...because without the goalie, the players on the opposite team can shoot the puck from all the way from the other side of the hockey rink and score with no effort. The players on both of the hockey teams have to wear a lot of padding because without the padding all Jupiter Ed https://login.jupitered.com/0/staff.php?sz=95fff6ea&user=619716 1 of 5 11/15/2017, 10:29 PM of the player can get seriously get injured. Some of the padding that the player has to wear is chest padding. The reason the hockey players have to wear chest padding is because if the hockey puck hits the player’s chest, the player can have a number of problems. One way the player can get hurt is a rib could break which can be painful and cost a player their career. Another thing that could happen to a player when they are hit on the chest they could be seriously hurt even worse. Some other padding that players have to wear is leg paddings. The knee is a complicated joint and if they break the knee or dislocate it, that could cost a player their career. It would take the player months to recover and...
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...What are clues to authenticity or lack of authenticity of information on the Internet? When looking for clues of authenticity you need to make sure you are checking the documentation and origin of the information. If there are signatures or seals, check the links for authenticity. See if you are able to contact the webmaster who is in charge of the site. Having dates on the paper which can include first written, when published, and when it is last revised. When checking the content makes sure the content is not biased and is factual. See if you can find motives like if the site is trying to inform or sell. When a websites have a lack of credibility there will be no authors listed on any of the information. A site is not put together neatly and has many grammar errors and misspellings are a sign of low credibility. A site with lack of credibility will have vague and basic information, and be very one-sided without acknowledging the other side. A website has a lack of authenticity when it has numbers and statistics but no proof. You cannot find no other site with same information. When checking sites remember that anyone can put just about anything on the internet. It is very important to check information on the internet to make sure it came from a reliable source. The best thing to do when checking for authenticity on the URL, see if it is connected to an affiliation. There will be sites with the information you are looking for you just need to be careful you don’t believe...
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...accounts are usually used to save money rather quickly for future uses. Savings accounts have higher interest rates than others. With college coming up, a savings account is a good option for me because education does not come at a cheap price. The money that I deposit would gain in value with the interest rates that coincide. A second bank account that I would open would be a checking account. Different than a savings account, a checking account is meant to be used on a daily basis and not really meant to save money like a savings account. With a checking account, I would be able to deposit and withdraw money at any time, depending on what I need it for. For example, if I want to make smaller purchases, I would withdraw money out of my checking account to pay for the item. In addition, another benefit of a checking account is that i would be able to access ATM's and have a debit card. In case of cash shortage, I could go to a nearby ATM and withdraw the money that I need. With a debit card, it is like having the physical money in your hands, but rather just carrying a piece of plastic than the real thing. When one uses a debit card, the money is immediately taken out of their account, The benefit of this is that when you make a purchase and use the card, you quickly know if money...
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...Else If input = 2 Then call Fall module Else If input = 3 Then call Winter module Else If input = 4 Then call Storm module Else If input = 5 Then call Monthly module End If Spring module: Write “You have selected to view the Sping checklist of your home maintenance.” Write “These are the things you need to check for listed below:” Jobs Write “What jobs did you complete?” Input Job Write “Congratulations! You have completed checking the “ + Jobs + Date + “ Make sure you check that job again next spring.” Fall module: Write “You have selected to view the Fall checklist of your home maintenance.” Write “These are the things you need to check for listed below:” Jobs Write “What jobs did you complete?” Input Job Write “Congratulations! You have completed checking the “ + Jobs + Date + “ Make sure you check that job again next fall.” Winter module: Write “You have selected the tasks that needed to be checked during the Winter. Lucky you the only thing that you need to check in the winter is Icicles, And ice dams.” Write “Congratulations! You do not have to worry about this until next winter.” Storm module: Write “You have selected to view the checklist...
