...Health Plan for World Trade Center Attacks (911) Sandra Morgan June 21, 2011 Epidemiology and Risk Management Health Plan for World Trade Center Attacks (911) I. INTRODUCTION: On September 11, 2001, one of the worst man made disasters occurred in US history. “Terrorists crashed two hijacked planes into The World Trade Centers. In less than two hours, the towers collapsed and nearly 2,800 people died, including 343 firefighters, 23 police officers, 37 Port Authority police officers, and more than 2,200 civilians” (NYC Government, 2011). Most of Lower Manhattan residents were exposed to all kinds of dust, particulates, and other environmental contaminants. Moreover, people witnessed some of the most deeply traumatic events they had ever seen. Families watched as their entire lives and livelihoods disappeared. While individuals tried to make sense of what was taking place, rescue workers, contractors, and many others began the massive undertaking of rescuing people trapped under the rubble. In late September the rescue turned from rescue to recovery. Over the next 10 months many City, State, and federal agencies participated in the cleanup of Ground Zero. Immediately after the collapse of the towers there were concerns about the consequences for health and mental issues. Therefore, the development of a health plan was necessary. This plan had to include the collection of proper data and an explanation for collecting...
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...company? (Sort them by importance and urgency.) Some of the issues or problems that Amy’s Bread is facing are 1.) There isn’t enough space in current location, 2.) Due to the fact there isn’t enough space it is hurting the quality of the product, 3.) The whole-sale customers that are on the waiting list may turn their business elsewhere 4.) Competition is very high in the bakery industry. 4.) What is the primary problem for the company/organization in this case? The primary problem for Amy’s Bread is that the location and size is no longer suitable for the needs of the company. There are 30 additional whole sale customers on a waiting list that Amy would like to start working with however; there isn’t enough space for any additional production without hurting the quality of their goods. 5.) Why have the problem(s) you cite emerged? Identify the casual chain (the events or circumstances that caused the problem- some will in Internal Weaknesses, others External Threats). The problems for Amy have emerged because she wants to expand and grow her business to suit the needs of multiple people. In order to better serve people’s needs she must up her production but doesn’t want to hurt the quality. She must expand to a new location,...
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...MANHATTAN BUILDING-DORMITORY NUEVA STREET, BINONDO MANILA BUSINESS PLAN Prepared by: Shane Martinez MANHATTAN BUILDING – DORMITORY NUEVA STREET, BINONDO MANILA BUSINESS PLAN 1. Executive Summary 1.0 Executive Summary Manhattan Building-Dormitory will offer benchmarked rental rooms and commercial units for the Universities of Intramuros Area and Binondo Area. The Building-Dormitory will balance safety, convenience, affordable price and a positive atmosphere for all tenants. These rentals will be provided with unmatched levels of customer service and attention. Gross Sales are projected to be Php _______________ in year one growing to Php _______________ in year three. The Market Manhattan Building-Dormitory will target three distinct customer segments. The largest segment that they will service is the University Students of Intramuros Area. This segment is growing at _____% a year with _______________ prospective customers. This segment is especially attractive since most of the local rental properties that are geared toward students are run down, poor quality units. The second market segment is faculty and staff of the Intramuros Area Universities. This section has a _____% growth rate and _______________ potential customers. And the third market segment is the professionals working within the Binondo Area. The Universities at Intramuros Area are the following: a. Colegio De San Juan De Letran ...
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...increased focus on healthy lifestyles and restaurants providing customers with choices and customization. • Increased upgrades and improvements in decor and becoming environmentally friendly. The regulatory issues we have to look more closely into are the liqueur licenses, wages for employees, building permits, and any local ordinances that may affect our business A.Market Summary The BluE will be targeting locals and tourists who are active restaurant seekers. There will be a special focus on professional adults with $50K-$125K of income looking for excellent food and a great time. In addition to the professional adults with money to spend, The BluE will also be targeting adults and tourists known to frequent midtown Manhattan. The general demographics are males and females ages 25-55 with college education. In addition...
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...AMY'S BREAD Amy glanced at the clock and moaned. It was 3:30 a.m., time to get up and head to her Manhattan bakery, but she hadn't slept all night. She had a big decision to make. "No," she muttered to herself; she had a multitude of big decisions to make. Amy wondered, "If I decide to expand, can I do it successfully? Can I find another trustworthy manager, like Toy Kim Dupree, to help me manage the staff and maintain bread quality? Can I find expansion;space in Manhattan? Should I close our current location and expand to a much larger space, thus eliminating the need to manage two locations? Should I look for a locationfor my wholesale production, or a space that would provide both retail and wholesale opportunities?" Amy's Bread, founded in 1992, served about 50 wholesale customers, including some of the finest restaurants, hotels, and gourmet food shops in Manhattan. Amy's Bread also had a waiting list of more than 30 wholesale customers from other quality restaurants, hotels, and shops.Amy thought, "I really want to meet their needs and accept their business, but any further production expansion in my existing space is impossible. I know I can't produce one more loaf without hurting bread quality, which is absolutely unthinkable! We are already working three shifts, and there is no more room for additional equipment."Amy worried that some of the customers on her long waiting list were on the brink of turning away. Amy’s Personal History Amy was born and raised in Minnesota...
