...Having the Faith to Survive The life of an English peasant around the year 1,000 proved to be quite laborious. Thanks to Sir Robert Cotton, authors Danziger and Lacey were able to tell us how the drawings of the Julius Work Calendar portrayed these individuals. The world was a quaint and quiet place in that time, with a total population of only one million people. “The year 1,000 was an empty world, with much more room to stretch out and breath.” There were three groups of citizens that were spread over the country side. These included workers, fighters and those that prayed for everyone. It seemed somewhat harmonious. The peasants worked for their Lords who took care of them. It was a mundane, but give and take society. “Life was short”. The expected life span was no more than fifty years. A boy of twelve was old enough to give allegiance to the King and a girl often married in her early teenage years. Through excavation, they have found their bones and surprisingly they did not differ much from us. They were the same height and their brains were the same size as ours. It seems to me that they were probably much stronger and smarter because everything had to be learned and preservation of sanity and health had to come from themselves. The Julius Work Calendar shows us that they were very much like us in that they lived by a schedule and got caught up in juggling time. It was a bit more structured for them though. They did not...
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...Abstract People figured out early on that living longer would be beneficial if they had the chance to do so. They would be able to spend more time with their friends and family, have more time in life to accomplish things they set out to do, and they could simply enjoy more of what life has to offer. This is a great mindset for anyone to have since life is a beautiful thing and worth living. With all of the advanced medical technology on this specific subject and the new findings that are constantly being done to prolong the human lifespan, we start to enter into the area of what is ethically right and wrong and wonder how much is too much? There are many different forms of medical treatment that can save someone’s life. This will vary from medicine to surgery and many things in between. Not everyone will agree on some of the techniques used, but most people understand why someone would want to save their life. Since people will try to save their own lives if they are dying, many scientists believe that there is no difference in trying to extend a life through medicine, or trying to create a life from another person through a cloning system. This is where the tables turn from helping mankind, to hurting what God has created for us. There are many conflicts between prolonging life and Christianity. Some people say that the world is entering into an area we do not belong, while others say we have already crossed that line. How Religion Is Impacted By Science Extending...
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...working definition of both. According to Webster’s Online Dictionary, mortality is defined as the quality or state of being a person or thing that is alive and therefore certain to die (Webster’s 2014). For morbidity, Webster’s summarizes it as quality or state of being morbid; the relative incidence of disease (Webster’s 2014). Now that good working definitions have been established, the relating questions can be addressed. The first discussion point asks to identify changes that seem to be occurring based on the mortality and morbidity data. In his article titled MORTALITY TRENDS, Preston shares “When death rates decline, they do so at all ages. Hence, the likelihood that an individual of any age will survive to subsequent stages of life will increase, and the largest effects will tend to occur among the very young. Individuals typically undergo a series of related cycles as they age - physical, educational, occupational, recreational and familial. The chance that an individual will complete any particular cycle obviously depends on prevailing risks of death. Moreover, the choice of stage at a particular age is likely to be affected by impending mortality. The reason for this dependence is that many of the states in childhood and early adulthood fundamentally represent investments, and the expected return to investment will vary with the duration of time over which the returns are expected to accrue” (Preston 1977). The positions that Preston shares in his article, have...
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...TOURISM IN INDIA: Travel and tourism is the largest service industry in India. It provides heritage, cultural, medical, business and sports tourism. The main objective of this sector is to develop and promote tourism, maintain competitiveness of India as tourist destination and improve and expand existing tourism products to ensure employment generation and economic growth. India has become a popular tourist destination with thousands of people visiting different parts of India each year. Tourism in India has shown a phenomenal growth in the past decade. One of the reasons is that the Ministry of tourism, India has realized the immense potential of tourism in India during vacations. India travel tourism has grown rapidly with a great influx of tourists from all across the globe who have been irresistibly attracted to the rich culture, heritage, and incredible natural beauty of India. India offers luxury travel to its travellers and tourists. Almost all the cities in India have something to interest tourists. India tourism with its foggy hill stations, captivating beaches, historical monuments, golden deserts, serene backwaters, pilgrimage sites, rich wildlife, and colourful fairs capture the heart of every tourist. In addition, a variety of festivals, lively markets, vibrant lifestyle, and traditional Indian hospitality, makes one's experience as an Indian tourist truly unforgettable and fantastic. Some of the major tourist destinations in India are the Himalayas, Agra...
