ATH Technologies Inc.: making the Numbers The case of ATH is centered on management taking particular strategic paths in order to achieve the desired organization objective(s). Beginning with the strategy of acquiring market share‚ Scepter implemented very attractive (personal) incentives in order to achieve this goal. These “earn out” incentives did indeed push for innovation‚ growth and market segment but it didn’t put any controls on the amount of spending‚ thus ultimately leading to major
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Good Fats vs. Bad Fats In today’s society‚ eating healthy is bigger then ever with everyone trying to achieve his or her dream body. Any fitness or diet professional will tell you that the biggest way to alter your appearance is by changing your eating habits. One area of the diet that seems to confuse people when it comes to eating healthy is fat. For years fat in the diet is something that people always try to avoid and have always
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Chelsea Kostoff ENG 101: Ms. Bell Assignment #2‚ Draft #1 September 12‚ 2011 Being Fat is OK Being fat is OK‚ written by Paul Campos is a great opinion piece stating that the federal government and BMI charts group people as “overweight” when really they aren’t. Campos addresses that even if you are healthy and exercise‚ you can still be obese or over weight because of your height and weight. He believes that there are three lies behind it all and society doesn’t know the answer to most
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Fats and Oils TCP FST4826 1 Vegetable oil • • • • • • • • • • TCP Coconut oil Corn oil Cottonseed oil Olive oil Palm kernel oil Palm oil Peanut oil Rapeseed oil Soybean oil Sunflower oil 1. Palm oil 2. Soybean oil 3. Rapeseed oil 4. Sunflower oil 5. Palm kernel oil 6. Cottonseed oil 7. Peanut oil 8. Coconut oil 9. Olive oil 10. Corn oil FST4826 2 WHAT IS A FAT? • Chemical units commonly called "triacylglycerols" • “Lipids" - triacylglycerols‚ mono- and diacylglycerols‚
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Trans Fats There is lots of controversy going on about should the trans fats be banned by the government or not. On one side are people who are for ban of trans fats‚ while their opponents think that they should not be prohibited. What are the trans fats? Are they really bad for our health‚ should they be replaced with another substance and why there are so many people against them? Producers have the power over us‚ as well as opportunity to put trans fats into food in small amounts‚ without
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Writer‚ Evgeny Morozov‚ highlights new inventions and delves into dangers and the possible ill-will behind artificial intelligence in his article “Is Smart Making Us Dumb?” Artificial intelligence‚ defined by dictonary.com is as follows‚ "the capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to and decision making in humans‚ as by an expert system‚ a program for CAD or CAM‚ or a program for the perception and recognition of shapes in computer vision systems." Thought provoking ideas are addressed
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a. SATURATED FATS FROM NONSATURATED FATS An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond‚ and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond. Where double bonds are formed‚ hydrogen atoms are eliminated. Thus‚ asaturated fat has no double bonds‚ has the maximum number of hydrogens bonded to the carbons‚ and therefore is "saturated" with hydrogen atoms. In cellularmetabolism
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Garrett Mastin English 1010 Instructor Renaud 6 February‚ 2013 Is Google making us Stupid: An article by Nicholas Carr Over history technology has changed mankind’s overall culture. From clocks to computers the use of electronics and tools is occurring every day in almost all situations. In Carr’s article “Is Google Making us Stupid?” he introduces the idea how the internet is changing our lives by making us mentally process information differently from the past‚ based off previous changes
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“Fat Tax” Not a Panacea “Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360‚000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic level. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.”- Tom Harkin. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduce life expectancy and/or increased health problems (Wikipedia). To cut that number
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Jeanne Clarissa Susanto Nicholas Carr and James Cascio Is Google Making Us Stupid? and Get Smarter According to Carr’s article‚ I noticed that the Internet has obviously influenced human’s life nowadays. Now‚ we prefer to obtain information easily and quickly without any intention of understanding it first. We are likely will not try to read the information thoroughly anymore because the Internet has served all information instantaneously. I also noticed about what Carr said about the Internet
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