...TIMELINE OF KENMARK CASE September 15, 1988 Kenmark first incorporated Source: Nov 3, 1997 Kenmark listed on the Second Board of the KLSE Source: Sept 3, 2001 Kenmark listed on the main Board of the KLSE Source: April 23, 2010 Hwang (Kenmark’s managing director) had notified that he had 53,363,092 shares or 29.93 per cent. Source: Bernama, June 8 Chen Wen Ling (Kenmark’s executive director) had reduced its stake in Kenmark from 16.51% as at April 23 to 7.76% now. The combined stake of both the Taiwanese directors, Hwang and Chen, has dropped from 46% to 15.72% now. Source: The Star, June 10 April 2010 MD's brother resigned as director due to health reason. Source: May 24, 2010 Hwang Ding Kuo@James Hwang said he was taken ill in China and was in a delirious state. Source: Business times, June 2 May 25, 2010 James Hwang start cannot be contacted Source: May 27, 2010 The company’s audit committee meeting held but only two independent directors of the company were present to and discover that the other management representatives had resigned. The meeting could not be preceded. Source: EON Bank Berhad (EBB) has been notified of the situation and placed their security guard at the Kenmark’s premises at Port Klang. EBB will also be appointing a receiver over the assets of the company Source: May 28, 2010 Kenmark Paper Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kenmark, received a letter from EBB’s solicitors, advising of the appointment...
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...The Case of Missing Time Norris Company is running a nationwide business. It operated three printing plants. Chet Craig is the manager of central plant. There are many problems in the central plant, such as Chet could not complete his job on time; supervisors are unable to solve the daily production problems on their own; and organization structure is poor. They really need to know are what reason makes that problems happened, what have to change, and how to deal with it. There are three main problems in the central plant. One is time management. As the manager, Chet did not plan his own schedule well and not complete the project, which supposes to complete. The second is employee confidence. It seems that every supervisor has to talk to Chet for every small thing. They cannot decide it themselves. The third one is plant operating. The plant is behind the schedule. Employees and supervisors are not noticed how many tasks need to be complete. Lack of fit between people and organization tasks, people and organization process, and organization structure and tasks are the causing of the problems in the central plant. Employees are not familiar with tasks that they need to do and they are not familiar with what authority they have. They have to ask Chet every time; it directly caused the efficiency. So many supervisors and departments are causing not enough employees to do the tasks. The goals that central plant needs to touch are ensure enough employees to do the job and enough...
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...Creativity at Apple 1. Apple has relied on the imagination approach. This refers to the creation of new ideas, break troughs and radical approaches to problem solving. Apple could use the improvement approach to change up their iPhone. A lot of people complain that all though they love their iPhone, there is never a significant difference with newer versions except the price. The improvement approach. He creatively changed the way hamburgers were made and served. He created the largest food service in the world. Ray Kroc’s secret was incremental improvements on existing ideas. Honda’s president Kawashima used the investment approach in the “Honda-Yamaha” Motorcycle War”. Bill Wilson used the incubation method to come up with Alcoholics Anonymous. 2. I would advise him that we need to give our consumers options. One thing that android has that iPhone doesn’t have is options. I would also advise him that most people enjoy customization and that we should make it possible for people to easily customize their phones. In order for Apple to make money based on its own inclination, it has to take in account the aforementioned. Apple would have to creatively work on give their customers better and even more options when it comes to phones. They can also come up with creative ways to allow people to customize their phones. 3. Apple is currently facing many obstacles. A conceptual block that Apple is currently facing is that it doesn’t want to give consumers what they really want...
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...If you have you been missing Honey Boo Boo on TV, the wait may soon be over. Entertainment Tonight, Nov. 4, 2015 reports that Alana Thompson posted the announcement on her Facebook page of their upcoming show beginning in December. They did not sign with TLC, but their program promises that people will be able to watch them in a totally real setting and no mad-up plots or scripts. The statement said, "OK for everyone it was asked if we are going to be back on TV, the answer is yes and it will be very soon." "It will not be [on the] TLC network but it will be announced as we were told with People on Tuesday. I will be able to get out more details soon but we are excited as it will air starting in December. But it will not be [a] Here Comes...
