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New plastic bags that dispose of themselves!
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[Bicknell] has contracted with a manufacturer to make kitchen bags, larger 40-gallon bags and dog poop bags.
Each product is made with durable plastic and a chemical additive that activates once the bag is exposed to the
methane gases that develop in a typical landfill. She said there would be "zero" toxic residues as the bag breaks
down.
"We've done some charity events in Hollywood, such as one for an animal shelter," Bicknell said. "People loved the
dog pickup bags and the whole idea of biodegradable bags that are still strong enough to hold the garbage."
Vegetarian chicken drumsticks; tofu kielbasa and beer brats; meatless chicken-style strips for salads; super-sized
containers of juice smoothies; Japanese-bento box-style filet of salmon frozen dinner; 100 percent pomegranate
juice (due in major Chicago supermarkets this summer, selling fast in southern California); 100 percent blueberry
juice (look for individual juice boxes in Chicago during the coming months); red tea products claiming more
antioxidants than green tea (one brand already is in 3,000 supermarkets on the East Coast); and bottled waters
from such faraway places as New Zealand and Fiji.
ANAHEIM--A future in plastics may be most closely associated with a line delivered to Dustin Hoffman's character
in the 1967 movie "The Graduate," but Dodonna Bicknell is living her own 2003 version.
She has co-founded Planet Friendly Plastics, which debuted its product line of completely biodegradable plastic
bags at last weekend's Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim.
"I felt I needed to do something positive for the environment," said Bicknell, an executive producer at the
commercial-making firm Uncle TV and creator of television ads for such past clients as Nike , Microsoft and the
National Cotton Council.
"I always wondered what happens to landfills. We started the company about a year ago and started making
products three to four months ago," Bicknell said.
Bicknell has contracted with a manufacturer to make kitchen bags, larger 40-gallon bags and dog poop bags. Each
product is made with durable plastic and a chemical additive that activates once the bag is exposed to the methane
gases that develop in a typical landfill. She said there would be "zero" toxic residues as the bag breaks down.
"We plan to be competitive in pricing," said Bicknell, noting other makers of cornstarch-based, non-plastic bags
must charge more because it costs more to make the product.
For now, the seasoned producer is counting on word-of-mouth marketing and raised consumer consciousness
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Bottled Water BACKLASH
Knopper, Melissa. E : the Environmental Magazine 19.3 (May/Jun 2008): 36-39.
[...] after big client meetings, she Jl collected all the empty mm plastic water bottles, took them home
and added them to her own curbside recycling bin. High school activists are raising questions about why
their school board members are locking them into a contract with Coke or Pepsi (makers of Aquafina and
Dasani bottled water) when they have access to drinking fountains for free. Now that more people are
trying get out of the bottled water habit, groups like Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and EWG
wonder if this new awareness will translate into more support for public water supplies, and for water
conservation in general.
Jennifer Phillips always felt guilty that her large Nashville law firm didn't recycle. So after big client
meetings, she Jl collected all the empty mm plastic water bottles, took them home and added them to
her own curbside recycling bin. Now, she is proud to report that her firm, Bass, Berry & Sims, serves an
icy pitcher of tap water during meetings. "We even have glasses with the company logo on them," she
says. Phillips estimates switching to tap keeps 3,000 plastic water bottles per week out of the landfill.
It's a trend that is taking hold in the s U.S., Europe and Canada: more people are switching from bottled
water to tap. Call it reverse snob appeal. Bottled water once carried a certain European mystique. But
these days, it's the tap water enthusiasts, concerned about the environment, who get to act self-
righteous. Just like it has become cool to bring your own cloth bags to the grocery store and your own
mug to the coffee shop, the reusable water bottle is the hip, new eco accessory.
It's because people like Phillips and David WiIk, a Connecticut book publisher and tap water activist, have
started to connect the dots. For WiIk, it happened on the soccer field. After his sons finished their games,
he noticed the grass was littered with bottled water and Gatorade empties. Pretty soon, WiIk started
showing up with a huge container of tap water. Now all the kids bring their own bottles and fill up when
thirsty.
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"We have such a consumption mentality, which leads to our throw-away society," says WiIk, who started
the website Turntotap.com to build more support for public water supplies and to cut down on the
amount of plastic going into landfills. "I think the cost of our behavior should be built into the. products,"
WiIk says.
A Gathering Revolt
In Canada, the bottled water issue has become, as WiIk says, an "uprising." College students are staging
protests-declaring "bottled water-free zones" on campus. High school activists are raising questions about
why their school board members are locking them into .
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Introduction Paragraph with Thesis Statement (Remember, the thesis statement will be the last line in this paragraph.)
What could make this invention any better? It is free for most shoppers, it is convenient for carrying materials, it is lightweight, and it has multiple purposes. These are some benefits of plastic shopping bags. According to Kinnelon Conserves.net, plastic bags are made from crude oil, which is heated and releases ethylene gas, leaving polyethylene as a byproduct (2018). This gel-like material is what makes plastic bags. Ever since its beginnings in the 1960s, plastic shopping bags can be seen in many places: in shopping carts, in trunks of cars, and in kitchens. Katherine Mangu-Ward states, âIn 2010, Guinness World Records named plasticbagsthe most ubiquitous consumer item in the worldâ (2015). But, the problem is that we also see plastic bags floating in oceans and trapped inside aquatic organisms. So, the question becomes, do we ban plastic bags in all fifty states, or do we continue using them in shopping centers?
________________________________________________________________________
(Thesis)_Considering many factors, plastic bags should be banned from stores in all fifty states due to the negative effect they have on the environment when they are produced and after they are produced, along with the fact that many countries and cities have already successfully banned them and reaped the positive environmental benefits of doing so. __
Body Paragraph # 1
Topic Sentence : One reason lawmakers should ban plastic bags in all fifty states, is due to the negative environmental ramifications, when they are produced.
Major Supporting Detail # 1: __Plastic bags are made from an already depleting fossil fuel: oil, which takes thousands of years to form. Oil already has many uses, including being used for gasoline and diesel in vehicles and homes, jet fuel, and for roads and roofs, among many other uses. Eliminating plastic bags will make better use of this limited oil resource.
