...We are not our statistics, we are not our violence, our poverty, we are not invisible […] Your silence…is your consent to the demise of a people […] We need you, you need you…Be idle no more.” -Nina Wilson, Co-founder of the Idle No More protest movement In November of 2012, four women organized a mass teach-in at Station 20 West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The purpose of this teach in was to bring awareness to a piece of legislation called the omnibus Bill C-45. The first teach-in in Saskatoon promptly led to more teach-ins, rallies and protests across Saskatchewan and eventually spread to Winnipeg, Manitoba and Edmonton, Alberta, culminating in a national day of action on December 10th, 2012 which quickly became “one of the largest Indigenous...
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...OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. Student's Signature: ______________________________ ***************************************************************** Instructor's Grade on Assignment: Instructor's Comments: Executive Summary ZZ Airlines is currently deciding whether or not to hire an additional Call Service Representative. The airline does not want the wait time in the call center, between midnight and 6 A.M, to be more than 3 to 4 minutes, in order to provide good customer service. Additionally, the airline is planning to do an advertising campaign which is expected to increase the number of callers, based on similar past campaigns. Based on the statistical simulations, and its subsequent results, an analysis will determine whether an additional Call Service Representative is needed. Background Recently ZZ Airlines opened its doors as a commuter service, with its headquarters and hub located in a regional center. A product of airline deregulation, it joined a number of short-haul, point-to-point airlines, that have been successful. ZZ was started and managed by two pilots. It acquired a fleet of twelve used propjet planes and airport gates vacated...
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...ppadala@docomolabs-usa.com padmanab@microsof t.com DOCOMO USA Labs Microsoft Research India Kang G. Shin kgshin@eecs.umich.edu The University of Michigan U.S. Of this, 65 TWh/year is consumed by PCs in enterprises, which constitutes 5% of the commercial building electricity consumption in the U.S. Moreover, market projections suggest that PCs will continue to be the dominant desktop computing platform, with over 125 million units shipping each year from 2009 through 2013 [15]. The usual approach to reducing PC energy wastage is to put computers to sleep when they are idle. However, the presence of the user makes this particularly challenging in a desktop computing environment. Users care about preserving long-running network connections (e.g., login sessions, IM presence, file sharing), background computation (e.g., syncing and automatic filing of new emails), and keeping their machine reachable even while it is idle. Putting a desktop PC to sleep is likely to cause disruption (e.g., broken connections), thereby having a negative impact on the user, who might then choose to disable the energy savings mechanism altogether. To reduce user disruption while still allowing machines to sleep, one approach has been to have a proxy on the network for a machine that is asleep [33]. However, this approach suffers from an inherent tradeoff between functionality and complexity because of the need for application-specific customization. In this paper, we present LiteGreen, a system to save desktop...
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...remaining being grabbed by the richest that are able to afford it by paying a huge premium for it. It sounds like a situation that will happen in far future, but all of us need to realize and be aware of the fact that the so called ‘far future’ is just 4 decades away. Can we envision a world sustaining without oil reserves? Can we still be ignorant of the fact that the oil reserves are getting completely drained up in the near future? Can we still continue comfortably the same level of oil consumption? One needs to act upon to save the oil, use it very meticulously and postpone the exhaustion of the oil reserves by as much as possible. All of it can start with initiative as simple as - • Turning off the engine of motor vehicles while one idles at the Traffic Light Though it seems to be very small saving, it will definitely make a big difference when considered holistically. And studies did reveal the benefits of such actions. Such small initiative will not only result in saving of the oil but also gives many other cascading benefits. But all it needs is awareness and realization in the general public. If we can successfully market the cause and call for the action, the public will definitely join hands. In India, domestically the oil production is roughly 0.69 million barrels per day. But the demand for oil is 2.2 million barrels per day. Hence, only 30% of the demand is met by the domestic oil reserves and the excess 70% of the oil required is imported by India. Currently, India...
