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NewMarket Technology, Inc. Reports Strong Latin America Sales

Anglo American, who reported 2007 operating revenues of $10.1 billion, is a global leader in mining whose core mining business is focused on industrial minerals, coal, base and ferrous metals, platinum and diamonds. Anglo American has operations and development projects in North and South America, Europe, Australia and Africa. The Company's Base Metals division concentrates on copper, zinc, nickel and mineral sands and has interests in 16 projects in seven countries.

UniOne, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, also has an office in Santiago, Chile, and focuses on providing Business Intelligence (BI) as well as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Performance Management (BPM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) consulting services throughout Latin America. more

ChemRisk Annnounces European Partnership to Aid North American

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChemRisk has formed an international partnership with Helsinki-based REACHLaw to assist North American businesses required to comply with complex new European Union chemical registration requirements.

The requirements--mandated under the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals legislation (REACH)--demand all chemical substances manufactured in, or imported to, the EU be pre-registered with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) between June 1 and November 30, 2008. Companies that fail to pre-register with ECHA will lose their ability to do business in the EU on December 1, 2008.

"REACH was enacted a year ago, but many enterprises have been slow to develop a strategy. Now they've got six months to pre-register," said E. more

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-23 12:43 HK's Sun Hung Kai Props say business operations not affected by family feud

HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd (SHKP) said its corporate decision-making mechanism and daily business operations will not be affected by a dispute among the controlling Kwok brothers.

"Sun Hung Kai Properties is a well-run and well-managed public corporation. Our daily business operations and decision-making mechanism won't be affected by recent incidents," SHKP vice chairman Raymond Kwok told a press briefing.

He was referring to a long-running family feud, which heated up recently and raised concerns over the developer's prospects.

Hong Kong's High Court today dismissed a bid by SHKP chairman and chief executive officer Walter Kwok for a permanent injunction to stop the company's board from voting on whether to remove him.

"We welcome the court decision on the matter," SHKP vice chairman Thomas Kwok told reporters. more

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BMW confirms plans for front-wheel-drive models - autoblog

In the current business year 2010, we will take an ... Our innovative strength helps us tap new growth potential for the company. Again and again, we present our customers with new offerings. Two examples: When we launched the BMW X5 about 10 years ...

Cisco India hiring plan on track - Rediff

N etwork-equipment maker Cisco Systems on Friday said it remains committed to the Indian market and its plans to increase headcount to 10,000 is on track ... In 2007, the company had announced that it would increase its headcount in the country to 10 ...

Saving history, one round barn at a time - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Sonoma County has three good examples: Mount Weske, Fountaingrove and DeTurk ... San Francisco businessman named Adolph Weske, founder of the highly successful California Cracker Company, built his round stables, circled by a mile-and-quarter ...

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... retained COOGEE PRODUCTIONS of Greenwich Studios, a professional production company ... Examples of forward-looking statements are statements about anticipated financial or operating results, financial projections, business prospects, future ...

EADS still looks to U.S. expansion - Reuters

Examples include the Army's armed helicopter program, expected to be worth between $5 billion to $6 billion ... He said the company was focusing heavily on expanding its role in providing a broad range of defense services, including after-market ...

Strategies to defer paying your taxes - Vancouver Sun

Some examples: • Fixed Income: If you have loaned your money to a financial institution, company or government you have likely purchased some ... RESP: Registered Education Savings Plans are usually set up for the benefit of a beneficiary ...

Tories go soft on plans to scrap South West RDA - This is Gloucestershire

PLANS ... examples. "But we should not necessarily apply that to every body." Shadow local government secretary Caroline Spelman announced last year she planned to scrap RDAs in favour of smaller partnerships formed by councils and business

UPDATE 2-EADS still looks to U.S. expansion - The Guardian

aerial tanker competition was a setback for the ambitions of its partner, EADS, but the European company still hopes to boost U ... Examples include the Army's armed helicopter program, expected to be worth between $5 billion to $6 billion for 350 ...

Padnos solar project a showcase for Cascade Engineering - MLive.com

... foundation on which to further build a fledgling business ... the company to produce some of the components for solar energy systems, Ford said. “It’s clearly in our strength,” he said. “That’s certainly in the long-term plans of ...

School board to talk summer projects and plans - Grand Island Independent

Examples include roof repair and replacement, door replacement, new ... One idea that has been brought out is to contract out the education of adjudicated youth to a company that runs the Ombudsman program. In other communities, Ombudsman has signed ...

Resolved Question: Is it normal/wiseto go from graduating high school to an entry level job in advertising with training provided?

My semi-planned career path includes finishing high school, then getting a bachelor's in advertising through 4 years of college. But when I was job searching for high school jobs in business/marketing/advertising, a lot of companies posted "entry level jobs" with only a "high school education required," stating that training will be provided and promotions available as you gain experience and education. I was wondering, is it typical/normal/wise to go from high school to an entry level job and basically getting an education by going from entry level job to higher positions with on-the-job training? Here is one such example I found (assuming I interpreted the posted information right) http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J8D1PJ6D0ZMNZ4926QZ&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=4f32c43d82134aaca27ef862cabe0367-321234037-wc-6&ns_siteid=ns_us_g_high_school_jobs_for__ more

Resolved Question: why are people so stupid these days?

I don't understand. why are people so stupid these days? People say "You have to go to college to get a good job." Hows that true? I can just go interview and work for a big company, why do i need to go to college? To learn what? science? Businesses don't need those stuff, they want money. Secondly, Obama says United States economy is bad since the us is in dept. Why not make it not in dept by MAKING money? Why say we are in dept if you yourself can make money? Lastly, girls are taking over guys. Long time ago, girls had no equal right, but now, we gave them too much rights. Girls are starting to get advantage and make men unequal. For example, many countries make students go to military or army before college such as Korea. However, only GUYS must go and not girls, girls are optional. Isn't that unfair? Just because you have a penis, you have to go to a military? Thats so stupid. If i was the president of United States, I would first illegalize gay marriages, and make the society normal. Secondly, I would make tons of money and spread it all around the world so we don't have anyone without money, and print more money and spread it more. Lastly, I would make the society think that colleges are not important, high school is not important at all, since doing science project, or math project in high school has nothing to do with businesses and doctoral or law jobs later in the future. do you guys like my plan? what do you think? more

Voting Question: What would you say when you phone an employer to ask about hiring?

i am a very shy and nervous person when it comes to the phone. Especially when it comes to employers i'm interested in. That initial dialing nearly gives my young little heart a stroke. I figure I should plan ahead what to say. Example... "Good afternoon, my name is Brian. I am calling to let you know that I would be interested in working for your company. (Name of company) interests me and if you could let me know what oppurtunities there are I would much appreciate it. If there are no available oppurtunities for work here, could you recommend any similar businesses?" I think this sounds good but I don't know. Has anyone ever said something like that before and found it to be effective? Can I get other suggestions or someone tell a story about what conversation led to getting a job? P.S. I have a HS diploma and a STRONG interest in music/writing/art OR empathetic, emotion driven careers. more

Resolved Question: Please help me with finishing a Jazz Age Test.?

Yeah... Help me with a test... 1 Warren G Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans desire to a reform society b become a world power c return to normal life after the war d repeal prohibition 2 Calvin Coolidge became president when a he defeated warren g harding b he defeated robert la follette c warren g harding was assassinated d when warren died in office 3 attorney general harry daughtry resigned in disgrace afer being investigated for taking bribes in exchange for allowing a a private company to drill for oil on public lands b someone to acquire a valuable german owned company seized during the war c immunity to wealthy businessmen accused of insider trading d two powerful corporations to merge. 4 Collidge believed that government should a regulate business b not interfere with business c break up trusts d become nvolved in social reform 5 Ford's system for making cars increased efficiency by a reducing the number of car parts b dividing the job into simple tasks c training workers to do every task d assigning a team to each car 6 In the 1920 young eople began to look for careers as a entrepreneurs b stockholders c business owners d managers in a corporate bureaucracy 7 Union declined during the 1920 in part because many corporations instituted a cooperative indiviualism b supply side economics c sociological departments d welfare capitalism 8 The ohio Gang was a a powerful crime syndicate b a group of notorious bank robbers c a group of Coolidges friends d a group of Hardings friends 9 In the teapot dome scandal, a government official received bribes for a allowing private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves b allowing private interests to drill for oil in a national park c allowing lumber companies to cut trees in national forests d promising immunity for businessmen who overcharged the US Navy 10 The result of the Dawes Plan was a Europes deeper descent into debt b Europes gradual economic recovery c lower prices for European products sold in the US d higher prices for European products sold in the US True or False 11 Warren G Harding thought he lacked the intelligence to be president 12 In his policies Calvin Coolidge aligned himself and the government with big business 13 By the 1920 the automobile had become an accepted part of American life 14 By the 1920 the US was the dominant economic power in the world 15 Many people viewed the Sacco and Vanzetti case as an example of prejudice against people based on their ethnic origin and beliefs 16 Woodrow Wilson embraced eugenics which wanted to stop the breeding of the unfit or the inferior 17 The Sheik was the first talking picture 18 Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational early form of Jazz 19 In the 1920 most african american voters in the north cast their votes for republicans, the party of Lincoln 20 Marcus Garvey preached a message of separation and independence from whites THANKS IN ADVANCE!!! more

Resolved Question: If deportation of all illegals crushes the Hispanic Market, do anti-immigration folks care?

And do they have a plan to cover those billions, maybe even trillions lost to the US economy? I ask about Hispanics/Hispanic Market because they seem to only focus on them. ================================== The Growing Hispanic Market in the United States Virtually every type of company and organization in the United States is being impacted by the growth of the Hispanic population. You see it in government, healthcare, manufacturing, food service, construction, education, finance, legal, and these are just a few examples. Marketing and selling to the U.S. Hispanics has become so important that universities are offering programs on the subject. Florida State University has recently created a center for Hispanic marketing communications offering graduate certificates and undergraduate minor programs. Following are some facts for consideration: U.S. Hispanic purchasing power has surged to nearly $700 billion and is projected to reach as much as $1 trillion by 2007, nearly three times the overall national rate over the past decade. (Source: HispanTelligence®.) The top areas where Hispanics spend more than non-Hispanics are: groceries, telephone services, furniture, men’s and boys apparel, children’s clothing and footwear. (Source: Selig Center.) The U.S. Hispanic market ranks as the third largest “Latin American economy” behind Brazil and Mexico. There are more Hispanics living in the United States, than the entire population of Canada, which is 32.5 million. (Source: U.S. Census.) We are like a country within a country. Hispanic advertising by U.S. companies grew 24 percent in 2003, compared with 8.6 percent for the general market. (Source: Media Economics Group, research firm that tracks Spanish-language marketing.) By mid-century, 25 percent or one out of every four people in the United States will be Hispanic. The African American population by mid-century will remain at the current rate of 13 percent of the total United States population. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau.) An IRS report predicts that 1 out of every 10 small businesses will be Hispanic by the year 2007. Today the proportion stands at 1 in 13 and rising. (Source: Hispanic Trends.) http://www.strictlyspanish.com/white_paper4.htm more

Resolved Question: S'pore 2010 Budget Proposal, My View...?

