...Using Teams in Production and Operations Management Governments around the globe are investing in businesses and banks in an effort to avoid a complete collapse of affected institutions. However, the general public is not convinced that the government will be able to effectively run the businesses it has acquired with any better dexterity than existing mismanaged government budgets. Furthermore, although the infusion of funds may temporarily secure investments, it does not effectively alter the transactions that instigated the decline. (/money, 2011) Inflated values of derivatives, fueled by ambitious speculation and fortunes amassed by paper transactions rose to catastrophic levels. Derivatives are commitments to purchase commodities or financial instruments at a fixed price, with an agreement to take profits if the value of the asset rises. In recent years, mortgages sold at subprime rates were bundled into securities. Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch created offsetting credit derivatives to protect investors in the event that these securities defaulted. Credit derivatives benefitted from profits derived from the increased number of subprime loans and home sales during the real estate bubble. When housing prices dropped and interest rates rose, many adjustable-rate subprime mortgage owners were unable to keep up with the higher monthly payment. Mortgages defaulted, demand for houses cooled abruptly, and the suddenly above market rates of credit derivatives collapsed....
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...The Battle of Saratoga: And its effects of the United States Carina Alvarez HIST101 American history to 1877 Daniel Hicks 25 November 2012 The American Revolution was the war fighting for American independence in 1775. Within this war there were many smaller events that lead to the actual American independence in July 1776. Once the United States declared itself independent there was still a long way to go before other countries truly considered the United States to be its own Country. At this point in history, the Battle of Saratoga came into play. There were many things that the U.S needed to gain a victory in the Battle of Saratoga against the British. The Battle of Saratoga was actually made up of two battles, The Battle of Freeman’s Farm and The Battle of Bemis Heights. The effects of these battles were crucial aspects in the history of the United States. The Battle of Freeman’s Farm was the first battle of Saratoga. The battle took place in the clearing around the farm of Loyalist John Freeman on September 19th, 1777.[1] This battle had a lot less detail and was fairly shorter than the second battle. Neither the Americans nor the British seemed to have won The Battle of Freeman's Farm. The ensuing battle raged back and forth until nightfall, when the American forces were finally forced to break contact. At the close of the battle, Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, commander of the British forces at the battle, held the field.[2] The Second battle involved...
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...fordham.edu/halsall/med/nasr.html B. Overview of Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (National Library of Medicine Exhibit) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_00.html C. Resource page of Islam SET (Science, Environment and Technology) ( www.islamset.com) http://www.islamset.com/introd.html i. History of Islamic Science http://www.islamset.com/heritage/history.html ii. History of Muslim Pharmacology http://www.islamset.com/heritage/pharmacy/index.html D. History of Islamic Biomedicine (links to many articles on this topic, including chronology of Muslim civilization) http://www.mic.ki.se/Arab.html E. Numbers http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/History/Literature/Arabic_Numerals.htm II. Environment A. Islam and the Environment, theory and practice (Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien) http://www.lampeter.ac.uk/trs/staffgallery/mawil_paper.html B. (Article) Islam and Ecology http://www.crosscurrents.org/islamecology.htm III. History and Civilization A. History of Islamic Civilization http://www.islamset.com/islam/civil/index.html - and http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html Pg. 1 HANDOUT 13 B. Influence of Islamic Culture on Western Civilization http://www.netiran.com/Htdocs/Clippings/Social/950300XXSO02.html - and http://www.ais.org/~bsb/Herald/Previous/95/science.html (The Middle Ages) -and http://mercury.spaceports.com/~islam/index2.htm (The Renaissance) C. Islam in Africa i. The...
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...Birthday Cake History In our society today birthdays are one of the celebrations that we hold in a year. Every year a person gets older and we celebrate that factor. The day that the person was born on is the day that we celebrate their birthday. We have party favors, noise makes, food, punch, balloons, presents and cake. So when the person’s birthday is happening everyone is always excited for the cake, but why is the cake so important to us, how did the tradition of the birthday cake get started and what is the deal with the birthday candles? It is said that back in the time of the Greeks they would make these sweet beads and top them off with honey and bring them to the temple and offer them to the gods. In an article that I found this is what they understand “Cakes were initially called by the name ‘plakous’ by the Greeks, which is a similar word to ‘flat.’ These were a combination of nuts and honey. Besides, they also made a cake called "satura," which was a flat heavy cake. It is also believed that the Greeks offered round shaped cake to the Goddess of Moon called Artemis[1].” In another article it talks about the Romans ad how they brought cakes into play, “During Roman times, 'cakes' were served at special birthdays. However, these cakes did not resemble contemporary cakes in the least. They were simply flat rounds made with flour containing nuts, leavened with yeast, and sweetened with honey. In early Europe, the words for cake and bread were virtually...