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...CRISIS COMMUNICATION AND THE CASE STUDY OF MISSING MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370 I. Literature review In a ‘vulnerable’ society that has been easily affected by many different types of crises such as natural and man-made disasters, in disregard of where you live and what you do, no community or organization is immune from crisis. In order to provide clear definitions and deeper understanding crises of all types, scholars have developed theories to handle these events. A wide range of crisis fields are studied including psychology (Morgan et al., 2002), sociology (Clarke & Chess, 2008) or political perspective (Birkland, 2006). In addition, other research involved communicating in crisis (Reynolds, 2002). All of these disciplines, even different, combine to build a theoretical background on various approaches to crisis communication and contribute to establish crisis response guidelines for organizations. Among the prominent theories on crisis communication, the Situational Crisis Communication Theory generates a link between Attribution Theory firstly built by Fritz Heider in the early part of the 20th century which addresses the processes by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events and crisis response strategies which represent what an organization does and says after a crisis. To protect reputation, it is crucial for the organization to consist the responsibility acceptance of the crisis response with the stakeholder attributions. Coombs (2006)...
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...The Plight of Missing Persons Naomi White Kaplan University CM220-15 Professor L McCuish December 15, 2012 The Plight of Missing Persons According to staggering statistics, there are close to 60,000 + Jane and John Does buried, cremated or lying in coroners offices across this country with no names; all scattered across a nation with no standard protocol for case sharing and identification (NamUs, 2012). These unidentified people are young and old, male and female, from all walks of life. They are someone’s mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers. These bodies and spirits of our nations unidentified cry out for their names, proper burial, and many times, justice (Reitterer, 2012). The heartbreaking reality behind these statistics is a world no one wishes to be a part of. Well over 100,000 active missing person’s cases in this country at any given time. There is an estimated 60,000 sets of human remains unidentified throughout this nation. Hundreds of thousands of family members and friends living in limbo wondering what became of their loves ones. To the families of the missing, this situation has been called our nation's "Silent Mass Disaster; a problem of epidemic proportions" (NamUs, 2012). Families and advocates of the missing cry out for change within our communities and justice system and we must not allow their cries to go unheard. The Doe Network is an international non-profit volunteer organization created in 1999. Its focus...
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...Carmen Tran GEO605 Monday, March 2, 2015 Missing aboriginal men need more attention, too: N.W.T. mother Published on February 5, 2015 on CBC News, the news article “Missing aboriginal men need more attention, too: N.W.T. mother,” examines the lack of Margaret Leishman, the mother of one of the many missing Aboriginal individuals, has requested for further attentiveness be brought to these cases. Margaret Leishman’s son, Philip Leishman has been missing since July 2004 and was last seen with a friend going through the South Slave Region of Kakisa in the Northwest Territories moving towards the east. In the article, Leishman speaks about the additional response the cases involving the Aboriginal women are receiving compared to those of the absent Aboriginal men. RCMP has recently released the numbers of individuals that have disappeared in the N.W.T. since 1960 and out of the 43 cases eight are concerning Aboriginal females, while 35 are regarding Aboriginal males. Leishman knows that it is important that everyone be found safely and brought back home and she has faith that the attention on the disappearances of Aboriginal women will further increase the responsiveness on the cases of the missing men. As stated in the article, there is more action taken when it is about the case of missing women. From the compiled statistics it illustrates that there is a greater number of indigenous men missing and murdered relative to that of even Aboriginal females. Given...