This budget proposal is too INWARD looking... the way i sees it, it's like fixing a problem or crowd pleasing probably to tame the disgrunt on the ground that was lately the talk of the town about foreigh talent, job security & the identity crisis for a Singaporean, so to speak... There are largely NO bold initiatives from this budget proposal to create new sectors & businesses hence job creation to drive the economy in the next 5 years plan. Sadly, the focus was all about spending $bils to drive productivity which i felt the result will not yield much impact if you spend that amount of money to create new sectors to value-add to the existing sectors contributing to the GDP. There is a limit to how productivity can yield positive results such as the construction sector the govt had name for instance...to put it bluntly, you cannot expect to compare productivity of japanese construction sector vis-a-vis spore's... simply because of cultural, mindset & attitude differences. Even if spore's construction productivity increases or benefited from such program, the yield won't be large. If that happens, that is simply MONEY NOT WELL SPENT. Initiatives, i sees fit, should be to invest the budget deficits to into new sectors such as "renewables", for instance. Renewables, a "big" term to be a step ahead to reduce Spore's carbon footprint which is excessively large by int'l standards. Renewables can be programs, subsidy to encourage new investments, training, manufacturing in these industries such as renewable energy (eg biofuel, biomass, wind & solar energy, development/r&d of green machines, green cars, boilers, plants/factories etc etc)... unimaginable prospects.... It could also harness, enhance, integrate & reinforce the existing sectors of the economy. It is high time Spore govt should detach their support for the Petroleum industries & companies & gradually tax these monopolies for the years of tax benefits they've massively enjoyed at the expense of the consumer here. This is in the context of petrol pump prices anyone can easily observed that it is operated like a cartel. Spore should allow diesel engines cars which are now cleaner with the current latest technologies which gives better mileage. Spore should also consider to gradually mandate the use of biodiesel/biofuel in the next 10-20yrs ahead to set example to the int'l world that a small country can also do it's part to sustain the future environment. Unfortunately, our govt budget 2010 proposal from the look of it, is too busy with those trivial domestic issues & largely ignored the bigger issues & missed the big picture totally. This will be detrimental to the well being of spore govt coffers of not spending it wisely... hope debates by the MPs & Ministers able to put together a budget that is more laden with initiatives to set new engine of growth for the economy.. more

Resolved Question: Alternative to UK tourist visa requirement?

I'll be visiting the UK in May, and am applying for a UK tourist visa. One of the documents needed is: "either a letter confirming your period of employment from your employer together with salary slips for the last three months or a certificate confirming you have continuing studies or if you are self employed, evidence of your business for example company". The thing is, I am currently on my last semester of my bachelors degree, studying full-time, and not working. And even though I am planning on continuing my studies with a masters degree on September, I'm just gonna start to apply to graduate school, and won't get a Response for a while. What document should I provide? more

Voting Question: Business Management questions?

Robert Downs has just completed a Master of Science degree in computer science at Major State University. He now wants to begin a new Internet business selling his services as a Web site maker for companies in his home city, St. Louis. He estimates that, if his business idea is a success, within one year he will be employing at a minimum 10 programmers and two analysts. 1. To make his business successful, Robert will first have to develop what type of plan? A. Tactical B. Specific C. Directional D. Strategic 2. To clarify how the overall goals are to be achieved, Robert will have to develop a A. Tactical plan B. Specific plan C. Directional plan D. Strategic plan 3. To ensure that the organization’s objectives are clearly defined and do not leave room for interpretation, he will have to develop what type of plan? A. Tactical B. Specific C. Directional D. Strategic 4. To provide the programmers and analysts general guidelines about the efficiencies that are desired, he will have to develop what type of plan? A. Tactical B. Specific C. Directional D. Strategic CASE 2—XYZ Planning At organization XYZ, the plans are made at the top, and then those managers meet with their subordinates at the next level and mutually agreed-to goals are established with them. The mid-level managers then meet with their first-level managers and mutually agreed-to goals are established with them. Finally, the first-level managers meet with each of their employees and mutually agreed-to goals are established with them. 5. The planning approach used at the XYZ organization is ____________________. A. Management by Objectives B. Directional planning C. Specific planning D. Traditional planning CASE 3—Dollars to Donuts Ralph Friedgrin is the owner of a chain of five donut shops in Smalltown, MD. Smalltown is located along Interstate 95, about half-way between Lost and Nowhere. 6. Mr. Friedgrin demands that the five store managers during their weekly meeting discuss what the customers in their stores are requesting. Mr. Friedgrim always reads the monthly donut-industry magazine, Holey Mazole. He always attends the Annual National Conference of Donut Makers and updates his managers when he returns. These activities are examples of_________________. A. Competitive intelligence B. Benchmarking C. Environmental scanning D. Global scanning 7. On occasion, Mr. Friedgrin goes to nearby, larger towns such as Lost and Nowhere to visit big chain donut shops. Mr. Friedgrin purchases donuts and chats with these customers about their donut likes and dislikes. He also will “peek” into the kitchen to view the equipment, or when he can, he will watch through the customer observation window to see the whole process. Mr. Friedgrin is performing which planning technique? A. Competitive intelligence B. Environmental scanning C. Benchmarking D. Global scanning 8. Mr. Friedgrin recently went on a well-deserved vacation. While at the beachfront resort, Mr. Friedgrin took many notes regarding the excellent service he received. On the flight home, he reviewed his notes to see what lessons he could apply to his donut shops. When Mr. Friedgrin is out looking at the “best practices” of the other donut stores in these towns, he is performing which of the following? A. Competitive intelligence B. Benchmarking C. Environmental scanning D. Strategic planning CASE 4—SWOT Analysis As a process of self-examination during her senior year of college, Casey decided to develop a SWOT analysis of her prospects relative to getting a job. 9. Casey realizes that she has a personal characteristic that suggests she is not comfortable interacting with strangers. She interprets this as a(n) _________is she is to get a job as a salesperson. A. Alternative B. Strength C. Weakness D. Opportunity 10. Casey majored in marketing and really enjoyed studies in market research. Through research on the Internet and in the university library, she discovers that this industry appears to have significant positive external trends. She interprets this as a (n)______. A. Alternative B. Strength C. Weakness D. Opportunity 11. Casey has been involved in _____________at a personal level A. Opportunity analysis B. Risk avoidance C. Strategic planning D. Stage decision making CASES 5—Un Taco Pequeno Imagine that you are the president of Taco Rocket, a new and successful chain of 100 Mexican fast-food restaurants. The success you have experienced in the last 5 years has you thinking of what to do with the business next. Should you expand the business at the current rate? Open new and different restaurants? What? 2, You decide to concentrate on Taco Rocket’s primary business by only increasing the menu to include new items such as enchiladas and rice bowls. This is an example of what type of growt more

Resolved Question: Please correct my Toefl essay :D URGENT?

Both lecture and Reading explain different problems about work in a company and work in their own business. In the reading explain problems with owner of small businesses. First Small Owners needed to do many things by theirselves , for example to get approbe of government, and thir need to do a lot of paper work. And many of these bussines (Around 95%) will be broken at its first month. Owners has other kind of problems too, for example : If owner need to get separate because it could be a legal hell for them. The last point Is about heath plan because their plans are in their hands. In contrast in the lecture explain why empleoys left their work and desired to open their own businesses . For example disagree with their bosses and the dissolution because they feeled to don’t have the control of their own works, because every desition need to be agreeded with many other people. Lecture explain the importance of have a good retirement and people looking for better opportunities in life. In concusion Company life may be disappointed but has the work of everyone is supported your own job , in contrast Work by your own is more in risk. more

Resolved Question: Please proof-read my essay for errors?

Errors in Ideas and Content, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Fluency or Conventions Any comments are helpful and appreciated :) --- means there's a new paragraph because this thing won't put in the indent Impacts of African American Writers on the 21st Century “So will my page be colored that I write? Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white--- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American. Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that’s true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me--- although your older--- and white--- and somewhat more free” (Langston Hughes, Theme for English B). The United States has been enriched culturally by immigrants from many nations. The Harlem Renaissance was a time during the 1920s and early 1930s in the New York neighborhood of Harlem when African American writers from backgrounds across the cultural spectrum and realm of social thought challenged white paternalism and racism. These artists and intellectuals resisted assimilation and asserted their freedom to express themselves on their own terms. They explored their identities as black Americans and celebrated their culture that emerged from slavery as well as their ties to Africa. African-Americans have made contributions and inspired change in the American lifestyle, principally culturally in the areas of literature, art, foods, music, language, sports and technological innovation. By means of inveteration and dissemination of proclivity through pithy poems, short stories and other works, African American writers engendered a change in social rules such as racial integration, individual rights, and values ---America as a nation has come a long way concerning social rules. It used to be that segregated schools, separate bus seats, bathrooms and drinking fountains were not uncommon. There were racial exclusions in employment and businesses as well as real estate and private memberships. The Cotton Club was a famous night club in New York City that operated during Prohibition. The club featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the time yet generally denied admission to blacks. African American writers such as Zora Neale Hurston described racial discrimination and its impact of her life in her “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” essay: “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression within me…Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” Today, there are no separate schools, neighborhoods, or drinking fountains between whites and African Americans. Racial integration can be seen, for example, on TV with commercials including both white people and African Americans. When white people read the works of the Harlem Renaissance, perhaps they felt chagrin for their treatment toward African Americans. ---African American writers in the Harlem Renaissance represented and responded to the ubiquitous racialized violence and racial oppression in the period between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of World War I. The fought for equality and freedom through their literature and so social standards have improved in their favor. “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Values addressed in literature of the Harlem Renaissance were not only of equality and freedom, but the various strategies of the writers reflected all genres of human evaluation. For instance, Arna Bontemps wrote a short story titled, “A Summer Tragedy,” about an old couple who planned to commit suicide. The story addressed issues and ideas about aging and death, health and disability, measure of the value of life, family, and love. Langston Hughes wrote the poem, “Mother to Son,” an austere poem about the simple reality that life is not easy, and that one must persevere. “When I read great literature, great drama, speeches or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language” (James Earl Jones). African American writers used many approaches and writing styles to convey their messages about values. ---Today, African Americans have many more individual and social rights; those changes were indirectly and fundamentally brought about by their writing during the Harlem Renaissance. It influenced and inspired black and white people. African Americans are allowed to enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces and work positions in the government (including attorney general and president). Furthermore, schools and buses are desegregated. African Americans can more

Resolved Question: Application Form Question Help?

