...Don’t you just hate it when someone coughs up something nasty but doesn’t cover their mouth? Or lets off a really juicy sneeze that goes EVERYWHERE? No one wants to breathe that stuff in. Unfortunately, we all do. Schools are often hotbeds for bacteria, and we as the students touch those hotbeds everyday. Door handles, drinking fountains, keyboards, you name it. In fact, researchers from the University of Arizona found that the average desktop has 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. And it all came from snot nosed kids at school. Ask yourself this: how many times today have I washed my hands? Now ask yourself how many times the others students have washed their hands today. Try to imagine where the millions of billions of...
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...The Breakfast ClubFive teenagers who don't' know each other spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. At first they squirm, fret and pick on each other. Then after sampling some marijuana, a real encounter session gets underway. The stresses and strains of adolescence have turned their inner lives into a minefield of disappointment, anger and despair. The catalyst of the group is Bender (Judd Nelson), a rebellious working-class punk who seethes with rage and attacks his peers with sarcasm. A cigar burn on his arm is a sign of the abuse he receives at home. Andrew (Emilio Estevez) is a Varsity letterman in wrestling. He's spent most of his youth trying to measure up to his father's machismo image of him. This entails winning in athletic competition and preying upon weaker peers. He and Bender clash. Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) is an unhappy honors student who wishes he could be accepted as a person and not valued just as a brain. Upset over a poor grade in shop, Brian has contemplated suicide rather than live with the ire of his disappointed parents. Allison (Ally Sheedy) is the eccentric of the group. "My home life is unsatisfactory," she confides. Living in her own fantasy world, Allison can't really tell the difference between the truth and the lies she fabricates. These teenagers don't like or respect their parents very much. One asks: "My God, are we gonna be like our parents?" Another in the group replies: "When you grow up, your heart dies." But the...
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...Carnegie. “Regardless of my job description, as an engineer or member of company management, this book provided spiritual support when I faced difficult challenges in the business world.” Jim Sinegal, 73 CEO, Costco, Issaquah, Wash. Many retailers scrambled to raise prices this year amid rising costs. Not Sinegal. He held back price increases longer than his peers to gain market share for his membership-only chain. The move paid off: 87% of customers renewed in 2008, tying the company’s record. Great book: Getting Things Done by Edwin Bliss. He “talks about having martinis for lunch. But I reread it every couple of years to refresh myself on its basic wisdom. I bought 50 copies for my managers several years ago. It’s not a lot of egghead-type ideas or esoteric concepts. It’s just good common sense.” James Cayne Former...
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...Case Study: University of Auckland, New Zealand uses ADAM & IEC-61499 to test economic dispatch in distributed energy grids Market: Power & Energy Application: Smart Grid Research Product: ADAM-6600 Location: New Zealand Customer: University of Auckland Project Introduction Traditional electricity grids are pretty ‘dumb’, they continuously send out specific amounts of electricity until some engineers tweak that amount to meet the needs of the users. Smart grids, on the other hand are designed to monitor electrical supply and usage at any time, so they can adjust the creation and consumption of power, manage storage of surplus electricity, and so save energy, reduce waste and improve reliability of the power supply. If some of these functions are still in the future, researchers are already building smart grids in the laboratories. Advantech integrates the advanced technologies of industrial computing, networking, data acquisition and automation, and provides solutions to implement real time monitoring control and data analysis of power generation, transmission, storage and distribution. Advantech works with the traditional power generators, such as fossil fuels, nuclear and renewable energies such as hydro, as well as distributed energy sources like solar, wind, gen sets and geothermal which are often integrated into city grids. System Requirements At the University of Auckland in New Zealand, Professor Valeriy Vyatkin and his team set about trying to find a solution...
