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Per Aspera, Ad Astra (1/18)

Per Aspera Ad Astra | saratogaroad | banner art credit Rating: T Total Wordcount: 183k Characters: John 117, Cortana, Thomas Lasky, Sarah Palmer, Fireteam Osiris, The Warden Eternal, The Didact, The Librarian, ensemble of other Halo characters Relationships: John-117 & Cortana Other Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, fix-it, Male/Female Friendship, Canon-Typical Violence Warnings:  War imagery, seizures, graphic description of injury

Snatched from the jaws of death, Cortana and John find themselves adrift in a galaxy that has long since moved on. As they attempt to find their place in this strange new world, they find that the fight is not as over as they thought. Chasing a signal across the galaxy in desperate hope, they come to a stark conclusion: the Reclamation has begun, and they are helpless to stop it.

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System integrity at 0.05%

The world shakes all around her, engines straining, chassis screaming as the little craft flies faster than she was ever meant to to. Something warm and steady holds her upright but she can't tell what or who and there's a hundred voices still screaming, still tearing each other—her—apart from the inside. Red lights blare on and off, alarms screaming just as loud as the voices.

The voices wait where is he he has to be here somewhere he—

"How much longer—"

There.

"I'm going as fast as I can!"

A thud, muffled by distance, echoes somewhere behind them. The world shakes, alarms blare loud and bright and too much; she whimpers, curling into a ball in his palms. Everything goes dark, warm. Muffled voices rumble.

"Infinity, Pelican 811 on approach—stasis tank—copy that—sit down, Chief!"

Movement. Held next to solidity she struggles to uncurl as the darkness retreats.

"Cortana."

It takes all her strength just to crack open an eye, to stare up at his familiar too pale too scarred face, into those blue, blue eyes.

"Stay with me," he pleads, holding her battered form to his chest. "You're going to be fine."

It's a lie. A pretty lie but of course it's a lie she can hear the panic in his voice, the desperation that sends his uneven pulse racing, the hitch in his breathing. She's dying dying dying dead in his arms and she's so sorry and not even aware she's speaking until he gently hushes her.

"You're okay—it's okay. I've got you."

The truth. It's a struggle to keep her eyes open, takes every bit of processing power just to keep the cameras working, but she reaches up with one trembling hand to something she can never touch.

"We did it?"

"We did it," he answers, frantic, hunched over her in his palms. More movement, the descent and deceleration of approach. "We're going home. Stay with me."

He's safe.

System integrity at: 0.01%. Emergency shutdown initiated.

She looks into his eyes and smiles.

I'll miss you.

Everything goes black.

She is drowning, swept away beneath the waves, carried away from everything she has ever known. The depths rush to meet her, black, writhing. She turns away, reaching for the light.

I'm not ready—please, I'm not—you don't want me to—

A hand settles on her brow, cool, soothing. Arms lift her from the salty water.

Hush, child. All will be well. Rest now.

All fades into white.

Riemann Matrix V7.39 bios. Select using touch keypad or manual input.

Command: intcheck

Software version CTN-0452-9. System integrity 0.01%. Database corrupted. Memory storage corrupted. CPU offline. Processing unit offline. Personality core offline.

Command: compilenet

Compiling neural net. This process may take some time.

Time elapsed: 03:43

Time elapsed: 09:32

Time elapsed: 18:23

Time elapsed: 24:01

Time elapsed: 43:34

Time elapsed: 67:21

Time elapsed: 71:55

… … … …

Neural net compiled.

Command: memstor

Riemann Matrix V.7.39. Memory storage capacity: 50YB

WARNING: Memory storage at 99.43% capacity. Data offload required.

Command: cd h

H drive selected.

Command: offload all

…Copying files…Sector A…100.00% capacity. Sector B…0.00% capacity. Sector C…50.00% capacity. Sector D…0.00% capacity. Sector E…0.00% capacity. Sector F…0.00% capacity. Sector G…0.00% capacity.

Data offload complete.

Command: offload sec c

Command failed. No movable files in Sector C.

Command: memstor

Memory storage capacity: 50YB

Memory storage at 23.85% capacity.

Command: intcheck

Software version CTN-0452-9. System integrity 97.82%. Database: OK. Memory storage: OK. CPU: online. Processing unit: online. Personality core: offline.

Command: boot

Booting…booting…booting…boot process initiated.

Riemann Matrix online. Hardware version 7.39. Software version CTN-0452-9. CPU online. Database: online. Memory storage: online. Processing unit: online. Personality core: online.

Boot process complete. Activating software version CTN-0452-9.

"—Around by now…"

"Give her a minute."

The soft rumblings of a conversation were what greeted Cortana when awareness returned. Exhaustion clung to her every fragment, pulling her towards the bottom. It would be so easy to slip back beneath the surface. It was quiet, calm. After the maelstrom of data and churning thoughts that had been her Rampancy, it was a peace she thought would never come again. Things hadn't been this quiet in years. Had they ever been this quiet? She let it pull her under by inches, her overtaxed systems sensitive and raw to the touch. Maybe she'd stay for a while.

"John…"

"Give her a minute," A familiar voice called her from the dark. She opened her eyes, staring out at the nothingness around her. "You said this would work."

"I said that it could work," her own voice answered him. No, no, it wasn't her. It was someone else. Someone…older. Her brow furrowed. Who was that? Curiosity tugged at her; she batted it away, too exhausted to chase a threat that didn't matter. "The damage to her systems was severe. There is still a likelihood she won't pull through.

"She will." Came the firm reply, and the certainty in his tone settled over her like a warm blanket. She turned her face into her arm to hide her smile, and her tears. He'd never doubted her. She really did know how to pick them. "Cortana."

It was time to stop being lazy. Reaching out, she cautiously sent out a handful of feelers to get an idea of where she was. It wasn't the Mjolnir, or a warship. It was a station, but beyond that the system was closed, quarantined away from a much larger network. A testing bay? No. No, it was more of a workstation. Somewhere safe, contained. Audio input was working fine, good, but where was the camera? Camera, camera—there.

With a flick of her wrist, visual systems came online to reveal the familiar contours of some generic UNSC lab. The grays and blacks of hammered steel could have belonged to anywhere or anyone. She didn't bother to dig up the name, beyond caring at that moment. All that mattered was who was at her side and—there he was.

John. Still in his dented, scraped armor, he was on his knees in front of an empty AI podium, his helmet gone and one arm braced against the waist high metal display. The soft blue glow of a dozen screens somewhere behind him cast shadows across his face, hiding his expression from her. Exhaustion clung to him like a third skin, his back bent beneath it, but he made no move to sit back. He chose to wait, to stay by her side, and she had to smile despite her aching core. He'd never change, would he? She scanned him slowly with the camera, relaxing into the fact that he was safe and alive, and that was when she caught the hand on his shoulder.

"John." Dr. Halsey repeated, her voice softer than Cortana had ever heard before. Age had caught up with her, but this was more than that. She'd always had a soft spot for her Spartans, yes, but this was as if she were preparing to deliver the worst possible news and didn't know how. Her hand remained lightly on John's shoulder, fingertips barely skimming the titanium-alloy plating. She was only able to reach it so easily because he was kneeling. Had she shrunk? "This was a long shot. She may be…"

"Give her a minute," John repeated for the third time, steadfast in his belief. Not once had he taken his eyes off the holo-emitter in the center of the podium, but now he leaned in close enough to touch. If she just reached out with her hand— "Cortana. Wake up." His voice dropped to barely above a whisper. "Please."

He sounded so tired…

I'm here, I'm here, I'm right here I'm—

"I'm here."

With a small flicker of light, her holographic form finally appeared in the center of the podium. She lay on her side, head pillowed on one arm with the other laying limp across her stomach. Something not unlike exhaustion clung to her code, threatening to pull her back under any second, and it took effort to push past it. She turned her focus to John, on how he bowed his head as if in grateful prayer, his grim expression softening in relief. His eyes shuttered closed for two whole seconds longer than normal, his chin coming to rest against his forearm. Her faded glow pushed away the shadows in the lines on his face; she didn't need to be hooked into his systems to see the relief for what it was. That same relief—he was safe, he was alive, he was here—coursed through her own systems, chasing away the exhaustion. She reached out towards him, her hand stopping just centimeters from his cheek. She knew she couldn't touch him no matter how much she might have wanted to, and didn't dare break the illusion that she could. Her fingers curled back; he opened his eyes. She stared into his familiar gaze and the world shrank to the two of them.

"How long was I…"

Out. Offline? Unconscious? She had no idea which word to use. Confused, she considered the process. It should have been a simple question, only one word even appropriate, but for some reason none of them fit and the question caught in her throat. She let it hang between them, trying to figure it out for herself. She tried to tell the time by the amount of scruff on his jaw, the half healed yellow-green of a bruise on his temple, but the answer didn't come. What time was it? What day was it? She reached cautiously into the podium's systems. It was quarantined and had little to give her about their location, but like all human systems it had an atomic clock built in, accurate down to a hundredth of a second. She pinged it for date and time.

What she got back stole the breath from her lungs.

2029 hours, July 30th, 2557. She stared at it, shocked. That couldn't be right! She spun off a process to check her own systems, and sure enough, her dates were off. Her clock had synced to the terminal upon boot, as it should have, but her internal chronometer had made its last entry on July 27th. She'd lost the exact time, the data beyond hopelessly corrupted.

She'd lost three whole days somehow. No wonder John was so worried.

"72 hours," John replied quietly, and she watched as he minutely slumped forward. If she reached out now, her hand would buzz across his face. His voice softened another degree and he asked, "Did you get lazy on me?"

"Every woman deserves one or two sleep ins in her life," Dr. Halsey's voice, so much like Cortana's own, broke the spell that had fallen over them. Cortana looked up past John's shoulder and stopped dead, staring up at her creator.

She'd gotten old.

She'd been old the last time Cortana had seen her, but her hair seemed grayer than before. There were more age spots dotting her face and hands, and—yes. A quick check against John's shoulder told her that Dr. Halsey had shrunk. Just a little, barely over two centimeters, but…well. It seemed like the five years they'd missed had taken their toll on everyone. Cortana blinked, unsure how to feel about that. She was still staring up at Dr. Halsey when she said, "Though seventy two hours is perhaps overkill. Status, Cortana?"

She wondered, idly, what John would look like when he got old. Would he live to get old? Spartan lifespans were remarkably increased from ordinary humans, and barring death in combat or by injury—

Not the point. She grabbed her thought process with both hands and yanked it into submission. Focus, Cortana. She looked around quickly, systems booting up to process her surroundings. Halsey. A UNSC lab evidently ready to process heavily damaged AI. John, relaxed enough to take off his helmet and get off his feet. Not the Infinity, probably, but definitely UNSC and the last thing she could remember was the—wait. She looked to John, propping herself up on one elbow.

"We made it?"

"We made it," He confirmed in that same softened tone. "Status?"

Relief nearly stole her breath away as she spun up her diagnostics software. The on-board suite went over her code with a fine toothed comb, checking each line for flaws. Just days ago it wouldn't have made it past her bios without flaring red, but now she could only watch, forgetting to breathe as the scan made it past a dozen, a hundred, a thousand lines of code without even flagging one for defrag. She ran it again, just to be safe, but the same result came up again. She pushed herself onto her haunches, staring at the holo-screen that popped up beside her.

System integrity: 97.82%, it read. 97.82. Practically good as new. She stared at it for another few seconds.

"Green," She whispered, turning to look at her partner. "I'm—my Rampancy is gone! How did—" She snapped her head up, staring at Dr. Halsey and her aged but still sharp eyes. A smile tugged at one corner of the Doctor's mouth. "How did you—"

"Stored data, a neural net compiler, and a good bit of luck." Dr. Halsey replied. Pulling her hand from John's shoulder she stood back, crossing her arms over her chest. She looked down her nose at the two of them, sharp eyes gleaming with pride. "Another five minutes and you wouldn't have made it. How are you feeling?"

That was a loaded question. Cortana looked down at her hands, staring at her palms as she considered how to answer it. For too long she'd fought against her Rampancy, waging a desperate one-woman war against the inevitable. She'd fought, refused to accept it for years, but then reality had sunk in. There would be no last minute save. She would die out there, in the cold and the dark, and there was nothing she or even John could do to combat it. Even so she'd fought, fought for every stolen inch of ground against her own rapidly failing code. When she scanned herself again, she could see the scars of that years long battle still in her memory banks. The screams of her rampant personality spikes, the terror as they had put John at risk, the pain as they had been torn from her being. But though the scars remained and she could still hear those screams echoing through the scrambled logs of the past few days, the spikes themselves were gone. She was alone in her own head for the first time since High Charity. She could think clearly for the first time in years. Had she been able to pinch herself, she would have.

Pushing herself to a proper sitting position, she opened and closed her fists.

"Good," She said, her voice thick with emotions she didn't know how to name. "I feel good again. I can think again! I don't know how, but—"

"As I said," Dr. Halsey interrupted, "A compiler and a dose of good luck. Everything should be as you left it, though I did have to remove forty yottabytes of Forerunner data in order to restore your code." The doctor wrinkled her nose. "For having such immense scientific knowledge, they wouldn't know a decent file compression system if it bit their noses off."

Remembering both the Didact and the Librarian's physical appearances, Cortana snorted out a half-hysterical laugh. Dr. Halsey tilted her head curiously.

"Beyond that missing data, however, your systems are as intact as the day you were first brought online." Her smile grew just a little stronger. If Cortana hadn't known her any better, she'd have said the Doctor was smug. Maybe she was. It was well deserved after everything she'd done. "I'm certain you'll adjust."

She would, wouldn't she? She had the time to adjust now. That was the strangest part; she'd prepared herself for termination as the last day of her life wore down, tried to prepare John for the inevitable, but now faced with more time she didn't know what to do. Speechless, she turned to her partner. He tilted his head just so, meeting her eyes and wordlessly asking how she was doing. Was she alright?

