Eighteen particular situations three careers that required versatility, initiative, and innovation to benefit the mission, the end-user, or the organization.
This is the slide deck we used at our <a>NM News Port</a> retreat. If you are curious about how journalism schools can step up their game, check it out.
It tells the backstory of our innovation/collaboration news lab at UNM. There's data and samples showing our amazing success... and info on where we're heading next. It ends with a capture of the brainstorming we did around four key questions.
A brief look at the capabilities of The Wilbert Group, an Atlanta-based communications firm, combining traditional PR with new-school social and digital programs. Wilbert has two practice areas: real estate and corporate/professional services.
This is the slide deck we used at our <a>NM News Port</a> retreat. If you are curious about how journalism schools can step up their game, check it out.
It tells the backstory of our innovation/collaboration news lab at UNM. There's data and samples showing our amazing success... and info on where we're heading next. It ends with a capture of the brainstorming we did around four key questions.
A brief look at the capabilities of The Wilbert Group, an Atlanta-based communications firm, combining traditional PR with new-school social and digital programs. Wilbert has two practice areas: real estate and corporate/professional services.
An overview of the U.S. Navy Emerging Media program presented by Jason Kelly and Sandy Gall at the CHINFO Virtual Symposium on July 16, 2013. It discusses social media today, the evolution of U.S. Navy social media, CHINFO’s use of social and emerging media, best practices for Navy commands, and how Navy Media Content Services can help public affairs officers and mass communication specialists.
Key Assignment #1As a group, come to a consensus and select a comm.docxVinaOconner450
Key Assignment #1
As a group, come to a consensus and select a community within the United States that one of the group members had addressed in his or her risk profile assignment. Using the community that you have selected, pick 1 of the hazards that was identified in the community’s risk profile, and write a
hazard-specific emergency response plan
that includes the following components.
Assignment Guidelines
As a group, address the following in 1,500–1,750 words:
Who will comprise your planning committee? Explain.
Identify public and private sector partner agencies and elected officials (if any) that should serve on the planning committee.
What are the component parts of the plan (be specific and detailed)? Explain.
What participating agencies may be more or less involved in which parts of the plan development? Explain.
Are there subject matter experts (SMEs) or other entities that should be involved in any one specific area of the plan development? Explain.
Based upon the emergency management concept of incident management that includes the phases of preparedness/mitigation, response, and recovery, identify the actions that will need to be taken in each phase as they relate to the hazard you have selected.
Identify the major challenges that the community and responders will encounter when responding to the hazard.
What solutions exist (e.g., mutual aid, contract services) to overcome those challenges? Explain in detail.
What should be the short- and long-term recovery goals of the community following this event’s occurrence?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
You must decide as a group how you will divide up responsibilities for drafting this plan.
I.
Title Page
II.
Executive Summary
III.
Table of Contents
IV.
Background
V.
Purpose
VI.
Communications Plan
A.
Interagency/Interoperable communications systems
B.
Language Usage
C.
Property, Procurement, and Budgeting
D.
Human Resources: Hiring of Maintenance Personnel
E.
Electrical Continuity of Operations Plan (Power Loss)
VII.
Recruitment , Retention, and Training of the Public Spokesperson
A.
Purpose
B.
Qualifications, Roles, and Responsibility
C.
Challenges
D.
Media
VIII.
Dissemination of Public Information
A.
Methods of disseminating information
B.
Restrictions on Release of Information
IX.
Conclusions
A.
What complications will be faced regarding working and communicating with an
ethnically diverse population? Explain.
B.
What complications will be faced regarding working and communicating with
military personnel, aircraft, and ships? Explain.
X.
Recommendations
XI.
Bibliography
XII.
References
XIII.
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Key Assignment #2
Ocean Port is a major seaport and shipping city with approximately 150 miles of open ocean waterway to the east. The socioeconomic and ethnically diverse population approximating 825,000 people forms a community of mixed occupations, businesses, and financial and shopping cente.
Unit III Case StudyWater Outage ScenarioFor this assignment, s.docxmarilucorr
Unit III Case Study
Water Outage Scenario
For this assignment, students are required to answer questions about the scenario below.
You are the president of a university with an enrollment of 10,000 students. On Tuesday at 8:15 am, facility management has informed you that a major water main break has occurred outside of your main campus building near the site of a newly constructed research building. Law enforcement is also on scene as this situation is suspected to be an eco-terror attack.
Found spray painted on the wall was the following message: “Experiment on yourselves. This is your last warning.” As a result of this water main break, the following situations have developed:
· There is no water on the main campus and in the five large dormitories that house 2,000 students.
· The water main break impacts the HVAC cooling system and the data center for the campus.
· All building services, such as toilets, drinking water, water suppression systems, and dining facilities, are out of water.
· The damage is extensive, and it is going to take 36 hours for the water company to fix the damage.
· Due to the lack of water, the buildings must be closed per the health department’s health codes.
· Security and facilities management personnel will need to stay onsite to perform fire watch for the buildings and to escort the utility workers in and out of the facilities.
· Security will also be assisting law enforcement in their investigation at the crime scene.
· The data center will not be staffed.
· No other students and staff can stay in the facilities.
· The students living in dormitories will require some type of temporary housing.
· The students on meal cards will require meals.
· The university will have to determine makeup policies for missed classes.
Review what you have learned about the purpose of the Planning “P” incident action plan (IAP), and Incident Command System (ICS) forms. Then, based on the scenario above, determine how you would address the following issues by answering the following question:
1. Assess the situation.
a. Would this situation require an activation of the university’s ICS? Why?
b. Would this situation require an IAP? Why?
2. Develop initial strategies.
a. What are the incident priorities?
b. Create three SMART (specific, measureable, achievable, realistic, time-phased) objectives.
3. Assign resources to the SMART objectives.
a. Are there resource restraints that the university may have for this incident?
4. Determine the next operational period.
a. What is the operational period: 8 hours, 10 hours, or 12 hours?
b. When should the next operational period begin, and why?
