All categories - 2 August 2007

that women do not really want the bad boy...she wants the guy with confidence in himself (extremely sexy). This is often mistaken for arrogence ( a fine-lined difference). The jerks will score, but briefly and with drama. Ladies with knowledge of this find the confident factor in jerks to be attractive, not the jerk..

Both sexes need time and age to filter which is which, but I speak the truth.

2007-08-02 20:54:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

To me, cinema is not just a hobby, but a study. Therefore, I take it seriously, and have established rules for myself while watching films. Some people (mostly casual movie fans) consideir me weird for this, but I find that these guidelines help maximize the enjoyment and education I derive from watching films.

*Once you start watching a movie, don't stop until it's over.
*Don't watch a movie with expectations. That is, don't go in thinking "This is gonna be great!" or "This is gonna suck!"
*The bigger the screen, the better the movie.
*The darker the room, the better the movie.
*No talking or distractions while watching a movie.
*All movies (horror, anime, fantasy, war, etc) are fair game.

2007-08-02 20:54:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

the back is always frizzy when I press my hair help. I can't press it straight anymore.

2007-08-02 20:54:20 · 3 answers · asked by msshasha20042000 1 in Hair

I say good job to those who vote and jammed fax machines and tied up phone lines. :)

Link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0802mccain-immig0802-ON.html

Or go to www.azcentral.com for the story.

2007-08-02 20:54:04 · 14 answers · asked by Fox_America 5 in Immigration

It is my favorite boardgame but very few people have played it. Do you play this game?

2007-08-02 20:53:25 · 4 answers · asked by boyplakwatsa.com 7 in Philippines

how do you make some parts of a picturre in color when the rest of the pic is in black and white??

ex:
i want a single pink flower to show up in color while the rest of the pic is black and white....

ya dig?

2007-08-02 20:53:14 · 5 answers · asked by diorwhore 1 in Photography

i have to reformat my computer... but it need administrator password. where can i find it?

2007-08-02 20:53:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Security

It seems that (perhaps because of Feminism), white women (even very young ones) don't like being called or referred to as "girl" in any context. In contrast, it seems that black women don't mind in some limited contexts (e.g., a guy flirting by saying "Hey Girl, how are you doing?"). Has anyone else noticed this? If so, have you made relevant observations about Asian women or Latinas?

2007-08-02 20:52:55 · 16 answers · asked by TallChocolate69 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

My uncle says there is a body kit, for cougars, that make a cougar look like, i think he said a '45 ford. Or something around that area. Has anyone ever heard of this?

2007-08-02 20:52:53 · 4 answers · asked by This gum is fancy 1 in Mercury

I currently own a singapore reg goods vehicle with no plate starting with "G". wats the procedures. thanks.

2007-08-02 20:52:24 · 2 answers · asked by Hoo R 1 in Singapore

2007-08-02 20:52:08 · 1 answers · asked by Brenda G 1 in Other - Food & Drink

what is tha proper age to be in ninth grade if u started at the proper age

2007-08-02 20:52:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

do you wash your hair ...i dont mean just wet it ,but actually shampoo and condition..be honest..i used to wash everyday but then i started to straightn my curly hair and it became hard to wash and straighten everyday....what the average of number you was your hair??

2007-08-02 20:52:07 · 17 answers · asked by •●Leleane●• 3 in Hair

i love him with all my heart . i do. we've had a few bumps in the past. our relationship is on again off again sometimes and we've been together for 5 years. give or take a total of like 6 months when we took a break (they were little breaks throughout the 5 year peorid) anyway.....the problem is..he wants me to move in w/him and will not drop it. i told him i want to finish school (im an architect major and have 2 years left) and as soon as i do i will do it. but every day he asks me and im starting to feel horrible. he says he understands my decision and asks cause i need to think about it. how do i tell him that he's making me feel like **** cause i dont want to? we have NO money. we can't make it if we do. .. im a logical thinker! its not all about the money i know but we will have bills to take care of and not enough money. if we wait...with both incomes we will! ugh. i love him & want to marry him as soon as im done with school...SO WHAT DO I DO!?!?!?!?! HELP

2007-08-02 20:51:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

Well, I'm 13, and I've already had my period since March 10, 2007.I've been having so much discharge EVERY day. I would put toilet paper in my underwear so that it wouldn't wet my underwear so much. It doesn't smell, and it's usually white, or clear and yellow after it dries. I stopped with the toilet paper, but the days not even over and its SO wet. Sometimes it feels like i am peeing, like it would ust blurt out. And once i was about to take a shower and that feeling of something coming out came again and clear, foggy, slightly boogerlike feeling liquid came out. Is this normal? Is it just puberty? HELP!

2007-08-02 20:51:34 · 6 answers · asked by yoooooooooooo 3 in Women's Health

2007-08-02 20:51:24 · 42 answers · asked by ? 6 in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-02 20:51:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Please explane me from the basic. & in easy language or simple words. yuors friendly.

2007-08-02 20:51:10 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Chemistry

Groucho asks Chico " What has four pairs of pants, lives in Cleveland, and when it rains it pours?" .. he then does a little side mouth gesturing, but I just can't make out what he says? Anythihng??

