...vase from ancient Babylonian times and off course a bottle of wine that would knock even Donald Trump’s socks off. There is however a touch of dirtiness to the acquisition of these items and as I think back it brings a nervous yet satisfying smile to my face. My method of acquiring, smuggling and authenticating these banned and in some cases fine copies of valuable objects relied on my understanding of how foreign customs worked, identifying the loopholes that could be taken advantage of and a comprehension of the underground market. I have always been an admirer of Brazilian Big-Leaf Mahogany and was prepared to go the distance in order to acquire the desired amount. I discovered via my research that most of this mahogany in Brazil was grown in suburbs or farms that were a decent distance away from city centers. It only took a few hundred reals in order for me to get in touch with local mahogany grower. For the right price he seemed quite carefree to give me a portion of harvest. I then contacted a smuggling party I had already had a deal with to take the mahogany to the airport. Next came the...
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...The Altria Group, Inc. Often referred to as “the house the Marlboro Man built”, The Altria Group, Inc. is the world’s largest tobacco company. Altria operates its cigarette business through the companies known as Phillip Morris USA and Philip Morris International, both of which sell Marlboro – the world’s largest selling cigarette brand since 1972 (“The Altria Group,” n.d.). This company controls about half of the US tobacco market. This is also the parent company of Kraft Foods. I chose to do a paper on this particular company because of the practices of lies and deceit that it has followed for many years. Some of the behaviors that I find socially and ethically irresponsible are that the company continually down plays the addictiveness and severe risk to health that their product can cause. Over the years the company has been under scrutiny for many different things including the practice of employing under age children to hand out cigarettes, falsifying legal and medical documents, and the paying off of political and legal leaders to accomplish the things that it wants done. This corporation has also been listed in the Wall Street Journal as Number 1 in a list of the top 10 worst places for a woman to work because of the fact that there are no women in any upper management positions and they employ nearly 75,000 people in the Philip Morris US plant alone (“Unethical Companies,” n.d.). At the annual shareholders meeting in 2011, Philip Morris International celebrated...
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...Eco marketing: What price green consumerism? By Jon Entine on Sep 1, 2011 Plenty of shoppers say they consider environmental impact, but in reality price rules supreme, says Jon Entine How much do we want green carrots? Remember the innocent days of the 1980s ethical consumer movement? New Age entrepreneurs rode the green wave into the hearts and malls of the world. The promise? Buying pricey ice-cream or hair rinse made with Brazil nuts (or the stocks of the companies that made those products) would make the world a better place. That myth crashed. Consumers, it turned out, were not willing to buy idealism in a bottle if it came at a premium. Two decades later, green marketing remains with us, more intense than ever. Is green yet more than a fad? The Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability annual survey estimates that 13-19% of American adults are dedicated green buyers – a $290bn market. The US-based Cone Communications estimates that 70% of American consumers consider the environmental impact of their purchasing. The UK and Europe show similar numbers. According to marketing experts, however, these figures are wildly overstated, reflecting attitudes, not buying patterns. “Buying green products presents people with a social dilemma: they have to be willing to pay premium prices – not for their own direct benefit, but for the greater good,” says professor Shruti Gupta of Penn State University, a world expert in ethical behaviour. “While people love to voice their idealism...
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...Name Subject Professor : : : Mansukh Patel Strategic Business Marketing Mr. M Natrajan Paper: Market Demand / Potential – LUX Soap PRODUCT PROFILE • • • • • LUX is a global brand developed by Unilever. The range of products includes beauty soaps, shower gels, bath additives, hair shampoos and conditioners. LUX started as “Sunlight Flakes” laundry soap in 1899. In 1924, it became the first mass market toilet soap in the world. It is noted as a brand that pioneered female celebrity endorsements. As of 2005, Lux revenue is at 1.0 billion euros, with market shares spread out to more than 100 countries across the globe. Today, Lux is the market leader in several countries including Brazil, India, Thailand and South Africa. For years, LUX has been one of the India top soaps that offer a way to gain smooth and fair looking skin without worrying too much on how old the user is. LUX soap came from one of the biggest corporation in the India today, Unilever. LUX is a personal care brand owned by Unilever. LUX is primarily made from synthetic surfactants, as well as some vegetable oil based soap ingredients, such as sodium palm kernelate. LUX is formulated to be pH neutral, with a pH that is usually between 6.5 and 7.5. As paper title specify, market research is done for the LUX soap to estimate the current demand and market potential. Market research is the process through which one can indentifies the basic problems area relating the product demand, its potential and as conclusion...
