...I always thought playing a field hockey game with a sprained ankle was tough, or remaining in the game after getting hit in the elbow with a pitch; that is until this past weekend. Saturday afternoon, I learned what toughness really is, in the form of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. The 120 minutes I sat in the theater and watched Lone Survivor taught me not only the true definition of toughness, but about brotherhood and loyalty to those around you. Lone Survivor is the tale of four Navy SEALs, who as part of operation Red Wings were dropped into the mountainous region of Afghanistan to do surveillance and ultimately eliminate the leader of a pro-Taliban group, who was responsible for the recent killing of a group of marines. The film begins where all SEAL life begins, BUDs training and hell week. Although the glimpse into the training of the seals was brief, it opened the window into just mentally and physically tough America’s ultimate warriors are. From the repeated exposure to ungodly cold water, the team boat carries to the tactically operations; these men are tested every which way possible. We are introduced to our four main characters: Marcus Luttrell, Mike Murphy, Matt Axelson and Danny Dietz, as the group is experiencing the all too common down time between missions. Very quickly the action heats up as the four are briefed on their mission and begin preparations. The mission begins routinely enough as they are dropped into the mountains and hike their way to the...
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...company pay the empolyees by take care of them and their needs but since 1964 according from the observers the generation after that are not as as same as their parents because their already live richer and more modern than their parents beside that also the influence from the western ideas . the potential influence from this side is the company changed the pay scheme for the manager or the workers , before they give the bonuses base on seniority but since 2000 matsushita and company changed to see the performance method , it’s mean who give the best performance get the better and higher bonus and also the performance of the managers and the workes would be transparent by shown the ranking of the performance . at that time become the first step of revolution in human resource pratices since that time all companies use that method , the manager who gives the best performance earn more and get more bonus although they are still young . but after put that into the perfomance still many of employee under 1990 lack of experience and can’t adapt with the new system that make the perfomance become poor which cause Mathushita have to close 30 factories include 13.000 jobs and 1.000 management and sell huge amount of assets ....
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...Brief background and context: Junior salesperson ("Seth"), an assistant on the non-dollar derivative desk of FirstAmerica (“FA”), finds himself in a difficult situation and has to decide what course of action to take as relates to going along with misrepresenting material facts to a key client, Poseidon, in conjunction with their hedging of French Franks relating to the $700 million equivalent cost of the five year construction of a new cruise ship. Seth is a relatively new employee at FA and was recruited by one of his key managers, a salesperson named Linda. Linda is asking Seth to “play along” with her questionable sales tactics so as to make the trading desk at FA a huge profit and herself a very large $1 million bonus. Seth would earn a bonus of about 70% of his base salary. Seth is ethically conflicted, as he does not feel that Linda’s tactics are honest and perhaps even legal. Who are the key players involved: (i) “Seth” – the junior salesperson at FA (ii) Linda – a top salesperson on the FX desk at FA and Seth’s boss; recruited Seth in (iii) Roger – floor trader at FA (iv) Peter – Sales Manager for Derivatives at FA (v) CFO of Poseidon What are the main issues/allegations? (i) Is fraud being committed by any or all of the following: a. Sending the Telerate page that grosses up for withholding tax, but withholding tax does not apply to cross currency swaps b. Convincing the CFO of Poseidon that the deal needs to remain secret...
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...Instruments The new pay system at Alliston Instruments isn’t working because the production standards set in place for employees to earn bonuses based on individual output on some tasks are set too high and there is also no way to compare the per-hour production rate for each item or assembly operation from 2012 to the production rate of 2013 for employees to receive bonuses for each piece produced because detailed records were never kept. The new system also doesn’t favor supervisors because they make less money than some of the workers and it creates increasing conflict with employees, as they don’t care about the quality of the products the produce as long as the output meets minimum standards. The individual production bonus system could work if some changes are made to the system to make it better. One such way would be to keep detail records of the per-hour production rate for each item to be able to compare them to that of the following year so that the bonuses can be given out effectively. Another way would be to set a standard of quality that all employees can follow to make sure all items produced are done effectively and there is less waste of raw materials. The final way would be to give bonuses to the supervisors also for the amount of workers they supervise that surpasses the past years levels. I don’t believe that the individual performance pay is suitable for this company because it brings about conflict between the workers and the supervisors...
