...Panama City Beach, Florida, with its year round warm and breezy tropical climate and beautiful white sandy beaches is home to Treasure Island Resort Condominiums. Our resort is nestled between the renowned, “Thomas Drive,” mostly notably known for its stretch along, “the world’s most beautiful beaches” and the warm blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. They are perched right in the heart of town so no matter what culinary cuisine you are in the mood for it is just a few short minutes away. If you choose a location nearby, we have a dune walk-over to make crossing Thomas Drive a little easier and safer. Then, after dinner, you can enjoy an array of outdoor activities of your choosing, such as shopping, nightlife or perhaps catch an event such as the annual Lobster Festival or Pirates of the High Seas Fest. You can check out local upcoming events here! If none of that is appealing, you are only a few short minutes from the award winning St. Andres State Park where you can enjoy many various outdoor activities such as boat tours, snorkeling, fishing, hiking trails, bicycling, scuba diving and more....
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...Ingenieria Comercial | Economic development in Panama between 1995-2010 | Taller de Economía Empresarial | | José Venegas Rojas | | Professor: John Cobin Santiago, Chile 2013 I. - Introduction. The controlling purpose of this paper is to review the academic literature about the economic development of Panama between 1995-2010 in Panama City. Panama is among the twenty economies which have grown the most in the past ten years, according to the World Bank, which curiously matches giving ones the administration of the Panama Canal by the United States to Panama in 1999. Most of the buildings in Panama City were built around 2000 and in order to observe this change, the financial statements of the country when it still belonged to the United States, will be analyzed so that it can be possible to consider a factor in the economic development in this country. On December 31, 1999, at midday the Panama Republic took administrative control of the Panama Canal after a long process of negotiation which started in 1977 with the signing of the Treaty between the President Jimmy Carter from the United States and the Panama president Omar Torrijos. This Treaty stated that it was an important issue that Panama guaranteed the neutrality of the Canal. This step of command happened after almost eighty-five years of diplomatic negotiations between the US and Panama. Many Panamanians considered the administration of the Panama Canal as its Third Independence after Independence...
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...Eric Quetschke HST 480 Research Paper During the nineteenth century the United States was growing its empire through economics, politics, and military actions. The first step in growing their empire was to limit the actions of European countries. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 asserted the United State’s position by warning European powers against any further attempts to colonize lands in the Western Hemisphere. The American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power. With the economic growth of Latin America and the Pacific the United States began to see the need for a more efficient and secure route to the east coast. The Isthmus of Panama was identified as that route and...
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...which entered theBolivarian Alternative for the Americas in response), and Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Discussions have faltered over similar points as the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks; developed nations seek expanded trade inservices and increased intellectual property rights, while less developed nations seek an end to agricultural subsidies and free trade in agricultural goods. Similar to the WTO talks, Brazil has taken a leadership role among the less developed nations, while the United States has taken a similar role for the developed nations. Free Trade Area of the Americas began with the Summit of the Americas in Miami on December 11, 1994, but the FTAA came to public attention during the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, held in Canada in 2001, a meeting targeted by massive anti-corporatization and anti-globalization protests. The Miami negotiations in 2003 met similar protests, though perhaps not as large. The last summit was...
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...Sound of the Freedom- The Liberty Bell Figure 1 Liberty Bell Forever Stamp Figure 1 Liberty Bell Forever Stamp Meaning can be found even in the most mundane of objects. For instance, consider the USA First Class stamp. On its upper left corner, the number 2008 shows that this stamp was produced in year 2008. The right side of the stamp says “USA FIRST-CLASSS FOREVER”, meaning that this postage stamp is valid for First-Class postage in the United States no matter when it is used. There is an extraordinary metal bell is in the middle of the stamp – the Liberty Bell, a venerable historic relic that I am going to analyze in the rest of this research paper. The bell was first known by the world as a metal musical instrument in ancient China. Tuned bells in that age were created and played to be performed only for imperial families and noblemen, as a symbol of power and status. Later on, bells became widely used in different religions. For example, bells played an important role in the Eastern world of Buddhism and Hinduism as temple bells. In western world, bells were commonly used as church bells or town bells for gathering people together. In 1752, the Quaker William Penn, legislator and founder of the Pennsylvania colony in 1682, had decided and commissioned the bell to be cast in London, and brought to North America to hang in the State House of the colony of Pennsylvania. “They had ordered very precisely...
