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Certainly you trust your water company to ensure that the water they're providing to you meets safety guidelines. However, even though all water that comes from a treatment plant must pass strict guidelines for contamination, that water must then pass through miles of pipeline to reach your faucets. That pipeline is where water quality can decrease rapidly. Due to this, it's likely that the water in your home has hundreds of chemical and biological substances in it such as lead, dirt, chlorine, algae, mold and cysts. Some of these can cause your family to become sick, others can just make your water taste or smell unpleasant.
Water filtration may be a physical barrier, a chemical process, or a biological process that removes particulate matter and contaminants from water. Because the water is clean after filtration, it can help keep your family healthier, reduce lime scale in appliances and therefore lengthen their lifespan, drastically improve taste and smell, and even keep your pipes in good shape. And for all of these benefits filtered water costs only a few cents a gallon. Filtered water is significantly less expensive than bottled water, which doesn't keep your appliances or pipes in good shape.
Types of water filters include carbon filters, UV lights that kill bacteria and viruses, and reverse osmosis systems. Some water filtration systems use multiple methods to make the water as clean and pure as possible.
Filtration can come in the form of an individual, point-of-use size that attaches only to one water outlet, all the way up to a whole-home system that is the recommended size for most homes because every drop of water that comes into the home is clean before it's used in an appliance, shower, or faucet.
It's a good idea to pair a water filter with a water softener. Water softeners don't reduce contamination, but do reduce lime scale and water harness. Some water filtration systems include water softeners as a built-in function.
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Tom Cruise has been in so many sci-fi action movies that the phrase "I'm watching that Tom Cruise sci-fi movie" is about as helpful as proclaiming you would like an edible item to the indignant waiter at a restaurant. This particular one, 'Edge of Tomorrow', seems like it could well be a mixture of all those he's ever been in and indeed may have had nothing new to say about anything, but director Doug Liman has actually made sure he selected source material that is clever and entertaining enough to barge its way in even if it wears its influences so clearly on its sleeve it might as well just be dressed in them.
Based on a Japanese novel called 'All You Need Is Kill' the film follows Major William Cage, played by Cruise, who is an American army Major inexperienced in combat but with a background in advertising that allows him to be a major part of the recruitment drive for more soldiers at a time when the world is being invaded by giant crustacean-like aliens the 'Mimics', thus called for their astounding ability to mimic and negate the attacks of the humans, making them almost unbeatable. Suddenly thrust in to combat out of nowhere he almost immediately dies, but realises he can relive his first day on the front line every time this happens, leading him to meet Emily Blunt's super soldier Rita Vrataski. While this set-up is intriguing and certainly makes for an interesting take on the battle against aliens, one cannot help but see direct similarities to films like Duncan Jones' 'Source Code', a film with a very similar main concept, used for similar goals. This however can be forgiven in the sci-fi context where ideas and concepts are readily borrowed, so the fact it manages to keep it so entertaining and utilise its cast, which also features a gruff Brendan Gleeson and a chirpy, slightly insane Bill Paxton, as well as it does is something to cheer, because it's definitely not boring.
It does, however, miss an opportunity to be more than an entertaining two hour romp, often reducing its premise to a quirky one-liner or using it to provide us with more explosions when a more detailed examination could have been in order, but its commitment to packing every minute of its 113 minute run-time with solid action sequences is admirable in itself, and no small task. The interactions between Blunt and Cruise are a particular strong point, and it's great to see Blunt in a role where she can be as cool as she is in the movie, the steady voice to Cruise's constant doubt rather than the other way round, and these exchanges do bring a smile to your face, but the pace of the movie does come at the expense of some quality characterisation with the two sometimes forced to blurt out their backstories in two minute car journeys that pass a little awkwardly.
'Edge of Tomorrow' is a solid adaptation from a mostly reliable director (we can forget the abomination that was 'Jumper' as quickly as possible) who understands how to make a lean, entertaining action flick. What it does lack is lasting impact, and while your eyes are definitely well occupied for the best part of two hours, you aren't thinking about the film much after it has ended beyond a cursory "well, that was fun" before going back to considering which edible item you would most prefer out of all the edible items you could possibly have while that waiter taps his fingers on the table impatiently awaiting your decision. "So, I went to see that Tom Cruise sci-fi film…" you say. He hates you.


