐dimensional (2.5D) grid maps are useful for navigation in outdoor environment or on non‐flat surface. However, little attention has been given to how to find an optimal path in a 2.5D grid map. The purpose of this paper is to develop a path‐planning method in a 2.5D grid map, which aims to provide an efficient solution to robot path planning no matter whether the robot is equipped with the prior knowledge of the environment.
A 2.5D grid representation is proposed to model non‐flat surface for mobile robots. According to the graph extracted from the 2.5D grid map, an improved searching approach derived from A* algorithm is presented for the shortest path planning. With reasonable assumption, the approach is improved for the path planning in unknown environment.
It is confirmed by experiments that the proposed planning approach provide a solution to the problem of optimal path planning in 2.5 grid maps. Furthermore, the experiment results demonstrate that our 2.5D D* method leads to more efficient dynamic path planning for navigation in unknown environment.
This paper proposes a path‐planning approach in a 2.5D grid map which is used to represent a non‐flat surface. The approach is capable of efficient navigation no matter whether the global environmental information is available at the beginning of exploration.
Industrial Robot: An International Journal, vol. 38 no. 3
Identification with an organisation as a dual construct
Klement Podnar, Urša Golob and Zlatko Jančič
The purpose of this paper is to advance understanding of an individual's identification with an organisation ("organisational identification") and propose a scale for its…
The purpose of this paper is to advance understanding of an individual's identification with an organisation ("organisational identification") and propose a scale for its measurement, by means of a study drawing on the literature of corporate marketing, and group and corporate identification.
Factor analysis was applied to data collected by questionnaire from two independent samples of 200 and 525 respondents, in Slovenia, to test the causal‐path relationship of group and corporate identification to "organisational identification".
Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, "organisational identification" is not a unidimensional construct, but comprises identification with the organisation both as a collective of individuals, and as a social entity. Results confirm the proposed structure of organisational identification, and the sound quality of the scale for its measurement.
The findings suggest a means for marketing strategists and managers to predict the forms of organisational identification in their organisations, undertake appropriate initiatives for its general enhancement, and thereby strengthen corporate performance.
This study offers two statistically verified scales for measuring group and corporate identification, and thus has important implications for the existing literature of corporate marketing and organisational identification.
European Journal of Marketing, vol. 45 no. 9/10
Group identification
Organisational identification
The four executive challenges of project-based strategy
Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter
As a great deal of strategy execution takes the form of strategic projects, how you align these projects ultimately determines the success or failure of your strategy…
As a great deal of strategy execution takes the form of strategic projects, how you align these projects ultimately determines the success or failure of your strategy. Here, we discuss four executive challenges executives need to tackle to successfully manage a strategy in a project-based world.
Conceptual approach entailing illustrative case-examples
We find four executive challenges to tackle in order to successfully manage a strategy in a project-based world.
As the study draws upon conceptual arguments, future studies need to assess the verisimilitude and boundary conditions of the challenges.
By thinking of a strategy through a project-based lens, and understanding the challenges thereof, executives should be better able to bridge strategy formulation and execution.
A project-based approach to strategy is not necessarily limited to a for-profit sector; NGOs and governmental organizations may similarly learn from and draw upon a project-based approach to strategy.
As little research within strategy has explicitly conveyed a project-based lens, the study emphasizes a novel approach to strategy.
Strategy & Leadership, vol. 46 no. 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SL-09-2018-0089
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Val Patterson
Valerie was born in Ogdensburg, New York to a minister and school teacher. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York in 1985, returning later to earn her Master of Education in 1990. She has since balanced working as an art teacher and a professional artist for over three decades. Her work is psychologically charged, often with a child at the epicenter, in contrast to the slightly fantastical, surreal elements around them. Her crisp, somewhat linear style is present throughout her work, lending an odd sense of solidity and finality to the scenes. Valerie is now an award-winning artist, exhibiting extensively across the United States for decades at this point. She has been featured on television through PBS, as well as illustrated books and magazines.
I create highly refined watercolor paintings that often explode with psychological resonance – with a sensitivity towards beauty and strength achieved through truth and honesty. My work is a continuing search for deep understanding of the human condition – fascinating in its capacity for great kindness and mercy yet also great malevolence. Throughout my body of work: children repeatedly symbolize vulnerability and an unfeigned soul, connections between past and present are examined through the manipulation of black and white with color, and realistic and fantastic images may be juxtaposed to fabricate a surreal certainty. I strive to give voice to difficult social and political subjects in an attempt to encourage thought, emotion and dialogue.
Curatorial Notes
Valerie's paintings exhibit tight control, such that even the more abstract color choices don't feel out of place. Fantasy blends with reality, color becomes associated with motion, and grayscale evokes a feeling of being frozen in time.