2007-08-02 20:50:54 · 2 answers · asked by brewcityjr 2 in Quotations

2007-08-02 20:50:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

weird!

2007-08-02 20:50:45 · 23 answers · asked by zoeksalamander 4 in Polls & Surveys

this was a terible thing with this recent calapse of this bridge. my hart goes out to anyone involved. but what can we do to streghnthen and rebuild the bridges in this country with are failing acconomy.

2007-08-02 20:50:34 · 5 answers · asked by doug h 5 in Commuting

just wanted to know how long you did, and how long is recommended :) THanks!

2007-08-02 20:50:29 · 20 answers · asked by pumped up! whoo hoo! 3 in Newborn & Baby

I mean, for example, if there is a man, and he likes blonds with blue eyes, can he then like a girl with brown hair and brown eyes?
Really like, not just like a friend, or go out with her because she is a nice person, and he checks on blonds. Can men switch the types, or some can and some can not, and it depends on the person?

2007-08-02 20:50:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I'm just curious (and please don't take this as something to provoke a fight, I genuinely want to know straight answers) How many of you out there, no matter what your stance is on immigration from Mexico, legal or illegal, actually know anyone from Mexico personally? And I don't mean know them in passing, or just at work or something, REALLY know them (ie-like you would know a good friend)?
Serious answers only please, this is not a racial issue!

2007-08-02 20:50:08 · 20 answers · asked by Bruja 6 in Immigration

If I take job with US corporation but work at subsidiary in Japan what are tax implication...Do I pay Tax in US, Japan or both.
Do I take Japanese yen or in US dollars in wages?

Can someone answer this in complete detail

2007-08-02 20:49:37 · 2 answers · asked by Poor and Hungry57 2 in Other - Taxes

Today I was standing in line at Kohls, and a man wearing a female watch, blue shorts, pink shirt was returning two large dresses that looked like would fit him. First thing came to my mind was maybe he is returning these for his wife then I realized when he said thanks to the cashier he had a high pitched voice. It made me really sad and no one knows this but God. I said a little prayer for him when I got in my car and it really sadened me. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks. This is not the first time I've encountered this. Especially at a Marshalls or Kohls. A lot of transvestites and men that wear dresses that try them on in dressing room. As a female it makes me sick to my stomach. What about you?

