...Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Repeal or Not Repeal Up to now, the White House has focused on an aggressive effort to socialize our economy through the bailout of the auto industry, institution of the cap-and-trade system, various stimulus and bailout programs, and a takeover of the healthcare sector. (Bedey) Although these topics are still relevant, recently the motion to repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” has become one of the most talked about subjects. Before we get into debate, one must know the basic principles of the policy and its history of origin. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue, Don’t Harass” (DADTDPDH or DADT for short) is a ban on lesbians, gays and bisexuals serving in the military. DADT is the only law in the United States that authorizes the firing of an American for being gay. There is no other federal, state, or local law like it. DADT is the only law that punishes lesbians, gays and bisexuals for coming out. Many Americans view DADT as a simple agreement with discretion as the key to job security. While this is true to some extent, in the eyes of a homosexual service member, it may not be so simple. An honest statement of one’s sexual orientation to anyone, anywhere, at anytime will lead to being fired. (Service Members Legal Defense Network) DADT was the result of a failed effort by President Clinton to end the ban on gays in the military. The bill was a result of the brutal 1992 murder of Seaman Allen Shindler. Bill Clinton, a candidate at the time, proposed...
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...decided by this system. Under this process, if you cast your vote for the president, you also vote for an often un-named elector who will cast a ballot in a separate election that eventually chooses the president. The main pros and cons in the debate about whether to keep or abolish the current Electoral College process. There are certain pros and cons in the debate about whether to keep or abolish the current Electoral College process. For instance, the Electoral College has hampered the democracy of United States in a manner inconsistent with current American practices. Taking for example, all voters are not given equal opportunities under the Electoral College (Bates, 2004). Even though the Electoral College inflates the victories of the winners, such as establishing their legitimacy, these victories do not give presidents liberated ride in Congress, where their party may be in the minority or the politicians may not think that Electoral College landslide should be treated the same as a genuine popular majority landslide (Yale University Press, 2004). Taking for example, President Ronald Reagan won an Electoral College landslide in 1980 and faced substantial resistance from the Democratic House of Representatives in his term. However, the main pro for not abolishing the current Electoral College process is that it enhances an opportunity for fair voting and choosing leaders. For example, results of the most votes are not guaranteed to stand because the presidential election...
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...Author | Title | Summary | Genre | Date | Pre/Con | A | ----------- | Obama Administration Blast House Vote Against DREANers, Vows It Will Not Become Law | The White House make a decision on what they want to do and how was the dreamer’s reaction about the white house and the democrat’s decision. | Fox News Latino | June 07,2013 | Con | B | Daniel González | More ´More Dreamers’ risk arrest, deportation to help cause. | Some Dreamers from Arizona went out with posters and with candles because they want a final decision but some of them end up deport back from where they were born. | Internet Article | August 26,2013 | Pro | C | ------------ | Dreamers dejan de tener ´fe´ en la reforma migratoria. | In this Article the dreamer longer have faith on immigration reform and they are given us the information when they came here and why. | Internet Article | September 17,2013 | Pro | D | ------------ | Dreamers stop deportation bus in ongoing escalation at Ice Facility in Phoenix | Phoenix Report some dreamers case because a group of them want to pray for a hope and start founding money for the immigration law. | United We Dream / Internet Article | September 21, 2013 | Pro | E | Lauren Fox | GOP Dream Act Not Enough For Dreamers | Basically in this article can tell what the dreamers want, why they want etc… They just want the American dream like every American and work and have a better life. | U.S News | July 22, 2013 | Pro | F | Mike Keefe | The Denner Post | There...
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...Should minimum wage increase? “The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise,” says Jim Clyburn. The argument that has continued for years is whether the American federal government should increase the minimum? The two opposing sides on this argument are the Republicans and the Democrats. The Democrats are for minimum wage to increase, unlike the Republicans, who are against it and think of it as a job killer. There are many reasons why the Democrats are for the increase of minimum wage. Currently, there are approximately 3.8 million people who are working at minimum wage or below it. Fewer than one in four minimum wage workers are teenagers and more than half are 25 or older. (Dickinson) If minimum wage were raised to $10.10 it would trim payrolls by less than one-third of one percent, which would help approximately one million Americans out of poverty. It has been proven by the Congressional Budget Office that the raise will not affect the number of jobs as much as people think, and the increase will accomplish more than just harmful situations. There should have been a consistent raise in minimum wage from 1968 to now, but there has not been. The federal government minimum wage should be close to $20 an hour. Tax money could potentially fund less food stamps, welfare, and other financial support for this to occur. A family of four trying to be successful and build their family is living on the earnings of being...
