...A Profile of Viktor Bout He claimed that he was just a normal businessman, a deliveryman. But his extradition has tightened the relations between two world powers: Russia and the United States, as well as entangling Thailand. The Western media nicknamed him the "Merchant of Death". Even a Hollywood movie, Lord of War, starring Nicholas Cage was based on his life. His name is Viktor A. Bout, a Russian arms dealer who owns the largest private fleet of Soviet-era cargo aircraft. His weapons fueled conflicts in Africa, Afghanistan and even armed the U.S. army in Iraq. Little is known about Viktor's early years. According to the U.S. intelligence, Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout was born on Jan 13, 1967 in Tajikistan. But he himself has claimed another birthplace in Turkmenistan. While his family background seems ordinary—his father was an auto mechanic and mother a bookkeeper—Bout showed an unusual gift for languages and business insight. Since an early age, Viktor has been the more adventurous and ingenious boy in his family. He was said to have earned extra pocket money by selling pirated pop songs. He also joined Komsomol, the Communist Youth League, because it seemed to him the only way to be successful in the Soviet Union. Graduating from Moscow's Military Institute of Foreign Languages and then earning a degree in economics from the Russian military college, Bout speaks almost perfect English and French, fluent Spanish and Portuguese, as well as German and several South African...
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...* Introduction This report is intended to highlight the alarming effect of photo editors. It will focus on how these editors can be used for destructive purposes, how their usage has altered people’s mind and created problem in businesses and personal life of individuals. Report will also include suggestions to the problem under discussion. * Photo Editors Photo Editors are those software that are used to manipulate, enhance, and transform images on a computer. With the advancement in technology, now a huge number of photo editors are available online i.e. there is no need to download photo editing software. There are hundreds of such software available and they all provide almost same functionality. Some basic features of such software are crop, resize, merge, and liquefy, adding texture, changing color and so on. * Adverse Use of Photo Editors * Photo editing can be used to destroy company’s reputation. Edited pictures, with fake results/effects of the product can be used to displease their consumers. * Edited pictures such as attaching someone’s face to someone else’s body can be used to give threats. The victim can be forced that way to provide money to the editor or obey his orders. * Companies can use it for fraud. They might show fake pictures to the customers and convince them to use their products. * Sometimes people use editors to display fake story. That story might get viral over the internet and bring fame/satisfaction to the person...
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...Now you need to schedule the project you chose in Unit I. Reread the scenarios from Units I and II. Based on the previous project information you created, the project priorities you set, and your budget, you will now need to break down your project into activities. Using an Internet search engine, locate a project scheduling template or use the Microsoft Project trial software included with your textbook. Build a WBS and project schedule using the templates or Microsoft Project. You will need to identify all dependencies and estimate your costs. Assign contingency reserves, and determine how much reserve your team would estimate for the whole project. Justify and explain your choices and estimates. You may want to review the WBS section located on pages 108-116 in Chapter 4 of your textbook. Save your assignment as a PDF file. You may need to research the publishing process to give you adequate information to make your decisions. In addition you will need to know the following information: You will use the project scenario you worked on in Unit I. In addition to the Unit I information, your boss has given you a budget of $7 million to complete the projects you have on the table. You will be working with the marketing department, the IT department, and the school-level division department throughout the next three years in order to complete these projects. Also remember that you do not have all the resources you need for the multi-media project. The textbook revisions and...
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...Michael Jackson's Bodyguard: Explosive Testimony Oct 2, 2011 CRT/205 CRITICAL THINKING Checkpoint Week 3 Michael Jackson's Bodyguard: Explosive Testimony http://abcnews.go.com/watch/good-morning-america/SH5587637/VD55145799/gma-930-laila-ali-visits. ABC George Stephanopoulos Answer the following questions in a 100- to 200-word response: What claims are being made? The prosecution team's challenge is to persuade the jury that Murray administered the lethal dose of Propofol — a drug that should not be given outside a hospital — then neglected his duty of care by leaving the room and how Michael Jackson Bodyguard said that Murray told him to hide bottles and drugs in a paper bag. Do the claims conflict with your personal observations? No it’s clear the doctor Murray has a lot to hide from the family and the court system.. What background information do you have about the claims? Not much because news are not letting the public know much about the case, but the fact is the doctor had Michaels bodyguard and family chief help him get rid of key evidence. What is the expertise of the author, if any? Well George Stephanopoulos said that it was said the fact that the doctor asked one of Jackson children to help him in a crime. Is the author biased and untrustworthy, or unbiased and trustworthy? Yes George Stephanopoulos is a is most well known as the chief political correspondent for ABC News – the news division of the broadcast television...
