...This research is intended to identify at least two wireless technologies that would be beneficial to implement in the Party Plates organization. Party Plates would like to introduce the iPad and iPhone into our business infrastructure. These wireless technologies will be used as a marketing tool and will advance business objectives. This research will also include a justification for the decision to implement the iPad and iPhone wireless technologies, as well as define the risks of using wireless technologies in the Party Plates work environment. In today’s technological world Party Plates needs to establish a competitive approach in the marketplace with an innovative approach to the technology trends that exist while utilizing marketing tools to advance sales, goals and objectives. The iPad can give us the competitive edge in providing our customers with on site visualization of custom ordered plates and napkins. The iPad gives us the ability to upload all of our plate and napkin designs on one device and share it between departments and with the customers. We can also incorporate personal photos designs into themed party supplies using iPad. We can utilize Apple’s Cloud application to transfer photos of customized orders from one iPad or iPhone to our design department. This can speed up the order processing time. Party Plates has a proven financial sales track record that leverages the company’s strategic mission to provide integrated products based on consumer demands...
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...Benefits of Party Plates Converting to Microsoft Access Party Plates is a rapidly growing institution and an outstanding plate and napkin supply pioneer, now again, newly poised to guide the direction of special event markets. The increase of company supply paired with the current high demand for said product presents the need for upgrades to the current information system software. Current software is somewhat out-of-date which could result in regression of company growth. Party Plates must acknowledge the ever-changing status of technology and invest in the implementation of new information systems, or current system upgrades. Team C suggests investing in software which will convert current data from Microsoft Excel into a relational database using Microsoft Access. The usefulness of the conversion software will improve internal communications while assisting to streamline some of the work processes for sales departments. This will also increase efficiency in both communications and sales; thus, creating a solid platform for each resulting smoother communications and an increase in sales. Sales will increase because the department can use Microsoft Access with much more facility, which permits more time to focus primarily in sales, not wasting time on dealing with outdated software issues. Systems often crash leaving employees to return to working manually and on their own until the system is restored; the employees at Party Plates using Microsoft Access, can be sure support...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Party Plates Proposal ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Team B ------------------------------------------------- May 8, 2013 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents * About the Business * Advantages * Disadvantages * Implementation * Summary ------------------------------------------------- Party Plate Proposal About the Business Party Plates is an organization that has sells decorative party plates and napkins. They are currently trying to bring their information systems up to date. Once their systems are updated they will be able to sell their product on a wider scale and increase revenue. Advantages For experts of Microsoft Excel, it’s often difficult to understand what database offer that spreadsheets don’t already have. Microsoft Access can allow it to be much easier to store information in one place and be able to reference it in multiple places. For example, customer information may be kept in a table where the address...
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...Party Plates Database Integration Proposal As Party Plates continues to experience unprecedented growth, we realized that we must maximize the efficiency of our operation. In an effort to deliver the highest level of customer service, and remain competitive in the retail market, Party Plates sales and accounting team conducted an efficiency study of the operation and the systems that support it. As a result of this analysis, we found that there was a need to upgrade our current sales and inventory tracking system. We are proposing that we transition from our current Microsoft Excel database to relational database software, Microsoft Access. Additionally, we will need to integrate collaborative software such as Microsoft SharePoint in the near future to best maximize the effectiveness of our new database. As you know, we currently use Microsoft Excel to track our inventory and sales. Excel has been an effective management tool in the past; our current needs demand a management system that can manage multiple tasks with multiple users. Currently, we have many spreadsheets that in general do not merge or allow us to produce appropriate reports and can only be used by one person at a time. As our business grows, so will our staff and we will need to have a system that is multifunctional for many users. Microsoft Access is a relational database system, which is capable of managing customers, suppliers, products and orders. It also will also allow us to create a variety of forms...
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...Party Plates is growing every day. We have increased our sales with the implementation of our new collaboration software and we want to take another step, by introducing wireless technology to the business. Wireless technology is impacting the way in which business operates and provides us with excellent opportunities to exponentially grow our business. By introducing two new wireless technologies into our business that benefits all of our departments we can further streamline our systems and potentially increase sales. The introduction of iPhones to the business will allow all of our employee’s access to our database, contact lists and everything they need to get their job done in an efficient and productive manner, wherever they may be. As you know many of our sales reps travel frequently and having an iPhone will enable them to virtually work anywhere and stay in contact with head office on a regular basis. The other wireless technology that we’d like to implement is the use of a GPS system. This will enable all of our delivery drivers to find our customers easily when they are out on the road. By purchasing a GPS tracking system that monitors our company vehicles we can monitor each driver and provide our customers with up-to-date information on their delivery times and location. Also with the implementation of both of these technologies, the sales department would be able to respond to customer’s issues, create solutions outside the work environment, respond to email and...