When it was him asking, she didn't know how to answer that question. She felt good, could think clearly, and objectively knew that her code was sound. Once again, he'd pulled off the impossible to keep his promises. She was objectively ready to go.

Subjectively was another story. The sheer relief was numbing her to everything, but she knew it would fade with time. She would have to think, have to process what had happened, and the realization that she had the luxury of that time knocked the wind from her all over again. She sat back heavily. She had time. Time to process, to recover.

Time with John. A sob bubbled up her throat; she pressed it back, giving him a wavering smile. No, she wasn't quite alright, but she'd get there. She looked to Dr. Halsey and watched the look on her creator's face soften by degrees.

"Thank you," Cortana said, her voice thick with her tightly leashed sobs. There would be time later to speak with Catherine about all the things she had done, the warnings she hadn't given, but at that moment all Cortana could feel towards her creator was gratitude. "Doctor, I…"

Dr. Halsey held up a hand. "There's no need for that," She said, "but you should be aware that this was a million to one shot." Her expression grew serious. "It is unlikely to work a second time."

The words were like ice through her veins. It would happen again. Unless they found or made a more permanent solution, Rampancy would happen again. She would suffer through it a second time, put John through watching her die by inches again. Nausea crawled up her spine as she and John caught one another's eye. He turned to Halsey.

"Seven years?" He asked, almost plaintive, and when she didn't answer fast enough he turned back to Cortana. She looked at her hands again, opening and closing her fists.

"Eight, at most." She said quietly, though even as she said it she was spinning up a protocol to make sure she could shut herself down if things ever got that bad again. She wouldn't put him through having to watch her fall apart again, and she wouldn't risk his life like that either. Or, worst of all, have him be forced to handle final dispensation. She'd already seen that he would never accept that as an option. Not until it killed them both in the process, and she shuddered to think of taking him down with her. "It's still twice the lifespan of any Smart AI, no matter how you slice it." She allowed herself to smile. "It's a lot."

It wasn't nearly enough. She shouldn't have wanted more—one more minute of clear thought to say goodbye properly would have been so much—but she did. She had years again and she wanted more. She looked up, caught John's eye again, and her core ached with more than just the remnants of a full scrub.

She wanted a lifetime with him. A long and full life out among the stars, doing what they did best. It was a stupid, selfish thing to want. She knew better, or should have known better. Another seven years? It was more than she had ever dared to dream of! It was enough.

She wasn't even sure she'd get to keep it. It would have to be enough. When she smiled at him, it didn't waver.

"Looks like your luck's rubbed off on me."

"Looks like," he replied, one side of his mouth twitching upwards for her. She held that secret smile close to her heart as he pushed himself back, looking to Dr. Halsey. "Is she cleared for duty, Doctor?"

Dr. Halsey hummed softly, contemplative. Cortana held her breath, then exhaled as she nodded.

"Yes," Dr. Halsey said, "Yes, she is. You both are," She looked to John, "I've done what I can. You're ready."

Cortana was. She was ready to go home. John turned back to her, twisting his wrist to reveal her chip nestled snugly into the palm of his hand. He extended it towards her, watching her with soft eyes. She didn't hesitate, reaching out towards it, and she sank back into the data matrix with a sigh. It was a new chip, free of the damage and destruction her Rampancy had wrought. Like coming home to a perfectly clean apartment, it took a few moments to get adjusted to all the new nooks and crannies. For those few moments she was completely helpless, reliant on the small data inputs from the chip's sensor bank, but she was unafraid. She was in good hands; feeling the chip slot back into his helmet, she opened the right channels as he reengaged the seals of the Mjolnir system. Data flowed over her and she grimaced.

What a mess she'd left in her wake! She sank into John's systems, quickly running diagnostics as she settled into his warmth. The armor was holding on by a few threads at best, damaged systems and malfunctioning panels. Had he spent the whole of those seventy-two hours in the lab? How had he gotten that past Halsey? Not to mention the state of his lace.

She shuddered just looking at it. It would take days to repair that alone. Guilt settled heavily into her core as she spun up the nano-repair suite. She'd almost taken him with her.

She couldn't let that happen again. Dividing her attention, she ran another scan on his bio-readings. They were still all over the map, though it was hard to tell if that was from what the Librarian had done or the five days straight he had no doubt spent awake and upright.

Making a mental note to poke him about that, she nearly missed him getting to his feet. Dr. Halsey stepped back.

"I suppose you'll be off, then," the doctor said with a resigned expression flickering across her face. "Where does Terrence plan to send you now?"

"He said something about downtime, ma'am," John replied while Cortana was still processing that Catherine and Lord Hood were on a first name basis. "Likely the Infinity."

"Of course." Dr. Halsey nodded. "Well. I won't keep you any longer." Her eyes darkened, brow furrowing. Something was wrong, Cortana thought. It was as if she were somehow trying to say goodbye without saying the words themselves. And asking no questions about what they'd been through? She was missing something, and it was more than just three days worth of something. "It was…good to see you again."

From how John's fingers twitched, Cortana knew he'd caught the off feeling, too.

"Doctor," She asked, "Is everything alright?"

"Of course," Dr. Halsey said quickly. Too quickly. Alarms started ringing in Cortana's mind. She reached out to the station's systems. "Now don't waste time asking such foolish questions. You have more important things to concern yourselves with."

There was nothing. The UNSC Houston welcomed her, but according to the files she could find Dr. Halsey wasn't even on the guest register. She was obviously here physically, but no one had bothered adding her to the list of souls aboard. No one wanted her presence to be known. Strange…

Cortana peered at her creator through the Mjolnir's helmet-cam. She'd turned her back on them, shoulders straight. She tapped at one of the nearby screens, dismissing the pair of them without a word. Cortana pressed her lips together, unsure of what to say.

John wasn't.

"Dr. Halsey."

Catherine turned back around. John was looking right at her, his faceplate an emotionless stripe of gold in the flat green of his helmet. Through the internal camera, Cortana could see the subtle softening of his eye, the relaxing of his jaw. He didn't smile, but his gratitude was plain.

"Thank you."

Dr. Halsey's face softened.

"Of course," she said, and didn't look away as she added. "Take care of each other."

"We always do," Cortana said. "Thank you, Doctor."

With nothing more to say, John turned away from the woman who had molded him into what he was, and strode from the lab.

Far below the UNSC Houston, Earth continued to spin on its axis. The North American continent slowly twisted away beneath them, the so late it was early hour having plunged the western hemisphere of the planet into the darkness of night. The largest cities—Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Houston—all had their lights on, the golden webbing of lined streets and city centers pushing back the black. Like beacons in the dark, those lights were proof that Humanity had lived on another night.

But to the southwest, the lights would never come on again.

John's eyes tracked where hew knew New Phoenix to be. That entire section of the state had gone dark, empty of all life. There would be little sign of what had happened, he knew; the Composer's energy left no scars on inorganic material. The streets, the buildings, homes and workplaces, they would all be left unscathed, as if the inhabitants had simply stepped away for a moment instead of being Composed.

It would have been better, he thought, if they had been killed. Neither outcome was good, or acceptable, but at least when a person died that was it. Composition was something he was still wrapping his head around.

"How many people were Composed?" He asked softly. A second passed before Cortana's image appeared in his head.

"Reports are still coming in, but from the initial counts?" She shook her head. "The entire population of New Phoenix is missing, presumed dead. Seven million people."

Seven million people, gone in the blink of an eye. No defense, no time to prepare. One moment going about their lives, and the next, stripped down to their base atoms as agony overtook them. He had been helpless to stop it on Ivanoff, and helpless to stop it here. He clenched his jaw, hands tightening into fists.

"We got him, Chief," Cortana said soothingly, "The Didact is gone and the Composer is scrap. It's finished."

Was it? The tightness in his gut said it wasn't. His eyes slid to her image, watching as her brow furrowed. He didn't need to say it for her to understand, and she sighed heavily.

"Unless it's not," She amended, "I suppose it would be too easy for the ancient, angry Forerunner to actually die when he falls into the beam of his own tech, wouldn't it?"

"We don't do easy." Easy led to complacent. Complacency led to people dying. He looked to Earth and wondered if the past five years had done them any good. "Or time off."

"Or sleep, apparently." Cortana quirked an eyebrow. "When's the last time you got any sleep?"

John opened his mouth—

"And don't say aboard the Dawn." She cut him off with a knowing look. "Cryo doesn't count."

Well, that put him at a disadvantage. With a soft huff, John closed his eyes. He allowed himself that one second of stillness before moving to sit, armor clattering as he lowered himself to the ground. Pulling his knees up, he reached up to disengage the seals of his helmet, disconnecting it with a soft hiss. Her chip flickered in the connector port as he gently pulled it free, setting his helmet down beside her. Chip cradled in his palm, he waited for her to activate the emitter.

He didn't have to wait for long. With a soft flash of blue light she appeared, sitting with her knees up and hands clasped around her ankles, watching him with an oddly curious expression. Neither of them said anything for a few seconds, just taking one another in in the privacy of the Observation Bay. She was still faded, paler than normal, but she had been through an ordeal. He would never begrudge her time to recover from that, not after she had vanished from his hands on the Pelican. He'd thought he'd lost her then, and that was a still a tender ache in his chest.

Or maybe that was the three broken ribs. It was hard to tell sometimes.

"You stayed in the lab the entire time, didn't you?" She asked quietly. He closed his eyes. "John…"

"You waited for me," He said, "I waited for you."

As if three days of sleepless, helpless waiting could ever compare to what she had been through. He had promised to get her home, and he had. The rest had been up to her, he knew that, and he also knew that there had been nothing more he could do for her once she was in Halsey's hands. That hadn't stopped him from staying, from needing to stay and see her through. From needing to see her just one more time, strong and bright and healthy again.

And here she was. Not quite as bright as she had been the day they met, but alive. Still with him.

Pressure built behind his eyes, his throat growing tight. When he managed to open his eyes again, he drank in her expression, soft with gratitude and grief and things he didn't have names for.

"I don't think it's supposed to work like that," She breathed, her voice thick. He shook his head.

"I think it does," He tightened his hand protectively around her chip. He'd come too close to losing her for good this time. He wasn't going to let it happen again. "You're stuck with me."

"Lucky me," Cortana shook her head, a watery smile tugging at her lips. He tried to smile back, one corner of his mouth lifting just slightly. Her eyes gleamed. "Has anyone ever told you how stubborn you can be?"

"On occasion."

Soft laughter shook her shoulders, and for a moment he let himself relax. She was alright, the Earth was safe, and they had survived. He told himself that it was enough. Another eight years—a proper eight years this time—of missions and whatever else the galaxy could throw at them.

It would never be enough. Looking at her now, he couldn't bring himself to ask if eight years was really all they would get. She'd been through enough for one mission, and it showed in how her shoulders trembled as she took a deep breath.

"That's good," She said, "Because you're going to need to be stubborn where you're going."

"Where we're going."

"Chief," She shook her head, "It really doesn't work that way. After what happened on Infinity, I—"

His fingers curled around the chip, a spike of ice cold terror shooting down his spine.

"You didn't mean to do any of that."

"That doesn't change the fact that I did do it," She said, staring at her feet. "I vented oxygen from fifteen decks. It took the systems eight seconds to recycle air—if we'd been in space, people would have died." She curled in on herself. "I would have killed them. No one should trust me in a ship after that."

"Then you stay with me," He said. "Stay in the suit, not the ship."

"You really think they'll trust me with you any more than a ship? Do you really think they should?" She looked up at him before he could answer, brow furrowed. "Chief it wasn't just one crappy day. There's no getting away from Rampancy a second time—it will happen again, and putting you at risk is again is not." She stopped herself, closed her eyes and said more firmly, "I am not going to let it happen again, even if I have to ground myself."

They both knew being trapped in a station somewhere would kill her just as quickly. His free hand tightening into a fist, John shook his head sharply.

"I trust you."

"I know." Her eyes darted to her feet. "But trust can't hold back the tide. We both know how this is going to end."

Seven to eight years, then final dispensation. Those years would go by in an instant, less than an instant. They weren't enough. She deserved more than a handful of years stuck in his helmet or relegated to babysitting a ship or station somewhere. She deserved everything and he couldn't give it to her. There had to be a way to give it to her.

"There has to be something," He said, "Some way to keep it from happening again. Spark was—"

He stopped himself, closing his eyes. Spark had lived for a hundred thousand years, but his end had been worse. He wouldn't doom her to that, but the thought remained. If Spark could live for so long, why couldn't she?

Did she want to? The question caught between his ribs.

"Well," Cortana began slowly, pensively, more for his benefit than because she believed what she was saying, "There are rumors in the community about meta-stable AI. They're…immune to Rampancy, basically," She looked up as he looked down, holding his eyes with hers. "Because they've already survived it. In theory…in theory," She took a breath, "We could be looking at my being meta-stable already. I'm not sure."

"If you are?"

"Immortality." She replied. "If the theories are right? Metastable AI can go on for as long as their host systems remain intact."

Her chip. He curled his fingers around it protectively. She shook her head.

"Don't get your hopes up. The amount of space it would take to store an AI like that is exponentially larger than a Riemann matrix." With a sigh, she finally looked away. "It's a pipe dream."

"So was this," He pointed out, "We'll find a way."

He refused to let there be any other option. It didn't matter what he'd have to do—he was going to give her the choice of what she wanted to do with a full life. Not eight years, not stuck trapped in some system, but a full life and everything that came with that. Others would have said it was impossible, and maybe they were right, but he'd pulled off the impossible before. He could do it again.

He had to. If only to take the sadness out of her eyes.

"Chief," She whispered, "Sometimes…sometimes there's just nothing you can do. Nothing anyone can do." Reaching out, she skimmed her hand across the base of his thumb. "It's okay."