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...1. What is the role of offline and online advertising in acquiring checking account customers for the bank? Building brand awareness, gaining trust, and improving consideration among potential bank customers for opening new checking accounts is the role of offline and online advertising in acquiring checking account customers. Another role that offline and online advertising plays in acquiring checking account customers for the bank is by being a gateway for other lines of businesses within the banks entity. As a way to maximize the global awareness of the BBVA brand, they adopted the trade name BBVA Compass in 2009. Awareness for the new name dropped below 50%, to 48% in 2009 and the goal in 2010 was to raise brand awareness to 53%. BBVA sought to achieve this through stimulating both online and offline advertising in order to further build its online brand awareness and acquire new customers for different lines of the business. Offline advertisement covers sponsorships such as the multiyear deal with the NBA that would make it the official bank for the NBA, WNBA, and the NBA Development League in the United States, Spain, and Puerto Rico. Other huge sponsorship deals are Spain’s top professional soccer league and a major college football event. BBVA Compass uses both search and display advertising, generally accompanied by a promotional offer to encourage customers to open a new checking account. Offers included an iPod Nano or iPod Touch, 5% cash back...
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...“failure” you feel depressed or you could define it as “lesson learnt” you feel empowered to learn more. To have strong critical thinking skills you must have strong cognitive and problem solving skills base. The critical thinking process can be very daunting. There are steps in which one takes to get to a conclusion. In the critical thinking process, the steps are as follows remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluations and creating. The process of using these six steps can be applied by processes using attitude checking, logic checking and checking the evidence. Checking your attitude helps to keep an open mind and the ability to see others point of view. In checking logic, it can help you with making assumptions about the situation. Finally checking the evidence will help to find proof while asking in-depth questions to find evidence. We find ourselves making decisions on a daily basis. We learn to evaluate things everyday. Most of our skills are learnt at a young age and can even be mirrors of what our parent’s skills and ethics are. My blind spot, according to the Ethical Lens Inventory, is being satisfied with too little good, which means that sometimes I fail to be accountable to those who are depending on me, when I exercise free will. My preferred ethical lenses are I listen to my intuition (sensibility) to determine the greatest good for each individual (autonomy) and character traits and virtues that will best...
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...graduated from college with Business Administration degrees. They both decided that they wanted to do something with the knowledge that they have in business. Lisa and Ruben decided that they love music and decided to open a night club. This club is for the public to come and enjoy music, dancing, and dinning. Lisa and Ruben need to make some changes in their company. They are doing well but they can use improvements in the company. Lisa and Ruben want to become more successful within their business and decided to hire me as an intern to oversee what is needed to make their business see more profits and become successful and open a second club in the future. Lisa, Ruben and I have sat down for a meeting and I have advised them of certain things that I have seen that need to be done to help the business run the best it can. I know if we change some of the office items that Lisa and Ruben can have a successful business. The first items that I have advised Lisa and Ruben that the dial up connection is to slow for what they want to do. They want to start ordering online from his vendors, distributors, and all the supply chains needed to run the business. With a dialup connection it is the slowest connection there is. Dialup connections will not load the web-site as fast as needed. It takes longer to open and download attachments needed for the ordering process. The software on the computers is old and needs to be updated with new technology and newer software to work faster than...
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...How to prepare for the RTI Online Download the HipChat (Chat Tool) link to application. Preview what we will be testing. The RTI is a simulation of a real testing project. To make it as real as possible, we will be testing FocusWriter. You will need to download the product BEFORE CLASS. For Windows, it MUST be downloaded from the link below, since its special for this class. For Windows: Download from this link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8412433/FocusWriter_1.4.4.RTIO.zip Extract the files to another directory and it should be ready to go. Run Focuswriter.exe to start it. Optional test tools for Windows environment: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8412433/rti-tools.zip For Macintosh: Download from this link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8412433/FocusWriter_1.4.4.dmg Install and run normally. If you want documentation (what little there is), source code, or the Linux version, the main website for FocusWriter is here: http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ Feel free to get familiar with this product prior to the event. Verify that this appears to run on your system. If it does NOT work well enough so that you can experience its basic features OR if your company doesn't allow you to install anything on your system, here's the backup plan: Backup Plan: If you can't use FocusWriter for some reason, choose any simple text editor you have on your computer and test that instead. But try to get FocusWriter working, first, and let us know if you can't. ...
