...Hong Kong[note 3] (Chinese: 香港) is one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. A city-state[9] situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea,[10] it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi) and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.[11] Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups.[12] Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.[13] Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War (1839–42). Originally confined to Hong Kong Island, the colony's boundaries were extended in stages to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and then the New Territories in 1898. It was occupied by Japan during the Pacific War, after which the British resumed control until 1997, when China resumed sovereignty.[14][15] The region espoused minimum government intervention under the ethos of positive non-interventionism during the colonial era.[16] The time period greatly influenced the current culture of Hong Kong, often described as "East meets West",[17] and the educational system, which used to loosely follow the system in England[18] until reforms implemented in 2009.[19] Under the principle of "one country, two systems"...
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...Skip Patterson has developed a LEED certified “green” home. The conscientious building technique is new and revolutionary in modern home construction. With the environment in mind, he developed and utilized many different building techniques and materials to minimize environmental impact in total, from beginning to end. The materials used in the construction are specialized and expensive. The manner in which the construction is completed minimizes the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Energy star rated appliances are available at a higher cost than traditional units. The techniques used to build the houses is so revolutionary, Skip has had to hire representatives from manufacturers he uses to train his contractors in proper installation and utilization. This in total, increases the cost of the homes roughly 10% from traditionally built homes of the same square footage. Skips issue lies in the cost itself. The affordability of the homes is one that attracts only those customers that can afford paying more for a product with alternative goals in mind. Environmentally conscientious consumers can see savings of up to $2000 - $3000 per year in energy costs. Skip should concentrate his promotion objectives in pointing out that fact. Local newspaper ads should coincide with environmental news sources. Green energy magazine articles will go a long way in messaging this promotion. Building and home shows around the country should be attended to target the environmentally...
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...Marcellis G. Jugo Ms. Maria Paz Magsalin BSBA-MKTG MGT3-10:30am-1:30pm/Friday Case: Gold Star Chili I. Company Profile: Gold Star Chili is a restaurant chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that sells Cincinnati chili. The original restaurant was established in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mt. Washington in 1965 by four brothers from Jordan. Gold Star Chili is the "Official Chili" of the Cincinnati Bengals. Gold Star Chili was founded in 1965 by four Jordanian brothers in Mount Washington, originally under the name Hamburger Heaven. As the original name suggests, the original vision for their restaurant was primarily hamburgers. However, they also had a chili recipe that they began modifying, soon finding that customers were ordering the chili more than any of the other menu items. As a result, the brothers changed the restaurant name to Gold Star Chili and removed many of the other items from their menu. In 1993 Tony Pérez, then manager of the Cincinnati Reds and former member of the Big Red Machine, kicked off a promotion campaign for the restaurant. During his baseball years Pérez's nickname was "Big Dog", and since the chain was ready to promote their new foot long cheese coney, Gold Star saw a promotional opportunity, naming it "Big Doggie". For the promotion, the store offered customers 16-inch (410 mm) miniature Louisville Slugger baseball bats for US$1.99, and Pérez did various in-store signing sessions for fans. In the past, Gold Star Chili has also hired other...
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...MANAGEMENT 3620 skyline aviation operation and resource management analysis. SKYLINE AVIATION OPERATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS – SKYLINE AVIATION. SUMMARY: This document outlines a project plan to evaluate and analyze the operations and resource management strategies of “Skyline Aviation”, a world renowned custom aircraft manufacturing company who has been in the business for over half a century. Safety, luxury, and efficiency has been the vision and manufacturing custom air transport solution to serve its customer base is the mission of Skyline Aviation for the last several years. The company has been operating with increasing revenues and profit margin until lately. Due to the fierce competition Skyline Aviation has recently lost considerable market share. The company has not only lost the business, but also has given up a significant part of its seasoned and experienced work force in the hands of new and upcoming competition. The purpose of this document is to review and analyze some of the processes and procedures being followed and monitored to improve enterprise wide operations of Skyline Aviation. It also includes proposals to alternative practices and methodologies using Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management and inventory control to reduce operating costs, enhance quality, increase employee morale, and find ways and means to incorporate value added innovative solutions to its existing product line. It will also suggest methods to...
