...Jason and Marie Salerno, brother and sister, have been running their family business, a water park called Wild Water, since they both graduated from the college. The Salernos operate the park, which is located near the New Jersey shore, with help from their parents. Marie’s husband and Jason’s wife are also involved in the business. Wild Water has now been in business for more than 40 years—it is a landmark to both locals and summer tourists. The water park features such attraction as a wave pool, several water slides, a flume ride, a kiddie pool, and a tube ride. A picnic park, shaded petting zoo, aquarium, snack bar, and restaurant called the Seafood Shack round out the park’s offerings. The park opens on Memorial Day and cuts back to weekends only after Labor Day, typically closing in the fall. With just a few months to accumulate revenue, the family and employees of the park work extremely hard. Marie oversees the financial aspects of the business, while Jason manages the staff. The staff—ride operators, ticket takers, lifeguards, and the like—are very loyal. Some have parents who once worked at the water park, and many have siblings who also work there. By its very nature, the organization culture of Wild Water is hierarchical—but most who work there, including Jason and Marie, would refer their employees as part of the family. Jason holds weekly staff meetings, where employees are encouraged to voice their idea about any aspect of the park’s operations. Photos of workers...
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...ONLINE CASE Wild Water Gets Soaked Jason and Marie Salerno, brother and sister, have been running their family business, a water park called Wild Water, since they both graduated from college. The Salernos operate the park, which is located near the New Jersey shore, with help from their parents. Marie’s husband and Jason’s wife are also involved in the business. Wild Water has now been in business for more than 40 years—it is a landmark to both locals and summer tourists. The water park features such attractions as a wave pool, several water slides, a flume ride, a kiddie pool, and a tube ride. A picnic park, shaded petting zoo, aquarium, snack bar, and restaurant called the Seafood Shack round out the park’s offerings. The park opens on Memorial Day and cuts back to weekends only after Labor Day, typically closing in the fall. With just a few months to accumulate revenue, the family and employees of the park work extremely hard. Marie oversees the financial aspects of the business, while Jason manages the staff. The staff—rider operators, ticket takers, lifeguards, and the like—are very loyal. Some have parents who once worked at the water park, and many have siblings who also work there. By its very nature, the organization culture of Wild Water is hierarchical—but most who work there, including Jason and Marie, would refer to their employees as part of the family. Jason holds weekly staff meetings, where employees are encouraged to voice their ideas about any...
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...Discussion Questions 1. A great manager is someone who inspires their employees to be the best that they can be. They are positive and fair, they are willing to listen and try new ideas. If a manager can be open minded and willing to try new things to help their employees grow that is what will set them apart from all other managers. 2. The manager I work for now is a very ineffective manager, she gossips and shows extreme bias to employees she considers friends. She has created a hostile work environment and has employees who would rather call in sick with no pay than deal with her. She has made it so her employees are less productive and in a foul mood. 4. Collaboration across boundaries occurs when companies can bring together different departments so that they can communicate among themselves. Collaboration across boundaries can occur outside the company as well; they can motivate and capitalize on the ideas from other people. Companies must realize that the serve the customer drives everything else, without a customer they would not be in business. Companies can use social media to help bring customers together. 7. When I look at becoming or staying with a company I always look at the competitive advantages. For instance I use Sprint for my service provider for my cell phone. I recently changed from Verizon because of the competitive advantages. I had been a Verizon customer for 10 years and wanted to upgrade my phone and keep my unlimited service. Verizon would not...
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...century. The ground beneath the thick layer of mud and grass felt frozen. The cold, brisk but fresh air entered my lungs. I stepped over fallen branches, wild horse and cow poop. There was no trail to follow or mark the way, only a path that lead to nothingness, through a forest that doesn't seem to have an end. As we were approaching the destination point of our hike, we had to cross a stream by...
