...limitations and those of your bike and its tyres in such weather. Tyres have grooves in their tread and their purpose is to remove water from under the contact patch. Obviously, if the tyre is worn smooth with no grooves left, water on the road stays trapped under the tyre and it slips. Tyres in good condition with sticky rubber inflated to the recommended pressure go a long way in improving the grip. Apart from good tyres, the trick to maintaining traction when riding is smoothness. All transitions i.e. acceleration, braking, gear shifting and turning should be accomplished smoothly. Be gentle in braking and acceleration and follow the widest possible arcs during cornering. Remember road grip is already fighting a losing battle with slippery conditions. Your tire traction is cut by as much as TWO-THIRDS on wet roads. Don't make it worse for the tyres by demanding too much from them and in too short a time. Retaining your traction in the wet is far easier than regaining it. a slide that can be corrected in the dry will almost certainly take you down in the wet. Brake gently, using more of the rear brake than the front (just the opposite of what you would do in the dry). Keep checking your brakes for effectiveness when riding in heavy rain or through deep water. Drum brakes, though difficult to get wet from inside, take time in drying and become effective again. If wet, ride a while with the brake applied partially. The heat generated due to friction...
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...most places, but for long trips, trains are cheaper and more comfortable. The Portuguese economy has expanded very rapidly in recent years, but it still has many problems. In the fifteenth century, Lisbon was a worldwide center of political power, religion, and culture. Is this a paragraph? ______ If it is a paragraph, what is it about? _________________________________________ 3. The two peoples of Belgium—the Flemish and the Walloons—are divided by language, culture, and economics. Hotels in Brussels are expensive, so most young travelers stay in youth hostels or student hotels. In Antwerp, the home of Rubens, you can visit the house where he lived and worked. Throughout the centuries, Belgium has been the scene of many terrible battles between world powers. In many parts of the world, the Belgians are best known for their chocolate and their beer. Ships to England leave either from Oostende or...
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...Customer Segment Customer Channel Customer Relationship Key resoures Key Activities Key Partners Value Creation Value Preposition Fgkjeiub67thyj7u KK Revenue Models Cost Structure MEYER VITABIOTICS (Pharmacy) 1) Key Resources:- Excellent work, Growth environment to people coming from diverse background, Extensive array of experience, Innovation, Mutual respect. 2) Key Activities:- Sales purchases, Maintaining stock, Development of promotion inputs like visual- aids, LBLS, Carton Labels, package insert to give attractive look to the products. Should also have Medical Representative experience. Such a Implementation of product strategy and generate prescription. Full fill all the sales activity. B pharma/B.Sc with 1 to 2 yrs of exp. in sales. Should have the knowledge in pediatric segment. 3) Key Partners:- * Candimale cream * OMEGA - MEYER LTD. * Global Partners VITABIOTICS. * Jersey 4)Value Creation:- * Well-equipped * modern facilities for Manufacturing * Quality Assurance * Research and Development 5)Value Preposition:- * ISO 9001 * Q9001-2000 high pharmaceutical standards of quality control. * Good Manufacturing Practice * Quality control team 6)Customer Segment:- * Anti-infective * Nutrition...
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...Daniel Mr. Caney 3-Amer. Lit. and Comp. 22 March 2011 Automobiles In his novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts automobiles as a major symbol. The automobile is a possession that is owned by the characters in the novel. In The Great Gatsby, the automobile is a symbol of the power and violence of the upper social class. In his novel, Fitzgerald depicts Owl Eyes being accused of driving an automobile into a ditch. Fitzgerald writes: A man in a long duster had dismounted from the wreck and now stood in the middle of the road looking from the car to the tire and from the tire to the observers in a pleasant puzzled way. “See!” he explained. “It went in the ditch.” (58-59) Through this scene, Owl Eyes is depicted as being accused of drunkenly driving a car into a ditch (59). Through Owl Eyes’ drunkenness, Fitzgerald depicts power carelessly used to lead to violence. In The Great Gatsby, the automobile is an invention that only the rich can afford, hence giving them a certain power that not all social classes can obtain. The automobile gives the upper class a certain mobility that allows them to move through American society easily. Hence, the automobile is a tangible symbol of the upper class’ power. When Owl Eyes is accused of crashing the car, Gatsby’s guests become concerned and upset at the mishap (59). The crashing leads to a minor violent situation against Owl Eyes. Hence the crashing of the automobile is a symbol of...
