Night World : Spellbinder Chapter 5

What?† Thea said. This was something she could speak out about. â€Å"Blaise, are you out of your mind?† â€Å"I hope you're not saying you don't want to do spells,† Blaise said dangerously. â€Å"That's part of it, you know.† â€Å"I'm saying there's no way we can get enough blood to fill this without them noticing. What are we going to tell them? ‘I just want a little to remember you by?'† â€Å"Use your ingenuity,† Vivienne said musically, twining a red-gold strand of hair around her fingers. â€Å"In a pinch we could always use the Cup of Lethe,† Blaise added calmly. â€Å"Then no matter what we do, they won't remember.† Thea nearly fell over. What Blaise was suggesting was like using a nuclear bomb to swat a fly. â€Å"You are crazy,† she said quietly. â€Å"You know that maidens aren't allowed to use that kind of spell, and we probably won't even be able to use it when we're mothers, and probably not even when we're crones. That's stuff for the elders.† She stared at Blaise until the gray eyes dropped. â€Å"I don't believe in classifying some spells as forbidden,† Blaise said loftily, but she didn't look back at Thea and she didn't pursue the subject. As she and Dani left the patio, Thea noticed that Dani had taken one of the small vials. â€Å"Are you going to the dance?† â€Å"I guess so.† Dani shrugged lithe shoulders. â€Å"John Finkelstein from our world lit class asked me a couple weeks ago. I've never been to one of their dances before-but maybe this is the time to start.† Now what did that mean? Thea felt uneasy. â€Å"And you're planning to put a spell on him?† â€Å"You mean this?† She twisted the vial in her fingers. â€Å"I don't know. I figured I'd take it just in case†¦.† She looked up at Thea defensively. â€Å"You took one for Eric.† Thea hesitated. She hadn't talked to Dani about Eric yet. Part of her wanted to and part of her was scared. What did Dani really think of Outsiders, anyway? â€Å"After all,† Dani said, her sweet face tranquil, â€Å"they're only humans.† Saturday night Thea took a dress out of the closet. It was pale green-so pale that it almost looked white-and designed along Grecian lines. Witch clothes had to feel good as well as look good, and this dress was soft and lightweight, swirling beautifully when she turned. Blaise wasn't wearing a dress. She was wearing a tuxedo. It had a red silk bow tie and cummerbund and it looked fantastic on her. This is probably going to be the only dance in history where the most popular girl has on cufflinks, Thea thought. Eric arrived right on time. He knocked at the front door of the shop, the door that only Outsiders used. Night People came around back, to a door that was unmarked except for what looked like a bit of graffiti-a spray-painted black dahlia. Okay, Thea thought. She took a deep breath before she unlocked the door and let him in. This is business, business, business†¦. But the first moment wasn't as awkward as she'd feared. He smiled and held out a corsage of white orchids. She smiled and took it. Then she said, â€Å"You look nice.† His suit was pale fatigue brown, loose and comfortable looking. â€Å"Me? You look nice. I mean-you look wonderful. That color makes your hair look just like gold.† Then he glanced down at himself apologetically. â€Å"I don't go to many dances, I'm afraid.† â€Å"Don't you?† She'd heard girls talking about him at school. It seemed as if everyone liked him, wanted to get close to him. â€Å"No, I'm usually pretty busy. You know, working, playing sports.† He added more softly, â€Å"And I have a hard time thinking of things to say around girls.† Funny, you never seem to have a problem around me, Thea thought. She saw him looking the shop over. â€Å"It's my grandmother's store. She sells all kinds of things here, from all around the world.† She watched him closely. This was an important test. If he-a human-believed in this stuff, he was either a New Age geek or dangerously close to the truth. â€Å"It's cool,† he said, and she was happy to see that he was lying. â€Å"I mean,† he said, obviously struggling to find a polite way to praise the voodoo dolls and wand crystals, â€Å"I think people can really affect their bodies by changing their state of mind.† You don't know how right you are, Thea thought. There was a clack of high heels on wood, and Blaise came down the stairs. Her shoes appeared first, then her fitted trouser legs, then all the curves, emphasized here and there with brilliant red silk. Finally came her shoulders and head, her midnight hair half up and half down, framing her face in stormy dark curls. Thea glanced sideways at Eric. He was smiling at Blaise, but not in the goofy, dying-sheep way other guys smiled. His was just a genuine grin. â€Å"Hi, Blaise,† he said. â€Å"Going to the dance? We can take you if you need a lift.† Blaise stopped dead. Then she gave him a blistering glare. â€Å"Thank you, I have my own date. I'm just going to pick him up now.† On the way to the door, she looked hard at Thea. â€Å"You do have everything you need for tonight- don't you?† The vial was in Thea's pale green clutch purse. Thea still didn't know how she could possibly get it filled, but she nodded tightly. â€Å"Good.