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Air Arranging Assignment Draft 1. What item or administration will you attempt to sell? On the off chance that you are picking a buyer item, at that point offer it to a store for resale instead of to a last retail client? I am attempting to offer a sort of twisting shoe to a retail twisting store. The specific kind of twisting shoe(The Delux rendition) is made by Balance Plus.2. Where do you think the customers are in the purchasing procedure for this item or administration as you go into the business call? The customer will be amped up for this sort of shoe. It is another shoe and is the best twisting shoe at any point created. They will be in the initial step of purchasing the item. This is on the grounds that the shoes are new and generally obscure to stylers. They will be an incredible thing and will sell very fast.3. What are your goals for the business call? My target for the business call is to offer the shoe to the client.Chris Sobkowicz (left) and Jim Armstrong (right)

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Most creating nations face extreme difficulties to develop in outcomes of the neediness trap: checking restricted access to credit and capital markets, wasteful and defiled administration, and on a very basic level an absence of chances for them to escape from the destitution string wheel. Furthermore, Peru situated in South America had not been a special case in this situation up till the casual lodging developed. In the book named the other way, the writer shows a fascinating investigation with regards to Peru’s instance of the casual lodging that at last propelled the urban turn of events. What's more, his affirmation suggests to be exceptionally persuading; be that as it may, some may contend that results of urban improvement through casual lodging might be profoundly muddled and unsafe. Along these lines, it would be suitable for the Peruvian government to discover approaches to forestall any extra casual lodging entanglements in Peru and join its arrangements to overhaul its citizens’ personal satisfaction; concentrating on human turn of events and financial improvement all the while. The creator, Hernando de Soto, portrays how the urban improvement has profoundly advanced in Peru, basically through casual lodging; casual importance as fundamentally illegal. As per the creator, casual lodging didn't unintentionally occurred in the Peruvian culture; in spite of everything arranged ahead of time since the poor urgently looked for their own chances and property rights that the Peruvian government couldn't direct. Familiarity emerged because of Peruvian citizens’ reactions to the state’s inadequacy to fulfill the essential needs of the ruined masses. Consequently the Peruvian residents needed to disregard the law so as to construct shields and build up their own neighborhoods, building framework in their own after il... ...ional steps to propel the nature of its people’s lives with regards to the human turn of events, offering improved open types of assistance or social government aides for a model. Hernando de Soto’s contention guarantees the unavoidable casual advancement in urban territories in Peru due to wasteful legislative strategies on casual lodging. As the creator contends, maybe the casual lodging did effectively added to offer opportunities to poor people; be that as it may, so as to limit the misfortune and weaknesses, the legislature completely needs to forestall further casual lodging alongside strategies concentrating on the human advancement in the mean time. His accentuation likewise leaves unavoidable issues, for example, how much positive effects do the poor truly get from the acknowledge advertise, alongside how Peru’s casual advancement case can be repeated in other creating nations without negative consequences.

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This Week at SIPA COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog The Harriman Institute and the Russian American Cultural Center Fragments from the Past: A Photography Exhibition by Yuri Shalamov, who worked for top Soviet magazines and newspapers for over thirty years. 11:00 am to 5:00 pm International Affairs Building, 12th Floor For additional information: www.russianamericanculture.com Monday, November 9 The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Chinas Science and Technology Talent Pool: Competitive Advantage or Critical Problem? with Denis F. Simon, professor, Penn State School of International Affairs and Cong Cao, senior researcher, the Levin Institute, State University of New York (SUNY). 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 The Middle East Institute and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Talk: Palestine and  Israeli Occupation, with Amira Hass. 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm Knox Hall, Room 207 (122 St. between Broadway and Claremont Ave.) The Harriman Institute Talk: The Potential for Energy Cooperation with Russiaâ€"the Future of Natural Resource Development and Management in the Arctic, with Dr. Louis Skyner. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 The SIPA International Finance and Economic Policy (IFEP) Concentration Lecture: In the Aftermath of the Global Economic Crisisâ€"Redesigning the WTO for the 21st Century, with Professor Debra Steger, WTO Appellate Body Secretariat with comments by Professor Michael Ewing-Chow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore; Jennifer Hillman (invited), member, WTO Appellate Body and comments by moderator Professor Merit E. Janow, director, IFEP. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Warren Hall, Feldberg Space The School of International and Public Affairs and SIPAs South Asia Association and Urban Policy Concentration SIPA Global Mayors Forum: Urban Policy, Global Challengesâ€"A Conversation with Syed Mustafa Kamal, Mayor of Karachi, Pakistan. 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm International Affairs Building, 1501 The Committee on Global Thought Panel Discussion: A Bretton Woods Moment? with panelists: Benjamin Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara; Adam Posen, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Columbia University. They  will be asked to reflect upon the role of governments and central banks in overseeing a new financial architecture, and whether new institutional innovations, such as a new global reserve currency, are required. 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Faculty House, Presidential Room 1 For more information: http://cgt.columbia.edu/events/a_bretton_woods_moment To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36304 The Harriman Institute and Programs in Comparative and International Education and International Education Development A comparative analysis of the results from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)â€"Learning Achievement in the CEE/CIS Region, with special guests from UNICEF Geneva Phillipe Testot-Ferry and Erin Tanner. Presentation will be followed by a reception. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Teachers College, Milbank Chapel For more information: Erin Weeks-Earp at emw2114@columbia.edu Tuesday, November 10 The Harriman Institute Talk: The Economic Crisis and Russian Museums: Some Recent Observations by Kristen Regina, chief art librarian at Hillwood Museum Gardens. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 The International Media, Advocacy and Communications (IMAC) Specialization at SIPA Talk: How the Liberal Blogs Are Keeping President Obama Honest, with John Aravosis, editor of AMERICAblog.com, one of the most influential Democratic political blogs in Washington, DC, discussing the role of liberal blogs in working with (and fighting against) the Obama administration during the 2008 presidential campaign and other far ranging issues. 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1302 The School of International and Public Affairs Info Session for the Hertie School of Governance Dual Degree Program in Berlin. For first-year SIPA students, interested in applying for the SIPA/HSoG Dual Degree Program. 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1510 The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and the Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo Report: Global Cities Power Index, a comprehensive study of 35 global cities, released in October 2009 that ranks cities based on six overall categories: Economy, Research Development, Cultural Interaction, Livability, Ecology Natural Environment and Accessibility with 69 individual indicators among them. 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36805 The Harriman Institute Book Talk: Join us for a literary evening with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, while she reads from her latest book, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbors Baby: Fairy Tales. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Barnard College North Tower, Sulzberger Hall For more information: www.gs-agency.com/author_show_en.php?id=31 To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36425 The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life Lecture: Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prizeâ€"Can Human Action Be Explained? 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm Schapiro Center, Davis Auditorium The Conflict Resolution Working Group, the Center for International Conflict Resolution and ACCORD Conflict Resolution Career Panel: Opportunities in the Field. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 403 Wednesday, November 11 Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) Faculty and Instructor Workshop: CourseWorksâ€"Getting Started. This workshop is designed to introduce Columbia University faculty and instructors to the basics of using CourseWorks (from logging in to setting up your course syllabus). This free, hands-on workshop is recommended for beginners. 