I am having difficulty when filling out on-line or off-line job application forms when they ask questions like 'Brief description of your main duties, responsibilities, and knowledge gained with emphasis on the areas most relevant to the job applied for? I usually write my job description and duties, responsibilities here is an example of 1 I done recently:- Duties involved receiving and validating business broadband contracts on a daily basis in the provisioning department. This involved processing customers details in an accurate manner from address verifying to correct products selected. I was responsible to complete 25 recorders per day which I achieved successfully with help and support. I regularly worked with account managers, planners, designers, engineers to allocate work loads, equipment, cable names, materials required for installation on customer premises. I was responsible to notify all parties through email of orders on the system. I achieved this by keeping a record of contact who were involved with each project occasionally phone my colleagues for urgent updates. Also, involved was chasing up delays on customer orders. This involved searching and finding historical notes and also contacting relevant parties involved. I had responsibility to inform the customer through phone and email of delays and provide new dates and times when installs will take place. I achieved this by keeping calm under pressure and giving honest feedback to customer with reassuring them of their orders. At various times I dealt with large workloads of contracts and customer requests. I had responsibility to work beyond my normal means in order to achieve these requests. I achieved this by planning and organising my workload in a set manner ensuring that I met customer requirement date. CUSTOMER SERVICES ADVISOR Dealing with credit card clients on a daily basis receiving inbound calls from members of the public to make payments, credit limit increases, pin requests and dealing with complaints using the company procedures. I also had to cross sell products on balance transfers, credit card cheques. I was responsible to ensure my customers were happy by filling out a customer survey at times. I was successful in this role and was able to meet the call quality and quantity targets by keeping a positive attitude and ongoing learning from myself and my team colleagues. Am I on the right lines here is there something I am missing out? Thanks. more

Resolved Question: Resume Format, how do I write a company name?

Do I bold it? Underline it? or Italics? Example is: Using Natureview Farm Yogurt Co. Assessed various sales plans proposed by Natureview Farm. Each plan was weighed by penetration cost and projected sales return. Avon (woman's cosmetics) Evaluated how the launch of Avon.com complemented their business model of selling through Avon Ladies by allowing their representatives to process customer orders online and acess customer order history. Famous Amos Cookies Researched Famous Amos cookies’ product distribution strategy which enabled them to compete against rival companies through efficient Channel Design and Management. more

Resolved Question: what do I have to worry about legally when naming my business?

I'm trying to create an LLC, just the company name. I'm not planning on developing a specific product or service with the same name as the company but want to know what problems I could run into when naming My business. What happens if I register an LLC in my state as XYZ GROUP LLC, and there is a company called XYZ services LLC in another? can I get in trouble? LIke for example, there is a computer company called APPLE but i'm sure there are plenty of comapnies like Grandma's apples, or apple a day doctor's offices. or Apple Financial Services but what keeps Apple computer from coming in and saying HEY! you're name has apple in it so change it or we'll sue you! more

Voting Question: good name for a company?

i am working on a business plan and i need help naming my company. A brief description of my company is that we take donations of toy and children clothing and send it to other country's that need it like after a disaster for example Haiti. Answers only please more

Resolved Question: Principles of Management homework help..?

ok soo I'm so lost and don't understand most of this.. Please help.. Imagine that your marketing company has just merged with a manufacturing organization. You have been asked to help provide some “basic” managerial training to the engineers in the research and development unit of the new sister company. To make sure you are covering the necessary issues, your boss has asked to see an overview of materials that you will be providing the engineers. 11.Now that both companies are merged and are a systematic arrangement of people set to accomplish a specific purpose, they could be described as a(n) _____________. a.business unit b.multinational company c.organization d.holding company 12.One of the first things the engineers need to learn is that _____________ are the people who direct the activities of others in an organization. a.directors b.managers c.subordinates d.line workers 13.Another fact that engineers need to learn is that supervisors may frequently be referred to as _____________. a.middle managers b.top managers c.project leaders d.first-line managers 14.Many of the engineers in the group are unclear about what managers actually do. Your training materials explain that a manager’s job focuses on _____________. a.the performance of clerical duties b.personal achievement c.helping others accomplish their work goals d.supervising groups rather than individual employees 15.Which argument for social responsibility puts forth the belief that by becoming socially responsible, businesses can expect to have less government regulation? a.discouragement of further government regulation b.stockholder interests c.public expectations d.public image As a business expansion director, Shana’s goal is to scout out potential locations and basically provide input on how her company should proceed with its planned expansion to Europe. There are many options, including maintaining the business’s head office in the United States and sending over company representatives when necessary or establishing separate operations facilities abroad and hiring locals as managers. 16.If Shana’s company decides to open another company in France but maintain its management in the United States, it would be considered _________________. a.a transnational corporation b.a multinational company c.a regional trade alliance d.a joint venture 17.If Shana’s company decides to open a completely new operation in Germany, tailoring the company to local customs and marketing strategies and hiring local managers, it would be considered _______________. a.a multinational corporation b.a borderless organization c.a regional trade alliance d.a transnational corporation 18.If Shana’s company eliminates country-designated locations and reorganizes based on industry groups, it would be considered a __________________. a.borderless organization b.strategic partnership c.global business alliance d.multination corporation 19.One section of Shana’s company’s business plan involves strategic alliances and joint ventures. This section is most likely focused on the _________ phase of the company’s global business expansion. a.legal b.middle c.final d.preliminary A regional university is trying to deal with many pressures to maintain its vitality in today’s educational environment. It faces many challenges that test the managers at the university. 20.Most university programs that offer degrees through classes on the Internet are at either the associate degree or graduate level. This university notices a need for programs that offer bachelor’s degree. In response to this need, the university decides to offer a degree at the bachelor’s level. This innovative effort is an example of _________________. a.workforce diversity b.entrepreneurship c.continuous improvement d.work process engineering more

Resolved Question: if your company experience loss profit because of typhoons how will you recover?

for example your an owner of a business like hotels and restaurants and your company suffers and experience loss profit because of typhoons like ondoy and pepeng how would you recover from it?what plans are you going to do?what strategies would you do to easily recover from your losses and if ever another calamity will hit what preparedness plan would you suggest or recommend? more

Resolved Question: I wish to establish an online business, but don't understand how to approach the wholesaler?

Hi, I have done my MBA in marketing and have done a diploma course in Online marketing and web development. I have a regular job but I have this desire of establishing my own enterprise. I have pretty decent knowledge of online marketing and e-commerce. I wish to develop my own website/an online store. I have also zeroed in as to what products will suit my area. I have also worked upon the business plan. However, I don't understand as to how I should approach the wholesale dealers? For example, I wish to sell DVDs of all genres. I also have a comprehensive list of players in this area who provide DVDs at wholesale rate. But, I don't know how to approach them? Will a letter stating what I wish to do, what are my requirements and how the company be benefited be enough? How to look out for companies which provide such opportunities and companies which sell the products on a wholesale rate?? Please reply?? Any reply/suggestions will be highly appreciated?? If possible, please suggest any website/book on the subject too.. Thanx more

Resolved Question: What steps do I need to take to get my small business(idea) off of the ground?

I'm a student, but in the near future...to help me pay for college. I plan to have a small office cleaning business. A small investment and a couple hours of work in the evening will help me with my tuition. What steps do I take and in what order? For example, what legal aspects need to be covered? So far I've been told to ??register my business?? and obtain insurance. Could someone breakdown how to register my business...(with who? on a state/county level?) and what type of insurance is required? I also have an idea for a name...and I think it's catchy and will 'grab attention'. I see no one else with it...and I want to make a claim for the name myself. I don't plan on beginning my biz anytime in the near future, but I want to ensure that I can 'hold' this company name. Can I go ahead and do that? If so, HOW?...and how much, and through who? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. more

Resolved Question: Could DUI Laws be one of the Vehicles to take away our Constitutional Protection?

Could DUI Laws be one of the Vehicles to take away our Constitutional Protection? Politicians are planning to put the U.S. under an International Marxist New World Order dictatorship by various means. MADD claims they want to get drunk drivers off the road. Can the law prevent accidents? Are the new harsher penalties a solution? Is that the real reason for the harsher laws? What is the real motive behind the creation of new stricter DUI laws? The first thing I noticed is DUI laws do not require the arresting cop to read you your Constitutional Miranda Rights. And when no accident or problem has been caused by the driver who has been pulled over, or was forced to go through a police road block, or was stopped for some other reason, or encountered a cop who got suspicious. The suspect can be arrested for a crime that has not been committed, simply on suspicion that he might cause an accident. This is like other people being arrested for murder and given the death penalty, simply because they had a gun or a rock or anything that could be interpreted as a deadly weapon in their vehicle. For example, politicians have scared people into thinking that unless we crack down on drugs, we will have anarchy with criminals roaming the streets. So they made some laws that allow the authorities to seize the private property of any suspected drug ring or person. All they have to do is plant some drugs in a house or vehicle. Then the authorities can ignore their Constitutional Rights and confiscate the vehicles, bank accounts, and real estate of that group or person and sell it on their black market without a trial. Let's see if you think this MADDness is justice, or lynch mob rule. Arnold Swartzanager is hurting for money to balance his budget, and please his sources of money for his election (which includes MADD who want to get revenge against all drinkers for the death of a relative), so he has decided to double the penalties for a first time DUI offender from 9 months to 18 months of weekly classes at $25 each, and increase the fines from several hundred dollars, to a few thousand dollars. And also to force first time offenders to pay several hundred dollars to install a breathalyzer device (the breathalyzer companies pay for the election of these politicians who support them, a good investment in a bad economy) in the first time offender's car, so they cannot start them if they even used Listerine. They are testing it in some counties in California now. And they are considering installing cameras. And if you cannot pay for all this, they will put you in debtor's prison. More and more innocent people will be put in jail. If MADD can get the breathalyzers, then they will get the cameras. Once they create this precedent, then cameras will become standard equipment in ALL vehicles, homes, businesses, public places. Then when Big Brother decides to crack down, he can listen to your conversation and watch anyone who utters key words tracked on the Internet by satellite anywhere they are as a Political Enemy, and you will be arrested as a Terrorist Suspect. The laws are in place for this very thing. more

Resolved Question: Is Obama's plan to put all private insurance companies out of business?

Everyone knows that it is a FACT that private entities can not compete with the government, take for example the delivery of mail, schools, etc. FACT.Mr. 1911ASShole Yes, that is me. I said that. FACT. more

Resolved Question: Is "Google This" a Zionist/NWO engine of mind and genetic control?