† Blaise swept out and got into a silver-gray Porsche that was parked at the curb. Kevin's car. But, as Thea knew, she wasn't going to pick up Kevin. â€Å"I think I made her mad,† Eric said. â€Å"Don't worry. Blaise likes being mad. Should we go now?† Business, business, business, Thea chanted to herself as they walked into the school cafeteria. It had been completely transformed from its daytime identity. The lights and music were oddly thrilling and the whirl of color out on the dance floor was strangely inviting. I'm not here to have fun, Thea told herself again. But her blood seemed to be sparkling. She saw Eric glance at her conspiratorially and she could almost feel what he was feeling-as if they were two kids standing hand in hand at the edge of some incredible carnival. â€Å"Uh, I should tell you,† Eric said. â€Å"I can't really dance-except for slow ones.† Oh, great. But of course this was what she was here to do. To put on a show of romancing Eric for Blaise. A slow song was starting that minute. Thea shut her eyes briefly and resigned herself to fate-which didn't seem all that awful as she and Eric stepped out onto the floor. Terpsichore, Muse of the Dance, help me not make a fool of myself. She'd never been so close to a human boy, and she'd never tried to dance to human music. But Eric didn't seem to notice her lack of experience. â€Å"You know, I can't believe this,† he said. His arms were around her lightly, almost reverently. As if he were afraid she'd break if he held her too hard. â€Å"What can't you believe?† â€Å"Well†¦Ã¢â‚¬  He shook his head. â€Å"Everything, I guess. That I'm here with you. And that it all feels so easy. And that you always smell so good.† Thea laughed in spite of herself. â€Å"I didn't use any yemonja this time-† she began, and then she almost bit her tongue. Adrenaline washed over her in a wave of painful tingles. Was she crazy? She was blurting out spell ingredients, for Earth's sake. He was too easy to talk to, that was the problem. Every so often she'd forget he wasn't a witch. â€Å"You okay?† he said as her silence stretched on. His voice was concerned. No, I am not okay. I've got Blaise on one side and the laws of the Night World on the other, and they're both out to get me. And I don't even know if you're worth it†¦. â€Å"Can I ask you something?† she said abruptly. â€Å"Why did you knock me out of the way of that snake?† â€Å"Huh? It was in a striking coil. You could have got bit.† â€Å"But so could you.† So did you. He frowned as if stricken by one of those unsolvable mysteries of life. â€Å"Yeah†¦ but that didn't seem so bad somehow. I suppose that sounds stupid.† Thea didn't know how to answer. And she was suddenly in terrible conflict about what to do. Her body seemed to want her to lean her head against Eric's shoulder, but her mind was yelling in alarm at the very thought. At that moment she heard loud voices at the edge of the dance floor. â€Å"Get out of the way,† a guy in a blue jacket was saying. â€Å"She smiled at me, and I'm going over there.† â€Å"It was me she was smiling at, you jerk,† a guy in a gray jacket snapped back. â€Å"So just back off and let me go.† Expletives. â€Å"It was me, and you'd better get out of the way.† More expletives. â€Å"It was me, and you'd better let go.† A fistfight started. Chaperones came running. Guess who's here? Thea asked herself. She had no trouble at all locating Blaise. The red-trimmed tuxedo was surrounded by a ring of guys, which was surrounded by a ring of abandoned and angry girls. â€Å"Maybe we should go over and say hi,† Thea said. She wanted to warn Blaise about starting a riot. â€Å"Okay. She sure is popular, isn't she?† They managed to worm their way through the encircling crowd. Blaise was in her element, glorying in the adulation and confusion. â€Å"I waited for an hour and a half, but you never showed up,† a very pale Kevin was saying to her. He was wearing an immaculate white silk shirt and exquisitely tailored black pants. His eyes were hollow. â€Å"Maybe you gave me the wrong address,† Blaise said thoughtfully. â€Å"I couldn't find your house.† She had her hand tucked into the arm of a very tall guy with shoulder-length blond hair, who looked as if he worked out four or five hours a day. â€Å"Anyway, you want to dance?† Kevin looked at the blond guy, who looked back impassively, his cleft chin rock hard. â€Å"Don't mind Sergio,† Blaise said. â€Å"He was just keeping me company. Do you not want to dance?† Kevin's eyes fell. â€Å"Well, yeah, of course I want to†¦.† As Blaise detached herself from Sergio, Thea leaned forward. â€Å"You'd better not do anything too public,† she hissed in her cousin's ear. â€Å"There's already been one fight.† Blaise just gave her an amused glance and took Kevin's arm. Most of the boys followed her, and with the crowd gone, Thea saw Dani at a small table. She was wearing a sparkling gold dress and she was alone. â€Å"Let's go sit,† Eric said, before Thea could even get a word out. She threw him a grateful look. â€Å"Where's John?† Thea asked as they pulled chairs to the table. Dani nodded toward the pack following Blaise. â€Å"I don't mind, though,† she said, sipping a cup of punch philosophically. â€Å"He was kind of boring. I don't know about all this dance stuff.