Hippopotamuses are large, plump animals that live in herds along rivers and lakes in sub-Saharan Africa. They can grow up to 16 feet long and weigh several thousand pounds. Despite their size, hippos are agile in water and spend most days submerged to keep cool and avoid predators. At night, they emerge onto land to graze on grass and other plant matter. Hippos live together in tight-knit family groups and give birth to pink calves that remain closely bonded to their mothers.
This document contains summaries of several traditional Chinese herbal formulas used to nourish the kidneys, tonify essence, and aid fertility. The first section describes two formulas: Yu Shen Tong Luo Fang which tonifies the kidneys and channels, and Yu Shen Pei Yuan Fang which nourishes the kidneys and consolidates the primordial. The second section details the formula Zi Shen Yu Tai Wan which nourishes the kidneys and aids childbearing. The third section introduces the formula Qi Zi Yan Zong Wan made of seven herbs. The last section presents the formula Zan Yu Dan for nourishing and aiding.
The document discusses Troy Hicks and his use of digital media in his writing courses at Central Michigan University. Hicks pioneered the integration of online resources like blogs, wikis, and collaborative word processors to provide feedback to students and allow for peer collaboration. These tools allow feedback and revision to occur outside of class time in a more permanent form. The document also outlines specific tools that can be used like RSS feeds, social bookmarking, digital portfolios, audio and written anthologies, and provides resources for further information.
Gorillas are the largest animals in the ape family, can weigh up to three times a human, and live in habitats ranging from rainforests to mountains in western central Africa and parts of Uganda. Gorillas have hands similar to humans, beat their chests as a warning, and resemble humans in some physical ways. Baby gorillas are born small, covered in blood, and suckle their mother's milk.
This document is an ABC book where each letter of the alphabet is paired with a corresponding word. For each letter A through Z, a single word is provided that begins with that letter, such as A is for ankle, B is for busker, and C is for chemestry. The book provides a simple word for each letter in alphabetical order as an educational tool for learning the alphabet.
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This document summarizes a presentation about StrongMail Social Direct, a social media management platform. It allows marketers to launch campaigns on Facebook and Twitter, identify influencers, and analyze campaign performance across social networks. The platform also enables listening to and engaging in social conversations to understand a brand's awareness and effectiveness. It provides detailed reports on campaign performance and helps evaluate the social impact of efforts. StrongMail Social Direct provides centralized management of social media campaigns and conversations in real-time across multiple networks.
Hippopotamuses are large, plump animals that live in herds along rivers and lakes in sub-Saharan Africa. They can grow up to 16 feet long and weigh several thousand pounds. Despite their size, hippos are agile in water and spend most days submerged to keep cool and avoid predators. At night, they emerge onto land to graze on grass and other plant matter. Hippos live together in tight-knit family groups and give birth to pink calves that remain closely bonded to their mothers.
This document contains summaries of several traditional Chinese herbal formulas used to nourish the kidneys, tonify essence, and aid fertility. The first section describes two formulas: Yu Shen Tong Luo Fang which tonifies the kidneys and channels, and Yu Shen Pei Yuan Fang which nourishes the kidneys and consolidates the primordial. The second section details the formula Zi Shen Yu Tai Wan which nourishes the kidneys and aids childbearing. The third section introduces the formula Qi Zi Yan Zong Wan made of seven herbs. The last section presents the formula Zan Yu Dan for nourishing and aiding.
The document discusses Troy Hicks and his use of digital media in his writing courses at Central Michigan University. Hicks pioneered the integration of online resources like blogs, wikis, and collaborative word processors to provide feedback to students and allow for peer collaboration. These tools allow feedback and revision to occur outside of class time in a more permanent form. The document also outlines specific tools that can be used like RSS feeds, social bookmarking, digital portfolios, audio and written anthologies, and provides resources for further information.
Gorillas are the largest animals in the ape family, can weigh up to three times a human, and live in habitats ranging from rainforests to mountains in western central Africa and parts of Uganda. Gorillas have hands similar to humans, beat their chests as a warning, and resemble humans in some physical ways. Baby gorillas are born small, covered in blood, and suckle their mother's milk.