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...Endangered Tigers Today wild tigers exist in Eastern Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan, India and Nepal. In order to live in the wild, tigers need water to drink, animals to hunt, and vegetation in which to hide. As the mountains, jungles, forests, and long grasses that have long been home to tigers disappear, so too, do tigers. Agricultural expansion, timber cutting, new roads, human settlement, industrial expansion and hydroelectric dams push tigers into smaller and smaller areas of land. These small areas of forests are surrounded by rapidly growing and relatively poor human populations, including increasing numbers of illegal hunters. Tigers compete with an expanding human population and industry for land and food, many tigers are killed by poachers who sell the tiger’s body parts as ingredients for traditional Chinese medicines. If these trends continue, the wild tiger may evolve from being an endangered species and off the endangered species list to become an extinct species. Without wilderness, the wild tiger will not survive. If the world is not careful, one of the beautiful creatures on the planet will become extinct. Everyday more and more tigers are being slaughtered for their skin, bones, meat, and other organs to produce clothes, home décor, medicine, food and even alcohol. For example bones are soaked in alcohol to make wine, and ground up bone mixed with herbs is believed to relieve pain such as arthritis...
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...Jake Livingston Mrs. Niel English composition 101 MW 1-12:30 9-10-11 Underneath the Rapids “Jake, come and eat before your brothers eat everything!” It was another gorgeous morning in the West Virginian Mountains. My parents decided that we all needed to bond a little more as a family, so they planned for us all to go on a family vacation. This wasn’t such a terrible idea seeing as how my brothers seemed to hate me, as all older brothers hate their snitch little brothers. They decided that a white water rafting trip seemed like a fun idea for the boys. My sister had to stay home because she was pregnant with her first child. So off we went in the summer of 2005, to good ole’ West Virginia. I was 12 at the time, while my older brothers, Nate and Nick, were 19 and 17. Nate was a two time convicted felon who loved to drink at the time. His life wasn’t exactly going down the right path and my parents wanted to try and connect with him more. Nick on the other hand was a pretty nice kid who was well liked in the community, he had his secrets though. Nick loved to sneak out and go to girl’s houses late at night, I was fortunate enough to share a room with him. Every time he would sneak out when I was still awake, I would tell my parents. I don’t know why I did this to my own older brother; I guess I just liked the attention. He would know it was me and beat me up for betraying him, which would inevitably end up in even more trouble for him. So as you can guess he didn’t like...
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...been known to man 30,000 years ago. Flour was processed into unleavened bread. Among Europian countries, diets of the people were mainly based on fats and animal proteins. Bread became staple until 10,000 years back(.http:www.google.com) The ancient Egyptians were the first people known to bake bread, around 8,000 BC. Then during the middle ages, each landlord has a bakery, which is a public oven. Housewives would prepare the dough and bring it to the baker who would lend the oven and bake the dough into bread.(http:www.nybakas.com) However, Vicent Van Dough (1882) forwarded the idea of the historical background of a bakery. He stated that the first evidence of baking occurred when human took wild grasses, soaked them in water and mixed everything together, making it into a kind of broth-like paste. The paste was cooked by pouring it into a flat, hot rock, resulting as a bread like substance. Later, this paste was roasted in hot embers which made bread making easier as it could now be made any time fire was available.(Anders Zom 1889) Seven years later, Zom reported that baking is food cooking method using prolonged dry heat acting by convection rather than by thermal radiation , normally in an oven, but also in a hot ashes or hot stove. In about 300 B.C., baking flourished wide in Rome. Later, it became a highly respected profession because of the higher demand of pastries during festivity and celebration . Thus...
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...was a major turning point in earth’s ecology and the relationship between humans and environment. There were several negative environmentally impacts. Three in particular that are ripple effects to each other are urbanization, pollution and global warming. From 1695 – 1801 there was a 60% population growth rate. There were advancements in farming that reduced the need for farmhands. People migrated to the cities to find work and places to live; but these cities were not prepared for such an influx in such a short period of time. The main motivation for the continuous building was money; because of this, houses were built quickly, cheaply and as many as possible. There we’re no bathrooms, toilets or running water. Many didn’t bathe because it was easier than collecting water from a local pump to do so in a tin bath. There was a courtyard between each row of houses for waste to be thrown out. Sanitation and hygiene barely existed and throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the great fear was a cholera, typhus or typhoid epidemic. These issues weren’t address for the same reason they existed in the first place; money. Wealthy men owned the factories and mines and had huge influence in the cities, the laws that were in place were not carried out, the wealthy were not affected so any improvements to them would be lost profits. This was the start of the next environmental impact pollution. Human contamination of the earth's atmosphere has existed since humans first...