† Thea knew she meant it was different from Circle dances, where everyone was in harmony and there was no pairing off. You danced with the elements and with everybody else, all one big interconnected whole. Eric volunteered to get more punch. â€Å"How's it going with him?† Dani asked in a low voice when he was gone. Her velvety dark eyes searched Thea's curiously. â€Å"Everything's okay so far,† Thea said evasively. Then she looked out toward the dance floor. â€Å"I see Viv and Selene are here.† â€Å"Yeah. I think Vivienne already got her blood. She stabbed Tyrone with her corsage pin.† â€Å"How clever,† Thea said. Vivienne was wearing a black dress that made her hair look like flame, and Selene was in deep violet that showed off her blondness. They both seemed to be having a wonderful time. Dani yawned. â€Å"I think I'll probably go home early-† she began, and then she broke off. Some kind of a disturbance had begun on the other side of the room, in front of the main entrance. People were scuffling. At first, Thea thought it was just another minor fracas over Blaise-but then a figure came staggering out under the lights of the dance floor. â€Å"I want to know,† the voice said in dissonant tones that rose over the music. â€Å"I want to knoooow.† The band stopped. People turned. Something about the voice made them do that. It was so obviously abnormal, the cadence wrong even for somebody who was drunk. This was someone who was disturbed. Thea stood up. â€Å"I want to knoooow,† the figure said again, sounding lost and petulant. Then it turned and Thea felt ice down her spine. The person was wearing a Halloween mask. A kid's plastic mask of a football player, the kind held on with an elastic string. Perfectly appropriate for a Halloween dance. But at Homecoming, it was grotesque. Oh, Eileithyia, Thea thought. â€Å"Can you tell me?† the figure asked a short girl in black ruffles. She backed away, reaching for her dance partner. Mr. Adkins, Thea's physics teacher, came jogging up, his tie fluttering. None of the other chaperones seemed to be around-probably because they were out somewhere trying to control fights over Blaise, Thea thought. â€Å"Okay, let's settle; settle,† Mr. Adkins said, making motions as if the figure were an unruly class. â€Å"Let's just take it easy†¦.† The guy in the Halloween mask pulled something out of his jacket. It glinted like a rainbow under the colored dance floor lights, reflective as a mirror. â€Å"A straight razor,† Dani said in a hushed voice. â€Å"Queen Ms, where'd he get that?† Something about the weapon-maybe the fact that it was so weird, so old-fashioned-made it scarier than a knife. Thea pictured the way even a safety razor could slice flesh. Mr. Adkins was backing away, arms held out as if to protect the students behind him. His eyes were frightened. I have to stop this, Thea thought. The problem was that she had no idea how. If it had been an animal, she could have stepped out and tried mind control. But she couldn't control a person. She started walking anyway, slowly, so as not to attract attention. She skirted the edge of the crowd around the dance floor until she drew parallel with the masked guy. Who by now had switched to a new question. â€Å"Have you seen her?† he said. He kept asking it as he walked, and people kept backing away. Vivienne and Selene drew to either side with their dates. The razor glittered. Thea looked toward the opposite end of the dance floor, where Blaise was standing with Kevin Imamura. With no Buck, no Duane to protect her. But Blaise didn't look frightened. That was one thing about Blaise-she had magnificent physical courage. She was standing with one hand on her hip and Thea could tell that she knew exactly who was coming her way. In between moving couples, Thea glimpsed something else. Eric was on the other side of the dance floor, holding two cups of punch in one hand and one in the other. He was keeping pace with the masked guy, just as she was. She tried to catch his eye, but the crowd was too thick. â€Å"Have you seen her?† the masked guy asked a couple right in front of Blaise. â€Å"I want to knoooow†¦.† The couple split like bowling pins. Blaise stood exposed, tall and elegant in her black suit, lights shimmering off her midnight hair. â€Å"Here I am, Randy,† she said. â€Å"What is it you want to know?† Randy Marik stopped, panting. His breath made a muffled noise against the plastic. The rest of the huge room was eerily silent. Thea moved closer, walking silently. Eric was pulling in from the other side, and he saw her for the first time. He shook his head at her and mouthed, â€Å"Stay away.† Yeah. And you're going to tackle him armed with three party cups of punch. She gave him a look and mouthed, â€Å"You stay away.† Randy's hand was trembling, making the razor flash. His chest was heaving. â€Å"What is it, Randy?† Blaise said. The toe of one high heeled shoe tapped the floor impatiently. â€Å"I feel bad,† Randy said. It was almost a moan. Suddenly his head didn't seem well connected to his neck. â€Å"I miss you.