... #2 Churchville Road Bridge The Churchville Road Bridge is a Warren Pony truss bridge that is located in Brampton, Ontario. This bridge is a Warren truss bridge because it has equilateral triangles which spreads out the loads on the bridge. It was first constructed in 1911 then again in 1999 to stay stable for cars. It is used for transporting people across the Credit River which flows near Orangeville into Lake Ontario. The bridge cost about 2,400 dollars and its materials are prestressed concrete, bolts, lattice railings, steel mills, etc. This bridge took a little over a year to build and is still standing after 16 years. Its as long as 90 feet with a width of 30 feet and about 9 feet tall. Churchville also has 3 main parts that includes a super structure, sub structure, and a road bed. Their climate is mostly sunny and partly cloudy as of now. Lastly, this bridge is classified as a truss because it consist of 2 force members that becomes a whole and acts as 1 object. All of these things make the bridge unique in many ways and are why the bridge is important to the people of Ontario. #3 Geotechnical Engineering Geotechnical Engineering is engineering that includes the analysis, design, and construction of foundations, slopes, retaining structures, and other systems that are made up of/or are supported by soil or rock. These engineers use soil modification; changing the characteristics of soil by adding soil amendments...
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...Bath Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, South West England, that is known for the curative Roman-built baths that still exist there. In 2011 it’s population was 88,859. Bath is located 97 miles west of London and 11 miles south-east of Bristol. This beautiful city, in the valley of the River Avon became a World Heritage site in 1987 for it’s historic and cultural significance. Bath’s honey-coloured architecture glows in the summer sun, is shrouded by burnt orange ivy in the autumn and looks beautiful with a light dusting of snow in the winter – this incredible city is a great visit all year round. Most visitors come for day trips or for the weekends so the best way to avoid the crowds would be to stay mid-week. Baths climate...
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...Three ways to find suitable jobs in Bristol It is not difficult to acquire desired jobs in Bristol as the City council is keen in meeting the needs of the people in the city in a very responsive manner. The cabinet in the city takes care of the key issues which create chaos in the city. The cabinet has seven councilors and they are responsible for showing a leadership, which is accountable in all aspects. They develop as well as improve the policies, get them approved by the council and later see that the services are reaching the community properly. The council has a keen interest in employing the people who are trained and are motivated well. Therefore, searching for jobs in Bristol is easily achievable in the city. There are reports saying that Bristol city is rated consistently as one of the best cities to work in. The Bristol city council of United Kingdom has its own government site, which talks about the various job opportunities in Bristol. The website of the Bristol city council explains the manner in which the people can live and work with so much ease and satisfaction in the Bristol. The people working at Bristol can visit the other places of United Kingdom and Europe very easily. Bristol is nearer to the London city. Lot of information related to various areas including the jobs in Bristol is provided at the website of the council known as bristol.gov.uk. There are several other job portal sites available in the internet that provides opportunities...
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...“How Fish Cope in a World of Feast and Famine” Samantha Erickson I attended a seminar on “How Fish Cope in a World of Feast and Famine,” given by Dr. Johnny Armstrong. Dr. Armstrong received his doctorate in Ecology from the University of Wyoming with a emphasis in physiological ecology, specifically the adaptation and survival of fish. The study he explained in his seminar was completed in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska and studied Sockeye salmon. He talked about how he studied how the Sockeye ate in patterns where there were no food supply verses times where food supply was abundant. The object of his experiment was to watch the behavior patterns of the feeding of the fish at those different times and how the sockeye dealt with famine and with an overflow of food source. He set up areas in the middle of the streams where he could catch the fish at different times of feeding, or lack there of, and examine the contents of their stomachs. He found that in times where food was abundant, the Sockeye would stuff themselves to absolute breaking point with laid eggs. Then they would keep the eggs in their system by hardly swimming. Doing this they were actually able to not eat for three days in a row before having to eat again. In times where there was very little food, the fish would again use this method of hardly swimming, more just floating up stream to the warmer waters during the day, and travel downstream to cooler waters at night to scrape the bottom of the stream for...
