...Hudson Kayak Adventures 1. a. HKA Business Activities: HKA offers multiple activities, these include: Kayak Lessons, Tours of the Hudson River, and the ability to rent Kayaks b. Organization: Linda runs the office and handles the website, Steve gives lessons and provides tours, and Janet, on her free time, handles the telephone and reservations. c. Resources: The company has 16 kayaks for rental, 8 car-top carriers, a vast amount of accessories and safety equipment, Steve who’s a sales representative, and Linda, a freelance web designer. d. Customers: The Customers have mentioned that their website is “Attractive and Informative” e. Web Based Marketing: Considering Linda is a web designer, they have a lot of potential when it comes to advertising online. Although they advertise in print, the newer generation doesn’t read much printed work so their ability to grow is impaired unless they transition more online, such as having a facebook page. 2. HKA’s main functions include: Rental, instruction, and tours f. Customer checks availability of rental ---- Customers choose their day -----> Customer enters their information----> Confirm and process information. 3. HKA does not use much in regards to information systems, they use loose leaf binders with tabs for each business activity and an access Database to record reservations. Personally I think this method is obsolete and drags their business down. A system should...
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...Henry Hudson was cast out after his crew left him during his final voyage. Henry Hudson was born in 1565 in New England. They think he died after June 20 in 1161, in or near the Hudson Bay. Henry Hudson was explorer that use to be a fisherman before becoming an explorer. Henry Hudson went on his first voyage to try to get to Asia from New England without hitting any ice on the way. Then Henry was hired by the English Muscovy Company to find a northwest path to Asia from England. Henry then took the fourth and final voyage to undertaken the England in 1610. After the end of the fourth voyage he was never heard of again. Henry Hudson went to his first and second voyage for the Muscovy Company but failed both. He traveled north to the coast of Greenland in 1601. ¨His first two voyages were though Arctic waters and proved to be unsuccessful due to ice¨(Edward R.). After the second voyage he hit ice which made him have to turn back. He had ten men including his son John. That is why the people were sad that he did not come back with a clear route to Asia.The people in England really wanted to know this route because, it would help with them move resources faster....
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...Hudson’s Bay Company and IBM: Virtual Blade Platform Case Study Three types of sever virtualization Visualization uses special software called “hypervisor” which creates a layer and abstracts and interacts with the physical resources and reallocates them more efficiently. It serves as a platform for the virtual servers’ operating systems. The hypervisor keeps each virtual server independent and unaware of the other running servers. It monitors the physical server’s resources and relays its resources to the right virtual server. Due to their own processing need, physical servers need to reserve some power and resources to run the hypervisors’ application. That fact has an overall impact on the performance and speed of applications. Para-Virtualization: Unlike the normal virtualization process, the guest servers are now aware of one another. A hypervisor in a para-virtualization system doesn’t need that much power to get along with the additional guest operating systems. The whole system works as a coherent unit. OS- Virtualization: The OS approach is completely different with regard to the first ones. The OS-virtualization doesn’t use a hypervisor at all. The host OS performs all the functions of a virtualized hypervisor. The only condition is that all guest servers must possess the same OS. Each virtual server is independent from all the others but a mixture between the OS is not possible because all have to be homogenous. Importance of virtualization for...
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...Hudson’s Bay Company and IBM: Virtual Blade Platform Case Study Three types of sever virtualization Visualization uses special software called “hypervisor” which creates a layer and abstracts and interacts with the physical resources and reallocates them more efficiently. It serves as a platform for the virtual servers’ operating systems. The hypervisor keeps each virtual server independent and unaware of the other running servers. It monitors the physical server’s resources and relays its resources to the right virtual server. Due to their own processing need, physical servers need to reserve some power and resources to run the hypervisors’ application. That fact has an overall impact on the performance and speed of applications. Para-Virtualization: Unlike the normal virtualization process, the guest servers are now aware of one another. A hypervisor in a para-virtualization system doesn’t need that much power to get along with the additional guest operating systems. The whole system works as a coherent unit. OS- Virtualization: The OS approach is completely different with regard to the first ones. The OS-virtualization doesn’t use a hypervisor at all. The host OS performs all the functions of a virtualized hypervisor. The only condition is that all guest servers must possess the same OS. Each virtual server is independent from all the others but a mixture between the OS is not possible because all have to be homogenous. Importance of virtualization for...
