...5/15/2016 The ACA is changing the Industrial Organization of Healthcare | Economics Everywhere Economics Everywhere Connecting With The World Around You ≡ MENU The ACA is changing the Industrial Organization of Healthcare by PATRICK on DECEMBER 31 , 201 5 As the Affordable Care Act has taken shape over the past few years, little has changed. Healthcare costs have continued to rise, insurance premiums have increased, and there are still millions of uninsured or underinsured Americans. However there are some notable changes that have occurred in recent years. For one, a relatively small number of Americans that did not have health insurance are now insured. Many ACA advocates, including the President, argue that the decrease in the number of uninsured is a clear sign that the plan is working. And yet, we should expect these numbers to drop as it is now required by law to purchase insurance; therefore, this measure does not translate to marked improvement. Secondly, the entire healthcare sector is consolidating in response to the new law. This is an unseen (for some) consequence of the legislation that has greatly reduced competition in the sector. As insurers, providers, and healthcare retailer interests http://economicseverywhere.com/welcome/theacaischangingtheindustrialorganizationofhealthcare/ 1/4 5/15/2016 The ACA is changing the Industrial Organization of Healthcare | Economics Everywhere gain power, consumers are left with fewer choices...
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...The Poems 靜夜思 Jìng Yè Sī [quiet] [night] [think] Quiet Night Thoughts 唐朝 (Tang dynasty)李白 (Li Bai) 床前明月光 Chuáng qián míng yuè guāng [bed] [front] [bright] [moon] [light] Bright moonlight before my bed; 疑是地上霜 Yí shì dìshàng shuāng [suspect] [is] [ground] [on] [frost] I suppose it is frost on the ground. 舉頭望明月 Jǔ tóu wàng míng yuè [raise] [head] [look] [bright] [moon] I raise my head to view the bright moon, 低頭思故鄉 Dītóu sī gùxiāng [lower] [head] [think of] [old] [home village] then lower it, thinking of my home village. Brief explanation This is one of the famous poems from Tang dynasty. A poem related to Mid-autumn festival. This is a very famous one, written also by a very famous poet, Li Bai, who can even write excellent poems whilst he is drunk. This poem was also the first Chinese literature I learned. It is a story about how Li Bai misses his hometown while he was travelling all over the countryfar from his hometown. Deciphering with my words As you can see in above story, he saw a moonlight passing through and turn the ground in front of his bed to look like it was frozen. The impression that I got here is he feels lonely and sad. He filled the first 2 lines with sad vibes. Talking about moon and how its light make the ground seems frozen. Frozen has long be related with cold and sad feeling, like you lost something, I knew this from my experience as I once wrote my own poem. Later, he looks to the night sky to gaze over the moon. Here the impression I got...
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...Picking labor rate/hour 12 Yuan 12 Yuan 12 Yuan Matting and framing time 20 minutes 30 minutes Matting and framing rate/hour 21 Yuan 21 Yuan Illustration 1-2 – Manufacturing overhead budget for Sino-Beauty Manufacturing Overhead Budget (in RMB) Supervisory salaries 100,000 Factory rent 130,200 Equipment rent (framing and matting equipment) 50,000 Utilities 20,000 Insurance 10,000 Information technology 50,000 Building maintenance 11,000 Equipment maintenance 4,000 375,200 4. Compute the product cost for the following three items. a. Yao Ming unframed print (base cost of print 12 Yuan).3.36+12+2=17.36 b. Jackie Chan print in steel frame, no mat (base cost of print 16 Yuan).4.48+16+4+2+7=33.48 c. Jet Li print in wood frame with mat (base cost of print 20 Yuan).5.6+20+6+4+2+10.5=48.1 5. (a) How much of the total overhead cost is expected to be allocated to unframed prints? 6. (b) How much of the total overhead cost is expected to...
