...In this paper I will analyze and describe the consumption behaviors and sources of influence associated with such widely recognized cultural occurrence as Christmas. “Christmas is a mixture of celebrations, personal behaviors and attitudes, rituals and myths, the selling and buying of gifts, and public and private get-togethers. They all are brought together from ancient pagan festivals, various ethnic traditions, the biblical stories of Jesus’ birth, historic religious traditions, practices and beliefs, and material business strategies that are all focused around December 25th” (Sherbondy). How much do we actually know about the history of Christmas? Some might be completely surprised that December 25 is an approximate date of the birth of Jesus Christ. The exact date of his birth was unknown, so early Christians chose that date “to correspond with the day exactly nine months after they believed he was conceived” (Crock). The current culturally accepted forms of consumption behavior became established over time. “For centuries it was common to give Christmas gifts to friends and relatives at Christmas. However hanging out stockings to be filled with presents was first recorded in parts of England in the early 19th century. It became common in the late 19th century” (Lambert). “The sending of cards at Christmas time evolved from the practice of giving small, inexpensive favors to wish distant family, friends, and acquaintances well over the holidays. Over time, this...
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...earn from client T: use leverage, so can take long (buy) or short (sell), can do whatever you want with the money After 2001 Classification Not fixed classification Futures funds Event driven Relative value (arbitrage = riskless) Equity Funds of funds 1st 4 are named single manager funds, underlying investments that do not invest in another hedgefund last F: invest in a diversified groups of funds fund mortality – no of hedgefunds that …. average lifespan of hedgefund – 4.4 years hedgefund fees***** management fees: collected regardless of fund performance, usually 2% drawn from customer, take reference to the initial year performance fees: incentive fees, eg. Beyond a certain level of money earned, I will draw a % of about usually 20% of the profit. Usually called: two-twenty fees Forprotection: You need to - achieve a high watermark provision – only pay fees only if net asset value increases from previous year. (have profit then have incentive) (only when you exceed the highest value of record like a high score, must break high score - hurdle rate: fee paid if the fund return exceeds a particular threshold example: to calculate the performance fee, must minus management fee first then take the percentage 250million increase to 295million 2/25 fee structure management: 2% of 250m performance: percentage returen high watermark: effects of incentive fee: result in pervase incentive motivate the manager by putting...
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...MNGT360--Elina Ibrayeva Individual Learning Assignment 4/29/2014 Optimism Can you image how to live without all four limbs? You cannot eat with your hands, you cannot hug with your arms, you cannot jump with your legs, and you cannot walk with your feet! That is horrible! With the absence of all four limbs, it seems that you can do nothing except waiting to die. Actually, this awful thing is happened to a boy named Nick Vujicic, and if you think his life sucks then you are totally wrong! Nick was an Australian Christian evangelist who born with the absence of all four limbs. When Nick was born, the doctors who delivered him were shocked, the nurses were cried, and even his mother felt very hard to accept him. Although life is extremely unfair to him, he still has a wonderful life with his spirits of optimism. When Nick was a child, he always got laughed at other children because of his defects. Thanks to his parents, they taught Nick using an optimism, positive attitude to face everything, and he did it. He has tried everything he could to experience a normal life, he plays sports, like swimming, surfing, diving, playing golf and so on. Furthermore, Nick graduated from Griffith University with double majors when was 21 years old. He also married a beautiful woman. Moreover, he has given speeches around the world to encourage people live with optimistic, positive, passion, and enthusiasm. Nick has such a wonderful life which beyonds everyone’s...
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...classified as “persons of concern”. according to the UNHCR. These “persons of concern” are refugees, and each of these people are the sons, daughters, nephews, or nieces of those in power – the same as the family connection between Antigone and her uncle, Creon. But Creon behaves with the same blindness of his brother-in-law, Oedipus, repeating the same pattern of tragedy; he places the city law above moral love. In response to Antigone’s recalcitrance, Creon, the ruler, orders her death. It is not that he is blind to her role in his life, for he agonizes, “… I suppose she’ll plead “family ties. Well, let her. /If I permit my own family to rebel, /How shall I earn the world’s obedience?” (Scene 3 31-33). Creon places the importance of restoring peace and order in Thebes over the death of his nephew; steadfast in the laws of the land, his narrow vision leads to greater personal tragedy. In his final verdict, “’ […] [T]ake her to the vault /And leave her alone there. And if she lives or dies, /That’s her affair, not ours: our hands are clean’” (Scene 4 236-238), Creon buries his niece alive in a stone vault. The consequences that follow leave him a doomed man. Yes, he maintains rule over, Thebes but he loses everything he loves. His stubborn passion for the law and restoration of Thebes shatter him as a man; his denial human emotions results in serious...
