Belles-Letters Style In one of Sunday papers I saw an advert in capitals in a page of houses for sale.

I wasnt looking for them, this just seemed to catch my eye as I was turning the page. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD? it said. Just like that. Then it went on Old cottage, charming secluded situation, large garden, I hr by car London, two miles from nearest villageand so on. The next morning I was driving down to see it. (Fowles The Collector) A piece of poetry Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (by William Shakespeare) Emotive prose Ernest Hemingway 'Cat in the Rain' Liking him she opened the door and looked out. A man in a rubber cape was crossing the empty square to the cafe. The cat would be around to the right. Perhaps she could go along under the eaves. As she stood in the doorway an umbrella opened behind her. It was the maid who looked after their room. 'You must not get wet,' she smiled, speaking Italian. Of course, the hotel-keeper had sent her. With the maid holding the umbrella over her, she walked along the gravel path until she was under their window. The table was there, washed bright green in the rain, but the cat was gone. She was suddenly disappointed. The maid looked up at her.

'Ha perduto qualque cosa, signora?' 'There was a cat,' said the American girl. 'A cat?' the maid laughed. 'A cat in the rain?' 'Yes,' she said, 'under the table. 'Then, 'Oh, I wanted it so much. I wanted a kitty.' When she talked English the maid's face tightened. 'Come, Signora,' she said. 'We must get back inside. You will be wet.' A piece of drama So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet. (THE GIFT OF THE MAGI by O. Henry) An oratory speech But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold. An essay An essay addresses online games and socialization: "Online games aren't just a diversion, but a unique way to meet other people. As millions of gamers demonstrate, playing online is about friendship and cooperation, not just killing monsters. These games are a viable social network because players focus on teamwork, form groups with like-minded people and have romantic relationships with other players."MassivelyMultiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) feature millions of players interacting in the same environment. The games are social in nature as they allow players to band together and complete missions based on a story line, or test their skills by fighting against each other. At the start of the game, the user creates a fictional character, and customizes its physical appearance. Since many games involve combat, players also outfit their characters with armor and weapons, as well as choose their "profession." Many popular game titles like World of Warcraft and Everquest follow a fantasy theme, so most professions have magical abilities like healing other players or raising undead minions. While the process seems simple, players may spend hours agonizing over the perfect look for their character, from their armor color to the type of skills to use in battle. Once their character is created, the player is free to explore the vast, digital world and

interact with other players; however they must pay on average $15 a month for game content. MMOG users are mostly male - usually between the ages of 18-34 - although titles like World of Warcraft have a healthy population of female players as well. With millions of players, there are plenty of people to adventure with."

A journalistic article or a review Europes pact is the first step to recovery

Financial Times 10 March 2011 Europes financial storm may have passed its peak, but it is not yet finished blowing. Eurozone leaders, meeting in Brussels on Friday, will announce a wave of reforms. Plans for a FrancoGerman competitiveness pact will not do enough to deal with the present crisis, or prevent another. But they will be a step forward, and one that must now be followed with further moves to ensure Europe becomes more convergent and competitive. The outlines of the deal set to emerge in coming weeks seem clear. There will be stricter oversight of national budgets by the European Commission, with more equal weight given to deficits and debt. Greater alignment of financial market, banking and regulation policies is likely, together with further reforms of cross-border bank resolution, living wills and credit monitoring. A permanent crisis resolution mechanism has already been agreed. Europes competitiveness problems, however, require a more aggressive deal than that currently proposed. Rising relative costs and prices have damaged peripheral economies, deepening the eurozones dangerous imbalances. Markets are also rightly worried that the reforms will not go far enough, especially if it then does not prove possible for the authorities in the core countries and Germany and France in particular to persuade electorates of the case for an enlarged, suitably funded and flexible crisis resolution mechanism. A newspaper article Mentally ill relegated to jail cells BY JOE MOZINGO The voices are relentless. They insult him, threaten him, tell him to slit his wrists. Raymond Santos is 30 years old and exhausted, run ragged for most of his life by a biochemical tempest in his mind. A year ago, he grew so desperate for the voices to shut up that he tried to appease them by taking a large, serrated kitchen knife and digging it four inches into his stomach. Two weeks later, with 31 staples in his abdomen, he landed in Florida's largest psychiatric facility. The Miami-Dade County Jail. He was locked up in a wing where psychotic inmates sleep on the tile floor or rusted metal bed frames, without sheets, blankets or mattresses. They stay in their cells for 24 hours a day. No books, no TV, no visitors, no toothbrush, no eating utensils, no clothes.

