...What can we do about Antibiotic-Resistance Bacteria? After completing the assigned activity I learned that there were a few points of evidence that demonstrated the problem of antibiotic resistance. I also found recorded data of methods that have been successful in decreasing the number of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains and some methods that were not so successful. Since the 1930’s antibiotics have been administered to treat several types of infectious diseases. The unearthing discovery of antibiotics was a phenomenon. Death rates decreased by the thousands and there was hope for the people who would contract pneumonia or tuberculosis. However just like most happy stories there are trials and tribulations. One of the approaches that were unsuccessful was antibiotic rotation on resistance. The method was instead of prescribing of a steady prescription of antibiotics to an individual at a constant, the doctor could rotate the prescription of antibiotics on occasion. So in other words the patient would interchange between antibiotics sporadically. The trial experiment was two separate groups. The control group was prescribed a single antibiotic during a short visit at the hospital and the rotation group was prescribed three different antibiotics on an alternating basis. The idea was a great one, however it was also unsuccessful. The incidence of antibiotic-resistance bacteria was higher in the rotation than in the control group. Another approach that seemed...
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...What Can We Do with Our Environment? In the course of today’s situation regarding our environment and health welfare, it is indeed clear and unarguable that except nobody, we all must be concerned. The interconnections among all living and non-living elements in this planet satisfactorily satisfies the question “Why should I be concerned with the environment and health of other people?” Basically, people can leave with a poor and unhealthy environment, but believe me or not, they’ll die young; or should I say, WE’LL die young. Because in the context of today’s environmental and health situations, we undisputedly have unsatisfactory conditions of these. According to studies, about 50% of our forest lands have already been converted into commercial, residential, industrial and other purposes. Coastal resources have been suffering from the vast effects of Climate Change. I tell you, this isn’t a joke. Environmental issue is never a joke, because it can compromise huge things such as human lives. Millions of people die every year because of storms and typhoons. This can be accounted to the unstoppable flooding due to the deforestations that took huge number of trees in the mountains; resulting to the direct flow of water from mountain ridges to lowlands. Many people suffer from hunger because of continuously low catch of fish from the sea. This can be attributed to illegal fishing practices such as cyanide and dynamite fishing, which turns out to destroy the coral reefs and seagrass...
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...Cancan Li Professor Bald English 121 MA 2 What We Can Do More Than Service Cooperating with different people including college student volunteers and local neighbors living in the Capital Hill community, Seattle, I volunteered at Central Lutheran Church Community Lunch Program, which provides free meals three times a weak to nearby low-income and homeless people. Every early Tuesday morning, I worked to prepare food and set dining room before our guests’ coming. Many homeless people slept overnight near the church’s entrance and gathered in front of the transparent door at ten o’clock. Being locked out before the lunch was served, they spent more than two hours lying on the door and kept staring at people inside who were busy in the kitchen. Compared to people outside, each volunteer in that kitchen was under massive pressure because of not only the heavy work but also their stinging gaze on back. That is the first time I realized the homeless people’s participation in service work was necessary and inevitable for a successful and effective community service program. Most social programs owned by business or government hire trained faculties, admit part-time volunteers and very limited service beneficiaries, homeless people in this case, to keep service running. Service receivers are traditionally defined by incapacity of serving like patients on operating tables who do not probably take scalpels to open their own chests. This misconception wastes...
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...nothing but the best for them or to the children who push everything they want? It is a question that can be answered only when the right time comes. I am only thirty-two years old and already a mother to four kids. All of them are girls. I was only seventeen when I gave birth to my eldest Bernadette whom we fondly called Badette. She is now fourteen years old and in third year high school. I remember when she was still a baby, she was always sick. She got asthma when she was just eight months old. I barely had knowledge about taking care of a baby, a sick child for that matter, since I was very young then. It was hard for me those days. She never outgrew it but it rarely attacks now. During her childhood, taking care of her was easier. She was a very courteous girl and until now she is. She barely answers without “po” or “opo”. Until she was in grade school, I seldom encountered difficulty raising her. It was only when she entered high school that I started having a hard time coping with her. We always compromise on problems regarding her failing grades. But it happens only during the first grading period, she always makes up and never has a red after the first one. We always talk about the importance of education and that she should not disregard it for it is the only treasure that we can give her. She must set a good example for her younger sisters and if she would not obey us we might as well not send her to a private school. This is our compromising agreement. Talking about...
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...CTech airport one night. it was about midnight and we were waiting for our bags and waiting and waiting and I finally tweeted to Alaska Air because I know that they always respond to stuff online. I figured I'd hear in the morning.And I said I know you have a deal where if our bag takes longer than 20 minutes we get something cool what do we get because we've been here for way longer? Within two minutes, at midnight, someone from Alaska Air responded, and apologized, and explained what it was. And explained how I can go get it. Now as it turned out, this delay was not their fault, but you better believe that they made me into a real fan. Alaska Air really became, not only significant to me. But also just someone that I will go out and deliberately spread the word. So I became on of their group of the weird. And that's probably why when you go look on Facebook, Alaska Airlines whose you know a relatively small airline compared to some of the giants like United has 218,000 fans when most other airlines, the most popular pages they have. Are the ones with people complaining about them, so just keep that in mind.You can search actively for things to respond to. So you can take a look on Google, you can do a search and just change it so you're looking at the past 24 hours, that's what I'm doing in the slide here. And just search for your brand and see what people have said. You can use tools like Sprout Social.Which will let you do searches on your brand across multiple social networks...
