...Sloan School of Management Owens & Minor A What external pressures does O&M face? U.S. healthcare expenditures are rising due to demographic trends and technological advances, so medical supply is growing sector. However, insurance companies and government agencies have changed from cost-plus to fixed rate reimbursement for hospitals. Hospitals are passing along cost pressures to distributors. Stockless and JIT systems at hospitals require smaller, more frequent deliveries Customer consolidations have increased customer power, and in turn led to distributor consolidations. Competition from manufacturer-owned distributors. 15.963 [Spring 2007] Managerial Accounting & Control 2 Owens & Minor A What is O&M’s role in the supply chain? Primarily to break bulk, own, hold and manage inventory. Provide credit to hospitals. Transmit sales information to manufacturers. Monitor compliance with pricing contracts. How has this role evolved? It now includes: making smaller, more frequent deliveries to stockless and JIT customers; providing end-user kits – O&M no longer just wholesale, but also retail, source; providing hospitals with usage information and material management support – hospitals can lower their own storage costs and identify outsourcing opportunities. 15.963 [Spring 2007] Managerial Accounting & Control 3 Owens & Minor A What behavioral distortions...
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...Juvenile Delinquency Chapter Two - Assignment Three Scenario A Question1 The situation that Shatiek finds himself in is a sad and unfortunate one. However, as a juvenile judge I would treat him as a minor. Having considered all the available evidence and information, it is clear that the young man has been influenced by the society. Crime and drugs are all he knows about. The young man has never had the opportunity in his short life to try and be anybody else other than that. The courts should provide the young man with this opportunity. I would place him in a youth facility for a prolonged stay to help him. Question 2 A 16-year-old like Shatiek may or may not deserve a second chance. It is determined by the evidence and information adduced in court concerning the particular young 16 old. Question 3 Shatieks's behavior is very much common among adolescent boys especially in the low-end areas and estates. Young boys are introduced very early in their lives into crime, drugs and firearms. Scenario B Question 1 The children should be prosecuted in a juvenile court. They should be locked up in a youth facility for a period. The service would allow them realize the seriousness of their actions. It would arrest this deviant behavior before is spills out of control. Question 2 There is sufficient evidence to justify crimes among the participants of the sex ring. Whatever missing evidence or piece of information there is can easily be investigated by the...
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...Pep-Rally mainly because this is my last year and my last year to enjoy with my class family. Also my little sister is running for homecoming freshman court and I would like to see her win. I’m not asking for much but another chance at everything. I know I was caught in the group shooting dice but I have never been in trouble for that type of thing I was just running with the wrong crowed and at the wrong time but I learned to start taking responsibility for myself. I understand I would not be in this situation if I was in class doing my work. I give my word that if you let me go, I would not get caught up in any more mess. I’m a good student with good grades and I just got on track this year and I’m ready to continue that. This was just minor set back for a major come back. And I promise things a get better with in time. But I willing to stand as a young man a own up to what I have done and own up as a young man to change. That’s my word. Lesson learned by: Jonathan...
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...Should the minimum age of criminal responsibility be raised? ‘Boys will be boys’, but at what age does this no longer apply? At what age is a boy expected to take on the responsibilities of a man? The Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (s.16) provides that ‘It shall be conclusively presumed that no child under the age of ten years can be guilty of an offence’. This means that once a child in the UK reaches the age of ten they are as exposed and liable to the full weight of the law the same as any adult. The UK currently has the lowest minimum age of criminal responsibility (except Scotland at 8 but cannot be prosecuted until 12) within the European Union. This places the UK significantly below the average of 14 years old. There seems to be little justification for this deviance from the norm in regards to the minimum age of responsibility in the UK and there have been considerable publications pushing for the UK to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the last decade, providing substantial evidence in favour of doing so. The evidence supporting the need to raise this minimum age can be found not only in psychology and scientific research regarding the brain development of youth and autonomy of children at this age, but also the severe social implications of criminalizing our youth. In order to argue that the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) should be raised it will be necessary to identify and evaluate this evidence, as well as identifying...
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...the author uses a pattern of introducing mysteries that kept my attention. Irving kept my attention because he left the mysteries unsolved until the end He didn’t develop the plot directly. The pattern he uses is a pattern of suspense. For example he spent all of Chapter 1 explaining several unimportant stories and then at the end he finally tells the story of the baseball. Chapter 1- “Every Trip is a Quest” * Our quester: John A place to go: A stated reason to go there: He wants to figure out who is father is Challenges and trials: Owen kills John’s mother before she could tell him who is father is. The real reason to go: In the end John is feeling guilty about Owens’s death and he is trying to deal with the effects on his life * John has learned who is father is and he also understands that he feels guilty for all the deaths that have happened. Owens’s story had awoken his belief in God. Owen was on a quest to work for God. Owen went through his quest...