5. Determine which ICS forms should be used to complete the IAP for the university.
a. What ICS forms should be used to complete the IAP for the university?
b. Why did you choose these forms?
Your paper should consist of no less than two pages, not counting the title page and reference page. All citations and references used should be formatted using A ...
The Tsunami Online Portal Blueprint is the final project report for the course "Designing New Learning Environments" from Stanford University, thaught by Prof. Dr. Paul Kim.
The TOP Blueprints have been updated (2013/04/17).
In 2009 Angelou Economics, an economic development consultancy based in Austin Texas, was commissioned to study Cleveland’s Health and Technology Corridor. This report sets out an action plan with strategies on how to most effectively market the Health Tech Corridor and has served as the basis for many of the subsequent programs and policies that focus on further developing the Corridor.
Outliers Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. Outliers: The Story of Success Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Outliers summary essay examples - maybankperdanntest.web.fc2.com. Free Online Essay Sample on «Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell» in the .... Outliers Part 7. Outlier Example from Textbook - YouTube. Outliers Book Review Essay - Gladwell Com : Essay about outliers book .... Outliers Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts. I Am an Outlier Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Outliers Synthesis (Research) Essay | TpT. Practical Intelligence in Outliers Free Essay Example. Excerpt 1 Outliers. A Complete Guide on How To Write a Winning Scholarship Essay | Outlier. Outliers essay - Opt for 100% Authentic Reports with Expert Academic .... 10 Study Questions of higher quality and "common core ready" on .... Outliers - Essay Outline.docx - Name: Samara Valdez Period: 1 Outliers .... Outliers Argument Prompts; AP Language and Composition by Laurie Ranum. Outliers - Introduction (A Reading). Amazing Grade My Essay ~ Thatsnotus. Outlier Methods external - PDF Archive. ⇉Outlier Written by Malcolm Gladwell Essay Example | GraduateWay. The Trouble With Geniuses: Part II from Outliers Essay. Outliers Book Summary with 20 Lessons by Malcolm Gladwell and PDF file. Stand and Deliver and Outlier Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... The outliers chapter 3 summary - uirunisaza.web.fc2.com. AP Lang outliers argument essay - What Truly is an Outlier? The book .... Outliers Book Review Report/ Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... Introduction - Outliers Essay. Outliers essay by far93planwind - Issuu. Outliers by Jenny Broder. LeeAnn Burcham' Digital Portfilio. Outliers Argument Prompts; AP Language and Composition | Ap language ... Outliers Essay
Lecture 4- Technology, Innovation and Great Power CompetitionStanford University
Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition,TIGPC, Gordian knot Center, DIME-FIL, department of defense, dod, hacking for defense, intlpol 340, joe felter, ms&e296, raj shah, stanford, Steve blank, semiconductors, china, applied materials
Model presented local innovation leaders to pool resources to place Tijuana's emerging ecosystem in front of investors across the Americas (targeting Canada, Chile and Colombia), Asia (targeting South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore), the Middle East (the U.A.E., Jordan and Israël) as well as the European Union (targeting Scandinavia, C.H., and BeNeLux).
Financial Education - Financial Literacy Project in the Russian FederationEconomicEducator.eu
Zoran Anusic, World Bank, presentation from the workshop launching the Financial Education Financial Literacy Program in the Russian Federation, Moscow, April 4, 2011
Topic The topic for your project is based on current literature.docxcandycemidgley
Topic
: The topic for your project is based on current literature and you are to
:
Create the necessary documents to organize, plan and complete a project based on the Colorado Springs Welcome Home Parade Case
PMI
®
Case Study
COLORADO SPRINGS WELCOME HOME PARADE:
Project Management Helps Welcome the Troops Home
With a short amount of time and limited budget, the city of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, USA, planned a parade to welcome home troops
returning from Iraq. The parade was perhaps the largest in Colorado
Spring’s history, and the largest celebration of its kind in the county.
Using project management competencies found in PMI’s de facto guide
to the project management profession,
A Guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge
(
PMBOK
®
Guide
)—Third Edition, the
project team planned and executed the parade successfully in spite of
limited time and budget.
Background
Colorado Springs is home to multiple branches of the military and six
major bases, including Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy. The
town decided to plan a welcome home parade for its soldiers who had
been deployed to Iraq. Around 11,000 troops had been sent to Iraq for
year-long rotations, and were to return in March 2004.
The parade was scheduled for 5 June 2004. All floats and participants
were required to have a patriotic theme. Multiple teams came together
to plan the event.
The project management team was lead by O’Donnell & O’Donnell LLP,
which had experience with parade planning in addition to fundraising,
which would prove to be an important part of this project.
The City Council of Colorado Springs also donated city resources and
personnel to the project, including the assistant city manager, who
was the main link between the city and the project team. Providing the
team with daily access to city officials ensured key communication
throughout the project.
In addition to the project team, the city also established a
management team committee, composed of stakeholders and
representatives from each local military base. These two teams met
regularly to give status reports, offer or ask for assistance, and
determine the next steps in the project. This open forum for
communication fostered a greater understanding for each party’s role
in the project and what the end result would be. All high level changes
were made by the committee, while the detail changes were made by
the project team.
Challenges
The two major challenges of this project were the lack of money to
fund the parade and the limited timeframe to complete the project.
Security and safety also stood as risks to the event.
The project team faced the challenge of raising all funds for the
parade, as the city could not finance the event. The event budget and
reimbursement for their services would come only from the donations
and sponsorship money raised. The city capped the fee amount
O’Donnell & O’Donnell could charge them, and also established a
...
ver the past four weeks you’ve had the opportunity to create a cla.docxdickonsondorris
ver the past four weeks you’ve had the opportunity to create a classroom environment that supports the foundations of differentiated instruction (DI), brainstorm differentiated strategies that align with the Common Core State Standards, and create the foundation for a unit plan based that incorporates instructional technology while adhering to UDL and DI principles.
This week you will use what you’ve learned to create a summative assessment for the unit plan you created, using one of the strategies from your PLC blog, and with the classroom environment you’ve outlined in Week Two.