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...And that’s why I’m never going to another zoo. Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars 1 pound (about $1.40) and coaches 5 (about $7). This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work. "Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management, "we'd better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant..." "Er... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility." "Er... no", said Bristol Zoo management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?" "Er... NO!" insisted the Council. Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is some bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at 400 pounds (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 3.6 million pounds ($7 million). My granddad would always tell me funny stories like that before we would go to the zoo. We would only ever go to the same zoo because my granddad liked this one lady monkey that was there. Couple years after my granddad had died from aids I found out how he got the aids he shagged that lady chimp when he was drunk and that’s why I’m never going to the zoo again. I once went to a zoo but jihadi john was there and I got shot up and died and that’s why I’m never going to the zoo again cause...
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...Bristol Bay, Alaska "Salmon or Gold" Can you imagine living in a geographical area in which traditions, language, rituals, and economic sustainability hasn't changed in over 1,000 years? A place inhabited by indigenous people that have lived in harmony with nature only taking what is needed to sustain their lifestyles and having the innate wisdom to keep this resource in balance to ensure continued prosperity? Did you realize that there are still people living in areas here on earth that live without the modern day conveniences such as fast food, malls, and outlet stores? People that rely on bartering and exporting their resource to trade for clothes, shoes, and other items to sustain their way of living and to ensure that their traditions and way of life will continue for generations to follow? As the world becomes smaller, even people that have remained unchanged for thousands of years are being forced to deal with changes that will alter their future and their traditions because of living near valuable resources that are in high demand in our modern day world. And, like so many indigenous people from history, they are desperately praying, advocating, and becoming very political with their fight so that their way of life can continue without disruption to their ecosystems. Native to the area of Bristol Bay, Alaska for thousands of years, the Yupik people have depended on salmon, along with pike, whitefish, beavers, caribou, moose, berries, and plants. Bristol Bay still...
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...Sir Ian Kennedy published his report, 'The Inquiry into the Management of Care of Children Receiving Complex Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary'.1 This inquiry investigated the deaths of children undergoing heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary. The report describes the failings in NHS organisation and culture, which meant that one-third of all children who underwent open-heart surgery at the hospital received less than adequate care. The following case study, written in first person, is told by Dr Phil Hammond,2 who joined the Bath GP training scheme in the late 1980s and in 1990 formed the whistleblowing3 comedy double-act 'Struck off and die' with Dr Tony Gardner. Heard it on the grapevine Although I'd heard rumours about the poor performance of an adult heart surgeon (nicknamed 'Killer') in Bristol when I was a house officer in Bath, there were no such rumours about paediatric heart surgery. When I spoke to one of my former consultants in November 1998, he said they had never heard anything bad about the Bristol unit until 1995, when the mainstream media finally caught up with Private Eye. However, he did say that when he worked at the Hammersmith Hospital in London in 1985, he noticed an abnormal referral pattern coming out of South Wales. Babies with more complex heart defects requiring surgery appeared to be bypassing the Bristol area. This was corroborated by an anaesthetist who worked on the paediatric cardiac surgery unit at Guy's Hospital in the late 1980s...
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...6. A. Two companies that have committed fraud by misstating inventory are Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, who concealed excess inventory held by wholesalers, and Leslie Fay Women’s Apparel whose controller increased orders by counting items shipped but did not subtract returns B. Intentional misstatements of inventory are difficult to detect primarily because accounting for inventory itself is difficult. It is nearly impossible to take stock of every inventory item a company has while doing an audit report. You need to sample portions of inventory and records and rely on what you find in those samples to determine accuracy of the remaining records. Phar-Mor was able to fool their accountants, Coopers and Lybrand, for several years about their inventory because they lacked integrity. The company’s MIS was inadequate and when asked about bettering it, senior officials shot the idea down because they wanted the fraud to go undetected. The internal controls were poor and Phar-Mor employees were able to bypass areas that should have had controls on them. The management and internal audit functions were not performing to the best of their ability. Michael Monus, the head of the fraud scheme and the company, was a member of the audit committee and was able to destroy the committee when he found out they may investigate certain abnormal behavior. Phar-Mor’s upper management was involved in the scheme and was able to convince the auditors that certain aspects where true and the auditors...
