...Skadurz Pro Firm Overview Skadurz Pro is a family owned and operated business, Joel St. Marseille is the owner and his mother Connie St. Marseille is the full time manager. Skadurz Pro sells skateboard and snowboard equipment as well as clothing, shoes, and accessories and is located in Sudbury, Ontario. The case issue with Skadurz Pro is the decision of which store to keep open, the South End location where the building is up for sale and the future of the building and store is unknown and dependant on the buyer of the building or the New Sudbury location where competitor West 49 would be opening a store right across the street. Internal Perspectives Keeping the South End location, leads to an unknown future for the company. Will the new building owner want to renew the stores lease? Keeping the New Sudbury location open where competitor West 49 is moving in will affect store sales. Is it worth the risk to keep that location open? This store has been open at this location for 10 years and is well known by customers. St Marseille worries about the success of the New Sudbury location once West 49 opens and estimates that in fiscal year 2004 annual store sales at this location would total $350,000 and all other expenses would remain comparatively stable. External Perspectives The skateboarding and snowboarding business in Ontario has really grown. Skateboarding became a popular sport and by 2004 there were nine city skateboard parks and plans to construct...
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...Questionnaire on Organization Style & Buy Clothing : 1. Do you think that people in Lake Independence would come to purchase my product? yes no 2. would you support my business? yes no 3. Do you think Lake Independence is a good location for my business? yes no 4. Do you like shopping for clothes? yes no 5. Would you pay $25.00 and up for clothes for all gender and age? yes no If no give a price 6. Is the time from 7:00 am to 8:00pm would be a good opening hour? yes no 7. Do you think opening a clothes store in Lake Independence is a good idea? yes no 8. Do you think it would be safe to open a business in Lake Independence? yes no 9. Do you think my business will be successful? yes no 10. Would you advise a friend to buy at my business? Yes no My name is Kaylin Williams and I have a business. The name of my business is Style & Buy and the goods I sell is clothes. I have clothes for adults, children, teenagers, babies, boys and girls. I provide some questionnaires to persons in the Lake Independence area to get some primary research about my business future. The results that I collect from the questionnaire was positive so I decided to open up my business. * I receive 6 yes's * and 4 no's In the strongest areas, like the location, the price, the support, etc. many people said yes and in the other areas like the time, the security of the organization...
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...Business Writing Portfolio COM/285 November 8, 2010 Nadine Harris Part I - Business Writing Steps Business Communications 1. Managers – Memos 2. Employees – Emails 3. Retail Customers and Public – Business letter and Advertisement Part II – Portfolio Memo 123 Pine Avenue New Orleans, LA 71234 November 8, 2010 Dear Managers, Due to the recent rise in gas prices there will be a few changes in the stores operations. In order to save money, it will be in the best interest for the company to change the existing store hours. The store will now be closed on Sundays. In addition, on Monday through Saturday, stores will open an hour later and close an hour earlier. The full time employees, including managers will now be required to work four 10- hour days a week. This change will assist and benefit the company as well as help the employees save money on gas. Everyone will now have more time to spend with their families which is much deserved. With the new changes the part-time employees will consolidate all of their hours into, 1, 2 and 3 day work weeks, depending on how many hours they are scheduled to work. Also, the company has no plans for opening any new stores at this time, but there are no plans to close any existing stores. These changes will ensure the success of the company and provide customers with exceptional service and low prices. If there are any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me directly...
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...Business writing portfolio Marianella Moore Com/285 September 25, 2012 Walt Hill Business writing steps Thesis statement; How do I relay a negative message in a positive way to three different audiences? 1. Perform an audience analysis 2. Determine audience type 3. Choose message formats • A business letter • A business memo • An e-mail message 4. Offer a solution to fix problem 5. Consider positive and negative 6. Show empathy in message 7. Offer alternatives Portfolio Marianella Moore September 25, 2012 Strawbridge’s 678 Presedential St. Philadelphia, PA 19116 Store Managers Strawbridge’s 2469 Ridge Ave Philadelphia, PA 19137 Dear Store Managers; As some of you are aware there has been many budget cuts within the company, in result we had to make some changes in order to save your jobs. Due to the Issues Strawbridge’s is currently facing there will be some adjustments made that will affect your work schedule. All Managers will have to work fewer days a week. The company is forced to make these adjustments in effort to combat rising gas prices and save money on store operations. In the upcoming week Stores will be closed on Sundays. On Monday through Saturday, stores will open an hour later and close an hour earlier. Full-time employees, including managers, work...
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...an hour earlier. Full-time employees, including managers, will have four-day, 10-hour workweeks and part-time employees will consolidate their hours into 1-, 2-, or 3-day workweeks, depending on how many hours a week they work. No stores are closing, but no new stores will open at this time. When constructing your messages, determine what audience characteristics must be considered for each stakeholder. Things to consider about each audience include appropriate communication methods and styles. Each message must be its own Microsoft® Word document, up to 200 words in length. Message length must be appropriate for the format. Remember to use the appropriate style and tone for each audience. Communication Formats • Business letter • Business memo • E-mail Audiences • Managers • Employees • The public The Store Operations Messages are due in Week Five. Kymber Morse General Manager Hot Topic Inc. 3411 Ventura Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 91367 Dear Mrs. Morse, We would like...
