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The first project, Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis, will serve as a prompt for a written assignment with a minimum of 500 words. Please write your own piece relating to your artist pod. It can be a personal narrative or one that relates to the greater context of the world — past, present or future. It can be conceptual in nature but must demonstrate your unique vision of inhabited space with a clear intention behind it. This is a creative assignment.

Program is the intended use for the space. For instance a child’s bedroom might need a place to sleep, a place to store clothing and toys, a place for reading. Please submit a list of programs that you can realistically include in your approx. 10′ x 10′ x 10′ artist pod. This does not need to be a long list, it can even be a single program for example, a place for meditating. A painter may need a place for working, a place for resting, a place for displaying work, and a place for storing materials for example.

Spatial considerations are ideas more specific to the feel or experience of the space created by formal moves at this early stage of the design. Formal moves are ideas conveyed by the designer specific to the shape or form of an object being designed (in this case your pod). How does the form convey specific lighting conditions? How does it invite nature in? How does it allow for adaptation? How does it convey the idea of floating? An exploration of how to create forms that invite nature in is a perfect example of an interest from which you can build a long list of spatial conditions. Spatial conditions are physical orientations of space. This assignment attempts to build a palette of spatial conditions that you, the designer, can employ to satisfies your initial spatial considerations. For example, you might include punch windows that frame a view of a particular tree. You might sever your structure in half to allow a stream to pass through. You might incorporat

Windows Server Deployment Proposal

Overview
Each student will create a detailed, organized, unified technical solution given the scenario described below. The submission will be in a written format, with at least one diagram, and may include additional diagrams, charts or tables. The assignment is meant for students to enhance their mastery of the material and to provide a creative and realistic way in which to apply knowledge from this course.

Scenario
Worldwide Advertising, Inc. (referred to as “WAI”) has hired you as an IT consultant for implementing their Windows network infrastructure. WAI is a new advertising firm, and they are currently hiring staff, establishing two locations, and have a need to get their internal IT services configured. They do not yet have an IT staff, but when they do, the IT staff will take over all aspects of IT administration. You are required to supply WAI with a solution which describes the implementation and configuration of their core IT services. Cost is not a significant concern – WAI wishes to implement the “right” solution to fit their needs now and for the next 2-3 years.

There are several details about WAI which will have an impact on your choices:
• WAI will start with 90 employees, in the following departments:
o Executives (9 employees) – manage and run the company
o Accounts and Sales Department (15 employees) – perform market research and maintain accounts
o Creative, Media and Production Department (49 employees) – advertising
o Human Resources and Finances (12 employees) – perform HR and financial duties
o IT (5 employees) – manage IT for the company
o WAI will have two sites, one in Los Angeles and one in New York. Most staff will be located in LA, with at least 1 person from each of the departments above located in NY.
• Networking equipment is already in place for both sites. A secure tunnel (using IPSec) will be established between the two sites so that inter-site traffic will be securely tunneled over the Internet. You may make whatever other assumptions you wish about intra-and inter-site connectivity.
• Security mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection) will be handled separately, and there is no need to describe them.
• Some departments will want their data to remain private from other departments (e.g., Finances personnel will not want Production staff to see the company’s financial details). Your team may make assumptions about how data should be shared or kept private.
• Assumptions can be made regarding any information not included here; all assumptions should be identified, however.

Topics to Cover
Your document should cover the content presented in the course. The outline below contains recommended points to cover. You are free to add other related information.

Describe the technical and business reasons for each choice, citing other resources as appropriate.

The Windows Server 2012 operating system should be used for all aspects of the solution.

The topics include:

New Features of Windows Server 2012
• Describe new features of Windows Server 2012 that WAI can take advantages of.

Deployment and Server Editions
• How many total servers are needed? Which roles will be combined?
• What edition of Windows will be used for each server (e.g., Standard, Datacenter)?
• Will Server Core be used on any servers?
• Where are each of the servers located (which of the two sites)?
• How will the servers be deployed? Manual or automated?

