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Dr. Khalid Kurtom and his team from UM Community Medical Group - Neurosurgery left April 6, 2017 for a ten day medical mission to Amman, Jordan. Traveling with the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) based in Washington, D.C., Dr. Kurtom's team joined a group of over 70 other medical professionals providing high quality, culturally appropriate medical care to refugees and the local community, including performing neurosurgeries for the first time on a SAMS medical mission.
Our mission has been full of obstacles and challenges which we luckily continue to overcome. We had to apply for grants from multiple companies to supply us with instrument and implants for our trip. Thousands of dollars donated to our mission and countless hours to ensure that we would have everything we needed to provide neurosurgical care for the Syrian refugees in Jordan. A week before our trip, we were told that all our instruments were not allowed into the country because a required document would not be signed in time. We had to scramble to contact companies in the Middle East to provide some of the instruments, contacted the local hospital in Jordan and utilized other creative solutions with the hope that we would have what we needed. While on the plane, we found out that the US had launched a missile attack in Syria, approximately 1 hour away from where we were heading. We left Easton 6am Thursday morning and arrived to Jordan 4:30pm Friday, almost 30 hours later and thankfully all our bags made it in. We went straight to hospital with expectations of meeting OR personnel only to find out that they had no knowledge of this arrangement. The people in Jordan are so helpful and nice that they gathered a group of nurses and doctors to help us setup our cases for our first OR day on Saturday. At this point our entire team is exhausted but we are finally here, with some instruments that we can use, ready for work Saturday. It feels like a journey even before the real journey has begun. But thankfully despite all the hurdles we thus far have succeeded in moving forward with our mission.
We arrive at Istishari hospital at 6 am excited and ready to go to find that the hospital is locked up for the night. The night guard lets us in and we are kindly greeted by the overnight OR staff who just a few hours the night before were opening all their sterile neurosurgery trays for us to pick through and re-arrange. If anyone knows sterile processing, they will understand the amount of work that goes into cleaning and re-sterilizing instruments. The staff never batted an eye and graciously accommodated every request.
Our first scheduled patient is an elderly Syrian woman sitting in a wheelchair and surrounded by a loving family. She has been having difficulty walking for over five years and within the last year has been having trouble using her arms. She has two issues, cervical spinal cord impingement and lumbar stenosis both of which affect her ability to walk. It's difficult to explain that we can't fix both issues today. The cervical spine must be corrected first and we hope to get her back to functioning to where she was five years ago. Unfortunately, her pre-op evaluation revealed underlying poor kidney function and therefore she would need further work-up and treatments. She was admitted and re-scheduled for the next day.
The team at SAMS quickly adjusted and was able to bring in a patient scheduled for tomorrow to fill the gap.
Ok deep breath. Who is next? We meet a dentist who cares for the Syrian refugees. For 10 years he has had neck pain which was attributed to his long dental career. However, over the last year or so he has developed bilateral numbness in his arms and hands and has been losing grip strength which causes him to drop instruments unawares. He is prepped for surgery and we begin our day. Its 10 am. We find camaraderie with our Istishari counterparts in the knowledge that surgery requires the ability to adapt to any given challenge. This first case proved that challenges come in many forms. From severe pathology to adapting surgical technique to accommodate instrumentation differences was truly daunting. Yet, to see the patient leave the hospital the same day gave us peace in knowing that we made a difference for not only this patient but also those he serves. By 7 pm we have taken care of four people with severe spine pathology. We look forward to see what tomorrow brings.
Now off to the hotel, exhausted, ready to crash and be ready for what the next day brings.
Today we arrive at the hospital at 7 am which seems luxurious. All but one of our patients from the previous day left the hospital yesterday cured of their pain. We round on the remaining spinal fusion patient who was up and smiling. He has been up and walking and eagerly demonstrates (seen at the right). He worked as a driver in Syria before the war and has been unable to work due to severe back and leg pain. He left Syria five years ago with most of his family. A small cloud comes over his face as he tells of his son who remains in Syria. His 19 year old son, who works as a cook in the camp, hopes to come to the US and attend university.
Our cases today were all very challenging with complex pathologies, much more advanced disease that we typically see back home.
Neurosurgery simply does not exist here in any capacity, so people are left devastated for years, sometimes their entire lives, due to illnesses that are surgically curable. What is clear is that the close net social structure here allows these people to survive. Their families and communities rally around them and allow them to survive. One of our patients today has been in a wheelchair for 5 years, with her daughters assuming full care for her without any additional resources.
People here are kind and generous, happy despite not having all the resources they need. There is always laughter, food and good time. They are welcoming and grateful for anything and everything. We all wish we could do more.
Our first patient today was a 21 year old Syrian refugee who was shot along with one of his cousins in 2013 outside their home by a riffle. His cousin became a quadriplegic. He was shot in similar location but was extremely lucky. The bullet stopped a centimeter away from his spinal cord at C2. If the spinal cord was injured at this level, he would have lost his ability to breathe on his own and died immediately. Luckily he survived but continued to have severe neck pain radiating to his head with every head movement. He was severely disabled, now unemployed living in the refugee camp. We did his operation this morning, a very difficult task of extracting the bullet from this location. When the bullet came out of his neck, people were clapping in the OR and most were in tears. This was miraculous. He woke up pain free, very emotional, in disbelief. He was discharged home an hour after surgery but decided to come back with many of his friends to take pictures with our team. He now has his life back. We are blessed to have been part of it.
We had another patient who is a Syrian refugee living in the camps who had several lumbar spine surgeries starting 18 years ago, the last surgery 10 years ago, left her with foot drop and inability to ambulate immediately post-op. She had severe pathology at the same site of her previous surgeries and clearly a fluid leak and nerve injury that was not repaired. We decided to undertake this difficult operation and perform a decompression and fusion. Technically extremely challenging but the operation went smoothly. We established clear expectations prior to surgery that her foot may not fully improve, if at all.
We were shocked when she had full strength in her foot on the morning after surgery and was able to walk without any assistance. She just continued to pray for our kids and families. That is the best gift and reward we can ever ask for.
These cases are not only technically very challenging but emotionally draining. We continue to search deep within us for the strength to continue this journey.
Our patient in the picture to the left is a young man of 21 who came to the Za' atary camp after he completed the 9th grade in Syria. His parents fled Syria before the end of the school year, leaving him to finish school. He wanted to stay in Syria and complete high school but it became too dangerous so he joined his family in 2014. He has been in great pain for three years and has been unable to work. He is very worried he won't feel better after the surgery as so many people he knows have surgery and do not seem to recover fully. We reassure him and his mother that he will walk upright again and that he will have no restrictions. You can tell they were not convinced. His spinal fusion surgery is completed without complications. Upon rounding the next morning we find a young man lying in bed afraid to move. He remains convinced that he should lie in bed and keep still. His worried mother is with him.
We encourage him to get out of bed. With trepidation he sits up and stands up straight for the first time. His mother can't believe what she is seeing. He seems to transform from a child to a man in an instant. As we take a photo he asks to be tagged in Facebook reminding us that we are not so different after all.
Our next patient had 2 previous laminectomies without much relief. She has been wheelchair bound for five years. Her previous postoperative course from her last surgery consisted of bed-rest for 45 days. We completed her operation without complications, which was very difficult due to previous scar tissue and the degree of compression on her nerves. In the picture is Mona walking for the first time in 5 years, surrounded by her family and friends who could not believe their eyes. Just incredible recovery! After another long day of surgery we rush back to the hotel for a quick freshen up and prepare ourselves for meeting a group of Syrian refugee children and adults injured during the war. Souriyat Across Borders is a non-profit organization founded by 5 Syrian women who had a vision to help children rehab their injuries and return to normal life. Their staff is comprised of primarily Syrian volunteers with a budget supported solely on charitable donations.
