...org/parent/firstaid_safe/home/firesetting.html It is very common for children of ages 3-12 to start fires. Some kids do it out of fascination with fire, some do it out of curiosity, and some do it out of boredom. Although it is a natural part of kids growing up and development, it can be dangerous because some kids really don’t know how to react to fires especially ones started in small confined areas such as closets. Almost 3,400 Americans died in house fires this year. And if kids don’t learn how to deal with fires it could spread. Kids of pre-school ages up until about 7th grade are commonly known for playing and experimenting with fire. It is mainly because it is new and they are fascinated with the idea of fire. They have seen older people handle fire and they wanted to try it to. The older the children get the less the risk of the fire spreading is because they are older and know how to react more, but there is still a risk. Some kids do it as a cry for help from being neglected or abused and they want attention. Every year in America about 14,500 house fires are started by children playing with or experimenting with fire. Also, about 3,400 people out of those 14,500 house fires die every year. Even though the fire-staring is natural for young children, parents should calmly, but firmly chastise and tell children not to do it. Children might not respond...
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...bright and powerful. But other people are also affected. It's been proven time and time again that humans are drawn to others that are happy, friendly and outgoing and forming friendships with those kinds of people spreads peace and happiness. Inner peace is just one form, there are also many other ways to show and express it. War is the complete opposite of peace. It causes death, destruction, crisis and misery all over the world. And not only is peace contagious, but so is hatred - which is it's destroyer. Mankind has had a long history with battle and the struggles that go along with it which at it's very core is centered around the greed, gluttony and selfishness humans tend to feel. All of this comes together into a complex ball and ruins peace. Being selfless, compassionate, sympathetic and generous helps to feed peace and sweep the world with it which in turn fights off unwanted and negative hatred. Spreading peace around only makes us stronger. It fuels us and gives us hope. Once it's achieved all over the planet, the security and comfort it provides will be visible. Doing good deeds and having a positive outlook towards life is noticed by the media. Whenever something optimistic and admirable is broadcasted for us to see, it influences us to help spread this much needed feeling. Overall, peace brings love, happiness, friendship and everything positive into our life. We need peace - inner and outer - to be content and feel good about ourselves. Peace heals us, feeds...
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...Our Outperform expectation is even more compelling in 2016 given the spread widening that the sector experienced in the last six months, as the sector fundamentals remain strong. Another record year of auto sales is predicted and even if we do see declines from cyclical production peaks, breakeven profitability levels have been materially lowered, allowing both OEMs and suppliers to be highly profitable at cycle volumes well below what is forecast. The sector has engaged in prudent balance sheet management since the peak of the crisis; likely issuance (which will be biased to refinancing) should find more-than-adequate demand. M&A could inject some headline risk, and VW is still a wildcard that could cause a bout of spread weakness. We would see such volatility as presenting an opportunity, however, given the solid underpinnings of the Auto Sector storage. The positive side of the sector's story is its still strong credit quality even if the group did see some modest deterioration on that from increased M&A and pockets of end-market weakness. They're not bulletproof, however, and there are still a number of sources of potentially negative headline risk that we expect to be at play out in the coming year. Additionally, even if the economy does perform to consensus. we expect the expansion will be reliant upon the US domestic consumption story and it will be heavier going in the global arena in which the manufacturing conglomerates compete, particularly as regards to economic...