Evidence/Quote/ParaphraseââQuotation Sandwichâ
_ The Kinnelon Conserves website states that âfive trillion plastic bags are produced each year, which accounts for .2% of the earthâs oil consumption each yearâŚit takes 12 million barrels of oil just to make enough plastic bags for America!â That is a lot of wasted oil on a product we usually only use one time for about 15 minutes. Oil is already being used up at an alarming rate for energy, construction, and other types of plastics like for toys and many household items, so we should not waste it on one-use plastic bags, and further negatively affect our environment.
Major Detail # 2: _When we extract oil from our land to make plastic bags, we also release methane into the atmosphere, which traps heat, and increases global warming. So, oil extraction, also induces air pollution. __________________
Evidence/Quote/Paraphr.
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Bottled Water BACKLASH
Knopper, Melissa. E : the Environmental Magazine 19.3 (May/Jun 2008): 36-39.
[...] after big client meetings, she Jl collected all the empty mm plastic water bottles, took them home
and added them to her own curbside recycling bin. High school activists are raising questions about why
their school board members are locking them into a contract with Coke or Pepsi (makers of Aquafina and
Dasani bottled water) when they have access to drinking fountains for free. Now that more people are
trying get out of the bottled water habit, groups like Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and EWG
wonder if this new awareness will translate into more support for public water supplies, and for water
conservation in general.
Jennifer Phillips always felt guilty that her large Nashville law firm didn't recycle. So after big client
meetings, she Jl collected all the empty mm plastic water bottles, took them home and added them to
her own curbside recycling bin. Now, she is proud to report that her firm, Bass, Berry & Sims, serves an
icy pitcher of tap water during meetings. "We even have glasses with the company logo on them," she
says. Phillips estimates switching to tap keeps 3,000 plastic water bottles per week out of the landfill.
It's a trend that is taking hold in the s U.S., Europe and Canada: more people are switching from bottled
water to tap. Call it reverse snob appeal. Bottled water once carried a certain European mystique. But
these days, it's the tap water enthusiasts, concerned about the environment, who get to act self-
righteous. Just like it has become cool to bring your own cloth bags to the grocery store and your own
mug to the coffee shop, the reusable water bottle is the hip, new eco accessory.
It's because people like Phillips and David WiIk, a Connecticut book publisher and tap water activist, have
started to connect the dots. For WiIk, it happened on the soccer field. After his sons finished their games,
he noticed the grass was littered with bottled water and Gatorade empties. Pretty soon, WiIk started
showing up with a huge container of tap water. Now all the kids bring their own bottles and fill up when
thirsty.
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"We have such a consumption mentality, which leads to our throw-away society," says WiIk, who started
the website Turntotap.com to build more support for public water supplies and to cut down on the
amount of plastic going into landfills. "I think the cost of our behavior should be built into the. products,"
WiIk says.
A Gathering Revolt
In Canada, the bottled water issue has become, as WiIk says, an "uprising." College students are staging
protests-declaring "bottled water-free zones" on campus. High school activists are raising questions about
why their school board members are locking them into .
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Introduction Paragraph with Thesis Statement (Remember, the thesis statement will be the last line in this paragraph.)
What could make this invention any better? It is free for most shoppers, it is convenient for carrying materials, it is lightweight, and it has multiple purposes. These are some benefits of plastic shopping bags. According to Kinnelon Conserves.net, plastic bags are made from crude oil, which is heated and releases ethylene gas, leaving polyethylene as a byproduct (2018). This gel-like material is what makes plastic bags. Ever since its beginnings in the 1960s, plastic shopping bags can be seen in many places: in shopping carts, in trunks of cars, and in kitchens. Katherine Mangu-Ward states, âIn 2010, Guinness World Records named plasticbagsthe most ubiquitous consumer item in the worldâ (2015). But, the problem is that we also see plastic bags floating in oceans and trapped inside aquatic organisms. So, the question becomes, do we ban plastic bags in all fifty states, or do we continue using them in shopping centers?
________________________________________________________________________
(Thesis)_Considering many factors, plastic bags should be banned from stores in all fifty states due to the negative effect they have on the environment when they are produced and after they are produced, along with the fact that many countries and cities have already successfully banned them and reaped the positive environmental benefits of doing so. __
Body Paragraph # 1
Topic Sentence : One reason lawmakers should ban plastic bags in all fifty states, is due to the negative environmental ramifications, when they are produced.
Major Supporting Detail # 1: __Plastic bags are made from an already depleting fossil fuel: oil, which takes thousands of years to form. Oil already has many uses, including being used for gasoline and diesel in vehicles and homes, jet fuel, and for roads and roofs, among many other uses. Eliminating plastic bags will make better use of this limited oil resource.
Evidence/Quote/ParaphraseââQuotation Sandwichâ
_ The Kinnelon Conserves website states that âfive trillion plastic bags are produced each year, which accounts for .2% of the earthâs oil consumption each yearâŚit takes 12 million barrels of oil just to make enough plastic bags for America!â That is a lot of wasted oil on a product we usually only use one time for about 15 minutes. Oil is already being used up at an alarming rate for energy, construction, and other types of plastics like for toys and many household items, so we should not waste it on one-use plastic bags, and further negatively affect our environment.
Major Detail # 2: _When we extract oil from our land to make plastic bags, we also release methane into the atmosphere, which traps heat, and increases global warming. So, oil extraction, also induces air pollution. __________________
Evidence/Quote/Paraphr.
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Rehrig Pacific's white paper identifies the significant cost that retailers and CPG companies incur from the theft and loss of reusable HDPE crates, containers, pallets, trays and beverage shells. Learn more: Learn more: www.rehrigpacific.com/asset-loss
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Polyethylene is one of the most common forms of plastics used in protective packaging materials. As biodegradable bags are introduced onto the market, polyethylene can soon be completely replaced. Biodegradable bags are typically made out of cornstarch and other natural materials.
The use of biodegradable plastic could come in easily for the use of carrying goods rather than as a primary package. A wider use of such bio degradable materials will make them commercially viable.
Compostable plastic bags dominate the market for biodegradable plastics in Europe. They not only carry goods and biowaste but also the hopes of the bioplastics industry for huge markets in years to come.
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The September 2021 webinar featured Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics and former Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama, who discussed the nexus between plastic production and climate change, including the immense environmental justice impacts, and Graham Forbes, Global Project Leader of the Plastic-Free Future campaign at Greenpeace, who discussed Greenpeace USA's new report, The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How Consumer Goods Companies are Fueling Big Oil's Plastic Expansion. The panel was moderated by Jen Fela, Director of Communications at Plastic Pollution Coalition.
