...“There has been consensus among scientists for years that global warming is a serious problem and that it is caused by human activity” (“Global Warming Solutions A Basics.”, n.d.).I am here to tell you, global warming is a real and serious threat. With the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere the land and ocean temperatures have increased. Over the last 25 years, 11 of the 12 warmest years on record have occurred in the past 12 years. Something needs to be done to change this trend. This is where each and every one of us comes in. You might not think things in your everyday life have an effect on global warming but you are wrong. Here in the Midwest, we are at the center of our global warming problems and can be at the center of our solutions (“Global Warming Solutions A Basics.”, n.d.). Just making relatively small changes in your homes can make a huge impact on global warming if everyone makes similar changes. A new heating and cooling system is one of the biggest upfront costs for a green change, but it has the biggest return as well; in the form of money saved and lessening pollution. “As much as half of the energy used in your home goes to heating and cooling. So making smart decisions about your home's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system can have a big effect on your utility bills” (“Heat & Cool Efficiently,” n.d.). Which is why you should start with this change. Although simply replacing your system all together could be the most cost effective...
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...Changing the Way Children Eat For a Better Tomorrow Changing the Way Children Eat For a Better Tomorrow The most important meal of the day for anyone is breakfast. Break-Fast, we go to sleep putting our body into a fasting state, once we awake our body looks for a food substance to break that fast; breakfast. “The federal child nutrition program feeds over 50 million children a day, 31.6 million of whom receive free lunches.” Fig. A USDA (2011) Mortazavi (2011). Millions of children across the United States depend on a well balanced breakfast and lunch. Not only do these meals fuel the body, but it also fuels the minds to enhance comprehension and retaining what they learn. “For many, especially students from lower-income families enrolled in federally subsidized free and reduced-price lunch programs, these are the main meals of the day.” Grainger, Senauer, and Runge (2007). Revamping the National School Lunch program will help meet economic goal, provide healthier choices for pre-school, elementary and high school children across the nation. In 1966 the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) was passed to create a milk program, breakfast program, government funding to start the program and a preschool program (Mortazavi, 2011). Apart of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, it had to be approved every five years, most recent being scheduled for 2009 but was passed for one year to introduce the current 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill which President Obama signed in...
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...YOUR STATUS IS CHANGING We're connected to this world through our senses By what's tangible and easy to comprehend There are days when it seems we're going nowhere Trust your faith to show you the truth Your status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. Your status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. We're connected to this world through our senses By what's tangible and easy to comprehend There are days when it seems We're going nowhere fast Trust your faith to show you the truth Give a listen to what faith says to you: Our status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. Our status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. My status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. My status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. I'm on my way, on my way, On my way to better days. [4x] I'm on my way, I'm on my way, To better, to better, to better days, yeah... I'm on my way, on my way, On my way to better days. [4x] Better days are in You, Jesus... My better life is in You, Jesus... Life's changing is in You, Jesus... My success is in You, Jesus... All I have to do is to look to You... Better days are with You... My future is through You... All I have to do is met through You, Jesus... For a better life, yeah... yeah... Empty Me Holy Fire Burn away My desire for...
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...Changing America Kiley Johnson ETH/125 August 12, 2012 Henry Williams Changing America Walking down the halls of Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota or any inner city school gives a student a view of what their community looks like. Different types of people walking among each other, learning together, and participating in activities with each other every day. Attending such a diverse school gave me an opportunity to learn about different individuals and where they came from. Learning to love rather than hate because of appearance or culture is a lesson that was drilled into the minds of the children that walked the halls of the school and produce more accepting people. Exposing young adults or children to the diversity is crucial for the progress of this vast nation. The face of America is changing into a culturally diverse nation, which comes with issues of prejudice and discrimination that the people can overcome by learning and understanding the new cultures around them. The face of this country is changing and has been for some time. Education has been a link between understanding and accepting each other for who a person is, without the pretense of race, ethnicity, and religion. Most prejudice and discrimination is born from misunderstanding one another. Different religions or even food may seem odd and strange but they do not make a person good or bad. The beliefs of others give others a chance to examine their own life and determine who they are...
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...The Changing Landscape of the Health Care System Stacey Moore HCS/490 November 17, 2014 University of Phoenix The Changing Landscape of the Health Care System There is possible there is no worldwide venture changing as quickly as human health. In today’s society the changing landscape of the health care system places a crucial emphasis on the improvement in the quality of services given to the patients that are being treated in medical facilities. This includes the reduction of the overall costs. Due to the marketing methods and trends there has been a driving of a major repositioning and alignment in the health care system. Medical facilities are providing better service to their communities and patients. Strengthening ties to hospitals and medical practitioners, implementing of electronic medical records, improving quality and efficiency, correcting payment schemes, and an overall greater coordination throughout the health care continuum is the present focus for most health care organizations ("The Changing Landscape", 2006-2014). The majority of the repositioning and the shifts that are taking place are the healthcare organizations that undergoing acquisitions and mergers. I believe that consolidating is and partnering among organizations is a great marketing strategy in this day and age. Current and Potential Challenges Current and potential challenges that we are being faced with in health care are the explosion in the...
