...3 years, Davidson had been building canoes for himself, using them, and then selling them for marginal profits once he was finished with them. When he decided he was going to purchase a canoe, he was shocked by the expensive prices for poor quality boats. Davidson saw an opportunity to build handcrafted cedar canoes, which he would sell for a premium. When Davidson decided he was going to pursue this business, he enrolled in a 12-week business program at the Entrepreneurial Manufacturing Generator (EMG) in St. Thomas Ontario. In August 1998, Davidson was opening up the Catfish Creek Canoe Company (CCC). He was going to specialize in manufacturing and selling 16-foot Peterborough canoes. Problem Statement: Market the Peterborough canoe in a proper location with an appropriate selling price. Symptoms Steve Davidson is going to experience many different situations while starting up Catfish Creek Canoe Company. He is planning to produce 30 canoes in the first year and average one canoe every ten days which would leave a 65 day buffer period; although, it will take him almost 12 days to produce his first canoes. An experienced craftsman can only make 25 to 30 canoes per year, so if requests increase, Davidson will have to hire more employees to insist him with the demand. The canoe industry is also seasonable; people will not be shopping for canoes in the middle of winter, especially in his target market area of Ontario, Canada. During the cold seasons, Davidson...
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...Catfish Creek Canoe Company Marketing-----Case study assignment 1.According to the passage, Catfish is a new brand, its target market: Size: Canoes occupied about 32% of Canadian boats from Statistics Canada. The potential market was large, but it doesn’t talk about specific kinds of canoes such as Catfish’s canoes. So we can’t confirm the correct size. Demographic: Income level is above-average income. It doesn’t mention specific occupation, but sell for professionals. Geographic: Placing advertisements in canoeing magazines of the U.S. and Canada. The shop is in Ontario. Buying patterns: We just can find direct from the shop to the customers and Web page. Preferences& expectations: Not specific information. But the canoes are handcrafted cedar canoes and sell for premium. Attitudes, interests and opinions: Professionals who has hobby of canoeing or other hobbies such as fishing, hunting and camping. Volume Based: specializing in 16-foot Peterborough canoes. Benefit based: It’s important to introduce his major benefit sought by customer. Every customer can receive a certificate with serial numbers and a guarantee for five years. It’s also provide features of products and information of process building the canoe. 2.No, he hasn’t. I think his target market still need information about: Accurate market size. Aiming to his target market, instead of a wild range of whole canoes. Period of ordering, manufacturing and receiving, etc. Now, Davidson...
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...Flathead Catfishing Flathead catfishing is frequently seen in the United States. Why! Because flathead catfish are a native species of the waters there and are popular among the masses as game fish and food. Initially, Flathead catfish dwelled in the Mississippi River and its outlets, but later it found its way to the slow moving waters of the nation. Today, flathead catfish can be found in big rivers, streams, lakes and ponds across the entire United States. Deep waters are their favorite hideouts where they take cover under fallen logs and rocks. Flatheads derive their name from the shape of their heads which is slightly long and flat. They also have flat oval shaped eyes and a bigger lower jaw that sticks out past the upper jaw. Mostly brown and yellow with spots, they come in all sizes. In rivers and lakes forty to fifty pound flatheads are normally found and caught, but there have also been reports of...
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...Pre-Preparation1. Washing. Wash fish upon arrival from the market. Scales may or may not removed. 2. Splitting. Split fish on the dorsal side starting from the tail to the head by running the edge of the knife along the backbone. 3. Removal of internal organs. Lay fish open like butterfly fillet. Remove gills and internal organs. Wash fish to remove blood and dirt. The black membrane covering the belly cavity may or may not be removed depending upon the consumers choice. Wash fish in running water. 4. Removal of backbone dorsal fin. Remove backbone by laying fish flat on the cutting board with the skin down. Hold the knife in a horizontal/slanting position and cut in with the tip of the blade along the backbone from the head to tail. Trim off the dorsal fin. Deboning It is important to know the exact location of the spines most especially the the intermascular spines. Total number of spines 196-208(don’t be silly. don’t count the spines. I just put it for illustration purposes:-). Place fish in the shallow tray. With the end of the mosquito forceps, start removing the spines. 1. Rib bones. The bones are located in the belly cavity. They are visible and superficially embedded thus easy to pull out. 2. Dorsal intermascular spines. Make a superficial slit from head to tail along the dent of the dorsal muscle. Pull out the embedded intermascular spines one at a time.The spines on the head portion are branched spines while the rest are unbranched...
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...Marsland Press Journal of American Science 2009:5(3) 31-40 Evaluations of the Effects of Different Dietary Vitamin C levels on the Body Composition, Growth Performance and Feed Utilization Efficiencies in Stinging Catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1792) Md. Jobaer Alam 1, Md. Ghulam Mustafa 1, Md. Abdul Khaleque 2. 1 2 Department of Fisheries, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Institute of Food Science and Technology, BCSIR, Dr. Kudrat-E-Khuda road, Dhaka-1205 Abstract: To evaluate the effects of Vitamin C of formulated feed on growth performance, feed utilization efficiency and body composition of shing fish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1792) an experiment was conducted for sixty days in nine plastic tanks. During the rearing and feeding trial in the laboratory condition, the change in growth and feed utilization by the shing fish fed on three different Vitamin C level have been assessed by the determination of condition factor (K), survival rate (SR), specific growth rate (SGR%), feed conversion ratio (FCR), feed efficiency and average daily gain (ADG) and protein efficiency ratio (PER). All the water quality parameters specifically- Temperature (0C), Dissolved oxygen (DO), Carbon dioxide (CO2) and pH in the plastic tanks were highly monitored and maintained. The highest FCR was found in the control while the lowest was measured in treatment 2. The values of PER for treatment 2 was higher than control and treatment 1. The condition factor was...
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...will be able to construct one that will work for you. Take some "chicken wire" and form a tube about 16 inches in diameter. You can make it square, if you want, but a tube is easier. Using wire or such, you will need to sew the seam of the tube. Also sew one end shut in such a way that you can open fairly easy. Then cut a "mouth" out of a square of the chicken wire. You will need to form a cone that fits into the other end of the "tube". The smaller end points into the tube. The smaller end should be small enough to allow fish to swim through but not big enough to let them swim back out. This kind of trap needs to have bait put inside to attract the fish. If you can find a small creek that fish usually swim up, place the trap with the mouth facing downstream and block access of the rest of the creek so that all fish will have to swim into the trap. [pic] You can make the trap out of anything. The Indians used to make them out of sticks. The fish can be left in the trap if there are too many for you to eat at one time. This way you could have fresh fish anytime that you needed them. You can leave them in the trap for a week or so. Much longer than that and the fish would starve. Bait: Using bait makes finding fish easier. If you are near a stream, river, or lake, you can keep a "supply" of fish nearby by baiting them. You can place a trap at the bait or fish with hook and line. In running water place the bait in a certain place by weighting it down so it wont drift off. The...
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...RUSTY CRAYFISH The rusty crayfish or the Orconectes rusticus, is a sea animal found in the United States and Ontario, Canada. It has a rusty reddish brown color with dots on it’s upper shell. It eats small plants and animals found in the sea.This crayfish is particularly small with a length of only 10.2 centimeters. Rusty Crayfish habitat The rusty crayfish (or the orconectes rusticus) can be seen in the Great lakes region , most of the Midwest U.S and Ontario, Canada. . The crayfish mostly populate lakes, ponds, and streams. if the water has logs or other debris to cover it, the crayfish will thrive.They also will reside in still waters or fast streams. Body structure This little crayfish has a distinct colour to it, dark brown...