Google is a Public US company, and is in the main financed by US Pension Plans. It has an obligation to it's stockholders to run the business in an effective, competent and appropriate manner. Therefore the following question begs to be asked; " Does the establishing of a $50 million dollar research centre in Tel Aviv, paying extravagant salaries to Israeli workers, when such an operation could have been located in Bangladesh for example, at a fraction of the cost, fall within the remit of conducting business in an effective, competent and appropriate manner? " In this sudden rush to Israel, Google is in good (depending on how you see the world) company. IBM, Sun Systems, Microsoft, Intel and others have all chosen Israel as a location in which to set up operations. Financially, this just does not make any sense. Furthermore, why is a country made up overwhelmingly of Russian immigrants, with an average IQ of 90 such an attractive destination for these corporate giants ? http://www.rense.com/general81/googon.htm more

Resolved Question: Incorporation - help with website Vs. corporation name and to figure out if I can do contracting/1099?

Two Questions: (1) I have incorporated with one name in California (A, Inc. for example) while my business (web based service) is running in the industry as www.b.com (for example). Am I still covered in terms of liabilities? Do I need to keep same name? Where do I need to write that this service (www.b.com) is owned by A, Inc? (2) Also, I am planning to do full time contracting on the side (using this corporation) and will be doing corp-to-corp deal with a company who will be paying me for the consultancy/contracting work. My web based business and this consulting field are totally different. Is it OK? Any legal issue? Thanks in advance more

Resolved Question: Does the physical address of an LLC need to be in the same state that the company is licensed in?

So let's say for example that I want to create an LLC for the purpose of owning rental homes in Arizona. All of the homes that I plan to own in Arizona will be fully rented out, and the only office that I have to run my business is at my home in Seattle, Wa. a.) Could I list my home in Seattle as the address for the company, yet have it licensed in Arizona? If this is not possible then b.) Could I at least list one of the rental homes as the address of the company - even though my actual office will not be there? Then list the LLC's "Resgistered Agent's Address" as my home in Seattle? Thanks fellow real estate investors :) more

Resolved Question: If i am adviser to US president, what should i do for Job creations?

Should i recommend to gov not to pay cash funds to any foreign country, but offer them American assistance by practical developments & real supplies of US products or services...? For example: Africa need assistance, US construction companies could offer Road networks, Car manufacturer should plan Automobiles for Africa, Factory based Home manufacturers can design towns for African communities, US energy manufacturer establish power houses, US financial institutes can offer micro-finance to businesses in Africa.... etc, all this mega plan should backed by US gov funding to American business owners, but conditional to spend in target location or community This type of home based planning, & localized funding to business can help to create loop of Mega Jobs & opportunities nationwide... fruits of this can be shareable across globe In simple words, Gov assist nationwide business & encourage them to Act in global markets do you think this is practical & beneficial advise ? more

Resolved Question: I am wanting to start up a company... but can you explain these laws...?

Hello I am wanting to start up a web based company. Number of employees: 0. I will register the company as a Ltd. however, I may know all there is to know about this web based company, but I don't understand the laws. I am unable to work due to a disability. I currently get help (money) from the state to live on. However, I was able to work for some time till it got too much and have a little put by. I am currently getting Disability living allowance and Income support. I do not work, but as I have a little bit of money put away, I would like to use this and start up a web business. I know what I need to do, to sell the products, but I don't know the taxes, however this can be overcome with an accountant. I need to know, if I start up this company, will I need to inform the job centre that I am doing this? I plan to put 100% back into the company to make it expand, however I need every penny from the state, for example, I need specialist things made to help me get around. These are not cheep, they cost nearly £500 for 1 leg, I need 2, thats nearly £1,000, this is not including the other 4 areas where I need to spend big on. However, this is just a start of my years ahead. I now say, enough is enough. I want to use the money I have saved up to start a business so I can look forward to a brighter future, but I can not lose the benefits... what is my best solution? I have problems with the following, both big toes, ankle ligaments and tendons don't work, this means that I walk for a few meters and I fall over. If I stand still it feels like my knee is going to snap, this is due to weakening ligaments to the knees. However physio wanted me to force myself to walk like normal people do. I walk with my feet pointing either behind my, left leg pointing at 8 and the right leg pointing at 4 (yes, this is the easiest for me) I also walk with my legs pointing at 10 and 2. As the physio wanted me to walk with both feet pointing 12, this has caused more problems with my hips and now lower back. I spend most of my days in bed as I can not move due to too much pain. This is why I want to set up a company now, so I have a future to look forward to, something I am good at... which this is perfect. I am told this problem will be with me for life, unless I get 2 surgery options. These are 5-10 years away at the moment, as I am too young, I am in my lower 20's. Please help... more

Resolved Question: Could someone please grade my essay out of 6?

The question: Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way? Doing things in ones own way is crucial for accomplishments of the highest level to be reached. Several examples from history clearly demonstrate that more accomplishment is made when one is allowed to elaborate and complete things in a personalized way. As shown by Howard Shultz, a successful business is created by being creative and expanding on that creativity. In Pennsylvania, USA thirty years ago Shultz graduated college and applied for a job as a sales manager at a small cafe, after already having some work experience in the house ware company Ham marplast. The founders of the small cafe, Gordon Bowker and Jerry Baldwin, accepted Shultz and soon the cafe became very successful due to Shultz's tactics. A few years later Shultz went on a vacation to Italy where he discovered Italian- styled cafe's that deeply interested him. After returning to America Shultz revealed this idea to the founders of the small cafe. After they refused to change the style of their cafe. Shultz was compelled to create his own which he called "Il Giornale", which is Italian for daily. After three years Shultz found investors that allowed him to spread his cafe across the world, opening locations in the Far East, Middle East, Europe as we4ll as over 2000 location in North AMerica. By now he had changed the name of the cafe to Starbucks. Thus, because Shultz decided to continue with his original idea he was able to transform a simple idea to a multibillion dollar reality. Through the actions of Jack Welch it is obvious that personal input in a plan is what makes a plan succeed. Jack Welch joined the Company General Electric in 1960. After years of ardous work he was named vice-president of GE in 1972, senior vice-president in 1977, chairman in 1979, the finally was given the Honour of being General Electrics eight and youngest chairman and CEO in 1981. He ran the company the way he knew best, as a "grocery store". He said through this way he was allowed to get to know his eemployeesbetter and this gae him a chance to be involved in all aspects of the company. Hence, Welch's personalize way of management was proved the best way for him to go when the comany's market value increased from $18 billion in 1981 to an astonishing estimate of $80 billion in 2001. As demonstrated by Lee I acocca, using ones own tactics allows one to greatly accomplish. Lee Iacocca started his career in 1964 at the Ford Motor company, where he eventually rose to become president from 1970 until 1978. Iacocca left the company in 1979 after a dispute with Henry Ford and became president, CEO, and chairman of Chrysler Corporation 1979. With his incredulous financial handling tactics, Iacocca saved the company form bankruptcy. He restored the corporation through shrewd financial policies, a 1.2 billion dollar loan guarantee and tax concessions grated by Congress. Many questioned his risk of taking such a large loan to which he replied, "We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back." Therefore, Iacocca proved sometime for one to accomplish a goal one must proceed with what one believes in. After careful analysis of Howard Shultz, Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca one can see the doing things ones own way, indeed, leads to more success. more

Resolved Question: Is there a 50% small business tax credit in either the Senate or House Health Care Reform bills?

At Thanksgiving, someone made the claim that the Health Care Reform plan included a 50% tax credit for small businesses on what they spend for employee health care. His specific example was that his company of 26 people pays about $250K per year in health care, and under the plan, they would receive a $125K tax credit back. Any truth to that? If so, where can I find that?To Good Guy - I asked here because I was hoping to avoid wading through 2,000+ pages of proposed legislation. more

Resolved Question: Writing a mini business plan for a publishing company?

I have to write a business plan that shows how a non-profit publication can sustain itself or a business will be able to make a profit within a reasonable amount of time. It has to be 4-5 pages, plus the cover page. Other than this info, I have no idea where to begin! Does anyone have any suggestions or examples of where I can start with this? Thanks for the help! more

Resolved Question: Is President Obama doing exactly what he promised not to do as a candidate?? (secret lobbyist deals)?

Check out the Air America segment in the first link. Apparently during the campaign, Obama bashed Billy Tauzin specifically as an example of how Washington makes back room deals with lobbyists instead of discussing new legislation in an open and transparent way with the public. Well guess who visited the White House over 10 times since January?? BILLY TAUZIN (Who represents BIG PHARMA) Isn't this EXACTLY what Obama campaigned AGAINST?!?!!? Hence all the "change" rhetoric?? http://healthcarehorserace.com/media/08212009/air-america-calls-obama-fascist-liar/ But now Air America Media, formerly Air America Radio, is attacking the president for his backroom deal with Billy Tauzin, President and CEO of PhRMA, an industry trade group representing the pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies in the United States. The deal entails the drug industry agreeing to give Americans a future savings of $80 billion on the condition that President Obama agrees not to negotiate for lower drug prices. The kicker in this (outside the fact that he broke a prominent campaign promise to include the American people in any negotiates made with lobbyists and that there would no longer be any backroom deals in Washington under his reign) is that Obama’s own administration announced that over the next ten years Americans will spend roughly $3.6 trillion for prescription drugs. That $80 billion in future savings covers roughly two percent of that. http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/promise-broken/ "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/25/white-house-visitor-logs_n_370921.html Business wasn't the only topic that brought visitors to the White House. Health care reform was another big draw. Billy Tauzin, the CEO of the pharmaceutical lobby PhRMA, stopped by the White House eleven times -- for both formal bill signings, a town hall meeting, and gathering with high-ranking staff. Once Tauzin met with the president himself. Karen Ignagni, the president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, came to the White House on eight occasions, usually for meetings with high-ranking officials. As the Associated Press reports, the heads of Kaiser Health Plans, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the American Hospital Association as well as several major health care industry lobbyists, were also White House visitors. more

Resolved Question: Could You Suggest an Alternative Healthcare Bill 10% the Size of the Present One?