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Pilgrim Libraries: books & reading on the medieval routes to Rome & Jerusalem
A Leverhulme International Research Network. Principal Investigator: Professor Anthony Bale
Bernhard von Breydenbach's 'photo album'
Books, Bridges of Peace and the Franciscan libraries in Jerusalem
Blog-post author Dr Michele Campopiano, University of York (UK)
Jerusalem has not just been a centre of pilgrimage for different religious groups. It has also been a place of learning and accumulating books in various languages in different epochs. Among the most significant libraries are those of the Franciscan Convent of Saint Saviour, which inherited large part of the book collections of the Franciscan libraries in the Holy Land, such as that of ancient convent of Mount Zion and those of other Franciscan convents of the Custody (Aleppo, Bethlehem, Ein Karem, Nazareth). Some were purchased on the antiquarian book market by the Commissariat of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., in the first half of the 20th century. These manuscripts and early prints help us understand the cultural life of the Franciscan Custody in the late Medieval and Early Modern periods, as I will show in my monograph on the Franciscans and the memory of the Holy Land. As we know, the Franciscans played a major role in guiding and providing assistance to pilgrims in the late Middle Ages and accumulated a large book patrimony to fulfil different needs, from liturgy to medicine.
The project Libri Ponti di Pace (Books, Bridges of Peace) has valorised this important heritage. The project, directed by Edoardo Barbieri, is shared by ATS pro Terra Sancta and by the Centro di Ricerca Europea Libro Editoria Biblioteca of the Catholic University of Milan and it has involved a large number of young and skilled volunteers, and was supported by the Father Guardians Francesco Patton and Pierbattista Pizzaballa (Custos of the Holy Land in the years 2004-2016) and the Father librarians Lionel Goh and Marcello Badalamenti. The project has also fostered dialogue between representatives of Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian libraries in Jerusalem. A general description of the project can be found here.
The project has reorganised the material which was contained in the deposits of the Franciscan convent, creating a website and a modern OPAC which is accessible online.
This catalogue allows access to the entire collections of the General Library of the Custody of the Holy Land and to the Library of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, for a total of more than 100,000 volumes in different languages. We can also access an online catalogue of the Latin manuscripts of the Custody, an inventory of all the manuscripts.
A catalogue of the books from the 15th and 16th centuries will soon be published by Luca Rivali. A list of these items is however already online.
The project has also described the 17th-century prints kept in the Franciscan libraries (more than 1,200) and the medical texts inherited from the conventual pharmacy.
The library represents a crucial resource for all scholars of pilgrimage literature. The library holds a fund of Itinera ad loca sancta, the itineraries to the Holy Places, which includes 147 editions (for a total of 203 pieces) for the 15th-18th centuries in the Library of the Custodia and the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum. Descriptions of these different exemplars can be found in the recently published Itinera ad loca sancta. I libri di viaggio delle Biblioteche Francescane di Gerusalemme published by Alessandro Tedesco for the Edizioni Terra Santa (Milan 2017). An online catalogue can be found here.
The formation of these catalogues, which follows clear scientific criteria, represents a first form of valorisation of the important cultural heritage that has been kept within the walls of the Jerusalem convent. The project has also resulted in the organization of different exhibitions. These exhibitions have produced useful catalogues, such as the Ars atificialiter scribendi. An exhibition of XVth century books in the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (Jerusalem 2016). The catalogue, edited by Luca Rivali and Lorenzo Salamone (Jerusalem ATS pro Terra sancta, 2016), provides a description of a large part of the incunables of the library. The catalogues of all the exhibitions, including virtual exhibitions, organised till now are accessible on the website. The next exhibition (on biblical manuscripts and early prints) will be open to the public on the 6-8 November of this year.
This is just a small portion of the results of the project, which has made a decisive contribution to making this material available to scholars and to all interested readers. The project has also shown the importance of interacting with these books as artefacts. The direct contact with the volumes in their materiality cannot be replaced by their fruition as digital reproductions. Manuscripts and early prints, but also modern books carry a wealth of information and provide a series of intellectual stimuli which can only be fully appreciated by seeing, touching and holding them. It is in this way that the Franciscan libraries reveal themselves not as simple book depositories, but as a treasure house which contributes to the study of the history of Jerusalem.