The organization has expanded its mission to offer rehab and provides education for computer classes as well as language studies that include English, French, and German. This is an experience we will never forget.
Neurosurgery in this part of the world is scarce and usually avoided due to the high complication and mortality rate, even for the more straight forward operations. After being here for a few days, a reputation developed and people started to take notice. Doctors, nurses, hospital employees and friends of patients that we operated on began to request consultation for their family members. For the past couple of days, we had to sneak out of the hospital to avoid the crowd outside waiting for us with their MRI's and films. We want to help everyone but it is clear that the resources and time is limited and we can't help everyone. The disappointment that we feel for these people and their suffering is tremendous, and emotionally tasking. So much hurt and need exists here and people are desperate. We leave this mission completely drained, and full of emotions that will take us some time to absorb and understand. We are forever changed. We are so appreciative of everything we have back at home and how lucky we really are. To anyone reading this we have two requests: Please call everyone you care about and tell them that you love and appreciate them; and always keep things in perspective because things can be worse. God bless.


Livin' Life With Style : Free events this weekend for kids!
Any plans this weekend? If not, here are some free events that are happening around town that you might want to check out.
On Sunday September 28 from 10-5pm, Ontario Science Centre is celebrating it's 45th Anniversary by offering FREE admission and a special price for IMAX films. Adults can watch 2 of the most popular IMAX films at the child rate of only $9. Parking is still an extra charge which is $10 per vehicle.
Ontario Science Centre is located at 770 Don Mills Rd, Toronto, ON.
The Municipality of Clarington is having a Family Safety Day event on Saturday, September 27 from 10-3pm at Clarington Emergency and Fire Services Station 1 in Bowmanville. The event is held to educate the public about safety in a fun way. They will have a live burn demonstration to show how quickly a fire spreads, Durham Region Police and OPP will provide a distracted driving presentation and they will also have a rollover simulator on hand to show people what it feels like to be in a accident. OPG will be there providing fire extinguisher training and kitchen safety tips.
They will also have live performances, camel rides and a hot air balloon that will take people for a ride.
The Oshawa Community Health Centre is hosting a community fair on Saturday, September 27 from 11-3pm. Free BBQ, bouncey castles, magician, air brush tattoos and much more! Jungle Cat World will be there too! They will also have information booths on programs and various services available to the Oshawa community.


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LAS VEGAS — Vibrant, nutritious and customizable, smoothie bowls have surged in popularity on menus and social media. Kellogg Co. presented its take on the trend at the 2018 NACS Show, held Oct. 7-10 in Las Vegas. The event showcases products and services for the convenience and fuel retailing industry from more than 1,300 exhibiting companies.
Kellogg's new brand, joyböl, features a collapsible spoon and shelf-stable cup of ingredients. Consumers add cold water, milk or a non-dairy alternative and stir to form a creamy base. Crunchy granola clusters, nuts and seeds are included. The products contain 10 or more grams of protein per serving. Flavors include strawberry almond quinoa, super berries and acai, chocolate hazelnut, matcha berry and mango coconut chia.
The maker of Froot Loops and Frosted Flakes has seen cereal sales slump in recent years as consumers opt for yogurt, protein bars and other types of breakfast items. Featuring on-trend flavor profiles, joyböl taps into a growing desire for foods and beverages with multiple textures and whole, nutrient-dense ingredients. The brand also was among a number of packaged bowl-based offerings on display at the NACS Show.
Battle Creek, Mich.-based Kellogg also unveiled new snack products at the event, including Cheez-It Snap'd, a range of thin, cheesy crisps in double cheddar and cheddar sour cream and onion varieties; Pringles Wavy ridged potato crisps in flavors such as applewood smoked cheddar; and Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats Poppers, which are coated bite-size crispy marshmallow squares in cookies and cream and chocolatey varieties.


The end of the school year is an exciting time as educators feel a well-deserved sense of accomplishment at the progress their students have made throughout the school year.
Let's face it. Most educators are more than ready for a vacation by the time summer arrives.
Now is the time to begin thinking about how you will tackle lesson planning, organizing resources, and managing your curriculum next year.
Summer is the perfect time to recuperate after a demanding school year. During the down-time, teachers can begin to consider what new practices they want to tackle next year.
Give your end-of-year projects a new twist by incorporating engaging Web 2.0 resources. Read on for some great project ideas that will help you finish off the year with gusto!


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A Pair of Wharfedales
The Story of Gilbert Briggs and his Loudspeakers
In A Pair of Wharfedales, David Briggs interweaves a biography of this remarkable man with a history of the Wharfedale Company and its products from 1932 to 1978. Along the way we encounter many of Gilbert Briggs' fellow audio pioneers, such as Peter Walker, Harold Leak, Cecil Watts, Arnold Sugden, Edgar Villchur and Raymond Cooke, and relive the most exciting period in the history of high fidelity sound reproduction. Lavishly illustrated with archive photographs, brochure material and advertisements this book will delight Wharfedale fans, audiophiles and those who simply want to know more about the personality behind the brand.
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During the four years of researching and writing A Pair of Wharfedales, there were many occasions on which I asked complete strangers whether they had heard of Wharfedale loudspeakers. Almost invariably in the case of men, and also for a substantial number of women, aged over 50, the answer would not only be "yes", but would be followed by either: I have a pair (in use, in the garage or in the loft); I once had a pair; my father had a pair; I wished I could have afforded a pair. Out of their mouths came the title for the book. Not many, though, knew anything about the remarkable man behind the loudspeakers and the firm that made them.
Gilbert Arthur Briggs, G.A.B. to those who knew him well, was born into a humble family in a Yorkshire textile village in 1890. His father died when he was nine and he went to an orphans' school. Despite this inauspicious start in life he rose to become a director of a firm of textile export merchants in Bradford, but was virtually bankrupted in the Depression. A passion for music and a love affair with the piano had led to an interest in loudspeakers and, as the textile industry collapsed, he started a sideline to make them, called Wharfedale Wireless Works. He was forced to turn this into his full-time occupation in 1933. He had no relevant, theoretical or practical training, yet both he and Wharfedale became internationally famous, and when he died Gilbert's obituaries referred to him as 'the father of hi-fi'. His contribution to the development and popularity of 'hi-fi' was unique and profound.
As well as designing loudspeakers and growing his company, he wrote twenty-one books on various aspects of sound reproduction and audio for amateurs, published through Wharfedale, with total sales worldwide of well over a quarter of a million copies. He also staged a series of over twenty audacious lecture-demonstrations in major concert halls during the 1950s (including the Royal Festival Hall, London and Carnegie Hall, New York) which featured "live versus recorded" performances.
A straight talking Yorkshireman, with an impish sense of humour, Gilbert possessed many human qualities which drew people to him. Very few recruits to Wharfedale during his 30 years at the helm left the firm and, through a combination of sincerity, integrity, charm and prodigious letter writing, he built up, and maintained, a huge network of friends throughout the audio world. It was their willingness to help him, when asked, which made his writing and concert activities both possible and successful.
Once he left the "rag trade", Gilbert rarely referred to this first career of nearly 28 years. Unlike most of his peers amongst the "audio pioneers" he had not gone into the industry as a young man and his formative experiences and influences were quite different. However, the foundations for the things that he did with Wharfedale, which so surprised his colleagues at the time, were all laid during this period—indeed by the time he was 30. One of the fascinations of my research was to uncover these traits and see how they played out in later life. This, then, is the story of Wharfedale, the company and its products, and the remarkable G.A. Briggs who started it all.
