...Easter is celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after being crucified three days beforehand (Hillerbrand). Easter can take place any Sunday between March 22, and April 25, since Easter is 40 days after the holiday Lent (Hillerbrand). Easter is the most important holiday to Christians, because the holiday essentially establishes the Christian religion. One of the primary beliefs of Christianity, which is shared between all Christians is that Jesus was crucified, then was resurrected three days later, basically defining Easter itself (“The basics of Christian beliefs”). The events leading up to Easter caused the crucifiction to take place, and are therefore also very important to Easter. Though Easter is now highly westernized due to...
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...On March 25th, 2018, I attended a Catholic church service at Immaculate Conception Parish church in Fairbank, Iowa. The church service that I attended was on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is the last Sunday of Lent, and it is also the first day of Holy Week. The Palm Sunday service included the passing out of palm leaves to the congregation. The Palm leaves symbolize Jesus’ arrival into Jerusalem because people of his time offered them as sort of a welcoming path into their city. A practice that I found interesting from the Palm Sunday service was the fact that the Palm leaves could not be thrown away. After asking, I learned that the leaves had been blessed, so instead of throwing them away, the church kept and burned them to use as the ashes...
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...Lent is absolutely one of my favourite times of the year. The next forty days are filled with preparation for the most important holiday on the Christian calendar. As the foundation of my religion, Easter is a holiday heavily celebrated by millions around the globe. Now, if you aren’t a Christian, please try and refrain from rolling your eyes, moving to another page, or de-friending me on Facebook. Lent has inspired me to move away from my mommy blogging for a post or two and focus on something that is huge in my life. To talk about a person who has made me a better human being. Because, yes, I am mother. I am wife. I am a daughter. I am a sister, friend and good neighbour. I love reading and am fascinated by Canadian politics. I enjoy kicking...
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...Friday March 7th 2014 Daily Devotional “Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise” A blessed day to you, my fellow traveler. The Grace and Peace of the Lord be with you as we enter the third day on our journey with Jesus. I would like to welcome our brothers and sisters who are joining us on this journey throughout the District. It is amazing to see how the Lord works in very unusual ways. I have been asked and encouraged by a member who has been journeying with me to try this approach and I feel so blessed to know that so many have chosen to join this journey. Stand in Jesus and see what amazing blessing the Lord has in store for you. Hallelujah! Yes! I know what you are saying, that adapting to a new discipline can be a struggle. But Psychologists tells us, if we can believe that, that it takes approximately six weeks to change a habit. Give yourself the privilege of renewing your spirit and mind this Lenten Season. I encourage you to stay on the pathway. So we begin day three at a time specifically convenient to your schedule. Spending a minimum of 5 minutes on each segment or step below: Meditation [5 minutes of quiet reflection] Visualization See what your day will be. With conviction, declare how you want your day to unfold and your intentions toward God, his creation and other people who you will be privileged to meet today. And who will be fortunate to encounter you. Gratitude: Thankful for the good happenings in your life. Appreciate where...
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...The Broadstripe Service Guarantee Jochen Wirtz and Sven Tuzovic CASE STUDY C AS E 20 Cable companies traditionally focused on discounts for bundles of TV, Internet, and phone plans to win new customers instead of delivering great customer service. Broadstripe, a small cable company, launched a service guarantee with the aim of becoming the best-in-class service provider. Twenty months after the launch, Broadstripe’s management was reviewing the performance of the guarantee and had to decide what changes should be made, if any. B roadstripe, a small provider of cable, Internet, and phone services in four States (Michigan, Oregon, Maryland, and Washington) faced a difficult situation. Tony Lent, Chief Commercial Officer at Broadstripe, was convinced that the company had to dramatically improve its customer service. However, how does a small cable company differentiate itself from better-known industry giants and establish a best-in-class customer experience? Should a company at the edge of bankruptcy invest in customer service altogether? THE CABLE INDUSTRY Traditionally, cable companies tried to appeal to customers with discounts for bundles of TV, Internet, and phone plans. Customer service, however, had mostly been disregarded. As a consequence, customer satisfaction ratings in the cable industry had been the lowest of any industry. Results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) showed that the largest providers (Comcast,...
