...How To Use Chopsticks Will you eat a sandwich with a spoon or use a fork to have an ice cream? No? Why? Because every food, to taste better, must be consumed using the right vessels and cutlery! Same is the case with Chinese and Japanese foods which seem to taste better when eaten with chopsticks. The origin of chopsticks can be dated back to China, around 3000 to 5000 years ago. Widely used in Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam to eat all kinds of foods, most of the chopsticks are made of bamboo while some are also made of ivory, plastic, silver and jade. They are considered as extensions of the fingers and are considered much better than spoons and forks in their usage. Although the respective Asian communities use chopsticks as effortlessly and naturally as Europeans use forks, it doesn’t really come that easily for the rest of us. Despite the fact that most of the world thinks of them as impossible feats, chopsticks actually provides your hands with a physical affinity with the food — something that our quintessential spoons, forks and knives can never boast of. Having said that, we also acknowledge that eating with chopsticks could require some training and hence the next section that talks about how to use chopsticks. Eating With Chopsticks * Clasp one chopstick between your thumb and middle finger. The chopstick must be in such a position that it is placed at the base of your thumb and at the lower joint of the middle finger. While the bottom chopstick remains intact...
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...Dim Sum Chinese Restaurants only represent a small percentage of restaurants in America comparing to other restaurant such as McDonald. Most Chinese restaurant menus list the dishes in their original Chinese names, but usually, the menu will have an English description of the dish. Chinese restaurants are usually decorated with items of Chinese culture, such as dragons, hanging lanterns and statues of Buddha. Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California gold rush, which brought twenty to thirty thousand immigrants across from the Canton also know as the Guangdong region of China. Normally, Chinese restaurants are owned and operated by small, hardworking ethnic Chinese families. In Chinese cooking the “wok” is often said to be very important in food making, it's a large metal pan with a rounded bottom. China is a quite large country so it have several cooking styles for example, Szechuan, Hu nan, Cantonese and Northern Style in Beijing each with its own culinary style and flavors. Cantonese food is best known in the US and Canada for its dim sum small bites, steamed and fried dumplings stuffed with meat or seafood. Dim sums are individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. This style of food is also known as “yum cha”, which means tea drinking. Dim sum consist of many different variety of food. A traditional dim sum selection includes various types...
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...À LA CARTE MENU – 2013 SIGNATURE DISHES S1. HOT PRAWN SALAD WITH FRESH FRUIT S2. BRAISED MINCED SPINACH SOUP WITH DICED FISH AND BEAN CURD SMALL 1,100 560 MEDIUM 1,500 860 LARGE 2,000 1,120 S3. SAUTÉED DICED VEGETABLES WITH PINE NUTS ON A BED OF LETTUCE 450 675 900 S4. BRAISED PUMPKIN AND TARO IN COCONUT MILK 400 600 800 S5. BIRTHDAY NOODLES S6. BRAISED FISH FILLET WITH EGGPLANT IN HOT POT 460 530 690 795 920 1,060 S7. SWEET AND SOUR PORK S8. AVOCADO SALAD ROLL 460 300 690 450 920 600 S9. CHILLED ASSORTED SHREDDED MUSHROOM AND CRABMEAT 540 810 1,080 Prices are quoted in Philippine Pesos and are subject to 10% service charge and applicable government taxes. LIVE SEAFOOD LIV E LOBSTER 1. COLD LOBSTER SALAD 2. LOBSTER SIMMERED IN SUPERIOR STOCK 3. STEAMED LOBSTER WITH GARLIC SAUCE 靛 4. WOK-FRIED LOBSTER WITH GINGER AND SPRING ONION 5. FRIED BABY LOBSTER WITH EGG WHITE 280 PER 100G 270 PER 100G 250 PER 100G 270 PER 100G 580 PER ORDER LIV E FISH 6. GAROUPA 7. PACIFIC GAROUPA (PLEASE ORDER ONE DAY IN ADVANCE) 8. PINK GAROUPA (PLEASE ORDER TWO DAYS IN ADVANCE) 190 PER 100G MARKET PRICE MARKET PRICE C OOKING METHOD FOR LIVE FISH : STEAMED WITH GARLIC, STEAMED WITH SOY SAUCE OR FRIED IN SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE :( , , , ) Prices are quoted in Philippine Pesos and are subject to 10% service charge and applicable government taxes. LIVE SEAFOOD FRESH PRAW N S/SHRIM PS 9. POACHED LIVE SHRIMPS 10...