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...My personal responsibility essay Corey Leverette GEN-200 september. 30, 2012 Personal responsibility essay Even though I have been responsible in the past, how to be a more responsible person because I haven't been responsible in the past and I need to do better about being responsible. As a student I am responsible for my own educational future. I always fail to do certain things like staying positive. Staying positive and keeping a positive attitude is essential in order to everyone to accomplish their goals . All students will have to have a positive attitude when it comes down to constructive criticism. For example (he or she is not pulling their weight in the group).Some people live up to what goals and expectations they set and others choose to go another path. However not everyone is perfect. The driver of this degree plan is me I am the person behind the wheel that is accountable for making mistakes. The first way to achieve my academic success is to maintain my attendance. Attendance is something that a student must take seriously to be academically successful. There are ways that as a student I can be successful in maintaining a good attendance. First step is to take the time out to review the schools attendance policies and guidelines; this can help remind me of my responsibility. According to Green’s article “Every teacher is looking for students who are serious about the subject at hand, who work hard in the classroom and who show progress...
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...BA 385 Final Case Exercise Part I. The Case. Read through the case called “The Hudson River Clean Up and GE” (Case # 25 in your textbook). Do not do any outside research; stick to the case as it is written up in your textbook. In the table below, identify twenty relevant stakeholders and their stakes. Be specific about what each stakeholder has to gain OR lose by the possible actions suggested in the case. You need only list one stake (describe it if you think it is not clear without a description). *Gain *Lose | |Stakeholders |Stakes | |Stakeholders |Stakes | |1. |Shareholders and Investors |Share value goes down due to huge |11. |Animals live in Hudson River |Better living environment | | | |expense in dredging plan | | | | |2. |Employees |Increased possibility of lay-off |12. |Suppliers and other business |Increased business opportunity | | | |due to huge expense in dredging | |involved in dredging plan | | | | |plan | | | ...
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...– On May 2nd , 1670 , King Charles II allowed the group of Prince Rupert a monopoly to trade in the Hudson Bay drainage basin . – 1672 the company’s first public Sale of Furs was held at Garraway’s Coffee house . – 1690 Henry Kelsey embarked on a 2 years exploration journey that would make him the first white man to see the buffalo herd of the Prairies . – 1713 Treaty of Utrecht . France relinquishes all claims to Hudson bay , which again becomes a British possession . – 1745 British Parliament offers £ 20,000 for discovery of the North West Passage and £ 5,000 for reaching the North Pole . – 1754 Anthony Henday travels inland from York Factory to “draw down many of the natives to trade” . He passed Saskatchewan River as far as the Foothills and is the first to meet the Blackfoot tribes. – 1774 Samuel Hearne completes building of HBC’s first inland post , Cumberland House near pine Island Lake of the Saskatchewan. – 1779 North West Company (NWC) founded in Montreal as a seasonal partnership. The company becomes a permanent entity in 1783. – 1811 Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk, majority shareholder of HBC , purchased over 74 million acres in the Red River valley from the company for the sum of ten shillings. He planned to use the land to settle displaced Scottish highlanders, the first settlers arrived in the following year. – 1821 HBC , merhges with its main rival the NWC, based in montreal, and is granted a...
