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|Reviews for I Just Knew
| Lai Jun Chen chapter 1 . 12/10/2009
i've never read this pairing, though i like it. it was a very sweet fic.
| k chapter 1 . 7/9/2009
I really liked Kyouraku's point of view. :) Good Job.
| anna chapter 1 . 5/16/2009
I just love this story. Kyouraku wasn't OOC at all, don't worry
| Sine amore nihil est vita chapter 1 . 5/1/2009
OMG this is such an amazing story, seriously i can't comprehend why you don't have more reviews. I LOVE bleach and love Nanao and shunsui too they are just such a sweet couple but i have to say Byakuya and Hisana will always be my all time favourite couple!
Well written story and deep. L-O-V-E-D it.
Hope you write more stories
| JenovaJuice97 chapter 1 . 4/4/2009
its nice to see something from his pov instead of nanaos for once..
| lieutenant-taijiya chapter 1 . 3/31/2009
Aw... That was totally awesome. I don't care if you don't like it. I absolutly LOVED it. And we both know thats what counts. I don't think he was ocd... It was great. Now that you have proven that you can write fluff...cough...cough...I told you so! I expect to see it more often. Wonderful Job.
| asdf chapter 1 . 3/30/2009
So sweet! And the poor man DID have to wait a whole lot of time.
The next batter will probably be the children thing. Somehow I imagine him wanting a huge family, and Nanao wanting only one way in the future. Ah. I wish there were more nanao/shunsui!
It was a pleasure reading!
| darkangel1910 chapter 1 . 3/29/2009
It was cute. I like stories from his POV since they are so few. He was so sweet and in love.

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This is Part II, the first was [[1]]. This time we talk about Inman. I hope my English isn't bad at all. This is a really short one, from the three.
Kelvin Inman came on The Island via The Submarine. Inman found in a paper: Working for the DHARMA Initiative, for people who wanna save the world!
Radzinsky planned that Inman has to be in The Swan, so Radzinsky himself was safe with someone from the militairy.
Radzinsky said to Inman that they have to make a blast door map, so that they were save from The Hostiles. Radzinsky also told to Inman that it was for the safety. But exactley Radzinsky planned that he would save the time-travelers.
After The Incident, Richard told Ben about the Swan and that it was nearly there camp. Ben was aware of The Swan, because he knows were the Pearl is as seen in ("The Man Behind the Curtain"), and he was aware of Desmond, heard from Ben to Sayid in ("The Shape of Things to Come"), when Sayid ask how he came from the Island. He said with Desmond's boat.
In Part III, we talk about some other stuff. Something that explain a few things I think.--Station7 21:45, October 19, 2009 (UTC)


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Okanagan Valley resident, Julie Oakes, has a master's degree in art professions from NYU and a master's in social and political science from the New School for Social Research in New York.
In Hooks (Dundurn, 2012), Oakes grapples with the discrepancies between a Western and an Eastern take on prostitution. Oakes tells this story in two voices, one female (main character) and one male (her guide), each from vastly different personal circumstances and orientations. Hooks (Dundurn, 2012) contains 11 b&w illustrations.
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Looking ahead : pathways of future constitutional evolution of the EU
Title: Looking ahead : pathways of future constitutional evolution of the EU
Author: CLOSA, Carlos
Date: 2015
Publisher: European Parliament
Citation: Brussels : European Parliament, 2015
Series/Number: Directorate General for Internal Policies; Policy Department of Citizens' rights and Constitutional Affairs; In-depth analysis for the ACFO Committee; 2015; PE 510.005
External link: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/studies
The effects of the economic and fiscal crisis and the institutional instruments created to deal with it have led several actors (from governments and EU bodies to scholars) to propose different EU reforms. Several options exist to accommodate future constitutional development which, in some cases, may require Treaty revision. In this case, future constitutional evolution faces the challenge that the very stringent EU revision requirement (i.e. unanimity) poses. Other available options do not seem totally satisfactory.
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Craig H. Meyer
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- Phone: 434-243-9495
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: http://bme.virginia.edu/people/meyer.html
Research Interest(s)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Research Description
Our research focuses on inventing, developing and applying new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, especially techniques that acquire the image data very rapidly. This work involves MRI physics, signal processing, and image reconstruction techniques. Rapid MRI acquisition is particularly important for cardiac studies, because of cardiac and respiratory motion. One focus of our research is imaging atherosclerosis in arteries and its effects on perfusion of the heart, brain, and legs. In much of our research, we work with industrial collaborators with the goal of making our techniques widely available.
We collaborate with other labs at the University of Virginia on a variety of projects. One such collaboration is focused on developing new contrast agents and imaging methods for molecular and cellular imaging of cardiovascular inflammation. Another collaboration is focused on developing image-based models of musculoskeletal disease. We are also studying peripheral arterial disease through a set of MRI methods and developing new methods of characterizing heart failure. In collaboration with the hyperpolarized gas MRI group, we are developing fast methods of imaging the lung.