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The US recycling industry has generated more than a million jobsâa figure that is expected to double as the demand for recycled materials continues to grow in the industrial and agricultural sectors. A wide variety of recycling, refurbishing, and repurposing programs across the country not only create jobs but also save taxpayers money and generate other significant economic benefits for local communities. One in particular, the privately owned building-materials salvage company Urban Ore in Berkeley, California, has redefined what is possible in the reclamation industry and has become a model for reuse stores around the world.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. recycling movement benefitted from the decentralized nature of our government. With 10,000 local governments each in charge of their own solid waste, it was possible for experimentation and sharing successful approaches across the country. Today in the midst of the Great Recession [2012], decentralized recycling is proving its worth to the country once again. The recycling industry has created well over 1 million jobs and is projected to add another million jobs as recycling levels continue to divert more and more material to industry and agriculture. The level of experimentation continues. The following stories introduce just a fraction of the new job creating and job sustaining endeavors from around the U.S.
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, a mattress recycling and refurbishing enterprise started up in late June [2012]. Twenty workers will process 100,000 mattresses and box springs annually. This will reduce transfer station and landfill costs, while making good end products available to consumers at pennies on the dollar compared to new mattresses from formal retail stores. The plant is owned by the Greater Bridgeport Community Development Corporation, which used a $100,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to leverage additional capital.
Austin [Texas] just released an extraordinary business plan for resource recovery that will guide the city to 90 percent diversion of discarded materials by 2020.
Model Programs
An array of refurbishing operations in Eugene, Oregonâincluding mattresses, automobiles, appliances, computers and furnitureâsell through 11 outlet stores run by Saint Vincent de Paul (SVDP). It is estimated these operations have helped lower the cost of living in Eugene by 3 percent. SVDP's total operations employ over 400 workers at living wages plus health insurance. SVDP also manufacturers products made from window glass and fire starters made from old crayons. Since the great recession of 2008, SVDP has hired ...
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Assignment 1: Discussion Question: Prosocial Behavior and Altruism
By Saturday, July 11, 2015, respond to the discussion question. Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates' submissions by Saturday, July 11, 2015, and continue the discussion until Wednesday, July 15, 2015 of the week.
Consider and discuss how the phenomena of prosocial behavior and pure altruism relate to each other and how they differ from each other.
Pure altruism is a specific kind of prosocial behavior where your sole motivation is to help a person in need without seeking benefit for yourself. It is often viewed as a truly selfless form of behavior.
Provide an example each of prosocial behavior and pure altruism.
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â what is name of the new unit and what topics will Professor Moss cover? How does this unit correlate to modern times?
â what problems were apparent in urban America?
â what were the three main streams of immigration up through the 1920s? What are "birds of passage?" How were Japanese and Korean immigrants different than Chinese immigrants? What is meant by "pale of settlement" and "pogrom."
â What is meant by "Americanization" and how did this process occur?
â What were the various forms of popular culture during this era, and why were they important?
â what forms of popular culture did working women enjoy? How did middle-class reformers react to these forms?
â what is meant by "the new woman" and "mothers to society?"Â
â How did middle-class men generally respond to the changing times? Why were people like Eugene Sandow and Harry Houdini so significant at this time?
â What were some of the examples of nativism at this time?
â What was the Social Gospel and what are settlement houses?
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ââŚMultiple intelligences describe an individualâs strengths or capacities; learning styles describe an individualâs traits that relate to where and how one best learnsâ (Puckett, 2013, sec. 7.3).
This week youâve read about the importance of getting to know your students in order to create relevant and engaging lesson plans that cater to multiple intelligences and are multimodal.
Assignment Instructions:
A.   Using
SurveyMonkey
, create a survey that has:Â
At least five questions based on Gardnerâs theory of multiple intelligences
At least five additional questions on individual learning style inventory
A specific targeted student population grade level (elementary/ middle/ high school/adults)
Include the survey link for your peers
B.   Post a minimum 150 word introduction to your survey, using at least one research-based article (cited in APA format) explaining how it will:
Evaluate studentsâ abilities in terms of learning styles/preferences
Assist in the creation of differentiated lesson plans.
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World Cultural Perspective Paper Final Submission
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By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:
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Competency 1:
 Evaluate communication issues and trends of various cultures within the United States.Â
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Utilize effective research methods using a variety of applicable sources.
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Demonstrate an ability to connect suitably selected research information with course content.
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Competency 2:
 Develop cultural self-awareness and other-culture awareness.Â
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Investigate the interactive effect that cultural tendencies, issues, and trends of various cultures have on communication.
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Analyze how nonverbal communication (body language) affects intercultural communication.Â
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Explain how personal interactions are affected by the nonverbal characteristics and differences specific to the U.S. culture.
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Competency 5:
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Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Instructions
This paper is one piece of your course project. Complete the following:
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Choose a world culture that is unfamiliar to you and is represented domestically in the United States.
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Use research to collect a variety of resources about the culture. This includes interacting with members of the culture. In particular, focus your research on a small number of social issues surrounding the culture, along with cultural tendencies and trends, and the effect of these things on communication. Types of resources include interviews, media presentations, Web sites, text readings, scholarly articles, and other related materials.
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In a paper of 500â1,000 words, address these things:Â
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Investigate the effect that the tendencies, issues, and trends of the culture have on communication.
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Explain how characteristics of nonverbal communication and other differences between your selected culture and U.S. culture affect personal interactions between members of the two cultures.
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Connect the research you gathered to your ideas and explanations.
Refer to the World Cultural Perspective Paper Final Submission Scoring Guide as you develop this assignment.
Assignment Requirements
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Written Communication:
Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
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APA Formatting:
 Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
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Page Requirements:
 500â1,000 words.
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Font and Font Size:
 Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point.
Develop your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. Submit your document as an attachment in the assignment area.
Note:
 Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing.Â
In the tool, click on the linked resources for helpful writing information.
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Intercultural Competence Reflection
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Review the situation in the media.
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rite a story; explaining and analyzing
how a certain independent variable ( at the individual, group or organization levels) affects a dependent variable (behaviour or attitude),
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You will freely select your story from â lifeâ : from college, home, neighborhood, a book , a video/ movie, TVâŚetc. as long as the story has two clear dependent and independent variables.
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You will finish with a conclusion that lists both variables and explain their relationship (cause and effect).
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Assignment words limits 200 words (minimum)
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â˘Use the general topic suggestion to form the
thesis statement
which will be an opinion on the topic. The thesis must have
three
controlling ideas.