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...What is the format of an IP address? 1. 4 bytes 2. First 2 – network address 3. Second 2 – host address How is an IP address associated with a device on a network? 1. IP address specifically or automatically assigned 2. Each device has own private IP address What is the difference between a public IP address and a private IP address? 1. Public – dynamic (changes each time device connects to internet) or static (doesn’t change because used for hosting web pages or services) 2. Private – assigned on LANs (automatically or chosen by LAN administrator) and are static; able to change, but rarely. What are a URL, IP address, and a DNS? Why are they important? 1. URL – web address typed into a browser 2. IP address – series of numbers that tells computer where to find information 3. DNS (Domain Name System) – collection of domain names; translates a URL into an IP address 4. Every URL has an IP address; IP addresses were too complicated and were shortened by URLs What happens when a user types in the IP address of a website rather than its URL? 1. Web page at the IP address shows up on browser Explain how a URL is used to locate a resource on the WWW and the role of the Domain Name Service 1. A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the web address a user types into a browser to reach a website 2. DNS translates URL to an IP address to take user to desired site What is streaming? Explain real-time and on-demand? 1. Streaming...
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...Yolanda Johnson HCA-255 February 21st, 2014 Prof: Deborah Conway Health Reform Why the Clinton Health Reform Plan never passed in the 1990”s Possibly the Clinton organization's utmost error was unwarranted determination. The strategy struggled instantaneously to protect worldwide insurance coverage, controlling the isolated coverage market, changing health care funding through a company requirement, regulate prices to planes imposed by a nationwide health panel, and change the provision system through managed care. In the least any one of these ideas alone was going to be difficult to achieve, and even though there is a practical validation for taking all of them on at one time, it would prove to be an administrative double-crossing task. Without a doubt, each element of the Clinton plan stimulated conflict (Joanathan Oberlander, 2007). The National Federation of Independent Business strongly was against the business obligation. The Health Insurance Association of America struggled against coverage guidelines and federally enforced price controls. Congressional Republicans criticized the whole design, including the health agreements, as being too much “big government.” The organization's hold on to the proficient opposition of health care system change separate well-insured, middle-class Americans (Joanathan Oberlander, 2007). The Clinton organization both overestimated the opposition and misjudged the support for reform. The organization did not organize any planned constituency...
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...Currently, my favorite candidates are Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. Each of these candidates is preferred by a different broadcasting network; Carson being NBC, Trump being ABC, Fiorina being CNN, Cruz being FOX News, and Rubio being NBC. Each candidate has their pros and cons. These come into effect during debates, and more importantly, the final election. I will start with my favorite, Ben Carson. There is a tremendously reliable level of enthusiasm from grassroots conservatives for Dr. Ben Carson, the sort that Mitt Romney would have loved to buy in 2012. He's notable and lends credibility to the healthcare debate. He is additionally one who failed to position himself for a run, and the likelihood has organically evolved. He additionally has no drawback connecting with devout voters, a tremendous obstacle of the GOP candidates in each 2008 and 2012. He has never run a political crusade or been a candidate for place of business, so it is rough to say how he would participate in, though predominant debates would style that out. Without a legislative...