Selected Publications
- Salerno M, Taylor A, Yang Y, Kuruvilla S, Ragosta M, Meyer C, Kramer C. Adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance with variable-density spiral pulse sequences accurately detects coronary artery disease: initial clinical evaluation. Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging. 2014;7(4): 639-46. PMID: 24759900 | PMCID: PMC4102611
- Jiji R, Pollak A, Epstein F, Antkowiak P, Meyer C, Weltman A, Lopez D, Dimaria J, Hunter J, Christopher J, Kramer C. Reproducibility of rest and exercise stress contrast-enhanced calf perfusion magnetic resonance imaging in peripheral arterial disease. Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2013;15 14. PMID: 23343398 | PMCID: PMC3562222
- Clemens C, Bertelmann T, Meyer C. Vitreous traction after ozurdex injection. Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics : the official journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2012;29(1): 3-4. PMID: 23098563
- Feng X, Salerno M, Kramer C, Meyer C. Kalman filter techniques for accelerated Cartesian dynamic cardiac imaging. Magnetic resonance in medicine : official journal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine / Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2012. PMID: 22926804 | PMCID: PMC3536913
- Krohne T, Liu Z, Holz F, Meyer C. Intraocular pharmacokinetics of ranibizumab following a single intravitreal injection in humans. American journal of ophthalmology. 2012;154(4): 682-686.e2. PMID: 22818800
- Meyer C, Klein A, Alten F, Liu Z, Stanzel B, Helb H, Brinkmann C. Release and velocity of micronized dexamethasone implants with an intravitreal drug delivery system: kinematic analysis with a high-speed camera. Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.). 2012;32(10): 2133-40. PMID: 23060033
- Pallas A, Meyer C, Mojon D. [Nintendo 3DS : Technology, physiology and possible risks for children's eyes.] Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft. 2012. PMID: 23224123
- Pollak A, Meyer C, Epstein F, Jiji R, Hunter J, Dimaria J, Christopher J, Kramer C. Arterial spin labeling MR imaging reproducibly measures peak-exercise calf muscle perfusion: a study in patients with peripheral arterial disease and healthy volunteers. JACC. Cardiovascular imaging. 2012;5(12): 1224-30. PMID: 23236972 | PMCID: PMC3531823
- Saxena S, Jain A, Ramindar Sharma S, Meyer C. Three-dimensional spectral domain optical coherence tomography of retina in choroidal metastasis due to uterine endometrial carcinoma. BMJ case reports. 2012;2012. PMID: 22967681


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Connecticut Office of the Victim Advocate - Attached are two documents provided by the CT Office of the Victim Advocate to be used as a resource to those in need.
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This submission offers an analysis of the results from the supply-chain simulation. The submission will discuss strength areas, areas of opportunities, and lessons learned at the end of the simulation.
Supply-Chain Analysis
This submission analyzes the results of the supply-chain simulation completed. This analysis will comprise several noted points encountered in the simulation. Each discussion point will include a discussion of the correlation of the author's actions with the simulation results, comparative success results, and alternate actions to produce better results. Further analysis will be applied to the author's actions with relation to just-in-time inventory management and lean operations. An analysis will also be offered of the application of work cells in the simulated manufacturing plant. Inventory management will also be analyzed. Finally, the author will discuss continuous-improvement plans that lead to high-quality products and services. Simulation Analysis
Quarter 1 Analysis
Simulation Actions: The author had two aims: 1) capture the majority of the most price-insensitive market and 2) focus on a small, high-margin segment. The author was never motivated by being a market leader in all markets. The Mercedes market was the most price-insensitive out of the four. The North American and European markets were the most metropolitan and lucrative, with sales opportunities of 4,822 and 3,459, respectively.
The Mercedes market consists of thought professionals, such as engineers and scientists, who require substantial computing power to process complex calculations. Their computers should focus on raw power, speed of executing complex calculations, and interconnectivity with other systems and networks. The author believed providing the right equipment to this group could engender brand loyalty, although, admittedly, there is no empirical evidence in quarter 1 to substantiate such claim. The author also chose to target the Travelers market because it demonstrated an impressive demand potential in both the North American and European markets.
A notable caveat for this market is its price sensitivity. However, the constituency of this market includes high-ranking officials and C-level management professionals, all of which have high incomes and are well-connected, which indicates that offering a stellar product at a price they can afford may generate brand evangelists, thereby leading to higher revenue and profit. Obviously, portability and access to industry-accepted productivity software, such as word processors and spreadsheets, are important, but also systems with stellar levels of interconnectivity are de rigueur. Actions to Results: The actions in this quarter were focused on establishing processes to generate as much revenue as possible during the subsequent quarters. Therefore, there were no results to discuss. Here is an explanation of several first-quarter actions, however.
For Human Resources, the author reviewed industry-standard remuneration packages for sales professionals to assist in determining what package the company would offer to new employees. (The actual remuneration package is established in quarter 2.) The human-resources manager is Xavier Smith, also the president of the company.
For Marketing, the initial advertising brand name was "Enterprise PC," which focused on scientific/engineering software, multimedia engineering software, standard design, widescreen monitor, powerful computer processor—CPU—and Internet connection.
For Marketing, a second brand called "Mobile Ultimate" was created for the travelers segment. Features such as office applications, mobile games, travel multimedia, average CPU, and Internet connection targeted this system to the mobile professional needing to maintain constantly efficient and connected.
