...Escuchando buen Rock como de costumbre y entre una vasta colección de grupos y artistas me encontré con Boston, tremenda banda de los 70’s, su música hoy día es catalogada como Rock Clásico, para su momento este grupo con sus riffs y efectos de sonido interpreto un Rock progresivo y futurístico, nos quedo en el recuerdo con muy buenos Riffs y una batería buena quizá no de las mejores. Hoy día sigue activa con giras y presentaciones El primer LP de Boston en 1976 vendió mas de 17 millones de copias, el sencillo más recordado de este Álbum es More than a feeling , este arreglo según Rollingstone magazine está entre las mejores 500 canciones de todos los tiempos pero el álbum en cuestión no figuro dentro de los 500 mejores álbumes de todos los tiempos, teniendo 3 canciones más igual de memorables que la mencionada anteriormente. Según la misma revista, ACDC con high way to hell que en 1979 vendió 7millones de copias en USA y Queen con a night at the opera (no el mejor álbum a mi parecer) en 1975 que vendió 3 millones de copias en USA si están en la lista, y en ningún caso la banda era su primer disco. Un éxito similar en ventas de Álbumes lo tuvo Whitney Houston en 1985 con son su primer álbum que llevaba su mismo nombre, vendió 18 millones de copias en Usa, pero claro Whitney no era considerada ni siquiera Soft Rock, no sé qué criterio utilizó Rollingstone para no poner este álbum entre los mejores, me imagino que Tom Scholz por ser Ingeniero Mecánico egresado del...
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...of Lime and 600 bags of Vinegar, which resource is not completely used up and how much is remaining? d) Discuss: Slack (if any); shadow price, and sensitivity analysis results using the program of your choice. Above problem is a maximization problem as one is trying to maximize the profits by making different bags of chips. It takes salt, flour and herbs to make two different types of chips – Lime and Vinegar. There are constrained amounts of salt, flour and herb and the owner want to maximize his profits. The amount of profit per bag is given as well. The LP problem thus becomes: Maximize Profits from the sale of bags of both lime and vinegar chips Constraints: 1. Salt consumed should not exceed 4,600 2. Flour consumed should not exceed 9,400 3. Herbs consumed should not exceed 2,200 In mathematical terms, let’s say X1 to be the number of Lime bags and X2 to be the number of Vinegar bags. LP is: Maximize: 0.48 X1 + 0.59 X2 Subject to: 1.5X1 + 4...
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...Paret was a Cuban, a proud club fighter who had become welterweight champion because of his unusual ability to take a punch. His style of fighting was to take three punches to the head in order to give back two. At the end of ten rounds, he would still be bouncing, his opponent would have a headache. But in the last two years, over the fifteen-round fights, he had started to take some bad maulings. This fight had its turns. Griffith won most of the early rounds, but Paret knocked Griffith down in the sixth. Griffith had trouble getting up, but made it, came alive and was dominating Paret again before the round was over. Then Paret began to wilt. In the middle of the eighth round, after a clubbing punch had turned his back to Griffith, Paret walked three disgusted steps away, showing his hindquarters. For a champion, he took much too long to turn back around. It was the first hint of weakness Paret had ever shown, and it must have inspired a particular shame, because he fought the rest of the fight as if he were seeking to demonstrate that he could take more punishment than any man alive. In the twelfth, Griffith caught him. Paret got trapped in a corner. Trying to duck away, his left arm and his head became tangled on the wrong side of the top rope. Griffith was in like a cat ready to rip the life out of a huge boxed rat. He hit him eighteen right hands in a row, an act which took perhaps three or four seconds, Griffith making a pent-up whimpering sound all the while he attacked...
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...Mum’s Lament Part II I copped him out when he got home, our mike that is. The dirty bugger. Just like his dad and at his age too! Bloody cheek, fancy touching up a complete stranger – in the cinema of all places! It’s dirty. I never thought he’d turn out to be a bastard like him, I mean for fuck sake I wanted something better for him – wanted him to stay pure like. Stupid bloody Doris. I try and get some and look what happens to me, it turns out to be our bleeding son. This wouldn’t happen if I was a bloke. If a bloke has had enough of his wife he just strolls into the nearest bar, tip a couple down his neck and take their pick from the easy gash. But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. Nothing goes the way I want it to, behave like I bloke I said, dirty like. I can live without it you know, the sex that is. The kissing, and the touching, especially the touching, I would give almost anything never to be touched by his dirty grubby hands again. He doesn’t talk to me for three days at a time and all of a sudden his horribly belchy breath is in my face and his great big body is on mine. I wouldn’t so much mind if he asked me first. If one day he went, “so how ‘bout a fuck then?”, at least I could put me book down first. I almost always lose me page once a week on a Saturday night. I do miss it though, the kissing that is not the book. I almost did it once, to see if I still could. We were in bed and he was passed out next to me. He was...
