Collaboration Tool

Collaboration Tool

Assuming you are part of a team that has team members in various part of the world, the team member needs to work together on a project.  They need to share documents, have ongoing live conference meetings to discuss project status and collaborate on design documents, keep track the changes made to project documents, able to do online discussion and keep track of project schedules.

Please research what software product tools/platforms (3 different software tools) available on the market and recommend one integrated software tools that best meet the aforementioned team requirement.

If there is no one software tools can achieve these requirements, you can supplement different software tool in addition to the integrated tools that you selected.

Please provide pro and con for 3 different software tools as part of your evaluation and recommend the best software collaboration tools for the team to use.

Instructions

Minimum 1000 words (please include word counts at the top of your document).

Foreign Corrupt Practice Act

Foreign Corrupt Practice Act

Review the scenario and complete the activity below. This scenario can also be found in the “Questions & Problems” section of Ch. 6, “International and Comparative Law” in Dynamic Business Law.

In an interview published by The New York Times in February 1976, former Lockheed President A. Carl Kotchian defended the payment of bribes by the company as follows:

“Some call it gratuities. Some call them questionable payments. Some call it extortion. Some call it grease. Some call it bribery. I look at these payments as necessary to sell a product. I never felt I was doing anything wrong.”

More than 30 years later, Reinhard Siekaczek, an accountant employed by Siemens who oversaw an annual budget for questionable payments in excess of $50 million, stated:

“I never thought I would go to jail for my company. …We thought we had to do it. Otherwise, we would ruin the company. …People will only say about Siemens that they were unlucky and that they broke the Eleventh Commandment. The Eleventh Commandment is, ‘Don’t get caught.’”

You have been hired to assist ABC Multinational Company to help educate employees on ethical practices and corporate culture. More specifically, related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, your role is to prevent situations described in the above scenario.

Create either a handout, job-aid, poster, or flier to educate employees on the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. Complete the following for your educational tool:

Explain what the employees should know regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Provide examples of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
Identify company actions or red flags that might indicate violations of the Act.
List any consequences of the violations.
Recommend actions to report possible violations.
Describe protections for whistleblowers. Why are they important? How do the protections impact the Act?

articles

articles

Directions

Write at least one paragraph consisting of three to five sentences including an introduction to your topic idea, the facts that support your statement, and your conclusion based on facts. Note that two posts, your position statement and a follow-up response, are required for each topic.

After stating and explaining your initial thoughts in post 1, do some research using the suggested or other reputable* websites and articles. Then in post 2, discuss whether or not your original thoughts and ideas have changed based on your research or respond to another’s opinion in a threaded discussion. Be sure to cite your sources in post 2. Post 1 is just a statement expressing your initial thoughts, so no other sources are needed unless you just wish to include them.

SolarMax video link:

Be sure to watch the SolarMax video BEFORE joining this discussion!
Citations are required for post 2.

When the sun puts its power on display, we often can’t see it all or predict it in advance, but the effects can be world-changing. A massive solar storm could wipe out almost all of our modern technology with little warning, https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/dangers-solar-storms-which-gives-power-can-also-take-it-away.

Our nearest star, the Sun, is essential for life on Earth. It is an unusually well-behaved star, but solar storms and the solar wind can negatively impact the performance and reliability of not only our space-based technology, but also our ground-based technology. Satellites can be disabled, radio communications wiped out worldwide, and voltages sent soaring to dangerous levels in power transformers and oil pipelines by a solar storm. When aimed at Earth, strong solar flares and eruptions can supercharge the Earth’s aurora displays over the poles. The most powerful solar storms can also pose a risk to astronauts and satellites in space and even completely impair power grids on Earth’s surface as well as interfere with communication and navigation signals. How would all this affect our medical care? (http://solarstorms.org/) Keep in mind: Solar storms not only can kill satellites, they can kill astronauts.