For the benefit of readers with different interests, I have tried to keep these two narrative streams separate, in as much as this is possible, whilst writing chronologically. Chapters covering the period when Gilbert was running Wharfedale (1933–1964) are in two parts, the first dealing with Wharfedale and the second mainly biographical. Once he retired, but continued to run the Wharfedale "Book Department" from his Ilkley office, separate chapters cover this period in his life and events at Wharfedale until his death in 1978. Although the sagas of his books and concert-demonstrations are covered briefly in the chronology, they are described fully in two final chapters. A short Epilogue brings the Wharfedale story up-to-date. The history of the company's products is quite detailed and a full list, with prices, from during Gilbert's lifetime (over 250 items) is provided in one of the Appendices.
From the Foreword by Professor the Lord Broers FREng, FRS:
Enthusiasts of hi-fi sound in its early days will find this book a compelling read as they, at last, learn who was behind the Wharfedale speakers that were their pride and joy, and how their creator took on international competition and produced the best high fidelity speakers of his time. For those born in the last fifty years, most of whom take high fidelity sound as given, it presents the chance to learn of the creative advances that were needed to achieve the clear and transparent sound they enjoy and take for granted.
Foreward/Preface/Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins
Chapter 2: 1894-1905 School in Clayton, King's Lynn and Halifax
Chapter 3: 1906-1933 Textiles Export Merchant in Bradford, Manchester and the Far East
Chapter 4 1932-1937 Wharfedale Wireless Works in Bradford & Family Life and Music
Chapter 5: 1937-1946 Wharfedale Wireless Works in Brighouse and Life During the War
Chapter 6: 1946-1952 Wharfedale Wireless Works in Idle and Away from Wharfedale
Chapter 8: 1959-1965 Wharfedale Wireless Works Ltd in Idle and Away from Wharfedale
Chapter 9: 1965-1978 The evolution of Wharfedale under Rank
Chapter 10: 1965-1978 The Wharfedale Book Department, Ilkley
Chapter 11: The Concert Hall Lecture-Demonstrations
Chapter 12: The Audio Books
Epilogue/Appendices/Notes and References/Index
David Briggs BSc (Chem.), PhD, DSc received his degrees from the University of Durham. His career as a research scientist included 27 years with ICI plc, when he also held a number of visiting professorships, and six years as Professor of Surface Chemical Analysis at the University of Nottingham. During this time he published over 200 papers/articles and 10 books in his specialised field. In addition he was editor-in-chief of an international journal, a consultant and co-founder of a niche publishing company. Since retiring, family history has become the focus of his research. He is married, with one daughter, and lives in Worcestershire.
David Briggs' grandfather was Gilbert Briggs' first cousin.
We are very sorry to report that Dave Briggs died on 9 January 2018.
David Briggs
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Technology strategy and financial performance: Examining the moderating role of the firm's competitive environment
Shaker A. Zahra
Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
Success in today's competitive environment requires a company to pursue a coherent technology strategy to articulate its plans to develop, acquire, and deploy technological resources to achieve superior financial performance. This strategy clarifies the company's choices on: being a technological pioneer or a follower, the breadth of the technology product and process portfolios, amounts of investments in internal R&D and external sources of technology, and levels of technological forecasting to be performed. In turn, these choices require making decisions on the basic and applied R&D to be conduced, the intended offensive or defensive uses of the technology, and emphasis on incremental and radical R&D. Todate, however, few studies have attempted to document the collective implications of a company's technological choices for its financial performance. In response, data from 176 manufacturing companies were used to examine the association between a company's technology strategy and its financial performance and to explore the moderating effect of the environment on the technology strategy - performance link. Therefore, the study focused on a company's perceptions of environmental dynamism, hostility, and heterogeneity. Dynamism indicated the perceived continuity of changes in an industry. Hostility referred to the changes in the industry that could adversely impact the firm's operations and performance. Heterogeneity meant that the environment encompassed many segments with different needs. The study developed and empirically tested the following hypotheses: H1a: Pioneering will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H1b: Followership will be highest among firms whose environments are highly hostile and moderately dynamic but low in heterogeneity. H2a: Radical product technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2b: Radical process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are moderately dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2c: Incremental product and process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are stable (low dynamism), benign (low hostility), and highly heterogeneous. H3: The broadest technological portfolios will exist among firms whose environments are characterized by moderate dynamism, high heterogeneity, and moderate or low hostility. H4: R&D spending will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly heterogeneous, and highly benign (low in hostility). H5: The use of external technology sources will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H6: Emphasis on technological forecasting will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H7: The environment is a quasi-moderator of the technology strategy - performance relationship. The results supported the study's hypotheses except H2c and H3 and suggested five ideas for managerial action. (1) Executives should develop and use a comprehensive technology strategy to ensure that their company achieves superior financial performance. (2) Executives should be cautious in applying generic prescriptions of how to utilize technological resources to achieve profitability, because the financial payoff from technology strategy variables varies from one environment to the other. Instead, executives should examine their company's goals, capacity to manage diverse product and process initiatives, risk-taking orientation, resources, and the environment. (3) Attention to developing and using process technology innovation is necessary for success. In fact, a broad process innovation portfolio is positively associated with return on assets in the overall sample and in three of the study's five clusters. (4) Managers need to adopt a long-term perspective in making R&D investments, where patient investments over several years are the norm. Increasing R&D spending should not be viewed as a quick fix for the company's poor competitive position. (5) Whereas the external sources of technology can improve the company's performance, managers should identify the conditions under which external sources can be used and educate their employees on the growing importance of these technologies for achieving profitability.
Journal of Business Venturing
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Zahra, S. A. (1996). Technology strategy and financial performance: Examining the moderating role of the firm's competitive environment. Journal of Business Venturing, 11(3), 189-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/0883-9026(96)00001-8
Technology strategy and financial performance : Examining the moderating role of the firm's competitive environment. / Zahra, Shaker A.
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Zahra, SA 1996, 'Technology strategy and financial performance: Examining the moderating role of the firm's competitive environment', Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 189-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/0883-9026(96)00001-8
Zahra SA. Technology strategy and financial performance: Examining the moderating role of the firm's competitive environment. Journal of Business Venturing. 1996 May;11(3):189-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/0883-9026(96)00001-8
Zahra, Shaker A. / Technology strategy and financial performance : Examining the moderating role of the firm's competitive environment. In: Journal of Business Venturing. 1996 ; Vol. 11, No. 3. pp. 189-219.
