When you purchase cut flowers from your local florist‚ do you think about where they came from? Common sense might tell you that they were grown close by‚ because cut flowers can’t survive a very long trip. The reality‚ though‚ is that your cut flowers might come from places like the Netherlands‚ Ecuador‚ or Kenya! Flowers can now travel long distances thanks to air freight and high-tech cooling systems. Even the most delicate orchid can be shipped to arrive fresh in most places on Earth. This allows
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Week Six Case Analysis: Dell Direct and Not-So-Direct MRKT 5000 Online Course Julia Huelsmann Dell Direct and Not-So-Direct Case Summary: When the Texas-based Dell computer company started in 1984‚ its creator Michael Dell was interested in having a completely different distribution approach from his competitors. In order to keep costs low‚ minimize inventory costs and cater to customer needs‚ Dell sold directly to customers. By 1997‚ Dell’s distribution model was working extremely
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Running head: BUDGET CUTS CAN EFFECT THE DROP RATE Budget Cuts can affect the Drop Rate Nichelle Hoyt University of Phoenix GEN 215 Frank N June 23‚ 2009 Budget Cuts can affect the Drop Rate Every 26 second a teen drop out of school. (Khadaroo‚ 2008-2009‚ 1) The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) budget crisis can cause the drop out rate to significantly climb. The budget cuts will allow up to 35 students per class‚ no summer school for elementary and middle school level
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from one stage of life to another can happen in many forms‚ from a child’s gentle baptism to a tribal hazing. It can take weeks for the initiation of Savic boys. For the boys to become a true Savic man they need to go through the process of "crocodile cuts." It happens once a year but doesn’t happen to only one age group. Boys from as young as 13 to 20-years-old may all go through their tribe’s initiation at the same time. All who take part of the process from boyhood to manhood know it’s painful; it
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FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing—hence "field-programmable". The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL)‚ similar to that used for an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (circuit diagrams were previously used to specify the configuration‚ as they were for ASICs‚ but this is increasingly rare). Contemporary
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State government. The schools are being forced to make budget cuts. The teachers at the schools are being forced to take furlough days‚ which are day they have take off with out a pay. The cause of all of these actions is due to the major debt the State of Illinois is in. The money the state should be paying the universities‚ the state is using it on other items. University of Illinois is one of the schools that has to take budget cuts. This is unfair to the University of Illinois because the State
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Cut Grass Ingrid Wan 4D (26) 1. The setting of the poem is in summer. We can see it from “It dies in white hours of young-leafed June”. The poem begins with the ironic death of cut grass‚ in summer‚ season of life and reproduction. The poet chose this setting because he wanted to show that death can happen anytime in our life and is inevitable. Using the contrast of death and this lively season‚ it suggests the sudden nature of death‚ and it existence won’t regard
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in Chinese; and once even a Japanese kid asked me if I was Korean. My ancestors are full-blooded Japanese‚ but I have had to get used to people thinking I’m something else. Like that time I went to the barber college on North Clark Street for my cut-rate haircut. It’s a place where student-barbers get on-the-job training‚ and that’s where I met this guy. He was last in line‚ and he kept staring at me as I walked in. I just stared back. Finally he smiled and said with a southern drawl straight
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Section: 02 Q 1: What is the difference between direct marketing and direct selling? Answer: Direct Marketing; definition‚ “The total of activities by which the seller‚ in effecting the exchange of goods and services with the buyer‚ directs efforts to a target audience using one or more media (direct selling‚ direct mail‚ telemarketing‚ direct-action advertising‚ catalogue selling‚ cable TV selling‚ etc.) for the purpose of soliciting a response by phone‚ mail or personal visit from a prospect
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Distributed and Parallel Database Systems ¨ M. Tamer Ozsu Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton‚ Canada T6G 2H1 Patrick Valduriez INRIA‚ Rocquencourt 78153 LE Chesnay Cedex France Introduction The maturation of database management system (DBMS) technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management
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