The last truly massive display of Sol’s power happened in 1859, when an invisible electromagnetic wave crashed into the Earth. Electrons, swept up like so much detritus in the magnetic current, coursed along telegraph wires. When they met an obstacle, like the hand of a telegraph operator, they crashed through it — delivering a sharp shock. Papers in telegraph offices caught fire. Operators found that even if telegraphs weren’t connected to power, the giddy subatomic stream could carry messages over vast distances. Lights of the aurora danced across the sky.

Read about our Sun’s 1859 super flare and its impact on the Earth when there was little in the way of technology. See:
http://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event
https://history.knoji.com/could-another-carrington-event-destroy-our-economy/http://www.infowars.com/after-several-near-misses-experts-warn-the-next-carrington-event-will-plunge-us-back-into-the-dark-ages/

Another good article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120308-solar-flare-storm-sun-space-weather-science-aurora/. In a worst-case scenario, orbiting satellites, GPS, global communications, and power grids could be out for months or longer. One report said a major solar event could cost the country 1-2 trillion dollars in the first year alone and it could take four-to-ten years to fully bounce back.

We’d have some warning, as instruments all over the world and in space now monitor the sun every second of the day. But even at the speed of light, a massive solar flare’s telltale flash of radiation would leave humanity between just a few minutes and — if we were very lucky — a day to prepare for the wave of charged particles surging toward us through space.

Amazingly, in 1859, before all that monitoring equipment was put in place, an astronomer spotted the flare before the storm reached Earth. At 11:18 a.m. on September 1, the English astronomer Richard Carrington stood in his private observatory recording sunspots on an image of the sun projected through his telescope onto a small screen. The next morning before sunrise, “skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight,” according to NASA. “Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.”

In the (mostly) preelectric world of 1859, most of humanity experienced the storm as little more than a strange light show — if they were even awake to see it. And aside from a few smarting fingers, it doesn’t seem to have harmed anyone in the long term. However, today spacewalking astronauts might have only minutes after the first flash of light to find shelter … Their spacecraft would probably have adequate shielding; the key would be getting inside in time.

As our world has become more reliant on electronics in the last century and a half, we’ve had few glimpses of the potential dangers of solar storms to our new infrastructure. Since 1972, NASA has recorded three instances of solar storms significantly disrupting daily life.

But none of those storms come close to the scale of the 1859 monster, known as the Carrington Event. If a Carrington Event happened today, the world would likely have to deal with the simultaneous loss of GPS, cell phone reception, and much of the power grid. The global aircraft fleet might have to coordinate an unprecedented mass grounding without satellite guidance. Unguarded electronic infrastructure could fail outright. We’d all have to — at least in the short term — wait for tomorrow’s newspaper to come out to learn details of the aftermath.

The best available estimates suggest a modern Carrington Event would cost humanity $1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year and take another four to 10 years to achieve full recovery. A 2007 NASA estimate found that the damage to the satellite fleet would cost between $30 billion and $70 billion. In this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo it is predicted that there is a 50% chance a solar storm will occur in 50 years and it increases by 12% every year.

Fortunately, Carrington Event-level storms seem pretty rare, but we have no reliable way of predicting when the next one could happen. So enjoy the sunset, but remember the deadly power it contains. Go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3178801/Are-prepared-major-solar-storm-World-just-12-hours-warning-sun-erupts.html and read about the British Space Weather Preparedness Strategy.

Consult NASA’s space weather site and other space weather sites (see below) to learn the many ways in which space weather can impact our lives. Then discuss the ways in which we should prepare to protect ourselves and our technology, including the financial cost versus the possible cost to our way of life and technology.

http://www.ready.gov/space-weather
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
http://www.weather.gov/phi/SpaceWx
https://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/weather.html
http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/
http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/21jan_severespaceweather/

For more information on the possible impact of our Sun on our technology in the new solar cycle, go to http://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/sbg-en.php, especially the section “Space Weather Effects on Technology” at http://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/tech/se-en.php.

