Describe the difference between point of operation devices and point of operation guards. Give three examples of each type (guards and devices) and summarize how they work to prevent injuries.
you response must be at least 500 words in length. all sources used, must be referenced, paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing the key parameters of the juvenile justice system in the United States. Address the following:
Listed below are several summary statements from the 2010 Census report:
Source: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/incpovhlth/2010/highlights.html
Tasks:
Deliverables:
NO PLAGAIARISM , NO PLAGAIARISM , NO PLAGAIARISM , NO PLAGAIARISM.
Technological advances have enabled media to provide near-instantaneous coverage from every corner of the world. This first became apparent during Operation Desert Shield in 1990, when the public was exposed to images of U.S. military operations in Kuwait and Iraq with minimal delay. The technology continued to evolve, and during Operations Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and Enduring Freedom in 2001, broadcasts were real-time, and many 24-hour news networks now existed. Images of violence such as suicide bombings and firefights inundated the daily lives of Americans.
As you have already learned, terrorism depends on the ability to inspire fear. In the past, this influence was limited by an individual’s proximity to the event and word of mouth regarding the act. Today, although media outlets are rarely at the attack site during an attack, they usually broadcast the destruction that ensues. The media’s ability to report on these events increased the terrorists’ audience exponentially. Western media coverage has ironically created a false proximity that has proven to be effective at spreading fear to the masses.
For example, Spain’s decision to withdraw support for the Iraq War followed extensive media coverage of the Madrid train bombings. It has been said that the media coverage of the attack strongly influenced public opinion against the Iraq War to such an extent that government policy shifted.
For this assignment, you are the public relations officer for the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. ISAF is the military command under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization responsible for security, stability, and reconstruction in Afghanistan. Your commander has indicated that the Taliban insurgents have been gaining in popularity primarily through their effective use of the media. He believes ISAF needs to develop a better relationship with the media to help mitigate the insurgents’ attempts to gain support and positive public sentiment through their media efforts.
You have been selected to lead the media campaign for ISAF. Through extensive liaison, you have been allowed to write 1 article that will run simultaneously in the major news publications throughout the United States, Europe, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Your commander has given you the freedom to write what you feel is necessary, so long as it contains the following at a minimum:
Assignment Guidelines
Data for Mariner Designs, Inc., follow:
“MARINER DESIGNS, INC.
Comparative Income Statement
Years Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011”
2012 2011
Net sales revenue: $431,000 $372,350
Expenses:
Cost of goods sold $200,000 $187,550
Selling and general expenses 99,000 91,050
Other expense 8,350 6,850
Total expenses $307,350 $285,450
Net income $123,650 $86,900
Requirements:
1. Prepare a horizontal analysis of the comparative income statement of Mariner Designs, Inc. Round percentage changes to one decimal place.
2. Why did 2012 net income increase by a higher percentage than net sales revenue?
Parent Co sells street vending carts and has been in business for 10 years. The subsidiary, Sub Co, has been in the business of selling refrigerated vending carts for 8 years. Parent Co acquired Sub Co from X-Corp in a single stock class 100% acquisition. Parent Co has divests itself of Sub Co. You are a shareholder who has less than 1% of the Sub Co stock. The stock basis is $40,000. As a result of the divestiture, you receive 25 shares of Sub Co stock. This stock has a $25,000 fair market value. Your Parent Co stock has a fair market value of $75,000 after the divestiture. Parent Co has E&P of $2,500,000 at the end of the year.
Requirements:
Use the Template for Option 1 (attached) for the Critical Thinking Assignment for this week. Clearly identify the requirement being addressed. Show or explain all calculations within the body of the submission document. This means that you must use formulas and links so that your thought process can be examined. Make good use of comments to convey your thought process as well.
No hard coding of solutions. .
A suicide bomber has detonated his incendiary device on the Pink Line of the “El” in Chicago, IL. The emergency response teams have quickly extinguished the fire and have begun to treat the wounded. The explosion took place at 5 p.m. on a busy Thursday afternoon. The initial estimates are that 14 people have been killed and 67 wounded. There is also significant infrastructure damage to the Ashlan station, impeding traffic on the Green and Pink lines as well as to and from the Illinois Medical District. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group from Somalia, has claimed responsibility in response to the U.S. Navy’s killing of Somali pirates. Al-Shabaab warns that 2 more explosions will occur somewhere in other major U.S. cities. Their rationale is that three pirates were killed, and therefore three explosions will occur.