The present bill spends $1 Trillion per year for the next 10 years. What, if anything could be done for healthcare for a mere $100 Billion per year of the next 10 years? Here's one possible outline, but I would like to hear yours: 1) Spend $75 Billion per year for the next 10 years on Primary Care clinics managed by the Red Cross near the emergency room entrances of 2500 hospitals in USA. These clinics would be staffed by 3 physicians each (paid $166,000) per year and 10 Red Cross Volunteers (paid in refundable tax credits at $100/day), and one or two Pharmacists, or PA's to dispense prescription meds from the on-site pharmacy. Security would be handled by Kroll or Blackwater or Pinkerton's or somebody like that on a roving and on-call short notice basis, so one security team could cover 4 or 5 clinics in a big city. The cost of renting the office space and the cost of the medications, and disposables, and tests, and electric, and water would be additonal costs. 2500 clinics, fully staffed and supplied for $75 Billion per year, and this includes the Red Cross's fees for management of the system. Since this is government provided health care on a good samaritan basis with no charge to the patient, there is triple legal immunity (soveriegn, samaritan, and charitable). The patient don't get to sue. But they do get some healthcare -- maybe not the Cadillac coverage but real good Primary Care -- which is crucial because it cures and it also prevents. The meds can be acquired through a piggyback order on the VA's annual order, thereby getting an even bigger price break, maybe as good as Canada gets! 2) Now there's $25 Billion per year left to play with, how should that be used? Here's how: Use about $20 Billion to re-organize health insurance so that all insurors can offer coverage in all states, or most. Do not force insurors to insure people with pre-existing conditions. Let them run their insurance business along the regular lines and practices of insurance in the various states. In Maryland, we have a high risk pool, and all companies that sell insurance here must take a certain percentage of cases assigned out of the Maryland resident high risk pool. This amounts to a bearable not an unbearable burden for all the firms. The other $5 Billion would be used for Tort Reform. Getting a Federal standard for damages in medical malpractice cases, and then forcing those cases into the Federal Courts, so that trial lawyers couldn't suck the blood out of the solvency of the practice of medicine as they are doing now (author = member of ATLA -- the people I'm talking about = me). Once tort reform is well begun, there needs to be more careful and frequent Board Certification of physicians. The doctors have to get a lot better if they are to be freed from oppressive lawsuits. They get better by closer regulation instead of by being terrorized and made examples of by sharky lawyers. This would cause all medical fees to go down. Less insurance costs means better priced services for patients. This is one 10% Plan that I think would work 1000 times better than the Obama/Pelosi/Reid huge Break the Bank Megaplan. But I want to hear your 10% plan -- Here's $100 Billion per year for 10 years, how would you spend it? Is there anybody health in USA that could be made better with that kind of money? How would you do it? To get the $100 Billion, just close down one of our wars Iraq, Afghanistan, take your pick, it doesn't matter, closing down either one would save $100 Billion easy. So, here's the money, what the plan Boss?Comments for Serge and Warren: Serge -- Herculean effort -- your post is substantive and good. Too socialist for me -- whenever the word humane is used I always check to see if my wallet is still there. Here's what I don't object to -- your 3% healthcare tax on all payroll including the super-earners. Good, that's fine. Your idea of training more healthcare workers by subsidizing tuition -- farsighted -- good idea. Don't like the idea of putting everybody on Medicare. How is that fair? Some people have earned Medicare by 25 years of work and paying FICA, some have not. Warren: Good ideas -- it looks like the GOP list. There's a possibility that the debate will result in an amendment that substitutes a much smaller and simpler bill for the present 2000 page monstrosity. Tort reform, and insurance across state lines are the biggies. But there must not be a requirement to insure people with pre-existing conditions -- that is not insurance -- it's just welfare -- it's a freebie! more

Resolved Question: How can you call a number w/o the number your calling show up on your phone bill?

I call this guy out of state all the time but don't want his number(that im calling) to show up on my phone bill. Im not asking to block my number so he cant see it or to block his number from calling me, I don't want his number that im calling showing on my phone bill so others can see it(like my brother for example, we share the same phone plan and will see it and call him to get in my business!) Im 15 so don't tell me to call the company please, what can i do? more

Resolved Question: Is this cover letter gramatically correct?

As a potential candidate with skills in customer service and sales, I am eager to contribute my abilities to this well established company. I know I would be a great asset to the paper data capture center for Vangent, and I am anxious to prove it. Who am I? Good question. My name is Daniel Ontiveros. I’m a twenty year old hardworking father. My career to date has mainly revolved around customer satisfaction, sales, and service. I am familiar with the procedures, terms, environment, and overall basics of Vangent Inc, because I’ve already had the pleasure of being employed. For about 6 months I held the position of inbound call center CSR representative for Medicare through Vangent. Unfortunately in early 2009, I became too sick to continue my productivity as an employee. I consider myself to be a great employee, and I have references that can attest to this. Such as: Vangent supervisor Juliana Anaya, Vangent Co-worker/employee Antonio (Tony) Rangel, and Vangent Manager Carolyn Little. I’ve also held a position at a small family business named Danubio Reception Hall. I was involved with sales and customer service. I held that position for about a year. The most prominent strength I posses would have to be my ability to get my goals accomplished in a timely manner. Simply meaning, when I have a job to do, I will get it done, when it needs to be done, and at any costs. For example, being an employee for a great company such as Vangent is my main focus and goal. If I do not get the position this time around my persistence will shine through. I would evaluate what I need to correct, what I need to improve, seek out another job to enhance my experience, and apply once again when they are hiring. Only when I am hired can my actions truly speak louder then my words, but until then I will continue attempting to be a part of this well established company. My plans for the future are to simply continue to be productive and move forward. I want to be considered a professional when it comes to costumer service. I would like to continue contributing my abilities and experiences to Vangent and would be happy to discuss in further detail how I can accomplish this. My resume is enclosed for your convenience. Feel free to me contact me at do072330@yahoo.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a great day! more

Resolved Question: I am setting up a company in property development, i need an idea on figures??? help?

i am 18 and going into business as a property developer, what i intend to do is buy either a basic run down terrace, two up two down or a run down bungalow, hopefully not exceeding 60K, then after all renovations, i expect to spend around 16K, then legal and planning etc, what i want to know is, after i have completed my business plan and then look to have a meeting with my bank for example, what sort of figures am i going to ask for, how much will they give me, i am currently earning 15k per year, have payslips from the past 2 years etc. ... what are the payments going to be on the mortgage if that is the only route available for me,, can anybody give me some rough figures so i know where i am at exactly, and then i can work out whehter i can afford it or not for sure??? Thank You more

Resolved Question: I am 18, attempting to set up a business, Advice and help needed please !!!?

Me and 3 of my friends have dreamed about setting our own company up for the past few years...Property Development, now we all know abit more about construction, building and how a company works, and now have some money in the bank (not a great deal at this stage), but basically we want some more information as to how to go about it, and how to approach people, i have been told that what we need is a mentor, where will i find a person that is going to be willing to help me really. Legal costs/planning, i am quite confident i can put together a really good business plan as i have looked at lots of outstanding examples, has anybody any advice. I know the market isn't exactly holding a strong structure at the moment, does that mean we should back off or what? Thanks a lot, can anybody advise please? more

Resolved Question: Why is the Federal Reserve seen by many as a conspiracy rather than an economic issue?

The Federal Reserve is central economic planning. It's completely unnecessary and antithetical to a free market. It acts as a lender of last resort, so favorited companies don't have to worry about "risky" ventures (Fannie & Freddie are perfect examples). Completely removes any incentive for honest business if the clowns know a bailout is on the wayAnd "too big to fail" is another way of saying "fed subsidized". more

Resolved Question: Philosophy Classes for Law School?

I am a Political Science major. I love it. I love politics. I want to go to law school. I plan on taking Stats, Public Speaking, Micro and Macro Economics. I also want to take some free electives, as well as some Philosophy classes. What philosophy classes would be good? What will prep me for the LSAT? Valid Reasoning I-An introduction to formal techniques for determining the validity of deductive arguments. These techniques are adequate for dealing with complex arguments involving multiple quantification. Classical Ethics I-How should human beings lead their lives? How does Right differ from Wrong? Good from Bad? What is Virtue? In this course we introduce and critically evaluate the attempts of several major Western philosophers to answer these and related questions. The goal is to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of their views in order to help the student to understand better the nature of morality, and to develop the skills and background necessary for independent thought on these matters Business Ethics-This course investigates moral dilemmas which arise for business persons, and critically evaluates attempts to resolve these dilemmas. The responsibilities of business and persons in business vis a vis such things as: employee health and welfare, profitability, company loyalty, product safety and reliability, marketing techniques, the environment, and self-regulation will be illustrated and investigated through the examination of real cases which have arisen in business contexts. More general ethical issues relevant to the resolution of these dilemmas will also be investigated, for example, the nature of right, wrong and justice, and the moral foundations of capitalism. Social Philosophy-Some conception of society is presupposed by every political philosophy and ethical theory. In this course alternative conceptions of society and their relations to political philosophy and ethical theory will be critically examined. Special attention will be given to the ideas and theoretical placement of individuality, community, work and family. Philosophy of Law--This course is a critical philosophical examination of the nature and function of law, legal practices and institutions, and legal reasoning. Some of the following questions will be addressed in the course: What is law? What is its proper function? How are our own legal practices and institutions related to this function? Are there better alternatives? How is legality related to morality? Special attention will be given to the conceptual and moral foundations of alternative accounts of the nature, justification, interpretation, and limits of law. more

Resolved Question: Are scientists causing harm?

Here is an example of science gone wrong. Do you really think that scientists in the AGW field do not pad their bank accounts by using faulty science and issues to promote. This is California and this is corruption. “None of this is real,” said the then CARB Scientific Review Panel (SRP) Chairman John Froines during a 1998 Scientific Review Board Meeting. During the discussions, panel chose to rely on bad data to craft regulations now killing small businesses throughout the state. The comment referred to the data being considered as the basis for developing rules that controlled levels of particulate matter from diesel exhaust. Though the numbers were unreal, the unintended consequences of CARB rule enforcement based on voodoo science is very real. During that 1998 meeting, a leading epidemiologist (whose study CARB was depending on to be the cornerstone of their eco-regulatory plans), argued with the panel and demanded that they not use the study from the scientist’s research group. It seems that the numbers generated from the job-based-exposure study wasn’t pertinent to the general public. The data that remained after the keystone study was removed proved nothing about the harmfulness of diesel exhaust. However, that 1998 CARB panel went ahead and initiated a process that has generated a series of regulations forcing companies that rely on diesel equipment throughout the state to comply or close its doors. Despite an array of legal protections designed to guard citizens from rulings based on politically-active “experts” and pleas of public health professionals throughout the nation to halt these draconian regulations because they have no basis in real science, CARB eco-bureaucrats are continuing their business-killing power juggernaut.jon, oh please, you do not know what you are talking about.For mighty Ant's sake..... http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-08-11/news/environment/leslie-eastman-californias-eco-bureaucrats-hurt-businesses Ant, I am personally involved in these issues and yes the SRP is an agenda driven panel of an agency in California. Froines is also a former Chicago Seven person and the activism is well known. Ant, please don't comment on issues you know nothing about. Grow up and move to the outback if you cannot.Ant, you are rambling again. If you debate any epidemiologist on this issue, you would be proven wrong as diesel emissions rate far below 8 other causes of respiratory problems, including road dust, fires, and other sources of PM2.5. Ant you are uneducated and uninformed and really I am concerned that you give information to the people on this site as some of your arguments are radical and uninformed like no other.Keith P. really! You obviously don't have a clue what is being talked about. Do you have any sort of education in epidemiology or are you just a professional surfer who reads blogs and that is all. The report by Dr. Garrick says his study cannot and should not be used by ARB as it doesn't reflect the causal effect on the population as a whole. The fact is the ratio used was 1.14 which in scientific terms means no causal effect to humans based on where one lives in California. Other studies in California this number was 1.04 and Keith P. I am going to leave it up to you the expert to tell everyone what this means. Please inform us. more

Resolved Question: Can anyone revise this and make it better? if you want to elaborate on it thats cool too...?