† His voice made Thea's flesh creep. He sounded like a person with the body of an eighteen-year-old and the mind of a four-year-old. â€Å"I cry all the time,† he said. With his left hand, he pulled off the Halloween mask. Kevin recoiled. Thea herself felt a wave of horror. He was crying blood. Bloody streams ran down from each of his eyes, mingling with regular tears. A spell? Thea wondered. Then she thought, no; he's cut himself. That was it. He'd made two crescent-shaped incisions under his eyes and the blood was coming from them. The rest of his face was ghastly, too. He was white as a corpse and there was fuzzy stubble on his chin. His eyes stared wildly. And his hair, which had always been strawberry blond and silky, stood up all over his head like bleached hay. â€Å"You came all the way from New Hampshire to tell me that?† Blaise said. She rolled her eyes. Randy let out a sobbing breath. This seemed to make Kevin braver. â€Å"Look, man, I don't know who you are-but you'd better keep away from her,† he said. â€Å"Why don't you go home and sober up?† It was a mistake. The wild eyes above the bloodstained cheeks focused on him. â€Å"Who are you?† Randy said thickly, advancing a step. â€Å"Who†¦ are†¦ you?† â€Å"Kevin, move!† Thea said urgently. It was too late. The hand with the razor flashed out, lightning quick. Blood spurted from Kevin's face.

An Examination of the Power of the Dark Side

Entrepreneurship does have a Dark Side and It Is powerful, Indeed. With rare exceptions, the literature about entrepreneurship Is positive and supportive and implies that uniform benefits accrue to the economy, to businesses, and to individuals as a result of entrepreneurship. This is only half the story. A small number of researchers have examined the dysfunctional aspects of entrepreneurship and pointed out that a Dark Side definitely exists (Sets De Varies, 1985; Solomon & Winslow, 988; Winslow & Solomon, 1987; 1989).This paper will look at those who turned to the Dark Side for their very existence. The authors have surveyed prisoners who have been convicted of a felony and who are serving sentences In a Federal Prison in the Midwest. The participants were enrolled In a continuing education course Involving entrepreneurship and small business startup Ideas and they all espoused a desire to â€Å"go straight† when their sentences had been served. How did they become criminal s? Did they view their criminal satellites as entrepreneurial ventures? Will they become legitimate entrepreneurs in the future?Can entrepreneurship education alleviate the problems faced by these offenders when released and is there a greater or lesser chance of acidifies when these inmates are given the opportunity to study entrepreneurship while still incarcerated? If they exist, are Dark Side Entrepreneurs different from main stream Entrepreneurs? These were the questions which drove our research. A major problem facing society today Is the Impact that the growing number of inmates serving sentences have on the economic vitality of our nation.The problem has been exacerbated because our Jails are not only filled with first time-offenders but with a large population of repeat offenders, those returned to prison because nee were unmade to malting a crime-Tree Testily rater Deluge released. According to the Bureau of Justice (2000), in the United States released prisoners were re-a rrested at an average rate that was greater than 60%. The high percentage of re-arrested former prisoners is a clear indication that Just serving one's sentence is not a deterrent to committing more criminal acts.The economic cost to society and to those directly affected by criminal activity is tremendous. According to the Bureau of Justice (2000), one of every fifteen people in the U. S. Will be incarcerated. That figure is staggering. During the past 25 years, the penal system in the United States has implemented a strategy of â€Å"lock ‘me up and throw away the key. † As a result, there has been an unprecedented growth in the prison population in the number of incarcerated inmates even though the crime rate has been decreasing.Further exacerbating the situation is that incredibly high rate of recidivism. According to the Three State Recidivism Study (Stouter, Smith, and Tracy, 2001) released inmates reported that less than half had a Job awaiting them after they we re freed from prison. While most (about 87% of those who had received training hill in prison and 83% of those who did not participate in training) believed that they had a place to stay after they were released, the remainder were released as homeless, left to roam the streets, mostly in urban areas.The economic cost of incarceration and the cost to society of criminal activity, plus the lost wages due to imprisonment of convicted workers and the cost of providing welfare for their families is creating a substantial burden on local, state and federal budgets. The combination of rising costs multiplied by an ever greater number of incarcerated inmates is putting pressure on the penal system to find an alternative, deter strategy for success after release. Is there a strategy that can lead to a lower prisoner population through a decrease in recidivism?

