...the one that’s missing you. There’s a full moon coming in through the screened window. There’s a breeze sneaking in as well, but the moon is the more important detail. But the most important detail, by far, is the one that’s missing; you. I can picture you in the moonlight; I can pick out a strand of your hair from memory. I can hear a smile from your eyes; if I close mine. I can almost feel your skin the moment before it touched mine. But that takes concentration. I’d much rather stand here, bathed in the moonlight and trying to clear my head. Trying to make sense out of the craters on the moon; trying to guess at the temperature of those far away rocks. Wondering if they’d be warm to my touch. Wondering where you are. Bob Dylan is playing in the background; I wish he’d shut up. He makes not concentrating difficult. I take another drag from the cigarette I’ve been holding but neglecting to mention. Exhaling, I notice that there are two sets of clouds in the sky tonight- one moving slowly and the other breezing by. I steady my gaze on the moon, and the cloud system that is almost static to its side. The other set of clouds hides and reveals the moon at a pace that’s almost like a pulse. I feel fortunate to witness the equivalent of an interstellar circulatory system. And sorrowful that there is such a thing. That nature lacks creativity and imitates its...
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...Vi’Dual Futch English 132- F1 Dr. Dabney Gray Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Living In 1994 Many births happened all around the world in the year of 1994. There was one in particular that happened in a small town in Georgia called Statesboro. The kid that was born name is Vi’Dual Futch. He was born July 1st, 1994 to be more exact. During this year many events happened across the globe that was important to many. In fact a couple of them are flood related mortality in Georgia, Zimbabwe taking a lead in promoting birth control, and 30 people drowned as Haitian police fire on refugees. These 3 events happened in the year of 1994 and had an impact all- over the world. One can research these events and find several articles pertaining to them. The world had a lot going during the 1994 period, which gave light to the world. July 3, 1994 something happened in Georgia that killed people, injured people, and destroyed much of South Georgia. In fact, Center Of Disease Control classified 30 deaths as flood related from July 4 thru July 14 as ME/Cs. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 29, 1994: 526-530) The “GREAT FLOOD” of 1994 of Georgia; many refer to this tropical storm as. The storm originated off the coast of Africa on June 30. The storm named Alberto struck the Florida panhandle and it came with severe winds and rain. Winds were up to 60 miles per hour. The flood caused several roads in 30 counties to close. The storm also ruptured many dams included 100 recreational...
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...Regardless of point-of-view, the events surrounding Disney’s America theme-park provide compelling lessons to policy makers, business interests and citizen activist groups. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Disney’s America controversy through the lens of public policy process. I first analyze the core issues of the case. Second, I identify predominant actors and stakeholders. Third, I point out policy instruments and processes germane to the case. Finally, I discuss the outcome and lessons to be gleaned from the case. Issues Haymarket, a community with a population of 375, is located approximately 30 miles southwest of Washington D.C., in Prince William County, Virginia. It is situated in an area characterized by farmland in view of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west. Nearby is a Civil War battlefield site, now a National Battlefield Park administered by the National Park Service, where 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died during two battles fought at Bull Run: the first land battle of the Civil War in 1861, and in 1862, when Robert E. Lee defeated Union forces as he led the Confederate toward the Potomac River. In the early 1990s, Chairman Michael Eisner of Disney, envisioned an American history theme-park to be called Disney’s America. Colonial Williamsburg in southeastern Virginia initially provided inspiration for Disney executives. Prior to 1993, Disney officials surreptitiously acquired land-options in Prince William county using false names in...
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...“In June 1994, Intel engineers discovered a flaw in the floating-point math subsection of the Pentium microprocessor. Under certain data dependent conditions, low order bits of the result of floating-point division operations would be incorrect, an error that can quickly compound in floating-point operations to much larger errors in subsequent calculations. Intel corrected the error in a future chip revision, but nonetheless declined to disclose it. In October 1994, Dr. Thomas Nicely, Professor of Mathematics at Lynchburg College independently discovered the bug, and upon receiving no response from his inquiry to Intel, on October 30 posted a message on the InternetWord of the bug spread quickly on the Internet and then to the industry press. Because the bug was easy to replicate by an average user (there was a sequence of numbers one could enter into the OS calculator to show the error), Intel's statements that it was minor and "not even an erratum" were not accepted by many computer users. During Thanksgiving 1994, The New York Times ran a piece by journalist John Markoff spotlighting the error. Intel changed its position and offered to replace every chip, quickly putting in place a large end-user support organization. This resulted in a $500 million charge against Intel's 1994 revenue. Ironically, the "Pentium flaw" incident, Intel's response to it, and the surrounding media coverage propelled Intel from being a technology supplier generally unknown to most computer users...