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...The crime? Buying crunchy peanut butter. She acted like crunchy peanut butter was dangerous — saying the nuts inside would cut the roof of her mouth. She was saying that creamy was dreamy. My girlfriend, Leila Sanie, is a creamy peanut butter enthusiast, and she asked me which one I actually preferred. I brought the crunch down on her. An aimless debate sparked and a peanut-buttery bloodbath ensued: names were called, punches were thrown and nutritional facts were read. Things got nutty. I asked how many people in the room knew that George Washington Carver, the creator of peanut butter, ate the crunchy type. Leila and I both raised our hands. One of us wasn’t telling the truth. You see, Leila spreads her lies like she spreads her creamy peanut butter to the very edges of underdone pieces of toast. Some of her peanut butter propaganda included, “I like my peanut butter as smooth as my personality,” and, “That statement is as hard to swallow as your crunchy peanut butter.” It ended up something like this I could’ve let it go. But I, like most Brits, will fight tooth, claw and nail to prove that my opinion and taste buds are superior. I took the creamy vs. crunchy carnage to social media networks. I went to Twitter using the hashtag #TeamCrunchy I posted on Facebook, “Which is better? Crunchy peanut butter or creamy? Team crunchy all day.” It received an outstanding 11 likes and 60 comments, including notable gems such as ‘Been in...
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...Market Segments and Target Analysis Breakfast market. The breakfast meal market around the world consist of mostly Jam, chocolate spread, cheese, sweet spreads like honey, syrup), and of course peanut butter. To get an idea of the market in Qatar we made a survey and constructed a statistics table consist of 73 responses. Breakfast item | Percentage up or down | Jam | Down 0.05 % | Chocolate Spread | Up 5% | Honey, Syrup | Up 2.5% | Peanut butter | Up 2.5% | Thus, it is evident as you can see from the table shown above that sale of chocolate the highest among the other options by 5% approximately. Accordingly we can call this a big opportunity for Nutella to be the leader from the other competitors and raise its sales of Chocolate spread market. * Geographic’s, psychographics, and segmentation Target Market | Income &class | Advantages/benefits | (3-15 )year olds & Parents | Middle to low class | Quality, Economic Pricing, Convenience | College students(17-25)years old | Middle to low class | Convenience, Speed, Economic pricing | Wealthy &Successful Individuals | Middle to High class | Very unique | As shown in the table above the first target market, the 3-15 year olds and their parents, will generally be targeted toward middle and low class income families, generation X and echo boomers, and will offer benefits such as quality taste and ingredients, economic pricing, and convenience. Similarly, the college students will be targeted for...
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...Advantages of Grapevine Communication 1. Grapevine channels carry information rapidly. As soon as an employee gets to know some confidential information, he becomes inquisitive and passes the details then to his closest friend who in turn passes it to other. Thus, it spreads hastily. 2. The managers get to know the reactions of their subordinates on their policies. Thus, the feedback obtained is quick compared to formal channel of communication. 3. The grapevine creates a sense of unity among the employees who share and discuss their views with each other. Thus, grapevine helps in developing group cohesiveness. 4. The grapevine serves as an emotional supportive value. 5. The grapevine is a supplement in those cases where formal communication does not work. Disadvantages of Grapevine Communication 1. The grapevine carries partial information at times as it is more based on rumours. Thus, it does not clearly depicts the complete state of affairs. 2. The grapevine is not trustworthy always as it does not follows official path of communication and is spread more by gossips and unconfirmed report. 3. The productivity of employees may be hampered as they spend more time talking rather than working. 4. The grapevine leads to making hostility against the executives. 5. The grapevine may hamper the goodwill of the organization as it may carry false negative information about the high level people of the organization. A smart manager should take care of all the disadvantages...
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...cheese you need a place with electricity and a stove. SO first find a kitchen with a stovetop. The best pans to use are copper pans because of there ability to cook evenly. The best spatulas to use are nonstick so nothing in the pan will stick too it. If you are using an electric stove turn the eye on a low heat, to get the best golden brown toast. If your stove is not electric then use a light flame on the stove. Ingredients You can’t make grilled cheese without the basic ingredients, the bread, cheese, and type of butter. Once you have the pan nice and warm add butter. The type of butter you use depends solely on you. Weather its salted or unsalted, organic, whipped of just Pam butter. I prefer Pam because its nonstick butter and easy to spread on the pan. Once your pan is buttered and ready to go grab to pieces of bread and add one peace face down in the pan with a your choice of cheese on top of it. When choosing your type of cheese it’s mostly up to you on the type you pick. (Note shredded cheeses will turn out differently and should not be used in making grilled cheese.) Grilling Technique Once your first piece of bread and cheese has been placed in the pan, add the second piece of bread on top. Then begin to monitor...