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...designs and analyze LO6 Describe how to compute resource utilization and apply Little’s Law. OM, Ch. 7 Process Selection, Design, and Analysis ©2009 South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning 22 Chapter 7 Process Selection, Design, and Analysis called to make an airline flight reservation just an hour ago. The telephone rang five times before a recorded voice answered. “Thank you for calling ABC Travel Services,” it said. “To ensure the highest level of customer service, this call may be recorded for future analysis.” Next, I was asked to select from one of the following three choices: “If the trip is related to company business, press 1. Personal business, press 2. Group travel, press 3.” I pressed 1. I was then asked to select from the following four choices: “If this is a trip within the United States, press 1. International, press 2. Scheduled training, press 3. Related to a conference, press 4.” Because I was going to Canada, I pressed 2. What do you think? Describe a situation that you have encountered in which a process was either well designed and enhanced your customer experience, or poorly designed and resulted in dissatisfaction. OM, Ch. 7 Process Selection, Design, and Analysis ©2009 South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning 33 Chapter 7...
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...developed around these toasts. However, this has only succeeded in weeding out the less cunning, ruthless and lucky, with those that remain being true masters of this deadly sport. At the start of the game, players choose a Master or Mistress of Ceremonies (MoC). The MoC starts the round, and at the end of the round the MoC passes to the next player clockwise. The first order of business is ‘The Airing of Grievances’. Should any guests bear a grudge against another, they should state their grievance now, lest any ill feeling be carried forwards into the occassion. 1. rrange the goblets, one per player, in a A circle in the middle of the table. The MoC places a target card (face-up) pointing at another player of their choice. That targeted player then does the same, but cannot target a player who has already chosen their target this round. Continue in this way for all players, with the final player targeting the MoC. In a round of play, goblets are arranged in a circle in the middle of the table, one in front of each player, such that players can’t see their contents. Players take turns in either secretly placing wine, poison or antidote tokens into the goblets, or switching the goblets around. Each player has a target, and their aim is to ensure that, when the round is ended by someone calling the toast and the players all ‘drink’, their target’s goblet is poisoned and theirs is safe. Players earn Victory Points for poisoning their target and ...
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...Essay: R.J. Reynolds International Financing (HBS 9-287-057). Page 1 of 7 "Cour sew or k.Info offer s a ver y valuable tool to students." Dr Yaakov Wise, Univer sity of M anchester LO G I N JO I N N O W ! SEARCH Adv anced search Search Coursew ork .info You a re he re : Universit y > Business and Adm inist rat iv e st udies > Finance > R.J. Reynolds I nt er nat ional Financing ( HBS 9- 287- 057) . N O M ORE BRAI N FREEZE - j ust love ly ide a s j uice ! W e 've got 1 ,4 6 2 GCSE Gr e e n Pla n t s a s Or ga n ism s Essa ys on lin e r ig h t n ow t o in sp ir e you St udy t he w ork of t he bright est st u den t s in t h e u k , a ll for le ss t h a n 1 7 p a da y. Accoun t ing ( 513 Essays) Econom ics (1,080 Essays) Fina nce ( 1, 083 Essays) H um a n Re sour ce M a na ge m e nt ( 1,012 Essays) M a na ge m e nt St udie s ( 1, 723 Essays) - I n t e r n a t ion a l Fin a n cia l R.J. Rey nolds I nt er nat ional Financing ( HBS 9- 287- 057) The case is set in t he cont ext of RJR’s 1985 financing of it s $4.9 billion acquisit ion of Nabisco Brands I nc. To finance t he acquisit ion, RJR was pr oposing t he issue of $1.2 billion of 12 year not es and t he sam e am ount in pr efer r ed st ock . I t had alr eady funded $1.5 billion of t he acquisit ion leav ing $1 billion m or e t o finance. Challenges facing RJR: Of t he $1.5 billion t hat had been funded, $500 m illion cam e from cash and t he r em aining was t hr ough bank bor r owings and...
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...Canada’s Food Guide Eating Well with Recommended Number of Food Guide Servings per Day Children Age in Years Sex 2-3 4-8 Girls and Boys 9-13 Teens 14-18 Females Males 19-50 Females Adults 51+ Females Males Males Vegetables and Fruit 4 5 6 7 8 7-8 8-10 7 7 Grain Products 3 4 6 6 7 6-7 8 6 7 Milk and Alternatives 2 2 3-4 3-4 3-4 2 2 3 3 Meat and Alternatives 1 1 1-2 2 3 2 3 2 3 The chart above shows how many Food Guide Servings you need from each of the four food groups every day. Having the amount and type of food recommended and following the tips in Canada’s Food Guide will help: • Meet your needs for vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. • Reduce your risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, certain types of cancer and osteoporosis. • Contribute to your overall health and vitality. What is One Food Guide Serving? Look at the examples below. Fresh, frozen or canned vegetables 125 mL (1⁄ cup) 2 Leafy vegetables Cooked: 125 mL (1⁄2 cup) Raw: 250 mL (1 cup) Fresh, frozen or canned fruits 1 fruit or 125 mL (1⁄2 cup) 100% Juice 125 mL (1⁄2 cup) Bread 1 slice (35g) 1 Bagel ⁄2 bagel (45 g) 1 Cooked rice, Flat breads ⁄2 pita or 1⁄ tortilla (35 g) bulgur or quinoa 2 125 mL (1⁄2 cup) Cereal Cold: 30 g Hot: 175 mL (3⁄ cup) 4 Cooked pasta or couscous 125 mL (1⁄2 cup) Milk or powdered milk (reconstituted) 250 mL (1 cup) Canned...
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...colleagues and I invited Moana Jackson to participate in a project on genetic engineering. Our first question for him was along the lines of whether Mäori had a ‘unique perspective’ on genetic engineering. It was then that we received our lesson about the use of the word ‘perspective’ (Cram, Pihama & Philip-Barbara, 2000:66-67). Moana said that, ‘The word perspective to me is interesting. It assumes that there is something that is a given upon which Mäori can be expected to have a valid point of view. The moment you do that you situate the Päkehä model as the truth; and you ask Mäori to give a view on it. I think there are Mäori truths and they exist independently of whatever Päkehä view as reality or truth and to seek a Mäori perspective is to legitimate the Päkehä perspective on the issue. So to ask for a Mäori perspective on say the use of land is to validate the Päkehä concepts of property and seek to fit a Mäori view of that within it. Whereas what we should begin with is: what is the Mäori truth on land and how does that sit alongside, rather then fit within, the Päkehä view?’ Perhaps even more scary than asking whether there is a Mäori ‘perspective’ on Public Health ethics is the thought of asking what the Mäori ‘truth’ about Public Health ethics is. Once again, Moana is able to come to my rescue. A few years ago I was experiencing difficulty writing a paper on Mäori research ethics in the social sciences (Cram (2001). My problem was the ‘truth’; I was only one Mäori...
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...Operations Management School of Engineering The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Operations Management UTCC Product and Service Design School of Engineering The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Operations Management UTCC Operations Management UTCC Agenda • The need for product and service design or redesign • Sources of ideas for design or redesign • Design elements for both manufacturing and service. Operations Management UTCC Product and Service Design • Major factors in design strategy – – – – – Cost Quality Time-to-market Customer satisfaction Competitive advantage Product and service design – or redesign – should be cl se l ti d to a n o rg a n i ti n ’ stra te g y o y e za o s Operations Management UTCC Product or Service Design Activities • Translate customer wants and needs into product and service requirements (Hospital, Toyota) • Refine existing products and services • Develop new products and services • Formulate quality goals • Formulate cost targets • Construct and test prototypes • Document specifications Operations Management UTCC Refine existing products and services Operations Management UTCC Develop new products and services • Understanding the customer • Economic change: low or high demand, excessive warranty claims, the need to reduce costs • Social and demographic: aging baby boomers, population shifts • Political, liability, or legal: government changes, safety issues...
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...VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE STATE AND CITIZENRY IN NIGERIA 1 Bamidele Aturu 2 Introduction Let me begin by expressing my appreciation to the School of Vocational Education of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka for inviting me to share my thoughts on vocational technical education in our country. I feel highly privileged on account of the invitation and do hope that I would succeed in falling back on my residual knowledge as an educationist in order not to betray the confidence of the school, although personal circumstances occasioned by state harassment compelled me to seek accommodation in another profession. The way the topic is couched suggests that we are to limit our discussion of vocational education to its technical segment. In other words our focus shall be only on technical vocational education. But then we need to understand the meaning of general vocational education. A definition that I prefer for its simplicity and comprehensiveness defines vocational education as ‘any form of education whose primary purpose is to prepare persons for employment in recognised occupations’ (Okoro, 1993:1) 3. It is obvious therefore that vocational education is a term that is more all-embracing than technical education which O.M. Okoro defines as ‘a postsecondary vocational training programme whose major purpose is the production of technicians’ 4. The National Policy on Education defines technical and vocational education ‘as a comprehensive term referring to...