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...C AS E 20 The Broadstripe Service Guarantee Jochen Wirtz and Sven Tuzovic Cable companies traditionally focused on discounts for bundles of TV, Internet, and phone plans to win new customers instead of delivering great customer service. Broadstripe, a small cable company, launched a service guarantee with the aim of becoming the best-in-class service provider. Twenty months after the launch, Broadstripe’s management was reviewing the performance of the guarantee and had to decide what changes should be made, if any. B roadstripe, a small provider of cable, Internet, and phone services in four States (Michigan, Oregon, Maryland, and Washington) faced a difficult situation. Tony Lent, Chief Commercial Officer at Broadstripe, was convinced that the company had to dramatically improve its customer service. However, how does a small cable company differentiate itself from better-known industry giants and establish a best-in-class customer experience? Should a company at the edge of bankruptcy invest in customer service altogether? retailers, 75 for banks, and 65 for airlines. Importantly, the cable industry was also lagging behind their satellite TV or telecommunication competitors with DIRECT TV and DISH Network scoring an average of 68. As competition from satellite TV and phone companies intensified, an increasing number of consumers disconnected their subscription TV services in favor of online video services such as Netflix and Hulu. Responding to these competitive...
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...CASE 1.6 NEXTCARD, INC. Jeremy Lent, a chief financial officer (CFO) with Providian Financial Corporation decided to apply the marketing tactics used by Providian to establish an internet based company to offer Internet users a faster way to obtain credit cards. Lent hired dozens of marketing researchers to analyze the “surfing habits of Internet users. With this information the marketing team developed an Internet-based advertising campaign to target internet users that frequently used their credit cards and maintained large balances due to purchases made over the internet. NextCard advertised to new customers if they applied on line a response would be received within 30 seconds. Lents business model was a success and by 2000 and had more daily hits than any other credit card issuer. Other well established credit card affiliates referred potential clients to NextCard. NextCard had extended more than $1 billion of credit to internet customers but unfortunately profits were not immediate which the executives ignored to disclose in any press releases. A NextCard executive boasted in February of 2000 that the “company continues to beat our aggressive growth targets while maintaining very strong parameters and core elements of our business model” (Knapp, p 6). In 1999 the company produced a large loss of about $77.2 million. NextCard was able to take the company public with stock price initialing selling for $20 per share regardless of large losses for each reporting...
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...Dorothy L. Sayers once said “Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject” (BrainyQuote). Sayers is a well respect writer, translator and literary critic and she managed to summarize the mood of Anglo-Saxon literature quite well. Death is a common subject in Anglo-Saxon literature. It has deep roots in their culture and history. This common topic gives Anglo-Saxon literature a mood of despair. Often death was not the end for these people. Their name lived on through stories and epic tales, but this fact does not dilute the over whelming sensation of sorrow and loss in Anglo-Saxon literature. It only provides a way of coping with it. Death is a complex subject in Anglo-Saxon culture. It is highlighted quite nicely in the epic poem, Beowulf. Beowulf is the strongest of men. Hrothgar describes him as “that in the grasp of his hand that man renowned in battle has the might of thirty men” (Beowulf 333-335). He has risked his life multiple times to show how truly noble and courageous a man he can be, but the thanes still thought, “Not one of them believed he would see / day dawn, or ever return to his family / and friends, and the place where he was born; / they well knew that in recent days / far to many Danish men had come to bloody ends in that hall (Beowulf 602-608).” Even in the presence of the greatest of warriors, the people still fear Grendel and believe Beowulf will just become another meal for...