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...American company in one of those countries (for example, a soft drink that Coca-Cola sells specifically in Brazil or a special chicken sandwich sold by McDonald’s in India). Write a brief description of the product (including the brand name) and bring either the product or a picture of the product to class. Redro Fish Spread is a native product in South Africa that was introduced as a substitute for Britain’s Peck’s Anchovette. The product became so popular once released that it spent thirty years as a monopoly in the spread industry. The spread comprises of fresh Anchovies, Mackerel, and Pilchards and is marketed as a fun snack for children. 2. What cultural or social barriers may be keeping the product from enjoying success in the US? When Americans choose a spread to put on sandwiches or crackers, anything salter than mayo or butter is uncommon. A cultural barrier to this product is America’s desire for sweeter spreads such as Peanut Butter and different types of Jellies. Geographic locations also depict the distribution of this salty spread. Fish spreads and concentrated yeast extracts are more commonly found the eastern hemisphere where saltier spreads are in demand. America simply doesn’t have the taste for these products. 3. How can you mitigate these barriers? One way to mitigate these barriers is to introduce the product in grocery stores that sell foreign food such as World Market. Once individuals become accustomed to the taste of the product, demand...
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...The word fire is defined by webster as the phenomenon of combustion manifested in light, flame, and heat. What this definiton does not tell you is how dangerous a fire can be if you are not aware of its capability to spread and grow rapidly. Fires can be very dangerous and harmful. It is important to education each other as much as possibe to help prevent injries or deadly accidents. There are four stages that happen in every fire. Those stages are Incipient, Growth, Fully Developed, and Decay. Each stage plays a role in every fire. Understanding each stage, and how to handle or prevent it is critical in becoming in control of a fire. Flameovers and backdrafts are not consider stages, but also are definitely factors of a fire. These factors sometimes can be prevented. Some methods of prevention are taugh at fire academies, or fire schools, to new firefighters, and are constistly being developed. Incipient, also know as the "ignition" stage, is the first stage of a fire. In this stage smoke may began before the fire actually flames up. This is the stage where heat, oxygen, and a fuel source combine to ignite the fire. At this stage it can be controlled by a household fire extinguinsher. Growth is the second stage of a fire. With the initial flame used as a heat sourse, more flames flare up. Flaring up makes the size of the fire increase and the plume reaches the ceiling. In a room hot gases meet at the celing of the roomwhich cause all fuels in that room...
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...Explain the fire principals of wildland fires. And how their behavior differs from structure fires. The basic fire principals consist of five principals that go into fire behavior. Principal one is the fire triangle or Tetrahedron. The fire triangle consists of having heat, fuel, and oxygen. Removing one of these elements from the triangle and the fire will eventually die out. Principal two is method of heat transfer. Therefore, if heat is transfer from direct contact, liquid or air. A fire of some sort could arise. Methods such as convection, conduction, and radiation. Which is known to be the number one cause of any fire exposure. Principal three in stages and fire growth. This talks about the stages of a fires lowest point of ignition...
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...Uncontrolled blazes fueled by weather, wind, and dry underbrush, wildfires can burn acres of land—and consume everything in their paths—in mere minutes. On average, more than 100,000 wildfires, also called wildland fires or forest fires, clear 4 million to 5 million acres (1.6 million to 2 million hectares) of land in the U.S. every year. In recent years, wildfires have burned up to 9 million acres (3.6 million hectares) of land. A wildfire moves at speeds of up to 14 miles an hour (23 kilometers an hour), consuming everything—trees, brush, homes, even humans—in its path. HOW THEY ARE FORMED There are three conditions that need to be present in order for a wildfire to burn, which firefighters refer to as the fire triangle: fuel, oxygen, and...