â˘Develop an essay
map or informal outlineÂ
â˘Develop each paragraph using a specific
topic sentence
related to the controls in your thesis; thus, announcing the subject matter of that paragraph.
â˘Use
transitional devices
throughout the essay and in each paragraph.
â˘Use any combination of modes to support your arguments.
⢠Have a well-developed introduction and conclusion.
â˘Use quotes from the text to support your arguments.
â˘You must have a title.
â˘Make a âWork Citedâ page with the text as the only source.
Topic:
Reading helps students to develop skills that will make them into a more optimally rounded person. Choose any three skills learned in reading and discuss how each one can help students to be more academically inclined.Â
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âThe 1960s: A Decade of Promise and Heartbreakâ
By Kenneth T. WalshÂ
March 9, 2010
US News
It was a decade of extremes, of
transformational
change and
bizarre
contrasts: flower children and
assassins
,
idealism
and
alienation
, rebellion and
backlash
. For many in the
massive
post-World War II baby boom generation, it was both the best of times and the worst of times. (7 words)
There will be many 50-year anniversaries to mark significant events of the 1960s, and a big reason is that what happened in that remarkable era still
resonates
today. At the dawn of that decade of contrasts a half century agoâon Jan. 2 ,1960âa
charismatic
young senator from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy announced that he was running for president, and he won the nation's highest office the following November. He remains one of the
iconic
figures in U.S. history. On February 1, four determined black men sat at a whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C., and were denied service. Their act of
defiance
triggered a wave of sit-ins for civil rights across the South and brought
unrelenting
national attention to America's original sin of racism. On March 3, Elvis Presley returned to the United States from his Army stint in Germany, resuming his career as a pioneer of rock-and-roll and an icon of the youth culture celebrating freedom and a growing sense of rebellion.(5 words)
By the end of the decade, Kennedy had been
assassinated
, along with his brother Robert and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. America's cities had become powder kegs as African-Americans, despite historic gains toward legal equality, became more impatient than ever at being second-class citizens. Women began demanding their rights in
unprecedented
numbers. Young people and their parents felt a widening generation gap as seen in their differing perceptions of
patriotism
, drug use, sexuality, and the work ethic. The now familiar culture wars between liberals and conservatives caused angry divisions over law and order, busing, racial preferences, abortion, the Vie.
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The topic is
culture adaptation ( adoption )
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1- I have to interview 4 people ( Indians Chinese....)Â
(Experts professors students......)
-What kind or type of culture shock they experienced  when they first came to Kuwait?
And whether they tolerated? how do they feel where they tolerated by Kuwaitis ?Â
- why culture tolerance of a foreign country is  required in international marketing.
Based on what you learn those people, you will learn about feelings and their problems and difficulties when they first arrived in foreign countries. And knowing this, now you have to take this knowledge and apply to marketing and answer  the questions whether it's difficult to adopt to foreign culture if it's difficult for people it's probably will be very difficult to also introduce those products and adopt those products to foreign culture. So that's why am asking you why culture tolerance in other nations are important and required to International marketing. you have to answer thoseÂ
The second part of the presentation
You will identify or you will give domestic examples and foreign examples ( culture imperatives + culture electives + culture exclusive) Â examples of each category what is it aboutÂ
The last question of the presentation
To Discuss the factor that determined successfully global adaptation
you have to
inculde a video
( 1 min max: 2 min)Â
Chapter 5 and you may find it in other chapters
This is the book for my course marketing you can get infomation from it :
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8pig2KdTaOBSkRzVjJvR1pLUkU/edit
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â˘Choose 1 of the department work flow processes, and put together a thorough 1-paragraph summary to explain to the team the importance of this process and how it works with the EHR. Choose 1 work flow process from the following choices: âŚAppointment scheduling
âŚFront desk or check-in
âŚNursing or clinical support
âŚCare provider
âŚCheck-out desk
âŚBusiness office or billing
âŚClinical staff or care provider
â˘Discuss and describe 3 facility software applications that integrate with the EHR. Examples of software applications are electronic prescribing, speech recognition, master patient index, encoder, picture archiving and communication, personal health record (PHR), decision support, and more.
â˘Prepare a 3-paragraph summary of each application for the implementation team, and discuss any problems that may be encountered during EHR implementation.
â˘Describe the impact of 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of the EHR so that the implementation team can start to prepare for this discussion with the administrators
650 words
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âThe problem is not that people remember through photographs, but that they remember only photographs. This remembering through photographs eclipses other forms of understanding, and remembering.  Â
Harrowing photographs do not inevitably lose their power to shock. But they are not much help if the task is to understand. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us
â (Sontag, p. 79-80). Discuss the implications of Sontagâs claim for contemporary politics and humanitarian organisations.
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Published in 5 years
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Credible (e.g. Wall Street Journal, Asia Times, Fortune)
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Write 3 single spaced analysis
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Relate to Organizational Behavior
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APA style
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Name of theory; Definition of the theory; Location of link in the article
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Explain and make analysis
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You have been engaged to prepare the 2015 federal income tax return for Bob and Melissa Grant.
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Your tax form submission should include: Form 1040, Schedules A, B, D, E, and Forms 4684 and 8949 as applicable. You will come across many items on the tax return we have not talked about in class; if we have not covered it in class, and it is not included in the information below, you do
not
need to address it on this assignment.
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Your solution should contain a detailed workpaper that calculates the tax due or refunded with the return and calculated in the form of the tax formula (see Ch. 4 lecture slides). The calculation should be well labeled and EASY to follow. This presentation will be factored into your grade. Do NOT include any references or citations on your workpaper.
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You may complete the return by hand (
neatly
) or typed using 2015 forms found on Blackboard or the IRS website. You may complete the form using software, one version of which is available in the ACELAB.
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Note â ACELAB software is for the 2014 tax year; if you choose to use this method, you do not need to override the automatically calculated 2014 information, but your workpaper must detail each line item that will differ between the 2014 form generated and the 2015 forms).
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Use the following assumptions in preparing the return:
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The general method of accounting used by the Grants is the cash method.
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Use all opportunities under law to minimize the 2015 federal income tax.
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Use whole dollars when preparing the tax return.
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Do not prepare a state income tax return.
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Ignore the Line 45 calculation for alternative minimum tax.
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If required information is missing, use reasonable assumptions to fill in the gaps.