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...support high performance. As a result, Sysco compensation strategies are performance based. Driver and warehouse workers compensation at Sysco is primarily activity based. Their activity based performance is dependent upon each individual’s productivity level. The drivers for example have control over their route as if running their own business. A driver will have a number of elements that dictate the pay he or she will receive depending upon their route and pounds of products delivered to the customer. Also, as an added bonus, when a driver finishes their route early, they are free to leave for the day. This type of performance based pay extends throughout the entire company in various forms from the chairman of the company to the frontline workers. Executives and managers at Sysco receive pay based incentives in the form of bonuses and stock options. The greater their performance in regards to achieving company objectives, the greater bonus they will receive. Sysco uses a percentage program when evaluating the managers and executives for their bonuses and stock options. Having a job is always positive, but having a great paying job that actually rewards you for...
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...on improved company performance for increased productivity, increased customer satisfaction, lowers costs or better safety records” Martocchio, J. J. (2015). P86. For CircleWorks specifically, gain sharing implemented on multiple levels, beginning with teamwork bonuses. Having a strong team will not only increase productivity for CircleWorks but it will increase ideas coming from employees themselves. Since CircleWorks already has multiple teams that work well together, the teams will need to be mixed up. CircleWorks will select a few individuals from each team and integrating them with a team that may not work as well, forcing new teams to be created. Teams with the most productivity can be put into a raffle for a free group lunch or a bonus created by management. Increasing teamwork at CircleWorks will implement the leadership component of gain sharing, as teams will also be encouraged to discuss options for the company and bring them to management. Root III, Demand Media, G. N. (n.d.). The second component of gain sharing is employee involvement, which has already begun in the leadership component. In addition to creating teams and encouraging them to bring ideas to the team, team meetings will be held monthly to discuss options. “Regular staff meetings can serve to remind employees that there is more going on than their own issues and deadlines and may see opportunities for mutual support and collaboration, let alone obtain vital information from each other.” Workplaces...
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...Purpose: The purpose of this promotion is to drive increases in fourth quarter gaming volume and revenue. Brief Description of the Promotion: The $135,000 Holly Jolly Cash Holiday promotion is a cash and car drawing. This promotion has three (3) parts: 1. From December 15th – 17th between 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. guests playing slots will be drawn to win $500 up to $5,000. This portion of the promotion is a hot seat drawing and guests do not have to earn points to qualify (see “Internal Process Drawing a Winner | Slot Machine Hot Seats”). 2. From December 15th – 17th between 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. guests playing table games will be drawn to win $500 up to $5,000. This portion of the promotion is a random winner generator Hot Seat drawing and guests do not have to earn points to qualify (see “Internal Process Drawing a Winner | Table Games”). 3. On December 17th at 9:00 p.m. one guest will win a vehicle. This portion of the promotion is an earned entries drawing (see “Internal Process Earned Entries”). Hot Seat Drawings December 15th – December 17th • Snoqualmie Casino will host a hot seat promotion for slots and table games where players will draw an ornament from a tree to win $500 up to $5,000 (see “Prize Details” below). There will be a total of 120 winners; 40 each day. One (1) random winner will be selected at each drawing. • There is no point requirement to win this portion of the promotion. • There will be a total of 65 ornaments on the gameboard for guests to choose...
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...There are bonuses that are given to those who do not win their bets, these are called cash back bonuses. The beauty of these incentives is that they take some of the sting out of a lost wager. Each sports book website will calculate the cash back bonus differently, though there is some continuity between each platform. The average percentage of cash back given on a lost wager is 20%. However, other fees and costs are deducted from the total before that percentage is figured. To earn a cash back bonus, you will need to make a new deposit. The site will subtract the current and pending balance of your account, the accumulated winnings from all previous periods, and then the redemptions for the period from your new deposit amount. The remainder...
