...In August 2011, on one of the main roads that runs through Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, a Prius—one of the cars in Google’s fleet of autonomous vehicles—caused a fender-bender. The accident happened, naturally, because there was a human behind the wheel. That's according to a new report by Google about its self-driving car project, a document that tallies every accident since it began testing its 32 vehicles on the roads in 2009. That sounds like it could be a massive dataset, considering the tens of thousands of accidents that happen on American roadways each year. It actually isn’t: “In the six years of our project, we’ve been involved in 12 minor accidents during more than 1.8 million miles of autonomous and manual driving combined,” Google wrote. “Not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.” Not once! In the case of the fender bender four summers ago, a Google employee—yes, a human—was to blame. He had borrowed the car to run a quick errand and ended up rear-ending another car. (“He was not using the vehicle to test our autonomous technology,” Google wrote, and the car ended up sustaining “some damage.”) So what ended up being probably a pretty bad day for that Google employee—imagine telling your boss you crashed the driverless car—turns out to be a tidy example of the key difference between human drivers and algorithmic ones. Namely: Robots are much, much better drivers than humans. Google’s descriptions of the other accidents...
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...How to build a drive through supermarket Name: Institution: How to build a drive through supermarket A drive through supermarket, also referred to as drive through, is a supermarket selling day to day ordinary things only that in this kind of the supermarket customers do not get out of their vehicles to buy products. They just drive in line into the supermarket in their cars and buy the goods they are interested in buying. This service will help all kinds of shoppers regardless of their age, disabilities and nature of the goods they are buying since they will get to do their shopping without stepping a foot out of their cars (O’Shaughnessy, 21014). Over the years, drive through supermarket operators has come up with ideas to make their services rendered as fast and efficient as possible according to Oches (2013).Building a drive through supermarket will begin with the supermarket being located in a place with a big space for several lanes for the cars to use. The lane can be dual lane or single for each direction of the flow of the cars. This is to mean that depending on which direction the customers drove from, at least finding a queue to follow will be easy. The lines need to have a sign that can be read clearly showing the direction of their line and their status i.e. whether in operation or not...
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...The average women is now putting in a full eight hour plus work day and then to come home to run children to after school activities while trying to squeeze in dinner. The easy choice is to run thru the drive-thru to pick up supper and eat in the car while driving to the next stop. Due to the fact "that the way people work these days -- many out of their homes, many with different schedules -- the traditional 9-to-5 day has morphed into a 12-noon-to-midnight day," Cebrzynski says. There are also a lot of single parent homes that tend to lead to the fast food chains as well because now the use of one parent staying behind to have supper ready for the rest of the family that is on the run they have to handle the daily routine by themselves leading them to the appealing fast food, no clean up trend. The fast food trend not only affects families with both parents working or single parents but also students. Many students go to school during the day and then have to work in the evening leading to more late night fast food stops. The fast food restaurants have used a great marketing strategy to get that late night business but not have to keep up the cost of all the employees throughout the night by making it easy for these students to make that late night stop as they offer the drive-thru option that stays open late. According to ADA spokeswoman Amy Jamieson-Petonic, RD. "many attend class during the day, work an evening job, and pick up fast food when they clock out. "They're...
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...institute centre which is at the side road along with the main highway that heading to Kuching International Airport and its surrounded with facilities ,store, malls and institution where there are most visited especially student. Compare with the McDonald at Kuching central where the location is not strategic which percentage people visit is lower than McDonald’s Jalan Canna Tabuan Sarawak. One of the service offered at McDonald Jalan Canna tabuan Sarawak is drive-thru, free Wi-Fi, Arch card, play places and parties that make customer willing to spend time with family and friends. In contrast, McDonald’s at Kuching central there’s no drive thru provided. Lastly ,consumer logistics .Consumption analysis focuses on more than what people buy which is examines how people shop at store. For an example, for the first step is preparation to shop. Customer will get prepared in terms of money and the type of menu they desired. Second step, arriving at the store. They have to make option whether to go to drive-through or find for parking. Step three, entering the store. They have to find a seat .Step four, movement through the shop. Step five ,checkout after finish the meal. Step six, travel home. Final step ,inventory stock out. The analysis of McDonald Jalan Canna is the most success retail store that proved by the determinant of retailer success and it will...