Client memo (5 points)
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Complete a letter to the client regarding tax planning advice. Identify and explain two reasonable tax planning items the family could use to minimize their tax liability and/or maximize their wealth. All items would be implemented in future years and do not impact the current tax return.
BOB AND MELISSA GRANT
INDIVIDUAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN
Bob (age 43, SSN #987-45-1234) and Melissa Grant (age 43, SSN #494-37-4893) are married and live in Lexington, Kentucky. The Grants would like to file a joint tax return for the year. The Grantsâ mailing address is 95 Hickory Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502.
The Grants have two children Jared (SSN #412-32-5690), age 18, and Alese (SSN #412-32-6940), age 12.  Jared is still in high school and works part time as a waiter and earns about $2,000 a year. The Grantâs also provide financial support to Bobâs aged (85 years) grandfather, Michael Sr., who is widowed and lives alone. Michael Sr.âs Social Security number is 982-21-5543. He has no income and the Grantâs provide 100 percent of his support.
Bob Grantâs Forms W-2 provided the following wages and withholding for the year:
Employer
Gross Wages
Federal Income Tax Withholding
State Income Tax Withholding
National Sto.
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Time Value of Money
Question A
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Discuss the significance of recognizing the time value of money in the long-term impact of the capital budgeting decision.
Question B
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Discuss how the internal rate of return (IRR) method differs from the net present value (NPV) method. Be sure to include an explanation of what the IRR method is and what the NPV method is.
The initial post by day 5 should be a minimum of 150 words. If you use any source outside of your own thoughts, you should reference that source. Include solid grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling.
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Reviewthe steps of the communication model on in Ch. 2 of
Business Communication
. See Figure 2.1.
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Identify one personal or business communication scenario.
Describe each step of that communication using your personal or business scenario. Use detailed paragraphs in the boxes provided
Steps of communication model
Personal or business scenario
1.
Sender has an idea.
2.
Sender encodes the idea in a message.
3.
Sender produces the message in a medium.
4.
 Sender transmits message through a channel.
5.
Audience receives the message.
6.
Audience decodes the message.
7.
Audience responds to the message.
8.
Audience provides feedback to the sender.
Additional Insight
Identify
two potential barriers that could occur in your communication scenario and then explain how you would overcome them. Write your answer(s) below.
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Research Activity
Sustainable supply chain can be viewed as Management of raw materials and services from suppliers to manufacturers/ service provider to customer - with improvement of the social and environmental impacts explicitly considered.
Carry out a literature review on sustainable / green supply chain and prepare:
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A report (provide an example) -2500-3000 words approximately and
Issues/topics that
you may like
to address/consider are:
1.
Drivers for Sustainable SCM
2.
Analysing the impact of carbon emissions on manufacturing operation, cost and profit by focusing on product life cycle analysis.
Analyse aspects of the product life cycle in terms of; Outlining CO2 emission points and scope, defining CO2 baseline, prioritising measures to reduce or off set emissions and finally planning and initiating actions.Â
3.
New ways of thinking/information sharing
Seven key solution areas were identified:
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In- store logistics: includes in-store visibility, shelf-ready products, shopper interaction
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Collaborative physical logistics: shared transport, shared warehouse, shared infrastructure
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Reverse logistics: product recycling, packaging recycling, returnable assets
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Demand fluctuation management: joint planning, execution and monitoringÂ
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Identification and labelling: through the use of barcodes and RFID tags. Identification is about providing all partners in the value chain with the ability to use the same standardised mechanism to uniquely identify parties/locations, items and events with clear rules about where, how, when and by whom these will be created, used and maintained. Labels currently are the most widely used means to communicate about relevant sustainability and security aspects of a certain product towards consumers
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Efficient assets: alternative forms of energy, efficient/aerodynamic vehicles, switching modes, green buildingsÂ
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Joint scorecard and business plan: this solution consists of a suite of industry-relevant measurement tools falling into two broad categories: qualitative tools, which are a set of capability metrics designed to measure the extent to which the trading partners (supplier, service provider and retailer) are working collaboratively; and quantitative tools, which include business metrics aimed at measuring the impact of collaborationÂ
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Sustainability in the carbon economy
5.
Introducing/developing sustainable KPI
s
to SC, SCOR,GSCF Models
Wal-Mart
may be a good example to look at: when you burn less, you pay less and emit less, and the benefits can ripple further. The big advantages for organisations in becoming sustainable are reducing costs and helping the environment. For example: Wal-Mart sells 25% of detergent sold in the United States, by replacing regular washing detergent with concentrate they will save: 400 million gallons of water, 125 million pounds of cardboard and packaging, 95 million pounds of plastic.
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DISCUSSION 1 â VARIOUS THEORIES â Discuss the following in 150-200 words with in text citations and references:
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Differentiate between the various dispositional, biological and evolutionary personality theories.
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DISCUSSION 2 â STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS â Discuss the following in 150-200 words with in text citations and references:
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Explain the strengths and limitations of dispositional, biological and evolutionary personality theories.
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DISCUSSION 3 â ANALYZE PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS â Discuss the following in 150-200 words with in text citations and references:
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Analyze individual personality characteristics using dispositional, biological and evolutionary personality theories.
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DISCUSSION 4 â INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS â Discuss the following in 150-200 words with in text citations and references:
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Explain interpersonal relations using dispositional and biological or evolutionary personality theories.
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DISCUSSION 5 â ALLPORTS BELIEF â Discuss the following in 150-200 words with in text citations and references:
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Do you agree or disagree with Allport's belief that individuals are motivated by present drives, not past events? Why?
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Module 6 Essay Content
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The Module/Week 6 essay requires you to discuss the history and contours of the âoriginal intentâ vs. âjudicial activismâ debate in American jurisprudence.
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Part 1: Introduce and explain the key arguments supporting the âoriginal intentâ perspective and the argument for âjudicial activism.â
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Part 2: Weigh the merits of both sides and provide an assessment of both based upon research and analysis.
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P
age Length:
At least three (3) pages in addition to the title page, abstract page, and bibliography page
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Sources/Citations
: At least ten (10) sources, combining course material and outside material, are required. Key ideas from the required reading must be incorporated.
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Observe a group discussing a topic of interest such as a focus group, a community public assembly, a department meeting at your workplace, or local support group
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Study how the group members interact and impact one another
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Analyze how the group behaviors and communication patterns influence social facilitation
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Integrate your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, textbook, and additional scholarly sources
Purpose:
To provide you with an opportunity to experience a group setting and analyze how the presence of others substantially influences the behaviors of its members through social facilitation.