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...Michelin The Michelin Tyre Company Ltd, incorporated in 1905, was set up in 1889 by two brothers, Andre and Edouard Michelin. Now active in more than 170 countries, Michelin operates across all continents of the world, manufacturing and selling tyres for all kinds of vehicles, publishing maps and guides, and operating Specialist digital services. Most people recognize our world famous mascot, Bibendum, 'The Michelin man', looking good considering his age! My own division is concerned with tyres made for heavy goods vehicles over 3.5tonnes, including trucks, coaches, and buses. In the UK and the Republic of Ireland, we have an extensive sales force supporting thousands of tyre distributors, from tyres used in cars and trucks, to those used in specialist industrial and earthmoving equipment. To conduct environmental scanning, we adopt several approaches. We use joint panels with key national and regional trade journals, conducting telephone questionnaires with customers on challenges, issues, and developments in the haulage industry. Our sales Force in the UK and Ireland is responsible for collecting market intelligence, especially on competitors' actions and products. We work with the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association, which offers us a chance to mix with customers in a non-selling environment, and we belong to the Euro Pool organization, an independent body which acts on behalf of all European tyre manufacturers. Here, we declare our sales on a...
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...1. Be able to identify and select sources of data and information 1.1 Discuss the nature of data and information Before actually looking at the nature of data and information it is important to note that information is a subset of data in that it has a use for the user; as the name implies it informs the user about some subject, but for another person without a use or understanding it is simply data. It is easy to lose the information in the enormous quantity of data available today from many sources especially the internet and additionally to take data presented electronically as being fact whereas in reality it bears little similarity to the truth. In earlier days going to the library and reading a book was a guarantee of receiving information pertinent to the time the book was written. Few, if any, factual books were printed without the information within, being verified by some body. Today on the internet a huge majority of the data presented is not verified and is very unreliable. There are many different types of data but fundamentally these can be reduced to two types: Quantitative: This is the easiest type of data to handle as it has a quantity associated to it be it weight, height, length, frequency, speed… All terms people immediately associate to and given a method the data will always produce the same result. Qualitative: This is a much more difficult data type to handle as it is subjective, which is the better for you, which is more colourful, who will win...
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...Homework: Answer question # 7 at the end of chapter three and question # 3 at the end of chapter four, and the internet exercises on page 76 and page 112. All assignments are due by Sunday, midnight, MST. CH3, Q7 – The owner of a small hardware store—the only one in a medium-sized town in the mountains—has just learned that a large home improvement chain plans to open a new store nearby. How difficult will it be for the owner to plan for this competitive threat? Explain your answer. At first it would be very difficult. The small hardware store owner should choose strategies that avoid head-on competition. The owner needs to find new or better ways to satisfy customers needs and provide value. The small owner should actively seek information about the large home improvement chain and what all they entail? A lot of the information can come from customers and from the internet, remember word of mouth is huge. It is just like having McDonalds next to Burger King, each will have their own regular customers coming in, but each will have to keep bringing something new to the table, to try and get more customers in. CH4, Q3 – List the types of potential segmenting dimensions, and explain which you try to apply first, second, and third in a particular situation. If the nature of the situation would affect your answer, explain how. 1) Behavioral needs, attitudes, and how present and potential goods and services fit into customers consumption patterns. 2) Urgency...
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...This PSA starts with bearded family guy, probably around in his early 30s, wearing a black shirt, a dark blue jeans sitting on what seems to be a car seat. Anyways, he starts the car engine with his right hand and presses the accelerator with his right foot. Everything seems right until the time where this driver gets distracted by looking at the left where his daughter was situated. After taking a glance, the vehicle driver, holding the steering wheel seems to be desperate trying to make a right move. It appears to be a car’s accident. There is when it comes to scene his angel guardians as daughter and his wife. They both saved this feckless driver by holding him from chest to waist, from what it could have been a catastrophe. Then, the lights slowly start to loss its brightness just to give way to the words and logo. The ad’s setting takes place in a very organized living room of a common middle-class family. His daughter, a light-blue eyed girl, who is surely in her very young age is wearing a gold necklace and a pink dress. The driver’s ear to ear smile suddenly transforms into a huge traumatized look. The rapid closed-up toward the driver embraced the audience into any forthcoming event. The main character, with a bemused look tries to make a right move holding the steering wheel. Fortunately for this family guy, the daughter and the mother reach him. His daughter started saving him by putting her hands in a position of a seatbelt around the driver’s waist. Then, the...
