...the company recovered from its HK$929 million loss in the same period last year. Turnover declined 0.6 per cent to HK$48.6 billion. "The fortunes of the airline industry correlate closely with the world economy so we don't expect to see any sustained pickup in business until the world economy is on a surer footing," chairman Christopher Pratt said. Airline operations in the past six months achieved HK$452 million in pre-tax profit, against HK$1 billion in losses last year. Passenger yield and load factor improved, helped by a nearly 5 per cent cut in capacity in the first half after the early retirement of four Boeing 747-400s and the reduction in long-haul routes. Reductions in capacity will ease to 1.5 per cent for the full year with the arrival of three B777s in the second half of the year. Cathay will restore by next month all the long-haul passenger flights cancelled as part of a wave of cost-cutting last year. Its profit was dented by a loss of about HK$400 million in Air China Cargo, of which it owns 49 per cent, and the HK$350 million loss in the cargo terminal in the first half. "We hope that the operation at Air China Cargo will improve in the second half as we will replace B747-400s freighters with more...
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...Decolonisation in Indo-China Assessment “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at these odds, you will lose and I will win.” – Ho Chi Minh • Assess France’s attempts to restore its colonial rule in Indo-China between 1945-1954. Between 1945 and 1954 France’s attempts to restore its colonial rule in Indo-China, through both negotiation and military conflict, were largely unsuccessful. This lack of success on the part of a major European power in putting down the resistance of a (relatively) small guerilla force of rebels within its own colony is a cause for much debate. There are many opinions as to where France’s biggest short comings fell or what their biggest mistake was. Some argue it was their treatment of the Vietnamese villagers, while others believe the environment posed an insurmountable barrier for the French. Still others argue that France’s biggest short coming was its lack of adaptability or its limited understanding of Vietnamese society. It is undeniable that these factors could all be explanations to the problems France faced in its attempts to restore its colonial rule in Indo-China, however, it was the combination of all these factors (and more) within the volatile environment which was world politics at the time which resulted in France’s ultimate lack of success. One thing which was certainly a contributing factor to France’s lack of success was that the French underestimated the resistance they were faced with...
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...position for a long time. On the issue of women suffrage, the status of women in the society greatly changed. Most women took jobs instead of staying at home. In 1919, the Women Suffrage Clauses was ratified, and it gave the woman a right to vote (Alchin).The era also led to many political reforms by Roosevelt, Wilson, and Taft, that positively changed the lives of the citizens. With all the benefits, there also exists many negative ones. After the war, the economy improved, but it also led to inflation and the living standards increased too. The prices of essential needs like food and clothing rose 15 %. The war also resulted in unemployment because of inflation. It resulted in many companies laying off their employees so as to maintain operation costs, and those who were retained got reduced salaries. There were also not enough employment opportunities for the soldiers who returned home after the war. Also, during the war, labor unions increased their intensity, and the era was characterized by a massive wave of strikes. In 1919, it was called the Red Summer, which resulted due to great economic depression. The picture below clearly shows the state of America after the world war. Despite the positive impacts, there was also a great economic depression and hence unemployment resulted. 2. The 1920s. What happened in America during the 1920s? Why do historians see the 20s as the beginning of "modern times"? Address social, cultural, economic and political factors. The 1920s were...