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...Introduction to Management: Unit 8 Assignment • • Explain which of the eight steps from “Sherman’s Eight Steps towards Integrity” apply to Dalman and the Location Manager in this particular situation and why. • The Eight Steps toward Integrity include: doing what we say we will do, doing the right thing, taking responsibility, supporting our own weight, holistic thinking, checking the mirror, defining the rules and values. The first step is doing what we say we will do which “includes keeping promises and meeting deadlines… —and often, tough negotiation—prior to making commitments.” (Stratford Sherman). Doing the right thing includes being aware of what’s right and performing the right actions. This also includes accepting the consequences. Taking responsibility is simply taking responsibility for your actions. Supporting your own weight “means functioning as a whole.” (Stratford Sherman). Holistic thinking is “an appreciation of wholeness in the world supports its practice.” (Stratford Sherman). Checking the mirror is taking the time to do an honest review of you or as Sherman said pause for reflection. Defining the rules and values is simply rules about the basics that can be applied to almost anything from couples to organizations. The new laws that Sandwich Blitz is in violation with needs to be corrected. The enclosure that houses the trash dumpster is five feet from the property line. The government inspector has told the unit manager...
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...too checking my Facebook and email for twenty minutes. At 6:30pm I was on my laptop doing homework for about two hours and I was also on my phone for about twenty minutes playing a game. At 10:00pm I got on my phone for about 30 minutes checking my Facebook and playing a game before bed. Saturday January 23, 2016 woke up checked my Facebook and email for about thirty minutes before getting up from bed. At 1:30 pm watched an episode on TV for thirty minutes at 2:15 pm I checked my snapchat for ten minutes on my phone. At 5:00pm watched a movie that was an hour and fifty minutes long. At 8:00pm got on my laptop for an hour and a half to work on homework. At 10:00pm watched TV for about an hour went to bed at midnight and was on my phone playing a game for about twenty minutes. Sunday January 24, 2016 woke up at 10:30 got on my phone to check my Facebook for ten minutes before I got up from bed. At 11:00am watched TV for an hour and on my phone for fifteen minutes playing a game. At 1:00 pm got on my laptop to do homework for an hour. At 2:00pm watched TV for an hour and on my phone for 20 minutes on my Pinterest app. At 4:15pm got on my phone to check my Facebook for ten minutes. At 5:30pm got on my laptop to do homework for an hour and a half. At 8:00pm got on my phone to play a game for about twenty minutes. At 11:00pm got on my phone for about twenty minutes to check my Facebook and email before bed. Monday January 25, 2016 woke up 9:20am and spent fifteen minutes checking my...
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...IT106-1201A-05 Introduction to Programming Logic Phase 3 Discussion Board By Norman L Moffatt Jr Date 1/25/12 In this discussion board we are given a problem that is the billing department for the bank has asked for your team’s help. They want to develop a program that will determine the monthly charges for checking accounts. The following criteria are to be used: Balance > = 100.00 will not be charged fees Balance < 100.00 will be charged $9.95 monthly fee The first thing I would do is look at different steps to us to get to the desired answer. After I have figured them out I would write them in order. These steps I am writing down are called an algorithm. Now I had to pick the best algorithm style to use there are three While loop, Do while loop and For loop. I picked For loop due to this is going to be done for 12 months which gives me a set amount. The algorithm in pseudo code steps are START INITIALIZE CONTROL VARIABLE (Checking account Balance) LOGICAL PROCESS (CHECKING BALANCE GREATER > = TO 100) TRUE (DO NOTHING) FALSE (MINUS 9.95 FROM CHECKING ACCOUNT) PRINT NEW BALANCE (YOU ONLY SEE THIS FOR FALSE STATEMENTS) END The flowchart for this discussion we are still using a For flowchart. To do this I first need to identify the symbols I will us. In flowcharts there are a variety of symbols that are used with various operations. The first symbol I used is the one that means start and end. The second symbol I would...