This summative assessment must include:
1. Common Core State Standard being assessed for mastery (it can be the same one you used in Week Four’s assignment).
2. A unit goal that aligns with the Common Core State Standard:
The students will (Measurable Verb) by (A specific outcome with a specific tool) with ___% accuracy.
· Measurable – How will mastery be measured? (e.g.: Classify, discriminate, create, construct, defend, predict, evaluate, etc…). Be sure to avoid subjective words such as know, understand, learn, or appreciate.
· A specific outcome – what will students do to demonstrate mastery? (e.g.: skill or knowledge that has been gained to as a result of this unit).
· Measurable progress – What tool will be used to measure mastery (e.g.: project, journal, test, etc.)
· Proficiency Level – What is an acceptable level of achievement to demonstrate mastery?
3. Three Formative Assessments – Using the three day lesson plan outline from the unit plan, create a formative assessment for each day that:
· A unique differentiated teaching strategy for each day’s lesson.
· Addresses multiple intelligences.
· Considers student’s different learning styles.
· Explains how the assessment results will be used to drive instruction.
4. Summative Assessment: Using the summative assessment outline from the unit plan, create a summative assessment that appraises mastery of the Common Core State Standard and the Unit Objective. It must include:
· Directions to complete the assessment written using vocabulary and terms geared towards your identified student population.
· A rubric that clearly details how each part of the assignment will be graded.
· Addresses multiple intelligences and various learning styles.
The assignment should be a minimum of five pages in length and must include reference to the course text and one additional research (scholarly article or online resource) in creating the formative/summative assessment. The assignment must be cited in proper APA format. A title and reference page must be included.
US History
Problem 1:
Explain how events such as the Vietnam War and Watergate affected the American public’s opinion of the U.S. government.
You must complete all three parts of the assignment.
Part 1:
Read the question above and write down what you think the question is asking in your own words.(250-300 words)
Part 2:
Use an Internet ...
Counter Terrorism Training Center proposed to Department of Defense and Chris Grollnek testified before Senate on needs of Counter Terrorism Training program.
Annotated album of a week-end spent in Kharkiv, Ukraine in late June 2022. Very Eurasian; different from Kyiv. ¡But 111% Ukrainian!
Many young people came from Western Ukraine, more European, to aid their Eurasian brethren under attack.
¡Magnificent!
¡Bravò, Ukraine!
An overview of the U.S. Navy Emerging Media program presented by Jason Kelly and Sandy Gall at the CHINFO Virtual Symposium on July 16, 2013. It discusses social media today, the evolution of U.S. Navy social media, CHINFO’s use of social and emerging media, best practices for Navy commands, and how Navy Media Content Services can help public affairs officers and mass communication specialists.
Key Assignment #1As a group, come to a consensus and select a comm.docxVinaOconner450
Key Assignment #1
As a group, come to a consensus and select a community within the United States that one of the group members had addressed in his or her risk profile assignment. Using the community that you have selected, pick 1 of the hazards that was identified in the community’s risk profile, and write a
hazard-specific emergency response plan
that includes the following components.
Assignment Guidelines
As a group, address the following in 1,500–1,750 words:
Who will comprise your planning committee? Explain.
Identify public and private sector partner agencies and elected officials (if any) that should serve on the planning committee.
What are the component parts of the plan (be specific and detailed)? Explain.
What participating agencies may be more or less involved in which parts of the plan development? Explain.
Are there subject matter experts (SMEs) or other entities that should be involved in any one specific area of the plan development? Explain.
Based upon the emergency management concept of incident management that includes the phases of preparedness/mitigation, response, and recovery, identify the actions that will need to be taken in each phase as they relate to the hazard you have selected.
Identify the major challenges that the community and responders will encounter when responding to the hazard.
What solutions exist (e.g., mutual aid, contract services) to overcome those challenges? Explain in detail.
What should be the short- and long-term recovery goals of the community following this event’s occurrence?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
You must decide as a group how you will divide up responsibilities for drafting this plan.
I.
Title Page
II.
Executive Summary
III.
Table of Contents
IV.
Background
V.
Purpose
VI.
Communications Plan
A.
Interagency/Interoperable communications systems
B.
Language Usage
C.
Property, Procurement, and Budgeting
D.
Human Resources: Hiring of Maintenance Personnel
E.
Electrical Continuity of Operations Plan (Power Loss)
VII.
Recruitment , Retention, and Training of the Public Spokesperson
A.
Purpose
B.
Qualifications, Roles, and Responsibility
C.
Challenges
D.
Media
VIII.
Dissemination of Public Information
A.
Methods of disseminating information
B.
Restrictions on Release of Information
IX.
Conclusions
A.
What complications will be faced regarding working and communicating with an
ethnically diverse population? Explain.
B.
What complications will be faced regarding working and communicating with
military personnel, aircraft, and ships? Explain.
X.
Recommendations
XI.
Bibliography
XII.
References
XIII.
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Key Assignment #2
Ocean Port is a major seaport and shipping city with approximately 150 miles of open ocean waterway to the east. The socioeconomic and ethnically diverse population approximating 825,000 people forms a community of mixed occupations, businesses, and financial and shopping cente.
Unit III Case StudyWater Outage ScenarioFor this assignment, s.docxmarilucorr
Unit III Case Study
Water Outage Scenario
For this assignment, students are required to answer questions about the scenario below.
You are the president of a university with an enrollment of 10,000 students. On Tuesday at 8:15 am, facility management has informed you that a major water main break has occurred outside of your main campus building near the site of a newly constructed research building. Law enforcement is also on scene as this situation is suspected to be an eco-terror attack.
Found spray painted on the wall was the following message: “Experiment on yourselves. This is your last warning.” As a result of this water main break, the following situations have developed:
· There is no water on the main campus and in the five large dormitories that house 2,000 students.
· The water main break impacts the HVAC cooling system and the data center for the campus.
· All building services, such as toilets, drinking water, water suppression systems, and dining facilities, are out of water.
· The damage is extensive, and it is going to take 36 hours for the water company to fix the damage.
· Due to the lack of water, the buildings must be closed per the health department’s health codes.
· Security and facilities management personnel will need to stay onsite to perform fire watch for the buildings and to escort the utility workers in and out of the facilities.
· Security will also be assisting law enforcement in their investigation at the crime scene.
· The data center will not be staffed.
· No other students and staff can stay in the facilities.
· The students living in dormitories will require some type of temporary housing.
· The students on meal cards will require meals.
· The university will have to determine makeup policies for missed classes.
Review what you have learned about the purpose of the Planning “P” incident action plan (IAP), and Incident Command System (ICS) forms. Then, based on the scenario above, determine how you would address the following issues by answering the following question:
1. Assess the situation.
a. Would this situation require an activation of the university’s ICS? Why?
b. Would this situation require an IAP? Why?
2. Develop initial strategies.
a. What are the incident priorities?
b. Create three SMART (specific, measureable, achievable, realistic, time-phased) objectives.
3. Assign resources to the SMART objectives.
a. Are there resource restraints that the university may have for this incident?
4. Determine the next operational period.
a. What is the operational period: 8 hours, 10 hours, or 12 hours?
b. When should the next operational period begin, and why?
5. Determine which ICS forms should be used to complete the IAP for the university.
a. What ICS forms should be used to complete the IAP for the university?
b. Why did you choose these forms?
Your paper should consist of no less than two pages, not counting the title page and reference page. All citations and references used should be formatted using A ...
The Tsunami Online Portal Blueprint is the final project report for the course "Designing New Learning Environments" from Stanford University, thaught by Prof. Dr. Paul Kim.
The TOP Blueprints have been updated (2013/04/17).
In 2009 Angelou Economics, an economic development consultancy based in Austin Texas, was commissioned to study Cleveland’s Health and Technology Corridor. This report sets out an action plan with strategies on how to most effectively market the Health Tech Corridor and has served as the basis for many of the subsequent programs and policies that focus on further developing the Corridor.
Outliers Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. Outliers: The Story of Success Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Outliers summary essay examples - maybankperdanntest.web.fc2.com. Free Online Essay Sample on «Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell» in the .... Outliers Part 7. Outlier Example from Textbook - YouTube. Outliers Book Review Essay - Gladwell Com : Essay about outliers book .... Outliers Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts. I Am an Outlier Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Outliers Synthesis (Research) Essay | TpT. Practical Intelligence in Outliers Free Essay Example. Excerpt 1 Outliers. A Complete Guide on How To Write a Winning Scholarship Essay | Outlier. Outliers essay - Opt for 100% Authentic Reports with Expert Academic .... 10 Study Questions of higher quality and "common core ready" on .... Outliers - Essay Outline.docx - Name: Samara Valdez Period: 1 Outliers .... Outliers Argument Prompts; AP Language and Composition by Laurie Ranum. Outliers - Introduction (A Reading). Amazing Grade My Essay ~ Thatsnotus. Outlier Methods external - PDF Archive. ⇉Outlier Written by Malcolm Gladwell Essay Example | GraduateWay. The Trouble With Geniuses: Part II from Outliers Essay. Outliers Book Summary with 20 Lessons by Malcolm Gladwell and PDF file. Stand and Deliver and Outlier Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... The outliers chapter 3 summary - uirunisaza.web.fc2.com. AP Lang outliers argument essay - What Truly is an Outlier? The book .... Outliers Book Review Report/ Example | Topics and Well Written Essays .... Introduction - Outliers Essay. Outliers essay by far93planwind - Issuu. Outliers by Jenny Broder. LeeAnn Burcham' Digital Portfilio. Outliers Argument Prompts; AP Language and Composition | Ap language ... Outliers Essay
Lecture 4- Technology, Innovation and Great Power CompetitionStanford University
Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition,TIGPC, Gordian knot Center, DIME-FIL, department of defense, dod, hacking for defense, intlpol 340, joe felter, ms&e296, raj shah, stanford, Steve blank, semiconductors, china, applied materials
Model presented local innovation leaders to pool resources to place Tijuana's emerging ecosystem in front of investors across the Americas (targeting Canada, Chile and Colombia), Asia (targeting South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore), the Middle East (the U.A.E., Jordan and Israël) as well as the European Union (targeting Scandinavia, C.H., and BeNeLux).
Financial Education - Financial Literacy Project in the Russian FederationEconomicEducator.eu
Zoran Anusic, World Bank, presentation from the workshop launching the Financial Education Financial Literacy Program in the Russian Federation, Moscow, April 4, 2011
Topic The topic for your project is based on current literature.docxcandycemidgley
Topic
: The topic for your project is based on current literature and you are to
:
Create the necessary documents to organize, plan and complete a project based on the Colorado Springs Welcome Home Parade Case
PMI
®
Case Study
COLORADO SPRINGS WELCOME HOME PARADE:
Project Management Helps Welcome the Troops Home
With a short amount of time and limited budget, the city of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, USA, planned a parade to welcome home troops
returning from Iraq. The parade was perhaps the largest in Colorado
Spring’s history, and the largest celebration of its kind in the county.
Using project management competencies found in PMI’s de facto guide
to the project management profession,
A Guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge
(
PMBOK
®
Guide
)—Third Edition, the
project team planned and executed the parade successfully in spite of
limited time and budget.
Background
Colorado Springs is home to multiple branches of the military and six
major bases, including Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy. The
town decided to plan a welcome home parade for its soldiers who had
been deployed to Iraq. Around 11,000 troops had been sent to Iraq for
year-long rotations, and were to return in March 2004.
The parade was scheduled for 5 June 2004. All floats and participants
were required to have a patriotic theme. Multiple teams came together
to plan the event.
The project management team was lead by O’Donnell & O’Donnell LLP,
which had experience with parade planning in addition to fundraising,
which would prove to be an important part of this project.
The City Council of Colorado Springs also donated city resources and
personnel to the project, including the assistant city manager, who
was the main link between the city and the project team. Providing the
team with daily access to city officials ensured key communication
throughout the project.