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...CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SARAWAK CAMPUS COMMUNICATIONS 100 ASSESSMENT 2 SUBMISSION TO LOCAL NETWORK SEMESTER 1 2013 Tutor’s Name: MS. NOR AFIFAH MOHD SHUKRAN Tutorial Time: Wednesday, 10am-12pm Student Name: WANG LEE YEN Student Number: 17132220 Student Email: leeyen25@live.com Company: Sime Darby Word Count: 1012 Table of contents Contents | Page | Mission | 3 | Recommendation 1 | 4 | Recommendation 2 | 4 | Recommendation 3 | 5 | Recommendation 4 | 6 | Challenges | 6 | A Success Story | 7 | Reference | 8 | Mission “We are committed to developing a winning portfolio of sustainable businesses, subscribe to good corporate governance and high ethical values, continuously strive to deliver superior financial returns through operational excellence and high performance standards and provide an environment for our people to realize their full potential”. (Sime Darby 2013) This statement shows that Sime Darby has a very high target to be the top one in the business market and to shows their responsibility to maintain and improve their commitment towards their consumer. It is their difference that makes Sime Darby to be successful today. This report will basically talk about the recommendation for Sime Darby to improve in this global community and for the other companies to follow the good things and to avoid the mistakes that the company had done in the previous years. Besides, this report will also analyze two...
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...Authored by: Sara Colle, Aaron Hughes, Mohammed Kahn, Paul Koller Bob, Inc November 14, 2012 Authored by: Sara Colle, Aaron Hughes, Mohammed Kahn, Paul Koller interoffice memorandum to: Jim Reinhard, ceo from: group 1 subject: risk assessment report date: 11/14/2012 cc: Mr. Reinhard, We have completed our risk assessment as requested by management. The following report will take you through our completed risk matrix, narratives about the risks and controls, and provide a summary of our findings. The areas covered include: * BCP/Disaster Recovery * Backup and Recovery * Physical Security * Logical Security * Documentation and Policies & Procedures * Change and Patch Management * Computer Operations We hope that this assessment meets your requirements. Should you have any additional questions please feel free to contact anyone of the individuals below that assisted in the preparation of the report. Best Regards, Sara Colle, Aaron Hughes, Mohammed Kahn, Paul Koller Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery 1. RISKS – Loss of customers, loss of profits, loss or reputation, loss of government approval to do business Hurricane Sandy recently paralyzed New York City, the financial capital of the world. This event highlighted the importance of Business Continuity Planning for organizations. Disasters come in various forms including: fire, pandemic, terrorism, biological attacks, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, flooding...
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...military operations under the flag of the United Nations (UN). Africa's first post-cold war conflict, the corrupt regime of Muhammed Siad Barre prompted the necessity for intervention in Somalia. In power from 1969 to 1991, Barre created a patron-client relationship with the nation's clan-based society. That system required continuous outside assistance, and by 1987, some 57% of Somalia's gross national product was generated by international aid. Although he lacked legitimacy outside his clan, Somali general Mohamed Farah Aidid overthrew Barre, which led to the collapse of the state, continuous clan-based civil war, and famine. That situation provoked the deployment of the first UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM I) in April 1992. Yet the force proved insufficient to control the "technicals" (a euphemism for mercenaries who remained loyal to their clans) hired by in-country humanitarian organizations. Under those circumstances, between November 1991 and March 1992, some 30,000–50,000 Somalis died of starvation. The U.S.-led Unified Task Force (UNITAF) broke that cycle in December 1992, when the UN Security Council authorized a deployment to Somalia of U.S. troops, which had been offered by the outgoing president George Bush. UNOSOM would work with a unified command (37,000 troops from more than 20 nations, including, at its peak, 29,000 U.S. troops) and continue with its original mandate after the withdrawal of the unified command. UNITAF, code-named Operation Restore Hope, was...
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...various businesses is critical to the further growth to be a leading multinational corporation delivering sustainable value to all stakeholders and success of the Sime Darby Group (Sustainability Report 2011) We are committed to making the Global Compact and its principles part of the strategy, culture and day-to-day operation of our company, and to engaging in collaborative leading others corporations to follow. This submission shows that we express our intent to advance principles one and eight of the ten principles of the UN Global Contract comply within our sphere of influence local network (Sustainability Report 2011). Principle 1: “Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.”(United Nation Global Compact, 2010). Principle 8: “Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility.” (United Nation Global Compact, 2010) We have defined below two recommendations to sustainability goals to compliance principle one and eight 1. Increase awareness of implemented corporate policies to publish policies internally and externally and apply policies globally and across all operations of the company to respect human rights 2. Develop a Proactive Environmental Management Systems to increase the sustainable of businesses Recommendation 1 “Increase awareness of implemented corporate policies to publish policies internally and...