The Healthcare Reform Bill that we are faced with right now, in spite of what some individuals mistakably believe, is exactly what the US has hungered for throughout these antecedent years. We are offered the chance to redeem ourselves and create better overall coverage for individuals who seek their health. I would like to put the proposed bill into action and have the changes started right away. The United States of America is in desperate need of reliable health care. America as a whole needs the type of health care that will help a person despite pre-existing conditions, or petty attempts to deny a person their health. The People of the United States have long forgotten the dream of how the nation’s people could thrive if they were provided with the proper health care. Health care in this nation of ours has been on a steady decline since the 1930’s and has been viewed as a crisis situation since the 1970’s. The blame, despite the constant finger pointed at insurance companies, falls on us, the Americans. In the past, president administrations such as Harry S. Truman’s, Richard M. Nixon’s, and George Bush’s have all proposed plans similar to the one being proposed in the present day. The plan that Truman compiled was fervently rejected by the American Medical Association (AMA), and was, in addition called a “Communist Plot” by a House subcommittee. Likewise, the plan for national health insurance that President Richard M. Nixon proposed was rejected by liberals and labor unions. All in all it is our fault for the faulty healthcare we are presently presented with. Before taking any action Americans need to take a step back and view the situation we have thrust ourselves in, thus will begin the inevitable changes we have deprived ourselves of. Clearly the U.S. needs some sort of Healthcare Reform. If America would simply submit to the currently proposed Health Care Reform bill then all Americans despite their income would be able to get help for their sickness and it will not cost them everything they have worked so hard to achieve and accomplish. Countries that have embraced healthcare as ours are the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland. Here is a closer look at three of the capitalist democracies in the world. The United Kingdom’s plan is perhaps the most appealing. The percentage of Gross Domestic Product or GDP that is spent on healthcare is 8.3. The average family premium is none; it is wholly funded by taxation. The co-payments virtually do not exist, although there is some required pay for dental care five percent of prescriptions, and eyeglasses. The Government pays and provides healthcare putting them under a “socialized medicine” system The way it functions is that the citizens pay taxes for the healthcare and the government-run National Health Service (NHS) separates the money and distributes is accordingly to the providers of healthcare. The Doctors for Hospitals are paid a salary and General practitioners otherwise known as GP, who operate their own business; their income is still based upon the number of patients they tend to. While the United Kingdom’s citizens hardly have to pay out of pocket for the work they need done, the other countries that are listed above have some out of pocket money they are forced to pay. Such as Japan, their average family premium is $280 every month, with the employers paying more than half. The Co-payments are 30 percent of the cost of a procedure. Now for the last, Germany has a whopping $750 per month average family premium; premiums are attached to patients' income. Co-payments, however are only 10 euros ($15) every three months; although some patients however, like pregnant women for example, are exempt from the co-payments. Americans need to view other countries healthcare and view which one provides the most sufficient coverage for the people. We can pick and choose, mold and form, our own system. We shall open our eyes and learn from the mistakes others have done before us; we will do as the Americans have done all along, we will copy everyone else. Only we will do it better.some info.... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/oh and uhhhh sorry its too long. its a research paper so its meant to be long. =]uhm, im a senior in highschool. but good job on trying to insult me uhmmm dippy doodle.... seriously, your insulting me with that name??? imbecile. anyways, thanks guys and i did change the antecedent years and hungered for. =] more

Resolved Question: Is this how the stimulus works through shady counting?

By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO – 4 hours ago WASHINGTON — An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports. The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts. The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced. For example: _ A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced. _ A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending. _ A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees. There's no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report. But administration officials seized on the 30,000 figure as evidence that the stimulus program was on its way toward fulfilling the president's promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year. The reporting problem could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls. But the White House promises many problems will be corrected in Friday's report. "I think you'll see a pretty good degree of accuracy," said Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program. DeSeve said the administration is aware of problems with the early data. Agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said. "If there's an error that was made, let's get it fixed," DeSeve said. The White House released a statement early Thursday responding to the AP review, arguing what the administration said are the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago. It said for the first time Thursday that release had been a test run of a small subset of data that had been subjected only to three days of reviews, that it had already corrected "virtually all" the mistakes identified by the AP and that the discovery of mistakes "does not provide a statistically significant indication of the quality of the full reporting that will come on Friday." The data partially reviewed by the AP for errors included all the data presently available, representing all known federal contracts awarded to businesses under the stimulus program. The figures being released Friday include different categories of stimulus spending by state governments, housing authorities, nonprofit groups and other organizations. As of early Thursday, on its recovery.org Web site, the government was still citing 30,383 as the actual number of jobs linked so far to stimulus spending, despite the mistakes the White House has now acknowledged and said were being corrected. It's not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was. The AP's review was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts, but homed in on the most obvious cases where there were indications of duplications or misinterpretations. While the thousands of overstated jobs represent a tiny sliver of the overall economy, they represent a significant percentage of the initial employment count credited to the stimulus program. Tom Gavin, a spokesman for the White House budget office, attributed the errors to officials as well as recipients having to conduct such reporting for the first time. In fact, the AP review shows some businesses undercounted the number of jobs funded under the stimulus program by not reporting jobs saved. Here are some of the findings: _ Colorado-based Teletech Government Solutions on a $28.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission for creation of a call center, reported creating 4,231 jobs, although 3,000 of those workers were paid for five weeks or less. "We all felt it was an appropriate way to represent the data at the time" and the reporting error has been corrected, said company president Mariano Tan. _ The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months. more

Resolved Question: HELP!!! need rebuttal for debate (single-sex schools vs co-ed schools)?

I have a debate coming up and my team is with single-sex schools and although i have alot of good point for single-sex schools i cnt seem to find good rebuttals if the opposition were to bring up the following points for co-ed schools: Students learn how to interact and work with members of the opposite sex Collaboration between the sexes in the classroomhelps build confidence and exposes students to a greater diversity of ideas and opinions Co-ed schools better reflect the diversity of our society and foster an environment that prepares students for real-world experiences and situations Graduates from co-ed schools are socially well-adjusted and are better prepared to enter the workforce or excel in post-secondary education Students are exposed to different role models, leadership styles, and values and lifestyles Coeducation gives students the opportunity to witness and adjust to different learning styles. -Male and female students can learn from each other’s approaches and learn to collaborate, each bringing their style to bear in working for common goals. This is claimed as an important learning opportunity by advocates of coeducation. Coeducational schools are microcosms of society. -Since men and women are likely to interact in the workplace and in the home, say proponents of coeducational schools, school can be an environment in which gender differences come to be understood, preparing students for life. Students can also learn to deal with the social issues that arise in mixed company rather than avoiding them. Stereotypes can be broken by experience of the range of gender behavior. -It is claimed that girls seeing boys in the art or music class and boys seeing girls in the math, science, and technology classes gain evidence that these pursuits are not gender-linked. Some studies have shown that there is no particular benefit to single-sex education. -The study of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in 1998, for example, found no evidence to support single-sex education as better than coed education. Another study has shown that only students from disadvantaged families significantly benefit from single-sex education. In some cases, due to legal requirements, coed schools have more experience. -It wasn’t until May, 2002 that the U.S. Department of Education made plans to revise regulations on single-sex education after a corresponding provision was added to the No Child Left Behind Act. This will encourage the development of more single-sex schools, but as this trend begins, co-ed schools may have an advantage from having “been in business” longer. Single-sex schools that have been found successful may have other causative factors contributing to their pupils’ achievement. -Some have suggested that results in the positive studies may be influenced by factors such as small class size, a stringent admissions policy, or more emphasis on academics. Some feel that segregation is a “loaded” technique. -Some people consider segregation to be the wrong answer to any issue. Can u please tell me some good rebuttals if the opposition were to bring up the following points. thank you =D more

Resolved Question: anyone good with economics?

1. What is the opportunity cost of a decision? (1 point) the series of alternative decisions that could have been made the best possible way the question could have been decided the different ways that a different person might have made the decision the most desirable alternative given up for the decision 2. What is the purpose of competition? (1 point) to act as a regulating force in the marketplace to cause producers to attempt to put each other out of business to cause buyers to have to be careful about spending their money to act as a motivating force behind the free market 3. What incentive motivates a manufacturer to sell a product? (1 point) making profits on sales putting others out of business pleasing the consumer popularity of the product 4. All of the following are types of decisions that can be made at the margin EXCEPT (1 point) whether to grow beans or corn on a large farm. whether or not to hire 100 new workers. whether to leave early in the morning or late in the day for a trip. whether or not to go on a vacation. 5. Which of the following is a critical rule for determining whether something is a public good? (1 point) The benefit to each individual who uses the facility is greater than the cost. The benefits of the facility are greater for the society than for the individuals using it. The total benefits to society are greater than the total cost. The total cost is small for each individual taxpayer. 6. What best describes the role of government in a free enterprise system? (1 point) Control business activities. Decide what companies will be formed and then allow the managers to run them. Allow individuals to operate their businesses in ways they think will maximize their profits. Require companies to disclose information to consumers. 7. The government of a country must make a decision between increasing military spending and subsidizing wheat farmers. This kind of decision is a (1 point) guns or butter issue. decision at the margin. global trade-off. basic economic decision. 8. What is one benefit provided by Social Security? (1 point) medical care for the indigent cash transfers to workers injured on the job compensation for all who lose jobs retirement income for the elderly 9. The resources used to make all goods and services are the (1 point) production possibilities. factors of production. production trade-offs. opportunity costs. 10. What is positive externality? (1 point) a way to generate trade that will benefit people who are from other countries an economic side effect that generates unexpected benefits a cash flow that will benefit both the government and the businesses who interact with it an extra payment to welfare recipients 11. What is a factory building an example of? (1 point) human capital physical capital an economic trade-off technology 12. Which of the following is NOT a key economic question? (1 point) What goods and services should be produced? How should these goods and services be produced? Who consumes these goods and services? How should it be ensured that goods and services are paid for? 13. Production possibilities frontiers curve when they are charted on a graph because they show (1 point) the underutilization of resources. the maximum output of goods and services. the increasing costs resulting in increasingly less output. the technological level of the economy's productivity. 14. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of a centrally planned economy? (1 point) The central government owns all land and capital. The central government makes all economic decisions. Each collective or factory sets its own goals. Each person is assigned a job. 15. Which of the following is NOT an example of a public good? (1 point) shopping malls national parks highways municipal libraries 16. What does the process of specialization do for an economy? (1 point) It makes it more efficient. It eliminates unemployment. It fosters competition. It makes it easier to control. 17. What is the function of an economic system? (1 point) to make sure all people have equal access to goods to produce and distribute goods and services to give all producers the same access to consumers to make sure people are paid for their labor 18. What is the struggle among various producers for the consumer's business called? (1 point) socialism competition incentive self-regulation 19. Why does even a free market economy need some government intervention? (1 point) to provide for things that the marketplace does not address to ensure that the government has the freedom to tax as necessary to make sure that the government can fulfill its needs for military personnel so that the government has some control over factory resources 20. Who decided what the farmers would produce on Soviet collectives? (1 point) the farmers the military the governmenif you know any answers, that will help. thankyou more

Resolved Question: Check my Computer Class Work 10 questions, get 10 points!?

