...Relief Objectives: For this case you are discuss the response by government, NGOs and volunteer groups to Hurricane Katrina. The question for you to answer is whether or not the organizational structure for disaster response for the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and FEMA was adequate to effectively respond to a Cat. 3 - 5 hurricane on August 26th, 2005. As you respond to this question please complete the following: o Review the various reports concerning the Katrina response and relief efforts. Identify an example of a relief effort which was successful and one which was unsuccessful. o Discuss the reasons why the examples you cited above were or were not successful. Comment specifically on whether you believe that the organizational structure at the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and the Federal government was adequate, including communications and command and control. (Please refer to the Organization Structure for incident management in the National Response Plan.) Focus on how coordinating structures, processes, and protocols were employed to manage the disaster response. Discuss the importance of social networks during the Katrina Disaster. Please review the following (referenced) article and comment on the importance of social networks during a disaster response. ~ 1 of 11 ~ MHE 512- MOD 1 - Case Introduction to Disaster Relief; Organizational Structure of Relief Organizations; and, The National Response Framework Hurricane Katrina: Disaster...
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...may need to consider improving connectivity among geographically dispersed locations. The home office of the company is in Portland, and branch offices are located in Pittsburgh, Princeton, Nashville, and New Orleans. Superior Views Industrial is typical of any company that may have grown through merger or acquisition and needs to improve a system of connectivity that may be outdated or non-optimal. The current system has a number of older 4800 and 9600 Kbps modems. If the company continues to grow, a properly designed system will allow new sites to be added to the network without affecting the operations of the other sites. According to Connolly and Begg (1999), companies with a well-planned distributed environment are better able to handle expansion. It is therefore important that the network and information technology professionals at Superior Views Industrial ensure a sound connectivity infrastructure. Although there are various costs that must be incurred in any networked system (e.g., maintenance, equipment costs, operating personnel), the most important recurring cost that management must consider is the cost of the actual transmission service. Transmission costs increase with distance (Carne, 1999). Therefore, due to the high cost of voice and data communication facilities and services, multiplexing has become a very practical procedure for reducing costs and improving transmission efficiency. Multiplexing is a procedure where two or more information sources share...
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...There was no “empowering local communities to generate risk assessments or flagging of vulnerable community assets such as schools, health centers and public facilities.”75 A huge issue was that after a disaster such a Hurricane Katrina , the government - particularly the federal government seemed unprepared and unaware of how bad the situation really was. 76 Many homes were destroyed which left people stranded or missing. People had no where to go. The Super-dome in New Orleans, a public facility which was made for situations such as the hurricane and flooding only had limited supplies to begin with that had only accepted 15,000 refugees leaving the rest with no where to go.77 There were no other plan for anyone else which left thousands of people to panic, desperate for food , water and most importantly for protection. This caused them to break into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center complex that later just created more chaos.79 If New Orleans had planned ahead and created more public facilities and prepared them for an event like this, it could have avoided many problems,and most importantly, saved...
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...triumphs, and recommendations for conducting similar efforts in the future. The majority of patients who required more critical care, including hospital admission, were referred for further evaluation to publicly funded hospitals within the Harris County Hospital District, specifically, Ben Taub General Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital several times a day to reassess operations and accommodate the fluid situation. As we seek lessons from the evacuation of Hurricane Katrina, it is imperative that communications and disaster plans account for the specific obstacles run into by urban, minority communities. There work provides an opportunity to listen to the voices of the evacuees themselves. These voices lead us to believe that removing the obstacles of shelter and transportation will be insufficient to ensure safety in future disasters. Policies must additionally address the important influence of extended families and social networks through better community-based communication and preparation strategies. By September 4, nearly 500 evacuees had been flown to Illinois, and over the following two weeks more than 6000 evacuated individuals were estimated to have arrived on their own, most inhabiting in the Chicago area. In response, the city of Chicago work together with the American Red Cross, the United Way, and the Salvation Army to provide housing and...
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...THE BOOK REVIEW : The Art of Personal Evangelism A Paper Submitted to Dr. Blake Newsom of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course Supervised Ministry I: EVAN 5230 Division of Pastoral Ministries Jieun Yun B.S., Korea Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004 March 5, 2014 The Art of Personal Evangelism: Sharing Jesus in a changing culture By Will McRaney, Jr. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Academic, 2003, 268 pp., $19.99 paper. This book “The Art of Personal Evangelism is not to hard to read all of the task of the person who winning to believe in Jesus Christ. McRaney well said about task of evangelism as a practitioner for both the Christian and the Church for the importance of personal evangelism. Also, He wants to approached the point of the scarcity of quality evangelism from North American churches, and address the foundational elements of personal evangelism, outline theories of communication, and overview techniques. About the Arthur of this book “The Art of Personal Evangelism”, the Arthur is Will McRaney. Will McRaney having served a variety position of evangelism. He earned his Ph.D. in Evangelism from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 1992. And He has served as assistant professor of evangelism at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He also works for the Ministry Enhancement Group as co-founder for training and consulting group in the areas...
