...Nanzan UniversityJichihan and the Restoration and Innovation of Buddhist PracticeAuthor(s): Marc BuijnstersReviewed work(s):Source: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 39-82Published by: Nanzan UniversityStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30233608 .Accessed: 19/10/2012 12:43Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp .JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. .Nanzan University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Japanese Journal ofReligious Studies.http://www.jstor.org Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1999 26/1-2 Jichihan and the Restoration and Innovation of Buddhist Practice Marc BUIJNSTERS The various developmentsin doctrinalt houghta nd practiced uring the Insei and Kamakurap eriodsr emaino ne of the mosti ntensivelyr esearched fields in the study ofJapaneseB uddhism.T wo of thesed evelopmentsco n-cern the attemptst o restoret he observance of traditionalB uddhiste thics, and thep roblemo f howP ureL and tenetsc ouldb ei nsertedin to thee soteric teaching.A pivotal role in bothd evelopments...
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...I. Current Situation a. Current Performance b. Strategic Posture i. Company provides a general strategy statement. Not publically available vision statement or mission statement ii. They are in the internet subscription business. They are in this so users can instantly watch movies or TV programs iii. The objectives is to maximize member satisfaction and month to month subscription retention. Corporate objectives: customer loyalty, profits, growth. Busniness objectives- customer service Functional objectives- Marketing and sales. They are all consistent with each other. They all have one goal and that is to be profitable and make sure the customers are satisfied with their business. iv. Strategy- pursuing new content deals and streaming rights to current season shows. Also looking at new ways to improve the subscriber’s experience. Encouraging multiple accounts in one household. v. Privacy policies, code of ethics, insider trading policies. All the policies are consistent with each other. They all want their employees and board members to act ethically. They want their nonpublic information to stay private and prohibit insider information trading. vi. II. Corporate Governance a. Board of Directors i. Mostly External members. Jay Hoag- Technology Crossover Ventures. Timothy Haley- Redpoint Ventures. Ann Mather- MGM holdings Inc. Leslie Kilgore- Linkedln Corporation. Richard Barton- Zillow, Inc. A. Battle- Aspen Institute. Reed Hastings- Chair of board ii. Significant...
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...Michael Sakacsi (572739) MG 495 Business Policy 12 Oct 2012 Netflix’s New Strategy: Time To Buy? Executive Summary: “Netflix is the world’s largest online DVD movie rental service offering more than one million members access to more than 15,000 titles” (History). In addition to the selection, Netflix provides fast, free delivery. The Company was formed by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in 1997. These two men had previous experience in new technologies; Randolph in a computer mail order company called “MicroWarehouse” and Hastings in a company called Pure Software. Randolph also was vice president of Borland International. It was Hastings, using his $700 Million sale of Pure Software that bankrolled the investment. “The DVD format, which can store a high-quality copy of an entire feature film on a single five-inch disc, had been introduced in the spring of the year.” (History). Even with the number of titles limited (less than a thousand at the time), Hastings and Randolph thought the format had the potential to replace video tapes. This was also the same period that the much larger laser disk was coming on the scene. They took the risk that the DVD would out produce other formats and overcome to become the new standard in home video. The company opened on April 14, 1998, with 30 employees and 925 titles for rent. (History) The company initially worked under the business plan of renting and selling DVDs to customers; providing an alternative to...
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...Creating a Job Analysis Abstract This essay will explain how to create a job analysis. It will explain what a job analysis is, and identifies the objectives of the job duties and roles for a position as a Human Resource Receptionist. Creating a Job Analysis The history of Job analysis was founded in 1900 by Frederick W. Taylor. His interest in improving the studying the principles of work and science developed into what is called a Job analysis. Human Resource Managers create a Job Analysis using task statements, Knowledge Skills Abilities, and create a job description. One method of developing a Job analysis is using the 7 stages of a Functional Job Analysis. The 7 stages are resources in helping to identify the task statements, KSA’s and job description. The following 7 stages are: things functions, work instructions, mathematical, data function, reasoning development, language develop and people function. (Pugh 2007) The thing functions are examples the ability to use office equipment anything tangible. Work instructions requires the ability to perform a given a task. Mathematical function is the ability to operate and handled business math. Data function is dealing with facts, statistics and information with business. Reasoning development show the ability to show comprehensive reasoning. Language develop require oral and written communication. People functions involve interaction with people. All 7 stages are used in developing the process of producing a Job analysis...
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...Inside these labs hold rooms with very sophisticated, expensive equipment used to determine tensile strength, thermal conductivity, and rigidity as well as many other metallurgical characteristics. They hold the honor of having mass spectrometer machine in the U.S. which assists the engineers in the lab the ability to test the graphite samples for purification and use in for semi-conductors. These allow for the finest quality graphite which is grinded to a one to twenty micron powder and is then tested for it’s purity. When we completed our tour of the laboratory the presentation POCO Graphite company was next. This gave us a great insight into the history of the company. In 1964, POCO Graphite was founded which stands for Pure Oil Company. They gained momentum when they used their graphite in popular EDM machines. They also developed a type of graphite foam called POCO Foam that creates small veins of air to flow quickly through the foam to draw heat away from an object to rapidly cool it. Our classmates actually had the chance to see this foam in action so they placed a piece of foam on my hand then put an ice...