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...How to Make a Tie-Blanket Supplies Needed: one pair of fabric scissors two yards of fleece two yards of different fleece a ruler (optional) I would recommend only using fleece to make this type of blanket. Fabric stores have a huge assortment of colors/designs to pick from, just make sure that you get two pieces of the same size. I'm on the taller side so I usually get two and a half yards unless I'm making the blanket for a baby or puppy. My friend is 6'7" and his blanket is three yards - fits him just fine! Again, it's completely up to you. For an example - since I wanted my friend's blanket three yards, I ended up with six yards of material total, because three yards of one design and three yards of another. You start out by laying the fleece down on a surface large enough for the fabric to be flat all of the way around with enough room for you to squeeze in to cut. Make sure the pieces are lined up one on top of the other. If one piece of fleece is longer than the other, simply trim the extra material off. Once the fabric is flat, start at one corner of the fleece. From the edge of the corner, go down three inches. At that spot, cut into the blanket three inches. Go back to the edge of the corner and do the same on the other side. You now have an inverted corner and a square piece of fabric that you can either put into your scrap pile or...
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...The film that was chosen was “Mulholland Dr”. The film starts off with a female (Rita) being driven in a limousine, she realizes that the driver is not going where they need to be going. The limo stops and the driver orders her to get out, and then pulls a gun on her to attempt to murder her. At the same moment the car is hit head on by another car. Rita escapes death and stumbles into an apartment complex where she sneaks into one of the apartments. Later the niece (Betty) of the apartment’s resident comes to stay there, where she finds Rita. It is there where we find out that she has amnesia and does not know who she is. Betty befriends Rita to help her find out who she is. There are other stories that are intertwined as well, there is a scene where there is a man and who appears to be his shrink in a diner. The man tells the other about his dream about a man in the alley that is scary. The doctor takes the man to the spot where they come to the scary individual, and then the man passes out. This scene does not reveal if the man died or not. The way the film was shot, it felt like it was meant to be shot from the earlier times, and not the times when the film was actually shot. There were a lot of extreme close-ups to give a more serious feel to it. Other shots that I felt were used to help the viewer feel more part of the film, was a lot of point of view shots. The view has the chance to see what the character sees, from how they...
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...How many restaurants does McDonald’s have around the world? According to the McDonald's Corporation website, McDonald's has, "More than 33,000 restaurants around the world in 118 countries“, which reflects the popularity of fast food all over the world. McDonald’s, one of the leading quick-service restaurant industries, has become an indispensable fast-food chain of our lives. There is nothing more than ready-made food being served fast and right in front of us for the modern fast-paced life. However, concerns for the adverse effect that it has on our health still exist. Despite all the claims on the disadvantages that it has, I strongly believe that McDonald’s is an invention of the modern times for three major reasons: McDonald saves cost and time, helps to strengthen relationship with other people and promotes positive economic impacts. The most evident advantage of McDonald’s is that it saves cost and time. If one lives alone and tries to prepare for a meal, it’s going to be cheaper and quicker to buy a meal from McDonald’s instead of buying all the ingredients and cooking it at home. Besides the time an individual has to spend in the kitchen, there is the added effort consumed in washing and peeling the vegetable. No matter how much benefit you can get from fresh meals with vegetables, at the end of a hard-working day, when one returns home all tired and hungry, a McDonald would be a godsend. All this makes eating McDonald’s score more preferably over cooking a meal for...
