...Business Proposal Sheldon Hensley BIS/220 March 19, 2012 Ross Sines Business Proposal Rock Bottom Records A Business Proposal to Add E-Commerce to the Company Prepared for Rock Bottom Records Prepared by Sheldon Hensley March 19, 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 Introduction 5 Background 5 Proposed Action 5 Cost Table 8 Executive Summary Doing business in today’s economic structure is not the same as it was 20 years ago. The induction of e-commerce and e-business to economic infrastructure, traditional brick and mortar businesses are finding it difficult to compete with more streamlined businesses that are outsourcing their products and services via the Internet. Streamlining Rock Bottom Records by adding a relational database management system (RDMS) and a website will increase productivity and cost savings by reducing the amount of time it takes for analyzing productivity, ordering and shipping, financial, and payroll. Adding a website with a RDMS and offering digital music downloads the company will be able to compete with other companies worldwide. The most popular affordable RDMS’s that are in use today are Microsoft Access that comes with Microsoft Office (Professional) is popular with most small businesses ("Microsoft Access Database: The Pros With Less Cons When Using Microsoft Access As Your Database", n.d.)., PostgreSQL which runs on multiple operating systems and is an open source database...
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...Tectonic Hazards: Earthquakes Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves that make the ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are rubbing against each other, they stick a little. They don't just slide smoothly; the rocks catch on each other. The rocks are still pushing against each other, but not moving. After a while, the rocks break because of all the pressure that's built up. When the rocks break, the earthquake occurs. During the earthquake and afterward, the plates or blocks of rock start moving, and they continue to move until they get stuck again. The spot underground where the rock breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right above the focus (on top of the ground) is called the epicentre of the earthquake.  Haiti Earthquake: What? A 7.0 magnitude earthquake When?12th January 2010 at 16.53 local time (21.53 GMT). Where?The earthquake occurred 18.457°N, 72.533°W. The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth. The short term effects of the Haiti earthquake are· Buildings being destroyed, roads and docks. Making it difficult to get aid to the people who need it. Example food, clean drinking water, clothes, cooking utensils, temporally shelters and most importantly drugs and medicines. · Without clean drinking water and dead bodies rotting in the hot sun the risk of life threatening diseases...
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...by ice, usually clay containing sharp-edged boulders of many sizes Brown earth – uniform brown-coloured soil that forms under deciduous woodland Brownfield site – area of previously built-up land that is available to be built on again Carbon credits – each one gives the buyer the right to emit 1 tonne of carbon into the atmosphere Carbon footprint – emissions of carbon dioxide left behind by burning fossil fuels Carbon trading – companies that have exceeded their carbon emissions allowance buy carbon credits from those that have not Cash crop farming – crops grown for sale instead of farmer’s own use (the opposite of subsistence farming) Cave – hollow at the bottom of a cliff eroded by waves Central Business District (CBD) – urban zone located in the centre, mainly shops and offices Cliff – steep rock outcrop along a coast...
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...Mineral and Power Resources Introduction to Mineral Minerals are composed of inorganic particles. Minerals are found in the earth or are naturally occurring substances. They are found in rocks, and water. • Minerals are chemical substances. Some minerals like gold or silver are made of only one element. Other minerals, like quartz and calcite, are combinations of two or more elements. • Minerals always have the same chemical makeup. For example, quartz will always consist of one part silicon (an element) two parts oxygen (another element). Examples of Minerals Halite, pyrite, hematite, calcite, gold, silver, quartz, feldspar, mica, gypsum, ruby, diamond, topaz, graphite, corundum, fluorite, apatite, malachite, copper, garnet, talc, , sulfur, and roughly 4,000 other recognized minerals. The elements oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium make up 99 percent of all minerals on Earth. Questions for the students. Where are the minerals found? Power Resources Power or energy comes from different sources: solar, wind, hydroelectricity, nuclear energy, fossil fuel and so on. A society or civilization cannot survive for a moment without power or energy. So, sufficient energy is the basic foundation for the development of a nation. Daily needs, industries, transportation and communication and so on are governed by energy sufficiency. What is energy? The stored ability to perform work or produce heat comes in many forms-electric, mechanical...