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...Case Study 8.2 – The Looting of Bell, California Question #1: What signs of bad leadership do you note in this case? How much blame should Bell residents receive for the misbehavior of their leaders? Multiple signs of bad leadership behaviors were present in this case study. In summary, Robert Rizzo is an intemperate, callous, corrupt, and insular bad leader. He is intemperate, “lacking self-control and enabled by followers who don’t want to intervene or can’t, (Johnson, 2012, p. 248) because he didn’t know when to stop; he just kept taking and taking from the city. Rizzo started with writing his own employment contracts, giving himself raises and falsifying documents to hide salary information. Then, he was awarding city contracts to his friends and making unauthorized loans to himself and other city officials. Last, but certainly not the least, even after he was removed from office, and taken away in handcuffs, “Rizzo is in line to receive the highest pension of any official in California” (Johnson, 2012, p. 266). Rizzo was callous, uncaring about the needs of his followers (p. 248) and corrupt, lied cheated, and stole (p. 249) from the city and the city’s occupants. Interestingly enough, the people within Rizzo’s circle were insular, a clear boundary between the welfare of his immediate group and that of the outsiders (p. 249). Los Angeles County attorney, Steve Cooley was right in calling the looting of Bell, “corruption on steroids”. Question #2: What ethical challenges...
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...the invasion as a flagrant violation of international law, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the State. (Ref 1). The United Nation Resolution also notes it demands an immediate cessation of the armed intervention and the immediate withdrawal of the foreign troops from Grenada. (Ref 2). At the UN, The US defended its actions in an address by US UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, “The United States, whose own nationals and vital interests were independently affected, joined the effort to restore minimal conditions of law and order in Grenada and eliminate the threat posed to the security of the entire region.” (Ref 4). In a Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station address, President Ronald Reagan defended his decision to send US troops to Grenada, “In Grenada, our military forces moved quickly and professionally to protect American lives and respond to an urgent request from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. We joined in an effort to restore order and democracy to that strife-torn island.” (Ref 4a). In the US popular opinion concerning the invasion of...
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...police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.” PRINCIPLE 2 “The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.” PRINCIPLE 3 “Police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.” PRINCIPLE 4 “The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.” PRINCIPLE 5 “Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to the public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.” PRINCIPLE 6 “Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient.” PRINCIPLE 7 “Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.” PRINCIPLE 8 “Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.” PRINCIPLE 9 “The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing...
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...deployed and how often is the systems backed up. 7. What kind of computer virus protection do you have? 8. How often would you like the software to be updated? 9. Do you have anyone that I could add to the administrator list that could help with the Maintenance of the software application? 10. Is there any software that you would like to be removed from your system and what is the name of said software? Hope this helps let me know if I can help you out anymore yours truly Sherry Thornton Dear Mr. Manager I have reviewed you following email and this is what I would do to I would make sure know of your computer have windows XP as a operating system let me know I could update them for you. Also I would use group policies to set it up where the computers that you need updated would get update automatically. By doing this you could exclude the Engineering Department. We could also use the group policies to make sure that automatic updates are turned easily updated in the group policies and control panel of the computer system. Hope this helps let me know if I can help you out anymore yours truly...