Process:
You will participate as a guest at an interest group meeting in your community to gather data for a qualitative research paper. Once you have located an interest group, contact stakeholders and explain the purpose of your inquiry. After you receive permission to participate, you will schedule a date to attend the meeting; at which time you will observe the members and document the following for your analysis:
Part I
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How were the people arranged in the physical environment (layout of room and seating arrangement)?
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What is the composition of the group, in terms of number of people, ages, sex, ethnicity, etc.?
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What are the group purpose, mission, and goals?
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What is the duration of the group (short, long-term)? Explain.
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Did the group structure its discussion around an agenda, program, rules of order, etc.?
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Describe the structure of the group. How is the group organized?
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Who are the primary facilitators of the group?
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What subject or issues did the group members examine during the meeting?
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What types of information did members exchange in their group?
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What were the group's norms, roles, status hierarchy, or communication patterns?
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What communication patterns illustrated if the group was unified or fragmented? Explain.
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Did the members share a sense of identity with one another (characteristics of the group-similarities, interests, philosophy, etc.)?
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Was there any indication that members might be vulnerable to Groupthink? Why or why not?
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In your opinion, how did the collective group behaviors influence individual attitudes and the group's effectiveness? Provide your overall analysis.
Part II
Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word paper incorporating your analysis with evidence to substantiate your conclusion.
Explain how your observations relate to research studies on norm formation, group norms, conformity, and/or social influence.
Integrate your findings with literature from the textbook, peer-reviewed journal articles, and additional scholarly sources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Identify any program constraints, such as financial resources, human capital, and local culture.
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Analyze the relationships between the policy developers and the policy implementers for the selected program.
Topic is Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. 380 words, APA format.
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12-15 pages each chapter
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CHAPTER 5
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Brazilâs current outcomes in government, Financial, environmental, and community aspects.Â
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Variation in Government economic politics
2.
 Yearly Financial growth
3.
Environmental risk factors
4.
Changes in community aspects
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Predictions of Market progression, Industrial variations, and government changes between 2007 to 2017
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Predictions for Industrial progression
a)
Financial variations and deviations
b)
Funding distribution for new technologies research and development
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Prediction for Brazilâs political outlook
a)
New economic laws and tax exemptions
b)
Changes in Political parties
3.
Predictions for deviations and variations in Brazilâs Market
a)
International growth
b)
Domestic growth
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Linear Regression
Chapter 4
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Introduction (Slide 1 of 2)
⢠Managerial decisions are often based on the relationship between two or
more variables:
⢠Example: After considering the relationship between advertising
expenditures and sales, a marketing manager might attempt to predict sales
for a given level of advertising expenditures.
⢠Sometimes a manager will rely on intuition to judge how two variables
are related.
⢠If data can be obtained, a statistical procedure called regression analysis
can be used to develop an equation showing how the variables are
related.
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Introduction (Slide 2 of 2)
⢠Dependent variable or response: Variable being predicted.
⢠Independent variables or predictor variables: Variables being used
to predict the value of the dependent variable.
⢠Simple linear regression: A regression analysis for which any one
unit change in the independent variable, x, is assumed to result in
the same change in the dependent variable, y.
⢠Multiple linear regression: A regression analysis involving two or
more independent variables.
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Simple Linear Regression Model
Regression Model
Estimated Regression Equation
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Simple Linear Regression Model (Slide 1 of 5)
Regression Model:
⢠The equation that describes how y is related to x and an error term.
⢠Parameters: The characteristics of the population, 0 1 and .ď˘ ď˘
⢠Random variable: Error term, .ďĽ
⢠The error term accounts for the variability in y that cannot be explained by
the linear relationship between x and y.
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Simple Linear Regression Model (Slide 2 of 5)
Estimated Regression Equation:
⢠The parameter values are usually not known and must be estimated using
sample data.
⢠Sample statistics 0 1(denoted and )b b are computed as estimates of the
population parameters
0 1 and .ď˘ ď˘
⢠Substituting the values of the sample statistics 0 1 0 1 and for and inb b ď˘ ď˘
the regression equation and dropping the error term, we obtain the
estimated regression for simple linear regression.
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Simple Linear Regression Model (Slide 3 of 5)
⢠In the estimated simple linear regression equation:
0 1yĚ b b x= +
⢠yĚ = Estimate for the mean value of y corresponding to a given value of x.
⢠0b = Estimated y-intercept.
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1b = Estimated slope.
⢠The graph of the estimated simple linear regression equation is called the
estimated regression line.
⢠In general, yĚ is the point estimator of ( ) ,E y x the mean value of y for a
given value of x.
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Simple Linear Regression Model (Slide 4 of 5)
Figure 7.1: The Estimation
Process in Simple Linear
Regression
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Simple Linear Regression Model (Slide 5 of 5)
Figure 7.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
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In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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New plastic bags that dispose of themselves!
Condor, Bob. Knight Ridder Tribune News Service
[Washington] 21 Mar 2003: 1.
Abstract (summary)
[Bicknell] has contracted with a manufacturer to make kitchen
bags, larger 40-gallon bags and dog poop bags.
Each product is made with durable plastic and a chemical
additive that activates once the bag is exposed to the
methane gases that develop in a typical landfill. She said there
would be "zero" toxic residues as the bag breaks
down.
"We've done some charity events in Hollywood, such as one for
an animal shelter," Bicknell said. "People loved the
dog pickup bags and the whole idea of biodegradable bags that
are still strong enough to hold the garbage."
Vegetarian chicken drumsticks; tofu kielbasa and beer brats;
meatless chicken-style strips for salads; super-sized
containers of juice smoothies; Japanese-bento box-style filet of
salmon frozen dinner; 100 percent pomegranate
juice (due in major Chicago supermarkets this summer, selling
fast in southern California); 100 percent blueberry
juice (look for individual juice boxes in Chicago during the
coming months); red tea products claiming more
2. antioxidants than green tea (one brand already is in 3,000
supermarkets on the East Coast); and bottled waters
from such faraway places as New Zealand and Fiji.
ANAHEIM--A future in plastics may be most closely associated
with a line delivered to Dustin Hoffman's character
in the 1967 movie "The Graduate," but Dodonna Bicknell is
living her own 2003 version.
