The document poses a series of sociological questions about how various modern influences may be affecting youth and society. Specifically, it asks about the impacts of fast food, social media, cell phones, advertising, video games, college costs, Greek life, television, music, and body image on topics like physical activity, communication skills, views on relationships and marriage, smoking, violence, drinking, gender roles, crime rates, and career success.
Firms face both fixed and variable costs in the short-run. Fixed costs remain constant as output changes, while variable costs change with output level. Total costs are the sum of fixed and variable costs. As output increases, average fixed costs decline due to spreading overhead. Average and marginal costs initially fall as output rises due to increasing returns to scale, but eventually rise as diminishing returns set in. Understanding how costs change with output level and productivity is important for firms seeking to minimize costs and maximize profits.
The document discusses plans for an innovative high school called Innovation Academy. It proposes that students in grades 11 and 12 take four interdisciplinary classes over two years with the same group of 15 students. The core classes would be Advanced English, Global Business Management, Media Literacy, and an Innovative Independent Project. The goal is to give students autonomy, foster collaboration, teach problem-solving through real projects, and develop skills needed for college and careers. Sample class schedules are provided as examples.
The document discusses an external evaluation of the Language Interpreter Training as a Stepping Stone to Work (LITSSW) project conducted by The Gilfillan Partnership. The Gilfillan Partnership is a UK-based social enterprise focused on promoting equalities and social inclusion. They provide independent, objective evaluations of projects to assess progress, achievements, impacts, lessons learned, and sustainability. Their interim evaluation found the LITSSW project was working well, successfully transferring an exceptional community language interpreter training and employment model from one partner to others, and on track to achieve its intended results and early impacts. A final evaluation was planned for the end of October 2014.
The document poses a series of sociological questions about how various modern influences may be affecting youth and society. Specifically, it asks about the impacts of fast food, social media, cell phones, advertising, video games, college costs, Greek life, television, music, and body image on topics like physical activity, communication skills, views on relationships and marriage, smoking, violence, drinking, gender roles, crime rates, and career success.
Firms face both fixed and variable costs in the short-run. Fixed costs remain constant as output changes, while variable costs change with output level. Total costs are the sum of fixed and variable costs. As output increases, average fixed costs decline due to spreading overhead. Average and marginal costs initially fall as output rises due to increasing returns to scale, but eventually rise as diminishing returns set in. Understanding how costs change with output level and productivity is important for firms seeking to minimize costs and maximize profits.
The document discusses plans for an innovative high school called Innovation Academy. It proposes that students in grades 11 and 12 take four interdisciplinary classes over two years with the same group of 15 students. The core classes would be Advanced English, Global Business Management, Media Literacy, and an Innovative Independent Project. The goal is to give students autonomy, foster collaboration, teach problem-solving through real projects, and develop skills needed for college and careers. Sample class schedules are provided as examples.
The document discusses an external evaluation of the Language Interpreter Training as a Stepping Stone to Work (LITSSW) project conducted by The Gilfillan Partnership. The Gilfillan Partnership is a UK-based social enterprise focused on promoting equalities and social inclusion. They provide independent, objective evaluations of projects to assess progress, achievements, impacts, lessons learned, and sustainability. Their interim evaluation found the LITSSW project was working well, successfully transferring an exceptional community language interpreter training and employment model from one partner to others, and on track to achieve its intended results and early impacts. A final evaluation was planned for the end of October 2014.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, discusses how the company has built a brand through focusing on customer service, culture, and repeat customers. Zappos prioritizes delivering "wow" customer service through their 365-day return policy, fast shipping, and friendly customer service representatives. They have also cultivated a strong company culture focused on core values like delivering wow through service. This emphasis on customer service and culture has led to high rates of repeat customers, with over 75% of purchases coming from returning customers.
The document profiles 20 freshman students from the class of 2015, listing their member since date, number of community builds participated in, and extracurricular activities. It shows that most students joined in August 2011, participated in 1 build (the Roosevelt Build in 2012), and the retreat in 2011. A few participated in additional activities like the Familias build in 2011 or served as club officers or leaders.
The organisation of social security coordinationStevenSegaert
The document discusses the organization of social security coordination in the European Union. It outlines four key principles of EU coordination: 1) avoiding conflicts of law to determine applicable legislation, 2) equality of treatment regardless of nationality, 3) aggregation of insurance periods across countries, and 4) exportability of benefits regardless of residence. The document also describes the EESSI project which aims to facilitate electronic exchange of information between EU countries to help practically implement the coordination principles.
The Summit is an initiative of the European Outdoor Group (EOG), the association set up to represent the common interests of the European outdoor industry. As a pan-European organisation the EOG is uniquely placed to support the Summit, which will be held in alternate years in different countries. This year it was held in Stockholm, Sweden and I was the keynote speaker on the opening night. This is my presentation.
This document provides vocabulary words and definitions from John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men". The words include:
- Revered: To regard with deep respect.
- Contempt: A lack of respect, often with intense dislike or disgust.
- Reprehensible: Deserving punishment.
- Belligerently: Doing something in a hostile or aggressive way.
- Ominously: Giving the impression that something bad is going to happen.
- Confide: To tell someone a private matter in confidentiality.
Framtidens kommunikationslandskap för kommunikatörerJohan Ronnestam
This document summarizes a lecture given by Johan Ronnestam at Berghs School of Communications on May 17, 2013 about the future communications landscape for communicators. Some of the key points discussed include: how technology is challenging traditional assumptions; the rise of new generations who are native to technology; and a formula for success that emphasizes design, innovation, and authenticity. The lecture examined trends from the past few decades and looked toward uncertainties of the 2020s and beyond.
This document defines 15 vocabulary words from the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" including words like wither, serene, innate, stagnate, insidious, lament, ambivalent, inherent, narcissistic, perish, exuberant, nostalgia, imminent, and aphorism. It provides a short context clue and definition for each word.
This document contains instructions for a lesson on persuasive techniques. It lists word choice, irony, hyperbole, and repetition as persuasive techniques and asks the student to define and provide an example of each. It then provides prompts for the student to practice using these techniques to convince a friend that their school is best, that their book is the best novel, and to persuade a crush to like them back.
IA Parent Presentation - March 27th, 2014Corey Topf
The document appears to be from I Innovation Academy A, which outlines its mission to empower students to pursue learning and create socially responsible solutions. It includes information about various grade levels, courses, quotes from students about learning, and responses from university representatives indicating that IA students would be a good fit for their institutions which value hands-on, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial learning approaches.
The document poses a series of sociological questions about how various modern influences may affect behaviors and views among youth and young adults. Specifically, it questions the impacts of fast food, social media, cell phones, advertising, video games, college costs, Greek life, television, music, and body image on factors such as physical activity, communication skills, grammar, job success, views on smoking, violence, drinking, gender roles, crime, and more.
The document appears to be journal entries from a linguistics class that includes assignments, discussion questions, and music recommendations. It covers topics like parts of speech, verb conjugation, tense and aspect, use of apostrophes, and analyzing quotes related to themes like conflict and the Holocaust.
This is a compilation of pictures and tweets tagged as dpc09. This was run during the closing keynote.
Note to photographers: We apologize if we have used your picture without permission. We respect your IP and will gladly remove any offending photos from this slide deck if yoyu so desire.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, provides an overview of his background and Zappos. He discusses how Zappos started in 1999 and has grown to 1400 employees. Zappos focuses on delivering outstanding customer service through fast shipping, easy returns, and friendly customer support. This emphasis on service has helped Zappos achieve strong growth, with 75% of purchases coming from repeat customers who spend more than first-time customers. Hsieh also discusses Zappos' culture and core values, which are focused on delivering happiness to both customers and employees.
This document contains an unstructured collection of unrelated information, including music artists and songs, academic subjects and grade levels, and a short excerpt from A Midsummer Night's Dream play. It does not provide enough context to generate a multi-sentence summary.
Les comparto lo que presente en la reunion dell Health Science Group de Universsitas 21 en Auckland New Zealand. U21 HEALTH SCIENCES GROUP MEETING
MAJOR TRENDS AND KEY ISSUED IN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND MEDICAL SYSTEM IN MEXICO
Morecrypto in the world of SIP - the Session Initiation ProtocolOlle E Johansson
The Internet is under attack and we need more encryption everywhere. This applies to the world of realtime communication too. This talk briefly goes through what can be done today and what needs to be done in the future. Originally delivered at Kamailio World 2014 in Berlin.
13 trender som kommer påverka din affär i framtidenJohan Ronnestam
Idag genomförde jag en föreläsning i Båstad. Jag träffade 15 chefer och mellanchefer som genomgått en Executive MBA utbildning. Målet med föreläsningen var att inspirera och få upp ögonen för framtidens affärsklimat.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, discusses how the company has built a brand through focusing on customer service, culture, and repeat customers. Zappos prioritizes delivering "wow" customer service through their 365-day return policy, fast shipping, and friendly customer service representatives. They have also cultivated a strong company culture focused on core values like delivering wow through service. This emphasis on customer service and culture has led to high rates of repeat customers, with over 75% of purchases coming from returning customers.
The document profiles 20 freshman students from the class of 2015, listing their member since date, number of community builds participated in, and extracurricular activities. It shows that most students joined in August 2011, participated in 1 build (the Roosevelt Build in 2012), and the retreat in 2011. A few participated in additional activities like the Familias build in 2011 or served as club officers or leaders.
The organisation of social security coordinationStevenSegaert
The document discusses the organization of social security coordination in the European Union. It outlines four key principles of EU coordination: 1) avoiding conflicts of law to determine applicable legislation, 2) equality of treatment regardless of nationality, 3) aggregation of insurance periods across countries, and 4) exportability of benefits regardless of residence. The document also describes the EESSI project which aims to facilitate electronic exchange of information between EU countries to help practically implement the coordination principles.
The Summit is an initiative of the European Outdoor Group (EOG), the association set up to represent the common interests of the European outdoor industry. As a pan-European organisation the EOG is uniquely placed to support the Summit, which will be held in alternate years in different countries. This year it was held in Stockholm, Sweden and I was the keynote speaker on the opening night. This is my presentation.
This document provides vocabulary words and definitions from John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men". The words include:
- Revered: To regard with deep respect.
- Contempt: A lack of respect, often with intense dislike or disgust.
- Reprehensible: Deserving punishment.
- Belligerently: Doing something in a hostile or aggressive way.
- Ominously: Giving the impression that something bad is going to happen.
- Confide: To tell someone a private matter in confidentiality.
Framtidens kommunikationslandskap för kommunikatörerJohan Ronnestam
This document summarizes a lecture given by Johan Ronnestam at Berghs School of Communications on May 17, 2013 about the future communications landscape for communicators. Some of the key points discussed include: how technology is challenging traditional assumptions; the rise of new generations who are native to technology; and a formula for success that emphasizes design, innovation, and authenticity. The lecture examined trends from the past few decades and looked toward uncertainties of the 2020s and beyond.
This document defines 15 vocabulary words from the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" including words like wither, serene, innate, stagnate, insidious, lament, ambivalent, inherent, narcissistic, perish, exuberant, nostalgia, imminent, and aphorism. It provides a short context clue and definition for each word.
This document contains instructions for a lesson on persuasive techniques. It lists word choice, irony, hyperbole, and repetition as persuasive techniques and asks the student to define and provide an example of each. It then provides prompts for the student to practice using these techniques to convince a friend that their school is best, that their book is the best novel, and to persuade a crush to like them back.
IA Parent Presentation - March 27th, 2014Corey Topf
The document appears to be from I Innovation Academy A, which outlines its mission to empower students to pursue learning and create socially responsible solutions. It includes information about various grade levels, courses, quotes from students about learning, and responses from university representatives indicating that IA students would be a good fit for their institutions which value hands-on, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial learning approaches.
The document poses a series of sociological questions about how various modern influences may affect behaviors and views among youth and young adults. Specifically, it questions the impacts of fast food, social media, cell phones, advertising, video games, college costs, Greek life, television, music, and body image on factors such as physical activity, communication skills, grammar, job success, views on smoking, violence, drinking, gender roles, crime, and more.
The document appears to be journal entries from a linguistics class that includes assignments, discussion questions, and music recommendations. It covers topics like parts of speech, verb conjugation, tense and aspect, use of apostrophes, and analyzing quotes related to themes like conflict and the Holocaust.
This is a compilation of pictures and tweets tagged as dpc09. This was run during the closing keynote.
Note to photographers: We apologize if we have used your picture without permission. We respect your IP and will gladly remove any offending photos from this slide deck if yoyu so desire.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, provides an overview of his background and Zappos. He discusses how Zappos started in 1999 and has grown to 1400 employees. Zappos focuses on delivering outstanding customer service through fast shipping, easy returns, and friendly customer support. This emphasis on service has helped Zappos achieve strong growth, with 75% of purchases coming from repeat customers who spend more than first-time customers. Hsieh also discusses Zappos' culture and core values, which are focused on delivering happiness to both customers and employees.
This document contains an unstructured collection of unrelated information, including music artists and songs, academic subjects and grade levels, and a short excerpt from A Midsummer Night's Dream play. It does not provide enough context to generate a multi-sentence summary.
Les comparto lo que presente en la reunion dell Health Science Group de Universsitas 21 en Auckland New Zealand. U21 HEALTH SCIENCES GROUP MEETING
MAJOR TRENDS AND KEY ISSUED IN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND MEDICAL SYSTEM IN MEXICO
Morecrypto in the world of SIP - the Session Initiation ProtocolOlle E Johansson
The Internet is under attack and we need more encryption everywhere. This applies to the world of realtime communication too. This talk briefly goes through what can be done today and what needs to be done in the future. Originally delivered at Kamailio World 2014 in Berlin.
13 trender som kommer påverka din affär i framtidenJohan Ronnestam
Idag genomförde jag en föreläsning i Båstad. Jag träffade 15 chefer och mellanchefer som genomgått en Executive MBA utbildning. Målet med föreläsningen var att inspirera och få upp ögonen för framtidens affärsklimat.