Robert Frost Explains Why Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Robert Frost examines what role fences play in shaping relationships between neighbors. Do neighbors get along better because of walls separating their properties? Frost quotes his neighbor several times as saying â€Å"good fences make good neighbors.† But the idea has several interpretations. The most obvious meaning is that walls separate people from one another and that this separation eliminates the possibilities for feuds or disappointments, or trespassing, both literally and figuratively, on a neighbor’s domain. A second possibility is that fences make for good neighbors because each year Frost must work with his neighbor to repair the fence. The joint cooperative effort means that the neighbors have a reason to get together at least†¦show more content†¦Frost views the wall as unnecessary. Frost accepts that sometimes walls are necessary. He mentions cows crossing over to neighbors’ property as an example. But Frost and his neighbor have no lives tock. They have only trees, and Frost points out that his apple trees are not going to cross the property boundary to eat the pine cones of the neighbor’s pine trees. Frost sees no need for a wall, yet he recognizes that maintaining the wall keeps the neighbor happy. In this way the unnecessary wall is necessary. Several similes are used in the poem. One is the presentation of the neighbor grasping stones in each hand â€Å"like an old-stone savage armed.† This creates a vision of a rustic and unimaginative neighbor stuck in his ideas like someone from the Stone Age. The stone-age is tied to mere survival without any beauty or imagination. The neighbor lives in such a rut. Frost uses trees as a metaphor to define himself and his neighbor: â€Å"He is all pine and I am apple orchard.† The apple orchard is productive as well as beautiful. The pine trees exist and do not produce such a beautiful fruit. Pine trees are sturdy and unimaginative, like the neighbor. 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Project constraints The project constraints will be explained using the following diagram.(Maylor, 2003) In the context of the current project, Input Integration of the business processes. Security of the copyrighted materials. An efficient eBusiness platform. Output An integrated ERP solution for the publishing business An eBusiness solution Implementation of information security in the project. Mechanism Knowledge comprises of people, capital and technology. The capital is the cost of the existing infrastructure, its resources etc. The people in this project are the persons from management of the publishing company. The IT project team from the consultancy. The end users. Then the technologies are, Technology for implementation of a LAN based office environments. Servers, related technologies. ERP solution. Ecommerce and web technologies. Information and network security technologies like firewall, anti-virus, proxy servers etc. Constraints The constraints on the project are, The project should be completed within time and budget. All required functionalities should be implemented. The project context The context of the project has been described below, Scope The project will help the publishing company in implementation of information technology in their business. ERP system implementation will integrate all their business process and the technologies. The business processes will be faster and more efficient. ROI will be more from this project. The eBusiness platform will help to extend their business over the online platforms. (Hobbs, 2009) Strategy, Structure and system The project management strategy will be agile project management. It will help the business to deliver their needs within their budget and time. As the business dont have similar infrastructure, so they may wish to change. Thus agile strategy has been taken. It will also allow constant participation of the end users and the management team from the business into the project. So, there will be enhanced communication and collaboration. There will be matrix structure followed in the project management. It will be balanced. The authority and decision making power will be distributed to the top level functional manager from the business and the IT manager from the consultancy, who the project manager also.(Hill Jones, 2012) Culture and skill The culture in the organization is quite good. People are co-operative and enthusiastic. The project team will work collaboratively as a single team. Administration has control over its employees. Participation and all type of communication for the project will be ensured. The management team from the business is highly qualifies and have detailed ideas of the business process. Their skills and knowledge will help the IT project management team to understand the business process and work accordingly. (Kousholt, 2007) Project objectives trade-offs The objective of the project is to have a high quality system within the cost and time constraints. The summary of the project objective tradeoffs can be, Time Cost Quality Performance conformance Moderate time is available for the project. Moderate budget is available. Highest quality is needed. Project Definition The project is about ERP implementation for the publishing company. They want a quality system having all required security implementation. There are copyrighted materials used in the business, thus it need to ensure all kind of data privacy and protection cases. The project will develop an integrated ERP system for the business. It will cover all business processes and eBusienss facilities. The implementation of the system will be done in 2 