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... Liam wasn’t even gripping the railing any longer. Instead, he was hanging only by Scott’s jaw fixed into his side. The shrill shrieks that emerged from Liam’s mouth were enough for any creature to cower and cringe in sympathetic pain. However, I did not cringe, nor did I sympathise. My eyebrows furrowed together like they were two trains travelling in opposite directions on the same track. My mouth fell ajar and I took a large breath. My eyes were motionless, fixed on Scott and the daggers that grew beneath his lips. Those teeth that sliced Liam’s flesh would change him forever. He was either going to die or become something that everyone wanted to kill. Scott bit into him like it was nothing, like it was a piece of steak on his dinner plate. I don’t even know why I was surprised. Scott never saw his actions as harmful. He always said his sole mission was to “protect his friends” but when did that ever work? He did it for himself. He always did it for himself. When he first got bitten, all he thought about was his own self. About how he couldn’t be normal or how he’d lose Allison. But he never thought about how exactly Allison would feel. He didn’t think about how if she would be upset or hurt or even scared. He only thought about how he would feel. How he would be upset or hurt or even scared. It was selfish and I was the only one who saw it. He didn’t bite Liam to save him. He bit him for himself. So he could add to his pack and more importantly, his power. He did it for merit...
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...[pic] Course Syllabus GLG/101 Geology with Lab Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft©, Windows©, and Windows NT© are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix© editorial standards and practices. Facilitator Information Michael Gutierrez gofiguretravel@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) gofiguretravel@q.com (Personal) 602-301-2633 (mountain) Facilitator Availability I am available from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Mountain Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Saturday for my family. On Sundays, I tend to be online in the late evening only. If these times are not convenient for you,...
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...Question 1 The hotel will have extensive banqueting suites with reception areas. A banqueting kitchen on its own can be an added advantage to the new hotel specializing in the function market. A new hotel specializing in the function market are expected to have boardrooms and conference rooms. They should also have cinema. They should have fully equipped rooms that are perfect for small meetings, boardroom functions, conferences and residential seminars. All the rooms should have balconies and can be flooded with natural light, or dimmed for presentations and slideshows, this will be an added advantage. Question 2 The role of the banqueting coordinator in a hotel or function venue are; * Ensuring the continuation well-being and satisfaction of all guests with the limits of his or her department. * Expanding and further development of all phases of banqueting business. * To maintain lose liaison, team work and communication among staff. * To plan and oversee food, beverage and entertainment events held the hotel or function venue. * To work with the management and other department at all times and assists in carrying out special requirements and duties necessary in adding to the guest's general comfort and well-being. * Responsible for planning and overseeing the banquet events like Luncheons, Meetings, Exhibitions, Conventions and most specially Wedding Receptions. * To supervise and co-ordinate daily operation of meeting or banquet set-ups...
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...the Earth's crust. Wegener suggested that mountains were formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold". ("The Earth in the Universe,"1999) -BBC reference. 1. Alfred Wegner noticed that the continents seemed to fit together at the edge of their continental shelves . 2. He noticed this because he observed that continents in the Southern Hemisphere have similar rock and fossil patterns. B. He believed that the continents were all once apart of a large supercontinent called Pangea. II. Aside from fossils and rock patterns there were other observations that led to his theory. A. "Glacial till deposits in the Southern Hemisphere aided Wegners hypothesis".("The supporting Evidence of Plate Tectonic Theory",2008) 1. Glaciation till is unsorted glacial sediment left behind by glaciers during the glacial drift. 2. "Glaciation in South America, Africa, India, and Australia is best explained if these continents were...
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...Exploring Taiwan---Taiwan Is Alive How does it feel like to live on a floating plate, unaware of probable earthquakes and tectonic movements? I understood how it feels like because I live in Taiwan! After an introduction to the geology of Taiwan, I found Taiwan a really active and dynamic island. This reminded me of an article I read on New York Times years ago; it titled: Taiwan Moves Closer to Mainland, Pulled by Forces That Molded Its Mountains. In the article, there were a research team built by three groups of geologists from three countries—Taiwan, United States of America and Japan. In order to learn the process of mountain building on Taiwan islands, they used seismic monitoring device and computer graphing to track the movement of tectonic plates. Such research found one of the facts that Taiwan is actually moving closer to Mainland China! Not to mention that Taiwan is growing taller and taller where our mountains has been rising above sea levels since 60 million years ago. I cannot help but wonder if Taiwan Island would join the Eurasia millions years after! Despite my fantasy of walking across Taiwan Strait to Eurasia many years after, it is amazing to learn that there are actually “underground” forces pushing and pulling Taiwan islands by millimeters every second. The most apparent connection between these forces and our lives on the island is earthquakes and volcanic activity. First, through my life until now, I have experienced at least thousand times of...
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...Dangerous and Natural Energy Cristopher L. Butler Kaplan University SC300: Prof: Tanya Crail What’s a earthquake? According to the Geology Labs on-line website an earthquake is the sudden release of stored energy, caused by the shifting of tectonic plates. The energy release is a shock wave or seismic wave. The seismic wave is what causes the ground to move or shake, when this occurs we have a earthquake. According to the 2008 United States National Seismic Hazard Maps a lot of the west coast as far south as Hawaii, and north to Alaska has a lot of earthquake activity. The Pacific “Ring of Fire” (named for the large amount of active volcanoes), has a lot of tectonic activity. Tectonic plates are large plates of rock that make up the foundation of the Earth's crust and the shape of the continents. Question: What patterns do you see in the distribution of earthquakes across the continental United States? Answer: Earthquakes occur on fault lines, a location where tectonic plates have collided together and shifted or are sliding past each other. The size of the earthquake depends on how much slide or shift occurred. Most fault lines are located in costal areas, because of the continental and oceanic plates colliding together. Most of the United States earthquakes occurs on the west coast. California, and the entire west coast including Hawaii, and Alaska have the highest hazard rating at 64+, central locations of the United States like Texas, North and South Dakota...
