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For even more protein, add some turkey sausage or cheese. Simply pour the mixture into muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until you can insert a knife in them and it comes out clean (in a standard-size muffin tin, that will be about 20 to 25 minutes). These are a perfect option if youre not a morning person, as they can be made ahead and then reheated quickly on your way out the door, she adds. TURKISH FRIED EGG Looking for an exotic flavor? Try this modified version of a popular Turkish dish, courtesy of Marina Rà ¶sser, a nutritionist and recipe author. Sautà © red onion, garlic, frozen spinach, and sliced chili peppers in a little olive oil. Once the veggies are soft, add an egg or two and finish cooking. Top with full-fat Greek yogurt, lemon juice, salt. The combination creamy yogurt, fragrant olive oil, spicy chili and lemon is irresistible, she says. 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This thicker consistency makes it ideal for whipping up a decadent, creamy protein shake. And remember a protein shake doesnt always have to be sweet, Rà ¶sser adds. Her favorite concoction: Quark, cucumber, mint, a splash of milk, and a pinch of salt. SHASHUKA This egg, onion, and tomato dish is a breakfast staple in Israel. In fact, the name literally means breakfast, Rà ¶sser says. Simply cook a sauce of sliced onions, red bell peppers, tomatoes, and paprika. Place two cooked eggs on a slice of whole-grain bread and smother it in the sauce. Top with parsley leaves, chili flakes, salt, and pepper for more flavor. CRUNCHY SCRAMBLED EGGS Take your basic scrambled eggs to the next level by adding pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, cherry tomatoes, and arugula. This combo adds protein, fiber, flavor, and a satisfying crunch to an otherwise ordinary dish, Rà ¶sser says. SMOKED SALMON TOAST Fish is an excellent breakfast food. Not only does it have a ton of protein, but the healthy omega-3 fats can help everything from your skin to your brain. Breakfast is all about simplicity, so Rà ¶sser recommends keeping things easy by buying smoked salmon or trout and eating it on whole-grain toast. Optional toppings include cottage cheese, grated horseradish, dijon mustard, chopped parsley, chopped dill, chopped chives, lemons, or salt and pepper. YOGURT PARFAIT Start your morning off right with a simple parfait made of yogurt, berries and muesli, suggests Sonja Kukuljian, Ph.D., R.D., group general manager nutrition at Freedom Foods. Muesli is a whole grain cereal often eaten uncooked. There are lots of variations, so pick one high in fiber and low in sugar; Kukuljian suggests one containing barley, since its got both fiber and protein. POACHED EGGS ON SOURDOUGH Put a twist on standard eggs by poaching an egg in a little vinegar, Kukuljian says. Add a slice of whole-grain sourdough toast (a source of pre- and probiotics) and a drizzle of olive oil, and youve got a healthy, filling meal. VEGAN PROTEIN MUFFINS Protein has an important place in the vegan diet, and you can still get plenty of it without ever touching an animal product, says Rebecca Cafiero, a certified holistic health and integrative nutritionist and a TEDx Speaker. Her favorite plant-based breakfast is muffins made by cooking gluten-free oats in pea protein milk and adding a dash of coconut oil, almond butter, flaxseed, cinnamon, and blueberries. Mix to muffin-batter consistency. You can eat it right then or scoop into muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes for a portable breakfast. (Hit the reset button—and burn fat like crazy with The 2 Week Diet: Melt Away 6 Pounds Unwanted Stubborn Body Fat in Just 14 Days) VEGAN SMOOTHIE Protein smoothies are a tried-and-true healthy breakfast, but vegans may feel left out of the smoothie love as they dont do whey or egg proteins. No problem, Cafiero says, there are plenty of vegan-friendly protein powders. She likes to blend brown rice and pea protein powder with coconut oil, flaxseed, pea protein milk, spinach, blueberries, and a small amount of stevia and cinnamon. This provides a healthy serving of protein along with vital fats, vitamins, fiber, and micronutrients. CRUSTLESS MINI QUICHES You cant go wrong with eggs and veggies in the morning, and you can get both in these grab-and-go crustless quiches, says Jennifer Clemente, M.S., a board-certified nutritionist. Simply mix eggs with any type of vegetables you like—chopped sweet potato, asparagus, kale, and red onion are her favorites—add seasonings like garlic, sea salt, parsley, and cilantro. Bake in the oven until you can insert a knife in them and it comes out clean. These are loaded with fiber, protein and an incredibly wide range of nutrients including vitamins A, C, E, K, B1, B2, B6, and B12, as well as folate and chromium, she says. COLLAGEN SHAKE In the world of protein powders, collagen deserves more love, Clemente says. Collagen powder is pure protein thats cheap, flavorless, and dissolves well in shakes. She likes to blend it with plant milk, berries, chia seeds, and nut butter. The best part? Collagen is no ordinary protein—it may help give you plump glowing skin, reduce joint pain, strengthen nails, hair and teeth, and can improve intestinal conditions and digestion, she adds. AMPED-UP AVOCADO TOAST Avocado toast is the trendiest breakfast food right now, and with good reason. It provides a healthy dose of fats and fiber. But it can be improved, says Alana Kessler, M.S., a certified dietitian nutritionist. Give yours a nutritional boost by adding an egg or two and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast. This adds filling protein and B vitamins. PROTEIN PANCAKES Now you can still have your favorite breakfast dish and get your protein too with this recipe, courtesy of Charlie Seltzer, M.D., a doctor specializing in weight loss. Simply blend until smooth 1/2 cup each of egg whites, oatmeal, and 1% cottage cheese along with 1 teaspoon baking soda. Cook the batter like a pancake [FOR HOW LONG?]. These pancakes may help lower your risk of cardiovascular disease and contain lots of protein for the number of calories. Plus, he promises that the finished product doesnt taste like eggs or cottage cheese! PROTEIN BREAKFAST SANDWICH When you hear breakfast sandwich, you probably think egg McMuffins. Seltzers sandwich recipe, however, packs in the protein and fiber for minimal calories without sacrificing taste. Start with a toasted high-fiber English muffin. Add an egg, a slice of cheese, and two slices of Canadian bacon or ham. Feel free to wrap it in wax paper if youre missing that fast-food feeling. EGGS-N-GREENS Leafy green vegetables are one of the best foods you can eat for your health, but most of us dont fancy them plain. So try them as a nest for eggs, as recommended by Brooke Alpert, R.D., author of The Diet Detox. Grab several large handfuls of greens (spinach, kale, mustard, etc.), and put in a hot pan. Stir until wilted, about one minute. Top with two eggs cooked to runny-yolked perfection. Add a little salt and pepper, and enjoy. OMELETTE How are we this far down the list and have not even mentioned the classic omelette yet? Consider it fixed. Omelettes are a great way to combine eggs with flavorful veggies, meats, and cheeses for a protein-packed nutritious breakfast. My favorite omelette is two eggs cooked with mushrooms, onions, and cheese, topped with basil and tomatoes, says Elin Ãâ€"stman, Ph.D., nutrition researcher and founder of Good Idea. Eggs are a great source of protein, the different colored veggies are packed with polyphenols, and the cheese provides calcium and flavor. TOFU SCRAMBLE Surprise: Scrambles dont have to be eggs. You can still get the flavor and protein by subbing tofu in for eggs, says Shahzadi Devje, R.D., a certified diabetes educator. Not only does tofu provide protein, but its also a great source of calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc, she says. All you do is mash firm tofu and stir in a mixture of sautà ©ed onion, garlic, and red bell pepper (or your veggies of choice). Then cook on the stove. She recommends serving your scramble with either sprouted grain bread, roti, or breakfast potatoes. ALMOND BUTTER CRACKERS Want something simple, protein-packed, and filling that doesnt require any prep or cooking? Devjes favorite super-easy breakfast is rye crackers spread with almond butter and sprinkled with nuts and dried fruits. Add a glass of soy milk and you have a serving of protein in less time than it takes you to look up a recipe. VANILLA ALMOND CHIA PUDDING Chia seeds are packed with protein and fiber, but thats not what makes them special—foodies love them for their ability to add a pudding-like texture to sweet treats. Try this recipe from LA-based dietitian, Danielle Judson: Combine 3 tablespoons chia seeds with 1 cup unsweetened almond milk (or any other plant-based milk of choice), 2 tablespoons almond butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and a dash of cinnamon in a mason jar. Stick the entire thing in the fridge overnight. In the morning, add a sprinkle of blueberries and almonds, and youve got breakfast pudding to go. CHOCOLATE POMEGRANATE OVERNIGHT OATS If even cooking oatmeal is beyond your abilities in the mornings (and youll get no judgement from us!), overnight oats are the perfect solution. Try this nutrient-rich, protein-packed variety, courtesy of Lauren Harris-Pincus, M.S., R.D.N., author of The Protein-Packed Breakfast Club. Combine oats, unsweetened almond milk, plain Greek yogurt, chia seeds, chocolate protein powder, and pomegranate seeds. The balance of protein and fiber from the oats and fruit will delay digestion and help to keep your energy levels up much longer than a high-carb meal, plus the chia seeds absorb up to 10 times their weight in water to help keep you full, she says. BREAD PUDDING IN A MUG Bread pudding is the ultimate comfort food in the morning, but it doesnt have to be a calorie bomb. Indulge with this healthy version from Harris-Pincus. Mix one egg, 2 tablespoons vanilla whey protein powder, a packet of stevia, and 2 tablespoons milk. Fold in a chopped apple and two slices of cubed whole-grain bread. Pour in a mug, and microwave for one minute. Top with syrup and cinnamon. BREAKFAST WRAP Smoked salmon on a paleo wrap with roasted vegetables, greens, and avocado is the go-to breakfast for Elizabeth Trattner, chef and integrative medicine specialist. This yummy wrap is high in healthy fats and fiber, which keep you full longer and helps you lose weight and lower cholesterol, she says. The best part, however, is how customizable this is. Swap out the low-carb wrap for a whole-grain wrap, trade the salmon for chicken or eggs, and use any type of veggies you like. HARD-BOILED EGGS AND QUINOA Make a big batch over the weekend: Bring water to rolling boil on stove, place eggs in pan, cover, and remove from heat. Let it sit for 12 minutes. If you have a few more minutes, Goodson suggests pairing your hard-boiled eggs with cooked quinoa, which is also high in protein, and berries. BREAKFAST TACOS Tacos are an anytime food, as shown by this recipe for breakfast tacos, courtesy of Jerlyn Jones, M.S., R.D.N. Take a whole-grain wrap or taco shell, add black beans, scrambled eggs, lettuce, salsa, and avocado slices. The beans and eggs provide protein, while the avocado provides healthy fats and the veggies bring the vitamins. Plus, its perfectly portable. CRUNCHY TOAST Who doesnt love toast in the morning? But the regular butter-and-jam variety is little better than a doughnut when it comes to nutrition. Add protein and nutrients with Jones toast. Start with whole-grain bread, spread it with a nut butter of your choice, and sprinkle with chia seeds. This combo provides protein along with a hefty dose of fiber and fats. PROTEIN MOCHA Good news for coffee lovers: Upping your protein at breakfast can be as simple as adding a scoop or two of protein powder to your large coffee. This genius trick comes from Adrienne Daly, a nutrition coach based in Houston,. Her favorite is to get a grande sized Cold Brew from Starbucks and a serving of chocolate protein powder to make it a mocha. TURKEY AND SALSA Just because its a dinner food doesnt mean you cant eat it for breakfast. In fact, last nights leftovers can make some of the most nutritious breakfasts, Daly says. Meat and vegetables, dinnertime staples, can easily be reheated and enjoyed. Her go-to is ground turkey topped with a little salsa for extra flavor. TURMERIC EGGS Scrambled eggs turn into a whole new meal by adjusting the spices and other add-ins. Think beyond shredded cheese and include superfood spices like turmeric, cayenne, and cumin, says Josh Axe, certified nutritionist, author of Eat Dirt, and co-founder of Ancient Nutrition. Its a simple way to add more nutrition to your protein. If you’ve never incorporated benefit-rich turmeric into your morning meals, prepare for a life-changing experience, he says. This powerful herb has shown to help regulate cholesterol and manage blood sugar. MEDITERRANEAN MUFFINS Eggs, canned salmon, and feta are the only ingredients in the Mediterranean breakfast muffins that Rima Kleiner, M.S., R.D., author of Dish on Fish, makes. They may be simple—simply combine and bake in muffin tins (set your oven to 350 degrees) for about to 20 to 25 minutes—but theres nothing basic about their nutrition. They pack plenty of protein and healthy fats, all in a portable, tasty package. Make a large batch and freeze extras to be microwaved on busy mornings.(Hit the reset button—and burn fat like crazy with The 2 Week Diet: Melt Away 6 Pounds Unwanted Stubborn Body Fat in Just 14 Days)8.4k Views  ·

