...Warehousing plays a vital part in a logistics system. In the past, we always thought that warehouse is used for storage of inventories. In today’s quick response, the growth of warehouse not only serves for storage, but also for movement, information transfer and valued added services. A good warehouse space and layout planning is a primary element for efficient warehouse. Tompkins and Harmelink (2004, p.240) state the purposes of warehouse layout are space usage efficiency; allowing for efficient material handling; cost efficiency; maximum flexibility and good housekeeping. Successful warehouse layout could maximize space utilization, minimize and control movement and location, and provide safety and security environment. The first step in warehouse layout planning is to consider the space requirement. Tompkins et al. (1996, p.430) state space conservation, space limitations, accessibility and orderliness are some factors on designing layout. In layout planning, as space will be limited by floor loads, truss, the height of ceiling, etc, it should be maximized utilization of concentration and cube and also minimized honeycombing. To optimize space utilization, it is not only developed by horizontally but also by vertically. Space concentration and cube utilization can benefit for the flexibility and ability for bulky receipts such as higher and thicker materials. Tompkins and Smiths (1998, p.243) describe honeycombing is storage space losing due to improper use of storage capacity...
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...refreshing witnessing the captivating beauty of the colorful blue water. Immediately after exiting my vehicle a swarm of seagulls were flying above me chirping as loud as horn. Proceeding to walk closer to the water the potent smell of nature emerged it smelled like a breath of fresh air. Essentially the taste of salt was in the air. Sitting down by the nearby wooden bench made me feel truly at peace with Mother Nature. The sun smiled at me while I relaxed on the bench witnessing the beautiful bright blue water flow in perfect symmetry reflecting against the powerful sun and the clouds. Truly fascinated by the captivating blue water my adventure continues, excitedly walking down the cement pathway to the dock area to discover more fascinating sensations. On my journey to the dock there was a group of joggers that apparently jog...
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...together for a good ole game of cards! I haven't played for so long, and i lost all my snacks we keep as game. We sat for a meal and had chicken. We picked it up when we docked somewhere and we cooked it. Sadly it was nothing special and it was just chicken and rice. Days like this make this voyage much less lonelier. Spirits are high and tomorrow continues to lurk closer. December 24, 1872 Unknown Destination, somewhere outside of England. Its raining! The ship is starting to take a toll and the waves are rocking us around! Today is chaotic and a lot of hassle. But i fear for my life. I think i have came down with scurvy. They tell me to toughen up but i have hardly any strength. Being on a ship does not allow any medical help until we dock, and even then we hardly have any money. Research is slow right now but they're all so busy fighting the rain. They've been giving me fruit, saying that it helps cure it but i hardly feel any better. I feel weak, especially my legs. Its scary because in this weather i need the strength. I'm exhausted and i'm out of it constantly. It gets hard to breathe at times and yesterday small blue spots started to appear on my skin. Im not sure what to do. I guess ill tough it out...
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...This court case deals with the sinking of the barge, ‘Anna C,’ which took place on January 4, 1944. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company chartered the Anna C at Conners Marine Company in the New York Harbor at Pier 52. Grace Line, Inc., the charterer of the tug, ‘Carroll,’ was sent to move a barge from the adjacent pier, from which the Anna C was tied to. In the process of moving the barge, the lines between the barges at Pier 52 and the Public Pier were removed. To get to the barge, Carroll’s crew had to adjust the line on the pier. Because the line was not properly adjusted by the crew members, some of the barges broke away from the pier. At the time of this occurrence, there were no crew members on the barge of the Anna C; therefore, no one realized the condition of the barge. The Carroll Towing Company tug negligently caused the Anna C to break free and drift down the pier, causing it to hit a tanker’s propeller, which caused a hole on the side of the Anna C. Since there were no crew members aboard the Anna C, no one noticed that it was slowly sinking. The contents of the Anna C, which was flour owned by the United States, sunk in the incident at Pier 52. If any of the crew members had realized the condition of the barge, the Anna C could have been saved, along with the contents. The sinking of the barge results of two concurrent causes, as stated in the case: a misadjusted mooring line and an unattended barge. The question of the case concerns the responsibility for the sinking...
