...but also that it was connected to the triangle in some way, a theory he proposed in his bestselling 1974 book “The Bermuda Triangle”. The mystery has since been promoted in thousands of books, magazines, television shows, and websites. Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle consists of a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is defined by points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. It stretches across less than a thousand miles on any one side.The abnormalities on the sea were first noted in 1950 by Edward Jones in the daily newspaper Miami Herald published in Florida. However the mystery starting catching wide-scale attention in 1952 when George Sand wrote in Fate magazine about incidents like Flight-19, a training flight of five torpedo bomber planes, all of which went missing during a routine training session in 1945 and never returned. A vaguely defined expanse of the Atlantic Ocean triangulated between Puerto Rico, Florida and Bermuda has enjoyed a rather sinister though perhaps largely unearned reputation for decades. Dubbed the Bermuda Triangle, this area has been linked to a number of disappearances dating back to 1945, when a squadron of five US Navy aircraft on a training mission vanished without a trace. People have always known there was something was something up with that place because when Columbus sailed he reported seeing strange lights and in one instant he reported seeing a huge red flaming fireball type of thing falling...
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...重大历史事件年表 时间 | 重大事件 | | 三大宗教 | 公元前6世纪 | 佛教创立（悉达多、古印度、《大藏经》即三藏经、对中国影响） | 公元1世纪 | 基督教兴起（耶稣、罗马帝国统治下的巴勒斯坦地区、《圣经》） | 392年 | 基督教被正式宣布为罗马帝国的国教 | 7世纪初 | 伊斯兰教创立（阿拉伯半岛、穆罕默德、《古兰经》） | | 古希腊 | 公元前5世纪——公元前4世纪上半叶 | 古希腊的“古典时代”，古希腊城邦制度的全盛时期 | 公元前594年 | 梭伦改革：首开先河 | 雅典民主政治建立过程中的里程碑 | 公元前508年 | 克利斯提尼改革：最终确立 | | 公元前5世纪中叶后 | 雅典民主政治的全盛时代，伯利克里时代（公元前443年-公元前429年） | | 古罗马 | 公元前509年 | 罗马实行共和制，进入罗马共和国时期 | 公元前27年 | 以屋大维被授予“奥古斯都”称号为标志进入帝国时代 | 2世纪初 | 罗马成为括欧、亚、非洲的环地中海的大帝国 | 395年 | 分裂为西罗马帝国、东罗马帝国（拜占庭帝国） | 476年 | 西罗马帝国灭亡，西欧古代史结束、中世纪开始 | 共和国时期，公元前451-公元前450年 | 古代罗马第一步成文法《十二铜表法》 | 公元前5世纪后 | 逐渐形成公民法 | 212年卡拉卡拉皇帝时期宣布授予帝国全体自由民以公民权，逐渐走向统一 | 公元前4世纪后 | 逐渐形成万民法 | | 1453年 | 奥斯曼军队攻陷君士坦丁堡，拜占庭帝国灭亡 | 1457年 | 奥斯曼人迁都君士坦丁堡，后改名为伊斯坦布尔 | | 中世纪西欧（476年——15、16世纪） | 6世纪下半叶 | 西欧封建制度大体产生 | 西欧封建制度的确立进程 | 8世纪 | 采邑改革促进封建制度的发展 | | 11世纪左右 | 西欧封建制度基本确立 | | 11世纪 | 中世纪城市开始复兴 | 1265年 | 英国议会召开标志英国等级君主制初步形成 | 1302年 | 法国三级会议召开标志法国等级君主制初步形成 | 11世纪末始 | 大学开始兴起 | | 中国古代：史前——清朝前期 | 距今1万年前后新石器时代 | 原始农耕起源，有采集、渔猎时代进入农业时代；早期农业特点为稻作农业（水稻）与旱地农业（粟）同时出现、南北并立 | 公元前21世纪 | 中国历史上第一个王朝——夏朝建立 | 公元前17世纪 | 商朝建立（第一个有直接文字记载的王朝、信史） | 公元前1046年 | 西周建立（武王灭商、武王伐纣、牧野之战），都城镐 | 公元前770年-公元前221年 | 社会大变革时期、社会转型时期、东周即春秋战国时期、百家争鸣时期 | 公元前770年 | 平王东迁都城至洛邑，东周建立，分为春秋、战国两个时期 | 公元前221年 | 秦国灭六国，建立中国历史上的一个大一统帝国——秦朝，开创的中央集权制成为中国历代王朝政治制度的蓝本 | 公元前209年 | 中国历史上第一次农民起义、秦末农民起义——陈胜、吴广大泽乡起义 | 公元前206年-公元前202年 | 楚（项羽）汉(刘邦)战争（刘邦败项羽） | 公元前202年 | 刘邦即汉高祖建西汉（公元前202年—公元9年），都城长安 | 公元前140年—公元前87年 | 汉武帝刘彻在位，从无为走向有为，西汉王朝达到鼎盛 | 25年 | 刘秀（光武帝）重建汉朝即东汉（25年—220年），都城洛阳...
