...5th PNoy SONA President Benigno "PNoy" Aquino III delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address in front of senators and congressmen in Batasan Complex, Quezon City on Monday, July 22, 2014. The President's penultimate SONA, which marked the opening of the 16th Congress, started at exactly 4:00PM and ended after an hour and 31 minutes. It earned 58 rounds of applause from an audience composed lawmakers, government officials, local and international media, dignitaries and other important personalites. PNoy started the SONA recounting how the Philippines, once called as the “sick of man of Asia” and transformed into one of the most promising economy in Asia. He stressed that the country has rebounded to become a tiger economy, much sought after by international investors, an achievement attributed to prudent fiscal management and good governance by the Aquino administration. This must mean that his administration has made many improvements for the nation’s economy, well, if and only if all the data he bragged are true. First economy-related item he emphasized was the around P1.6 billion fund was given to Training-for-Work Scholarship Program of TESDA. A total of 223,615 beneficiaries have graduated with an equivalent of 146,731 graduates currently working. As the saying goes, the human resource is the most important asset of on the organization, so this somehow contributes to the growth of a business and the economy. Moreover, many of these graduates are employed in the...
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...any issue or protest will be given the opportunity, writes USA Today, which is referenced Newsru.com. "We welcome this measure by which everyone can express their opinion" - quoted by Bach at a press conference in Lausanne "Russian service of the BBC." Russian experts, however, resemble three months ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the organization of security in Sochi during the 2014 Olympics, where it is directly prohibited rallies and demonstrations during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Ibid described rules around the city of individuals - in some areas can be accessed only with the approval of the authorities, others will generally closed for public use. President's decree, in particular, defined "control zones" created in Sochi, for getting into that require a special permit and where will be enhanced inspection of vehicles by law enforcement officers. In the "forbidden zone" located around the Olympic venues, restrict access "without the overhead and operational needs." In addition, according to the document, from January 7 to March 21, 2014 in Sochi will be banned from entering any transport other than railway, engineering and emergency vehicles registered in Sochi or having accreditation to the Olympics. Fans safety rules described in the decree until the big problems do not promise. Control system for visitors to the Olympic venues was previously tested for test events. So, to all the spectators were given a special document - a...
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...http://www.ibisworld.co.uk/market-research/marine-fishing.html Primary Sector: 1. Fishing: the industry of fishing in the UK is declined from 2005 to 2010, the reason are the falling fishing quote, the industry has been left floundering by volatile seafood price and sharp economic downturn. After the 2010 they had a growth of 2.5% forecast including the years 2014 and 2015. The reason for the growth is the demand of seafood moderately and the seafood price rise. They employs 12.150 people and they have 6.291 businesses in the UK. Also, the annual rate was 0.9% of £819.1 million. 2. Foresting and Logging: the industry of Foresting has always increase in the years, and the reason why are increased each year is from the governments, local authorities and woodland owners as government bodies that give to the industry more services over the period and replanting the level as risen. The annual growth for the foresting industry is 1.3% over 5 years including 2014 and 2015 to reach £945.5 million. For the first 2 year of the demand of the industry fell. Also, they planned to increase the forecast by 2.1 in the 2014 and 2015. Their employs 14,000 people and have 3,221 businesses around the UK. Secondary sector: * Plastic packing goods manufacturing: the plastic packing goods in during 2005 and 2010 they increased...
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...Rivercrest CDD Board of Supervisors Daniel J. Leventry Chairman Elaine Sellent Vice Chairman Lisa Fernandez Supervisor Frank Nocco Supervisor Esther Torres Supervisor CDD Staff Meritus Districts 5680 West Cypress Street Suite 5680A, Tampa, FL 33607 Telephone: 813-397-5121 A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Rivercrest CDD January Issue 2014 Greetings Rivercrest Residents Frank Nocco, Supervisor Happy New Year Rivercrest and welcome to 2014. On behalf of your CDD Board of Supervisors and staff we wish you and your family the absolute best for the coming year. Our projects continue on plan and there is little to update you on right now, however the board expects to have big news in the not too distant future so instead of a long update of CDD Board activities, may I take the liberty of sharing some of my memories from my childhood growing up on Long Island, New York. I sincerely hope that you pause and take a minute and reflect on your personal experiences. Television was fairly new and the screens were hardly there at all let alone being 60 inch plasma or LED units. If one’s family splurged or were well heeled they owned a fancy console TV, a huge piece of furniture who’s cabinet was made of very fine finished wood. Some even had flip top record players in them and ultra-fancy ones were super hi-tech stereo units. When Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin or Andy Williams records weren’t playing the TV was on. There was Lucy, The Honeymooners, Milton Berle and Jack Benny...