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...Demographic Trends in Hudson Oaks Steve Malley - Week One Anna Maria College Management Policies in Government Finance MPA504 Everett Pierce January 13, 2013 Demographic Trends in Hudson Oaks Hudson Oaks is a small suburban city in Parker County, Texas. It is located 23 miles west of Fort Worth and according to the 2011 Census is home to 1677 residents. “The City of Hudson Oaks was incorporated in 1978 by a group of citizens who shared a desire to come together in creating a community that could create its own destiny rather than having it shaped by the taxing entities in the surrounding area” (Deen, n.d., para. 2). Since that time the City of Hudson Oaks has become a vibrant leader in the development of eastern Parker County. With a city limits containing 8.29 square miles Hudson Oaks is not considered a large community by anyone. It is however a very progressive and well planned community. “The City of Hudson Oaks and its elected and appointed officials deeply value long-range planning. This is why the City has taken a leadership role in initiatives to seek regional solutions to challenges shared by all cities in eastern Parker County” (Deen, n.d., para. 5). This has allowed the city to manage is commercial and residential growth in a way that benefits its residents as well as its business owners. Single family housing in Hudson Oaks is still the primary mode of housing. There are no apartments in the City of Hudson Oaks with no plans of building any currently...
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...Questions Presented Hudson, while working in regular office hours, was gravely disturbed by Schrute’s test of “emergency preparedness” simulating a fire in the office. Under Rule 12.02(6) of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, which determines intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) as an act outrageous in its nature capable of causing serious mental injury. Will this statute implement Schrute as liable for issuing a fire simulation? Short Answers Yes. Schrute will most likely be liable for the actions of the event under IIED. Intentionally action in a reckless manner will most likely be determined as outrageous in conduct. Summary of the Facts Schrute, a Dunder Mifflin employee, independently started different activities with intention of creating chaos or confusion in the office. He began by blocking off essential doorways, inserting a key in a door and breaking it off. Schrute also inserted small wooden blocks into the bottom section of the doors, blocking-off access. Schrute, heated the door handles using a fire torch creating a hypothetical presence...
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...in the text, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined as, “the corporate duty to create wealth by using means that avoid harm to, protect, or enhance societal assets,” and by this definition GE under Welch failed to fulfill its duty of corporate social responsibility. While during the Welch era GE was successful in achieving a corporation’s primary economic responsibilities, generating immense profits, sharing the wealth with shareholders, and paying taxes, it did so in a way that did not protect societal assets, or avoid harm to the environment. GE failed to fulfill its duty of CSR by causing environmental damage in areas where the company manufactured its products. The prime example of this is GE’s 35-year pollution of the Hudson River in New York. Between 1945 and 1977, GE is accused of releasing approximately 1.5 million pounds of a toxic substance known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the river. When confronted with the wide spread consequences of its actions, after scientific evidence linking PCBs to cancer and other illnesses was revealed, and a study conducted by The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), concluded that dredging the bottom was necessary to remove the dangerous deposits, GE refused to accept responsibility for the pollution of...
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...opportunities and therefore implanted growth within the colonial state as a result. Given the influx in the amount of people, workers and inventors alike, wanting to make various creations that would benefit the industrial practice and in turn, both New York State and City had been tagged on the most dynamic leash the new era had to offer. In the first document presented, both the Virginia Schomp and New York State Canal Corporation describe what seems to be a correlation between the Canal and the New York harbors’ successes over the few years following its construction. In the state of New York, whole commercial vessels were now able to move north up the Hudson River, something that had been deemed impossible prior. Having these vessels carry so much cargo through its ports and harbors, New York State had industry's flourishing along the Hudson where a surplus amount of trade could now take place. Due to the state’s acclaim, New York City itself had finally grown out of the second-rated limbo it had been cemented in, cultivating the largest and busiest ports in all of America. This gift of innovation had turned New York from a “helpless, homeless commoner,” into an “eager, fruitful gentleman, prospering for his own people.” According to James silver in document two, there also seems to be a unique effectiveness to the canal that would help traders and suppliers extensively, traveling into New York and it’s housed cities. The Dirt Road, having been the main course of transportation before...
