...A Presentation is Worth a Thousand Actions The long pasty white hallway separated me from my dreams. The loud “click-clack” and the occasional squeak of my tennis shoes bounced off the hallways with an eerie echo. I kept hearing the receptionist’s raspy voice in my head, “Just up the stairs and the last door on the left.” My heart was pounding at the speed of Usain Bolt’s 100 meter time as the hallway got shorter and dimmer. My hands were covered with beads of anticipation filled sweat. The click clack of my shoes got louder. The air turned thin. I was as tense as a spider monkey on the hunt for some mouth watering wild berries. Violent gasps were escaping my mouth as I reached the old heavy wooden door. Behind this door contained some key elements that could shape my future. My eyes wide and with an awkward school photo smile, I entered the room. The room was pitch dark except for the low glow of a projector. All 100 pairs of white eyes turned and stared at me like I had committed an outstanding crime. I peeped “Is this the community service meeting?” A slow and shaky head nod confirmed my suspicion. Taking my cold, hard, metal seat, the presentation resumed. While sitting there on the cold hard metal seat, my mind began to race. The nerves soon overtook my mind and I contemplated leaving. I cleared my clustered mind and began listening to this wonderfully mysterious speaker. The more she talked the calmer I became and I actually became intrigued by her message...
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...Chapter 1 Planning Facilities Facility components * seating/space * handicap accessibilities/ADA/Universal Design * playing surface/performance * restrooms * lockers/auxiliary team facility * parking/access/public transportation * concessions * scoreboards/jumbotrons * security/medical/crowd control * ticketing box office/turnstiles * merchandise * lighting * janitorial space * general storage space/loading dock * office space/meeting space * power Master planning * process structured to promote cost-effective development decisions * best serve the organizations goals and objectives * makes facility development more organized, less haphazard * master plans often look ahead 10, 15 or even 30 years out * program specialists * financial consultants * maintenance personnel * community representatives * management representatives * facility consultants * end users Steps of master planning * identification and confirmation of the organizations plan goals and objectives * synthesis and evaluation of findings * government functions Site selection * access to site * traffic circulation * parking * water supply * sewage disposal * electrical service * telephone service * gas transmission lines * cable tv * environmental concerns * easements and other legal issues * zoning requirements * historical...
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...or bad at the time. He went on to show me the details of his tailor made suit. What I remembered the most back then is that his name was sewn on the inside of the jacket. That made it real personal. When I got a little older, I borrowed some of my dads’ style. I’m sure he would say I borrowed more than just his style but I’ll never testify to that. I copied some trends too but that wasn’t all it was with me. You don't believe me? Read on and you'll see. My Bond swagger is characterized by my custom made suit. The suit is one hundred percent pure merino wool and soft to the touch. It has working cuffs that unbutton and a ticket pocket, which are rare but resourceful. The suit jacket is double vented and silk lined. All these features make it easy for me to move while looking my very best. Many times I don’t wear a tie and sometimes I break the suit up and wear the jacket with jeans or the trousers without the jacket. People say when they see my Bond swagger, for work or play, they know I mean business. My Polo swagger is ferocious. My favorite three button placket Polo is red white and blue and has a bigger horse than my other Polo’s. I like to wear the shirt...
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...CARMAX CASE: Executive Summary CarMax broke industry records in 2013 and has successfully grown into a leader in the used car industry. However complications have emerged as a result of duplicators attempting to copy their “no hassle offers” in the highly competitive used car market. Therefore, CarMax’s primary concern is staying ahead of the competition and eliminating threats from potential future disruptions from competitors. Therefore the key question we will try to answer in this analysis of the CarMax case is, can CarMax continue to grow successfully given the threat of new competitors entering the market? After thorough analysis of the situation, our team has come up with a series of recommendations that will allow CarMax to remain competitive in the market in the midst of growing threats form new competitors. First CarMax should expand the Parts and Service Department by offering attractive bundles to customers when purchasing cars such as service a service add on. This will CarMax gain additional market share by allowing them to become a one stop shop for car issues, incentivizing repeat customers and increasing the lifetime value of each customer. In addition, CarMax can build a mobile application that allows customers to make purchases. This move will help CarMax reach a wider audience, enhance customer experiences, and avoid having to incur additional costs associated with hiring and training new salespersons. Issue Analysis The industry is subject...