2007-08-02 20:49:29 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

1. Perdue Farms, Inc., has been a privately held family owned company since 1920. Over the years Perdue has become vertically integrated in order to be more competitive and maintain financial stability. Perdue’s objective is to be the leader in broiler and related poultry products in the industry. They strive to maintain quality and constantly improve efficiency and service, both today and in the future.
Perdue Farms Inc. has a mission to provide the highest quality poultry and poultry related products to retail and food service customers. They want to be the recognized industry leader in quality and service, providing more than expected from their customers, associates, and owners. They will accomplish this by maintaining a tradition of pride in their products, growth through innovation, integrity in the management of their business, and commitment to Team Management and the Quality improvement process.
Perdue’s overall mission is strong but a strategy for long term growth and market development needs to be reviewed and evaluated.
2. Perdue Farms Inc. has numerous external opportunities and threats. The external opportunities that effect Perdue are as follows;
• To broadly diversify and have greater market share, domestically and internationally
• To increase marketing of healthy image products that envelops a strong niche market.
• To ship via plane, to maintain fresh not frozen broilers and increase market share and penetration.
• Develop new markets in the Upper Mid-west to increase market share.
• Increase sales of food service chicken and turkey from 20% of overall sales to 30% due to a strong 12% growth rate.
• To expand the international grain and oilseed market
• With an increase push on health in 1994, chicken sales are up over red meat sales.
• Average annual consumption of chicken is up to 80lbs/person/year, an all time high.
The external threats are as follows:
• Most of the competition sells frozen products for less money.
• Perdue’s cost to raise chickens is above the national average.
• Growth rate in chicken sales is only 5% due to lack of frozen line.
• Over capacity of chickens has reduced wholesale prices, which reduces profit margins.
• Competition is strong in broiler industry with 53 competitors.
• Untapped markets in the Upper Mid- west need to be explored.
1. The Perdue Farms, Co. has internal strengths and weaknesses that need to be addressed and evaluated; The strengths are as follows;
• Perdue is vertically integrated which means that they produce the chickens, they breed, hatch the eggs, they select the growers, build Perdue chicken houses, formulate and manufacture their feed, oversee care and feeding, operate their own processing plants, distribute via truck and marketing. They now also sell what used to be waste, such as the chicken feet that is sold to the Orient as a delicacy.
• Privately held firm
• Technologically advanced, ex.,20% more breast meat than the competition
• Birds are fed organically and not feed additives.
• Sell both raw and pre-cooked chickens and turkeys.
• Good compensation package to the workers.
• Non-union company.
• MIS efficient and essential to operating the business.
• Good variety from fresh oven stuffer roasters, cooked prepared foods, cutlets, tenders, Fit n easy and much more.
• Good TQM with mission and vision
• Excellent R&D for better meat to bone ratios.
• Keep overhead low, quality up
• Great diverse product line that has changed with consumer changes.
• Horizontal diversification when they bought Showell Farms, which made them the third largest producer in the broiler industry.
• Great social responsibility, code of ethics
• Environmentally concerned about waste and prevention
• Strong effective marketing
The weaknesses in the Perdue Farm, Inc. case are as follows;
• They only sell fresh not frozen chickens
• Deliveries are only made by truck so the radius to overnight chickens is limited.
• Lack of long-term planning for future changes
4) I would suggest a strategy that Perdue would focus on maintaining their quality and efficiency along with plans for extensive market development. I would like to see them expand into the Upper mid-west before other markets gain strong holds and market share. If Perdue plans on maintaining their place in the market they need to expand and continue to diversify their products to attract niche markets and stay ahead of the competition.
According to Porter’s generic strategies, he points out that in order to gain the competitive advantage companies need to draw from three bases: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
In my study of Perdue, I feel that they are a differentiation and focus orientated company. First, I see Perdue as a leader in quality and efficiency but not a cost leader. Cost leadership implies that you strive to be the low-cost producer in your particular industry. This is to the contrary for Perdue; they have marketed in a way to make the consumer pay a little more for a better product. In fact, this did not happen by accident. Perdue did not want to be known as the cheapest but to be the best quality for the consumer, at a fair price. What Perdue does take from cost leadership is that they are highly efficient, low overhead, their intolerance to waste, broad span of control, rewards linked to efficiency and cost cutting measures and open lines of communication between workers and upper management. Perdue’s successful strategy of horizontal integration to gain competitive advantage was to purchase Showell Farms which made Perdue the third largest broiler company in the United States.
I see Perdue as being highly successful with differentiation, which implies that they produce products, and services that are considered unique, industry wide and directed at consumers who are relatively price-in-sensitive. Perdue has ongoing product development, which states that they seek to increase sales by improving, or modifying present products or services. Perdue has been an industry leader with constant attention paid to consumer wants and needs. They watch trends such as fitness and weight consciousness, by introducing the Fit n Easy line that markets skinless and boneless chicken parts with nutritional information and recipes. Perdue also followed the trend of the working family and began to market prepared foods, which has done extremely well. Prepared foods such as pre-cooked chickens, turkeys, parts, nuggets, and the like sell easily to working families.
Finally, I see Perdue’s strongest strategy according to Porter is focus. Perdue has wonderful R&D that constantly follows market trends and changes that will be beneficial to their growth. Perdue has never forgotten where they came from and this is what makes them strong. Focus allows them to change with the times and not become over diversified where they overlook their cash cows and forget to nurture their stars. Perdue knows that quality and efficiency are at the heart of their operation and do not stray from that. Their innovation and integrity to be the leader has brought them customer loyalty and appreciation for quality where price is not the number one factor.
Perdue’s ability to focus on strong team management has allowed them to penetrate and develop new markets with ease. Perdue has a high penetration of advertising on TV and print along with opening up new territories to further expand their market share. Their vision has been a good guide and has led them to a very successful value chain. Perdue’s attention to detail in every aspect of the business has been proven successful and the financial status of the company reflects it.
Today, Perdue, is further expanding with new acquisitions and product lines. Their innovative thinking and drive to be the leader shows in all they do. In 1997 they started marketing their Café Perdue line and have seen slow, with steady success. Perdue’s prepared foods are selling incredibly well with the American family on the run. As of September 1998, Perdue made a new acquisition, toward horizontal integration, with GOL-PAK, a competitor in the foodservice and prepared foods business. The new relationship will further enhance Perdue’s prepared food and foodservice business. GOL-PAK specialized in the development and production of products primarily for the foodservice industry with a list including the top 100 chain restaurants. Perdue sees this as a significant purchase to enhance their reputation and make them strong contenders in the prepared food and foodservice industry.
CEO, Jim Perdue, feels that they are well positioned in the market place and continued growth along with R&D will help them to maintain quality and efficiency, along with strong market penetration and market share.

2007-08-02 20:49:16 · 2 answers · asked by marinel m 1 in Other - Business & Finance

umm... ok so im like jsut turnning 15. Everyone says my body is hott but, its only the guys bc they like my boobs.but anyways, my mom just got re-married. the man she married has a son, lets call him Jake. Well I never met Jake until the wedding and he seamed sweat. we didnt really talk but, he was nice. Well a couple of weeks later we moved to their house. The house was huge. My room was on the 2nd floor and had a huge bay window and one of those seats under it. Well at night i can see teh sun set through the window, so i usually leave it open. one day me and Jake were the only 1s home bc my mom and mike were out.Jake was havin his friends over and i went to my room and i started to change and as soon as my top was off, i was bout to take of my shorts, i saw jake and mybe 7 of his friends looking in my window from the roof of the guest house. When they saw me they smiled and waved. I freaked out and shut the blindes and havnt talked to him since. Its been 3 hours. What should i do?

2007-08-02 20:48:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family

What do you really think of pentecostals?

2007-08-02 20:48:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality