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"The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark, which ran from April 24, 1939 to 1976. Clark launched The Neighbors in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier Side Glances (1928-1939), it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, Our Neighbors, the Ripples, a title eventually shortened to The Ripples(1939-1948). The Sunday strip was dropped in 1948, but his daily panel continued until 1976. Stephen Becker (Comic Art in America) commented, "He has never attempted to induce the belly laugh; he feels that a gently humorous reminder of something that has probably happened to his reader will suffice."Becker, Stephen. Comic Art in America, Simon & Schuster, 1959.Lambiek: "George Clark" Awards Clark received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1961. References External links * National Cartoonists Society Awards Category:American comic strips Category:1939 comics debuts Category:American comics characters Category:Gag-a-day comics Category:1971 comics endings "
"Knowledge Intensive Business Services (commonly known as KIBS) are services and business operations heavily reliant on professional knowledge. They are mainly concerned with providing knowledge-intensive support for the business processes of other organizations. As a result, their employment structures are heavily weighted towards scientists, engineers, and other experts. It is common to distinguish between T-KIBS, (those with high use of scientific and technological knowledge - R&D; services, engineering services, computer services, etc.), and P-KIBS, who are more traditional professional services - legal, accountancy, and many management consultancy and marketing services. These services either supply products which are themselves primary sources of information and knowledge, or use their specialist knowledge to produce services which facilitate their clients own activities. Consequently, KIBS usually have other businesses as their main clients, though the public sector and sometimes voluntary organisations can be important customers, and to some extent households will feature as consumers of, for instance, legal and accountancy services. The first discussion of KIBS to use the term seems to have been in a 1995 report to the European Commission "Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Users, Carriers and Sources of Innovation" https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man- scw:75252&datastreamId;=FULL-TEXT.PDF In the decade since this appeared these sectors of the economy have continued to outperform most other sectors, and have accordingly attracted a good deal of research and policy attention. They are particularly of interest in European countries such as Finland. Care should be taken in reading literature on the topic, since a number of related terms are in wide use. The European Union has recently been referring to a much broader concept of "knowledge-intensive services" recently (extending well beyond the business services) and to "business-related services" (including many services which have large markets among final consumers). An extract from a description found in Harvard Business Online tells us: "A common characteristic of knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) firms is that clients routinely play a critical role in co-producing the service solution along with the service provider. This can have a profound effect on both the quality of the service delivered as well as the client's ultimate satisfaction with the knowledge-based service solution. By strategically managing client co-production, service providers can improve operational efficiency, develop , and generate a sustainable competitive advantage." Client Co-Production in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services $6.95 The European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC) has published online a number of reports and studies of KIBS. In the first of these, "Sector Futures: the knowledge-intensive business services sector" ef0559en1-3.qxd the KIBS sectors are defined in terms of the standard industrial classification (NACE revision 1). To summarise, the main KIBS sectors are: From NACE Division 72: Computer and related activities 72.1: Hardware consultancy 72.2: Software consultancy and supply 72.3: Data processing 72.4: Database activities 72.5: Maintenance and repair of office, accounting and computing machinery 72.6: Other computer related activities From NACE Division 73: Research and experimental development 73.1: Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering 73.2: Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities From NACE Division 74: Other business activities 74.11: Legal activities 74.12: Accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy 74.13: Market research and public opinion polling 74.14: Business and management consultancy activities 74.15: Management activities of holding companies 74.20: Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy 74.3: Technical testing and analysis 74.4: Advertising 74.5: Labour recruitment and provision of personnel 74.8: Miscellaneous business activities n.e.c. 74.81: Photographic activities 74.84: Other business activities n.e.c. In the revision of NACE (rev. 2) there is some more clarity - most KIBS are located in section M (Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities), which is differentiated from more routine section N (Administrative and Support Service Activities). However, computer and related activities are in section J (Information and Communication Activities). The System in use in Canada and the USA, NAICS, does group these services together with the other KIBS. These categories cover firms and organisations that specialise in producing these services. But other sectors may supply knowledge-intensive business services together with their main products; and such services are of course routinely produced by firms for their own use - almost all firms will have some internal office, computer, marketing activities, for instance. KIBS firms are simply specialists in these service activities, which these are their main products. Some KIBS specialists may be lurking in many of these—are either knowledge-intensive services such as health, education, telecommunications, finance, or business-related services such as administration and security. But in general, the following sectors are not regarded as KIBS: Health/medical services, Postal services and Transport and Distribution (some specialised logistics services may be seen as KIBS), Consumer Financial and Real Estate services, Education services (other than specialised training for industry), Broadcast and other mass media (again with possible exceptions, such as when these media are also used for specialised delivery of business services as in data broadcast or encoded business video transmissions), public administration (again with some possible exceptions in industry support schemes), Repair/maintenance (with the exception of IT- related activities), retail and wholesale, Social welfare services, Hospitality, Catering, Leisure/tourism, Personal consumer services, Entertainment. Some consultancy and other specialist support KIBS-type activity often serves such industries. KIBS have attracted a good deal of attention from innovation researchers. They are both highly innovative - among the most innovative service sectors if we can go on the results of Community Innovation Surveys (CISs - these surveys are well-documented, for instance on CORDIS CORDIS : Guidance : Innovation Services ) (see also the work of Howells and TetherInnovation in Services: ) - and many of them play important roles in diffusing innovations and helping their clients innovate more generally. References Category:Types of business entity "
"The Replot Bridge (; ) is a cable-stayed tuftform bridge connecting the island of Replot with the mainland in Korsholm, near Vaasa, Finland. It is long and the longest bridge of Finland. Two supporting pylons are both high. The bridge was inaugurated 27 August 1997 by the president of Finland Martti Ahtisaari. External links *Municipality of Korsholm – Replot bridge *The Replot Bridge Webcam *Webcam at Berny's *Berny's Weather Station, Replotbridge, Finland Category:Cable-stayed bridges in Finland Category:Bridges completed in 1997 Category:Korsholm Category:Buildings and structures in Ostrobothnia (region) "