...Mrs. Dryden English 1101 27 January 2014 Music Midtown Imagine a field of over 50,000 people, once inside the gate you feel like nowhere else in the world. I could feel all the energy in the air listening the sound of the music in the background. I had this feeling that everyone is living in the moment. Music Midtown is one of Atlanta’s largest music festivals. The memory is stored away in a cabinet of my mind, right on the top shelf. It all began when I was driving on my way to see my boyfriend, Tyler. We had been dating for about 2 years and his birthday was coming up soon. While listening to the radio I heard an ad for Music Midtown. Even though I live relatively close to Atlanta, I had never heard of Music Midtown before. As soon as I got home I began doing my research. Looking at the website, I was sure this was it. I knew not only would he enjoy it, I would as well. I could already picture how perfect those two days we’re going to be. Two days of every genre under the sun, a trip into the city, and a chance to really bring us closer. I ordered the tickets for around $250 and that was that. In September we we’re going to be there. After picking up the tickets, I anxiously drove straight to Tyler’s house. I walked in to the house with a smile that stretched across my face and he immediately got excited. I handed him an envelope and I will never forget the look of excitement on his face. The countdown to Music Midtown had begun. It was September 20 and after a sleepless...
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...Ethnic Food Restaurant Business Plan 1.0 Executive Summary Our initial statement to Investors and Financial Lenders is a candid disclosure of the Zara Restaurant & Lounge business proposal - our intent is to set realistic business expectations, and eliminate any questions about the profitability of this business venture. Entrepreneurs have a tendency to paint the business plan with a very optimistic brush, highlighting strengths and camouflaging the risks. We, as business owners, have a vested stake and financial commitment in the success of this restaurant. Our intent is to have a definitive business, financial, and marketing plan that not only serves our need for capital financing, but is utilized as our daily business roadmap. We have taken all precautions to validate our business and financial models, focusing on realistic projections. We have accomplished this as follows: Our financial model is rooted in industry facts, not optimism. We have based costs on our vast industry and practical experience with similar ventures, validation against National Restaurant industry cost averages, and analysis against local Atlanta market averages. We have taken a collective look at all figures to make solid business estimates. Our business concept was derived from detailed Market Analyses. Instead of building a business around a preconceived concept, we analysed the market findings and built a concept around our consumers. In other words, our business is built to service an...
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...Professor Lynne Pryor Introduction O.z. will be a brewery mixed with a food truck experience located in Midtown Miami, FL with a rapidly emerging brand and growing customer base. O.z. will provide its customers with a mixed selection of food truck cuisine. In addition to offering different food varieties Oz. will offers something new to the South Florida area a brewery and beer tasting room where each individual can pour their own beer selection. O.z. will brew their own signature beer as well as offer beers from several microbreweries from across the country. The beer tasting room allows customers to enter the room and be issued a charge card. This card will allow the individual to sample different tapped beers in the tasting room. The individuals can a taste, half mug or full mug of the beer they choose. Next to every tapped beer there will be a description of the beer. In the beer room there will also be a brew master who can assist any client with questions. O.z. will have over 200 beers on tap that customers can taste and pour themselves. This new style beer room will attract individuals looking for good times at a reasonable price. It will reinvent the way beer drinkers experience their beers and offer diverse food selection for any individual. Market Analysis An issue that O.z. faces is that this would be a new venture in the Midtown, Miami area. There are several wine tasting rooms in the Miami, Florida area but a beer tasting room is a whole new experience...
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... Page Nos. Grand Central Office Market 1 Grand Central Scene 1 Who/What Dominates the District 2 Grand Central Office Climate 4 District Vis a Vis Office Setting 4 Historical Analysis of Market Statistics 6 Comparative Analysis: Grand Central, Midtown & Manhattan 7 History of Land Use and Development Trends 8 Grand Central Terminal Today 11 External Market Forces 12 Government Intervention 14 Employment 15 Subject Properties 18 Lincoln Building 18 JP Morgan Chase 20 Competitive Position 21 Summary & Trends 25 Projections 26 I. Grand Central Office Market Analysis The New York City Office Market is comprised of three submarkets, Downtown, Midtown and Midtown South. The Midtown submarket in the largest Central Business District in the United States; it is the submarket that the Grand Central office market is located and upon which this analysis is based. Other neighborhoods within the Midtown submarket include: Columbus Circle, Penn Plaza/Garment District, Plaza District and Times Square (Kindly refer to Appendix Nos.1 & 2). The Grand Central office market straddles in both Community Board #5 and Community Board # 6, the planning bodies of the City that overseas development and other municipal related concerns. According...