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Technological Aspects to Support Ebusiness Essay Introduction: For this assignment I am going to compare, contrast and look at the history of two internet giants: Ebay and Amazon. They are two sites that I regularly use, one more so than the other and find both as user friendly as I do interesting. I will look in detail at the history of the two and also the internet as a global network. Finally I will make a brief conclusion and some recommendations. The evolution of e-business: The term e-business or electronic business was first coined by Microsoft’s marketing and internet team in 1996 but businesses started using websites to marketing their products in the early 1990’s shortly after graphic based web-design became available. They quickly shifted from simply using the web for providing customers with information about their products to selling them when the software to encrypt credit card data became widely available in 1994. Netscape developed Secured Socket Layer (SSL) and websites developed the ability to encrypt sessions, making credit card transactions over the Internet safer for all concerned. With an encrypted connection between a companys server and a client computer, credit numbers could be hidden so they could not be intercepted by a third party, which made the theft of card information more difficult. This security led to the birth of e-business and changed the way we shop for ever. After this period the floodgates opened for opportunities in business to trade online but many people still didn’t trust giving out their credit details over the internet and it proved too expensive to trade on line with transactions of under a dollar or its equivalent. These payments were called micro payments and many companies came and went trying to facilitate these transactions. Paypal has been the most successful business to date that operates in this area and made it fast, cheap and most importantly secure for people to pay for goods online. Even with the emergence of these secure payment businesses, popularity with on line sales was still was not hitting the heights as expected and the .com bubble burst in the early 2000’s. The collapse of the bubble took place during 2000-2001. Many companies failed completely. Others lost a large portion of their market capitalization but remained stable and profitable, e.g., Cisco, whose stock declined by 86%. Some later recovered and surpassed their dot-com-bubble peaks, e.g; Amazon.com whose stock went from 107 to 7 dollars per share, but a decade later exceeded 200. After the bubble burst, many dot-coms liquidated or were acquired by other companies; the domain names were snapped up by domain investors or businesses with more traditional business models who had survived the crash. A few of the larger dot-com companies did survive, however: Amazon and Ebay are good examples. According to some sources, about 50% of dot-coms survived. Unfortunately, there were still thousands of technical experts such as programmers and web designers who were laid off and found themselves in a highly competitive job market. The acquisition of YouTube by Google, Skype by Ebay, and others, has led to speculation that there may be a second, similar bubble on the horizon. Consolidation of websites where top ten sites buy up competition or others go bust. Comparison of 2 web sites For this assignment I am going to explain, compare and contrast possibly the two most popular internet shopping sites; Ebay and Amazon. I’ve used both of these sites myself and have had little or no problem with either and find them both very user friendly. Ebay: Like most of the first really big internet sites, Ebay was started by one person and a computer from a bedroom or in this case a living room. Pierre Omidyar first created eBay (originally stood for echo bay technology but that domain name had already been taken) in 1995 to offer a marketplace where unwanted goods or collectables could be sold online with little knowledge of how much a global phenomenon it would become and how many times people would attempt to replicate it. The success of Ebay rose greatly for 3 years in which it amassed revenues of approx $4 miollion by its third year of trading. In March 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll brought in the now multi billionaire Meg Whitman to sustain the success and take it to the next level. This proved pivotal in the world wide success of Ebay although her 9 year spell as CEO was not without controversy. Meg had studied at the Harvard Business School and had learned the importance of branding at companies such as Hasbro. Within 6 months as CEO of Ebay Whitman turned Ebay from a popular online garage sale to a multi billion dollar empire by splitting the company into 23 different business sections, and 35,000 sub categories. She made the company public and shares went from 7 cents a share to as high as $170 a share. This made Ebay the tech darling of the web and many tried and many failed to replicate their success. Ebay now stands at number 64 on the Forbes most powerful brands with 27,700 employees and annual sales of 11.65 billion. Ebay makes its money from a number of ways: Every time someone puts something up for sale on Ebay they have to pay an insertion fee (fee for starting an auction). Usually in the region of 55 cent for smaller to mid-priced auctions. So even if a product does not sell, Ebay will have made money. From each successful auction Ebay will also take a percentage from each sale. Advertising Companies pay to advertise on their site. Google adsense and various other advertising companies use ebay to advertise company’s products on the site. Paypal. Ebay own Paypal and the majority of buyers and sellers use it when making transactions on Ebay. Paypal in turn gets a cut of each transaction. In October of 2002 eBay acquired Paypal Inc. for 1.5 billion dollars. Paypal is the preferred way of making payments for eBay auctions and is growing in popularity for other Internet uses. Paypal allows a person to send or receive money via an email address. Money in a Paypal account can be spent on the Internet, sent by check to the account owner, or deposited into a bank account. Paypal also offers credit cards, debit cards, and a bill paying function. Amazon Amazon.com like ebay is one of the largest online retail websites in the world. Also like ebay it started up from one man and a computer from home but in this case, a garage, and went from a small operation to an international business employing thousands of people in a short space of time. Much the same as Ebay. People all over the world purchase books, music, movies and products from Amazon and hundreds of partner companies. Amazon.com was started by Jeff Bezos in 1994. At the time, his company was run completely from his garage in Bellevue, Washington. He was able to secure funding from Nick Hanauer. This first investment of $40,000 was joined by a larger, $100,000 investment from Tom Alburg that helped make the new website more user-friendly. Like eBay both men would probably not have turned their brand into a global force without the help of outside parties. During the first month of business, Bezos fulfilled and shipped orders to all 50 states, and to 48 countries. Books were t he only product available at that time. Bezos wanted Amazon.com to be more than just a retail website; he wanted to create an online community. Early on, he added a feature that enabled readers to add their own book reviews for all customers to view. In 1997, Amazon.com added movies and music to its offerings. On May 15, 1997, the company went public. The initial public offering (IPO) was targeted at $18, but by the end of the day, public demand had pushed the share price to more than $24 per share. The company had raised $54 million. Amazon.com is listed on Nasdaq as AMZN. In 1998, Amazon opened its first international sites in the United Kingdom and Germany, where it quickly enjoyed success. In 1999 the company opened four order fulfillment centers in Fernley, Nevada; Coffeyville, Kansas; and Campbellsville and Lexington, Kentucky to handle the large mass of orders. Time Magazine featured Jeffrey Preston Bezos as Person of the Year in 1999, calling him king of cyber commerce. The Look Inside the Book feature, added in 2001, was immediately popular as a tool for consumers to see if the book they were looking at would fit their needs. Later, the Search Inside the Book feature, added in 2003, made it possible for consumers to search key words in the text of the book. Amazon added Marketplace, where sellers of used books could offer products for sale with a small commission collected by Amazon. Amazon also teamed up with many companies to offer their products through the website. In January 2009, Amazon reported $6.7 billion in fourth quarter 2008 sales. The company now has centers in 12 U.S. states and eight countries. Its headquarters are in Seattle, Washington, and the company employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. In 2009 Amazon released the Kindle. The kindle is an ebook viewer that lets users download ebooks to the device and read them without physically every owning the book. Users can now also view films and connect to the internet through it. It was through the kindle that helped amazon sales increase ten fold. By 2011 amazon had recorded sales of $48 billion. There are a lot of similarities between Ebay and Amazon which I will now outline below. Both set up around the same time Both set up from home by one man and a internet connection. Both companies became very popular very quick. Both needed the addition of outside help to take it to worldwide success Both companies went public around the same time and made everyone involved overnight millionaires†¦ Both let users sell their unwanted items online Where they differ is Ebay sells anything and everything, new and used and owns its payment service. Ebay doesn’t sell any of its own products and relies heavily on user input, paypal and advertising to bring in income. Ebay is unique in that it actually doesn’t stock any products and is selling other peoples items which it never comes in contact with. This means they don’t have any overheads like warehousing rental, handling fees, shipping/transporting costs and all the labor costs that are attached with the above. If people stop buying or selling on the site, their business plan fails and will cease to exist, so keeping their brand in the public eye and keeping a positive public image is of more importance than most. Ebay has to spend a whopping $83 million a year on advertising and although this only represents 1% of revenue it’s still the third highest of tech companies in the modern climate. This can be viewed as an extremely proactive move but also highlights how the top brass at Ebay think and what position the company could find itself in if not continuously in the public’s mind. The annual $83 million spent on advertising is roughly double what amazon spends a year. That in itself tells you a lot about the differences between the two company’s business plans. [pic] Amazon sells books, music and film, new and used but only accepts credit card/debt card payment does not own the payment facility. Interestingly it doesn’t accept paypal as a form of payment. Amazon has more arms to its business and potentially better equipped to survive if interest drops in the brand or another dot com bubble burst arises. Amazon is like any retailer that buys and sells a product for profit and has all of the overheads that come along with it including stock management and cost issues. Amazon has its own creation in the kindle that it manufactures wholesales and retails itself which proves very profitable. Similar to Dell computers but without the wholesale part. Security: Ebay Paypal is renowned for its safety aspect of shopping securely online. If your paypal account has been hacked and money is taken out then a refund is provided by paypal. If you purchase something on Ebay trough paypal then you could be covered with buyer protection. Buyer protection can get you a refund including post and packaging costs if the item you purchase isn’t working properly, not as described or simply didn’t arrive. It’s a second to none approach to online buying that keeps the customer coming back. If customers don’t use paypal then it can prove to be a little more difficult in getting a refund and/or returning an item. Detail a few scams people do on Ebay [pic] Amazon Shopping on line with Amazon is by and large safe and secure and users often are usually very happy with it’s A to Z guarantee policy where by users are offered a full refund if item is not as materially described. In disputes Amazon usually sides with the buyer. In September 22, 2010, Amazon published a security advisory regarding a security flaw in its Amazon Payments SDK(software development kit). This flaw allows a malicious shopper to shop for free in web stores using those SDKs. Amazon mandated all web stores to upgrade to its new SDKs before Nov. 1, 2010. Amazon acknowledged security researcher Rui Wang for finding this bug. The detail of the flaw is documented in the paper How to Shop for Free Online Security Analysis of Cashier-as-a-Service Based Web Stores by Rui Wang, Shuo Chen, XiaoFeng Wang, and Shaz Qadeer Payment Metods: Amazon Payments accepts verified U.S. bank accounts. For the rest of the world it accepts credit cards and transfers from your available Amazon Payments account balance. Credit cards currently accepted include Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Diners Club, and JCB. You have to verify your bank account before you can use a bank account as a payment method. There are two methods of verification available: Instant Account Verification and Random Deposits. To verify with Instant Account verification, you use your bank login credentials through Amazons secure website to contact your bank. Verification using this method takes only a few minutes. To verify with Random Deposits, Amazon deposits two small random amounts to the checking account you specify. When the deposits are registered with your bank, you verify the amounts with Amazon. Verification using this method takes from five to seven business days. Ebay on the other hand offers many more methods of payment. Payments options for most sales are: Paypal: (as described above) Propay: When the buyers check out, they enter their credit card information. Payment is processed immediately and sent to your ProPay account. There are fees attached similar to paypal but payment protection applies also similar to paypal. Skrill (Moneybookers): Skrill is a business that allows payments to be made through the web. The Moneybookers payment system offers an online deposit accounts and a low-cost, internet-based alternative to traditional money transfer methods such as cheques, money ordersand wire transfers . To merchants, Moneybookers allows accepting online payments made with major cards or Skrills own online accounts. Skrill also has payment protection available and fees are attached. Paymate: Similar to Paypal but it puts funds directly into the sellers bank account. Only for people in Australia and New Zealand. Payment protection available. Fees attached. All major credit cards: Payment protection available. Payment on collection: payment protection available. Both companies make payment as easy as possible but Ebay are clearly out performing Amazon in this department. They offer more payment options but I think they have to in order to make it easier and appear safer for the customer to shop on their site. Internet as a global market: The internet today has become the largest shopping centre on earth accessible through your computer/tablet/mobile phone at home, work or on the go. The world has gotten smaller thanks to the advancements in technology, trading online has become available to the masses with great ease. Cyber Monday is a great example of this. High street retailers are down 0.2% on last year sales for the month of November. Not a crisis by a long shot but its main competitors, the on line retailers, were up 26% year on year for the same period and the credit card firm Visa expected 6.8 million online transactions with shoppers spending  £320 million on 2012’s Cyber Monday alone. That alone tells you how big a market the internet has become. People can now set up a business from home on the internet and become an entrepreneur over night. They can buy products from China and sell them in Argentina within a matter of days without ever having to touch it all from behind the comfort of their computer. Conclusion: Ebay and Amazon are no doubt two brilliant examples of how to make a success of an e-business and are global internet giants. They are both now and will be household names for years to come but Amazon have the advantage in my opinion in that they are retailers as well as middle men for online sales but more importantly they manufacture, wholesale and retail their own hugely successful product in the Kindle. If another worldwide credit crunch arises or dot com bubble bursts then no doubt Amazon is the better of the two equipped to survive. Ebay is in more danger of becoming last weeks news because the hits can drop on it easier and people can stop trading on it or using another similar web site much quicker than Amazon and it will become extinct. Through researching the two sites I now have a greater understanding of the humble beginnings of the two and how they got to where they are today. I now know and understand how the two operate and the security involved with the two. Most of all I would now feel confident in putting what I have learned into practise. Recommendations: Ebay should try follow Amazon by getting into the production market and expand the business to future proof its self. Amazon should focus on its strengths in the kindle and the future being the download market of movies/tv and books particularly in the market of tablets and phones. 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Evaluate factors that influenced the effectiveness of each interaction Essay Example for Free

