Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world who has donated $31 billion to charity, was interviewed for one hour on CNBC. Some interesting aspects about his life are that he bought his first stock at age 11, still lives in the same small house he bought over 50 years ago, and gives simple rules and goals to the CEOs of his 63 companies without regular meetings or calls. His advice is to avoid debt, invest in yourself, appreciate what you have, and choose a simple life.
This document compares various aspects of life in the United States to how they would be handled under Joseph Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1950s. It lists topics like education, infrastructure, jobs, technology, military, taxes, inequality, and arts. The document suggests that Stalin had a five-year plan to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union and bring progress through centralized communist leadership, but that some individuals may have benefited while others suffered under a Stalinist system in America.
Este documento presenta información sobre Octavio Luna, un desarrollador de software que usa React.js. Provee detalles sobre sus trabajos actuales y pasados, incluyendo ser gerente de desarrollo para Unlimited Vacation Club y contribuidor al proyecto Asterisk-Java. También incluye ejemplos de código en React con explicaciones sobre componentes, estado y ciclo de vida.
This document provides guidance on conducting "hold-time" studies to establish maximum acceptable holding periods for intermediates and bulk products during pharmaceutical manufacturing. It outlines key aspects to consider in the design of hold-time studies, including identifying critical stages of production, testing relevant quality attributes, establishing acceptance criteria, storage conditions and sampling plans. The goal is to generate data demonstrating materials remain stable and of appropriate quality when held for defined periods before further processing.
This document discusses several famous waterfalls around the world besides Niagara Falls. It provides details about Victoria Falls, the largest sheet of falling water in the world located on the Zambezi River and shared between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It also describes Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall located in Venezuela, which is 979 meters tall. Finally, it mentions Iguazu Falls, a series of waterfalls along the Iguazu River forming the border of Brazil and Argentina, with some individual falls up to 82 meters high.
This document discusses the Reformation period in Christianity between 500-1500 AD. It provides background that during this time all Christians were Catholic, led by the Pope and bishops. The priests sold indulgences claiming they could reduce time in purgatory. Martin Luther protested the Catholic Church's corruption in 1517, sparking the Protestant reformation. Luther and other reformers disagreed with practices like selling indulgences and wanted people to be able to read the Bible in their own language. The document examines key figures and events of the Reformation like Martin Luther, his 95 Theses, and the new Protestant churches that formed.
Your Data Center Boundaries Don’t Exist Anymore! EMC
In the pre-cloud era, data centers were simpler to define and restrict. As organizations move to public, private, and hybrid clouds, they have to account for internal, industrial, and government compliance initiatives and oversight that impacts data center architecture and information flow. This session describes data center challenges in the Cloud Era and articulates real-life best practices to address those challenges.
The document discusses EMC Greenplum Database, a massively parallel processing (MPP) database designed for business intelligence and analytics. Some key points:
- It uses a shared-nothing architecture that distributes data and parallelizes queries across commodity hardware for extreme performance.
- It supports petabyte-scale data volumes, high-speed loading of data, and hybrid row/column storage to fit different use cases.
- Features include automatic parallelization, unlimited scalability, in-database analytics like MapReduce, and integration with Hadoop.
- It is used by over 200 enterprises for mission-critical analytics due to its scalability and performance.
The document provides information about the capital cities, state birds, populations, flowers, and nicknames of 14 different US states - Alaska, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Montana, Texas, Kansas, Tennessee, Alaska, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Montana, Texas, Kansas, and Tennessee.
The document provides information about Napoleon Bonaparte in several sections:
1) It begins with two adjective prompts to describe Napoleon Bonaparte, noting he was a strong and brilliant leader from Corsica who joined the French military.
2) It describes some of Napoleon's military accomplishments, including his desire to spread the French Revolution throughout Europe by conquering territories in Spain, Italy, Germany and elsewhere.
3) It notes Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France in 1799, suspending democracy and enacting the Napoleonic Code to establish property rights and equality.
This document contains questions and prompts for an economic assignment on various topics:
1. It asks whether a poor person can still get rich today and how to pay off the $17 trillion national debt, through raising taxes, cutting spending, or both.
2. It provides background information on Alexander Hamilton's economic plan and asks if students would have supported it in 1776 as farmers or factory owners.
3. It also includes discussion questions about states' electoral votes, the 1832 US election between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay, and the structure and role of the US Federal Reserve system.
The document discusses leadership skills and defines the differences between a leader and a manager. It provides numerous characteristics and qualities of an effective leader, including having vision, being a motivator, treating people as individuals, sharing success, maintaining integrity, and continually learning and improving. It also emphasizes leading by example, focusing on strategy over weaknesses, inspiring and supporting team members, and delivering extraordinary results through ordinary means. The document recommends developing personal and collective leadership through regular group meetings, sharing new ideas, assessing situations, and taking a research-based approach.
KNOWMATICS AND THE RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY- EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY, BRAIN RESE...Dr. Raju M. Mathew
Knowmatics, Mathematics and Engineering of Knowledge, has a multi-disciplinary foundations, such as Cybernetics, Brain Research, Psycholinguistics, Education and Cognitive Science. It can be considered as a Post-Information Technology Discipline that forms the basis of Modern Knowledge Industry. It is capable of bring a Revolution in Education, Scientific Research, Decision-Making, Professional Practices and all Social Production Processes in making them Knowledge- Intensive.
Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world who has donated $31 billion to charity, was interviewed for one hour on CNBC. Some interesting aspects about his life are that he bought his first stock at age 11, still lives in the same small house he bought over 50 years ago, and gives simple rules and goals to the CEOs of his 63 companies without regular meetings or calls. His advice is to avoid debt, invest in yourself, appreciate what you have, and choose a simple life.
This document compares various aspects of life in the United States to how they would be handled under Joseph Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1950s. It lists topics like education, infrastructure, jobs, technology, military, taxes, inequality, and arts. The document suggests that Stalin had a five-year plan to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union and bring progress through centralized communist leadership, but that some individuals may have benefited while others suffered under a Stalinist system in America.
Este documento presenta información sobre Octavio Luna, un desarrollador de software que usa React.js. Provee detalles sobre sus trabajos actuales y pasados, incluyendo ser gerente de desarrollo para Unlimited Vacation Club y contribuidor al proyecto Asterisk-Java. También incluye ejemplos de código en React con explicaciones sobre componentes, estado y ciclo de vida.
This document provides guidance on conducting "hold-time" studies to establish maximum acceptable holding periods for intermediates and bulk products during pharmaceutical manufacturing. It outlines key aspects to consider in the design of hold-time studies, including identifying critical stages of production, testing relevant quality attributes, establishing acceptance criteria, storage conditions and sampling plans. The goal is to generate data demonstrating materials remain stable and of appropriate quality when held for defined periods before further processing.
This document discusses several famous waterfalls around the world besides Niagara Falls. It provides details about Victoria Falls, the largest sheet of falling water in the world located on the Zambezi River and shared between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It also describes Angel Falls, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall located in Venezuela, which is 979 meters tall. Finally, it mentions Iguazu Falls, a series of waterfalls along the Iguazu River forming the border of Brazil and Argentina, with some individual falls up to 82 meters high.
This document discusses the Reformation period in Christianity between 500-1500 AD. It provides background that during this time all Christians were Catholic, led by the Pope and bishops. The priests sold indulgences claiming they could reduce time in purgatory. Martin Luther protested the Catholic Church's corruption in 1517, sparking the Protestant reformation. Luther and other reformers disagreed with practices like selling indulgences and wanted people to be able to read the Bible in their own language. The document examines key figures and events of the Reformation like Martin Luther, his 95 Theses, and the new Protestant churches that formed.
Your Data Center Boundaries Don’t Exist Anymore! EMC
In the pre-cloud era, data centers were simpler to define and restrict. As organizations move to public, private, and hybrid clouds, they have to account for internal, industrial, and government compliance initiatives and oversight that impacts data center architecture and information flow. This session describes data center challenges in the Cloud Era and articulates real-life best practices to address those challenges.
The document discusses EMC Greenplum Database, a massively parallel processing (MPP) database designed for business intelligence and analytics. Some key points:
- It uses a shared-nothing architecture that distributes data and parallelizes queries across commodity hardware for extreme performance.
- It supports petabyte-scale data volumes, high-speed loading of data, and hybrid row/column storage to fit different use cases.
- Features include automatic parallelization, unlimited scalability, in-database analytics like MapReduce, and integration with Hadoop.
- It is used by over 200 enterprises for mission-critical analytics due to its scalability and performance.
The document provides information about the capital cities, state birds, populations, flowers, and nicknames of 14 different US states - Alaska, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Montana, Texas, Kansas, Tennessee, Alaska, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Montana, Texas, Kansas, and Tennessee.
The document provides information about Napoleon Bonaparte in several sections:
1) It begins with two adjective prompts to describe Napoleon Bonaparte, noting he was a strong and brilliant leader from Corsica who joined the French military.
2) It describes some of Napoleon's military accomplishments, including his desire to spread the French Revolution throughout Europe by conquering territories in Spain, Italy, Germany and elsewhere.
3) It notes Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France in 1799, suspending democracy and enacting the Napoleonic Code to establish property rights and equality.
This document contains questions and prompts for an economic assignment on various topics:
1. It asks whether a poor person can still get rich today and how to pay off the $17 trillion national debt, through raising taxes, cutting spending, or both.
2. It provides background information on Alexander Hamilton's economic plan and asks if students would have supported it in 1776 as farmers or factory owners.
3. It also includes discussion questions about states' electoral votes, the 1832 US election between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay, and the structure and role of the US Federal Reserve system.
The document discusses leadership skills and defines the differences between a leader and a manager. It provides numerous characteristics and qualities of an effective leader, including having vision, being a motivator, treating people as individuals, sharing success, maintaining integrity, and continually learning and improving. It also emphasizes leading by example, focusing on strategy over weaknesses, inspiring and supporting team members, and delivering extraordinary results through ordinary means. The document recommends developing personal and collective leadership through regular group meetings, sharing new ideas, assessing situations, and taking a research-based approach.
KNOWMATICS AND THE RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY- EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY, BRAIN RESE...Dr. Raju M. Mathew
Knowmatics, Mathematics and Engineering of Knowledge, has a multi-disciplinary foundations, such as Cybernetics, Brain Research, Psycholinguistics, Education and Cognitive Science. It can be considered as a Post-Information Technology Discipline that forms the basis of Modern Knowledge Industry. It is capable of bring a Revolution in Education, Scientific Research, Decision-Making, Professional Practices and all Social Production Processes in making them Knowledge- Intensive.