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...My Ethnic Foodways Personal foodways are usually decided by geographic region, family and tradition heritage, and personal likes and dislikes. In this paper, I will try to analyze how my personal foodways come from. I will have an overview with Chinese food culture, and I will try to explain the Cantonese foodways, which is also my personal foodways. According to Kiple & Ornelas (2000), “Although emperors and the princes enjoyed the privilege of savoring the very finest dishes, they, like everybody else, could not get along without cooked cereals.” “For in ancient as in modern China, cereals have been assigned the function of nourishing and sustaining life” (Kiple & Ornelas, 2000). I really agree with this statement that cereals play a really huge and important role in Chinese food culture and history. From ancient past to present, Chinese usually have cereal as the basic ingredient in their daily meals. Chinese commonly think that cereals are the essential ingredient to make them alive, and they will have cereals in every daily meal. Chinese usually see the dishes as the supplement for the cereals, so they usually won’t only have dishes without any cereal. There are a variety of cereals, like rice, wheat, millet, and maize. According to Kiple & Ornelas (2000), “Two of them, rice and wheat, are the most highly valued, with millet and maize less appreciated.” “From an agricultural point of view, wheat, various millets, and maize are the typical cereals of...
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...Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Copyright Michael Crichton (c) 1991 All Rights Reserved The right of Michael Crichton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in Great Britain in 1991 by the Random Century Group 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London SWIV 2SA Century Hutchinson South Africa (Pty) Ltd PO Box 337, Bergvlei 2012 South Africa Random Century Australia Pty Ltd 20 Alfred St, Milsons Point, Sydney, NSW 2061 Australia Random Century New Zealand Ltd PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10 New Zealand A CIP Catalogue Record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 0 7126 4686 8 Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc For A-M and T "Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them." LINNAEUS, 1797 "You cannot recall a new form of life." ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972 Introduction "The InGen Incident" The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering. This enterprise has proceeded so rapidly-with so little outside commentary-that its dimensions and implications are hardly understood at all. Biotechnology promises the...
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...The Six Sigma Handbook Revised and Expanded A Complete Guide for Green Belts, Black Belts, and Managers at All Levels THOMAS PYZDEK McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-HIll Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141596-3 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-141015-5. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all...
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...Johnson & Johnson Quality Management System Debbie Marshall GM588 Sunnid7296@comcast.net February 19, 2012 Introduction Johnson & Johnson (J & J) is a global pharmaceutical, medical device and home care product manufacturer that was founded in 1886. Johnson & Johnson has over 250 subsidiary companies operating in over 57 countries employing approximately 116,000 people. They sell varying products in over 175 countries worldwide and pharmaceutical sales alone for 2008 were approx. $24 billion. These products include various well known household brands such as Tylenol, Motrin, Band Aid, Johnson’s baby products, various health and beauty products. Johnson & Johnson has always been known for their diversification, with separate divisions for consumer health & personal care product including women’s, baby, and oral as well as nutritional and over the counter products. The medical device and diagnostics division focuses on various surgical products, diabetes care, sports medicine, cardiovascular and diagnostics. The Pharma division has a variety of areas that they represent including: cardiovascular, immunology, oncology, pain management, gastrointestinal and many others. Unfortunately, in the last few years Johnson & Johnson has been plagued by numerous recall and quality control issues within their McNeil division. These quality issues range from bottle design, dropper leakage to metal shavings appearing in products such as Sudafed,...