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...problem is that the existing workload has reached its maximum capacity for the space they have, and product expansion is impossible for the current location. This is the most significant problem because without adequate space the company will not be able to meet current customer’s needs nor will be able to meet the needs of potential new customers. 5.) The initial cause of the problem was that banks would not loan money to this new business without a proven track record so Amy had to get what she could afford at the time. Space in New York was always at a premium and renting in a desirable location was always very expensive. Amy ended up with what she could afford which was very small 650- square foot store front in a tough area of Manhattan. As sales and popularity grew, her work space shrunk, making it impossible to add more people or equipment and threatening to have customers...
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...Just before dawn on July 6, 1945, only a few clouds hung over the still New Mexico desert. The air possessed that lucid clarity which skews all sense of distance and space. Out on the desert stood several large towers, yet from the perspective of the blockhouse, where the observers anxiously waited, they appeared as little more than a few spikes stuck in the sand. Suddenly, one of the towers erupted into a brilliant fireball, searing the air and instantly replacing the dawn’s pastels with a blazing radiance. With the radiance came heat: an incredible, scorching heat that rolled outward in waves. Where seconds before the sand had stretched cool and level in every direction, now it fused into glass pellets. The concussion from the fireball completely vaporized the tower at its center, created a crater a quarter of a mile wide, and obliterated another forty-ton steel tower one-half mile away. Above the fireball an ominous cloud formed, shooting upward, outward, then back upon itself to form the shape of a mushroom, expanding until it had reached eight miles in the air. The effects of the fireball continued outward from its center: the light, followed by the waves of heat, and then the deadening roar of the concussion, sharp enough to break a window over 125 miles away. Light, heat, concussion—— but first and foremost, the brilliance of the light. At the edge of the desert a blind woman was facing the explosion. She saw the light. In the blockhouse at Alamogordo, where scientists...
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...1. Contact With the Broker From internet research, I got some brokers’ phone number. However, no one would want to help me in the beginning. After talking with professor, I changed my method by going to the agents. Citi Habitats is one of the largest real estate broker agents in New York City. I have learned this agent from the internet research I did during making the phone calls, so I decided to visit this agent first. I checked all the locations of this agent and listed them down. To choose the agent go visit is another tricky part, because people normally do not want to do extra works in a very busy environment. I chose a Citi Habitats on the upper west of Manhattan. This place is not very crowded and people there would be relatively easier to talk with. I went into the agent and stated my reason that I need to complete a project given by my professor. Fortunately, the lady in the front desk would like to help me to find a broker in the firm. She introduced me to broker Jason Kim Woodman, who is a senior associate at Citi Habitats. I used my English name Amy. Mr. Woodman is a very kind person and helped me to answer the questions in the project. 2. Basic Information for rough choosing For a real estate purchaser, people need to consider many facts before they buy a real estate. First is always the personal ability. Normally people rely on loans to buy a house or an apartment, so the monthly income is very critical for choosing a real estate. From the talk to the...
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...and acquisitions, where not only different organizational cultures but also organizational cultures rooted in different national cultures meet. When organizational members from diverse cultures interact and, especially, when one culture is required to adopt the methods and practices of the other culture, disruptive tensions emerge. II. Causes – Well, these differences in the culture, I believe caused costly result from the differences of the personnel. The employees of BEA described the BOAC staff as somewhat distant, and ill-equipped with their knowledge of the competitive airline industries. On the other hand, BOAC were snobbish with the staff of BEA. They thought flights to the European mainland were for tradesmen, while long haul air travel were for the upper-class gentlemen. The opposing ideas and beliefs of each of the employee was the cause of the problems encountered by British Airways after the merging. III. Organizational Systems...