This document is an ABC book where each letter of the alphabet is paired with a corresponding word. For each letter A through Z, a single word is provided that begins with that letter, such as A is for ankle, B is for busker, and C is for chemestry. The book provides a simple word for each letter in alphabetical order as an educational tool for learning the alphabet.
TWTRCON NY 10 Real-Time Tools: StrongMail | Michele DoyleEdelman
This document summarizes a presentation about StrongMail Social Direct, a social media management platform. It allows marketers to launch campaigns on Facebook and Twitter, identify influencers, and analyze campaign performance across social networks. The platform also enables listening to and engaging in social conversations to understand a brand's awareness and effectiveness. It provides detailed reports on campaign performance and helps evaluate the social impact of efforts. StrongMail Social Direct provides centralized management of social media campaigns and conversations in real-time across multiple networks.
The document discusses the rhino. It describes the rhino's habitat as savannas, swampy regions, grasslands, and woodlands, and also mentions they live in parts of Asia. Physically, rhinos have large horns, thick skin, three toes on each foot, and gray skin. They mainly eat grass, flowers, leaves, branches, and drink water. There are five different types of rhinos, and black rhinos have hook-like top lips. Rhinos do not have sweat glands and are endangered due to poaching. The document provides photo credits from Wikimedia Commons.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
When thieves strike: Executive briefing on SWIFT attacksSangram Gayal
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document contains a list of names and their total NHS (National Honor Society) points. The names are listed alphabetically along with their respective point totals which range from 1 to 23 points.
The document provides information about The Walt Disney Company, including:
1) Walt and Roy Disney founded Disney in 1923 in Hollywood, California after losing the character Oswald the Rabbit.
2) Disney now has 137,000 employees, $35.51 billion in revenue, and $3.832 billion in net income for 2007.
3) Robert A. Iger has been Disney's CEO since 2005, with a salary of $2 million.
Докладчик: Максим Баланев, исполнительный директор Регионального интегрированного центра - Санкт-Петербург
Механизмы государственной поддержки
экспортно-ориентированных субъектов
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La herencia es un acto de solidaridad que une a las personas más allá de la muerte. Al dejar un legado a organizaciones benéficas, los donantes ayudan a causas importantes que mejoran vidas incluso después de que ellos ya no estén. La planificación de una herencia filantrópica permite a las personas marcar una diferencia positiva de manera permanente.
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- The banking industry has seen consolidation over the past 15 years with one third of independent banks being acquired, while over 60 new banks have opened in Georgia in the past 5 years.
- It's important to evaluate how healthy your bank is by checking metrics like capital adequacy, asset quality, management, earnings, and liquidity on the FDIC website.
- Banks will evaluate your business's capital, asset quality, management, earnings, and liquidity when deciding terms for loans and lines of credit. It's important to proactively communicate with your banker.
The document discusses the rhino. It describes the rhino's habitat as savannas, swampy regions, grasslands, and woodlands, and also mentions they live in parts of Asia. Physically, rhinos have large horns, thick skin, three toes on each foot, and gray skin. They mainly eat grass, flowers, leaves, branches, and drink water. There are five different types of rhinos, and black rhinos have hook-like top lips. Rhinos do not have sweat glands and are endangered due to poaching. The document provides photo credits from Wikimedia Commons.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
When thieves strike: Executive briefing on SWIFT attacksSangram Gayal
Executive briefing on the significance of SWIFT attacks and countermeasures. http://www.pwc.in/assets/pdfs/consulting/cyber-security/thought-leadership/when-thieves-strike-executive-briefing.pdf
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document contains a list of names and their total NHS (National Honor Society) points. The names are listed alphabetically along with their respective point totals which range from 1 to 23 points.
The document provides information about The Walt Disney Company, including:
1) Walt and Roy Disney founded Disney in 1923 in Hollywood, California after losing the character Oswald the Rabbit.
2) Disney now has 137,000 employees, $35.51 billion in revenue, and $3.832 billion in net income for 2007.
3) Robert A. Iger has been Disney's CEO since 2005, with a salary of $2 million.