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...English 269: Intro to Cultural Studies 30 September 2010 Cultural Geography Project The small piece of property between Torches on the Hudson and Gully’s Restaurant in Newburgh has become a cornerstone of revitalizing the city’s economy. Although it is only about half a mile long, in less than ten years the enormous facelift that has been given to the area has done wonders for the city’s revenue and tourist appeal as well as provided a much needed aesthetic boost to the waterfront area. Newburgh’s waterfront area has a rare appeal for this particular case study because it has aspects of providing a sense of community in the sense that it is often a focal point for local social gatherings, but it is also a place whose very existence is predicated upon the fact that it generates revenue for the city. As a young kid I can remember days where my father and I would drop my mother off at work and spend the rest of the morning running errands while stopping at the Newburgh Waterfront for lunch. By and large the place was decidedly unimpressive. In fact, there wasn’t much to be seen other than the old rickety piers and the folks ignorant enough of their state to trust their sturdiness (my father and I were quite often included in this class). There were sidewalks to nowhere, not much parking, very little landscaping was done, no shops, just a pier and the few people on it. It seemed, when looked at as a whole, very much like an area that had been almost forgotten by the city...
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...Ethical Challenge Integrated Marketing Communications Paper For By Integrated Marketing Communications This paper is a review of the ethical and social responsibility that General Electric (GE) faces regarding New York’s Hudson River. The paper will also detail ethical challenges and efforts taken by GE to address, inform, and relate its standing on the Hudson River topic. Also covered will be the influence of external and internal factors on GE’s IMC as well as reviewing the role of research in the process. Lastly, two ethical questions will be prepared based on the paper. Ethics is defined as “the principles that serve as operational guidelines for both individuals and organizations” (Baack & Clow, 2002, p. 33). In upper New York state GE has a capacitor and arrestor factory located in the city of Fort Edward. GE manufactures electrical distribution and control equipment including capacitors and arresters that used polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as a coolant. For 50 years, the manufacture, sale, use and discharge of PCBs were legal in the United States. More than one billion pounds of PCBs were produced and sold. PCBs were considered a “miracle” chemical because they would not burn and were widely used in electrical equipment installed in wooden factories and school buildings where fire was a constant threat. In fact, some city codes and some insurance companies required the use of PCB-type transformers and capacitors. A description of polychlorinated...
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...CEO of GE, he fired a large number of employees due to underperformance, or because of outsourcing. Additionally, it was under his leadership that GE had severely polluted in the Hudson River, and more importantly, lobbied against its clean up at GE’s expense. Furthermore, while he enjoyed a large number of perks during and after his time at GE, he created a pension fund that was unfair to workers at GE. Based on his actions, we believe he did not fulfill his duty, as defined by Chapter 5. We believe he could certainly have done better. The phenomenal growth GE achieved during his time was by prioritizing wealth creation over responsibilities to stakeholders such as employees and the environment. Be believe that there is a middle path that can be pursued, which allowed GE to grow in a much more sustainable manner. We feel he could have paid more attention to employee well-being by being slightly more flexible in their performance evaluation and should have promoted diversity. Based on his actions, it seems Welch followed the “survival of the fittest” maxim ruthlessly, and in doing so caused disharmony and stress among its employees. Additionally, GE under Welch could have been slightly more environmentally conscious. While it may not have been known at the time when PCB was being dumped into the Hudson River that it was toxic, he should not have lobbied against the clean-up after the ill...
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...A Rose for Emily Summary How It All Goes Down You might want to look at our discussion of the novel's setting before you enter here, or at least know it's there to help if you get tangled up in this story's crazy chronology. Also keep in mind that the narrator of this story represents several generations of men and women from the town. The story begins at the huge funeral for Miss Emily Grierson. Nobody has been to her house in ten years, except for her servant. Her house is old, but was once the best house around. The town had a special relationship with Miss Emily ever since it decided to stop billing her for taxes in 1894. But, the "newer generation" wasn't happy with this arrangement, and so they paid a visit to Miss Emily and tried to get her to pay the debt. She refused to acknowledge that the old arrangement might not work any more, and flatly refused to pay. Thirty years before, the tax collecting townspeople had a strange encounter with Miss Emily about a bad smell at her place. This was about two years after her father died, and a short time after her lover disappeared from her life. Anyhow, the stink got stronger and complaints were made, but the authorities didn't want to confront Emily about the problem. So, they sprinkled lime around the house and the smell was eventually gone. Everybody felt sorry for Emily when her father died. He left her with the house, but no money. When he died, Emily refused to admit it for three whole days. The town didn't think...
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