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...dependably be differences. Some of the time, what other individuals say may counterbalance you somehow. Regardless of whether their feeling isn't right or not, you must be the better indivisual and to take a stab at understanding their perspective and chiefly DON'T let other hold you binded down with a blocked attitude. Additionally, I feel like, a critical thing that I took in this semester was that I didn't think, "alright., I need to get no less than a B on this paper." Instead, I thought, "alright, I need to utilize this task to enhance my work." This is a much better approach since it makes the author endeavor to create a well written piece. Writing for a review regularly makes the essayist do just enough to get by. The article "Eggheads" by Katheryn Jean Lopez was a standout amongst the most educational article I have ever perused and I'm so thankful to Mr. Piercy that he acquainted us with this article. All through Lopez's article, she utilizes numerous explanatory systems keeping in mind the end goal to urge her perusers to concur with her contention, and in addition to educate them of the damage that is done to young ladies' bodies amid in-vitro preparation (IVF). With the utilization of emotion, ethos and logos, Lopez makes her contention somewhat simple to concur with. Lopez truly got into my feelings while clarifying that, "school young ladies are the ideal givers", since, who might not get passionate with realizing that young ladies are essentially deceived into...
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...It is understandable that a nation which for a century and a half had been preoccupied with its domestic affairs should seek to apply the pattern of these to international affairs. But the very success of the American experiment and the spontaneity of our social institutions have served to emphasize the dilemma faced at some stage by every country: how to reconcile its vision of itself with the vision of it as seen by others. To itself, a nation is an expression of justice, and the more spontaneous has been the growth of its social institutions the more this is true; for government functions effectively only when most citizens obey voluntarily, and they will obey to the extent that they consider the demands of their rulers just. But to other nations, a state is a force to be balanced. This is inevitable because national strategy must be planned on the basis of the other side’s capabilities and not merely a calculation of its intentions. There exists a double standard; therefore, in all foreign policy is justified like all other policy in terms of an absolute standard; but abroad, what is defined as justice domestically becomes a program to be compromised by negotiation. If the institutions and values of the states comprising the international order as sufficiently similar, this incommensurability may not become apparent. But in the revolutionary period like the present, it affects profoundly relationships among states. Foremost among the attitudes affecting our foreign...
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... Communication barriers are highrisk responses that is, responses whose impact on communications is frequently negative. These roadblocks are especially likely to be destructive when one or more of the persons are interacting under stress. Thomas Gordon (Parent Effectiveness Training, 1970, pp. 4147, 108117, and 32127) devised a comprehensive list that he calls the “dirty dozen” of communication spoilers. These undesirable responses include: I. JUDGING THE OTHER PERSON 1. Criticizing: Making a negative evaluation of the other person, his/her actions, or attitudes. “You brought it on yourselfyou’ve got nobody else to blame for the mess you are in.” 2. Namecalling: “Putting down” or stereotyping the other person. “What a dope?” “Just like a woman.” “ “Egghead. “ “You hardhats are all alike.” “You are just another insensitive male.” 3. Diagnosing: Analyzing why a person is behaving as he/she is; playing amateur psychiatrist. “I can read you like a bookyou are doing that to irritate me.” “Just because you went to college, you think you are better than I.” 4. Praising Evaluatively: Making a positive judgment of the other person, his/her actions, or attitudes “You are always such a good boy. I know you will help me with the lawn tonight.” Teacher to teenage student: “You are a great poet.” (Many people find it difficult to believe that some of the barriers like praise are highrisk responses.) II. SENDING SOLUTIONS – often compounds a problem or creates new ones without resolving the original dilemma...
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...Nature vs. Nurture vs. Tofu 2 Without conducting any research, I realize that I have never really thought about the subject of nature vs. nurture. By knowing a little of what the controversy is about, I am able to ask myself the right questions to complete my thoughts and come to a proper opinion. Usually I am an extremist by going with one side and not lingering with thoughts in the middle. However, this is a subject that does not deserve one end. By looking and observing those around me, many may notice that people share similar traits. Some traits are the result of nature and others are the result of nurture. There is no 50:50 ratio that is involved in the deciding factor of how much of each side contributes to the individuals we are today. Because biological factors and conformity are two different subjects, there is no scientific way to measure an accurate ratio of nature to nurture. Instead, I believe that each and every person is the product of 100 percent nature as well as 100 percent nurture. As my boyfriend and I are out to lunch, I throw my thoughts at him about nature vs. nurture and he makes me realize that tofu is a great example of both nature and nurture. He asks me how I am able to eat something so bland and tasteless. I tell him that tofu does have sort of a creamy nutty taste to it and is delicious plain uncooked. However, when tofu is cooked, it conforms to and picks up the flavor of the food or sauce that is being cooked with...