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...Case 49 #4: The Concerns of Sarah Issue: Sarah rented a house from Franks. Every time it rains, the roof leaks, causing plaster to fall from the upstairs bedroom ceilings. One ceiling is beginning to sag. Sarah has complained about the roof leaks to Franks and Franks told Sarah he has caulked the roof, however the roof still leaks. Sarah feels it is Franks’ responsibility to repair the roof; Franks believes since Sarah has sole control of the leased premises, she has the duty to repair the roof. Legal Application: Constructive eviction, maintaining the premises, implied warranty of habitability, and application of the warranty. Resolution: There are four remedies available to Sarah. Sarah can withhold rental payments, repair the property herself and deduct that amount from her rent (provided that doing so is in conformity with state and local laws), cancel the lease, or sue for damages. Additionally, Franks would be liable for any injuries caused from defects on the property. Case 49 #5a: Lease Assignment Issue: I am a college student and plan to attend classes for nine months. I signed a twelve-month apartment lease and paid a $150 security deposit. School is now over for the year and I have a summer job back home. I want to assign the balance of my lease, which is three months, to a fellow student who is going to attend summer school. Legal Application: It depends on what the original lease states; does it allow for a sublease or assignment? In any event...
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...through the rays glinting off the blue pool, scanning for my dogs. They glance over what appears to be a small chunk off wood floating just off center in the deepest end of the pool. I continue to stare on for another minute, intrigued. My curiosity gets the best of me and I head out the back door into the sunroom and out to the porch, stopping just short of the pool. What appears to be hard brown wood is actually soft, fuzzy fur. I continue around to the farthest side of the pool and my mind puts together the image of a small baby bunny, its nose barely above the water line. There is no way of knowing how long that poor bundle of fur had been in the water for I had been in school all day. If there was any chance that this bunny is still alive, I needed to act fast to keep him that way. My brain was transmitting neurons pretty quickly at this point to try to rescue the little cottontail before it was too late. I knew the pool net was too far away as the nose dipped under. Clothes on and all, I dive in. Chlorine in my eyes, I swiftly fumbled around until my hand grasped the soaked coat. Keeping the bunny rabbit above water, I swim to the stairs as rapidly as my body could. Within seconds,(BANANAS) I clamber out of the water. Right off the bat, I’m noticing the bunny’s body temperature is freezing. Why was yesterday the one day I remembered to put away the beach towels, inside. I run to the back door in a panic for the bunny wasn’t moving, not a foot, not his nose...
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...STUDENT INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES) REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT AT TEEMARTINS AQUACULTURE, ADAZI – NNUKWU, ANAOCHA L.G.A, ANAMBRA STATE. FROM 29TH APRIL,2013 TO 29TH OCTOBER, 2013 BY IFEZUE ADAZE OLUEBUBECHI 2009032006 SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMAENT OF ANIMAL SCIENCE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE ANAMBRA STATE UNIVERSITY IGBARIAM CAMPUS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF SIWES PROGRAMME MARCH 2014 DEDICATION This I.T SIWES report is dedicated to my friends, all 500 level students of faculty of Agriculture, and to God for his protection and guidance. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is my pleasure to thank and praise the most high God for his sustenance throughout my SIWES programme. I am most grateful to the CEO of Teemartins aquaculture, Mr Emeka Martins Iloghalu who made it possible for me to carry out the I.T in his farm and also for his assistance whenever I needed it and also the staff of Teemartins Aquaculture. My sincere gratitude goes to the Dean of Faculty of Agriculture Dr C.O Uzuegbunam, the HOD of Animal Science department Dr.A.O. Aniebo, my I.T supervisor Mr D.N. Igili and other members of the faculty board for their keen interest for me to acquire these skills outside the school environment. Their efforts can’t be forgotten. I also thank my lovely parents for their support and also my siblings...
