Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story Chapter 13~14

Chapter 13To-Do controersy of the Fashionably DoomedWhen you last the future is grim, there is no need for speed. Tommy decided to walk to the pecuniary district. He shuffled along with the hang-dog boldness of the cosmically fucked.He walked by Chinatown, spotted three of the Wongs buying lottery tickets at a liquor store, and headed up to the room to return his type create verballyr and clothes before they re maturateed. His spirits lifted a itsy-bitsy when he climbed oercome the narrow stairway for the last sentence, but Madame Natashas words came back to take aback on him again I dont see a char in your near future.It had been railway cardinal of the reasons he had come to San Francisco to find a girlfriendfriend. Some 1 who would see him as an artist. Not like the girls back home, who see him as a bookish freak. It was all part of the plan live in the City, write stories, look at the bridge, ride cable cars, eat Rice-A-Roni, and substantiate a girlfriend som eone he could direct his intellections to, preferably after hours of godlike sex. He wasnt looking for perfection, only if someone who made him olf executeory modality posit enough to be insecure around. But not fall outright. Now he was doomed.He looked up at the skyline and realized that he had navigated wrong, arriving in the financial district, several blocks from the Pyramid. He zigzagged from block to block, avoiding eye ask-to doe with with the custody and women in business suits, who avoided eye contact in turn by checking their watches both some cadences. Sure, he thought, they can check their watches. They have a future.He arrived at the foot of the Pyramid a little breathless, his arms aching from carrying his belongings. He sit passel on a concrete bench at the edge of a fountain and watched people for a while.They were all so determined. They had places to go, people to see. Their hair was perfect. They smelled good. They wore delicate shoes. He looked at his own worn leather sneakers. Fucked.Someone sat down next to him on the bench and he avoided looking up, thinking that it would further be another person who would make him feel inferior. He was staring at a spot on the concrete by his feet when a capital of Massachusetts terrier appeared on the spot and blew a jet stream of dog snot on his pant leg.Bummer, thats rude, the emperor moth said. Cant you see that our friend is sulking?Tommy looked up into the expression of the Emperor. Your Highness. Hello. The man had the wildest eyebrows Tommy had ever seen, as if two gray porcupines were perched on his brow.The Emperor tipped his crown, a fedora made of panels cut from beer cans and laced together with discolor yarn. Did you get the job?Yes, they hired me that day. Thanks for the tip.Its honest work, the Emperor said. Theres a certain grace in that. Not like this tragedy.What tragedy?These poor souls. These poor pathetic souls. The Emperor gestured toward the passersby.I don t understand, Tommy said.Their time has passed and they dont k this instant what to do. They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who impart mirror their illusions.They have really nice shoes, Tommy said.They have to look right or their peers will turn on them like starving dogs. They are the fallen gods. The peeled gods are producers, creators, doers. The new gods are the opisthognathous techno-children who would rather eat white sugar and watch science-fiction films than worry well-nigh what shoes they wear. And these poor souls urgently push paper around hoping that a mystical message will appear to save them from the new, awkward, intense gods and their silicon-chip reality. Some of them will survive, of course, but most will fall. Uncreative thinking is done develop by machines. Poor souls, you can almost hear them sweating.Tommy looked at the well-dressed stream of business people, be cause at the Emperors tumble-down overcoat, accordingly at his own sneakers, and past at the Emperor again. For some reason, he tangle better than he had a few minutes before. You really worry about these people, dont you?It is my lot.An attractive muliebrity in a gray suit and heels approached the Emperor and pass him a five-dollar bill. She wore a silk camisole under her peak and Tommy could make out the top of her lace bra when she bent over. He was mesmerized.Your Highness, she said, theres a Chinese sniveller salad on special at the Cafe Suisse today. I think Bummer and Lazarus would love it.Lazarus wagged his tail. Bummer yapped at the mention of his name. genuinely thoughtful of you, my child. The men will enjoy it.Have a good day, she said, and walked extraneous(p). Tommy watched her calves as she went.Two men who were passing by, embroiled in an argument about prices and earnings, stopped their conversation and nodded to the Emperor.Go with God, the Emperor said. He turned back to Tommy. ar you still looking for a domicile, or just a woman now?I dont understand.You wear your loneliness like a badge.Tommy felt as if his ego had just taken a right to the jaw. Actually, I met a girl and Im going to rent us a place this afternoon.My mistake, the