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abstract = "Success in today's competitive environment requires a company to pursue a coherent technology strategy to articulate its plans to develop, acquire, and deploy technological resources to achieve superior financial performance. This strategy clarifies the company's choices on: being a technological pioneer or a follower, the breadth of the technology product and process portfolios, amounts of investments in internal R&D and external sources of technology, and levels of technological forecasting to be performed. In turn, these choices require making decisions on the basic and applied R&D to be conduced, the intended offensive or defensive uses of the technology, and emphasis on incremental and radical R&D. Todate, however, few studies have attempted to document the collective implications of a company's technological choices for its financial performance. In response, data from 176 manufacturing companies were used to examine the association between a company's technology strategy and its financial performance and to explore the moderating effect of the environment on the technology strategy - performance link. Therefore, the study focused on a company's perceptions of environmental dynamism, hostility, and heterogeneity. Dynamism indicated the perceived continuity of changes in an industry. Hostility referred to the changes in the industry that could adversely impact the firm's operations and performance. Heterogeneity meant that the environment encompassed many segments with different needs. The study developed and empirically tested the following hypotheses: H1a: Pioneering will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H1b: Followership will be highest among firms whose environments are highly hostile and moderately dynamic but low in heterogeneity. H2a: Radical product technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2b: Radical process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are moderately dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2c: Incremental product and process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are stable (low dynamism), benign (low hostility), and highly heterogeneous. H3: The broadest technological portfolios will exist among firms whose environments are characterized by moderate dynamism, high heterogeneity, and moderate or low hostility. H4: R&D spending will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly heterogeneous, and highly benign (low in hostility). H5: The use of external technology sources will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H6: Emphasis on technological forecasting will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H7: The environment is a quasi-moderator of the technology strategy - performance relationship. The results supported the study's hypotheses except H2c and H3 and suggested five ideas for managerial action. (1) Executives should develop and use a comprehensive technology strategy to ensure that their company achieves superior financial performance. (2) Executives should be cautious in applying generic prescriptions of how to utilize technological resources to achieve profitability, because the financial payoff from technology strategy variables varies from one environment to the other. Instead, executives should examine their company's goals, capacity to manage diverse product and process initiatives, risk-taking orientation, resources, and the environment. (3) Attention to developing and using process technology innovation is necessary for success. In fact, a broad process innovation portfolio is positively associated with return on assets in the overall sample and in three of the study's five clusters. (4) Managers need to adopt a long-term perspective in making R&D investments, where patient investments over several years are the norm. Increasing R&D spending should not be viewed as a quick fix for the company's poor competitive position. (5) Whereas the external sources of technology can improve the company's performance, managers should identify the conditions under which external sources can be used and educate their employees on the growing importance of these technologies for achieving profitability.",
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journal = "Journal of Business Venturing",
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N2 - Success in today's competitive environment requires a company to pursue a coherent technology strategy to articulate its plans to develop, acquire, and deploy technological resources to achieve superior financial performance. This strategy clarifies the company's choices on: being a technological pioneer or a follower, the breadth of the technology product and process portfolios, amounts of investments in internal R&D and external sources of technology, and levels of technological forecasting to be performed. In turn, these choices require making decisions on the basic and applied R&D to be conduced, the intended offensive or defensive uses of the technology, and emphasis on incremental and radical R&D. Todate, however, few studies have attempted to document the collective implications of a company's technological choices for its financial performance. In response, data from 176 manufacturing companies were used to examine the association between a company's technology strategy and its financial performance and to explore the moderating effect of the environment on the technology strategy - performance link. Therefore, the study focused on a company's perceptions of environmental dynamism, hostility, and heterogeneity. Dynamism indicated the perceived continuity of changes in an industry. Hostility referred to the changes in the industry that could adversely impact the firm's operations and performance. Heterogeneity meant that the environment encompassed many segments with different needs. The study developed and empirically tested the following hypotheses: H1a: Pioneering will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H1b: Followership will be highest among firms whose environments are highly hostile and moderately dynamic but low in heterogeneity. H2a: Radical product technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2b: Radical process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are moderately dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2c: Incremental product and process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are stable (low dynamism), benign (low hostility), and highly heterogeneous. H3: The broadest technological portfolios will exist among firms whose environments are characterized by moderate dynamism, high heterogeneity, and moderate or low hostility. H4: R&D spending will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly heterogeneous, and highly benign (low in hostility). H5: The use of external technology sources will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H6: Emphasis on technological forecasting will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H7: The environment is a quasi-moderator of the technology strategy - performance relationship. The results supported the study's hypotheses except H2c and H3 and suggested five ideas for managerial action. (1) Executives should develop and use a comprehensive technology strategy to ensure that their company achieves superior financial performance. (2) Executives should be cautious in applying generic prescriptions of how to utilize technological resources to achieve profitability, because the financial payoff from technology strategy variables varies from one environment to the other. Instead, executives should examine their company's goals, capacity to manage diverse product and process initiatives, risk-taking orientation, resources, and the environment. (3) Attention to developing and using process technology innovation is necessary for success. In fact, a broad process innovation portfolio is positively associated with return on assets in the overall sample and in three of the study's five clusters. (4) Managers need to adopt a long-term perspective in making R&D investments, where patient investments over several years are the norm. Increasing R&D spending should not be viewed as a quick fix for the company's poor competitive position. (5) Whereas the external sources of technology can improve the company's performance, managers should identify the conditions under which external sources can be used and educate their employees on the growing importance of these technologies for achieving profitability.
AB - Success in today's competitive environment requires a company to pursue a coherent technology strategy to articulate its plans to develop, acquire, and deploy technological resources to achieve superior financial performance. This strategy clarifies the company's choices on: being a technological pioneer or a follower, the breadth of the technology product and process portfolios, amounts of investments in internal R&D and external sources of technology, and levels of technological forecasting to be performed. In turn, these choices require making decisions on the basic and applied R&D to be conduced, the intended offensive or defensive uses of the technology, and emphasis on incremental and radical R&D. Todate, however, few studies have attempted to document the collective implications of a company's technological choices for its financial performance. In response, data from 176 manufacturing companies were used to examine the association between a company's technology strategy and its financial performance and to explore the moderating effect of the environment on the technology strategy - performance link. Therefore, the study focused on a company's perceptions of environmental dynamism, hostility, and heterogeneity. Dynamism indicated the perceived continuity of changes in an industry. Hostility referred to the changes in the industry that could adversely impact the firm's operations and performance. Heterogeneity meant that the environment encompassed many segments with different needs. The study developed and empirically tested the following hypotheses: H1a: Pioneering will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H1b: Followership will be highest among firms whose environments are highly hostile and moderately dynamic but low in heterogeneity. H2a: Radical product technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are highly dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2b: Radical process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are moderately dynamic, moderately hostile, and moderately heterogeneous. H2c: Incremental product and process technologies will be pursued most by firms whose environments are stable (low dynamism), benign (low hostility), and highly heterogeneous. H3: The broadest technological portfolios will exist among firms whose environments are characterized by moderate dynamism, high heterogeneity, and moderate or low hostility. H4: R&D spending will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly heterogeneous, and highly benign (low in hostility). H5: The use of external technology sources will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H6: Emphasis on technological forecasting will be highest among firms whose environments are highly dynamic, highly hostile, and highly heterogeneous. H7: The environment is a quasi-moderator of the technology strategy - performance relationship. The results supported the study's hypotheses except H2c and H3 and suggested five ideas for managerial action. (1) Executives should develop and use a comprehensive technology strategy to ensure that their company achieves superior financial performance. (2) Executives should be cautious in applying generic prescriptions of how to utilize technological resources to achieve profitability, because the financial payoff from technology strategy variables varies from one environment to the other. Instead, executives should examine their company's goals, capacity to manage diverse product and process initiatives, risk-taking orientation, resources, and the environment. (3) Attention to developing and using process technology innovation is necessary for success. In fact, a broad process innovation portfolio is positively associated with return on assets in the overall sample and in three of the study's five clusters. (4) Managers need to adopt a long-term perspective in making R&D investments, where patient investments over several years are the norm. Increasing R&D spending should not be viewed as a quick fix for the company's poor competitive position. (5) Whereas the external sources of technology can improve the company's performance, managers should identify the conditions under which external sources can be used and educate their employees on the growing importance of these technologies for achieving profitability.
JO - Journal of Business Venturing
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Robert Milligan McLane
Robert Milligan McLane in an 1858 portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy
39th Governor of Maryland
January 9, 1884 – March 27, 1885
William T. Hamilton
Henry Lloyd
from Maryland's 4th district
Thomas Swann
John Van Lear Findlay
Maryland State Senate
William Fell Giles
Thomas Yates Walsh
April 16, 1898(1898-04-16) (aged 82)
Georgine Urquhart McLane
Episcopalian
National Governors Association, Governor's Information, Maryland Governor Robert Milligan McLane
Robert Milligan McLane (June 23, 1815 – April 16, 1898) was an American politician, military officer, and diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Mexico, France, and China, as a member of the House of Representatives from the fourth district of Maryland, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and as the 39th Governor of Maryland.
Early life and military career 1
Political and diplomatic career 2
Early political career and election to Congress 2.1
Ambassador to China and Mexico 2.2
American Civil War and return to Congress 2.3
Governor of Maryland and Ambassador to France 2.4
Early life and military career
McLane was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1815, the son of Louis McLane and Catherine Mary Milligan. His birthplace, the Louis McLane House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1][2] He received early education from a private school conducted by John Bullock, a Quaker. He received higher education from St. Mary's College in Baltimore, Maryland until he moved with his family to Europe, after his father had been appointed as an ambassador to England. He was sent to Paris to receive further education from Collège Bourbon, where he became acquainted with the Marquis de Lafayette.