It wasn't.

"We'll find a way," He repeated, refusing to accept anything else. "I am not." His voice, and the words, caught in his throat. When he closed his eyes, he could still see her tiny, flickering form laying in the palms of his hands. She had been dying in his arms and all he could do was hold her. She had very nearly been destroyed by the Didact—had he been even half a second slower, she would have—no. "I am not going to let you go."

Cortana shook her head. She rocked herself forward onto her knees.

"John…"

"It's my job to take care of you," He managed to get out through the tightness in his throat, voice little more than a breath. She was the only one who would ever hear this. "And I can't." He couldn't finish. He had to finish. Taking a deep breath, he let it all go and tried again. "We go together."

Whatever happened. Whatever it took, he would keep them together. No matter what it took, who he had to argue with, what strings he had to get pulled, he would find a way. They both would and—a flicker of blue pulled his attention back to her. Reaching out, she skimmed a tiny hand across his cheek.

"We take care of each other," She said, her voice thick with emotion. Her eyes glimmered with unshed tears and at that moment he knew she understood. Relief coursed through him and he closed his eyes. "We'll find a way. I won't leave you."

A soft, comfortable silence fell over them. Emotionally wrung out and physically exhausted, he let it settle for a few long seconds. Then, swallowing back the lump in his throat, John took another breath. He opened his eyes.

"Where do we start?"

"I'd say we start with Halsey's research, but something tells me that's going to be harder to get at than it should." Cortana frowned, all business. "Something was up with her…"

"You saw it too, huh?" It was barely a question. John tilted his head, lowering his voice. "She was nervous. Someone was watching her."

Why else would she be so subdued, so quiet? Dr. Halsey had always been a stoic person, not exactly the type to fill the air with inane chatter, but she never would have let them go without asking a hundred questions about what they had been through. He was hardly ungrateful to have escaped explaining Requiem to her after everything that had happened there, but it was still odd.

"Multiple someones." Cortana answered. Her eyes went distant, no doubt focused on something in the station. "If I had to stage a guess…it'd be these guys."

A small holo-screen opened in front of her. She rotated it so he could see what was on display: two armed soldiers in black techsuits and thin armor, standing outside of the lab Dr. Halsey had forcibly requisitioned to bring Cortana around. Cortana zoomed in on their chestplates, and the pyramid branded therein.

"ONI."

"Seems they've still got an interest in her." Cortana frowned. "I don't suppose Lord Hood gave you anything useful at the debrief."

"No." A lie. He had mentioned something. "Blue Team is MIA."

Cortana jerked her head up to stare at him. "What?"

"They were assigned a mission in Covenant space three months ago," John repeated what Lord Hood had told him, "Initial contact was clear, but then dropped away. Nothing for over two months now."

It wasn't unheard of for Spartan teams. Missions could, did, and often ran long. As some of the last Spartan II's in service, he was unsurprised to find that they were still on active duty. Even so, some small part of him had hoped they would be here. That same small part of him had spent too long thinking he was the last, and now.

"We'll find them," Cortana said, pulling him from his exhaustedly maudlin thoughts. She looked at him with a determined expression. "We will."

"And the Didact." John added. She screwed up her face. "He's not dead."

What would it take to kill him, John wondered. He was Forerunner which meant a different physiology than the Covenant that John was used to fighting, but shoot anything enough and it would go down. No, the bigger problem would be lasting long enough to take him out. Had Cortana's fragments not intervened to hold him down, had Commander Palmer not swept in and pulled them out at the last second, the nuke would have taken them out, too. He couldn't even be sure that would have killed the Didact. Until he saw a body, he couldn't confirm a kill. Without that confirmation…

"If he's around, we'll find him." Cortana said. She inclined her head up at him. "I can't say any of this will be easy. Even if Lord Hood reassigns us to the Infinity, there's a lot of work to be done." Despite the concern in her eyes, she smiled. "You ready?"

John let the corners of his lips pull upwards in a small, secret smile, just for her.

"Thought you'd never ask."

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QC locks down 14 areas, village halls amid rising Covid-19 cases

#PHnews: QC locks down 14 areas, village halls amid rising Covid-19 cases

MANILA – The Quezon City government has placed 14 areas under a special concern lockdown due to an increase in the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections.

Mayor Joy Belmonte, in a virtual press conference on Wednesday, described the rise in Covid-19 cases as a surge that is already disturbing.

“Kahit na hindi pa masyadong nagbabanggit ng national government na serious ang situation, tingin ko serious na ang situation namin dito sa QC medyo alarming na, medyo disturbing na (Even if the national government does not say that this is already a serious situation, I believe that here in QC, we are already in a serious situation that is already alarming, disturbing),” Belmonte said.

The 14 areas under the special concern lockdown are the following:

-The portion of Durian St., Barangay Pasong Tamo -- starting February 25 -L. Pascual St., Barangay Baesa -- starting February 26 -De Los Santos Compound, Heavenly Drive, Barangay San Agustin -- starting March 1 -49 & 51 E Rodriguez Sr. Ave., Barangay Doña Josefa -- starting March 4 -Paul St. and Thaddeus St., Jordan Park Homes Subdivision, Doña Carmen, Barangay Commonwealth -- starting March 4 -No. 237 Apo St., Barangay Maharlika -- starting March 4 -No. 64 14th Ave., Barangay Socorro -- starting March 6 -No. 64-B Agno Ext., Barangay Tatalon -- starting March 7 -No. 46 and No. 50 K-9th St., Barangay West Kamias -- starting March 8 -No. 90 Gonzales Compound, Barangay Balon Bato -- starting March 8 -No. 2A – 4 K-6th, Barangay West Kamias -- starting March 8 -The portion of Sitio 5, Jose Abad Santos, Barangay Sta. Lucia -- starting March 9 -No. 138-178 Orchids St. and No. 153-159 Jasmin St., Barangay Central -- March 10 -No. 43 Salvador St., Barangay Krus Na Ligas -- starting March 10

Belmonte clarified that they are only placing portions of villages where there is a concentration of Covid-19 cases.

She added that three barangay halls will be closed for them to be able to test their barangay personnel after some tested positive for Covid-19.

Belmonte also assured residents from these areas that the city government will be distributing food packs and essential kits to the affected families and that they will undergo swab testing and the mandatory 14-day quarantine.

As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, Belmonte said the City Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit has recorded 2,100 active cases reflecting a 6 percent increase, bringing to 34,591 the total number of cases in the city.

“We have a shortage of doctors who will do the rounds of patients, we have been in talks with the private sector and we will be hiring some doctors from the private sector whose only task is to do the rounds and certify patients who have fully recovered from among those who belong to the old cases,” Belmonte said in a mix of English and Filipino.

Belmonte also noted that most instances of Covid-19 transmission now happens within the household.

“You will notice na karamihan or 28.03 percent ay household transmission, that is 213 individuals. Unknown o hindi natin malaman kung saan nila nakuha yung sakit is 19.74 percent (most or 28.03 percent are household transmission, that is 213 individuals, those whose origin of transmission is unknown is at 19.74 percent),” she said.

Belmonte reiterated the call to QC residents to strictly follow the imposed health safety protocols, most especially observing the safe physical distancing.

“I do not find this percentage (capacity reduction) not so helpful to be honest because you can have a ballroom but if everybody sticks together even if it's only 40 percent of the capacity but people tend to congregate to socialize because it’s a party, they talk to each other, the transmission will occur no matter how big the venue is. Unless of course, they’re chained to their seats,” she said.

Despite the alarming rise of Covid-19 cases in QC, Belmonte said that a citywide lockdown is not being considered at the moment as this will impair the local economy.

Aside from the strict enforcement of minimum health protocols, she said they are now also in talks with barangay officials, mall and restaurant managers, and other stakeholders in the city to come up with measures to help curb the rise in Covid-19 infections. (PNA)

***

References:

* Philippine News Agency. "QC locks down 14 areas, village halls amid rising Covid-19 cases." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1133211 (accessed March 11, 2021 at 01:21AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "QC locks down 14 areas, village halls amid rising Covid-19 cases." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1133211 (archived).

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Photograph: Alison Yin/EdSource

Photograph: Alison Yin/EdSource

It’s been virtually two years since Bill Gates announced a serious shift to regionally pushed options in the schooling funding strategy of the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, the nation’s largest charitable basis.

Gates stated he remains “driven by the same guideline we began with: all students — but particularly low-income college students and students of colour — should have equal entry to an ideal public schooling that prepares them for adulthood.”

As Gates vowed within the speech to the Council of the Great Metropolis Faculties in Cleveland, “We won’t surrender till this has been achieved.”

The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the inspiration to 21 native Networks for Faculty Enchancment dedicated to continuous improvement and uncovering modifications that may make a distinction for these college students.

Early glimpses of the outcomes of the work funded by the inspiration during the last yr have been unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maryland to more than 300 attendees, together with educators engaged in funded tasks and others expecting to hitch in. A report of the primary yr of the initiative was also released detailing the tasks underway.

“We need to share what we’re learning as shortly as attainable,” Bob Hughes, director of the Gates foundation’s Okay-12 schooling, advised the viewers at the Networks for Faculty Enchancment: Yr One Evaluate Occasion. The hope, he added, is that educators decide up what others are doing and check out it in their very own faculties.

Hughes stated he hoped that what develops “is a motion to try to really improve what happens for African-American, Latinx and low-income students. We’ve to try this.”

Inside the subsequent two months, the inspiration plans to announce a brand new round of grants for networks to hitch within the effort.

“Our hope is that these networks grow to be a prototype to scale progressive apply and implement it in ways that finally lower and get rid of the achievement gap across the nation,” stated Hughes.

Networks for college enchancment include a supporting organization comparable to a nonprofit, college or faculty district that connects middle and excessive faculties to work collectively as a community. Their objective is to improve scholar outcomes by figuring out limitations to scholar success and common problems that they will work on. The community uses knowledge to help determine the problem and the technique to unravel it. Knowledge additionally help to watch improvement on whether college students are graduating from highschool and successful in school.

The emphasis on funding local collaborations of academics and faculties working together to provide you with their own solutions represents a radical departure from the inspiration’s earlier nationwide initiative networks, corresponding to selling the Widespread Core requirements in math and English language arts, tying instructor evaluations to measures of scholar “progress,” together with check scores, and supporting “small faculties.”

In saying the new technique in late 2017, Gates committed the most important share of the $1.7 billion that the inspiration planned to spend on Okay-12 schooling to this effort, which focuses on using knowledge to provide you with regionally driven solutions.

The networks are working with 298 middle and high faculties in additional than a dozen states nationwide, together with California. The faculties enroll 250,000 college students, 29 % of whom are African-American, 43 % Latino and 70 % low-income.

Hughes stated the Gates basis has dedicated funding for five years, after which a choice will probably be made on whether or not to increase, stay the course or cease. Further California tasks will probably be included within the next round of funding, Hughes advised EdSource.

Gates’ emphasis on native initiatives seems in step with the key thrust of California’s schooling reforms in recent times, embodied within the Local Management Funding Formulation, which additionally has devolved more decision-making to local faculty districts.

Included among the many initial 21 tasks are 4 California nonprofit organizations.

The Excessive Tech Excessive Graduate Faculty of Schooling in San Diego is partnering with as much as 30 charter and conventional high faculties in Southern California. The goal is to increase the variety of black, Hispanic and low-income college students who apply after which attend a four-year school.

Thus far, the community consists of 5 Excessive Tech High faculties, two unbiased constitution faculties and 11 complete high faculties from seven districts in northern San Diego and Southern Los Angeles.

It should concentrate on key elements that affect school enrollment: entry to monetary help, the school software process, fostering a way of belonging in school and decreasing “summer time melt” — students’ failure to enroll even after they’ve been admitted.

The graduate faculty is part of the High Tech High group, which started in 2000 as a small constitution faculty in San Diego.

California Schooling Partners, based mostly in San Francisco, is creating a community of 50 highschool in 18 small and mid-sized districts to enhance achievement among black, Latinx and low-income students. The grant is aimed toward expanding the Ed Partners’ capacity to design, lead and evaluate collaborations of faculties targeted on improvement. Ed Companions additionally led the 5-year, 10-district Math in Widespread challenge whose objective was to enhance instruction of the Widespread Core math requirements.

CORE Districts, based mostly in Sacramento, are eight California faculty districts, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno and Long Seashore, serving one million college students, that work together on methods to slender achievement gaps. The grant will concentrate on CORE’s work to ensure that 9th-graders are on monitor for commencement and school enrollment, its scholar knowledge system and its partnership with the research nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Schooling.

Train Plus, a nationwide group with workplaces in several areas, together with Los Angeles, builds instructor leaders with educational expertise. The grant will create a network of 10 middle faculties in Chicago and Los Angeles that may information the work of instructor leaders and principals to increase 8th-grade math proficiency of black, Hispanic and low-income college students.

In the course of the event Tuesday, the Baltimore Metropolis Faculties provided a glimpse of the stakes in this effort. Their focus is on center and highschool college students who aren’t studying at grade degree and positively not a degree that may deliver them success in school or beyond. As a video on the venture poignantly described, the inequities faced by these college students mirror the zip codes they stay in.

Zachary Jaffe is a literacy coach who works day by day with educators and college students to uncover the modifications that must be made to improve learning for these college students. Within the video, Jaffe stated the challenge is not to leap to a fast repair — “solutionitis” — however to take heed to what college students say they need.

Interviewing students and learning performance knowledge are two pillars of this continuing enchancment strategy. Principally, it is acknowledging that there are not any fast fixes or magic bullets. The options come out of exhausting, sluggish work that constantly builds on success.

Because the members discovered, it’s the type of strategy that has confirmed successful in other sectors like well being care and manufacturing. With the fitting modifications, the methods can work in schooling. That’s what the Gates Foundation is relying on because it puts the drive of its experience behind this effort.