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...Jackie Robinson had a hard childhood. His father left one day to go to Memphis to look for a new job and never came home. Being the youngest child Jackie could not help his mom make money like his older brothers and sister but whenever he got the chance to help he did. Since Jackie's mom worked all day and there was no one to stay home with him, Jackie went to school with his older sister Willa Mae. While she was in class he was outside playing in the sandbox. His older brother Mack was the athlete of the family while Jackie was little. He came in second place to Jesse Owens in the Berlin Olympic 200 meter dash. When Jackie grew up he attended his local high school. After breaking many sports records he had many college offers. Jackie decided to go to UCLA so his brother Frank could attend all his games, but a few weeks before Jackie's first college game was played Frank was killed in a motorcycle accident. It took him a long time to recover from that loss. ===================================================================== introduction Most people have seen the movie 42 and probably didn't get all of the information about jackie Robinson or get the truth about Jackie Robinson so im here to tell you the rest or the truth about jackie robinson. And he was a brave man and he ===================================================================== conclusion So based on what Jackie Robinson accomplished for himself and for all black people and based on the fact that...
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...Jesse Owens The seventh child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his new schoolteacher gave him the name that was to become known around the world. The teacher was told "J.C." when she asked his name to enter in her roll book, but she thought he said "Jesse". The name stuck and he would be known as Jesse Owens for the rest of his life. His early life was marked by poverty and he was forced to take many menial jobs such as delivering goods and working in a shoe repair shops. However, he was able to develop his passion for running and athletics; from an early age he was marked as having great potential talent. In later life he gave much credit to Charles Riley, his high school coach who encouraged him and made allowances for his difficulty in making evening training sessions because Jesse had to work in a shoe repair shop. Jesse Owens rose to national prominence in 1933, when he equalled the world record (9.4 seconds) for the 100 yard dash. He attended Ohio State University, but without a scholarship he had to continue working part time. At the time, America was a highly segregated society and when traveling with the team, Jesse had to suffer the indignities of eating at separate restaurants and staying at different hotels. One of his great athletic feats occurred in 1935, where in one track meet he broke three...
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...the most influential events in American history occurred when Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This accomplishment and others that he would achieve in his life time, given the historical context in which he rose to fame, inspired people for many generations. Jesse Owens created a historic legacy not just because of his record finishes on the track, but also due to the challenging times in which he competed. Born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama, Jesse Owens grew up working on several farms. Jesse’s father, a sharecropper, worked for little pay farming other peoples’ land. As young children, Jesse and his six siblings picked cotton on a rich man’s farm in Alabama. At age nine the Owens family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Jesse worked in grocery stores as a nine year old in Cleveland to bring in extra money for his family. (Raatma 8-9) Jesse began running track and field in middle school. In 1928 he set many middle school records including jumping almost twenty-three feet in the long jump (“About Jesse Owens” 1). Jesse went to East Technical High School in the 1930s where he continued to set records and develop as a track and field star. In fact, in his Junior Year, at the National Interscholastic Championship, Jesse set the 220-yard dash record and tied the world record in the 100-yard dash. The city of Cleveland, in order to demonstrate their pride, honored Jesse Owens with a citywide parade marking his debut into the spotlight. (Raatma...
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...emotively persuades readers that individual anguish has detrimental effects on soldier’s lives intensifying their suffering. The texts use third person narrative to create emotive circumstances which manipulate the reader into understanding the suffering as either mass or individual. The writers’ portrayal of individual suffering was the most poignant compared to the subversion of widespread suffering. The texts expose the stigmatization of physical disability as a cause of individual suffering. Historically, the dependence of disabled life reflects the burden faced by soldiers of returning to normality. Wilfred Owen’s poem Disabled explores the first-hand impacts and consequences of war, coupled with the persistent individual suffering. Owen became infamous during the war as his poetry extracted the distorted views of the home-front and revealed reality. The metaphor, “put them to bed”[2] symbolizes the individual suffering caused by dependence, and also the neglect caused through others’ ignorance to their needs. The dependence of...
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...The scariest clowns in pop culture today (-- removed HTML --) Okay, let’s just put it out there. Clowns are terrifying. If you don’t think so, then you have been blessed by not seeing any kind of movie or reading any book with a killer clown in it. Once you have, clowns will always be terrifying. There also isn’t just one scary clown in pop culture. There are a lot of them. Brace yourself for these scary clowns. Pennywise, from the movie It Obviously, Pennywise from the movie It is on the scary clown list. Just look at him. He’ll have no problem murdering children…oh wait - he’s already been there and done that. After seeing this movie you will avoid the circus and never hire a clown for any kind of birthday party, ever. (-- removed HTML --) Pennywise, from the TV mini-series Pennywise from the TV mini-series is listed here because he’s actually scarier than the movie version. How is that possible, you ask? Because this Pennywise played by Tim Curry looks just like a normal clown. You would never suspect that this clown could go around killing children, and that makes him scarier. (-- removed HTML --) The Joker Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight was scary because he was a complete psychopath. He had no feelings or emotions or empathy. He was there to simply watch the world burn. That’s scary in a different way than Pennywise is. It can be argued that the Joker is scarier because that kind of killer, devoid of feeling, can and probably does exist in our reality...