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...collaborate with the community. The fact that the school of Business at FIU recognizes that giving back to the community and participating in community service is part of success is very moving. As I drove home after class I began to think of all of the different possibilities that there are to give back to the community. When I came to a stop at a light there was a homeless mother and her child asking for food and that is when I decided that I wanted to participate in feeding the homeless. After much searching I decided to volunteer for one of my friends Non profit organization which focuses in feeding the homeless in downtown Miami. On the day of volunteering my group and I meat up with more volunteers and the members of the organization in midtown Miami to prepare food and organize clothes that people had brought to give away. During the preparation session the group of about 20 people made and assembly line to prepare lunch bags. Inside of each lunch bag we provided a sandwich, 1 banana, granola bar, and a bottle of water. After we assembled an estimated 250 lunch bags drove to downtown Miami and began walking the streets. As we started to pass out the bags all different types of individuals (homeless) began to approach us with excited faces. During this time some of the individuals where very friendly and interacted with me I got to share time with them and converse with some of them, their stories where very moving. I was surprised to find that a lot of them where homeless because...
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...Real Life Negotiation – Summer Uncertainty Cameron Thum Heading into our third year summer, my friends and I were in a relatively good position. We had all secured internships in our fields of interest for the summer and, better yet, many of us received placement in New York. Within my closest group of friends, however, this blessing became a source of indecision and frustration. Seven of us would be interning in New York, and we would inevitably have to split into two groups of four for housing. The question before us was who’d live with who, and why? Facing this decision, the seven of us sat in a room together one spring afternoon to hash out the lingering uncertainty. We didn’t want anyone to be upset with the final decision and were looking for a pareto optimal outcome. While few of us bore particular preferences for groupings heading into the meeting, it soon became clear that particular individuals had an idea already in mind. The conversation began with casual suggestions for room groups: “Jack and I lived together last year, so maybe it would make sense for us to room together this next summer.” Many of the initial suggestions were similar to this – trying to obtain one’s personal preference without much more than prior relationship as support. Quickly we realized that the conversation was not going anywhere, particularly due to the fact that many of us had lived with others in the group before. But the matching process was complicated by the available dorms. All...
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...BASIC BUSINESS Mohd Zairiza Bin Mohd Hashim Yasser Abdul Khaliq Dharsyanee Sathies Haripreya Balamurali Vairavan Lidya Nair Vijaya Chandran INTRODUCTION Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion house .It is established in Midtown Manhattan New York City. It was endowed at 1968 by Calvin Richard Klein. Currently, it has more than 700 stores in 50 different countries .Calvin Klein has participated in 49 RUNWAY PROJECT. Calvin Klein is also well known for fragrances, accessories such as watches and bedding, hosiery, table tops and furniture. Calvin Klein Inc. is currently owned by Paul Thomas Murry III "Anything I wanted to do, I did. If there's something I want to do, nothing stops me."-Calvin Klein History of calvin klein… History of calvin klein… Calvin Richard Klein was born to Flow and Leo Stern on November 1942, at Bronx, New York, USA. Klein was the second of three children. The family was well doing, while the grandmother was running a very successful tailoring shop. Calvin Klein finished his high school at “High School of Arts & Design “. Klein spent his early age, busy studying and sketching fashion designs and sewing. Flow (Klein’s mother), mostly encouraged his passion and love towards arts and design. Later, he moved on to persuade his higher studies at “Fashion Institute of Technology “and graduated in the year of 1962. For the first five years after the graduation, he worked as an apprentice in suit and coat house on 7th...