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...1/27/2016 CARFAX Vehicle History Report for this 2005 NISSAN 350Z ROADSTER: JN1AZ36A55M760083 For Personal Use Only Vehicle Information: No accident / damage reported to CARFAX 2005 NISSAN 350Z ROADSTER VIN: JN1AZ36A55M760083 ROADSTER 3.5L V6 FI DOHC 24V REAR WHEEL DRIVE Standard Equipment | Safety Options 2 Previous owners 3 Service records available Personal vehicle 130,424 Last reported odometer reading Worth $90 more than retail book value This CARFAX Vehicle History Report is based only on information supplied to CARFAX and available as of 1/27/16 at 5:16:33 PM (EST). Other information about this vehicle, including problems, may not have been reported to CARFAX. Use this report as one important tool, along with a vehicle inspection and test drive, to make a better decision about your next used car. Price Calculator™ Adjust the value of this 2005 Nissan 350Z Roadster based on the information available in this report 1) Retail Book Value 2) CARFAX Price Adjustment™ + $90 $ Enter retail book value here 3) Adjusted Retail Value Begin by entering the retail book value Above retail book value Ownership History Owner 1 Owner 2 The number of owners is estimated Year purchased 2005 2015 Type of owner Personal Personal Estimated length of ownership 9 years 6 months Owned in the following states/provinces California California Estimated miles driven per year 14...
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...Compare Williamson medical center and Tristar Skyline Medical center Both Williamson medical Center and TriStar Skyline Medical Center are accredited by American College of Surgeons-Commission on Cancer (ACoS-COC). Also both are acute care hospitals and provide emergency services. How is each hospital's quality data rated? Both have low time waiting before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack to get an ECG. 9 minutes for Williamson Medical Center and 7 minutes for TrisStar Skyline Medical center, and both have a great number because national average is7 minutes. Waiting too long may cause patients to have a serious problem on this condition, so it very important for hospital to have low waiting time on this matter. How do they compare in metrics such as mortality or complications? Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement both are same as national average which is 3.0% (Theleapfroggroup, n.d.) According to hospital compare, high complications rates caused by poor quality of care which may cause the hospitals to lose patients or get sued” During or after hip/knee replacement surgery there is a chance that a patient may experience a problem or complication, or may even die. Complications included in this measure are: infection, heart attack, pneumonia, wounds that...
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...Continuous Skyline Queries for Moving Objects Marwan Othman El-Rais Omar Khairy El -Morsy ABSTRACT The literature on the skyline algorithms so far mainly deal with queries for static query points over static datasets. With the increasing number of mobile service applications and users, the need for continuous skyline query processing has become more pressing. The continuous skyline operator involves not only static but also dynamic dimensions. In this paper, we examine the spatio-temporal coherence of the problem and propose a continuous skyline query processing strategy for moving query points. First, we distinguish the data points that are permanently in the skyline and use them to derive a search bound. Second, we investigate into the connection between data points’ spatial positions and their dominance relationship, which provides an indication on where to find changes of skyline and how to update the skyline continuously. Based on the analysis, we propose a kinetic-based data structure and an efficient skyline query processing algorithm. We analyze the space and time costs of the proposed method and conduct an extensive experiment to evaluate the proposal. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on continuous skyline query processing. shown in Figure 1, there are a set of hotels and for each hotel, we have its distance from the beach (x axis) and its price (y axis). The interesting hotels are all the points not worse than any other point in both distance...
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...Home > Reviews > Nissan > GT-R > 2015 Nissan GT-R / GT-R NISMO - First Drive Review Shopping Tools Advertisement 2015 Nissan GT-R / GT-R NISMO FIRST DRIVE REVIEWarrow VIEW PHOTOS (146) | COMMENTS (63) 2015 Nissan GT-R / GT-R NISMO Godzilla and MechaGodzilla. NOVEMBER 2013 BY JOHN LAMM MULTIPLE PHOTOGRAPHERS 97 52 Nissan GT-R fans, you can chill out or relax—or even chillax, if that’s your thing. It’s true that the standard 2015 GT-R is slightly toned down, but it’s not as though the automaker chiseled off the supercoupe’s hard edges. Think of them instead as sanded down by microns, an ever-so-slight reversal of course enabled by the fact that there now exists the baddest-ass Godzilla the world has ever seen: the new GT-R NISMO. As for that “softening,” it isn’t necessarily a bad idea to tame the all-wheel-drive supercoupe a bit. Remember that current GT-R customers are advised they needn’t take their car to the dealer because of the uncouth noises it makes. Here’s what’s different for the non-NISMO car: The suspension gets new spring rates, revalved shocks, a softer, hollow 34-mm front anti-roll bar, and bushings that are softer in the vertical plane. New tires—measuring 255/40-20 up front and 285/35-20 at the rear, and still branded as Dunlop SP Sport Maxx GT 600 DSST CTTs—have stiffer sidewalls and are said to be not so much softer as more...
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...Skyline Dealers Target Sales, Personalize Service with Configured GoldMine Solution Industry trade shows are a major source of leads and new business for many organizations. But as any trade show veteran will tell you, show success largely depends on your visual display. For over 25 years, Minnesota-based Skyline has been perfecting the art and science of trade show displays, helping countless clients maximize their trade show investments. Longtime innovators, the company has over 50 patents and dozens of awards for its displays. Today, Skyline operates through a network of 142 dealers in 45 countries. configurability and affordability, as well as its worldwide network of support. Skyline called in FrontRange Solutions Partner First Direct Corp. (1stdirect.com) to create a configured GoldMine template for dealers. The goal: a GoldMine system designed for dealers’ specific sales, marketing and operational needs. To that end, 1stdirect.com met with some of the top Skyline dealers to gather their input, and understand their business needs and CRM requirements. The FrontRange partner then designed a template to capture and report on information to support dealers’ sales and customer service efforts. As dealers add new leads and grow those relationships into customers, they can track information such as all the shows a customer or prospect plans to attend, their exhibit sizes for every show, and key customer details like number of employees, revenue and competitors. © Using a custom...
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...Divin Mathew English 101 Professor M.Rogers OUTLINE 1)Introduction/ Thesis statement Both New York and Riyadh are similar in many ways as both are main cities in Saudi and in the United States,business centers and have beautiful scenic skylines, but both these cities are different in the laws they follow as well as religious freedom in both these cities. 2)Point1 Similarities Main cities in Saudi and in the United States and are business` centers. 3)Point2 Similarities Both the cities have beautiful scenic skylines. 4)Point3 Differences Laws they follow as well as religious freedom in both these cities are different. 5) Conclusion New York and Ar Riyadh are two cities miles apart, but have sharp differences and striking similarities that would make anyone confused. What remains fact, however, is that the two cities have a lot to be admired. Ar Riyadh is the Capital city of Saudi Arabia, the biggest metropolis in the region. New York is also a metropolis in America and is the heart of the New York Metropolitan in New York State.Both New York and Riyadh are similar in many ways as both are main cities in Saudi and in the United States,business centers and have beautiful scenic skylines, but both these cities are different in the laws they follow as well as religious freedom in both these cities. The most notable similarity between the two cities is that they both are hubs and focal places of interaction. New York is the centre of the New York municipal while Ar Riyadh ...
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...The skyline of San Francisco is certainly a view that will remain in the minds of those that have witnessed it. A special building included in that skyline is a tall, white concrete column, known as Coit Tower. Coit Tower was completed in 1933 on the peak of Telegraph Hill. The tower is named after Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy advocate of the San Francisco firefighters. Although she died in 1929, she had money reserved for the construction of the tower as well as a monument dedicated to volunteer firefighters in Washington Square. The design of Coit Tower was done by Arthur Brown, Jr, an architect who designed the San Francisco City Hall. Coit Tower is a slender white concrete column easily visible when viewing the city's skyline. Although...