In addition to the project team, the city also established a
management team committee, composed of stakeholders and
representatives from each local military base. These two teams met
regularly to give status reports, offer or ask for assistance, and
determine the next steps in the project. This open forum for
communication fostered a greater understanding for each party’s role
in the project and what the end result would be. All high level changes
were made by the committee, while the detail changes were made by
the project team.
Challenges
The two major challenges of this project were the lack of money to
fund the parade and the limited timeframe to complete the project.
Security and safety also stood as risks to the event.
The project team faced the challenge of raising all funds for the
parade, as the city could not finance the event. The event budget and
reimbursement for their services would come only from the donations
and sponsorship money raised. The city capped the fee amount
O’Donnell & O’Donnell could charge them, and also established a
...
ver the past four weeks you’ve had the opportunity to create a cla.docxdickonsondorris
ver the past four weeks you’ve had the opportunity to create a classroom environment that supports the foundations of differentiated instruction (DI), brainstorm differentiated strategies that align with the Common Core State Standards, and create the foundation for a unit plan based that incorporates instructional technology while adhering to UDL and DI principles.
This week you will use what you’ve learned to create a summative assessment for the unit plan you created, using one of the strategies from your PLC blog, and with the classroom environment you’ve outlined in Week Two.
This summative assessment must include:
1. Common Core State Standard being assessed for mastery (it can be the same one you used in Week Four’s assignment).
2. A unit goal that aligns with the Common Core State Standard:
The students will (Measurable Verb) by (A specific outcome with a specific tool) with ___% accuracy.
· Measurable – How will mastery be measured? (e.g.: Classify, discriminate, create, construct, defend, predict, evaluate, etc…). Be sure to avoid subjective words such as know, understand, learn, or appreciate.
· A specific outcome – what will students do to demonstrate mastery? (e.g.: skill or knowledge that has been gained to as a result of this unit).
· Measurable progress – What tool will be used to measure mastery (e.g.: project, journal, test, etc.)
· Proficiency Level – What is an acceptable level of achievement to demonstrate mastery?
3. Three Formative Assessments – Using the three day lesson plan outline from the unit plan, create a formative assessment for each day that:
· A unique differentiated teaching strategy for each day’s lesson.
· Addresses multiple intelligences.
· Considers student’s different learning styles.
· Explains how the assessment results will be used to drive instruction.
4. Summative Assessment: Using the summative assessment outline from the unit plan, create a summative assessment that appraises mastery of the Common Core State Standard and the Unit Objective. It must include:
· Directions to complete the assessment written using vocabulary and terms geared towards your identified student population.
· A rubric that clearly details how each part of the assignment will be graded.
· Addresses multiple intelligences and various learning styles.
The assignment should be a minimum of five pages in length and must include reference to the course text and one additional research (scholarly article or online resource) in creating the formative/summative assessment. The assignment must be cited in proper APA format. A title and reference page must be included.
US History
Problem 1:
Explain how events such as the Vietnam War and Watergate affected the American public’s opinion of the U.S. government.
You must complete all three parts of the assignment.
Part 1:
Read the question above and write down what you think the question is asking in your own words.(250-300 words)
Part 2:
Use an Internet ...
Counter Terrorism Training Center proposed to Department of Defense and Chris Grollnek testified before Senate on needs of Counter Terrorism Training program.
Annotated album of a week-end spent in Kharkiv, Ukraine in late June 2022. Very Eurasian; different from Kyiv. ¡But 111% Ukrainian!
Many young people came from Western Ukraine, more European, to aid their Eurasian brethren under attack.
¡Magnificent!
¡Bravò, Ukraine!
Photo-stack of digital collages from a w/e spent waking around Odesa, Ukraine in early July 2022.
¡What a magnificent city!
¡What a magnificent people!
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A joint Directors and Officers as well as Errors and Omissions policy outline for hedge funds. The D.&.O. policy applies at the partnership level, while the E.&.O. piece covers portfolio managers and analysts. Please refere to the article penned by Mr Andrew Ross Sorkin in the 'New York Times'.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/business/dealbook/credit-suisse-nomura-archegos.html
Marketing Presentation and sales pitch to medium-sized realtor in Tijuana, Mexico. Predominantly in Spanish.
Presentación de márketing digital en español para una agencia inmobiliaria ubicada en Tijuana, México.
Reconciliation of new governmental accounting system with out-dated BAAN information system
Conciliacion del nuevo sistema de contabilidad con aquello obsoleto informatico (BAAN, James Baan)
A discussion of the pedagogy of elevating measurable outputs in a syllabus to optimised output most favourable to student development intellectually and characterologically.
Full semester course in eight weeks. Used multi-media approach through films, reading, and Ted Talks for students to analyse five key parts of leadership:
> the little black box (i.e., idiosyncratic)
> vision to reality
> internal stake-holders
> communications
> external stake-holders
Lesson Plan for the most complicated phase of Project Management: Earned Value Management. Lesson plan guides students through the coordination of other phases through hypothetical examples. #PM #ProjectManagement #University #BusinessSchool
Catalogue (¿raisonné?) and biography of Ms Nancy H. Barton (1920-2008) -- "Ahead of Her Time" -- featuring early paintings displaying traditional craftsmanship and later works of material expressionism.
A letter to the senior diplomat in the State Department on behalf of a family facing persecution in Iraq. The Halabi family has served, and still serves, both the Government or Iraq and the United States Government in teaching, athletics training and refugee support.
Speech composed, with others, on behalf of the Director of the RD&I center in Mexico where I served in the Peace Corps. My part was in strengthening the style in English and in making the speech engaging.
Successful funding package turned around in 48 hours; in-depth due-diligence for an industrial re-start project (i.e., projections and scenario-based forecasting).
