... On the 23rd of October 2013, I was set to analyse some soil samples. I decided to take my samples from Avenham park in Preston, Lancashire. A soil pit was dug and some samples were taken, those samples were later taken to the laboratory and passed through series of test. Measuring of moisture content, PH level, and the percentage organic mater content were the major carried out on the samples. The main purpose for analysing the soil samples is to identify the processes that takes place within the soil at a particular location and to identify the other factors affecting these processes and lastly to make classifications based on the field observation and results obtained from the laboratory. Chosen Site The site chosen is located at Avenham park in Preston, Lancashire River Ribble River Ribble Approximately where the site it located Approximately where the site it located Avenham park Avenham park Figure 1: Map of preston, Lancashire. Locating the site where samples where taken. ( google map, n.d) The site where the soil pit was dug is a vast piece of managed farm land about a hundred meters wide. There is a footpath located at the right side of River Ribble after crossing the old tam bridge to the right. The footpath serves as a link between the site , avenham and west cliff leading to the preston train station. This site was selected because it serves as a good example of fairly natural land that has been set aside for...
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...John Doe English 112P 4 November 2009 Historical Perspective on The Hot Zone The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a nonfiction book with aspects of a novel. Sometimes called a bio-thriller, it is about the Ebola virus in America. It was written to address a time of fear about viruses in the United States in a time of increased international interaction. Although its impact is negligible, it reflects the nervous attitude of the time. Richard Preston writes narrative nonfiction. Narrative nonfiction is a hybrid style of writing that utilizes the framework of nonfiction with aspects of a novel, dialogue, for instance. Preston favors this style and wrote his dissertation on it during his graduate studies in Princeton. Previously, Preston wrote non-fiction on science such as Astronomy and on History; later his focus shifts to the science of Microbiology. In 1992 Richard Preston wrote an article in The New Yorker, entitled “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” Two years later, this article became the foundation for his non-fiction book, The Hot Zone, which documents the appearance of Ebola in the United States during the late eighties. At the time The Hot Zone was conceived, free trade policies during President George H. W. Bush’s administration were still making an impact worldwide. Bush set forth global objectives, renewing an interest in globalization under the belief that a global market will alleviate America’s growing deficit. Furthermore, he spearheaded the construction of North...
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...Fortune, the saying goes, favors the bold. Were that truly the case, the Tucker Model 48 would have been an uncontested success for Tucker Corporation and Preston Thomas Tucker, the visionary jack-of-all-trades inventor behind its creation. Instead, just as production of one of the 20th century’s most innovative automobiles was about to start, the government (as some believe, pressured by Detroit’s Big Three automakers) stepped in and effectively shut Tucker down. Preston Tucker was not an automotive engineer by trade, though few would argue that he possessed the ability to comprehend and advise on technical matters. With a background that included everything from automotive sales through race car and even armored car design (with partner Harry Miller), it was almost inevitable that Tucker would someday turn his attention towards constructing a production automobile that carried his own name. As originally envisioned by Tucker, the Tucker Model 48 (named for its debut year of 1948) featured some truly groundbreaking designs. Alex Tremulis George Lawson penned the streamlined coupe bodywork, featuring the driver in a central position instead of offset to the left (a design that would much later be embraced by McLaren on its F1 supercar). Located in the rear of the car, the proposed 589-cu.in. aluminum flat-six engine was so under-stressed that an overhaul would not be required for the first 180,000 miles. Tucker’s original design lacked a conventional transmission, too, and in...
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...“Tucker” There is no recipe, instructions, or formula that makes up a great Leader. Tucker, the main character in the movie Tucker: The Man and his Dream, is a man that we can analyze the strengths and weaknesses that he demonstrated as a leader and manager of his company. This movie is a fictionalized true story about Preston Tucker, an American automobile designer and entrepreneur. Unfortunately, he was not able to compete with the Big Guys of the car industry and failed to fulfill his dream. Tucker’s vision, proactively, and motivation is what made him a great leader, manager and CEO; however his poor management decisions lead him to his downfall. Tucker was a man of vision, which is a critical characteristic to have as a leader. A vision allows for a sense of direction, and a way to focus the attention of everyone associated with the organization. The need to achieve the same vision is why individuals in an organization come together and work as hard as they can in order to succeed. Tucker had the dream to build a car with many new features like air-cooled rear engine, disk brakes, independent 4-wheel suspension, an additional center headlight that pivoted left and right for better vision when turning, a padded dash, seatbelts, and a pop-out safety windshield. He wanted to sell this revolutionary car in an industry that had three Big Guys that were afraid of what he would do to the industry. The Big Guys used many shady tactics, such as spying on Tuckers...