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...Progress Report – Ben and Jerry’s Analysis Although we did not officially start our analysis, we have already distributed various tasks among the group members and established the deadlines so we don’t miss anything. The first thing that we will do in terms of analysis is to write down a brief description of Ben and Jerry’s current CSR practices. However, before that, we need to take a closer look to see whether the current practices of Ben and Jerry’s Portugal fit into the company’s global corporate strategy. In order to take that closer look, we sent an email to Ben and Jerry’s manager in Portugal so that, if possible, we could schedule a meeting to obtain more information about their CSR program, in special to be more specific than the website. This information will be extremely important not only to the description and the analysis, but also to give us a general overview of the problem. By now, we are waiting for an answer from their manger and we hope to have it by Wednesday the latest. We would also request a meeting with their marketing director to have more specific and actual insights. Data Collecting Additionally, we decided to modify our survey pool so that we do not have biased information, so our pool will not be only formed by college students, instead, we will diversify it by handing out surveys to a wider segment ranging from 15 to 35 years old, men and women, customers and non-customers of B&J. This change will allow us to have a more realistic sample...
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...Delivery issues to Canada due to paperwork with customs Team, as you know, we are having a grand opening for our new market in Canada, however, there are some issues we’re having with the shipment and delivery of items that are being delayed due to paperwork issues we’re having with customs. Since the grand opening is right around the corner, it’s imperative that all team members pull together to address these issues as soon as possible or this could cause many problems for us in this new market. It’s also just as important for the team to come up with ways that will afford us the ability to resolve these issues immediately so that we can continue to do business in this market. As the team leader, my main goal is to minimize the process of completing paperwork as much as possible as well as minimize the long amount of delivery time of our items. Since this is a new venture for us in this market, we all know how important it is for us to be able to deliver the items to our customers as scheduled and ahead of schedule, not behind schedule. With us being held up with the processing of more and more paperwork with customs, this could make it extremely different for us to thrive in this market and be able to attract new and additional customers as well as keep the ones we already have. I think in order for us to get ahead and/or resolve the issues we’re having we need to arrange a meeting as soon as possible so that we are able to put our heads together and come up with some good ideas...
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...DAUGHTERS by Paul Martin Great Projects Film Company 594 9th Avenue, 2cd Floor New York NY 10036 212 581 1700 HENRY’S DAUGHTERS SCRIPT – Version 7.0 - Page 1 of 25 1 MONTAGE OF PHOTOS 1 2 EXT. HENRY’S BOAT’S BRIDGE, DAY NARRATOR #2 This is Henry. He’s done well for himself - first as a professional engineer and now as a semiretired lobbyist for a select group of transportation companies. He lost his wife, the mother of his two daughters, to a heart attack when she was just fifty-five. 3 INT. STATE DOT, DAY NARRATOR #2 This is his elder daughter Laura. She’s close to her dad. She’s an engineer, with her professional engineer’s license, for the state department of transportation. The gossip at the DOT is that her quick rise has had more to do with her father’s connections than her skills. 4 INT. TEST GARAGE, DAY NARRATOR #2 This is Julie. She is eleven years younger than her sister. Henry tends to coddle her. Following the family into engineering by recently completing her degree, Julie has accepted a year-long contract with OUTOCAR. She’s going to be living with her sister while working at her first job. 5 EXT. HENRY’S BOAT, DAY NARRATOR #2 This, then, is the story of Henry and his daughters and the complications that arise as they all work - at different levels, on different tasks, and for different people - on the same project. 6 EXT. HENRY’S BOAT’S BRIDGE, SUNSET BOB Okay, guys. You’ve wined me and dined me. We’ve gone fishing. Now, tell me about this halfbaked pipe dream of...
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...thousand years ago, civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile, some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance,smelling of sheep shit, I guess, proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne, "We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you." And the Pharaoh replies, "Oh, no. You, your miserableness, have got to be kidding." And they say, "No, no, that's what it says here in our holy book." Cut to our century, same country, same pyramids, another people spreading the same ideaof equality with a different book. This time it's called the Facebook. Crowds are gathered in Tahrir Square. They turn a social network from virtual to actual, and kind of rebooted the 21st century. Not to undersell how messy and ugly the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been, neither to oversell the role of technology, but these things have given a sense of what's possible when the age-old model of power, the pyramid, gets turned upside down, putting the people on top and the pharaohs of today on the bottom, as it were. It's also shown us that something as powerful as information and the sharing of it can challenge inequality, because facts, like people, want to be free, and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner, even for the poorest of the poor -- facts that can challenge cynicism and the apathy that leads to inertia, facts that tell us...