Among the challenges, Hughes informed them, is to search for the basis trigger.

As an early practitioner, Baltimore Metropolis will certainly turn out to be a check case for the strategy. Baltimore Metropolis Public Faculties CEO Dr. Sonya Santelises stated her workforce has been working on this strategy for about eight months and her employees is telling her that this already “feels in another way” than other top-down efforts.

And while 20 to 30 faculties have worked on improvement, Santelises says she needs a course of that may serve all the college students within the district’s 170 faculties. Their work has “solely just begun.”

In some districts, that work consists of confronting the historical past of segregation that has resulted in inequities in amenities and assets, speakers stated.

When requested in a panel discussion to determine the one unsolved factor that retains her up at night time, Michelle Bowman, affiliate director, communities for Learning Ahead, which trains educators in professional improvement, responded: “Are we prepared to interact in the conversations around race and racism?”

Added Rosa E. Apodaca, interim government director & senior fellow at the Institute for Studying at the University of Pittsburgh, stated: “That’s it people. We really have to interact in that conversation and other people only like to interact in it at a degree the place it isn’t going to harm…I’ve seen how individuals retract from it once they don’t like it or they really feel like it hurts.”

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald contributed to this report.

EdSource receives help from a dozen philanthropic foundations, together with the Gates Foundation. Editorial decision-making and content material remain beneath the only control of EdSource.

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Photograph: Alison Yin/EdSource

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It’s been virtually two years since Bill Gates announced a serious shift to regionally pushed options in the schooling funding strategy of the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, the nation’s largest charitable basis.

Gates stated he remains “driven by the same guideline we began with: all students — but particularly low-income college students and students of colour — should have equal entry to an ideal public schooling that prepares them for adulthood.”

As Gates vowed within the speech to the Council of the Great Metropolis Faculties in Cleveland, “We won’t surrender till this has been achieved.”

The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the inspiration to 21 native Networks for Faculty Enchancment dedicated to continuous improvement and uncovering modifications that may make a distinction for these college students.

Early glimpses of the outcomes of the work funded by the inspiration during the last yr have been unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maryland to more than 300 attendees, together with educators engaged in funded tasks and others expecting to hitch in. A report of the primary yr of the initiative was also released detailing the tasks underway.

“We need to share what we’re learning as shortly as attainable,” Bob Hughes, director of the Gates foundation’s Okay-12 schooling, advised the viewers at the Networks for Faculty Enchancment: Yr One Evaluate Occasion. The hope, he added, is that educators decide up what others are doing and check out it in their very own faculties.

Hughes stated he hoped that what develops “is a motion to try to really improve what happens for African-American, Latinx and low-income students. We’ve to try this.”

Inside the subsequent two months, the inspiration plans to announce a brand new round of grants for networks to hitch within the effort.

“Our hope is that these networks grow to be a prototype to scale progressive apply and implement it in ways that finally lower and get rid of the achievement gap across the nation,” stated Hughes.

Networks for college enchancment include a supporting organization comparable to a nonprofit, college or faculty district that connects middle and excessive faculties to work collectively as a community. Their objective is to improve scholar outcomes by figuring out limitations to scholar success and common problems that they will work on. The community uses knowledge to help determine the problem and the technique to unravel it. Knowledge additionally help to watch improvement on whether college students are graduating from highschool and successful in school.

The emphasis on funding local collaborations of academics and faculties working together to provide you with their own solutions represents a radical departure from the inspiration’s earlier nationwide initiative networks, corresponding to selling the Widespread Core requirements in math and English language arts, tying instructor evaluations to measures of scholar “progress,” together with check scores, and supporting “small faculties.”

In saying the new technique in late 2017, Gates committed the most important share of the $1.7 billion that the inspiration planned to spend on Okay-12 schooling to this effort, which focuses on using knowledge to provide you with regionally driven solutions.

The networks are working with 298 middle and high faculties in additional than a dozen states nationwide, together with California. The faculties enroll 250,000 college students, 29 % of whom are African-American, 43 % Latino and 70 % low-income.

Hughes stated the Gates basis has dedicated funding for five years, after which a choice will probably be made on whether or not to increase, stay the course or cease. Further California tasks will probably be included within the next round of funding, Hughes advised EdSource.

Gates’ emphasis on native initiatives seems in step with the key thrust of California’s schooling reforms in recent times, embodied within the Local Management Funding Formulation, which additionally has devolved more decision-making to local faculty districts.

Included among the many initial 21 tasks are 4 California nonprofit organizations.

The Excessive Tech Excessive Graduate Faculty of Schooling in San Diego is partnering with as much as 30 charter and conventional high faculties in Southern California. The goal is to increase the variety of black, Hispanic and low-income college students who apply after which attend a four-year school.

Thus far, the community consists of 5 Excessive Tech High faculties, two unbiased constitution faculties and 11 complete high faculties from seven districts in northern San Diego and Southern Los Angeles.

It should concentrate on key elements that affect school enrollment: entry to monetary help, the school software process, fostering a way of belonging in school and decreasing “summer time melt” — students’ failure to enroll even after they’ve been admitted.

The graduate faculty is part of the High Tech High group, which started in 2000 as a small constitution faculty in San Diego.

California Schooling Partners, based mostly in San Francisco, is creating a community of 50 highschool in 18 small and mid-sized districts to enhance achievement among black, Latinx and low-income students. The grant is aimed toward expanding the Ed Partners’ capacity to design, lead and evaluate collaborations of faculties targeted on improvement. Ed Companions additionally led the 5-year, 10-district Math in Widespread challenge whose objective was to enhance instruction of the Widespread Core math requirements.

CORE Districts, based mostly in Sacramento, are eight California faculty districts, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno and Long Seashore, serving one million college students, that work together on methods to slender achievement gaps. The grant will concentrate on CORE’s work to ensure that 9th-graders are on monitor for commencement and school enrollment, its scholar knowledge system and its partnership with the research nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Schooling.

Train Plus, a nationwide group with workplaces in several areas, together with Los Angeles, builds instructor leaders with educational expertise. The grant will create a network of 10 middle faculties in Chicago and Los Angeles that may information the work of instructor leaders and principals to increase 8th-grade math proficiency of black, Hispanic and low-income college students.

In the course of the event Tuesday, the Baltimore Metropolis Faculties provided a glimpse of the stakes in this effort. Their focus is on center and highschool college students who aren’t studying at grade degree and positively not a degree that may deliver them success in school or beyond. As a video on the venture poignantly described, the inequities faced by these college students mirror the zip codes they stay in.

Zachary Jaffe is a literacy coach who works day by day with educators and college students to uncover the modifications that must be made to improve learning for these college students. Within the video, Jaffe stated the challenge is not to leap to a fast repair — “solutionitis” — however to take heed to what college students say they need.

Interviewing students and learning performance knowledge are two pillars of this continuing enchancment strategy. Principally, it is acknowledging that there are not any fast fixes or magic bullets. The options come out of exhausting, sluggish work that constantly builds on success.

Because the members discovered, it’s the type of strategy that has confirmed successful in other sectors like well being care and manufacturing. With the fitting modifications, the methods can work in schooling. That’s what the Gates Foundation is relying on because it puts the drive of its experience behind this effort.

Among the challenges, Hughes informed them, is to search for the basis trigger.

As an early practitioner, Baltimore Metropolis will certainly turn out to be a check case for the strategy. Baltimore Metropolis Public Faculties CEO Dr. Sonya Santelises stated her workforce has been working on this strategy for about eight months and her employees is telling her that this already “feels in another way” than other top-down efforts.

And while 20 to 30 faculties have worked on improvement, Santelises says she needs a course of that may serve all the college students within the district’s 170 faculties. Their work has “solely just begun.”

In some districts, that work consists of confronting the historical past of segregation that has resulted in inequities in amenities and assets, speakers stated.

When requested in a panel discussion to determine the one unsolved factor that retains her up at night time, Michelle Bowman, affiliate director, communities for Learning Ahead, which trains educators in professional improvement, responded: “Are we prepared to interact in the conversations around race and racism?”

Added Rosa E. Apodaca, interim government director & senior fellow at the Institute for Studying at the University of Pittsburgh, stated: “That’s it people. We really have to interact in that conversation and other people only like to interact in it at a degree the place it isn’t going to harm…I’ve seen how individuals retract from it once they don’t like it or they really feel like it hurts.”

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald contributed to this report.

EdSource receives help from a dozen philanthropic foundations, together with the Gates Foundation. Editorial decision-making and content material remain beneath the only control of EdSource.

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It’s been virtually two years since Bill Gates announced a serious shift to regionally pushed options in the schooling funding strategy of the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, the nation’s largest charitable basis.

Gates stated he remains “driven by the same guideline we began with: all students — but particularly low-income college students and students of colour — should have equal entry to an ideal public schooling that prepares them for adulthood.”

As Gates vowed within the speech to the Council of the Great Metropolis Faculties in Cleveland, “We won’t surrender till this has been achieved.”

The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the inspiration to 21 native Networks for Faculty Enchancment dedicated to continuous improvement and uncovering modifications that may make a distinction for these college students.

Early glimpses of the outcomes of the work funded by the inspiration during the last yr have been unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maryland to more than 300 attendees, together with educators engaged in funded tasks and others expecting to hitch in. A report of the primary yr of the initiative was also released detailing the tasks underway.

“We need to share what we’re learning as shortly as attainable,” Bob Hughes, director of the Gates foundation’s Okay-12 schooling, advised the viewers at the Networks for Faculty Enchancment: Yr One Evaluate Occasion. The hope, he added, is that educators decide up what others are doing and check out it in their very own faculties.

Hughes stated he hoped that what develops “is a motion to try to really improve what happens for African-American, Latinx and low-income students. We’ve to try this.”

Inside the subsequent two months, the inspiration plans to announce a brand new round of grants for networks to hitch within the effort.

“Our hope is that these networks grow to be a prototype to scale progressive apply and implement it in ways that finally lower and get rid of the achievement gap across the nation,” stated Hughes.

Networks for college enchancment include a supporting organization comparable to a nonprofit, college or faculty district that connects middle and excessive faculties to work collectively as a community. Their objective is to improve scholar outcomes by figuring out limitations to scholar success and common problems that they will work on. The community uses knowledge to help determine the problem and the technique to unravel it. Knowledge additionally help to watch improvement on whether college students are graduating from highschool and successful in school.

The emphasis on funding local collaborations of academics and faculties working together to provide you with their own solutions represents a radical departure from the inspiration’s earlier nationwide initiative networks, corresponding to selling the Widespread Core requirements in math and English language arts, tying instructor evaluations to measures of scholar “progress,” together with check scores, and supporting “small faculties.”

In saying the new technique in late 2017, Gates committed the most important share of the $1.7 billion that the inspiration planned to spend on Okay-12 schooling to this effort, which focuses on using knowledge to provide you with regionally driven solutions.

The networks are working with 298 middle and high faculties in additional than a dozen states nationwide, together with California. The faculties enroll 250,000 college students, 29 % of whom are African-American, 43 % Latino and 70 % low-income.

Hughes stated the Gates basis has dedicated funding for five years, after which a choice will probably be made on whether or not to increase, stay the course or cease. Further California tasks will probably be included within the next round of funding, Hughes advised EdSource.

Gates’ emphasis on native initiatives seems in step with the key thrust of California’s schooling reforms in recent times, embodied within the Local Management Funding Formulation, which additionally has devolved more decision-making to local faculty districts.

Included among the many initial 21 tasks are 4 California nonprofit organizations.

The Excessive Tech Excessive Graduate Faculty of Schooling in San Diego is partnering with as much as 30 charter and conventional high faculties in Southern California. The goal is to increase the variety of black, Hispanic and low-income college students who apply after which attend a four-year school.

Thus far, the community consists of 5 Excessive Tech High faculties, two unbiased constitution faculties and 11 complete high faculties from seven districts in northern San Diego and Southern Los Angeles.

It should concentrate on key elements that affect school enrollment: entry to monetary help, the school software process, fostering a way of belonging in school and decreasing “summer time melt” — students’ failure to enroll even after they’ve been admitted.

The graduate faculty is part of the High Tech High group, which started in 2000 as a small constitution faculty in San Diego.

California Schooling Partners, based mostly in San Francisco, is creating a community of 50 highschool in 18 small and mid-sized districts to enhance achievement among black, Latinx and low-income students. The grant is aimed toward expanding the Ed Partners’ capacity to design, lead and evaluate collaborations of faculties targeted on improvement. Ed Companions additionally led the 5-year, 10-district Math in Widespread challenge whose objective was to enhance instruction of the Widespread Core math requirements.

CORE Districts, based mostly in Sacramento, are eight California faculty districts, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno and Long Seashore, serving one million college students, that work together on methods to slender achievement gaps. The grant will concentrate on CORE’s work to ensure that 9th-graders are on monitor for commencement and school enrollment, its scholar knowledge system and its partnership with the research nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Schooling.

Train Plus, a nationwide group with workplaces in several areas, together with Los Angeles, builds instructor leaders with educational expertise. The grant will create a network of 10 middle faculties in Chicago and Los Angeles that may information the work of instructor leaders and principals to increase 8th-grade math proficiency of black, Hispanic and low-income college students.

In the course of the event Tuesday, the Baltimore Metropolis Faculties provided a glimpse of the stakes in this effort. Their focus is on center and highschool college students who aren’t studying at grade degree and positively not a degree that may deliver them success in school or beyond. As a video on the venture poignantly described, the inequities faced by these college students mirror the zip codes they stay in.

Zachary Jaffe is a literacy coach who works day by day with educators and college students to uncover the modifications that must be made to improve learning for these college students. Within the video, Jaffe stated the challenge is not to leap to a fast repair — “solutionitis” — however to take heed to what college students say they need.

Interviewing students and learning performance knowledge are two pillars of this continuing enchancment strategy. Principally, it is acknowledging that there are not any fast fixes or magic bullets. The options come out of exhausting, sluggish work that constantly builds on success.

Because the members discovered, it’s the type of strategy that has confirmed successful in other sectors like well being care and manufacturing. With the fitting modifications, the methods can work in schooling. That’s what the Gates Foundation is relying on because it puts the drive of its experience behind this effort.

Among the challenges, Hughes informed them, is to search for the basis trigger.

As an early practitioner, Baltimore Metropolis will certainly turn out to be a check case for the strategy. Baltimore Metropolis Public Faculties CEO Dr. Sonya Santelises stated her workforce has been working on this strategy for about eight months and her employees is telling her that this already “feels in another way” than other top-down efforts.

And while 20 to 30 faculties have worked on improvement, Santelises says she needs a course of that may serve all the college students within the district’s 170 faculties. Their work has “solely just begun.”

In some districts, that work consists of confronting the historical past of segregation that has resulted in inequities in amenities and assets, speakers stated.

When requested in a panel discussion to determine the one unsolved factor that retains her up at night time, Michelle Bowman, affiliate director, communities for Learning Ahead, which trains educators in professional improvement, responded: “Are we prepared to interact in the conversations around race and racism?”

Added Rosa E. Apodaca, interim government director & senior fellow at the Institute for Studying at the University of Pittsburgh, stated: “That’s it people. We really have to interact in that conversation and other people only like to interact in it at a degree the place it isn’t going to harm…I’ve seen how individuals retract from it once they don’t like it or they really feel like it hurts.”

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald contributed to this report.

EdSource receives help from a dozen philanthropic foundations, together with the Gates Foundation. Editorial decision-making and content material remain beneath the only control of EdSource.

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It’s been virtually two years since Bill Gates announced a serious shift to regionally pushed options in the schooling funding strategy of the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, the nation’s largest charitable basis.

Gates stated he remains “driven by the same guideline we began with: all students — but particularly low-income college students and students of colour — should have equal entry to an ideal public schooling that prepares them for adulthood.”

As Gates vowed within the speech to the Council of the Great Metropolis Faculties in Cleveland, “We won’t surrender till this has been achieved.”

The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the inspiration to 21 native Networks for Faculty Enchancment dedicated to continuous improvement and uncovering modifications that may make a distinction for these college students.

Early glimpses of the outcomes of the work funded by the inspiration during the last yr have been unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maryland to more than 300 attendees, together with educators engaged in funded tasks and others expecting to hitch in. A report of the primary yr of the initiative was also released detailing the tasks underway.

“We need to share what we’re learning as shortly as attainable,” Bob Hughes, director of the Gates foundation’s Okay-12 schooling, advised the viewers at the Networks for Faculty Enchancment: Yr One Evaluate Occasion. The hope, he added, is that educators decide up what others are doing and check out it in their very own faculties.

Hughes stated he hoped that what develops “is a motion to try to really improve what happens for African-American, Latinx and low-income students. We’ve to try this.”

Inside the subsequent two months, the inspiration plans to announce a brand new round of grants for networks to hitch within the effort.

“Our hope is that these networks grow to be a prototype to scale progressive apply and implement it in ways that finally lower and get rid of the achievement gap across the nation,” stated Hughes.

Networks for college enchancment include a supporting organization comparable to a nonprofit, college or faculty district that connects middle and excessive faculties to work collectively as a community. Their objective is to improve scholar outcomes by figuring out limitations to scholar success and common problems that they will work on. The community uses knowledge to help determine the problem and the technique to unravel it. Knowledge additionally help to watch improvement on whether college students are graduating from highschool and successful in school.

The emphasis on funding local collaborations of academics and faculties working together to provide you with their own solutions represents a radical departure from the inspiration’s earlier nationwide initiative networks, corresponding to selling the Widespread Core requirements in math and English language arts, tying instructor evaluations to measures of scholar “progress,” together with check scores, and supporting “small faculties.”

In saying the new technique in late 2017, Gates committed the most important share of the $1.7 billion that the inspiration planned to spend on Okay-12 schooling to this effort, which focuses on using knowledge to provide you with regionally driven solutions.

The networks are working with 298 middle and high faculties in additional than a dozen states nationwide, together with California. The faculties enroll 250,000 college students, 29 % of whom are African-American, 43 % Latino and 70 % low-income.

Hughes stated the Gates basis has dedicated funding for five years, after which a choice will probably be made on whether or not to increase, stay the course or cease. Further California tasks will probably be included within the next round of funding, Hughes advised EdSource.

Gates’ emphasis on native initiatives seems in step with the key thrust of California’s schooling reforms in recent times, embodied within the Local Management Funding Formulation, which additionally has devolved more decision-making to local faculty districts.

Included among the many initial 21 tasks are 4 California nonprofit organizations.

The Excessive Tech Excessive Graduate Faculty of Schooling in San Diego is partnering with as much as 30 charter and conventional high faculties in Southern California. The goal is to increase the variety of black, Hispanic and low-income college students who apply after which attend a four-year school.

Thus far, the community consists of 5 Excessive Tech High faculties, two unbiased constitution faculties and 11 complete high faculties from seven districts in northern San Diego and Southern Los Angeles.

It should concentrate on key elements that affect school enrollment: entry to monetary help, the school software process, fostering a way of belonging in school and decreasing “summer time melt” — students’ failure to enroll even after they’ve been admitted.

The graduate faculty is part of the High Tech High group, which started in 2000 as a small constitution faculty in San Diego.

California Schooling Partners, based mostly in San Francisco, is creating a community of 50 highschool in 18 small and mid-sized districts to enhance achievement among black, Latinx and low-income students. The grant is aimed toward expanding the Ed Partners’ capacity to design, lead and evaluate collaborations of faculties targeted on improvement. Ed Companions additionally led the 5-year, 10-district Math in Widespread challenge whose objective was to enhance instruction of the Widespread Core math requirements.

CORE Districts, based mostly in Sacramento, are eight California faculty districts, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno and Long Seashore, serving one million college students, that work together on methods to slender achievement gaps. The grant will concentrate on CORE’s work to ensure that 9th-graders are on monitor for commencement and school enrollment, its scholar knowledge system and its partnership with the research nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Schooling.

Train Plus, a nationwide group with workplaces in several areas, together with Los Angeles, builds instructor leaders with educational expertise. The grant will create a network of 10 middle faculties in Chicago and Los Angeles that may information the work of instructor leaders and principals to increase 8th-grade math proficiency of black, Hispanic and low-income college students.

In the course of the event Tuesday, the Baltimore Metropolis Faculties provided a glimpse of the stakes in this effort. Their focus is on center and highschool college students who aren’t studying at grade degree and positively not a degree that may deliver them success in school or beyond. As a video on the venture poignantly described, the inequities faced by these college students mirror the zip codes they stay in.

Zachary Jaffe is a literacy coach who works day by day with educators and college students to uncover the modifications that must be made to improve learning for these college students. Within the video, Jaffe stated the challenge is not to leap to a fast repair — “solutionitis” — however to take heed to what college students say they need.

Interviewing students and learning performance knowledge are two pillars of this continuing enchancment strategy. Principally, it is acknowledging that there are not any fast fixes or magic bullets. The options come out of exhausting, sluggish work that constantly builds on success.

Because the members discovered, it’s the type of strategy that has confirmed successful in other sectors like well being care and manufacturing. With the fitting modifications, the methods can work in schooling. That’s what the Gates Foundation is relying on because it puts the drive of its experience behind this effort.

Among the challenges, Hughes informed them, is to search for the basis trigger.

As an early practitioner, Baltimore Metropolis will certainly turn out to be a check case for the strategy. Baltimore Metropolis Public Faculties CEO Dr. Sonya Santelises stated her workforce has been working on this strategy for about eight months and her employees is telling her that this already “feels in another way” than other top-down efforts.

And while 20 to 30 faculties have worked on improvement, Santelises says she needs a course of that may serve all the college students within the district’s 170 faculties. Their work has “solely just begun.”

In some districts, that work consists of confronting the historical past of segregation that has resulted in inequities in amenities and assets, speakers stated.

When requested in a panel discussion to determine the one unsolved factor that retains her up at night time, Michelle Bowman, affiliate director, communities for Learning Ahead, which trains educators in professional improvement, responded: “Are we prepared to interact in the conversations around race and racism?”

Added Rosa E. Apodaca, interim government director & senior fellow at the Institute for Studying at the University of Pittsburgh, stated: “That’s it people. We really have to interact in that conversation and other people only like to interact in it at a degree the place it isn’t going to harm…I’ve seen how individuals retract from it once they don’t like it or they really feel like it hurts.”

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald contributed to this report.

EdSource receives help from a dozen philanthropic foundations, together with the Gates Foundation. Editorial decision-making and content material remain beneath the only control of EdSource.

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It’s been virtually two years since Bill Gates announced a serious shift to regionally pushed options in the schooling funding strategy of the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, the nation’s largest charitable basis.

Gates stated he remains “driven by the same guideline we began with: all students — but particularly low-income college students and students of colour — should have equal entry to an ideal public schooling that prepares them for adulthood.”

As Gates vowed within the speech to the Council of the Great Metropolis Faculties in Cleveland, “We won’t surrender till this has been achieved.”

The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the inspiration to 21 native Networks for Faculty Enchancment dedicated to continuous improvement and uncovering modifications that may make a distinction for these college students.

Early glimpses of the outcomes of the work funded by the inspiration during the last yr have been unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maryland to more than 300 attendees, together with educators engaged in funded tasks and others expecting to hitch in. A report of the primary yr of the initiative was also released detailing the tasks underway.

“We need to share what we’re learning as shortly as attainable,” Bob Hughes, director of the Gates foundation’s Okay-12 schooling, advised the viewers at the Networks for Faculty Enchancment: Yr One Evaluate Occasion. The hope, he added, is that educators decide up what others are doing and check out it in their very own faculties.

Hughes stated he hoped that what develops “is a motion to try to really improve what happens for African-American, Latinx and low-income students. We’ve to try this.”

Inside the subsequent two months, the inspiration plans to announce a brand new round of grants for networks to hitch within the effort.

“Our hope is that these networks grow to be a prototype to scale progressive apply and implement it in ways that finally lower and get rid of the achievement gap across the nation,” stated Hughes.

Networks for college enchancment include a supporting organization comparable to a nonprofit, college or faculty district that connects middle and excessive faculties to work collectively as a community. Their objective is to improve scholar outcomes by figuring out limitations to scholar success and common problems that they will work on. The community uses knowledge to help determine the problem and the technique to unravel it. Knowledge additionally help to watch improvement on whether college students are graduating from highschool and successful in school.

The emphasis on funding local collaborations of academics and faculties working together to provide you with their own solutions represents a radical departure from the inspiration’s earlier nationwide initiative networks, corresponding to selling the Widespread Core requirements in math and English language arts, tying instructor evaluations to measures of scholar “progress,” together with check scores, and supporting “small faculties.”

In saying the new technique in late 2017, Gates committed the most important share of the $1.7 billion that the inspiration planned to spend on Okay-12 schooling to this effort, which focuses on using knowledge to provide you with regionally driven solutions.

The networks are working with 298 middle and high faculties in additional than a dozen states nationwide, together with California. The faculties enroll 250,000 college students, 29 % of whom are African-American, 43 % Latino and 70 % low-income.

Hughes stated the Gates basis has dedicated funding for five years, after which a choice will probably be made on whether or not to increase, stay the course or cease. Further California tasks will probably be included within the next round of funding, Hughes advised EdSource.

Gates’ emphasis on native initiatives seems in step with the key thrust of California’s schooling reforms in recent times, embodied within the Local Management Funding Formulation, which additionally has devolved more decision-making to local faculty districts.

Included among the many initial 21 tasks are 4 California nonprofit organizations.

The Excessive Tech Excessive Graduate Faculty of Schooling in San Diego is partnering with as much as 30 charter and conventional high faculties in Southern California. The goal is to increase the variety of black, Hispanic and low-income college students who apply after which attend a four-year school.

Thus far, the community consists of 5 Excessive Tech High faculties, two unbiased constitution faculties and 11 complete high faculties from seven districts in northern San Diego and Southern Los Angeles.

It should concentrate on key elements that affect school enrollment: entry to monetary help, the school software process, fostering a way of belonging in school and decreasing “summer time melt” — students’ failure to enroll even after they’ve been admitted.

The graduate faculty is part of the High Tech High group, which started in 2000 as a small constitution faculty in San Diego.

California Schooling Partners, based mostly in San Francisco, is creating a community of 50 highschool in 18 small and mid-sized districts to enhance achievement among black, Latinx and low-income students. The grant is aimed toward expanding the Ed Partners’ capacity to design, lead and evaluate collaborations of faculties targeted on improvement. Ed Companions additionally led the 5-year, 10-district Math in Widespread challenge whose objective was to enhance instruction of the Widespread Core math requirements.

CORE Districts, based mostly in Sacramento, are eight California faculty districts, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno and Long Seashore, serving one million college students, that work together on methods to slender achievement gaps. The grant will concentrate on CORE’s work to ensure that 9th-graders are on monitor for commencement and school enrollment, its scholar knowledge system and its partnership with the research nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Schooling.

Train Plus, a nationwide group with workplaces in several areas, together with Los Angeles, builds instructor leaders with educational expertise. The grant will create a network of 10 middle faculties in Chicago and Los Angeles that may information the work of instructor leaders and principals to increase 8th-grade math proficiency of black, Hispanic and low-income college students.