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...Economic contractions, troughs, expansions and peaks are unpredictable phases of economic activity referred to as economic business cycles. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total market value of goods and services the country produces. As the economy goes through business cycle changes, these positively or negatively affect the GDP. Economic Contraction During a contraction, economic output slows, usually due to decreased demand for products and services, an increase in the cost of raw materials or both. This means that companies are not making as many products or offering as many services. As a result, companies will begin to lay off employees and the unemployment rate begins to rise. Since GDP is a measure of the value of economic output and during a contraction output decreases, the GDP also decreases. Even though the GDP decreases during a contraction, it is still positive. Economic Trough An economic trough occurs after a contraction. A historically high national unemployment rate and low economic output usually mark this trough, which often signals that the economy is already in or heading toward a recession. Unlike a contractionary phase in which the GDP decreases but is still positive, during a trough the GDP is negative. A negative GDP means that economic output does not grow at all. Economic Expansion After the "rock bottom" of an economic trough, expansion is its recovery. If the economy grows for two or three consecutive calendar quarters, it...
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...Major world events of the last 25 years irreversibly altered the way we conduct business and collaborate on a global scale. Thomas Friedman identifies and names these events the “ten flatteners,” as discussed in his book “The World is Flat.” Each of these ten flatteners contributed to the changing nature of global communication and information sharing into the 21st century. The first flattener, the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, signified the end of communism and permitted us to view the world on a single flat plane. Only five months later, the first Windows breakthrough operating system was launched. The second flattener, Netscape, is the first commercial browser that connected the Internet with the World Wide Web and brought the Internet alive as a device people could use to connect with one another. Netscape triggered the dot-com bubble and installation of fiber optic cable that allowed people all over the globe to communicate virtually for free. The third flattener, workflow software, revolutionized the way applications can connect with many other applications, allowing people all over the world to work together on more projects than ever before. Workflow software created a global platform for multiple forms of collaboration. The fourth flattener, outsourcing, is the first new form of collaboration empowered by this global communication platform. Offshoring, open-sourcing, supply chaining, insourcing and informing are flatteners four, five, six, seven...
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...Music and American Youth in the 1960s Richard Whaley COMP/155 December 6, 2013 University of Phoenix Music and American Youth in the 1960s When defined, how music influenced and shaped American Youth in the 60s and changes that it created. Music combines different aspects of American social and cultural identity, through economic status, race, gender, religious beliefs, and sexuality. There are many different types of music listened to. Religious, race and economic status is just a few. Economic status is the wealthier people tend to listen and attend symphony concerts while the middle class and poor listen to folk music, country, pop, and rock again are just a few of them. New styles of music come our way about as often as a new generation comes of age. The American youth culture of the 1960s saw many changes and was very complex. A number of factors attributed to this. This generation was the largest by number of this age group ever in history. American culture up until that time was stereotyped so to speak, there were many set ideas youth were expected to follow. Upon graduation from high school you either went to college or got a job, got married and settled down to raise a family. The youth of that time had different ideas; they wanted to experience most everything that they could. They wanted the freedom to express themselves...
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...Ecosystems Ecology Fall 2014 Final Exam 1. A. Discuss two sources of ecosystem acidity in Pennsylvania associated with human activities. Note the associated ecosystem and community effects, mechanisms of these effects, and how acidity changes with acid neutralizing capacity or buffering of some environments vs. others. B. How are these sources related to one another, i.e. what is the root societal practice that has resulted in these sources of acidity? C. What other environmental and human health issues are related to this societal use or practice? The main sources of acidity in Pennsylvania are: 1. Acid mine drainage. 2. Acid rain. 1. Acid Mine Drainage (AMD): It is also identified as acid rock drainage (ARD). The acidic outflow comes from mine waste rock, tailings, and other mine structures. It happens when metal sulfides (primarily pyrite (FeS2)) are oxidized by water and oxygen. The metal sulfides are oxidized to release H+ ions and sulfuric acid...
