...The two countries that I am going to compare are Monaco and Chad. Monaco is one of the countries at the top of International Living’s 2011 Quality of Life Index, at the 5th position. There are many things that makes Monaco a greater place to live in compared to Chad. One of the reasons why it is such a great place to live is because of the safety in Monaco. Monaco has a very low crime rate, with a rate for rape at 0 percent, a rate for burglary at 0 percent and murder at 3.33 percent. This means that Monacans don’t live in a climate of fear, they feel safe, and thus can enjoy life without having to worry about poverty-stricken people forced to crime stabbing them for their money. Monaco is also known to have a great health system. Monaco has a a free health-care system, with a 0.98 Health Index score that indicates very high human development. Monacan residents also have a life expectancy of 90 years old. This means that Monacans don’t have to worry about getting health-care or even paying for it, they know that it is available and available for free. They can live freely without having to worry about not getting medical attention, which is a stark contrast to many other people in both first and third world nations. In Monaco, human rights are respected and upheld by their government. For example, there have been no reports of any politically motivated disappearances and killings in Monaco, and there are freedoms of speech, press, internet freedom, cultural events, academic...
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...The Country of Chad HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: Chad is a semi-large country located in the north-central area of Africa. It covers about 1,284,000 square kilometers of land and is landlocked, meaning it is surrounded by other countries. Those countries are Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria, and Central African Republic. It is rimmed by mountains to the north east and south. Chad has a tropical climate in the south, however the north has very little rain throughout the year and the dry season is often windy and cool in the evenings. Chad also has a sizeable wildlife consisting of cheetahs, lions, leopards, giraffes, elephants, hippos, rhinos, warthogs, and antelopes. In fact, the rivers and lakes have some of the richest in fish in all of Africa's water....
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...Based on case, Chad is now need to make decisions to make sure the operation of his company flows effectively without stopping at any stage up to the current situation. In the short run, Chad needs to focus on inventory, scheduling, and maintenance to make the right decisions for each of it. For the Scheduling decision, chad’s manufacturing of standard line has many raw materials in manufacturing as work in process. This makes the progress is slow and caused Chad’s company unable to make a good turn over. They came across a critical situation because their finance status not satisfying. Now, it needs to make scheduling decision to make sure there are not many raw materials in the work in progress status. The standard line manufacturing needs to be scheduled properly to avoid this problem. Secondly, the text had mentioned that standard product’s warehouse is costly to keep the inventory. To solve out this problem, Chad needs to make inventory and supply-chain decision. It must decide a good supply chain and implement it before it’s too late. It can also set daily objectives for its workers. The workers have to fulfill the daily targets of both the custom and standard products. As a result, this will lead to a decrease of the inventory as well as lowering costs generated by the standard line. Maintenance decision The third decision type is the maintenance decision. Chad’s company is now facing problem in term of finance and insufficient of capacity. It needs to...
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...Desertification in the Sahel case study Location etc: • The Sahel is a zone between the Sahara Desert and the more fertile lands of the further South. • The area runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa and includes parts of Sudan, Chad and many others. • It has a population of over 50 million. Causes of Desertification: • Low rainfall. • Civil wars in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. • Population growth. • Settling of the nomadic population, leading to over cultivation. • The use of wood for fuel. Problems: • Two periods of drought followed by famine in 1968-1974 and 1979-1984 brought the attention of the world to this region. • These periods of poor rainfall struck particularly hard for many Sahelian farmers and pastoralists, resulting in an estimated • 100,000 drought related deaths. • The annual average rainfall of the Sahel is low (100-200mm), with most of the rain falling in the period between June and • September. • The natural vegetation is a mixture of xerophytic (drought resistant) shrubs and grasses. Attempted Solutions: • Early warning systems have been put in place to prevent the onset of drought-induced food shortages. These provide the data necessary to predict or assess potential crop loss and animal shortfalls. Based on remotely sensed data of vegetation cover and rainfall patterns and on food market surveys. • Locally based efforts to nurture and protect the resource base. This involves encouraging farmer cooperatives, small...
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...Why uyyyyy your youndhsjxbsqndjdj chdhcndiucndSahel, Arabic Sāḥil, Sahel [Credit: NSSL/NOAA]semiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to The Sudan. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south. The Sahel stretches from the Atlantic Ocean eastward through northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, the great bend of the Niger River in Mali, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta), southern Niger, northeastern Nigeria, south-central Chad, and into The Sudan. The semiarid steppes of the Sahel have natural pasture, with low-growing grass and tall, herbaceous perennials. Other forage for the region’s livestock (camel, pack ox, and grazing cattle and sheep) includes thorny shrubs and acacia and baobab trees. The thorny scrub once formed a woodland, but the country is now more open and relatively traversable by motor vehicle. The terrain is chiefly of the savanna type, with little continuous cover and a dangerous tendency to merge into desert because of overstocking and overfarming. At least eight months of the year are dry, and rain, confined to a short season, averages 4–8 inches (100–200 mm), mostly in June, July, and August. There are also wide areas of pasturage watered by the flooding Niger and Sénégal rivers. Modest crops of millet and peanuts (groundnuts) can be raised in many areas. In the second half of the 20th century, the Sahel was increasingly afflicted by...