For Sales Offices, the company chose to open a location in North America/New York and Europe/Paris. The construction cost of each location was $220,000 and $210,000, respectively. The quarterly leasing cost was $120,000 and $100,000, respectively. To iterate, the reason for opening only two locations was to position the company's products in front of a significant number of consumers with metropolitan appetites and disposable incomes to support computer purchases.
For Manufacturing, production facilities were situated near Tokyo due to government perquisites offered. The company chose a facility that supported the production of 50 units per day, or 3,250 per quarter, at a cost of $22,000 per unit, inclusive of fixed and variable costs. Since no production began, choosing this plant size was purely anticipatory, not based on actual generated data. Facility adjustments may be made in subsequent quarters to accommodate higher-than-normal or lower-than-expected demand. For Accounting, the cash-flow sheet demonstrates an ending cash balance of $350,000, which comprises of $550,000 and $1,100,000 total anticipated expenses subtracted from $2,000,000 in sold stocks—financing. Since there was a positive cash balance, no loans were necessary.
Comparative Success: Success in this quarter cannot be determined, since the aims were focused on establishing processes to generate as much revenue as possible during subsequent quarters. Therefore, no comparisons are possible or appropriate. Alternative Actions: It is not possible to discuss alternative or corrective actions during quarter 1, since the aims were focused on establishing processes to generate as much revenue as possible during subsequent quarters. Alternative actions can only be discussed in subsequent quarters once there are data to review.
Quarter 2 Analysis
Simulation Actions: The previous quarter focused on establishing the computers to be sold. Quarter 2 focused on actually entering the market with a viable product that is sold by appropriately remunerated sales professionals committed to the company's profit-maximization goals.
For Human Resources, the company reviewed worldwide compensation packages for sales professionals in the computer industry. The company also studied the importance that employees placed on specific aspects of the remuneration package. For quarter 2, the company set employee salary at $40,000, which is $5,000 lower than the industry average. However, the company chose full-coverage health benefits, which exceeded the industry standard; two weeks of vacation time, which exceeded the industry standard; and 10 percent retirement-account contributions, which far exceeded the industry standard. The cost of the remuneration package, however, was almost equivalent with the industry standard. The reason for offering better-than-expected ancillary benefits was based on the company's view that salary alone is not a sufficiently significant motivator to compel employee loyalty and, as a result, productivity.
For Marketing, the company had to forecast demand for the quarter but do so to avoid unnecessary expenses from excess inventory or revenue loss due to stock-outs. The company projected selling 500 units for the quarter.
The company then chose a retail price of $3,847, with a $300 rebate, for Enterprise PC (for Mercedes customers), which is 50 percent higher than the suggested cost; this price difference supports the company's paying for other costs to sell the computers, such as for marketing. However, this price is lower than $4,000 Mercedes customers would be willing to pay. Coupled with a rebate, the goal was to significantly motivate demand for the engineering PCs.
For this quarter, the company chose not to sell Mobile Ultimate to Travelers customers. The rationale is that the company wanted to minimize the risk of failure by investing in two separate markets that have different sets of needs. The company chose to use the Mercedes market as the test market because this group is less resistant to price changes. If the company needed, it could increase the cost of the PCs being sold, and it would not be expected that the Mercedes customers would immediately purchase from a competitor.
The company also wanted to be a market leader for this segment, since the company identified Mercedes customers as being loyal to the brands that they appreciate. The ultimate aim was to create such a compelling product that the elasticity of demand for the PCs would be substantially reduced. In other words, the PC comes to be recognized as a necessity as opposed to a substitute good. With that type of hoped-for entrenchment, moving into a new market—i.e., Travelers—would be a much less dubious process. (Marketing to Travelers would happen in later quarters.)
For Advertising, the company chose to run two ad campaigns, both with slightly different emphases. The first campaign, "A Powerful You," focused on the power of the PCs sold. The campaign prominently featured discussions on processing power and monitor real estate. And it made the connection by prominently featuring pictures of engineers and scientists. Brand-name mentioning was also a tactic and was the most important in placement. As a test market, it was important for the customer to match a brand with a company in the initial stages.
The second campaign, "Engineer Now," focused on the processing power and making the connection with engineers and scientists. But the campaign also included pictures of business professionals, since some professionals use spreadsheet and other computational software to treat large amounts of data. Still, the focus was on thought professionals. Actions to Results: The actions in this quarter were focused on establishing processes to generate as much revenue as possible during the subsequent quarters. Therefore, there were no results to discuss.
Mercedes customers read news and science-and-technology magazines, so the company chose to focus its marketing efforts in those areas primarily. News magazines were relatively inexpensive to advertise in—at $8,000 per advertisement. The company chose to run one instance of each campaign in these magazines. It also ran one of each in trade and industry magazines. "Engineer Now" was run exclusively in business magazines, however, to capture the business professionals that compute large calculations. Science-and-technology magazines were some of the most costly—at $15,000 per advertisement. The company chose to one instance of each campaign in these magazines. Last, the company chose to spend $15,000 in market research to better understand customer needs, trends, and information about competitors and their tactics for market capitalization.
