...In the book Countdown by Deborah Wiles, the setting is a huge part of the story, especially the time. On page 21, there is the practice air raid siren which shows that this is a time where war can happen at any time and on page 351, it was mentioned that the Cuban Missile Crisis had finally ended further proving that this was a time of nuclear war. The time period was clearly stated a few times such as on page 111 claiming it was “3:13 pm on Saturday afternoon, October 20, 1962,” and on 370 “October 31, 1962.” The terms used also determined the time period as on page 48, two moving guys were referred to as “two colored men” as opposed to not stating the skin color status like we do today which shows we were still in a time of civil rights for African Americans in this book. Another term used was stationwagon instead of car on page 26 showing once again that this book took place in older times. The final thing determining time period was the fact that Mercurochrome is commonly used on page 36. Mercurochrome isn’t deemed safe anymore for medical uses as of the nineties so this book has just proved itself ultimately to be in 1962....
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...The 882 4BH 1000 Best Songs Of All Time Countdown (2012) Website List Number 1000 999 998 997 996 995 994 993 992 991 990 989 988 987 986 985 984 983 982 981 980 979 978 977 976 975 974 973 972 971 970 969 968 967 966 Title Take A Letter Maria It's My Party I'll Never Fall In Love Again I Say A Little Prayer I Wanna Wake Up With You Nice To Be With You Pasadena If I Were A Carpenter Could You Ever Love Me Again Classic I Can Dream About You Different Drum It Never Rains In Southern California Moviestar Born To Try Rockin' Robin I Just Want To Be Your Everything Spirit In The Sky We Do It Drift Away Orinoco Flow She's Like The Wind Gimme Little Sign For Your Eyes Only Words Are Not Enough Perfect Bye Bye Love I've Never Been To Me Year Of The Cat If I Can't Have You Knock On Wood Don't Pull Your Love You've Got Your Troubles Romeo's Tune Blowin' In The Wind Artist RB Greaves Lesley Gore Bobbie Gentry Aretha Franklin Boris Gardiner Gallery John Paul Young Four Tops Gary & Dave Adrian Gurvitz Dan Hartman Stone Poneys/Linda Ronstadt Albert Hammond Harpo Delta Goodrem Henchmen Andy Gibb Norman Greenbaum R & J Stone Dobie Gray Enya Patrick Swayze Brenton Wood Sheena Easton Jon English Fairground Attraction Everly Brothers Charlene Al Stewart Yvonne Elliman Amii Stewart Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds Fortunes Steve Forbert Peter Paul & Mary 965 964 963 962 961 960 959 958 957 956 955 954 953 952 951 950 949 948 947 946 945 944 943 942 941 940 939 938 937 936 935 934 933 932 931...
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...are Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentleman”, Schulze showed respect to his employees as they were ladies and gentlemen. He also created a good work environment based on mutual respect between employers and employees, as well as between employees and co-workers. His philosophy helped the Ritz-Carlton’s annual turnover rate stay at low 20%, compared with industry average of 100%. The number reflected his strategy was helpful. Besides that, the Gold Standards helped employees understand and comprehend the organization’s atmosphere. The standards keep employees motivated in this high quality work environment and in return employees will delivery outstanding customer service, great hospitality and respect. The 7-Day Countdown to Create "Ladies and Gentlemen" The concept of "Ladies and Gentlemen" came from Schulze, the president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton. He believes that employees are not servants but are Ladies and...