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...dented aluminum sides, and sun cracked leather seats that were once grey, now sun-bleached to a dirty white. The boat is tied to our skinny wooden dock. The dock has freshly stained wood, and a salvaged ladder hanging off the end of it so you can spend those hot summer days swimming and taking in the sun with ease. For those that would bore of just sitting at the dock and occasionally get in the water, the boat offers a world of opportunities. Getting on the boat creates a large shockwave on the water, reflecting the sun onto the wall of overhanging trees, making everything look as though it is swaying. Untying the boat from its moorings is a careful process, as the weathered and frayed rope may prick you or give you splinters. Those are a pain. Flicking the motors into reverse sends the boat into a vibration fit and it creates a choppy noise to go with it. After bouncing out of the dock, you get hit with the smell, a sharp smell of fresh air with the pungent undertones of fish. Many find this smell to be off-putting or gross, but to me its the smell of summertime and my childhood. Switching from reverse to forward causes the front of the boat to jump up out of the water and begin hurtling along the surface of the lake at the blistering speed of 5mph. Taking in the scenery, you can see that the lake has an odd shape to it. Our dock is in a large open end, with two different paths, one going about half a mile down a narrowing canal-like strait, and the other goes into another...
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...Research Outline Name: Institution: Topic: The Effects of Media on Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing Outcomes Hypothesis: The teenage girls that are exposed to watching television are more likely to become teenage mothers than the ones that are not. Abstract The study will look into the effects the specific programmes have on the sexual behaviour of teenage girls. The specific program that will be understudy is the MTV franchise called 16 and Pregnant and how the reality series that show how a teenage mother struggles with her life influence the teenage girls. I Introduction The MTV show is quite popular among the young people but it is hard to tell whether teenage girls are influenced by such TV programmes and whether the influence is positive or negative. The impact of the program 16 and Pregnant on American teenagers will be studied in this paper to determine whether the teenage girls exposed to this program are bound to make decisions based on what they view on the program. The rate at which teenage pregnancies are happening in America is alarming and this is the reason why this study is carried out. To determine whether media is playing a role in the trend and to which extent the media is responsible for the vice. II Background a. Content of TV shows b. Previous study on the effect of media on teenage pregnancies III Description of data a. Twitter b. Nielson Data c. Google trends IV A descriptive Analysis of the Exposure V Empirical Methodology a. Analyzing...
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...Individual Paper Helen Callahan HCS/341 June 11, 2012 Mark Stricklett On becomming a Human Resource Manager Training and development in healthcare are extremely important. The many varied workplaces that healthcare workers are found make training and development just as varied. Large and small medical practices, hospitals, therapy centers and testing facilities all require employees skilled in specific tasks as well as administrative functions. Interpersonal skills among the staff are also necessary for the organization to be effective and serve the patients. Dealing with patient’s health and financial issues are also part of a healthcare worker’s skills. Developing training programs within a medical practice may be in the form of on the job training for the office functions which contribute to the profitability of the practice. Depending on the size of the office they may be done by the more experienced workers explaining the processes of the front office, insurance and keeping all the records. Small offices may still use paper records, so the need for accurate filing of patient information would be one of the most important and tedious skills required. Electronic medical recordkeeping requires additional knowledge of computer skills. Hospital healthcare workers skills are much more specific than those of office workers. While in an office a medical assistant may be responsible for all testing such as electrocardiograms, X-rays and phlebotomy; in a hospital these functions...
