...Cory Miller P.O.M 11/6/14 Article Review On Tuesday, November 4th 2014 the states of Oregon and Alaska, along with Washington D.C., followed in the steps of Colorado and Washington by legalizing the use of recreational marijuana. However due to lack of support of the U.S. Congress, any of the new recreational marijuana shops may not be able to survive because of an outdated tax code called 280E from the 1980’s or what they refer to as “ the drug-war era” Making the tax rate for these businesses 50% or more. Under this tax code businesses selling marijuana cannot deduct all of their regular business expenses which therefore makes it so the federal government makes more money from the sale of marijuana than the shops themselves. Many believe this is in attempt to shut marijuana stores down financially since it failed to do so legally. In the state of Colorado alone tax revenue from the sales of marijuana has been steadily rising and is currently bringing in roughly 7.5 million dollars monthly proving that this is a reliable sustainable business. NCIA urged members of Congress last week to change 280E and support a bill that would allow marijuana businesses to take standard business deductions. But the IRS says it will not allowing these deductions saying “Any changes to 280E would require Congress to amend either the Internal Revenue Code or the Controlled Substances Act” Question: Do you think that these businesses have a chance of being sustainable and lasting even though...
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...Name: Steve Chastain Name of Article: How to Prepare for a New Job Orientation, What to Expect at a Job Orientation Name of Journal or Website: About.com Name of Author: Alison Doyle Date of Publication: No date on the article Abstract This article was about how professionals starting a new job can prepare for the orientation process. HR professionals work hard on getting the things together to get you through orientation as quick and painless as possible. There will be a lot of information thrown at you and you might not catch everything. This article describes how to prepare for it, call your employer when you are preparing that helps bridge the gap so nothing is missing the day you go in. Ask questions; don’t be afraid to speak up because someone out there is thinking the same thing. Things to take away from this article are, how to prepare for the orientation itself. Call ahead if you are unsure of what to bring or expect. Always dress appropriately for the orientation, you may have executives that stop in and speak. Show up early and check in, especially on your first day of orientation, after that you can judge when you should show up. Bring something to write with and a note pad to take notes there may not be ones provided for you and you have nothing to write down the information you want to remember for yourself, or even question you may want to ask out of a classroom setting. If you don’t know the tax information off the top of your head have it...
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...Rolling tides along a sandy beach, cloud covered green mountain tops, or exotic smells and sounds emitted from crowded streets of a distant place. These can be memories of past vacations, or dreams of future ones. Either way we all have the desire to be free to roam where ever our hearts are most content, free of the everyday stresses of our hectic work life. But more often than not, these dreams are left unfulfilled because, as Americans, we are often one of the most overworked populations on this earth. We skip vacations for a multitude of reasons. The financial burden of taking time off can prevent us from enjoying a relaxing week away, or we may feel that taking time off from our jobs may be viewed as lazy, or that we are not invested in the organization for whom we are employed. But the simple truth is, when we do not allow for time off to rejuvenate our minds and bodies, we not only compromise our own health, but in fact, we compromise the health and wellbeing of the company we work for as well. Attitudes of employers are shifting about quality time off for their employees. They seem to be grasping the reality that overworked employees translates to overall increased productions costs. When employees are overworked and have not taken time off for themselves they can become less efficient, less able to deliver quality of care and/or work, or can make potential mistakes that can have devastating consequences. All potentially costing the organization a great deal...
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...Cold Rolling Jeffry S. Asher DT1410 Unit 4 Assignment 2 ITT Technical Institute January 18, 2016 Cold rolling is a metal forming process in which the shape and the structure of steel are altered through drawing, extruding, hammering, pressing, rolling, spinning, and stretching at temperatures below the steel's recrystallization point, usually room temperature. These processes result in changes to the metal's composition which permanently increases its hardness and tensile strength, and improve the surface finish, but decrease ductility and impact resistance. After hot rolling, many steel products undergo a further processing in the cold state. This stage of processing may not necessarily alter the shape of the steel, but it does reduce its thickness and significantly improve its performance characteristics. Hot rolled coil is commonly known as cold rolled, also known as cold reduced. Cold rolling is a process by which the sheet metal or strip stock is introduced between rollers and then compressed and squeezed. The amount of strain introduced determines the hardness and other material properties of the finished product. The advantages of cold rolling are good dimensional accuracy and surface finish. Cold rolled sheet can be produced in various conditions such as skin-rolled, quarter hard, half hard, full hard depending on how much cold work has been performed. This cold working hardness is often called temper, although this has nothing to do with heat treatment temper...
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...Compliance Program / Annual Procedure Review Rule 206(4)-7 of the Investment Advisers Act creates a fiduciary responsibility for investment advisers to review annually their policies and procedures to determine their adequacy and the effectiveness of their implementation. As part of this review, all policies, procedures and responsibilities of an adviser must be reviewed, and the findings documented. The review should consider all factors that might suggest a need to revise the policies and procedures including any compliance matters that occurred during the year, any changes in the adviser’s or its affiliates business activities, or changes to applicable regulations. Reviews should be conducted by independent individuals (e.g., the department manager) not immediately responsible for implementation of a particular procedure. An overall review and approval of the adviser’s policies and procedures should be completed by the Chief Compliance Officer and should be submitted to the adviser’s Management Committee or Executive Officers for Final Action. |Procedure | |Summary & |Recommended |Reviewer & | |Completion Date & | |Reviewed |Findings |Conclusions |Change/Update |Date of Review |Review by CCO |Final Actions ...