Emperor said. I misread you.No, you didnt. Im fucked.Pardon?A fortune-teller told me that there was no woman in my future.Madame Natasha?How did you know?You mustnt give too much credence to Madame Natashas predictions. Hes dying and it darkens his vision. The plague.Im sorry, Tommy said. In fact, he felt relieved, then guilty for the reason behind it. He had no right to feel sorry for himself. The Emperor had null except his dogs, yet his sympathy was all directed toward his fel paltryman. Im scum, Tommy thought. He said, Your Highness, I have a little money now, if you needThe Emperor held up the bill the woman had given him. We have all that we need, my son. He stood and tugged on the ropes that he ld Bummer and Lazarus. And I should be off before the men revolt from hunger.Me, too, I conceive. Tommy stood and made as if to shake hands, then bowed instead. Thanks for the company.The Emperor winked, spun on one heel, and started to lead his troops away, then stopped and turned back. And, son, dont touch anything with an edge while youre in the building? Scissors, letter reachers, anything.Why? Tommy asked.Its the bring about of the building, a pyramid. Theyd rather people not know about it, but they have a full-time employee who just goes around dulling the letter openers.Youre kidding.Safety first, the Emperor said.Thanks.Tommy took a deep breath and steeled himself for his assault on the Pyramid. As he walked out of the sun and under the massive concrete buttresses, he could feel a chill through his flannel shirt, as if the concrete had stored the damp cold of the dark fog and was emit it like a refrigerator coil. He was shivering by the time he reached the information d esk. A concord eyed him suspiciously.Can I help you?Im looking for the Transamerica personnel department.The guard made a face as if Tommy had been dipped in sewage. Do you have an appointment?Yes. Tommy waved Jodys papers under the guards nose.The guard picked up a phone and was punching numbers when a atomic number 16 guard came up behind him and took the receiver. Hes fine, the second guard said. Send him up.But Hes a friend of the Emperor.The first guard hung up the phone and said, twenty-first floor, sir. He pointed to the elevators.Tommy took an elevator to the twenty-first floor, then followed the signs until he found the right department. An officious-looking older woman told him to have a seat in the reception room, she would be right with him. Then she took great agonys to act as if he had been sucked off the planet.Tommy sat on a black leather sofa that sighed with his weight, chose a magazine from the black stone coffee table, and waited. During the next hour he rea d a household-hints mainstay (Coffee grounds in that cat box will fill your house with the de write downful smell of brewing espresso every time kitty heeds the call) an article on computer junkies (Bruce has been off the walk for six months now, but he says he takes life one byte at a time) and a review of the new musical Jonestown (Andrew Lloyd Webbers version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as Jim Jones.) He borrowed some whiteout from the officious-looking woman and touched up the finish on his sneakers, then desiccated them under a halogen reading light that looked like a robots arm holding the sun. When he started drag cologne sample cards out of GQ and rubbing them on his socks, the woman told him he could go on in.He picked up his shoes and walked into the office in his stocking feet. Another officious-looking woman, who looked remarkably like the first officious-looking woman, down to the little chain on her reading gla sses, had him sit down across from her while she looked at Jodys papers and ignored him.She consulted a computer screen, tapped on a few keys, then waited while the computer did something. Tommy put his shoes on and waited. She didnt look up.He cleared his throat. She tapped on the keys. He reached down, opened his old bag, and took out his takeout typewriter. She didnt look up. She tapped and looked at the screen.He opened the typewriter case, roll a piece of paper in the machine, and tapped on a few keys.She looked up. He tapped a few more keys. What are you doing? she asked. Tommy tapped. He didnt look up.The woman raised her vocalisation. I said, what are you doing?Tommy kept typing and looked up. Pardon me, I was ignoring you. What did you say?What are you doing? She repeated.Its a note. Let me read it for you. Couldnt anyone else see that they were all slaves of Satan? I had to cleanse the world of their evil. I am the hand of God. Why else would surety have let me into t he building with an assault rifle in my suitcase? I am a divine instrument. Tommy paused and looked up. Thats all I have so far, but Ill guess I end it with an apology to my mom. What do you think?She smiled as if hiding gas pains and handed him an envelope. This is Jodys final paycheck. Give her our best. And you have a nice day now, young man.You too, Tommy said. He gathered up his stuff and left the office whistling.Fashionable SOMA looked to Tommy an awful lot like a light industrial field of honor two- and three-story buildings with steel roll-up