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...as the fact that, I actually get to spend 9 hours with people I actually want to be around, how kiff is that? Not bragging or anything, but our school is way better than any mainstream school. Diana’s homeschooling academy has not only given me a sense of responsibility and independence in a way, but it’s also given me hope. A hope that one day I’ll be able to achieve great things, things that I would have never been able to discover in any other environment. This school has also given me the opportunity to start finding myself, the true me, not the me that teachers, students, parents (no offence mom and dad) have wanted me to be. This classroom. Damn where to start. This classroom has been an absolute privilege and blessing that we can only thank two people for, God and one of my greatest inspirations, Gerry. Going from a dark, cold garage to a small corner to this, has been a huge transformation, it has given it an even...
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...was taken Email that sarah Ortiz send me about the application pass it along so you can read it. She talks about that you don’t need to put anything on the application. Whatever notes or whatever you need to put on the application you need to put on onto Sirsi in the extended part under notes. No notes on the paper applications, not worth putting any extra notes on the paper application. There is no reason for anyone to write stored or any other notes on the registration form staff need only to insure form is completed with the requested info and signed by the customer and make sure there is only one account and data entry completed and new entry updated. Before customer leaves the desk any additional notes on form serve no purpose and are a waste of time for the library. January rd 3 email was sent out. Everybody understand that? Were passing it around so you can see. And then Mercedes sent me an email, they had sent previous and Virginia has about the applications too. it is mainly about the users whenever somebody pay for a, she had returned a book that was in collection, it still on her acct so I had to call central because on this email it says that we need to let know if we are going to waive some fines from collection because they need to update it at central. So they told me that the patron has to pay the 10 dollars even though that they returned the book, they did not use to do that we used to waive for the collection but now they have to pay for it. So they have to pay...
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...Martin Luther King, Jr. | | |3 April 1968 | |I’ve Been to the Mountaintop | |Memphis, Tenn. | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...organization to it. What was faced in the last days... by last days I mean the last days of civilization not life; itself. What was faced was hell. Everyone went ape shit insane. Everyone was killing and raping each other into oblivion, because we were under attack by creatures that was so beyond our understanding! Geez, there were many names given to these undead. Some called them demons, others called them lost souls. With all these names, I found only one that was truly worthy; Zombies. It was a simple word. At the same time it was the most complicated word to enter any human language. I mean just think about it... You say that word to anyone before the outbreak and what would they think of? They would, think of those horror movies or comic books where, for no reason what so ever, zombies appear all around the globe in an instance. That's not how it happened for us. There were signs for over two months. It's just that no one took the time to put the pieces together. I kind of did. I knew there was something more than what we were told about the riots and outbreaks, but I never even thought of the possibility that zombies were the cause of all our troubles. We were all caught off guard. You know, I never did believe that humanity deserved this. We have done... a great deal of horrible things to our own specie, our brothers and sisters....
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...What Can We Do About Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Giana Dominguez SCI 214 September 04, 2013 Gloria Young, PhD After reading the information in this assignment and looking at the plot values I honestly still do not understand everything that I read. So I will try to write this summary the best that I possibly can. What I understood from my reading was that antibiotics have been in development over the last eighty years. Antibiotics help fight infections we get from bacteria. Antibiotics come in different classes to fight multiple strains of a bacterial infection (Cummings). I also learned that over the years new antibiotic development has become slower. Over the last eighty years bacteria has become sort of built up immunity to some antibiotics. Not all infections can be treated with the same antibiotics. Sometimes a prescribed antibiotic does not cure an infection. I know this from my own personal experience. I had to have surgery. After the surgery I had gotten an infection and was given an antibiotic. The infection I had was resistant to the type of antibiotic that I was given. The antibiotic actually made my infection worse. The symptoms I felt at the beginning of my infection caused me so much more pain. I had to be put on a different class of antibiotic. The second antibiotic I was given was stronger and it was hopefully supposed to cure my infection. The new antibiotic cured the infection I had gotten but I had developed another infection and had to be put on...
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...(Eva glances at the door with longing, then kicks the chair over. The door falls, the INSPECTOR gasps and rushes over to her and gets her down. Oh my God! Eva! (cradles her head), are you okay? Here you need some water, (he rushes out and comes back with water, then helps her to drink it). EVA (splutters with difficulty and wheezyness) How did you know I was here? INSPECTOR I heard from old Jack, he said you were acting strange and depressed for the last few days, then you went to him to buy some rope, so I feared the worst. Anyway, why would you want to do this, you’ve got so much left to live for. EVA Do I? Do I really, because these past few months my life has just been going nowhere, down the drain. I just don’t see the point in living if this is me damned life. INSPECTOR No no, don’t think like that, tell me about it, I could help. EVA No there’s no point, (on the verge of sobbing) there’s nothing you can do. INSPECTOR Don’t think like that, I could help sort your life out, so come on tell me whats been going on. EVA Well it started nearly two years ago, working in a machine shop for a chap named Arthur Birling I was. Been there for nigh on a year. Me and the...
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