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...Our soybean oil press machine in line with the Ministry of Agriculture for agricultural technical conditions and standards, its processing and production of oil authentic, pure fidelity, is to create the best choice for the modern oil press machine. Our soybean oil press machine has the follow features and advantages: Energy - the same lower production of electric power by 40%, with an average of 6 kilowatt-hour savings calculations, the production of electricity can save 30 RMB. Labor - labor savings equivalent to 60% yield, 1-2 people can organize production, day labor efficiency cost savings of about 40 million. Versatile – our soybean oil press machine can be used just not soybean, pressed peanut, sesame, rapeseed, soybean, sunflower, flax and other 20 kinds of oil crops. Three pressing, pressing the net once. Pure oil - vacuum filtration residue to protect the oil clean, sanitary and quarantine standards. Small footprint - only 10-20 meters oil mill will be able to meet production needs. Then we talk about how to maintain soybean oil press machine in correct way in the follow text. (1) soybean oil press work 50 hours per lubrication, gear box oil cup above shall not oil, extra virgin oil press screw shaft bearing adjustment screw should be adjusted within the screw hole once per shift butter filling is prohibited dry grinding. (2) Run-oil soybean oil press each site should prevent intrusion of dust and other impurities, soybean oil press need to check the quality...
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...graduating from H.S. in 1978. Hastings went to Bowdoin College where he majored in Mathematics and he graduated in 1983. After graduation, Hastings backpacked along Africa in the Peace Corps where he taught high school math to children. Upon his return from the Peace Corps, Hastings chose to go back to school to receive his master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University. After attending Stanford, Hastings worked for a software company where he invented a tool for debugging software. In 1991, Hastings left the company to pursue his own business endeavor, which was a start-up organization called Pure Software. The purpose of this company was to provide products which would help individuals troubleshoot software. The company was a huge success and was rapidly growing; in 1996 the company merged with another software company and became Pure Atria. Hastings asked to be appointed as Chief Technical Officer, but left shortly after the company was merged. In 1997, Hastings founded Netflix and launched the subscription service in 1999. Netflix was invented when Hastings had a $40 late-fee when he lost Apollo 13 while renting it. Netflix has grown a lot since then; it is a large company known for their innovative practices. The company grew to one million subscribers in less than four years, and reached 9.4 million subscribers by the end of 2008. Netflix is only concerned with individuals that can help grow the company and contribute to their success...
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...Table of Content Page Introduction Company Information 1 Paper Outline 1 Introduction of Qwikster – The Spinoff of Netflix 4 – 6 Implications 6 Commentary 7 Netflix’s Cancellation of Qwikster 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 INTRODUCTION Company Information Netflix Inc., established in 1997 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California offers internet subscription service, streaming television shows and movies. Subscribers of Netflix can watch unlimited television shows and movies streamed over...
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...Netflix Analysis Netflix, Inc. is an internet television network. The company derives revenues from monthly subscription dues. Its members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any internet connected screen. Members can play pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitment (Netflix, 2014). Netflix does not have an actual mission statement, however, according to Reed Hastings, founder and CEO, their mission and vision is “to grow our streaming subscription business domestically and globally, continuously improving the customer experience, with a focus on expanding our streaming content, enhancing our user interface and extending our streaming service to even more internet-connected devices, while staying within the parameters of our consolidated net income and operating segment contribution profit targets” (Hastings, 2014). Nine company published values provide further clarification about the principles which guide its employees in their daily decisions and activities. Those company values as published are: judgment; productivity; creativity; intelligence; honesty; communication; selflessness; reliability; and passion. Hastings has expressed a clear vision for the future of Netflix, which is to become the best global entertainment distribution service, licensing entertainment content around the world and creating markets that are accessible to filmmakers, thereby helping content creators around the world to find a global audience. The...
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...Netflix Incorporated, Case Study Marketing 101-H1 Assignment 2: Case Study Analysis Group 4: Jagvir Bagri, Michael Catalfamo, Tina Hoang, Jason Rudzki Submitted to Dr. Youssef Ahmad Youssef Humber College Business School September 27, 2010 Introduction In the summer of 2011, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Netflix Inc. Reed Hastings, made the decision to separate the companies online streaming service from the DVD rental service. The DVD rental services mails out DVD’s to customers one video at a time and the streaming service allows customers to watch movies and television shows via the internet. Instead of charging each customer a flat rate for both services, as it had in the past, Hastings wanted to charge consumers for each service as its own separate entity. This meant each customer would now have two accounts (instead of one), pay considerably more in membership fees and still receive that same amount of content. Shortly afterwards, on July 12, 2011. Mr. Hastings, publicly announced the changes and informed his customers that they would come into effect in that coming September. In 2010, the business reported revenues of more than two billion dollars and had approximately twenty-million subscribers. After Hastings announced the split, his stocks fell by more than fifty percent from a one time high of more than three hundred dollars per market share. Stocks in Netflix continued declining quickly and before the end of the year, they...