11:00 am to 12:15 pm Butler Library, Room 204 (CCNMTL Faculty Support Lab) To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36741 The Harriman Institute Talk: Overcoming Warlords and State Failureâ€"Lessons from Post-Soviet Georgia, with Kimberly Marten of Barnard College and Columbia University. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Presentation: Strategy Serving Tacticsâ€"Iraq, Afghanistan, and the New Way of American Warfare, with Colonels David Gray and Gian Gentile. 12:15 pm to 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1302 The Institute of African Studies African Architecture Urbanism Series: Timelinesâ€"New Perspectives explores contemporary African cities as unique built environments with Abosede George, assistant professor at Barnard College, specializing in African history, women’s history, urban history of Africa, and the history of childhood in Africa. 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Thursday, November 12 Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) Faculty and Instructor Workshop: Podcasting Essentialsâ€"Creation and Distribution will provide in-depth information on how audio and video content is being produced for students in higher education, and will explain how podcasting has helped distribute educational media. The second portion of the workshop will provide a step-by-step demonstration on how to create audio and video media that can be used in a podcast or any other Web-based environment. There will also be a brief demonstration on how you can use online platforms such as iTunes U to promote your media materials. This workshop is recommended for beginners. 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Butler Library, CCNMTL Faculty Support Lab (Room 204) To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36755 The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Japanese Politics from Tanaka to Hatoyama (via Koizumi), with Margarita Estévez-Abe, associate professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship Public Affairs, Syracuse. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Annual Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations, with Dr. Robert O. Keohane, professor of International Affairs at Princeton University, on Social Norms and Agency in World Politics. 12:15 pm to 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Note: Registration for this event is currently open. To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=35377 If you have difficulty registering, please email hcg2108@columbia.edu. The Middle East Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Young Women in Riyadhâ€"Between Transgressions of Islamic Rules and Consumerist Norms, with Amelie Le Renard. 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Knox Hall, Room 208 (122 St. between Broadway and Claremont Ave.) The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies Grand Rounds: Economic Evaluations of the Housing Health Intervention Study. Welcome Dr. David Holtgrave, professor and chair, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Medical Center Psychiatric Institute, Room 6602 Entrance at 40 Haven Ave. and 168 St. (inside bridge goes directly to 6th floor) The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lecture: Japan and the United States in Afghanistanâ€"A Dialogue, with Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and M. Ishaq Nadiri, Jay Gould Professor of Economics, New York University. A reception will follow the lecture. 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm Faculty House, Presidents Room Reservations are required: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36521 Friday, November 13 and Saturday, November 14 The Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop: Crime, Fear, Insecurity in Mexicoâ€"Ethnographic and Policy Approaches brings together scholars from different disciplines to establish dialogue incorporating different perspectives on this critical topic for Mexico and its neighbors. Friday, Nov 13 from 9:15 am to 6:00 pm Saturday, Nov 14 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 This Week at SIPA COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog As is typical, it is a busy week at SIPA.   The following events are all taking place this week.   Kind of makes you wonder when students have time to go to class. Monday, October 26 The Harriman Institute Conference: Brussels and the Western Balkans: Next Steps for the EU Integration Process. Join us as we address the following: Since the EU committed to enlarge the Western Balkans at its 2003 Thessaloniki Summit, the countries of the region have made little progress in their efforts to join the European Union. All Day Event International Affairs Building, Room 1501 To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=34924 The South Asia Institute Distinguished Lecturer Series presents Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Knox Hall, Room 202 (122 St. between Broadway and Claremont Ave) The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lecture: The Great Crash of 2008 and China, with former Australian Ambassador to China Ross Garnaut, professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 The UN Studies Program Working Group, the SIPA Pan-African Network (SPAN), the Arab Student Association, the Gender Policy Working Group Panel Discussion: Female Circumcision: A Multilevel Discussion on a Multidimensional Issue. This panel explores the complexity of female circumcision by bringing together practitioners, scholars and activists with different views on the issue. 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm International Affairs Building, Lindsay Rogers Room 707 Tuesday, October 27 The Alliance Program and the European Legal Studies Center Discussion: Trade and Problems: Whats New at the WTO? with Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, professor of International Law, Universite Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne on how trade liberalization accentuates problems of management in other areas, such as environment or health, which is related to the problem of the fragmentation of international law and the logic of competing norms. 