...Powell ACC 561 05/30/2013 Dale Stoeber Why chose a Franchise? Choosing to own a franchise is a big decision especially one in the fitness industry. I would say it would help if that were your interest? We are going to take a look at a few franchises businesses and discuss to pros and con of them. In today's fast paced world, it's difficult for people to commit to an exercise program due to busy, unpredictable schedules. When you own a Snap Fitness franchise, we will help you bring affordability and convenience to the neighborhoods of people across America. Our proven concept shows the fact that many people will give up the Athletic Conglomerates in lieu of convenience and cost. Snap Fitness provides a value people are looking searching. The hours and locations are convenient. They offer state of the art equipment in a clean environment. Snap Fitness offers its owners the opportunity to become part of a brand name. Partnering with Snap Fitness is like partner with the global leader in fitness franchises. Snap Fitness offers training and financial the first step in owning your own Snap Fitness franchise is by filling out the Express Request form. By providing us your contact information, a Snap Fitness representative will contact you and walk you through the approval process for your club. Once we receive the appropriate information from you, your approval will take approximately two to five days. Other Fitness clubs have jumped on the band wagon of smaller less intimidating...
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...deficit. Everyone has an idea of who should get less money and who is spending frivolously, but there is no concrete plan to save money and decrease debt. One area that could use a little face lift is the welfare system. This past fiscal year it was reported that the government spent $75 billion dollars on the food stamp program and over $700 million was lost in fraudulent activity (Pianin 2012). Fraud, waste, and abuse are rampant in the food stamp program; therefore, the US government should overhaul the current system utilizing a more efficient biometric pin in chip card system. Tackling problems in the welfare system can be daunting without a clear vision. There are many theories about what changes would be more beneficial. It is evident that fraud in the system causes a great loss. To understand just how the food stamp program can be improved, an understanding of the program must be established. Currently the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) no longer issues out paper “food stamps” but has moved on to a program called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (USDA 2012). When a U.S. citizen is enrolled into the SNAP program the local welfare office issues out an Electronic Benefits Transfer card or EBT card. These cards are used as pin activated debit cards which are loaded up monthly with a fixed amount of funds. The benefits holder can then go to a local vendor that accepts the EBT card and they are able to purchase food items that are...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Brand and Model 2 2.0 Retail price and where to buy 3 3.0 Specifications 3 4.0 Pros and cons 7 4.1 Pros / Advantages 7 4.2 Cons / Disadvantages 8 5.0 DSLR’s Comparison Chart 10 6.0 Other relevant Equipment 11 7.0 List of things to include in a trip, indoor-event 15 8.0 Cost of the above items and justifications 17 REFERENCES 18 1.0 BRAND AND MODEL BRAND : PENTAX MODEL : K-30 The Pentax K-30 is a 16.3-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced on 21 May 2012. At its introduction, it was in the middle of Pentax's DSLR range—above the now-discontinued entry-level K-r, and below the semi-pro K-5 and successor K-5 II. As a mid-range body, it has a polycarbonate chassis, but unlike most DSLRs of that class, is fully weather sealed. It can shoot continuously at up to 6 frames per second with a maximum shutter speed of 1/6000th of a second. It can capture video at 1080p at either 30, 25, or 24 fps. Like all current and recent Pentax DSLRs it features in-body shake reduction, removing the need for each lens to have image stabilisation. The Pentax K mount allows use of legacy lenses dating back to the 1970s, or even earlier with an M42-mount adapter, for which the K-mount is fully compatible. The autofocus system (SAFOX IXi+) is an advance over the K-5 and features 11 AF points, 9 of which are cross-type...
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...PART 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sport Obermeyer must maintain and for that matter increase our hold on the skiwear industry. For that objective to be met it has been determined that changes must occur on a couple of fronts. First an improved forecasting technique must be implemented. Having hot items stock out causing potential customers to purchase competitors product is unacceptable. Taking each buying committee members forecast into account to create an average demand forecast has created a good starting point With the addition of our preferred retailers at the table I feel we would have an even better grip on the customer demands. I would also implement an electronic data communication at the point of sale. This would provide us with real time numbers, numbers that we presently don’t have during our November meetings this would only aid us in our forecasting, as well as during the season we would be able to see which items are selling well early in the season. The second issue is production planning, with long lead times on materials, large minimum orders, a short product life cycle (less than 1 year), and a very large planning cycle (2 years). We must seek out partnerships with raw material providers to facilitate shorter lead times. We must reduce the number of vendors we use. Work with Chinese facilities to reduce minimum orders. With these changes we will see a better understanding of customer demand and the ability to react to demand in a more timely fashion, this is imperative...
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...Pros of Social Networking The cell phone buzzed. It’s lights flashed to the nearest wall. What was it? A text? A tweet? A Like or a snap or a follow or a screenshot? It could be anything. By all means, that notification could literally make or break your whole future. In fact, studies show that “72% of the U.S. population own smartphones.” (Drake Baer, Tech Insider) Not to mention, on average, Americans collectively spend 10 billion minutes on Facebook daily. (Lisa Eadiciccio, Time.) Colleges are now looking at Facebook over the 350 million members as part of their recruitment process. (Schiffman, Elizabeth/ “Social Media’s Expanding…”) Furthermore, people are grasping the idea that social media applications can make their lives easier by...