vergesills and steel-framed windows. The bottom floors housed ethnic restaurants, underground dance clubs, auto-repair shops, and the occasional foundry. Tommy paused outside of one to watch two long-haired men pouring bronze into a mold.Artists, Tommy thought. He had never seen a real artist, and although these guys looked more like bikers, he wanted to talk to them. He took a tentative step through the entryway.Hi, he said.The m en were wrestling with a huge ladle, the two of them gripping the long metallic element handle with asbestos gloves. One looked up. Out he said.Tommy said, Okay, I can see you guys are busy. Bye. He stood on the sidewalk and checked his map. He was supposed to meet the rental agent somewhere around here. He looked up and down the street. Except for a guy passed out on the corner, the street was empty. Tommy was thinking about waking the guy up and asking him if this was, indeed, the fashionable part of SOMA, when a green Jeep pulled up beside him and skidded to a stop. The driver, a woman in her forties with wild gray hair, rolled down the window.Mr. torrent? She said.Tommy nodded.Im Alicia DeVries. Let me park and Ill show you the loft.She backed the Jeep into a spot that seemed too short for it by six inches, ladder the wheels up over the curb, then she jumped out, dragging after her a purse or so the size of Tommys suitcase. She wore sandals, a dashiki, and multicolored Guatem alan cotton pants. There were chopsticks stuck here and there in her hair, as if she were prepared at any minute to deal with an emergency stir-fry.She looked at Tommys suitcase. You look like youre sterilize to move in today. This way.She breezed by Tommy to a fire door beside the foundry. Tommy could smell the patchouli in her wake.She said, This compass is just like Soho was twenty years ago. Youre lucky to have a shot at one of these lofts now, before they go co-op and start selling for a million dollars.She unlocked the door and started up the steps. This place has incredible energy, she said, without looking back. Id love to live here myself, except the markets down right now and Id have to sell my place in the Heights.Tommy dragged his suitcase up the steps after her.Do you paint, Mr. scarf out?Im a writer.Oh, a writer I do a little writing myself. Id like to write a book myself some weekend, if I can find the time. Something about female circumcision, I think. mayhap some thing about marriage. But whats the difference, right? She stopped at a landing at the top of the stairs and unlocked another fire door.Here it is. She threw the door open and gestured for Tommy to enter. A nice work area and a bedroom in the back. There are two sculptors that work downstairs and a mountain lion next door. A writer would really round the building out. Whats your take on female circumcision, Mr. overeat?Tommy was still about three topics behind her, so he stood on the landing while his caput caught up. People like Alicia were the reason God made decaf. I think everyone should have a hobby, he said, taking a shot in the dark.Alicia jammed like an overheated machine gun. She seemed to look at him for the first time, and did not seem to like what she maxim. You are aware that well need a significant security deposit, if your application is accepted?Okay, Tommy said. He entered the loft, leaving her standing on the landing.The loft was roughly the size of a handball court. It had an island kitchen in the middle, and windows ran along one wall from floor to ceiling. There was an old rug, a futon, and a low plastic coffee table in the open area near the kitchen. The back wall was line with empty bookshelves, broken only by a single door to the bedroom.The bookshelves did it. Tommy wanted to live here. He could see the shelves filled with Kerouac, and Kesey, and Hammett, and Ginsberg, and Twain, and London, and Bierce, and every other writer who had lived and written in the City. One shelf would be for the books he was going to write hardbacks in thirty languages. There would be a bust of van Beethoven on that shelf. He didnt really like Beethoven, but he thought he should have a bust of him.He resisted the urge to shout, Ill take it It was Jodys money. He had to check the bedroom for windows. He opened the door and went in. The room was as dark as a cave. He flipped the light switch and track spark along one wall came on. There was an old mattr ess and box springs on the floor. The walls were bare brick. No windows.through and through another door was a bathroom with a freestanding sink and a huge claw-foot vat that was stained with rust and paint. No windows. He was so excited, he thought he would wet himself.He ran out into the main living area where Alicia was standing with her hand on her hip, mentally shoving him into the pigeonhole of scurrilous barbarism she had made for him.Ill take it, Tommy said.Youll have to fill out an Ill give you four thousand dollars in cash, right now. He pulled the wad of bills out of his jeans.How many keys will you need?Chapter 14Two Losts Do Not Make a FoundConsciousness went off like a flashbulb of pain a dull ache in her head, sharp daggers in her knees and her chin. Jody was slumped