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm W J Warren Hall, Room 600 The Microfinance Working Group, Microfinance Club of New York, Microlumbia and NYU Microfinance Mixer: Microfinance Happy Hour. You are invited to mingle at the mixer and meet other NYC practitioners and students in the microfinance field. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Slate Plus 54 W. 21 St. New York, NY 10011 Wednesday, October 28 The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Hong Kongs Sinking and Shrinking Middle Class in a Rising Asia, with Helen Siu, professor of Anthropology, Yale University. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 The Center for the Study of Human Rights Presentation: The Trail of Bloodâ€"The Search for an Intercommunal National System in Lebanon and Iraq, with Visiting Scholar Hanna Ziadeh, who will introduce his research, a comparative analysis of nation-building processes in Lebanon and Iraq. 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm International Affairs Building, Room 801 The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lecture: Is Chinese Science Really an Exotic Subject? with Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania. 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Kent Hall, Room 403 The Center for International Conflict Resolution Conversation with Ambassador Alvaro de Soto and Mr. Martin Griffiths on International Conflict Resolution in the New Millennium, the third encounter of the Conversations with Alvaro de Soto lecture series. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Jerome Greene, Room 101 To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36288 The UN Studies Program Panel: Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operationsâ€"What does it mean, what does it take? Including the following panelists H.E. Augustine P. Mahiga, permanent representative of Tanzania to UN and David Haeri, chief, Best Practices Section, UN Department of Peacekeeping   Operations and moderator Prof. Elisabeth Lindenmayer, director, UN Studies Program. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 The Earth Institutes Columbia Water Center and Scientists and Engineers for a Better Society Film Screening: A Civil Action, with speakers: Patricia Culligan, professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University; and Upmanu Lall, Alan Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University; Director, Columbia Water Center, The Earth Institute, Columbia University. 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 569 For more information: http://water.columbia.edu Registration is requested but not required: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36415 The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life Conversation with Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek magazine and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, as well as American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, and moderator Randall Balmer, professor. 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Journalism Building, Lecture Hall (3rd Floor) The Middle East Institute Book Talk: A Country Called Amreeka, with author Alia Malek. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm International Affairs Building, Lindsay Rogers Room (707) Thursday, October 29 The Harriman Institute and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: China and Energy Security in Central Asia, with Pan Guang, director and Professor of the Shanghai Center for International Studies and the academic director of the Institute of Eurasian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science. 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 The Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University, the Jornal do Brasil and Casa Brasil Conference: Brazil and the Future. Brings together leaders of various sectors of Brazils economy and industry to analyze its emerging role as a global power. 1:45 pm to 5:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 To register: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=36420 The Institute of Latin American Studies Screening of the documentary Los Demonios del Eden, a film based on the work of Mexican activist and writer Lydia Cacho. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles. 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 413 The Harriman Institute and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Screeningâ€"Vanished Empire, a new Russian film. 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm Hamilton Hall, Room 703 Thursday, October 29 and Friday, October 30 The Harriman Institute and the Davis Center, Harvard University Forum: A Globalizing Russia? Join us for The Second Annual Russia/Eurasia Forum on how Globalization affects a myriad of sectors including culture, business and energy, the environment and public health, security, telecommunications and the internet, human rights, and migration. All Day Event Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 The Arab Student Association at SIPA, the Russian Cultural Association of Columbia University and USPolyResearch Conference: Sustainable Development of Hot Deserts. Will present a novel interdisciplinary approach to the problem of desertification and the development of sustainable settlements in hot deserts. Keynote speakers include: Dr. Nikhil Chandavarkar, Secretary, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Ms. Florence D. Hudson, IBM Corporation, Mr. Sydney W. Kitson, Kitson Partners Developer of Babcock Ranch, Florida. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Lerner Hall, Roone Arlidge Auditorium To register: www.globalecoinnovation.org/default.aspx?tabid=7