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...and running for their lives, you just witnessed a wildfire. Wildfires happen everywhere. They can start by natural cause or even human cause. A wildfire is defined as an uncontrolled fire, usually in places of high vegetation, such as forest, and in places with lots of wind. Wildfires are ‘quasi-natural’ hazards, meaning that they are not entirely natural features. They can also be caused by human error as well. The four major causes of wildfire ignitions are lightning, volcanic eruptions, sparks from rockfalls, and spontaneous combustion: the ignition of organic matter without apparent cause, typically through heat generated...
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...trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian or natural populations and to rescue people from dangerous situations, like collapsed or burning buildings. Luckily or unluckily, my cousin work as a firefighter. Since he became a firefighter, I never saw him at home having the dinner with us in Chinese New Year. He has to stand guard, and wait for the order if there something happen. We all know that the job as a firefighter is really dangerous. There is an explosion in my city as a result of the oil spilling. All of the firefighters including my cousin in my city went to the first rescue line to save lives and buildings. Everyone is in danger. Unfortunately, someone died in that accident. So that comes to problem: Should firefighters contribute their lives to save other’s lives or properties? My answer is no. It might because that I have someone who has the relationship with me in blood. So that I feel his life is important for me. I want him to protect his own life instead of saving others. How fire happens? It is clear that there are some place that can easily catch fire. Like some places near the forest or rainless. We know that if there is only a little fire in a tree, it will spread quickly. We learned some examples from Egan’s article. He argued that firefighters don’t have to die for people’s property and homeowners cannot blame firefighters. He shows the fire happens in Arizona where is really beautiful “ …...
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...span of a decade. Situations have become more severe in nature and, as a result, have called for more drastic actions. Fire fighters lay down their life for others every day and ask for nothing.. With a job that receives little credibility and does not pay nearly as much as it should, the benefits of such a life-threatening career do not seem remotely close to being worth the strenuous amount of effort that it requires. Though some may choose to deny it, firefighting has now become one of the most dangerous occupations out there. Dangers with the career field of Fire Science start with the applying and regulating of rules and codes. A prime example is OSHA’s...
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... 2. Cost of debt, which is determined by adding the spread to Treasury (1.62%) to the rate of 30-year treasury bonds in 2007. Rd=0.0498+0.0162=0.066 3. Cost of equity, the EMRP (5%) and D/E (59.3%) was taken out of the context of the case. βa=Equity Beta/(1+D/E)= 1.25/(1+0.593)= 0.78 According to Table1, consolidated D/V is 42.2%, E/V is 57.8%, βe= βa*(1+D/E)= 0.78*(1+0.422/0.578)=1.35 Re=Rf+ βe *EMRP= 0.0498+(1.35*0.05)= 0.1173 4. WACC, the tax rate (38.58%) was from the 2006 taxes paid. WACC= D/V*(1-T)*Rd+E/V*Re= 0.422*(1-0.3858)*0.066+0.578*0.1173=8.49% The division costs of capital Exploration & Production 1. I also use of 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds in 2007 (4.98%) as the risk free rate, Rf=0.0498. 2. Cost of debt, Rd=Rf+ the spread to Treasury(Exploration & Production)=0.0498+0.016=0.0658 3. Cost of equity, EMRP=5%. Since we can’t get the beta of E&P, we should use the information of comparable companies on Exhibit 5 to get average asset beta, and then to calculate the beta of E&P. βa=Equity Beta/(1+D/E)= 1.15/(1+0.398)= 0.82 According to Table1, consolidated D/V is 46%, E/V is 54%, βe= βa*(1+D/E)= 0.82*(1+0.46/0.54)=1.52 Re=Rf+ βe *EMRP= 0.0498+(1.52*0.05)= 0.1258 4. T=38.58% WACC= D/V*(1-T)*Rd+E/V*Re= 0.46*(1-0.3858)*0.0658+0.56*0.1258=8.9% Refining & Marketing (same with Exploration & Production) 1. Rf=0.0498 2. Cost of debt, Rd=Rf+ the spread to Treasury(Refining & Marketing)=0.0498+0.018=0.0678 ...
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