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...Interview with a Change Agent Interviewee: Khalid Soussou, Data Security Systems In December 1992, Emirates Information Systems (EIS) completed the implementation phase of a strategic re-orientation change process, led by a new General Manager, Khalid Soussou. The outcome of the change process was a radical restructuring of the organisation involving 80% of the workforce being made redundant, a 90% change in the senior management team, and the outsourcing of the entire transportation department. Rather than being instigated in reaction to a contemporaneous event, the change was instigated because the CEO recognised that EIS’s previous growth strategy via acquisition was not sustainable, and believed significant organisational change in anticipation of increased international competition would help create a sustainable competitive advantage. Soussou’s appointment resulted directly from the CEO’s felt need for change. Soussou was essentially ‘contracted’ to review the business in order to develop and implement appropriate changes that would re-align EIS along more efficient and effective business prinicples. Consequently, the CEO became the ‘patron’ of change, and Soussou the key change agent. After a month of informal interviews with managers and employees, Soussou’s initial impressions of EIS were that they were a ‘cottage industry that achieved success through luck rather than design’. He believed the majority...
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...University of Konstanz Department of Linguistics Summer Semester 2014 Seminar: Problems of German Learners of English in a Linguistic Perspective Docent: Dr. Melanie Seiss English DO/MAKE compared with German TUN/MACHEN Problems of German Learners of English Sarah Heydeck Alemannenweg 12 79793 Wutöschingen Tel.: 01634253082 Email: sarah.heydeck@uni-konstanz.de Student ID: 01/813879 LA English/History Semester: 8 Wutöschingen, 31st August 2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction to the Phenomenon under Consideration.. 1 2. Description of the Linguistic Concept Involved .............. 2 3. Description of the Study .................................................... 3 4. Results of the Study - Interpretation and Conclusion .... 4 5. Impacts on Teaching English ............................................ 5 6. List of References ............................................................... 7 7. Appendix…………………………………………………..8 1. Introduction to the Phenomenon under Consideration “Those elements that are similar to his native language will be simple for him, and those elements that are different will be difficult.” (cf. Larsen-Freeman/Long 1991:53) This controversial statement by linguist Dr. Robert Lado in 1957 was already refuted by a number of linguists a long time ago. (cf. Larsen-Freeman/Long 1991) The issue to be examined in this term paper illustrates that Lado’s first half sentence is not adequate to be transferred to real life. The intention...
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...science, or as some would say the theory and practice, of interpretation. 2. What do they say is the aim of a good interpretation? What is not the aim? The aim of good interpretation is not uniqueness; one is not trying to discover what no one else has ever seen before. 3. According to Fee and Stuart, what is the antidote to bad interpretation? Is not no interpretation but good interpretation, based on commonsense guidlelines. 4. They define “The Bible” in part as… The Bible is not a series of… propositions and imperatives; it is not simply a collection of “sayings from chairman God,” as though he looked down on us from heaven and said: “hey you down there, learn these truths. Number 1, there is no God but One, and I am he. Number 2, I am the Creator of all things, including humankind” – and so on, all the way through proposition number 7,777 and imperative number 7777. 5. Know the kinds of “communication” mentioned that God uses to convey his Word. Narrative history, genealogies, chronicles, laws of all kinds, poetry of all kinds, proverbs, prophetic oracles, riddles, drama, biographical sketches, parables, letters, sermons, and apocalypses. 6. “To interpret properly the “then and there” of the biblical texts, you must…” not only know some general rules that apply to all the words of the Bible, but you also need to learn the special rules that apply to each of these literary forms (genres). 7. Know and be able to discuss the two types of ‘context’...
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...author of the boo Crossing r ok g the Chasm, recently wrote an article in the t w e Harvard Bu H usiness Review about a growth t h portfolio fra p amework cal lled Horizon 1-2-3 (H1n 2-3). The fra 2 amework, originally de o eveloped by y Mehrdad Ba M aghai, Step phen Coley, and David d White, esta W ablished a view that companies s that are su t uccessful in the long term have n e growth initi g iatives in th hree stages: Horizon 1, : , the mature slow growt businesses; Horizon t th n 2, 2 the emerging high growth businesses; and g d Horizon 3, t embryon ideas an pilots ofH the nic nd ten found in R&D. Moore asserts in the art n s ticle that h has obs t he served a t tendency of f companies, particularl technolo c ly ogy companies, to ta n ake promising H3 pr rojects and d launch them directly in H1 whe they ofl m nto ere ten are un t nsuccessful under the weight of f near-term fi n inancial pre essures and the need to o conform to the curren business model and c nt d organization norms. The Clarion Group has o nal T n s used the H u H1-2-3 framework with dozens of h f clients over the years, and we hav seen the c ve e phenomenon Moore describes o p n d occasionally. . However, using the H1-2-3 framework as a H H diagnostic, we have also seen ot d a ther trends s more freque m ently – tren nds which impede our r clients’ abili to grow. c ity st es occupied wit existth Mos companie are preo ing businesses; they must learn to p ; t pay more ention to w where they are headed versus...
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