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...“Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human.” Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide It is universally accepted that from ancient times humanity makes everything possible to comprehend or invent something new and to develop what has already been discovered. To be quite plain it cannot go without mistakes in this case. In spite of all our wishes and intentions, making false steps turns out to be inseparable part of our life. Moreover failure is considered to be one of the greatest man’s fears. There is no need to deny the fact that up-to-date life is sure to lay high claims to every person and to enhance the importance of competition. Seeking after perfection and willing to make some favorable impression one, in contrast, grows weaker before failure. Frankly speaking the very point, not to be forgotten, is that perfection exists only in our imagination but not in real life. Thus understanding of such thing can become the only way to accept one’s own and somebody else’s failure. You can’t but take into account that all greatest discoveries happened mostly by trial and error. Society imposes certain conditions, according to what it can result in the fear of misfortune that leads us, in turn, to more sizable blunder. Right for mistake means often the right for some innovation, research, experiment...
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...It was a bizarre night, there appeared to be a freeze in the air. I was walking to my grandmother’s at sundown when all of a sudden some one jumped out, grabbed me, and held my hands forcefully behind my back. Then he whispered “Leave with me, or I’ll turn you in." I stated, “Turn me in for what?” He said that I had committed an offense at the art gallery last night, and that he was going to throw me in jail. “I don’t know what you are speaking about,” I said. Swiftly I felt a chill race down my spine. I turned around and saw two police officers come racing after me. My first instinct was to sprint for the apartment I lived in, but I forgot that tons of police would be there. I had no place to go, no one to run to. At last I walked all the way across town to my buddy Jamie’s house. She let me in and I told her what occurred. I asked her what I had done and she said that I was suspected of stealing a valuable painting from the art gallery. It was all over the news and the police were on a manhunt for me. Jamie gave me something to munch on and let me sleep there for the night. The next day she sent me off because she knew the police would be coming soon to investigate. Later, that same man I had gotten away from the day before found me. I tried to get away but I was unsuccessful. This time he had me for good. The last word I heard from him was when he called some one on the phone and he said, “…Yes, this is John…” After that he turned me in. I went to jail. The food was...
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...Unanswered In life, there is a set of questions that causes people to question their purpose in the world. These questions were designed to be simply that; questions. They have no answer and once the answer seems to become apparent, it changes into a defining moment, according to Jim Tilley. These defining moments that were once questions are the things that document our lives and how far we have come. Jim Tilley wrote the poem The Big Questions to talk about and parallel these things with everyday life. “The big questions are big only/ because they have never been answered (line 1/2).” Jim Tilley begins his poem The Big Questions, by posing a philosophical statement in which the audience begins to ponder what these questions might be. A typical big question that people face is what is my purpose here? Before reading the poem, I expected an answer to this question or at least another philosophical statement for afterthought. However, Tilley uses philosophy as well as humor to convey that there is not a concrete answer to these “big questions”. These “big questions” are only circumstantially large and will in time become unimportant. These big questions often have more depth to them than their philosophical nature. They can in turn be used to determine survival instincts and maturity. The example he uses is encountering a grizzly bear in the woods while hiking a trail. In most cases, when someone encounters a bear they have three options. The first and foremost being to run...
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...Case Study There were four symptoms in the groupthink that I felt were present in the case study. The first issue was Tom, Susie; Richard had all met before meeting with the other group members. They outlined what parts should be included in the team paper and who would get what section. Mark and Betty decided not to voice their opinions. The group decided that they were ok with the original plan for the assignment. They decided to turn the assignment in without the reference portion. Some specific actions that would exemplify these symptoms would be the original members of the group working together. They didn’t include the new group members. There was one person who basically got the go ahead on everything and that was Tom. The body language was noticeable and it made the new member feel uncomfortable. In the future the group should all meet together not separate and they should read the syllabus. Everyone should know the specific guidelines and rules which should be highlighted. Everyone should agree with their part in the assignment. There should be a meeting set weekly or emails sent and everyone should be updated on the project. Any problems should be addressed and taken care of beforehand. When it is close to time for the project to be turned in there should be a final review. Mark and Betty should have been more proactive by taking a stand on their position in the group. There weren’t taken seriously because they didn’t make it known that they were just as important...
