Mr. Daeng lived in Thailand. One day, in 1880, he went to the market. He came to a Chinese rattan shop. In the shop he saw some rattan balls about 12 cm. across. He asked the shopkeeper what they were. “They’re just toys”, said the Chinese. “They’re called takraw. Mr. Daeng brought some takraw balls, and took them home. He was very interested in sports. At his home he invented a new game, using these rattan balls. He called the game after them, takraw. Read more.RefBan
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The History of Sepak Takraw As a Part of International Games
Mr. Daeng lived in Thailand. One day, in 1880, he went to the market. He came to a Chinese rattan shop. In the shop he saw some rattan balls about 12 cm. across. He asked the shopkeeper what they were. “They’re just toys”, said the Chinese. “They’re called takraw. Mr. Daeng brought some takraw balls, and took them home. He was very interested in sports. At his home he invented a new game, using these rattan balls. He called the game after them, takraw. Read more.
Robert Baden-Powell: Founder of the Scouting Movement
One hundred and fifty-four years ago, on February 22th, 1857, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was born in London. His father was the Reverend H.G. Baden-Powell, a professor at Oxford University, and his mother was the daughter of a British admiral, W.T. Smyth. As a boy Baden-Powell was the centre of interest among his friends. He liked music, acting on a stage and football and was very talented in drawing. He could use both his right and his left hands. At the age of 19 he joined the Army and became a lieutenant. His duties took him to the fronts in India and South Africa. There he spent much of his time training his men for military scouting. Read more.Coca-Cola : the Popular Beverage Around the World
It started in 1886, when John Pemberton, a chemist from Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., succeeded in making a special kind of liquid mixture. After that, a new kind of beverage began to spread in the United States, and later on, all over the world. It took some years of experiments before Pemberton found the right recipe for this thick, dark-brown mixture which become a refreshing, non-alcoholic beverage after it is added to soda water. He gave this new drink the name coca-cola. Millions of bottles of coca-cola are now produced and consumed every day in more than one hundred countries. This drink is so popular today that perhaps only a few people in the western hemisphere or even around the world have never tasted coca-cola. Generally speaking, this beverage is a mixture of various substances, such as the essences of coca leaves and cola nuts that are the most important substances. Read more.
The Secret To Losing A Pound A Day
Does it sometimes feel like trying to losing weight is a lost cause? Does it always seem that everyone makes trying to lose weight so complicated? Would you really like to lose that weight for once and for all in a direct, no nonsense way without all the useless babbling that serves only to bore you but never helps you?
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- Right to the point information you can use right now
- How eating a certain way promotes rapid weight loss \"without feeling hungry\"
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- How you can successfully keep the weight you lose from ever coming back
- And much, much more
- http://lsiurl.com/poundaday/vikdyone/
Monday, February 7, 2011
New Article Analyzing the Use of Reverse Auctions for Wetlands Restoration in Canada
Image via WikipediaHere is a very interesting article detailing a very novel application of reverse auctions - to maximize the amount of wetland restoration that could take place in a project undertaken in Canada. The article, entitled A Reverse Auction for Wetland Restoration in the Assiniboine River Watershed, Saskatchewan, was just published in the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie. The article was written by
- Michael R. J. Hill,
- D. Glen McMaster,
- Tom Harrison,
- Aron Hershmiller,
- Trevor Plews,
Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association, and Ducks Unlimited Canada. The Abstract for the article is as follows:
Wetland habitat continues to be lost in many watersheds across Canada and new program tools are needed to help restore drained wetlands. We used a reverse auction to restore drained wetlands in the Assiniboine River Watershed (ARW) of east-central Saskatchewan which is an important target area for wetland restoration in the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP). The reverse auction format was discriminative, with sealed bids and two rounds of bidding. Bidders could submit bids for 12-year term agreements and/or perpetual conservation easements, and bids were submitted by quarter section (160 acres). Bids could be either in cultivated cropland or perennial forage, and were evaluated using an environmental benefits index based on the incremental increase in predicted hatched waterfowl nests relative to bid price. Potential bidders were solicited via contacts with existing conservation project cooperators, and a public media campaign. In the first round, 20 bidders submitted 118 bids to restore 713 wetlands totaling 670 acres at a price of $837,000. All bids were for 12-year term agreements. Bid prices to restore drained wetlands within cultivated land were higher than for perennial forage. In the second round, 30 bids from seven bidders were approved to restore 211 wetlands totaling 211 acres in perennial forage at a price of $182,000. The price of successful bids varied from $20.83 to $391.22 per acre per year (average $118.52). The reverse auction provided information on cost variability and funding required for achieving NAWMP wetland restoration objectives in the ARW.
La perte d'habitats humides dans de nombreux bassins hydrographiques du Canada se poursuit, d'où la nécessité d'élaborer de nouveaux programmes et outils pour favoriser la restauration des milieux humides qui ont été drainés. Nous avons procédéà une enchère inversée en ligne pour restaurer les milieux humides drainés dans le bassin hydrographique de la rivière Assiniboine dans la partie du centre-est de la Saskatchewan, qui constitue une zone cible importante de la restauration des milieux humides dans le Plan nord-américain de la gestion de la sauvagine (PNAGS). L'enchère inversée en ligne était discriminatoire et comprenait des offres secrètes et deux tours d'enchère. Les enchérisseurs pouvaient soumettre des offres soit pour des ententes d'une durée de douze ans, soit pour des servitudes de conservation perpétuelles, pour une superficie de un quart de section (160 acres) dans les deux cas. Les offres, qui pouvaient comprendre des terres cultivées ou des terres couvertes de plantes fourragères vivaces, ont étéévaluées à l'aide d'un indice des avantages environnementaux fondé sur l'augmentation progressive du nombre prévu d'œufs éclos dans les nids de sauvagine par rapport au prix offert. Nous avons joint des enchérisseurs potentiels par l'intermédiaire des coordinateurs de projets de conservation existants et de campagnes de publicité-médias. Au premier tour, 20 enchérisseurs ont soumis 118 offres pour restaurer 713 milieux humides totalisant 670 acres, au prix de 837 000$. Toutes les offres visaient des ententes de douze ans. Le prix des offres pour restaurer les milieux humides drainés à l'intérieur des terres cultivées était plus élevé que le prix des offres pour restaurer les milieux humides drainés à l'intérieur des terres couvertes de plantes fourragères vivaces. Au deuxième tour, trente offres soumises par sept enchérisseurs ont été retenues pour restaurer 211 milieux humides totalisant 211 acres de terres couvertes de plantes fourragères vivaces, au prix de 182 000$. Le prix des offres retenues variait de 20,83$à 391,22$ l'acre par année (moyenne de 118,52$). L'enchère inversée en ligne a permis d'obtenir de l'information sur la variabilité des coûts et le financement nécessaire pour atteindre les objectifs de restauration des milieux humides du PNAGS dans le bassin hydrographique de la rivière Assiniboine.
The article is available for purchase at this site:
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David Wyld, Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University and Director of the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://www.reverseauctionresearch.com/)
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The Top 10 Things You Need to Know About a Market Economy: An Analysis of Supply and Demand and How Our Actions Effect It | Bizcovering
This briefing on the Market Economy was prepared by Janah Verdin while an Accounting major in the College of Business at Southeastern Louisiana University.
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David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University
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Lockout Watch: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the State of the National Football League
Image via WikipediaOne day after the Super Bowl, this may not be exactly what you want to see, but......Here's a great interview with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on 'Fox News Sunday' as he talks about the state of the league (the looming labor crisis, concussions and player safety, etc.). Watch below and comment here on the blog:
David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University
Wyld About Business (http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/)
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