For Sales, the company chose to hire five salespeople, three for North America and two for Europe. For North America, two were dedicated to selling, and one was dedicated to technical support. The reason for the two-to-one ratio was that the company needed more professionals to move products into production and fewer to troubleshoot issues. For Europe, one was dedicated to sales, and the other was dedicated to technical support. The rationale was Europe is a smaller market and will not naturally generate the same level of demand, so one salesperson would be sufficient. One technical-support professional would also be sufficient. The total cost to employ salespeople for the quarter was approximately $87,000. For Manufacturing, with five salespeople in the field generating business, the company projected 100 sales per professional, which was 500 sales per quarter. That equated to seven units per day.
The company chose to only produce Enterprise PC, since, as indicated previously, the focus for the current quarter was on the Mercedes market. To limit an abundance of costly leftover inventory, the company set 25-unit threshold for unwanted goods. The company chose to set the daily production limit at 10 per day, which is higher than the projected seven per day. At 10 per day, the plant would have been able to produce 650 units for the quarter, which was approximately one-fifth of the plant's production capability. The factory simulation bore these results: 19 percent plant utilization, with overhead costs of $115,423. The production volume was lower, so the costs of production were higher, naturally.
The goal was to increase demand in subsequent quarters, which would increase production and, as a result, decrease production costs, thereby funneling more funds into revenue and profit as opposed to expenses. Comparative Success: Millennium Technologies competed with Creative Computers, Inc., Powerhouse Technologies, and Olympus Computers for market share in three markets: Workhorse (office professionals), Traveler (mobile business professionals), and Mercedes (engineering/scientific professionals). See the following graph for market-share placement:
Please note that the company was only interested in the Mercedes market and placed its efforts there. For the Mercedes market, the company had the second-largest customer base, only preceded by Powerhouse Technologies. Due to advertising placement in certain publications, some unanticipated demand was generated from the Workhorse segment. Overall, the company had the third-largest customer base for all computing demand.
Although the company never intended to be the market leader in all the segments, the company was not the market leader in the Mercedes segment. After a competitive analysis, the company determined that Powerhouse Technologies had a better pricing strategy:
Its PCs are substantially cheaper than Millennium Technologies's, and their PCs still outsold the company's without a single rebate. This reality further indicates that Powerhouse Technologies markets better and in a more targeted fashion that Millennium Technologies:
A factor that supported the company's competitive stance is the productivity garnered from salespeople as it relates to their remuneration package:
Despite having a lower salary, most other aspects of the company's remuneration package exceed the industry standards. Looking at the productivity rate of the company's salespeople, an easy inference can be made that the remuneration package is working to motivate employees to be competitive. Alternative Actions: In hindsight, to promote more competitiveness, the company should have embarked on capturing the mobile market as opposed to focusing solely on one market.
Doing so could have increased overall market share. The company would also have been more deliberate in its pricing scheme. Simply because a segment seems price inelastic does not indicate that price is never a concern or motivator. The company also learned from Powerhouse Technologies that making a connection with customers through effective and well-placed advertising can mean the difference between a successful or unsuccessful company.
Quarter 3 Analysis
Simulation Actions: The results from quarter 2 were mostly in line with the author's intentions. The goal was to be the market leader and demonstrate the highest profit margin for the Mercedes market. As of the inception of quarter 3, Millennium Technologies was the second most demanded technology company in the industry:
The sales for the primary product, "Enterprise PC," were in line with expectation, with a gross profit margin of $556,756, as indicated here:
Please note that the company made a conscious decision not to advertise its mobile-PC product. Found in the cash-flow statement for this quarter, the company amassed $1.1 million dollars in cash flow to be used for further expansion. Effective price levels were instrumental in generating this cash flow. Most customers found Enterprise PC's pricing to be enticing when compared with competitors' pricing scheme:
The follow table demonstrates advertisement placement, which contributed to how well the product sold:
For quarter 3, the company chose to expand its remuneration package for its employees. The goal from the outset was 1) to offer compelling ancillary benefits and 2) incrementally align the salary with the industry standard while making minor modifications to ancillary benefits to keep those portions above industry standard. Review the chart for remuneration modifications:
The salary increased to $42,000 annually; the benefits remained the same. However, paid time off increased to three weeks, two weeks above industry standards. Employer contribution to retirement accounts increased to 15 percent, significantly higher than industry standard. The remuneration package's cost was in line with the industry average.
To bolster sales, the company chose to employee more sales professionals in both North America and Europe. To account for the employee increase and anticipated sales increase, the company staffed an additional support person. Also, to galvanize for a market push for the Travelers segment, one of the additional employees was staffed for that market. Also, even though no advertisement was planned for the Workhorse market, one employee was staffed there to capture any sales, no matter how minor, that would be generated through word-of-mouth advertising for the company:
For the European market, additional staff was added to the Mercedes market. New employees were staffed for the Travelers market in preparation of the market push via advertising for this segment. Also, as noted in the North American market, even though no advertising was planned for the Workhorse market, some sales had been generated there, so it was necessary to employ a professional to capture any random sales opportunities there. As noted in the chart above, the employment costs increased substantially due to the recent recruiting efforts.
The company chose not to open additional sales locations out of a financial concern. Although the company demonstrated a positive cash flow, Xavier Smith chose to be conservative in his approach and chose to focus on exclusively on the Mercedes and (now)
Travelers markets.