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...Decision Making Analysis Discussion Summary Marcus Alexander Team B discussed the decision making that the CEO of Xerox had to perform in the beginning of her tenure in order to get the company to where it is today, stable and competitive. I think that we all agreed that when she first took the position that she had to make some tough decisions by cutting departments which in turn meant cutting jobs which is always going to be a hard thing for any manager to do within any company. In the state that the company was in when the CEO took it over hard decisions had to be made in order to keep the company out of bankruptcy. She closed down the desktop printers division and focused on the commercial printers to give the company a boost in sales and it worked. Fast speed color printers are something needed in almost every company, Xerox just has to stay competitive with HP and Brother in order to keep the company running in the right direction. We also found it very interesting and noble that the CEO keeps the company to have a family fell to it. At sometimes one of the team members felt that this could be a downfall due to keeping a family orientated environment would cause a manager or anyone with an authoritative position not want to make the tough calls when needed closures, layoffs etc. The team also found it interesting that a former CEO that had left the company had been asked to come back and basically handpicked Anne Mulcaly to be his successor. It turned out to be...
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...THEY SAY FILIPINA IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MAID by Luisa A. Igloria Our Overseas Contract Workers are the new heroes of the Philippines --Fidel V. Ramos In Hong Kong last summer my office mate and I took turns, smiling for pictures in front of "The Court of Final Appeal," as a joke, or maybe in a kind of atonement--because two women boarding the same ferry we took that morning said, in the dialect they were sure we would recognize, Is it your day off too? One of them had a quick, nervous way of smiling, as if ready to take it back if we had turned on them with indignation. The other was clearly ready to challenge, if the well- intentioned expression of solidarity were read otherwise. It was a day filled with rainclouds, a sky the color of aluminum, the dull sheen on the inside of an old rice cooker. Yes, we smiled, it's our day, off too. Is your amo kind? ventured the younger of the two, shyly. Yes, we said, thinking of the air- conditioned offices and computers we had left behind for two weeks of r & r, as we leant back on the green railing. The boat punched forward, toward the red and yellow buildings, the rickshaws lined up in the shade. Mine too, she said; now. But the first one… and her voice trailed like a scarf over the water, hesitating. We had to force our way in, said her friend, picking up the thread. I called the center, you know, the one near the church? Migrante. She was this close to being raped. Did you hear about the...
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...What Lafley brought to the table wasn’t exactly a change in the business processes of P&G, it was more of a change of lifestyle and personality. Jager had come in trying to rip apart the current culture and rebuild it from the ground up in his eyes. What happened was that P&G pushed back at him, and caused an instant revolt that almost tore the company apart. In comes Lafley, who was the complete opposite of Jager’s gruffness. Lafley was more soothing and built his personality around persuading others to buy into his image. He didn’t try to force himself onto the employees, but reassured them that they still had values. Lafley knew that he had to put himself onto the ground level and get people to agree with him on the images that the company needed. He ingeniously did this by sending out memos stressing the core values of P&G and what it stood for. He stressed that the emphasis of P&G was still “ to improve the everyday lives of people around the world with P&G brands and products that deliver better performance, quality, and value. The value system-integrity, trust, ownership, leadership, and a passion for winning: not going to change. The six guiding principles, respect for the individual, all not going to change.” Once he had the people around him accepting him, he began to incorporate his vision. He made it known that his view of “any business doesn’t have a strategy is going to develop one: any business that has a strategy is either going to change it, or improve its execution”...
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...The Center Tear is a classic utility device in mentalism. Learning it is simple, and once you have learnt it you’ll have an impromptu method to gain a spectators thoughts, needing nothing more to hand than a pen and paper! Some people think that the center tear (and billet work in general) is somewhat antiquated and old fashioned, but I can assure you that with the right handling, you can create extremely powerful mind reading effects. Mentalism godfather Tony Corinda says of the center tear in his iconic book, 13 Steps to Mentalism: “The center tear is perhaps my most celebrated method of all those used in the art of mentalism.” So, lets get on with learning how to do a center tear. Though first, a quick word of warning. There are literally dozens of methods and presentations based on the center tear. I use the one that makes most sense to me – it’s loosely based on one used by Corinda. How to do a center tear You will need: - One small piece of paper (around 4×4 inches) – not see through or too thick. - One pencil (or pen) - One spectator with a mind worth reading (rare) - One ashtray (not essential) 1. Take the square of paper and explain you want them to write the name of someone close to them, that you do not know. 2. Draw a line just below the center middle of the paper, just so they know where to write. Do this casually and as you explain step 1. 3. As they write, look away. Explain that when they are done, you want them to fold the paper in...