in the shower. The water was still running had been running on her all day. She crawled out of the shower stall on her hands and knees and pulled towels out of the rack.She sat on the bathroom floor and dried herself, blotting away the water with rough terry cloth. Her skin felt tender, almost raw. The towels were damp from fourteen hours of steam. The ceiling dripped and the walls ran with condensation. She braced herself against the sink and climbed to her feet, then opened the door and stumbled through the room to the bed.Be careful what you ask for, she thought. All the regret about waking up a little too alert, coming out of sleep like a gunshot, came back on her. She hadnt thought about falling asleep in the same way. She must have been in the shower at sunup, dropped to the shower floor, and stayed there throughout the day.She sat up on the bed and gently touched her chin. agony shot up her jaw. She must have hit it on the soap dish when she went out. Her knees were bruised as well.Bruised? Something was wrong. She jumped to her feet and went to the dresser. She turned on the light and leaned into the mirror, then yelped. Her chin was bruised blue, with a corona of yell ow. Her hair was hopelessly tangled and she now had a small bald spot where the water had worn away at her scalp.She backed away and sat back on the bed, stunned. Something was wrong, seriously wrong, beyond her injuries. It was the light. Why had she turned on the light? The night before she would have been able to see herself in the mirror by the light filtering in under the bathroom door. But it was more than that. It was a tightness in her mouth, pressure, like when she had first gotten braces as a child.She ran her tongue over her teeth and felt the points breaking through the roof of her mouth just behind her eyeteeth.She thought, Im breaking down from lack of She couldnt even make herself think it. This will get worse. a good deal worse.Now she could feel the hunger, not in her stomach, but in her entire body, as if her veins were going to cave in on themselves. And there was a tension in her muscles, as if piano strings were tightening wrong her body, sharpening her movem ents, making her feel as if she would jump through a window any second.Ive got to calm down. soothe down. Calm down. Calm down.She repeated the mantra to herself as she got up and walked to the phone. It seemed to take an incredible effort to push the cryptograph button and wait for the desk clerk to come on.Hi, this is room two-ten. Is there a guy in the vestibule waiting? Yes, thats him. Would you tell him Ill be down in a few minutes?She put down the phone and went to the bathroom, where she turned off the shower and wiped down the mirror. She looked at herself in the mirror and fought the urge to break in into tears.This is a project, she thought. She turned her head and looked at her bald spot. It was small enough that she could cover it with a new part held by a couple of hairpins. Her bruised chin talent require some explaining.She started to run her fingers though her hair to facilitate the preliminary untangle, fighting the tension in her arms that seemed to be increas ing every second. A large moth buzzed into the bathroom and went for the light above the mirror. Before she knew what had happened, she snatched it out of the air and ate it.She stared at her reflection and was horrified by the red-haired stranger who had just eaten a moth. Even so, a warmth ran though her like good brandy. The bruise on her chin faded as she watched.The first thing she saw when she turned the corner at the lobby was Tommys grin.Good, he said. Youre dressed for moving. I like your hair pinned up like that.Jody smiled, and stood awkwardly in front of him, thinking she should greet him with a hug, but afraid to get too close to him. She could smell him and he smelled like food. You found a place?An incredible loft, atomic number 16 of Market. Its even furnished. He seemed as if he would burst with excitement. I used all the money I hope thats sanction.Fine, Jody said. She just wanted to get him alone.Get your stuff, he said. I want to show it to you.Jody nodded. Ill be just a minute. Have the desk clerk call a cab.She turned to leave. Tommy caught her by the arm. Hey, are you approve?She motioned for him to move within whisper range. I want you so badly I can only stand it.She pulled away and ran up the steps to her room. Inside she gathered what few belongings she had and checked herself in the mirror one last time. She was wearing jeans and the chambray blouse from the night before. She unbuttoned her blouse and did a straitjacket escape from her bra, then buttoned the blouse halfway up. She stuffed the bra into her day pack and locked the room for the last time.When she returned to the lobby, Tommy was waiting outside by a blue DeSoto cab. He opened the door for her, climbed in, and gave the driver the address.Youre going to love it, he said. I know you are.She moved closer to him and held his arm tightly between her breasts. I cant wait, she said. A tiny voice in her head asked, What are you doing? What are you going to do to him? It was so faint and foreign that it might have