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Challenge Innovation Benefit.docx
1. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #1: American University of North Africa
Challenge: start-up university with many problems, particularly in the
teaching of core business management skills to students
Initiative: implemented system of reciprocal mentoring to leverage uneven
skill levels within the same class-room for thirteen courses in widely diverse
academic disciplines to:
• de-fuse endemic cheating by turning a particular event into a learning
opportunity to deepen individual knowledge and by implementing an
honor code with signed pledges for tests, examinations, and papers;
• use TEDtalks and films (e.g., The Caine Mutiny, 1954) to cover five
dimensions of leadership and to instruct students on how to detect
inflection points in fluid situations as future senior managers;
• applied risk management concepts to real-life, current situations
outside of team projects to show trade-offs between theory and
necessity (e.g., Afghanistan as a risk management exercise);
• enhance students’ leadership skills by nudging them into teaching
each other to understand, and apply, core managerial project-and-
innovation management skills; as well as,
• focus accounting instruction to three constituencies, by allocating
three classes per week with one each for an overview, an applied
statement analysis, and a deep-dive into accounting concepts.
Benefits: Balanced class-room innovation and academic principle to:
1. signal respect for students through an honor code, encouraging
students to contest my assertions, and crediting them when they
outargued me, often humorously.
2. enable students to escape the rote learning of French pedagogy by
staking out a thesis, managing knowledge, and arguing it.
3. increase the self-confidence of the students challenged by limited
facility in English or their past academic performance.
4. drive home key life-concepts (e.g., ethics in groups) through humor
and making direct amends where necessary; as well as,
5. coach (¿coax?) students into new and neglected skills (e.g., writing
research papers).
2. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #2: Independent Fundraising (free-lance, looking for a new
position)
Challenge: Local entrepreneur unable to raise start-up funding for a
rehabilitation center for a behavioral addiction
Initiative: Within one month, executed the following:
• formulated multi-scenario forecasts to track proposed use of funds
and exit strategy for funders;
• researched the market for such rehabilitation facilities;
• assessed local, state, and national regulatory regimens of treatment
of this behavioral addiction;
• investigated niche for the treatment tailored to specific needs of
upper-income, publicly prominent patients;
• developed a fund-raising speech and a template for written appeals;
• composed a detailed term-sheet; as well as,
• integrated the above into a complete business plan.
Benefits: co-presented with entrepreneur to the initial funding source to
secure $200,000 of start-up financing.
NOTE: offered to be operations head of the facility but did not pursue due
to my lack of belief in the underlying concept of the particular addiction.
3. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #3: EMERIO
Challenge: No documented base in place for fund-raising with no one
experienced in the area
Initiative: Within two months, devised the following:
• formatting one-page sales sheets;
• implemented valuations of pre-revenue, pre-research start-ups; and,
• provided written support of investment premise.
Benefits: First round of fund-raising facilitated by contributing the following:
6. one-page valuations (one side text; one side notes) of three
prerevenue, pre-tested concepts welcomed by those who received
them;
7. integrated three distinct valuation methods into well-grounded due
diligence (start-up factors analysis, comparable values and
multiscenario discounted cash-flow analysis);
8. composed readable narrative of the persistence of classic portfolio
theory in BIG-DATA, algorithmic trading;
9. drafted a thirty-second elevator pitch for the hybrid product and
enterprise concept (crawl, walk, run); as well as,
10. published promotions of Birmingham as a technology center, with
15,000+ reads across the world.
4. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #4: WSI-McDigital (Tijuana)
Challenge: Technology start-ups with little-to-no support in Tijuana
Initiative: Over fifteen months:
• composed 31 essays, in English and Spanish, on technology transfer;
• composed 29 bi-lingual essays on digital marketing; as well as,
• authored and disseminated materials to promote digital marketing for
technology transfer in Tijuana.
Benefits: Legacy including, but not limited to, the following:
1. readership of 75,000+ in Mexico and the United States; and
2. use of materials to deploy digital marketing to enable start-ups by up
to 1,600 people across Mexico and the Americas.
5. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #5: Peace Corps (Querétaro, México) Centro de Ingeniería y
Desarrollo Industrial (CIDESI)
Challenge: zero capacity for transferring R.&D. to the market
Initiative: Two specific and sole initiatives
• implemented product development cycle for new product under
development; and,
• crafted technology transfer techniques to CIDESI’s constraints.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. priced product competitively, per learning curve strategy, at 500%
initial profit and 100% mature profit margin;
2. gathered intelligence through 139 weekly disseminations;
3. devised market-fit strategy per lean product development model;
4. reviewed 1,000+ pages of Mexican laws in Spanish to create an
inhouse incubator for CIDESI
5. created tactics to alpha / beta test product by two distinct
demographics of early adopters;
6. levelled playing field for all participants inside CIDESI to fundamental
radical re-structuring in process through 100 essays – with a total of
15,000 PAGES read – disseminated through CIDESI, the Tech
Transfer Program of the Peace Corps and Querétaro;
7. mapped out transfer of technology beyond Mexico with off-shore
sponsorship; as well as,
8. authored a five volume series in Spanish – core being an 84 page
book – on a program for transferring technology; widely praised.
6. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #6: USAID (Kunduz, Kondoz; Afghanistan)
Challenge: collapsing road potentially lethal to children and dangerous for
U.S. Army obligated to mount foot patrols in contested area
Initiative: Upon notification by foot patrol of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain
Division (Fort Hood, New York):
• surveyed dangerous site within an hour;
• reported necessity of meetings to German Army commanders,
outside of common development framework;
• continued relaying strengths and results of the German mission to
U.S. Embassy; as well as,
• secured necessary meetings and resources within one day.
Benefits: Legacy including, but not limited to, the following:
1. protected foot-soldiers of the U.S. Army from confronting Taliban
without knowing the landscape of Pashtun enclave;
2. knowingly anticipated and faced severe and public criticism of
German officers and other U.S. civilians;
3. supervised and expedited repair of collapsed sewer in less than a
month to save lives;
4. noted by U.S. Embassy as one of the few senior field officers to cite
and credit contributions of I.S.A.F. (International Security Assistance
Force) of partners (i.e., Germany);
5. gave credit to U.S. Army alertness and local partners rather than
myself at local shura (a town-hall meeting led by elders); as well as,
6. increased credibility of civilian advisors with the U.S. Army platoon
tasked with attacking and eliminating the Taliban infiltration of
otherwise peaceful province.
7. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.l.B. #7: USAID (Kunduz, Kondoz; Afghanistan)
Challenge: Lack of communications among key stake-holders
Initiative: Upon receiving notification:
• understood the earth-quake risk brought to my attention by
environmental engineer deployed with Georgia National Guard;
• sought funding for infrastructure emergencies across the province; as
well as,
• supported German Army officers frustrated with lack of U.S. financial
commitment.
Benefits: Legacy including, but not limited to, the following:
1. secured funding, despite six rejections, to safeguard the lives of more
than 100,000 Afghans from seasonal water flooding;
2. convened secret emergency summit, against various institutional
protocols, among ten senior officials (officials of the Georgia National
Guard, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan as well as the provincial and
local governments);
3. preserved the productivity of the Province’s fertile agricultural basin;
4. catalyzed the initiation of civil preparedness measures against
earthquake risks;
5. protected Pashtun (from which Taliban are recruited) village against a
flash flood; as well as,
6. submitted twelve projects for the German Army civil affairs command.
8. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #8: Multi-National Security Transition Command MNSTC-I
(Baghdad)
Challenge: Commanding Officer in Baghdad (General Raymond Odierno)
did not understand the mission of the Partnership Strategy Group
Initiative: Over three days: 8
• reviewed formal agreements underlying treaties of alliance;
• reviewed Status of Forces Agreements (S.O.F.A.s);
• reviewed other lower-level state-to-state agreements; as well as,
• clarified differences and similarities among types of agreements.
Benefits: Briefing including, but not limited to, the following elements:
1. carefully noted details and provisions of 300+ agreements;
2. summarized said 300+ agreements;
3. classified agreements by type (i.e., level of state-to-state interaction);
4. separated agreements by cultural settings (Muslim versus European);
5. developed a matrix to match specific provisions to unwritten cultural
norms and expectations; as well as,
6. gave General Odierno the facts and feel required to make strategic
inter-agency recommendations about the U.S. Army’s post-2011
posture.
9. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.l.B. #9: U.S. State Department (Tikrit and Balad, Iraq) Provincial
Reconstruction Team-Salah ad Din Province
Challenge: Terrorist attack in Ad Dujail, Salah ad Din Province
Initiative: On one hour notice:
• joined the 101st Airborne artillery battalion to investigate;
• walked through the town and blast site for a day;
• confirmed the identities of 33 victims of attack by Al Qaeda;
• conferred with commanding officers and city leaders to understand
the general panic among local citizens; as well as, over the
subsequent two days,
• prepared the grant application for condolence payments.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
• completed, edited and submitted grant application over seventy-two
hours;
• won first grant for condolence payments under new program in Iraq;
• attained such payments due to terrorism as opposed to accidental
killings by U.S. or coalition troops;
• 15+ families received restitution equal to at least five years of an
average salary; as well as,
• potentially contested area won over to the U.S.
10. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #10: WorldVest Capital Markets Division of Trump Securities (N.Y.)
Challenge: New private equity fund not receiving adequate attention from
investment bank overseas
Initiative: During a one month period:
• established contact network across the Middle East;
• wired private equity fund into high profile events;
• prepared a strategy, with tactics and activities, across the region; as
well as,
• studied the economies of the region and their investment appetites or
availability of investible funds.
Benefits: Comprehensive plan including, but not limited to, the following:
1. sold the concept of the fund, its philosophy and portfolio allocation to
key financial figures through the region
2. activated independent network of twelve local investment banks and
broker / dealers in eight countries;
3. scheduled head of fund to speak at a high-profile private equity
conference for the Middle East held in Dubai; as well as,
4. tailored fund’s presentation to each venue.
11. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #11: Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (Baghdad) United
States Embassy; Iraq Ministry of Interior (M.o.I.)
Challenge: Lack of capacity in M.o.I. for budgeting as well as unaddressed
and escalating payroll corruption.
Initiative: Outside of regular duties managing contracts:
• created financial modelling program;
• facilitated requisition of ground truth on equipping needs;
• elevated activity and profile of police credentialing committee; as well
as,
• integrated best elements of military and civilian teams previously not
communicating.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. comprehensive budget with 200 cost inputs (updated periodically for
two hours’ time);
2. narrowed down to 5-10 inputs as value drivers;
3. 95% accuracy versus 10-40% accuracy previous year;
4. re-used over next five years, as updated;
5. cited for best civilian contribution and most professional civilian
presentation to military in 2004 or 2005;
6. needs assessment protocol for 500 separate police facilities deemed
best practice by British commanding officer;
7. cited for excellence by Generals David Petraeus and Martin
Dempsey;
8. cut the time required for the collection of personal information and
manufacture of identity cards for 150,000+ policemen by 80-90%;
9. integrated said program into payroll budgeting to develop a reform
program aimed at eliminating 25,000+ ‘ghost employees’; as well as,
10. quantified forecasted set-asides for ‘martyr and honor payments’ to
families of policemen disabled or killed.
12. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #12: Friedman Billings & Ramsey (F.B.R.)
Challenge. January 2003 article in Barron’s highly critical of F.B.R. and
implying conflicts of interest in leading a public stock offering for a client
weeks prior to the revelation of financial difficulties that collapsed the stock
price
Initiative. Per instructions of senior management, set out to publish highly
critical analysis of the customer, to maintain F.B.R.’s company credibility,
over the following three weeks:
• researched the industry fundamentals and the financial statements of
the client, focusing on the problems cited across Wall Street as
evidence of imminent bankruptcy with significant losses;
• de-constructed intricate financials of the company and those of 18
affiliated trust accounts for a composite entreprise-wide cash-flow
analysis; as well as,
• created detailed forecasts, based on liquidation and various degrees
of a going concern.