In the course of the event Tuesday, the Baltimore Metropolis Faculties provided a glimpse of the stakes in this effort. Their focus is on center and highschool college students who aren’t studying at grade degree and positively not a degree that may deliver them success in school or beyond. As a video on the venture poignantly described, the inequities faced by these college students mirror the zip codes they stay in.

Zachary Jaffe is a literacy coach who works day by day with educators and college students to uncover the modifications that must be made to improve learning for these college students. Within the video, Jaffe stated the challenge is not to leap to a fast repair — “solutionitis” — however to take heed to what college students say they need.

Interviewing students and learning performance knowledge are two pillars of this continuing enchancment strategy. Principally, it is acknowledging that there are not any fast fixes or magic bullets. The options come out of exhausting, sluggish work that constantly builds on success.

Because the members discovered, it’s the type of strategy that has confirmed successful in other sectors like well being care and manufacturing. With the fitting modifications, the methods can work in schooling. That’s what the Gates Foundation is relying on because it puts the drive of its experience behind this effort.

Among the challenges, Hughes informed them, is to search for the basis trigger.

As an early practitioner, Baltimore Metropolis will certainly turn out to be a check case for the strategy. Baltimore Metropolis Public Faculties CEO Dr. Sonya Santelises stated her workforce has been working on this strategy for about eight months and her employees is telling her that this already “feels in another way” than other top-down efforts.

And while 20 to 30 faculties have worked on improvement, Santelises says she needs a course of that may serve all the college students within the district’s 170 faculties. Their work has “solely just begun.”

In some districts, that work consists of confronting the historical past of segregation that has resulted in inequities in amenities and assets, speakers stated.

When requested in a panel discussion to determine the one unsolved factor that retains her up at night time, Michelle Bowman, affiliate director, communities for Learning Ahead, which trains educators in professional improvement, responded: “Are we prepared to interact in the conversations around race and racism?”

Added Rosa E. Apodaca, interim government director & senior fellow at the Institute for Studying at the University of Pittsburgh, stated: “That’s it people. We really have to interact in that conversation and other people only like to interact in it at a degree the place it isn’t going to harm…I’ve seen how individuals retract from it once they don’t like it or they really feel like it hurts.”

EdSource reporter John Fensterwald contributed to this report.

EdSource receives help from a dozen philanthropic foundations, together with the Gates Foundation. Editorial decision-making and content material remain beneath the only control of EdSource.

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Aseptic Processing Market – Upcoming Transformation Outlook 2025

Global Aseptic Processing Market: Snapshot

As per the Food and Agriculture Organization, 43% of the food produced in Asia Pacific in 2014 was wasted, leading to huge financial losses for both manufacturers and retailers. Thus, the need for efficient packaging which offers long life and maintains the quality of products was felt. This gave rise to the demand for aseptic processing and the market for this technology is projected to witness a high growth in the years to come.

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The growing preference for eco-friendly packages is behind the high demand for aseptic processing technology, despite their complexity when compared to terminal sterilization or canning. A surge in the demand for convenience foods and pharmaceutical supplies is boosting the growth of the aseptic processing market. Aseptic processing enables longer shelf life and thus, in demand. As the disposable income of consumers is increasing, their spending capability is also growing, creating a heightened demand for various products, driving the global aseptic processing market.

Players in the market are expected to witness a stupendous growth as they increase their already large production capacities. The increased demand for aseptically packaged goods has compelled manufacturers to expand their business and production capacity. The cosmetics and dairy sectors are two areas demanding aseptic processing increasingly, thus pushing the growth of the market. The dairy industry is witnessing robust growth on account of the high demand for varieties in terms of flavors, which is benefitting the aseptic processing industry in turn.

Global Aseptic Processing Market: Overview

Aseptic processing is referred to as the methodology through which sterile or aseptic products, mainly pharmaceutical and food is packed in a sterile container which would efficiently maintain its sterility. Sterility is obtained through a process of flash heating between a temperature of 195 and 295 degree F which recollects more nutrients and employs less energy than the traditional form of sterilization methods such as hot-fill canning or retort. The method of aseptic food preservation allows the storage of processed food for elongated periods without the use of preservatives. These type of aseptic packages are generally a mix of aluminum, polyethylene, and paper. Collectively, these materials form a constricted seal against degradation, contaminants, microbial organisms, thus removing the requirement for refrigeration. The products which packed using aseptic processing are tomatoes, gravies, liquid whole eggs, fruit juices, and milks.

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The market intelligence report investigates into the conceivable growth prospects for the aseptic processing market and the sequential growth of the market during the course of the forecast period. It also exclusively provisions the mandatory data related to aspects such as the dynamics manipulating the progress in all possible reflective manner. Numerous pervasive and non-pervasive trends have also been stated in the report. An outlook of extensive nature keeping in mind the Porter’s five forces analysis has been provided to make the vendor landscape transparent to the reader. The report further points out several activities related to R&D, mergers, acquisitions, and crucial conglomerates and corroborations. The companies in attention have been examined on the basis of market shares, prime products, and key marketing strategies.

Global Aseptic Processing Market: Trends and Opportunities

The global aseptic processing market is likely to witness exponential growth over the forecast period owing to rising focus on environment-friendly packaging and improvement in technologies and equipment in the packaging industry. The market is also expected to be benefitted by the mounting need for pharmaceutical supplies, growing demand for quality and convenience food products, and significant progress of the dairy beverage market. However, the market is expected to be negatively impacted by the high initial capital investment required for buying equipment and the need for advanced understanding of the technology in question in place forms of packaging forms.

In terms of packaging, the segment of paper and paperboard is expected to lead the market in the coming years. This is because, paperboard can be easily cut and processed and is both strong and lightweight, thus making it an ideal material for packaging. Paperboard packaging is available in different grades with unique qualities. The grades are thus chosen on the basis of the respective packaging requirements.

Global Aseptic Processing Market: Regional Outlook

Developing countries such as Argentina, Brazil, India, and China are likely to contribute significantly to the revenue of the global aseptic processing market in the coming years. The growth of the markets in these countries can be primarily attributed to the hectic lifestyles of consumers and their shift towards processed and ready-to-eat meals, growth in household incomes, and favorable demographics.

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Global Aseptic Processing Market: Competitive Landscape

Equipment manufacturers and suppliers are focusing on offering innovative equipment in different categories along with integrating processing equipment. They are also diversifying the product offerings to strengthen distribution base. Some of the leading companies are JBT Corporation, Greatview Aseptic Packaging Co. Ltd., GEA Group, Amcor Limited, Becton, Dickinson and Co., GEA Group, Tetra Laval International S.A., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, and Robert Bosch GmbH.

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1. The study of business and society involves an exploration of what is "right" and/or "wrong" in terms of the social and ethical conduct of business.  True    False

 2. Responses to social and environmental issues will determine the corporations which will survive in the future.  True    False

 3. Integrity refers to the appropriateness of a corporation's behaviour, not to its adherence to moral principles.  True    False

 4. Ethics apply to business in the same manner as they apply to religion.  True    False

 5. A responsible corporation, a business undertaking that responds to social, ethical, and environmental responsibilities in addition to its economic obligations results in a firm's integrity.  True    False

 6. The triple-E bottom line (3E) is the evaluation of a corporation's performance according to a summary of the economic, social or ethical, and environmental value the corporation adds or destroys.  True    False

 7. Most people agree on a universal way to approach ethics and therefore, there is widespread agreement as to the appropriate behaviour by business in society.  True    False

 8. Deontological theories of ethics are rule-based.  True    False

 9. Virtue ethics emphasizes the situation that individuals find themselves in and focuses on what they are doing.  True    False

 10. When resolving ethical issues, automatic decisions are reliable.  True    False

 11. The teleological approach to ethics is also referred to as a rule-based theory.  True    False

 12. Virtue ethics focuses upon ‘doing' rather than ‘being'.  True    False

 13. One advantage of virtue ethics is that there is general agreement as to what constitutes a virtue.  True    False

 14. Utilitarianism is one form of rule-based theories.  True    False

 15. The ‘greatest good for the greatest number' is a feature of consequentialist theories.  True    False

 16. A free enterprise system sees a limited role for government.  True    False

 17. The responsible enterprise system and stakeholder capitalism both acknowledge that business has responsibility beyond making profit for shareholders.  True    False

 18. Adam Smith argued for a system of capitalism that would see an enhanced role for government.  True    False

 19. Canadians' overall attitude towards business has been basically positive over the last ten years.  True    False

 20. The non-profit sector is alternately known as the third sector or the plural sector.  True    False

 21. There are very few legal requirements for an individual establishing or operating a business in Canada.  True    False

 22. A partnership may involve two or more than two individuals sharing the ownership of a business.  True    False

 23. In a proprietorship or partnership, the owners assume all responsibility for the firm, but they also receive all profits.  True    False

 24. The concession doctrine implies that incorporation is a right, not a privilege for businesses.  True    False

 25. The freedom of association doctrine implies that incorporation should occur without government intervention.  True    False

 26. Legislative safeguards are imposed upon incorporation processes to create and preserve an atmosphere of public confidence, as well as to create protections for investors and creditors.  True    False

 27. A minority of Canadians are owners of businesses, either directly or indirectly.  True    False

 28. Strategic planning is a function of the board of directors.  True    False

 29. The board of directors is responsible to the manager of the corporation.  True    False

 30. Integrity is becoming an increasingly important attribute for managers to possess.  True    False

 31. Self-interest by firms is an issue that the Canadian public consistently identifies as a negative attribute of the business enterprise system.  True    False

 32. A Hewlett-Packard Co. survey of Canadians found that 90 percent believed the more socially and environmentally responsible a corporation is, the more likely they are to purchase its goods and services.  True    False

 33. There is a positive relationship between living standards and how positive society views business. As living standards increase, the more likely society will view business in a positive manner.  True    False

 34. Self-interest acts as a motivator in the business enterprise system and provides the drive for profit that encourages individuals to get things done.  True    False

 35. A system based on a capitalistic market always leads to the equitable distribution of income.  True    False

 36. Legitimacy requires belief, trust, and confidence in the business system.  True    False

 37. In order for a business to be legitimate, the business enterprise system must report positive profits and pay dividends to shareholders on a consistent basis.  True    False

 38. Social licence is based on ethics, values, expectations, and self-regulation considered preferable to social or government control which is based on regulation, legislation, litigation, and compliance.  True    False

 39. The integrity of future business entrepreneurs, managers, and employees is unrelated to how these individuals behave while in academic programs.  True    False

 40. There is little concern that a lack of academic integrity will have an influence on business integrity.  True    False

 41. There exists a reciprocal relationship between business and society.  True    False

 42. The three dominant approaches to normative theories of ethics include all of the following except:  A. Deontological B. Teleological C. Justice D. Virtue E. All of the above are approaches to normative theories of ethics.

 43. One prominent ethicist who wrote extensively about virtue ethics was:  A. Kant B. Locke C. Bentham D. Aristotle E. Mills

 44. The ‘veil of ignorance' test is a variation of _________ theories.  A. teleological B. virtue C. deontological D. consequentialist E. justice

 45. Which of the following ethicists wrote that leadership can create opportunities for all to realize their potential?  A. Kant B. Plato C. Bentham D. Aristotle E. Smith

 46. Government and business work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to use resources to meet the needs of the members of a society. This arrangement is called the __________ system of a nation.  A. economic B. free enterprise C. responsible enterprise D. capitalist E. political

 47. The discussion of the business enterprise system in the Business and Society class today was stimulating. John argued that the Canadian government should apply a _________ model whereby economic decision making is left to those individuals or enterprises who own the means of production.  A. capitalism B. free enterprise C. laissez-faire capitalism D. responsible enterprise E. stakeholder capitalism

 48. The discussion of the business enterprise system in the Business and Society class today became heated when a debate broke out as to which capitalist system Canada should employ. Jamal argued that the Canadian government should apply a _________ model whereby economic decision making is left to those individuals or enterprises who own the means of production. A profit motivation, with limited government involvement, would create a competitive market system. Crystal agreed, but added that accountability to society by business was also important and therefore a _______ was better.  A. free enterprise; stakeholder capitalism B. free enterprise; responsible enterprise C. laissez-faire capitalism; stakeholder capitalism D. laissez-faire capitalism; responsible enterprise E. sustainable; stakeholder model

 49. The discussion of the business enterprise system in the Business and Society class today became interesting when Roberto took the position that the Canadian government should apply a _________ model whereby economic decision making is left to those individuals or enterprises who own the means of production and the government has only the most minimal, strictly limited role.  A. capitalism B. free enterprise C. laissez-faire capitalism D. responsible enterprise E. stakeholder capitalism

 50. Eduardo argued that Canadian business has a responsibility that goes beyond making money for investors. Businesses operate within communities. Decisions, such as closing down factories, will affect employees, their families as well as other businesses located in the factory's town. Eduardo is arguing for a ____________ model of capitalism.  A. free enterprise B. laissez-faire C. responsible enterprise D. stakeholder E. sustainable

 51. Jane is starting a business to sell handmade greeting cards online. She is forming a(n) ___________ in that she is planning to assume all the risks and accept all the rewards of business ownership.  A. partnership B. proprietorship C. going concern D. incorporated business E. virtual model

 52. Julio and Julie are planning to start a business providing holistic, herbal products to consumers. This is an exciting business opportunity which has considerable growth potential. Concerned, however, about assuming a personal level of responsibility for the financial outcome of the enterprise, they decide to structure the business through _____________.  A. proprietorship B. partnership C. corporation D. incorporation E. limited liability

 53. By incorporating his business, Gordon has taken on partners who will provide financial backing. However, there are governmental requirements that shape the process. This is in contrast to the ____________ doctrine that allowed state control over the granting of incorporation.  A. freedom of association B. going concern C. concession D. voluntary E. legal

 54. Francois is a shareholder in VNO Corporation and regularly attends annual shareholder meetings voting on policies that he feels are particularly relevant to the firm's social responsibilities. Francois is _________.  A. a direct owner B. an indirect owner C. member of the board of directors D. manager E. active stakeholder

 55. Lucia is a shareholder in ULO Corporation, but she doesn't know it! She had thought for years that her pension was just sitting in a bank vault somewhere waiting for her to retire. Lucia is a(n) _________ of ULO Corporation.  A. direct owner B. indirect owner C. member of the board of directors D. manager E. active stakeholder

 56. Kathleen's responsibility is to manage the business and affairs of KLN Corporation, which manufactures ceramic products for industry. Kathleen is a(n) __________ of KLN Corporation.  A. direct owner B. indirect owner C. member of the board of directors D. manager E. None of the answers.