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...Internally displaced people returning to their homes following the end of fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile state between the Sudanese army and fighters allied to Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), the dominant force in newly independent South Sudan. (Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah, September 2011) Internal displacement in Africa Burundi p. 41; Central African Republic p. 42; Chad p. 43; Côte d’Ivoire p. 44; Democratic Republic of the Congo p. 45; Ethiopia p. 46; Kenya p. 47; Liberia p. 48; Niger p. 48; Nigeria p. 49; Senegal p. 50; Somalia p. 50; South Sudan p. 51; Sudan p. 52; Uganda p. 53; Zimbabwe p. 54 In 2011, IDMC monitored internal displacement in 21 subSaharan African countries. There were an estimated 9.7 million IDPs in these countries, representing over a third of the world’s total internally displaced population. Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Somalia continued to be the countries with the largest internally displaced populations in Africa. The number of IDPs in Africa in 2011 was down from 11.1 million a year earlier, continuing a sustained downward trend since 2004 when there were over 13 million. Violent struggles between groups vying for access to natural resources, land and political representation and power were among the root causes of most of these displacements. These struggles were manifested either by armed conflicts pitting governments and their armed forces against armed opposition groups, or by inter-communal...
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...Improve housing finance access for poor – study May 28, 2015 9:15 pm by VOLTAIRE PALAÑA REPORTER * * * A POLICY paper by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is calling for the creation of a more favorable environment for housing finance in the country, as well as the adoption of appropriate policies and mechanisms to correct housing market dysfunctions. One of the underlying issues with housing policies in the Philippines, for instance, is the traditional perception that a housing finance system is based primarily on the provision of government subsidies, resulting in a highly-segmented and unsustainable program that does not benefit those who deserve it most. PIDS senior research fellow Dr. Marife Ballesteros noted in her latest study on urban housing subsidies that, despite policy changes through the years, the public sector housing program still does not address the problems on scale. Ballesteros explained that subsidies for housing programs, whether through upfront grants, government direct funding, low interest mortgages, tax exemptions or underpriced risk insurance, could have been put into more efficient use by the government. “Overall, direct subsidy to the low-income housing sector has been limited,” said Ballesteros, adding that in an effort to reduce losses from financial transactions, government has further restricted financing to the low-income sector through lower exposure of funders and the higher loan ceilings on socialized...
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...to try and change the way of doing things to benefit the environment, such as implementing more policies to ensure the survival of marine life or, finding methods to better the environmental situation. I agree only to a small extent that people, both individuals and as an international community, do not care for the environment, be in on land, air or sea. There are many situations in which people could choose to ignore the harm that is being done to the environment, and not care about what the outcomes may be. However, because we as people care, we have implemented many measures to protect our environment. For example in Lake Chad, located between the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, there is a environmental issue of desertification where fertile land becomes similar to that of a desert. The UNHCR and its partners, including the Chad government, are addressing the effects of climate change with programmes aimed at better management of dwindling water resources and the holding back desertification by planting trees. This shows the amount of effort and money people are willing to spend on just to try and save the...
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...United States. Small businesses are created through entrepreneurship, involving creativity, energy, proper planning and innovation; they benifit the country by providing opportunities, such as creating new jobs, making profits and improving the quality of a market products. Every small business has its own unique story of success and disparity. Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, founders of Harmonix, a game developer, started out with severely inadequate revenue and failed products; eventually creating a virtual phenomenon known as "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" (two music video-games which sky-rocketed the company's success). Chef Nobu spent more than thirty years enduring experimentation, failure and unstable business partner- relationships. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim simply needed to figure out how to post a video segment, from a party, to the internet for sharing. Thus, the birth of Youtube.com. Without the prevailance of small businesses, we would not be living in the world the way it has been shaped. Harmonix, founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, is a video game company that created the revolutionary “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band.” The root of their success was creativity and innovation, which was covered in class. The story began when Alex and Eran were finishing their degrees at MIT. Both were interested in applying music and technology to non-musicians who want to express themselves through music. Their first product was a CD-ROM called the Axe; it was a...
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...Chads Creative Concepts Harmanpreet Singh 500284928 Question 1 During the course of a regular business day, Chad Thomas makes many decisions in order for his company to run effectively. On a daily basis Chad must decide which production type he will focus on for the day. Since he produces two lines of furniture, standard and custom, he must decide which one gets the priority when both orders need to be completed. Since he usually bases his decisions based on profits, the custom line usually gets completed first. Deciding which product to produce satisfies the order fulfillment process, which is core to effective daily operations. In order to meet the demand, Chad also needs to allocate machine hours for each production type. Since both lines require the same machines it’s a constant balancing act. Chad also takes his employee hours into consideration because his employees are all specialized in different aspects of the manufacturing process. Chad preforms supplier relationship process duties because he need’s to order specific materials for the customized pieces from his suppliers. In order to Chad to be effective over the long run he must reduce the lead times on both the custom and standard line of furniture. With the increase in volume, Chad finds it difficult to meet the promised delivery dates for both custom and standard line. Increased lead times has had a ripple effect throughout the company. Increased lead times results in added costs such as storage and inapt...
