...BLADES, INC. CASE How could a higher level of inflation in Thai affect Blades (assume U.S. inflation remains constant)? When Thailand have higher level of inflation, it will bring bad impact towards the U.S. Blades Company, because higher level of inflation in Thailand will make the currency of Thai Bath become weaker and the price of the local products will increase. As we know that Blades import the raw material from Thailand to lower the cost of production, and when the price of local products (raw material) increase, it will increase Blade’s cost of production and hence, it will make the selling price of Blades increase. From the export and import point of view, when the inflation in Thailand is high, the price of the local product will be higher because Thai Bath will be weaker, and thus, people will prefer more imported goods because the price of import and export goods will be more likely the same. How could competition from firms in Thailand and from U.S. firms conducting business in Thailand affect Blades? The local Thai companies get protection from the Thailand’s government and it creates difficulties for Blades to compete with the local Thai companies. The local Thai company might get some more privileges such as: Subsidy from the government, tax assistant and so on, and it will result to more competitive price. In the other side, the U.S firm which conducting business in Thailand but supply their material from else where might be better of, in term of finding...
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...hard plastics. The hacksaw is made entirely of metal with an added cap for comfort and support while in use. Five parts, all separate and detachable make up this mechanism as follows: * The Frame * The Handle * The ergonomic cap The Blade * The frame The Turn Key Attachment * The Ergonomic Cap The turn key attachment The blade The handle Figure 1: The Lenox Tools 88300 Lightweight Hacksaw Source: www.lenoxtools.com The Frame The L shaped chrome frame is made of one piece of hollowed metal; the top is twelve inches long and rounded at the corner with the side six inches high. The frame is half inch wide on one edge and one inch on the other. The tag line “MORE TENSION. MORE CUTS” along with the tension capacity; a figure showing the maximum tension the saw can bare is printed in black on one of the one inch edges. Up to six spear blades can be stored in the top part of the handle. The Handle The Handle is a light ash grey with the company royal blue and lust red logo printed at the top on one side. It is rectangular and one of the shorter four inch sides attaches to the longer side of the frame which is inserted through a hole in the handle. The opposite end, the bottom has cut outs which allow the blade to be attached at the front for standard vertical cuts or at the base of the handle for horizontal cutting. One of the longer sides, the hand grip, is rounded on the inside for a comfortable grip when in...
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...manager and foreman saying the machine was maintained satisfactorily, who takes responsibility to an unfortunate injury? The table saw is one of the most commonly seen and used tools in the power-tool industry. These tools are dangerous enough to have their own specialized accident litigators. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that “there is an average of about 10 finger amputations a day just from table saws used by consumers” (O’Donnell, 2011). These accidents account for about 67,000 recorded injuries every year and costing an approximate 2.1 billion in medical expenses yearly. The current safety technology on saw blades includes a plastic cover for the blade that is designed to protect users from rotating blade; this plastic cover has proven to be ineffective. Although most injuries occur when consumers come into contact with the blade, these consumers remove the...
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...Case: 1 BLADES, Inc. Case Question 1: How could a higher level of inflation in Thailand affects Blades (assume U.S. inflation remains constant)? Answer: Higher level of inflation in Thailand can affect Blades. Due to inflation in Thailand foreign goods will become cheap. Again inflation will increase in an increase of imports and at the same time exports will go down. As a result imports of rubber and plastic components from Thailand for Blades Inc. will suffer and it will increase their production cost. On the other hand due to inflation in Thailand customers will get products from Blades Inc. at a lower price relative to others, which will increase their (Blade Inc.) export to rise. Eventually their sales will increase. Question 2: How could competition from firms in Thailand and from U.S. firms conducting business in Thailand affects Blades? Answer: The main competitive advantage of Blade Inc. in this case is that they conduct their business (both export and imports) from Thailand in Thai Baht (Thailand’s currency). The other competitors who exports in Thailand invoice their exports in U.S. dollars. On the other hand because of competitive advantage of Blade Inc. allows importers to continue business without less consideration about paying different amounts due to currency fluctuations. In case of export Blade Inc. has an advantage of providing quality products and flexible pricing strategy, which gives them a good position in Thailand. Question 3: How could...