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...Riverside Casino and Golf Resort / Stacy Benson Topic Title Performance Reviews NO. This title won’t work. What about performance reviews? If you were doing a simple research paper you could write about performance reviews based on research alone. In this Sr Paper you must determine the state of the art based on your Literature Review. Then you will give the background of the problem and discuss it. This must all lead to two Courses of Action (COAs; solutions) that are tied to your title and problem. You need a “product” such as a process, a plan, a strategy, a program – something that can be recommended and implemented. Problem Statement (if not finalized post a draft – focus on the "pain.") The problem is that after initial training employees are not being reviewed for current performance. Suggest that after this initial statement you add something more about the problem. Brief Topic Overview The casino is experiencing a high turnover rate of employees because after their initial training they are put on the floor without any further review. In the handbook employees are supposed to have a review after 90 days but they are not being implemented. This leaves the casino with under qualified employees that eventually terminate their employment due to not feeling able to meet the high demands. The solution to this problem, if it is the problem, is simple. Just IMPLEMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS. You can see...
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...Peer Evaluation for MKT 420 Your Name: KYRIA AHO Fill in the blanks for each team member (but not yourself) as if you were writing an evaluation or recommendation for that person. ONLY ONE TEAM MEMBER MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION. Consider if you were assigned to another team, which team member you would want to be your boss. Consider who you’d like to work with again. Consider who you’d go to extremes to avoid working with if you had a say. Here is the format for peer evaluations. Include the team member’s full name (1), and be specific about (2) what the team member did or did not do. At the end, if you were employed with this person, (3) would you recommend (a) Promoting, (b) Retaining (Keep in position), (c) Retaining with counseling to improve performance or (d) firing/replacing. Please keep in mind that in most business situations, only one person in a group would likely be promoted. Thus a recommendation to promote would be reserved for the truly exceptional team member Team Member 1: LEXA CREAMER As a team member with Lexa Creamer on the team marketing plan project, I feel qualified to speak about his/her job performance. Lexa’s contribution to the project was timely and significant. She accepts correction easily and is always willing to assist in any way that she can. I believe Lexa’s strengths are enthusiasm and timely submission of her work. I believe her weakness is the lack of flexibility. Lexa had to miss some of the meetings due to time conflicts...
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...Why did we choose that particular topic or article to be reviewed? As for this assignment, our group has all agreed to choose the article titled ‘Stress Management’ as the article that we need to review. Why we chose this article is absolutely because it is easy to be reviewed. This article has much points and ideas in it. Besides, we chose this article because it is exactly and definitely related to our life as university students. So, we can easily put some ideas as our experiences to review this article. This article teaches us much about stress; what stress actually is and what do make us stressed. This article also gives us knowledge about some stress-management techniques as to overcome this particular problem. As students, we cannot run away from this problem, and we need to face it throughout our whole life as a human. Not only students, all human beings will face any kind of stress either teachers, farmers and also ministers. This article also tells us that stress is not always bad, but sometimes stress can be beneficial to us when it makes our work better and done energetically. We deeply think about how we will think to review this article so we will not face too much obstacle in order to finish this group assignment. Making notes on the article read The five articles that we choose is only about two pages each and these articles have many points and ideas to be taken and used. We need to take notes on these articles to determine which article is the best to be...
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...com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/engl-135-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE 1. ENGL 135 Week 1-7 All Discussion Questions 2. ENGL 135 Week 1 – Restaurant Evaluation 3. ENGL 135 Week 2 – Omnivore’s Dilemma Book Review 4. ENGL 135 Week 3 – Position Paper 5. ENGL 135 Week 4 – Research Proposal 6. ENGL 135 Week 5 – Annotated Bibliography 7. ENGL 135 Week 6 – Research Paper Draft ENGL 135 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit following link: http://www...
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...technology discussion forum . It provides its readers with detailed specs for thousands of computer hardware products, reviews, expert analysis and comparisons. Take the Asus X99 Rampage V Extreme motherboard for example, it belongs to a well know product line known as the Republic of Gamers (ROG). Overclock3D takes this motherboard and breaks it down piece by piece, they go into details of each aspect of this motherboard, from new features that was not available in previous Rampage motherboard models, to over clocking options, and even enhance their review with videos, screen shots, and bench testing results to verify motherboards' specs and capabilities. For the computer enthusiast, this website with an easy to navigate layout, and attractive format, brings all the new hardware to one place, and provides a tremendous amount of information regarding computer hardware. Additionally, the site has several tools that gives its readers the opportunity to discuss, ask questions, and expand on hardware uses through comments, forum, frequently asked questions and other threads in the Community section. Overclock3D was initially dependant on users input through the forum platform. Their enthusiasm however turned into a full scale professional publication, the website became a registered company in the UK and expanded its operations into other websites as well. Reviews done to hardware such as the Rampage V are now handled by professionals like Tom Logan their Director and Chief Editor...