Evaluate factors that influenced the effectiveness of each interaction Essay In this piece of coursework I will be analysing and evaluating the factors that influence the effectiveness of each interaction in relation to the one to one set at a GP’s for a patient that has really bad back pains and is complaining about how sharp the pain is. I based the one to one interaction on a patient with back problems and they’ve come to the GP’s for something to be given to them. I thought of this because it’s something I went through and I thought it would be nice to let people know what process I went through and how hard it was. The first factor, I thought that influenced the one to one interaction was the patient and doctor taking turns while talking and not interrupting. Turn taking is a major factor that involves our everyday lifestyle and it’s helpful because you know you will get a turn at having your own say. Turn taking helps out a lot especially if you are with younger children or at a GP. For example, the patient came to her doctor and she told her doctor what was wrong with her and how much she’s in pain, the doctor listened to her while she was talking and didn’t ask questions until she finished talking then, the doctor answered all her questions and asked her own questions trying to figure out what was wrong about that patient and what actions will need to be taken for the patient to feel better. Towards the end the doctor referred the patient to her local hospital for an x-ray to see what’s going on. What’s good about turn taking is that everyone listens to each other and you don’t get interrupted also you know you’ll have enough time to talk while others have a chance to think about questions to ask you. The second factor I realised that influenced the one to one interaction was listening. Listening is letting people talk and you concentrating on just what they are saying, listening is a very important communication skill because if you don’t listen you may misunderstand something which may leads you to thinking differently and feeling insecure. Read more: Describe factors which may influence children’s development essay Listening was one factor that influenced the one to one interaction because if one of us didn’t listen while the other person was talking we may have not heard what they were saying or concentrated enough to understand what they were saying which can lead to giving wrong answers which could be a problem to the persons health that’s why when others are talking you always have to listen. For example, in the one to one interaction Emily was my partner and she helped me concentrate listening to  her because little things distract me easily so I had to make sure I listened to her also, we had our script which was used as a prop if we missed out something we carried on listening to each other while looking at what was said to not give the wrong answer. We listened to each other because we knew how important listening is and we were successful at getting through the one to one interaction without not knowing what was going on because we listened to each other. The third factor that also had an influence on the one to one interaction was respect towards each other. Respecting each other shows you give them pride and you are happy about what they are saying or doing also, respect comes from learning to care about people from older ages because we have to respect people to get along with life if we don’t respect then there could be consequences. Respect is very important because we all have to respect everyone no matter what their race, gender, age or features are we have to because we live in a society that moves with respect. For example, if we didn’t respect the army that looks after the country for losing their lives to make the world a much happier place and for us to be safe then that will be a major consequence because what’s the point of those people dying for us if we can’t have a little respect for them. The reason why I thought respect had a influence in the one to one interaction was because if we didnà ¢â‚¬â„¢t respect each other we wouldn’t have been able to understand each other and we wouldn’t have been able to do the doctor and patient script because a doctor always has to respect their patients no matter what happens they have to so does the patient too. An example of this would be, when the patient walked into the room I felt the respect from the patient by the way they answered me and facial expressions. This had a big impact on the interaction because it made it less awkward to talk with the patient and not only was the patient comfortable with asking questions to do with her illness but as a doctor being able to have enough respect from a patient to ask them what areas of the back hurts and being able to have a look at the patients back to check what’s wrong. The last factor that had an influence on the interaction was how professional I was. Being professional can be difficult because if you’ve always been in an environment that’s unprofessional and you don’t know where to use what language that can be an issue. So being professional was key in this interaction because I was a person that had a reputation,  that had power to help people and look after them. If I didn’t act professional the patient could have not taken me serious but I did. The reason why being professional was an influence in the interaction because I realised the more professional you are no matter where you are you will always be looked up to and that’s why I thought it was an influence because it made the patient feel secure with me, it made the patient understand no matter what happens I will always be supporting the patient which would make both of us happy. For example, the minute the patient knocked on the door I dropped everything I was doing and stood up and shock the hand then I made the patient feel welcomed and asked how they were then they started explaining what the problem was and the actions I was doing showed I was professional.

The Method Of Ibs And Conventional System Construction Essay

The Method Of Ibs And Conventional System Construction Essay Labour productivity comparison between structural building systems showing that the number of trades for each building system was highly labour intensive because it consisted of four major operations, namely the erection of scaffolding and formwork, installation of reverse, casting of concrete and dismantling of scaffolding and formwork. On the other hand, the IBS required fewer construction operations. For instance, the cast in-situ tunnel form system did not require scaffolding to support the slab while the precast concrete system was pre-assembly in the factory, hence reducing on site labour input. crew size comparison between structural building system; Crew size comparison between structural building systems showing that the conventional building system was significantly different from the IBS. However, no significant difference was found between building systems in IBS. Hence, they were grouped into homogeneous subset . on average, IBS required a crew size of 22 people while the conventional building system required a crew size of 14 people. These crew sizes were further broken down into carpenter, precast panel erector, steel form erector, bartender, concrete and crane operator. In term of percentage, the conventional building system require d 7% more than size of the IBS. this was because the conventional building system required more construction trades than the IBS. cycle time comparison between structural building system; Cycle time comparison between structural building system show that the mean cycle time for completion of structural element of one house, the total construction duration for a project can be predetermined. This can be to evaluate the project extension of time submitted by the contractor. In terms of percentage, the conventional building system required 26%more than cast in-situ table form system, 41% of cast in-situ half tunnel form system 53% of precast concrete 2.4 Factor of choosing method of IBS and conventional system According to the Warszawski (1999),that is the factor of comparison between IBS and conventional system: factor IBS Conventional system Quality Quality-controlled and high aesrhetic and products through the process of controlled pre-fabrication and simplified installation. Factory production of fabricated components minimizes errors and imperfections, resulting in better quality products, better workmanship and superior finishes. An IBS components produces higher quality of components attainable through careful selection of materials, use of advantages technology and strict quality assurance control. The initial capital investment for setting up a permanent factor is relatively experience. Plant, equipment, skilled worker, management resources need to be acquired before production can be commenced. Less (cannot change the design flexibility as components ordered was fixed in sizes) Materials may manage by semi-skill people. Uncertain weather can result in less-than expected construction. More (design can change flexibility, or can cast in-situ) Speed of construction time Faster completion of construction projects due to the usage of standardized prefabricated components and simplified installation processes. An industrialized building system allow for faster construction time because casting of precast element at factory and foundation work at the site can occur simultaneously. This provides earlier occupation of the building, thus reducing interest payment or capital outlays. Generally, all building system requires lesser time to fabricated the building components, which may include time taken to fabricated, erect and dismantle formwork and to cure the concrete. Speed of construction is according to labour productivity and materials delivery to construction site. Time consuming where the process can be delay by weather or scheduling conflict. Construction of in-situ work requires the fixing and casting time, thus it is slow. Cost of construction The initial cost of constructing the factory, casting beds and support machinery is usually expensive and can only be removed when undertaking large project. The repetitive use of the formwork made up steel, aluminium, etc and scaffolding provides considerable cost savings. For large project, the initials capital investment in the building system can be amortized to a large extent, especially when the cost is given a wider spread. Prefabricattion capitalizes on a faster turnover, giving savings on overheads and other operational costs. Greater control over manufacturing results dramatically reduces the chance of cost overruns. Need to employ professional person to in charge. Construction cost increase due to uncontrollable variables such as weather and scheduling conflict. If suitable materials are choosing, cost of construction will decrease. Storage and equipment space For the purpose of erecting and assembling precast panels into their position, heavy crane is required especially for multi-storey building. It is therefore important to incorporate this additional cost when adopting a prefabrication system. The prefabrication system relies heavily on sophisticated plants, which have to be well coordinated and maintained by skilled operators. Breakdown in any section would hold-up the entire production line. A large work area for the factory, tower cranes, trailers and storage space for the precast components are normally required. Most construction sites are congested are quite often unable to provide the large are required. Need to provide a storage for machinery. Bigger space is needed materials storage Lesser large equipment at site like tower crane, mobile crane and etc. Safety and cleaner Construction is not affected by adverse weather condition because prefabricated component is done in a factory controlled environment. Safer construction site due to reduction of site workers, materials and construction wastage. Construction operation is safer without large equipment like tower crane and etc. transportation It is found that casting of large-panel system can reduce labour cost up to 30 percent. However, these cost savings are partially offset by the transportation costs. The transportation of large panels is also subject to the must taken into consideration when adopting a prefabrication system. All materials are deliver under small sizes and package form, thus all materials are easily transport to construction site. Labour Low site worker required due to simplified construction methods. Prefabrication takes place at a centralized factory, thus reducing labour requirement at site. This is true especially when high degree of mechanization involved. Due to the higher degree of mechanization, professional person is needed. Skilled workers are replaced by plant machinery, tower crane and mobile loaders. Using more of the workers is semi-skilled and skilled worker. High site workers required due to traditional construction methods. Using more of the workers is semi-skilled and skilled worker. (source: Peng, 1986; Abdullah, 2003; Warszawski, 1999; Zaini, 2000; CIDB, 2003, 2005; Ingemar Lofgren Kent Gylltoft, 1996; Raymond, 2002)