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...problems how the people in the wonderful town of Utopia solved their problems. One of his most unremitting problems was how kids in his school would never give a crap about their grades. I mean the surprising “2.0 grade point average for athletic participation is too high a bar for many kids here to cross”(Suskind 2). Too me this would be a huge problem because having to be around kids that don’t care about their grades would make it hard to do well in school. Even when you’re a kid from the hood that has a pedantry brain. I mean this kid is smart, but he just has to deal with problems that he shouldn’t have too. I mean Cedric would have to be very chary about his knowledge. He would have to because other kids would say “Nerd! Geek! Egghead! And the harshest, Whitey!”(Suskind 3). Down I the town of Utopia, many people would have a very different saying about how the education system would be run. Utopians say, “they may apply themselves wholly to study”(More 35-36). If they do not wish to pursue a great educated life, than they...
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...Compound Word List #1 A Compound Word is 2 words into 1 word. | | lifetime | elsewhere | upside | grandmother | cannot | baseball | fireworks | passport | together | become | became | sunflower | crosswalk | basketball | sweetmeat | superstructure | moonlight | football | railroad | rattlesnake | anybody | weatherman | throwback | skateboard | meantime | earthquake | everything | herein | sometimes | also | backward | schoolhouse | butterflies | upstream | nowhere | bypass | fireflies | because | somewhere | spearmint | something | another | somewhat | airport | anyone | today | himself | grasshopper | inside | themselves | playthings | footprints | therefore | uplift | supergiant | homemade | without | backbone | scapegoat | peppermint | | | Compound Word List # 2 | | eyeballs | longhouse | forget | afternoon | southwest | northeast | alongside | meanwhile | keyboard | whatever | blacksmith | diskdrive | herself | nobody | seashore | nearby | silversmith | watchmaker | subway | horseback | itself | headquarters | sandstone | limestone | underground | glassmaking | riverbanks | touchdown | honeymoon | bootstrap | toothpick | toothpaste | dishwasher | household | township | shadyside | popcorn | airplane | pickup | housekeeper | bookcase | babysitter | saucepan | lukewarm | bluefish | hamburger | honeydew | raincheck | thunderstorm | spokesperson | widespread | weekend | hometown | commonplace...
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...A Case Study on How to Manage the Theft of Information Robert M Polstra III Kennesaw State University 2004 Westwood Rd Smyrna, GA 30080 404-641-8937 rpolstra@hotmail.com ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION This paper shows the importance that management plays in the protection of information and in the planning to handle a security breach when a theft of information happens. Recent thefts of information that have hit major companies have caused concern. These thefts were caused by companies’ inability to determine risks associated with the protection of their data and these companies lack of planning to properly manage a security breach when it occurs. It is becoming necessary, if not mandatory, for organizations to perform ongoing risk analysis to protect their systems. Organizations need to realize that the theft of information is a management issue as well as a technology one, and that these recent security breaches were mainly caused by business decisions by management and not a lack of technology. After counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence, cyber crime is the third highest priority for the U.S. Federal Bureau [4]. With the rise of the theft of information and the lure of big profits for this stolen information, it is necessary for information systems to have the ability to protect this valuable asset. It is estimated that a credit card number unsupported by any other documentation is worth $10, and a credit history report retails for $60 [2]...