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...What quality means to me in the profession I pursue? “Quality is Great achievement, usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness”. - Napoleon Hill. Quality to me means something that will last for a long time and if I am reasonably satisfied for the worth of money spent on the product then I am happy. It is the reliability, usefulness, longevity, and effectiveness of the element delivered. If a tool is going to fall apart, be cumbersome or awkward, give wrong measurements or just give more trouble than it’s worth then the quality is bad. It displays the competency of the person making the tool and their own expertise in terms of how well they design the tool. Is it that in maintaining quality what matters is establishing the base that enables you to make big gains? You are quiet right if that’s what you feel. To every organization maintaining a healthy environment is maintaining quality .Quality is also the power to measure and control costs. The profession I pursue is to be a Tax Consultant and then become an Entrepreneur, providing employment to people. In my opinion, quality in a profession is one that lives up to all the claims from the maker; it does everything it is supposed to do every time in the suggested lifetime. A tax consultant files returns of clients anually,advices on tax savings and ensures that legality is maintained in co operative housing societies .This job profile can be handled by any person who has the relevant qualification in...
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...Johnathan Songer 12.9.12 Professor Sacco Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards Motorola Under the seven key areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; workforce focus; operations focus; and results, Motorola qualified for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards. In 1988 the company was recognized for outstanding success in these areas. After nearly one thousand hours of review and site visits, the company displayed a strong sense of management and operational skills as well as a particular feel for training and development. Atop the list of managerial methods at Motorola is their use of Six Sigma in order to measure the amount of defects in a batch of product and hopefully reduce that number. Operating under the Six Sigma Quality requires the company to produce variation while maintaining consistency. A more noticeable quality of Motorola in the eyes of the public would be the company’s ability to reduce cycle time and by doing so, the time from which an order is received to when it is delivered can be shortened to the direction of maximum efficiency. Before Motorola conceives these types of ideas, top-level management meetings are held to discuss and review quality programs such as these. Not only are all levels of the company involved, the Participative Management Program (PMP) bonuses account for 3% of Motorola’s payroll. In order to obtain employees capable of upholding such responsibility, Motorola...
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...achieve the company’s long-term strategic goals (Caterpillar uses 6 Sigma to identify its Six Sigma initiatives). This 6 Sigma process was, and continues to be, extremely successful. Some of the results include first-year benefits that exceeded implementation cost and achievement of the revenue goal two years earlier than planned. We’ll briefly discuss Six Sigma in general, describe Caterpillar, and show the entrenchment of 6 Sigma within the company’s strategic planning process. April 2010 I S T R AT E G I C F I N A N C E 25 C OVE R S TO R Y What Is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a total quality management (TQM) technique pioneered by and applied to Motorola processes in the 1980s by Bill Smith, a Motorola engineer who became known as “the father of Six Sigma.” Since then, other companies, such as Bank of America, Honeywell International, Raytheon, and General Electric, have taken these learned processes and expanded them. Even though many people have reservations about the potential savings from Six Sigma, a story by Charles Waxer (“Six Sigma Costs and Savings: The financial benefits of implementing Six Sigma at your company can be Significant,” www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view= item&id=1228<emid=187) reports that GE saved more than $12 billion over five years, Honeywell saved $800 million, and Motorola saved $15 billion over 11 years. Each company takes the Six Sigma process and best practices and makes the technique its own. The methodology, which was...
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...Smith Systems Consulting – City of Kelsey Smith Systems Consulting – City of Kelsey Starting his small business in Kelsey, Blair Smith, founder of Smith Systems Consulting, Inc., has recruited several employees from the town to work as technology consultants for his thriving business. Smith Systems Consulting serves the City of Kelsey for the majority of its information technology needs. Transportation, manufacturing, retail, education, financial services, and healthcare are industries that are clients for technology services of Smith Systems Consulting. The company recognizes its strengths as including providing development solutions to business information processes; integrating business process technology services and support; strengthening existing business processes by the practical application of new technologies; and providing business relevant analysis, design, development, and implementation services in information technology areas of: networks and communication, database, and application programming. Community Involvement and Responsibility The community responsibility Smith Systems Consulting provides to the City of Kelsey is to maintain all the city’s information technology needs by establishes and supporting networks, databases, applications, and websites. All are imperative in today’s technologically advancing world for success of a corporation. Some of the companies that Smith System Consulting serves in the City of Kelsey include Riordan Manufacturing, Huffman...