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...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Countdown to the 2013 IKEA Catalogue! Petaling Jaya, 16 August 2012 – Let your imagination run wild with the infinite possibilities of making your precious moments at home come true as we count down to the launch of the much awaited 2013 IKEA Catalogue. In anticipation of the arrival of the new catalogue on 30th August, drop by the IKEA store between 21st to 29th August to visit the larger than life IKEA Countdown Room display that will showcase different room settings every day to inspire you to recreate your special moments at home with your family or loved ones. Experience the magic moments of the IKEA Countdown Room Between 21st to 29th August, the IKEA Countdown Room will feature different room settings of a home every day. From the living room and bedroom, to the kid’s room and kitchen, be inspired to complete your moments at home with IKEA. There will be a host of inspiring and engaging activities and games for the family and friends with attractive prizes up for grabs throughout all of the nine days. Loads of IKEA furniture can be won daily in the IKEA Malaysia Facebook contest from 21st to 29th August as well. Celebrity chef Anis Nabilah, host of TV cooking programmes Icip-Icip and Sesedap, will also be on hand to conduct a cookie baking demonstration. For entertainment, up and coming acoustic guitar player Amir Jahari will be serenading visitors with his mix of soulful and sweet tunes. On 21st August, popular comedian Suhaimi Yusof will host...
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...they had pursued an excellence for. More precisely, Ritz-Carlton's unique culture promises to providing a good working environment by making its employees feel their importance. Based on the case, McBride, general manager of the new Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., is responsible for opening the second Millennium Partners-owned Ritz-Carlton, in Georgetown, at the end of 2001. However, Collins, manager of hotels for Millennium Partners, pressured him about new ideas of luxury service and hotel-opening process. At this point, McBride needs to reexamine the "Seven Day Countdown", the traditional hotel-opening process, but the question is should he change Seven Day Countdown process or not? Central issue How to manage new hotel-opening process without negative impact to future relationship with Millennium Partners and Ritz-Carlton's brand Alternative solutions The first option is extending the Seven Day Countdown in order to add other essential sessions. However, it could mean using up more resources from people to funding to timing. Another...
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...accordance with the countdown instruction book just to his left. All hydraulic systems were functioning normally in the second stage of the spacecraft booster at checkpoint 1 minus 45. Keller automatically snapped his master control switch to GREEN and knew that his electronic impulse along with hundreds of others from similar consoles within the Cape Kennedy complex signaled continuation of the countdown. Free momentarily from data input, Keller leaned back in his chair, stretched his arms above his head, and then rubbed the back of his neck. The monitor lights on console 23 glowed routinely. It used to be an incredible challenge, fantastically interesting work at the very fringe of man’s knowledge about himself and his universe. Keller recalled his first day in Brevard County, Florida, with his wife and young daughter. How happy they were that day. Here was the future, the good life . . . forever. And Keller was going to be part of the fantastic, utopian future. Loudspeaker: IGNITION MINUS 35 MINUTES. Keller panicked! His mind had wandered momentarily, and he lost his place in the countdown instructions. Seconds later he found the correct place and tripped the proper sequence of switches for checkpoint 1 minus 35. No problem. Keller snapped master control to GREEN and wiped his brow. He knew he was late reporting and would hear about it later. Boy, he thought, I used to know countdown cold for seven systems monitors without countdown instructions. But now...
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...monitor 23 in accordance with the countdown instruction just to his left. All hydraulic systems were functioniing normally in the second stage of the spacecraft booster point 1 minus 45. Keller automatically snapped master control switch to GREEN and knew that his electronic impulse along with hundreds of others from similar consoles within the Cape Canaveral complex signaled continuation of the countdown. Free momentarily from data input, Keller leaned back in his chair, stretched his arms above his head, and then rubbed the back of his neck. The monitor lights on console 23 glowed routinely. It used to be an incredible challenge, fantastically interesting work at the very fringe of man's knowledge about hmself and his universe. Keller recalled his first day in Brevard County, Florida, with his wife and young daughter. How happy they were that day. Here was the future, the good life... forever. And Keller was going to be part of that fantastic, utopian future. LOUDSPEAKER: IGNITION MINUS 35 MINUTES... Keller panicked! His mind had wandered momentarily, and he lost his place in the countdown instructions. Seconds later he found the correct place and tripped the proper sequence of switches for checkpoint 1 minus 35. No problem. Keller snapped master control to GREEN and wiped his brow. He knew he was late reporting and would hear about it later. Damn! he thought, I used to know countdown cold for seven systems monitors without countdown instructions. But now... you're slipping...