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...Cross Cultural Perspectives Derrick K. Henry Sr. ETH/316 October October 10, 2014 Donna Craft Ohio- based Owens Illinois is glass giant in the glass business, with more than 20,000 employees and more than 80 factories in over 20 countries. Serving primarily the food and beverage industries, Owen Illinois has been on the Fortune 500 list since it has been established in the 1950’s, with revenues of over 7 billion in 2009 and with the bulk of business occurring outside the United States. Since then e then it has become known as the world’s leader in glass making in 20 countries. The headquarters is located in Perrysburg, Ohio, and operates in four regions which are in Asia Pacific, Latin America, North America, and Europe. Cultural issues that affect Owen’s are the ethnicity of various plants outside the United States. Salaries vary for skilled labor from various plants in other countries due to the economy. A U.S. supervisor retains his normal pay and sometimes an increase in salary also accompanies a relocation package in other regions of the world. A non U.S. worker receives less in foreign country working for Owens but due to their relocation to the U.S. an increase will accompany them only if they decide to remain in a United States plant. Collaborating with the global organizations has been highly encouraged as well as with any organization for the benefit of being competitive and seeking best practices throughout the organization. Identification...
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...James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens September 12, 1913 March 31, 1980 he was a American track and field athlete and four time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games.He achieved three world records. Owens specialized in the sprints,long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history. Owens won international fame with four gold medals. . Jesse Owens was the youngest of ten children, three girls and seven boys, born to Henry Cleveland Owens. Jesse Owens greatest achievement was in a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935, during the Big Ten meet. Owens ran a dry cleaning business and worked as a gas station attendant to earn a living. Jesse Owens...
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...roaring crowd and everyone cheering them on and wanting them to well just so they can say they were there when they saw that person make history, and Jesse Owens had it all. Jesse Owens was one of the best track and field athletes to ever live. He played a large real in the cold war between the United States and Germany before World War II. Jesse Owens had a very outstanding track and field career way back from when he was a kid in high school all the way up to when he was competing in the 1936 Olympic Games. James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 (Turini). His family was a poor sharecropping family from Oakville, Alabama (Turini). Owens parents were named Henry and Emma Owens. His father was a son to former slaves and grew up in the same town as Jesse had. Henry spent most of his life afraid of...
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...Frank Vargas Professor Beverly Whitson English 52 24 March 2014 The Era We Live In What’s one of the worst parts about living life? It can be not being able to find that one true love in life, or even living with regret in your heart. I always hear conversations about people being together with a person they don’t love, or people talking about something they wish they could have done when they had the chance, but were too concerned about another factor in their lives, now having to live life full of regrets. Like Gil Pender says, “That’s just the era we line in…” In the 2011 film, Midnight In Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen, tells the story of Gil Pender’s, played by Owen Wilson, longing for self-fulfillment and his love for historical 1920’s Paris, France. The film also stars veteran actress, Rachael McAdams, playing Gil’s significant other, Inez. The film starts off with Gil and Inez, two engaged Americans in modern Paris having a little vacation. On a lonesome late night stroll, Gil finds himself lost in the backstreets of Paris and sees an old car from the 20’s drive up to him with open doors. Ready for an adventure in Paris he decides to get into the vehicle. Little does he know that he just stepped into a time portal transporting Gil back to the wonderful times of 1920’s Paris. Confused and full of awe, he assures himself that, “He was born too late.” While trying to figure out where he is, he runs into another young American couple, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald...
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...Roof: Tear off two layers of shingles on house and clean up debris and haul away. House will be protected from shingles that are torn off. Install new chimney flashing, new roof to wall tin flashings, new metal valleys, new 6” of ice and water shield, new ridge vent and new ridge cap. Install new synthetic shingle underlayment, new pipe flashing, tuck point the chimney. New Owens Corning Duration shingles: $11,900 New Owens Corning Oakridge shingles: $11,400 Gutters: Install 5” with 3x4 downspouts: House $1530 Payment is as follows: 1/3 at signing and 2/3 is due upon completion. Terms and Conditions: The owner or agent certifies that he has read this agreement, and terms and conditions have been explained to him and that he fully understands them; that there is no understanding verbal or otherwise than that contained in this agreement. All measurements and depths are approximate. All materials to be at contract specifications. Contractor carries all legally required insurance. However, homeowner is responsible for permits if needed and lot line locations. Owner assumes responsibility for any landscaping repairs and gives contractor permission to access property with any equipment. Lien waivers are available upon completion. Buyer and contractor agree if any disputes arise throughout this transaction it shall be settled through arbitration. In no way shall the contractor be liable for any legal expenses. In the event of cancellations, prior to start of work...
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