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...Blades, Inc. Case, International Financial Management 1. The overall benefits from considering DFI in Thailand is maximizing profits and minimizing costs. Given the current situation, there are several things that would factor in a positive Direct Foreign Investment. First, Blades generates higher profit margin in Thailand. In addition, the cost of materials is significantly cheaper in Thailand. DFI in Thailand would diversify the risk. In other words, Blades would not be solely reliant on the U.S. economic conditions. Finally, Blades would increase its overall market share. 2. The main tradeoff is between the initial outlay required to invest and operating under uncertain economic conditions. If Blades were to engage in DFI now, the initial outlay will be low. However, the primary concern is that Thai consumers have not been affected by the unfavorable economic conditions, and the possibility that the economic conditions will not improve in the future. If this was to happen, Blades would pay a price. Nevertheless, if Blades waits one year and economy improves, the initial outlay required would be high, and there is a change there might be heavier competition. As a financial consultant for Blades, I would advise a analysis, as well as the series of other financial analysis by using various ratios, etc., prior to making this decision. Scenario analysis would be useful because we can see the possible outcomes and the changes for worst, best, and average...
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...Classification by type of points | | All types of scissors can have blunt or sharp blades (A: Sharp:Sharp, B: Blunt:Blunt). | | | All types can have either straight or curved blades. | Mayo and Metzenbaum | | Mayo scissors (B) are used for cutting heavy fascia and sutures. | | | Metzenbaum scissors (A) are more delicate than Mayo scissors. | | | Metzenbaum scissors are used to cut delicate tissues. | | | Metzenbaum scissors have a longer handle to blade ratio. | Rat Tooth: A Tissue Forceps | | Interdigitating teeth hold tissue without slipping. | | | Used to hold skin/dense tissue. | Adson Tissue Forceps | | Small serrated teeth on edge of tips. The Adsons tissue forceps has delicate serrated tips designed for light, careful handling of tissue. | Intestinal Tissue Forceps: Hinged (locking) forceps used for grasping and holding tissue. Allis: An Intestinal Tissue Forceps | | Interdigitating short teeth to grasp and hold bowel or tissue. Slightly traumatic, use to hold intestine, fascia and skin. | Babcock: An Intestinal Tissue Forceps | | More delicate that Allis, less directly traumatic. Broad, flared ends with smooth tips.Used to atraumatically hold viscera (bowel and bladder). | Sponge Forceps | | Sponge forceps can be straight or curved. | | | Sponge forceps can have smooth or serrated jaws. | | | Used to atraumatically hold viscera (bowel and bladder). | Hemostatic forceps: Hinged (locking) Forceps...
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...a badge and allow you entrance into my castle I look forward to meeting you. Honorably. Sir Azer Avilius “Must be at least five thousand septims in here” said the boss “Pretty good find eh, boss” said the one who found it. “Yes it was, we’re leaving, Ognolf, let’s go,” the boss called to the man he left at the corpses. He got no response, he turned back and saw Ognolf was dead, a young redguard man stood over his corpse, his two curved blades drawn and bloody, his clothing was simple cloth pants and vest, with leather bracers and a leather belt, and dirty gray cloth covered the bottom half of his face. “What the?” said one of the bandits, the man stood over Ognolf silent then he turned his gaze at the three of them. “Is this what you’ve become Layne, a simple bandit?” said the man, his question was directed at the leader of the bandits. “Layne?” said the bandit wielding the bow, it was drawn and ready “It doesn’t matter kill him” said the boss. “Look at his clothes, he’s a student from the Valley of Blades,” said the dunmeri bandit The student wore the Valley school’s basic uniform, it was light and breathable for training, barely suitable for the winter, and not at all suitable for open warfare. The mask covering his face was less a mask and more of a conveniently placed rag. The archer loosed an arrow at the student, He dodged it effortlessly. “A student, eh, time for a lesson” said the dunmer bandit, he drew his sword and charged, running past his boss...