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...| U.S. on the World Scene | Term Paper | | | | | America has had a hug impact around the world. From all of its products to its entertainment it has influenced other nations. McDonald’s, Disney and Coca-Cola are just three of America’s impacts around the world. These brands are known and loved by people everywhere and have made vast influence on the world. McDonald’s was founded in 1955 in California by a man named Ray Kroc who took a small restaurant run by two brother’s and turned it into something huge. Kroc’s took the small restaurant with the two brother’s help and created McDonald’s throughout the U.S, by the end of the 1960s, there were more than 1,000 across the U.S. Today there are more than 30,000 locations across 118 countries. McDonald’s expanded internationally in 1967 when the franchise opened a restaurant in British Columbia. The next international McDonald’s opened in Costa Rica the same. From there, the chain spread steadily: over a six-month period in 1971, Golden Arches popped up on three new continents, as stores launched in Japan, Holland and a suburb of Sydney. McDonald’s was next introduced to South America in 1979 when a store opened up in Brazil. Four year after opening its next international restaurant in Casablanca, Morocco it opened it franchise in Belarus making it spread to its 100th nation. Throughout all these nations McDonald’s menu varies. What is offered at each restaurant depends on the location and what the...
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...CONCEPTS * Web Design Terminology * History of the Internet * History of the World Wide Web * Accessing the Web * Web Browsers * Web Browsers Elements * Kinds of the Web Browsers * Basic Web Design Principles * Essentials Elements of the Web Contents * Planning Your Web SiteINTRODUCTION TO HTML * What is HTML? * Exploring HTML Text Editors * What is New in HTML5? * Basic Differences between HTML4 and HTML5? * Browser Support for HTML5 * Writing HTML Files * Starting HTML with Notepad * The Notepad Window * What is DocType? * What is Meta? * Attributes for <meta> * Viewing HTML Code in a BrowserTAGS AND ATTRIBUTES * What is Tag? * Structure of Tag * Container and Empty Tags * HTML Tags * New Structural Tags in HTML5 * New Media Elements in HTML5 * New Canvas and Form Elements in HTML5 * Removed Elements * What are Attributes * Common Attributes * Outline Algorithm * Basic Page StructureHEAD AND BODY TAGS * What are Head Tags? * What are Body Tags? * Attributes for <body> * What are Headings? * Attributes for <h1> to <h6> * Grouping HeadingsCREATING AN HTML DOCUMENT * Creating an HTML Document * Saving an HTML Document * Viewing an HTML Page * Using Header * Using Navigation * Creating an Article * Creating a Section * Using Footer * Creating a Generic Container * Printing a Web Page and HTML File * Exiting the Web Page and HTML FilePARAGRAPHS * Creating a New...
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...SUBMITTED BY: JOHN ALLEN C. RONQUILLO BSICT-IB 1. What is Internet? - The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructureto support email. 2. History of Internet? - The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point-to-point connections between computers and then early research into packet switching. Packet switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I at NPL in the UK, CYCLADES, Merit, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols. The ARPANET in particular led to the development of protocols for internetworking, where multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of network 3. Internet vs. internet? - one existing distinction between "Internet" and "internet" has been around for...
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...Stewart, G. R. (1970). Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Strobel, C. (2008). The testing grounds of modern empire: the making of colonial racial order in the American Ohio country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s–1850s. New York: Peter Lang. The Florida State University Meteorology. (2013). Retrieved from The Florida State University: http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/meteorology.html The Quad City Times. (2011, 02 10). Iowa's largest cities. Retrieved from The Quad-City Times : http://qctimes.com/article_c5d8850a-3556-11e0-ba3b-001cc4c002e0.html The United States Census Bureau. (2014, July 8). Louisville/Jefferson County (balance) QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau . Retrieved from The United States Census Bureau: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/2148006.html United States Census Bureau. (2014, July 8). Columbus (city) QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau . Retrieved from United States Census Bureau:...
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...networked communication, and lastly to the Internet, one thing has been a constant, different languages evolved based on a need. For these two languages, the Internet was a perfect fit, and without them the Internet would be a less dynamic and vibrant highway. As the Internet grew, more and more people found it a more viable place to do business. With that came a need for languages that were fairly easy to learn, dynamic, secure, portable, and maintainable. The industry answered that call with languages such as Java and JavaScript. This paper will perform an analysis of both Java and JavaScript. In order for the reader to gain a better understanding of these languages, the history of these languages with overviews will be presented along with a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks. The History of Java In the middle of May 1995 Java was introduced into the world, and along with Netscape it would be the new way for Internet users to access this new information superhighway. But before it got to this point, Java technology was developed almost by accident. Back in 1991, Sun Microsystems was looking into the future in anticipation of the future of computing, and they tasked a team that became know as the “Green Project”. Their main focus was to come up with a plan for the future of computing, but what they came out with was something quite unexpected. Under the guidance of James Gosling, a team was locked away in an external site to work on the project that would define...
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...as “electronic marketing.” It consists of buying, selling or the exchange of goods and services over an electronic medium such as the internet or other computer based networks where a transaction or “terms of sale” are performed electronically. E-Commerce Popularity Since the advent of the internet and the potential uses information technology brought to the business environment, nearly all main stream commerce related industries discovered an opportunity to establish a presence in the electronic marketing environment due to the low entry cost and reductions in transaction expenses that provided increasing access to a “global” market place, which could also maintain and secure a “market” share amongst the rising competition. History of E-Commerce In 1979, Michael Aldrich, an English entrepreneur, invented online shopping. Using technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) companies could share and exchange business information and...