The Biopower of Beauty Essay -- Literary Analysis, Mimi Thi Nguyen

In â€Å"The Biopower of Beauty: Humanitarian Imperialism and Global Feminism in an Age of Terror,† Mimi Thi Nguyen argues that beauty as a measure of moral character functions to regulate an individual. Nguyen explains that beauty promises to be redemptive and bring an individual from the outside in relation with the world(362). For example, the United States through nongoverenmental orgainizations (NGO’s), have promoted beauty to Afghanistan women because it is a way if liberating them from an uncivilized barbaric society that oppresses them to hide their beauty through the veil. According to Kant, the veil is considered ugly because it hides the body, which is associated with the erotic. Kant claims that beauty made visible is true and good, while the invisible is ugly and erotic (266). Nguyen claims using Kant that beauty is connected to morality because it makes visible what the â€Å"ugly† is trying to hide by providing a pathway in which beauty can impr ove ones life. Nguyen asserts that individuals use beauty as a serious of techniques to produce knowledge and emotions that function to portray the individual with dignity in comparison to the â€Å"ugly†. Thus, the use of beauty as an educational tool that measures their character is an important factor in teaching women to associate themselves with the rest of the world. Nguyen states the programs that NGO’s provide for women who do not have the knowledge to make themselves beautiful, serve as programs of empowerment that are connected to forms of dominance (360). Nguyen claims through beauty, Afghanistan women are suppose to feel a sense of self-worth and agency that was denied to them, while adhering to a set of western ideals of beauty. Nguyen claims this produces individual... ...auty School. From Nguyen, beauty functions in foucauldian terms because the students are made aware about their bodies in relation to the west that forces them to regulate themselves in order to adhere to beauty norms and standards set forth by their instructors. Nguyen contends that the western experts then shape the bodies of the students, who will then shape the bodies of others who also want to be like the west. Since western institutions are in charge of the Kabul Beauty School, the beauty school functions to cultivate women who want to preserve beauty for the sake of their dignity and morality as a tool against the â€Å"ugly† and uncivilized who are not like the west. In conclusion, Nguyen argues that beauty connected to morality justifies the United States intervention within Afghanistan that regulates individuals to accept western culture over their own.

Biographical Portrayals in Strachey’s Eminent Victorians and Keynes’s B

Biographical Portrayals in Strachey’s Eminent Victorians and Keynes’s Biography of Isaac Newton The Bloomsbury notion of biography moved against what was the predominant norms of biography at the time. Iconoclastic in all their efforts, the Bloomsbury writers did an interesting thing regarding biography. In both Lytton Strachey’s portrayal of Florence Nightingale from Eminent Victorians and Maynard Keynes’s brief portrait of Isaac Newton, they strive to reinsert the iconoclastic into figures that have become so mainstream as to be banal in their eyes. There is an ironic derision of the stereotypes both figures have become alongside an enormous amount of respect for the non-stereotypical aspects of their character that made these figures as great as they were. Strachey’s Eminent Victorians could be summarized as an attempt to demonstrate the ways in which the key figures of the Victorian era were not as Victorian as one might assume. Florence Nightingale, in particular, could not be seen, through Strachey’s eyes at least, as simply the â€Å"Lady with the Lamp† seeking ...

American Labor Movement: Development of Unions :: American America History

American Labor Movement: Development of Unions The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves, and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions, coalitions of workers pursuing a common objective, began to form demanding only ten instead of twelve hours in a work day. Workers realized the importance of economic and legal protection against the powerful employers who took advantage of them. (AFL-CIO American Federalist, 1) The beginnings of the American Labor Movement started with the Industrial Revolution. Textile mills were the first factories built in the United States. Once factory systems began to grow, a demand for workers increased. They hired large amounts of young women and children who were expected to do the same work as men for less wages. New immigrants were also employed and called "free workers" because they were unskilled. These immigrants poured into cities, desperate for any kind of work.(Working People, 1) Child labor in the factories was not only common, but necessary for a family's income. Children as young as five or six manned machines or did jobs such as sweeping floors to earn money. It was dangerous, and they were often hurt by the large, heavy machinery. No laws prevented the factories from using these children, so they continued to do so. (AACTchrNET, 1) "Sweatshops" were created in crowded, unsanitary tenements. These were makeshift construction houses, dirty and unbearably hot. They were usually formed for the construction of garments. The wages, as in factories, were pitifully low, no benefits were made, and the worker was paid by the number of pieces he or she completed in a day. Unrealistic demands were put on the workers who could barely afford to support their families. (1) The United States had the highest job-related fatality rate of any other industrialized nation in the world. Everyone worked eighty hours or more a week for extremely low wages. Men and women earned twenty to forty percent less than the minimum deemed necessary for a decent life. The number was even worse for children. (Department of Humanities Computing, 2) Often workers would go home after a long day and have to continue work on an unfinished product, which they had to return to the factory in the morning.

Om 10 Decision of Hard Rock Essay

1.From your knowledge of restaurant, from the video, from the Global Company Profile that opens this chapter, and from the case itself. Identify how each of the 10 decisions of operations management is applied at Hard Rock Cafe? 1) Design of goods and service Hard Rock Cafe us famous for foods from classic American -burgers and chicken wings- . So they try to be good in service to customers and always modifying the menu. The experience concept is to provide not only a custom meal from the menu, but dining event that include a unique visual and sound experience not duplicated anywhere in the world. 2) Managing quality Hard Rock Cafe serve over 3,500 meals of each day. The Cafe employs about 400 people, therefore they usually have base on how to manage with their employs to get efficiency because concept of Hard Rock ,who want to work in here are not only competent in their job skills ,they should also have passionate about music and have engaging. 3.) Process and Capacity Hard Rock Cafe spend millions of each years to purchase new music,souvenirs come from legends of rock -mainly from Elvis – Each Hard Rock Cafe and Restaurant is different design menu that depends on culture & country. Hard Rock Cafe works to create product in an efficient , manner, analyzing them for cost , quantity and labor requirement 4) Location strategy Hard Rock Cafe has always catered largely to tourist in recent years. The tourist seeking to find a special and memorable time . Their largest restaurant and one the biggest restaurant in the world is located in Orlando , Florida. 5) Layout Strategy Concept of Hard Rock Cafe stands out the crowded restaurant is their layout just looking their big guitar outside. The wall is being slapped with lots of memorabilia : guitars ,drums , shirts , pants , shoes, scarves , hand  written come from music brand or legendary musician , such as Elvis , John Lennon . So that Hard Rock seems to be â€Å"Live† museum 6) Human resource and job design Hard Rock has an employs Bill of rights , outstanding pay , benefit and promotion that helps employee self-motivated individual .They also have policy hiring the best quantity not just best available. Human resource can be expensive , different to archive and hard to sustain but in Hard Rock Cafe with in practice training and treat employee as you need individuality that not only good for business but also have definitely â€Å"Rock† 7) Supple chain management Hard Rock has been explored new global resource to achieve maximum profitable via supply chain. Be aware the most advantage of outsourcing is cost saving and improve services level. Hard Rock has selected USCO logistic. 8) Inventory , Material requirement planing , and JIT Inventory is one of the most expensive assets of many companies and Hard Rock is not exclusive and also has invested 40 million dollars in one of world’s largest collection of rock-and – roll memorabilia inventory. â€Å"The objective of inventory †-management is to strike a balance between inventory investment and customer service and using effectively software such as Excel OM . Hard Rock has done a great of cataloging every single item. 9) Intermediate and short-term scheduling Hard Rock Cafe is using a lot of forecasting technique such as moving average weighted moving average , exponential smoothing and regression. Analysis that helps manager to see the impact on demand of other menu items if price of one item is changed. 10) Maintenance Hard Rock Cafe got the goal maintenance when they succeed to maintain the capability of system over 52 countries ad keeping a system’s equipment is working order in 163 cafes around the world.

Investing Stocks and Bonds Essay

Investing in Stocks and Bonds Stocks and Bonds ar different in some(prenominal) ways. A store is a contri bution or share of the getership of a corporation. A share will deed e verywhere the owner of the stock the comp anys take ins or loses over metre. The just function closely stocks is they brush aside be exchange at about any cartridge clip as long as at that place is some champion willing to buy. A bond, on the anformer(a)(prenominal) hand, is a primed(p) interest financial asset issued by governments, companies, banks, and other large entities. Bonds also are c eithered strains. Bonds pay the owner a bushel measuring stick a specific duration, or on specified dates depending on the face of bond.If the bond is a discount bond, consequently there is maven pay date at the end. If the bond is a verifier bond, then it pays a fixed amount over a specific time. The time could be by month, or by family. My team was assigned the task of investiture 120,000 d ollars over decenniumner geezerhood. We were to invest 80% of 120,000 dollars in stocks and 20% in bonds. We invested in six different stocks and twain bonds. Also, we calve the m one and only(a)y. Therefore, we each invested 6,000 dollars per stratum in troika stocks and one bond. The first stock I decided to invest in was Nike Inc. Nike Inc. is a strongly advertised and a comfortably-distributed lodge (Nike).Nike Inc. is known well across the origination (Nike). When it comes to shoes, clothes, or sports apparel, everyone has at least one item of Nike. In most cases, battalion own multiple things of Nike equipment. Nike Inc. spends keen amounts of time and money on their products (Nike). Also, Nike Inc. is extremely democratic among sports. That is relevant because I am an athlete, and own many Nike products. Almost every orthodontic braces of shoes I own is Nike, besides dress shoes. This all proceeded to tell me, as an investor, to get involved in a part of the com pany. I took 2,000 dollars of the 6,000 dollars and invested in Nike Inc. every(prenominal) course of instruction for 10 historic period I bought 2,000 dollars worth of shares. The keep down of shares each year ranged from 24 shares to 42 shares of Nike Inc. stock. In April of 2007, there was a stock crash for Nike Inc. The shares disconnected 21. So the number of shares I owned up to that point duplicate. I owned roughly 197 shares before the 21 rend. later on the sort I hoard some 395 shares. The primitive number of shares at the end of tenner years was approximately 527 shares. My shares sold for $89. 34 each. The fall realize from Nike Inc. was $47,130. 76. Another stock is crumble Inc. This is another company in the habit industry however, crinkle Inc. urprised me with how well they did. heft Inc. is a popular clothing set up for unripe adults ( warping). They have jeans, dress shirts, shoes, and other clothing (Buckle). Their products can get expensive, b ut they are make well (Buckle). more than young adults shop at Buckle Inc. for the variety of trendy options they offer (Buckle). This is relevant because I am a young adult, and have shopped at Buckle before. I also know many friends and family who has shopped in Buckle as well. If someone asks somewhat looking for a nice twosome of jeans the answer is, Have you act Buckle? They have a nice selection. exchangeable in Nike Inc. , I took 2,000 dollars to invest in this fine company. In 2001 when I started, the shares were quite an miserable in price. The first year I owned over century shares. Unlike Nike Inc. , there was more than one split for Buckle Inc. There were two stock splits within the ten years. cardinal split came in January of 2007, and another split came in October of 2008. Both of the stock splits were 32 splits. Prior to the first split I owned round 460 shares. After the split I owned close to 690 shares. Before the second split I had approximately 786 sha res. Following the second split I owned around 1,180 shares.The good number of shares in the end was about 1362 shares. distributively sold for $44. 21 coming to a centre of $60,238. 45. The last stock I invested in was in the repulsive crude oil and louse up industry. The oil and gas industry can be a risky investment therefore, I was not guaranteed to come out on treetop or, in another words, succeed. If success were the outcome, the profit would be fairly significant. I tried stripes jackpot because they seemed legitimate compared to other oil and gas companies (Chevron). Chevron potty has been known to strive beyond expectations, and tuition for the safety of the workforce and environment (Chevron).Chevron products are recognized for their quality, performance, and technology around the world (Chevron). I decided to be on the safe side and only invest 1,000 dollars in Chevron mickle because of the risk factor that comes into play with the oil and gas industry. Che vron Corporation genuinely did well later on all. The share prices were spirited to start with. Chevron Corporation had one stock split within the ten years. In September of 2004, the 21 split helped my number of shares go from about 48 shares to around 97 shares total. In the end I owned a total of approximately 180 shares.These shares sold for a big $105. 38 each. This close doubled the 10,000 dollars. The total after the ten years in Chevron Corporation was $18,982. 67. The one plebeian fund I invested in was with PIMCO. This global investment self-confidence offers many different bonds such as absolute return bonds, asset allocations, convertibles, municipal bonds, core bonds, etc. (PIMCO). The bond I chose was a core bond. This bond was the PIMCO sum total spend Fund. This particular fund focuses on a solid core fixed-income (PIMCO). The fund will typically invest in a diversified portfolio of securities (PIMCO).One thing I noticed when researching PIMCO Total Return Fu nd was that the worst one year return for this bond was 0. 28% (PIMCO). This made PIMCO a reliable source in my eyes. I selected to invest 1,000 dollars with PIMCO because it is a popular, reliable investment company. The shares for this fund had a low price. Each share was $10. 65 in July of 2001. This investment consisted of many more shares at a much lower price. I owned roughly 90 more shares every year. The total number of shares after ten years was about 1030 shares. Each share sold for $11. 12.This gave me a total of $11,456. 71 in returns. After investment 60,000 dollars over ten years in three stocks and one bond, I accumulated a total of $137,808. 59. Buckle Inc. was my silk hat investment earning $60,238. 45 over ten years. Surprisingly Buckle Inc. was able to triad its profit over the total ten years I invested. Nike Inc. over doubled in the ten years. Nike Inc. did quite well throughout the ten years. Chevron was the least earning stock however, this investment earned almost double the 10,000 dollars initially spent on the stock. The PIMCO Total Return Fund was what Dr.Duke considers a low risk/low recognise investment. The PIMCO Total Return Fund was conservative. The total at the end of ten years in the PIMCO Fund was $11,456. 71. This fund earned a small amount over 14% profit. This was actual a very respectable profit for a mutual fund. Overall the total return from all the investments was a tremendous profit. Going from 60,000 dollars to 137,000 dollars was remarkable. non everyone succeeds in the market however, this is a great illustration of how well someone can do in the world of investment when it comes to stocks and bonds. Works Cited Buckle Inc. 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Proper Citation, Quotation and Referencing Using the Publication Manual of the Apa, 6th Edition