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...Miguel A. Rodriguez Instructor Advanced Composition ENG 300 June 19, 2013 Music and Lyrics: Ruben Blades (Looking For America) I’m searching for you, America and fear that I will not find you your footprint has been lost in the dark. (Line 4) I’m calling you America but you are not answering me. You have been made to vanish by those who deny truth.(Line 8) Surrounded by shadows we deny all that’s true until there is justice we will never have peace.(Line 12) Living under Dictatorships I search for you and I cannot find you. Your body tortured is nowhere to be found. (Line 16) If one’s dream is everybody’s dream to break the chains and begin our journey Let’s be confident Let’s go ahead, my race, Let’s preserve time for those to come.(Line 24) You’ve been abducted, America Your mouth has been gagged and today it’s our turn to bring you freedom. I’m calling you America our future awaits us and before it dies on us we will find you.(Line 33) I’m searching for you America. I’m calling you America Oh, Oh Fighting for our race and our freedom And we will find you among the darkness, You’ve been vanished by those who’re afraid of your truth. While we search for the truth Searching for our America Mama and papa’s dream And it’s our turn today to set you free. (Line 43)“Looking for America” 2013. Ruben Blades website. June 19, 2013, 05:05 http://www.rubenblades.com/lyrics/?currentPage=5. When listening to the lyrics of...
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...Introduction The two shows, 19 Kids and Counting and the Kardashians are two reality shows that are aired in the United States. Reality shows are meant to show the real side of the celebrities or the people whom the audience admires. They become popular because people believe that the celebrities are showing the true side of their personality in the reality, whereas they are not. Well, this is a heated debate as to whether the real side of the personalities is shown or not, it is out of the scope of this paper to discuss this debate. This paper will only compare and contrast these two reality shows. Discussion 19 kids and counting is a reality show that includes the Duggar family. The family appeared in a number of TLCs and also in the Discovery Health serial which is aired for an hour. In Discovery Health, mostly Michelle’s deliveries were covered. Jim and Michelle and husband and wife and have 19 kids till now. When Michelle gave birth to her first child, she and Jim decided to use contraceptives and take precautions because they didn’t want another child so early. Even after the use of contraceptives, Michelle conceived and gave birth to twins. This is when the couple decided that they would not use contraceptives again and will be happy with God’s will. The Duggar family is religious and says that whatever God will grant them, they will be happy with the same. The reality show is about the life of the Duggars as to how they live together with so many...
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...modesty. The stars of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" are famous not only for having so many children but also for their strict religious beliefs. That's why they went swimming fully clothed while snorkeling during a trip to Puerto Rico in Tuesday night's episode. As Michelle explained to People magazine, "Bathing suits are pretty and colorful, but it's not our thinking that it is OK to be naked some places and not other places." [Related: Michelle Duggar Raves About Her 46th Birthday Haircut] "The eyes are the windows to the soul. And we are trying to keep our hearts pure, which is a struggle," she continued. "Everyone has their idea of what is modest, but for our family, we try to avoid situations ... like the public beach or swimming pools that can make it a challenge to keep our minds pure." This isn't the first time they've swum in Wholesome Wear swimsuits, though the family generally avoids swimming in public. And the Duggars make sure to stay covered up for whatever activity they're doing -- whether it's swimming, riding horses, or climbing. Their modest dress code has the family's boys wearing long shorts and the girls wearing long skirts. [Related: The Duggars Enjoy a Japanese Meal in Tokyo] "This isn't for everyone, and we don't push this on anybody," Michelle explained in TLC's Parentables blog. "And we don't judge anyone that doesn't have this perspective, but for us, we felt like we needed to be covered from our neck to below our knees." "19 Kids and Counting" airs...