She has co-founded Planet Friendly Plastics, which debuted its
product line of completely biodegradable plastic
bags at last weekend's Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim.
"I felt I needed to do something positive for the environment,"
said Bicknell, an executive producer at the
commercial-making firm Uncle TV and creator of television ads
for such past clients as Nike , Microsoft and the
National Cotton Council.
"I always wondered what happens to landfills. We started the
company about a year ago and started making
products three to four months ago," Bicknell said.
Bicknell has contracted with a manufacturer to make kitchen
bags, larger 40-gallon bags and dog poop bags. Each
product is made with durable plastic and a chemical additive
that activates once the bag is exposed to the methane
gases that develop in a typical landfill. She said there would be
"zero" toxic residues as the bag breaks down.
"We plan to be competitive in pricing," said Bicknell, noting
other makers of cornstarch-based, non-plastic bags
must charge more because it costs more to make the product.
For now, the seasoned producer is counting on word-of-mouth
marketing and raised consumer consciousness
4. "We've done some charity events in Hollywood, such as one for
an animal shelter," Bicknell said. "People loved the
dog pickup bags and the whole idea of biodegradable bags that
are still strong enough to hold the garbage."
Bicknell is thinking big. The company plans to expand into such
products as water bottles, food trays, eating
utensils and more. She envisions Planet Friendly Plastics logos
on goods in places from airplanes to schools.
"I'm especially excited about the concept of teaching kids about
becoming more environmentally conscious,"
Bicknell said. "We've put more money into the company than
expected, but I think we can do amazing things."
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
Anyone cruising the aisles at March's Natural Products Expo
West in Anaheim needed a strategy for both viewing
the exhibits and sampling the wares. Otherwise, both sore feet
and upset stomachs would result.
That's why one massage-therapy booth featuring mini-sessions
of foot reflexlogy (a healing discipline that can
relieve sore feet and address medical concerns) was a bustle of
activity. Here's a mere swatch of what was
exhibited at the show:
Vegetarian chicken drumsticks; tofu kielbasa and beer brats;
meatless chicken-style strips for salads; super-sized
containers of juice smoothies; Japanese-bento box-style filet of
salmon frozen dinner; 100 percent pomegranate
juice (due in major Chicago supermarkets this summer, selling
fast in southern California); 100 percent blueberry
5. juice (look for individual juice boxes in Chicago during the
coming months); red tea products claiming more
antioxidants than green tea (one brand already is in 3,000
supermarkets on the East Coast); and bottled waters
from such faraway places as New Zealand and Fiji.
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[.adizinasky says, "The city has gone
into green mode. You won't find too
many places greener than we are." And
it goes beyond talk. The city is acquir-
ing hybrid vehicles. Beach cleanups
bring out hundreds of volunteers.
Ladizinasky adds, "Our city horticul-
8. turalist makes sure all our plantings are
native to the region. It's good for the
environment, but it's also good for Del-
ray Beach because native plants are
hardier and can withstand winds and
hurricanes. And of course we're very
concerned about global warming.
We're flat as a pancake here. If climate
change raises the sea level just one or
two feet, you're talking about consider-
able encroachment on the shore of
Delray Beach. People are very con-
scious of that."
CONTACT; Delray Beach City Man-
ager, (561)243-7010, www.delraybeach
.com; Florida Governor's Office, (850)
488-7146, www.flgov.com.
â]im MotavaWi
Paper or Plastic
The Best Answer May be "Neither"
Each year, Americans use more than100 billion plastic shopping
bags,consuming an estimated 12 million
barrels of oil. After a very short work-
ing life, these bags retire to landfills
where they take 500 or more years to
break down, or become litter that clogs
storm drains and threatens marine
wildlife. City governments that have
passed or are considering plastic bag
bans include Steamboat Springs, Col-
orado, Portland. Oregon, California
cities San Francisco, Oakland and
Santa Monica, Boston, and both
9. Annapolis and Baltimore in Maryland.
Consumers in these cities must use
paper or bring their own bags.
Sam Shropshire, a Democratic city
council member in Annapolis, says
that many city residents moved to the
city to be close to Chesapeake Bay,
which is being damaged by the 95 per-
cent of plastic checkout bags that end
up in landfills or the environment. "We
intend to put a stop to it right here in
Annapolis," he says. Large chains will
have six months to stop using plastic;
smaller companies nine months. Mer-
chants can substitute 100 percent recy-
cled paper bags for the banned plastic.
According to Reusablebags.com,
four of five shopping bags are made
2 2 E MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007
A stiopper in Annapolis, Maryland, site ofa
proposed plastic bag ban.
.. from plastic, and the average American
5 family accumulates 6() of these "free"
I bags in only four trips to the grocery
:, Store. More than 90 percent of plastic
5 bags are simply thrown away. Arthur
t Liu, account executive at EPI Environ-
% mental Products, says the plastic hags in
10. landfills take up space and don't allow
food and other garbage inside them to
hreak down with the help of oxygen.
"Plastic is still pretty new, and a lot
of Iplastic hags| manufactured half a
century ago are still around," he says.
Nei! Seidman ofthe Institute for Local
Selt-Keliance says "Accumulating plas-
tic is destroying our rivers and oceans."
In the dehate between paper and
plastic, however, the real answer may
be neither. Reusablebags.com Presi-
dent Vince Cobb says that paper bags
are also resource- and energy-inten-
sive. According to his site, paper bag
production generates 70 percent more
air pollution than plastic, and while
paper bags are rec7cled at a higher rate
than plastic, 91 percent less energy is
needed to recycle a pound of plastic
than a pound of paper.
"1 wanted to know, paper or pias-
tic?" (x)bb says. "But that question
doesn't hit the heart of the matter. If
you want to make a difference, con-
sume less."
Amar Mohanty. associate professor
at the School of Packaging at Michigan
State University, says that in a compost
pile, paper bags will take just two to five
months to biodegrade. But in terms of
resource consumption, he says plastic
11. bags are superior. "We are depleting the
forests and we also use a large amount
of water and energy to produce these
paper bags," Mohanty says.
While some cities are pushing for
outright plastic bans, in 2003 Ireland
introduced the "Plastax," levying a fee
of approximately 29 cents on each plas-
tic bag a shopper uses. Cobb says he
considers the tax to be widely success-
ful, reducing Ireland's annual 1.2-bil-
lion-bag habit by 90 percent. That's one
billion fewer bags. "The brilliance in the
Plastax is that they t a ^ e d a cost on an
item conceived as free," Cobb says.