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...Case Study THE ROCCOCO NEW YORK HOTEL 1- Identify the symptoms -Clients’ complaints (low satisfaction rate, service standards don’t meet expectations) -Service standards don’t meet expectations -High managerial turnover -Unqualified employees -Unfavourable financial situation (budget cuts, unachieved revenue goals) -Low occupancy (especially on weekends) -Decline of the repeat customer base (- 10% in the past few years) -Average Daily Rate : wide price differencials for guests -GOP about 2 to 4% points below the average 2- Identify & Analyse the problems : * Service Room service, waiting tome too long Reception : check-in time 6pm (too late) Wake up call forgotten * Personnel Lack of clear explanations of hotel policies, and procedures Poor relation between managers & employees, due to the high management turnover No special personnel training program Inefficient orientation process (Follow Mary Around Approach) No power to react -Managers Management can’t find an agreement on the overall policy Sylvia Jenkins’ management of doing everything by her own (no delegation of duties) Lack of confus from the Front Office Manager - Customers Service is not adequate to high-class positioning of the hotel Service doesn’t meet client’s perceprtions concerning the high-class hotel (especially Asian market) 3- Develop alternative solutions -Do nothing -Implement a well...
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...The idea of net neutrality has been around since the invention of the telegram and telephone system. This idea of neutrality led to the passage of the Communications Act of 1934 which regulates telecommunications by prohibiting preferential treatment and unfair consumer costs (The Communications Act of 1934). However, the term “net neutrality” as it pertains to the internet was first used by Tim Wu in 2003 in his article “Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination” (Wu, 2003). In March of 2005, the concept became more well known when the internet service provider (ISP) Madison River Communications was caught blocking all of its subscribers from using a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service called Vonage. The company blocked this service because their own telecommunications service was competing against Vonage’s lower prices, made possible by utilizing customers’ internet connections instead of telephone lines (Ante & Crockett, 2005). Vonage made a complaint to the FCC, and Madison River Communications had to pay a $15,000 fine (Regan, 2005). Later in 2005, the FCC released an internet policy statement, which outlined support for an early version of net neutrality. This statement was meant to “encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet” by adopting the following principles: • allowing consumers access to the lawful internet content of their choice, • allowing consumers access to run applications...
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...CÔNG TY CỔ PHẦN CHỨNG KHOÁN NHẤP VÀ GỌI Giấy phép số 61/UBCK-GPHDKD cấp ngày 05/09/2007 BÁO CÁO THƯỜNG NIÊN NĂM BÁO CÁO 2009 CÔNG TY CỔ PHÀN CHỨNG KHOÁN NHẤP & GỌI BÁO CÁO THƯỜNG NIÊN 2009 NỘI DUNG Lịch sử hoạt động của Công ty Báo cáo của Hội đồng Quản trị Báo cáo của Ban Giám đốc Báo cáo Tài chính Giải trình Báo cáoTài chính Tổ chức và nhân sự Thông tin cổ đông/ Thành viên góp vốn và Quản trị công ty 1 Báo cáo thường niên 2009 – Công ty cổ phần chứng khoán Nhấp&Gọi I. 1.1. LỊCH SỬ HOẠT ĐỘNG CỦA CÔNG TY Những sự kiện quan trọng 1.1.1 Giới thiệu chung về công ty: - Tên giao dịch tiếng Việt - Tên giao dịch tiếng Anh - Tên viết tắt - Lô gô: : : : CÔNG TY CỔ PHẦN CHỨNG KHOÁN NHẤP&GỌI CLICK&PHONE SECURITIES JOINT STOCK COMPANY CLIFONE - Trụ sở chính : D17, Làng Quốc tế Thăng Long, Phường Dịch Vọng, Cầu Giấy, Hà nội - Điện thoại - Email - Website - Vốn điều lệ : (84)-4-37930880 Fax : (84)-4-37930580 : csc@clifone.com.vn : www.clifone.com.vn : 135.000.000.000 đồng (Một trăm ba mươi lăm tỷ đồng) - Giấy CNĐKKD/Giấy phép hoạt động kinh doanh chứng khoán: Số 61/UBCK-GPHDKD do UBCKNN cấp ngày 05/09/2007. Nghiệp vụ kinh doanh Môi giới chứng khoán Lưu ký chứng khoán Tự doanh chứng khoán Tư vấn đầu tư chứng khoán, tư vấn tài chính và các dịch vụ tài chính khác 2 Báo cáo thường niên 2009 – Công ty cổ phần chứng khoán Nhấp&Gọi 1.1.2 Quá trình hình thành và phát triển: - Ngày 30/07/2009: Thành lập Trung Tâm Dịch vụ khách hàng...
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...Govt-2301-WS3 What makes us so different? Understanding Political Ideology through Partisanship People today think that it doesn’t matter how you vote, the outcome will always be the same because the Democratic and GOP parties are run by corporations. Some think that in order to break away from the special interests and influences, there should be a strong third party and that party with a different platform is the Libertarian Party. Historically the main two parties were not much different. In the beginning both parties believed that “men (not big government) was to rule them” (The Fundamental Differences Between Republican and Democrats). There was a mutual desire for individual freedom. Currently it seems that their fundamental beliefs have changed. The Democratic Party wants to increase government involvement in the lives of the American public, whereas the Republicans would like to see decreased national government and have each state govern themselves (The Fundamental Differences Between Republican and Democrats). The Libertarians seem to want to get back to what the founding fathers envisioned. Each party has very strong convictions on the topics that confront America today. The hottest topic facing the nation is Same Sex Marriage. Since the beginning the Democrats have defended Civil Rights and supported the expansion of opportunities for all. They fight to end all forms of discrimination, but this is an uphill battle. “We support marriage equality...
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...North C arolin a Polic y Wa t c h Cru cial Co nv ersa tion The Trans-Pa cific Partnership: Worse than NAFTA? Septemb er 2013 Lori Walla ch Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Outcomes of 20 Ye ars of NAFTA, WTO, FTAs… Crushing of Americ an Middle Class: more than 5 million US manufa cturing jobs (1 out of 4) & 60,000 US manufa cturing fa cilities gone. Millions of service sector jobs offshored: c all centers, computer, programming, engineering, a cc ounting. Wage “arbitrage” in a ra ce- to-the- bottom. U.S. re al median wages at ‘70s levels. Income inequality at Robb er-Baron-era levels. When manufa cturing, good jobs go tax bases shrink – and schools, public services, infrastructure cut, and construction sector unemployment soars. Floods of unsafe imported food, products. Financial deregulation, instability and repe ated financial crises. He alth, labor, land use, other public interest laws around world atta cked in foreign tribunals. Some dump ed. Initiatives chilled. Billions extra cted from taxpayers and paid to corporations for violations of new “rights.” Drug prices up. In poor nations, de adly cut in a cce ss to meds. Rich nation higher prices slam poor consumers, govt budg ets as Big PhRMA profits soar. U.S. loses 170,000 family farms. In ‘12, volume of U.S. food exports only 1% higher than ’95 (when NAFTA-WTO started). Imports of food now 97% above ‘95 level. Livelihoods of tens of millions of pe asant farmers destroyed, mass migrations...
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...Khám phá các tính năng mới trên Mac OS X Lion - Thông tin công nghệ 5/03/11 11:29 AM Giới thiệu đăng nhập | đăng kí Bài viết Diễn đàn Hỏi đáp Blog Góp ý ⌂ Công nghệ thông tin Bảo mật Công cụ phát triển Viễn thông Di động Máy tính Hệ điều hành Phần mềm Tiện ích Thiết bị số Web và ứng dụng Điện thoại Điện tử Đồ họa Game Khoa học Tìm kiếm Đa phương tiện Ứng dụng văn phòng Khám phá các tính năng mới trên Mac OS X Lion Gửi vào 28/2/2011 - 16:35 Thông tin tác giả Nguyễn Nam Bài viết: 155 Bình luận: 5 Ngày gia nhập: 02/12/2009 Xem hồ sơ Gửi thông điệp Mac OS X Lion có giao diện mới, có thể chạy ứng dụng full màn hình và hỗ trợ nhiều cử chỉ vuốt, chạm, phóng to thu nhỏ tài liệu thông qua touchpad như iPhone hay iPad. Lần đầu tiên được công bố vào tháng 10/2010, hệ điều hành tiếp theo của Apple, Mac OS X Lion hứa hẹn sẽ bắt đầu đến tay người dùng vào mùa hè năm nay. Tuy nhiên, ngay từ bây giờ, một số tính năng mới hay giao diện hệ điều hành này đã xuất hiện nhờ vào bộ công cụ và phiên bản thử nghiệm dành cho các nhà phát triển của Apple. Phiên bản thử nghiệm còn gặp một số lỗi như hay "treo", touchpad hoạt động không ổn định và chạy chậm hơn so với mong đợi nhưng ở thời điểm hiện tại vẫn là đủ chấp nhận được cho nhiều người muốn khám phá hệ điều hành này. Dưới đây là một số nét mới Microfinance Empowers Join us in enabling the poorest of the poor to improve their own lives Giao diện Aqua Thanh cuộn tự...