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...relationships with target customers. Like Xerox, companies constantly watch and adapt to the changing environment. b. More than any other group in the company, marketers must be environmental trend trackers and opportunity seekers. Although every manager in an organization should watch the outside environment, marketers have two special aptitudes. They have disciplined methods-marketing research and marketing intelligence-for collecting information about the marketing environment. They also spend more time in customer and competitor environments. By carefully studying the environment, marketers can adapt their strategies to meet new marketplace challenges and opportunities. 2. List some of the demographic trends of interest to marketers in the United States and discuss whether these trends pose opportunities or threats for marketers. a. Changing Age Structure of the Population Changing American Family Geographic Shifts in Population A better-educated, more white-collar, more professional population Increasing diversity b. The first trend( The changing age structure of the population), poses a threat because defining people by their birth date may be less effective than segmenting them by their lifestyle, life stage, life stage, or the common values they seek in the products they buy. The second trend (The changing American family) poses an opportunity because the significant number of women in the...
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...How The Future of Nursing 2010 IOM Report is Impacting Nursing Robin Williams Education One of the impacts noted as a direct result of the IOM (2010) report was the need to educate nurses to their fullest potential. The vision of nursing is to change with the ever-changing health care industry. For the nurse there is education that must occur if this vision is to be realized. (IOM, 2010). The seamless academic progression on the road to successful education should be the beaten path of achievement of hope and a better smarter nurse. One of the primary goals with education should prepare nurses to be able to care for a diverse level of patients, be better leaders and deliver safe quality care (IOM,2010). Nursing education prepares nurses to work collaboratively with a varied level of providers in a health care facility. This further makes their practice environment include community as well as public health care settings. Education is the door to successful practice as a nurse, equipping with better skills to provide holistic care to the patient populous. Educated nurses have better critical thinking sills, leadership, case management, are better at overall health promotions and ability to practice in a variety of health care settings (AACN, 2015). Practice There is a change in the wind when it comes to nursing practice, especially when considering primary care. The IOM (2010) report, shows that...
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...1. According to the article, explain how the cell system shows better performance than the traditional conveyor (or line) system. Since the Production is an ongoing process to achieve higher quality with greater efficiency it is very important which way to choose to enhance the production process. All Canon factories across the world use the cell production system, which eliminates conveyor belt assembly lines in favor of small teams, or "cells," of workers that handle multiple procedures to complete a product. After reading the articles about Canon cases’ I would like to note that there are several points that make the Cell system better than the Traditional conveyor system. First of all, in the Cell system workers are well organized into different teams and each team is responsible for a specific part of the production process. Also, the Cell system can lead to efficiency improvements through the increasing motivation and worker sharing their skills and knowledge with each other. In the case of Traditional conveyor system, it just makes workers to be a passive part of the production process, while in Cell system workers take an active way in the production process. I think, it means, that in Cell system there is a sense of responsibility in every workplace. As I understood through our article, if Cell system is used workers mental satisfaction will increase 1.5 times in a person. So, if there is product which can be produced by spending...
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...actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers. 1 5/3/2014 Components of the Marketing Environment Macro-environment Micro-environment Macroenvironment: Demographic Changing age structure of the population Changing family structure The larger societal forces The forces close to the that affect the whole company that affect its ability to serve its customers: microenvironment: Political Company Economic Competitors Demographic Suppliers Cultural Marketing Intermediaries Technological Customers Natural Publics Increasing diversity Better-educated, more white-collar, more professional population Geographic shifts in population Macroenvironment: Demographic Demography: The study of human population in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation and other statistics. Macroenvironment: Demographic Changing Age Structure of the Population Age Group: Baby Boomers Born between 1946 and 1964, people born post– World War II. 1/5 of Australian population. Cherish youth, convenience and individuality. Individualism has led to a personalised economy. Changing Age Structure of the...
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...forecast will be too low. b) After changing the periods for the moving forecast to 1,2,3,4,5 I found that the lowest MAD is at 1 period. This is because our deviation in the demand is very small and a more receptive moving average would work more efficiently than a larger one. c). The new demand totals had a higher deviation, after placing the different moving averages in I have concluded that the lowest MAD results at 5. This is because of the higher deviated demand which makes a longer moving average better with less error. 2. a) The alternating pattern is more likely caused by seasonality, if you look at the demand there are periods of high demand and periods of low demand that alternate like seasons. Heating equipment has higher demand in the colder months and that's why it would be different than the wind turbines which would have a more steady demand being a more all season product. b) After changing the smoothing parameter I have found that the lower MAD in month 24 is at .1, meaning the forecast would be more receptive to the seasons changing which shows less error. 3. Changing the Alpha to see the results of MAD in the exponential smoothing model I found that 0.8 worked the best. It lowered the MAD to 3.32 for month 24, this is telling me that the larger the smoothing parameter the better the forecast is trending with demand. The demand has a long range of trend and less deviation the others so the larger parameter worked better. 4. a) The combination that...