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...This assignment shall be analysing the case study on Michelin .An exploration of Michelin's strengths and weaknesses both internally and externally, and most importantly identifying the management challenges faced by Michelin. This assignment shall thoroughly address how the challenges can be solved using the principles that were mastered during the study of Strategic Management. To find the strengths of Michelin, one will be looking at what the company is good at and also what they are doing well at. According to the case study ,the weaknesses are what Michelin is poor at and those things they need to improve on for Michelin to be successful and to grow as a company. So therefore their weakness are their major management challenges. By being able to look at the strengths and weaknesses of Michelin both internally and externally one can start to plan for Michelin in the future and to be able to look at what Michelin is going not so well and find steps to sort these problems out, which is what this essay will address. Some of Michelin's internal strength is that at the present they have three lines of production to follow. They produce the Michelin guide, and road maps, although their main line of production is their tyres .So the fact that Michelin is in more than one line of production gives them the competitive edge over their competitors. Michelin is committed to safety and is committed to keeping up with research and development in all their production and products...
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...Moments are known to change one’s life completely. Something beautiful or drastic could happen just in a minutes’ time and could alter the way one thinks or behaves altogether. Such was the case with me, when an incident on the 30th of October, 2012, changed the way I drove. It was my birthday. The day had been going well except the few delays before the party at Boat Club. I was anxiously waiting for nightfall since quite a few of my old friends were turning up this time: most of them were studying abroad and it had been a while since I had met them. The celebrations were under way by half past nine and a couple of hours later, the guests had started to leave. By the time everyone had left, it was a quarter to twelve and my best friend was the only one left since I had to drop him home on my way back. It was late and my parents had started calling my phone so we rushed out and into my car. The roads were quiet and empty since it was past midnight on a weekday. I was driving over the speed limit. I distinctly remember my friend telling me to slow down, and, using the phrase “better late than never”. I turned towards him, looking at his face over the rim of my glasses, and said “don’t worry, you know how I drive. I’ve got this!” I had been driving for a few years so I was confident about myself but what soon followed shattered all my confidence and courage since after that night. The car was going at a 100 km/hr and just when I crossed Pizza Hut at the Mai Kolachi – Boat...
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...ME3330 Project 1 Static Design Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/me3330-project-1-static-design/ The sketch below shows a forklift truck negotiating a 15° ramp onto a 4 ft high loading platform. The truck and product it is carrying weighs 5000 lbf and it has a 42 inch wheel base (distance between front and rear tires). When loaded, the center of gravity of the truck is 32 inches from the front tire and 10 inches from the back tire. Design two steel or aluminum ramps that are wide enough to accommodate the tire width which is 6 inches. Allow for extra width space on each side of the tire on each ramp. Assume static loading with a safety factor of 2 when the load is at the "worst" spot on the ramp which causes a maximum bending moment. Minimize the ramp weight by using a sensible cross section geometry. Use steel or aluminum for the material. Assume the ramps can be made of any steel or aluminum in your handout table. Aluminum would be better, lighter. choice. Take a look at channel sections for steel and aluminum which you can find in The Engineering Toolbox: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/aluminum-channels-d 1327.html http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/american-standard-steel-channels-d 1321.html SCHEDULE • Mar 9 Problem solution steps outline • Mar 16 Most calculations done (there is no class) • Mar 23 Hand in project report. Must be written up with problem statement, goals, all calculations shown, V & M diagrams, references used...