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...Management 303 SWOT Analysis MANDATORY OUTLINE I. Organization History, including a Mission Statement if possible (10 points) According to the website About McDonald's, McDonald's is been in business since 1940. Dick and Mac McDonald open the first McDonald's as a BBQ restaurant in San Bernardino, California. "It was a typical drive-in with a large menu and car hop service." McDonald's mission statement states: "McDonald's brand mission is to be our customers' favorite place and way to eat. Our worldwide operations are aligned around a global strategy called the Plan to Win, which center on an exceptional customer experience – People, Products, Place, Price and Promotion. We are committed to continuously improving our operations and enhancing our customers' experience." (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company/mission_and_values.html) II. Organizational Strengths and Weaknesses (40 points) A. First Organizational Strength 1. According to the website Ezine Articles, McDonald's has a strong global presence and is considered as a market leader in both the domestic as well as the international markets. 2. "It is a global brand that owns 31,000 restaurants serving in 120 countries. Of these 31,000 restaurants at least14,000 restaurants are situated in the US." (http://ezinearticles.com/?McDonalds-Business-Analysis&id=687438) B. Second Organizational Strength 1. According to the website Wordpress, McDonald's uses economies of scale for reducing the...
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...industry, I find that it is in my interest to compare similar companies and to observe how these businesses relate in terms of task completion and business operations. I feel that developing good business sense is a personal goal of mine because I work in a management position and believe it is beneficial to learn all aspects of a different business and how they each function. While they are all similar in the kind of industry they are in, these three companies do have processes that are different. At both Wendy’s and McDonalds the food service is relatively the same in terms of how they prepare and serve their food. A lot of the time the food is premade and kept warm waiting for an order. Some items are made to order. They both offer drive-thru service as well as dine-in. Employees work primarily in the back of the house and everyone functions from behind the counter. At Panera Bread the processes are slightly different in the sense that the employees are more hands on where the food is delivered to your table after it is made fresh to order. They key component to this restaurant is the importance of an employee or manager being out front in the dining room making sure the business is running smoothly and clearing tables. In analyzing the differences in operations involved in the input, operations, and output stages of these companies, I have observed that...
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...Aging Isn’t ironic how most people enjoy having birthdays coming up but they don’t not like the idea of getting old. Birthdays and getting old should always be a celebration of life. However, looking through the nearsighted eyes of a youth oriented society, many people tend to see birthdays past the age 29 as a sign for loss, including my self. My sister turned 29 very recently, and she has always enjoyed celebrating her birthdays, but definitely not this year around, she did not want to celebrate it at all. And her exact word was “I can’t believe I will be 30 next year”. She made me not to look forward to that age. What make us so afraid of getting old? Is it really the fear of getting wrinkles, or is it because we associate aging with getting closer to the grave? Sigmund Freud has a "death wish" theory. He believed that the natural state of objects is to be inanimate and that life is an aberration. For this reason, he concluded, every animate object longs to return to its inanimate state. That state is death. According to Sigmund Freud, there exist two conflicting forces in a being. Part of it wants to die and part of it wants to live. This causes tension. I know most human being don’t wish to die. And most of us are afraid of getting old because deep down we are afraid of getting close to die. Now, I know that most individuals have no conscious wish to die. Being optimistic is about hoping for the...
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...14 hours and 24 mints to travel the 20 Light Years or 1.17569996 x 10^14 miles there So at this point in time even getting there is out of the question. However lets examine some of the ways that this trip might be possible. Lets say that the concept of warp drive pans out as NASA has theorized it works out. Warp drive in this case isn’t referring to warp drive as a Star Trek fan would recognize it, but rather warping-space time. Compressing it in front of the vessel and expanding it behind the vessel. While we are not yet sure if this would actually accomplish Faster Than Light travel (FTL) it would definitely accelerate any vessel to far greater speeds than we currently capable of. Then there is also Burkhard Heim’s Theory which on top of the ability to possibly unify Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity also describes within it a hyper drive engine that if it can be built would make a trip to Mars 5 hours long. Now while it may not be an FTL drive it drastically reduces the amount of time of any of our current technology holds reducing the travel time to 6,463 years 7 months 10 days 7 hours 8 minutes and 59 seconds. While drastically reducing our travel time even with the speed of Burkard Heim’s hyper drive travel to Gliese is still outside of one’s lifetime but it does...