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...Week 2 Assignment: Understanding Effective Money Management Assessment A, Part 1: Creating a Personal Financial Statement - Assets | 1 point | Car: Bluebook value $1250.00Cash: $378.00Savings Accounts: $826.00 | Assessment A, Part 2: Creating a Personal Financial Statement - Debts | 1 point | Rent: $750.00Electric/ Gas bill: $131.75Cable/ internet/ Phone bill: $80.42Credit Card: $31.00Cell phone bill: $72.37 | Assessment A, Part 3: Identify Money Management Tool | 1 point | Explain to Monica how the money management tools were identified. | Students should explain how they evaluated various cash management products and services. | Assessment A, Part 4: Creating a Personal Financial Statement – Steps | 1 point | Drag the steps listed on the right into their correct sequences on the left. When done click the Send button | Step 1: I got all my financial stuff together – bills, loans, bank statements, etc. | Step 2: I balance my checkbook. | Step 3: I decided what were my assets and what were my debts. | Step 4: I enter my assets in the program. | Step 5: I enter my debts in the program. | Step 6: The program gave me a Net worth figure at the end. | Assessment B: Creating a Monthly Cash Flow Statement ...
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...Diagnostic Algebra Assessment Definitions Categories Equality Symbol Misconception Graphing Misconception Definition Concept of a Variable Misconception Equality Symbol Misconception As algebra teachers, we all know how frustrating it can be to teach a particular concept and to have a percentage of our students not get it. We try different approaches and activities but to no avail. These students just do not seem to grasp the concept. Often, we blame the students for not trying hard enough. Worse yet, others blame us for not teaching students well enough. Students often learn the equality symbol misconception when they begin learning mathematics. Rather than understanding that the equal sign indicates equivalence between the expressions on the left side and the right side of an equation, students interpret the equal sign as meaning “do something” or the sign before the answer. This problem is exacerbated by many adults solving problems in the following way: 5 × 4 + 3 = ? 5 × 4 = 20 + 3 = 23 Students may also have difficulty understanding statements like 7 = 3 + 4 or 5 = 5, since these do not involve a problem on the left and an answer on the right. Falkner presented the following problem to 6th grade classes: 8 + 4 = [] + 5 All 145 students gave the answer of 12 or 17. It can be assumed that students got 12 since 8 + 4 = 12. The 17 may be from those who continued the problem: 12 + 5 = 17. Students with this misconception may also have difficulty with the idea that adding...
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...Team B Calorie Count Tool PRG/211 May 5, 2014 Team B Calorie Count Tool PROBLEM STATEMENT Team B was asked to develop a program which would calculate the user’s daily intake of calories and measure those calories against the overall calories expended. The core purpose of this program will do two primary functions. First, it will record the user intake of calories as acquired through meals throughout the day. Second, the user will record caloric output associated with physical activity. This information will be calculated together to determine the caloric surplus or deficit for the user. In order for the program to execute accurately, and provide customized results, the user will be required to input personal data to include gender, age, weight, and height. This additional information is essential to determine the user’s default caloric burn rate, otherwise known as the basal metabolic rate (BMR). The BMR and the calories burned as a result of physical activity will be calculated against the intake of calories to determine the overall success for the user. As the program is executed it must: * Record user name, age, height, weight to enable more accurate calculations * Record the users specific caloric values entered for each meal * Record the user activity and caloric burn values for that activity * Calculate the basal metabolic rate (BMR) for the individual * Subtotal the total caloric values for the day * Combine the physical activity and...