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...2009 Vietnam Drinking Milk Products Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) Royal FrieslandCampina NV Nestlé SA Quang Ngai Sugar JSC Uni-President Enterprises Corp Tan Hiep Phat Group Mead Johnson Nutrition Co Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd TH Food Chain JSC Associated British Foods Plc Hanoi Milk JSC Abbott Laboratories Inc Long Thanh Dairy Cooperative Moc Chau Dairy Cooperative Nutifood Nutrition Food JSC Casmilk JSC Agro Nutrition International JSC Saigon Beverages JSC (Tribeco) Fraser & Neave Ltd Bristol-Myers Squibb Co Daso Group Royal Friesland Foods NV Others 0.2 0.7 37.2 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 42.9 43.7 43.0 43.7 44.1 22.9 22.4 22.8 22.3 21.4 21.1 6.6 2.4 5.7 2.3 5.3 2.7 5.2 4.4 5.3 4.6 5.4 4.9 - - - - 3.5 3.5 3.2 2.9 3.2 2.5 3.6 2.3 3.5 2.3 3.3 2.2 3.3 2.1 2.5 2.1 1.8 1.7 1.9 2.0 1.8 1.5 1.0 1.3 1.7 1.2 1.9 1.3 1.9 1.3 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.0 0.8 1.0 0.8 1.0 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 - - 1.5 - 1.0 - 0.0 - - - - - - - - - - 11.8 9.6 8.8 8.0 7.7 7.5 Others Total 11.8 9.6 8.8 8.0 7.7 7.5 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Research Sources: 1. Packaged...
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...Pfizer (PFE) Financial Analysis for 2012, 2013 and 2014: Ratio Analysis Abstract The following is a list of these ratios, in conjunction with associative details and background to itemize and explicate the overall financial enquiry: Earnings per Share (EPS), which will illustrate current, along with expected, product losses, unfavorable impact and any adverse change in a foreign exchange rate, along with adjustable income attributable to Pfizer and its shareholder's guidance. The next ratio considered would be Profit Margin Ratio, or Net Profit Margin, to characterize the settlement of adjusted income and weakened EPS guidance to reported net income. With the Return on Assets ratio, stakeholders can configure and acquire current, as well as anticipated dividends, all while maintaining sufficient capital to invest successively and increase global shareholder value – which for now, can maintain to support the annual dividend growth, in addition to the accompanied Gross Profit Rate. Together with this, a Return on Common Stockholders’ Equity can be taken into account with regards to commercial and business development opportunities – leading to a direct, shareholder-value enhancement through actual dividends and repurchases. On the other side of the spectrum, Pfizer’s Current and Cash Debt Coverage ratios clarify and expound upon the potential, yet significant, expected adverse events on revenues due to possible loss and expiration of intellectual property and licensing rights...
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...Chapter 9 Case Study: Why Can’t We Work Like a Real Team? Ernest Masiello founded Crystal Motors in 1952. At the time, this car dealership represented only two US made luxury vehicles. Crystal Motors also specializes in financing and credit issues. To create better workflow the company was divided into three divisions, which included: sales, service, and the office. As stated in the text, Crystal Motors has been profitable for ten consecutives years. The company makes 10 percent of its earnings from the obvious sales of vehicles, 5 percent from commissions and 85 percent from the service department. With great success Crystal Motors has been lacking in communication skills. Referring to the example in the text, the three different groups were all having miscommunication issues and were all going about it in the wrong way by blaming one another. Today, Crystal Motors has employed over 250 professionals and now with one of their goals, as “Crystal is a team, we all work as a team at all times.” 1. What do you recommend that leadership at Crystal Motors do to enhance teamwork in the service department? To improve the teamwork in the service department I believe they should have daily or weekly huddles to discuss any issues that may need to be addressed and define the team’s mission and tasks. 2. What different contributions might Ventura and Magellan make in enhancing teamwork in the service department? Taking from the example in the book the service department should...