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...indicate and identify quotations in the accepted academic way (which I or the Writing Lab will be glad to make clear if necessary) without resort to unnecessary foot- or endnotes. Note that you also have the option of writing on an idea of your own as long as you deal with a work on the syllabus and run it by me first, and that you may expand your presentation, if you have given one. 1. “Primo Levi entitles his first book If This Is a Man (Si questo e un uomo), but it became well known and read widely in translation from the Italian as Survival in Auschwitz aspects of the book.” Discuss. 2. Discuss the possible significance in the narrative as a whole of the episode in Elie Wiesel’s Night (pp. 58-9 in the Hill and Wang edition) where Elie finds his Kapo Idek having sex with a young woman in the empty warehouse. 3. In the last three paragraphs of Chapter 13 of Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes a man called Kuhn praying aloud, “thanking God that he has not been chosen” in “the great selection of October 1944.” In the title story of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadek writes of “naked, sweat drenched men” crowding the barrack aisles, and “directly beneath me [. . .] a rabbi” reading from a Hebrew prayer book and “wailing loudly, monotonously” (Penguin, p. 31). Compare the perspectives in these two scenes and the tone and attitudes of each narrator. 4. In first half of Shoah, in several segments, Claude Lanzmann interviews a group of people...
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...survive. He strives to show how it is possible to be moral, however in the struggle for survival within society morality often becomes the victim to what needs to be done. This conflict between morality and necessity is personified in Shen Te and Shui Ta. Shen Te, the good woman of Setzuan, is instinctively kind hearted and incapable of refusing to help anyone in need. In the beginning of the play, despite her poverty she gives up her client for the night in order to board the three Gods that need a place to stay. As a reward for her kindness, the Gods give Shen Te one thousand silver dollars “Isn't it true she might do better if she had more money?" (Brecht 1941) and she uses the money to buy a tobacco shop. She is immediately assailed by some of the townspeople for help, beginning with Mrs. Shin the previous owner of the tobacco shop and then by the elderly couple (who had first boarded her when she arrived in Setzuan) and their extended family who move into the shop. Being overwhelmed, Shen Te withdraws and Shui Ta enters. Shui Ta is able to impose his authority on the parasites that descended upon the tobacco shop in a way that Shen Te could not, “You won’t find Miss Shen Te. She has suspended her hospitable activity for an unlimited period. There are too many of you. She asked me to say: this is a tobacco shop, not a gold mine” (Brecht, 1941). He prepares the shop for business, negotiates an appropriate price for the...
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...Tell the story: Mark 5:21-43 Pray Central truth we can learn from today’s story: In moments of desperation: God is there listening and responding even if it’s not on our timetable Let’s look at these two people: Jairus and the nameless woman 1) Jairus’ desperate situation Leader of the synagogue- had declared Jesus to be public enemy #1 So Jairus coming to Jesus shows his desperation- this probably will cost him many of his friends and maybe even his job, but he doesn’t care because his daughter is dying We know from Luke’s account that this girl is his only daughter- she’s 12 years old- so they’ve had 12 years of joy together and her life is about to begin- in this society, 12 was when you might get engaged and should’ve been an exciting time, but she’s sick- she’s dying. She needs Jesus. And so does her father. 2) Woman’s desperate situation Woman is complete opposite of Jairus- she was a social and religious outcast because of a disease- most likely a uterian cyst- that has caused her to bleed for 12 years- so she’s had 12 years of pain and disgrace- in this society, she didn’t have a life because of her illness OT law said she was unclean so that means she couldn’t partake in any religious ceremonies at Jairus’ synagogue. But it also meant that if she was married- she couldn’t have sex with her husband and if she wasn’t married, she probably wasn’t going to get married because she wasn’t supposed to be touched Not just sexually- any touch. That means...