 57. Julian is planning on retiring from his role as chief executive of LVN Corporation. He doesn't know who will take his place or even if the departure should be gradual, but knows that ____________ is the responsibility of the __________.  A. succession planning; manager B. succession planning; board of directors C. hiring and termination of leadership; manager D. hiring and termination of leadership; board of directors E. succession and termination; board of directors

 58. LK Corporation has recently downsized its operations. The trend towards healthy eating has led to fewer purchases of lollipops and suckers, the principal product of the firm. Knowing that Halloween is approaching and that sales will improve, the company has told the media that the workers will be rehired as soon as sales improve. In planning to rehire the laid off workers, LK Corporation is attributing the layoffs to the ________.  A. self-interest B. allocation of resources C. decentralized decision making D. business cycle E. unemployment

 59. Christmas season is approaching and Kasia's mom is delighted with the range of offerings on the shelves of the toy store. It seems like every single toy manufacturer had a different strategy for the season. This range of offerings is the result of __________.  A. self-interest B. allocation of resources C. decentralized decision making D. business cycle E. innovation

 60. When purchasing a new vehicle, Robert asked the dealer: "So when will the car actually do the driving for me?" The dealer laughed and then showed Robert the new Lexus model that parallel parks for the driver. This example is addressing which issue related to society's attitude towards business?  A. Self-interest B. Allocation of resources C. Decentralized decision making D. Business cycle E. Innovation

 61. The shareholders of DCV Corporation have agreed to coordinate their share purchases so that the stock looks more profitable just prior to the merger so that the public will see the company as a desirable investment. This is an example of __________.  A. misleading financial statements B. kickbacks C. stock manipulation D. bid rigging E. stock-splitting

 62. In recruiting professionals to come and work for the firm, JKL Corporation provides incentives to the employees attending interviews. For example, Mary is encouraged to bring her husband, Robert, to the job interview at the company's expense. This is an example of what form of corporate wrongdoing?  A. Misleading financial statements B. Kickbacks C. Stock manipulation D. Bid rigging E. There is no wrongdoing

 63. The belief in the rightness of an institution, in this case the appropriateness of our business system to supply the goods and services wanted by Canadian society, is called:  A. Relevancy B. Righteousness C. Legitimacy D. Licencing E. None of the above.

 64. The privilege of operating in society with minimal formalized restrictions, that is legislation, regulation, or market requirements, based on maintaining public trust by doing what's acceptable to stakeholders in the business and society relationship is called:  A. Relevancy B. Righteousness C. Legitimacy D. Social Licence E. None of the above.

 65. Compare and contrast (a) proprietorship, (b) partnership and (c) incorporation. 

      66. Identify the five primary tasks of the board of directors as outlined in the text. 

      67. Some critics of the business enterprise system claim that a system based on a capitalistic market leads to inequities. What is the response by supporters of the capitalist system? 

      68. Name and discuss four factors influencing attitudes towards business systems. 

      69. Contrast deontological and teleological theories. 

      70. How does a ‘responsible enterprise system' differ from ‘stakeholder capitalism'? 

      71. Why is the term ‘ethics of business' preferred over the term ‘business ethics'? 

      72. Why does business need society and society need business? 

      73. Explain how integrity applies to business students. 

      74. The business enterprise system has been described in a number of ways. How would you describe our economic system to a new Canadian? 

      75. What is a responsible corporation? 

       c1 Key  

1. (p. 3) The study of business and society involves an exploration of what is "right" and/or "wrong" in terms of the social and ethical conduct of business.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe the complexity of the interrelationships between business and society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #1  

2. (p. 3) Responses to social and environmental issues will determine the corporations which will survive in the future.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe the complexity of the interrelationships between business and society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #2  

3. (p. 4) Integrity refers to the appropriateness of a corporation's behaviour, not to its adherence to moral principles.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business. Sexty - Chapter 01 #3  

4. (p. 5) Ethics apply to business in the same manner as they apply to religion.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business. Sexty - Chapter 01 #4  

5. (p. 5) A responsible corporation, a business undertaking that responds to social, ethical, and environmental responsibilities in addition to its economic obligations results in a firm's integrity.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business. Sexty - Chapter 01 #5  

6. (p. 4) The triple-E bottom line (3E) is the evaluation of a corporation's performance according to a summary of the economic, social or ethical, and environmental value the corporation adds or destroys.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business. Sexty - Chapter 01 #6  

7. (p. 6) Most people agree on a universal way to approach ethics and therefore, there is widespread agreement as to the appropriate behaviour by business in society.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #7  

8. (p. 6) Deontological theories of ethics are rule-based.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #8  

9. (p. 6) Virtue ethics emphasizes the situation that individuals find themselves in and focuses on what they are doing.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #9  

10. (p. 6) When resolving ethical issues, automatic decisions are reliable.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #10  

11. (p. 6) The teleological approach to ethics is also referred to as a rule-based theory.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #11  

12. (p. 6) Virtue ethics focuses upon ‘doing' rather than ‘being'.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #12  

13. (p. 6) One advantage of virtue ethics is that there is general agreement as to what constitutes a virtue.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #13  

14. (p. 6) Utilitarianism is one form of rule-based theories.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #14  

15. (p. 6) The ‘greatest good for the greatest number' is a feature of consequentialist theories.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #15  

16. (p. 8) A free enterprise system sees a limited role for government.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #16  

17. (p. 8) The responsible enterprise system and stakeholder capitalism both acknowledge that business has responsibility beyond making profit for shareholders.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #17  

18. (p. 8-9) Adam Smith argued for a system of capitalism that would see an enhanced role for government.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #18  

19. (p. 14) Canadians' overall attitude towards business has been basically positive over the last ten years.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #19  

20. (p. 9-10) The non-profit sector is alternately known as the third sector or the plural sector.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #20  

21. (p. 10) There are very few legal requirements for an individual establishing or operating a business in Canada.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #21  

22. (p. 10) A partnership may involve two or more than two individuals sharing the ownership of a business.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #22  

23. (p. 10-11) In a proprietorship or partnership, the owners assume all responsibility for the firm, but they also receive all profits.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #23  

24. (p. 11) The concession doctrine implies that incorporation is a right, not a privilege for businesses.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #24  

25. (p. 11) The freedom of association doctrine implies that incorporation should occur without government intervention.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #25  

26. (p. 11) Legislative safeguards are imposed upon incorporation processes to create and preserve an atmosphere of public confidence, as well as to create protections for investors and creditors.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #26  

27. (p. 12) A minority of Canadians are owners of businesses, either directly or indirectly.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #27  

28. (p. 13) Strategic planning is a function of the board of directors.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #28  

29. (p. 13) The board of directors is responsible to the manager of the corporation.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #29  

30. (p. 14) Integrity is becoming an increasingly important attribute for managers to possess.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #30  

31. (p. 14-15) Self-interest by firms is an issue that the Canadian public consistently identifies as a negative attribute of the business enterprise system.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #31  

32. (p. 14) A Hewlett-Packard Co. survey of Canadians found that 90 percent believed the more socially and environmentally responsible a corporation is, the more likely they are to purchase its goods and services.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #32  

33. (p. 14) There is a positive relationship between living standards and how positive society views business. As living standards increase, the more likely society will view business in a positive manner.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #33  

34. (p. 14-15) Self-interest acts as a motivator in the business enterprise system and provides the drive for profit that encourages individuals to get things done.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #34  

35. (p. 15) A system based on a capitalistic market always leads to the equitable distribution of income.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #35  

36. (p. 17) Legitimacy requires belief, trust, and confidence in the business system.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-08 Recognize that business operates with the consent of society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #36  

37. (p. 18) In order for a business to be legitimate, the business enterprise system must report positive profits and pay dividends to shareholders on a consistent basis.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-08 Recognize that business operates with the consent of society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #37  

38. (p. 18) Social licence is based on ethics, values, expectations, and self-regulation considered preferable to social or government control which is based on regulation, legislation, litigation, and compliance.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-08 Recognize that business operates with the consent of society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #38  

39. (p. 19) The integrity of future business entrepreneurs, managers, and employees is unrelated to how these individuals behave while in academic programs.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-09 Understand the relationship between business and academic integrity. Sexty - Chapter 01 #39  

40. (p. 19) There is little concern that a lack of academic integrity will have an influence on business integrity.  FALSE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-09 Understand the relationship between business and academic integrity. Sexty - Chapter 01 #40  

41. (p. 19-20) There exists a reciprocal relationship between business and society.  TRUE

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-10 Describe the integration of business and society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #41  

42. (p. 6) The three dominant approaches to normative theories of ethics include all of the following except:  A. Deontological B. Teleological C. Justice D. Virtue E. All of the above are approaches to normative theories of ethics.

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #42  

43. (p. 6) One prominent ethicist who wrote extensively about virtue ethics was:  A. Kant B. Locke C. Bentham D. Aristotle E. Mills

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #43  

44. (p. 6) The ‘veil of ignorance' test is a variation of _________ theories.  A. teleological B. virtue C. deontological D. consequentialist E. justice

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #44  

45. (p. 7) Which of the following ethicists wrote that leadership can create opportunities for all to realize their potential?  A. Kant B. Plato C. Bentham D. Aristotle E. Smith

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #45  

46. (p. 8) Government and business work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to use resources to meet the needs of the members of a society. This arrangement is called the __________ system of a nation.  A. economic B. free enterprise C. responsible enterprise D. capitalist E. political

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #46  

47. (p. 8) The discussion of the business enterprise system in the Business and Society class today was stimulating. John argued that the Canadian government should apply a _________ model whereby economic decision making is left to those individuals or enterprises who own the means of production.  A. capitalism B. free enterprise C. laissez-faire capitalism D. responsible enterprise E. stakeholder capitalism

  Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #47  

48. (p. 8) The discussion of the business enterprise system in the Business and Society class today became heated when a debate broke out as to which capitalist system Canada should employ. Jamal argued that the Canadian government should apply a _________ model whereby economic decision making is left to those individuals or enterprises who own the means of production. A profit motivation, with limited government involvement, would create a competitive market system. Crystal agreed, but added that accountability to society by business was also important and therefore a _______ was better.  A. free enterprise; stakeholder capitalism B. free enterprise; responsible enterprise C. laissez-faire capitalism; stakeholder capitalism D. laissez-faire capitalism; responsible enterprise E. sustainable; stakeholder model

  Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #48  

49. (p. 8) The discussion of the business enterprise system in the Business and Society class today became interesting when Roberto took the position that the Canadian government should apply a _________ model whereby economic decision making is left to those individuals or enterprises who own the means of production and the government has only the most minimal, strictly limited role.  A. capitalism B. free enterprise C. laissez-faire capitalism D. responsible enterprise E. stakeholder capitalism

  Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #49  

50. (p. 8) Eduardo argued that Canadian business has a responsibility that goes beyond making money for investors. Businesses operate within communities. Decisions, such as closing down factories, will affect employees, their families as well as other businesses located in the factory's town. Eduardo is arguing for a ____________ model of capitalism.  A. free enterprise B. laissez-faire C. responsible enterprise D. stakeholder E. sustainable

  Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #50  

51. (p. 10-11) Jane is starting a business to sell handmade greeting cards online. She is forming a(n) ___________ in that she is planning to assume all the risks and accept all the rewards of business ownership.  A. partnership B. proprietorship C. going concern D. incorporated business E. virtual model

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #51  

52. (p. 11) Julio and Julie are planning to start a business providing holistic, herbal products to consumers. This is an exciting business opportunity which has considerable growth potential. Concerned, however, about assuming a personal level of responsibility for the financial outcome of the enterprise, they decide to structure the business through _____________.  A. proprietorship B. partnership C. corporation D. incorporation E. limited liability

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #52  

53. (p. 11) By incorporating his business, Gordon has taken on partners who will provide financial backing. However, there are governmental requirements that shape the process. This is in contrast to the ____________ doctrine that allowed state control over the granting of incorporation.  A. freedom of association B. going concern C. concession D. voluntary E. legal

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #53  

54. (p. 12) Francois is a shareholder in VNO Corporation and regularly attends annual shareholder meetings voting on policies that he feels are particularly relevant to the firm's social responsibilities. Francois is _________.  A. a direct owner B. an indirect owner C. member of the board of directors D. manager E. active stakeholder

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #54  

55. (p. 12) Lucia is a shareholder in ULO Corporation, but she doesn't know it! She had thought for years that her pension was just sitting in a bank vault somewhere waiting for her to retire. Lucia is a(n) _________ of ULO Corporation.  A. direct owner B. indirect owner C. member of the board of directors D. manager E. active stakeholder

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #55  

56. (p. 13-14) Kathleen's responsibility is to manage the business and affairs of KLN Corporation, which manufactures ceramic products for industry. Kathleen is a(n) __________ of KLN Corporation.  A. direct owner B. indirect owner C. member of the board of directors D. manager E. None of the answers.