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...Gideon lost his father when he was three years old. His home life was non existent as he ran away from home when he finished eighth grade and started living his life as a homeless drifter. By the time that Gideon reached the age of sixteen he had an extensive list of petty crimes. At age eighteen he was arrested in Missouri and convicted of robbery, larceny and burglary. Gideon was sentenced to ten years in prison but was released in 1932 after serving three years. Gideon would spend most of the next thirty years in poverty and in and out of prison. Throughout this time he was married four times, the first three marriages ended very quickly but the last marriage in the 1950’s would last longer. Gideon and his wife settled in Panama City, Florida after having three children who would later be taken away by welfare authorities. Gideon found work as an electrician but gambled to subsidize his low income. Gideon would not go back to jail again until 1961. On June 3, 1961 four fifths of wine, twelve bottles of Coca Cola, twelve cans of beer, about five dollars from the cigarette machine and sixty dollars from the juke box were stolen from Bay Harbor Poolroom which belonged to Ira Strickland Jr. A twenty-two year old resident that lived close by, Henry Cook, told the police that he saw Gideon get into a cab after walking out of the pool hall with a bottle of wine and pockets filled with coins. Consequently, Gideon was arrested in a nearby tavern and ordered to stand trial...
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...The Current Status and Future Prospects of the Third Party Logistics Industry in North America: The 2015 3PL CEO Survey Dr. Robert C. Lieb Professor of Supply Chain Management D’Amore-McKim School of Business Northeastern University Boston, MA Dr. Kristin J. Lieb Associate Professor of Marketing Communications Emerson College Boston, MA January 2016 The Current Status and Future Prospects of the Third Party Logistics Industry in North America: The 2015 3PL CEO Survey This paper is based upon a 2015 survey of the CEOs of 15 of the largest thirdparty logistics companies serving the North American marketplace. The survey was the 22nd iteration of this annual study, and it addressed such topics as the major dynamics driving change in that marketplace and the opportunities and problems facing 3PLs in that region. It also focused on such issues as the recent wave of largescale mergers and acquisitions in the 3PL industry, shipper and 3PL problems related to labor problems at West Coast ports, E-commerce marketplace dynamics and their impact on 3PLs, Amazon’s continued expansion into logistics services and the possibility of Uber offering 3PL-like services. The CEOs also provided one-and three-year forecasts of company and regional 3PL industry revenue growth, while identifying the major changes they believed would occur in the regional 3PL industry during the next year. The implications...
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...billions in tax refunds on an annual basis? This type of white collar crime is easily committed, all that is needed is the use of a computer with internet access and a great deal of time which a prisoner is in no shortage of having. They can educate themselves on how to hack into hundreds of databases that contains people’s personal information including social security numbers. Once that information is gathered they can begin the process of stealing tax refunds they are certainly not due by filing fraudulent income tax forms, sometimes hundreds at a time by using legitimate names and social security numbers, sometimes the names of their inmates, relatives or even people who are deceased. It is the duty of the IRS to fix this problem. This paper will highlight a few cases of inmate tax refund fraud and what measures the IRS has taken and will continue to take in order to protect innocent victims against this type of fraud. Case summaries involving inmate tax refund fraud The following cases are classic examples of how easily criminals in the U.S. Justice System are finding easy ways to commit tax refund fraud, in fact one article states that “Tax fraud appears to be a popular pastime in the nation’s prisons”2 (2 Prison Inmates Claim $1.1 Billion in Tax Refunds, 2013). If two inmates alone can claim approximately $1.1 billion in tax refund, one can certainly assert that this is way more than a lucrative...
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...Implementation for Ship Maintenance and Safety Management Bahadir Inozu, Ph.D. Chairman, Professor, 1 and Director2 Ivan Radovic Special Projects Manager1 and Project Manager for Maritime Applications2 1 School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 2Reliability, Operation and Maintenance Division, Gulf Coast Region Maritime Technology Center, 911 Engineering Building, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148 Tel: (504) 280 7182, Fax: (504) 280-5627 E-mail: BInozu@uno.edu, Web site: drydock.gcrmtc.org Paper to be presented at IAME 2002 Conference, 13-15 November, 2002, Panama City, Panama ABSTRACT Ship maintenance usually entails very complex dynamic processes that ship operators face continuously to ensure ship operational safety and comply with regulatory statues. Extensive research indicated that these processes are quite inefficient, thus creating a safety risk in ship operations. In this paper we will discuss utilization of Six Sigma management strategies in ship maintenance and safety, in addition to its applicability and benefits. Six Sigma management strategies have a proven record in many industries. Savings through conducting Six Sigma projects have a direct impact on company profits measured through acquisition and analysis of hard data. We will also present the results of three Six Sigma pilot studies conducted as a part of the Continuous Improvement of Drydocking Management project. We will introduce a Six Sigma...