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...xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Instructor: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Eng. 102.xxxx xx October xxxxx Critical Analysis “Swagger Like Us” In her article, “Swagger Like Us,” Ann Friedman explains how women are not treated fairly like men and how women have been asserting themselves as do men do in the workplace, but have yet to receive similar respect and pay. She also points out how women have only made minimal gains in the political and professional world in the past few decades. Although Friedman initially reinforces her stand with women’s rights with interesting facts, later it becomes a biased argument with overly feminized ideas how women are supposedly better at various skills than men are. Friedman starts her article by telling the reader that ever since women have been making gains in the workplace in the 1970s, there has been questioning on how women can reach the same level as men. She explains that for women to be up to par with men they must oversell themselves in the interview, ask for more job raises and be more assertive at the job. She also presents the idea, “…we continue to simultaneously embrace the idea that powerful women promise to be different somehow, from powerful men” (par 3). This idea brings up the thought that woman are trying to be better than men and want to change the workplace by being different, this is a positive step towards reaching proper respect. She also believes how it is okay sometimes to “man up” when needed to, and how women should...
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...A major milestone in making the connection between measuring as a human activity and performancewas in 1494, when Luca Pacioli published in Venice ‘Summa de arithmetica, geometrica, proportioni et proportionalita’ (‘Everything on arithmetic, geometry, proportions and proportionality’). It detailed a practice the Venetian sailors had in place to evaluate the performance of their sailing expeditions, which became the basis of the double-entry accounting system. The subjective nature of individual performance evaluations and the dominance of financial indicators for evaluating enterprise performance became stepstones for performance management in human activities. The industrial revolution added to this combination the “organization as a machine” metaphor that played a major role in driving improvements in efficiencies and effectiveness. The result was an organizational performance management model based on mechanistic, command-and-control thinking, driven by subjective individual assessments and financial indicators and crowned by pay-for-performance arrangements. Did it work? To a certain extent, yes. Many organizations flourished and matured based on this model. Does it have flaws? Many. And while historical circumstances attenuated them in time, today’s environment amplifies and exposes them at an accelerated rate. Is there a better way? Yes, but it is not simple. It requires a change at multiple levels, from the underlying philosophy of performance, to mentalities and...
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...Swagger Distribution Microsoft Office and Visio Human computer interaction (HCI) is a study of human interactions with computer applications. The importance of HCI is that developers can design software that can be easy to use, learn, and promote the user experience. Usability is key to developers because building a software that can be used will be essential to the software success. Microsoft Word and Visio have many difference but what makes them similar is the interface for users. Microsoft pride itself on having a “fluent user experience” meaning they use similar User-Interfaces (UI) across their different platforms. Swagger employees are familiar with Microsoft Word software. The menus and ribbons are relatively similar in layout with few differences catering to the task that each software is used for. Employees that opens up Microsoft Visio will notice that the menu options and tabs listed are organized with File, Home, Insert, Design, etc. as in Microsoft Word. These will cut down time on learning, adapting, and switching between the two applications. There are differences are noteworthy to the users to understand. The importance of Microsoft Word is the ability to create documents. Microsoft Word is a word processor being able to cater to document needs of Swagger. Users can create visual graphics and charts in Microsoft Word, but the features are limited. The charts and graphics cannot be scaled and final product will be saved as a document. In Microsoft Visio, employees...
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...Attack Combos In the Pokémon games, there are many different strategies you could use to win against a clever foe. Some strategies can be used just to lay down an all-out assault on a foe, and some are more skilled and use a combination of defense and more adept move usage. Some Pokémon's heaviest hitting attacks rely on a combination of different moves, some more useful than others. This guide outlines some of those move combinations that you can use against an opponent. Use them on the right Pokémon, and they could be extremely dangerous. True Combos In Black & White, there are Combination Moves which are done by using two seperate moves with two of your Pokémon during Double or Triple battles. These moves will then combine and have an added extra effect. These effects vary from simple status afflictions to doing damage to the Pokémon. Only one of the Pokémon will do the damage to the Pokémon selected, but the effect will occur and lasts for several turns Grass Oath + Fire Oath | Moves Required: Grass Oath & Fire OathEffect: When you use the move Grass Oath and then the move Fire Oath during a Double or Triple battle, the move will combine and create a field of fire which causes small amounts of damage to your opponents each turn. | | Fire Oath + Water Oath | Moves Required: Fire Oath & Water OathEffect: When you use the move Fire Oath and then the move Water Oath during a Double or Triple battle, the move will combine and create a a rainbow over...