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...Problem Solving with Computing Homework - WEEK 2 [30 points] This is a review of some of the material from Chapter 2 and lectures from class. No credit for answers that are copies or near verbatim transcripts – please use your own words1 and document sources where appropriate. 1 This will apply to all assignments in this class. Answer the following questions: Chapter 2 1. Short Answers [1 point each, 2 points total] 1. What does a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a problem? The first thing that a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a program is to closely relate customer (Interview ) to inquire or gather information about the problem. 2. What two things must you normally specify in a variable declaration? The two things normally specified in a variable declaration are the variable type and identifier. 2. Algorithms / Pseudocode [1 point each, 5 points total] 1. Design an algorithm that prompts the user to enter his or her height and stores the user’s input in a variable named height. Declare height Display “Enter Your Height” Input Height Display “Height” 2. Write assignment statements that perform the following operations with the variables a and b. - Adds 2 to a and stores the result in b. - Subtracts 8 from b and stores the result in a Set b=2+a Set a=b-8 3. Write a pseudocode statement that declares the variable cost so it can hold real numbers. Floating Point-Variable...
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...11108944 Name: ASHWINI KUMAR Roll No. : RE3R02B32 PART- A 1. Ans :- (a) unary and ternary operator Unary operator:- It pecedes an operand . The operand (the value on which the operator operates ) of the unary operator must have arithmetic or pointer type and the result is the value of the argument. Example:- If a=5 then +a means 5 If a=0 then +a means 0. If a=-4 then +a means -4. Ternary operator:- It precedes an operand. The operand of the unary operator must have arithmetic type and the result is the negation of the operand’s value. Example:- If a=5 then –a means -5 If a=0 then –a means 0 If a=-4 then –a means 4. (b) Assignment and equalto operator Assignment operator:- Equal to operator: An assignment operator assigns value In this we put the To a variable. value as it is. Example – Example- a*=5 means a=5*5. Int a; a=5 means a is initialized with 5 if(a==5) { return true; } return false; (c) Expression and statement Expression:- An expression is any valid combination of operators , constants , and variables. Example:- ...
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...Selection statements Selection is used to select which statements are to be performed next based on a condition being true or false. Relational expressions In the solution of many problems, different actions must be taken depending on the value of the data. The if statement in C I used to implement such s decision structure in its simplest form – that of selecting a statement to be executed only if a condition is satisfied. Syntax: if(condtion) statement executed if condition is true When an executing program encounters the if statement, the condition is evaluated to determine its numerical value, which is then interpreted as either true or false. If the condition evaluates to any non-0 value (positive or negative), the condition is considered as a “true” condition and the statement following the if is executed; otherwise this statement is not executed. Relational Operators In C Relational operator | Meaning | Example | < | Less than | age < 30 | > | Greater than | height > 6.2 | <= | Less than or equal to | taxable <= 200000 | >= | Greater than or equal to | temp >= 98.6 | == | Equal to | grade == 100 | != | Not equal to | number !=250 | In creating relational expressions, the relational operators must be typed exactly as given in the above table. Thus, although the following relational expressions are all valid: age > 40 length <= 50 temp >= 98.6 3 < 4 flag == done day != 5 The following are invalid: length =< 50 ...
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...Special Assignment This excel sheet can be used to calculate the monthly rating of the recruiter based on a their KPIs(more realistic than those set by the leadership team). Also, this sheet would help the recruitment manager come to a final rating for recruitment related KPIs though this rating is not necessary the final rating in the PMD. Key points • The WIP count would be taken in beginning of the respective month. • Joinees target is calculated based on the number of offers released the previous month. • The KPI of salary percentile is replaced with salary percentage. • Additional scoring: Offer of profile sourced/ER by recruiter will also be considered for the ratings though it is not mandatory. KPIs in Detail There are 4 ratings only Rating 1: Very Good Rating 2: Good Rating 3: Meets Expectation Rating 4: Needs Improvement Offers The offer target for the month would be based on the number of WIP positions with the recruiter in the beginning of the month* *in case the number of WIP positions in the beginning of the month is too low or many positions were cancelled during the month, the recruitment manager would decide the offer target for the recruiter. Rating 1: % of offers is greater than 85% of the WIP positions Rating 2: % of offers is greater than or equal 75% of the WIP positions Rating 3: % of offers is greater than or equal 60% of the WIP positions Rating 4: % of offers is less than...
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