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...THE EFFECTIVENESS BANANA (MUSA X PARADISIACA) PEELS USED AS FERTILIZER APPLIED IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS SAMPLES RESEARCHER: BERLENE GAIL H. LAMA CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the study A banana peel, known as a banana skin in British English, is the outer covering of the banana fruit. As bananas, whether eaten raw or cooked, are a popular fruit consumed worldwide, with yearly production over 145 million tonnes in 2011, there is a significant amount of banana peel waste being generated as well. Banana peels are used as feedstock as they have some nutritional value. Banana peels are widely used for that purpose on small farms in regions where bananas are grown. There are some concerns over the impact of tannins contained in the peels on animals that consume them.[3][4] Banana peels are used as feedstock for cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits, fish and several other species. The specific nutrition contained in peel depends on the stage of maturity and the cultivar; for example plantain peels contain less fibre than dessert banana peels, and lignin content increases with ripening (from 7 to 15% dry matter). On average, banana peels contain 6-9% dry matter of protein and 20-30% fibre (measured as NDF). Green plantain peels contain 40% starch that is transformed into sugars after ripening. Green banana peels contain much less starch (about 15%) when green while ripe banana peels contain up to 30% free sugars. Banana peels are also used for water purification...
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...South America GEA1000 Josslen Leonard South America GEA1000 Josslen Leonard...
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...GEO 210 – CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY – 40H “People & the Land: Introduction to Cultural Geography” TNCC – FALL 2012 Instructor: Larry Snider – Phone: (757) 850-4912 E-mail: sniderl@tncc.edu (school); Skimmerva@aol.com (home) Office Hours: 4:30-5:30 p.m. M (Rm 947 Templin Hall), 6-7 p.m. T (Rm 131A Diggs Hall), 5:00-5:30 p.m. W (Rm 947 Templin Hall) and by appointment INTRODUCTION COURSE DESCRIPTION: (from VCCS Master Course file): Focuses on the relationship between culture and geography. Presents a survey of modern demographics, landscape modification, material and non-material culture, language, race and ethnicity, religion, politics, and economic activities. Introduces the student to types and uses of maps. COURSE CONTENT: Cultural geography entails the study of spatial variations among cultural groups and the spatial functioning of society. The course provides an introduction to the manner in which humans have modified the world, emphasizing patterns of migration, livelihoods of man, and environments in which these modifications have taken place and continue to occur. It focuses on describing and analyzing the ways population, religion, language, ethnicity and race, political factors, economy, agriculture, industry, the urban setting, and other cultural phenomena vary or remain constant from one place to another. The framework of geographic location of significant countries, regions, and physical features is also addressed in order to provide the necessary...
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...HOW LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST PUBLIX CAN AFFECT EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION Introduction Publix is the sixth largest supermarket chain in the United States and the largest employee-owned supermarket chain in the country, it is a privately-held company which operates stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. This supermarket chain was founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida, and currently operates 1073 supermarkets, 8 distribution centers and 5 manufacturing facility employing in excess of 162,000 employees. (figure 1.) Store Locations * Florida - 755 * Georgia - 180 * Alabama - 55 * South Carolina - 48 * Tennessee - 35 | Distribution Centers * Boynton Beach, FL * Miami, FL * Deerfield Beach, FL * Orlando, FL * Jacksonville, FL * Sarasota, FL * Lakeland, FL * Lawrenceville, GA | Manufacturing Facilities * Atlanta, GA - Bakery Plant * Deerfield Beach, FL - Dairy Plant, Fresh Foods * Jacksonville, FL - Fresh Foods * Lakeland, FL - Bakery Plant, Dairy Plant, Deli Kitchen, Fresh Foods, and Printing Services * Lawrenceville, GA - Dairy Plant | Publix Supermarket’s sales in 2012 were $27.5 billion this represented increase of 3.8 percent over 2011 sales and placed net earnings $1.6 billion, up 4% from 2011. Publix’s sales for the first half of 2013 were $14.5 billion, a 5 percent increase from last year’s $13.9 billion. In pursuit of achieving its mission statement “Our Mission at Publix is to be...
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...assets and grow microenterprises. MFIs have developed many innovative financial products to offer their clients beyond credit, such as microsavings, money transfer vehicles, and microinsurance. Microfinance is a growing industry throughout the developing world and comprises commercial banks, regulated banks, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and nonprofit organizations (NPOs). With approximately 17 million impoverished, there is a large market for the microfinance industry to capture; yet, in Colombia, it is not nearly as well established as in neighboring countries. Peru and Bolivia, for example, are among the world’s most competitive and innovative microfinance markets (The World Factbook). A NOTE ABOUT COLOMBIA Capital and largest city | Bogotá, D.C 4°35′N 74°4′W | Official languages | Spanish | Recognised regional languages | 68 ethnic languages and dialects. English also official in the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. | Legislature | Congress | • | Upper house | Senate | • | Lower house | Chamber of Representatives | Independence from Spain | • | Declared | 20 July 1810 | • | Recognized | 7 August 1819 | • | Current constitution | 4 July 1991 | Area | • |...
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