Active Directory
• Number of AD domains?
• Will there be any Read-Only Domain Controllers?
• How will the second site factor into domain controller placement? How will AD sites be configured?
• How will AD organizational units be organized (considering how group policy will be used and users will be organized)?

DNS and DHCP
• DHCP scope design (e.g., lease times, number of scopes, address range)
• Will a form of DHCP fault tolerance be implemented?
• Will DHCP reservations be used for servers?
• DNS namespace design (e.g., domain name(s) chosen, split DNS for Internet/intranet, zones)
• How will DNS be handled for the second site?

Application Services
• How will applications be deployed? If using Group Policy, what are the details on how Group Policy will be used to deploy the software? Which software applications will likely be needed?

File and Printer Sharing
• What shares might be needed?
• DFS Needed?
• How will quotas/FSRM be configures?

Assignment Requirements
There are specific requirements for the assignment: The final submission should contain at least 6 pages’ worth of text written by the student (not counting title page, images, diagrams, tables, or quotations), but may be longer, not to exceed approximately 10 pages’ worth of student-supplied text. (With the required diagram, and other images, title page, etc., the final submission may end up being more than 10 pages in length.) It must be double-spaced, have 1-inch margins, and use 12-point Times New Roman or 10-point Arial/Helvetica font. A title page is required; APA format for the title page is optional.
• At least one diagram must be included (not counted towards the minimum length described above); this could be a diagram describing Active Directory components, DHCP/DNS design, file share hierarchy, or anything else that is worth displaying graphically to enhance the reader’s understanding of the proposal. Additional diagrams, images, or tables are welcome.
• The submission must cover all of the 6 major topics outlined above. Each choice should be explained with technical and business reasoning. The solution should be reasonably detailed. Additional topics may be covered as desired.
• The structure of the final submission is flexible. There is no specific format required, although it should be organized logically and represent a single, unified solution. It is likely that the format will include separate sections for each of the 6 topics required, as well as a summary.
• At least two non-textbook, non-LabSim, non-Wikipedia reference is required; preferably, this would be a “best practice” guide or similar content from Microsoft or an experienced provider of Microsoft solutions.
• Be sure to properly quote or cite any sources used. APA format is required for in-text citations and the list of works cited at the end.

	discuss at least 3 theories related to personality

Sales Management

Outline for Preparation of Manual

Title Page
A. Name of product to be sold.
B. Name of company you are selling for.
C. Course name and number.
D. Your name and date.
I. Developing a Relationship Strategy
A. Describe the typical relationship between salesperson and customer in this field.
B. Describe the appropriate salesperson’s attitude.
C. Describe the appropriate salesperson’s appearance.
D. Describe the methods used to strengthen a long-term relationship for repeats and referrals.
E. Describe your communication style.
II. Developing a Personal Selling Philosophy
A. Describe the marketing setting (e.g., retail, wholesale, manufacturing, or service).
B. Describe the role of personal selling in this setting.
C. Describe the typical salesperson’s training to become a consultant/problem-solving type of salesperson.
III. Developing a Product Strategy
A. Description of company
B. Description of product/created product solution
C. Description of technical expertise needed by salesperson
D. Develop feature benefits worksheet.
E. Is this a new and emerging or mature and well-established product?
F. Will you use a price or value-added product strategy?
IV. Developing a Customer Strategy
A. Describe the typical buying motives of prospect.
B. Describe the typical prospect as an individual (and as a company representative, if appropriate).
C. How are prospects identified in most cases?
V. Developing a Presentation Strategy
A. Preparing for the sales presentation.
1. List presentation objectives.
2. Describe a typical sales cycle (how many calls).
3. Describe team versus one person, and group versus individual presentation strategies.
4. Describe ways to achieve a good social contact.
B. Describe methods to achieve good business contact
C. Customer Need Discovery
1. List questions that will determine the prospect’s needs
2. Match typical customer buying motives with features and benefits of the product, company, and salesperson.
3. Create a summary of an appropriate need-satisfaction presentation strategy (informative, persuasive, or reminder).
D. Creating the sales presentation
1. List features/benefits you will discuss and demonstrate.
E. List selling tools you will use
F. Negotiating sales resistance
1. Anticipated sales resistance.
G. How will you overcome sales resistance?
H. Closing the sale
1. Consider closing clues to be alert to.
I. List closing methods you plan to use
1. Servicing the sale
2. List additional items you will suggest to the customer.
3. How will you assist the customer with delivery and/or installation; with warranty and/or service contract; and in securing credit arrangements?
4. What type of postsale courtesy contacts will you make