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...Chemistry Research Assignment Part A – The Production of Materials: 1. Use available evidence to gather and present data from secondary sources and analyse progress in the recent development and use of a named biopolymer. This analysis should name the specific enzyme(s) used or organism used to synthesise the material and an evaluation of the use or potential use of the polymer produced related to its properties. a) Name a biopolymer (eg. Biopol) outlining how it’s produced. Biopol: Made in the 1960s In an American company. This biopolymer is a PHA and is produced industrially by growing it in tanks with bacteria such as Alcaligenes eutrophus along with a carbon based food source. It is then isolated from the tank to be purified by various methods such as dissolving the PHB in trichloromethane and then removing all its waste to create Biopol. b) Construct a table, relating its uses/possible uses to its properties. Uses Properties related Act as a carrier for slowly releasing insecticides and herbicides and fertilizers Biodegradable – able to break down in the natural environment Use as containers for plastics as well as shampoo containers and cosmetics insoluble in water and relatively high tensile strength Medical applications Biocompatibility and biodegradable Non toxic c) Evaluate the importance of this biopolymer now and its potential for use in the future based on part b. Biopol is quite an important biopolymer as a future resource because firstly, there...
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...Professor Chris Bickel SOC 461, 462 Senior Project Social Sciences Department College of Liberal Arts CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY June, 2012 © 2012 Nichole Griffith Table of Contents Research Proposal ............................................................................................................................1 Annotated Bibliography ...................................................................................................................2 Outline..............................................................................................................................................6 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................7 Research ..........................................................................................................................................8 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................29 Bibliography .................................................................................................................................31 Research Proposal The goal of my research is to expose the racism in the criminal justice system that is so hidden. I want to show how racism contributes to the huge number of incarcerated African Americans. The criminal justice system creates and perpetuates...
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...EUPHORBIA FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE Murimi, S.M. ABSTRACT This paper presents an experimental investigation on Euphorbia fibres as concrete reinforcement. The possibility of improving the mechanical characteristics of concrete through the use of reinforcement plant fibres has provoked in recent years a special interest for this new construction material, especially in those areas where plant fibres can easily be found and consequently have a low price like Kenya. In this study, the influences of addition of euphorbia fibres on properties of fresh and hardened concrete were carefully investigated. It was found out addition of these fibres in concrete significantly improved the tensile strength and the flexural strength of the composite. The test results also revealed that the compressive strength of the concrete was slightly improved. It was illustrated that plain concrete possesses a very low tensile strength, limited ductility and little resistance to cracking. Conversely, the concrete with short randomly spread euphorbia fibres in it was found to have relatively high tensile strength, high ductility and more resistant to cracking. Finally, the results presented suggest that Euphorbia fibres can be used in concrete reinforcement Keyword: Euphorbia fibres, reinforcements, concrete, cracking, compressive strength, tensile strength 1.0 INTRODUCTION Concrete has been proved to be an important construction material for more than a century all over the world. However,...
