Grow Management Consultants has recently implemented a work-life balance policy. The policy includes a new initiative to hold a quarterly social event for all staff.

As the Operations Manager (you) for Grow Management Consultants, you have decided to have an informal meeting with your staff to seek their ideas on social activities and to discuss timing (e.g. which days of the week work best, what time). Note that the policy states that a maximum budget of $500 per activity may be allocated and that activities may be held on Friday afternoons or after 5 pm on any other day of the week.

You should follow the Grow Management Consultants Meetings Policy and Procedures for informal meetings.

PLEASE ANSWERED THREE PARTS A,B,C

PART A- Report on meeting outcomes Assume that you have agreed on all of the social activities discussed at the meeting, as well as the time that the activities will be conducted. Draft an email to be sent to the staff (your assessor) that briefly details the meeting outcomes and lists the social activities agreed on, as well as the agreed times.

PART B - Send a draft email to your assessor. Send the draft email to your assessor. Finish the text with a note that you will be correcting the email, and sending the corrected version shortly. This email should have the word “Draft” in its title

Send a final email to your assessor. Re-open the email you sent in the last activity, and carefully check it for spelling and grammar and ensure that it is a true and accurate record of the meeting. Part of this assessment task requires you to demonstrate to your assessor that you are able to correct your own work accurately, so this email needs to contain text that is an improvement on the previous one.

PART C- When finished, send this final email to your assessor. This email should have the words “Final” in its title. It should be sent within the timeframes set out in the Meeting Policy and Procedures

Discussion 5 - Controversy 5: Is Butter Really Back? The Lipid Guidelines Debate Using the information found at the end of Chapter 5 about the Controversy: Is Butter Really Back? The Lipid Guidelines Debate. Read first the content in the book, supplement the reading with the power point that emphasizes the main points of the controversy. Then, write a 200-250 word response of the controversy.

The Dietary guidelines for Americans had been emphasizing for decades on the importance of low fat eating. Great changes have been made in the production, and manufacturing of foods, and families have tried new low fat recipes, and lower their overall fat composition. But there is this new debate: besides all of the efforts to cut fat in the American diet, the efforts have been unsuccessful, and people have switched to add more sugar to their diets in order to keep the flavor that fats provided. So, do we need to go back to use more butter to cook, and manufacture foods, and snacks? Or, do we need to continue decreasing the amount of fat in our diets in order to decrease the risk for chronic diseases, especially for cardiovascular disease? In this context, while preparing your response keep in mind the following:

1. If fats are bad for people, why do we keep eating them? And, if fats are bad for people, what can we do in order to decrease the daily consumption of fat?

2. In your opinion, is the use of olive oil a good solution to start consuming healthier fats? And, about the use of fat substitutes such as apple sauce for baking? What do you do personally in order to have a low-fat diet?

3. What kind of lifestyle changes can be done in the U.S. population in order to decrease or, use in moderation the amount of fat in the diet, fast food restaurants, and snacks?

4. Application: share your own experience of trying to eat low fat and/or eating healthier in general. What kind of lifestyle changes have you had to make in order to eat healthy?

CASE Study of management of organization behavior :

Soltis & Sons is a management consulting firm that is attempting to grow its business by targeting small businesses that are run by women or immigrants. In pursuing this strategy, the company has hired employees of other cultures whose first language is not English. Many of these employees are under 30 and they do not have college degrees. While this effort is leading to a workforce that mirrors the clients, the company finds that employees and managers are experiencing difficulties communicating with one another. This leads to misunderstandings and a decrease in productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if a manager gives instructions about completing a certain task to an employee who fails to fully comprehend the instructions, the employee may make mistakes.

The director of Human Resources is considering whether or not to offer some type of training, yet none has been offered to date. She thinks some employees may be

impacted by negative stereotypes associated with a lack of work experience with people from different cultures. She also noted that some work teams do not like to be

supervised by younger people of color. A few employees quit over this issue and management is trying to decide what to do.

Using the 3-Step Problem-Solving Approach and the Organizing Framework, how can Soltis & Sons address the problem?

Step 1: Define the problem. What are the gaps between the desired outcomes and the current state?

Step 2: Identify causes of the problem. Remember, the diversity climate is an important situation factor. There are also relevant processes across the individual

level (perception, attributions, and psychological safety), the group/team level (group/team dynamics), and the organizational level (options to manage diversity).

These inputs and processes have critical outcomes.

Step 3: Make recommendations for solving the problem. What options does Soltis & Sons have?

Word count should be more than 600 words( total of 3 steps ) .

Please help me !! Thank You.