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...My son the fanatic" takes place in the united kingdom, the young boy ali faces thesee religious problems. His father, parvaz, has worked in Britian for many years as a taaxi driver, and he has spent a lot of money on his sons education, books and a computer for that purpose. Parvaz, who has never beleived in religion, but in democracy and welfare, has always been proud of ali. For that reason, Parvaz has often told his colleagues about his sons potentials and his experctations of the boys future. Ali, however, turns radically from the clever student, who he formerly has been. Mainlu because of the fact that ali throws out all of his computer games, video discs and expensive clothes. Parvaz worries about ali and everything parvaz has tried to touch him and give him through his childhood and teenage years. Ali's girlfriend never visits ali anymore, which neither is a good sign. Parvaz has the feeling that something is wrong with ali, but it is clear, that ali had changed, and he is not entire the same person as he has been. He sells all of his possessions, which parvaz has a suspicion about and has a completly different attitude towards Parvaz, it is very natural to assume that he could have turned into a drug addict. And that is what Parvaz fears has happened to Ali. However, not a good decision not to confront ali with the problems. What later will be seen in the short story, is that by postponing the discussion about alis new lifestyle, Parvaz does not avoid the clash with...
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...Chapter 1 1 week before plague A peaceful morning, abruptly interrupted with the obnoxious buzzing of the alarm clock, Marcus slowly and painfully starts waking up, suddenly his niece Bree busts in yelling “Come on get up, you have to take me to school!” Marcus groans “Not so loud, I had a few drinks last night.” Bree quickly retorts “a few drinks my ass, you came in the house yelling and screaming about ” Marcus tiredly looks towards Bree and while wiping his eyes interrupting Bree, he says “hey, don’t cuss and what about the car I bought you a couple months ago, you know the one you wouldn’t stop begging me for?” Bree yells with an annoyed in from the other room “I still have that flat tire you keep promising to fix, and don’t you talk to me about not cussing, I hear how you and your friends talk!.” Marcus finally up and brushing his teeth says “Oh come on! How do you not know how to change a tire!?...and like anyone noticed but you.” Bree comes back in the room and yells “No one noticed!?That teacher still holds that against me!” Marcus laughingly says “Well he can shove it up his ass!” Bree sarcastically says “Hey don’t cuss!” Marcus peaks out of the bathroom putting on his shirt saying “fine, just go get the car started” A few minutes later in the car on the road Bree asks “Wait...this is not the way to the way to school.” Marcus replies “very good detective work Sherlock” Bree with a tid bit of attitude goes “but I need to go to school!” Marcus...
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...Rendezvous II Payton He meets her eyes as she opens the car door. She has a wild expression on her face. She looks terrified. He tries to greet her with a smile, but decides not to make the situation even more awkward. He starts the car and drives along the Interstate. They are both very quiet. His cobra tattoo itches, but he doesn’t want to rub it. The saxophone solo is on again and he turns down the volume. She looks young, he thinks. Young meat. He tries to remove the dirty thoughts in his mind, but the girl is so tempting that he cannot stop thinking about those things… She still looks terrified as if she just saw a ghost in the car. What was he thinking about? Just picking up a strange young girl? And now he thinks dirty thoughts about her? It was just like all the other victims. Young and innocent. Kim Her mind is a mess. Why didn’t she just run away from the car? He looked though, but something in her told her that she should stay in the car. She didn’t like that feeling. In the corner of her eyes, she noticed his cobra tattoo. The cobra seemed to look at her with a sneaky smile. Maybe it was just in her fantasy, but she couldn’t stop looking at it. He looked at her with his dark eyes. Something in her turned. She had a very bad gut feeling. Why didn’t she just stay at home in her warm bed with Mr Snuffles and a warm cup of tea? Okay, I’m not a little girl she thought. She tried to calm herself down, but she began to notice that...
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