Question 1 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) Consider the following scenario: OCI workplace utilizes Microsoft Office products to conduct business in their workplace. Mary was asked to research and report to a group of 10 co-workers the importance of good keyboarding techniques as it relates to repetitive stress syndrome (RSI). Which of the following programs would be the best choice for presenting her findings? (Select only one.) Microsoft Word is the best choice. Microsoft PowerPoint is the best choice. Microsoft Excel is the best choice. (I choose this one, am I right?) Microsoft Access is the best choice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 2 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) When planning to upgrade a software program in the workplace, a committe should: Research the different kinds of pricing models (example: subscription, perpetual licensing, pay as you go, etc.) (I choose this one, am I right?) Purchase the most expensive software No need to research, just purchase the software that employees vote they want. Listen to what vendors advise as the best option. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 3 (True/False Worth 5 points) To type a small letter “z”, you would use the right little finger. True (I choose this one, am I right?) False -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 4 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) Mary is frequently making personal calls and surfing the internet at work. What would you recommend to her for improving her workplace ethics? Mary is doing fine so long as her coworkers and manager do not mind. Mary should read her company's employee manual regarding workplace ethics. (I choose this one, am I right?) Mary is doing fine if she limits the time she spends on her personal calls and surfing the internet. None of the above. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) When keying, space ____ time(s) before a Zip code. One Two (I choose this one, am I right?) Three Four Question 6 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) Words centered equally from the top and bottom of the page are known to be enumerated. true false (I choose this one, am I right?) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 7 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) When keying, space ______ time(s) after a comma. One Two (I choose this one, am I right?) Three None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 8 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) One of your coworkers, Jocelyn, needs to create a simple database of employee names by tomorrow. She has Microsoft Access software on her laptop, but she does not know how to use this software. What would you recommend to her? She should read the help files provided in Microsoft Access to teach her how to setup the simple database. (I choose this one, am I right?) She should ask her manager to give the task to another employee. She should ask another coworker to do this task for her. None of the above. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 9 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) It is the beginning of your workday and you've just discovered your printer did not turn on. Which of the following should you do first? Call a computer repair specialist to solve your problem. Read your printer manual frequently asked questions section. Check all plugs to ensure all printer connections are securely plugged in and have power. (I choose this one, am I right?) Borrow another coworker's printer for the day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 10 (Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) Two liters is equal to approximately: half a gallon (I choose this one, am I right?) 1 gallon 1.5 gallons 2 gallonsno its a reg. class. I know its 2 spaces cause my teacher corrected me on that a lot.Wow, I missed number 3, easy error. Thanks John! more

Resolved Question: Hows my latest chapter all kinds of criticism welcome?

Chapter 2: The Badlands and the Informant It’s been four days since Grimoire killed Jose Manguo. He hadn’t got a lot of information since then but he did find out, a few hours ago, at one of the seediest bars in all of Tokyo, from a man who’s nickname was so dirty that if you said it in public you’d either get short or sent to prison, that Yang has been travelling to and from Tokyo and Hiroshima in search of people to help him on a certain ‘ambitious project’ that Yang is currently working on. The man also found out from his friends that Yang has been seen going inside the Kalona Corporation’s office building. “So, Jose wasn’t lying after all huh? Doesn’t matter now anyway.” The Bartender then walked up to Grimoire telling him to stop asking questions and either buy a goddamn drink or get the hell out, James knew he wasn’t going to get anything else form here so he proceeded to walk to the door, but just as he was leaving when he reached the door a tall elder gentleman bumped into him on purpose. “You want to know about Yang Karoshi’s big ‘project’? Then visit this guy…” the tall man said passing the detective something that looked like a business card, “Alec Martin? Hmmmm never heard of the guy.” James said stroking his head and raising his eyebrows in thought. It was later that night, James was waiting at the place the Tall gentleman told him to at the bar, it was a fairly clean and polished part of Tokyo in the center of the city probably, and he hadn’t seen anybody in the past hour that wasn’t a sharply dressed businessman with a briefcase. But a few moments later, he saw someone strange, he was wearing jeans and a hoody, but you couldn’t see his face, he walked up to James in a slow walk sort of like a zombie walk. “Hello detective, I’ve heard you want to know about The Badlands…” said Alec in a muffled voice, James knew it wasn’t his real voice, you wouldn’t talk about Yang in public, or you’ll never walk, talk, hell you wouldn’t even wake up again. “Well yes, I would like to know why Yang Karoshi is travelling around recruiting people for his ‘project’ and what his connection is with the Kalona Company, but while we’re talking, what in the world is The Badlands?” Remarked Grimoire bewildered. “Well, I thought this was just about The Badlands, anything else will be extra” snickered Alec, “Damnit, how much do you want?” James slightly barked at Alec, “Well to know about the Badlands will cost you $100, then its $150 every extra question” Alec told Grimoire now in a serious tone, Grimoire first looked at the boy in shock, then in anger as he reached his hand into his wallet giving the boy $550, cash. “Alright what do you want to know first, detective?” asked Alec staring at Grimoire in a half serious half playful look. “Well firstly, I might aswell ask the question I was originally going to ask, why is Yang travelling around Japan recruiting people?” James questioned, Alec then answered him with a grin,” He’s building his secret ‘project’ of course” James then looked at the Informant for a while before dully asking him what the project is. “Well, it’s extremely complicated to answer, and I’ll probably die no matter what for telling you this but, basically, Karoshi is creating clones of the most important men in the world…” Alec told him which shocked the detective almost to his knees. “B-b-b-but why is he cloning them?” asked a quivering Grimoire, “simple, they’re planning to kill the most famous people in the world, for example, Barack Obama, and then replace them with the clone and the clone then follows orders from Kalona changing the world forever and also because the Kalona Corporation want him and pay him too clone them.” At this moment James thought back to the hotel and Jose telling him about the Kalona Corporation, before returning to the present, “So, Jose wasn’t lying….ok last question, what in god’s name is The Badlands?” asked a still shell shocked detective, “That is the part of Kalona that are in charge of Yang and the clones… or the assassins you could say”. Alec told him For a moment the detective stepped aback in worry aswell as great shock, he just could not believe that Kalona Corporation, one of the biggest company’s in the world, has a section of the company that creates assassin…..clones! But Grimoire didn’t have time to go crazy over clones, he had to find and lock up Yang Karoshi before this whole cloning business gets completely out of hand. “Any way I could meet these Badlands?” Grimoire wondered, “Hmmm, most likely no, but if you really want to I could arrange a meeting, but you will need guns, a lot of guns, because everybody who has ever met the Badlands, has always returned from the meeting with a bullet between their god damn eyes”. Said the Informant with a very serious tone of voice. “I’m willing to take that risk after what I’ve just heard Kalona is trying to do”, Grimoire sharply barked back with an angry look on his face as if to say, Ison of a bitch! its cut off the other half of my chapter O-o more

Resolved Question: Can any one translate this from gobbldey goop to English?

business plans structure Title page: Title or heading of the plan and brief description if required, author, date, company/organization if applicable, details of circulation and confidentiality. Contents page: A list of contents (basically the sections listed here, starting with the Introduction page) showing page numbers, plus a list of appendices or addendums (added reference material at the back of the document) allowing the reader to find what they need and navigate the document easily, and to refer others to particular items and page numbers when reviewing or querying. Introduction page: Introduction and purpose of the plan, terms of reference if applicable (usually for formal and large plans or projects). Executive summary page: Optional and usually beneficial, this should normally be no more than a page long (or it's not an executive summary) - the key points of the whole plan including conclusions, recommendations, actions, financial returns on investment, etc., clearly readable in a few minutes. Main body of plan: sections and headings as required, see template below. Acknowledgments and bibliography/reference sources: if relevant (only required normally for very large formal plans) Appendices: appendices or addendums - additional detailed reference material, examples, statistics, spreadsheets, etc., for reference and not central to the main presentation of your plan. business plans - main body sections examples template This sample template is typical for a sales/marketing/new business development business plan. (A business plan for a more complex project such as an international joint-venture, or the formation of a new company including manufacturing plant or other overhead activities would need to include relevant information and financials about the overheads and resources concerned, and the financials would need to show costs and profits more like a fully developed profit and loss account, with cashflow projections, balance sheet, etc.) Where appropriate refer to your position regarding corporate ethics and social responsibility. While these aspects are not mechanisms within the plan, they are crucial reference points. 1.Define your market - sector(s) and segment(s) definitions 2.Quantify your market (overview only) - size, segmentation, relevant statistics, values, numbers (locations, people/users, etc) - make this relevant to you business 3.Explain your market(s) - sector trends, eg., growth, legislation, seasonality, PEST factors where relevant, refer to Ansoff matrix, show the strategic business drivers within sector and segments, purchasing mechanisms, processes, restrictions - what are the factors that determine customers' priorities and needs - this is a logical place to refer to ethics and CSR (corporate social responsibility 4.Explain your existing business - your current business according to sector, products/services, quantities, values, distributor, etc. 5.Analyse your existing customer spread by customer type, values and products/services including major accounts (the 'Pareto Principle' or the '80:20 rule' often applies here, eg., 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers) 6.Explain your products and services - refer to Boston matrix and especially your strategic propositions (what these propositions will do for your customers) including your USP's and UPB's (see sales training section and acronyms) 7.Explain you routes to market, gatekeepers, influencers and strategic partners - the other organizations/individuals you will work with to develop your market, including 'what's in it for them', commissions, endorsements, accreditations, approvals, licenses, etc. 8.Case studies and track record - the credibility, evidence and proof that your propositions and strategic partnerships work 9.Competitor analysis, eg., SWOT analysis of your own business compared to SWOT analysis of each competitor 10.Sales/marketing/business plan (1 year min) showing sales and margins by product/service stream, mix, values, segment, 'distributor', etc, whatever is relevant, phased monthly, in as much detail as you need. This should be on a spreadsheet, with as many different sheets as necessary to quantify relevant inputs and outputs. 11.List your strategic actions (marketing campaigns, sales activities, advertising, etc) that will deliver the above, with costs and returns. This should be supported with a spreadsheet, showing cost and return on investment for each activity. Tip: If the business plan concerns an existing activity, use the previous year's sales/business analysis as the basis for the next year's sales/business plan. Adapt as necessary according to your new strategic plans. more

Resolved Question: I need advice on hiring a Home Renovator?