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...on the Nazi Flag in Georgia and came across a story of a Georgia business man by the name of Anthony Harris, owner of Seven on Second and Art Store in Macon, Georgia. The purpose of Mr. Harris displaying the Nazi Flag was to get people to have a conversation about it. He stated, “It’s good to address it, but there is no need to kill someone over it.” He also stated, “Hitler stole the Nazi flag and that the Swastika Symbol was originally a Hindu Symbol that meant good luck. In the next room, there were display of Indian Artifacts, a Hut and a picture of Georgia’s Creek Indian Chief William McIntosh (ca.1778-1825). William McIntosh was a controversial Chief of The Lower Creeks in the nineteenth century in Georgia. Williams McIntosh supported the United States and its efforts to end those who opposed the invasion of white settlers on Indian Land. William McIntosh supported General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War of 1812-1815 and The First Seminole War (1817-18). Because of his participation in the drafting and signing of The Treaty of Indian Springs of 1825 that led to...
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...One real world problems I have encountered would be the day my husband and I got fired from our jobs in the same week. This incident happened about two years ago when the economy was starting to go down and the recession was just a reflection on what was to come. I had just started working as a call center agent for Kaiser Permanente working the graveyard shift; this had been the first job I had taken with those hours. In order to work permanently for Kaiser Permanente there is a probation period of four months, during these four months an employee cannot call in sick without a doctor’s note, cannot be late to a shift more than twice, and cannot call in to be absent. One day I had a really bad migraine and ear ache and decided to call in sick. The next day when I went back to work I had forgotten to get a doctor’s note to take to work and my supervisor had advice me to get one the following day or my job could be in jeopardy. The week went by and I had forgotten about the note, when my probation evaluation was up that incident came up and the department supervisor decided I had to be terminated. About three days earlier my husband was also terminated from his job due to our childcare issues. Now that it happened and time has passed to reflect on what went wrong I believe a way to solve this problem in a persuasive thinking manner would have been for myself to go to work that day and speak with my supervisor and explain to him that I knew the rules of calling in sick during the...
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...Business Scenario Pt. 3 - Kaiser in Kava Mgt/350 1-12-12 Yvonne Richardson Implementation of a decision is necessary for any organization to move in the direction of accomplishing its planned objective. Monitoring and evaluation of the decision is also needed to have an effective implementation. What improves the performance of an organization is evaluating decisions. Evaluating decisions will inform the organization if the solution that was implemented met the objectives of the organization. This paper will discuss the logic and strategy for implementing a solution to Kaiser Permanente establishing a presence on the Island of Kava. The paper will also discussed is the influence of implementing and evaluating the resources and procedures vital for decision-making, and evaluates the ethical implications of a solution from the perspective of stakeholders. The mission of Kaiser Permanente is to provide high quality, affordable healthcare services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve (Crane, 2002). Kaiser feels the essential components for an organization to be successful on the Island of Kava is the commitment to satisfying their customers, increase the value of their shareholder, and boosting initiatives of the community are. Kaiser’s top and mid level management team have approved the proposal to build a first-rate medical facility on Kava. Creating a greater presence on Kava is one of the main goals to the resolution that Kaiser will put...
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...Causes and Prevention of Burnout in Human Services Shanah Magee BSHS 461 4/8/2013 Dr. Edward Armstrong People working in the helping field are subject to conditions that can lead to depletion or even impairment, such as the emotionally intense nature of the helping relationship and increasingly heavy caseloads. Burnout is a serious issue in human services. According to Johnson and Stone (1987), burnout “refers to a state of physical, in emotionally demanding situations” (p. 67). Factors that contribute to burnout and methods used to prevent burnout will be discussed in this paper. Individual, cultural, organizational, supervisory, and social support factors can lead to burnout. Some factors that correlate with burnout within an individual include overload, insufficient compensation, and lack of recognition. A heavy workload can be tiring and often causes an individual to work longer hours than he or she would like. This can lead to an individual feeling “out of control” because most time is being spent working instead of resting or doing things that give life value. Cultural factors...