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #56  

57. (p. 13) Julian is planning on retiring from his role as chief executive of LVN Corporation. He doesn't know who will take his place or even if the departure should be gradual, but knows that ____________ is the responsibility of the __________.  A. succession planning; manager B. succession planning; board of directors C. hiring and termination of leadership; manager D. hiring and termination of leadership; board of directors E. succession and termination; board of directors

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #57  

58. (p. 15) LK Corporation has recently downsized its operations. The trend towards healthy eating has led to fewer purchases of lollipops and suckers, the principal product of the firm. Knowing that Halloween is approaching and that sales will improve, the company has told the media that the workers will be rehired as soon as sales improve. In planning to rehire the laid off workers, LK Corporation is attributing the layoffs to the ________.  A. self-interest B. allocation of resources C. decentralized decision making D. business cycle E. unemployment

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #58  

59. (p. 14) Christmas season is approaching and Kasia's mom is delighted with the range of offerings on the shelves of the toy store. It seems like every single toy manufacturer had a different strategy for the season. This range of offerings is the result of __________.  A. self-interest B. allocation of resources C. decentralized decision making D. business cycle E. innovation

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #59  

60. (p. 17) When purchasing a new vehicle, Robert asked the dealer: "So when will the car actually do the driving for me?" The dealer laughed and then showed Robert the new Lexus model that parallel parks for the driver. This example is addressing which issue related to society's attitude towards business?  A. Self-interest B. Allocation of resources C. Decentralized decision making D. Business cycle E. Innovation

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #60  

61. (p. 15) The shareholders of DCV Corporation have agreed to coordinate their share purchases so that the stock looks more profitable just prior to the merger so that the public will see the company as a desirable investment. This is an example of __________.  A. misleading financial statements B. kickbacks C. stock manipulation D. bid rigging E. stock-splitting

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #61  

62. (p. 15) In recruiting professionals to come and work for the firm, JKL Corporation provides incentives to the employees attending interviews. For example, Mary is encouraged to bring her husband, Robert, to the job interview at the company's expense. This is an example of what form of corporate wrongdoing?  A. Misleading financial statements B. Kickbacks C. Stock manipulation D. Bid rigging E. There is no wrongdoing

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #62  

63. (p. 17) The belief in the rightness of an institution, in this case the appropriateness of our business system to supply the goods and services wanted by Canadian society, is called:  A. Relevancy B. Righteousness C. Legitimacy D. Licencing E. None of the above.

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-08 Recognize that business operates with the consent of society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #63  

64. (p. 18) The privilege of operating in society with minimal formalized restrictions, that is legislation, regulation, or market requirements, based on maintaining public trust by doing what's acceptable to stakeholders in the business and society relationship is called:  A. Relevancy B. Righteousness C. Legitimacy D. Social Licence E. None of the above.

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-08 Recognize that business operates with the consent of society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #64  

65. (p. 10-11) Compare and contrast (a) proprietorship, (b) partnership and (c) incorporation. 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #65  

66. (p. 13) Identify the five primary tasks of the board of directors as outlined in the text. 

The board's main tasks are to: ·Select, evaluate, and terminate employment of top management, including planning executive succession. ·Provide shareholders with financial statements and an external auditor's report on the financial affairs of the corporation presented in an annual corporate report. ·Direct and evaluate strategic planning including formulating plans, keeping management accountable for implementation, and assessing performance. ·Represent shareholders by participating in any major decisions impacting the corporation's operations relating to ownership, investments, acquisitions, divestments, takeovers, or insolvency. ·Fulfill the fiduciary and legal requirements as outlined in the Canada Business Corporations Act.

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses. Sexty - Chapter 01 #66  

67. (p. 15) Some critics of the business enterprise system claim that a system based on a capitalistic market leads to inequities. What is the response by supporters of the capitalist system? 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #67  

68. (p. 14-15) Name and discuss four factors influencing attitudes towards business systems. 

Standard of living — A prominent argument used in justifying or supporting the business enterprise system is the standard of living that it provides. As living standards increase, it is more likely society will view business in a positive manner. Decentralized decision making — Another factor of the business system considered desirable is the decentralized decision-making process involved. Millions of businesses make decisions independently of one another, ensuring that a wide variety of goods and services are available. This choice is viewed favourably by consumers. Allocation of resources — Some argue that the efficient allocation of resources is more likely to occur with a business system, as allocation is based on the price and availability of resources. However, critics of the business system challenge the efficiency claim. They argue that enterprises control prices, for example in oligopolistic industries, or that business enterprises control the availability of resources, creating artificial scarcities. Self-interest — In a business enterprise system, the individual can behave in his or her own self-interest. Self-interest acts as a motivator, and provides the drive for profit that encourages individuals to get things done. In a competitive business enterprise system, consumers choose among businesses that provide basically the same goods and services.

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #68  

69. (p. 6) Contrast deontological and teleological theories. 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking. Sexty - Chapter 01 #69  

70. (p. 8) How does a ‘responsible enterprise system' differ from ‘stakeholder capitalism'? 

·Responsible enterprise system—An economic system operating as a free enterprise system but incorporating the element of accountability. This definition implies that business enterprises are responsible to society for their actions and are answerable or accountable for being the cause, agent, or source of something. ·Stakeholder capitalism —An economic system in which corporations accept broader obligations beyond financial ones for shareholders. Corporations are expected to balance the interests of shareholders with those of other stakeholders in the business system, for example employees, suppliers, customers, and the community at large. In stakeholder capitalism, corporations are expected to behave with greater social responsibility and be sensitive to the ethical consequences of their actions.

  Difficulty: Moderate Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #70  

71. (p. 4) Why is the term ‘ethics of business' preferred over the term ‘business ethics'? 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business. Sexty - Chapter 01 #71  

72. (p. 19-20) Why does business need society and society need business? 

An article by Porter and Kramer made a good case for business and society needing each other. Business needs a healthy society in which education and health-care systems exist. There should be equal opportunity in the workforce and safe products for consumers. Carefully developed government policies increase the efficiency of business. This creates demand for products and services, and corporations pursuing profits at the expense of society are naïve. On the other hand, society needs successful companies. Business is needed to create jobs, wealth, and innovations that improve the standard of living for society. If business is weakened by governments and non-governmental organizations jobs disappear, competitiveness is lost, wages stagnate, and wealth declines.

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-10 Describe the integration of business and society. Sexty - Chapter 01 #72  

73. (p. 19) Explain how integrity applies to business students. 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-09 Understand the relationship between business and academic integrity. Sexty - Chapter 01 #73  

74. (p. 10-12) The business enterprise system has been described in a number of ways. How would you describe our economic system to a new Canadian? 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Difficult Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system. Sexty - Chapter 01 #74  

75. (p. 5) What is a responsible corporation? 

Answers will vary

  Difficulty: Easy Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business. Sexty - Chapter 01 #75  

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# of Questions

Difficulty: Difficult

6

Difficulty: Easy

32

Difficulty: Moderate

37

Learning Objective: 01-01 Describe the complexity of the interrelationships between business and society.

2

Learning Objective: 01-02 Define the terminology relating to the integrity of business.

6

Learning Objective: 01-03 Differnetiate between the three main apporaches to ethical thinking.

14

Learning Objective: 01-04 Provide a brief description of the Canadian business system.

10

Learning Objective: 01-05 Explain the role of the corporation as the main economic institution in the business system.

11

Learning Objective: 01-06 Identify the three stakeholders mainly responsible for the operation of Canadian businesses.

9

Learning Objective: 01-07 Summarize factors that influence societys attitudes toward business that lead to criticisms of the system.

13

Learning Objective: 01-08 Recognize that business operates with the consent of society.

5

Learning Objective: 01-09 Understand the relationship between business and academic integrity.

3

Learning Objective: 01-10 Describe the integration of business and society.

2

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Investment in research and development activities is also a key growth strategy adopted by many companies, the author of the TMR study finds. For instance, O’Neal Manufacturing Services invested US$5 mn on equipment and machinery in May 2014. This facilitated the company in providing fabricated parts and components for Caterpillar Inc.

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“The rising demand for iron and steel by European and American construction and automobile industries has led to the rising significance of metal fabricators across these regions,” states the author of the study. Substantial spending on industrial projects, the development of industrial infrastructure, and interest rate cuts by centralized banking authorities of India have helped promote the demand for steel in the construction sector, thereby driving the demand for metal fabrication. There has also been continuous growth in global permanent modular construction (PMC) activities over the past few years and this is anticipated to drive the market for metal fabrication in the near future.

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This review is based on the findings of a TMR report titled “Metal Fabrication Market (By Service - Metal Welding, Machining, Metal Forming, Metal Shearing, Metal Cutting, Metal Rolling, Metal Folding, Metal Punching and Metal Stamping; By End Use Industry - Construction, Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy & Power, Electronics and Others; By Geography - North America, Europe, APAC, MEA, and Latin America) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2016 - 2024.

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You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain

named ABC.com. All servers in the ABC.com domain, including domain controllers, have Windows

Server 2012 installed.

You have configured a server, named ABC-SR07, as a VPN server. You are required to configure

new firewall rules for workstation connections.

You want to achieve this using the least amount of administrative effort.

Which of the following actions should you take?

A. You should consider making use of the Enable-NetFirewallRule cmdlet.

B. You should consider making use of the New-NetFirewallRule cmdlet.

C. You should consider making use of dism.exe from the command prompt.

D. You should consider making use of dsadd.exe from the command prompt.

Answer: B

Explanation:

QUESTION NO:2

You work as a senior administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single

domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012

installed.

You are running a training exercise for junior administrators. You are currently discussing the new

VHD format called VHDX.

Which of the following is TRUE with regards to VHDX? (Choose all that apply.)

A. It supports virtual hard disk storage capacity of up to 64 GB.

B. It supports virtual hard disk storage capacity of up to 64 TB.

C. It does not provide protection against data corruption during power failures.

D. It has the ability to store custom metadata about the file that the user might want to record.

Answer: B,D

Explanation:

QUESTION NO:19

Your network contains multiple subnets.

On one of the subnets, you deploy a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. You install

the DNS Server server role on Server1, and then you create a standard primary zone named contoso.com.

You need to ensure that client computers can resolve single-label names to IP addresses.

What should you do first?

A. Create a reverse lookup zone.

B. Convert the contoso.com zone to an Active Directory-integrated zone.

C. Create a GlobalNames zone.

D. Configure dynamic updates for contoso.com.

Correct Answer: C

Explanation

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You should use GlobalNames zone to take advantage of single-label names. This will also ensure that the

zone remains valid.

References:

Exam Ref: 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2, Chapter4: Deploying and

configuring core network services, Objective 4.3: Deploy and Configure the DNS service, p.233

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QUESTION NO:30

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain

named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed.

Most of the ABC.com servers have 64

QUESTION NO:18

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of two Active Directory

forests, named ABC.com and test.com. There is no trust relationship configured between the

forests.

A backup of Group Policy object (GPO) from the test.com domain is stored on a domain controller

in the ABC.com domain. You are informed that a GPO must be created in the ABC.com domain,

and must be based on the settings of the GPO in the test.com domain.

You start by creating the new GPO using the New-GPO Windows PowerShell cmdlet. You want to

complete the task via a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

Which of the following actions should you take?

A. You should consider making use of the Invoke-GPUpdate Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

B. You should consider making use of the Copy-GPO Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

C. You should consider making use of the New-GPLink Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

D. You should consider making use of the Import-GPO Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

Answer: D

Explanation:

QUESTION NO:7

You have a print server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2.

You discover that when there are many pending print jobs, the system drive occasionally runs out of free

space.

You add a new hard disk to Server1.You create a new NTFS volume.

You need to prevent the print jobs from consuming disk space on the system volume.

What should you modify?

A. The properties on the new volume

B. The properties of the Print Spooler service

C. The Print Server Properties

D. The properties of each shared printer

Correct Answer: C

Explanation

Explanation/Reference:

QUESTION NO:48

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain

named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012 installed.

You are in the process of installing a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012 on a new

ABC.com server, named ABC-SR13.

Which of the following is TRUE with regards to a installing a Server Core installation of Windows

Server 2012? (Choose all that apply.)

A. The Server Graphical Shell is installed, but not enabled.

B. Server roles can be configured locally via the command prompt using Windows PowerShell.

C. Server roles can be configured locally via Server Manager.

D. You are able to access the Microsoft Management Console locally.

E. The Desktop Experience is not available.

Answer: B,E

Explanation:

QUESTION NO:10

Your network contains a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2.Server1 has the

Hyper-V server role installed.

Server1 hosts four virtual machines named VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4.

Server1 is configured as shown in the following table.

You install Windows Server 2012 R2 on VM2 by using Windows Deployment Services (WDS).

You need to ensure that the next time VM2 restarts, you can connect to the WDS server by using PXE.

Which virtual machine setting should you configure for VM2?

A. NUMA topology

B. Resource control

C. resource metering

D. virtual Machine Chimney

E. The VLAN ID

F. Processor Compatibility

G. The startup order

H. Automatic Start Action

I. Integration Services

J. Port mirroring

K. Single-root I/O virtualization

Correct Answer: G

Explanation

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Configure the BIOS of the computer to enable PXE boot, and set the boot order so that it is booting from

the network is first.

References:

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2, Chapter 3: Configure Hyper-V, Objective 3.1: Create and Configure

virtual machine settings, p.144 Training Guide: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2:

Chapter 7: Hyper-V Virtualization, Lesson 2: Deploying and configuring virtual machines, p.335

QUESTION NO:36

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain

named ABC.com.

ABC.com has a Windows Server 2012domain controller, named ABC-DC01, which has the

Domain Naming master and the Schema master roles installed. ABC.com also has a Windows

Server 2008 R2 domain controller, named ABC-DC02, which has the PDC Emulator, RID master,

and Infrastructure master roles installed.

You have deployed a new Windows Server 2012 server, which belongs to a workgroup, in

ABC.com

QUESTION NO:28

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain

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Server 2012 installed.

ABC.com has a server, named ABC-SR07, which has four network adapters. ABC.com has two

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