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...CIPD HR ASSESSMENT Core Module |Title of unit/s |Recording, Analysing and Using Human Resources Information | |Unit No/s |3RAI (HR) | |Level |Foundation | |Credit value |2 | |Assessment method |Written | |Learning outcomes: | | | |Understand what data needs to be collected to support HR practices. | |Know how HR data should be recorded, managed and stored. | |Be able to analyse HR information and present findings to inform decision-making. | |Both activities should be completed. ...
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...The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question. Answers must be written in English. Important : Whenever a Question is being attempted, all its parts/sub-parts must be attempted contiguously. This means that before moving on to the next Question to be attempted, candidates must finish attempting all parts/sub-parts of the previous Question attempted. This is to be strictly followed. Pages left blank in the answer-book are to he clearly struck out in ink. A fly answers that follow pages left blank may not be given credit [I] SECTION—A 1. Write short notes on each of the following. Each question should be answered in 150 words : 12x5=60 (a) In King Lear -Cordelia's goodness is as absolute and inexplicable as her sisters' reprovable badness...." Critically analyse the above statement with reference to your reading of King Lear. (b) -The Classical humanism of the Renaissance was fundamentally medieval and fundamentally Christian...." Critically analyse this statement. (c) How do the 'Sylphs' help in the development of the 'mock-epic' element in The Rape of the Lock ? (d) "The Romantic age marks the end of pastoral poetry in the very shock of its collision with actual country experience." Critically evaluate this statement. (e) Comment on the use of bildungsroman narrative in Victorian novels. 2. Answer each of the following in about 400 words : 30x2=60 (a) Critically examine if the treatment of Caliban in The Tempest is a reflection of...
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... | |Date |: |19/7/2010 | |Transcriber |: |Aya Ali Salem | INTRODUCTION |M. |Please introduce yourself to the group. Please tell us your name, age, your profession and your hobbies. | | | | |M. |Speaking of advertising, can you give me some examples of beverages ads you really like? What do you like about this? | | |...
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...because of the way they lend themselves to both oversimplification (unfinished sur faces) and open- ended abstract ion (“Memorabilit y as an Image”), Brutalism is often employed today as nothing more than a vague epithet lobbed at vast expanses of postwar institutional building; its associations with art practice are, more frequently than not, left out entirely. The purpose of dedicating this issue to New Brutalism, then, is both to reconsider its theses and to reevaluate its work and writings, while at the same time amending and supplementing earlier histories of the moment, which have emphasized the pop aspects of the work. 2 In doing so, we hope to recapture something of New Brutalism’s latent critical potential. As Theo Crosby wrote in the January 1955 issue of Architectural Design, New Brutalism positioned itself against the “contemporary”—“its veneer of ‘modern’ 1. Alison and Peter Smithson, “House in Soho, London,” Architectural Design (December 1953), p. 342; and Reyner Banham, “The New Brutalism,” Architectural Review 118 (December 1955), pp. 354–61, both of which are reprinted in this issue. Banham later expanded his essay in The New...
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...an extrovert has been a great asset to me at my work at Target. On a normal 8 hour shift I come into contact with well over a hundred guests and will most likely interact with at least 30-40 asking where something is or if we have a particular product. As it is the Christmas season now I need to be extremely helpful with guest as well as be outgoing enough to ask a puzzled looking guest if I can “help them find anything today?” As well as the many guests I help, I have many coworkers; we have many new hired on because of the holidays, and many I don’t know their names. In order to work most efficiently and effectively, I need to introduce myself constantly so there is no confusion with “hey you’s.” Being an extrovert definitely helps with this kind of working environment. Of course, with how many guests and coworkers I come into contact there are plenty who are introverts and slow the process. Although being extroverted has helped me greatly in my retail job, it hasn’t helped me so much in day-to-day talking with people and a lot of sales associates. I know I tend to ramble a lot and when I’m making a purchase I tend to think aloud and give out more information then I really intend or need too. I recently purchased a laptop computer at best buy and the sales associate there had asked me what I would most likely be using it for, and instead of giving him a simple answer I instead told him a story about what kind of computer my friends at work were talking about and whether...
