...Kevin Durant Paper Pride matters in the NBA, but not more than skill. When Kevin Durant drops 40 on an opponent, they don’t begrudge him his talent. What kills them is that the kid looks like he’s 15! Actually, that’s not too far off. By taking the NBA by storm as a 19-year-old—and winning league scoring titles just a few years later—Kevin has given Oklahoma City fans a lot to get noisy about. Not bad for a player who considered quitting his high school team as a frosh and then spent all of one season in college. Kevin may be a young gun, but he is definitely gunning for greatness in Oklahoma City. This is his story… GROWING UP Kevin Wayne Durant was born September 29, 1988 in Washington, D.C. (Click here for a complete listing of today's sports birthdays.) He grew up with his older brother Tony in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, just outside the nation’s capitol. They were raised by their mother Wanda Pratt and her mother Barbara Davis. Their father, Wayne Pratt, left the family before Kevin’s first birthday. He came back into his son’s life when Kevin was around the age of 13. Both parents worked for the government—Wayne for the Library of Congress and Wanda as a postal employee. Kevin was always the tallest boy in his class—and very self-conscious about his height. His mother asked his teachers to put him at the end of lines, so he wouldn't stand out as much. His grandmother Barbara consoled him, saying that his height was a blessing—just wait and see. Over the years...
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...KEVIN MITNICK Worlds Most Infamous Hacker KEVIN MITNICK Worlds Most Infamous Hacker Most of you don’t know about the world’s most notorious hacker, Kevin Mitnick! Starting at a young age16, Mitnick used social engineering and dumpster diving to bypass the punch card system in the bus system. He broke into DEC’s computer network and copied their software, a crime he was charged with and convicted of in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of supervised release, Mitnick hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. He started breaking into companies like IBM, Motorola, and Nokia. He also joined a phone phreak gang, which met irregularly in a pizza parlor. They mostly used the phones to prank people and confuse them. For example they would change the class of someone’s phone service on someone’s house phone to payphone status, so that whenever they picked up the receiver a recorded voice would ask them to deposit twenty cents to make a call. Mitnick had plenty of run-ins with the police, all of them where computer related. In 1987 and 1988, Kevin and a friend, Lenny DiCicco, fought a pitched electronic battle against scientists at Digital Equipment’s Palo Alto research laboratory. Mitnick was obsessed and determined to get a copy of Digital’s VMS minicomputer operating system, and was trying to do it by gaining entry to the company’s corporate computer network, also...
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...Kevin Mitnick Summary Kevin Mitnick was once wanted computer criminal in the United States, he now owns his own firm and tours around places to talk about hacking. Mitnick hacked numerous of systems computer & phone alike. Born on Los Angeles, California, Kevin grew up fascinated by technology. Through his love for it, he got himself into a lot of illegal activity. He was wanted for hacking into computer & phone systems from corporations (such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Pacific Bell). He also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into/read private e-mail. After accepting a dare from his fellow classmates (in high school), he stole valuable information from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). He was arrested and sentenced to prison for 12 months followed by 3 years of supervised release in 1988. His love for technology only grew from that, in 1995, the F.B.I. arrested him after a 2 ½ year chase for hacking into Pacific Bell (PacBell) and countless computers and phones. He spent 5 years in prison and 1 year in solitary confinement with no interaction with a phone or computer. In 1999, He confessed to one counting of intercepting communication, 2 counts of computer fraud, and 4 counts of wire fraud as part of his plea agreement before the United States District Court for the Central District of California. We should care about this because he showed the world of how valuable our information is and how vulnerable our...
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...under the shadow of the most lucrative company of the 21st century Nike. Even though Under Armour has been working under Nike’s shadow they can't be considered to far back. Under Armour has worked itself up into becoming the second most popular athletic apparel in America, surprisingly beating Adidas in the market. Many would think that Adidas would be Nike’s only competitor but speaking statically Under Armour is right behind Nike eating into Nike’s market share. Under Armour was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank the CEO and chairman of Under Armour and it all started from his grandmother's basement in Washington, D.C. The company is now based in Baltimore,...
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...Every since the creation of the well known body wear Under Armour in 1996, Kevin Plank's formal University of Maryland football player. The band has under gone rapid expansion and popularity throughout the world today being that it all started in a basement. It has taken over the performance workout apparel market in the United States and worldwide, over the years it has began to outsell another well known sporting apparel such as Nike and Addidas. Under Armour Inc. has even expanded its market way beyond performance apparel line and brings products such as footwear and casual wear also workout wear. The company has prided itself on maintaining a competitive advantage by always having top-notch products and adopting new ideas to outcompete...