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...Dataset DataSet0 Filter Weight Split File N of Rows in Working Data File 51 Missing Value Handling Definition of Missing User defined missing values are treated as missing. Cases Used All non-missing data are used. Syntax DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=Income /STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV VARIANCE RANGE MIN MAX SKEWNESS. Resources Processor Time 00:00:00.00 Elapsed Time 00:00:00.02 [DataSet0] Descriptive Statistics N Range Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Statistic Three-Year-Average Median Income(2008-2010) 51 $29,453 $36,850 $66,303 $50,734.18 $7,555.310 Valid N (listwise) 51 Descriptive Statistics Variance Skewness Statistic Statistic Std. Error Three-Year-Average Median Income(2008-2010) 57082705.308 .389 .333 Valid N (listwise) EXAMINE VARIABLES=Income /PLOT BOXPLOT STEMLEAF /COMPARE GROUPS /PERCENTILES(5,10,25,50,75,90,95) HAVERAGE /STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVES EXTREME /CINTERVAL 95 /MISSING LISTWISE /NOTOTAL. Explore Notes Output Created 05-SEP-2012 16:32:55 Comments Input Active Dataset DataSet0 Filter Weight Split File N of Rows in Working Data File 51 Missing Value Handling Definition of Missing User-defined missing values for dependent variables are treated as missing. Cases Used Statistics are based on cases with no missing values for any dependent variable or factor used. Syntax EXAMINE VARIABLES=Income /PLOT...
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... |DataSet1 | | |Filter | | | |Weight | | | |Split File | | | |N of Rows in Working Data File |30 | |Missing Value Handling |Definition of Missing |User-defined missing values for dependent | | | |variables are treated as missing. | | |Cases Used |Statistics are based on cases with no missing | | | |values for any dependent variable or factor used. | |Syntax |EXAMINE VARIABLES=Sample1 Sample2 Sample3 Sample4 | | |/PLOT NONE | | |/STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVES EXTREME |...
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...CarZuma: Car Insurance Claim Case Study Problem Statement A car insurance company, CarZuma, has collected some of the past data about their clients or customers that what are their attributes as well as their insured vehicles attributes while insuring the same. They have heard a lot about the data analytics and are very sure that their competitors are also using some of these techniques to beat the competition. They have to be very focused to their target segment. Please help the company to answer some of their basic questions like: 1. What kind of segments generates better leads? 2. What would be a good target segment? And which segment is a “bad” segment? Solution For a car insurance company, it is important to determine different segments of customers based on the profitability to generate better leads. Hence , we have tried in our analysis to segment the customers that should be targeted for profitability and that which can be considered “bad”, i.e., not profitable to the customers. Reasons Analytics has been used to address the problem: - * Lots of data but little conclusive information * Analytical capability is a Key Competitive Advantage * Information should be appropriate to take action in corporate Our Approach: Steps Followed 1. Identification of Appropriate Data 2. Perform Required Statistical Analysis 3. Segmentation of Customers based on desired criterion 4. Characteristics identification...
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...Dealing with Missing Information in a Data Warehouse Today businesses are investing many resources in building data warehouses and data marts to obtain timely and actionable information that will give them better business insight. This will enable them to achieve, among other things, sustainable competitive advantage, increased revenues and a better bottom line. In the early '90s, data warehousing applications were either strategic or tactical in nature. Trending and detecting patterns was the typical focus of many solutions. Now, companies are implementing data warehouses or operational data stores which meet both strategic and operational needs. The business need for these solutions usually comes from the desire to make near real-time actions in a constantly changing environment while receiving information from both internal as well as external source systems. Dealing with missing or unknown data is critical in these types of environments. Unknowns skew metrics and results to produce incorrect decisions. Knowledge of the unknown allows at least for further examination of any conclusions drawn from incomplete data. Furthermore, in a well-designed business intelligence environment, these unknowns are often resolved later as data that is more complete is entered into the operational systems. Irrespective of the nature of the applications, missing information has always been a problem for data warehouses. As business intelligence environments become more mature, real time and...
