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- “Come and try”: towards a history of Fante military…
- Cymbet Rolls Out Thin-Film Batteries for Embedded Systems.
- Mission to save others from mum’s fate
- It’s the cash flow, baby: the solution to excessive CEO comp ……

“Come and try”: towards a history of Fante military…
Free with registration – African Arts – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
“TOWARDS A HISTORY” IS PERHAPS AN EQUALLY FAMILIAR, BUT CERTAINLY LESS CONFIDENT FORM OF ENGAGEMENT AMONG ACADEMICS. ONE IS BRAVADO, THE OTHER IS PREVARICATION. (2) The latter project was so popular, in fact, that it has led to asafo flags becoming one of the most frequently faked of all Ghanaian art forms, right up there in the pantheon of duplicity with Akua’ba. As has been detailed in multiple anthropological and historical studies, the asafo (sa, war, and fo, people) were the warrior groups or armies of the traditional Akan states. (3) With their military roles almost fully usurped by the administration of the British Gold Coast Colony beginning in 1872, the asafo were forced to redirect their energies. This they did with considerable success, and they thrive today as potent social and civic organizations with significant political, ritual, and performance roles in most Fante states…
Regardless of scale and configuration, each posuban is multifunctional and serves as a locale for at least one of its respective company’s gods and as a site for ritual sacrifices and offerings. It is also embraced as a locus of company activities and comes into play during installations of company officers, during funerals of its members, and in the observation of a variety of festivals. Larger shrines might also serve as storage areas for sacred drums, gongs, flags, and other asafo regalia, while the very largest have sufficient interior space to hold meetings and other gatherings. There have been at least three proposed etymologies for the word “posuban. ” Referring to the cane-fenced tree also called “posuban,” E.

Cymbet Rolls Out Thin-Film Batteries for Embedded Systems.
Free with registration – Wireless News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
announced at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston the commercial availability of its EnerChip family of solid-state, thin-film batteries. For the first time, the company noted, Cymbet’s technological advancements have made possible — in volume — a small form factor, highly rechargeable device to distribute energy. The solid state battery can be economically and.

Mission to save others from mum’s fate
The Australian – Sep 22, 2007
Ursula’s life and her health would be turned around with surgery. The low self-esteem and failure she felt about her appearance would be gone along with more than half her body weight. "Today, I have told Ursula she is suffering from a fat storage disease, which is responsible for her being approximately 180 per cent above her ideal weight," Broadbent wrote to her GP. "It is genetically transmitted, relentlessly progressive and extremely powerful. It is associated with numerous co-morbid(ities) which Ursual (sic) is already staring (sic) to feel the early effects. They include arthritis, blood pressure, heart disease, hiatus hernia, gallstones, ulcers, diverticular disease, breast and bowel cancer, varicose veins, diabetes and numerous other conditions, plus psychosocial and socio-economic features. The net result is chronic ill health and an unhappy life, which is invariably shorter…
The hospital’s lawyers told the commission that the hospital was "uncomfortable providing the material". The audit, according to a hospital source, paints a worrying picture over deaths, and poor outcomes. "The very sad case of Ursula MacLeod occurred prior to my company acquiring the hospital," Michael Coglin, Allamanda’s chief medical officer for the publicly listed Healthscope, said yesterday. "There was an audit conducted at the instigation of the medical and nursing staff of the hospital into the BPD surgery. It encompassed the totality of the cases done by Dr Broadbent at the hospital. " Coglin said that around the same time, Allamanda’s insurer "said it would not indemnify the hospital for claims on this surgery based on its knowledge of the attendant risks, and we had to tell Dr Broadbent to cease.

It’s the cash flow, baby: the solution to excessive CEO comp ……
Free with registration – Directors & Boards – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2007
And there is a solution. But first, let’s analyze this incident. In this particular company the growth was slowing. We needed a CEO to broaden the business, adding things beyond our experiences. This is a mid-cap outfit and we successfully recruited the president of a large-cap business, a guy who had precisely the background needed. We matched his prior salary and options and made good on his lost options in the move.