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...Kevin Mitnick – Social Engineering and Computer Hacking Mastermind Shelby Descoteaux Professor Kabay IS 340 A Nov. 22, 2013 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Kevin Mitnick 3 Hackers and Their Motives 3 The Early Years 4 Adolescence 5 Kevin in Trouble 6 Kevin’s Final Visit from the FBI 7 Hacker or Engineer? 8 Impact on Computer Security 8 Conclusion 9 Works Cited 10 Introduction Most people today are aware of the detrimental risk that hackers pose to their computers. They might know about identity theft, viruses, Trojans and worms however what they fail to recognize is how these things are accomplished and if they have actually fallen victim to one of these horrible attacks. But what about attacks with even greater impacts…like someone hacking into the computer system of a car that controls the brakes? Perhaps penetrating the systems that control nuclear power plants? Although it seems unlikely that either of these extremely scary scenarios would ever happen, it is most definitely possible. One researcher for IBM’s Internet Security Systems told the owners of a nuclear power station that he could hack into their system through the Internet. The power station took this as a joke, responding to Scott Lunsford, the IBM researcher, with a laugh in his face saying that it was “impossible”. In response, Scott took up the power plant on their words and proved them wrong. In less than twenty-four hours, Scott’s team had infiltrated the system and in...
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...China is a country that has a comparative advantage over many other countries in producing rice. In China there are probably twice as many rice fields compared to other countries. This is good for them and t because U.S. because they can produce large amounts of rice and sell it cheaper than what it would cost us to produce it. Both sides are profiting from the trade. There are many positives and negatives to outsourcing labor to other countries. The biggest positive is that its cheaper labor for companies. The other big positive is most people like paying cheaper prices and by outsourcing it costs less to produce so you can sell it cheaper also. The biggest negative obviously is that jobs are taken away from people in America. The other negative which doesn’t necessarily affect the business but most other countries don’t have child labor laws and people are paid practically nothing. The mainn reason Walmart would be against trade restrictions is because the money they lose out on by not expanding to these other countries. They would also lose out on charging cheaper labor in these other countries. Next would be cost of production, it costs less to produce things in other countries plus they would have to ship orders and pay an import tax. The other reason could be the taxes or tariffs that they have to pay. I believe ethics are very important to how you live your life. Some of the most important things to me are integrity, honesty, being responsible and treating others...
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...The most dreadful and horrible news incident that had come to pass this week is the eight-year-old girl had throat cut and passed away. The suspected criminal, Gōng chóng ān(龔重安) secretly climbed the short fencing and entered into the elementary school. After entering without permission, he followed a young girl child alone, and tracked her into the toilet. Once he target the innocent prey, he started to cut her throat. Leaving her bleeding for at least 6 minutes, Gōng called the police to report he killed her. The most unreasonable and infuriating part of this crime is that Gōng talked to the police, he had taken lots of places into account, including Beitou MRT station, the convenient store in proximity. However, He expected there are many well-built and stout men could possibly make him subdued easily. Therefore, he chose the powerless and vulnerable as the target to ventilate his pressure from work, love, and life. The family of Gōng talked to the public that he was fond of playing action computer games and enjoyed comic books. Definitely, the criminal should be put into capital punishment to relieve the pain for the victim’s family. Why those demon can play a role like God to determine other people’s life? I know that it may remain an extremely controversial issue in our society to debate the existence of death penalty, but I think it is still imperative to function as a deterrence and also bring the fundamental justice and social order to our society. This tragedy triggered...
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...Wave Motion 39 (2004) 191–197 On formulas for the Rayleigh wave speed Pham Chi Vinh a , R.W. Ogden b,∗ a Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Informatics, Hanoi National University, 334, Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam b Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, UK Received 23 June 2003; received in revised form 18 August 2003; accepted 25 August 2003 Abstract A formula for the speed of Rayleigh waves in isotropic materials is obtained by using the theory of cubic equations. It is expressed as a continuous function of a certain material parameter. The formula obtained by Malischewsky [Wave Motion 31 (2000) 93] is explained on the same basis and its connection with our formula is identified. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction A formula for the Rayleigh wave speed in compressible isotropic elastic solids was first obtained by Rahman and Barber [1] for a limited range of values of the parameter γ = µ/(λ + 2µ), where λ and µ are the usual Lamé constants, by using the theory of cubic equations. Employing Riemann problem theory Nkemzi [2] derived a formula for the speed of Rayleigh waves expressed as a continuous function of γ for any range of values. It is rather cumbersome [3] and the final result as printed in his paper [2] is incorrect [4]. Recently, Malischewsky [4] obtained a formula for the speed of Rayleigh waves for any range of values of γ by using Cardan’s formula together with trigonometric formulas...
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...vChapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would...
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...Kevin Plank In question one on page 262 of our textbook, Human Relations in Organizations: Applications and Skill-Building, Robert Lussier asks if Mr. Plank’s motivation was to create a new category of performance apparel driven by extrinsic (hygiene) factors or intrinsic (motivator) factors, according to Herzberg’s two-factor theory. Intrinsic factors, or motivators, are higher-level needs such as esteem, self-actualization, and growth. These motivators come from the job itself. Extrinsic factors, or hygeines, are lower-level needs such as physiological, safety, social/existence, and relatedness. These motivators come from outside the job itself. (p. 243) Mr. Plank seems to be motivated by intrinsic factors. He is self-motivated and his perseverance, passion, and persistence regarding his business ideas are what made Under Armour a success. (p. 261) He is a pioneer in his field for his ideas and his products. Question two asks which of McClelland’s manifest needs theory of motivation (achievement, power, or affiliation) are attributed to Plank. (p. 262) I believe Mr. Plank places the most weight out of these three on achievement. If ordered by significance to Plank, I believe first would be his need for achievement, second would be power, third would be affiliation. Question three asks what evidence in the case indicates that job enrichment is a key part of the way work is done at Under Armour. (p. 262) Job enrichment is the process of building motivators into the job itself...