phases. At first the core business processes will be implemented using the ERP solution then the rest will be implemented. There is an important part to transfer data from the old system to the new one. Project Proposal Name of the Project: Implementation of ERP in the Publishing House. Project Sponsor: Project manager: Date of Commencement Duration of the project Scope: Deliverables: Version Document Prepared by Changes 1.0 Project proposal Project Manager Initial document. Status: Approved / Rejected Signed by Date Stakeholder register Stakeholder Influence Role Project Sponsor Very high Project sponsor provides the funding of the project and will be directly affected from the outcome from this project. Top level management Very high The top level management will be responsible for managing the project successfully. Project manager Very high The project manager will be responsible to carry out the instruction of the top level management and complete the project successfully using the available resources and satisfying all constraints. Project team members Moderate Will be responsible to follow up the instructions from project manager. IT consultancy Very high They are responsible to implement the ERP system successfully and that the main focus of the project. All technical aspects will be carried out by them. Authors High The authors will share their manuscripts with the publication house. If those are not protected by the system then they will be badly affected. Bookstore owners Moderate The bookstores will be able to place order and communicate with the publishing house through the online eBusiness platform. Employees Moderate The employees are part of the organization. So the will be affected from the outcome of the project to some extent. Time Planning The gantt chart and work break down structure is, The network diagram and critical path is, Cost Planning There are different type of cost planning methods for a project. The main objective of cost planning for a project is to identify the relationship among price, cost and profit of a project. (Kerzner, 2013) The simple equations are, cost + profit = price. The price will consider the cost for materials, labor, project overhead, other overheads and profit. There are two types of cost estimation techniques. Top down and bottom up. The project manager will be responsible for cost planning process. The funding of this project is the responsibility of the publishing house. Thus the project manager will have funding for the project from them. A constraint on the project management will be avoiding cash flows. The payment done to the suppliers will be tracked. The planning will consider the accounting period of the funding and scheduling time of the project. The spending on the project will be tracked. Quality Planning The quality planning for this project will be considers based the following decisions, (Kerzner, 2013) What are the standards and specifications that are required to meet in this project? What are the metrics that will be used to evaluate whether the specifications have met the standards? Different criteria of project authorization process in different phases. What will be the tools and techniques used in Quality assurance and Quality control? Different quality control activities to be performed in different phases on project management. Risk Management Risk management will help to uncover the risks related to a project in the early of the project development process. An effective risk management process will consider identification of the risks, evaluation of the risks and possible mitigations. (Hillson, 2012) The risk register is, ID Risk Impact of the risk Likelihood of occurrence Countermeasures 1 Shortage of funding Project may get suspended Low Proper cost estimation considering contingencies should be done 2 Schedule slippage Project may get suspended Low Critical path should be considered carefully. 3 Lack of resources Project may pause. Low Resources can be arranged if necessary. 4 Failure of the system in first phase Project may get suspended High The project management should be done very carefully and so is the ERP implementation. 5 Loss of data during transition from old to new system System may not work properly High It must be done very carefully with adequate back up arrangements. 6 Attacks by hackers System may not work properly High Proper information security implementations will be done. 7 Information theft There will be legal issue and the business will be badly affected. High Proper information security implementations will be done. Project Change Control Change control of the project or Change management of the project is defined in the very first of the project and it will be followed throughout the project. (Newton, 2013) There will be a standard format to request change. All change requests should be submitted following this format. There should be clear description on the following topics in a change request. Brief and concise details of the actual change request. This is needed in the form of a statement. It will help in outlining the targeted item for change. The project management team will get the subject of the request from this information. Clear and detailed reasoning behind the change request. The rationale behind the change request should be given in details in this part. In this section there should be detailed information about the changes if the change request in accepted and implemented. Then there should be an expected date for implementation of the change. It does not confirms that the change will be implemented within this date for sure. After receiving change request the project manager will review it and forward the