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...dark trail were various bright colors of green. The trail was filled with ruts from previous bikers. Tread marks from their tires swerved up around the trail and mountain like snakes. The little light that could be seen peaked through the leaves above and shone lightly onto the floor of the surrounding forest. The light reflected off pools of water from the rain the night before and bounced into my eyes making it difficult to see. I pushed down hard on the dark metal peddles of my bike. The more I pushed the more the mud pushed back. With each downward stroke I could feel pain in my legs grow. I did my best to put the pain out of my mind as I continued to push against gravity, up the mountain. The bike covered in the mud and dirt from the days ride could easily pass for being aged, however, just a few weeks ago it was hanging from the store’s rack. The new heavily treaded tires dug well into the soft ground. Not once did my tires spin out, for the tread gripped the mud like spiked shoes gripping a football field. It was a surprisingly breezy day for the end of July; however, I could not feel the coolness. The hill had worked my body into a heavy sweat; it felt as though I was trying to peddle around the ring of a volcano. As I continued to push up the mountain the mud seemed to become deeper, its slush rose slowly until the bottom inch of the tire could not be seen. The more I pushed the closer the summit came. Only a few more mud covered yards to the top of the trail...
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...a flat tire. The most critical part of the process is jacking the car. However, there is no need to panic. By following a few simple steps before jacking the car, the tire can be safely changed. 1. Position the vehicle in a safe location. A location that is clear of the roadway is ideal. The car should be as for from other moving vehicles as possible. Also select a location that is flat and level, this will help prevent the vehicle from rolling or falling off the jack. In most situations it is ok to drive the vehicle a short distance on the flat tire to find a suitable location. If you must jack the car on the side of the roadway, park on the shoulder and turn the hazard lights on so that others will see you. 2. Before exiting the vehicle. The vehicle’s engine should always be shutoff before jacking. If you have an automatic transmission, place the shift lever in the park position. If your car has a manual transmission, place the shift lever in the reverse position. Next set the parking brake and exit the vehicle. All other passengers should be removed from the vehicle and positioned away from the traffic. 3. Gather all necessary equipment required to jack the vehicle. If you are not familiar with the jacking procedure, retrieve and review the cars owner’s manual. The owner’s manual will show the location of the jack and other equipment required to jack the vehicle. It will also show where to position the jack and how to safely operate it. The spare tire, jack...
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...change a flat tire? We’ll there is a few easy steps to doing so. First, you have to find a good place to pull over to change the flat. Never pull over on a steep shoulder. Second, you have to have the right tools to change your flat with. Third, always turn on your hazard lights (also known as flashers), and last, make sure your spare has air in it. The process to changing a flat tire is not that hard; you just gotta use your common sense. Common sense will take you a long way in life. You’re going down the road and have a flat tire; no need to panic. Find a good place to pull over to change the tire. Wherever you decide to pull over at, make sure that you have a good place to change the tire. Make sure that the shoulder isn't too steep where u pull off at. If the shoulder is too steep to pull over on, ease up the road until you find a good place to pull over at. If it is raining never pull off where there is mud because you might get stuck. Never pull over on the left side of the road....
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...How To Service a Tractor Servicing a tractor is a very simple process, it is a lot like serving a car. When servicing a tractor some tools are necessary and some parts will need to be replaced. There are three main steps to servicing a tractor and they are, first, get the tools and supplies necessary, next, get the tractor ready, and finally, service it. The tools necessary for doing this job are very basic and very easy to get. The main tools that will be used are a ratchet and American Standard set of sockets. The other tools necessary are a pliers, a five gallon bucket, and a filter wrench. The other things that are necessary to complete this job are oil, fuel, hydraulic, and air filters. Also necessary is new oil to replace the oil that is going to be removed. To get the tractor ready to be serviced is also fairly easy. First let the tractor run for about fifteen minutes to let the oil warm up. Then once the oil has warmed up park the tractor on a flat level surface, preferably a cement surface that is easy to clean if some of the oil spills on the floor. After that shut the tractor off, open the hood, and remove the side panels. Then place a five gallon bucket below the oil drain plug and remove the drain plug with a socket wrench. After removing the drain plug let the oil empty out into the bucket until it is completely empty. Then put the drain plug back in and tighten it using the socket wrench. Now that the tractor is ready to be serviced, get a filter wrench and...
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