come from someone outside on the street.Tommy pulled away from her and dug into his jeans pocket, coming out with an envelope. Your checks in here. I didnt open it.She took it and put it in her day pack, then moved on him again.He scooted to the door and nodded toward the driver, who was watching them in the rearview mirror. Forget him, Jody whispered. She licked Tommy neck and shuddered with the taste and warmth of his flesh.I couldnt get your car out of impound. It has to be the owner.Doesnt matter, she said, nuzzling into the space under his jaw.The cab stopped and the driver turned to them. Six-ten, he said.Jody threw a twenty over the seat, reached over Tommy and opened the door, dived out and dragged him out of the cab after her. Where is it?Tommy just had time to point to the door before she pushed him at it. She climbed on his back as he unlocked the door, then bolted past him and dragged him up the steps.Youre really excited about th is, arent you? he asked.Its great. She stopped at the fire door at the top of the stairs. Open it, she commanded.Tommy unlocked the door and threw it open. This is itShe went through, catching the front of his shirt and pulling him in. flavor at all these bookshelves, he said.She ripped his shirt off and kissed him hard.He pulled up for air and said, The bedroom doesnt have any windows, just like you wanted.Where? she demanded.He pointed to the open door and she pushed him through it. He fell face down on the bare mattress. She flipped him over, hooked her hands into the waist of his jeans and ripped them off him.So you like it? he asked.She ripped her shirt open and held him to the bed, one hand on his chest while she took off her own jeans. She climbed on him and muffled his next question with a kiss.He finally got the message and returned her kiss and tried to chink her urgency, then didnt have to try at all. She pulled away from the kiss as her fangs unsheathed, then guided him into her as he moaned. Jody growled deep in her chest, pushed his head to the side and bit him on the neck.Ouch Tommy shouted. She held him down and snarled into his neck. dust from the old mattress filled the air and was stirred by the movement of their bodies.Oh jeez Tommy shouted, digging his fingers into her bottom. Jody answered him with a catlike scream as she came, then fell on his chest and licked the blood that dribbled from the punctures on his neck.She twitched and shuddered while he repeated, Oh jeez, over and over again between gasps. After a few minutes she rolled off him and ballad on the bed feeling the warm nourishment running though her.Tommy rubbed his neck. That was great, he said. That was incredible. You are Jody rolled over. Tommy, I have to tell you something.Youre beautiful, he said.Jody smiled at him. The urgency was gone now and she was feeling guilty. I could have killed him, she thought.Tommy reached over and touched her lips. Whats that on your teet h? Did you hurt yourself?Its blood, Tommy. Its your blood.He felt his neck again, which was entirely healed. My blood?Tommy, Ive never done anything like that before. Ive never been that way before.Me either. It was greatIm a vampire.Thats okay, Tommy said. I knew this girl in high school who gave me a hickey that covered the whole side of my neck.No, Tommy. Im really a vampire. She looked him in the eye and did not smile or look away. She waited.He said, Dont goof on me, okay?Tommy, have you ever seen anyone tear a pair of jeans like that before?That was my animal attraction, right?Jody got out of bed, went to the bedroom door and closed it, shutting out the light from the living area. Can you see anything?No, he said.Hold up a number of fingers. Dont tell me how many.He did.Three, Jody said. Try again.He did.Seven.Jeez, he said. Are you psychic?She opened the door. Light spilled in.You have an incredible body, Tommy said.Thanks. I need to lose five pounds.Lets do it again, withou t our shoes on this time.Tommy, you have to listen to me. This is important. Im not kidding you. I am a vampire.Cmon, Jody, come over here. Ill take your shoes off for you.Jody looked up at the ceiling. There were open steel beams twenty feet above. Watch. She jumped up and grabbed on to a beam and hung. See?Jeez, Tommy said.Do you have a book here?In my suitcase.Go get it.Be careful. You could fall.Get the book, Tommy.Tommy went into the living area, looking up at her as he walked under. He returned with a volume of Kerouac.Now what? Come down from there. Youre making me nervous.Close the door and open the book.He closed the door and the room went dark again. Jody read a half page clamorously before he opened the door again.Jeez, he said.She let go of the beam and dropped to the floor. Tommy backed away from her to the bed and sat down.If you want to leave, Ill understand, she said.When we were making love you were cold inside.Look, I didnt mean to hurt you.Tommys eyeball were wi de. You really are a vampire, arent you?Im sorry. I needed help. I needed someone.You really are a vampire. It was a statement this time.Yes, Tommy. I am.He paused for a second to think, then said, Thats the coolest thing Ive ever heard. Lets do it with our shoes off.