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Chao C. Chen (Ph.D., the State University of New York at Buffalo) is Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He had his undergraduate education in English language and literature in the People抯 Republic of China. He was a British Council Scholar studying economics, industrial history, and comparative goverment in the Universities of Manchester and Warwick in England for two years. He received his Master in linguistics and Ph.D. in organization behavior and HR management from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He served as the department chair of Management and Global Business at Rutgers. He was a visiting associate professor at Stern Business School at NYU for two years, and is affliated with the International Ph.D. Program at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. His research interests include rewards and compensation, organizational justice, leadership, networking, and cross-cultural management. He has published in leading management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science. He has recently coedited a book to be published by Cambridge University Press on Leadership and Management in China: Philosophies, Theories, and Practices. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Asia Pacific Management Journal, and IACMR抯 journal of Management and Organization Review. He has taught at undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. levels courses including organizational behavior, managing diversity, cross-cultural management, negotiation, and organization and culture.
Shuming Zhao, Ph.D. in management, Professor and Dean of the School of Business, Nanjing University, P.R. China. Professor Zhao is an internationally-known scholar in human resource management and multinational business management. He has published more than 20 books and over 170 academic papers and articles. Professor Zhao successfully organized and held four international symposia on multinational business management on 1992, 1996, 1999, and 2002 respectively. He has received awards from the States Council, the Ministry of Education, Jiangsu Provincial Government and Nanjing University. In 2003 his book Research on Human Resource Management was awarded for China 13th best book (2003) and first prize by Jiangsu Provincial Government (2003). He was named as the best administrator and professor of the year by Nanjing University in 2003. Professor Zhao was selected as one of the five scholars in Management from the whole nation for China抯 Trans-century Excellent Young Scholars Fund by the State Education Commission of the PRC in 1996. He was selected by Eighth ministries of China as one of the best scholars of "National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Tousand Talent Project" in 1997. He was also named as the first-level scholar for the "333 Trans-century Academic and Technological Chairperson Project" by Jiangsu Provincial Government in 1998 and 2002 respectively.
Chao C. Chen (Ph.D., the State University of New York at Buffalo) is Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He had his undergraduate education in English language and literature in the People's Republic of China. He was a British Council Scholar studying economics, industrial history, and comparative goverment in the Universities of Manchester and Warwick in England for two years. He received his Master in linguistics and Ph.D. in organization behavior and HR management from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He served as the department chair of Management and Global Business at Rutgers. He was a visiting associate professor at Stern Business School at NYU for two years, and is affliated with the International Ph.D. Program at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. His research interests include rewards and compensation, organizational justice, leadership, networking, and cross-cultural management. He has published in leading management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science. He has recently coedited a book to be published by Cambridge University Press on Leadership and Management in China: Philosophies, Theories, and Practices. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Asia Pacific Management Journal, and IACMR's journal of Management and Organization Review. He has taught at undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. levels courses including organizational behavior, managing diversity, cross-cultural management, negotiation, and organization and culture.
Simon L. Dolan joined ESADE Business school in 2001 as Ramon Llul University Chair of HRM and International OB. ESADE is ranked amongst the 10 best international business schools. He has been a full tenured Professor of HRM/OB at the School of Industrial Relations, The University of Montreal since 1978 and for many years kept half time position at McGill University in Montreal. He had obtained his Ph.D. from the Carlson Graduate School of Management, the University of Minnesota. He became director of the Centre for the study of Control and evaluation of HRM in the early 1990s. In addition to teaching and various administrative responsibilities at the University of Montreal, Professor Dolan taught as visiting professor/scholar in many universities throughout the globe primarily at the MBA and Ph.D. levels. Among them: Boston University, Northeastern University, The University of Minnesota and The University of Colorado, in the U.S.; Tel Aviv and Haifa University in Israel; McGill University , Concordia University, and St Mary's University in Canada; Remin University of Beijing (China), Vienna University; ESSEC-Paris, HEC-Paris, Corsica and Toulouse University in France; Federal University of Rio (Brazil); ITESM (Mexico): Cadiz University, Pablo de Olavide University (Seville) , Instituto de Empresa, (Madrid) and Pompeu Fabra University (in Spain). Prof. Dolan has written extensively in the joint fields of human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, occupational stress and culture reengineering. He has published more than 100 papers in referee journals, refereed proceedings and chapters in published books (i.e Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Organizational