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...RECORDING AND ANALYSIS TOOLS Operation Process Chart * Shows chronological sequence of all operations, inspections, time allowances and materials used in a manufacturing or business process, from the arrival of raw material to the packaging of the finished product * 2 symbols are used: small circle (operation) and small square (inspection) * Operation takes place when a part being studied is intentionally transformed or when it is being studied or planned prior to productive work being performed on it * Inspection takes place when the part is being examined to determine its conformity to a standard * Outline process chart – outlines only the operations * Vertical lines – indicate general flow of the process as work is accomplished * Horizontal lines feeding into vertical flow lines – indicate material (purchased or worked on during the process) * Parts are shown as entering a vertical line for assembly or leaving a vertical line for disassembly * Materials that are disassembled or extracted are shown as horizontal material lines drawn to the right of the vertical flow line * Assembly materials are shown on horizontal lines drawn to the left of the vertical flow line * Helps analysts visualized the present method, with all its details, so that new and better procedures may be devised * Shows analysts what effect a change on a given operation will have on preceding and subsequent operations * Aid in promoting and explaining...
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...that Goodchild is a “wrongdoer” but it does go to describe his self-centered characteristics. To further push the main argument about Goodchild, he is positioned perfectly in this engraving to show his status and feelings about the world around him. This means that Goodchild status is rising as he is in the back, in a box, above the crowd; he won’t interact with those at the bottom in the cubicles. His self-seeking motives distract him from his environment. In addition, Goodchild is as much the problem as he is the cause of the problem. As the plates carry on, the reader will understand how Goodchild’s action and inactivity affect his position and power in changing society. Once again, Hogarth is portraying Goodchild to be just as human as Idle; Goodchild is not above the...
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...What Did You Do With Your Idle Time Manuel Bendana ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Prof. Benjamin Mirov November 5, 2012 Billy Collin’s poem, “You, Reader,” is a humor-filled narrative that catches the reader’s attention and illustrates how two strangers are interlaced with one another all while showing how idle time can be used productively. While reading the poem, it can also be noted that time and what you choose to do with it is a constant theme. The persona in this poem, who happens to be the speaker, expresses how he is linked to the reader. The main link between the reader and the author is the poem itself in its literal sense. Grabbing the Reader’s Attention The poem begins with an attention-grabbing dramatic monologue; “I wonder how you are going to feel when you find out that I wrote this instead if you” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 12.1). This very first line comes off as arrogant and cocky, in result creating dramatic tension between the speaker and the reader. The persona grabs the reader’s attention by using detailed imagery about the particular day that he sat down to write the poem. The narrator paints a picture by describing the environment that he was in while writing the poem. He remembers to, “mention with a pen the rain soaked windows, the ivy-wallpaper” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 12.1). The scenery in this...
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...How may orders can to be filled in 4 hours? (Only 1 dozen per order) Assuming that only each order consists of only one dozen cookies, the first order can be completed in: 1(Order Processing)+8(Mixing&Spooning)+10(Baking)+5(Cooling)+3(Packing&Delivery) = 27 mins The understanding is that I can load the second tray in Oven for the next order at 20th min. And also, the second order can be taken at the 10th min after loading the first tray in the oven. So the subsequent sets can be completed in 37th, 47th, 57th minute and so on. So, in 4 hours, 17 + 10N = 240 (4 hours) N = 22.3~22 orders Hence a total of 22 orders can be filled in 4 hours. Two oven are available, How many mixer are need to maximize production Case 1: Each order consist of one dozen cookies Since each order consists of only one dozen cookies, mixing and spooning of the second set can be done only after mixing and spooning first set. Assume that first set of cookies are baked in oven 1 and second set in oven 2 and subsequent cookies in alternate fashion. First set: The first set of cookies can be completed in 27 mins Second set: Second set of cookies can be mixed after spooning the first set i.e. mixing the second set can be started at 10th min. The second tray can be loaded in the oven at 18th min, consequently completing the second set of cookies at the end of 35 mins. So it means that an additional time of 8 mins is required for completion of second tray. Third Set: Similarly, third set of cookies...