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...This means that the probability of missingness is not related neither to the recorded variables of the data nor the unobserved variable $Z$ itself. In other words, the behavior of $M_{Z}$ is statistically independent of all remaining variables of the data. For example, if the participants throw a coin to decide if they will answer a question or not, the missing item is MCAR. The independence of $M_{Z}$ from the missing values $Z$ cannot be tested because we do not have access to the values which people refused to give answers. The second type of Missing data is the mechanism Missing at Random (MAR). We assume that the sets $X$ and $Z$ and the indicator function $M_{Z}$ are the same as before. The MAR can be defined as $$\mathbb{P}(M_{Z}=1|X,Z)=\mathbb{P}(M_{Z}=1|X).$$ To be more specific, the data are MAR if the missing values are related to the variables $X$ which have been recorded but it is independent from the variable which is missing from the data....
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...Introduction We found studies similar to those conducted by our group. A study done by Charters, M. & Grimes, P in December 2000 concluded that there was similarity between library usage and ethnics. A correction was found with if students worked part time or full time. Black females who lived on-camps spent more time per week in the library than white males who lived off-campus. Another study that was also similar was done by Watson, L in September 2001, which concluded that there was a difference in educational gains of students by class level, colleges, and grade point averages. There was a difference between these groups. According to the study done by our group there were many relationships between the variables that were examined. The study that was completed by our group was done to find out if there was any relationship between Sacramento City College students and their use of library material. The purpose of this study was to get a broad picture of which students used the library and if the library is helping in stopping the students from falling behind. Our study shows significant insights where other studies have represented more of a limited view. Our hypothesis is students at SCC do not have sufficient access to reserve material in the library to be a successful student. Method Participants The participants in this study were male and female students who attend Sacramento City College. There were fifty participants in this study. The...
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...news on the famous Casey Anthony trial. During June and July of 2011, there wasn't a TV station that didn't have coverage on it. It was a case many mothers and fathers could relate to because it dealt with the everlasting love between a parent and their child; or so they thought. In this paper I'm going to talk about why the jury found Casey innocent of first degree murder and what is wrong with the American Justice System that allows guilty people like her walk free. How far does reasonable doubt go? Also, I want to talk about why the case hit so close to home for many people that followed along with the case, and what needs to be done regarding child abuse laws in Florida. First off, let us get the facts of the case straight. Casey Anthony waited 31 days to report her two-year-old daughter Caylee missing, in the summer of 2008. At first she told authorities that her nanny had kidnapped her, then went back on her word and said later in the trial process that she drowned in her parents swimming pool. Casey also lied to police about having a job and made up stories about future plans she had with her daughter. Testimonies and video footage also showed Casey out shopping, drinking, and hanging with friends during the time Caylee was “missing”. Friends said she never looked “worried, depressed, or angry” after Caylee went missing[1]. What kind of mother could do this? During the investigation, examiners found a hair consistent with Caylee's, in the back of Casey's...
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...Case you are critiquing: For each of the major points below, comment on how well the case analysis team addressed each. This critique should not exceed three pages when complete. 1. Situation Analysis – how well was the SWOT analysis completed? Was there any missing information? Did the students clearly label what was internal and external to the case? Overall, the team did a good job identifying the main points of the situation analysis. However, it did not clearly label which points are internal and which are external to the case. We would also recommend including the following missing points into SWOT: One of additional strengths that we would include is the high quality of the ice cream and “super premium” ingredients that Marble Slab uses in its products. Penny Thomas can use this strength to the benefit of her promotion strategy to stress brand differences to better position the franchise against its competitors. Another strong characteristic of a franchise is assistance with expertise in areas like financing, real estate and marketing. This is a major advantage for a startup company, where potential financial risks can be minimized due to backing by the head company. A weakness that was not pointed out is relatively high pricing of Marble Slab offerings. This weakness indicates that Penny Thomas will have to target a market of customers who would be willing to pay for “affordable luxury.” An additional opportunity that we would suggest...
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