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...Ronald Leven, Ph.D. Head of Foreign Exchange and Macroeconomic Content Thomson Reuters Three Times Square New York, NY 10036 Tel: 1-917-971-1082 June 17, 2015 To Whom It May Concern: In addition to my full time position at Thomson Reuters, I teach a course on Emerging Market Investment Strategies as an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia School of International Affairs. I had the pleasure of having Tian Tian as a student in my class last year and would be happy to provide a recommendation on her behalf for the Research Analyst position at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Tian was one of the best students in my class and consistently did A level work on all assignments. The course required term papers on selected countries and her papers on Mongolia and Taiwan were professional caliber. Both papers required sourcing and analyzing macroeconomic and firm specific data. Her work was technically competent and the presentation provided a nice assessment of the economic prospects and investment opportunities available in these countries. Tian Tian also regularly contributed to the in-class discussions and consistently made well thought out and insightful comments. Tian Tian and I have remained in communication since she graduated and several times she has made me aware of articles that were of relevance to my class which I much appreciated. Again, I want to vouch for Tian Tian’s technical competency and also her ability to write and speak...
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...Who is Michael Kors? He's only one of the most successful fashion designers of the past couple decades. Whether you knew that or not is beside the point, although try to keep your ignorance a secret amongst fashion circles. This isn't about Michael the man, though, it's about the smartwatch behind him. Well, I mean it's about the man behind the smartwatch and his name is Michael. Scratch that. What I'm really trying to say is that he has a brand new smartwatch out and it's making a statement. Here are five reasons why. 1. MICHAEL KORS IS EXCLUSIVELY ANDROID Michael Kors doesn't seem to give a flying duck about Apple. They probably have a lot more in common then the two think, which probably was the basis for his reasoning to go full Android. The first two, and only two watches at the moment, will be Android-Wear powered. It seems the guy cares just as much about functionality as he does looks. 2. MEN AND WOMEN WILL GET THEIR PICK Options are what the people want and options are what they will get. In the fall of 2016, consumers get a choice of two watches. One gold-plated wearable is designed for the dainty wrists of women while men will be treated to a sporty black version. Feel free to mix it up if you please. 3. IT WON'T BE EXPENSIVE Your definition of expensive may vary, but in this particular scenario, expensive is what an Apple Watch costs. Michal Kors smartwatch will cost significantly less. More than $400 less in fact. Both of his watches will be retailing for a...
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...How do you hire? This interview of John M. Doe, the chief executive of the McGraw-Hill Companies, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. How do you hire? A. I hire 100% based on fit. Fit with our company, our values, our mission and vision. Fit with our people and culture. But I don’t just ask the candidate about these things. They may have memorized a script, in which case we are both wasting our time. Instead, I ask them about specific situations in which they must have acted in a way that indicates a good fit with us, e.g., tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a superior. How did you act? What did you do to fix the problem? As they answer the question, I am keenly looking for a story that flows well, that makes sense; I am trying to understand their thought process and why they went from A to B to C, and also how they did it. I have learned through the years that by interviewing candidates this way, it really allows them to shed off their mask, so pervasive in corporate America, and come clean. They know I expect nothing but the truth from them, and they know I am dead serious about the interview. As CEO of McGraw, there are a million other things I could be doing, but instead I have the unique privilege and opportunity of interviewing a fresh-faced 22-year old for one of the most junior positions at our company. Please tell me, why do you want to come work for...
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...Leadership Concepts Worksheet Donna A. Ray University of Phoenix December 14, 2009 Leadership Concepts Worksheet |Concept |Application of Concept in the Scenario or Simulation |Reference to Concept in Reading | | |GeneOne leadership team developed a technology that kills diseases found in |Performance is the acceptability of | |Performance |tomatoes and potatoes. With this new technology farmers will no longer have |output of output to customers within | | |to use pesticides that will taint their crops. This technology helped GeneOne|or outside the organization who | | |to mature into a multi-million dollar business within a short period. |receive team products, services, | | | |information, decisions, or | | |Performance relates to satisfying the needs and expectations of outsiders |performance events (Kreitner & | | |such as clients, customers, and fans (Kreitner-Kinicki, 2003, p. 451). |Kinicki, 2003, p. 451). | | |GeneOne’s leadership team lacks a sense of togetherness. A lack of |Cohesiveness is a process whereby “a | |Cohesiveness |cohesiveness among the team was displayed in the...
