...Do you know what a gypsy is? (Among other things, a person who can tell the future by reading palms, cards, etc.). Let’s imagine we are visiting a gypsy. She will tell you your future. You can also ask questions about your future as well. Fill in the blanks with the corresponding information. (imagen de una gitana leyenote la mano) Amira: Let me see your hand… hmm, I see you have a long life line. You will_______________________________________. YOU: Really? Will I _____________________________? Amira: It’s difficult to say… you may be rich, but you will definitely be happy. YOU: When will __________________________________? Amira: You will meet a _______ when you are _______ years old. You will fall in love and get married. YOU: How many...
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... | Comments: Our school district has been expanding in the past five years with two new elementary schools being opened this past September. This rapid expansion has caused the need to revise our compliance system that contains new policies that will need to be introduced. Every school principal will need to take their time to learn these new policies and properly train their staff to follow these policies as well. The Management Team at the District Office will also need to take their time to revise these new policies and all staff will be trained on how to abide them as well. This training project will be named Project Imagine Learning. Project Imagine Learning Stakeholders All employees of the Palmdale School District: teachers, custodians, principals, human resources will be a part of the...
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...Do you believe market-drivers have enduring competitive advantages or can you foresee a situation in which a market-driver loses its footing? Take Starbucks for example: Can you imagine a future in which Starbucks no longer enjoys the prominence it has at the moment? Why, or why not? “Market-driving companies are usually new entrants to the industry, although there are exceptions. The history of innovation is a pattern in which bursts of breakthrough innovation that reshape an industry are interspersed by flows of less dramatic incremental improvements.” According to that I generally do believe that companies that drive the market have enduring competitive advantages compared to e.g. market-driven companies because they focus on a vision for the future, unhampered by traditional thinking and industry norms for product or service development. Market-driving companies are poised to make discontinuous leaps in innovation in terms of customer value. Moreover they also have a mission to build unique business systems through technology and business model innovation or rather entrepreneurial capabilities. As most of the market-driving companies, STRABUCKS started small but its market-driving potential was inscribed in its DNA. Starbucks will always continue to be a market-driving company because it achieves long-run equilibrium with supra-normal profits and hences a sustained competitive advantage. The secret behind this success or rather behind becoming an “owner of the market”...
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...3-20-14 Biometric Scan Technologies This essay covers the basic history, importance, and impacts biometric technologies have on our security, and what the future may hold because of them. When speaking of biometrics, fingerprinting is usually the first biometric method most people consider. However, throughout the years, biometric technology has advanced and accrued new methods such as facial recognition and iris scanning. First off, we will discuss finger-scanning, or fingerprinting, as it is the oldest and most commonly used form of biometrics to date. This technology has always fascinated me because it identifies every individual based on their unique fingerprint, making it very difficult to replicate or bypass. An average scan can identify up to, but not limited to, 40 unique characteristics called “minutiae” a term coined by the FBI years ago. If that is the current ability of a fingerprint scanner, I can only imagine that in the future this method of biometrics will be the standard for consumer securities. Homes will have touch pads instead of keys, making the likeliness of a burglary slim to none. So, in the future fingerprinting won’t be limited for the elite and three letter agencies. Secondly, facial recognition biometric technology is gaining popularity, especially in modern social devices such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops. Although this method has much higher goals, it currently stands as an efficient means of security. Again, biometrics has always...
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...example, just seemed like science fiction. Now they are not only a reality, but they are an indispensable part of everyday life. I can hardly imagine the developments in technology that my children will experience. Thinking of the future and trends in technology, at this time I believe there is almost no limit to what humans are capable of creating. Technology developments happen faster and faster each day. This is especially true for computers, both personal and business and industry based models. My first computer was Commodore 64 and it was a neat thing to have but it didn’t do much. After I joined the Navy, I worked with an aircraft guidance radar system that was powered by a UNIVAC computer. In fact the Navy somehow kept that system running well past the year 2000. Now, we have progressed well past these dinosaurs. Computer developments are the wave of the future, and development in that respect will shape events worldwide. Moore’s Law, formulated in 1965, predicts that the number of components in an integrated circuit chip will double every 18 months (Shahan, 2013). Considering the power of computers today, if Moore’s Law continues to hold true, the developments in computing power will produce computers that are exponentially more powerful than today’s computers (Moore’s Law, n.d.). Considering this, I believe that in the future, computers will become thinking machines that have at least some ability to reason and compute as fast if not faster than the human brain. IBM...