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...Haier History of the haier The origins of Haier date back long before the actual founding of the company. In the 1920s, a refrigerator factory was built in Qingdao to supply the Chinese market. After the 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China, this factory was then taken over and turned into a state owned enterprise. Zhang Ruimin and the corporate revival By the 1980s, the factory had debt of over CNY¥1.4 million and suffered from dilapidated infrastructure, poor management, and lack of quality controls, resulting from the planned economic system and relevant policies. Production had slowed, rarely surpassing 80 refrigerators a month, and the factory was close to bankruptcy. The Qingdao government hired a young assistant city-manager, Zhang Ruimin, responsible for a number of city owned appliance companies. Zhang was appointed the managing director of the factory in 1984. When he arrived in 1984, Zhang decided that improvement was needed to the factory's quality control. In 1985, a customer brought a faulty refrigerator back to the factory and showed it to Zhang. Zhang and the customer then went through his entire inventory of 400 refrigerators looking for a replacement. In the process he discovered that there was a 20 percent...
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...within a common framework based on idea generation, development, and diffusion throughout the business. Recent projects included prototypes for new display ad concepts, as well as BlackBerry applications for Boston.com and the expert site About.com. The team’s work is intended to supplement and support innovation taking place within the business units. For example, the team is prototyping E-Ink, an emerging display technology; some business units can’t spare the resources to investigate it. At NYTimes.com, the design and product development group of Marc Frons, CTO of Digital Operations, worked with Zimbalist’s team and Adobe developers on the Times Reader 2.0 application, the next generation, on-screen reading system it developed on the Adobe AIR platform. Frons further encourages forward thinking among his 120-person team with twiceannual innovation contests. Winners receive cash, recognition A The New York Times and Boston Scientific: Two Different...
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...Saint Mary's University Chapter 1 / Foundations of Information Systems in Business CASE 2 27 The New York Times and Boston Scientific: Two Different Ways of Innovating with Information Technology A and the resources to turn their ideas into reality. Typical projects are measured against criteria like revenue potential or journalistic value. R&D projects aren’t. “Since we build software, there’s no huge capital investment up front,” Frons says, “which allows us to experiment. The emphasis is on rapid development.” Times Widgets, a widget-making platform, was a contest winner, as was the recently launched Times Wire, a near real-time customizable interface for online content. “We’re trying to solve specific problems and think about where the business is going,” Frons says. Frons is focused on enhancing revenue, cutting costs, and increasing efficiency through process improvements and automation. The New York Times has launched a cool interactive map that shows the most popular Netflix rentals across 12 U.S. metropolitan areas: New York, San Francisco/Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami. If you’re a Netflix junkie and a closet Twilight fan (and you live in a major U.S. city), your rental habits are now on display. To create the map, The New York Times partnered with Netflix. The map is a graphical database of the top 100 most-rented Netflix films of 2009 laid on top of maps. With it you can graphically...
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...because the narrator reduces his point of view to one person whose inner thoughts are the only thought s the reader is told about e.g. : “He wonders if his life is an extraordinary one” (l. 10). As this line from the text also shows, Gerard reflects a lot indifferent phenomena and things he has experienced. These reflections often originate from a specific observation he makes, which result in reflections on history and life. This movement from reflections on a specific thing to reflections on more abstract things as Life makes some parts of the short story very similar to the essay genre. For example: at first Gerard reflects about footprints in the snow (l. 4) and this reflection leads to reflections about the Indians who once lived in Manhattan(l. 5-6), which again leads to reflections about his own identity (l. 7-9)The story takes place New York, where Gerard probably lives. The mood in the text plays an important part in the story. In the beginning of the text Gerard’s reflections creates a very glorious, overwhelming atmosphere, because he thinks of his own life compared with the billions of other people who lived before him (l. 4-25). The atmosphere in this part of the text also...
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...outside every morning, ties each of his men on the stomachs on his giant sheep and escape from the cave. A modern day example of someone who shows resourcefulness is Chesley Sullenberger. Chesley Sullenberger, a former US airlines pilot, was piloting a jet on January 15, 2009, that struck a flock of Canadian geese during the takeoff from New York , destroying both engines. He had few options, fly back to LaGuardia, New York or land in an airport in New Jersey, both of which the plane would most likely not stay in the air long enough for the plan to be successful. Sullenberger made the risky choice of landing the jet in the Hudson river, which runs the western border of Manhattan. His emergency water landing was a success, saving all 155 people aboard flight 1549 with only a few injuries. Sullenberger retired after 30 years as a commercial pilot, beginning a new career speaking in the US and abroad about flight safety issues. Odysseus shares many heroic qualities with these three contemporary heroes. All of these men and women share courage, perseverance, and resourcefulness. ...
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...Through his own personal experience, Whitman discovers that one of the best methods of teaching is hands-on work. In his text When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer he explains the difference between listening to a lecture and observing contrast. "When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,/ How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, ... / In the mystical moist night air, and from time to time,/ Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." People who have studied the methods that Whitman preferred to use have noticed his emphasis on self education, "Each student must develop sound, still image montage, and moving image projects that embrace the qualities of scholarly ‘remix, distributed and networked authorship, and the realignment of objects and investigators in research'"...
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