McLane and his family moved back to the United States in 1833 when his father was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. The same year, McLane was appointed as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point by President Andrew Jackson, and graduated in July 1837 with a commission as second lieutenant of Artillery in the United States Army. McLane was deployed with his regiment to Florida during the Seminole War in 1837 under the command of General Thomas S. Jesup, and in 1838 was re-deployed to the west under General Winfield Scott.
In 1838, he was transferred to the Corps of Topographical Engineers under General Zachary Taylor. In 1841, he was sent to the Northern Lakes for survey work and was also sent to Europe to examine the dikes and drainage systems in the Netherlands and Italy. While in Europe, he met his future wife, Georgine Urquhart, and eventually fathered two children with her. McLane resigned his commission in 1843 to pursue the study of law, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He commenced practice in Baltimore thereafter.
Political and diplomatic career
Early political career and election to Congress
In 1845, McLane was elected as a representative of Baltimore City to the Maryland House of Delegates after successfully campaigning for President James K. Polk a year previous. In 1846, McLane ran for Congress and defeated his Whig opponent, John P. Kennedy, by 500 votes. He was re-elected two years later, and served from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1851. In Congress, McLane was seen as an exceptional orator, and, during his second term, was chosen as chairman of the Committee on Commerce. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850. After his tenure in Congress, McLane moved to the Western United States to become a counsel for a mining corporation, which was engaged in legal activities regarding property in California. He remained out West until 1852, when he returned to Maryland to serve as Presidential elector for Franklin Pierce.
Ambassador to China and Mexico
In 1853, during the Taiping Rebellion, President Pierce appointed McLane as commissioner to China, with the powers of a Minister Plenipotentiary, and at the same time accredited to Japan, Siam, Korea, and Cochin China. Despite the civil war, McLane was ordered to secure commercial trade relations between China and the United States, and was also ordered to negotiate with the rebels while also retaining diplomatic relations with the Imperial Government. He successfully renewed trade relations between both nations, but returned to the United States in 1854 due to poor health. After his return to the United States, he resumed his political activity by serving as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856, during which he supported future President James Buchanan.
The United States and Mexico had broken off diplomatic relations in 1858, after which civil war broke out in Mexico. McLane was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico on March 7, 1859, and was charged to determine if the government of Benito Juárez, in opposition to the Emperor, was worthy of recognition. He also negotiated, as ambassador, the McLane-Ocampo Treaty, which would have expanded the transit rights of the U.S. across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to include an interoceanic canal concession. However, the treaty was not ratified by the United States Senate. McLane retired as Ambassador to Mexico on December 22, 1860.
American Civil War and return to Congress
During the American Civil War, the Federal Government, under President Abraham Lincoln, forcibly forbade the state of Maryland from joining the Confederacy. McLane was a member of the delegation sent to Washington, D.C. to question the actions of the Federal Government. McLane personally believed that the Federal Government did not have the Constitutional right to force Maryland into submission, but determined, along with the rest of the delegation, that Maryland should not secede. During the rest of the War, McLane refocused his attention back towards his law practice, as he had been appointed counsel for the Western Pacific Railroad in the winter of 1863.
McLane would continue to devote his energies towards his law practice until well after the end of the Civil War, and did not re-enter politics until the Democratic National Convention in 1876. He entered the Maryland State Senate in 1877, representing Baltimore City. He left the State Senate in 1879 to again run for election to Congress. He was successful, and served two terms from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1883. During his first term in Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads.
Governor of Maryland and Ambassador to France
In 1883, the Maryland Democratic Party nominated McLane to be the next Governor of Maryland. In the election, McLane handily defeated his Republican opponent, Hart Benton Holton, by 12,000 votes. During his tenure, several notable pieces of legislation were passed, including the establishment of the Bureau of Statistics and Labor Information, and the establishment of a universal time standard throughout the state. McLane only served as governor for slightly over a year, from January 8, 1884, until his resignation on March 27, 1885, having been appointed by President Grover Cleveland as United States Minister Plenipotentiary to France.
McLane moved to France with his wife, whom he had met there many years previously, to carry out his ambassadorial duties. He established permanent residence in Paris even after his tenure as ambassador expired in 1889, due to his wife's declining health. His own health began to decline in 1891, culminating in 1898 when he died. His body was returned to Baltimore, and was interred at Greenmount Cemetery.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places.
^ Joan M. Norton (October 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Louis McLane House" (PDF).
Robert Milligan McLane at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Frank F. White, Jr., The Governors of Maryland 1777–1970 (Annapolis: The Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 201–205.
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Humphrey Marshall Commissioner to China
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hillsceneLIVE is an artist development program that culminates in an experimental live art festival held in the Dandenong Ranges.
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The plant has a wide range of therapeuticactions. In medicine, the ground part of the grass is used during the flowering period. After cutting, it is carefully dried in a darkened well-ventilated room and stored in paper or canvas bags for not more than three years.
This plant is used in both traditional and folk medicine. Used for medicinal purposes infusion, decoction and juice of the mountaineer bird.
For the manufacture of infusion, you need three spoonsherbs pour boiling water (200ml), then heat on a steam bath for 15 minutes, at the end give time to cool. Subsequently, the solution is filtered, and the pressed grass is removed. The resulting infusion should be diluted with boiled cold water to a volume of 200 ml of ready-made infusion. Can be used by adults and children over 12 years old, before meals half a glass 2-3 times a day.
Bay water grass in the ratio 1:10 and insisting on a water bath, you get a decoction, which after filtering is ready for use. Due to the high concentration of broth, it should be taken one spoon three times a day.
Juice plants are obtained from washed, freshly cut grass and used as healing wounds, ulcers and bruises remedy. Apply a juice-moistened napkin to the burn sites.
In folk medicine, the mountaineer is birdlike, usefulproperties and contra-indications of which were known to our great-great-great-great-grandparents, won great attention and trust. This herb has extensive medicinal properties, one of which is recognized as the excretion of stones and sand from the kidneys, and also prevents their formation. In addition to the destruction of stones, the infusion has a diuretic effect, leading to the rapid removal of residual compounds from the kidneys. The herb is used as a choleretic and diuretic, as well as for diseases of the urinary tract.
Another unique ability of the plant is the ability to reduce vascular permeability, to accelerate the process of blood coagulability.
In folk medicine, a decoction and an infusion of medicinalHerbs are used as an antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial agent. Applied with bronchitis, pneumonia, inflammation of the mouth, dysentery.
Grass is recommended for men with potency problems, since the properties of the bird mountaineer can have a positive effect.
Such a wide application of grass in the folkmedicine is justified by scientific research. A large number of contained flavonoids, polysaccharides, galenic and many accompanying nutrients contained in the mountaineer bird, are really capable of providing a wide range of effects on the human body.
With all the positive properties, the grass has a lot of contraindications.
It should be remembered that one should not applythe drug during pregnancy, because it is able to have a contracting effect on the muscles, including causing a contraction of the uterus. Breastfeeding mothers, in cases where the benefits of taking infusion outweigh possible risks, on the recommendation of a physician, the use of infusion is permitted.
Do not take the drug for children under 12 years.
Reception of the herb can be negative forpeople with high blood coagulability. It should be noted that with prolonged intake of medicinal infusion, periodically it is necessary to take a blood test for the refinement of this indicator.
Owners of such a disease as thrombophlebitis should take with care the infusion of the mountaineer of the bird, contraindications can lead to an aggravation of the disease.
You can not take infusion of herbs with increased acidity and stomach ulcer.
Contraindication is low blood pressure.
