...These serial killers are some of the most brutal and violent people that have ever lived. One of the most “famous” serial killers today is John Wayne Gacy. Convicted of the rape and murder of 33 male victims, mostly teenagers, Gacy will go down in history as one of the worst serial killers in U.S. history. The purpose of this paper is to provide a criminal profile on this man, John Wayne Gacy. John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, John Stanley Gacy, worked in automobile repairs and his mother, Marion Elaine Robinson, was a stay at home mom. Gacy was of Polish and Danish descent, as his grandparents had immigrated to the United States. Gacy was the middle child of the family, having both an older and a younger sister. As a child, Gacy had a close relationship with his mother and his sisters. Gacy’s father was an alcoholic and would often abuse his family, both physically and verbally. This, of course, resulted in a difficult relationship for Gacy and his...
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...starting your car and setting the temperature, being at home turning on lights and adjusting your thermostat to doing the same functions remotely using a smartphone. Smartphone applications have offered instantaneous, real-time efficiencies in our day-to-day life. Two generations ago you had to physically get up to change the channel on your television. Now you can talk into the remote control for channel changes and special programming. The same goes for banking. Everything is about speed of transaction and efficiency. Cash and credit card transactions are becoming obsolete with the advent of smartphone applications. Today you can shop, make purchases, and make bank deposits and transfers without leaving the comfort of your home. This paper explores how new technology and smartphone applications are used for mobile banking rendering cash, checking and credit card transactions obsolete. Keywords: Mobile Banking, Security, Cost and Benefits, Future Technology Mobile Banking “Making Cash, Checks, Credit Cards Obsolete” Mobile banking is becoming increasingly popular with over a billion mobile devices in use today. If you are a smartphone user, it’s not if you do mobile banking, it’s when or how you do mobile banking. Mobile banking has changed how users conduct purchases (micropayments and macropayment-small and big purchase items). “Mobile banking services are valued by users because of the inherent time and place independence, and the overall effort-saving qualities.”...
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...Root, Root, Pay for the Home Team? Taxpayers Funding Professional Sports Stadiums Kayla Thompson MBA 578 SB FT Managerial Economics April 13, 2013 ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of the public (taxpayers) funding the construction and/or renovation of privately owned sports stadiums. The use of public funds has skyrocketed since the early 1980s. Why has there been an increase in the trend and what is really going on behind the scenes? Through my research, I have found six articles that deal with many questions surrounding this hot topic issue. First, I will examine how the sports teams and the local governments deal with the public when proposing the funding of the sports teams’ stadiums. After the public agrees to back the construction of a stadium, the next step is to find out where those funds are coming from. I will take a look at how the increase in taxes are being implemented and just exactly how much debt these taxes are trying to pay off. Once all of this information is determined, it is easy to get to the real question of this research paper: Is funding the construction of a new sports stadium worth it for the taxpayers of that city? Does the revenue outweigh the debts, or will it never pay off? The answer to this might just change the readers’ minds next time they are sitting at their home stadium watching their favorite team play. INTRODUCTION Taxpayers funding sports stadiums has become more and more prominent since...
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...Student Guidelines for Writing a Formal Laboratory Report Overview An essential part of science is learning to communicate findings from a scientific investigation. Thus, preparation of a laboratory report in the form of a scientific paper is regarded as an important part of your learning. Formal laboratory reports are typically required in the sciences. A formal laboratory report is utilized either for writing up a given laboratory that you performed or for designing and conducting your own laboratory exercise. These reports are an important mode of assessment and should represent your best work. Follow the content and format provided by your teacher and outlined below. There are 7 sections to the research report. Each section and the title are discussed separately in these guidelines. Specific attention is given to 4 essential writing elements including content, style, format and mechanics. In writing laboratory reports, you will find that these elements are closely linked to one another. These elements of writing are described below. Content In these guidelines, each section begins with a description of what content belongs in the section. Content has to do with the topic or subject matter that is to be reported in the section. Style, Format and Mechanics Each section of the guidelines provides suggestions about style of writing, format and mechanices. Style refers to the manner in which the section of the report is to be written. In writing...
