The story of the Adelphia Scandal begins in 1952 with purchase of a cable network company by John Rigas. By the year 1972, the purchased cable network had evolved into Adelphia Communications Corporation. By the late 1990s, Adelphia had acquired Century Communications and eventually became the sixth largest cable company, servicing over 5 million subscribers. Adelphia was a family owned and operated business. Rigas family members were the majority of Adelphia’s board members and controlled a
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For the last eight years, I lived an internal battle between seeking professional achievement or accepting defeat by the numerous burdens and obstacles that laid before me and weighed my spirit down. Despite my never ending fear of failure and feeling of mediocrity, I managed to finish secondary school with above average grades, yet not with my best effort. In the fall after my graduation year, I was blessed with a baby girl. She is the light that brightly shines on my path. Two years later, my second
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“Markup Sprachen und semi-strukturierte Daten” http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/lehre/markupsemistrukt/02ss XSLT 1.0 Tutorial Dan Olteanu Dan.Olteanu@pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de What means XSLT? XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) consists of • XSL-T (Transformation) – primarily designed for transforming the structure of an XML document – W3C Specification: http://www.w3c.org/TR/xslt • XSL-FO (Formating Objects) – designed for formatting XML documents – W3C Specification:
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SCHOLARSHIP RESPONSE: Good day, . Your provincial government has a scholarship program called the EskolaR ng Laguna Program offered to all college students who are bonafide residents of Laguna. For schedule and other concerns, please coordinate with the Office of the Provincial Administrator through EskolaR Program Coordinator Ditas Cosio at telephone number (049) 501-1001. You can also contact her through their website (http://laguna.com.ph/administrator) and Facebook page (http://www.facebook
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The Art of Crafting a 15-Word Strategy Statement RECOMMENDED In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. As he writes in “The Big Lie of Strategic Planning“, the first rule is “keep the strategy statement simple.” Rather than a long, often vague document, the company’s strategy should summarize the chosen target customers and the value proposition in one page. I couldn’t agree more. In my consulting work, I take this idea even
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given me the privilege to search more than one database to enable obtaining a successful research project. Furthermore, the aspect of locating the right source is an enormous issue. Example is researching using Google and Google scholar. The difference is that, Google scholar is peer-reviewed but Google is not. Based on this evidence, not all information is academically evaluated or peer-reviewed before it is made public on the internet. Database searching enable me learn different techniques in acquiring
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The article “American Scholar” by Emerson calls upon the youth of America to create their own literature, and become individuals in society rather than to simply believe in the things they are expected to think and believe in. Emerson calls on the fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa to become individual thinkers and scholars, Emerson tells them to keep expanding their minds and ideas. The article is used to inspire and address young Americans to create their own ideas, and without the influence of previous
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A scholar is defined as one who develops mastery in a given discipline through continued study (Websters, 2007). In psychology, becoming a scholar involves long hours of studying and learning psychological theory, reading and analyzing research studies on one’s area of interest, and engaging professionally in the field by attending conferences and other learning opportunities. Scholars master their areas of study but may not necessarily apply their knowledge base in the field. A practitioner is
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TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," "CLASSIC FABLES," "FAMOUS PAINTERS," ETC. NEW YORK CHARLES E. MERRILL CO. 1907 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIFE OF EMERSON CRITICAL OPINIONS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR COMPENSATION SELF RELIANCE FRIENDSHIP HEROISM MANNERS GIFTS NATURE SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET PRUDENCE CIRCLES NOTES PUBLISHERS' NOTE Merrill's English Texts 2 Essays 3 This series of books will include in complete editions
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6 January 2014 My dear Ateneo Scholars, Let me greet you a Happy New Year! It comes from a heart filled with joy from having read all your cards and letters. It was the best part of being Acting VP – to receive the volumes of lovely cards and greetings and sentiments. As you expressed thanks to me for the role and the function that translated into granting you scholarships, I also express gratitude for your ability to say ‘thank you’ and for the great things that you have done even while you are
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