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...Windshield Survey Assessment Paper Windshield Survey Assessment Paper Physical The city of Victorville began in 1962 and started off with a population of 8,000 that has grown to be a population of 121,000, and continues to grow (92392 Zip Code Population and Races, n.d.). The condition of the houses appear to be in mint condition with the exception of some homes in the area of El Evado and Pacoima that have lawns that are dead and full of weeds. The paint on these homes are chipped and not well kept. There are many apartments in Victorville that appear to look old on the outside, but each apartment building has been renovated to look more twenty first century. There aren't many abandoned houses in the city of Victorville but there abandoned vehicles in front of houses that have oxidized paint and dust covering them. The houses in the neighborhoods are very similar in their layout, the only difference each house has is the color of the paint on outside of the house. Some residents have also added on additions to their homes such as extra rooms or in ground pools, which have raised the equity in these homes. There is one abandoned building that stands out in Victorville and that is because it is in a shopping center that has flourishing businesses within that same parking lot that use to be an Albertsons. This building has been empty for a couple years and is located on Bear Valley and Amargosa. There is a large number of stray dogs in Victorville due to the faulty wooden...
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...new possibilities to the field of medicine” (Bastawrous & Armstrong, 2013, p. 130). “Phones have evolved from a two-way analog form of communication to palm sized computers called smartphones” (Wyatt & Krauskopf, 2012). Emergency workers in Marin County, California have partnered with a company, Lifesquare, in a pilot program involving the use of QR codes. The residents would input personal medical information onto Lifesquare’s website and then place QR code stickers where emergency workers could easily locate and scan them in the event of an emergency by using their Smartphones. Quick response codes, or QR codes are “two-dimensional matrix barcodes that can hold thousands of alphanumeric characters of information. Their ability to hold large amounts of information and their ease of use makes them practical for medical practices” (Gottesman & Baum, 2013, p. 345). “There are numerous applications for QR codes in the contemporary medical practice” (Gottesman & Baum, 2013, p. 345). The residents of Marin County have reservations about this new technology and are thirsty for more information. The question remains: They can but should they? Pros and Cons of QR Coding The QR code was “invented in...
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...12/11/2015 HR Articles: Problem Statement, HR Recruitment influenced by Internet 1 More Next Blog» Create Blog Sign In Find Air Tickets, Book Hotels & Rent Cars Problem Statement, HR Recruitment influenced by Internet +1 Recommend this on Google jetradar Origin Origin Destination Destination Depart date 18 december, fr Return date 25 december, fr Passengers/Class 1 passenger economy сlass Search http://humanresourcesarticles.blogspot.my/2014/11/problemstatementhrrecruitment.html 1/15 12/11/2015 HR Articles: Problem Statement, HR Recruitment influenced by Internet Show hotels Most Popular Posts Most Popular Posts Launching an Intranet; Data in Hiring; Bad Phish Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 7 Tips to Launching an Intranet Social intranets are helping organizations overcome the barriers of location, language and ... Dec 10, 2015 11:21 AM Kutik on the Real Five Generations in the Workplace Email not displaying correctly, click here. December 10, 2015 Welcome to our weekly look at Webexclusive columns that appear on www.HREOnline.com ... Dec 10, 2015 11:08 AM Last Chance: 40% Off + Free Shipping on Custom Holid... It's crunchtime to order your holiday cards get them today to ensure delivery next week! Grab them now from The Signature Collection, with cards... Dec 10, 2015 9:50 AM A day in the Life of HR The industrial relations system is defined as an analytically subsystem of...
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...comfortable sharing about yourself, your family, or your hobbies. NR 360 Week 1 Discussion What Is Nursing Informatics? Discuss ways that nursing informatics could be applied to all areas of professional nursing practice, including clinical practice, administration, education, and research. Provide examples of each. What do you see as the biggest significance of nursing informatics, and why? NR 360 Week 1 Discussion Technology Literacy and Electronic Health Records (EHR) What are your experiences with using an electronic information system (EHR)? Describe the components of an EHR, and using the assigned readings, any past experiences or observations, and your imagination, share your thoughts on the following question: Can you give one pro and one con of an EHR with regard to enhancing patient care and safety? Include rationale for each. How do you see the EHR enhancing patient health literacy? NR 360 Week 2 Discussion Database Search Choose a topic related to health that has meaning to your personal health, interests, and well-being. This may be a disease, such as diabetes, or a healthy fitness activity. Conduct a database search comparing one of the following database directories with Google Scholar. CINAHL and Google Scholar PubMed and Google Scholar Explain how you were able to narrow down the number of article hits you had initially, and present within your post a summary of the credible article you chose as your resource. How do you know...
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...|PART TWO RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT | | | | | |CHAPTER | |T Seven | | | | | | | | | |Interviewing |7 | | |Candidates | | | |Lecture Outline | | | |Strategic Overview |In Brief: This chapter gives an overview of types of | | |Basic Features of Interviews |interviews and their features. It discusses common | | |Types of Interviews ...
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...PART TWO RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT | | | | | | |CHAPTER | |T Seven | | | | | | | | | | |7 | | |Interviewing | | | |Candidates | | | |Lecture Outline | | | |Strategic Overview |In Brief: This chapter gives an overview of types of | | |Basic Features of Interviews |interviews and their features. It discusses...
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...critical management skill and an ability to motivate a group of people toward a common goal. These items help to develop a person’s skills as a leader. Personal Development Planning is useful in this regard as it is a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development. The benefits of PDP are numerous. PDP processes are designed to improve the capacity of individuals to understand what and how they are learning, and to review, plan and take responsibility for their own learning. PDP processes have helped me to integrate my personal and academic development and improve my capacity to plan my academic programs, in being more effective in monitoring and reviewing my progress, in recognizing my own strengths and weaknesses. I have learnt to identify opportunities for learning and personal development outside the curriculum, it prepared me for...
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...Problem Solving-Based Scenarios: An Approach to Identify Opportunities to Create Value for the Business Introduction Today’s realities of leadership include increasing competition and intensity, reducing cycle times and costs, and improving productivity while at the same time growing the business and meeting increasing customer and Wall Street expectations. These pressures require leaders to redefine and redesign how to think, how to lead, and how to act. These shifts in the very nature of leadership and of work demand that the leader spend more time figuring out what to do next and how best to do it to add value to the corporation and the stakeholders. Problem solving is a core capability required to realize these opportunities. Leadership can be seen as a process of identifying opportunities and solving problems. Some problems are important; some are not important. Some problems are easy to define; others are complex. Some problems are easy to solve; others are difficult. Some are solved alone; many are solved with others, often under tremendous political and organizational pressures. Sometimes there is a problem; sometimes there is not a problem. All problem solving and solution development methods follow a process that may be adapted by the user and to the particular scenario or situation. As human beings, we tend to look to preserve the status quo and see the world as it has been. We look for patterns or approaches that have been successful in the past. These...
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...Problem Solving-Based Scenarios: An Approach to Identify Opportunities to Create Value for the Business Introduction Today’s realities of leadership include increasing competition and intensity, reducing cycle times and costs, and improving productivity while at the same time growing the business and meeting increasing customer and Wall Street expectations. These pressures require leaders to redefine and redesign how to think, how to lead, and how to act. These shifts in the very nature of leadership and of work demand that the leader spend more time figuring out what to do next and how best to do it to add value to the corporation and the stakeholders. Problem solving is a core capability required to realize these opportunities. Leadership can be seen as a process of identifying opportunities and solving problems. Some problems are important; some are not important. Some problems are easy to define; others are complex. Some problems are easy to solve; others are difficult. Some are solved alone; many are solved with others, often under tremendous political and organizational pressures. Sometimes there is a problem; sometimes there is not a problem. All problem solving and solution development methods follow a process that may be adapted by the user and to the particular scenario or situation. As human beings, we tend to look to preserve the status quo and see the world as it has been. We look for patterns or approaches that have been successful in the past. These...
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...THIRD EDITI ----- --·-- --·-- - - -- - O N -- SU PP LY CH AI N MA NA GE ME NT Stra tegy , Plan ning , and Ope ratio n Sunil Chopra Kellogg Schoo l of Manag ement Northwestern University Peter Meindl Stanfo rd University --------Prentice I-I all Uppe r Saddl e River , New Jersey ·--· PEAR SON -- · - · - - - "ibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data :::hopra, Sunil Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation I Sunil Chopra, >eter Meind!.-3rd ed. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0-13-208608-5 1. Marketing channels-Managemen t. 2. Delivery of goods-Management. i. Physical distribution of goods-Management. 4. Customer servicesvfanagement. 5. Industrial procurement. 6. Materials management. I. vfeindl, Peter II. Title. HF5415.13.C533 2007 658.7-dc22 2006004948 \VP/Executive Editor: Mark Pfaltzgraff ii:ditorial Director: Jeff Shelstad ;enior Project Manager: Alana Bradley E:ditorial Assistant: Barbara Witmer Vledia Product Development Manager: Nancy Welcher \VP/Executive Marketing Manager: Debbie Clare Vlarketing Assistant: Joanna Sabella ;enior Managing Editor (Production): Cynthia Regan flroduction Editor: Melissa Feimer flermissions Supervisor: Charles Morris Vlanufacturing Buyer: Michelle Klein Vlanager, Print Production: Christy Mahon Composition/Full-Service Project Management: Karen Ettinger, TechBooks, Inc. flrinter/Binder: Hamilton Printing Company Inc. fypeface: 10/12 Times Ten Roman :::redits...
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