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...Finalized Business Plan for Alberto's Mexican Food Generic Strategy Alberto’s Mexican Food is the largest and most successful authentic Mexican Food franchise chain of restaurants on the West Coast. Found in 1975, and today has more than 90 national locations spanning through California and Utah. There is currently no authentic Mexican Food restaurants in my hometown of New Jersey with a business model like Alberto’s Mexican Food offers. For residents of New Jersey their only two options for Mexican Food is Taco Bell or small, sit-down type of family owned businesses which are few and in-between. Being from New Jersey and living in California for over 20 years it was obvious to me how authentic Mexican Food representation was lacking in my home state of New Jersey and it was my goal to change that by creating the first Albert’s Mexican Food restaurant in New Jersey. Source of finance will be raised through family members who are also interested in this business and want to see it succeed. Initial startup costs are expected to be between $319k and $534k (entrepreneur.com, 2014). The business will be located in Union City, New Jersey which boasts the largest Hispanic community in the state at 84.7% (nj.com, 2014). This Alberto’s Mexican Food will have 12 employees to run the business. Two managers, four cooks, four cashiers, and two dedicated drive-through delivery cashiers. More or less employees will be evaluated periodically based on the needs of the restaurant...
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...paper, I will be providing a few reasons why I believe communication in the workplace is very effective. Managers, employees, and the community opinion are a major component in creating and maintaining a successful business. If all three work together to enforce ideas, there really is no reason why any business should fail. I will be using a bar environment as my prime example, being as though this is where most of my experience in business startup is from. Effective Communication I am going to give some examples of just how effective communication can be when we all work together. Instead of giving reasons, I will provide three key components into a successful business as well as work environment and show that when working together you can take something small and turn it into something magnificent. When management listens to the employees, who work closely with the community, there is so much potential. Personal Experience with Effective Communication I have my own personal experience because I helped to open two sports bars. It was very hard work, however communication was the most important in the whole process. Starting with the “would be” customers. We sent out a street team of promoters that not only made everyone aware of the opening, but got the opinions of the people who would soon frequent the establishment. Employees were next. We made sure that they were experienced enough to provide prompt service and even create drinks for holidays and other...
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...Presentations may be given for different reasons, on different subjects, at different levels, by people of different business culture but they will all be the same in structure. Language points will also be transferred from one presentation to another. Thus all well-balanced presentations are most certain to have two things in common: the underlying structure and the language points which typically arise to serve this structure. TO MAKE A GOOD PRESENTATION YOU NEED TO: • plan it to the last detail - write out the presentation in full - time the presentation to fit the available time - reduce the script to notes of the most important points (it is from notes only that the presenter should give his/her final presentation) • rehearse the whole of the presentation , not just bits of it • let the audience see your better qualities from the start • be able to create a positive emotional atmosphere • structure the presentation correctly • focus the audience attention on the main points • make your speech loud enough, never drop your voice at the end of the sentence or paragraph (mumbling always irritates the audience) • maintain the eye contact with the audience throughout the presentation • pay special attention to the opening and closing courtesies • use a marker to point out some important ideas, facts or figures on the blackboard • keep the time limit ...
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...Youth Rally Agenda Opening Song ________________________________ Prayer Song ________________________________ Welcome ________________________________ Response ________________________________ Roll Call Present % Specials Bay Lake ________ ______ _______ Eustis ________ ______ _______ Gant Lake ________ ______ _______ Landmark ________ ______ _______ Leesburg ________ ______ _______ Mascotte ________ ______ _______ Midway ________ ______ _______ Tuscanooga ________ ______ _______ Any other churches Prayer to Open Business Meeting This meeting...
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...monday through saturday.The store will open hour later and close an hour earlier. Manger and full time employees will have four-days of 10 hour workweeks. Part time employee will consolidate their hours into 1, 2, or 3 days a workweek. This may vary depending on how many hours a week they work. There are no stores closing and no new stores will be opening. If you have any question regarding the changes please e-mail me back. Thanks for you time and I hope the transitions goes well. From Stephanie Memo: New Store times The following are some changes that have been made. The Stores will no longer be open on sunday. So we will be open monday through saturday. Also the time that the stores will be open are changing as well. The stores will be opening an hour later and closing a hour earlier. No Stores are closing and no new stores will be opening. Thanks for your time and I hope the transitions goes well. Attachment customers We will be changing the days we are open and the times that the stores will be open and close. The days the stores will be open are as followed; Monday through saturday and closed on sunday. The stores will be opening an hour later and closing an hour earlier. The stores will not be closing. Thanks for your time and sorry for the...