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...was on it's way. Customs and values of previous were rejected. Life was to be lived to the fullest. This was also known as the era of the "lost generations," and the "flapper" with her rolled stockings, short skirts, and straight up-and-down look. They disturbed their elders in the casino, night clubs, and speakeasies that replaced the ballrooms of prewar days. Dancing became more informal - close of the nineteenth century in the unpleasant dance halls and whorehouses of the South and Midwest where the word Jazz commonly meant sexual intercourse. Southern blacks, delivered from slavery a few decades before, started playing European music Afro modifications. The first place of jazz has many origins: New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Kansas City are just a few. But New Orleans was and still remains an important jazz center. The ethnic rainbow of people who went to the bars and whorehouses were a big part of the development of jazz. The city had been under Spanish French rule because of the Louisiana purchase. By 1900, it was a blend of Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Slavic and countless blacks originally brought in as slaves The first jazz bands contained a "rhythm section" consisting of a string bass, drums, and a guitar or banjo, and a "melodic section" with one or two cornets, a trombone, a clarinet, and sometimes even a violin. Years later, jazz was taken over by large orchestras; A "society jazz contained fifteen or more musicians. Today, there is a renewed...
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...Allied Academies International Conference page 15 CONFLICT IN WORK TEAMS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Brittany Sikes, Florida Institute of Technology Robert D. Gulbro, Athens State University Linda Shonesy, Athens State University ABSTRACT Conflict is almost certain to occur in work teams due to the fact that they are comprised of different people possessing different perceptions, personalities, and behaviors. Although incredibly effective, work teams may stumble upon barriers which must be overcome to allow for growth and continuation towards the common goals of the group. It is quite possible that a work team may perform without the presence of conflict, but oftentimes certain measures have been implemented to prevent such conflict from occurring. Occasional conflict, if managed appropriately, can lead to creativity, better decision-making, and improved results. However, too much conflict can lead to a decrease in performance and group cohesion. In global organizations there is an opportunity for cross-cultural differences that may increase conflict. Contained herein are both the positive and negative consequences of conflict, as well as courses of action to understand, prevent, and resolve conflict that occurs within work teams or groups. THE VALUE OF WORK TEAMS A work team is defined as an organized group, committed to the individuals within the group, whose members share the same intent of accomplishing a common goal. Managers have become more inclined to utilize work...
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... A formal detailed plan is required for these large complex and high-risk projects. These projects require a specified treatment plan to monitor and control risk. However, for smaller less complicated projects the risk plan is usually combined into the daily operations of the project tasks. In which I will assign to the appropriate sections. Such was the case for the planning a Military Retirement Ceremony. This report will discuss how risk were identified, prioritized and monitored for the project of planning of the Military Retirement Ceremony. I will discuss how the identification and ranking of risk were used to make key decision made for project constraints of scope, time, and costs. I will then conclude by summarizing the importance of risk planning in successful project planning. Risk Management Planning Project risk management is a systematic approach to planning for and...
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...Abstract On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall, causing an unprecedented amount of destruction from one end of the Gulf Coast to the other. During the storm the Twin Span bridge, which crosses Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans East to Slidell, was heavily damaged and would need to be replaced. After the completion of a new bridge, the old Twin Span was dismantled, broken down, and recycled into 9 miles of shoreline protection over the stretch of bank line in Lake Borgne known as the Orleans Landbridge. The process of breaking down and recycling the bridge was a labor intensive, very schedule sensitive undertaking that would require the construction of over 7,200 marine mattresses that were 38’ long, 5’ wide, 1.5’ thick, and weighed 10 tons each. Once half of the mattresses were completed and stockpiled, the marine based placement would commence. From this point forward, an average of 66 mattresses would need to be made each calendar day to keep the expensive marine operations from being delayed....