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...MBA Essentials Information Technology for Strategic, Competitive Advantage Virginia Franke Kleist, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of MIS/Management Welcome to the Technology Part of the Program • How are you using information technology (IT) today in your firms and businesses? • How successful has this been for your firm? • Do you have problems that are still unresolved with Information Technology? • Can IT give competitive advantage, anyway? • How can one identify which technologies will best give strategic advantage? MBA Essentials Session X Information Resources Management 2 Contact Information • • • • • • Virginia Franke Kleist, Ph.D. Virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu www.be.wvu.edu/divmim/mgmt/kleist 304-293-7939 I welcome your comments and contacts! Several drawings are adapted from Laudon and Laudon, (2005), Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, New Jersey: Prentice Hall (8th ed.). • Some material adapted from Burgelman, Christensen and Wheelwright, (2004), Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin (4th ed.). MBA Essentials Session X Information Resources Management 3 MBA Essentials Session X Information Resources Management 4 MBA Essentials Session X Information Resources Management 5 What will we learn? • Strategic advantage from information technology • Latest information technologies • How do you successfully select, implement...
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...OBSCURITY AS NOISE IN THE LITERARY CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION: THE WRITER AND THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY CALLER: Hello, can hear me? RECEIVER: Hello, who is on the line, Hello…Hello… Hello…I..I… can’t hear you, there is a whole lot of Noise where you are, please move away from that Place. CALLER: (Moves away from the noisy area) an you hear me Now? RECEIVER: (smiling) Yes!!! Immortality is the essence of existence, It is its soul. It is that which death fears. Immortality is that which transcends the ends. He gave it to he who would Live beyond the end. Nwokedi Nwa Nwokedi 19/5/06 You may be wondering if this is another reading of a dramatic text or a poetic rendition. It is neither of the two, it is simply the introduction to what you may for paucity of nomenclature, call an essay. For me this dialectic or polemic is a critical arousal aimed at arousing our scholastic consciousness so that we can reason together. My brothers and sisters in the ”Literary Evangelistic Mission Incorporated”, “come let us reason together”. Three issues shall be of principal concern and interest to us in this arousal of critical thinking. They are (1) Obscurity (2) Noise and (3) Immortality. It is within this triangle that we shall conduct our creative reasoning and “deliverance” session. Our sole aim being to decipher and bring to everybody’s attention, that which the writer must do for him and his work to cloth themselves...
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...TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS Reverse Logistics in the Supply Chain a report by James R Stock Professor of Marketing and Logistics, University of South Florida James R Stock is a professor of Marketing and Logistics at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He is the author or co-author of more than 90 publications in the area of logistics. His specialities are in the areas of reverse logistics and the marketing-logistics interface. Currently, Dr Stock serves as Editor of the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and is a frequent speaker and consultant on reverse logistics and other logistics topics throughout North America, Europe and Africa. In evaluating the importance of logistics within supply chains, many published ‘lists’ of logistics attributes have reverse logistics rated relatively low in importance. Such ratings are, however, misleading. Product quality, competitive prices, consistent order cycle times, ontime deliveries and low damage rates have traditionally been very important, and will continue to be so in the future. Today, they are the ‘price of admission’ to the competitive arena. Many competitors have reached parity on many of these important logistics attributes and they have become standard offerings of these companies and basic requirements of customers. Organisations not meeting standards on these attributes are usually not even considered in purchasing and/or outsourcing decisions. When a firm achieves acceptable...
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...A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word. Definition In English, words, particularly adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. And once they are formed, they sometimes metamorphose over time. A common pattern is that two words — fire fly, say — will be joined by a hyphen for a time — fire-fly — and then be joined into one word — firefly. In this respect, a language like German, in which words are happily and immediately linked one to the other, might seem to have an advantage. There is only one sure way to know how to spell compounds in English: use an authoritative dictionary. There are three forms of compound words: the closed form, in which the words are melded together, such as firefly, secondhand, softball, childlike, crosstown, redhead, keyboard, makeup, notebook; the hyphenated form, such as daughter-in-law, master-at-arms, over-the-counter, six-pack, six-year-old, mass-produced; and the open form, such as post office, real estate, middle class, full moon, half sister, attorney general. How a word modified by an adjective — "a little school," "the yellow butter" — is different from a compound word — " a high school," "thepeanut butter" — is a nice and philosophical question. It clearly has something to do with the degree to which the preceding word changes the essential character of the noun, the degree to which the modifier and the noun are inseparable. If you were diagramming a sentence with a...
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