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...Real-Time Hand Tracking for HumanComputer Interaction Ayush Tripathi, Kanishk Puri, Nilesh Srivastava, Prateek Dham (Students) Mrs S.S Dhotre(Professor) Computer Science Department Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra(India) Abstract- The proposed work is part of a project that aims for the control of a mouse based on hand gesture recognition. This goal implies the restriction of real-time response and unconstrained environments. This is basically a vision based skincolour segmentation method for moving hand in real time application [3]. This algorithm is based on three main steps: hand segmentation, hand tracking and gesture recognition from hand features. For the hand segmentation step we use the colour cue due to the characteristic colour values of human [1]. The hands are recognized by the computer using the skin colour as one of the basic features for the hand recognition. The important feature is the accurate segmentation of hands [3]. I. Introduction Nowadays, the majority of the human-computer interaction (HCI) is based on mechanical devices such as keyboards, mouse, joysticks or gamepads. In recent years there has been a growing interest in a class of methods based on computational vision due to its ability to recognise human gestures in a natural way .These methods use as input the images acquired from a camera or from a stereo pair of cameras. The main goal of these algorithms is to measure the hand configuration...
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...1, 2012, all locations will no longer be open on Sundays as well as Monday through Saturday all store hours will consist of opening one hour later and closing one hour earlier. All full time employees will work 4 days at week, at 10 hours per day. Part time employees schedules should be made up of 3 days a week. The changes are being made as a result of the raising gas prices. We are hoping the change to the schedule will be a benefit to both the operations of the store as well the staff who manage the store. Despite the current economical changes, the company will not be closing any current locations, however, it will not be opening any new locations at this time. Please let me know if you have any questions. From: Corporate Office To: All Employees Subject: Changes to Work Schedule Attention All Employees, Effective June 1, 2012 the work schedule off all full time employees will change from 8 hours and 5 working days to 4 working days which will consist of 10 hours. Part time employees’ schedules will not surpass 3 working days each week. Along with your work schedules changing, all locations will open one hour later and close one hour earlier. These changes are to better accommodate both the store locations and the employees with the struggle of the raising gas prices. In an effort to keep the organization steady, any plans of opening new locations have come to a stop. However, no current locations will be closing. Please consult with your store manager should...
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...through GATE way Vizag Steel Plant is India’s first shore-based integrated Steel Plant with state of the art technology and is a prime producer of long steel products in the country having extensive market. With an annual turnover of over 14000 crores, the company is poised to commission its second phase of expansion from 3.0 Mtpa to 7.3 Mtpa liquid steel capacity by 2013-14. From the year 2014 onwards , RINL-VSP, w i l l r e c r u i t M a n a g e m e n t Tr a i n e e s (Technical ) in different disciplines of Engineering like Metallurgy, Mechanical, Electrical etc. by considering GATE marks. So, the candidates aspiring to join RIN L-V SP sho uld take GATE-2014 . D e t a i l s o f d is c i p l i n e , n u mb e r o f vacancies, dates of opening and closing of online registration of applications for RINL-VSP will be anno unced later Important Dates: 1st October 2013 Last date of Online application for GATE 2014 Last Date for submis- 3rd October 2013 sion of application through website GATE-2014 Online Examination Between 1st Feb and 2nd March 2014 As per details mentioned on GATE—2014 Website h t t p: / / g a t e. i i t k gp . a c. i n / g a t e 2 01 4/ applyonline.php to apply online for Note: Candidates should log in to GATE-2014...
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...Technical Director (TD) * Operates SEG in response to commands received from Director * Assures SEG transitional quality control during production * Keys in titles and lower-thirds * Takes Color Bars during roll-to-record sequence Audio Engineer * Monitors and controls proper sound levels using ears (CR monitor) and eyes (VU meter) in response to commands received from Director * Places microphones on talents * Matches talents microphone levels and EQ * Strikes microphones after last production slot Electronic Graphics Operator * Triggers opening roll-in * Previews titles, credits and lower thirds Teleprompter Operator * Displays open and closing teleprompter reads * Follows and adjusts teleprompter display to match host’s reading speed Host * Dresses appropriately (eschewing black, white, tight stripe clothing and hats) * Keeps conversation flowing and “real.” * Reads opening and closing...
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...example. Percutaneous, while it means “through the skin,” can also go through other layers to reach the operative site. But a percutaneous approach is a smaller incision or puncture, usually just large enough to insert an instrument. An obvious example is a needle biopsy of the liver. A not so obvious example is a carpal tunnel release as in Exercise 8.3. Via a natural or artificial opening uses the body’s own or created passageways – like the colon (natural), colonostomy (artificial, created opening (stoma) into the colon), trachea, vagina, etc. No incision is needed to reach the operative site. External is on the surface of the body, or the operative site can be seen without instrumentation. Examples are reduction of a closed fracture, or tonsillectomy. Three approaches are endoscopic: Percutaneous endoscopic involves a small incision through the skin and other body layers for the purpose of inserting an endoscope, to view a particular site and/or perform a procedure through the endoscope. An example is endoscopic repair of a torn meniscus of the knee. Via natural or artificial opening endoscopic uses an endoscope placed directly in the...
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