Докладчик: Максим Баланев, исполнительный директор Регионального интегрированного центра - Санкт-Петербург
Механизмы государственной поддержки
экспортно-ориентированных субъектов
малого и среднего предпринимательства
La herencia es un acto de solidaridad que une a las personas más allá de la muerte. Al dejar un legado a organizaciones benéficas, los donantes ayudan a causas importantes que mejoran vidas incluso después de que ellos ya no estén. La planificación de una herencia filantrópica permite a las personas marcar una diferencia positiva de manera permanente.
Press Releases: The Content Marketer's Not-So-Hidden Treasureprnewswire
On Demand - Webinar
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=492974&sessionid=1&key=860F8D263607BCE39A125046FE357045&sourcepage=register
- The banking industry has seen consolidation over the past 15 years with one third of independent banks being acquired, while over 60 new banks have opened in Georgia in the past 5 years.
- It's important to evaluate how healthy your bank is by checking metrics like capital adequacy, asset quality, management, earnings, and liquidity on the FDIC website.
- Banks will evaluate your business's capital, asset quality, management, earnings, and liquidity when deciding terms for loans and lines of credit. It's important to proactively communicate with your banker.
Guide to Corporate Governance for Subvented Organisations - Executive Summaryeuweben01
The document provides guidance on corporate governance best practices for organizations that receive public funding in Hong Kong. It outlines key principles like having a clear purpose, transparent decision making, and engaging stakeholders. The document discusses establishing an effective board, including composition, roles, and committees. It also covers strategies for planning, budgeting, performance management, transparency, and managing risks. The goal is to help sustain public trust by setting out governance principles and practices for subvented organizations to follow.
Guide to Corporate Governance for Subvented Organisations - Executive Summaryeuweben01
The document provides guidance on corporate governance best practices for organizations that receive public funding in Hong Kong. It outlines key principles like having a clear purpose, transparent decision making, and engaging stakeholders. The document discusses establishing an effective board, including composition, roles, and committees. It also covers strategies for planning, budgeting, performance management, transparency, and managing risks. The goal is to help sustain public trust by setting out governance principles and practices for subvented organizations to follow.
Guide to Corporate Governance for Subvented Organisationseuweben01
This introduction discusses the purpose and scope of the corporate governance guide for subvented organizations. It aims to help board members and executives understand their duties and assess whether their organization's governance practices meet principles and best practices. There is a diversity of over 1,000 subvented organizations in Hong Kong, including schools, welfare NGOs, hospitals, sports associations, and district groups. The goal is to maintain public trust in organizations that receive public funding.
1) Populations in many developed countries are aging rapidly as people live longer and birth rates decline. This will double the proportion of those over 65 compared to the working age population by 2050 in OECD countries.
2) An aging workforce presents challenges for managing public services, as many "baby boomers" reach retirement age. However, older workers can remain productive if supported to do so.
3) Governments must plan for an aging population to ensure risks are minimized and opportunities maximized, such as keeping older workers employed. This requires transforming how public services are delivered to meet changing demographic demands.
The document discusses making informed decisions through effective knowledge and information management. It defines key concepts like information, knowledge, knowledge management, and information overload. Proper information management is important for good decision-making and delivering public services. The document recommends implementing knowledge management tools and techniques to help organizations turn data and information into useful knowledge. This includes using records management, web 2.0 technologies, and addressing cultural and leadership factors to support informed decision making.
The document provides guidelines for government departments on outsourcing services to prevent corruption. It outlines key principles and control elements for an accountable outsourcing process, including thorough planning, clear policies and procedures, transparency, and fair contracting. It describes controls for each stage of outsourcing from pre-qualification of service providers to contract administration and performance monitoring. Departments are advised to establish policies, segregate duties, manage conflicts of interest, and incorporate checks such as competitive bidding, performance appraisals, and audits to ensure integrity and value for money.
This document provides a template for a business case report with sections on strategic context, requirements analysis, options selection, implementation planning, and post-implementation review. The template suggests content and tables to include in each section to justify the need for the project, analyze options, identify a preferred option, and plan project delivery and benefit tracking.
Serving The Community By Using The Private Sectoreuweben01
The document discusses best practices for maximizing private sector involvement in providing public services. It recommends:
1) Considering a range of approaches beyond just outsourcing, such as public-private partnerships.