As can be expected, the public across the U.S. is in a panic. You are the public relations director for the Deputy Director of Homeland Security. He has asked you to develop a comprehensive white paper explaining the intervention options that the state and federal government can exercise to alleviate public fear and anxiety. He wants to make sure that you anticipate economic impacts at the local, state, and federal levels; use historical incidents if necessary. Your paper will be the basis for an upcoming DHS press conference in which the Deputy Director will attempt to assuage the public’s fear.
Assignment Guidelines
Module 2 – Home
Decision Making and Information Politics
Modular Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to satisfy the following outcomes:
◦Understand how the organization’s information system facilitates—or fails to facilitate—organizational decision making.
◦Recognize key political dimensions of information systems.
◦Describe processes for making appropriate choices about information technology.
◦Describe professional resources available that provide efficient IT support to users.
◦Discuss the diversity of users and the opportunities and problems created by rapid technological change.
◦Define the role played by information in different kinds of decisions.
Module Overview
In this Module, we look at the technical aspect of information management. In Module 1, we provided a the following definition of the relationship between data, information, and knowledge:
“Data are raw and unorganized facts about the world that are collected and stored. Information is produced when data is processed and transformed so that it is organized in a meaningful fashion. Knowledge is the “set of rules” that can be used to interpret information and to take appropriate action based on that information.”
Another useful way of thinking about information systems is by analogy to another common system, automobiles and highways. In this analogy, raw data is roughly equivalent to crude oil. After raw data is stored, sorted and processed into a usable form, it becomes roughly equivalent to gasoline. “Refined data” provides the fuel that businesses run on. A computer is roughly equivalent to an automobile. Like an automobile, it is built it has hardware components – the central processing unit, RAM and secondary storage, keyboards, mice, monitors and other devices, and Ethernet cards. However, unlike an automobile (which requires a driver to turn on the engine and guide the car), a variety of software applications can be run on a computer and can process data into a wide variety of information. An information system is some combination of computer hardware and software that processes data into information. There are many different kinds of information systems – marketing information systems, financial information systems, human resource information systems, manufacturing and supply-chain management information systems, information systems to support e-business, and enterprise-wide information systems that integrate many different types of information systems. Information systems can be as simple as a spreadsheet used to keep track of a budget or as complex as a system to track battlefield information in a war zone.
This all sounds very scientific and rational. But information technology decisions are never made in a vacuum. Actually, they are deeply embedded in what we may call the “politics of information”. The idea that information is political may sound odd to those trained in engineering or technical fields, but it is one of the first lessons learned, either directly or the hard way, by anyone who becomes involved in IT management. By “politics”, we mean here the processes by which scarce resources are allocated and distributed. When we understand that information often serves in organizations as a kind of currency whose value rises and declines like any other commodity, information technology then can be seen as a kind of “money tree”, generating resources for those who feed and water it.
The political dimension to IT decision making is one of the more slippery parts of the process, in part because we’re uncomfortable in our society about explicit discussions of taboo subjects like “money” and “power” (although not at all shy about displaying them, of course). Political factors of many sorts pervade the IT process from beginning to end, and ignoring them is more or less like trying to understand voting in the US Congress without reference to campaign funding.
In this module, we’ll take a close look at the role that information plays in the management of organizations — how it serves a number of different kinds of purposes, some of which may be contradictory. We’ll look at how information systems — either technology-based or not — are established to facilitate the achievement of organizational purposes, and need to be both tailored to the general requirements of management and adapted to the political realities of the organization. And we’ll see how this often frustrates information technology staff beyond belief!
A world view is a fundamental or basic orientation of thinking – like a mindset – which guides a culture and / or a person’s life. Like a point of view, it can be built of concepts, ideas, values, emotions, and ethics. Weltanschauung is the German word for this idea. Your goal for this course is to understand the world views of these various religions. In order to prepare you for your final assignment, you will outline the world views of various religions in the chart below, adding to it each week.
For this assignment, students will complete the weekly area of the chart, filling in the aspects of each religion as it is presented in the readings and resources. This chart, when complete, will be the starting point for the written assignment, due in Week 10.
For each weekly submission:
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: