...never got a chance to enjoy the hype and excitement. Oracle announced its tender offer takeover of PeopleSoft and Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, further announced that that the company would discontinue PeopleSoft products once the merger was complete (although product support for existing customers would continue). PeopleSoft faced significant challenges. The true intention of Oracle was unknown, and a personal conflict between the PeopleSoft and Oracle CEOs added complexity into the issue. The unwelcome tender offer cast a cloud of doubt upon PeopleSoft’s future and required that the board seriously consider Ellison’s offer. Challenges of the Tender Offer Since Oracle announced that they would discontinue development of PeopleSoft products if the acquisition went through, PeopleSoft’s customers, both existing and potential, became concerned about the ability to maintain a relationship with the company. With its future in question, PeopleSoft’s sales leads were allegedly being put on hold or...
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...Poison ivy is a plant known for causing severe inflammation of the skin, also known as contact dermatitis. The plant contains a sap which causes instant irritation if it comes in contact with skin. Poison ivy is native to North America, where it mainly grows in clusters on the edges of woodland-where there is sufficient sunlight for it to grow. The plant is characterized by clusters of three leaflets, which can range from light green to dark green, each growing on its own stem, connected to the main vine (Has No Thorns). At least 50 people who come into contact with these plants develop an itchy rash. You can develop a reaction to urushiol from direct contact, touching contaminated objects (Such as shoes after walking), even breathing in smoke...
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...World War One. Out of all the new weapons in World War One. Three of the most fatal were poison gas, aircrafts, and tanks. Poison gas was created by chemist Fritz Haber. This can be seen in the following quote. “During the war Haber threw his energies and those of his institute into further support for the German side. He developed a new weapon—poison gas, the first example of which was chlorine gas”...
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...Poison Pill Use in the Banking Industry Introduction The 1980s was an era of expansive mergers and acquisitions fueled by the popularity of corporate raids. Although this drastically changed the landscape ofmany industries, the banking industry was relatively untouched. Commercial banks were protected from hostile takeovers by federal regulations. The McFadden Act of 1927 and the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 supported the existence of 24,495 small banksl in 1985.However, by 2003 there were 11,021 small banks and 80 banks had adopted a poison pill plans (Critchfield, Davis, Davison, Gratton,Hanc, Samolyk, 2004). The Riegle Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994 was the catalyst of the rapid consolidation. Prior to this act, a commercial bank could only make acquisitions across state lines if state the bank was operating in and the state of the target allowed interstate banking. Riegle Neal removed state and federal restrictions on bank mergers creating rapid consolidation in the industry. During this period of deregulation, a growing number of banks adopted poison pill plans. A poison pill plan is a defensive measure adopted by a management team to protect a company from an unwanted takeover. Functionally, this measure releases additional shares of stock, at a discount, to shareholders of record when an unwanted acquirer achieves pre-specified stake in the company. This version...
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...inspiration to the town of Jefferson, but that wasn’t the truth about her as the story goes on. B. Emily is a victim of circumstances such as the pressure from the town and the status she had that led her into committing murder. I can relate to Emily in this case where you really love someone such that you contemplate about killing them or finding all possible means to keep them in your life. The future and its outcome at this moment she did not consider except fulfilling the desires of her heart and holding to the person her lover. C. Emily was insane. The insanity defense generally requires that, at the time of the offense, the defendant, as a result of severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate that his actions were wrong. Some classic example of mental illness are mental retardation or post-traumatic stress disorder, or even anti-social personality disorder. The defense requires a showing of severe mental disease or defect. This requirement prevents use of the insanity defense by those who have an immature personality or have displayed a pattern of anti-social behavior. The temporary insanity plea is associated with crimes of passion, but it still is used less than is commonly thought. Evidence 1 “Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894…” (Faulkner). Throughout the story Emily struggles with the loss of her father. Miss Emily struggled with a loss, her dad died and “She...
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...If Poison Gas Can Go, Why Not Nukes? Summary James Carroll’s “If Poison Gas Can Go, Why Not Nukes?” is a rally for readers to support the elimination of nuclear weapons from acceptable military arsenal just like poison gas was banned. The author believes that just like chemical weapons were developed, used successfully in war and eventually abandoned so will nuclear weapons. Carroll believes that nuclear weapons are dangerous and can be used for enormous destruction. The author builds his arguments from a historical perspective. At the beginning of the 20th century when scientists were experimenting with new weapon technology, “poisonous weapons” were developed (Carroll 1). The world reacted by outlawing these weapons through the Hague Convention in 1907. However, this did not stop countries from developing and using chemical weapons in war. Germany and Britain used asphyxiating gas in World War I. While there were less than 100,000 casualties fewer than the millions cause by conventional military weapons, the chemical weapons still cause great concern in Europe. The author identifies a group of people he terms as “realists”. They represent strong opposition against the banning of effective military weapons. The realists were opposed to the abolition of the use of military weapons in the 1900s and are also against the abandonment of nuclear armament. The realists’ main argument is that nowhere in history have effective weapons been abandoned because the ultimate...
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...Aspect of Human Experience 1 William Blake’s poem A Poison Tree, Anton Chekhov’s Misery and the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare all show us how individual experiences shape interpretations. Many people believe that things happened in the past should stay in the past - which they should be forgotten. But others believe that your past defines who you are today. They believe that past experiences shape your identity. Our experiences shape our views and our treatment of others. Misery demonstrates how the experience of the death of a loved one, in this case, a son, can change the way you view the world entirely. Iona was suffering from the loss of his son, and when he tried to get people to feel or share in what he was going through, his feelings of despair were heightened by the fact that no one seemed to care. In A Poison Tree, the narrator shows us two sides of a similar situation. There’s the good and bad. Your emotions can cause you to react in ways that you would not normally react. When someone you know does wrong to you or someone you know, being able to forgive them may be easier to forgive than to forgive a person that you do not know so well. In this poem, the narrator is angry with his friend and is able to speak to his conscience and resolve the issue. But when he gets angry with his foe, he is unable to forgive and forget so easily. His emotions get the best of him, and his anger leads to tragedy. The Tragedy of...
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...Bignay, Ashitaba and Guyabano leaves into herbal tea. Herbs are everywhere. They are available in a variety of forms; including fresh, dried, in tablets or capsules or in liquid form such as juice or tea. The leaves of Malunggay, Bignay, Ashitaba and Guyabano are abundantly found in the Philippines. The use of medicinal plants or herbs has been gaining popularity these past few years in the Philippines and worldwide as more clinical proof emerges that validates many of the age-old alternative medicines used by Filipino folks that have been passed on. The curative effects of the herbs were tested by traditional healers on their patient. The knowledge and skills on the curative application of any given herbal medicine has been handed down from generation to generation. In this study the researcher aims to produce Malunggay, Bignay, Ashitaba and Guyabano leaves into herbal tea. Background of the study Tea is known as the nature’s “wonder drug”. Tea is the second most widely consumed beverage in the world, exceeded only by the universal solvent – water. Tea is an integral part of everyday societal life in many of the world’s most populous countries. Ever wonder why the...
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...views Romeo’s peaceful actions as a sign of weakness and deliberately picks a fight with Tybalt. Furthermore, Mercutio calls Tybalt a “ratcatcher”, an nickname inspired by Tybalt’s infamous title, Prince of Cats. Despite the noble tone emitted from the original title, Mercutio degrades it, turning Tybalt’s title into an insult. Instead, he uses this insulting metaphor to further taunt Tybalt into fighting him. In the end, Mercutio did succeed in fighting Tybalt. However, the fight lead to the downfall of Mercutio. With the death of Mercutio, Romeo inevitably flies into sorrow-filled rage and kills Tybalt, resulting in Romeo’s banishment from Verona, separating the two newly-wedded lovers. Thus, with the support of metaphors, another stone had been paved into the path heading towards the lovers’...
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...Keep your child safe from poisoning Chemical poisoning is a major public health concern. Approximately 90% of all accidental or intentional poisonings are due to chemicals. Nearly 90% of these cases occur at home. The smallest children, infants and toddlers, are at the highest risk for accidental (acute) poisoning. In 2014, poison control centers received well over a million calls about poison exposures to children younger than age 6. (Ragab). Currently there are millions of natural and synthetic chemicals in our world. Approximately 3,000 of them are known to cause significant health problems. Accidental chemical poisoning involving common household or garden products is easy to diagnose and treat, as long as it is recognized early enough. On the other hand, poisoning due to daily exposure to chemicals is more difficult to diagnose and the extent of damage is more difficult to assess. Toxic chemicals can be found everywhere in homes, in the yard, at work, on the playground even in foods and drinking water. However, many chemical poisoning occur insidiously by the supposedly harmless chemicals that people bring into their homes. Home Safety for Infants The subject of this interview is Maria, a 24 year-old Hispanic woman. Maria has been married to 26 year old Hispanic men Hernandez for five years. They lived together with their three year old daughter (Liz). Maria finished her High School and thinking about going to college. But it is hard for her...
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...I was very pleasantly surprised by the novel Poison. I had expected the book to be like the other young adult dystopian novels that I have read recently, which I still enjoy, but it was very different. Poison is the first novel in the Wind Dancer series written by Lan Chan. It is the story of a 16 year old girl named Aurora Gray, and takes place in post-apocalyptic Australia where scientists known as the seeders have poisoned the plan and made it illegal to save any seeds for future use, in order to maintain control on the country. Aurora is what is known as a wind dancer, and when she was a child worked in the circus at the citadel as an aerialist. When Aurora was six, her mother was killed by the seeders for being a Wanderer, and six years...
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...[1] PeopleSoft was founded ten years after Oracle in 1987. Dave Duffield and Ken Morris created PeopleSoft to focus primarily on ERP software. As many IS technologies were beginning to show their age and a need for newer types of operations to compete with foreign firms emerging, PeopleSoft was looking for a way to create a profitable company. Both founders saw the opportunity of enterprise resource planning as a new technology which would take off in future years.[2] The takeover of PeopleSoft by Oracle was a long and complicated legal and public opinion battle. The takeover itself had several reasons but one was the most significant. To begin Oracle was increasingly finding it was in a market which was becoming more competitive. As technologies age and patents expire new firms are taking market share away from the dominant firms. As the newer more competitive firms began to succeed, Oracle began to see profit margins decrease. Oracle was being forced into a corner with few choices for successful operations in the future. The maturing market which it found itself a part of was not going to bring it the same level of...
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...Rebecca Walker Forensic Toxicology CRJ 311 Dawn George 4/22/2013 History Forensic science is defined as the application of science to the law. There are different types of forensic science, and each plays an integral part in the criminal justice system. Forensic biology usually involved DNA testing and its results. Forensic anthropologists examine human remains that have become skeletons in an attempt to determine how long the remains have been in a location and to try to determine a possible cause of death. Forensic toxicology falls into the category of forensic chemistry. Forensic toxicologists study toxins, drugs, poisons, alcohol, and other things found in the blood or tissues of crime victims or perpetrators. Forensic toxicologists study the blood and tissues of living people as well as deceased persons. The rapid advancement of technology in the last century and, in particular, the last three decades, has helped forensic scientists solve many crimes, even those that had been cold for decades. Technology is quickly changing and improving the methods by which crimes can be solved. The first evidence of scientific methods being used to identify people occurred in China in 700BC. Chinese artists used fingerprints to identify pieces of art they had produced. Of course, there was not computerized system to file or categorize these fingerprints. However, this is the first known instance of fingerprints being used for identification purposes. Clearly, things...
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...to take drastic action to secure himself to the throne. The only way he can do this is to kill his brother, King Mufasa and Simba. He accomplishes this by killing Mufasa and goes on to become the King of the Pride Lands and leader of the pack, thus “marrying” Simba’s mother, Sarobi. After the plan that Scar puts into action is completed, Scar finds his plan was only half successful; Simba survives. However, the clever, smooth talking uncle tricks the young and susceptible Simba into thinking that he is responsible for his father’s death. Similarly In Hamlet (which is also based upon the jealousy of a king’s brother, Claudius), Hamlet Senior is poisoned by Claudius, who then ascends to the throne and marries Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. The poison makes the king look like he died in his sleep naturally. Like the young Simba who is weak because of his young age, Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play is powerless...
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...the servants of two enemy families of Verona: the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo Montague is pining away for Rosaline, a girl we never see. Juliet Capulet, age thirteen, has just heard that Paris, Verona's attractive young bachelor, would like to marry her. The two will meet that night at a masquerade ball at the Capulets' house. Romeo and his friends have decided to crash the Capulet ball – in costume – because Rosaline is on the guest list. Romeo meets Juliet there instead, and they fall madly in love. Afterwards, they discover they are members of rival families, but they are still in love. Romeo stays after the party under Juliet's balcony, and the two use this romantic meeting to plan their marriage. Hasty, but genuine. Juliet hears from the Nurse that her new husband has murdered her cousin. She is doubly sad about the death and murder. Mostly Juliet just wants to see her banished husband. The Nurse finds Romeo hiding at Friar Laurence's, and the Friar hatches a plan. Romeo can spend his wedding night with Juliet, but then he must run away, while the Friar finds some way to get the Prince of Verona to pardon Romeo. The marriage will be...
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