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...Knives Knife blades are made using low carbon steel. The initial shaping of a knife is done through forging or blanking. When forging, the blade material is heated to a high temperature or forging temperature in a forge and shaped with a hammer on an anvil to achieve the desired shape, often to near final dimension, where very little stock removal, if any, is required to finish. Steel can be folded either to form decorative pattern welded steel or to refine raw steel, or as the Japanese call it, tamahagane. Grain size is kept at a minimum as grain growth can happen quite easily if the blade material is overheated. In a mass production environment, or in a well-equipped private shop, the blanking process is used to make "blade blanks." This can be achieved by a number of different methods, depending upon the thickness of the material and the alloy content of steel to be cut. Thinner cross section, lower alloy blanks can be stamped from sheet material. Materials that are more difficult to work with, or jobs that require higher production volume, can be accomplished with water jet cutters, lasers or electron beam cutting. These two lend themselves towards larger custom shops. Some custom knife makers cut their blanks from steel using a metal-cutting band saw. Knife makers will sometimes contract out to a shop with the above capabilities to do blanking. For lower production makers, or lower budgets, other methods must suffice. Knife makers may use many different methods to profile...
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...STEPS TO ACCESS ORACLE SERVER AND CERTAIN BASIC QUERIES (Note: To access the oracle server, sometimes it is required to create a cspc1 account. If the username and password step described below doesn’t work then create a cspc1 account from university website at http://cs.uwindsor.ca/password and use those credentials in the steps described below.) 1. First, download “bitvise ssh client” from the university website on your local machine. This is a secure shell required to connect to the oracle server. A link to download this ssh is as follows: bitvise download. 2. Once this SSH is downloaded, connect to the server using the following credentials: Hostname: cs.uwindsor.ca Username: enter your unique username (same as that of university website) Password: enter your unique password (same as that of university website)Port number: usually it is 22. 3. After step 2, you will observe that on connecting to the server, a new terminal window appears on the screen along with the ssh. 4. On this terminal window, which opens with your account information, type in “sqlplus”. 5. Again, the system will ask you for your username and password credentials. Please enter the same. 6. On entering your credentials on the terminal window you will see that you have finally connected to the server and can now try working with all the possible queries you need which are illustrated below. Now, let us work with tables after we get access to the database server...
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...Holly Johnson Mrs. Ulrey English 12 10 March 2011 Vampires: Fact or Fiction? When the word “vampire” comes up in a conversation an immediate thought that comes to mind is Twilight. The Twilight series has made the world of vampires and werewolves a teenage girls greatest fantasy. To some, the idea of having a mythical creature fall madly in love with you is romantic, but what if vampires aren’t actually mythical creatures? What if they are real, human like killers who have a taste for human blood? How can a human being make up something so vile, it almost seems like it somehow has to be based off of a real life situation, or maybe the imagination of early humans, due to boredom, led to the creation of this creature. Is this doomed to be a mystery forever? We may never know who came up with the first vampire story. What we do know is the “vampire tales originated in Eastern European and Balkan countries, such as Hungary, Romania, Greece, and Albania” (Crawford 2). People during the late 1600’s until the early 1800’s did not take vampire hunting as joke like people would today. They were actually very serious about it and vampire hunters were considered extremely important. One could not just become a vampire hunter but instead had to be born with a special gift, such as clairvoyance. Only males could be born with clairvoyance, which is basically a sixth sense and allows you to see vampires. Since only few were able to be vampire hunters they “commanded handsome...
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...Knives Knife blades are made using low carbon steel. The initial shaping of a knife is done through forging or blanking. When forging, the blade material is heated to a high temperature or forging temperature in a forge and shaped with a hammer on an anvil to achieve the desired shape, often to near final dimension, where very little stock removal, if any, is required to finish. Steel can be folded either to form decorative pattern welded steel or to refine raw steel, or as the Japanese call it, tamahagane. Grain size is kept at a minimum as grain growth can happen quite easily if the blade material is overheated. In a mass production environment, or in a well-equipped private shop, the blanking process is used to make "blade blanks." This can be achieved by a number of different methods, depending upon the thickness of the material and the alloy content of steel to be cut. Thinner cross section, lower alloy blanks can be stamped from sheet material. Materials that are more difficult to work with, or jobs that require higher production volume, can be accomplished with water jet cutters, lasers or electron beam cutting. These two lend themselves towards larger custom shops. Some custom knife makers cut their blanks from steel using a metal-cutting band saw. Knife makers will sometimes contract out to a shop with the above capabilities to do blanking. For lower production makers, or lower budgets, other methods must suffice. Knife makers may use many different methods to profile...