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...Some people think that distant learning is the perfect alternative to traditional education. Due to advancements in technology nowadays we have a possibility to choose between learning via the internet and attending schools. According to some experts, distance learning has effectively facilitated academic education and society should refuse from the traditional school attendance. However not everybody agree with it. In my opinion, we should to learn in the traditional form of education. First of all, it is vitally important that schooling makes students more self-disciplined and sociable. Studying in school provide students with numerous opportunities to interact with tutors as well as their peers, which tend to increase their interpersonal and social skills. Secondly, extra-curricular activities, such as various hiking, sport competitions, offered by traditional schooling, not only teach students how to compete and compromise, but also improve their mental and physical health. On the contrary, there are people who believe that distant learning is much better than traditional education. They insist that distance learning helps the disabled to receive education at home. Nevertheless, let us consider this issue from another angle. I am sure that the impacts of distance learning are generally detrimental, because using Internet can reduce our vision, students have low physical activity, which can lead to serious diseases. Taking into consideration all mentioned above, I think...
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...The desirability of Whistler Blackcomb and Sochi as winter and summer destination resorts. We can think of Whistler Blackcomb and Sochi as winter and summer destination resorts by having in our mind one historical event for the year 2010 when the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games started in the westernmost province of British Columbia and recently launched the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. It makes sense to organize Olympic Games on the territories that can serve as winter and summer destination resorts. Why? To answer this question let’s consider the geography and all necessary infrastructures needed and designed to carry out the whole bunch of sport venues. Host country’s Organizing Committees are responsible for installing necessary infrastructures for organizing the Olympic Games such as Olympic Villages, air-supported domes, stadiums, training ice rinks and other facilities for competing during the games. It also assists with medical services, lodging facilities, means of transportation for the athletes and officials. For organizing Winter Olympic Games which includes alpine skiing, luge, ski jumping host county’s geography should provide mountain chains, and for Summer Olympics that include canoe sprint, canoe slalom or sailing, geographically the country needs ocean, seas and lakes. As it is mentioned in our case, Whistler is a resort town with nearly 10,000 permanent residents and has two million visitors annually. It served as the designated site of Olympic events. To attract...
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...which Yum! Brands and Burger King. Their market shares were $16.3 billion and $2.46 billion respectively. In 2009 they open 6,650 new stores in Europe and 8,327 new stores in APMEA (Asia/Pacific/Middle East/Asia). McDonald’s corporate responsibility campaign in becoming socially and environmentally friendly is one strength. According to David, they “have been recognized for its efforts in inclusive excellence with respect to employing and creating opportunities for minorities (2011, p. 33). They have actively sought to reduce their “carbon footprint by using recycling packaging” (David, 2011, p. 33). In 2014, they were ranked 43rd on the Best Global Green Brands (SyncForce. 2014). Other strengths include the fact that they are producing more innovative offerings such as the premium McWraps, “which was the 2014 MenuMasters winner for Best Menu/Line Extension” (Scarpa, 2014). Weaknesses: McDonald’s Weaknesses include a high employee turnover rate, a decrease in customer satisfaction, and being able to control the food...
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...supported. Also how I view them as a social work, and how I will like for them to get involved. State Senate Van Wanggaard is a community activist. He was responsible for structure security for Harborfest in 1986. Van Wanggaard was a part of a veterans association, where he was a police officer for Racine Police Department the past 29 years. He was the first police officer to earn the chair of public protection and criminal justice committee. In 2002, Van Wanggaard ran for County Board of Supervisor and won nearly 70% of the vote in a 10-year incumbent.() Wanggaard has been a leader over his four-year term serving as Vice Chairman of finance, and human resources, and legislative committee. He was elected Senate in 2010 and reelected in 2014. Van Wanggaard supported medical marijuana that is associated with Cannabidiol Oil known as CBD.( 2017,Associated Press) He supports bill SB.10 because CBD has tetrahydrocannabinol which eases the symptoms of seizures and tremors.( 2017,Associated Press) In addition, gang-violence is a social issue that Wanggaard does not condone. On October 9, 2015, Wanggaard introduced bill SB.303 that penalizes anyone who pursues any gang-related crime. The bill also penalizes any crime that is related to a controlled substance, gang related activity, or activity which would promote a gang initiation. In my opinion, Van Wanggaard is egotistical, based on his campaign I felt as though he was very manipulative to his audience, and also through the different...