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...the most significant thing I learned last week. I learned last week that the leadership style that I seem to fall into is the Management by Exception style. The reason I use this style is due to the nature of the activity of my shop which tends to be idle until we get jobs specific to Aero Repair. I tend to stay in the MBE-Passive style while the shop is idle and move into the MBE-Active as the work arises. I discovered that as the shop is idle it is easy to fall into this style of MBE-Passive and kind of take a back seat and deal with things as they come up. When the shop gets work it tends to be time sensitive and require strong leadership, this is when I tend to adopt the MBE-Active style. The second thing I would like to cover this week is, if I could change one thing about my leadership, it would be to try and develop myself more into a Transformational leader. I feel that by developing myself more in this leadership style, it would have a direct impact on my personal development as a supervisor, and have a positive impact on my subordinates. By capitalizing on the idle time my shop has between major jobs, I could work on developing the four I’s within this leadership style. The key to this development would be to take a more active role in developing my subordinates as leaders, conducting training sessions, and working on my own personal technical growth. By being proactive with my own growth as a leader I could have a direct and positive impact on anyone that I...
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...CHAPTER 20 Marginal Costing – Make or Buy Decisions Application of Marginal Costing – Make or Buy Decision Application of Marginal Costing, in case of Additional Fixed Costs Other Considerations than Cost Illustrations Your Check Your Understanding Descriptive Questions Interview Questions 20.1 APPLICATION OF MARGINAL COSTING – MAKE OR BUY DECISION Marginal costing can be applied in the area of fixation of selling price. The next important area is whether to make or buy decision. When a company has unused capacity and wants to manufacture some components, it has two alternatives: (A) to make within the organization or (B) to buy from the market. Often, firms face the question whether to outsource production of a component or continue to make it in the factory. Comparison of the relevant costs of both the alternatives in such cases will show whether to continue the existing arrangement or change to buying it, discontinuing the current production. The answer depends upon whether the firm has the option to use the freed capacity, profitably, or not. 474 Accounting for Managers The decision to buy, discontinuing present production, depends on whether the capacity that is released by the non-manufacture of the component can be profitably utilized, elsewhere, or not. Role of Fixed Costs: Fixed costs are sunk costs. What is sunk cannot be retrieved in the same condition. Fixed costs cannot be reversed, without loss. Machinery purchased, already, cannot be sold, without...
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...sometimes having to wait for long periods of times, while at other times being so fortunate as to have no wait at all. Operations management places a great deal of consideration into the anticipated performance of waiting line systems. These systems are of vital importance in many contexts, but particularly important in the realm of service operations management. Certainly, in our everyday lives we dislike waiting. Truthfully, for the consumer such a delay is little more than a nuisance; however, from an operational standpoint the same delay has far greater consequences for a business. When you consider, for instance, the machinery and various equipment that may be lying idle, there are great costs at stake. In the case of our HVAC scenario, customers would be quite content if there was a technician available at a moment’s notice to service their particular heating and air-conditioning needs. Unfortunately, the costs associated with maintaining the necessary infrastructure would be unreasonable at best and more than likely would drive the costs of HVAC service through the roof. This situation demonstrates that there will always be a tradeoff between production capacity and the surfeit of work to be done. This is not surprising when you examine the nature of our HVAC company or any other service provider for that matter. Such services cannot be inventoried and while...
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...plug rather than a spark plug so there's no coil, magneto or points. The glow plug is heated by a batteryoperated glow starter. When fuel enters the combustion chamber, it's ignited by the heated glow plug and with that, the engine springs to life, instantly gaining the momentum to continue running after all the starter accessories are removed. The engine's carburetor supplies the fuel and air needed for combustion. It has several adjustments. A rotating throttle arm controls the AMOUNT of fuel and air that enters the combustion chamber. The high- speed needle valve controls the MIX or proportions of fuel vs. air at mid- to high-speeds. The idle mixture screw is similar to the high-speed needle valve, except that it controls the mix of fuel and air when the engine is only idling. When you've adjusted the highspeed and idle mixtures properly, your engine should operate smooth and steady throughout its speed range. Glow plugs A gasoline combustion engine uses a spark plug to ignite the fuel- air mixture within the compression chamber, so a glow or nitro engine uses a small glow plug. Although the plug needs to be heated up using a glow plug igniter initially, once the engine is running, the heat generated within the combustion chamber keeps the plug glowing constantly and is thus able to ignite the fuel-air mixture on each revolution. Precaution: Glow plugs can fail at any time, so it's always better to have a selection of spare ones with you. Fuel Glow...