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...contents Vision/Mission/Core Values Notice of 54th Annual General Meeting Corporate Pro le Board of Directors’ Pro le Board of Directors’ Committees Directors’ Report Attendance of Directors Review Report on Statement of Compliance Statement of Compliance Pattern of Shareholding Categories of Shareholders Six-Year Summary Auditors’ Report to the Members on Unconsolidated Financial Statements Unconsolidated Financial Statements Auditors’ Report to the Members on Consolidated Financial Statements Consolidated Financial Statements Form of Proxy 93 95 35 37 02 04 06 07 14 16 25 26 27 29 31 32 committed to By enforcing excellent service, security and comfort PIA takes the time to nurture trust within its flyers. It is this very reason today that PIA is Pakistan’s favourite airline success annual general meeting Notice is hereby given that 54th Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of Pakistan International Airlines Corporation will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Pearl Continental Hotel, Club Road, Karachi to transact the following business: 1. 2. 3. To receive and adopt the Audited Accounts for the Financial Year ended December 31, 2010 together with the Auditors’ and Directors’ Reports. To elect two Directors against vacancies as required under Sections 6 and 7 of PIAC Act 1956 in place of Mr Mubashir Iftikhar and Malik Nazir Ahmed who have completed their term of of ce of Directors. To transact any other business with the permission of the...
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...HỌC VIỆN CÔNG NGHỆ BƯU CHÍNH VIỄN THÔNG QUẢN TRỊ SẢN XUẤT (Dùng cho sinh viên hệ đào tạo đại học từ xa) Lưu hành nội bộ HÀ NỘI - 2006 HỌC VIỆN CÔNG NGHỆ BƯU CHÍNH VIỄN THÔNG QUẢN TRỊ SẢN XUẤT Biên soạn : TS. NGUYỄN THỊ MINH AN LỜI MỞ ĐẦU Sản xuất là một trong những phân hệ chính của doanh nghiệp sản xuất và cung cấp dịch vụ, thu hút 70 – 80% lực lượng lao động của doanh nghiệp. Sản xuất trực tiếp tạo ra hàng hoá và dịch vụ cung cấp cho thị trường, là nguồn gốc tạo ra giá trị gia tăng cho doanh nghiệp, tạo ra sự tăng trưởng cho nền kinh tế quốc dân và thúc đẩy xã hội phát triển. Cùng với chức năng marketing và chức năng tài chính nó tạo ra “cái kiềng doanh nghiệp”, mà mỗi chức năng đó là một cái chân. Quản trị sản xuất là tổng hợp các hoạt động xây dựng hệ thống sản xuất và quản lý quá trình biến đổi các yếu tố đầu vào để tạo ra hàng hoá, dịch vụ nhằm thoả mãn tốt nhất nhu cầu của thị trường, khai thác mọi tiềm năng của doanh nghiệp với mục đích tối đa hoá lợi nhuận. Quản trị sản xuất là một trong những nội dung chủ yếu của quản trị doanh nghiệp, ảnh hưởng trực tiếp đến kết quả hoạt động sản xuất và khả năng cạnh tranh của doanh nghiệp. Tập tài liệu hướng dẫn học tập "Quản trị sản xuất " dùng cho sinh viên đại học hệ Đào tạo từ xa ngành Quản trị kinh doanh của Học viện Công nghệ Bưu chính Viễn thông trang bị những cơ sở lý luận cơ bản và hiện đại về quản trị sản xuất, bao gồm những nội dung sau: Chương 1: Khái quát chung về quản trị sản xuất Chương 2: Dự...
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