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...Questions Relating to the Ritz Carlton Case Study 1. What is the essence of what the Ritz Carlton is selling? 2. How does the Ritz Carlton create Ladies & Gentlemen in only 7 days? 3. Should McBride change the 7 day countdown? 4. How would you experiment in this kind of business? 1. What is the essence of what the Ritz Carlton is selling? To its customers, The Ritz Carlton is selling Excellence; A quality driven package of unrivalled personal service, attention to detail, anticipation of and taking care of every need, and above all, respect. To treat every customer as a Lady or a Gentleman. When Patrick Mene joined The Ritz-Carlton in 1990 as the Chief Quality Officer, his primary mission was to integrate and prioritize the values and concepts of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria at all the company’s hotels around the world. MBNQA is presented annually by the President of the United States to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence The “Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence” are listed as: • Leadership • Strategic planning • Customer and market focus • Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management • Human resource focus • Process management • Business/organizational performance results The Ritz-Carlton applied for and won the award again in 1999, becoming only the second American company to earn the distinction more than once. Leadership: The management of the organisation has a considerable...
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...Lights will begin to count down from twenty (NS) and notice confusing/little action among her students. Upon counting, she will instruct her students to clean up (US). At this time, the students recognize that she has counted down from twenty and instructed them to clean up, however, they pay more attention to the verbal instruction than the countdown. During the conditioning process, Mrs. Lights will first instruct her students to clean (US) and immediately following that instruction, she will begin the countdown. This enables the group of students the be aware that she would like them everyone to have started to clean up, as well as be finished cleaning up, by the time she concludes her countdown. Upon repeating this part of the conditioning process for several days, Mrs. Lights attempts to count down again (NS) without verbal instruction (US) to see what behavior has been modified, if any. When she begins her countdown, she notices that every student in her classroom, within the first few seconds, begins to clean up their activity. Because...
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...this manual carefully; you are the expert. In these pages you will find everything you need to know to defuse even the most insidious of bombs. And remember — One small oversight and it could all be over! Page 2 of 23 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes v. 1 Defusing Bombs Defusing Bombs A bomb will explode when its countdown timer reaches 0:00 or when too many strikes have been recorded. The only way to defuse a bomb is to disarm all of its modules before its countdown timer expires. Example Bomb Front Side Modules Each bomb will include up to 11 modules that must be disarmed. Each module is discrete and can be disarmed in any order. Instructions for disarming modules can be found in Section 1. "Needy" modules present a special case and are described in Section 2. Strikes When the Defuser makes a mistake the bomb will record a strike which will be displayed on the indicator above the countdown timer. Bombs with a strike indicator will explode upon the third strike. The timer will begin to count down faster after a strike has been recorded. Strike Indicator If no strike indicator is present above the countdown timer, the bomb will explode upon the first strike, leaving no room for error. Gathering Information Some disarming instructions will require specific information about the bomb, such as the serial number. This type of information can typically be found on the top, bottom, or sides of the bomb casing. See Appendix A, B, and...
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...2 Introduction For the opening of The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington D.C. the company once again aims to achieve an excellent standard of service quality. Their excellent service is one of the main strengths and the company highly values its employees, recognizing them as one of their most important resources. The following paper will provide a thorough analysis of the case using theories that could help the Ritz-Carlton deciding on how to achieve their usual standard. Best-fit elements in Ritz-Carlton Every company has its own environment, its context in which to try and make operations as successful and rewarding as possible. Different countries, sectors, systems and employee groups are all part of it (Boxall and Purcell, 2008), while there is an increasing awareness that human resources are of high importance to a company’s performance. Considering the people of a company being such an important resource, the challenge occurs to align human resources with the company’s strategy at best possible, in order to reach its goals. This best-fit theory includes a horizontal fit, meaning the fit between different HR practices in order to establish one coherent HR system. It also includes the vertical fit, meaning the alignment of the company’s strategy with the HR practices throughout the company (Delery, 1998). The Ritz-Carlton management aims to be excellent in what they do: providing excellent service, which as they say accidentally occurs in the hotel-business. The company...