Other alternatives to bans are also
available. EPI distributes an environ-
mentally benign chemical additive to
packaging companies that Liu says can
break down plastic bags completely
from a few months to a few years. The
bags break into pieces through a
process called photodegradation.
When the pieces are small enough,
microorganisms can ingest and biode-
grade them in a completely non-toxic
process, Liu say?.
"Banning plastic bags is not a very
good solution because you don't give
people an alternative," L,iu says. "Plastic
gives us convenience, hygiene and
12. other benefits, so 1 think we need a â˘
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CURRENTS (continued)
less-drastic solution."
Rayton Packaging President Patrick
Arnell says his company annually
makes 100 million additive-treated
bags, some of which go to Costco, Wal-
Mart and other supermarkets. The
treated bags add a five to 10 percent
price premium.
Mohanty argues, however, that
chemical additives will only help a bag
degrade if it is exposed to constant light
and oxygen. Buried in a landfill, it may
be unable to degrade.
Trellis Earth of Portland, Oregon
makes corn-based plastics from poly-
lactic acid (PLA) into bags that biode-
grade in 120 days. "People are looking
for a green alternative," says Trellis Earth
cofounder Chad Biasi.
Though PLA could be used to make
alternatives to petroleum-based poly-
ethylene bags, Mohanty says the limit-
ed size of U.S. corn crops (already fac-
ing increased pressure from the
13. ethanol industry) won't be able to
meet the demand.
The market for degradable and
renewable resource-based plastics is
continuing to grow. South American
companies are making "green" poly-
ethylene from sugar cane. This process
reduces greenhouse gas emissions but
the final product is not biodegradable.
Other researchers are looking at wood
waste, grasses, wheat straw and rice
straw as possible source material for
"green" plastic production.
The drawback to most of these
processes is high cost. "The keystone
of success in bio-based and biodegrad-
able packaging depends on maintain-
ing a balance among ecology, economy
and technology," Mohanty says.
Cobb isn't convinced. "Neither
recycling nor biodegradable bags are
the answer," he says. "We need to re-
duce usage."
Reusable bags help achieve that goal.
Some stores, including Whole Foods,
now give a 5 to 10 cent credit for each
reusable bag a shopper brings, and oth-
ers (Ikea among Uiem) have started
charging customers the same amount
for each plastic bag.
CONTACTS: Reusable Bags,
14. www.reusablebags.com; EPI Environ-
mental Products, www.epi-global.com;
Michigan State University School of
Packaging, www.packaging.msu.edu;
Trellis Earth, www.trellisearth.com. Q
âShawn Query
The makers of BioWillie filed far batikruptcy.
8I0DIESEL GOES BANKRUPT
Country music star Willie Neison is singing the
biodiesel blues. Though interest in the alternative
fuel is steadily increasing, the road to making
biofuels profitable doesn't come without some
bumps, even when one of the world's most beloved
singers is involved (see "The Biodiesel Band Bus,"
In Brief, November/December 2005). Five
investment groups filed an involuntary
Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition July 11
against Dallas-based Earth Biofuels,
which produces, distributes and
markets biodiesel fuels, including
Nelson's own BioWillie.
In May. Earth Biofuels listed morefhan
million in losses for 2006 in its annual report to
the Securities and Exchange Commission. Despite
the dismal numbers, the companyâand Willie
Nelsonâaren't giving up. Says a company
spokesperson. "Earth Biofuels.. .will continue its
ongoing operations and commitment to provide
biodiesel fuel and liquefied natural gas to its
mafi<ets."
CONTACT: Earth Biofuels, (866)7654940,
15. www.earthbiofuels.com. âJessica A. Knoblauch
BEYOND THE BOTTLES
While consumers continue to buy bottled water
as if their faps held poison, (see "Keeping
America Cluttered," Currents, September/October
2007), long-term neglect of our nation's public
drinking water supply is slowly turning their
attitude into a self-fulfilling prophecy. A 2007
report by Food and Water Watch, "Take Back the
Tap," suggests that the laudable goal of reducing
bottled water consumption to save our waterways
is simply not enough. Due to chronic inadequate
funding of public water agencies meant to
protect public drinking water and sewage
systems, water lines built as eariy as the late
1800s are wearing out under the "weight of
age and a growing population.'"
According to the report, public health
agencies issued more than 20,000 warnings
against swimming on U.S. coastal beaches in
2005. And the Natural Resources Defense
Council recently warned that more waterbome
disease outbreaks will occur unless
"substantial investments" are made to
improve our drinking water and sewage
storage and distribution systems.
Food and Water Watch recommends that a
federal clean water trust fund be established
fo make up for the almost $22 billion annual
shortfall needed to maintain and improve
public drinking water and sewage systems.
16. The report suggests the trust be funded by
polluters, and include fees on flushable
consumer items, increased permitting fees for
dumping and fees on toxics manufacturers.
CONTACT: Food and Water Watch, (202)797-
6550, www.foodandwatematch.org.âJ.A.K.
COOL FOOD
Seafood retailers in the U.S. must, by law, affix
country-of-origin labels on their products (see
"Sustainable Seafood," Eating Right.
November/December 2005), The 2002 Farm Bill
included this provision mandating country of
origin labeling (COOL) not only for seafood
but also for meat products, fruits and
vegetables. But despite the bill's
passage, congressional Republicans
(and the Bush Administration)
have held off mandatory labeling
of meat products for five years,
claiming the labeis would hurt the
meat industry. But now supporters of the
labeling, led by Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD)
are gathering their forces and lobbying for
consumers' right to know where their food comes
from.
Importers, meatpackers, food processors and
grocers say labeling of meat products is
17. unnecessary and costly. Ground meat, they claim,
often includes more than one cow, making
labeling increasingly difficult for meat processors.
But a 2000 U.S. Department of Agriculture study
indicated some livestock producers and farmers
support COOL, since consumers often prefer to buy
domestic products. United Fishermen of Alaska
says COOL increased demand for wild salmon
products.
Americans for Country of Origin Labeling says
in the wake of well-publicized Instances of meat
contamination, consumers should be able to
"make an informed choice at the supermarket"
and track the origins of the meat they buy.
CONTACT: Americans for Country of Origin
Labeling, (800)895-2221,
www.americansforlabeling.org. ⢠ro
âShawn Query
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