same to the top level management, with explanation of his/ her opinion on it. The top level management then review it and take decision about this change request. It may be accepted or rejected. If it is accepted then the project manager will implement all required changed in the project schedule. Project oriented PPM and Project Maturity Model The project portfolio management or PPM will have a centralized approach in the management of the project. The processes, technologies and methodologies used in the project by the project management officers and project managers will be considered in the project portfolio management. All these technologies, processes and methodologies will be analyzed collectively. (Meredith Mantel, 2011) The operational and financial goals will be analyzed in portfolio management. The optimal mix of the resources conforming to the delivery of the project successfully will be considered in this case. There are several environmental factors like strategic objectives, customers etc. those things will be covered also. The project management maturity model will be used for assessing the processes and carrying out portfolio management. The key processes will be hierarchically structured. It will help in setting sensible and realistic goals around the key processes. There are 5 such structured levels for assessment of project maturity. Those are, Project awareness at level 1 Repeatable processes at level 2 Defining processes at level 3 Management of processes at level 4 Optimization of processes at level 5 Stakeholder Management Perspectives During this stakeholder management and organizational behavior will be closely monitored. There will be different controls set for it. Some of the best practices to be followed are, (Fusco, 1997) There will be clear communication among the team members and stakeholders. As all stakeholders have some responsibilities to the project and they have some degree of influence on the project, hence, their opinions will be considered very closely. All stakeholders will be requested to participate in the project management during the process whenever necessary. Thus active participations from all stakeholders should be encouraged throughout the project. All members, employees and stakeholders will work like a team, no incident that may encourage the team spirit or morale will be entertained. Management leadership There will be in house team and they will work on site. There will be top level management with various managers from different departments of the publishing business. Under them the project manager assigned from the IT consultancy will manage the project. References Fusco, J. C., 1997. 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School Canteen Obesity free essay sample

School Canteens Obesity Nowadays, children are becoming far more overweight in suburban schools, and on a personally view the schools canteens are a definite place to blame. If you look at an average school canteen, there is no respect for the weight of the child or no help for providing the healthier option; it is all about making the dollar or two to fund a business. This essay will contain points like problems of canteens, ways of making the canteen healthier and the worst offenders to canteen obesity. Canteens are terrible; people line up with their money, walk in and buy whatever food they want. There is no mother in their ear saying to purchase a healthier option, there is just a child who wants to walk in a purchase the best tasting and in most cases fattiest options. As a personal view, to reduce problems like obesity people who have the power to should try and bring in healthier options, and encourage kids to eat them. We will write a custom essay sample on School Canteen Obesity or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page As some schools have tried to introduce healthy food as well as unhealthy food, those schools haven’t backed it up with encouraging kids to eat it. There are endless possibilities to making canteens healthier, you can just ban unhealthy food, you can make it super expensive so know child can afford it or want to buy it, or you can just ban the canteen in general. But unfortunately these options won’t work because as much as people want to get rid of the obesity in children you have to think of the people who work at the canteen, as it is there job. A more productive way of improving canteens is having both options to healthy and the bad but making the healthy items appeal more to people. Or from a different approach you can have the unhealthy food but make it smaller in amounts, so you will be having less unhealthy foods, and then the students will be reduced to no choice but buy healthy food or accept there own home made meals, where the parents can control the healthiness of. Some of the main reasons canteens are so bad isn’t just an overall effort, there is many certain items that just add to the problem in massive amounts. The idea of a donut filled with fatty jam, drowning in sugar and served hot is no way an idea of trying to help yourself to improve obesity. If you could ban certain foods, the changes would be dramatic, and while it might have a negative reaction at the start, in the future all children will be eating with healthier life styles and can make the drippy donuts and other such food a weekend treat, not your daily lunch. Overall, and as this argumentative piece has proven there are definite faults with canteen and there are definitely a big part in assisting child obesity, but to stop the obesity you have to do it in a way that incorporates everyone’s needs and a way that will appeal to young kids. Word Count: 514 words By Sam Bardoel