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...Developing Good Business Sense Jenny Richardson BUS/210 March 16, 2014 Karen M. Wilson Developing Good Business Sense In this week’s assignment, I looked at three different businesses but three of the same field. McDonalds, Sonic Drive-in, and Kentucky Fried Chicken were the three restaurants I chose to investigate for this assignment. These restaurants run on the same basis of fast and friendly service. All three are highly successful franchise businesses and very well recognized in the fast food industry. McDonald’s primary products are hamburgers and french fries, but over the years they have branched out to many different types of sandwiches to keep customers interested and coming back for more. They offer an array of breakfast items as well. Sonic Drive-in restaurant takes us back to the carhop days of the past and brings a bit of a nostalgic feel to dining in your car. They have a large menu based on items once served at the drive-in restaurants and encourage their customers to customize their orders. They advertise over 350,000 drink combinations available. Kentucky Fried Chicken was established years ago by a man known as Colonel Sanders who had a way with making fried chicken and was famous for it to say the least. Over the years the company has added many different items to the menu but has never changed the “original recipe” which made the company famous and what it is today. All three of these restaurants run...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The McDonalds Corporation In 1954 Ray Kroc visited San Bernardino, Ca, Ray was a Multi mixer salesman when he met Dick and Mac McDonald owners of McDonalds Barbeque Restaurant. Ray was fascinated with the operation of the restaurant and knew he was hooked, and the future was about Hamburgers. Ray Kroc's McDonald's Corporation opened its first restaurant in Des Plaines, Ill. in 1955. On the first day, the McDonalds made $366.12 in sales, and the burger boom was on. Twelve years later, in 1967 McDonalds started expanding to overseas markets the first were in Canada, and Puerto Rico. McDonalds has over 14,000 Restaurants in the United States, with over 33,000 worldwide in 118 countries, as of 2012. The McDonalds Corporation is a symbol of American success and International success. Cultural issue that affect the McDonalds Corporation outside the United States, One of the first issues it dealt with in some countries was how the country thought about America. Some countries feel we are trying to westernize the rest of the world. Their overall approval or disapproval of a Business coming out of America to their country and setting up a business. In many countries, the overall approval of America is very low many people believe we are too overpowering in the global arena when dealing with political, business...
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...In most businesses, the success depends on just how well the customers is pleased and that goes for everything. To make money, one must either sell something or render their services. And in order to successfully do so, one must bring to the table what the other person demands. There are so many businesses out in the world with every body hungry for money and some just plane greedy. Regardless, with all the completion out and all these business, it might be a little hard to stand out and show what makes your business different from that of another in the same genre. Everybody either copies each other or find a little something that sets them apart for a short while, because it won't be long until there is something better than the previous "new" thing. What makes these competition a little easier is the ability to wow the client. In a world of everything seemingly the same it is very important to have the quality that can wow the customers and make them want your business and your business alone, because of the fact that they will feel very comfortable getting that business from you. The wow factor is a quality that not everybody possesses unfortunately The wow factor in the hospitality industry is what really makes it successful no matter what branch of hospitality. Yes there are other things to consider as well such as the location, demographic as things of that nature. But having that wow factor will bring any hospitality industry from good to amazing! The wow factor is...
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...Skip to main content ON AIR NOW ALL SONGS 24/7 RADIO OUR PICKS LIVE RADIO SHOWS NPR Music logoSearchToggle search WCRB new music tiny desk my account music articles the record deceptive cadence a blog supreme microphone check npr music essentials Hamed Sinno (R) and Haig Papazian of the Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila performing in Bourges, France in 2015. THE RECORD Jordan Reportedly Bans Band With Gay Frontman From Performing April 27, 2016 • The members of Mashrou' Leila say Jordanian authorities are trying to stifle their political message — and endorsements of gender equality and sexual freedom. At the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band paid tribute to Prince with a cover of "Purple Rain." ALL SONGS CONSIDERED Bruce Springsteen's Tribute To Prince Is A Lesson In Public Mourning April 27, 2016 • The two musicians both emerged in the 1970s and hit simultaneous critical and commercial peaks a decade later. At a show in Brooklyn on Saturday, The E Street Band covered "Purple Rain." Beyoncé released her sixth album, Lemonade, on Saturday night via HBO and Tidal. THE RECORD Close To Home: A Conversation About Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' April 26, 2016 • What Beyoncé has us talking about with Lemonade is what women are always talking about, late night on the phone, after the kids are down, over coffee, irrespective of anybody's album drop: our worth. Prince playing Madison...
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