From https://spaceweatherarchive.com/category/solar-cycle/: “On Aug. 2nd, 1972, giant sunspot MR11976 began to explode. For the next 2 days it unleashed a series of X-class flares, causing deep radio blackouts on Earth and punishing the solar panels and onboard electronics of satellites in Earth orbit. One CME (cloud of plasma) rocketed across the sun-Earth divide in only 14.6 hours–a record that still stands today. Resulting geomagnetic storms sparked auroras so bright that they cast shadows in countries as far south as Britain.”
The 1972 solar storm is legendary at NASA because it occurred in between two Apollo missions: the crew of Apollo 16 had returned to Earth in April and the crew of Apollo 17 was preparing for a moon landing in December. If the timing had only been a little different, astronauts could have been sickened by radiation, requiring an emergency return home for medical attention.
Turns out, it is legendary in the Navy, too. According to a research paper just accepted for publication in the journal Space Weather, declassified Naval archives reveal an extraordinary explosion in the sea lanes near Vietnam: “On 4 August (1972) TF-77 aircraft reported some two dozen explosions in a minefield near Hon La over a 30-second time span…Ultimately the Navy concluded that the explosions had been caused by the magnetic perturbations of solar storms, the most intense in more than two decades.”

Browse through http://www.spaceweather.com/. Do we expect an active upcoming solar cycle or is our Sun entering a long-term (~century) minimum? What will the Sun do next? See https://earthsky.org/space/solar-cycle-24-25-sunspot-predictions.

Think about the financial and other impacts space weather can have on things we take for granted such as access to health care, military capability, communications, oil pipelines, power grids ….
If you are looking for extra material for Post 2, you could take a look at these two recent articles:
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-extreme-solar-storms-frequent-previously.html
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/beware-solar-storms-scientists-warn

WARNING: NEVER stare directly at the Sun through a telescope, binoculars or your unaided eyes without protection. Astronomers use special solar filters to safely observe the Sun through telescopes.
Classmate post to respond on:
There is no question that the sun is crucial to our life here on earth. Its raw power and size is not just something large to look at in the sky. It is incredibly hot and dangerous. Its flares reach higher than the size of earth. It is creating a whole weather system around it that if something bad were to happen, it could take out the earth in a minute. Space weather can go really bad, just like earth weather. It could send debris into satellites and break them, thus ruining communication, gps and anything else reliant on the satellite. Or, it could send debris onto earth, crushing buildings, people, or even whole cities. Toxic gases could overwhelm the earth and overtake us ruining life.
There is debate on what the sun cycle 25 will be like. Some think that it will be weaker, while others have predicted it to be stronger. It is quite hard to tell until it happens, or happening as the article https://earthsky.org/space/solar-cycle-24-25-sunspot-predictions/ was published in 2018. I think regardless of what happens, heavy preparations need to be insured and taken. It is obvious that these cycles and sunspots could have a negative impact on the earth no matter what. So, taking precautions to withstand and recover quicker are more important that trying to prevent it. We do not have the power and technology to control the sun even if we wanted to, so preparing for the inevitable negative problems is a necessity.

colonizers

colonizers

From 1849 to 1871 newcomers to the region, the local administration, and the Colonial Office encountered opportunities to construct a colonial relationship with the indigenous peoples in the Chilcotin and on the streets of Victoria (and in many other locales as well). Making use of the perspectives, views, and evidence supplied in further readings by Tina Loo and Jean Barman and the material covered in Unit 3 in West Beyond the West, how did colonizers understand, depict, and address the colonized in these years?
How would you describe the intersections of capital, class, and race in BC from 1871 to 1900? Make use of the readings by Cole Harris (“Idaho Peak”), John Douglas Belshaw, and Patricia Roy and the Unit 4 readings in West Beyond the West for perspectives, ideas, and examples.

organization’s eligibility

organization’s eligibility

address the following in the discussion forum:

• Compose the organization’s eligibility requirements for a Medicare Advantage Plan contract.

Outline two pieces of vital information regarding Medicare Advantage Plans from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Website.

Instructions

300 words with a minimum of two scholarly sources

Medicaid Managed Care Plans

Medicare/Medicaid Managed Care Plans

Distinguish the roles of Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans in the healthcare delivery system.