The goal for increasing the remuneration package was to increase the employee loyalty, which should increase the employee productivity rate. Comparative Success: The following are pie charts demonstrating the success of the company compared with competitors in key markets:
Millennium Technologies placed third in overall market share. This placement was not unexpected, since the company chose to focus only on one market segment, Mercedes. (It is interesting, however, that the company placed better than one company that did focus on advertising to three different markets.) For the target market, the following pie chart indicates the company's results:
The overall performance in this market is acceptable, but the company expected to do better, since it focused its advertising dollars in this market. Powerhouse Technologies clearly had a better marketing strategy. This is indicative of the dissonance between Millennium Technology's brand recognition, which was higher than Powerhouse Technologies, and actual sales:
Alternative Actions: For inventory, the company had no stock-outs but was left with 25 unwanted inventory items, which was forecasted in the previous quarter:
For demand projection, the company chose to be too conservative and did not change the projected demand. This is nonsensical, since the company also planned a market push for the Travelers market for the current quarter. Even if that market push were not as successful as planned, some increased demand would be logical. This conservative approach was not in the best interest of the company.
A further indication of a judgment failure is the misinterpretation of the operational capacity of the plant. With the projected demand—that remained unchanged—the plant would still only have operated at 41-percent capacity. A reasonable increase of operational capacity would have been 55 to 60 percent. Such a decision would have left sufficient capacity to absorb any unexpected demand without creating stock-outs.
During the preceding quarter, the company should have started marketing to the Travelers market, just to be more competitive in the overall market.
Quarter 4 Analysis
Simulation Actions: The previous quarter demonstrated moderate gains in market. The Total Business Performance measurement showed a five-point gain. As indicated in the chart below, the business's performance fell within an acceptable range, though barely.
Perusing the other line items, it is clear that the previous quarter's results are indicative of company growth measures that are too conservative and, in the case of financial risk, detrimental to the overall viability of the company.
For Brand Profitability, both brands of the company, Enterprise PC for Mercedes customers and Mobile Ultimate for Travelers customers posted healthy revenue due to the hiring of additional sales professionals and the expansion into the Travelers market to bolster revenue and market position.
Actions to Results/Comparative Success: When compared with other brands in the two markets of interest of the company, Millennium Technologies continues to offer competitive brands and are positively perceived. For the Mercedes market, the most important for the company, the company's brand is among the top three competitors:
For the Travelers market, which is a new market for the company, the company is the top rated in comparison with competitors:
Minor modifications were made the significance and order of features in the advertising campaign for the Mercedes market, and new feature significance were effective in generating healthy sales volume. Mentioning the brand's name and highlighting connecting appropriate features to customer's wants and needs aided the success of this campaign.
The company's overall success level when compared with competitors continues to be acceptable, as indicated in the following pie charts:
The company's hiring additional sales professionals (and support staff) contributed to becoming the leader in the Mercedes market, which has always been the goal of the company. Also, providing these employees a more compelling remuneration package increased their productivity rate compared with competitors:
Millennium Technologies dominates the Travelers market through concerted and effective marketing efforts in the North American and European markets. Unfortunately, the growth in both sectors did not sufficiently contribute to gaining overall market share:
It should be noted that overall market share declined merely one percent. This decline can be attributed to more aggressive marketing efforts by competitors. Alternative Actions: The total demand for the company's products is substantially lower than its competitors, as indicated by the following chart:
Immediately, the demand difference can be attributed to the reality that the company chose not to implement advertisement for the Travelers section until last quarter. Competitors immediately begin to place advertisements for that market and gained market share before Millennium Technologies. Again, being the market leader in all market segments was never a principle concern; however, having a more respectable overall market share could mitigate against large demand upsurges in competitors in later quarters.
Another considerable issue is the average price of products, which is the highest in the industry:
The first cell is Millennium Technologies' pricing, with the rest being competitors' pricing. The price difference is not stark, but even though the Mercedes market, which demonstrates high levels of price inelasticity, the higher price can have an overall effect on revenue and profits and compel at least some customers to seek more less costly solutions. The company should have scrutinized the pricing strategies of competitors more and made adjustments accordingly. These adjustments could have positively influenced the sales volume for the Mercedes market.
The overall sales force when compared with competitors is lower, which contributed to lower sales and, as a result, less demand:
Quarter 4 Results
The following are the results for quarter 4:
The scorecard is generally positive, though results could certainly be better. The Total Overall performance is 5.12, which is slightly higher than the minimum. This number can be directly attributed to the reality that throughout the year, the company was too conservative in its actions. Furthermore, the company did not invest in research and development of new products, which limited its influence on the market in general. However, for the markets it chose to focus on, Mercedes and Travelers, the company's financial performance was acceptable.
There is no unmet demand, which means that customers who want the company's product can readily obtain it:
A notable achievement is the company's risk profile, which is acceptable. The company has no unmet debt obligations and has no financial risk. This reality is directly attributed to conservative growth behaviors. Budget and Pro-Forma Statement Utilization
Conservative marketing efforts to generate revenue was the growth approach of choice for the company. Doing so would minimize the need to involve the company in financially tenuous activities but also provide cash flow to fund conservative growth efforts.