Behaviour; Journal of organizational & Occupational Psychology; Journal of Social Behavior and Personality; International Journal of Management; Industrial Relations, International Journal of Manpower, etc.). Prof.. Dolan is the Editor-in-chief of Cross cultural Management: An international journal and serves(d) on the editorial board of several other international scientific journals. He is also a referee for many 1st tier journals such as: Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal/Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and others. Prof. Dolan speaks several languages among them English, French, Spanish and Hebrew, and understands German and Polish. He had respectively gave over 400 speeches and conferences around the globe on issues pertaining to management of people, culture audit, and other I/O psychology themes. He wrote (or co-authored) 45 books and monographs in multiple languages. Some of his books in various editions such as Human Resource Management: The Canadian Dynamic (ITP: West Publishing 1987; Thomson-Nelson, 1994), Organizational Behaviour: A Canadian Primer, Thomson-(ITP Nelson, 1997), "Psychologie du travail et des organisations" (Gaetan Morin, 1990; 1996, 2002,2007), Gestion des ressources humaines: au seuil de le an 2000 (Pearson 2001, 2005, 2008) are used in the academia and by practitioners in Canada, the U.S. France, Swiss, Belgium and many other countries. One of his HRM book (co-authored with Randall S. Schuler) has been translated to Chinese (2000). Professor Dolan has also published several books in Spanish. Two of his Spanish books on managing by values (see above) and the 10 commandments for managing people have been on the best selling list of the respective publishers for the past several years. Dr. Dolan has recently completed three new books in English published by the U.K. based Palgrave-Macmillan: Managing by Value (2006) , Stress, Self esteem, health and work (2007) and BEYOND (2009). Just published is a new Chinese version of Managing by Values (Renmin University Press, 2010). As the scientific director of IEL (Institute for Labor studies) in ESADE, Prof. Dolan provides leadership to the various research projects undertaken by the Institute. At the present, there are about 17 ongoing projects, many of which are financed by the Catalan government, the Spanish government or the EU. IEL has been selected as one of the best research centers of Catalonia by the government.
Professor Edwin Cheng is Dean of the Faculty of Business of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Cheng has been Chair Professor of Management since he joined the institution as a Department Head in 1992. Having served as a Faculty Dean in 1993 and a Vice President in 1995, he returned to the department to focus on teaching and research in 2000. Cheng was awarded the Doctor of Science degree, a higher doctorate, by the University of Cambridge in 2007 for distinction in scientific research. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1979 and obtained a master抯 degree from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1980. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1984. Cheng has earned many accolades. Among them are the Rh Award for outstanding contribution to scholarship and research from the University of Manitoba, Canada; the Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers, USA; the Croucher Award from the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong; and the Changjiang Scholars Chair Professorship conferred by the Ministry of Education, China. Cheng抯 teaching, research, and consultancy interests range from e-business and e-commerce through information systems management, innovation and technology management, operations management, quality management to scheduling and supply chain management. During his early years of teaching, Cheng taught at the National University of Singapore, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Manitoba, Canada. In recent years, he has enhanced his contribution to education in the Greater China region. Cheng抯 concurrent academic appointments include Siyuan Chair Professor at Nanjing University, China and Honorary Chair Professor at the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Cheng has co-authored ten books published by Chapman & Hall, McGraw-Hill, Springer, and other publishers. He has published over 500 research papers in journals including the California Management Review, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Operations Research, and Organization Science. For half a century from 1959 to 2008, he was the most productive production/operations management researcher in the world (International Journal of Production Economics 2009).
Professor Xiongwen Lu is Dean of School of Management at Fudan University. He is also Honourable Professor of Faculty of Economics & Business at The University of Hong Kong and BI Norwegian School of Management. Professor Lu began his academic career at Fudan University in 1991. He had been Assistant Dean, Chair of Department of Marketing, Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean, and was appointed in September 2006 as his current position of Dean. Professor Lu' research focused primarily on Chinese immature market, service marketing, internet marketing and enterprise re-organisation etc. He has contributed more than 40 papers, published several books, including emocratic Management, 揜etaking Economic Center Stage: Transformation and Integration of Yangtze Delta Economy� (co-author), 揝ervice in Marketing (Second Edition)� (co-author) and 揅orporate Strategic Management� (co-author). He has served as Consultant to many leading companies including Bell-Alcatel, MasterCard Worldwide, Emerson Electric, L扥real, Coca-Cola, China UnionPay, and etc, providing counsel on business strategy, marketing, enterprise re-organisation etc. He is also the Standing Director of the Chinese Marketing Association and a member of the Tenth Committee of All-China Youth Federation. Professor Lu graduated from School of Management, Fudan University, and has a doctorate in Economics. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA and Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University, USA.