Bird mountaineer is a herb that can be found inPark, in the garden or just on the lawn. It is simply prepared and stored, it has a wide range of useful effects. However, do not forget that the grass is a medicinal product, it should be collected only away from cars and technical facilities, take with caution and whenever possible consult with a doctor.


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Batman Owes Everything To This Guy, And It's Not Who You Think
You know him.
You love him.
You've seen his parents die a million times.
He is vengeance.
He is the night.
He....should be eternally grateful to one man that gets zero credit for any of his success.
Not Bill Finger.
Not Jack Nicholson.
Not Tim Burton.
Not Commissioner Gordon.
His name is Christopher Fairbank.
Christopher Fairbank is one of the goons in the opening scene of Batman (1989). You know the one that says that Johnny Gobs got ripped and took a walk off a roof? You don't remember that?
"What are you?!"
"I'm Batman."
Yeah, he's the guy that says "What are you?!"
The delivery of that specific line not only set up the iconic "I'm Batman" from one Michael "You wanna get nuts?!" Keaton, but also set the world's forgotten love of the Dark Knight on fire in anticipation for the film back in 89.
The way Christopher Fairbank says it is so high pitched. So afraid. So...strange. You instantly have it burned into your brain and you instantly take Batman seriously. After that trailer premiered you suddenly had a bat addiction and started buying everything Batman and The Joker for a movie you hadn't seen yet. Granted you had to be born back then and old enough to know what was going on or have access to a time machine of some sort, but I derail.
There is no "I'm Batman" without Fairbank's delivery of "What are you?!?!"
Bill Finger recently got some respect for basically doing all of the heavy lifting in co-creating Batman and the majority of the character's world, so when is Christopher Fairbank going to get his due?
Fairbank is/was mostly a character actor.
He has numerous credits over the years.
Alien 3 - who was Fairbanks. He wasn't Sigourney and he wasn't Charles S. "Roc" Dutton. He was just one of the dudes with a shaved head.
The Fifth Element - Fairbanks wasn't Bruce Willis. I feel like that's the way it is on most Bruce Willis films. It you're not B Dubs, you're no one.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Fairbank's IMDB page says he was in this movie, but if you want to start a gofundme page to get me to watch this movie again to figure out exactly where he is in the film, feel free.
Guardians of the Galaxy - Fairbanks plays the Broker that Starlord is dealing with towards the beginning of the film. A small but decent part. It's no "What are you?!" followed by "I'm Starlord" but there could have been that. There could have been.
These are probably the most well known Fairbank roles (to me that is), not that you recognized him because...
Christopher Fairbank doesn't get the credit that he deserves for launching Batman into the stratosphere!!! Or shall I say, batosphere?! No, please no. (But if people can say Batinson though....eh?)
There would be no Michelle Pfieffer as Catwoman.
No Batman Begins.
No Heath Ledger as The Joker.
There would be no Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker.
There would be no Bat-Nipples.
Okay, forget that last one. (Seriously though, were they really that bad? Yeah, probably.)
Look, all I'm saying is that the Bat Signal wouldn't shine as bright if it wasn't for Christopher Fairbank and his amazing over the top delivery of one line. I just think it's time there's some respect shown to his small but huge part in the overall success of Batman in the modern era.
I'm...saying thanks, dude.
And if it wasn't for Christopher Fairbank we may not have had these items in our lives:
Check out the Batman 1989 Comic Adaptation....seriously, this book is awesome. This book is so awesome it was a Special Feature on the Blu-Ray and then even on the iTunes digital release...I'm such a nerd. I love it!
This is a pricey piece. Click the link for the NECA 1989 Batman Michael Keaton Action Figure (1/4 Scale)...It will make your significant other question if you should be trusted with credit cards, but I feel like Wayne Campbell because I look at that and just say, "It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine."
Another pricey piece, but the NECA Batman Returns Mayoral Penguin DeVito Action Figure (1/4 Scale) may just be worth being single for the rest of your life...sure, it's from the sequel, but we may have not gotten a sequel without Fairbank...and this thing is just cool and who needs companionship?
Would there have been The Lego Batman Movie without Faibank's character telling all his friends about Batman? Would there have been Lego Batman toys?
And I didn't even get to Batman Beyond.
Let's get Tim Burton and Keaton together again for a Batman Beyond movie and let the opening scene be with Christopher Fairbank. Let Fairbank just say something like "I told all my friends about you!" then the new Batman can go "I'm not him." then, get this, Fairbank says, in the same original delivery, "What are you?!"...then Batman Beyond says, "I'm Batman." He's just as confused as in 1989....and it's just as awesome.
Finally, if you have a museum or are starting a museum...here's a few Bat inspired pieces of art I slapped on to a canvas:
Holy use of a palette knife, Batman. Get a better look by clicking here.
This painting is huge. Get a better look for your batcave by clicking here.
It it wasn't clear...I'm a nerd.
Nice shares very interesting information. I've watched All Batman flicks and so many others.
Rita Tillman March 16, 2020


Take it from us: Alaska is a very large place with a climate that varies depending on what part of the state you're in. On a Holiday Vacations tour of Alaska, we'll be visiting three different regions, each with their own unique climate.
In this blog we are going to highlight the weather conditions of these regions and give some helpful tips on how to pack for warmth while enjoying the many sights and experiences this land has to offer.
The three regions of Alaska we'll visit include South Central, where our tours visit Anchorage, Girdwood, Whittier, and Seward. These cities are mild by Alaskan standards, but the temperature tends to be chillier due to the cool ocean breezes. You can expect temperatures from the high 40's to mid 60's during the months we visit.
Farther Southeast is the Coastal Temperate Rainforest, home to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and the calm, pristine waters of the Inside Passage. This coastline of hilly coniferous forests is as mild as it is rainy. (In Ketchikan, yearly average rainfall is more than 150 inches!) While the likely hood of rain is greater, you can still expect temperatures from the high 40's to mid 60's during the tour season.
Guests also visit Alaska's grand Interior, where it is warmer than you might think. Occupying the state's central and eastern regions, the Interior is nestled between mountain ranges and includes the communities of Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Tok, and Whitehorse. These mountains make the summertime warmer than in other Alaska regions. Here we'll find the state's broadest temperature averages in the summer months with lows in the low 40's to highs in the mid 70's.
For more information on Alaska's distinct regions, TravelAlaska.com has a great map with lots of additional information on the subject. Click here to learn more!
Alright. Let's review some packing tips!
Less is more, right? The same goes for your luggage. Pack a few comfortable outfits and don't worry about wearing them a couple of times – your traveling companions will be doing the same. Many hotels and our cruise ship, Holland America Line's ms Volendam, offer laundry services or coin-operated machines. Not all cruises provide this opportunity! Keep in mind you may want that extra space in your suitcase for the souvenirs you will want to take home.
As the day goes on, Alaska's weather and temperature can have some variability from high temps and clear skies to drizzle and chilly wind gusts. Each morning we encourage you to wear multiple light layers and remove them as needed. We suggest putting on a t-shirt or another comfy wearable for your first layer, then something for warmth like a sweatshirt for your second layer, then put on something that will protect you from the elements, like a jacket, for your third layer.
This may go without saying for guests living in wintry climates, but for those of us in America's Sun Belt, you may want to bring something to protect your hands, neck, and ears from the elements. You won't be spending too much time outside at any given time, so even inexpensive gloves, scarves, and winter hats will serve you well.
Nothing ruins a vacation faster than feeling uncomfortable. While you may be tempted to buy new shoes or boots in advance of your Alaska vacation, we encourage you not to. Wear good, sturdy shoes that you already know are comfortable for walking. Our Alaska itineraries are fairly casual, so you do not have to reach for your hiking boots when packing. However, if you are planning on going off the beaten path during your free time, you may want big rubber boots, or at the very least, water-resistant footwear.