The baseline budget was $350,000, which was the starting point for quarter 1. For quarter 2, the goal was to spend as little as possible, conserving a positive cash flow to support operations and growth for subsequent quarters. The company chose to limit production to Mercedes products. Whereas the operational capacity of the plant was 50 units per day, or 3,250 units per quarter, the company conservatively projected 10 units per day, or 650 units per quarter. Thus, the company projected only 20-percent utilization of the plant. The company also projected 25 unwanted units at the end of the quarter.
Total projected revenue would have been $1.9 million, with production expenses minimized to $1.2 million. Factoring in rebates, this conservative approach would allow a gross profit of approximately $640,000. Coupled with selling $1 million in stocks, the company was poised for the next quarter to have a cash balance of $1.2 million. This approach avoided stock-outs and minimized unwanted inventory at the beginning of the next quarter.
Quarter 3 and 4 demonstrated the same conservative approach, with minimal increases to units produced per day and overall operational capacity of the plant. The goal was to remain solvent and to have a positive cash balance at the end of the year. The company achieved that goal by posting a nearly $950,000.
Operating-Efficiency Strategies
Just-in-time, or JIT, manufacturing is a continuous-improvement process that seeks to eliminate inefficiency from the supply-chain process. The company adequate attention to this concept through the limited amount of unwanted inventory at any time, which was 25 products at the end of each term, regardless the increase in operational capacity and units produced per day.
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Type of paper: Thesis/Dissertation Chapter
Date: 19 October 2016
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Since today is Halloween (Happy Halloween, by the way!) I thought I'd post what I wore to work on Saturday night for our "costume contest". I don't really get too wrapped up in Halloween (I know... so boring of me!) and I didn't want to spend any money (Frugal McDoogal!), so I opted to take the Speedy Girl dress from this post and style it up like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. I didn't want to DIY any glitter shoes so I just wore some red flats and braided my hair. Close enough right? I spent exactly ZERO cents. Win! Maybe I'll get crafty next year, but this year I was fine just cruisin' through! It was a successful night at work (for the most part. May or may not have had a verbal showdown with an incredibly insufferable gentleman) and I'm ready to be productive this week!
Yesterday was spent thrifting and fawning over a rescue/special needs puppy we have our heart set on. More on that at another time!
What are you dressing up as for Halloween? (Or what have you this weekend?) Did you do anything super fun and exciting for the ~holiday?!
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The Bowel Research Collaborative Data Tracking System Implementation Study
Site assessment: Each site will be assessed as to their current bowel assessment and
documentation methods, and their current bowel management strategy. Clinical practice
leaders (nursing and physician) will be interviewed, and as many of the nurses as can be
contacted will be asked to complete a brief questionnaire about bowel care at their site,
with some focus groups being held in order to allow all staff to have input.
A retrospective chart review will be carried out to include at least 30 patients to
establish the current documentation standard and outcomes.
The impact of bowel care on nursing practice will be assessed.
Intervention: As a result of the assessments at all the sites and in collaboration with the
site leaders, the research team will devise a common reporting and documentation system
which will enable systematic collection of bowel outcomes data. It is intended that the
Victoria Bowel Performance Scale will be introduced, in combination with other reporting
tools specific to bowel management. The tools may vary from site to site depending on the
context of care, for example an inpatient unit will have differing requirements to an
outpatient clinic. However the goal is for required outcome data to be retrievable from
charts from all settings in a consistent, complete and reliable way.
Evaluation: Medical and nursing staff will be surveyed in the same way as in the initial
assessment (interviews, questionnaires and focus groups), to assess the performance and
acceptability of the modified reporting process. A second chart review will be undertaken
when at least 30 patients have passed through the service. Outcomes from the chart reviews
will be communicated back to care providers in order to give them feedback as to the quality
of bowel care they are providing. Any further modifications to the data tracking system will
be made so that by the end of the project the system is acceptable to all sites and
functioning effectively, allowing the network of collaborating sites to proceed to the next
step: clinical trials of different bowel care treatments.
Demographic data recorded will be that required to determine comparability of cohorts with
respect to risk for constipation and will include the following variables.
- Age
- Gender
- Palliative Performance Status (PPSv2) on admission
- Diagnosis (if cancer, which tumour type)
- Major comorbid diagnoses
- Reason for admission
- Presence or absence of abdominal cancer
- Presence or absence of ascites
- Radiotherapy during admission (if yes, to abdomen or not)
- Medications taken during admission
- Duration of admission
- Number of days on bowel protocol
- Discharge or death
The primary outcome measures for bowel function for each patient will be the proportion of
days with at least one bowel movement a day, and the proportion of patients with a bowel
movement at least 40 % and at least 50% of days. The secondary outcome variables of the
study will be use of enemas, suppositories or lactulose, and reported cramping and/or
diarrhoea. Diarrhoea will be defined as either passage of watery stool at least once a day,
or more than 3 bowel movements a day. These were the same outcome variables used in the
docusate study. Sites will be grouped according to type of setting (hospice, PCU, home etc).
Sites with very similar patients will be combined for statistical analysis (for example the
two Vancouver residential hospices to which patients are referred through a common process
and assigned to according to bed availability).
Acceptability of the BPS will be assessed through a combination of questionnaires and focus
groups with staff at sites which elect to pilot it after reviewing the results of the
initial assessment. Their responses will be analysed using qualitative methodology. Staff
will also be asked at the end of the study whether or not they would prefer to continue to
use the BPS for routine clinical assessment or to revert to their previous method.