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...Lacey Lehman February 10, 2014 Comp Lit 8 MSW ASSIGNMENT 11 © stocklight / Shutterstock.com © stocklight / Shutterstock.com American snowboarder Shaun White won Olympic gold medals in the half pipe event in 2006 and 2010. White’s thick mop of red hair and repertoire of gravity-defying tricks earned him the nickname “the Flying Tomato.” Born on Sept. 3, 1986, in San Diego, Calif., White grew up in nearby Carlsbad. He survived a heart defect that required two operations when he was an infant. Despite his early health problems, he was soon skateboarding, surfing, skiing, and playing soccer (association football). He took up snowboarding at age six and the next year won his first competition. He became a phenomenon on the amateur circuit, claiming five national titles, and turned professional at 13. After making his Winter X Games debut in 2000, he went on to rack up five slope style titles (2003–06, 2009) as well as five super pipe titles (2003, 2006, 2008–10). At age 15 White fell 0.3 point short of qualifying for the U.S. team for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Undeterred, he dominated the professional circuit for the next two years, and when qualifying began for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, he won the halfpipe in all five of the Grand Prix events that determined team selection. At Turin, White clinched the gold medal on his first run of the finals, when he performed two 1,080° (three full spins) airs on the frontside of the pipe and...
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...Board of Directors Proposal New and Improved Walmart I would like to thank the executives at Walmart for giving me the opportunity to provide insight and expand upon Walmart’s horizons for the 2014 business year. I graciously accept the appointed board member position with great integrity and plan to maintain the company’s great successes for this year and the future. While Walmart is a well renowned super store, it has been scrutinized for its labor rate as well as its overall unfair treatment of employees. The scrutinized label of this establishment allows me to offer an alternative perspective and therefore propose a solution to preserve the Walmart name. The possible future operations and procedures which I would like to see changed within each practicing Walmart is related to employee’s salary, pay, manufacturing and labor. My proposals incorporate much consideration in regards to maximizing the return to shareholders, providing for employees and serving the larger community and overall society as a whole. My considerations and proposals will also serve the consumer portion of the community because when employees are satisfied, customers are satisfied. Previous to my appointed role as a board member for this company, I made assumptions regarding the way Walmart operates and functions as a business. Walmart has always been about saving, which in my mind is not only great for the people, but it is great for business. It is great for the people because the goods that...
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...Federal State Budget Institution of higher education «FINANCE UNIVERSITY UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION» Chair of «Macroeconomic regulation» Essay Moscow 2014 Introduction 3 Main part 4 The impact of sanctions on the financial sector 4 The impact of sanctions on the industry of the Russian Federation 6 The impact of sanctions Russia in the nearest future 7 Conclusion 9 Introduction The first sanctions against Russia were introduced on 6 March 2014, but they had a more symbolic and looked more like a friendly gesture from the West than on a real blow to the economy. The following steps restrictions for the Russian Federation have become much more significant and can cause serious damage to the Russian economy in the medium term. The effect of the sanctions were government officials, major banks, energy companies and the defense, in addition from European, American, Japanese, Canadian and Australian companies made a decision to limit the supply of technologies, weapons, minerals and other goods to the Russian market. According to analysts, in the current conditions on the results 2014 because of the sanctions, Russia will lose about 23 billion euros, or 1.5% of GDP, in 2015, almost 75%, which will further affect the economy and will account for almost 5% of GDP. It is important to note that in such conditions greatly slow down the inflow of foreign investment in Russia, 75% of them falling on the country's membership of...
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...Networking Night Alternative Activities I’m sorry that you were not able to attend the 2014 Networking Night Event, which was required for Spring 2014 and Fall 2014 College of Business Students. Our COB records indicate that you are part of that cohort. The event this year had three distinct outcomes. 1. To become familiar with the 56 organizations in attendance. 2. To learn about different types of networking, the importance of networking in a business professional’s life, and taking the time to set your own personal networking goals. 3. To put your networking skills into action, test them out, and improve your skills. Since you were unable to attend Networking Night, you will need to fulfill these three objectives in alternate ways. While there is no way to replicate this event or the experience attendees had, we have provided guidelines so you can achieve similar objectives. Outcome #1- To become familiar with the 56 organizations in attendance. To achieve this outcome, you will need to interact with organizations and/or do research on them. Review the organizations that were in attendance at Networking Night at: http://www.uwosh.edu/cob/undergraduate/development/events/networking-night Submit an overview that addresses the following: 1. What 5 organizations did you pick to learn about? 2. How did you go about finding the information? 3. Provide the following information on each of the 5 organizations in a bullet format: a. Name...