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...same? Many believe it represents a new culinary genre that those “out there” chefs do. Reactions to this new culinary movement range from enthusiasm, buoyant with foam sauces and bubbling liquid nitrogen, to perplexed looks or mutterings of disapproval. Some people’s understanding about molecular gastronomy appears to be free-form dots scattered over the culinary map, perhaps it’s time to connect those dots. Molecular gastronomy can be defined as the fusion of food science and culinary arts. New technologies and natural texturing agents can now be used to deconstruct any dishes and cocktails, enabling one to serve mojito bubbles and martini bites, as well as balsamic vinegar pearls and chocolate spaghettis. Molecular Gastronomy has become the name of the scientific discipline co-created by Nicholas Kurti and Herve This, based on exploring the science behind traditional cooking methods. Herve This identified five goals of this new science: “(1) to collect and investigate old wives’ tales about cooking; (2) to model and scrutinize existing recipes; (3) to introduce new tools, products, and methods to cooking; (4) to invent new dishes using knowledge from the previous three aims; and (5) to use the appeal of food to promote science.” Molecular gastronomy was born in 1988, when two scientists, Nicholas Kurti and Herve This, decided to investigate culinary transforma¬tions. This described molecular and physical gastronomy as the physics and chemistry behind the preparation of...
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...blood. Nurses are madly dashing around from person to person, trying to aid them as much as possible, while our top doctors are desperately racing against time to find some sort of remedy; the hospital is in mass chaos I tell you, mass chaos! I just can’t take it anymore, seeing so many faces that were once smiling and laughing all of twenty-four hours ago to now being masked with such desolate fear and misery. I want to leave this place, just like Dr. Kamish and Dr. Maveroh and about ten more of our staff members that deserted our hospital did. It would be better than hiding in this old closet that I’m in now, which reeks of must and unused cleaning supplies. Although, the stench of dirt and Windex couldn’t possibly smell as bad as the vile odor of the sick and decaying people outside; I don’t want to go out there. I’m petrified. If I go back out there, I could get sick myself, and leave behind my husband and kids. But I can’t stay in here. It’s wrong. I’m going to go out there right now and try to do my best to help the people that have fallen ill during this grave time, the grimmest time of my life. -Sue * * * Dear Journal March 20, 1348 Yesterday at work was one of the most horrifying sights that I have ever had to witness. And now, as scared as I am to admit it, I have a terrible headache and my lymph nodes are beginning to swell. I have a gut feeling that I may be catching the disease, and the thought of possibly dying...
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...This week was a difficult one for me, a lot of new concepts and a lot of information was thrown at me but with the media tools I used this week it made it a little easier to get through this week and hopefully the next couple of weeks. One media that helped me in this week’s assignments was the direct chat section on the schools web page. Being able to be in communications with other students helped me understand some sections of this week that I did not understand. It also allowed me to bounce ideas and calibrate on this week’s assignment. Using the discussion board is great but being able to instantly communicate with our team allows us to work better with each other. Another media that helped me big time as the E-book, using the eBook from book shelf makes it easier to navigate back and forth between section and the highlighting section helps keep track of things that I might have to go back and read again or to highlight important section that I think will be needed. I believe this will come in handy later on down the line when it comes time to take the final. These two media tools where very useful this week as this week for some reason felt a little more challenging to me, being able to reach out to team members and have parts that where a little fuzzy helped somewhat clarify certain sections of the chapter. One last media tool or study tool that was very important to my self was the UOF app, I am not always able to be in front of my PC so being able to get on this app from...
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