Dr. Xiaohua Yang is a senior lecturer in the faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. She holds a doctorate in International Business/Strategic Management from the University of Kansas, USA. Dr. Yang's scholarship has centered on firms' competitive strategies intersected with international institutional environments. She has published and presented numerous papers in international journals, books and conferences in the area of international strategic alliances, internationalization of firms, expatriate management, international firms' practices on corporate social responsibility, and foreign market entry strategies. She is the organizer and a co-editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management Special Issue Conference on Varieties of Asian Capitalism: Indigenization and Internationalization. She has taught and lectured in four continents: North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. She has held a faculty position at Hangzhou Dianzi University, has been an honorary professor at Sichuan University, and a visiting professor at National Sun Yat-Sen University. For nearly 10 years, she directed and taught in overseas programs in a number of countries, including China, UK, and Singapore. Dr. Yang has been a board member of several organizations, including Brisbane Anglican Church, St Paul School Council, Gold Coast City Council, International Relations Advisory Board, and Brisbane City Hall Kindercraft Management Committee. She has organized many practitioner oriented workshops and forums for the business communities. Dr. Yang believes that IACMR is in a unique position to serve as a bridge linking Chinese management scholars with those from other parts of the world. She has a passion for creating a forum where Chinese scholars can join the global scholarly community and participate in global scholarly conversations so that they can contribute to the body of global management knowledge as well as the management research in the Chinese context.
Ingmar Björkman is a professor of management and organization at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland, where he also serves as associate dean. He is affiliated with the INSEAD Euro-Asia and Comparative Research Center. He received his PhD at the Swedish School of Economics and he has held visiting professor positions at Hong Kong University, ESSEC, and INSEAD. His research interests focus on international human resource management, knowledge creation and transfer in multinational corporations, and integration of international mergers & acquisitions. Much of his work has been on Western companies� operations in the People抯 Republic of China. His latest book is Handbook of Research in International Resource Management (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006), co-edited with G黱ter Stahl. He is a regular contributor to international academic journals.
Professor Weiying Zhang is Professor of Economics, the Executive Associate Dean of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, and Director of the Institute of Business Research of Peking University. He is also an adjunct professor of several prestigious Chinese universities, and a research associate of Oxford Centre for Modern Chinese Studies. Professor Weiying Zhang graduated with a bachelor degree in 1982, and a master degree in 1984, from Northwestern University at Xia¡|an. He received his M. Phil. in economics in 1992 and D. Phil. in economics from Oxford University. His D. Phil. supervisors were James Mirrlees (1996 Nobel Laureate) and Donald Hay. Between 1984 and 1990, he was a research fellow of the Economic System Reform Institute of China under the State Commission of Restructuring Economic System. During this period, he was heavily involved in economic reform policy making in China. He was the first Chinese economist who proposed the ¡ual-track price system reform¡ (in 1984). He was also known for his contributions to macro-control policy debating, ownership reform debating, and entrepreneurship studies. After he graduated from Oxford, he co-founded China Center for Economic Research, Peking University in 1994, and worked with the Center first as an associate professor and then as a professor until August, 1997. He then moved to Guanghua School of Management in September, 1997. Professor Weiying Zhang's research interests include the industrial organization, corporate governance, and information economics. He is a widely recognized authority of the theory of the firm and ownership reform in China. He is best known for his theory of capital-hiring-labor, management selection and relationship between ownership and reputation. He has published dozens of academic articles and five books. His papers have appeared in the top international journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of Comparative Economics, as well as the top Chinese journals such Economic Research Journal and Journal of Reform. He has been the most cited economist in Chinese academic journals since 1995. His works have generated significant impacts on the ongoing enterprise reform policy formulation and the development of economics in China. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2000 by the Natural Science Foundation of China. Professor Weiying Zhang has extensive consulting experiences with both governmental departments and business enterprises. He was a member of the Advisory Board on Enterprise Reform to the State Commission for Restructuring Economic system between, a consultant to the Department of Enterprises of the State Economic and Trade Commission, and a local consultant to the World Bank Project on Chinese State-owned Enterprises Reform. Currently he is a member of the Advisory Board for the State Informatization Committee, and a member of the Advisory Board for Telecommunication Law Drafting Committee. He has served a dozen of companies as a senior advisor. He has been frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches at high-level international and domestic symposiums and forums. His insightful opinions of the Chinese economy have been frequently reported in media. He is one of the most-respected economists by Chinese businesspeople.
Oded Shenkar is the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management at the Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University and has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and the University of International Business & Economics (Beijing), among others. He holds a B.A. in East-Asian (Chinese & Japanese) Studies and Sociology and a MSc.soc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and M.Phil and Ph.D degrees from Columbia University. His interest in IACMR is ultimately the development of a School of Management that will provide an alternative paradigm of management to challenge and cross-fertilize current management thought.