You have 3 billion dollars in the fund, which you can invest in any combination of Australian stocks, US stocks, and Australian Treasury. The idea is to use your knowledge of portfolio theory to make an argument for having an internationally diversified portfolio, rather than just holding domestic assets. The data are monthly returns and the relevant sample statistics are summarized in the following table:

1. Using the results of portfolio theory and the estimates above, compute the tangency mutual fund (portfolio) between Australian and US stocks (i.e., the optimal split between Australian and US stocks). Find the tangency portfolio using the Solver in Excel. Paste the table used with Solver to your Word document and discuss your findings.

2. Suppose you would like to achieve an average return of 0.5% per month in excess of the T-bill rate with the smallest possible risk. What is the optimal split between Australian stocks, US stocks, and T-bills? That is, how much of the $3 billion should you invest in each country and how much should you borrow or lend? What is the standard deviation of this portfolio?

3. After a bad year on the US stock market, some people try to influence you to divest (i.e., sell all of) the holdings of US stocks. How much should you invest in Australian stocks and T-bills alone to obtain the same level of risk as you obtained in part 2.? (Hint: you want the standard deviation of the divested portfolio to be the same as the nondivested portfolio.)

4. What would be the cost in terms of expected monthly return from divesting in the US stocks? What would be the cost in terms of annual return (note: the returns are continuously compounded)? What would be the cost in dollar terms on the $3 billion portfolio each year?

Baxter Equipment Company - Balance Sheet for Years Ending December 31st

Note: All figures add 3 zeros ($000)

Please answer what you can. The data is too long for me to add the Income Statement, which is necessary for these questions. Since many of these questions cannot be answered without the IS, and they all pertain to the same data - this should be counted as one question.

a. What was the company's depreciation expense for 2019?

b. What were the company's current ratios for both 2018 and 2019?

c. Was the current ratio for year 2019 better or worse compared to 2018 (a one word answer please)

d. What was the company's inventory turnover for 2019?

e. What was the average collection period (2019) for their accounts receivable?

f. What was their marginal tax rate?

g. How many shares of common stock did they sell in 2019?

h. What was their EPS?

i. How much did they pay in common stock dividends?

j. What was their "TIE" (times interest earned) for 2019?

CASE Study (management of organization behavior) :

Soltis & Sons is a management consulting firm that is attempting to grow its business by targeting small businesses that are run by women or immigrants. In pursuing this strategy, the company has hired employees of other cultures whose first language is not English. Many of these employees are under 30 and they do not have college degrees. While this effort is leading to a workforce that mirrors the clients, the company finds that employees and managers are experiencing difficulties communicating with one another. This leads to misunderstandings and a decrease in productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if a manager gives instructions about completing a certain task to an employee who fails to fully comprehend the instructions, the employee may make mistakes.

The director of Human Resources is considering whether or not to offer some type of training, yet none has been offered to date. She thinks some employees may be

impacted by negative stereotypes associated with a lack of work experience with people from different cultures. She also noted that some work teams do not like to be

supervised by younger people of color. A few employees quit over this issue and management is trying to decide what to do.

Using the 3-Step Problem-Solving Approach and the Organizing Framework, how can Soltis & Sons address the problem?

Step 1: Define the problem. What are the gaps between the desired outcomes and the current state?

Step 2: Identify causes of the problem. Remember, the diversity climate is an important situation factor. There are also relevant processes across the individual

level (perception, attributions, and psychological safety), the group/team level (group/team dynamics), and the organizational level (options to manage diversity).

These inputs and processes have critical outcomes.

Step 3: Make recommendations for solving the problem. What options does Soltis & Sons have?

Word count : more than 600 words( total of 3 steps ) .

Please help me !! It's important . Thank You.

I have designed a two part discussion question this module. Please make sure to comment sufficiently on both questions. Make sure that your initial response to the question contains at least 2 cited academic sources to support the ideas that you raise.

(1) In considering various forms of psychopathology researchers have often focused on the role of social and psychological variables. In recent years, however, many studies have been conducted which have investigated the role of biological factors as they relate to different forms of child/adolescent psychopathology (e.g., mental retardation, ADHD, autism, anorexia nervosa, etc.). Discuss the evidence that biological factors contribute to childhood psychopathology, focusing primarily on ADHD. In your answer you should cite evidence related to the role of such factors in a range of disorders with "biological' being considered in the broad sense of the word (e.g., genetic, structural, biochemical, etc.). Critically evaluate the research findings you cite.

