CS 280 Week 1 Assignment

The Legislative Branch has the job of creating bills, which are later given back and forth to the House of Representatives and the Senate, then hopefully to the president to become a law. When I studied bills that were in session by representatives, I found that most of the bills created never became laws. This happens often because community representatives and senators have difficulties agreeing on bills. I also noticed that Representatives were not frequent at creating bills based on the issues they cover. For instance, the Representative for the 63133 District of Missouri, Lacy Clay, sponsored the H.R.3683 bill, which was only introduced and was last altered November 20, 2015. The H.R.3683 focuses on getting programs that exemplify the

When one or more persons contract with a woman to gestate a child than relinquish that child after birth to the person or couple is known as surrogacy. It is a course of action that goes outside of natural reproduction. For some, it is the only method of having children, extending family. Surrogacy has been stirring up many controversies over the years. Ethics, morals, laws, religious views, etc. have played a major role in the issues that follow the topic of surrogacy. Laws and regulations pertaining to surrogacy vary from state to state. Some states have no enforceable laws

Before diving directly into the article from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) titled Governments to Report Liabilities Connected with Their Obligations to Clean Up Pollution (2006), one must first take a step back and take time to read, comprehend, and take to heart exactly what this organization stands for. Taken directly from their main web page under the tab labeled Education, the first thing seen in big, bold, blue letters is, “Due Process: The GASB Is Listening” followed by a definition of what listening means, “to hear with thoughtful attention”. When researching a little more into the GASB, it is easy to see how crucial listening truly is for them in order to fully accomplish their

I hope you are having a great summer. I’m ready for the fall semester and working on getting all of my classes in order for this upcoming semester. My goal is get admitted at the W.P. Caret school of business, to do so I need to submit a transferred student portfolio, a resume and two recommendation letters .in the portfolio I will need to have taken specific classes I was able to finish all the needed classes with grades B and better. However, I still need to take ACC 230 OR ACC211 AND ALSO ACC 240 OR 212. They don’t have to be in succession so I enrolled in ACC 230 like I did with you last semester and would like you to approve my enrollment in ACC 212 with Rhonda Culver class number 24233 as my first preference or Andrew Hamilton ACC 240

I had an intuition that the managers and leaders would score higher than other employees. Three leaders were assessed within our department and their scoring ranged from 99-112. There was an outlier score of 115 from an executive assistant and wondered if they really felt the way they answered or wanted to score better? However, after I thought about it, she is an executive assistant to the Chief Medical Officer who is now an Executive Vice President so she may have a very knowledgeable understanding of our strategic mission. Four employees scored 67-91, who are lower level status employees. According to ISO (n.d.) organizations need to encourage and involve employees because they are a critical to producing and providing value. I believe

In 1994, the New York City Police Department adopted a law enforcement crime fighting strategy known as COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics). COMPSTAT uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of where crimes occur, identify “ hotspots”, and map problem areas. COMPSTAT has amassed a wealth of historical crime data. Mathematicians have designed and developed algorithms that run against the historical data to predict future crimes for police departments. This is known as predictive policing. Predictive policing has led to a drop in burglaries, automobile thefts, and other crimes in some cities.

5. The discharge of all toxic chemicals, other wastes like sewage from ships, oily wastes, plastics and other forms of non-biodegradable rubbish should be strictly regulated and prohibited.

The year 2011 may be remembered as the year when sailors started thinking differently about copper. After centuries of relying on toxic metals to ward off growth on the bottoms of boats, sailors are awakening to a new era of environmental consequences, greater regulation, and breakthroughs in science and paint technology. Generally, antifouling paints contain at least one biocide, an ingredient capable of poisoning marine life that would cling to the hull, but getting these toxins to work usually requires either friction or a chemical reaction. Florida has found 160 miles of estuaries contaminated with copper,

