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Analysis and Recommendation for Hallmark

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          Each time I post an assignment, I realize I'm providing opportunity for someone else to cheat.   To take my words and try to make them their own.   I even provide references for the sake of the reader and not the cheater.   I have decided I will not to include references on my blog but in a different file.              The final assignment given in one of my accounting classes, was to create an analysis and recommendation on a company recognized by its trademark.   Initially, I picked Coca-Cola - but my research provided more information than I knew what to do with.   Frankly, I was overwhelmed with how many pies Coke hands have been dipped into (so to speak) and wasn't interested in doing a recommendation on a company that seemingly owned so many others.   And so I changed it.           Whi...

Spoke Too Soon!

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          For two weeks now, I have been sleeping sound all through the night.  Yesterday I posted about how cold it’s been and right now I am up because it’s too hot to sleep – even after turning on the A/C.  I ended up waking up instead of going back to sleep.  GRRR . . .           Google says that the temperature is only 56 outside, but there is obviously no breeze.  No circulation.  Currently I have the fan on in the other room, and Roland is buried under the covers.  It’s quite sickening.  It did get up to 86 when I had checked less than ten hours ago.  

Too Late To Plant?

         It has been said that plants and seeds should be introduced to the ground before Mothers' Day ends . . . or perhaps it's just seeds?   Roland and I are both city bred, but have tried our hand at living in the country.   Our yard is an ugly mess right now.   We were late planting last year.   I think we may have missed opportunity this year . . . but then again, the weather has been crazy enough that we may be okay to purchase a tomato plant or two.   Our garden won't have as many plants as what we tried last year.           We purchased some strawberry plants and something called "Hula Berries" which we have never heard of before, but thought we would try it.   Roland tugged at the buds as they came up saying our harvest would start this year rather than last.   It may be the only crop we have.   Trick is weeding it without pulling up the plants. ...

PowerPoint part 4: Death by PowerPoint

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          I've been going over some notes, or suggestions rather, on how to make for an interesting PowerPoint: no more than 20 minutes for entire presentation and no more than 10 slides.   Hey, instructors, I guess this doesn't apply to you then, does it?   It should.           I changed my slide show.   Kept half with clips and the others were boring but included the premises and conclusions . . . blah, blah, blah . . . "What is Daylight Saving Time and why do we have it?   This country started practicing DST during Ward War I to conserve on energy. This helped to cut down the cost of coal for heating and candlelight (History, 2012).   But what has happened to us over a century later?   Many people have a problem with changing their sleep patterns.   "Researchers have found several people complaining of headaches.   One study found a 10% increa...

PowerPoint part 3: DST is so Annoying!

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        As I was somewhat stressed by the midterm and final of my history class, I decided to get a jump start on the final for my philosophy class (which ended May 26 this year).  I ended up changing the PowerPoint three times however as I was supposed to work fallacies into the document - which I didn't foresee as a problem until I was told I'd have to provide the name for the fallacy.  Oh, Oh ... I thought that might be a problem.         So we were supposed to pick a topic and have premises and conclusions for the Pro as well as the Con . . . my original PowerPoint was very one-sided and so I had to redo to include the opposite.  I brought in a fallacy slide which didn't feel like it belonged.  I didn't think I'd receive full credit as it still felt one-sided.  It was hard!  The more research I did, the more biased I was about having to set clocks every six months.  So this was...