Yesterday I met with a representative of a home renovator (he claimed he was the owner) to discuss our plans to replace our kitchen. 1) he was late for the appointment, his office called at the time of the appointment to say he would be delayed about 20 minutes. He arrived 45 minutes later 2) I observed him pull into our driveway, but instead of getting out of the car and coming to the door, he sat out in the driveway talking on the phone for another 10m minutes. When I saw him finally get out of the car and move toward the front door, I went to greet him, but he remained at the foot of my door step still on the phone for another 10 minutes, which I found rather annoying. Finally he came up to the door and knocked which I further found annoying since I had already given up on greeting him at the door, and had gone back to my own business, but I dropped what I was doing and let him in to proceed with the meeting He apologized for being late, I said that it didn't bode well with me that he come more than 45 minutes late for a first meeting. He said something about at least he had his office call to let me know. I thought that calling at the time of the meeting is bad enough but to still be later than your new ETA isn't right either, I was mad but I dropped it. So we went into the kitchen, exchanged some ideas, he gave me a quote based on what we discussed, it seemed pretty fair to me, but my wife wasn't there so I asked for another meeting at a time than she could be there. We agreed on this comming Sunday morning at 10:00a. Now I want to cancel the meeting and forget about hiring him. I feel that part of the reason for this is because I was angry at him for being late, but I was EXTREMELY put off about what he had to say when I brought up the subject of references. In a nutshell he said he would provide me with references if it meant the difference between getting the job or not, but he hated to have his good customers bothered with reference calls. Please understand, he went on quite a bit on this subject giving examples to support his threory that references are a bad idea. I got the sence that it was as if he was trying to beat out a raging fire. Again I let it drop, and at the end of the day he walked out the door, and I had only his business card in my hand. No written quote, no references. BTW, I did a quick check at the local BBB website and found no data on his company name. They have no complaints registered withing the last 36 months, but they are not members either. The thing is, in the past I have done all of the renovations on my own, but I was younger then. (I will be 59 this January 2010). I completely renovated our main floor bathroom about three years ago. I didn't find it particularly challenging. The hard part was deciding on the tiles for the floors, and the walls, and I had the entire project finished in about 30 days start to finish. But this time our plans include some skylights, and changing the staircase to the basement. These are things I haven't done before, plus I have lost some of the fire in my gut that drives me on these tasks. But to make matters worse, this guy I spoke to yesterday said that they don't do skylights (they do everything else) plus he tried to talk me out of the changes to the staircase, I think he didn't want to take on that work either. I have spoken to two other renovators, but this latest guy is the first one I gave any serious consideration to. But now I am thinking I would rather just do it myself, and hire someone else to come in and do the things I can't manage on my own. I wonder if I am just getting cold feet on hiring someone, and putting the whole project in their hands. I hear so many horror stories about projects gone wrong, or they take all the money but don't finish the job. I have so little to go on without references from this guy, and so far everyone I have called have failed to provide me with a single reference. Any thoughts, opinions, comments, personal experience is welcome. Thanks in advance. more

Resolved Question: Why does Affirmative Action Exist?

So we're all for personal freedoms, right? I want to choose who I want to marry. what I want to drink what I want to smoke Well if I decide to start MY own business, who's to tell me who I can and can't hire? If I want to hire a man into a management position over a woman who plans on having children, why shouldn't I? What moral/ethical obligation exists? Two people looking for a job, one is chosen for the perceived benefit of the company. Anything wrong? Is this not a better alternative than being forced to hire someone based on their gender/ethnicity, whatever benefit or lack thereof that may result? If I want a staff of women for educational instructors, whose to say I shouldn't be able to hire them? Again, if I have my own opinion that women are better nurturers than men, why shouldn't I have the right to hire them for the benefit of children? So what if someone else doesn't agree with how my business might be run? Do homosexuals care that most people don't agree with how they live their lives? Does the government care? No and (probably soon) no. And you could choose a black woman in the first example or an asian man in the second, but why should the government tell us who we can employ? In a world where freedom of choice is held as the highest virtue, why shouldn't this carry over into someone's business? And what makes the government's choice to consider race and sex right, but not the people's? All Affirmative Action does is foster racism and sexism by saying, "You have to hire this person because of they are different than most people in your country. We are telling you not to consider race when looking at a person, but we're going to go ahead and do that for you."pieg, why should it matter? if you educate a black kid in place of a white kid, one kid is still being left out, regardless of color. not regarding color in any form in law is the ultimate of "color-blind" more

Resolved Question: Why do liberals think government is the answer?

Last time I checked, governments historically have always failed and the people failed with them. Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Rome, etc... If a business fails, the country doesn't fail, no tax payer is effected, only the employees and the owners. Not to mention everything even liberals purchase like cars, food, clothes, homes, etc... are all purchased on the freedom of which product in that category they like. The government never dictated which ones consumers should buy, everyone picks what they feel like is the best. Think about it, health care was never a free market. Medicare and Medicaid ruined the chance of a free market to establish for insurance companies. If medicare and medicaid didn't exist, health insurance would be like auto insurance, it's cheap, affordable, and efficient. Medicare/Medicaid, limit insurance companies to give plans to people of low income, since medicaid gives it out, and the middle class doesn't qualify for medicaid, and the insurance company can't give out a reasonable quote since it has nothing of low value to compare too. Example: McDonalds dollar menu burger is the cheapest, but the better quality burger places will sell theirs at a higher value, but not extremely high because the dollar menu burger is so cheap, causing them to be regulated by competition. Plus consumers dictate on what they're willing to purchase. Not to mention auto insurance rewards good drivers, because it gives their customers the incentive to be less of a liability to them. Example: Good Drivers discount, good student discount. If health insurance companies can be in any state, with out medicare and medicaid existing, they probably would reflect the same results as auto insurance, they probably would give a good health discount, because healthy customers cost them less, it also encourages the user to be healthy. Everyone essentially wins. There is a reason why Costco pushes so much for such low prices, health care can be the same if it was 100% private sector. Wal-Greens is the biggest franchised drug distributor in America, I'd love to see a giant franchised health care system doctors can manage.Government keeps order, police, fire fighters, military, and so fourth can't be a business, it can never generate income.Deb M: You're so ignorant it baffles my mind, THE CONSUMER decides which company survive, if a company has bad ethics and out put, it can't survive because no one will purchase their product/service. HEALTH CARE IS NOT A FREE MARKET, Medicare and Medicaid are acting as insurance company's giving out the service for free. It kills the market of being free. A CEO DESERVES to be rich because they manage the company, their pay is determined on the company's success, A CEO can't make millions if the company doesn't generate that value, So the CEO wants to be successful, he wants his staff to do well, he wants it all to do great because his pay is determined by their out put, if he abuses his employees their out put will be poor and his pay result will be poor. You're ignorant to think CEOs care about money only, it takes success to be there.Kaitoboado [blocked by many]: ALL those countrys you list, tell me who has a better GNP, then tell me why those people of those shitty poverished nations stride to risk coming over the border to come here. Yeah that's great Cuba has free health care, that's so awesome, they make little rafts, and risk dying, leaving their socialistic society because AMERICA gives them the freedom to be anyone they want to be. That socialistic society never let them be anyone they wanted to be. They get taxed so hard their incentive to independently be some one is killed. THE PUBLIC OPTION EXISTS, it's called MEDICARE and MEDICAID, just only people of low income or elderly can qualify for it. Those two sections hurt Insurance Companies on giving them options, insurance companies have no value and have to make theirs up from people who aren't poor, that's why it is expensive.Deb M: You're also an idiot since stock holders are paying money to be part owner (Depending on how many stocks exist) and that money is put into the company to invest on the company's out put. That money doesn't go to the CEO, it goes to the company to help it expand or what ever is needed for grow. You assume and assume. The Public Option will kill insurance companies to extinction, If you had a public option for every product sold, everything would become government owned and we would become communists. You're so selfish to be greedy and demand tax payers pay for everyone. If we kill Medicare and Medicaid, the insurance companies will want to sell health care to those people. Why would they want to kill their market and not? I mean come on this is the stupidest conversation I've ever endured. more

Resolved Question: please help me save my relationship?

i have been with my boyfriend for 4 years now. He has proven his love and loyalty; he will basically do anything for me. And also i love him so much and don’t want to lose him. When we were both in college everything was good. He was a computer science major and I was biology major. He loved helping with my homework. But about 2 years ago because of his job he had to travel to different states and he couldn’t go to school. But of course he came back to visit me. Now he is back because the company he was hoping was going to change our life was bankrupt and closed down. Now he is in school but he is not the same hard worker student anymore, he says he can’t study. i am preparing for my DAT exam because my plan was to become a dentist since I started school. But he is changed and he doesn’t care about my school and he always says that he is going to lose me I soon as I get into dental school. Of course I can tell he still loves me, but for example he always was sex when I want to study or I have a test. Also most importantly he became a little demanding and says my way or highway. I feel like the only way for me to success is to leave him. Believe it or not I have a lot going on in my life, I run a business and work 60 hours a week and I go school and study for DAT exam, so even though I love him, but I can take him anymore. I have talked to him before and he says he supports my education but he is afraid he will lose me. more

Resolved Question: online businesses and how they work?

So these guys are trying to get my boyfriend into this "business" where you open your own website and sell stuff such as tv's, other electronics, energy drinks, basically everything. so people order from your website and the original company for example "sony" would send you the tv and you would give it to the person who ordered it. "sony" would then get a portion of the price, you still making a profit. Supposedly this earns you a lot of money and there's people making like 2500 weekly. To open the website you need to pay around 200$ i think it is. And the guy who told my boyfriend hasnt even started yet he said his friend does it and he plans to begin a.s.a.p. i dont know what to believe, but i have a feeling that so much money thing is bullshit like many other scams. anyone heard of something like this before? does it actually work more

Resolved Question: work experience pllease help!?

im going to have to do work experience soon and i want to start searching soon, to be ready. I have no idea what to do i have eintrestsin soo many things and really am not sure of what i want to do when i grow up/. I want to do many things because we have one life and i want to make the most of it. I have a very big intrest in business-everything about it i really want to do my work experience in maybe a magazine like Dolly and Girlfriend but i dont know how to get there. and i like the wedding planning industry-i dnt know why but it intrests me One of the reasons why i like these soo much is because mainy of movies-i like the way the director potrays these jobs but i do understand that their only movies and this is life so the jobs may not be like them in the movies im bad at maths but im really creative, i can work on my grammer etc so please tell me if my choices are going to help me-im afraid if when i go to lletss say the magazine company they might questrion me saying why i wanted to be there if im not soo good at english(just an example) But can you please tell me how i can go into contact with my choices thankyou very much btw im in year 9i live in sydney more