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...TOMASHYK Yaroslav Date of birth Nationalities Contact details 4 September 1981 Ukrainian, Romanian / Work Permit: European Union Email: yaroslav.tomashyk@insead.edu / ytomashyk@gmail.com Mobile: + 33 6 82 06 31 96 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010 - 2013 EXTENT Associates LLC Co-founder of a boutique consulting firm with emphasis on finance advisory Ukraine Partner • Developed business practice from a sole-practitioner to 8 full-time and 15 outsourced subcontractors with service revenue of USD 600k • Introduced offering of outsourced CFO services and actuarial services • Served as interim CFO/Chief Restructuring Officer for two clients; hired, trained and reviewed performance of finance teams including CFO coaching for one client • Facilitated divestment of real estate business: negotiated and closed deals on sale of real estate projects worth USD 30M (commercial properties and hotels) for a client 2008 - 2010 Avis Rent-A-Car (Ukraine) Ukraine Leasing and car rental company (~2000 cars, USD 25M in assets), franchisee of Avis Rent-A-Car in Ukraine; acquired in 2008 by TBIF Financial Services (Netherlands) CFO • Executed overall financial management of the company, evaluated and approved all significant management decisions as member of the Board of Directors; directly reported to Supervisory Board (Central European HQ in Bulgaria) • Headed post-acquisition restructuring of the company; achieved increase in operating profit margin by more than 60% by introducing new pricing...
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...Warehouse by Ed Acker Steven Winter Associates, Inc. Last updated: 04-23-2008 Overview Warehouses, defined here, are facilities that provide a proper environment for the purpose of storing goods and materials that require protection from the elements. Warehouses must be designed to accommodate the loads of the materials to be stored, the associated handling equipment, the receiving and shipping operations and associated trucking, and the needs of the operating personnel. The design of the warehouse space should be planned to best accommodate business service requirements and the products to be stored/handled. The economics of modern commercial warehouses dictate that goods are processed in minimal turnaround time. The different types of warehouses include: * Heated and unheated general warehouses—provide space for bulk, rack, and bin storage, aisle space, receiving and shipping space, packing and crating space, and office and toilet space; * Refrigerated warehouses—preserve the quality of perishable goods and general supply materials that require refrigeration. Includes freeze and chill space, processing facilities, and mechanical areas; and * Controlled humidity (CH) warehouses—similar to general warehouses except that they are constructed with vapor barriers and contain humidity control equipment to maintain humidity at desired levels. Special-designed warehouses meeting strict requirements can also provide liquid storage (fuel and nonpropellants), flammable...
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...A profitable $200 million company with 100-plus stores on both sides of the Tasman, clothing retailer Hallenstein Glasson knows more than most about what it takes to prosper in the pressure cooker business of retailing. IT and retailing is a potentially volatile mix. Multiple retail outlets require point of sale (POS) systems that can handle customer peaks and troughs and an army of system users. There is significant potential for both operator error and systems downtime. The company had rolled out a new POS system to its network of stores, but wanted to centralise support and ‘cookie cut’ IT. If each store could use identical systems then support and maintenance would be simpler and largely troublefree. Graeme Popplewell, finance director, Hallenstein Glasson Holdings, says his interest in outsourcing the management and support of the group’s trans-Tasman POS and back office systems was its criticality to business and the knowledge and resources a specialist provider could bring to the job. “Outsourcing is really horses for courses. If were to handle our own helpdesk that’s a seven days a week affair and you really have to be able to over-staff to manage it correctly. The job was ideally suited to someone with a depth of IT resource,” he says. Paramount was speed of issue resolution. He didn’t want his stores exposed when things went wrong. Rather than relying on the availability of key staff and ongoing staff training, Popplewell wanted to identically...
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..."Organizational culture is like an invisible glue that holds an organization together" (Ivancevich, Konopaske, and Matteson,2014). Edgar Schien defines organizational culture us a pattern of basic assumptions that has worked well enough to be considered valid, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems (Schein, 1985). Organizational climate on the other hand can be defined as "the meanings people attach to interrelated bundles of experiences they have at work" (Schein, 1985). Some differences between organizational culture and organizational climate include that an organizational culture is something that has been formed over many years. It is basically the way one is expected to behave based on a set of rules that may or may not be written. It may take five to ten years to actually change an organizations culture when in contrast an organizational climate can be changed within minutes, hours, days, or weeks. An organizational climate may be easier to change by managers by direct communication. Organizational culture is more long-term while organizational climate is short-term. Also, organizational culture can be compared to personality while climate can be compared to mood. An example of organizational culture and climate in a previous work experience is one experienced while working for a large satellite television company. The culture of the company was that they provided the best satellite tv service...