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...Training and Development Ravina Kuttikar Roll No.: 1331 Department of Management Studies Goa University Employee Training and Development at Motorola Summary: * Motorola was founded in 1928 when the Galvin brothers, Paul and Joseph, set up the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. * Its first product was a "battery eliminator," which allowed the consumers to operate radios directly using household current instead of batteries. * After the continuous invention in 1986, Motorola invented the Six Sigma quality improvement process. * It became a global standard. What is training? * Training is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. Evolution or growth of training function * For nearly eight decades, (Motorola) has been recognized as one of the best providers of training to its employees in the world. * Motorola began training its employees' right in 1928, the year of its inception, on the factory floor as purely technical product training. * Training, at that time, just meant teaching new recruits how to handle the manufacturing equipment to perform various predetermined tasks assigned to them. Process of training a. Organizational Objectives and Strategies : The first step in the training process is an organization in the assessment of its objectives and strategies. b. Needs Assessment...
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...to sell automobiles outside of their province. In order to compete with global competitors they had to build: i. A strong domestic market for which they required retail license. They achieved this by allowing purchase of 20% ownership by Shanghai Automotive Industry Association in 2001, which allowed the small firm to utilize the SAIC retail license. Their first car export was to Syria in 2001. ii. Once they went international they invested in founding a research institute to improve the production quality, technology, and performance. It has two domestic R&D centers and invests around 7% of its total revenues in product development. They also hired a number of Japanese automotive consultants to assist the auto company in achieving the six sigma/ lean process standard to their Japanese/Western competitors. Not only did this improve their production processes but Chery was also granted ISO/TS 16949:2002 production qualities by 2005, the strictest international production quality certification available. This brought the company in conformance with the international standards of safety, reliability, and serviceability. iii. They now had their legalities, processes, and quality in place. The next strategy was to enhance the aesthetic design, which they did by turning to Bertone and Pininfarina of Italy, the fabled design consultants to Ferrari and Lamborghini. In addition, Chery contracted with AVL of Austria to assist in the production of 18 new engine models for integration...
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...focuses more on the process i.e., improved quality, delivery and cost performance has emerged. This has led to the introduction of Lean Manufacturing which focuses on waste elimination and creation of flow within an organization. In the words of Shigeo Shingo “The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.” Lean and six-sigma are methodologies backed by powerful tools that help in improving quality and productivity thereby improving overall profitability and competitiveness. The lean philosophy was initially pioneered by Toyota manufacturing company and aims at various methods of eliminating waste and improving the process flow. Six Sigma on the other hand, focuses on reducing variation using problem solving and statistical tools. It was first implemented in the Motorola Company as a safety margin for product performance. SIX SIGMA Six Sigma is a continuous improvement strategy that focuses on minimizing defects and variation and aims at achieving 3.4 defects per million in productions, design and process flow. Six Sigma minimizes variation in the process flow, thereby improving customer satisfaction. Benefits of implementing Six Sigma methodology are as follows: a. Better knowledge of products and processes b. Defect reduction c. Focus on communication and teamwork d. Improved customer Satisfaction e....
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...1A. TQM Total quality management (TQM) is an improvement program which provides tools and techniques for continuous improvement based on facts and analysis; and if properly implemented, it avoids counterproductive organizational infighting. The most popular approach to continuous improvement is known as total quality management (TQM). There are two major characteristics of total quality management (TQM) a focus on serving customers and systemic problem solving teams made up of front line workers. Benefits Total Quality Management: * Strengthened competitive position * Adaptability to changing or emerging market conditions and to environmental and other government regulations * Higher productivity * Enhanced market image * Elimination of defects and waste * Reduced costs and better cost management * Higher profitability * Improved customer focus and satisfaction * Increased customer loyalty and retention * Increased job security * Improved employee morale * Enhanced shareholder and stakeholder value * Improved and innovative processes Advantages of Total Quality Management: * Improves reputation- faults and problems are spotted and sorted quicker * Higher employee morale– workers motivated by extra responsibility, team work and involvement in decisions of TQM * Lower costs – Decrease waste as fewer defective products and no need for separate * Quality Control inspectors (Quay,2012) Lean Manufacturing ...
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