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...Alayna Erhard ENC3254 Dr. Carolyn Kelley 10/17/12 Men; What’re They Good For? Joni Mitchell is a talented lyricist to say the least, and her sixth album “Court and Spark” is testimony to her whimsical way with words. The album gets personal, lending insight into the rocky roads of Mitchell’s past relationships, her insecurities with love, and, above all, the deeply rooted trust issues she has with men. The man she molds throughout the album is distant and unfaithful, shallow and overly critical; he is a man who keeps Mitchell at a distance, which in turn keeps Mitchell fleeing from the prison gates of love. In songs like “Court and Spark”, “Help Me” and “Car on a Hill” listeners encounter that typical two-timing sweet talker. Likewise, an insincere critic is evident in songs like “People’s Parties” and “Twisted”. The lyrics to these songs within the album “Court and Spark” authenticate Mitchell’s belief that men cannot be trusted in relationships. Mitchell believes men are unfaithful in relationships. The opening lines of “Court and Spark” demonstrate her cynicism, “Love came to my door with a sleeping roll and a madman’s soul.”(Mitchell, “Court and Spark.” Verse 1, Lines 1-2) Not by chance, the sleeping roll is the first thing she notices about this travelling man. A bed, unlike a sleeping roll, is something permanently fixed and symbolizes commitment. However, he can roll up the latter and leave her for someone else’s door whenever he chooses, a freedom that lacks...
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...Pentium Flaw The nature of the Pentium flaw was a “bug” that the processor could return incorrect decimal results which made this hard to calculate and get the correct answer. This affected the fields in mathematics and science where they have to deal with a lot of math. The flaw was discovered first by Intel but they did not act on the problem, but a professor from Lynchburg College, Virginia called Dr. Thomas R. Nicely discovered the problem around June 1994 he was the one that noticed it in two sets of numbers and did some tests on 486 and Pentium-based computers, Dr. Nicely was certain that the error is caused by the Pentium Processor. Dr. Nicely then contacts Intel Technical Support on October 24, 1994 Intel technical support then duplicates the problem and confirms it, but it was not reported before. Later the Intel person he had contacted admitted that Intel had been aware of the problem since May 1994, when the flaw was discovered by Tom Kraljevic. When Intel first knew about the problem they decided not to tell anyone, thinking that the flaw would hardly affect anyone and that it was just a commonplace for a complex microprocessor to have a few bugs. Then, when it was forced to acknowledge the problem, Intel pushed it away again and dismissed the chances of it causing problems for the average user. In my opinion, Intel was acting very unprofessional when they knew about the problems and did nothing to fix the problem. I think that Intel was just trying to save money...
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... The Dance Team Beatrice and I walked through the plain hallways together as another school day came to an end, “ So, Amelia, you actually made the eighth grade dance team?” Beatrice asked. “Yup isn’t it amazing? I am the first seventh grader to make the eighth grade dance team! I just hope they like me” I answered. “It really is. Good luck at practice,” Beatrice said while walking past the gym doors to the exit. “Thanks,” I said, “I’ll facetime you tonight after practice,” Just before I entered the doors to the gym I heard Tori say, “ I can’t believe that Amelia Eaton made the team, she is a bad dancer. At least no better than Sarah, and now she isn’t on the team. It is all Amelia’s fault,” Tori stood up and went down into the splits as if to show off, “How can she ever be as good as this,”I felt the joy and happiness leave me like a bucket full of water being tipped on it’s side. I got want I want but now I wish I just auditioned for the seventh grade team, because I could actually fit in. When I decided it would be ok to walk in, I slowly opened the doors and took small slow steps toward the rest of the team. I saw Coach Kelly, Kylee, Tarra, Tori I wish I would have been on the team with some other girls, I heard that they are kind of mean from the eighth grader who lives down the street. “Welcome, welcome, I would like to introduce Amelia Eaton, she is a 7th grader, you may not know Amelia but please make her feel welcome,” Coach Kelly said. I lowered myself...
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...computing such as hosting a website on the cloud, building a cloud infrastructure, cloud security, vulnerabilities, capabilities, pros and cons and cost. IEEE.org (IEEE CLOUD COMPUTING) has dedicated pages on their website to reference nothing but articles of interest and white papers surrounding cloud computing. The barrage of information can be daunting. Jon Oltsik (Oltsik) eloquently discusses industries’ bewilderment with cloud computing when he writes: When discussing cloud computing, I often think of Joni Mitchell's haunting lyrics from the song,Both Sides Now (jonimitchell.com). In Mitchell's world, clouds can be wonderful "ice cream castles in the air" or annoying disturbances that "only block the sun." This duality prompts Mitchell to declare, "It's clouds illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds at all." Joni's cloud confusion mirrors current industry bewilderment over cloud computing. Like many other industry initiatives, cloud computing has a number of meanings. Finally, industry confusion is no more. A guideline has been prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST is responsible for developing standards and guidelines, for all agency operations and assets for use by Federal agencies. In the guideline entitled, The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing, cloud computing (Mell and Grance) is defined as follows: A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing...