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...SUMMARY The company needs to upgrade its computer equipment. There are two upgrade paths to consider. In this proposal, we demonstrate how equipment leases take advantage of the benefits of reduced depreciation and taxation, easy scalability, reduction of IT staff usage, reduced energy costs, and reduction of capital spending. The company can free up money overall and maintain better control of the IT budget by leasing. The cost of equipment is spread out over a 3-year period by leasing. There are no disposal fees because the leasing company will be responsible for the equipment leased. By replacing the current sever setup ( the company has over a dozen machines running 24 hours every day), with new leased IBM compact server, we will cut power costs by up to 50%. CONTENTS Summary 2 Introduction 4 Discussion 4 Requirements Scope and Background 4 requirements to be achieved: 4 several leasing and finance companies with the best solutions for the company 4 Salary Expense Before Leasing fig 1 5 Salary Expense After Leasing fig 2 5 Leasing and Financing Programs 7 Leasing and Financing fig3 7 benefits of hiring a leasing company: 8 Conclusion 9 Bibliography 10 Appendix A 11 INTRODUCTION This report explores the methods other companies use to conserve working capital. The recommendation is to lease to keep the company at the forefront of the technology curve, and keep working capital free. The company will also have the option to upgrade...
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...ce Statistics SearchStorage has done a comprehensive survey of rack mount SSD vendors, and lists these SSD rack mount vendors, with this showing the fastest rack-mount SSD devices: manufacturer model technology interface performance metrics and notes IBM RamSan-400 RAM SSD Fibre Channel InfiniBand 3,000MB/s random sustained external throughput, 400,000 random IOPS Violin Memory Violin 1010 RAM SSD PCIe 1,400MB/s read, 1,00MB/s write with ×4 PCIe, 3 microseconds latency Solid Access Technologies USSD 200FC RAM SSD Fibre Channel SAS SCSI 391MB/s random sustained read or write per port (full duplex is 719MB/s), with 8 x 4Gbps FC ports aggregated throughput is approx 2,000MB/s, 320,000 IOPS Curtis HyperXCLR R1000 RAM SSD Fibre Channel 197MB/s sustained R/W transfer rate, 35,000 IOPS Choosing the right SSD for Oracle When evaluating SSD for Oracle databases you need to consider performance (throughput and response time), reliability (Mean Time Between failures) and TCO (total cost of ownership). Most SSD vendors will provide a test RAM disk array for benchmark testing so that you can choose the vendor who offers the best price/performance ratio. Burleson Consulting does not partner with any SSD vendors and we provide independent advice in this constantly-changing market. BC was one of the earliest adopters of SSD for Oracle and we have been deploying SSD on Oracle database since 2005 and we have experienced SSD experts to help any Oracle...
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...Current Event Article-RFID Prasanna Kumar Mandipudi Wilmington University How Cognizant Cut Costs by Deploying RFID to track IT assets Cognizant is 8 billion dollor firm with over 70000 working people in all its organizations across the globe. Cognizant is key IT service provider for all top ten industries ranging from healthcare to insurance. Cognizant offers system integration technology to all vital industries for instance cognizant provides imaging technology for Healthcare Industry. Cognizant have over 40 delivery centers and 30 huge data centers. With large data centers, Asset management and tracking of company’s assets at employee laptop level is very crucial challenge to company. The misplacement of company’s prominent piece of data asset affects company’s leases and compliances. The use of excel sheets and spread sheets to record the location of data at rack level is expensive and labor intensive. The audit of datacenters every two years involves most highly paid IT people. The company’s first choice of barcode and passive RFID is ineffective. Cognizant RFID Center of Excellence developed an active RFID solution to provide “Real time Inventory and asset awareness for high valued corporate assets. cognizant roped in this technology for asset management. Each asset is tied with an active tag like server blade which plays key role in tracking of asset. RF code rack readers are mounted to ensure and to notify even an inch move of the asset in the rack. Dual...
