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Developed by Tony Buzan in 1970, mind mapping is a revolutionary system for capturing ideas and insights horizontally on a sheet of paper. This paper illustrates the technique of mind mapping, and highlights its specific applications in a variety of contexts based on our work in executive education and in management development consulting. Positive outcomes of the approach are described as well as reactions of executive students to mind mapping. We conclude with a rationale of why we believe mind mapping works with executives.In our Executive MBA (EMBA) program, which was established in 1973 and is one of the ten oldest in the USA, students must skillfully balance a full-time job, social life, and full load of graduate courses simultaneously for the duration of the two-year program. Professors strive to continuously improve the content of their courses by having student teams design marketing studies, consult with small businesses (Lamond, 1995), run simulated international businesses (Nicholson, 1997), and design information systems for local businesses. Educators in management development programs also strive to enhance the process, the way in which courses are delivered ( i.e. team taught, crossfunctional, distance learning). We are actively involved in discovering (through consulting and reading) and applying active learning methodologies developed for industry or the military to enable students to become more effective at analyzing, integrating, and consolidating new information. We also strive to increase the effectiveness and quality of our students' learning in order to provide them with a competitive advantage in the marketplace.Storyboarding, a creativity-enhancing and problem-solving technique (Humes et al., 1995) taught to our students, was developed by Walt Disney in 1928 and extensively and successfully applied in a total quality management effort by utility company Florida Power and Light. This was the first American company to win the coveted Japanese Deming prize (Hart et al., 1989). Another active learning method used at our school (all the work reported here was accomplished when all three authors were affiliated with Loyola College) since 1991, is mandatory development of lessons learned by each student based on his or her learning from and reflection on class assignments, team projects, and

A new conformance solution has been developed to help producers reach and recover more oil from existing wells while simultaneously reducing operating expenditures. This new technology successfully addresses shortcomings associated with existing miscible gas EOR (enhanced oil recovery) processes by generating foams of supercritical CO 2 fluid and water in the formation which alter mobility and improve vertical conformance. Ultimately, the process can improve the profitability of existing wells by enhancing reservoir sweep efficiency, thereby allowing access to previously bypassed oil. This report describes the technology development process and documents successful field trial results from Kinder Morgan's SACROC field.

Raphides in petioles of Xanthosoma sagittifolium are needlelike crystals about 50 micrometers long. The rectangular cross sections have maximum dimensions of approximately 850 by 250 nanometers. The raphides have two distinct end structures. One end is narrow, acute, and tapered to a point; the other is broad, acute, and abruptly pointed. Barbs, about 750 angstroms long with tips oriented away from the narrow end, occur along the length of the raphide on ridges on either side of two longitudinal grooves. These grooves, located opposite each other, give the raphide cross section an H-shape.

Amorphous coatings on mineral surfaces too thin to be resolved by most electron microscopes were detected bridging particles suspended over holes in the supporting substrates. The coatings are gel‐like in appearance, may flow when wet, shrink and become porous when heated, cement primary particles into large masses, and exhibit a coat‐of‐paint effect with curved solid‐air interfaces. Amorphous gel coatings were found in alumino‐silicate systems, in high aluminum soils, and on quartz surfaces.