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...television series "Swag" (Ugly Betty episode), the eleventh episode of the television series Ugly Betty Swag, a type of window valance, often in combination with a full curtain underneath Swag as slang: Swag, slang from the early 1800s for stolen goods or booty; possibly carried by a swagman Swag, slang from the Scottish slang word "swagger" which was a description of the way some Scots walk (in a swaying motion). The word was altered in the English language to mean "the way one presents oneself". Swag, promotional items given away at trade fairs and events The Swag, a magazine published quarterly for Catholic priests and deacons of Australia Swaging, a process in which the dimensions of an item are altered using a die. SWAG, Sourceware Archive Group, a free collection of classified source code and sample programs written in Pascal. SWAG, music of the musical group Bonde da Stronda SWAG, Special Warfare Group, an elite unit of the Naval Special Warfare Group of the Philippine Navy Scientific Wild-Ass Guess, slang for a rough estimate based on expert experience Related pages[change | change source] All pages beginning with Swag Swagger (disambiguation) Schwag (disambiguation) SWEG Disambiguation icon This disambiguation page lists articles with similar titles. If a link brought you here, you can go back and fix it so it goes straight to the right page. Category: Disambiguation Navigation menu Create accountLog inPageTalkReadChangeChange sourceView history Main...
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...Nasario Birrueta IT 200: Milestone Three Network Security Network security is one of the most important aspects of implementing a fully functional working network, downtime caused by poor network security can cause major economic loses. The two matters that need to be addressed is the User and Physical equipment. Network security begins with the user. As such would implement a Network Use policy that the employee must sign and adhere to. The company network is to be used for work purposes only. All activity will be monitored and subjected to review by upper management. All users will use strong passwords that are at least 8 characters with upper case and at least one number and not to be shared not even to their immediate supervisors unless OK by IT and or upper management such as a VP or higher. All passwords will be monitored and subject to a monthly review and a password change. Users who do not need internet access will not have access to the internet, a warehouse employee would not need internet access to complete his job duties. But a purchasing employee would need to research for supply vendors that employee would need internet access. In a scenario where a warehouse employee needs internet access a password could be utilized that opens the internet for such these are often called Proxy server or a service that could be used is OpenDNS. At the network level all Personal computers will have the latest and greatest anti-virus software along with all...
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...1 From Eckert, Penelop e and McConnell - Gine t, Sally. ( To appear ) . La nguage and Gender. S econd Edition. Cambridge a nd New York: Cambrid ge University Press. CHAPTER 1: AN INTROD UCTION TO GENDER We are surrounded by gender lore from the time we are very small. It is ever - present in conversation, humor, and conflict, and it is called upon to explain everything from driving styles to food preferences. Gender is e mbedded so thoroughly in our institutions, our actions, our beliefs, and our desires, that it appears to us to be completely natural. The world swarms with ideas about gender – and these ideas are so commonplace that we take it for granted that they are tr ue, accepting common adage as scientific fact. As scholars and researchers, though, it is our job to look beyond what appears to be common sense to find not simply what truth might be behind it, but how it came to be common sense. It is precisely because g ender seems natural, and beliefs about gender seem to be obvious truths, that we need to step back and examine gender from a new perspective. Doing this requires that we suspend what we are used to and what feels comfortable, and question some of our most fundamental beliefs. This is not easy, for gender is so central to our understanding of ourselves and of the world that it is difficult to pull back and examine it from...