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...(for old PhD) 15th May 2012 (for ACM) Maximum Marks 100 Attempt all the questions. All questions carry equal marks. The case of the Mexican Crazy Quilt “The mission of the project which you will head is to get our new Mexican subsidiary ready for take-over by Mexican managers. My hope that you will be able to do this in about two years” explained Robert Linderman, president of Linderman Industries to Carl Conway, newly appointed manager for “Operation Mexicano”. Conway had been hired specifically for this assignment because of his experience in managing large defence projects in the aerospace industry. “The first thing that I will have to do is put a project team together” said Conway. “I imagine that you have in mind my drawing people from the functional divisions.” “Yes, I have already sent memoranda to the division managers informing them that you will be asking for some of their key people to work under you for about two years,” said Linderman.. “In addition, I have advised them to be prepared to process work orders from Operation Mexicano with the personnel and equipment of their organizations. Later on in the project’s life, you will begin to get Mexican personnel, both managers and technicians, in to your organization. These people will have Mexican supervisors, but until the mission is accomplished, they also will report to you. I will have to admit that you are going to have some...
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...it mean for an aircraft to be consider airworthy? Is it when the aircraft is setting on the ramp waiting patiently for a pilot to come along and fly it; maybe or maybe not. First, let’s start with a simply definition of airworthy. According to Advisory Circular AC43.13-1B, which is Acceptable Methods, Techniques, and Practices—Aircraft Inspection and Repair, airworthy is defined as; when an aircraft or one of its components parts meets its type design and is in a condition for safe operation. Now who can determine if an aircraft or one of its component parts meets it type design and is in a condition for safe operation? There are two very important people who have the skills and knowledge to determine just that question. They are the aircraft mechanic, who maintains the maintenance of the aircraft, and the aircraft owner/operator of the aircraft. Now while they both have the own responsibilities when it comes to aircraft airworthiness they most also work together to insure safe operation of the aircraft. First let’s start with the aircraft mechanic. A certified aircraft mechanic is a mechanic that has completed the required training in the maintenance of an aircraft which has been set forth by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and has received a passing score on their certification testing. Once the mechanic has successfully completed...
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...conducted with various people who played key roles in the rescue mission. Mining in Chile is not a novelty; it is a country rich in mineral resources and the world’s largest producer of copper. Mining accidents had been recorded in the past some of which ending in tragedy. The locality in which the mining disaster occurred – The Atacama Desert region alone hosted 884 mines. The events relayed in the case study commence on August 5, 2010 to October 13th 2010, when the operation was crowned with a victorious. The sheer tenacity and preciseness of the rescue team led by the Chilean mining minister Laurence Golborne has been compared to that of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’S) efforts in April 1970 when they successfully returned the damaged spacecraft, Apollo 13 to Earth after the near fatal explosion of an oxygen tank. The case study vividly relays the critical leadership decisions, political dilemmas of the cabinet and political elites; it explores the emotions, fears and hopes of the miner’s families. Despite the sad events that surround the case study, the study portrays human beings at their best; people of all...
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...HISTORY OF THE 10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION ________________________________________ Birth of the Division In November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. Finnish soldiers on skis annihilated two tank divisions, humiliating the Russians. Charles Minot (Minnie) Dole, the president of the National Ski Patrol, saw this as a perfect example of why the U.S. Army needed mountain troops. Dole spent months lobbying the War Department to train troops in mountain and winter warfare. In September 1940, Dole was able to present his case to General George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, who caused the Army take action on Dole’s proposals to create ski units. On December 8, 1941, the Army activated its first mountain unit, the 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (Later became an entire Regiment) at Fort Lewis, Washington. The unit was dubbed "Minnie’s Ski Troops" in honor of Dole. The 87th trained on Mount Ranier’s 14,408 foot peak. The National Ski Patrol took on the unique role of recruiting for the 87th Infantry Regiment and later the Division. After returning from the Kiska Campaign in the Aleutian Islands near Alaska the 87th formed the core of the new Division. 10th Mountain Division - World War II This unique organization came into being on July 13, 1943, at Camp Hale, Colorado as the 10th Light Division (Alpine). The combat power of the Division was contained in the 85th, 86th, and 87th Infantry Regiments. The Division’s year training at the 9,200 foot high Camp Hale honed...
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