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...Projects Objective: Kaiser Permanente would like to rollout a new companywide compliance system. They are requiring at least 10 hours of on hands training for all of their managers across the country. By the end of their training the managers will have learned the new platform as well as the new policies that were introduced to them. The goal is to have a set location that all managers from across the country will meet at for their training. All traveling expenses will be paid by Kaiser Permanente. The CEO Bernard Tyson will be provided a compilation of the feedback from every manager that participated in the training. Mr.Tyson will then use this information to evaluate how effective the training was. Project Scope: Will have 30 days to book all of the fights, hotels, order catering, and book a central location for the training. This gives the managers enough time to work their schedule around these training sessions, as most of the managers will be flying in from other states across the country. Tasks: * We need to obtain a list of all of the managers attending the training. * Book a flight a hotel package for each of the managers based on their location. * Researching a catering company that will provide both breakfast and lunch. * Give each of the managers a $60 gift card to help pay for their dinners and any other minor expenses. * Set a date for the trainings to begin and end. * Set an agenda for the trainings sessions such as what is to...
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...The Buffalo Creek Disaster Seeing family members die before your eyes is unimaginable. Seeing family members die when maybe you could have saved them, has to be a nightmare. Understanding that nothing you did, caused this horrible event to happen, is hard to let go. Gerald M.Stern writes the story of The Buffalo Creek Disaster, how a coal cleaning impoundment dam burst, killing 125 people injuring more than 1000 and causing over 4000 people to be homeless. Stern describes victims losing family members before their eyes, and the devastation caused by the flood. The writer also describes the causes of the disaster, and action he and his legal team team took on behalf of the victims, because it was, “the right thing [to do]” (21). This story tells how Stern and his colleagues worked as a team, made their way through the US legal system, and find justice for the victims. “One [Saturday] morning in February [26th] 1972… A coal company’s massive coal-refuse pile…collapsed without warning…killing 125 people mostly women and children” (Prologue). This horrible event captured the nation’s attention. Filmed news reports showed the black water rushing through the canyon that paralleled buffalo creek in the State of West Virginia. The high waters washed houses, people, telephone poles, rubbish, irreplaceable personal possessions and keepsakes away forever. Stearns an attorney, had helped with the civil rights struggle in the 1960’s and wanted to help the flood victims recover from the...
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...“First Day of My Life” Conor Oberst was born on February 15th 1980 in Omaha Nebraska. He has been writing, recording and performing since 1992. He is mostly known for his work with the group “Bright Eyes” but he has also done solo projects and side projects such as Desaparicidos. Conor is also one of the founding members of Saddle Creek Records and Team Love Records, which started such bands as Rilo Kiley, The Faint, and Azura Ray. With Bright Eyes, Conor has released 15 studio albums to this day. In 2005 the band came out with two albums at once, “Digital Ash in a Digital Urn” and “I’m Wide Awake it’s Morning.” The song I have chosen comes from “I’m Wide Awake…” and is the 6th track on the album. It’s a slow acoustic song about love, and love not being returned but overall has an upbeat tempo and meaning. The song is all done acoustic with no percussion or electrical instruments, just the singer and the guitar, with very little other background instruments that you can only sometimes pick out backing up the guitar. This soft approach really lets you listen to the lyrics without being distracted and helps you feel the overall meaning of the song. With the lighter than normal background music and his soft-spoken voice the song is an easy listen that has a lot of emotion behind it. The style of writing he uses for his lyrics are very basic. He uses common words without any catchy hooks or chorus, which, to me makes his words have a deeper meaning. He’s not writing or making...
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...Most if not all, I believe, are familiar with the saying, “All good things must come to an end.” Human nature would cause us to frown when something good finally ends. But I remember an author say, “Every ending is also a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time.” It is with great privilege, that I lead this turnover ceremony, filled not with sadness for the ending of my term, nor with regrets for the things I have failed to do in my position, but only hopeful of the next and many other generations of leaders to come. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow students for entrusting me to your care. I thank the teachers for the utmost support and guidance for the past year. Surely, the successes of the student council government are not only to the merit of the members, but also to all of you. I understand that a year of leadership could never be enough to address every student’s concern. As I turnover this Key of Responsibility, I also am turning over the many student issues and concerns that I have failed to address before. Receive this key and do not deem this as a burden or a cross to carry, for leadership is a privilege of the few. But remember, that it is a privilege that will cause you hardships; it is not for the faint of heart. Contrary to what you may see, the real key of responsibility is intangible. It is not a mere prop to accessorize this program. Therefore, to the next leaders and members of the Student Council Government 2016-2017, take...
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