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...The Effect of Time and Temperature on Storage of Fresh Pechay I.Introduction A. Objectives The study is performed to discuss the effect of time and temperature on the storage of fresh pechay. It is also done to explain the difference of low and high temperature on the storage fresh pechay. Lastly, to explain other factors related to time and temperature that may affect the storage. Through conducting this study, the proper storage conditions of food items will be determined. B. Significance of the Study The study aims to show the effect of time and temperature in the storage of fresh pechay. This will determine whether the fresh pechay will react positively or negatively towards the conditions of its storage. This study will be using two set-ups which will be observed three times. One of the set-ups will be placed in a place with room temperature only, around 30º C. The other set-up will be placed inside the refrigerator, about 48º F. The effectivity of the two different set-ups will be indicated by the resulting qualities of the pechay bunches. This will be helpful in determining the proper storage techniques that will maintain the physical and nutritional qualities of food items. This experiment is done in the Bio-assay Laboratory, Institute of Human Nutrition and Food, College of Human Ecology, UPLB. II.Review of Literature Pechay, scientifically known as Brassica rapa chinensis, is considered as one of the popular vegetables here in the Philippines...
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...My Buddhism Essay DeVry University I chose to do my essay on Buddhism since reading about it in my religion class it grabbed my attention and I wanted to know more about it. My husband and I are born and raised Catholics but for the past 2-3 years we have shied away from the church because we feel they are more commercialized and are not concerned with how their followers feel about the church. Doing my research, there were no Buddhist temples in my area so the closest one I found was about 30 minutes away in New York City. When I called to find out if they offer tours they didn’t but I was welcomed to come and sit in on one of their temple meetings. This is about that experience. I found a Buddhist Church online called “The New York Buddhist Church.” The woman I spoke to was not very friendly and when I started to ask some questions, she gave me their website and said I could find the answers I was looking for. I went online to their website and started looking around to see when they would have meetings that I could attend. From what I gathered it looked like there was a temple meeting that I could attend on a Wednesday evening for chanting and meditation, this sounded like something I may enjoy! I left straight from work to attend this meeting in New York City and was planning on taking public transportation because I did not know how the traffic or the parking would be and taking public transportation I would be less stressed with both. I had dressed causal...
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...A Critical Assessment of Immanuel Kant's Epistemological Alternative to Hume's Fork All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic; and in short, every affirmation which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain. That the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the square of the two sides, is a proposition which expresses a relation between these figures. That three times five is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would forever retain their certainty and evidence (Hume, Section II). Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt...
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...According to the book, a gold standard is a diagnostic test that is assumed to be able to determine the true disease of the patient. The gold standard is said to have known validity and reliability, and is used as a benchmark in which other diagnostic tests (screening test) are compared to. In the study, hearing loss is observed in one hundred and seventeen patients with a history of hearing loss, undergoing pure tone audiometry (PTA) for the first time. The patients in the study were divided into two groups, one of which reported increased TV volume and the other reported no increase in volume. The screening test in the article is the diagnostic utility of using television volume as a marker for hearing loss. This screening test is compared to the gold standard for hearing loss which is known as a pure tone audiogram (PTA). Each patient’s PTA was used as a reference standard. The results of the experiment indicated that if the patient reported viewing television with an increased volume, then there was a 68 per cent chance of the patient have a hearing loss of 25 dB or more. Although the study concluded that self-reported television volume can be a useful screening tool in patients presenting with hearing impairment, it is not very specific and should not be used to replace the current gold standard to measure hearing loss. Increased television volume had a sensitivity of 81 per cent and a specificity of 52 per cent as a predictor of hearing loss. A hypothetical ideal gold standard...
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...Idealists believe that we know objects through the way we perceive them, that they are mind-dependent. However, realists, who believe objects are mind-independent, proposed the missing explanation argument in order to disprove idealism. This theory supposes that everything is dependent on the mind; if this is true, then nothing in idealism can explain the regularities in our experiences. Although idealists and realists both provide good reasoning, neither argument by itself completely explains the perception of objects. We need to apply both views. Internalists have made many attempts to answer the consistencies of experiences. One of their answers is that in order to believe that something exists, we must first know it. Therefore, it becomes an internal object which is conditioned by consciousness, and since anything conditioned by consciousness is mind-dependent, the object can only exist if there is a mind-dependent internal object. While this proof seems logical, it is very complicated; in order to fully answer the question, some aspects of realism are required. Immanuel Kant seems to do this despite his rejection of realism. Although Kant is considered an idealist, he uses the senses to explain “noumena,” which defines external objects that are unconditioned by our thinking of them. He begins by making a distinction between these “things-in-themselves” and internal objects, but completely avoids elaborating on actual objects by stating that we can only access things that...
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