The Coast Guard regulations outline equipment and procedures to reduce unnecessary bulk cargo from spilling (USCG). Though these regulations aim at preventing avoidable cargo spills; accidents out of a crew's control can happen. Sometimes a ship in rough water loses part of its cargo as a wave sweeps across an open cargo hold. Others times a ship offloading misses the dock machinery collecting the cargo and some of the cargo spills into the water. Vis versa a ship loading floats away from the dock (because a mooring line breaks) or rocks do to wave action, causing a fuel line to snap. On the other hand a majority of cargo and fuel dumping occurs on purpose. Ships on the Great Lakes cannot allow their dry cargos to mix so the Coast Guard created a policy where a ship's deck must be ‘broom clean’, meaning any cargo remaining on deck after an on/offload considered safe gets washed off the deck (USCG). The Coast Guard believes the practice meets all environmental standards and their intentions mean well, but to no avail. The let down on this practice lies with the shipping companies who take advantage of the Coast Guard. The companies dump toxic materials into the lakes including miscellaneous garbage thrown overboard by crew members and release dirty oil with little thought of consequence (USCG). The Coast Guard does not have the technology available to enforce the

Other measure can also be taken to prevent the introduction of species, such as regulation of the ballast water and hull fouling as well as prevention of aquarium introductions (Pejchar and Mooney, 2009). However, to be more successful, I think it is important for extensive research to be taken so that effective techniques can be used in the eradication of invasive species. It has been a slow process to recognize the adversity caused by marine invasive species due to the lack or information/awareness, as well as the impact it could possibly have on commercial value globally (Hewitt et al. 2009). Thus, to be most impactful, there has to be increased awareness world wide regarding the effect of marine invasive species. As well, increased funding

Hull coatings may have other functions in addition to their anti-fouling properties, such as acting as a barrier against corrosion on metal hulls, or improving the flow of water past the hull of a fishing vessel or high-performance racing yacht. These functions may be very helpful to boaters but the effect on the environment but it still maintains its negative affect. Affects have been so bad some ports banned bottom paints. For example, The Port of San Diego has banned copper-based paints. Copper-based anti-fouling paints used to prevent marine growth from attaching to the hulls of recreational boats have created high levels of copper in San Diego Bay. “The plan is to reduce the copper levels in advance of regulatory requirements set by the Regional and State Water Quality Control Boards” the port says.

To discuss the relation among shipping, the environment, and sustainable development, it is useful to define certain terminology. The main focus of shipping is on commercial ships, although many of the emissions, impacts and measures are common to other sectors, such as leisure, research, and fishing. The different regulations also require definitions of a ship. Different definitions exist, although according to the glossary of the US Navy, a “boat” usually refers to small vessels that are often open, whereas “ships” are vessels of considerable size that are intended for deep-water navigation. A ship can also be defined by its size: vessels longer than 12 m and wider than 4 m are referred to as ships, and smaller vessels are known as boats. Common ship types can be identified according to their type of use:

Ballast water is used every day by thousands of ships to control trim, stability, list and the stresses of the vessel. Ballast water is picked up in one part of the world but then can be discharged in another, in doing this the transfer of non-indigenous invasive aquatic species can occur. These species end up destroying ecosystems that they are not originally a part of. Therefore many standards and regulations have come about in how to exchanging ballast so as to reduce the transfer of these species. To comply with these regulations ships and ship owners have installed onboard their vessels different types of systems to eliminate these aquatic species. Not only do these system need to be ecofriendly but they must also but other considerations that must be taken into account when installing a ballast system is the size of the system and ease of installation, cost effectiveness, environmentally friendly and effectiveness of eliminating the aquatic species. Many of the leading companies that create these systems make them compact, easy to install and to make sure that all operational requirements are met to help minimize ship yard time.

ENVIRONMENTAL – Increased awareness on issues of global warming and energy consumption has re-directed world’s attention. As a result many shipping companies are trying to be more environmental friendly. Policies have been passed by Organisations i.e. Ballast water and low Sulfur fuel.

Although the industry is beneficial from a life-cycle assessment point of view, over the years it has gravitated toward countries with low labor costs, weak regulations on occupational safety, and limited environmental enforcement. The “global shift” in the industry to countries with comparatively weaker regulatory systems is of particular concern as ships contain many hazards that can have significant detrimental effects on humans and the environment if not dealt with properly.