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...It was a nice day outside that Friday morning when I went into Eaton High School in Eaton, Colorado. I have come to place every week for the past three years. I have met many teachers and coaches who have walked through these halls. So when I walked in that morning and saw my coach Mr. Shaw it was no big deal. He was walking down the Freshman stairs with his Blender Bottle in hand wearing a nice white dress shirt and jeans as usual. I’m sure he gave me a high-five while I was walking up the stairs and said something to make me laugh before I went to my first class of the day like always. But something was different that day. That Friday afternoon I would get the chance to meet someone I have never seen before, sergeant Chad Shaw. This sergeant...
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...phone” and then being posted on the internet or “YouTube.” The story is not only a revelation but also mind opening. The website YouTube is the main focus of this writing although there are many other venues (i.e. Facebook or Twitter) on the internet that can exploit privacy. To some this may seem innocent, but others can find it to be disturbing and intrusive. Especially if an individual is caught doing something out of character. Some of reasons that this wonderful innovation can produce harm are, a person can be stalked, pictures can be altered and used to obtain a false identity, or you can simply be embarrassed. In this particular writing it is brought to the reader’s attention that the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karin had no idea they would be “bringing George Orwell’s 1984 novel “Dystopia to Life.” In this particular novel George Orwell expresses how the government is taking control of all aspects of our lives, such as, in a Totalitarian state. While this may not be the case with Little Brother the information highway otherwise known as the...
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...YouTube By Lars Ole Meyer, 1.u YouTube is a website where one can share his or her videos. It was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005, they had worked together at Pay-Pal (an internet payment method), and received money that the corporation had in surplus to start a new project. YouTube as we know it today is credited to two events. First, one of the co-founders could not find the video containing Janet Jackson’s accidental exposure of her breast at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Secondly, two of the cofounders could not share a personal video with each other using e-mail. To sum up, YouTube was created, so that one could easily share videos with one another and furthermore it became a portal where one could find popular and wanted videos without having to surf the internet for hours. After a year, YouTube announced that more than 100 million videos were being watched every day and around 60.000 videos were being added on a daily basis. The first video on the site is called “Me going to the zoo” uploaded by Jawed Karim on the 23’rd of April and it only lasts 19 seconds. Today YouTube has evolved with great pace. It was bought by Google in November 2006 for the sum of 1.65 billion US$. I have my own channel on YouTube, partly so that I can follow my favorite uploaders, currently I subscribe to 99 channels and 15 people follow me. I also use my account to upload stuff. This is a very delicate matter to me; I have only uploaded a few of...
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...ExxonMobil and the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline A CEO of any multi-million dollar company is always left with ethical dilemmas that affect their profession. Most of these ethical dilemmas always center on employees, personal beliefs and environmental issues. In this case CEO Lee Raymond of ExxonMobil, was faced with the decision of building a pipeline in Chad and Cameroon. Until a Certain point in time, the pipeline was a shared interest among Shell and TotalFinaElf. However both the companies have backed from the project, due to future economical issues. Although on paper it seems that both companies were doing the best for the environment, but it was an environmental risk that these companies were facing. If such environmental risk was to take place the company could face up to billions in lawsuits. The CEO Lee Raymond was faced with the decision of whether building the pipeline would be ethical or not. Other than environmental factors, there were many other issues standing in his way. For example the lively hood of the people in Chad and Cameroon will be affected, as well as the indigenous people of Cameroon. Nearly 64 villages and their citizens will be affected by the construction of the pipeline. However the biggest dilemma that Lee Raymond faces is that if not ExxonMobil, than another company will continue with the project. There are many ethical issues surrounding the construction of the pipeline, such as corrupt politicians, the environment and the people. Developing...
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...1. What types of decisions must Chad Thomas make daily for his company’s operations to run effectively? Over the long run? To be best serve external customers, the types of decisions Chad Thomas must make daily for running the company’s operations effectively that are including capability planning, process improvement, managing production and project, managing and scheduling resources and quality control. It is exciting to have the business expansion and increasing sales in order to gain profit. However, in this case, Chad’s Creative Concept does not have the capability to meet the soaring customer demand. Thus, identifying the company’s capability and production bottleneck are most important and must be considering at first. Secondly, design new processes to optimize the firm’s capability and maximize the production level thereby to shorten the lead time in order to lower inventory warehouse and handling cost. The third, project production plans in monthly, weekly and daily basis. The next, since the company’s resources are limited, therefore, Chad must make decisions on managing and scheduling the limited materials, equipment, other facilities and human resources. Allocate resources effectively to optimize the production process. Finally, to be best serve and satisfy customers, avoid defected products from the mass production process, the performance and quality control must be tracking. In addition, Chad might to think about to hire more staffs and rent a cheaper warehouse...
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