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...Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling is suffocating,” Hope wrote. “It’s the essence of Dis Tew Much.” I think most fans and critics would agree that Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly is, indeed, overwhelming. I reviewed To Pimp a Butterfly in about 72 hours. In that narrow band of time, I "got" the album's messages and themes but couldn’t grasp the motivations for the album’s sound. Why, in. You’ll recall that To Pimp a Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling...
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...1.You must take the Blackboard Basics for Students Course. Then take the Blackboard 101 quiz and receive a “2” as a score. 2.You must complete the Advanced Leader Course Common Core (ALC CC) DL Student Letter of Agreement. You must also fill out all required information. You must recieve a total score of "6". 3.You must fill out all required contact information, including your NCO Support Channel and personal information using the spreadsheet that is provided and receive a "1" as a score. 4.You must read and review the ALC Course Syllabus. Once you understand all items covered in the Syllabus you must click the "Mark Reviewed" button at the bottom left corner. The Syllabus status will then change to "Reviewed." 5.You must read and review the ALC ALARACT 232/2010. Once you understand all items covered in the ALARACT 232/2010 you must click the "Mark Reviewed" button at the bottom left corner. The ALARACT status will then change to "Reviewed https://ncoes.ellc.learn.army.mil. Navigation Instructions You must access the course in accordance with these directions to successfully begin your course. To begin your course you will access www.train.army.mil. On the top right hand side you will click the login button, use your AKO user name and password. Click on the “My Courses” tab, then “My Active Enrollments”. The Advanced Leaders Course Common Core (ALC-CC) link will appear; linking you to your course. After this initial login, you will then use https://ncoes.ellc.learn.army...
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...Web Navigation Steps First, familiarize yourself with O*NET by reviewing the information provided on the About O*NET page. Select the Content Model link, and review the conceptual model underlying this project. Return to Home (by clicking on the O*NET logo at the top of the page) and select the Visit O*NET OnLine link. Go to the My Next Move and enter an occupation you are familiar with (e.g., one you have held or hope to hold) in the keyword search box, or use the Industry search feature if you prefer.) Select the Search or Browse button. Select the occupation that best matches what you are looking for (or use other search terms until you find something that interests you) and review all of the data provided for that position. After completion of these navigation steps, proceed to complete the assignment by discussing the learning questions below. Learning Questions How easy was it to find the specific occupation you were looking for, and how comprehensive was the information provided about that occupation? What did you think of the occupations O*NET suggested as matching your skills? Was the occupation you are in or preparing for among those listed? As an HR professional, how could O*NET be useful in conducting a job analysis? Explain specifically how you would use the data from this site to assist your organization. As a director of human resources, would you have your staff use this site? Why or why...
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...paid to the hard factors first, transformation programs will break down before the soft elements come into play. * A study by Harvard Business Review revealed that outcome (success or failure) of a change program depends on four hard factors * Duration * Integrity * Commitment * Effort Page 2 – DURATION * Refers to the project duration, particularly the time between project reviews. * It is assumed that the longer a program, the more likely it is to fail. * Window of opportunity will close, key objectives will be forgotten, key supporters will lose enthusiasm are some of the reasons for this assumption. * Although, contrary to popular perception, a long project that is reviewed frequently, is more likely to succeed than a short project that is not reviewed frequently. * Time between reviews is more critical than a project’s life span. Page 3 – * Transformation projects should be reviewed at least once in two months since the probability that change initiative will run into trouble rises exponentially if time between reviews is more than eight weeks. * The higher the complexity of the project, the more frequently it should be reviewed to keep the project on the track. * Scheduling milestones and assessing their impact are the best way by which executives can review the execution of projects, identify gaps, and spot new risks. * Most effective milestones are those that describe major actions or achievements...
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...in Darwin. IAW Ref F. Available support from the Defence Community Organisation may be provided at his location for specialist services if the AD355-Assessment of Assistance form found on the DCO website finds him eligible for assistance in his new location. 15. LCPL Watson should be counselled on how a compassionate posting may affect his future suitability for promotion so that he may take all of these factors into consideration. He should consider discussing long term prospects with his Career Advisor if he intends to remain in Defence long term; Compassionate postings are only short term and in this instance should not be recommended. CONCLUSION 16. This brief has outlined the issues afflicting LCPL Watson’s performance during the review period. He has acknowledged that he wants to remain an active member with Defence. LCPL Watson has acknowledged his recent actions within the Platoon have not helped in providing a good example for his junior soldiers and has expressed a keen interest to improve. RECOMMENDATION 17. The following recommendations are made: a. LCPL Watson and Ms Low apply for recognition of interdependent b. LCPL Watson looks at the availability of a service residence and or submits a live out application if nothing is available c. LCPL Watson applies for recognition of a dependant with special needs d. LCPL Watson looks into applying for a general purpose loan through The Army Relief Trust Fund e. LCPL Watson consider applying through the DCO for...
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