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...2014 Associate Degree vs Bachelorette Degree In the beginning nursing was regarded as women’s work and no formal training was required. In the 1800’s, Florence Nightingale began the first educational program for nurses (Wood, 2011). Throughout the years came new diseases, illness, and an ever growing need for better nursing. These changes provoked changes in nursing education and the way they were to be educated. We are at a crossroads again. Medicine is ever changing and we are again faced with the need for better education to care for the population. The Bachelorette Degree involves all the information and education that an Associate Degree has, but with the expansion of knowledge to prepare for all health care settings and a four year degree. The bachelorette level incorporates the roles of assessing, critical thinking, communicating, providing care, teaching, and leading. The education is designed to provide, direct, and evaluate client-centered care while focusing on the person as an integrated whole (GCU, 2011). Having a bachelorette degree does not mean a person is smarter, but does allow for them to be better prepared for an ever changing and complicated medical environment. Having a bachelorette degree also opens doors to grow within nursing. BSN nurses are able to advance into positions of administration which can also lay the groundwork to move forward into Nurse Practitioner, or Educator with a little more education. The Associate degree may be more appealing...
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...In the fifth paragraph on the second page the author says,“Why is it that some would want to discourage our highest achievers from devoting more time to intellectual endeavor?” Because similar to what I said earlier the older generation is more practical they do not understand that “we live in a data-driven era” says the author in the eighth paragraph. Our world is changing and it’s better to have an open-ended education so you have a better variety of knowledge then to have narrow, practical piece of...
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...ome tough choices that we need to make. More so, if we are about to begin a new chapter of our lives, like, getting married, moving out, or deciding on which college course to take. A quarter of our lives are spent deciding on the perfect course but with all the time that we had, why is it that we still doubt the career path that we have taken? Passion. When a student finally decides to follow his own passion and not that of his parents, course crisis would start to arise. It is in man’s nature to have freedom of self-expression and so in the midst of finishing a degree, he decided to change courses, one that is more his own. True Calling. Most of us pick our courses because of influences. We are still very indecisive at this stage and would take whatever solution is presented to us. What if we finally discover what we are truly meant for? What if we realize that we should be doing something on another field. What then? Do we still continue? Just study again? Maybe this moment of thought will just go away by itself? I don’t think so. Job Market. Let’s be honest. Money is probably the most influential driving force why we choose our courses. What if right when we are in the middle of finishing our studies there’s a sudden change in opportunities. Take Nursing for example, itâ €™s the hottest trend in college education but we are hearing recent news that there is an oversupply of nurses in the country. Would you shift to a more in-demand education or try to wait it out and...
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...self-contained that they were referred to as ‘chimneys’ of power. Each function had its own goals and perspectives, and each tended to view the others as part of any problem rather than as part of its solution. Chimney breaking is known as breaking the vertical structures into a horizontal one, so that each functional department can work with other departments horizontally and achieve better working relationships between each other. Executive Workshops Before adopting the chimney breaking, the managers need to perceive the problems of its current structure through engaging the DPO executives in executive workshops. Each functional discipline was asked to identify the positive and negative impacts of the other functional departments on its ability to fulfil its role. The comments are then passed to the related function to analyse its feedback and give solutions to respond to the identified problems. Executive workshops have boosted the motivation of employees as they feel like they are part of the company since their voices can be listened by the senior Ford executive and they have a better understanding of how their role is influencing on each other, this paved them the way to cooperate with each other and work towards a common goal. The Blue Ribbon Committee The Blue Ribbon Committee has set a good example of chimney breaking. As the responses indicate that Ford needed faster, higher quality communications and more decentralized decision making, Frey established a Blue...
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...Changing Healthcare Environment and its Impact on Management The article that I chose speaks to the role of e-health and the ever changing environment of healthcare. The article, written by Jeffrey Harrison and Angela Lee, defines e-health as an all-encompassing term for the combined use of electronic information and communication technology in the health sector (Harrison & Lee, 2006). They charge that the role of the Internet in health care information access and delivery is rapidly increasing. They state that 86% of adults with Internet access have used it for health-related information and health inquiries represent 37% of their total Internet usage. The authors conclude that the speed at which new technologies and treatments are being developed means that many clinical providers will and are dependent on the Internet to gain some of the most current information on clinical practice recommendations. As a result, the use of the Internet has the probability to improve health care decision making, enhance health management, and produce better patient outcomes (Harrison & Lee, 2006). There are many factors that are contributing to the ever changing field of health care. The biggest factor today is the Affordable Care Act. This act was signed into law on March 23, 2010. This act changed the face of health care as we know it. It put the power in the hands of the consumers and forces other parties to be transparent in their dealings with a healthcare consumer. Additionally...
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