The utility of the BPS as a suitable outcome measure for clinical trials of bowel management
treatments will be explored by correlating the single item BPS score with the primary and
secondary outcome variables. As scoring of the BPS is essentially a composite of multiple
outcome variables, (bowel movement frequency, consistency, degree of sphincter control and
associated symptoms such as cramping etc.) it is anticipated that the BPS will provide at
least the same outcome information as the multiple individual variables, which are rarely
fully documented. We hope that the BPS will provide more patient-centred and useful
information to guide laxative treatment, as the tool is centred around the individual's
"normal" bowel habit, rather than relying on arbitrarily defined norms. Data from all sites
will be able to be pooled for this analysis.
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective
Increased knowledge about normal bowel functioning in palliative care patients
Philippa Dr Hawley, B.Med
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Canada: Ethics Review Committee
June 2008
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About: Pinderfields General Hospital Pinderfields General Hospital Wakefield WF1 4DG
Posted by Anonymous
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My Mother in Law has recently been admitted to Pinderfields Hospital, she collapsed 15th May and was transported by ambulance to Pinderfields. On the Friday of that week Pinderfields staff (Gate 20) were happy to send her home as she had told them she was alright, clearly you could see she was not medically fit to come home and we had to refuse due to lack of home care, after a CT Scan she was told that she had a collapsed lung, second one in two years and a chest infection, there was nothing more they could do and she would be better off at home, no reason why or how, what to do when she came home, how long she would be ill, what further care should we give, no reasons why she has lost 2 stone in 8 weeks, why she cannot stand un aided just that she will be better off at home! It took 3 days of speaking to doctors and nurses and still no clear answers have been given, one doctor even stated they were not experienced enough to answer. The level of care in this hospital was disgraceful, the nurses were attentive but the doctors couldn't wait to get rid. She is now in a care home and having to go through more investigatiions to find out why she is in the state she is but why couldn't Pinderfield hospital sort this out while she was there already in their care? This hospital is clearly under staffed there are nurses running about all over the place trying to do 10 jobs at once, does nobody realise that it is only a matter of time before some medical staff make a fatal mistake, nurses are clearly overworked and need more support, they don't have time to care it's hurrendous, you wouldn't treat animals like this! I will be making an official complaint regarding this in the very near future appauling.
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What kinds of food can help you get Serotonin?READ MORE
Is there a diet to increase Serotonin?
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I know you posted this question quite awhile ago, and you did receive a solid response from CIG, but I was wondering if you found an effective treatment plan. We would love to hear it. Many other community members have asked similar questions.
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Sounds like a simple question...but it's not.READ MORE
Serotonin's found in both blood cortisol and brain cortisol with no correlation due to the "blood/brain barrier". I assume you're wanting to increase serotonin in brain cortisol.
Tryptophan is the precursor of serotonin so you'd think foods with a high level of tryptophan would be the answer; it's not. The catch is the ratio of tryptophan to phenylalanine and leucine determines serotonin production. Foods with a higher ratio promote production of serotonin while foods with a lower ratio inhibit production. Eating a banana will increase serotonin...unless you make a sandwich, on whole wheat bread, of it.
Using diet to increase brain cortisol serotonin level isn't, I think, a good idea. The problem may not have anything to do with serotonin level and, even if it does, most of the 5Hydroxytryptophan (stuff your liver makes from tryptophan that becomes serotonin) is converted to serotonin before it gets to the brain. So, the brain cortisol level may be increased, marginally, while the blood cortisol level is increased, greatly. This can cause heart problems.
Speaking of which, several of the foods, which have a high ratio of tryptophan to phenylalanine and leucine, should be avoided by people with or at risk of heart problems.
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Why Rudds $10.4 billion Hit will Not Prevent a Recession
Prime Minister Rudd's move to inject $10.4 billion (about half of the surplus) had the laudable effect of revealing the sorry state of economic commentary in this country. Take those commentators who fear that the injection will spur inflation and aggravate the current account deficit. Whatever one might think of the injection it is certainly not inflationary. The surplus is held on deposit with the Reserve bank and is therefore still part of the money supply. In that sense we are not talking about a monetary injection but a reduction in cash balances, usually and mistakenly called idle balances.
Any effect on the CPI would be minimal and a one-off event. This does not mean, however, that there could not be a significant increase in the prices of certain items. But the distinction between the whole array of prices and a few individual prices must be maintained, just as it should never be forgotten that a continuing increase in general prices can only be brought about by a sustained increase in the money supply*.
The fallacy behind the injection is that consumption is the engine of economic growth. As I have stressed innumerable times it is total business spending that drives the economy, not consumer spending. The fallacy has led to our commentariat assuming that a decline in consumer spending is slowing the economy. Yet if this assumption were correct then a down turn in business spending in the higher stages of production would follow a reduction in consumer spending.