This is the season when Parijat flowers bloom in clusters. Living a short but pleasant life they start falling down to the earth. Recently I noticed, they chose to rest on hibiscus leaves. These flowers look so happy and carefree being friends with the hibiscus leaves. It's so beautiful. The friendship both share is so secure and assuring faith in love and their togetherness. I wish, may their friendship grow with their togetherness.


What is love? How do you love? Who do you love? Why do we love?
Here are 14 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Love…and Life.
2. Love…is our highest operating system.
3. Love…changes everything and everyone.
7. Love…occurs one choice, one action, one moment at a time.
7. Love…is something that ALL of us need (no exceptions)!
9. Love…is best spread between two lives.
11. Love…is the heart beat of a world transforming from the inside out.
13. Love…takes no days off.
14. Love…is Raw, Organic, and 100% Junk Free!
The love for equals is a human thing–of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles.
The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing–to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints.


Angel investors have been mostly referred to as a pick to try material funding. But to many craving owners, angels have been sky sent as good as additionally a answer to their prayers. In utterly a couple of graphic approaches, angels action inside of a unequivocally same proceed as try capitalists. The usually disproportion is which an angel is essentially a rich financier seeking for a little essential intensity investments.
Angels have been in all late people from a successful craving as good as they suggest supports to startup businesses they see to have a impending to profit, grow as good as succeed. These people assimilate how to ramp up a craving as good as they have been some-more peaceful to work with organizations instead of required investors.
Angels aren't so despotic with regards to investment criteria compared to alternative appropriation sources similar to banks which typically call for unequivocally good credit rating prior to they accede to a loan requests. With angels, they wish not to check upon your credit record. There's a opposite good in coming angels after we contingency take funds. They do not in actuality ask for larger seductiveness rates. Rather, they wish a square of tenure as a sort of material for a loan. This can be a glorious cause for many firms it can be especially since with a vested interest, angels will begin out to get concerned regulating a tiny commercial operation as good as they'll lend we their years of encounter. This way, we might be means to have receptive to advice as good as essential choices.
Despite a actuality which try material organisation is an good preference additionally however it is one some-more suitable for successive appropriation stages of a classification or stream corporations. This unequivocally is simply since many try capitalists have been peaceful to deposit their dollars to those companies which have already shown a impending of expansion as good as achievement.
With in isolation investors, we need not to bear a severe proceed of obtaining supports which we will routinely bear when we process banks as good as alternative financial institutions. Mainly since banks pretence of we as a risk considering which we simply have been a latest business, they have been many expected to levy aloft seductiveness rates as good as a conditions of repayments have been utterly a bit longer during a same time.


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release: check-env clean windows darwin linux

dev: $(SOURCES)
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.PHONY: clean
clean:
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test:
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Tonight we will see the final of the 2017 Interdominion Pacing Championships run and won at Gloucester Park. The series is the final night of a three year stint that the Interdominion has been held in Western Australia. It's shaping up to be a battle of talented pacers including Tiger Tara, Lazarus, Soho Tribeca , Lenny the Shark, Chicago Bull and more. Who will be victorious?, well that's in the hands of fate now.
Now that all is said and done the Interdominion series will be leaving Western Australia and heading east to Victoria. On the back of 3 very successful interdoms held in its birthplace, it's time to ask the question, what can we learn from the success of Perth interdoms.
The key to a great series, in my opinion and the opinion of many others is keeping tradition. The original format of the Interdominion championships as we all know, was 3 heat nights and a final run over a space of 2 weeks. With the first week consisting of a sprint , middle distance and long distance leg . Then the final on the following week. The traditional format was successful for over 70 years and sculpted truly tough final fields. NSW broke tradition adopting a different format which caused slight controversy. There are certainly times where it's imperative that society adapts change and moves with the times, but the traditional interdominion has long been a true testament to our beloved Standardbreds . It showcases the strength and stamina that our horses encompass. And ultimately the format leaves us with the strongest final contenders.