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...Analysis of Indian Developmental Projects in Afghanistan and its impact on Pakistan THEME * Pakistan and Afghanistan are generally labeled as inseparable states due to their historical, religious, cultural, linguistic, trade and ethnic linkages. However, history of bilateral relations between Kabul and Islamabad reveals turbulence. The main reasons for this rocky relationship are the issues related to the Durand Line, the idea of a greater Pakhtunistan, the 1980’s Soviet War, the rise of the Taliban, post 9/11 war, and India’s rising influence in Afghanistan. Through multi-sectoral long-term development projects, apparently carving socio-economic space through application of soft power, India ultimately aims at enhancing its regional relevance to extract politico-economic benefits, while correspondingly constricting contemporary space for Pakistan. Indian sponsored / assisted projects in Afghanistan indicate their character to be more of anti-Pakistan than pro-Afghanistan. Development of road Zaranj-Delaram off sets Afghanistan’s over dependence on Pakistan for transit trade, through offering ground link to Iranian Port Chahbhar. Similarly, Indian offer to build water reservoirs on river Kabul can be termed as extension of her water war against Pakistan. It has implications for Pakistan on its economic, defense and foreign policy fronts. Apropos, carry out a detailed analysis of Indian sponsored / assisted projects directly or indirectly influencing Pakistan and recommend...
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...3 Thinking Techniques to Improve Your Intellectual Horsepower Here are 3 simple thinking techniques I tend to use each day. There are some more advanced thinking techniques, but here I’m boiling down to a set of 3 you can use today. In fact, you can even use them while you read this post. I’ll go through the thinking techniques in order from simpler to more complex, so you can use them right away. For the sake of this exercise, let’s think of "thinking" as simply asking and answering questions. If you want to improve your thinking, ask better questions. Using these techniques will improve your thinking, by improving your questions. 3 Thinking Techniques Here are 3 thinking techniques I use fairly regularly: * How Might That Be True? * PMI * Six Thinking Hats How Might That Be True When you hear something new, or information that conflicts with what you think you already know, ask yourself, "how might that be true?" This simple question will open your curiosity. It can also help you build rapport. This second point is especially important. If you’re quick to prove people wrong, people won’t share information with you. Rather than fight somebody on a point, right from the start, you can help them explore the point. You don’t have to agree. Instead, you’re exploring possibility. Sometimes people have good information or knowledge, but it’s generalized so it appears to be wrong, but there’s kernels of truth or insight. PMI I think of PMI as Edward...
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...Table of Contents 1. Introduction Page 3 2. Change Drivers Page 3 3. Images of Change Page 4 4. Strategic Change Initiative Page 5 5. Strategy and Culture Page 6 6. Getting the Heads Together Page 7 7. Resistance Page 9 8. Back to Work Page 10 9. Getting the Buy In Page 11 10. Resistance – Part 2 Page 13 11. Rolling It Out and Gaining Momentum Page 14 12. Evaluation Page 16 13. What I Took From This Page 17 Appendix A – Old Org Chart Appendix B – Change Memo Appendix C – Promotional Announcement Appendix D – New Org Chart Introduction Brookdale Senior Living (BKD) has been in operations since 1978 and is the largest senior living provider in the nation. (Assisted Living) Operating 565 senior living facilities and employing over 53,600 associates, BKD has positioned itself to grow and to become one of the sought after places to work in the nation. In addition to the facilities, BKD has 3 corporate offices; Nashville, Milwaukee, and Chicago with Milwaukee being the largest of the three. The offices are designated as the support center (Milwaukee), the corporate office (Nashville) and Chicago is just a satellite office that houses the Co-President and other executives. Of all the departments in the company, the IT department is the largest of the corporate departments and is housed in the Milwaukee office, the support center. There are currently over 120 associates in the...
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...blank Preface Globalisation, technology advancement, open market system and desire of human beings to excel in the field one works has increased competitiveness and resultant work stress. Management of human behaviour and chanalizing it into correct direction has become important. Application of motivational theories, art of leadership and skill of redesigning jobs and modification to organisational structure is an on going process that facilitates positive work environment leading to increased job satisfaction of employees, greater productivity and organizational growth. Due to scientific advancement managing human resources is more challenging. It has been observed that everybody wants to catch up with next higher strata of life style. Social obligations have increased and so has increased the purchasing power, thanks to financial institutions who are doing a tremendous business of financing individuals. This situation has led to designing an appropriate situational model of managing human behaviour in varying conditions. There is no specific model for...
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...Incorrect .1) | Which of the following is NOT a primary function performed by a telecommunications network? | | | | A. | transmission of voice | | B. | network control | | C. | tracking of out-of-service devices (Your Answer) | | D. | transmission of data | | E. | All of the above are primary functions of telecommunication (Correct Answer) | Incorrect | | | Q.2) | Which of the following most accurately describes the INTERFACE function of telecommunications? | | | | A. | checking for errors and putting the communicaiton into a standardized format | | B. | handing interactions between users and the network (Correct Answer) | | C. | keeping track of the status of the network (Your Answer) | | D. | choosing the most efficient path for a message to be sent over the Internet | | E. | changing coding system or speed when moving data between devices on the network | Incorrect | | | Q.3) | Which of the following is NOT a characterisitic of fiber-optic transmission? | | | | A. | faster transmission than twisted pair of wires | | B. | more secure than other media because it does not emit radiation | | C. | requires much less space because the fiber-optic cable is very small in diameter (Your Answer) | | D. | easy to work with the tiny fiber and require much cheaper equipment (Correct Answer) | | E. | not affected by power-line surges or electromagnetic...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION Just a few years after independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, had the World Bank’s country‐classification system been in place, Malaysia would have qualified as a middle‐income country. Since then, it has continued to enjoy relative prosperity, initially as a commodity exporter of rubber, tin, then palm oil and petroleum, with total income rising at 6 to 7 percent each year from 1970 until 2000. As a result, industrial sector in Malaysia has been rapidly grow over the past few dacades. Industrial sector can be define as a category of stocks that relate to producing goods used in construction and manufacturing. This sector includes companies involved with aerospace and defense, industrial machinery, tools, lumber production, construction, cement and metal fabrication. Performance in the industrial goods sector is largely driven by supply and demand for building construction residential, commercial and industrial as well as the demand for manufactured products. When the economy contracts and consumers save more and spend less, activity in this sector drops because companies will postpone expansion and produce fewer goods. The industrial sectors are drawn for each contain a mixture of international corporations, national companies, entrepreneurial smaller and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and informal local businesses. Each part of a sector may have different impacts and dependence on economics activity. In many of the examples, the...
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...Bangalore University Bachelor of Business Management (New Scheme) SEMESTER SCHEME OF EXAMINATION UNDER SEMESTER : BBM COURSE SEM NO. PAPER NO. 1.1 TITLE OF THE PAPER LECTURE HOURS 04 MARKS UE 90 RM 10 TOTAL MARKS 100 I 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 2.1 II 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 III IV V LANGUAGE: KANNADA/SANSKRIT/URDU/TAMIL/ TELUGU/ADDITIONAL ENGLISH/ MARATHI/HINDI ENGLISH BUSINESS ECONOMICS FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT BUSINESS MATHEMATICS TOTAL LANGUAGE: KANNADA/SANSKRIT/URDU/TAMIL/ TELUGU/ADDITIONAL ENGLISH/ MARATHI/HINDI ENGLISH BUSINESS STATISTICS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT TOTAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MARKETING MANAGEMENT CORPORATE ACCOUNTING SERVICES MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INDIAN CONSTITUTION TOTAL BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS BUSINESS LAW COST ACCOUNTING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT LAW AND PRACTICE OF BANKING COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS TOTAL INCOME TAX STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING COMPUTER APPLICATION IN BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT TOTAL 04 04 04 04 04 24 04 90 90 90 90 90 540 90 10 10 10 10 10 60 10 100 100 100 100 100 600 100 04 04 04 04 04 24 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 28 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 28 04 04 04 04 04 04 24 90 90 90 90 90 540 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 630 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 630 90 90 90 90 90 90 540 10...