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...FT SPECIAL REPORT New Trade Routes Brazil Wednesday December 3 2014 www.ft.com/reports | @ftreports Struggling with the transition The end of the commodity supercycle is bringing challenges, reports Joe Leahy Inside Mercosur fails to open doors The country’s approach to trade policy could see it left behind Page 2 E arly in October, an event took place that showed that foreign investor interest in Brazil remains resilient, even as the economy has slowed in recent years. BMW, the German carmaker, opened its factory in the southern state of Santa Catarina to begin producing its Series 3 sedan in an investment that is projected to cost R$600m ($240m) and generate 1,300 jobs. “Whether or not to export will depend on the economy and the speed with which we manage to nationalise production of our cars,” Arturo Piñeiro, president of the carmaker in Brazil, said at the opening ceremony. BMW is not the only company investing in an economy that is undergoing a deep shift in trade flows with the end of the commodity supercycle and the slowdown in China. In the 10 months to the end of October, Brazil attracted $52bn of foreign direct investment inflows, putting it on track to reach about $60bn by the end of 2014, roughly in line with previous years. “This will be another positive year,” says Alexandre Petry, executive manager of investments at Apex-Brasil, the export promotion agency of Brazil. “The principal driver for investors is our market: 200m people with a lower...
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...chain, and lock-downs where prisoners were kept in solitary confinement, restricted to bread and water.” (Mahaney). “On the night of June eleventh nineteen sixty two, they lift dummy heads, fashioned out of soap, toilet paper, and hair, in their beds and crawled out of the escape proof prison” (Morelle). “John Anglin, and his brother Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris tucked dummy heads into their bed sheets and snuck into an unused utility corridor through holes they had currently drilled through their cells” (“Prisoners”). “Then, through the prison roof, they shimmied down the bakery smoke stack and climbed over the fence” (“Prisoners”). “The trio broke out in June nineteen sixty two, and were never seen again” (Alexander). “Officially, they are listed missing and presumed dead” (“Alcatraz”). There was also “A fourth inmate, Allen West, was involved in planning the escape, but he never made it out of his prison cell” (“Did Alcatraz”). “If they had just timed their escape just right, three prisoners would have had a chance of survival, new research shows” (“Prisoners”). “But the Widner’s never believed it” (Alexander).“John and Clarence’s nephew Widner believe that their uncles did survive, and are possibly still alive, in their eighties, living in Brazil” (Alexander). “First there were the Christmas cards, signed with Clarence and John Anglins names, that were delivered to their mother during the three years after the escape” (Donnelly). However, the Christmas cards...
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...Printing is a process for reproducing text and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing. Indian print media is one of the largest print media in the world. The history of it started in 1780, with the publication of the Bengal of Gazette from Calcutta. James Augustus Hickey is considered as the “father of Indian press” as he started the first Indian newspaper from Calcutta, the Calcutta General Advertise or the Bengal Gazette in January, 1780. In 1789, the first newspaper from Bombay, the Bombay Herald appeared, followed by the Bombay Courier next year (this newspaper was later amalgamated with The Times of India in 1861). The first newspaper in an Indian language was the Samachar Darpan in Bengali. The first issue of the daily was published from the Serampore Mission Press on May 23, 1818. In the same year, Ganga Kishore Battacharya started publishing another newspaper in Bengali, the Bengal Gazzeti. On July 1, 1822 the first Gujarati newspaper the Bombay Samachar was published from Bombay, which is still extant. The first Hindi newspaper, the Samachar Sudha Varshan began in 1854.Since then, the prominent Indian languages in which paper have grown over the years are Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Bengali. The Indian language papers have taken over the English press as per the latest NRS survey of newspapers...
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...Impacts of Genetically-Modified Crops and Seeds on Farmers Prepared by David Kruft, Legal Research Assistant November 2001 I. Introduction The agriculture industry has traditionally been supportive of technological advancement, particularly in the field of genetic crop improvement.1 For decades, the industry has been mixing naturally the genetic traits of seeds in the search for particularly robust varieties. Genetically-modified (GM) seeds are a significant step forward in the production of agricultural crops. GM seeds are seeds that have been modified to contain specific characteristics such as resistance to herbicides (in the case of "Roundup Ready" products) or resistance to pests (in the case of Bt corn). But the method of modification used with GM seeds varies from the traditional method in an important respect: the genes have not been modified over generations of cross-fertilization, but rather inserted directly into the DNA of the seed.2 Although this method is more efficient, critics fear that the result — a "novel gene combination" — may have health or environmental impacts that are not being adequately addressed.3 As a result, the technology is surrounded by significant controversy. The reaction of farmers to this new technology has been mixed. Some farmers have quickly adopted the technology.4 Other farmers, mindful of the controversy surrounding GM products, have hesitated to use GM seeds as part of their agricultural operations. Farmers should...