• Assess the similarities and differences between Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans by comparing (a) strengths, weaknesses, and incentives; (b) commitment to access; and (c) risks to the consumers.

• Synthesize two recommendations for improvement, including your justification, of each managed care plan. (You should have a  total of four recommendations for both Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans.)

The Medicare/Medicaid Managed Care Plans assignment:

Instructions

Write a three- to five-page double-spaced paper:

• Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length…

• Must use at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed, and/or other credible sources published in the past five years….

luncheon budget

  luncheon budget

The Redmond Management Association held its annual public relations luncheon in April Year 2. Based on the previous year’s results, the organization allocated $31,760 of its operating budget to cover the cost of the luncheon. To ensure that costs would be appropriately controlled, Molly Hubbard, the treasurer, prepared the following budget for the Year 2 luncheon.

The budget for the luncheon was based on the following expectations:

1.The meal cost per person was expected to be $13.80. The cost driver for meals was attendance, which was expected to be 1,600 individuals.

2.Postage was based on $0.84 per invitation and 4,000 invitations were expected to be mailed. The cost driver for postage was number of invitations mailed.

3.The facility charge is $3,000 for a room that will accommodate up to 1,700 people; the charge for one to hold more than 1,700 people is $3,500.

4.A fixed amount was designated for printing, decorations, the speaker’s gift, and publicity.

 

REDMOND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Public Relations Luncheon Budget
April Year 2
Operating funds allocated $ 31,760
Expenses
Variable costs
Meals (1,600 × $13.80) 22,080
Postage (4,000 × 0.84) 3,360
Fixed costs
Facility 3,000
Printing 1,150
Decorations 1,040
Speaker’s gift 330
Publicity 800
Total expenses 31,760
Budget surplus (deficit) $ 0

Actual results for the luncheon follow.

 

REDMOND MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Actual Results for Public Relations Luncheon
April Year 2
Operating funds allocated $ 31,760
Expenses
Variable costs
Meals (1,820 × $14.50) 26,390
Postage (5,000 × 0.84) 4,200
Fixed costs
Facility 3,500
Printing 1,150
Decorations 1,040
Speaker’s gift 330
Publicity 800
Total expenses 37,410
Budget deficit $ (5,650 )

Reasons for the differences between the budgeted and actual data follow.

 

  1. The president of the organization, Rodney Snow, increased the invitation list to include 1,000 former members. As a result, 5,000 invitations were mailed.
  2. Attendance was 1,820 individuals. Because of higher-than-expected attendance, the luncheon was moved to a larger room, thereby increasing the facility charge to$3,500
  3. At the last minute, Ms. Hubbard decided to add a dessert to the menu, which increased the meal cost to $14.5 per person.
  4. Printing, decorations, the speaker’s gift, and publicity costs were as budgeted.

Required:

  1. Prepare a flexible budget and compute the sales and variable cost volume variances based on a comparison between the master budget and the flexible budget.
  2. Compute flexible budget variances by comparing the flexible budget with the actual  results.

 

Net Defense

Net Defense

A new vulnerability in Linux was recently reported, dubbed Dirty Pipe. CVE-2022-0847

Website https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com (Links to an external site.)

What is Dirty Pipe?

What does it allow you to do? What versions of Linux are affected?

How was it discovered?

Are there other related or similar issues (the website mentions Dirty Cow, so answers to the same questions are relevant)?

Note

2pages and 3 refs

PALM

PALM

A 46-year-old man presents with chief complaint of 3-day duration of shortness of breath, cough with thick green sputum production, and fevers. He has a history of COPD with chronic cough but states the cough has gotten much worse and is interfering with his sleep. Sputum is thicker and harder for him to expectorate. Chest X-Ray reveals flattened diaphragm and increased AP diameter. Auscultation demonstrates hyper resonance and coarse rales and rhonchi throughout all lung fields.

Explain the following:

The cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting these symptoms.

2· Any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.

3· How these processes interact to affect the patient.