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...Case Study: Scheduling a Golf League rusty275 09/18/2011 Chris Lane has requested a schedule for the club’s golf league. The league will consist of 18 couples for a season of 17 weeks. Each couple will golf against every other team one time. The schedule has been set up for Saturdays and Sundays, with 5 games on Saturdays and 4 games on Sundays. Chris has advised that it is possible that one couple might cancel, so a secondary schedule has been created. Schedule A is for the 18 couple league and schedule B is set up for 17. Since schedule B has an uneven number of teams, a false team has been created and each week one team will have that week off from competing. Schedule A – 18 couple’s league Week | Date | | | | | | | 1 | 9/10/2011 | 1-2 | 3-18 | 4-17 | 5-16 | 6-15 | sat | | 9/11/2011 | 7-14 | 8-13 | 9-12 | 10-11 | | sun | 2 | 9/17/2011 | 11-12 | 10-13 | 9-14 | 8-15 | 7-16 | sat | | 9/18/2011 | 6-17 | 5-18 | 4-12 | 3-1 | | sun | 3 | 9/24/2011 | 11-14 | 12-13 | 1-4 | 5-3 | 6-2 | sat | | 9/25/2011 | 7-18 | 8-17 | 9-16 | 10-15 | | sun | 4 | 10/1/2011 | 13-14 | 12-15 | 11-16 | 10-17 | 9-18 | sat | | 10/2/2011 | 8-2 | 7-3 | 6-4 | 1-5 | | sun | 5 | 10/8/2011 | 10-2 | 9-3 | 8-4 | 7-5 | 1-6 | sat | | 10/9/2011 | 11-18 | 12-17 | 13-16 | 14-15 | | sun | 6 | 10/15/2011 | 15-16 | 14-17 | 13-18 | 12-2 | 11-3 | sat | | 10/16/2011 | 1-7 | 8-6 | 9-5 | 10-4 | | sun | 7 | 10/22/2011 | 16-17 | 1-8 | 9-7 | 10-6 | 11-5 | sat | | 10/23/2011 |...
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...1-16 (15 min.) Value chain and classification of costs, computer company. |Cost Item |Value Chain Business Function | |a. |Production | |b. |Distribution | |c. |Design | |d. |Research and Development | |e. |Customer Service or Marketing | |f. |Design (or Research and Development) | |g. |Marketing | |h. |Production | 1-17 (15 min.) Value chain and classification of costs, pharmaceutical company. |Cost Item |Value Chain Business Function | |a. |Design | |b. |Marketing | |c. |Customer Service | |d. |Research and Development | |e. ...
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...• Explain why managers are important to organizations • Tell who managers are and where they work • Describe the functions, roles, and skills of managers • Describe the factors that are reshaping and redefining the manager’s job • Explain the value of studying management Management, Eleventh Edition by Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter ©2012 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall 1-1 Why are Managers Important? ©2012 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall ©2012 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall 1-2 ©2012 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall 1-4 Who Are Managers? • Organizations need their managerial skills and abilities more than ever in these uncertain, complex, and chaotic times. • Managerial skills and abilities are critical in getting things done. • The quality of the employee/supervisor relationship is the most important variable in productivity and loyalty. Management, Eleventh Edition by Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter Management, Eleventh Edition by Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter 1-3 • Manager – Management, Eleventh Edition by Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter Classifying Managers Exhibit 1‐1: Levels of Management • First‐line Managers ‐ Individuals who manage the work of non‐managerial employees. • Middle Managers ‐ • Top Managers ‐ Individuals who are responsible for making organization‐wide decisions and establishing plans and goals that ...