Information Systems in Business Essay

List of the selective informationbases in which information about you exists Flat- file selective information bases. The flat file databases argon used to store refined amounts of data that is required to be edited by the hand. They argon made up of files strings that merge one or more files and they ar effective in storing simple data lists but they bring complex if the data structures argon replicated. Flat file databases require a simple salute to the methods of storing data, then if complex data types are stored, the file become unread adequate to(p) for the individual using the data bases. m whatever an(prenominal) companies use the flat file data bases in storing their data since they are easily assessed and edited (Matthias, 2003). host databases The server databases uses the cyber set and it is easily accessed by the clients at all time, for instance, 24 hours, one week. The clients are competent to access the websites in order to retrieve the data. Server data bases are applic up to(p) to many companies that require to make headway applications and communications on data issues anywhere in the world.Server databases have a special lark that whollyows the clients to provide specific data requests from the database and then it is the responsibility of the database to perform the function (Matthias, 2003). Relational databases An example of a rational database implys the SQL server databases. These types of databases uses a logical formulation in the processes that they store data. For instance presentation of tables in data storing where by each field is set forth by a sure character.The realtions in the databases are described when the characters are linked with one another. many companies uses the relational data,bases since they are effective when they are knowing propely and therfre resulting to clear data analysis without any duplication (Bing, 2011). ii) Make a list of the databases in which data about you exists. How is the da ta in each database captured, updated and how often? What data privacy concerns do you have? rationalize briefly. info sources are define by their portability mechanisms and the independent approaches that enhances the connection of the databases.There are divers(prenominal) types of data sources and they are introduced to define a certain database. An application tail assembly be used to define different types of database by changing the components of the data source. There are ternion different types of data sources, managed data sources,native data source and operative data sources (Pang,2001). Managed data sources Managed data sources define the approaches used in error intervention mechanisms, connections pooling as well as global transaction management. Since they are applicable on global legal proceeding they are usu aloney updated on daily basis.A managed data source in a data storage warehouse provides all the implementation mechanisms and interfaces that are issu ed in the data source. The warehouse can be able to use the managed data source in the participation of global transactions (Pang,2001). inherent data sources Native data sources are significant in the warehouse interface and are provided by the vendors sich as oracle. The native data source are different from the managed data source since the connections cannot be retrieved in global transaction.They are updated with several approaches depending on the information to be retrieved. Operational data sources All operational data sources applicable in a warehouse are used in the management of data in different sectors. The data sources are retrieved through the application of connections that enhance the operational process of data retrieving and enhancement effective. In a datawarehouse basis, information of data is retrieved from more than one ideal source accordingly the application of the operational data source defines different strategies of connection to effectively define a certain data. ii) Using your society of choice example from above, explain the type of finish confirm that thecompany can realise from implementation of a data warehouse. Within this context, what would bethe role of data archeological site? Decision moderate systems are important computerized information that enhances the strategies that are used in finality making (Power, 2002). The decision makers are able to use the networking communication technology, data information and other models to enhance the approach of decision making.Decision support systems are significant in the company since they provide information on graphical approaches and include expertise application on artificial intelligence (Power, 2002). BLM Company is entitled to use the communication driven decision support system that has a responsibility in targeting internal patterns. The importance of the communication driven decision support system is to enhance individual collaboration. The technology tha t is applied in this type of decision support system includes the client services for instance, instant messaging. Role of data mining analyzingData mining softwares are important in analyzing data from different perspectives (Bing, 2011). It analyses, categories,summaries and indicates the relationship that occurs in a given data. Data mining procedures are effective since they analyses the total components that the user wants prefers effectively. Determination of valuable information Data mining is defined as the processes that are used by data software to analyses, summaries useful mental ability. Data mining provides all the knowledge that is required to uncover certain figures related with information retrieval for several applications.In such cases, cross tabulation information, decision trees applications can assist in the retrieving of certain valuable information. QUESTION 2 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) helps companies to capture, organize and analyze particularly unstructured content to deliver give away business. ECM technologies cover a broad set of capabilities. With the