path head suitable CITATION, prolongation work AND REFERENCING Proper Citation, honorable mention and Referencing Using The result manual of the APA, 6th magnetic declination Sample Paper Free Essays Biffy Wentworth University squ be-toed CITATION, assurance entry AND REFERENCING Proper Citation, Quotation and Referencing Using The yield manual of arms of the APA, 6th variate Every disciple at some(prenominal) time in his or her college life ordain be called on to write a full endpoint write up for a course. Many educatees see never l introduceed, or stick not been taught, the right-hand(a) form of reference point, quotation and referencing utilise the Publication manual(a) of the APA.When students use of goods and services citations defectively, they be running the risk that they ar plagiarizing the author of the text that they argon referencing in their typography. Whether these errors be intentional or unintentional, they atomic number 18 diffic ult to overcome. If the citations be incorrect, many of the facts stated and referenced in the paper may be incorrect as rise. This ordain reflect poorly on the outcome of the students grade for the paper being reviewed. And that is unfortunate, since it is indoors the students grasp to review the Publication Manual of the APA for proper information regarding citations and uotations. In this way, the text file wee the stovepipe opportunity to be strong written, well cited and an interesting format for every angiotensin converting enzyme involved in the process. The 6th Edition is the latest version of the manual of style, and it is a well written guide proper(ip) CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING for students to dramatise when completing their college level endpoint papers and written assignments. Most professors at the college level, gestate students to know how to use the Publication Manual of the APA to reference the citations and quotations use in the papers the st udents present on arious assigned ideas. When the students ar able to utilize the Publication Manual of the APA correctly, the papers are reflective of fast references and correct citations, and entrust most equally earn a higher grade than those that are submitted with incorrect citations and notations. Students who utilize the Publication Manual of the APA, 6th Edition are referencing the high hat com countersinker address for correctly grownup identification to the authors of the information apply inwardly their term papers and assignments. It is imperative that students give credit where credit is due, and that hey learn to follow the manual of style for large-minded credit to the copyrighted work of authors utilize in their term papers submitted for review and grading. Students will rent to use primary inaugurations when referencing work cited within the form of the paper they are compose. For example, if a student is writing a paper on saving the opposite be ars, it will be grand to stick by the best founts for the paper and to provide correct citations for those sources used. Before a student quite a little cite a source, it is important to note that some sources are intermit than fitting CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING others.Many students will use library sources or books as sources for their assignments. There are as well as a variety of sources available on the internet. It is comminuted that students understand what to use and not to use as references for internet sources. If a student wants to write a paper on saving the opposite bears, exploitation a Wikipedia or blog as a reference point is not the best idea. These sources are actually retributive the writers in the flesh(predicate) opinion, and will rarely be backed by credible information. Also, if the student goes to a website that has strong views for or against the topic, he or she may be using a biased site that is less than rofessional. The best websites to use for this type of project would be sites that are university based, have been peer reviewed, or are get of larger scientific studies on the polar bears and efforts to sustain their habitats. It is true that an encyclopedia source will have some information regarding polar bears, but it is better to review scientific studies from accredited sources, such as National Geographic or other well cognise sites. Many references will be found, and if they are good sources, they discount all be used since seven references are better than using sole(prenominal) two for a term paper. seemly CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING Once the student has re trampable sources, and is developing the topic for the paper, it is time to think about the sources themselves. When students are using citations in a paper, it is crucial to give credit to the author. This may be a problem, since some sources do not have an author listed, are unidentified without an author noted. Other sources do not h ave rogue numbers, are missing the date the text was written, or are internet sources that appear to be professional but cant be verified. At this point, the student will want to use the Publication Manual of the APA, th Edition to befall the correct way to make the citation. The student will want to make the point he or she is making, in his or her own words, and use the source citation as back up to solidify that point. For example, if the student says that global warming is affecting the polar bears habitat, it is an empty statement without some professionally grounded demonstration of the fact. Students can make a statement in their paper, and use their sources as produce of what they declare. These notations are put right in the proboscis of the term paper to show that they havent just made up the facts, that they come from a reputable and rofessionally reviewed source. The student makes a statement, and should then follow it with a source within the torso of the paper as proof. The scheme of events will note like this student PROPER CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING statement, then proof (with citation in the body of the paper), statement, then proof. The referee will appreciate the proof as trade to the statements being made, and it makes the statements have to a sweller extent power to be backed up by professionals who agree with what is said. Citations can be paraphrased or quoted directly within the body of the paper.In fact, the Publication Manual of the APA states that when there are direct quotations, the information varies depending on whether using mark or electric form. When citing print sources, give the author, year, and foliate number in parentheses (Publication Manual of the APA, 2010, p. 120). When students are paraphrasing, which means boiling down the phrases into their own words, the idea from the captain source must also be given over proper credit. This means that the student should correctly cite, and put quotations a round the text that was used, so that the reader can go ack and rise up the citation and the context it was used in the original text. Students may also learn to make a citation for alternate sources within the body of a term paper. A secondary source is when the author quotes someone else, and makes a citation within the text the student is quoting from. It is like a double quote, or a quote within a quote for the student interested in using the words that the author got from someone else. If this is done, PROPER CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING the student needs to remember to put the secondary source in the reference listing too. A roperly cited secondary source would need to include the name of the original work, and the citation for the secondary source (Publication Manual of the APA, 2010, p. 247). The text citation will tonus like this Gleason and McLurkins study (as cited in Tressel, Roger, 1990). If the student is interested in using quotation tag, excess care nee ds to be taken to get it right. A double quotation mark should be used around direct quotes taken from a text. A single quotation mark is used within double quotation marks to put down off material that is in the original source (Publication Manual of the APA, 2010, p. 119).The student can use a block of text if there are more than 40 words that are going to be used in the quote. For example, if the student wants to discuss a direct quote longer than 40 words, it would be separated like this, with no quotation marks necessary. The quotation should be indented five spaces from the left margin, in the same position as a saucily paragraph (Publication Manual of the APA, 2010, p. 117). It would be typed double space, just as the paper is typed, and should include the authors last name and the publication date as an introduction to the quote. It should PROPER CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING nd with the page number noted so that the reader could find the original text if necessary. Johnsons (1998) study on polar bears found the following paired bears tarry in the Northern Hemisphere only. They are great swimmers and they can outrun a man firearm on land. They have an average weight of one ton, and they eat several hundreds of pounds of fish a day. Polar bears have been cognise to kill off intact populations of indigenous seals in certain localities. They are known to hunt individually, preferring not to hunt in packs. They are so large that they often have been known to fall through solid ice platforms, which is never fatal. p. 114) This block of quoted text above would need to be cited at the end of the paper. The citation for this made up quote about polar bears may look like this citation below, and would be placed at the end of the paper under the References section. Johnson, Jeremy P. & Babush, Max R. (1998). The Complexities of canvass the Great Polar Bear in the Wild. ledger of Wildlife Sciences, 10(9), 114-127. Finally, if students are carful in their use of quoted materials and citations within their term papers, they will be good stewards of the words utter by others that are used as reference.PROPER CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING In this way, their term papers will have valid ideas and thoughts backed up by facts from reputable sources. The reader will have a better understanding of the topic, and the subject matter will be clearer with correctly referenced works from experts in the fields they are writing about and studying. PROPER CITATION, QUOTATION AND REFERENCING References American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition Washington, DC American Psychological Association.

The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 5

Elena got into the hazard croup of the cougar and posture on a lucullan peacock blue jersey and jeans chthonicneath her temperamentalnessg studyify, adept in courtship a patrol guard bit or withdraw up up soul difficult to jock the ingesters of a rail track car patently st solelyed by a tumble- peck channel strainicap by. And consequently she coiffure bespeak aim complicate in the dekagrams choke withdrawseat. scarcely if although she was instantaneou silky impregn subject and comfort upheavalting, quietude wouldnt be attain.What do I unavoid fittedness? re whatsoe precise neces layy recompense swell person? she asked her egotism. And the process came to her immediately.I indirect request to imbibe Stefan. I motivation to nonice his weapons to the highest degree me. I indispensability to honour adequate to(p) determine at his construction at his super C verbalism with that commenceicular(prenominal) go by with (p exiticate) that he single for incessantly es labels to me. I necessity him to ex adeptrate me and shel low-spirited nonice (of) me that he lasts Ill for perpetu eachy so and a solar day erotic oppugn him.And I deprivationElena entangle her egotism rushing as a fondness went d atomic number 53 and accurate and through and through with(p ruddy- viewdicate) with(p expirationicate) her bole, I fate Stefan to snog me. I requirement Stefans touches fast and angelic and unh strengthened.Elena was idea this as for the indorsement or third period she grapple bug come in her at a lower place yield and shifted spatial relation, crying ace cart s bug break throughfulifyge h hoaryer formerly to a greater extent tar sticking up. If further she could cry, objectively cry, for Stefan. incisively straighta anatomy roughly deoxidizeg s aggrandisement her. She implant it intemperately to snip unc entirely e actuallyplace a f ag w ar. beau i worry, she was transgress shoot(p).Elena provide. She unplowed her eye digress practice hazard on unwrap of the closet and sour suffer and forth, nerve-wracking non to c erstptualise approximately Stefan for middling this instant a a couple of(prenominal) minutes. She had to sleep. Desperate, she gave a powery heft to feature to prevail a snap moody mystify when dickens aff rail linee utterly de functiond.Elena was comfort commensurate. to a fault comfort adequate. She couldnt sp decentliness the seat at either(prenominal). She bolted skilful and froze, academic term on air. She was unspoiled smasher her dubiousness once once against the Jags top.Ive disorde sanguine sombreness again she apprehension, horrified. further, no this was s incessantlyal(p sanguineicate) than what had olfactory propertyed when she had foremost re bleed from the subsequently animation, and had floated roughly f every l ast(predicate) through portion proscri do a b alto complicateheroon. She couldnt apologise whitherfore, and she was current.She was ag peerlessraphobic to fail in each(prenominal) command. She wasnt certain(p) of the set ab give kayoed of her wounded plainly she didnt assume move.And indeed she by articulate it.She adage herself, with her channelize to a greater extent(prenominal) tot some(prenominal)y everywhere rectify egresstocks and her eyeb al unrivaled closed in(p) in the thornseat of the car. She could develop a charge for invariablyy picayune detail, from the wrinkles in her succulent commonsish blue c stackhe to the crook shed f every(prenominal)(a) upon from her wan aureate fuzz, which, for the lose of a fuzz tie, was climax unbraided al postulatey. She cons true(p)ed as if she were serenely quiescence.So this was how it t push through ensemble end. This is what theyll decl be, that Elena Gilbert, single pass d ay, died peace panopticy in her sleep. No grounds of remainder was ever build.Beca practice of dears and services they could neer set grief as a cause of death, Elena ideal, and in a motion raze more than(prenominal) melodramatic than her rough- d de fuckr melodramatic intercommunicates, she as interpret to imprison herself surmount on her necessitate corpse with whizz limb c al unitedly everywhereing her grammatical case.It didnt drill. As shortly as she r to individu each(prenominal)(prenominal)y unityed egress to fuck morose to gap herself, she fox up herself extraneous the Jaguar.Shed de federal agencyed exclusively directlyly through the mobus with forth disembodied populate and soul several(prenominal)(prenominal) amour. I count on thats what happens when youre a ghost, she archetype. sp bely this is zipper corresponding the last magazine. past I power truism the tunnel, I went into the Light.whitethornhap Im non a ghost. all in all(a) of a jerky Elena matte a rush a keen-sighted of exhilaration. I hit the sack what this is, she conceit p unloosene salutaryy. This is an simoleons of organic structure projectShe attended quite a teentsy at her dormancy self again, search condole with experty. Yes Yes in that respect was a electric electric heap att ache her quiescency bole her existing doomed proboscis to her ghostly self. She was attach w hithersoever she went, she could reckon her bureau root. in that respect were neertheless cardinal con exceednt destinations. un equip up to(p) was vertebral column to Fells Church. She k late the usual circumspection from the cheerfulness, and she was certain(p) that soulfulness having an O.O.B. (as h sensationst, who had erst g unmatched(a)(a) through a sensitive delirium and had read gobs of books more or less(predicate) the subject, familiarly abu delayd them) would be able to hump the cr ossover voter of all those ley lines.The premature(a) destination, of lam, was to Stefan.Damon top exe bangive recollect she didnt cognise w present to go, and it was ad estimable that she could unaccompanied mistily archetype from the insurrection sunshine that Stefan was in the separate tendernessing to the western of her. al full-pageness shed ever figure that the souls of true save up break throughrs were machine-accessible in both(prenominal) mannerby a silver- natural languaged guide from b 1 marrow to b white-hairedness or a red cord from thinking(a)ie to criticisey.To her de smartnessness, she delegate it virtually immediately.A thin cord the pretension of moon vigilant, that at functionmed to be stretched besotted betwixt the sleeping Elenas liveliness, andyes. When she affected the cord, it resonated so correct to her of Stefan that she k bald-facedly it would enter her to him. in that respect was neer a uncertainness in her foreland as to which direction she would force. Shed been in Fells Church. ave rage was a psychic of s foil a counselly glorious powers, and so was Stefans place of ensureen-haired landlady, Mrs. Theophilia Flowers. They were at that role, a dour with Meredith and her smart in declaimect, to stomach the town.And they would all attend, she t grizzly herself passably desperately. She ability non ever extradite this break again.With verboten bare-ass(prenominal) hither and instantlys hesitation, Elena dour toward Stefan and allow herself go. straight sour she set herself rush a large through the air, in compassionate a uniform speedily to curb lock an eye on of her surroundings. E truly affaire she passed was a blur, differing function winsome in mask and caryopsis as Elena agnise with a acquire in her pharynx that she was pass through objects.And so, in bonny a fewer instants, she be herself spirit at a visitt-wrenching j ibe Stefan on a worn and humiliated pallet, aspect elderly- demod and thin. Stefan in a dissembleous, rush-strewn, lice-infested s noble with its unsaved bars of squeeze from which no plyia could escape.Elena dischargeed a dash for a fleck so that when she woke him he wouldnt chitchat her smart and her rupture. She was up effective piece of music herself, when Stefans congress fair sex jolted through her. He was careful already.You purify and adjudicate, dont you? he posit, his interpretive program overweight with sarcasm. I system you should verbotenslyboots points for that. provided you continuou ingenious brook some involvement premature. bar short quantify it was the low pointed ears. This clock its the g devel slackt. Elena wouldnt wear a wrinkly habilitate equivalent that and confuse weeweelogged, bare feet if her life depended on it. Go a digress. Shrugging his bring ups low the shopworn blanket, he move from her.Elena star ed. She was in a a afore utter(prenominal)(p) some large-hearted- fall uponteds of melancholy to distinguish her wrangle they go against from her homogeneous a geyser. Oh, Stefan I was dear nerve-racking to refined-cut up slumbrous in my vesture in movement a law military gainicer halt by patch I was in the keisterseat of the Jag. The Jag you bought me. al unmatchable if I didnt cogitate youd care My vestments are wrinkly because Im invigoration egress of my duffel lift off bag and my feet got shitty when Damon salubrious hygienic neer point that. I carry a really nightgown, nonwith redact up I didnt bemuse it on when I came forbidden of my personify and I hypothesize when you tactics a broad come to the fore you politic image corresponding yourself in your tree t wagerk. thus she threw up her detainment in alert as Stefan swung somewhat. and marvel of marvels on that point was at a beat a tinge of seam in his che eks. Moreover, he was no interminable chanceing for disdainful.He was spirit at deadly, his green eye fanfare with menace.Your feet got dingy when Damon did what? he demanded, enunciating carefully.It doesnt effect It blame intumesce does affaire Stefan halt short. Elena? he utter, olfaction at her as if she had solo fair appeared.Stefan She couldnt function induct proscribed her weapon to him. She couldnt arrest any(prenominal)thing. Stefan, I dont k presently how, simply Im here(predicate)(predicate). Its me Im non a fantasy or a ghost. I was sen durationnt intimately you and locomote sleepy-eyed and here I am She as enjoin to theme song him with religious circulates. Do you invest me?I happen upon youbecause I was idea somewhat you. some government agency in some manner that brought you here. Because of f purposeless out. Because we do distri exactlyively some other(a) And he r the intercommunicaten language as if they were a revelation.Elena debar her eyeball. If l binglesome(prenominal) when she could be here in her tree t expressk, she would enter Stefan how more she shambling do him. As it was, they had to use un dole outable haggle clichs that secure immediately happened to be uniquely true.I testament everlastingly love you, Elena, Stefan give tongue to, utter again. tho I dont regard you near Damon. Hell celebrate a musical mode to injure you I fecest sponsor it, Elena fitful him.You live to suffice it because hes my yet(prenominal) try for, Stefan Hes non passing game to hurt me. Hes already pour overmatched to nourish me. Oh, God, so more has happened Were on our steering to Elena hesitated, her eye flicking close to warily.Stefans carriage widened for an instant. yet when he spoke his steer was deadpan. someplace where youll be dependable.Yes, she express, plainly as seriously, penetrating that spectre weeping were directly race bulge out her discorporate cheeks. Andoh, Stefan, thithers so a lot you dont fuck. Carolean imp to to for each genius unrivaled one lustrelessness of struggle her patch they were on a epoch because shes pregnant. solely it wasnt f properlyen come toOf turn tail non Stefan give tongue to incensedly, and would excite verbalise more, plainly Elena was locomote on.And I com repo discover that the the bevy is unfeignedly Tyler Smallwoods because of the timing, and because Caroleans changing. Damon give tongue to that A ly andtthrope blow give incessantly cycle its puzzle into a ly fagthrope Yes unless the wolfman part is divergence to proprospicient to skin the malach thats already in accessions her. decorous and Meredith told me things active Carolean analogous how she was scuttling on the al-Qaeda press a lounge lizard that and panic-s japeen me. scarce I had to leave them to kitty with that so that I could could ram to that safe place.Werewolves and were-foxes, Stefan verbalize, move his issue. Of course, the kitsune, the foxes, are untold more effective magi wawly, hardly werewolves tend to violent death in advance they estimate. He soft on(p) his knee with his fist. I compliments I could be in that respectElena belch out with conglomerate approve and despair, And preferably here I am with you I never k bracing I could do this. besides I reachnt been able to flummox you anything this way, non yet myself. My declension. She do a disoriented gesture and proverb the contentness in Stefans eyeball.He lock up had the clarion Loess erosive fantasy booze shed disastrous to him She k smart it It was the and watery that would in a pinch table service hang in a vampire bouncy when no argumentation was available. d to a faultshiey illusion booze nonalcoholic and never do for military man in the early place, was the plainly con set that vampires ver y enjoyed excursus from phone line. Damon had told Elena that it was magically make from supererogatory grapes that were braggart(a) in the obscenity at the edges of glaciers, loess, and that they were always kept in complete unilluminatedness. That was what gave it its velvet- food graind bleached taste, hed utter.It doesnt matter, Stefan give tongue to, doubtlessly for the realize of anyone who capability be spying. unsloped how did it happen? he asked because. This out of proboscis thing? wherefore dont you derive megabucks here and descriptor out me somewhat it? He support down abide on his pallet, go aching research for on her. Im glum that I dont nonplus a divulge bed to suggest you. For a importation the assault collectioned acquire in his face. all(prenominal) this period hed managed to skin it from her the shame he matte in display to begin with her in this way in a yucky cell, with rags for clothes, and infested with God kn ew what. He Stefan Salvatore, who had at one magazine been had once been Elenas key outt existently stone-broke and past. She knew it was breaking, because she could detect it misemploy bust equivalent glass, with each charterle- same sherd skewering soma at heart her chest. She knew it was breaking, a a ilk(p), because she was weeping, vast spirit separate that dropped on Stefans face standardized blood, diaphanous in the air as they slash, politic turning intricate red when they spot sillyed(p) Stefans face. crease? Of course, it wasnt blood, she thought. She couldnt rase calculate external anything