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Has there been a societal shift towards an acceptance of depression and anxiety disorder?

please do problem 10 on attachment and answer question below. include references

Explain how the applications of Integer programming differ from those of linear programming. Give specific instances in which you would use an integer programming model rather than an LP model. Provide real-world examples.

Identify at least three sports products to which consumers demonstrate high degrees of brand loyalty. Summarize these products and why you think loyalty is so high.

Search the internet for the websites of these products. Compare and contrast between the products’ positioning on their websites. Discuss what you as a manager would do differently with these products in terms of positioning.

Include strategies that have worked best and are supported by research from scholarly sources as well as from the course text. The paper should be two to three pages in length, not including the title and references pages, and formatted according to APA style guidelines. A minimum of three scholarly sources must be used

Compare and contrast prime and conversion costs. Give three examples of each.

(TCO B) Describe cost-volume-profit analysis. What is sensitivity analysis and what questions does it answer in CVP analysis?

(TCO C) Describe the seven steps in job costing. Which step do you think is most important?

(TCO D) Compare and contrast job costing and process costing and give two examples of each. What is the weighted average process-costing method and when would it be used

n economics, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Below, you will find two scenarios. Your assignment is to discuss the situation by writing the solutions, and then show the solutions and how you got here in one or more graphs or flowcharts.

Scenario One

Supply and demand are foundational concepts in understanding economic theory. Whether you are a coffee drinker or not, you have been tasked to examine the impact of supply and demand when dealing with the coffee retail industry. A few companies probably come to mind. Pick a major coffee retailer, and then contemplate what has been happening to both the supply and demand for this product.

Next, analyze the following scenario that deals with what happened in the coffee industry at the beginning of the last decade:

In the early part of the last decade, there was an overproduction of coffee. The price dropped so low that producers’ costs were higher than the market price. The reason this happened was that market prices became high before this, and the supply of coffee increased substantially. In the meantime, demand for coffee and everything else remained the same.

Coffee prices, as a supply input, went down. In the meantime, gourmet coffee houses began appearing, which began charging a premium for coffee in the period of decreasing prices. Gourmet coffee houses tend to open in high-rent areas and cater to higher income consumers. Because of the change they created for taste and preferences and the higher income market, the gourmet coffee houses had a win-win in a period of falling wholesale prices and increasing retail prices.

Explain the changes in the supply and demand creating a supply and demand curve based on the above information.
In this graph, be sure to demonstrate how these changes affected the price and quantity levels of supply and demand.
Based on this analysis, how were coffee retailers faring in the marketplace?

Scenario Two

In this next scenario, start your discussion by examining the differences between the definitions of the macroeconomics and microeconomics. Next, discuss how the concepts of supply and demand relate to (1) microeconomics and (2) macroeconomics.

For you to demonstrate understanding of supply and demand from the perspective of microeconomics versus macroeconomics, pick 2 of the 10 scenarios below and discuss the following questions:

Is the scenario a macroeconomic or microeconomic example of supply and demand?
Is this impacting supply or demand?
Is this example going to experience a shift or a movement of supply or demand?
As a result of this change, what happened to equilibrium price and quantity?

The 10 examples for you to consider are as follows:

After Hurricane Katrina, what happened to the price of fish?
After the development of the microchip, what happened to the price of computers?
After the government raised tariffs on imported cheese, what happened to the price of domestic cheese?
Polyester suits have become trendy again. What happens to their price?
Internet auction sites are becoming more popular, and people are using them more and more.
A new health report came out that said red wine lowers cholesterol.
The government raises taxes.
Inflation increases.
Immigration laws are relaxed.
The government increases spending