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...12-2-2012 The “V-J day in Time Square” picture taken by Alfred Eisentaedit on August 14, 1945 the medium of this art work is poloraid the style is Iconic the technique Mr. Alfred used is photography. The picture has captured American sailor Glenn McDuffie kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section titled Victory. A two-page spread faces three other kissing poses among celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami opposite Eisenstaedt's, which was given a full-page display. Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war on Japan was made by U.S. President Harry S. Truman at seven o'clock. Similar jubilation spread quickly with the news. Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. Soon afterward...
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...Jordan Walker January 30, 2015 Mrs. Sharrett AP Literature Contrasting Customs As new generations are born they begin to set their own ways, rules, and customs that can be complete opposite of an older generation’s customs. The view towards changing customs can differ greatly because while some may enjoy change, others prefer their thoughts, ideas and settings stay constant. The author of New Year’s Day uses a play on words, strong imagery, and diction to argue how vastly different past generations customs were compared to the generations that followed. The piece from ‘New Year’s Day’ speaks not only about how the celebration of a holiday has changed, but also the entire mind set and attitude of younger generations. “They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel”; how the precision of the phrase characterized my old New York!” Earlier generations held memories that later generations wouldn’t hold so dear. Sillerton Jackson, of the earlier generation claims, “Fifth Avenue Hotel? They might as well meet in the middle of Fifth Avenue nowadays, for all that anybody cares.” His statement vividly explains how different customs are by playing off of the earlier statement of Fifth Avenue with a vision of young adults at Fifth Avenue just standing around with no significance, compared to his generation that held Fifth Avenue as a grand place. The author uses diction in the piece to separate generations by creating the images of New Year’s celebrations. As opposed to grand celebrations...
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...Designer Profile | The Biography of Carolina Herrera | | The life and career of Carolina Herrera | | Erica D. Griffin | 4/15/2008 | | Name: Maria Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Nino Birth date: January 8, 1939 Home town: Caracas, Venezuela Education: No formal training just a creative mind she actually went to school for 3 Interesting facts: * Carolina watcher her first couture fashion show at age 13 * Herrera herself had attended her first couture show, that of Cristobal Balenciaga, at the age of 13 with her grandmother. * Carolina Herrera is a Goodwill Ambassador Celebrity Clients: The late Princess Diana, The late Jacqueline Onassis, Rene zellweger, Rebecca Gayheart, Laura Bush, Kim Cattrall, Oprah Winfrey Key Looks: Tweed suits, Ball skirts and crisp white dress shirts, elegant evening wear and cocktail dresses Known For: Designing Jacqueline Onassis wedding dress How She Got Started: 1980, Herrera brought 20 dresses that her and her Caracas dressmaker created. She borrowed a Park Avenue apartment and invited a couple of her friends to see what she had made; soon buyers for Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman were interested in her line and wanted to purchase them, but Herrera had created the line as a “test” and only had just the sample dresses, and not even a plan for production. Back in Caracas, she was introduced to Armando de Armas, owner of a Venezuelan publishing empire, who offered her financial backing. In a few months...
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...There is nothing more appealing than the idea of living high in the air, with only clouds and sunshine for company. Down below the streets bustle with an energy that defines Manhattan. However, for the select few who enjoy the privileges of penthouse living, all is serene and spacious up above. Have you ever wondered how it feels to wake up, take a glance outside and fix your eyes upon something as beautiful as the sunset outlining a perfect view of New York City at dusk? Can you attain a good view of the architectural greatness that is obtained by standing at the top of the highest building and gazing out the nearest window? Everyone has their preference in regards on how to gain the greatest views of downtown New York. In the opinion of the upper class population, one of the best views is from the finest penthouse on Fifth Avenue says the Time magazine. This particular domain is perhaps the most iconic of all living spaces. Penthouse living is a lifestyle sought after by many, relished by few. Not many homes can carry the charm of such breathtaking views along with the elegant settings, on dark gloomy nights, downtown serves as your cluster of stars, not to mention the beautiful skyline that is right outside your patio door. The property is strictly for those seeking the finest, in a prime location. The big Apple has always been a place to see and be seen. With this top floor, pent style arrangement the owner will become invisible in their own piece of property. Fifth...
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