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...Task 1: Geography and the Development/Diffusion of Human Societies Part A: Mesopotamia is regarded as the birth place of civilization. “Historians believe that large civilizations began in Mesopotamia between 4,000 and 3,000 B.C.E.” (Wandrei, 2015). The most significant geographical factor that I feel contributed to the development of this society was the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. These rivers are part of a larger area referred to as the “fertile crescent” due to its rich soil. The soil is extremely rich due to the large amount of silt (a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks) deposits left from the rivers during flooding, making ideal farming areas. Although the area was ideal for farming it was still extremely difficult to do due to this regions climate that usually only produced ten inches or less of rain. So with the drought and still occasional flooding, the Mesopotamian society had to learn how to control these factors to be able to succeed in this region. They had to build an irrigation system to help protect their homes from the floods and move water to their fields during the droughts. With this irrigation system it allowed for them to have a surplus in crop. Also, having access to the rivers allowed for them to trade some of their surplus crops to obtain other needed supplies to help continue building their society. “With irrigation and the necessary drainage, southern Mesopotamia became a land of plenty that could support a considerable population” (Edzard...
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...people talking about some eventful news that has taken place over the last couple weeks following the recent presidential election. The group seems to have strong views towards the particular subject so this draws you in to the conversation. After being briefed on what the topic of discussion is you also begin to voice your opinion on the subject because you also feel as if it is an important topic. You later find out that this was headline news in the newspaper and will continue coverage throughout the week on the particular story. This emphasized importance of the story can be explained by what is known as agenda-setting theory a theory created by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw. Much of our media has had the same effect on our society. A particular story receives large amounts of coverage or is simply elaborated to a point where the importance of the story seems increased compared to others. This in turn shapes the public’s opinion and reflects what is presented by the news providing “not what to think…but what to think about”(Cohen 1963 as cited in M. Dainton and E. Zelley). This paper will give the basic overview; listing assumptions and concepts, of the theory along with recent additions. It will also provide personal and actual examples of where the theory has applied. Agenda-Setting theory, in its original state, contains two main assumptions and a concept that explain how exactly the media gatekeepers decides on what the important news is. First, in this theory McCombs...
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...The city of New Orleans, LA and surrounding cities was especially vulnerable to tragedy, due to an “…ill-equipped levee system..” (Levin, para. 1). Storm surge flooding was up to 30 feet in combination with wave action and high winds, resulting in considerable damage and destruction to most infrastructures and property. Once the storm passed, FEMA declared regions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana “…emergency ‘disaster areas’…” (Levin, para 6). Less than 30 days later, Hurricane Rita swept through southwest LA, nearly finishing the task of absolute destruction of all infrastructure and societal existence along the storm’s path. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a scientific organization that provided detailed satellite imagery and illustrative maps to warn residents living in the path of the hurricanes. The geospatial images presented forecasted timelines, the storm path, wind speed, current location of the...
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...The authors explained the issues during Hurricane Katrina that local authorities had to get funds from the federal agencies because of the lack of effective communication and therefore, due to the lack of useful information and statistics needed to get funding. Kirvan, Paul. "Developing an Emergency Communications Plan: A Template for Business Continuity Planners." SearchDisasterRecovery. Tech Target, Sept. 2010. Web. 24 Sept. 2015. TechTarget provides an outline of the essentials of emergency communication plans. The article highlights what they consider to be eight things your emergency communication plan must do and also covers planning considerations. In addition, it goes over lists of what will be needed during and after an emergency, as well as a link to a free emergency communications planning template. Lipton, Eric, Drew Christopher, Scott Shane, and David Rohde. "Breakdowns Marked Path From Hurricane to Anarchy." New York Times. The New York Times Company, 11 Sept. 2005. Web. 24 Sept....
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...enhance learning opportunities for continued company improvement? How should they study this success or failure? The determination was related at workshops directed by the AMIA to enhance opportunities for future successes, with a research agenda and recommendations. The AMIA was convicted to take a leadership role and come up with practical projects that would likely succeed in a health care setting. Introduction In February 2009 Congress appropriated $20 billion for health information technology as a part of the President’s stimulus package. Then the United State joined with other countries to benefit from healthcare technology. Because of the changes made to Medicare and private insurance plans, new paradigm for payments have been made to reflect Value-Based Purchasing (VBP), or pay for performance initiatives (P4P). These initiatives rely on electronic health records to document clinical services. There is growing concerns about how that technology is ultimately designed and deployed. The United States National Research Council advised that nationwide deployment of...
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...communicate effectively and quickly with every one of the officers at once. The officer team was alerted to one another’s complications or changes in planned projects. In the early days of introducing this form of communication Jabari encouraged the officer team to become more familiar with...
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