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...BLOG Emerging IT Technologies Have you seen the Iron Man movies? Imagine working like Tony Stark. On that movie alone, there are lots of ideas that popped out for new technologies. Now, a majority of these are not real. But in the rapid evolution of information technology, that time when we use the stuff Tony Stark uses might be sooner than we think. Here are a few samples of the technologies that are emerging right now: 1. Gesture Recognition Using gesture recognition and Computer vision control technology, we can make some tasks easier. It is also being used In Xbox 360’s kinect. This can become quite useful in the future. It is even being considered in the field of surgery – a very delicate field. In the movies, we can see Tony stark making hand gestures with his UI. It is awesome because the information is displayed right in front of him. He performs a lot of activities with his hands. Where could we apply this? I can imagine using this technology in manufacturing where small and delicate parts are inspected manually on some departments. Hand gesture could be used with a powerful camera and mechanical arms that allows the inspector to check very small equipment by having it displayed on a big screen, not through a device that looks like a microscope. And using his or her hand gestures, the camera and the mechanical arm can be controlled using hand gestures. That will simplify and make the job a lot easier. The inspection will be more accurate as well...
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...TORNADO In a discontinuous innovation, a period of hyper-growth and conversion of a discontinuous revolutionary product into an acceptable and usable product is called a period of the “tornado”. * Some characteristics of Tornado are:- * Market Domination * Speed of market Penetration * Becoming market leader * Word of mouth * Standardization of product The Tornado started when pragmatists’ starts using the product for a specific purpose which adds on to their functionality. Some of the major titles which support Oculus Rift are:- Left 4 Dead, Hawken, Skyrim, Portal 2, Half-Life 2, BioShock, Star Citizen, and Elite: Dangerous In the Tornado, it is the next group of customers covered * Geographically Spread reach of Oculus Rift to other developed countries like UK, Germany, Canada, France, etc. which have a strong base for software development, specially game publishing houses like Electronic Arts, UbiSoft, etc. * Based on new distribution Channels Exclusive showroom and demo rooms for Oculus Rift retail stores, where Customers can experience the product first hand and evaluate its innovative benefits over competing products. * Gorillas aim to be the de facto standard Since Oculus Rift is the first commercially available VR product for the masses, it has become the Gorilla in the market. Every standard, specification and market trend will now be determined and guided by the company and its technological innovations...
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...forces Sammy to face his inner conflict and make a life changing decision. Updike implies rather than spells out Sammy’s conflict. Sammy is nineteen, almost a man, but as yet without a man’s responsibilities. If Sammy stays in town, we can easily imagine he will soon be in the same situation as Stokesie, who has wife and two children to take care of. Sammy and Stokesie have good jobs, probably among the best the small town has to offer. If Stokesie were to quit his job, he would be abdicating his responsibilities and letting his family down. In the view of the town, such an action would probably be considered madness. For him, the chance to make a radical change in his life’s course has probably passed. Sammy, on the other hand, has a window of opportunity, a short period between youth and adulthood, during which, if he has the courage and the will, he can choose another path. The A&P sits at the center of town. From the front door, Sammy can see two real estate offices, the bank, and the Congregational church. Lengel is not just the manager, he is a Sunday school teacher, a friend of Sammy’s parents, the reason Sammy has the job—in short, he represents the town and its values. Lengel also represents Sammy’s distant future, the best he might achieve, if...
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...Erika Velez Georgina Ruff IDS 121.32 Research Paper Habermas defined the public sphere as a virtual or imaginary community that does not exist in any particular space, it is made up of individual people gathered together as a public and expressing their thoughts. Through the discussion, the public sphere produces opinions and attitudes that are made to agree or disagree with a particular piece[1]. Tree Huts (2008) and Under the Water (2011) by Tadashi Kawamata are works of site-specific “public sphere” art that promote the reuse of supplies to help conserve the environment which would facilitate a thriving discussion in future classes, and therefore be included in future curriculum. Tadashi Kawamata constructs architecture in urban spaces with recycled materials such as timber, cardboard boxes, old newspapers and vegetable crates. Born in 1953 and a graduate from the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Tadashi has had many experiences throughout his life working with various venues of art, but making works that intend to link the exterior and interior architectural aspects of the urban work places has always been something that interested Tadashi Kawamata[2]. In 2011, Tadashi Kawamata produced his work Under the Water, which was made out of old doors and reclaimed wood bits and parts. The inspiration behind this work was the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011[3]. Placed throughout a gallery and also through the outside corridors...
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...where Sammy, the main character, works as cashier. Sammy is nineteen, a late adolescent boy on the verge of adulthood. His fellow cashier, Stokesie, is twenty-two, married, with two young children. The store is managed by a much older man named Lengel, a friend of Sammy’s parents. The other characters include a customer at Sammy’s checkout slot and three teenage girls in bathing suits. It is an altercation in the aisles of the store between Lengel, the manager, and the three girls that forces Sammy to face his inner conflict and make a life changing decision. Updike implies rather than spells out Sammy’s conflict. Sammy is nineteen, almost a man, but as yet without a man’s responsibilities. If Sammy stays in town, we can easily imagine he will soon be in the same situation as Stokesie, who has wife and two children to take care of. Sammy and Stokesie have good jobs, probably among the best the small town has to offer. If Stokesie were to quit his job, he would be abdicating his responsibilities and letting his family down. In the view of the town, such an action would probably be considered madness. For him, the chance to make a radical change in his life’s course has probably passed. Sammy, on the other hand, has a window of opportunity, a short period between youth and adulthood, during which, if he has the courage and the will, he can choose another path. The A&P sits at the center of town. From the front door, Sammy can see two real estate offices, the...
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...knowledge, and are based on reason. Also, their contrary entails a logical contradiction. Thus, the contrary of relations of ideas cannot be imagined and are logically impossible. For example, we cannot imagine a triangle having the sum of its angles equal to 90 degrees or even we cannot imagine such a thing as a square circle. Therefore, we can determine that the sum of the angles in a triangle in fact equal 180 degrees is a relation of ideas. Or, as Hume puts it "That the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the square of the two sides, is a proposition which expresses a relation between these figures."(Hume, p.14). In fact, relations of ideas are independent of the outside world "Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe." (Hume, p.14). On another note, matters of fact are a posteriori claims and beliefs about the world, which means they stem from experience. For example, the sun will rise tomorrow. The contrary of this claim is logically possible since it is imaginable. We can imagine the sun not rising, which lets us determine that claim to be a matter of...
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...Fall 2015: Industry Analysis in Emerging Markets Your role in this analysis is to work with your team and to look at emerging technologies. From autonomous drones to emergent AI to 3D printers, you are going to research and get a better understanding of our fast-approaching technological future. Scientific American compiled the Top 10 List of Emerging Technologies for 2015. You can start here, but you are not limited to these technologies. You must choose an emerging industry, and will analyze the history of this technology and its industry, the trajectories of the technology, the key competitors, and the trends in the market. The end goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry, the competitive landscape, emerging trends to watch in the future, and an overall assessment as to the attractiveness of this industry. Your final deliverable for this project will be an in-class presentation, due April 26th. 1) What SIC/NAICS code does your industry fall under? 2) Describe your industry- a. Provide a brief history of your industry. (You may use a timeline in a separate appendix) b. List and describe the characteristics of the products your industry offers in the marketplace. c. Who are the key competitors in the industry? d. What are the main differences between the products offered by key competitors? e. What strengths & weaknesses (capabilities, complementary resources, related intellectual property, etc.)...
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...will disappear only if you have a special suit, no know can hear you or know where exactly are. One movie I can think about is The Incredibles, the daughter could disappear any part of her body in order to not get caught doing something or even to hide from the evil, the only way we could see her was by throwing dust at her. So when I say I want to be invisible, I imagine myself like Violet. Since I am still with The Incredibles movie topic, I want to add that her combination of powers was great because she had energy shield hat could protect her just in case being invisible wasn't just...
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...industrials company. She was in charge of the company’s business and involvement in the U.S. Between 1986 and 1990 she worked for Motorola where, again, served as Vice President and Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning. She spent those six years directing international corporate strategy projects at the Boston Consulting Group. Her career started in India where she earned a B.S. from Madras Christian College, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Manage in Calcutta and a Masters of Public and Private management from Yale University(PepsiCo. (n.d.). Bio. In Our leadership [Biography].) Nooyi has been leading the Performance with a Purpose for many years and it’s focused on delivering sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet (PepsiCo. (n.d.). Bio. In Our leadership (par.2) [Biography].). Nooyi delivered an amazing speech for the Miami University Commencement on May 7, 2011, to the graduating students (Nooyi, I. K. (2011, May 7)). I got chills as I read her speech and put myself in the seat of those graduates. It truly portrayed her ambitious...
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...The article, “It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual On T.V”, brings some interesting information to the argument of gay and bisexual characters on television. Zimmerman is potent in her argument with her uses of television examples as well as appeals to pathos that further convince her spectators on how cliché and superficial the bisexual characters are portrayed. The writer also believes that bisexuality should be represented through pop culture more often and more accurately because it would educate people and inspire others who can relate to being themselves. In the beginning of the article, the author seemed to be perturbed and disliked how bisexuals were being stereotyped, “Unfortunately, the television and film industries aren’t going out of their...
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