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...advancing rapidly, and the data clashed with creationism's central tenets and predictions. 1.4.- Scientific theories frequently have two components: (i) A statement of a fact: A claim about a pattern that exists in the natural world (ii) Which process is responsible for this patter 1.5.- The three main statements of facts made by the Theory of Special Creation are: (i) Species were created independently of one another (ii) Species do not change through time (iii) Species were created recently 1.6.- According to the Theory of Special Creation the process responsible for this pattern was the creation by God 1.7.- In this chapter we will review evidence that supports an alternative statement: file:///E|/CH2-EVIDENCE-SPRING-2008/CHAPTER2_SPR_2008.HTML[12/8/2011 11:22:00...
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...advertisement. They then use certain specific techniques. The most commonly used techniques include (1) attention-getting headlines, (2) slogans, (3) testimonials, (4) product characteristics, (5) comparison of products, and (6) repetition. Task Your group, employees of the Acme Advertising Agency, has just been assigned to design a new campaign promoting one of the products of the Columbian Exchange as being the most influential to world history, affecting the largest number of people. The products are cassava, the potato, the trade in silver, the Atlantic slave trade, and sugar. To add to the mix of products, an old time favorite commodity is offered as well, silk. Your group must present its advertising campaign, its pitch for the product that your group is assigned, to company executives trying to decide which product to represent in an international advertising promotion. Your “global pitch” must include a poster-size ad and arguments demonstrating the significance and influence of your product in world history and its effect on the largest number of people. Your group should display the “print” advertisement during the group’s brief, in-class presentation in which each member of the group must present one argument. Your “global pitch” must include a Power Point presentation or a poster, and a one page written...
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...as “electronic marketing.” It consists of buying, selling or the exchange of goods and services over an electronic medium such as the internet or other computer based networks where a transaction or “terms of sale” are performed electronically. E-Commerce Popularity Since the advent of the internet and the potential uses information technology brought to the business environment, nearly all main stream commerce related industries discovered an opportunity to establish a presence in the electronic marketing environment due to the low entry cost and reductions in transaction expenses that provided increasing access to a “global” market place, which could also maintain and secure a “market” share amongst the rising competition. History of E-Commerce In 1979, Michael Aldrich, an English entrepreneur, invented online shopping. Using technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) companies could share and exchange business information and transactions with each other. Invoices and purchase orders could be delivered...
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...THEORY ONSITE COURSE GS1140 INSTUCTOR LJILJANA MORRIS Today we are doing a project report on Costco. For Sol and Robert Price in 1976 they asked friends and family to help out with an opening price of two point five millon to open Price Club on July twelfth, they open their shop in an air hanger on Boulevard in San Diego, California. They were originally going to serve only small business. Mr. Price found out that it will be more beneficial to serve select customers. Costco was founded by James Sinegal and Jeffery H. Brotman. Costco opened its doors in 1983 in Seattle, Washington. Price Club and Costco later merged and renamed the business PriceCostco. And in 1997 due to its success the name was changed again to Costco Wholesale. (About History, 2014) Costco Wholesale stores headquarters are located in Issaquah, WA. The mission statement for Costco is to continually provide our members with quality goods and services at the lowest possible prices. (Farfan, 2014) There are three types of membership cards at Costco; Executive membership, Business membership and Gold membership. The one I have is executive membership this cost about one hundred and twenty dollars sounds like a lot but I’ll be able to get two percent back in my shopping. If I do not get back more than fifty five dollars back for the entire year they will give me that amount or the two percent of my entire purchase of the year. This card includes identity protection. Then there is business membership and that membership...
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...Mystery Language Part I and Part II Book html Online Edition Digitized by Theosophy World J. Algeo 2000 The Bhagavad Gita: A Study Course Book pdf Online Edition Digitized by Theosophical Society in America J. Algeo 2007 Theosophy: An Introductory Course Book pdf 4th Edition Digitized by Theosophical Society in America J. Algeo 2012 Reincarnation Explored Book pdf Revised Edition Digitized by TheosophyForward J. Algeo For more works by Dr. Algeo, see bio sketch. Also list of his articles. Also Quest Books. J. Algeo, ed. 2012 Theosopedia: The Internet Theosophical Encyclopedia Online. Also available for purchase the print version. Book html Online Edition Digitized by Theosophical Society in the Philippines J.A. Anderson 1893 Reincarnation: A Study of the Human Soul Book pdf 1st Edition Digitized by Internat Archive J.A. Anderson 1895 The Septenary Man Book pdf 1st Edition Digitized by Internat Archive Anonymous 1890 Working Glossary for the Use of Students of Theosophical Literature Book pdf 1892 Edition Digitized by Google Books Anonymous Working Glossary for the Use of Students of Theosophical Literature Book html 1892 Edition Digitized by Theosophy Northwest Anonymous 1925 The Theosophical Movement 1875-1925: A History and a Survey Book html 1st Edition Digitized by Jake Jaqua Anonymous 1920-22 The Theosophical Movement (a 34-part series) html ----- Digitized by Wisdomworld...
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