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...Cooperating Individual questions and statements In forming this conspiracy, the defendants and their conspirators did the following * Participated in private meetings where it was agreed amongst Mars, Hershey and Nestle to either maintain increase or fix chocolate confectionery products in the US. * Announcing pricing and selling confectionary prices accordingly * Participated in private meetings to implement and monitor agreements that they reached. The November 19, 2007 Information details several meetings and communications beginning at least as early as February 2004, including meetings at coffee shops, restaurants, conventions, and the offices of Nestlé, amongst Hershey, Mars, Nestlé, and the “Cooperating Party.” In the November 19, 2007 Information, the Competition Bureau set forth the following: a. “Cooperating Individual 1” participated in a breakfast meeting with the President and CEO of Nestlé Canada Inc., Bob Leonidas, on February 23, 2004, at which time the parties discussed the topic of “trade spend” (the industry practice of providing discounts, rebates and allowances to customers, often linked to promotions). According to the Information, “Cooperating Individual 1 indicated that it was known in the industry that he disagreed with the industry’s prevailing approach to trade spend and that the Cooperating Party was going to reduce trade spend on chocolate. Cooperating Individual 1 indicated that he left the meeting with the impression that...
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...Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a festive season that occurs immediately before the Christian season of Lent. The main events typically occur during February. Carnival typically involves a public celebration and/or parade combining some elements of a circus, masks and public street party. The celebrations have been associated with heavy alcohol intake It is an annual celebration of life found in many countries of the world 1. The word cervical was created Hundred and hundreds of years ago, the followers of the Catholic religion in Italy started the tradition of holding a wild costume festival right before the first day of Lent. Because Catholics are not supposed to eat meat during Lent, they called their festival, carnevale — which means “to put away the meat.” As time passed, carnivals in Italy became quite famous; and in fact the practice spread to France, Spain, and all the Catholic countries in Europe. Then as the French, Spanish, and Portuguese began to take control of the Americas and other parts of the world, they brought with them their tradition of celebrating carnival. 2. The first festival dates back as far as 1723. 3. The carnival can trace its roots back to an ancient Greek festival held each spring to honor Dionysus, the god of wine. The Romans adopted the festival to honor two of their gods, Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. During the Roman festival, slaves and masters would exchange clothes and spend the day in drunken revelry. The Catholic...
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...Fifth Avenue and Ann Street in Wilmington, NC. I went there on March 27, 2011 at 11:00 am. St. Mary’s Catholic Church is a post-Vatican II parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh. The Mass I attended celebrated the Third Sunday in Lent. As I entered the Church, the priest, Father Bob, was standing at the door greeting people. As I was looking around in the lobby, Father Bob noticed I was not a regular and approached me. He was very kind and eager to answer questions. He handed me the Church’s newsletter and an Order of Mass. The building was a large brick building. It is a Spanish Baroque style structure with no wood beams, framing, or nails. It is constructed of only bricks and tile. Ground was broken for the church on May 20, 1908 and the first mass held there was on December 17, 1911. The Roman Catholic Church is based in Christianity and is a theistic religion. In greater detail it is a monotheistic religion. There are many hierophanies in the Catholic Church. An example of a sacred place would be the church itself. An example of a sacred person would be the priest or Father Bob at St. Mary’s. Also in the Catholic Church Saints and Popes would be regarded as very sacred people. The mass I attended was during the sacred time of Lent, which is a forty day period. The Catholic Church is not iconoclastic at all. At St. Mary’s there were multiple depictions of the holy in their art. There was a statue of Jesus The religious language of the sermon was double-intentional...
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...gold and silver for safekeeping. Coins were brought to the temples not only as offerings but also for the payment of taxes. Since the temple was a place of worship and was always guarded, it was also considered a safe and secure place for storing items of value. The temples also lent money to the locals for trading purposes and exchanged foreign coins for local coins. During the medieval period, modern banking first began in Italy and then in Holland where banks facilitated the growing trade between Europe and far East. (Wikipedia: History of Banking). In areas where formal banking systems had not yet been established, goldsmiths were performing the necessary money lending and exchange transactions (Black, reading 4-3, p.2). The number of goldsmith-bankers in London has been estimated at 32 in 1670, 44 in 1677, and 42 in 1700(Goldsmith-Banking: Mutual Acceptance and Interbank Clearing in Restoration London. Quinn, Stephen). Edward Backwell was one of the many goldsmith bankers who had established a network of money lending business in London. Along with selling and trading precious metal jewellery and articles, he accepted deposits of gold from merchants for safekeeping; paid interest on the deposits; lent money on interest to the Government and the overseas trading companies; and exchanged foreign coinage (Black, reading 4-3, p.2). At the start of the seventeenth century, trade and commerce started to grow rapidly in England. London was the center of trade with India, North America...
