purpose coatings) saw a large decline. Also with customers wanting a thicker coating with less paint at a cheaper cost and strict EPA guidelines; balancing R&D cost and maintaining a strong contribution margin is becoming increasingly difficult. Jones Blair is particularly concerned with how to grow their market share in the Architectural Paint coatings segment. This is the largest of the 3 segments at 43% of the market with minimal expected future growth. The success of this industry is tied
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Edward Snowden‚ the twenty-nine-year-old N.S.A. whistle-blower who was last said to be hiding in Hong Kong awaiting his fate‚ a hero or a traitor? He is a hero. (My colleague Jeffrey Toobin disagrees.) In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government’s eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the world‚ he has performed a great public service that more than outweighs any breach of trust he may have committed. Like Daniel Ellsberg‚ the former Defense Department official who released
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Jasper Jones - Essay Craig Silvey’s loss of innocence Novel “Jasper Jones” is a story revolved around the secrecy of three young adolescents‚ Charlie Bucktin‚ Jasper Jones and Eliza Wishart. The story is narrated and told through the perspective of Charlie so the voices of everyone else is limited through dialogue‚ nevertheless the unravelling series of tragic events‚ exposes the individuals own thinking‚ their values are cast out and represented through their voice. The values they withhold so
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My book report is going to be on the book Legend. The author is Marie Lu and is best seller in new york. It was Published on November 29‚ 2011 in the U.S and in the U.K on February 2012. The genre is a young adult fiction‚ and has 305 pages. The publisher is Putnam Juvenile. The book has interesting characters and has a very interesting plot. The Legend Marie Lu fiction provides how the relationship between a famous criminal and a prodigious detective might translate into a more modern story. Legend
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Edward Thomas Quotations – The power of language “Silence/Stained with all that hour’s songs.” Synaesthesia of sound being described in a visual term (MARCH) Conversational – “Now I know that Spring” (MARCH)/“But these things also are Spring’s” (BUT THESE THINGS ALSO) Language and words prove that we love the Earth‚ “As the earth which you prove/ That we love.” (WORDS) The problems with language Names are confusing and pointless. They “half decorate‚ half perplex‚ the thing it is.” (OLD MAN) To someone
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Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) studied psychology in Germany and received his PhD at Leipzig. Spearman is noted as a pioneer in psychology and believed in the two-factor theory of intelligence. He wrote his first paper outlining this theory in 1904 with Bernard Hart (Gregory‚ 1987). Spearman claimed that testing a persons abilites to complete tasks against expected outcomes could be measured and expressed in a mathemactical formula‚ that mathematical formula is now known as the Tetrad Equation
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The life cycle is a major subject of literature as old as perhaps humanity itself‚ with each society having a different view or expectations regarding trials and acceptance. “Lanval” by Marie de France is an allegory for the stages of life‚ beginning with conception and ending in death. These stages are exemplified through Lanval’s evolution from a lonely knight into a popular and generous member of society. The trials of adulthood are seen in his controversy with the court and king due to Lanval’s
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I chose to focus my analysis on Edward Snowden and his disclosure of classified domestic surveillance documents. When the leak first came out‚ I was upset at the thought of my privacy being violated by the NSA. However‚ the feeling dissipated when I considered the protection making that sacrifice affords. The NSA‚ like many organizations‚ are sometimes faced with ethical dilemmas. Occasionally‚ there is no right answer. Thus‚ the decision made‚ while not ideal‚ is the lesser of evils. In his TED
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OTIS LE#1 (October 31‚ 2012) • Dow Jones industrial average with the largest market cap is Exxon (XOM). • Dow Jones Industrial average with the smallest market cap is Alcoa Inc. (AA). • The company with the highest P/E ratio is AT&T (T). Initially our process of choosing stocks fell into two high-level categories; a look-back and a look forward approach. Many of our stocks (AAPL‚ ORCL‚ IBM) were picked after much research into “the numbers.” Members of our group that looked at historical
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original Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. In the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra band folders‚ Big Dipper is to this day #4 in the book. This new edition is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the band’s debut performance in February 1966‚ now housed in the Thad Jones Archive at William Paterson University‚ where Thad served as Founding Director of Jazz Studies. These original seven charts were commissioned by Count Basie for an entire album of Thad Jones’ music – but Thad’s
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