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...four trading days. The DOW fell 7.3%, a 617. 78 point drop that was the worst one day drop ever. The economy hit a recession in 2001 due to the Y2K scare. The Y2K was a bug that created a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc around the world beginning in the year 2000. After 9/11, fear worsened and the economy fell into a frenzy. Threats of war continued to plummet DOW to the bottom. It hit rock bottom when it declined a 37.8% from its peak. Unemployment continued to rise until 2003, where it reached 6%. The vast spending in defense was the biggest economic impact that led to the U.S debt crisis. The debt amounted to $16.2 trillion with the War on Terror. Fewer funds were available for programs to boost the country from the financial crisis of 2008. Fewer jobs were created resulting in less tax revenue and increasing debt. Little went into infrastructure and repair, lagging the country’s developmental state. There were countless other costs of the attack such as energy loss and terror trials. The economic impact still continues even to this day. It has shaped different views and perspectives among citizens, and has shaped the way we react with this type of event....
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...superpower? This is not an academic question. It's about how this country can drive not only its own but also Asian economic development for centuries to come. When it comes to energy, of all the nations in our region Australia is the one with the richest array of choices. The world's most concentrated sunlight, huge reserves of coal, gas, hot rocks, wind, wave and tidal energy, not to mention uranium, thorium, biomass, hydro and other interesting possibilities. In short, thousands of years' worth of energy in sundry forms. In the past we have found difficulty making decisions among this bounty of opportunities: politicians who favour one energy form usually get beaten up by all the other lobbies, creating a perfect climate for indecision. This has been going on for decades and will probably continue to paralyse national policymaking, leaving us in the dark ages - unless we find a way to make the choice between energies an easy one. What Australia most needs, at this juncture in its history, is a level playing field, where all the energies can compete, each according to its strengths, for its share of the world's hungriest energy market - as Asia continues to grow while exhausting its local coal, oil and gas. That level playing field could be created by the Australian Energy Superhighway. The superhighway concept is a gigawatt DC transmission line starting in the bottom right-hand corner of Australia, extending across the deserts to the north-west, then heading north to Java...
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...in the cotton fields and build America up to the standards that the Caucasian Americans expected. Slaves were usually fed straps from their Masters tables, given ragedy clothes to wear, they worked from sun up until sun down, and they were not paid. They were beaten if they talked backed back to the Master or did not produce the labor that was required by the Master. The Caucasian by all accounts was thought to be superior and better than slaves were because they owned the land, crops, plantations and houses; the poor slave did not own anything. What did the slave ship look like? Slaves were placed at the bottom of the ship; then men, women and children were chained to one another. With very little movement possible, they suffered and many of them died. This was not an easy voyage. The voyages to America from Africa took months and people got very little air in the bottom of these ships. They were fed but they had to eat lying down in chains and they were fed worst than animals. They were allowed on the deck occasionally where they were washed with water that was poured on them. Many Africans committed suicide or were thrown overboard when they became sick or retaliated against their treatment. Moving ahead in years President Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 and slavery ended. Slaves were very happy to be free but many of them did not have any property or education to begin life with freedom. Many Caucasian Americans did not like the...
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...Review – Exam 2 This is just an outline; make sure you go over everything. Materials: Exam 2 will cover chapters 13, 14, 15, 18 & 19: everything we have covered in the class. Exam 2 will start Sharp at 6:00 pm. The allotted time for exam 2 will be 6:00 to 6:50 pm Format: There will be 40 multiple choice questions, scantrons will be provided. Main Concepts Chapter 13: * Soil forming factors * Soil formation begins with fragmentation of parent material. * Parent material consists of ancient layers of rock, or more recent deposits from lava flows or glacial activity. * The first organisms to gain a foothold in modified parent material also contribute to soil formation. * Lichens form pioneer communities. * Decomposition of dead lichens further alters underlying rock. Humus is the organic material resulting from the decay of plant and animal remains. * It mixes with top layers of mineral particles, and supplies needed nutrients to plants. * It creates a crumbly soil that allows adequate water absorption and drainage. * Burrowing animals such as earthworms bring nutrients up from deeper soil layers, improving soil fertility. * * The organic material resulting from the decay of plant and animals remains is called………….? HUMUS * Soil properties: Soil texture Soil texture is determined by the size of mineral particles within the soil. * Too many large particles (sand, gravel) lead to extreme...