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...Before the crisis, the quality department was just for looks, we certainly werenít used much for problem solving, the most we did was inspection. Data from the quality department was brought to the production meeting and they would all look at it, but no one was looking behind it. (Quality Manager, Preston Plant). The Preston plant of Rendall Graphics was located in Preston, Vancouver, across the continent from the headquarters in Massachusetts. The plant had been bought from the Georgetown Corporation by Rendall in March 2000. Precision coated papers for ink-jet printers accounted for the majority of the plant’s output, especially paper for specialist uses. The plant used coating machines that allowed precise coatings to be applied. After coating, the conversion department cut the coated rolls to the final size and packed the sheets in small cartons. The Curl problem In late 1998 Hewlett-Packard (HP), the plant’s main customer for ink-jet informed the plant of some problems it had encountered with paper curling under conditions of low humidity. There had been no customer complaints to HP, but its own personnel had noticed the problem and wanted it fixed. Over the next seven or eight months a team at the plant tried to solve the problem. Finally, in October 1999, the team made recommendations for a revised and considerably improved coating formulation. By January 2000 the process was producing acceptably. However, 1999 had not been a good year for the plant. Although...
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...Intro • Seemed to not inspect quality that well • Preston plant was located Preston, Vancouver • The headquarters was in Massachusetts • The company coated papers for ink jet printers, majority of output • After coating the conversion department cut the coated rolls to the final size and packed the sheets in small cartons The curl problem • Hewlett – Packard, main customer, had problems with paper curling under low humidity o Reasonable Demanding, don’t trust you if they are testing your product, can be an incentive • Next 7-8 months they tried to fix the problem • They actually solved the problem in January 2000 • Then made revisions for a new improved coating formula • They were also making a loss of $2 million for the year Slipping out of control • Spring 2000, productivity, scrap and re-work levels = poor • Because of this the company increased the speed of the line and made a lot of changes to raise productivity o No discipline, concept of control o Only worried that product was shipped within specification • Hewlett – Packard (their main customer) analyzed the report, saw that they can make the product but they were wondering for future two ore three generation products • 2000 had 2 significant events o Hewlwtt = Packard asked plant to bid to supply a new ink – jet platform, known as vector, would secure healthy order for several yeasrs o The plant was acquired by Rendall • Hewlett – Packard attitude bewildered the management team o They saw...
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...Queen’s University Belfast Queen’s University Management School. MGT2005 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Semester 2, 2012 “You don’t have to change. . . Survival is not mandatory.” (Professor William E. Deming) Course Co-ordinator: Dr Yu Xiong Introduction to Operations Management Operations Management (OM) is a functional field of management encompassing the design, operation and improvement of the processes and systems employed in the creation and delivery of an organisation's products and services. Essentially, operations management is concerned with explaining how factories and services work. Managing operations well requires both strategic and tactical skills and is critical to every type of organization, for it is only through effective and efficient utilization of resources that an organization can be successful in the long run. A few common threads pervade the material we cover in this course: First, decision making in operations is highly context dependent. Recognising this is half the battle in managing an operation. The variety of operational contexts obscures the link between particular operational decisions and overall firm profitability. Making this link transparent is essential to making better operational decisions. Variability exists in any operation, and this variability needs to be managed Integration, both across functional areas within a firm, and across firms in the value creation and delivery network, is crucial for superior firm performance...