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...Commons in checking government power.' Discuss. (40) The House of Commons and the House of Lords both check government power and together they form our dual chamber system. They both share the task of making and shaping laws and checking and challenging the work of the government but have different features which has led to debate as to which is the most effective. With the reforms to the House of Lords being a much discussed issue recently, debate as to which chamber is more effective has been heightened further. The House of Lords are appointed based on their expertise. You could argue that this makes them more effective at checking government power because they each specialise in certain areas and posses large amounts of knowledge on certain aspects that would allow them to hold government to account. For example, one lord may be a former Prime Minister whilst one may specialise in business. This knowledge and expertise could be seen as making the House of Lords more well rounded and therefore more effective than the House of Commons in checking government power. This is because in the House of Commons they could be elected for reasons other than their expertise, for example, if a party holds a safe seat then the skill set of their MP might not even be taken into consideration by citizens who are just voting for the party. However, some people may say that because 26 of the most senior bishops are in the House of Lords, that it reduces their effectiveness in checking government...
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...Girls lacrosse is a very competitive sport. Many rules, enthusiastic athletes, and college scouts are constantly looking. With all of the restrictions, there are numerous punishments, and there are many things that women prefer differently. First and foremost, there are some restrictions in the game that are somewhat aggravating when attempting to get the ball. No checking from behind, no cross-body checking, no upward checking, no entering the sphere, no pushing forward or backward, no hitting with a stick, no slashing, and no checking in the head. These are simply the physical defensive rules; there are many more that apply while on the field. Girls are required to wear goggles and a mouthguard, and no jewelry is permitted. Goalies wear shin guards, gloves, a chest protector,...
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...thoughts on multi-tasking before this course was that it was alright depending on what you were doing. I use to have a job in the military where you had to multi-task. I was checking people in and out of the barracks, running reports, answering phones, and answering questions. I had to use divided attention quite often. When I was by myself I thought I handled myself well but when someone was working with me there tended to be quite a few less mistakes. Sometimes multi-tasking is necessary but try to avoid it whenever at work or school. If I had the time I would always check my work for errors. I am not a very good at multi-tasking because I get distracted very easily. When I study for an exam I have to have focused awareness. " In this state, we are wide awake, fully alert, and completely engrossed in the task at hand" (Nevid, 2015). Usually when I am driving I am listening to music or thinking about what I am going to do next or planning for something in the future. I occasionally eat while I am driving which has almost led to a couple of accidents. I try to keep all my focus on driving and not get distracted behind the wheel. The only thing I really do now is talk to God. If it is dangerous I have been able to keep my focus on task. One of my most distracting things is face book. I check it everywhere. I am checking it right now as I am writing this. I am really hooked and have to work on it because at times it consumes my life. After completing the activity my findings are exactly...
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...As far back as I can remember we have been using technology to make everyday things easier. Younger people nowadays might find it hard to believe that there was once a time where we didn’t rely on technology to do everything for us. As time went on, the use and implementation of technology became more and more relevant. Today, we use technology for everything from checking up on their social media, to paying bills and running businesses. Technology has made it possible for anyone to find anything they need or get anything they want with little to no effort being put into it. While it may seem like that is a good thing to be able to do all of these things from some device or computer, there is also a side to it that everyone seems to let pass over their heads… how complicated everything has become. In the world we live in today, the use of technology has become almost as required as the need for breathing air. Just think about how many times a day we as a whole go around checking for changes on Facebook, or looking down to your phone for a text message, or even tweeting about everything you have done that day. Today, people use technology for everything from banking, schooling, to paying bills, and even running businesses from the very phone you can take a payment from a customer. Some people might say that this isn’t a big deal, but think about it. What if something happened and all technology went out around the word. What would we...
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