Relaxing out on the cruise ship's balcony decks is a good experience as long as you are prepared. Any glacier experience on tour may have cool breezes, so prepare yourself by bringing a jacket that repels both wind and rain. Specifically, consider a polar fleece or a hoodie for layering.
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I KNOW ABOUT CLOTHING ON THE CRUISE SHIP?
Your Inside Passage cruise will include a gala night – a festive evening featuring special menus in the dining room and photographers capturing special moments around the ship. Don't be intimidated; this evening's dress code has relaxed over the years. You do not have to bring a business suit or ball gown, but you should consider wearing non-athletic shoes.
For MEN: No sport coat or tie is required; khaki pants and a long-sleeved, collared shirt will work well.
For WOMEN: A pretty top can dress up a pair of black pants, especially paired with a scarf or other accessories.
If you forgot that favorite hoodie, parka, or another item, there are plenty of shops nearby throughout your tour that may have what you are looking for. If you need help, just ask your friendly Tour Director.


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Save in 30-3 Game
No Grand Slams
28 Assists in One Game
Same Runner Out at Plate Twice
Same Home/Road Record, Proliferation of Playoffs
Surprise Grand Slam Leader
Boston "Braves" And Their Gigantic Home Field
A Confluence of Threes
Last Two Suits in Dugouts
Odd Baseball Facts - IV
Odd Baseball Facts Archive – VII
On August 22, 2007, the Texas Rangers met the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.
After three innings, Baltimore led 3-0.
The Rangers then did something rarely seen in a baseball game. They went on a 30-0 tear. Every single one of the runs was earned.
Texas banged out 29 hits, enjoyed 8 walks.
As you would expect, several Oriole hurlers didn't fare well.
Brian Burres surrendered 8 runs in 2/3 of an inning.
Rob Bell allowed 7 runs in 1 1/3 frames.
Paul Shuey took one for the team, giving up 9 runs in the last two innings.
The Odd Fact about this game involved a Rangers P.
Kaston Gabbard pitched the first six innings for the visitors.
Wes Littleton finished for manager Ron Washington.
Because Littleton entered with his team leading and pitched three full innings, he recorded a Save for protecting the 27-run lead!
Wes Littleton
Jim Palmer pitched 19 ML seasons, all for the Baltimore Orioles.
He took the mound in 558 games, not counting post-season appearances.
He toiled 3,948 innings.
He surrendered 303 HRs.
But Palmer has this distinction:
He never allowed a grand slam.
He has another distinction:
He is the only pitcher in big-league history to win World Series games in three decades (1966, 1970–71, and 1983).
The 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates were not known as a good fielding team. Still, they reached a new low on June 7 when they committed seven errors in a 9-4 loss to the league-leading New York Giants before 6,600 at Forbes Field.
The Pittsburgh Post labeled the effort a "blunderfest" that included several other misplays that weren't ruled errors.
Yet the Pirates that day set a record that still stands: 28 assists in a nine-inning game.
Another oddity of the game was that no Pittsburgh outfielder registered a putout (although an easy fly was muffed as explained below).
Forbes Field 1909
What one report called "some queer turns" contributed to the Pirates' spate of assists.
Third inning: Two of the Giants' outs came on plays that produced multiple assists. With runners on first and second, CF Fred Snodgrass singled to CF. Tommy Leach threw home too late to stop the runner from second from scoring, but C Mike Simon threw to third to catch the runner from first, Art Fletcher. Then Leach grabbed Fred Merkle's single and again threw home to try to nip Snodgrass. P Babe Adams cut off the throw and threw to SS Honus Wagner, who threw to 1B Bill McKechnie to catch Merkle, who had rounded too far.
Fifth inning: 3B Bobby Byrne and P Claude Hendrix fielded grounders and threw to McKechnie, who dropped each toss. Byrne and Hendrix were credited with assists even though no putout was made. One of the runners, Snodgrass, was later caught in a rundown between third and home with Hendrix, Simon, and Byrne all gaining assists.
Hendrix had taken the mound for the first time in a major league game in the fourth and pitched quite well the rest of the way. In the fifth, he didn't allow a hit but still gave up four unearned runs thanks to a walk, three errors, and a passed ball.
The muffed fly referred to above came in the fourth inning. When Leach injured his leg, Pirate skipper Fred Clarke replaced him with Jack Flynn, who didn't even play his normal position, 1B, very well. To minimize the damage Clarke put Flynn in RF and shifted Owen Wilson to center. In his very first inning in RF, Flynn camped under a routine fly but the ball slipped through his hands, nearly knocking him out. Wilson had to chase down the ball. Let the record show that this was the only game of his ML career in which Flynn "patrolled" the OF.
The Pirates' sloppy play infected the Giants as well as they committed five errors as well as one fielding blunder that resulted in a HR for Max Carey. Let Joe Dittmar tell the tale.
In the ninth inning, Carey sent a long fly to RCF. Both Red Murray and Fred Snodgrass raced after it, Murray having the better angle. Red just missed making the catch but ran another 30 feet before he could stop. Snodgrass stopped within a few feet of where the ball bounced but thought Murray had made the catch. Murray assumed that Snodgrass had fielded the sphere. Meanwhile, Carey, amid howls of the spectators, raced around the bases and crossed the plate before Al Bridwell, the SS, finally retrieved the ball.
Reference: "Team Makes 28 Assists in One Nine-Inning Game,"
Baseball Records Registry, Joseph J. Dittmar (1997)
Fred Snodgrass
Tommy Leach
Art Fletcher
Max Carey
Phil Cavarretta
It's rare to see a ball game in which two runners are thrown out at the plate. It's even more rare when the same player is thrown out at home twice in a game. And when that game is a Midsummer Classic, that's the rarest of all.
The 1944 All-Star game at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, was the second straight played at night so that factory workers and service personnel could attend.
1B Phil Cavarretta of the Chicago Cubs walked in the bottom of the first. He moved to second on CF Stan Musial's infield hit and continued to third on 2B Bobby Doerr's wild throw. When the next batter, C Walker Cooper, hit a fly to RF, Cavarretta tried to score but was thrown out by Stan Spence.
Phil spanked a triple with two out in the third but was stranded.
In the fifth, Cavarretta walked to put runners at first and second. Musial reached on an error to load the bases. Cooper singled to LF, scoring the runner from third. However, LF Bob Johnson threw Cavaretta out at home, Phil vigorously questioning umpire Cal Hubbard's call.
Cavarretta singled and walked again to finish a perfect night at the plate.
Same Home/Road Record; Proliferation of Playoffs
The 1946 St. Louis Cardinals compiled the following home and road records.
Home: 49-29 (.628)
Road: 49-29 (.628)
Total: 98-58 (.628)
You'll notice that 98 and 58 add up to 156.
For most of the 20th century, the regular season consisted of 154 games.
The 1946 NL pennant race ended in a tie between the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers.
So, for the first time in ML history, a playoff was needed to decide the pennant winner. NL rules called for a best 2-of-3 series.
The Cardinals won the first game at home and the second on the road to earn the right to meet the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
After the NL and AL agreed to co-exist and play the first World Series in 1903, baseball went 43 years without a pennant playoff.
Then, just two years after the '46 NL tie, the AL pennant race produced a dead heat between the Indians and Red Sox. Al rules called for a one-game playoff which Cleveland won.
Three more seasons brought still another NL tie, necessitating the famous playoff between the Dodgers and New York Giants that ended on Bobby Thomson's HR.
David Eckstein is not remembered as a HR hitter.
The 5'6" 170 lb SS from the University of Florida (where he walked on to the baseball team) hit just 35 HRs in 5,041 ML ABs for five different clubs over ten seasons (2001-2010).