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...“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard” -Kevin Durant The quote I chose was written by Kevin Durant. Whatke I think this quote means is that the person with the most talent doesn’t always win. It’s also saying that just because you’re the best doesn’t mean that you’re always going to be in that position. If you stop working as hard as you did to get into the position that you’re in then you can easily lose that position because there is someone out there that’s not as talented working harder. That person that is working hard is eventually going to reach a higher level of talent than you. This quote is also saying that there is always room to get better. Just because you get what you want doesn’t mean it can’t be taken away from you. Kevin Durant Born September 29, 1988 in Suitland, Maryland, is one of the most successful basketball players in the NBA right now, Kevin Durant. One of the four children born to Wanda and Wayne Pratt. After high school Durant played college ball at the University of Texas. In 2007 he was second overall in the first round of the NBA draft by the Seattle super Sonics. Kevin Durant starred in the movie “Thunderstruck’ which is tied in with his famous quote “hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard”. Kevin Durant is a hard working player. He’s earned the title of being the NBA scoring champion three times and is a three time NBA All-star. Even though Kevin Durant has achieved those major things he still works hard...
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...Rasmus Würtz Engelsk A Essay The story about Kevin and his family takes place in Ireland. We hear that Kevin is studying at a grammar school, and he has problems in latin classes. His father is a barman, and as Kevins mother says, they never got the chance of going to school, but his father would certainly have passed it, but his mother probably wouldn’t. Kevins mother doesn’t seem to have a education, but she might have a job, but we doesn’t hear about that. The Sweenys is a not a wealthy family, but they’re not concerned about money, which mean that they aren’t poor, but it’s not possible to make more money than they currently are, so there is no need for concern. Money isn’t a subject of conversation at the Sweenys, it is a well functioning family. The boy and his father have a relationship which isn’t characterised by a paternal dominance, the way they talk to each other is reflecting that. Kevins father, whos name we doesen’t know, is a calm type and is pleasant for the boy and his brothers to be around, and they to admire him, as in when he gets home from work, sits in his chair and simply commands “Slippers”, and the boys come as faithful dogs, to take of his shoes and put on his slippers. His father helps him with some latin grammar, as he is in a hurry to get to work, and Kevin trusts his father with deep faith, so he is sure that it must be correct, but at school he is picked out by the strict and respect demanding...
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...player at the end of every season that they feel has exhibited talent and leadership above the rest. In his 2014 acceptance speech of the NBA’s most valuable player, Kevin Durant makes a persuasive argument about how he got to where he is today using his credibility, logic, and emotion. Many would not consider Kevin Durant an author because he hasn’t written a book. However, through the writing and presentation of his acceptance speech, Kevin Durant creates the story of his past for the audience, making him an author of his story and of this speech. Durant uses credibility in order to persuade the audience of his past and what has brought him to where he is. The MVP award is selected by a series of votes taken by sportswriters, broadcasters, and basketball fans. A large number of these people saw that Durant had the talent and the leadership they were looking for, resulting in him being presented with the award of MVP. This demonstrates the level of respect and reverence that people have for Kevin Durant. Over the course of the speech he went on to single out each and every one of his teammates and described in what way they had helped him to reach earning MVP. Whether it was on the court or off the court, Durant gave account to real life stories that involved every player on the team. This shows the character of Kevin Durant and the time he took to recall the influence of each of his teammates. The audience can tell from the fact that all these players are here with him, making...
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...Program (HIP), also known as the Pink Batts Scheme, was primarily designed to boost the domestic economy in 2009 following the GFC, but it was beset by controversy. The $2.8 billion job-generating scheme, offering free insulation to two million households, was scrapped prematurely in 2010 after it was blamed for the deaths of four insulation workers and more than 100 house fires. This essay will attempt to analyse the impact of the HIP and argue whether governments (Commonwealth or States) or business were responsible for the health and safety of workers involved with the HIP. In February 2009, the Rudd government (Government) unveiled the HIP as part of its stimulus package in respond to the GFC. This program may have been stemmed from Kevin Rudd’s (2009, pp 28-29) belief that “Labor, in the international tradition of social democracy, consistently argues for a central role for government in the regulation of markets and the provision of public goods”; and it has “acted to help the real economy, to stimulate economic activity by investing in targeted job creation”. The Hawke Review (Review) (2010, pp vi-viii) in its report stated that the HIP has two objectives which were to generate economic stimulus and support jobs and small business; and to improve the energy efficiency of homes. Any objective assessment of the HIP will conclude that, despite the...
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