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...Kung Fu movies Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date of submission: Introduction {introduce kung Fu movies] 0.5 Kung Fu movies are part of a subgenre of martial arts films. They are set in the modern period of futuristic martial arts. Kung Fu has its origins in China, which before being modernized, was popularly known as Wuxia (Greene, 2014). This film genre is an important creation of Hong Kong Cinema. The main difference between Kung Fu and Woxia is that the former has less sword play, instead, used more armed combat. It however found its way to the West, where it was embraced in Hollywood as one of them most loved action film genres. The genre was first played on screen in the 1930s in a film known as The Adventures of Fong Sai-Yuk (Kato, 2012). The first directors choreographed the fights to become more realistic on screen. The genre reached its heights in the 1970s and overtook some of the most famous genres of the time. Today, Kung Fu has reached international audiences across the world. The genre is mainly produced Hong Kong, main land china japan and India. This paper looks at the genre as produced in these countries, contrasts and compares them. Characteristics of kung Fu movies in Hong Kong, main land china japan and India The Hong Kong Kung Fu films combine action, mainly as codified by Hollywood, and Chinese storytelling. This is interwoven with aesthetic traditions, which combine to create a distinctive form that has a wide transcultural appeal. However...
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...Group Structure EXPORT SOURCING The Group’s export trading arm is Li & Fung Limited – one of the largest global supply chain management companies that manages the supply chain of high-volume, time-sensitive consumer goods through its office network in more than 40 economics DISTRIBUTION The Group’s distribution businesses are housed under the integrated Distribution Services Group which provides its customers with a menu of integrated Distribution Services in three core businesses across Asia: Manufacturing, Logistics and Distribution RETAILING The Group’s retailing businesses include the publicly listed Convenience Retail Asia Ltd, the Trinity Group and privately held Toys “R” Us, with store networks extending from the China markets to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, south Korea and the Philippines Li Fung Business Trading * 100 years of trading history since 1906 * Export trading arm handles the supply chain of high volume, time-sensitive consumer goods through its worldwide office network * Around 14,000 staff * Orchestrates nearly 15,000 international suppliers in over 40 economies to service approximately 2,000 customers * Member of Hang Seng Index, MSCI Index and FTSE4Good Index * 2009 Revenue: US$13.4 billion Li & Fung specializes in orchestrating a highly-customized path through the supply chain in order to deliver high-quality, low-cost products to its customers reliably and quickly. Over 80 offices in over...
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...Brak Bank Limited ------------------------------------------------- MGT-210 BRAC BANK Developed For: Ms. Nasira Siddika (NSd) Sec: 10 Date of Submission: 06/08/2010 NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY Developed By: Group Members To complete our project, first of all our team is very grateful to Almighty Allah for the hard work, dedication, team effort and patience we put to finish our project work on time. The team would like to thank the official website of ‘BRAC Bank’ from where we took the information, some of our relatives, friends and the respected officials of the bank who had helped us a lot by providing necessary information to complete the project successfully. Information on their site helped and supported us a lot and without it we could not complete the project properly. We also like to thank our team members as all of them devoted their full support and cooperation and gave valuable time to the project work. Finally we are very grateful to our course instructor “Ms. Nasira Siddika” who inspired and suggested us to do the project, and helped us in every possible way. The team is very thankful to her and honors to have “Ms. Nasira Siddika” as an instructor. August 06, 2010 Ms. Nasira Siddika (NSd) Faculty Member, School of Business North South University Sub: Letter of Transmittal Respected Mam, It is indeed a great pleasure to have the opportunity to submit the project paper. We have prepared...
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...of five football fields, just shy of half a mile, only to come out clean on the other side”. I have adapted that quote into my life and how one should deal with adversity. But, I digress. What I am going to address has nothing to do with my life or how to overcome obstacles, but how that movie demonstrated a few of the concepts of classicism, particularly for the time period, and length of time, the movie was based upon. The themes and characters in the movie “Shawshank Redemption” represent the socio-economic climate of the time. The classicism displayed in the movie did not occur until our main character was several months, up to a year, into his term. As Red, played by Morgan Freeman, starts a friendly bond with Andy, played by Tim Robbins, you can see the symmetry between them. At first, the two seem to feel each other out, although Red is more the extravert to Andy’s introversive tactics. As time progresses, what starts off as business turns into life long friendship. Red is a simple, common sense driven individual whereas Andy has the upscale businessman persona with a higher than average scale of intelligence than many of his counterparts. When the two interact you can see the symmetry between them as street knowledge gives way to book smarts and vice versa. There is also a level of humanism that is outspoken in the scene when Andy locks the door to the warden’s office and plays “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart. At that moment,...
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... Abstract There will be a discussion of three retail firms, as well as what broad strategies each firm uses. There will also be a description of the tactics that each firm uses. To sum everything up there will be an opinion giving to whether or not the tactics are working. The three retail firms that were chosen were Gymboree Corporation, Ace Hardware Corporation, and Baskin Robbins. Gymboree is a retail store that sells high quality clothing and accessories for children under the retail chains of Gymboree, Gymboree outlet Janie and Jack, and Crazy 8. There are also playful programs under this retail; such as, Gymboree Play and Music brand. There is also a women’s clothing line and accessories under the Shade brand. Ace Hardware Corporation is a hardware store chains in the United States. All Ace Hardware stores are owned independently by local entrepreneurs in different communities. There are over four thousand four hundred stores across the Unites States. Ace stores offer their customers a variety of hardware and fix and replace items. Baskin Robbins is an ice cream chain. Baskin Robbins is nationwide with over six thousand stores in thirty five countries. They are the world’s largest ice cream chain specialty shop. There are three broad strategies that a firm or company can use; cost leadership, which is when a firm bases it competition off of cost leadership. They are different from their competition because their focus is on cutting cost and efficiency measures...
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...TASK: In the light of this brief company overview please answer the following four questions in connection to the industry in which Li Fung operates with particular focus on Supply Network Management aspects required for the manufacturing, distributing and selling of its products (equal number of words per section, 3000 words in total). Please research Li Fung in relation to all the tasks below. Question 1 (20 marks) Critically evaluate ALL aspects you think are relevant in relation to warehouse space and layout planning. You MUST provide various examples from the academic literature to underpin your arguments. Question 2 (20 marks) Critically evaluate ALL aspects you think are relevant in relation to warehouse operations management. Consider the appropriateness of mechanization and full automation. You MUST provide various practical examples from the academic literature to underpin your arguments. Question 3 (20 marks) Use Li Fung (see assignment brief above) as a case study for a critical review of how information technology in the Supply Network can help the Logistics and Operations Manager achieve their objectives. Question 4 (20 marks) What do you understand by the term modern methods of inventory management? Consider these terms with reference to the above Case Organization (Li and Fung) and then critically evaluate these terms with more traditional models such as re-order point and EOQ. A connection to the answers is NOT required. Outcomes...
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...The movie Expendables was a box office smash that came out in 2010. It is about a group of men that are mercenaries that take a job to stop a dictator in another country. It is full of action and even has some humor to it that makes the movie even more pleasurable. One example would be one of the characters that is played by Jet Li. He is way smaller person than all of his counter parts and is always trying to challenge them. Even though he is way smaller than them he does keep up with them and that makes it funny, especially when he starts saying funny remarks. It also has some struggles in the movie that reflect what everybody goes through sometimes in their lives which makes it easier for the audience to relate. The main character in this movie is Sylvester Stallone which is the leader of the mercenaries and is one of the most level headed characters throughout the movie. He ends up seeing this woman played by Gisele Itie and he starts falling for her while still trying to do the right thing. Once the other mercenaries find out about his feelings towards the woman they start to think that he may be making mistakes. Even though this movie is action packed it still shows people that even the toughest person in the world can be loving and kind and that we are all humans that have feelings after all. This movie is a bit graphic so if you have a weak stomach than this is not the movie for you. Another thing that made this movie such a box office smash was the fact that it had a...
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...Under “Western Eyes”: The Personal Odyssey of Huang Fei-Hong in Once upon a Time in China by Tony Williams Rather than being read in exclusively postmodernist terms, Tsui Hark’s series Once upon a Time in China may be understood as a new version of a Hong Kong cinematic discourse involving historical “interflow.” It deals with dispersion, China’s relationship to the outside world, and strategic forms of reintegration designed to strengthen national identity. In Sammo Hung’s Wong Fei Hung Ji Saam (West Territory Mighty Lion/Once upon a Time in China and America, 1997), Master Huang Fei-hong (Jet Li Linjie) travels to the Wild West to visit an American branch of the Po Chi Lam Clinic set up by his student Sol. During the journey, he bangs his head against a rock in a turbulent stream and loses his memory. He is rescued by a friendly tribe of Indians. Moments before we see Huang again, an Indian emerges from a tepee proudly announcing the birth of a child. When Huang recovers, he stumbles around in the Indian camp wearing an Indian costume, and his loose unbraided hair is flowing like an Indian’s. After using his martial arts prowess to defeat a hostile Indian, who ironically mouths racist American platitudes against the outsider—”His clothing is different, his skin color is different, his speech is different”—Huang is adopted into the tribe and given the name “Yellow.” Before this, he attempts to remember events of the recent past. But his vague recollections...
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...in flashbacks where nameless and the king of Qin are conversing at the palace. Hero is filming that entirely depicts the ancient Chinese culture and uses visual designs in a relevant way. The film uses the fascist aesthetics that represents authoritarianism. The film represents the Chinese culture in a number of ways. It does not concentrate on the multiculturalism as other Chinese films could do. First, the movie shows the Chinese culture in the form of leadership. At the beginning of the film, the narrator tells of ancient China being a kingdom ruled by kings, and initially it was made up of seven kingdoms. The film also shows the ancient Chinese leadership to have had many wars. It was during this wars that the parents of nameless (jet li) were killed making him come for revenge in the palace. The evidence is when the king asks nameless why he had the plot to kill him. It is after he had realised that nameless had not for sure killed sky and broken sword, as he had narrated to the king in order to secure his trust. The film shows the power of politics in a kingdom as part of the culture. As depicted in the movie, the people have influence to the ruler. When nameless does not kill the king, the people and the...
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...China’s Tainted Baby Milk Powder: Rumored Control of Online News วันที่ 16 มีนาคม 2007 ทั่วโลกได้รับรู้ว่าสารเมลามีนมีผลเสียต่อไต เมื่อบริษัท Menu foods of Streetvilleในจังหวัด Ontario ประเทศแคนาดาแจ้งว่าอาหารสุนัขและแมวที่มีส่วนผสมที่ได้จากประเทศจีนนั้นมีสารเมลามีนเจือปน หลังจากนั้นไม่นาน เจ้าของสัตว์เลี้ยงได้ฟ้องร้องบริษัทโดยขู่ว่าจะทำให้บริษัทล้มละลาย จนกระทั่งตกลงกันได้ภายในเวลาต่อมา ซึ่งองค์กรอาหารและยาประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกา(U.S. Food and Drug administration: FDA)ได้ทำการตรวจสอบสินค้าและให้ผู้ผลิตอาหารสุนัขรายใหญ่ๆ เช่น Del Monte, Nestle Purina, Menu Foods เป็นต้น ต้องเรียกเก็บสินค้าคืนจากท้องตลาด เมื่อวันที่ 6 กุมภาพันธ์ 2008 FDA ได้ประกาศว่า บริษัทของจีนสองแห่ง และบริษัทของอเมริกาอีกหนึ่งแห่ง ตลอดจนประธานบริษัทและ CEO ได้ถูกฟ้องร้องเนื่องจากได้ทำผิดโดยส่งออกโปรตีนจากข้าวที่มีสารเมลามีนเจือปนอยู่ แม้ว่าเรื่องราวการปนเปื้อนของเมลามีนจะแพร่กระจายไปในช่วงกลางมีนาคม 2007 แต่ประเทศจีนกลับรับรู้เรื่องนี้ในอีก 16 เดือนให้หลัง เนื่องจากรัฐบาลไม่ได้รีบนำเสนอเรื่องราวเหล่านี้เท่าใดนัก วันที่ 16 กรกฎาคม 2008 มีประกาศออกมาว่า ผู้ผลิตนมผงสำหรับเด็กจากประเทศจีนได้ใส่สารเมลามีนซึ่งใช้สำหรับทำส่วนบนของเคาน์เตอร์ เพื่อเพิ่มปริมาณผงนมและจำนวนโปรตีน ซึ่งนมผงที่ปนเปื้อนสารเมลามีนนี้ เป็นสาเหตุการเสียชีวิตของทารก4 คนและทำให้ทารกอีกกว่า 6,200 คนล้มป่วยโดยผู้ผลิตนมผงได้ใช้สารเมลามีนซึ่งมีต้นทุนต่ำเพื่อเพิ่มรสชาติและโปรตีนให้กับนมผง เมื่อวันที่ 8 ตุลาคม 2008 รัฐบาลจีนได้หยุดให้ข่าวเกี่ยวกับผู้ที่ป่วยจากการบริโภคนมผงสำหรับทารก โดยให้เหตุผลว่าอาการป่วยนี้ไม่ใช่โรคติดต่อ จึงไม่มีความจำเป็นจะต้องประกาศให้สาธารณชนรับรู้...
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...DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: You’re probably busy, so we’ll get right to it. This week we ask our readers to help us. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We survive on donations averaging about $15. Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. Yep, that’s about the price of buying a programmer a coffee. We’re a small non-profit with costs of a top website: servers, staff and programs. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park, a temple for the mind where we can all go to think and learn. When we founded Wikipedia, we could have made it a for-profit company with advertising banners, but we decided to do something different. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn’t belong here. If Wikipedia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year. Thank you. If we all gave $3, the fundraiser would be over within an hour. One-time Monthly* $3 $5 $10 $20 $30 $50 $100 Other $ Credit Card PayPal Amazon Problems donating? | Other ways to give | Frequently asked questions | By donating, you are agreeing to our donor privacy policy. The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. *Recurring payments will be debited by the Wikimedia Foundation until you notify us to stop. We'll send you an email receipt for each payment, which will include...
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...Close Viewing 91107 The Shawshank Redemption – Norton’s Introduction at the Line-Up The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, is an intriguing film in the ways that Darabont has incorporated visual and verbal techniques to show underlying themes within the film. Numerous techniques are applied in the scene ‘Norton’s Introduction at the Line-Up’ (11.58-14.45), such as lighting, dialogue, cinematography and voice-over. The first techniques the couple together are lighting and dialogue, whilst voice-over and cinematography also combine together effortlessly. Darabont said in an interview that the film “works gorgeously as a metaphor-everybody who sees it can project their own trials and tribulations, and hope for triumph into it.” Darabont employs the technique of lighting and couples dialogue together in this sequence ‘Norton’s Introduction at the Line-Up’. When the prisoners march inside of Shawshank, they line up and face the Warden Norton. Windows behind the prisoners create shadows that stretch across the painted line on the concrete floor, as well as darkening the prisoners’ faces, making it difficult to see their expressions. Also, Darabont manipulates the lighting behind Norton, as it is very dark, however his face is well lit and the audience can clearly see his facial expressions. The additional technique is dialogue, expressed when Norton says, “I believe in two things, discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord...
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