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...The Story for Little Ones: Preschool Week #16 MESSAGES FROM GOD Bible Point: God doesn’t give up on his people. God won’t give up on me. * Talk about the church you attend. Talk about what the church looks like, the people and things they see, and the sounds they hear. Then have the children draw and color a picture of the church they attend and the children may take it home to share the story with their families. * 10-15 minutes into the service start the Propresenter. Just push play and Propresenter will start the 5 minute countdown (8:40, 10:10, 11:40) * The countdown moves straight into worship and offering. Once you have started Propresenter, let it just run. (Make sure to discuss offering with the children.) * Step 1: Come Together Gather the children around the carpets and say, “Messages come to people in many different ways. Let’s say I want to send you a message. How could I do that? Allow the children to answer. Ask: * What is the best way to tell someone that you want him or her to come to your birthday party? * What is the best way to thank someone for a present? Say, “There are a lot of great ways for us to send messages to each other. God sends messages, too. In Bible days, he sent his messages through prophets. A prophet is a person whose job it is to give people messages from God. Let’s read a story about one of God’s prophets. It’s great to talk to the children each week before the story about the Bible … book of stories that God...
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...PTE Academic Offline Practice Test Overview V1 June 2011 Pearson Education Ltd 2011. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior written permission of Pearson Education Ltd. PTE Academic Offline Practice Test Overview PTE Academic PTE Academic is a computer-based test designed to test your English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. The test takes approximately three hours to complete. This includes an un-timed introduction to the test and one optional scheduled break of up to 10 minutes. There are three timed parts: Part 1: Speaking and Writing Part 2: Reading Part 3: Listening Each part may contain a number of sections. Each section is individually timed. Part Content Intro Introduction Part 1 Speaking and Writing Part 2 Reading Optional Scheduled Break Part 3 Listening Time allowed Not timed 77-93 minutes 32-41 minutes 45-57 minutes Offline Practice Test This PTE Academic Offline Practice Test includes a combination of items covering each of the language skills – speaking, writing, reading and listening – as assessed in the actual test. Most of the content includes items from the online unscored practice test. The table below shows the contents of this Offline Practice Test: Part and section Item types Part 1: Speaking Read aloud Repeat sentence Describe image Re-tell lecture Answer short question Summarize written text Write essay Multiple-choice, choose single answer Multiple-choice...
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...clearTimeout(countdown); //Resets the timer timer = 30; //Resets the score currentScore = 0; clearTimeout(currentScore); //Shows reset button document.getElementById("restart-button").style.display = "block"; //Resets number of moles shown clearTimeout(molesDisplayed); //Sets moles to starting image document.getElementById("mole-1").style.backgroundImage = "url(images/mole_1.png)"; document.getElementById("mole-2").style.backgroundImage = "url(images/mole_2.png)"; document.getElementById("mole-3").style.backgroundImage = "url(images/mole_3.png)"; document.getElementById("mole-1").style.display = "block"; document.getElementById("mole-2").style.display = "block"; document.getElementById("mole-3")...
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...Background of Casio Company In April 1946, Casio Company was established by Tadao Kashio. The first major product was the yubiwa pipe. It is a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Because of cigarettes were valuable after World War II, the invention was very successful. In 1949, Kashio and his younger brothers used their profits from the yubiwa pipe to develop their own calculators. During process, Tadao's brother possessed some knowledge of electronics; he set out to make a calculator using solenoids. In1954, a desk-sized calculator was finished. In the 1980s, this company becomes popular with budget electronic instruments and home musical keyboard instruments. The company also became well known for the wide of its wristwatches. It was the earliest manufacturers of quartz watches. It also began selling calculator watches during this time. The watches could display the time in many different time zones, temperature, atmospheric-pressure, and altitude. In 1995, the digital cameras innovations have been made by Casio. It is the first consumer 3 megapixel camera, the first true ultra-compact model, and the first digital camera to incorporate ceramic lens technology. Marketing Environment Marketing environment has classification for 4 types, there are political, social and culture, technologic and demographic. First, the model of BABY-G BA110CA, the price of this watch...
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