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...for various social services, while affecting the supply and demand of essential resources such as clean water, land and energy. It is for these reasons, that, “stories of architectural construction are not only about engineering and aesthetics; they also include cultural and sociological perspectives”(). In essence, examining the intersections of the past and present within the contemporary urban backdrop of Shanghai will serve as a catalyst in assessing the effects of urban construction on Shanghai and its citizens. This reflection will focus on new and reconstructed space in a historical and contemporary context. The history of the Bund will provide the political context of Shanghai’s rise and fall during its colonization. The Pudong Skyline-the ultimate symbol of China’s ever growing clout-stands as a monument to corporate power and the global economy, revealing Shanghai’s consistent drive for modernization. The Rise and Fall of Colonial Power- The Bund Shanghai’s very unique history can be traced through its colonial legacy and capitalist boom. In fact, it is argued that the rise of...
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...Assignment 2 1. On February 7, 2014, a subsidiary sold land to its parent for $25,000, and showed a loss of $4,000. The parent sold the land to an outside party in 2018 for $30,000. At what amount should the land be shown on the December 31, 2014 consolidated balance sheet? How much gain/loss on the sale of the land should be reported on the 2018 consolidated income statement? Prepare the working paper entry (in journal entry format) for the intercompany sale for the parent and its subsidiary for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015, and 2018. 2014 Land $4,000 Intercompany loss on sale $4,000 2018 Loss on sale of land $4,000 Retained earnings $4,000 2. Sally Corporation (a 75%-owned subsidiary) owned a truck with an original cost of $12,000. It had been depreciated for $7,500 in the last 5 years on the straight-line method with 8 years of life and no salvage value. On January 1, 2014, Sally sold the truck to its parent, Paulson Company for $5,280. Prepare the working paper entry (in journal entry format) for the intercompany sale for Paulson Company and subsidiary for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2015. 2014 Intercompany gain on sale of truck $780 Truck $780 Accumulated Depreciation $260 Depreciation expense...
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...dynamic and easily navigated pedestrian experience.” meaning this is going to be an amazing place to visit not only as a tourist but as a person who live around the area, you can see how much detail they are putting into this project. This Project would be a great thing for Staten Island. People believe that Staten Island is the forgotten borough and with this redevelopment is just the thing that would put Staten Island back on the map. Tourists from everywhere will come to see the largest Ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere. The development of the two sites will boost the economic growth of St. George and Staten Island, but some believe this is the wrong way to go for Staten Island. With the building of this new complex it would block the skyline view of Manhattan for many islanders. Also the area they are building they are building the outlet mall is a bad neighborhood which has a crime...
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...Jesse Jacquez Com101-052 Narrative writting 09-07-13 The Beach Everyone needs a break in life. Chores, school, and work are all daily duties that people want to escape from. The beach releases me from all my responsibilities, so I try to visit the beach every summer at least once. I feel that all work and no play can be socially unhealthy. There should always be time for letup. Everyone needs to get out of work mode once in a while. My cousins enjoy the beach as much as I do, and my cousins always invite me to tag along with them. When I visit the beach, I can personally say that I always create new memories. This past summer, I only got the chance to go to the beach one time, but I still had an amazing time at the beach. The day I went to the beach was perfect. The sun was high in the sky, and the clouds provided just enough shade. The weather for the whole day was beautiful. The sand on the beach was warm to the skin. It felt as if I was walking on a bunch of pillows. As soon as I sat on the beach I completely buried my feet in the sand. The waves where flowing in because of the boat traffic in the distance. The sound of the waves were almost putting me to sleep as I laid on the shore. Many people play recordings of wave sounds to put themselves asleep at night, but the real sound of waves in person is extremely move effective. The water, the sand, and the sky was just exceptional. I could not dream up a better day. The setting of the beach was just right. The...
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