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...ANONYMOUS IT-200 Milestone Two Southern New Hampshire University Networking: Swagger Distribution’s networking illustration is showing a wired networking system for the company. As the diagram shows, the companies system is most important in the computer room. This is where most of the company’s connection begins. The internet, which is the WAN (Wide Area Network) is the beginning to the LAN (Local Area Network). This starts with the WAN coming into the computer room’s T1 Demarcation Router. The T1 Demarcation Router is then connected to the Main Router which has a connection to the Firewall as well as the Ethernet Switch. The Ethernet Switch then has a Fiber Optic cable connecting to the warehouse Remote Ethernet Switch. This allows the connectivity from the Remote Ethernet Switch to be connected to the PC’s in the shipping office. Going back to the Ethernet Switch, it is also connected to a Cross Patch Panel from which an Ethernet Drop is made allowing the data to be accessed from the offices. It is important for the company to have access to all resources throughout the company. Having these connections allows it to do so. The key aspects to the network consists of Routers, Switches, Firewall, Servers, and PC’s. Amongst these, the Routers direct the data in which direction it needs to go while the Switches are forwarding the information to the devices that it is intended to go to. The Firewall is allowing certain information to be processed through to help protect the...
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...Othello Research Paper Othello is quite an interesting tragedy; full of deception. The Moor, also known s Othello is the undisputed “hero” of our story; but his heroics are no match for the sly antagonism of the character Iago. Iago is a bitter, crafty mind that uses his political prowess and friendly swagger to deceive his victims. Desdemona has her innocence used against her and exposed for a weakness as she is blinded by what’s right in front of her. The Moor, also known as Othello is the undisputed “hero” of our story; but his heroics are no match for the sly antagonism of the character Iago. Othello isn’t our everyday hero; seeing that there aren’t too many black heroes in the seventeenth century; especially in Venice. I feel as though Othello could have done very little as a human being to avoid his fate. When Iago began to manipulate the mind of Othello in Act 3, we finally begin to see the weakness in our “hero”. Othello being the hero and man that he is, we as an audience don’t expect him to be so weak minded in such a fixable situation. This brings thoughts to my mind about how blind love can make people in this world. Sometimes we fall so in love that we can’t see the very thing that stands in the way of our love growing. Being blinded by love doesn’t always end “happily ever after”, sometimes the worst possible thing could happen when you’re in the way of a mad ”blind” man that’s carrying a sword. So if I could ask first time readers of this story a question...
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...Many say Shakespeare had his own language. People nowadays do not even notice that the words they use daily might have been originated because of Shakespeare. “Shakespeare's Non-Standard English, begins with the general prefatory aim to provide the student of Shakespeare with a series of authoritative guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poems. While demonstrating authority and command.” Says article writer, Curren-Aquino, Deborah T. Curren-Aquino explains that Shakespeare had his own way with words when it came to talking about women, music, food, etc. Curren-Aquino gives us an example of a word people use in today’s time that was created by Shakespeare himself, swagger. Swagger was used in Hamlet as a verb to describe...
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...Uh, hardly home but always reppin, You hardly on and always second, When I'm awake you always restin, And when they call you the answer you will hardly question, I, I'm doin classic shit in all my sessions, Other nigga's situations they are all depressin, That's why I never follow y'all suggestions, I just always did my own thing, Now I run the game, you stupid muddasuckas I see all this money through my ohio state buck eyes, Shippin goin good, but good can turn to better, Cause you the type to lose her, and I'm about to get her [Chorus:] It's okay [x6] You can run an tell your friends that come on [x6] Best believe I understand It's okay [x6] You can run an tell my city come on [x6] You can run an tell my city it's on [Drake:] Yeah, wrong way down the one way, Women don't get saved round me even on a sunday, Damn where I get it from, these niggas always wonder who, Then they meet my pop and tell 'I'm ''Drake is just a younger you'', And shawty wanna party so don't let yo girl up out the house Or there'll be shots on TMZ, of me givin her mouth-to-mouth, Now she's famous and the paparazzi starts to shoot her, I drop two black cars I named 'em Malcom X an Martin Luther I don't ever play but I'm in the game lady, They just loose to love, those are tennis games lady, Have you countin money goin dufflebag-crazy, Sippin on Pink Floyd an puffin Wayne Brady, Damn, who's line is it anyways, I'm in the daze, you been amazed, y'all seem to be stuck...
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