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...Operations Management - Final assessment Turnaround at the Preston plant About the company The Preston plant of Rendall graphics was located in Preston, Vancouver. The plant produced Precision coated papers for ink-jet printers which accounted for the majority of the plant’s output. In 2000, the plant was bought from the Georgetown Corporation by Rendall even if, during this period, the plant was losing around $2 million a year. A significant turning point came in 1999 when Tom Branton was appointed as Managing Director. Questions: 1. What are the most significant events in the story of how the plant survived because of its adoption of quality-based principles? The plant started to experience problems in the quality of their output of the ink-jet paper and had received feedback in late 1998 from Hewlett-Packard (HP), one of his customers, about the problem. The team at Preston worked to resolve it. In October of 1999 some recommendations were made to revise and improve the coating formula. However in 2000, productivity, scrap and re-work levels continued to be poor. Operations Management team’s response was to increase the speed of the line and made a number of changes to operating practice in order to raise productivity. Two significant events happened to the Preston plant. Rendall Corporation purchased the plant, even though it was losing around $2 million a year. Rendall was not impressed by what they found at the plant and it seems that they did not do a very good...
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...Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge Abstract What does Prostitution and Social Work have in common, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge. Sophonisba Breckinridge is one of the pioneers of what we today have come to know as social work. Born in 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky to a very distinguished family, Sophonisba Breckinridge would go on to have many noteworthy firsts for a woman of her time (Coghlan, 2005). With a very supportive father, she was one of the first women to attend college at A and M College in Lexington, later renamed the University of Kentucky (Coghlan, 2005). Unhappy with her experience there she left. She went on to enroll at Wellesley, which at the time was one of the only colleges for women. She earned her degree in 1888. After realizing that she would be limited to only teaching positions, she moved to be with her family in Washington, DC where her father served his role in Congress. She eventually accepted a faculty teaching position during a time she described as confused. Like most young professionals now-a-days, Breckinridge was yearning for more and felt that her current position was not her calling. She left after becoming really ill. In correspondence written to her colleagues, she seemed disgruntled and describes her days spent keeping house and teaching her sister as meager and that she was doing nothing. Her dream was to become a lawyer, and she was doing nothing close to that. Her father was a lawyer and had a successful practice...
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...The Preston plant of Rendall Graphics was located in Preston, Vancouver. The plant was bought from the Georgetown Corporation by Rendall in March 2000. The plant produced Precision coated papers for ink-jet printers which accounted for the majority of the plant’s output. The plant started to experience problems in the quality of their output of the ink-jet paper and had received feedback in late 1998 from Hewlett-Packard (HP) about the problem. The team at Preston worked to resolve the problem and in October of 1999 made recommendations for a revised and improved coating formulation. However in 2000, productivity, scrap and re-work levels continued to be poor. Operations Management team’s response was to increase the speed of the line and made a number of changes to operating practice in order to raise productivity. In the spring of 2000, two significant events happened to the Preston plant. Rendall Corporation purchased the plant, even though it was losing around $2 million a year. Rendall was not impressed by what they found at the plant and it seems that they did not do a very good analysis of the overall operations of the plant and the management of its operations. The second event that happened was that HP asked the plant to bid on a contact for a new ink-jet platform. The main concern that the operations management had with HP’s observations and feedback was that, HP continued to have complaints on quality levels. However the attitude of the operations management team...
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...actions implicated by British troops were nothing but a misguided command in which they abided by with obedience from who they thought to be their leading commander. The gruesome event which occurred during March 5, 1770 only intensified the concealed aggression towards British troops by many colonists. From various accounts the event was deemed to be a malicious firing to set an example of future consequences for colonist who showed little regard towards the British ruling. The main question of the violent act was who would be held accountable for initiating the actions of such a brutal attack? This led to numerous statements claiming British Officer, Thomas Preston was the initial culprit for the intense firing, but he was quick to defend his character and the role he played in such a tragic event....