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...Landon Bennett Management 305 March 24, 2014 WSJ Article #3 Recently Russia spent 51 billion dollars designing an international tourist attraction for the winter Olympic Games. The problem is that the tourist destination is strangely empty. There are numerous store fronts that are empty and unfinished hotel rooms. Sochi built and refurbished 43,000 new hotel rooms, and created a new highway and rail system to ferry stadium size volumes of visitor’s in. it has a giant gondola system that carries spectators to the mountain venues. The Olympic venues at Sochi have mostly won rave reviews. Even though the weather is spectacular, transportation is running smoothly, there is not a lot going on there. Past places that have held Olympic Games have had huge prosperity in months and years after the games had left. Sochi is hoping for that same action to take place with all its slopes, restaurants, bars, and nightlife. Many think that perhaps Sochi is overbuilt. It houses a giant entertainment center, a mall, skating rink, aqua park with slides, water geysers, bowling alley and 12 swimming pools. They build a $371 dollar amusement park with many roller coasters and thrill rides that stand unused behind locked gates. To start helping the stories, restaurants and resorts generate some inflow, Sochi will host the G-8 Summit in June and the Formula One Grand prix in October. Sochi has a ton of potential just based on its location. It is near the sea, the mountains are not far away and...
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...Lauren-Ashleigh Beaudry Sidney Crosby “Sid the Kid” Special points of interest: Born on August 7, 1987 in Halifax, Nova Scotia Hometown Cole Harbour Nova Scotia Learned to skate at three years old In 2004-2005 considered the best hockey prospect in the world Drafted as Pittsburgh Penguins first overall pick July 30, 2005 Crosby’s wears jersey 87 to represent the year that he was born in January 17, 2014 Volume 1, Issue 1 Biography Sidney has excelled at every level of organized hockey he has participated in. “ His hockey skills, temperament and physical stature often bring comparisons to one of the greatest hockey players ever—the great one himself, Wayne Gretzky.” In 1997 at the age of 7, Crosby scored 159 goals in just 55 games. He was the youngest player in history to score a goal in the World Junior Championship. Sidney Crosby has a passion and love for a sport that he is very talented in. He continues to be a leader in the hockey world. Some additional accomplishments include: * Best hockey prospect for the 2005 NHL amateur entry draft. * Art Ross and Hart trophies in his second NHL season (2007). * Youngest player in NHL history to captain a team to the Stanley Cup. * Rocket Richard trophy (2010) * Scored at least one point in 25 consecutive games. 11th longest streak in NHL history (2010). * Scored the winning goal against the United States which earned Canada a gold-medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Vancouver Olympics 2010 reasons....
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...education networking buyer connections The essential annual meeting for sales professionals and companies looking to grow their international business June 17-18, 2014 Intercontinental O’Hare • Chicago Tuesday, June 17 • General Sessions / Executive Education IBC 101: International Essentials IBC 101 is an optional session designed for those new to IBC and / or new to export. Meet the IBC Board of Directors and IHA staff while learning about international essentials through a presentation led by industry veteran and former IBC board member Jeff Murphy of Wilton Industries. Market selection, export mechanics, distributions models, international pricing and INCO terms are a few of the topics to be covered. EXECUTIVE EDUCATION: Rethinking the 4 P’s Jonathan Knowles, CEO, Type 2 Consulting In today’s business-to-business environment, sticking to the traditional four P’s of marketing – product, price, place and promotion – has fostered narrow, product focused strategies. Those strategies lead marketing and sales teams to stress product attributes that are no longer differentiators but simply the cost of market entry. Jonathan Knowles, working in partnership with Thunderbird professor Rich Ettenson and using insights from the results of a five-year study of more than 500 managers and customers in multiple countries and across a wide range of B2B industries, has reframed the 4 Ps as SAVE: Solutions, Access, Value and Education. He will share how SAVE can help you...
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