Question: Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do-especially in tight job market.

Bob Crossley,a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day."It's amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves,"he says."Resumes arrive with faults.Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly.Once I see a mistake,I refuse the candidates,"Crossley concludes,"If they cannot take care of these details,why should we trust them with a job?"

Can we pay too much attention to details?Absolutely not.

Perfectionists struggle over little things instead of something larger they work toward."To keep from losing the forest for the trees,"says Charles Garfield,the professor at the University of California,San Francisco,"We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working will influence the larger picture.If they don't,we should drop them and move to something else."

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA."The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off-course 90percent of the time,"says Garfield."But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal.This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary."Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

Again and again,we see that by doing little things within our grasp well,large rewards follow. 1. Where does Garfield work?
2. What does he do there?
3. Which Apollo mission was he involved with?
4. Was he involved with the Challenger?
5. What made a successful landing of the Apollo II likely?
6. Is it important to know where you want to go?
7. What does that allow us to judge?
8. What's Bob Crossley an expert in?
9. What type of apps does he see every day?
10. How come he sees them?
11. What do candidates do to themselves?
12. What do their resumes arrive with?
13. Can you give an example of one?
14. What does Bob do if he sees a mistake?
15. Does he trust them with a job?
16. What does Bob want them to be able to take care of?
17. Is it possible to pay too much attention to them?
18. Where does Garfield teach?
19. Where's that?
20. Should we care how details influence the larger picture? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. NASA
2. he's a computer scientist
3. The Apollo II
4. unknown
5. they knew the exact position
6. yes
7. the importance of tasks
8. human-resources
9. job applications
10. it's part of his job
11. eliminate themselves
12. faults
13. spell the company's name wrong
14. refuses the candidates
15. no
16. details
17. Absolutely not
18. University of California
19. San Francisco
20. yes

Question: Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 120,000 characters covering 129 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.

Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII character, all of which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters. UCS-2 uses a 16-bit code unit (two 8-bit bytes) for each character but cannot encode every character in the current Unicode standard. UTF-16 extends UCS-2, using one 16-bit unit for the characters that were representable in UCS-2 and two 16-bit units (4 8 bits) to handle each of the additional characters. 1. What is unicode?
2. How many characters does it contain?
3. What are the most commonly used encodings?
4. How many bytes does UTF-8 use for any ASCII character?
5. What is the most recent version of unicode?
6. Who maintains the standard?
7. Is USC-2 obsolete?
8. How many bit code does UCS-2 use?
9. What does the Unicode standard contain code charts for?
10. anything else?
11. Is there incodeing for left-to-right scripts?
12. When was the most recent update of Unicode? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. computing industry standard
2. more than 120,000
3. UTF-8, UTF-16
4. one
5. Unicode 8.0
6. Unicode Consortium
7. Yes
8. 16-bit
9. visual reference
10. an encoding method
11. Yes
12. June 2015

Question: CHAPTER VII

IN WHICH DAVE IS ROBBED

Dave found himself in a decidedly unpleasant situation. The door of the room was locked and Tom Shocker stood against it. The man lit the gas, but allowed it to remain low. Dave saw Nat Poole standing close to a bed. The money-lender's son had a small bottle and some cotton in his hand.

"I suppose this is a trick?" said Dave, as coolly as he could.

"Rather good one, too, isn't it?" returned Nat, lightly.

"That depends on how you look at it, Nat. Did you forge Mr. Dale's name?"

"Why--er--I--er----"

"That isn't a nice business to be in."

"Humph! you needn't preach to me, Dave Porter! You played a dirty trick on me and I am going to pay you back."

"What are you going to do?"

"You'll see soon enough."

"I want you to open that door!" cried Dave, wheeling around and confronting Tom Shocker. "Open it at once!"

"This is none of my affair, Mr. Porter," answered the man, with a slight sneer. "You can settle it with Mr. Poole."

"I'll settle with you, you rascal!" cried Dave, and leaping forward he caught Tom Shocker by the shoulder and forced him aside. "Give me that key!"

"Don't you do it!" cried Nat. "Here, wait, I'll fix him! Hold him!"

Nat poured some of the stuff in the bottle on the cotton and advanced on Dave. At the same time Tom Shocker caught Dave by both arms and essayed to hold him. 1. Who leapt forward?
2. Who caught Dave by his arms?
3. Was someone standing against the door?
4. Who was close to the bed?
5. What was the money-lender's holding?
6. Was Nat holding the bottle?
7. Who thought a trick was being played?
8. What is Dave's last name?
9. What did he exclaim he wanted open?
10. Who did Nat go towards with the bottle?
11. What kind of a situation did Dave find himself in?
12. Was the gas high?
13. Was anyone accused of forgery?
14. Who?
15. Whose name was forged?
16. Did anyone have a gun?
17. What did Nat pour the contents of the bottle on?
18. Who ended up constraining Dave by the arms?
19. Do we know why Dave wanted the door open?
20. Who yelled out "Here, wait, I'll fix him! Hold him!" ? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Dave
2. Tom Shocker
3. yes
4. Nat Poole
5. unknown
6. yes
7. Dave,
8. Porter
9. to open the door
10. Dave
11. a decidedly unpleasant situation
12. no
13. yes
14. Nat Poole
15. Mr Dale
16. unknown
17. cotton
18. Tom Shocker
19. unknown
20. Nat