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...Plate Tectonics SCI/245 January 13, 2010 Aimee Pellet Plate Tectonics One of the first scientists to theorize plate tectonics was Alfred Wegener. Alfred Wegener was a German scientist that lived from 1880-1930. He proposed that the continents shifted as time has gone by. “Wegener found that large-scale geological features on separated continents often matched very closely when the continents were brought together. For example, the Appalachian mountains of eastern North America matched with the Scottish Highlands, and the distinctive rock strata of the Karroo system of South Africa were identical to those of the Santa Catarina system in Brazil”(University of California Museum of Paleontology, 2004-2010). His theory was not accepted at first, it took decades for other scientists to see what he had originally tried to explain when publishing his theory in 1915. The reason his theory was not taken seriously is because there was no explanation for how the continents would move. Because the continents do not fit from shore line to shore line we have to look below the sea level and see where they fit best. The shore line do not stop at the water’s edge they slope into the water, this is called the continental shelf. Down about 100 meters there is a shelf break called the continental slope this is where the true edges of the continents can be found. “In Wegener’s time, the technique of radiometric dating was just being developed, so it was not easy to determine the...
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...disinfectant for many years used as a treatment for bacterial and fungal infections of the skin and nails (American Cancer Society 2008). Micro-organisms such as bacteria and fungi can be found in a variety of places. Using petri dishes containing nutrient agar, bacteria and fungi can be grown and observed. ‘Agar is a seaweed extract that forms a jelly-like material that is also a source of food for these organisms. Bacteria grow into colonies made up of millions of individuals.’ Fungi can be seen as fuzzy growth on the agar plates (Leslie et al. 2000). Objective/ Aim Comparing three different surface cleaners in order to prevent bacterial growth. Hypothesis 70% ethanol is the most effective surface cleaner compared to homemade cleaner and water. Materials * Normal laboratory glassware and equipment * Nutrient agar filled petri dishes * Gloves * Sterile swabs * Masking tape * Marking pen * Incubators to refrigerate and store agar plates * Distilled water * 70% ethanol * Homemade cleaner (water, apple cider vinegar and tea tree oil.) * Water Procedure Week 2 (27 August 2013) Take four petri dishes and draw a line in middle to the three of them. Leaving one for the control. Label group’s name and treatment with its control. The surface that our group have decided to...
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...___________________________________________ Plate Tectonics Exercise (20 points) PLATE BOUNDARIES There are three different types of lithosphere plate boundaries associated with different types of topographic features and tectonic activity. These are: Divergent boundaries (also called “spreading centers). At divergent boundaries, plates are moving apart. The most common kind of spreading center is the midocean ridge where new ocean floor is created. Spreading may also take place within a continent. In this case, blocks of crust may drop down as the land is pulled apart, creating a rift valley. Convergent boundaries These boundaries involve collision of lithosphere plates, which may occur in three different circumstances. 1. Oceanic – continental plate convergence. If the edge of an oceanic plate collides with the edge of a continental plate a subduction zone is formed. The denser oceanic plate subducts (plunges) beneath the continent, producing a deep oceanic trench. As the oceanic lithosphere descends, partial melting of the rock along the contact zone occurs. The magma that is produced rises toward the surface and produces a chain of volcanic mountains on the land mass parallel to the collision boundary, such as the Andes in South America. 2. Oceanic – oceanic plate convergence. In this case, subduction also takes place. A deep ocean trench forms along with a chain of volcanic islands. An example of such an island arc is the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. 3. Continental – continental plate convergence. If...
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...ordered water with lemon. While they were looking at their menus, they leaned in close to point out different items but they never physically touched. While waiting for their food order, they ate bread. They each had their own plates for the bread. As they ate the bread, they glanced around mostly and made a few comments about the architecture of the restaurant. It looked to me as if they did not know what to talk about. The lady fiddled with her hair and looked around a lot. The guy went to the restroom; and, while he was gone the girl got her phone out of her purse. She was still texting when he got back to the table. He looked over at her phone trying to see who she was talking to but did not say anything to her. As she kept texting, he fiddled with his bread, ate some, and watched the basketball game on the television above the bar. The guy finished his sweet tea and did not make any signals for a refill. The waitress arrived with the couple’s meal. They both ordered wings but were different flavors. She ate with her left hand in her lap and held the wings in her right hand like a pencil. The male held his wings the same as her but his left arm was on the table close to his plate. The girl ate slowly and did not really put her face close to the plate. The guy ate faster holding his face probably...
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