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...50958 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 159 / Wednesday, August 18, 2010 / Proposed Rules * Elevation in feet (NGVD) + Elevation in feet (NAVD) # Depth in feet above ground ∧ Elevation in meters (MSL) Effective Modified Flooding source(s) Location of referenced elevation Communities affected Maps are available for inspection Town of Ogunquit Maps are available for inspection Town of Old Orchard Beach Maps are available for inspection Town of Parsonsfield Maps are available for inspection Town of South Berwick Maps are available for inspection Town of Wells Maps are available for inspection Town of York Maps are available for inspection at the Town Hall, 21 Main Street, North Berwick, ME 03906. at the Town Hall, 23 School Street, Ogunquit, ME 03907. at the Town Hall, 1 Portland Avenue, Old Orchard Beach, ME 04064. at the Town Hall, 62 Federal Road, Parsonsfield, ME 04047. at the Town Hall, 180 Main Street, South Berwick, ME 03908. at the Town Hall, 208 Sanford Road, Wells, ME 04090. at the Town Hall, 186 York Street, York, ME 03909. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) Dated: August 10, 2010. Sandra K. Knight, Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administrator, Mitigation, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency. [FR Doc. 2010–20410 Filed 8–17–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9110–12–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 49 CFR Part 571 [Docket No. NHTSA–2010–0112]...
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...Human Resource Management Review 18 (2008) 87–99 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Human Resource Management Review j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / h u m r e s Job analysis for a changing workplace Parbudyal Singh ⁎,1 School of Administrative Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Job analysis sits at the heart of all human resource practices, making it a critically important management activity in every organization. However, with increasing competition, shorter product life-cycles, rapid technological innovations, and the changing nature of organizational structures, its underlying assumptions are becoming increasingly questionable in today's dynamic work environment. Moreover, the methods used by traditional job analysis are simply not applicable to many new and emerging jobs and some authors feel it may even be an obstacle to organizational success. This has led to calls for a more proactive and strategic approach to job analysis so that the procedures will continue to be relevant. In this article, I emphasize the need for a strategic approach to job analysis, present a strategic job analysis framework, and discuss implications for organizations. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Strategic job analysis Job analysis Changing workplace Competency modelling 1. Introduction Job analysis may be viewed as...
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...VMOST Vision Mission Southwest Airlines' mission statement reads: "The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedicated to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit." All these traits are what have made Southwest # 1 in fewest customer complaints for several years running. Southwest continues to thrive on its reputation from this # 1 ranking as well as reap monetary rewards that come with this distinction. Southwest’s commitment to their employees reads: “We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer” Objectives Strategy The strategy that Southwest Airlines should use in order to continue its success is also based on the “Short-Haul” strategy. The difference is that the strategy must be inter-converted. Southwest can try its best to duplicate its “Short-Haul” strategy globally. For instance, it can do exactly the same business with the same strategy once again. But this time, Southwest has to do it in every part of the world. For instance, Southwest can expand its business in France, Germany, Australia, Russia, China, Japan, Poland, Greece,...
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...Southwest Airlines Research Report Tommy Best - Jessica Johnson - Adam McCormick Laura Monday - Evvan Tolly - Jessica Wirth Mary Wrenn ADV 340 - Dr. Childers - Fall 2009 Table of Contents Industry Overview Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 History............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Size of Industry.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2-3 Stage in Product Life Cycle.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3-4 Seasonality......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Growth Potential/Forecasts..........................................................................................................
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...345). Many brands today mean little to consumers, who have become accustomed to buying on price alone. But a new tool can help companies separate themselves from the crowd. (David Aaker).Branding has emerged as a top management priority in the last decade due to the growing realization that brands are one of the most valuable intangible assets that firms have. Driven in part by this intense industry interest, academic researchers have explored a number of different brand-related topics in recent years, generating scores of papers, articles, research reports, and books. This paper identifies some of the influential work in the branding area, highlighting what has been learned from an academic perspective on important topics such as brand positioning, brand integration, brand-equity measurement, brand growth, and brand management. The paper also outlines some gaps that exist in the research of branding and brand equity and formulates a series of related research questions. Choice modelling implications of the branding concept and the challenges of incorporating main and interaction effects of branding as well as the impact of competition are discussed. Key Words: Brand, Brand name, consumer behaviour, purchase decision, level of involvement, brand equity , brand extensions. 1. Introduction What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. -Shakespeare Shakespeare had it wrong. A rose by...
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...home base, in a homestead which was owned by Colonel William Howard Stovall. In 1941, on a journey to the Delta of Mississippi in quest of Robert Johnson, the musicologists John Work and Alan Lomax found Waters, then a tenant farmer and made his recording for the Congress Library (Ford, 2008 ). After two years, Muddy relocated to Chicago with a suitcase of clothes and a guitar, hopeful of getting into the field of big records. He expressed to a journalist, “I desired to leave Mississippi in the most horrible way. They had brainwashed my mother and the elder individuals, such that persons cannot make it too upright in the city. However I presumed if anybody else was existing within the city, I could also reach there.” Muddy operated in a paper factory and afterwards as a driver of a truck by day, playing music by night. In the year 1944, Muddy purchased his initial electric guitar, and after two years, he shaped his original electric combo. Perhaps the standard of R&B artists of Chicago made Muddy Waters feel that he was bound to electrify his sound. “As soon as I went inside the clubs, the initial thing that I required was an amplifier. Could nobody perceive you while having an acoustic?” At least partially out of requirement, Muddy joined his amplifier and electric guitar with the Delta blues, which blasted out the volume, tension, and misperception of the streets of the big city (Edward, 2004 ). By uniting the sounds of the country and the city within a low-down, nitty-gritty...