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...Terese Wilhelmsen Master’s thesis PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHILDREN Exploring how intergenerational transfer of habitus frame boys and girls opportunity to generate and negotiate physical activity within their everyday life. NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management Department of Sociology and Political Science Master’s thesis in Sport Science Trondheim, January 2012 Terese Wilhelmsen PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHILDREN Exploring how intergenerational transfer of habitus frame boys and girls opportunity to generate and negotiate physical activity within their everyday life. Master in Sport Science Department of Sociology and Political Science Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU Trondheim, Norway. 1 ABSTRACT Several indicators of social background and gender expectations are found to have an important impact on children’s physical activity patterns, yet few studies have explored intergenerational transfer of habitus through the use of triangulation of methods. The aim of this study is to explore how intergenerational transfer of habitus frames children’s opportunit to generate and negotiate physical activity in their everyday life. This is done by examining the relationship between children’s physical activity pattern’s and: parental capital, parental perception of gender appropriate...
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...Library and Information Center Management Recent Titles in Library and Information Science Text Series Library and Information Center Management, Sixth Edition Robert D. Stueart and Barbara B. Moran United States Government Information: Policies and Sources Peter Hernon, Harold C. Relyea, Robert E. Dugan, and Joan F. Cheverie Library Information Systems: From Library Automation to Distributed Information Access Solutions Thomas R. Kochtanek and Joseph R. Matthews The Complete Guide to Acquisitions Management Frances C. Wilkinson and Linda K. Lewis Organization of Information, Second Edition Arlene G. Taylor The School Library Media Manager, Third Edition Blanche Woolls Basic Research Methods for Librarians Ronald R. Powell and Lynn Silipigni Connoway Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles and Application, Fourth Edition Lois Mai Chan Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fifth Edition G. Edward Evans and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries Sheila S. Intner, Susan S. Lazinger, and Jean Weihs Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources for Access: A Cataloging Guide, Second Edition Ingrid Hsieh-Yee Introduction to Cataloging and Classification, Tenth Edition Arlene G. Taylor LIbRaRy and InfoRMaTIon CenTeR ManageMenT Seventh Edition Robert D. Stueart and Barbara B. Moran Library and Information Science Text Series Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stueart, Robert D. Library and information...
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...Oxfam: International Commodity Research – Coffee Confidential: Not for distribution or publication The Coffee Market – a Background Study Oxfam: International Commodity Research – Coffee Confidential: Not for distribution or publication Acknowledgements This background study was written by Oliver Brown, Celine Charveriat and Dominic Eagleton. The authors want to thank the following persons for their useful comments: Mehmet Arda, Maria Jose Barney, Bart Ensing, Penny Fowler, Brian Lewin, Lamon Rutten, Denis Seudieu, Robert Simmons, Marcelle Strazer, Kevin Watkins, Michael Wheeler and Pete Williams. i Oxfam: International Commodity Research – Coffee Confidential: Not for distribution or publication EXECUTIVE SUMMARY '[When prices are low] , we sacrifice a lot in the way of clothing, tools and food. We can’t afford meat, we had to buy other parts of the animal which were inferior. We can’t eat eggs, or drink milk...When the children get ill we don’t have the money to take them to the doctor… One always lives with uncertainty, always in debt; it's always borrow here, borrow there; we live dependent on credit... Of course, there is no peace living with such uncertainty. You don't know whether to take out a loan or not because you could lose the money you've invested.’ Vitelio Menza, small coffee producer in Colombia1 Providing livelihoods to farmers in developing countries is a crucial challenge for reducing world poverty. When fairly priced, export...
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...ANNUAL REPORT 2010 -11 TECHNO_LOGICAL TECHNO_LOGICAL In many ways, satisfying the Indian customer is probably much more challenging than satisfying a customer in another market. The country has an obsession for fuel efficiency, when it comes to choosing automobiles (and rightly so, since about three-fourths of India’s crude oil requirement is imported). Extracting more mechanical energy for the car from every drop of fuel is a designer’s challenge. But it is vital for the consumer, the economy and the planet. At the same time, a fast growing, young and upwardly mobile, speed conscious India demands pick-up and instant response at the accelerator pedal. There is normally a trade-off between performance and fuel efficiency. A third requirement is space efficiency, as customers want the car to be compact to cope with congestion on roads and parking lots. Yet another requirement is of minimizing emissions. The Company’s next generation, K-series engines employ a plethora of state-of-theart technologies to deliver on all these fronts. Technologies deployed could be as sophisticated as fine atomization to achieve fuel droplet diameter in microns for optimised combustion. Or, they could be as practical as using engineering polymers instead of metal in certain engine parts for weight reduction. Quite like packing more performance in a handheld smartphone as opposed to a traditional laptop. India’s road and dust conditions, the rains and driving safety considerations similarly...
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