Benefits. Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. determined that client faced a liquidity crunch, not insolvency;
2. mapped out a route to return client to full liquidity and, therefore,
operating health;
3. persevered despite significant push-back from the sales team for a
critical analysis;
4. detailed rescue scenario to be engineered by bond insurers and
investment banks specializing in financial engineering;
5. realized 40-50% return on investment for investors within two weeks;
6. distinguished by client publicly as the first publishing analyst among
recognized Wall Street analysts to map out escape route; as well as,
7. produced highly regarded primer on securitization to break down a
seemingly ‘black-box’ arrangement into specific institutional roles and
conceptual building blocks.
13. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #13: Deutsche Bank-Alex. Brown (New York City)
Challenge: Deutsche Bank ineffective in credit and other derivatives due to
back-office red-tape that delayed approvals for 7-10 days.
Initiative: Over two weeks:
• investigated relative default loss rates of various Moody’s / S&P
ratings over time horizons ranging from three months to twenty years;
• researched historical credit appetites for Deutsche clients; as well as,
• identified key value and cash-flow drivers for insurance companies.
Benefits: Legacy including, but not limited to, the following:
1. created and used risk scoring sheet;
2. devised debt appetite measurement tool;
3. quantified marginal risk assumed for given trade based on credit
quality and expected life of the trade;
4. permitted adequate due diligence in real-time;
5. established preliminary risk amount in real-time;
6. enabled back office to take the time over a week to calculate the
eventual value at risk (a lower amount than previously granted);
7. allowed same-day trading in derivatives;
8. elevated Deutsche’s trading productivity by 3-5x to make the bank a
market-maker.
14. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #14: Deutsche Bank-Alex. Brown (New York City)
Challenge: International banks panicking over the prospective impact of
the mass-murder in New York City on September 11, 2001.
Initiative: Over four days:
• investigated the various lines of life and property & casualty
insurance to be impacted by the mass murder;
• drilled down on various insured exposures affected by the event; as
well as,
• aggregated granular bottom-up estimates for each line into overall
loss estimate.
Benefits: Legacy including, but not limited to, the following:
1. estimated insured losses within 5% of aggregate losses after six
years for an anticipated reduction of industry tangible net worth of
1015%;
2. integrated unique loss valuation perspective into tactics toward the
insurance industry;
3. allied with insurers expected to be vulnerable but transparent about
deteriorating risk profiles;
4. took unusual course of not changing the strategy or credit policies
toward the industry; and,
5. used the catastrophe to prune portfolio of under-performing
relationships.
15. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #15: Commerzbank (New York)
Challenge: lack of returns generated from traditional banking products
Initiative: Over a year:
• researched certain cash-based contracts approved by the S.E.C. as
money-market equivalents (time-line of 90 days or less);
• investigated the intricate S.E.C. and insurance regulatory accounting
standards;
• studied uses and flexibility of certain bank lending products; as well
as,
• worked closely with best legal experts in insurance to test out
possible product concept.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. developed regulatory structured arbitrage product;
2. enabled insurers issuing these contracts to invest in riskier assets
maturing later than three months;
3. increased spread earned on these product by 300%; as well as,
4. pitched the product to five of the top ten issuers of cash-equivalent
cash investment contracts.
16. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B.#16: Miscellaneous (Crédit Suisse; New York)
Challenge: accountability for project financing and structured finance
transactions shifted from originators to credit department.
Initiative: Over one month:
• audited project financings (primarily, co-generation projects) and
structured financings (primarily, loans factored through the capital
markets of auto-loan or retail credit receivables);
• provided detailed data on each transaction to indicate completion or
shortfalls of requirements;
• performed compliance analyses of lending conditions and covenants;
as well as,
• drafted documentation to place accountability for such compliance
and documentation back onto the originators of these requirements.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. eliminated three year back-long in one month;
2. audited and performed compliance analyses on more than fifty
structured and project financings; as well as,
3. enforced signature requirement of the loan officers responsible;
4. created new rules for credit accountability.
17. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #17: Miscellaneous (Hillman Investments; Pittsburgh)
Challenge: inefficiencies evident in gathering various financial data for
start-up investments news-letter.
Initiative: Over three months:
• examined richness and accuracy of data from most accessible
sources;
• authored a training manual reinforcing flat organizational structure;
• trained and supervised four financial data researchers;
• devised incentive compensation system;
• provided follow-through guidance for particular analysts; as well as,
• implemented quality control program to assure clean data.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. cut data research time by two-thirds;
2. reduced research costs by 50%; and,
3. enabled magazine to publish on schedule.
18. C.I.B. (Challenge; Initiative; Benefit)
C.I.B. #18: Miscellaneous (Sen. H. John Heinz III; Pittsburgh)
Challenge: U.S. Navy nurse being rail-roaded out of career despite:
• satisfactory performance reviews by patients;
• strong testimony by other nurses;
• strong references made by former Navy base commanding officers;
• spurning by direct superior of direct appeals by Representative
Douglas Walgren (D-PA) and the top aide of Senator Heinz; as well
as,
• hang-up by direct supervisor on me.
Initiative: Over two weeks:
• investigated why the chief nurse would hang up on a U.S.
Congressman, Senator and me;
• discussed the case closely with other previously thwarted
stakeholders to understand the soft power of Chief Nurse in issuing a
dishonorable discharge;
• investigated unwillingness of base C.O. to intervene;
• discussed case with the nurse and two of her colleagues, pressing
her to ascertain the dirt on her side of the street to determine whether
or not to go forward; as well as,
• checked the committee assignments of the Pennsylvania
Congressman and Senator.
Benefits: Including, but not limited to, the following:
1. targeted Senators open to reciprocal support for constituent’s
problem in the areas covered by committee and sub-committee
assignments of the Pennsylvania legislators;
2. negotiated investigative support from two Senators influential with
military spending, Messrs Henry Jackson (D-Washington) and Barry
Goldwater (R-Arizona);
3. refused compromise proposed by mid-level Pentagon official of an
administrative versus dishonorable discharge;
4. negotiated directly and heatedly with the Deputy Secretary of the
Navy for Personnel to permit an exception-to-policy to permit nurse to
stay in the Navy and transfer to another Navy hospital; as well as,
5. gave public credit to Senator Heinz and Representative Walgren for
their “joint intervention” on the nurse’s behalf.