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...Galvin, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Motorola, Inc., was moved to action from the increasing complaints as he “walked the halls” and the growing threats from Japanese manufacturers. On April 24, 1983 at the biennial meeting of the top 153 officers of Motorola, Inc. themed ‘Managing Change’, Bob Galvin issued a challenge to senior managers to consider structural changes to strengthen the corporation long-term. Motorola History Founded in 1928 by Paul V. Galvin, Galvin Manufacturing Company the Chicago-based firm began with alternating electrical current converters and automobile radios. Soon after dubbing the car radio as the “Motorola” in 1947, Paul Galvin changed the name of the company. Paul Gavin along with his brother Joe tried to create a humane and democratic work environment. Part of this process involved the everyone including the Galvins to be addressed on a first-name basis; “the Galvins had replaced the typical time clock in the plant with an employee honor system; and by 1947, Paul Galvin established a profit-sharing program” for it now 2,000 employees. It was decision such as this that allowed Motorola to remain union free (Jick & Peiperl, 2011, p. 121). From its modest beginnings of less than $1500 in working capital and equipment, Motorola has enjoyed 55 years of growth and success to the tune of “15 percent growth-or half a billion dollars between 1982 and 1983” (Jick & Peiperl, 2011, p. 120). Since its beginning in 1928 Motorola...
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...lurking with Motorola has to do with the selfish nature of thinking, "I can do it all by myself" attitude. This unbridled confidence and mentality will only stifle the importance of building and maintaining alliances necessary for offshore markets and there resources. There also seems to be a mistrust within the system and its bureaucracy that is obstructing the developmental need to help reduce costs on a worldwide communications systems level. Lastly, Galvin had a sneaky suspicion of rapid growth after a two year recession and this became a definite concern that needed addressed. From a micro point of view there are many avenues of concern. Just the sheer number of employees and multilayered matrix level to "The Three Bears" (Galvin, Mitchell, & Weisz), was enough to shake your head. Employees and managers of all levels could not understand why there was not a unified answer, one directive leadership from the top. The combination of feeling over managed and undirected caused employees to lose drive, competition and creativity. II. Causes With the rise of global competition, especially in Japan, Motorola found themselves in a position to either sink or swim. As the number of new products and technology grew, so did the number of employees at Motorola. Galvin believed in his managers, especially the middle managers, as they were closer to lower...
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...Alfredo Catalan MUL1010 Dr. Teresa Mitchell November 1, 2015 The Beatles The Beatles was an English pop/rock band founded in 1961. It was composed of John Lennon (Liverpool, 1940-Nueva York, 1980), Paul McCartney (Liverpool, 1942), George Harrison (Liverpool, 1943) and Ringo Starr (Liverpool, 1940). It is hard to tell the exact date on which the band was created, but it was in the second half of the 1950s decade when John Lennon and his friend Peter Shotton (who left after some time) created a band named the Quarrymen. In 1957, Paul McCartney joined the group, and not long after George Harrison joined as well. The Quarryman started playing in different places in Liverpool, and that is when the bass artist, Stuart Sutcliffe, joined the group. The name of the group changed a lot, from Johnny and the Moon dogs to animal names that were trending at that time. The first tour the band did was to Germany, where they performed in a local bar called Kaiserkeller. However, the tour did not last a lot because George Harrison was expelled from the country because he was not of age. Later, the bass artist Sutcliffe died, leaving the Beatles with its final members, John Lennon, Ringo Star, and Paul McCartney. In 1962, the music producer Brian Epstein heard the band performing at a bar in Liverpool called The Cavern and without hesitating, decided to hire them. After being rejected by numerous recording companies, the Beatles finally got a shot with Parlophone. The owner of the...