(2) Many social scientists have commented on the adult hypocrisy that can accompany childhood socialization. For example, “Do as I say, not as I do” has been around for a long time. One of the topics in this chapter is substance abuse problems among children and adolescents. Some years ago, one of the Drug Council public service messages on television depicted a father who had caught his son in the act of using marijuana. The father, in an agitated and incredulous tone of voice, announces: “Where did you get this?!......where did you find out about this stuff?!” The imp replies in an anguished tone: “I learned it from YOU!!......that’s where I got it......from YOU!!” I would like for you to share how they feel about this kind of hypocrisy and how you think childhood and adolescent socialization contributes to conduct problems

Please make sure that your initial response to the question is evidence based and provides facts and statistics from your textbook or current research studies.

I am struggling with this assignment. I can't get the program to run when I enter a number with the $ symbol followed by a number below 10. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Create a program named Auction that allows a user to enter an amount bid on an online auction item. Include three overloaded methods that accept an int, double, or string bid. Each method should display the bid and indicate whether it is over the minimum acceptable bid of $10. If the bid is a string, accept it only if one of the following is true: it is numeric and preceded with a dollar sign, or it is numeric and followed by the word dollars. Otherwise, display a message that indicates the format was incorrect.

class Auction
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string bidamount;
            Console.Write("Enter bid: ");
            bidamount = Console.ReadLine();
            double num;
            int n;

            if (double.TryParse(bidamount, out num))
            {
                double bid = Convert.ToDouble(bidamount);

                if (valid(bid))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid is $" + bid + ".");
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid is at/over $10.");
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid accepted.");
                }
                else
                    Console.WriteLine("Invalid. Bid not acceptable.");
            }
            else if (int.TryParse(bidamount, out n))
            {
                int bid = Convert.ToInt32(bidamount);
                if (valid(bid))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid is $" + bid + ".");
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid is at/over $10.");
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid accepted.");
                }
                else
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid not acceptable.");
            }
            else
            {
                string bid = (bidamount);
                if (valid(bidamount))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid is $" + bid + ".");
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid is at/over $10.");
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid accepted.");
                }
                else
                    Console.WriteLine("Bid not acceptable.");
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
        public static bool valid(int bid)
        {
            if (bid < 10)
                return false;
            else
                return true;
        }
        public static bool valid(double bid)
        {
            if (bid < 10)
                return false;
            else
                return true;
        }
        public static bool valid(string bid)
        {
            if (bid[0] == '$' && Convert.ToInt32(bid.Substring(1)) >= 10)
                return true;
            else if ((Convert.ToInt32(bid.Substring(0, 2)) >= 10) && (bid.Substring(2).Equals("dollars")))
            {
                return true;
            }
            else
                return false;
        }
    }

Question 2

4-14 Which of the following terms best describes the following diagram?

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Question 3

4-13 Which of the following is the BEST definition of dual-homed?

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Question 4

4-10 Which of the following is the name for a lower-end (small business grade) firewall appliance that is capable of packet filtering, content filtering, intrusion detection, proxy, and application layer filtering?

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Question 5

4-11 Which of the following is most often used for protecting a single computer?

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Question 6

4-7 Which of the following were generation one firewalls capable of?

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Question 7

4-6 the earliest firewalls were only capable of which of the following kinds of filtering?

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Question 8

4-1 Which of the following were firewalls originally conceived to perform?

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Question 9

4-8 Which of the following is the word describing a firewall that is aware of a packet's place in an established and ongoing conversations

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Question 10

4-20 Which of the following refers to a software firewall places on a dedicated server to create an internal hardware firewall?

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The project description: As a programmer, you have been asked to write a Java application, using OOP concepts, for a Hospital with the following requirements: • The Hospital has several employees and each one of them has an ID (int), name (string), address (string), mobile phone number (string), email (string) and salary (double) with suitable data types. • The employees are divided into: o Administration staff: who have in addition to the previous information their position (string). o Doctor: who have also a rank (string) and specialty (string). The project requirements: • You will need to create all the needed Java classes with all the required information. • You have to apply all the OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts that we have covered in this module (i.e. inheritance, polymorphism, interface and collections) • Include a Microsoft Word document (name it as readme.doc) that includes several screenshots of your Netbeans IDE application GUI interface as well as the output screenshot results. Provide all assumptions that you have made during design and implementation. • Include the whole Netbeans Java project with all source codes. Write as much comments as possible to document your source codes. At the end, you will need to create a testing class (e.g. Hospital.java) with the static main() method with the following requirements: • It must have initial fixed collections of working staff (at least 3 administration staffs and 2 doctors) • The program will print a selection screen where the user can choose the operation he/she wants to perform. The selection screen will be repeated after each selection until the staff type the number 4 to completely exit from the program: 1. Add an administration staff (by providing all her/his information) to the list of all administration staff 2. Add a doctor (by providing all her/his information) to the list of all doctors 3. Print all working staff (remember to differentiate between administration staff and doctors in the output printout 4. Exit the program