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...Dynamite, and the town is Preston, Idaho. Throughout this profile, Holson tells the reader about a Napoleon Dynamite festival held in the small Idaho town the movie was filmed in. Some examples are given as to the events held at the festival such as the Napoleon look-alike contest, or the tater tot eating contest. Many of these contests and activities help people bring out their so called, “inner Napoleon” (Holson 162). Holson is able to illustrate the impact the Napoleon Dynamite festival had on the town and the people of Preston, while organizing the piece effectively. One point that is addressed by Holson is how the town is affected by the Napoleon Dynamite festival. The title addresses this point when she says the “rural Idaho town” (Holson 161). After her short story about the festival, Holson immediately jumps into how the town is effected. Holson states that “more than 300 people traveled from as far away as California and Connecticut for the chance to embrace their own inner Napoleon” (Holson 162). She also gives another example of how a movie can impact a town. Holson mentions Field of Dreams, which turned a small town in Iowa to someplace that is visited by over 65,000 people a year. Holson continues to show how the movie has affected the town by giving constant examples. She first states that Preston, Idaho is a rural town, with only 5,000 residents. Next, she mentions Penny Christensen, who is the executive director of the Preston Area Chamber of Commerce...
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...Page 1 of 1 STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED Registration Fee for Recruitment of MTs-11 Pay in Slip: Account Number: 31836070568 (Copy to be deposited with SAIL) Applicant’s Name: SBI Branch Name: Journal No.: SUSHILA CHOWDHARY Application No. Branch Code No.: Deposit Date: 1228135 Registration Fee: Rs.100/ Bank Charges: Rs. 20/ Total: Rs.120/-(Rupees One Hundred Twenty only) (Note: Total fee payable for Gen./OBC candidates is Rs.520/- and for SC/ST/PH/SAIL Departmental candidates (any cat.) is Rs.120/-) Candidate’s signature (Note : Fee receiving branch is advised to write the Deposit Journal No. and branch code no. above invariably) Authorized Signatory of Bank xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED Registration Fee for Recruitment of MTs-11 Pay in Slip: Account Number: 31836070568 (Candidate’s Copy) Applicant’s Name: SBI Branch Name: Journal No.: SUSHILA CHOWDHARY Application No. Branch Code No.: Deposit Date: 1228135 Registration Fee: Rs.100/ Bank Charges: Rs. 20/ Total: Rs.120/-(Rupees One Hundred Twenty only) (Note: Total fee payable for Gen./OBC candidates is Rs.520/- and for SC/ST/PH/SAIL Departmental candidates (any cat.) is Rs.120/-) Candidate’s signature (Note : Fee receiving branch is advised to write the Deposit Journal No. and branch code no. above invariably) Authorized Signatory of Bank xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
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...Case Study Turnaround at the Preston plant The Preston plant of Rendall Graphics was located in Preston, Vancouver. The plant was bought from the Georgetown Corporation by Rendall in March 2000. The plant produced Precision coated papers for ink-jet printers which accounted for the majority of the plant’s output. The plant started to experience problems in the quality of their output of the ink-jet paper and had received feedback in late 1998 from Hewlett-Packard (HP) about the problem. The team at Preston worked to resolve the problem and in October of 1999 made recommendations for a revised and improved coating formulation. However in 2000, productivity, scrap and re-work levels continued to be poor. Operations Management team’s response was to increase the speed of the line and made a number of changes to operating practice in order to raise productivity. In the spring of 2000, two significant events happened to the Preston plant. Rendall Corporation purchased the plant, even though it was losing around $2 million a year. Rendall was not impressed by what they found at the plant and it seems that they did not do a very good analysis of the overall operations of the plant and the management of its operations. The second event that happened was that HP asked the plant to bid on a contact for a new ink-jet platform. The main concern that the operations management had with HP’s observations and feedback was that, HP continued to have complaints on quality...
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...One of the most popular websites in the internet Amazon is a multibillion dollar corporation that started from zero. The genius behind this is Jeff Preston. Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born in January 12 1964, in Albuquerque New Mexico. To his mother who was a teen mom, Jacqueline Gise Jorgensen, and to his father,Ted Jorgensen, who was a bike shop owner. His mother gave birth to him when she was only seventeen years old. His father didn’t even show up to his birth and divorced his wife a few months after Jeff was born. After the divorce Jacqueline met up with a Cuban immigrant named Miguel Bezos. Who was a person that studied in the university of New Mexico and got a degree in welding. He is also known for working with the major gas company Exxon. Bezos attended River Oaks...
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