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...Overview Company Overview Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is a world-wide Bio-Pharmaceutical company which focuses on “discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines that helps patients prevail over serious diseases” (BMS 1). In 1887, John Ripley Myers and William McLaren Bristol bought a near-bankrupt pharmaceuticals company centered in Clinton, New Jersey. Today, the company as a whole focuses primarily on developing medicines to fight cancer, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes, but the beginnings years of the company had an extremely different outlook. It took nearly fifteen years before the company started turning a profit, but ever since the turn of the century in 1900, BMS has been able to stay in the black. The company’s first two successful products was the first toothpaste to include a disinfectant called Ipana, and a laxative mineral salt called Sal Hepatica. By 1924, the company had gone international and profited a million dollars for the first time. Bristol Myers Squibb was also able to issue stock for the first time in 1929, as it was traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, the company was able to expand into the baby formula and antibiotics market, as well as creating the first electronic toothbrush. In 2001, the company was voted the “Most Admired Pharmaceutical Company” by Fortune Magazine, and today the company has continued its progression into the fields of oncology and antibiotics. Bristol Myers Squibb continues to...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Anzac Pit Stop offers on-site maintenance and repairing for cars, providing the fast, sophisticated and reliable services by experienced mechanics to ensure the customers’ vehicles would always be in their best condition. It will also provide the necessary spare parts and supplies for cars. For the past ten years, the car wholesaling and car retailing have seen a significant growth in car sales across Australia. In South Australia itself, there were 62,922 new cars sold in 2011 which is increased 30.75% compared to 48,125 figure in 2001. Moreover, the car ownership in the state has increased from 555,834 to 609,910 units during a period of 1996 to 2006. These figures show a potential market for the business because these cars, wether new or old ones, will require professional handling. The location for the proposed business is on Anzac Highway. The particular target market will be people living in the nearest two suburbs, Kurralta Park and Plympton. The location was chosen for several reasons. First, it is easy to locate and very accessible. Second, there is no similar business the designated area. Third, 72 to 76 percent of employed residents in these suburbs are using cars to go to work and other activities. Beside regular services, Anzac Pit Stop also offers more to the clients. First, free installation fee for minor services. Second, a limited warranty would be given to cars that had been serviced at the shop. Third, an interactive website contains...
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...development, and testing of new chemical entities,” (Baron, 2010, p. 381). Some competitors feel like this is unfair to consumers and fight to be able to put their product on the market. Big pharmaceutical companies try to delay or not have competitors’ products released on the market by using the legal system t fought them in court. In the case study of Patent Games: Plavix it seems Bristol-Myers Squibb may have received some of their own medicine. Case Study: Patent Game: Plavix Why did Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis seek a settlement rather than let the patent infringement case go to trial? Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis decided to seek a settlement rather than let the patent infringement case go to trial because Apotex voiced that they it expected immediate approval by the FDA. Bristol-Myers also knew that the FTC had opposed the arrangement between Bristol-Myers Squibb and Apotex that restricted the generic drugs from being placed on the market. “Under the consent decree the FTC and the state attorneys general had to approve any Bristol-Myers Squibb arrangements that could be...
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...Bristol- Myers- Squibb Jessica Dodd Mr. David J. Lampi Principles of Management BUS-125 June 30, 2015 Bristol-Myers-Squibb Company Bristol-Myers-Squibb is located at headcourters is located at 345 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10010. Their Chief executive officer is Mr. Lamberto Andreotti. The approximate number of employees are 25,000. Bristol-Myers-Squibb mission is to be the preeminent global diversified health and personal care Company. Bristol-Myers seeks to achieve success in the global marketplace. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company is in one of the most competitive industries in the world. In the last ten years pharmaceutical products have become increasingly important. With such diseases such as Aids and Cancer plaguing our society, companies such as Bristol-Myers have to take a lead role in fighting these deadly diseases. The Bristol-Myers-Squibb was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb corperation. Bristol-Myers was founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myerts in Clinton, New York both men were graduates from Hamilton College. That would make Bristol-Myers-Squibb 113 year old company. In 1999, President Clinton awarded Bristol-Myers-Squibb the National Medal of Technolgy, the nation’s highest recognition for technological achievement,” for extending and enhancing human life through innovative pharmaceutical research and development and for redefining the science of clinical...
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