Yet he led the major leagues in grand slams in 2002 while helping the Anaheim Angels win their only World Series. Furthermore, two of his three slams that year came in back-to-back games at a time when the Angels needed a spark.
California had started poorly, 7-14, when they began a three game home series with Toronto on Friday, April 26. The Angels won the opener 4-0.
In the second game, Eckstein capped a 7-run 5th by clearing the bases with a four-bagger off Scott Cassidy as the Angels clinched the series, 11-4.
The final game dragged on to the 14th inning. After the Blue Jays scored a run to a take a 5-4 lead in the top of the frame, 3B Troy Glaus led off with a single against southpaw Pedro Borbon and went to third on DH Tim Salmon's double.
1B Scott Spiezio lined to SS before the Jays intentionally passed C Bengie Molina to load the bases. The strategy looked smart when 2B Adam Kennedy went down swinging.
That brought up Mighty Mouse, hitless in his previous 6 ABs. On a 1-1 pitch, Eckstein crashed a HR over the LF fence.
Afterwards, David said, "I was 1-for-7 today. I expect to do better than that, but I was very fortunate to get the game-winner. It was about time I did something."
On Sunday, June 9, the Angels hosted the Cincinnati Reds in an interleague game.
The "X Factor" strode to the dish with the sacks loaded with two outs in the second and the home team leading 1-0 thanks to his triple and a groundout in the first inning.
The diminutive SS fell behind 1-2, then smote his fourth four-bagger of the season to give the Angels a 5-run lead on their way to a 7-4 victory.
Eckstein finished the '02 season hitting .293 with 8 HRs. He finished 11th in the MVP voting.
David Eckstein
Eckstein and wife Ashley, an actress
When James Gaffney, a New York contractor, bought the Boston National League club in 1911, he became its third owner in just six years.
He changed the team's nickname just as the previous two owners did.
Originally the Red Stockings, the team became the Doves when John Dovey owned it in 1906-9.
In 1909, with William Russell purchasing the club, Boston's NL team became the Rustlers.
Gaffney named his new team the Braves because of his membership in Tammany Hall, the Democratic organization in New York City. Tammany members were called "braves," and the club's insignia was an Indian head named Tammany. Continuing the indian theme, the organization's headquarters was called the wigwam.
Gaffney knew that his club needed a new ballpark to compete with the crosstown Red Sox of the American League.
Gaffney purchased a enormous lot measuring 850' by 675'.
He wanted a field large enough "to hit an inside-te-park home run in any of the three outfield directions."
So he built Braves Field with the dimensions shown in the diagram below. The owner proudly billed his creation as "the largest baseball park in the world."
Braves Field in its early years
James Gaffney
Boston Braves Logo 1914
After opening on August 18, 1915, the park had no over-the-fence HRs for over a year.
Adding to the challenge of the gigantic dimensions of the field, the wind generally blew in from the Charles River beyond the outfield.
Only eight HRs were hit in the first full season of action at the park, and all of those were inside-the-park.
Walton Cruise of the St. Louis Cardinals smacked a ball into the RF bleachers (later known as the "Jury Box") on May 16, 1917. That was the first over-the-fence four-bagger.
The next "traditional" HR also came from Cruise, now with the Braves, on August 16, 1921 over the RF wall.
Three more clouts went into the RF bleachers before the first HR cleared the LF fence on May 28, 1925. The culprit was Frank Snyder of the New York Giants. That was also the first clout completely out of the park, the ball landing on the railroad tracks behind the bleachers.
Braves Field a week before its opening with the Charles River in the background
The dimensions were finally shortened in 1928 with the erection of bleachers in LF.
Walton Cruise
Frank Snyder
Dickie Kerr
Eddie Cicotte
Lefty Williams
The Chicago White Sox met the Cincinnati Reds in the 1919 World Series.
The third game was played October 3 at Comiskey Park in the Windy City.
Chicago's third best pitcher, Dickie Kerr, started.
He pitched a three-hitter to win 3-0.
Of course, there's more to any game than just a recitation of the basic facts but especially this one.
The White Sox trailed two games-to-none because some members of the team had accepted money from gamblers to throw both games in Cincinnati. Their #1 and #2 pitchers, ace Eddie Cicotte, 29-7 on the year, and Lefty Williams, 23-11, had done less than their best.
The original plan called for the conspirators to lose Game 3 also. But dissent had broken out among the players, leaving the scheme in disarray. So they played this one straight. One of the leaders of the ring, 1B Chick Gandil, drove in two of the three Sox tallies.
Kerr, a dimunitive 5'7" 155 lb southpaw who was not in on the fix, struck out four and walked only one. He had contributed 13 victories to Chicago's 3.5-game pennant edge.
After the Reds shutout Chicago in the next two games to take a commanding 4-1 in the best-of-nine series, Kerr took the hill again for Game 6 back at Redland Field in the Queen City.
After giving up 2 in the third and 2 more in the fourth, Kerr squelched the Redlegs after that, enabling the White Sox to catch up and win 5-4 in ten innings.
Cicotte gave 100% the next day to win 4-1.
But Lefty, supposedly because the gamblers had threatened his wife, gave up four in the first frame back in Chicago to start the Red Stockings on their 10-5 Series-clinching victory.
It would take almost a year, but the conspiracy unravelled before a Chicago Grand Jury, leading to new Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis to permanently ban eight of the "Black Sox" from baseball, including OF Shoeless Joe Jackson, who undoubtedly would have made the Hall of Fame otherwise.
Young Connie Mack
The last two ML managers to direct their teams in street clothes both directed their last game on the same day - October 1, 1950.
Connie (real name Cornelius McGillicudy, Sr.) served as a manager far longer than anyone, which led to his holding the records for wins (3,731) and losses (3,948). His win total is almost 1,000 more than any other manager (John McGraw with 2,763).
He first served as player-manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1891-6. Connie played C.
He became owner and manager of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901 at age 39 and steered them for fifty years until his sons finally convinced him to step down as manager. Throughout his career with the A's, he wore a business suit while managing.
When Mack retired, baseball passed two rules that insured he would be the last of his breed.
Managers were prohibited from having any financial stake in the teams they managed.
Managers were required to wear baseball uniforms during games.
Old Connie Mack
Burt Shotton
Burt played outfield for the St. Louis Browns (1909, 1911-17), Washington Senators (1918), and St. Louis Cardinals (1919-23).
He became the Cardinals' "Sunday manager" when Branch Rickey observed the Christian Sabbath.
After retiring from playing, Burt coached for St. Louis from 1923-5 before becoming a minor league manager.
Shotton helmed the Phillies from 1928-33 and the Reds in 1934.
Burt hung up his uniform in 1946 and became a scout for Rickey with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
When Commissioner Happy Chandler suspended Leo Durocher for the entire 1947 season because of his associations with gamblers, Rickey sent his old friend Shotton a telegram: Be in Brooklyn in the morning. Call nobody, see no one. Rickey used all his powers of persuasion to convince the 62-year-old Shotton to take over the club, which included rookie Jackie Robinson.
Shotton took the job but didn't wear a baseball uniform, although he usually wore his team's cap and jacket.
The Dodgers won the pennant in 1947 before losing to the Yankees in seven games.
Shotton led the Bums to another flag two years later but again they lost to the Bronx Bombers, this time in five games.
The Phillies beat the Dodgers on the last day of the 1950 season to cop the crown. When new majority owner Walter O'Malley forced Rickey out as GM, Shotton went back into retirement.
Manager Burt Shotton


With Parkbridge, you can now camp and stay in most of the touristic regions of Quebec.
Parkbridge is home to numerous cottage and RV resorts across Quebec. We operate properties in many of the province's tourism regions, spanning the Outaouais, Laurentians, Montérégie, Chaudière-Appalaches, Centre-du-Québec and Eastern Townships. We offer a wide range of choices, meaning there's always a camping resort tailormade for you and your favourite family activities year-round.