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...Michael Mitchell CJ321 Mr.Tipton Sept 02 2015 John Gotti Born on October 27, 1940, in New York City. Gotti’s mother, Fannie, and father, J. Joseph Gotti, were both Italian immigrants. John Gotti was the fifth of 13 children in a family whose only income came from their father’s unpredictable work as a day laborer. Gotti and his family moved frequently before settling in East New York, an area known at the time for its youth gang activity. By the age of 12, Gotti was working as an errand boy for an underground club in the neighborhood run by Carmine Fatico. Fatico was a captain in the local Gambino family, the largest of the five organized crime families in New York City. Through his activities with the club, Gotti met Aniello Dellacroce, who became his life-long mentor. Differential Opportunity Theory, main idea is that crime is chosen when the benefits outweigh the costs of the punishment. This type of behavior is learned from those we associate ourselves with, and that it also comes from conforming to the beliefs, ideals, and regulations set forth by the teacher, or from social engagement with others. Gotti soon became the leader of a gang called the Fulton-Rockaway boys, a group known for their frequent robberies and car-jackings. When he was 14, Gotti’s toes were crushed as he tried to steal a cement mixer. The accident gave the mobster-to-be his trademark gait, and earned him another incident on his list of petty crimes. He was considered a bully and constant discipline...
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...The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle Pregnancy and childbirth are very emotional times in a woman's life and many women suffer from the "baby blues." The innocent nickname for postpartum depression is deceptive because it down plays the severity of this condition. Although she was not formally diagnosed with postpartum depression, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) developed a severe depression after the birth of her only child (Kennedy et. al. 424). Unfortunately, she was treated by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who forbade her to write and prescribed only bed rest and quiet for recovery (Kennedy et al. 424). Her condition only worsened and ultimately resulted in divorce (Kennedy and Gioia 424). Gilman's literary indictment of Dr. Mitchell's ineffective treatment came to life in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper." On the surface, this gothic tale seems only to relate one woman's struggle with mental illness, but because Guilman was a prominent feminist and social thinker she incorporated themes of women's rights and the poor relationships between husbands and wives (Kennedy and Gioia 424). Guilman cleverly manipulates the setting to support her themes and set the eerie mood. Upon first reading "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader may see the relationship between the narrator and her husband John as caring, but with examination one will find that the narrator is repeatedly belittled and demeaned by her husband. On first arriving at the vacation home John chooses...
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...MINUTES OF MEETING FOR THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 8:22PM DRBCS—BSU-ESC ROOM 25 A. PRELIMINARIES 1. INVOCATION: Ms. Rischell Mae C. Caturan 2. CHECKING OF ATTENDANCE • PRESENT: ALL BEE-4A STUDENTS DR. SUSAN T. APAREJO, Ph.D., ADVISER • ABSENT: NONE MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 8:25 pm by DR. SUSAN T. APAREJO, Ph.D, appointing Mr. Jovanne Bagares as acting president. B. NEW BUSINESS • AGENDUM Election of officers for the subject English for Specific Purposes: Mr. Bagares was appointed by Dr. Aparejo to act as the presiding officer. He opened the table for the nomination of the president position. Mr. Opiso nominated Mr. Bagares; Ms. Mabilin was nominated by Ms. Amoncio, Ms. Alpuerto by Ms. Alforque and Mr. Acido by Ms. Alpuerto. Nomination was closed by Ms. Mabilin and seconded by Ms. Montojo. Ms. Quinnie Alpuerto with eleven (11) votes became the President and the second highest vote with ten (10) votes was Ms. Rozel Mabilin, automatically as the Vice President suggested by Dr. Aparejo and the majority agreed. Ms. Alpuerto was elected earlier as President, opened the nomination for the secretary position. Ms. Baguio was nominated by Ms. Datoon, Ms. Datoon was Ms. Lerio and Ms, Alforque by Mr. Tolentino. Mr. Acido closed the nomination and seconded by Ms. Dotarot. Ms. Jo-an A. Baguio with twenty-three (23) votes elected as the Secretary. The treasurer position nominees were Ms. Amoncio, Ms. Loreto and were closed by Mr. Acido but Ms...
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...Analysis on “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. Gilman was a writer and social activist during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She had a tough childhood. Her father, Frederick Beecher Perkins, but he abandoned the family, leaving Charlotte's mother to raise two children on her own. Gilman moved around a lot as a result and her education suffered greatly for it. Gilman married Charles Stetson in 1884 and the couple had a daughter named Katherine. Sometime during her ten year marriage to Stetson, Gilman experienced a severe depression and suffered a series of uncommon treatments for it. This experience is believed to have inspired her to the short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892). The story takes the form of undisclosed journal entries written by a woman who is supposed to be recovering from what her husband, a physician, calls a "temporary nervous depression”. This haunting psychological horror story chronicles the narrator's descent into madness, or perhaps depending on your interpretation, into freedom. The author’s use of setting, conflict and point of view, provide this short story with the drama needed to capture the reader’s attention. The author begins the story using the key element setting to keep the readers mind in a constant roam. The narrator's view of the setting is colored by her limited and troubled perspective. She sees the yellow wallpaper in the room as a mostly evil and troubling...
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