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...BRIC: Currency Depreciation in Russia and Brazil ◎D0131160 Irina Chen ◎D0131187 Gloria Chang ◎D0173297 Sunny Chiu ◎D0173270 Doris Chen ◎D0173670 Athena Du Contents Abstract ..................................................................................... 2 Brazil ......................................................................................... 3 Why Brazil become the BRIC ................................................... 3 What was behind Brazil’s Depreciation? ................................. 8 Russia ...................................................................................... 13 Why Russia become the BRIC?.............................................. 13 What was behind the Ruble depreciation? ........................... 19 Comparison and Similarities between Russia and Brazil ....... 24 In the Future ........................................................................... 25 The Future of Brazil ............................................................... 25 The future of Russia .............................................................. 25 Conclusion ............................................................................... 26 Contributor ............................................................................. 27 Reference ................................................................................ 27 1 Abstract The BRIC is the acronym of four nations, including Brazil, Russia, India and China. The conception of...
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...BIOSAND HOUSEHOLD WATER FILTER PROJECT IN NEPAL By Tse-Luen Lee B. A. Sc. Civil Engineering University of Toronto, 2000 SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JUNE 2001 © 2001 Tse-Luen Lee. All Rights Reserved The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part. Signature of Author: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering May 11, 2001 Certified by: Susan E. Murcott Lecturer of Civil and Environmental Engineering Thesis Supervisor Accepted by: Oral Buyukozturk Chairman, Committee for Graduate Students 1 BioSand Household Water Filter in Nepal Abstract BIOSAND HOUSEHOLD WATER FILTER PROJECT IN NEPAL by Tse-Luen Lee Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on May 11, 2001 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering Abstract This purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness and the performance of the BioSand filter in Nepal. To achieve this, the author undertook a field trip to Nepal in January, 2001. The trip was made possible with generous support provided by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of MIT. The author spent 3 weeks...
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...popular folk model for explaining success, failure and mutual aid in “poverty.” The Moynihan model is an enduring part of popular discourses on race, intensified by contemporary immigrant successes narratives. The participant observation research among homeless African-American families and Latin American families had participated in a small business creation in New York City which happened more than three years ago. When kinship norms are typically American, it is said that certain immigrant family forms are more suited to mutual aid crisis. The African- American family is misused as being dysfunctional. It gives an overview of the demographic of “poverty” and how these demographics have changed since 1979. It also considers trends that have emerged over the last few decades and reconsiders the successes and failures of past public policy. It also identifies the growing feminization of poverty and the growing Latino population as the primary challenges currently facing public makers in addressing the issue of poverty in America. “Poverty” levels among non-Hispanic whites have increased at the same time that the supply of affordable housing has decreased on a national level in the 1980s. This research examines the phenomenon of “poverty” concentration experienced by poor whites in selected US metropolitan areas between 1980 and 1990....
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...by referring to some generalizations of the logistic model, which were used to describe growth and diffusion processes in the context of technological innovation, and for which the author studied the chaotic behaviour by means of a series of computer experiments, performed in the eighties of last century by means of the then emerging “micro-computer” technology. 1 P.-F. Verhulst and the Royal Military Academy in Brussels In the year 1844, at the age of 40, when Pierre-Fran¸ois Verhulst on November c 30 presented his contribution to the “M´moires de l’Acad´mie” of the young e e Belgian nation, a paper which was published the next year in “tome XVIII” with the title: “Recherches math´matiques sur la loi d’accroissement de la e population” (mathematical investigations of the law of population growth), he did certainly not know that his work would be the starting point for further research by Raymond Pearl and Lowell J. Reed [10, 11], by the famous A.-J. Lotka [8] and independently by Volterra [16] and later by V.A. Kostitzin [5], in the fields of mathematical biology, biometry, and demography. It was in these M´moires that he introduced a growth model for a...
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