A brief news item Professor to unveil new piano composition Music professor Brett Wery will premiere his latest composition, Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Taylor Auditorium at Schenectady County Community College. Wery, an alto saxophonist in addition to being a composer and professor, began working on the 17-minute composition in 2009. He built upon forms he experimented with in 2007 while on sabbatical, combining tonal and atonal music. The piece, which pays homage to Leonard Bernstein and reflects on Bulgarian folk music, will be performed by pianist Judith Avitabile, an adjunct faculty member at SCCC An announcement or an advertisement Our potatoes are grown closer than you may think (Lays) Dancing Contest ATTENTION PLEASE! Our school will have a Dancing Competition that will be held on 14th march 2012. Registration will be held on 10th-12th at Osis room Free Registration and full of prize! For More Information contact our Osis chairperson Could Atomically Thin Tin Transform Electronics? The material, called stanene, could in theory mimic the properties of a room-temperature superconductor A scientific article in exact sciences Could Atomically Thin Tin Transform Electronics? Scientists have been trying to develop room-temperature superconductorsmaterials that conduct electrons with zero resistance, and do so without cumbersome, energy-sucking supercoolingfor more than three decades. Now researchers predict that a new material called stanene, composed of a one-atom-thick sheet of tin, could act much like a room-temperature superconductor, leading to faster, more efficient microchips. Stanene is a type of topological insulator, a novel class of materials that have intrigued researchers for the past decade. While the interior of such a material is an electrical insulator, the outside edges and surfaces are electrically conductive. If exploited properly, this weird property of topological insulators can make it possible for electrons to flow without resistance. A scientific article in humanities Human Population Growth Creeps Back Up

UNITED NATIONS -- Earth's human population is expected to coast upward to 9.6 billion by 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100, up from 7.2 billion people alive today, a United Nations agency has projected. The U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs yesterday released revised numbers for the coming century, raising median estimates for population growth in 2050 and 2100. The agency's prior best guess had humanity at 9.3 billion in 2050 and 10.1 billion in 2100. Most of this growth will take place in less-developed, lower-income nations, mostly in subSaharan Africa. John Wilmoth, director of the population division at DESA, explained that the revisions reflect adjustments to how high-fertility countries are behaving. A financial/business document 5 December 2013 - UFF uses Bdoc Suite to improve its customer relationship management Previously, our 897 consultants used printed forms. It was a fastidious process, as they had to prepare their documents in advance and these were heavy to transport. A consultant had to demonstrate the ability to think ahead, as we manage around a hundred official forms related to the funds we distribute. They had to take the right form to the meeting or risk making a mistake, explains Yvan Bacon. The forms also had to be up-to-date; we wanted to make them more dynamic, as they embody the relationship.The consultants have tablets and UFF wanted to give them the chance to edit PDF documents after meeting their client. We wanted to give our consultantsa business tool which allowed them to improve their performance and carry out business processes without stress when they are with clients.With Bdoc, all the forms are loaded onto a platform (called POC), which allows us to dynamically generate on-demand forms as many times as we need

A legal document AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION Preliminary Notes General. The Certificate of Incorporation is a key document produced in connection with a venture capital portfolio investment. Among other things, the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation establishes the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of each class and series of the Corporations stock. No Impairment Clause. It is not uncommon for counsel to the investors to include a no impairment clause in their Certificate of Incorporation drafts. A no impairment clause is a broad and general provision that prohibits the Corporation from acting (or failing to act) in a way that would circumvent the express and specific provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation. Although Delaware courts narrowly construe no impairment clauses , such provisions can be dangerous, both to the Corporation and to the controlling investors, because they can give rise to claims of violation by disgruntled minority investors looking for some grounds on which to base a claim, in the absence of any specific protective provisions in the Certificate of Incorporation. In addition, in a transaction in which the terms of the outstanding Preferred Stock are to be amended, specifically the anti-dilution and conversion rights, certain law firms have taken the position that the existence of a no impairment clause in the Certificate of Incorporation requires their firm to express no opinion with regard to the stockholder action taken in connection with the subject transaction, and instead assume for purposes of their opinion that the Corporation has complied with the provisions of the no impairment clause. If appropriate attention is paid to the specific, substantive provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, there is no need for a vague catchall, which may give rise to the problems described above. Accordingly, the drafters intentionally did not include a no impairment. A diplomatic document

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. A military document Daily Activities on the Trip 6. 11-21-2008 (a) Left Naypyidaw Airport at 13:15 Burma Standard Time on a special plane, ATR 72. (b) Arrived at Kunming, China, at 16:50 China Standard Time, and U Myo Tint, military Attache from the Union of Myanmar, welcomed the team at the Kunming International Airport. (c) The group was welcomed at the Best Business Thermal Beauty Hotel at the Kunming Airport by Major General Li Qing Dai, Deputy Chief of Military Region, Yunnan military zone, from PLA. Chief of Coordination General Thura Shweman (Army, Navy, Air Force) had a meeting with Major General Li Qing Dai at the hotels reception room, and the Burmese representatives attended the meeting. (d) At 18:00, at the same hotel, Major Li Qing Dai hosted a dinner for the Burmese military representatives.