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...office for subjects encoding. Once you get your assessment form, you will be redirected to Accounting Office for payment and expect a new line again. Then, you will need to update your school ID card after payment, it means another line. Waiting line or queue is a repetitive scenario in our everyday lives. We can’t deny but we are also used in waiting. The organization itself also encounter waiting line or queue. One example is when an airplane has to wait in line for fueling, inspection, a particular gate, a specific flight route, an assigned crew, food loading, verified passenger count, taxi takeoff and landing clearance for each trip. All organizations are concerned with waiting lines as well because they value their time and hate to be idle since it means loss to the company. When waiting lines are poorly managed, this will result to customer dissatisfaction and worst, brand-switching. According to the the book of Levin, Walt Disney is very familiar with waiting...
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...strategy focuses on selling more expensive individual cartridges. Another reason for fluctuating sales margins is customers reusing cartridges instead of purchasing new cartridges. Expected demand is the basis for budgeted volume. Therefore, budgeted volume adversely affects pricing and gross margin stability because Anagene has fluctuating sales. Anagene's use of a volatile budgeted volume as the denominator volume leads to varying allocated fixed overhead costs (Exhibit A). Assigning budgeted volume to fixed overhead costs causes gross margin to fluctuate (in this case decrease) in the long run. If management uses gross margin as the basis for pricing strategy, it could lead to a death spiral1 (Exhibit B). Assignment of Overhead Costs to Cartridges The assignment of overhead costs is an important factor for Kelly. It affects cost measurement and explores the possible existence of idle capacity. Currently, Anagene's assignment of overhead costs is based on budgeted volume. However, by using practical capacity as the denominator volume, Anagene reduces allocated fixed overhead costs per unit and increases gross margin. Anagene's stable2 level of operations, based on practical capacity, reveals the company's true operating potential. However, using budgeted volume allows managers to hide idle capacity, since it is based on demand rather than production capacity. Overhead cost assignment is important because it affects gross margin and shows idle capacity. Disadvantages...
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...STONEHAVEN STONEHAVEN 1.0 What are the daily capacities and Manufacturing Lead Time of Cutting Stitching and Lasting Cutting, Department considering a 100 pair batch i b t h 10 pair batch? CUTTING DEPARTMENT 100 pair batch Capacity, CT and MLT CUTTING DEPARTMENT 100 pair batch Cutting Shoe leather 4* (5.25 100*0 05) 4 (5 25 + 100 0.05) = 41 minutes Leathe rSheets Cut Linings 4* (5.00 + 100*0.05) = 40 minutes Cut insole 4* (4 00 + 100*0.04) = 32 (4.00 100*0 04) minutes There are three parallel operations each of which cuts 100 of four different Shoe operations, components (creating 1200 pieces in 100 pair batch), each of which requires Four die changes CUTTING DEPARTMENT 100 pair batch Cutting Shoe leather 4* (5.25 100*0 05) 4 (5 25 + 100 0.05) = 41 minutes Leathe rSheets Cut Linings 4* (5.00 + 100*0.05) = 40 minutes Cut insole 4* (4 00 + 100*0.04) = 32 (4.00 100*0 04) minutes Capacity = 480/41 = 11 7 batches = 1170 pairs of shoe per shift 11.7 MLT = 41 minutes. Cycle time = 41 minutes CUTTING DEPARTMENT 10 pair batch Capacity, CT and MLT CUTTING DEPARTMENT 10 pair batch Cutting Shoe leather 4* (5.25 4 (5 25 + 10 * 0 05) = 0.05) 23 minutes Leathe rSheets Cut Linings 4* (5.00 + 10 * 0.05) = 22 minutes Cut insole 4* (4 00 + 10 * 0.04) = (4.00 0 04) 17.6 minutes Capacity = 480/23 = 20 9 batches = 209 pairs of shoe per shift 20.9 MLT = 23 minutes. Cycle Time = 23 minutes CUTTING DEPARTMENT While changing from a 100...
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