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...his fingers along the period-replica wallpaper, and stared into the shadowed corners of the vaulted ceilings. The century old floors creaked underfoot but otherwise the house remained silent. He sat up all night and listened for phantom creaks, opening or closing doors, wall knocking, anything. Despite the heat, he left the air conditioning turned off so he would notice any cold spots or drafts. A month went by and any ghosts in the house refused to speak to him. One night a wall knocking woke him, and he leapt from bed and raced down the hallway, laughing and calling out to the spirits. He checked all over for a spectral figure. The search led him down the steps to the basement where he discovered the busted pipe and the puddle around the water heater. The next rattling in the walls led him to a raccoon family making themselves at home in the attic. The lack of phenomenon exasperated Stacie, and he shelled out half a week’s pay for a medium from two towns over. The old lady, moon-and-star dress and cobwebby shawl, spoke in tongues, made goofy hand gestures, and even rolled across the floor, and yet the house remained quiet. Enough was enough. He wanted what he paid for: a goddamn haunted house. Stacie gripped the steering wheel, his hands white knuckled and still shaking. With no moon, the streetlights burned extraordinarily bright and seemed like reaching through the windshield to stab him in the eyes. Blood pounded in his ears. He couldn’t believe he did it. Technically this...
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...Corn Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach to monitoring pest lifecycles and prevalence in farmer’s fields to determine the best pest control methods to protect crop yield potential in the current and following growing seasons. IPM is a continuum of pest management evaluations, decisions, and controls that encompass pest lifecycles and prevalence, agronomic practices such as crop rotation, seed selection, soil management, and timely use of pesticides to minimize pest damage and protect environmental resources. Red Root Rot a Late Season Disease of Corn * Roots and basal stalk tissue infected with red root rot characteristically have reddish-pink, rotted roots. * Stalks are weakened and susceptible to lodging. * Premature plant death is common and can occur quickly and yield losses can be as high as 15-20%. * Genetic resistance to red root rot is uncommon and breeding for disease resistance is difficult. Management Management options are limited. Crop rotation with a non-host such as soybean can provide some control.1 Genetic resistance has been difficult to incorporate into corn products, although the rate of disease development varies greatly between corn products. Research on inheritance of disease resistance indicates that it is a polygenic trait with additive gene action, which has complicated breeding efforts.1 Environmental stress during the season may contribute to disease infection and severity...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: The Sea-Wolf In the year 1893, a man by the name Humphrey Van Weyden sets off on a journey on a ferry called the Martinez. Humphrey’s is later nicknamed Hump. Hump’s journey took a negative turn, and the Martinez gets involved in a collision. The ferry is set off course and is shipwrecked in the Bay of San Francisco. Hump then gets cast into the ocean. He is swept about by the sea waves almost to the point of drowning. A seal hunter called the ghost passes by, reaches to his rescue, and saves him from drowning. While on the ghost, Hump later becomes conscious and recovers from the ordeal. Upon gaining consciousness, he realizes that his body is being roughly handled by a sailor. The cook on board called Thomas Mugridge and the other sailor by the name Mr. Johnson have revived him. They explain to him that they got him out of the waters and took him onboard. Hump changes his soaked clothes with rugged woolen clothes that belong to Mugridge. He then learns that the ships name is the ghost and that it is headed for Japan. He received the nickname Hump, on the ghost. Hump seeks to be returned on land. He, therefore, approaches Larsen and requests him to be returned to shore but the captain denies his request. After some time, Hump informs them of the boat in San Francisco. He offers to pay them if they agree to return him to the shore. Larsen dismisses his plea stating that he is a drunken sailor. Captain Larsen appoints a sailor by the name...
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