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...economy. Now and days the changes that many companies are making is changes due to the economy. Companies are looking to save money. Companies are cutting back the matching of the 401K, cutting back on employees hours, and some companies are even shutting down all together. We will be taking a look at how a wealthy popular car company, Chrysler, has filed for bankruptcy in this economic downturn which in turn has an effect on employees, the community, and the families of the employees. In the past two years America has been hit pretty hard economically. Gas prices have risen to almost 5.00 a gallon in some states. Peoples light bills have been as high as 500.00 or more. People have lost many jobs and can’t find a job because so many employers are cutting back to try and save what’s left of their company. Many homes are being foreclosed because people can’t afford to pay their house note because they don’t have a job or because there were cutbacks on their commission. Its many factors that have played a part in why the economy is the way it is today. One of the effects in this economic downturn is downsizing (rightsizing). Downsizing is the planned elimination of positions or jobs. (McGraw-Hill, 7) “Common approaches to downsizing include eliminating functions, hierarchical levels, or units. Downsizing has been focused on delaying and eliminating bureaucratic structures, “white collar” middle managers...
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...crust using geophysical methods such as gravity and magnetic surveys. Mining geologists also use geophysics to search new mineral deposits. In areas such as the Nevada Great Basin, geoscientists rely more on geophysical images than on geologic maps. The Great Basin area holds one of the biggest mineral concentrations in the world. Economically, gold is the most prominent commodity. The most important gold deposits are hosted by carbonate rocks, called the Carlin-type and Carlin-like gold deposits. Carlin-type and Carlin-like gold deposits are unique geologically, are abundant in Nevada, and are hardly found elsewhere. Although much research has been done, a lot of the geology is still unclear. This paper discusses how ArcGIS provides a tool for research on mineral resources. Emphasis is on the functionality of ArcGIS to handle multiple data sets and maps as well as data visualization techniques using ArcGIS. Great Basin Geology Figure 1 shows the distribution of known gold deposits combined with topography, young geologic rocks, and county lines. Data sets were downloaded and compiled from several United States Geological Survey (USGS) Web sites (e.g., Raines et al., 1996). Data processing was done using ArcGIS 8.3 and its 3D Analyst extension. The Great Basin is complicated by its physiography and surface geology. The area is one of the largest Cenozoic continental rift systems in the world. Its topography is characterized by a patchwork of mountain ranges and...
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...percent contraction in Q1 GDP. However, positive manufacturing and employment data signals the prospect of economic expansion for the remainder of the year. In search for capital preservation, investors have sought, theoretically the safest investment instrument, US treasuries, which have gained 2.7 percent for HY 1.During the first half of the year, the Federal Reserve continued to taper its Quantitative Easing Program. As at June 30th 2014, the program was reduced to US$35B from its original level of US$85B in bond purchases per month and is carded to end in October 2014. European Union- Rock Bottom interest rates, inflation still low. For the first half of the year, under the European Union’s increased monetary policy initiatives, the main refinancing rate was cut to 0.15 percent and the deposit rate to -0.1 percent, becoming the first major central bank to use negative interest rates as a monetary policy tool. This has been done with the intent of returning depressed inflation rates to acceptable levels. The impact on global bond markets has been quite noticeable. In a hunt for yield, investors have placed their confidence in bonds as a mechanism for returns. Sovereign Bonds in the PIIGS regions have been highly sought after, causing bond prices to reach near the 5 year high. For H2, further quantitative easing in the European region is expected, depending how economic indicators reflect. Eastern Europe: Russia vs. Ukraine…the tension continues. Russian capital markets...
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