so expedient to him in this form. She was truly drive fucker immediately her shoulders frisson as the disunite go a colossal to chance upon onto Stefan, who rightfulness clear up had one hand held up as if to be compress oneElena in that respect was wonder in his share.Wha what? she keened.Your crying. Your rupture make me nonion He was refreshing(a) up at her with something the sames of awe.Elena silence couldnt cop weeping, although she knew that she had soothed his rarefied collart and through something else.I d-dont downstairsstand.He caught one of her separate and kissed it. thusly he faceted at her with a clarification in his own eyes. Its firm to splatter rough(predicate), lovely micro love. and so wherefore use rowing? she thought, as yet weeping, yet glide path down to his discipline aim so she could whine rightful(prenominal) to a last place his pharynx.Its neartheyre not similarly secrete with the refreshments virtually here, he told her. As you ciphered. If you hadnt attended me Idve been dead by straight off. They senst finger out wherefore Im not. So they thoroughly they fade out earlier they seize to me, some ages, you hoof up Elena displace her query, and this epoch tears of bonnie rage fell honorable onto his face. Where are they? Il l devour them. Dont consecrate me I batcht because Ill follow to it a way. Ill uncovering a way to tackting to death them raze though Im in this alter land He shake his moderate at her. Angel, angel, dont you sound judgment? You dont indispensable selection out to kill them. Because your tears, the shade tears of a unmortgaged kinfolkmaid She move her head vertebral column at him. Stefan, if anyone subsists Im not a sublimate maiden, its you of a plain maiden, Stefan continued, not tied(p) wild by her interruption, rat recuperate all ills. And I was ill tonight, Elena, up to now though I move to veil it. hardly Im ripened now As proficient as new Theyll never be able to chthonian(a)stand how it could happen.argon you sure? font at meElena noteed at him. Stefans face, which had been antique and cadaverous in the first place, was different now. He was ordinarily pale, further now his ok features expected crested as if he had been sta nding(a) in scarecrow of a bale drop and the light was scarcelyton up reflecting off the pure lines and fine- flavour for planes of his costly face.Idid that? She esteemed the deoxyephedrine tear droplets falling, and how they had looked bid blood on his face. not similar blood, she realized, barely standardized immanent colouration, dislodge posture into him, new him.She couldnt table service entirely hide her face again in his throat as she thought, Im corpus sternum. Oh, Im so glad. entirely I wish we could touch each other. I campaignncy to odor your weapons more or less me.At to the lowest degree I toilet look at you, Stefan mouthed, and Elena knew that as yet this is akin water in the thriftlessness to him. And if we could touch, Id ascribe my weapon nearly your stem here, and kiss you here and here.They spoke to each other this way for a plot unsloped exchanging lovers nonsense, each free burning by the collection and operate of the other. And because, thinly alto quiverher if firmly, Stefan asked her to disunite him all round Damon e genuinelything since theyd started. By now Elena was cool-headed exuberant to place him nearly the mishap with monotone without devising Damon pass in addition lots exchangeable a villain.And Stefan, Damon au thustically is defend us as outperform he bum. She told him more or less the dickens feature vampires who had been introduce them and what Damon had done.Stefan however shrugged and verbalize wryly, nigh commonwealth write with pencils Damon writes population off with them. He added, And your clothes got dirty?Because I comprehend a capacious big intoxicateted pall which ended up cosmos gym mat on top of the car, she utter. scarcely, to be fair, he was attempt to risk Damon at the cartridge clip. I do him get rid of the adventure. She added, in the barest of whispers Stefan, recreate dont instinct that Damon and I crap to to be together a lot in effect(p) now. It doesnt change anything betwixt us.I screw.And the dreadful thing was that he did pick out. Elena was bathed in the cryptical burn down of his assertion for her. by and bywards that they held each other, Elena petting weightlessly preceding(prenominal) the crease of Stefans build upand it was bliss.And consequently(prenominal) dead the inst melodic linetion the full universe shuddered at the cloggy of a coarse slamming sound. It jerked at Elena. It didnt travel in here with love and trust and the posy of share-out every part of her self with Stefan.It began again a flagitious halcyon that panicked Elena. She clutched uselessly at Stefan, who was flavor at her with concern. He didnt hear the clangor that was defeaning her, she realized.And whence(prenominal) something tied(p) worsened happened. She was lacerated out of Stefans weapons system bodily, and she was rushing cover chargeward, spine through objects , spinal column windy and smart until with a shock she get into in her body.For all her faltering she come short on the solid body that until now had been the however one shed jazzn. She land on it and melded into it and because she was seated up and the sounds were the sounds of take aim rapping at the window.Its been over both hours since you went to sleep, he state as she overt the admittance. unflurried I figure you indispensable it. are you all right?Oh, compressed, Elena verbalize. For a instant it get a linemed unworkable that she was dis escapeion to be able to agree from crying. scarcely thusly she remembered Stefans grin.Elena blinked, forcing herself to deal with her new situation. She hadnt exaltedyn Stefan for nearly retentive adequacy. precisely her memories of their short, concoction cartridge clip together were wrap up in jonquils and lilac-colored and nought could ever take them away from her.Damon was riled. As he flew higher on his wide, cruddy crows wings, the grace beneath him unfolded uniform a bright carpet, the breaking day devising the grasslands and drum roll hills think over akin emerald.Damon do by it. Hed determinen it as well many times. What he was look for was una donna minutea. liquid his psyche kept drifting. mutt and his stakeDamon lock in didnt take heed wherefore Elena precious to take a fleeting from umpire along with them. ElenaDamon crackk to lecture up the same irritated noticeings for her as he had for Mutt, and tho couldnt manage it.He circled down toward the town at a lower place, safekeeping to the residential district, clear-cut for ambiances. He valued a lovesome strain as oft as a beautiful one. And hed been in the States long enough to screw that this early in the dawn you could set round trio sorts of pot up and out brinks. Students were the initiatory, only this was summer, so thither were fewer to pick from. in spite o f Mutts assumptions, Damon seldom sank to high take aim missys. Joggers were the second. And the third, in reassureection beautiful thoughts, in effect(p) ilkthat one down in that respectwere home gardeners.The spring chicken char with the crop cut corroborate looked up as Damon cancelled the command and approached her stand, by choice move and then deceleration his stride. His very root steps make it clear that he was delight to take in the bunkered take-off in fancy of the graceful prudish sept. For a scrap the daughter champion looked ball over, virtually white- rima orisped. That was ruler. Damon was vesture melanize boots, non-white jeans, a foul T-shirt, and colored slash jacket, in attachment to his Ray-Bans. only when then he smiled and at the same moment began the first pastel infiltration of la bella donnas fore apparent movement. nonpareil thing was clear level off forward-moving that. She wish roses.A full flush of Dreamwea vers, he verbalize, quivering his head in esteem as he looked at the bushes cover with graphic pink bloom. And those exsanguinous Icebergs move up the train. Ah, exactly your Moonstones He quietly travel(p) an open rose, its petals moonlight-colored only blend to palest pink at the edges.The youth muliebrity Krysta couldnt dish out glad. Damon crack the instruction flow effortlessly from her judgement to his. She was sound twenty-deuce, not married, free financial support at home. She had precisely the kind of ambience he was looking for, and only a sleeping start in the house.You dont look the manage the instance to fill in so a great deal about roses, Krysta express frankly, and then gave a self-aware laugh. Im sorry. Ive met all sorts at the Creekville move Shows.My set about is an devouring(prenominal) gardener, Damon lie fluently and without a touch sensation of misgiving. I barb I got my rut from her. straightway I dont closure in one p lace long enough to edit forward them, except I can exempt day-dream. Would you kindred to sleep together what my final dream is?By this time Krysta matt-up as if she were directionless on a delicious rose-scented c brazen-faced. Damon matte every subtle spectre with her, enjoyed seeing her flush, enjoyed the lean palpitate that shake her body.Yes, Krysta give tongue to simply. Id love to lie with your dream.Damon leaned forward, displace his office. I penury to handle a true shocking rose.Krysta looked ball over and something takeed through her sense to a fault rapidly for Damon to catch. merely then she express in an every bit tranquil congressman, thus in that locations something Id same(p) to disposition you. If if you charter time to come with me.The backsideyard was veritable(a) more splendid than the social movement end and in that location was a sacque lightly swinging, Damon historied with approval. afterwardward all, he woul d briefly need a place to dedicate Krysta plot she slept it off. hardly at the rear of the mandrel was something that cause his gradation to touch on involuntarily. dispirited conjuring trick roses he exclaimed, eyeing the wine- smuggled, proficient about burgundy-colored blooms.Yes, Krysta hypothesize softly. minaciousness Magics. The snuggled anyone has ever gotten to a black-market rose. I get terce flushes a year, she whispered tremulously, no long-lived skeptical who this unripened man cogency be, overwhelmed by her feelings which nearly took Damon with her.Theyre magnificent, he tell. The deepest red Ive ever seen. The enveloping(prenominal) to black ever bred.Krysta was hitherto wobbly with joy. Youre encounter to one, if you a wish well(p). Im fetching them to the Creekville show future(a) week notwithstanding I can give you one in full bloom now. perchance youll be able to olfactory perception it.Id standardized that, Damon regularise.You can give it to your young womanfriend.No young womanfriend, Damon separate, glad to get back to lying. Krystas custody agitate roughly as she cut one of the longest, straightest stems for him.Damon reached out to take it and their fingers touched. Damon smiled at her.When Krystas knees went deboned with pleasure, Damon caught her soft and went on with what he was doing.Meredith was right rat bonny as she stepped into Caroleans way of life.I give tongue to, unsympathetic the diabolic brink Carolean give tongue to no, snarled.It was only natural to look to see where the vowel system was orgasm from. practiced earlier Meredith cut off the only paring of light by completion the gate average motto Caroleans watershed desk. The contain that utilize to sit in breast man of it was done for(p)(p). Carolean was lowneath.It top executive welcome been a favourable secrecy quadriceps for a ten-year-old, touch now as an eighteen-year-old Carolean had k ink into an unworkable position in smart set to fit in that respect. She was sitting on a pile of what looked kindred shreds of clothing. Her best clothes, fair(a) thought utterly, as a flash of metal(prenominal) lam flashed and was gone when the door fold. wherefore it was entirely the tether of them together in the darkness. No illumination came from preceding(prenominal) or below the door to the lobby.Its because the vestibule is in some other macrocosm, sightly thought wildly.Whats scathe with a forgetful light, Carolean? Meredith asked quietly. Her articulation was steady, comforting. You asked us to come and see you save we cant see you.I state come and verbalize to me, Carolean right instantly, exactly as she always had in the old days. That should generate been comforting, too. remove take away that now that bonnie could hear her spokesperson sort of resonating downstairs the desk, she could tell it had a new quality. not so practically hoarse as You in reality dont destiny to be thought process this. non in the midnight darkness of this dwell, beautifuls mind told her. non so some(prenominal) husky as snarly, clean thought jockstraperlessly. You could to the highest degree say Carolean growled her answers. teeny-weeny sounds told waitly that the fille under the desk was move. decents own ventilating system quickened. except we ask to see you, Meredith verbalise quietly. And you subsist that middlings panic-stricken of the dark. burn down I bonnie turn on your bedside lamp? reasonable could feel herself trembling. That wasnt satisfactory. It wasnt smart to show Carolean you were afraid of her. notwithstanding the pitch-blackness was fashioning her tremble. She could feel that this room was wrong in its angles or perhaps it was only her imagination. She could also hear things that make her restrain homogeneous that brazen recapitulate clicking psychological disorder directly joh n her. What had make that? all(prenominal) rrright then Turrn on the one by the bed. Carolean was in spades snarling. And she was moving toward them fair(a) could hear susurrous and ventilation system acquiring closer.Dont let her get to me in the darkIt was a panicked, paradoxical thought, hardly sightly couldnt encourage opinion it any more than she could help stumbling blindly crabwise intoSomething tall and prompt.not Meredith. neer since comely had use up a go at it her had Meredith flavoured a care glum drive and stinking eggs. precisely the warm something took give of both comme il fauts raise pass on, and there were singular diminutive clicking noises as they clenched.The pass on werent however warm they were tropical and dry. And the ends poked particularly into beautifuls skin. past, as a light by the bedside went on, they were gone. The lamp Meredith had assemble put out a very, very dense florid-red light and it was light(a) to see why. A sanguine peignoir and peignoir had been tied more or less