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...Comparison of Zooplankton Diversity of the T-Dock and Boat Basin in Galveston, TX Introduction The zooplankton of interest in this study are mesoplankton which range from 0.2 – 20mm (Johnson & Allen, 2005). Zooplankton are diverse and include larval invertebrates, larval fish, copepods and other holoplankton. Zooplankton are found in all waters of the world. Zooplankton are found in wide ranges of temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen. However, they are found in less abundance in areas with chemical runoff (Vecchione, 1989). There does not appear to be a seasonal change in abundance of zooplankton but more zooplankton were caught during night time sampling than during the day (Allen et al, 2008). Since zooplankton are abundant in about any type of water, one would think that the diversity between the T-Dock and Boat Basin would be equal. However, I believe there will be more diversity at the T-Dock as it is open to the channel and does not get much direct boat traffic. Also the waters at the T-Dock are constantly moving in and out with the tides and this would improve nutrients in the vicinity....
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...Laccetti (professor of humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology) and Molski, in their essay entitled The Lost Art of Writing,[12][13] are critical of the terms, predicting reduced chances of employment for students who use such slang, stating that, "Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be 'lol' when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms." Fondiller and Nerone[14] in their style manual assert that "professional or business communication should never be careless or poorly constructed" whether one is writing an electronic mail message or an article for publication, and warn against the use of smileys and these abbreviations, stating that they are "no more than e-mail slang and have no place in business communication". Yunker and Barry[15] in a study of online courses and how they can be improved through podcasting have found that these slang terms, and emoticons as well, are "often misunderstood" by students and are "difficult to decipher" unless their meanings are explained in advance. They single out the example of "ROFL" as not obviously being the abbreviation of "rolling on the floor laughing" (emphasis added). Haig[1] singles out LOL as one of the three most popular initialisms in Internet slang, alongside BFN ("bye for now") and IMHO ("in my honest/humble opinion"). He describes the various initialisms of Internet slang as convenient, but warns that "as ever...
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...Do Anchor Babies have the Right to Dock on U.S. Land? Jamie Rogers Work Force Diversity Mr. McDonald February 12, 2009 Do Anchor Babies have the Right to Dock on U.S. Land? It is well known that a person born in the United States is an automatic citizen regardless of the mother's citizenship status. However, the United States is unusual in its offer of citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Only a few European countries still grant automatic citizenship at birth. The United Kingdom and Australia repealed their U.S. style policy in the 1980s after witnessing abuses similar to those plaguing the U.S. today. Why does the United States continue to allow a practice subject to widespread fraud? The answer lies in how American jurisprudence has interpreted the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Babies born to illegal alien mothers within U.S. borders are called anchor babies because under the 1965 immigration Act, they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. Jackpot babies are another term. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of native-born Black Americans, whose rights were being denied as recently-freed slaves. In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by writing: "Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and...
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...Securing Your Boat to a Dock After successfully parking your boat alongside a dock or in a slip, now it’s time to make sure the boat stays in place, using dock lines – also called mooring lines – to tie the boat to the dock.In the truest of the nautical vernacular, one isn’t tying up to the slip or dock, one is ensuring the vessel is “made fast” to the structure. To stick with our simple-is-good philosophy, we’re addressing boating on a body of water that has no wind, waves, or fluctuations in water depth. The Equipment You’ll need four to six long dock lines (stout lines with a permanent eye spliced on one end) to secure the boat to the dock, and at least two fenders (heavy-duty cushions hung over the side of a boat to absorb the force of contact between a boat and a dock) to prevent the craft from touching the pier.Line Art As your boat eased near the dock, your crew probably placed a couple of fenders over the hull side, and hastily tied the boat to the nearest dock cleats or pilings – so far, so good.We often see boats tied up with only two lines – one at the bow and another at the stern – with each line running at about a 90-degree angle from the boat to the dock. These two lines will secure the boat to the dock, but the boat may still drift slightly frontwards or backwards (fore and aft), potentially allowing the craft to bump into other boats, especially at a crowded pier.The correct method of making your vessel fast to the dock or slip is quick and easy, usually involving...
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