2) Developing fully costed business cases that consider lifetime costs and bundling of services.
3) Encouraging creative tenders by specifying outcomes rather than inputs and allowing non-conforming bids.
4) Promoting cooperation across departments for initiatives that involve multiple functions.
The document discusses citizens' expectations of public services and how governments are responding. Citizens now expect public services to provide choice, convenience, and services that adapt to individual needs, similar to private sector standards. Governments are pursuing initiatives to improve customer service, such as joining up services across organizations and introducing more personalized approaches. New technologies are also enabling new ways for citizens to access services.
This document provides an executive summary of a report on recent public sector reforms around the world. It highlights several key themes of reform, including increasing public engagement, shifting to more customer-centric models of governance, using market instruments to improve services, strengthening delivery capabilities, and promoting cross-agency coordination. The summary outlines examples of reforms in these areas from different countries and aims to inform public managers about innovative approaches being tested internationally.
The document introduces public-private partnerships (PPPs) and outlines their key advantages:
1) PPPs bring together the public and private sectors in a long-term relationship to deliver high-quality public services, with the private sector taking on more of a service provider role and the public sector focusing on regulation and procurement.
2) The private sector can exploit its commercial skills, practices, and disciplines to deliver services earlier, at lower cost, and with better quality than traditional public sector procurement due to incentives like profit motivation and competitive pressures.
3) PPPs allow the government to harness private sector financing, innovation, and efficiencies to develop facilities and services, providing an alternative to public sector capital
This document provides an introductory guide to public private partnerships (PPPs) in Hong Kong. It defines PPPs as long-term contractual arrangements between the public and private sectors to deliver public services. The guide discusses the benefits of PPPs, including enhancing and improving public services, realizing value for money, removing inefficiencies, and managing risks. It also outlines common PPP models and structures that are suitable for Hong Kong, such as design-build-finance-operate agreements. The key benefits of PPPs are bringing private sector efficiencies to public services and delivering better quality infrastructure and services at a lower overall cost than traditional procurement methods.
The document provides guidance to government departments on policies and best practices for involving the private sector in delivering public services. It emphasizes considering private sector processes first to improve efficiency while maintaining quality. Best practices include addressing legislative constraints, ensuring probity, removing barriers to private sector involvement, and adopting international standards. Regularly reviewing operations can help determine if private sector involvement could provide benefits.
The document provides guidance on conducting Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) of government projects in Hong Kong. It aims to help evaluate whether projects achieved their objectives and identify lessons learned to improve future project delivery. The guidance outlines a four-stage model for conducting PIRs that involves defining objectives and scope, determining the review methodology, collecting and analyzing data, and identifying lessons learned and reporting. PIRs help ensure public money is well spent, services are delivered effectively, and accountability is demonstrated.
This document provides guidance on outsourcing public services to private sector providers. It discusses the reasons why departments may outsource, such as focusing on core services and accessing skills unavailable in-house. The document emphasizes that outsourcing should achieve value for money through effective, efficient and economic use of resources. It outlines the key stages in the outsourcing process, including reviewing required services, tendering and selection, and contract management. Departments are advised to clearly identify the objectives and reasons for outsourcing to help develop service requirements and evaluation criteria. The guidance aims to help departments properly manage outsourcing contracts.
This document discusses improving performance measurement in business planning. It recommends using a logic model approach to identify relevant performance measures covering inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This helps structure how a program or policy is intended to achieve its goals. Quality performance measures should address the needs of citizens and stakeholders. Measures need to be selected that are appropriate for both management and accountability purposes. Ensuring measures capture intended outcomes, in addition to outputs, can help focus efforts on achieving desired results.
This document discusses six key work practices that can enhance employee motivation and lead to better performance when implemented together:
1. Career development and opportunities for advancement - Organizations should provide career development opportunities for all staff through consistent policies over time.
2. Training opportunities - Providing training linked to business needs generates commitment and a more efficient organization.
3. Job influence and challenge - Giving staff influence over their jobs and designing challenging jobs improves motivation and commitment.
4. Involvement and communication - Involving staff in decisions and communicating effectively makes them feel valued and improves understanding.
5. Performance management and appraisal - Focusing on performance improvement as well as reviews and linking these to development