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...Islamic banking and finance Submitted to: Sir Abubakar Siddique Submitted by: Atia Farooq Roll no: 4918 MBA 21(A) A sharia,h perspective of minimum account balance Requirement in Islamic banking Summary: This article describe sharia’h point of view weather its allow to Islamic banking to charge fee, cut profit and reduce free services when depositor have amount less the minimum requirement of amount in saving account and in current account. Conventional banks fix the minimum amount of saving account. Banks fix this amount to recover it service expenses. Mean amount of the interest (return on investment) must sufficient to recover its services expense. When depositor amount less the minimum requirement and due to which banks service charges increase as compare to interest then bank charge fee, or stop giving profit on saving account and also reduce providing free services. Some banks also have the same conditions for current banks but mostly not have such restrictions on current account, because banks not give any profit o current account so easily provide those free services. When saving account have amount less then minimum requirement bank convert these account in to current account and pay no profit on it. Bank also reduces the free services to savings account holder so When balance turn into zero then bank close the account of depositor. All banks whether conventional or Islamic suffer loss due to balance less...
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...IBM Case study Introduction Virtualization is one of the most exciting trends in the industry and one that has the potential, over the next few years, to change the model of how IT systems are deployed. But server virtualization will not only change how IT administrators and architects think about servers and system utilization, it is also going to affect the processes and tools used to manage what will certainly become an increasingly dynamic environment. Virtualization has actually been around for some time now, but the technology is still evolving. In fact, the word itself still means different things to different people. In broad terms, however, virtualization is about abstracting one layer of the technology stack from the next layer, like storage from servers or the OS from the applications. Abstracting the different layers, in turn, enables consolidation and better manageability. As a concept, virtualization applies to storage, networks, servers, applications, and access. When you look at storage and networks, the goal of virtualization is to aggregate a set of different devices so the total pool of resources looks and acts like a single entity. For example, you can configure a 40TB storage solution instead of a set of 20 2TB storage devices. But with other components, virtualization acts in the opposite direction, helping you to make a single system appear as though there are multiple systems. The most common example of this is server virtualization, where you...
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...audience he will then preform some mumbo jumbo magic stuff like saying some words or waving a wand. Then he will casually block the first assistants feet from view by either blocking it with another miscellaneous prop for a moment or by rotating the box, this gives his first assistant enough time to pull her feet in and the second assistant to poke her feet out, wearing the same shoes of course, the magician then grabs the saw blade and makes a cutting motion through a pre cut line in the box. Then the magician will split the box in half revealing the middle and amazing the audience even more. Then he closes the box does whatever he does to cover the legs and then opens up the box to show that he did not actually in fact cut his assistant in half. The crowd then cheers out of amazement and the magician makes loads of money after they go home and tell all their friends what they saw. That is how a magician cuts someone in half, different magicians may have modified this trick in different ways weather to make it more impressive by adding a saw blade or just to look...
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...The blades name was Razark or life taker in the ancient mordorian tongue, it was forged in the heart of the 1st circle of hell. Hell was in an unseen dimension and could only be accessed through the gate of hell guarded by the hellhound Cerberus the three headed hellhound, the father of all hellhounds. This gate was found in the heart of Mordor. He had stolen the blade right of the black belt of Lucifer himself. Lucifer had been in his human form however, in his true form the blade would have been massive. Although only his backup weapon , and nowhere near powerful as Uthanzark which was Lucifer's main hand sword. If Trent had taken his main sword Lucifer would also be chasing him. Fire scorches his boots as he runs along. Luckily his shoes are made from an ancient enchanted dwarven metal that allows him to be 100% fireproof. He sees the 8th division demon guard draw large scythes capable of cleaving him in half. As Trent nears the guard he pulls Razark from its black diamond sheath. The handle glows as he pulls out a grand soul gem to fill it. The soul screeches as it is forced into the reserves of the black and green diamond pommel. The powerful tomahawk is fully charged....
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