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...Chapter 1 The Nature and Purpose of Accoun3ng McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2011. The McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. What Accoun0ng Does • Accoun3ng is a system that provides informa3on on: – Amounts of resources. – How resources were financed. – Results achieved by using resources. • For either: – Par3es inside or outside of organiza3on. – Profit and nonprofit organiza3ons. 1-2 Categories of Accoun0ng Informa0on • Opera3ng • Financial accoun3ng. • Management accoun3ng. • Tax accoun3ng. 1-3 Opera0ng Informa0on • Needed to conduct day‐to‐day ac3vi3es. • Largest quan3ty of accoun3ng data. • Examples: – Hours worked by employees. – Inventory on hand. – Amounts owed by customers. – Amount of money in bank. 1-4 Financial Accoun0ng Informa0on • For external users (investors) and managers. • Used by investors to make decisions to buy, sell, or hold shares of a company. • Annual report and its financial statements. – Common rules used so investors can compare with other companies’ financial statements. – No “tailor‐made” informa3on 1-5 Management Accoun0ng Informa0on • For internal users such as president, marke3ng manager, produc3on manager, etc. • Used for three management func3ons: – Planning. – Implementa3on. – Control. 1-6 Planning • Deciding what ac3ons should be taken. • Decision making involves: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Iden3fy problem or opportunity...
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...Kayla Leslie 2-1. Both teams could collaborate by working together instead of spending so much money working on two different projects. 2-3. Online communication is not face to face communication. You can’t see the other person’s face or their emotion, so you don’t know how they are taking your words or how they are feeding you theirs. 2-7. 1. Train workers on how to use equipment 2. Stay clutter- free 3. Provide document holders 4. Maintain a clear line of vision 5. Shut the drawer 2-15. a. it comes off as if they’re ready to get up or leave. b. it comes off as they are bored and are not paying attention. c. it comes off as if you are tired and don’t want to be there. d. it comes off as if you don’t care and have an attitude. e. it comes off as not being serious. 2-16. Hi Mr. Doe, this is Kayla Leslie. I just found out about the move of my office and i have very important meeting in my office Monday afternoon and I need to finish up some work Monday morning. With that move of my office it would be impossible to have everything done before my meeting. I was wonder if we could postpone the moving of my office. When you get this would you please call me at 555-0867 and discuss this in detail with me thank you. 2-17. Memo: Business Etiquette is an essential element of every aspect business communication. Due to the poor proper business etiquette that you performed at the...
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...than I would actually be willing to accept. I believe that everyone does this when they are going to be bargaining. I do this when I sell things online because I know that most people will try to bargain with me and instead of feeling like you are being rude and not going down on a price it makes the buyer feel like they are getting a better deal and that you are giving a little. It is probably not the moral thing to do because it is sort of like lying in a roundabout way. If I was willing to take a salary of $60,000/year I would probably start at $70,000 or $75,000. I don’t feel it would violate their transparency culture because they are asking you and they have no idea if the number you are giving them is your bottom dollar or not. 1-19 I think it would be something that I would check into and take into consideration for sure. Whenever I read something that is a bad review I feel the need to at least do a little more research. This could be an accusation that is not even true. Like with anything people can make up false accusations about a company just because they are mad because they were fired or not offered a job. 1-20 I think it would play a part in the decision of which company to use. I would rather work for a company that is open to benefiting society and to do things for the good of society. I would rather work for an ethical company than one that is not. In the long run if you work for the one that is part of CSR it will probably be a place that you could...
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...Does the United States present a Public Administrational model for the rest of the world for avoiding corruption? “Corruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effects on societies. It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violations of human rights, distorts markets, erodes the quality of human life, and allows organized crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to flourish. This evil phenomenon is found in all countries… but it is in the developing world that its effects are most destructive. Corruption hurts the poor disproportionately by diverting funds intended for development, undermining a Government’s ability to provide basic services, feeding inequality and injustice and discouraging foreign aid and investment. Corruption is a key element in economic under-performance and a major obstacle to poverty alleviation and development.” Koffi Anan, foreword, United Nations Convention against Corruption, 2003. When Democracy and central governance was formed in ancient Greece, it was for the very purpose of preventing the powerful few putting their needs above those of the masses they ruled – after all ‘Democracy’, stems from the Greek demos and kratia literally meaning the power of the people. For peoples familiar only with autocracies and hereditary monarchies, this was a radical notion. Why then, in some modern democracies, has the word government come to be almost synonymous with corruption? Corruption in government is...
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