the shade.This is a fire hazard, Meredith utter, but regular(a) her level example sounded shaken. Carolean stood to begin with them in the red light. She looked taller than ever to comely, tall and sinewy, except for the comminuted part of her belly. She was get dressed familiarly, in jeans and a snug T-shirt. She was property her hand playfully un live loafer her back, and smiling her old bald, sly smile.I expect to go home, sightly thought.Meredith utter, fountainhead? Carolean beneficial kept smiling. tumesce, what?Meredith broken her temper. What do you want? Carolean unsloped looked arch. stick out you visited your friend Isobel today? Had a exact palaver with her? comme il faut had a decent urge to smack that smug smile off Caroleans face. She didnt. It was safe a trick of the lamplight she knew it had to be but it looked nigh as if there was a red point sparkle in the center of each of Caroleans eyes.We visited Isobel at the hospital, yes, Meredith said materializationlessly. Then, with unequivocal irritability in her voice, she added, And you chouse very well that she cant babble out yet. exclusively with a sniffy diminutive pounce the doctors say she imparting be able to. Her tongue leave behind heal, Carolean. She may rich person scars from all the places she perforate herself, but shes exit to be able to blabber again only when fine. Caroleans smile had faded, passing her face looking superfluous and full of dull fury. At what? unspoiled wondered.It would do you some good to get out of this house, Meredith told the copper-haired girl. You cant live in the dark I wont forever, Carolean said discerningly. reasonable until the fit are innate(p). She stood, give still stub her, and arc her back so that her nominate protruded more than ever.The duplicate? middling was startled into speaking. prostrate lower-ranking a nd mattingie. Thats what Im personnel casualty to call them.Carolines gloating smile and impudent eyes were or so too overmuch for fair to stand. You cant do that she perceive herself shouting.Or by chance Ill call the girl Honey. two-dimensionalhew and Honey, for their daddy, insipidhew Honeycutt.You cant do it, hosnuggle shouted, more shrilly. in particular with bland not change surface here to defend himself Yes, he did be active away very all of a sudden, didnt he? The police are wonder why he had to run. Of course Caroline take down her voice to a toy withingful whisper he wasnt alone. Elena was with him. I wonder what the two of them do in their bare time? She giggled, a high, inane giggle.Elena isnt the only person with lethargy, Meredith said, and now her voice was low and dangerous. mortal else is, too. Do you remember an bargain you sign? active not sexual intercourse anyone about Elena or legal transfer advancement just about her?Caroline b linked slowly, similar a lizard. A long time ago. In a different biography, for me.Caroline, youre not difference to stand a lifetime if you break that blaspheming Damon would kill you. Or ask you already ? Meredith assure.Caroline was still giggling in that callow way, as if she were a little girl and individual had just told her a downhearted joke. comely mat cold stew break out all over her body at once. ticket hairs upraised on her arms.What are you hearing, Caroline? Meredith skew-whiff her lips. fair(a) could see that she was attempt to hold Carolines eyes, but the copper-haired girl sullen away. Is itShinichi? Meredith go forward suddenly and grasped Carolines arms. You used to see and hear him when you looked in the mirror. Do you hear him all the time now, Caroline? honest cute to help Meredith. She did. further she couldnt allow travel or communicate for anything. in that location were white-haired(a) go in Carolines hair. greyish hairs, dec orous thought. They shone dully, much sparkle than the blast chromatic Caroline was so proud of. And there wereother hairs that didnt shine at all. be overture had seen this conditioned people of colour on crosss she knew mistily that some wolves must(prenominal) look the same. and it was really something else to see them in your girlfriends hair. peculiarly when they seemed to bristle and quiver, buncoing identical the dander of a dog.Shes macabre. non ireful mad maniacal mad, fair(a) realized.Caroline looked up, not at Meredith, but straight into justs eyes. honest flinched. Caroline was gazing at her as if hireing whether or not fair were dinner party or just garbage.Meredith stepped to stand beside mediocre. Her fists were clenched.Dont starrre, Caroline said abruptly, and off-key away. Yes, that was emphatically a snarl.You really wanted us to see you, didnt you? Meredith said softly. Youre flaunting yourself in foregoing of us. moreover I think t hat mayhap this is your way of inquire for help HarrrrdlyCaroline, clean said suddenly, amazed by a quaver of sympathize with that swamped her, beguile try to think. imagine back when you said you unavoidable a hubby? I She broke off and swallowed. Who was vent to conjoin this demon, who a few weeks ago had looked handle a familiar juvenile girl?I look you back then, fair(a) finished lamely. unless, honestly, it wont do any good to keep on apothegm flavorless attacked you No one She couldnt bring herself to say the obvious.No one will remember something uniform you.Oh, I clean up rrrreal prrretty, Caroline growled and then giggled. Youd be surprrrised.In her minds eye, becoming power adage the old insolent flash of Carolines emerald gaze, the sly and incommunicative expression on her face, and the shimmering of her chromatic hair. wherefore pick on bland? Meredith demanded. How did you know he was attacked by a malach that night? Did Shinichi guide it after him just for you?Or did Misao? mediocre said, computer storage that it was the distaff of the parallel kitsune, the fox spirits, who had speak the most to Caroline.I went out on a date with flavourless that night. curtly Carolines voice was a singsong, as if she were reciting poem badly. I didnt mind petting him hes so cute. I strokework thats when he got the zit on his neck. I guess I king vex bitten his lip a little. reasonable undefended her mouth, matt-up Merediths restraining hand on her shoulder, and shut it again. yet then he just went crazy, Caroline lilted on. He attacked me I scratched him with my fingernails, all up and down one arm. barely vapid was too strong. oft too strong. And now And now youre difference to consider puppies, decent wanted to say, but Meredith squeezed her shoulder and she stopped herself again. overly, decent thought with a sudden burn of alarm, the babies energy look human, and there power only be twins, as Carolin e herself had said. Then what would they do? fairish knew the way mature minds worked. crimson if Caroline couldnt discolour her hair back to auburn, they would say, look what filtrate shes been under shes actually vent prematurely grayAnd heretofore if the adults saw Carolines eccentric appearance and strange behavior, as beautiful and Meredith just had, they would dismiss it as beingness receivable to shock. Oh, unforesightful Caroline, her whole disposition has changed since that day. Shes so panicky of matt that she hides under her desk. She wont wash out herself mayhap thats a common symptom after what shes been through.Besides who knew how long it would take these lycanthrope babies to be born? by chance the malach in spite of appearance Caroline could control that, make it seem to be like a normal pregnancy.And then suddenly bonnie was snatched away from her own thoughts to furrow into Carolines words. Caroline was through utter for the moment. She soun ded more or less like the old Caroline, pique and nasty, as she said, I just dont understand why you should take his word over mine.Because, Meredith said flatly, we know both of you. We would direct known if prostrate had been date you and he wasnt. And hes hardly the kind of computerized axial tomography to just show up at your front door, especially when you consider how he tangle about you.solely youve already said that this monster that attacked him Malach, Caroline. influence the word. Youve got one inwardly youCaroline smirked and waved a hand, dismissing this. You said these things can get you and make you do things out of character, right? in that location was a silence. seemly thought, if we apply said it, weve never said it in front of you.Well, what if I admitted that dull and I werent date? What if I said that I set him madcap around our part at about v miles an hour, just looking garbled. His sleeve was divide to pieces and his arm was all chewed up. So I took him inside my house and tried to maculation his arm but suddenly he went crazy. And I did try to scratch him, but the tie ups were in the way. I scratched them off him. I take down still urinate them, all cover in blood. If I told you that, what would you say?Id say that you were apply us as a dry run onwards relation back Sheriff Mossberg, decent thought, chilled. And Id say that you were right, you in all likelihood can clean up pretty normal looking when you make an effort. If youd just stop that girlish giggling and get rid of the pat look, youd be veritable(a) more convincing. merely Meredith was speaking. Caroline theyve got deoxyribonucleic acid tests for blood.Of course I know that Caroline looked so indignant that for a moment she forgot to look sly.Meredith was look at her. That spuriouss they can tell if the bandages youve got go for Matts blood on them or not, she said. And if it flows in the right pattern to match your yarn. on that poi nt isnt any pattern. The bandages are just soaked. Abruptly, Caroline strode over to a chest of drawers and exposed it, plucking out a duration of what mogul rush originally been acrobatic bandage. straightway it shone reddish in the faint light. smell at the soaked model in the ruby light, decent knew two things. It wasnt any part of the beplaster that Mrs. Flowers had put on Matts arm the morning after hed been attacked. And it was soaked with genuine blood, right to the truehearted tips of the cloth.The world seemed to be reel around. Because take down though sightly believed in Matt, this new narrative scared her. This new story aptitude scour work provided that no one could find Matt and test his blood. as yet Matt admitted that there was time unaccounted for that nighttime he couldnt remember. tho that didnt mean Caroline was relative the rectitude wherefore would she start out with a lie, and only change it when the facts got in the way?Carolines eyes were the color of a cats. Cats play with mice, just for amusement. merely to see them run.Matt had run. fair move her head. only at once she couldnt stand this house any longer. It had somehow colonized into her mind, do her hire all the unacceptable angles of the ill-shapen walls. She had withal braggy accustom to the painful smell and the red light. further now, with Caroline property out a blood-soaked bandage and intercourse her that it was Matt who had bled all over itIm release home, fairish announce suddenly. And Matt didnt do it, and and Im never coming back come with by the sound of Carolines giggling, she whirled, move not to look at the nest Caroline had make under her tree desk. at that place were vitiate bottles and half-empty plates of nutrient piled in there with the clothes. Anything could be under them however a malach. entirely as decent moved, the room seemed to move with her, accelerating her spin, until she had gone twice around before sh e could put out a foot to stop herself.Wait, Bonnie wait, Caroline, Meredith said, seem nearly frantic. Caroline was protein folding her body like a contortionist, acquire back under the desk. Caroline, what about Tyler Smallwood? Dont you care that hes the real mother of your your kids? How long were you date him before he coupled up with Klaus? Where is he now?Forrr all I know hes dead. You and yourrr friends killed him. The snarl was back, but it wasnt vicious. It was more of a triumphant purr. scarcely I dont miss him, so I hope he waistband dead, Caroline added, with a softened giggle. He wouldnt marrrry me.Bonnie had to get away. She fumbled for the doorknob, found it, and was blinded. She had fagged so long in ruby faintheartedness that the residency light was like the midday sun on the desert.Turrn off the lamp Caroline snapped from under the desk. But as Meredith moved to do it Bonnie perceive a surprisingly loud detonation and saw the red-swathed shade go d ark by itself.And one thing more.The lobby light sweep across Carolines room like a beacon as the door swung shut. Caroline was already snap at something with her teeth. Something with the texture of meat, but not cooked meat.Bonnie jerked back to run and almost knocked over Mrs. Forbes.The woman was still standing in the hall where she had been when they went into Carolines room. She didnt even look as if shed been earreach at the door. She was just standing, unadulterated at nothing.I deal to show you out, she said in her soft, gray voice. She didnt lift her head to meet Bonnies or Merediths eyes. You might get lost otherwise. I do.It was a straight duck soup to the stairs and down and quaternion steps to the front door. But as they walked, Meredith didnt say anything, and Bonnie couldnt. at once outside, Meredith turned to look at Bonnie.Well? Is she more possess by the malach or the werewolf part of her? Or could you tell anything from her aura?Bonnie perceive herself laugh, a sound that was like crying.Meredith, her aura isnt human and I dont know what to make of it. And her mother doesnt seem to sacrifice an aura at all. Theyre just that house is just never mind, Bonnie. You dont have to go there ever again.Its like But Bonnie didnt know how to inform the fun-house look of the walls or the way the stairs went down kind of of up.I think, she said finally, that youd reveal do some more research. On things like like bullheadedness of the American kind.You mean like bullheadedness by demons? Meredith throw her a sharp look.Yes. I guess so. further I dont know where to start lean whats wrong with her.I have a few ideas of my own, Meredith said quietly. handle did you gloss that she never showed us her manpower? That was very strange, I thought.I know why, Bonnie whispered, essay not to let the prick joke out. Its because she doesnt have fingernails anymore.What did you say?She put her hands around my wrists. I could feel them.B onnie, youre not making any sense.Bonnie do herself speak. Caroline has claws now, Meredith. literal claws. corresponding a wolf.Or maybe, Meredith said in a whisper, like a fox.