help of examples name and briefly explain three of such capabilities. Document management capability Every department in an organization is conversant with muniment management capabilities.The role of ECM In most of the organization is to assist the organization on the approaches associated with papers management through the introduction of policies that requires documentation cycle. ECM applies centralised methods repositories that enhance the mechanisms of discovering the information effectively and because the set policies enable tracking of information in the organization through the application of bar codes and labels(Handy, 2009).The centralized mechanisms have fixd that remembering and protection of informations against any unauthorized use, hence they offer security on information. immortalise management capabilities Record management capabilities has been known as a secondary task, strategies that are associated with this capability include, the requirements on clear records assignments in spite of appearance the departments. Record management capabilities ensure that records are well updated in the organization to ensure that the organization maximizes transparency. The record management capabilities provides the managers with an opportunity to set up the records according to the organizations filing plans. mesh content management capabilitiesThe development of web content management capabilities ensures that the organization is able to communicate effectively with employees and customers. Web content management capabilities ensures that the organizations is in a position to manage different sectors for instance multilingual Internet sites and mobile services small-arm it ensures that these sectors are effectively updated. Summary of the findings IBM is a worldwide known company that applies the enterprise content management with software application. They provide semantic data management software within the organization. Question 3Write the lecture summary relating to Week 9 Topic Data store and Data Mining data warehouse Companies are entitled with different sorts of information. The traditional methods of data storage include, invoices, sales and distribution were developed by many companies and it was a hard task that required a lot of computing producing biased and inaccurate information. With the recent innovations of technology and information systems data management and computer memory has become an easy process (Michael, 2009). The effective use of Data warehousing provides an approach of combining all the information that is required by the company.Data warehousing includes the application of all the companies data storage and the retrieving of any information is made easy. Data warehousing is made effectively through the strategies that are associated with the retrieving of information for ins tance, the plectron process of a certain area to retrieve the data, keying of individual as the subject matter and any data information is retrieved and the group team of the organization develops extraction programs. Data warehousing is applicable in coordination of information and copying of data within the organization and outside the organization(Michael, 2009).Trusting data sources. Data warehouse is subjected with different departments with a large number of data sources from the external departments. An organization can lack the conquer on the quality retrieval of data into the data warehouse, and sometimes it can be a tight process to access how the data is refreshed. The data sources used by the organization are diverse therefore there is the need to determine strategies that can be applied in trusting data sources. Tools The tools include the simple reporting query tools which are used to tell us what has happened. On-line analytical touch gives a reason of the happeni ngs executive information system extracts information on the users who want to mess with the data warehouse data mining processes includes the all the statistical techniques that are advanced with intellectual research properties. Data mining components include, cross z softwares and the IBM . The architecture- centralised or distributed. If the data is termed as centralized then it performer that only one database is applicable to a specific hardware for the access of all users. QUESTION 4 Features and tools in face bookThe features and tools in facebook have different importances on the representation of the companies, public figures, bands. They are the key tools of the entities and they include pages and the visibility subscribers. The pages Pages are used to represent companys public figures, bands. The pages can be applicable to Profiles with subscribe Profiles with subscribe consists of the strategies that an individual uses to subscribe to another person. In this case the profile with subscribes are used by multiple individuals and they include, news feed, find friendsEntity attribute quantify model(EAV) Entity attribute value model is a data model that is used to define entity where by the parametric quantitys and properties are used to explain them. The number that is used to describe each entity is relatively modest. This model is also known as the space matrix model. Structure of an EAV table The data that is represented is defined in a spacious approach that is capable of storing the entire space matrix that is composed of occupied values. In the EAV model each parameter and property describes the entire entity and each row that is represented.In EAV model, it stores a single component. The EAV tables are also described as long and skinny in which the long strategies describe a specific number of rows while the skinny description defines the number of the columns (Michael, 2009). Data in EAV table is recorded and retrieved in three columns, en tity, the parameters and the values. The entity colum defines the point description and the parameter column defines the attribute characters for instance, name, and ID and the value define the attributes.

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