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...letter from his wife telling him that Benjamin had died of the plague. line 3 tho’ wert/thou wert - you were line 4 Exacted to exact payment is to demand or compel payment line 6 lament mourn, deplore, be sorry for line 11 hence-forth from this time onward FAREWELL, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, loved boy. Seven yeeres tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have so soone 'scaped worlds and fleshes rage, And, if no other miserie, yet age? Rest in soft peace, and ask’d, say here doth lye Ben. Jonson his best piece of poetrie, For whose sake, henceforth, all his vowes be such As what he loves may never like too much. FAREWELL, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, loved boy. Seven yeeres tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why...
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...Gluck-Sgambati 1)Dance of the blessed spirits Scarlatti 1)Sonata d minor K. 1 (L 366) 3)Sonata f minor K. 466 (L 118) Bach 1)WTC Book 1-Selections wtc1—#2 BWV 847, #22 BWV 867 2)WTC Book2-Selections wtc2-2 BWV 871 3)Tocattas—c minor, e minor, 6)French overture 7)Goldberg Variations—Selections aria, 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 15 , , 31, aria 8)Invention No. 15 b minor 8)B minor Partita—Bach-Siloti 5)Partita C minor—final movement 9)Marcello full Beethoven 1)Moonlight Sonata 2)Pathetique Mov. 2 3)Appasionata 4)op. 131—4 Haydn—minor sonatas 1. Keyboard Sonata in G minor, H. 16/44 2. Keyboard Sonata in C minor, H. 16/20 3. Keyboard Sonata in C sharp minor, H. 16/36 4. Keyboard Sonata in B minor, H. 16/32 5. Keyboard Sonata in E minor, H. 16/34 6. Andante with variations for piano in F minor, H. 17/6 Chopin 1)Etudes—Selections op. 10/1, ,op. 25/6, , op. 25/12 2)Nocturnes—Selections op.9(1b, 3B), op. 15(2F#,), Op. 27(1c#, 2Db), Op. 48 (1c) --nocturnes[5], op. 72 no. 1, (Postumous No. 20 c# minor), 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 24--preludes[10] 5)Waltzes-7 (c# minor), 14 (e minor), b minor, a minor, a flat major--waltzes [2] 6)Polonaise—F# minor Polonaises Op. 71 no. 1 Op. 71 No. 3 Polonaise for piano in B flat minor, KK IVa/5, CT. 164 (B. 13) Polonaise for piano in G minor, KK IIa/1, CT. 161 (B. 1) Polonaise for piano in G sharp minor, KK IVa/3, CT. 163 (B. 6) Polonaises for piano, Op. 26, No. 1 Polonaise Op. 26, No...
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...Spring in Mexico Cinco de Mayo is not only a holiday known for it's parties, but also it's history. The story starts on May 5th, 1862; Mexico. In the town of Puebla de los Angeles, General Zaragoza, leader of the Mexican army, gathered his troops and townspeople to stand up against France in the Franco-Mexican War. Not only was this victory unpredicted, but it also encouraged Mexican Unity throughout their people. Cinco de Mayo is now a day to celebrate Mexico's win. It is celebrated with colorful decorations such as flags, banners, ribbons, and includes entertainment all around. This involves mariachi bands, street dancers, parades fireworks, and reenactments of the Battle of Puebla. I find the Dia de la Indepencia and Cinco de Mayo to be...
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