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...Welcome to the United States A Guide for New Immigrants M-618 (rev. 09/07) Welcome to the United States A Guide for New Immigrants Revised Edition U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL EDITION NOTICE This is the Official U.S. Government edition of this publication and is herein identified to certify its authenticity. Use of the ISBN 978-016-078733-1 is for U.S. Government Printing Office Official Editions only. The Superintendent of Documents of the U.S. Government Printing Office requests that any reprinted edition clearly be labeled as a copy of the authentic work with a new ISBN. The information presented in Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants is considered public information and may be distributed or copied without alteration unless otherwise specified. The citation should be: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Office of Citizenship, Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants, Washington, DC, 2007, Revised Edition. USCIS has purchased the right to use many of the images in Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants. USCIS is licensed to use these images on a non-exclusive and non-transferable basis. All other rights to the images, including without limitation and copyright, are retained by the owner of the images. These images are not in the public domain and may not be used except as they appear as part of this guide. This guide contains information on a variety of topics that...
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...Chapter 2 The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES 1. Explain the importance of analyzing and understanding the firm’s external environment. 2. Define and describe the general environment and the industry environment. 3. Discuss the four activities of the external environmental analysis process. 4. Name and describe the general environment’s six segments. 5. Identify the five competitive forces and explain how they determine an industry’s profit potential. 6. Define strategic groups and describe their influence on the firm. 7. Describe what firms need to know about their competitors and different methods (including ethical standards) used to collect intelligence about them. CHAPTER OUTLINE Opening Case Environmental Pressures on Wal-Mart THE GENERAL, INDUSTRY, AND COMPETITOR ENVIRONMENTS EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS Scanning Monitoring Forecasting Assessing SEGMENTS OF THE GENERAL ENVIRONMENT The Demographic Segment The Economic Segment The Political/Legal Segment The Sociocultural Segment The Technological Segment The Global Segment Strategic Focus Does Google Have the Market Power to Ignore External Pressures? INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS Threat of New Entrants Bargaining Power of Suppliers Bargaining Power of Buyers Threat of Substitute Products Intensity of Rivalry among Competitors INTERPRETING INDUSTRY ANALYSES ...
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...The Non-Obvious Problem: How the Indeterminate Nonobviousness Standard Produces Excessive Patent Grants Gregory Mandel∗ The dominant current perception in patent law is that the core requirement of nonobviousness is applied too leniently, resulting in a proliferation of patents on trivial inventions that actually retard technological innovation in the long run. This Article reveals that the common wisdom is only half correct. The nonobviousness standard is not too low, but both too high and too low. It is indeterminate. Three principal factors produce nonobviousness indeterminacy: a failure to identify the quantum of innovation necessary to satisfy the standard, a failure to define the baseline level of ordinary skill against which to measure an innovation, and the epistemic infeasibility of requiring a technologically lay decision maker to judge from the perspective of a more highly trained and educated person of ordinary skill in the art. This Article introduces a mathematical model of innovation and patenting to analyze the effects of nonobviousness indeterminacy. Based on the model, indeterminacy in nonobviousness decisions has several unexpected consequences. First, indeterminacy results in an excessive total number of patent grants, and in many patent grants on obvious inventions. Second, indeterminacy leads to too many patent applications on obvious inventions and too few applications on non-obvious inventions. ∗ Professor of Law, Temple University — Beasley School of...
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...Chapter 12 • Chapter 13 • Chapter 14 • Chapter 15 • Chapter 16 • Chapter 17 • Chapter 18 • Chapter 19 • Chapter 20 • Chapter 21 • Chapter 22 • Chapter 23 • Chapter 24 • Chapter 25 • Chapter 26 • Chapter 27 • Chapter 28 • Chapter 29 • Chapter 30 • Chapter 31 • Chapter 32 • Chapter 33 • Chapter 34 • Chapter 35 • Chapter 36 • Chapter 37 • Chapter 38 • Chapter 39 • Chapter 40 • Chapter 41 • About the Arthor The Firm by John Grisham Chapter 1 The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was hungry; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and that was mandatory. The Firm had never hired an unmarried lawyer, and it frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting, passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which of course was a requirement with a tax firm. He was white, and The Firm had never hired a black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms solicited, and hired blacks. This firm recruited, and remained lily white. Plus, The Firm was in Memphis, of all places, and the top blacks wanted...
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