When we examine the date we find that the opposite has happened. The The AIG's (Australian Industry Group) October report states that in September "Manufacturing activity fell for a fourth successive month". To those who understand the link between monetary policy, interest rates and manufacturing the PMI is signalling that the economy is sliding into recession. I have spent sometime warning readers that Australia faced an impending recession. Back in 1999 I warned that the US had entered the first phase of a recession. I said the same thing about Australia, stressing that total business spending was falling and this indicates recession regardless of increasing consumer spending, falling unemployment and a positive GDP. The chart below illustrates why I was right.
The Australian situation was reversed when in 2001 the Reserve slapped on the monetary accelerator and sent M1 zooming by 22 per cent. Rudd's $10 billion response to the present slowdown could accelerate the manufacturing contraction. Increasing demand at the lower stages of production can only come at the expense of the higher stages by bidding away resources. I say could because the process of manufacturing contraction may be moving so fast that the sudden $10 billion increase in consumer spending might very well have no effect on it. This, however, is really a post-mortem question. Real forces are now in motion and Rudd's fiscal counter attack cannot stop them.
Let us now take a detour through the world of economic commentary. Michael Stutchbury, economics editor of The Australian, introduced his article with the statement that "the 1930s Depression economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run we're all dead". And so he did. But he was not referring to the 1930s or depression -- or any depression for that matter -- but to the quantity theory of money and the level of prices in the long run. (John Maynard Keynes A Tract on Monetary Reform, London:Macmillan, 1924, p. 80). From his error on Keynes it was only a small step to making a much larger one. In his opinion Rudd's fiscal tactic
might be enough to keep the economy out of recession until next year's July 1 tax cuts and monetary stimulus kicking. (Staying alive in the short run, The Australian, 15 October 2008).
As I have already pointed out -- this ain't going to happen. Paul Kelly, Stutchbury's colleague, fatuously announced that this "is the recession we don't have to have, and won't". (The Australian online, 18 October 2008). Peter Jonson -- aka Henry Thornton -- thinks Rudd is a real "recession buster". He then praised the grossly incompetent Gordon Brown for turning "adversity into hope by being seen to have led the world's financial system out of complete stasis by proposing partial re-nationalisation of failing banks". (Henry Thornton, The Australian 15 October 2008). This is typical rubbish from a man who thinks putting the cretinous Pelosi in charge of the US economy until Obama and his lefty cronies are ready to implement their destructive tax policy is a bloody good idea. (Henry Thornton -- the real one, that is -- must be turning in his grave).
Terry McCrann -- regarded by the economic illiterates who fill our corporate boardrooms -- as a sound man on economics came down on the side of the Rudd package, arguing that a "direct fiscal stimulus is both necessary and appropriate -- and effectively pre-emptive". (Rudd and ANZ moves likely to crimp future rate cuts, 18 October 2008). As if on cue came the clueless Andrew Bolt who has got it into what passes for a brain that he is sufficiently knowledgeable about economics to give an informed opinion on fiscal policy. He therefore portentously declared -- no doubt hoping it would impress his readers as well as his boss -- that
some stimulus may indeed be needed, to keep people in work by getting the rest of us to keep spending. But was quite this much stimulus -- Rudd spending half the Budget surplus in one surprise hit -- really necessary? (Queries for PM amid crisis, Herald Sun, 15 October 2008).
Brimming with the sort of self-confidence that one finds in the kind of person who after reading an article or two on a subject becomes an instant expert and boor who then earnestly attempts to impress all and sundry with his newly acquired knowledge, Malcolm Turnbull sternly addressed the nation and explained that
The financial crisis started when banks in America made trillions of dollars of housing loans to people far too many of whom could not afford to repay them. This reckless lending fuelled a housing bubble and of course, so long as house prices kept going up, everyone was happy.
Complete bilge. The world faced a financial crises because it has spent years on a monetary binge. All those so-called "surplus savings" that were sloshing around the world's banking systems were in reality masses of excess bank deposits the responsibility for the creation of which has to be laid at the doors of the central banks.
During the Howard years Australia experienced an extraordinary monetary expansion. Allow me to once again draw readers' attention to the monetary aggregates. From March 1996 to December 2007 currency rose by 110 per cent, bank deposits by 178 per cent and M1 by 163 per cent. These are terrible figures that could only end in tears. Yet they have yet to register with our commentariat. Recent monetary figures have been particularly interesting.
Last December M1 peaked at 231.3 after which it dropped to 216.3 in May, a 6.5 per cent deflation in five months. I pointed out at the time that the June figure of 224.7 suggested that the Reserve was trying to reflate. I was right. The monetary aggregates for June were revised upward to 233.3, the figure for July fell slightly to 232.6 while the August figure stands at 231.9.
The following chart provides a vivid picture of monetary conditions, showing that they have been extremely tight since last December, being, as we have seen, even deflationary for the period of January to May.(The green line represents M1, [currency plus bank deposits] the red line represents bank deposits and the blue line represents currency).
There is absolutely no way that any increase in consumer spending can possibly offset the monetary squeeze the Reserve created. It's time our commentators learned that the Keynesian multiplier really is a myth and that the accelerator concept was demolished decades ago. (William H. Hutt, The Keynesian Episode, LibertyPress, 1979, chap. 17). As Fritz Machlup observed:
... monetary factors cause the [business] cycle but real phenomena constitute it, Essays on Hayek, Routledge, Kegan Paul 1977, p. 23).
To slightly paraphrase Margo Channing: "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride."


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