You can agree or disagree with the statements & why or why not? You can add to the statements or ask questions. Each of these statements are about why Multiple studies conducted in the United States, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom show that the probability of dying in the hospital is higher if you are admitted on the weekend.

A) Personally, I believe there is a high chance of dying on the weekends because that is when the hospital seems to be the busiest. Hospitals tend to be understaffed therefore when that weekend rush comes they are being stretched in all types of directions. It’s no secret people party and drink more on the weekend which can lead to MVA’s on top of the sick patients that are coming in. A theory I believe in as well is that people who work during the week wait until the weekend to be seen or have their kids seen at a emergency department. Also, like some of my classmates stated there are certain imaging that cannot be performed on weekends.

B) Honestly, I have never heard or even though of this being something to study about. With the researching I did the main reason for this phenomenon is an understaffed hospital. Another factor the plays a role is a lack of tests getting done and back in time, including a lack of procedures. In order to eliminate this issure hospital could start scheduling more people for the weekends, that way more people could get in and get out and get the care they need. They could also have certain areas open on weekends, like certain lab tests that can be done. Also, making sure they schedule people in case of emergency procedures. This field is full of unknown, you never know what is going to come through the doors but it wouldnt hurt to be prepared.

Corporation manufactures quidgets at its plant in Sparta, Michigan. Spartan sells its quidgets to customers in the United States, Canada, England, and Australia.

Spartan markets its products in Canada and England through branches in Toronto and London, respectively. Spartan reported total gross income on U.S. sales of $15,000,000 and total gross income on Canadian and U.K. sales of $5,000,000, split equally between the two countries. Spartan paid Canadian income taxes of $600,000 on its branch profits in Canada and U.K. income taxes of $700,000 on its branch profits in the United Kingdom. Spartan financed its Canadian operations through a $10 million capital contribution, which Spartan financed through a loan from Bank of America. During the current year, Spartan paid $600,000 in interest on the loan.

Spartan sells its quidgets to Australian customers through its wholly-owned Australian subsidiary. Spartan reported gross income of $3,000,000 on sales to its subsidiary during the year. The subsidiary paid Spartan a dividend of $670,000 on December 31 (the withholding tax is 0 percent under the U.S.–Australia treaty). Spartan paid Australian income taxes of $330,000 on the income repatriated as a dividend.

Requirement:

1. Compute Spartan’s foreign source gross income and foreign tax (direct and withholding) for the current year.
2. Assume 20 percent of the interest paid to Bank of America is allocated to the numerator of Spartan’s FTC limitation calculation. Compute Spartan Corporation’s FTC limitation using your calculation from part (a) and any excess FTC or excess FTC limitation (all of the foreign source income is put in the foreign branch FTC basket).

(Enter your answers in dollars not in millions of dollars.)

Understanding how healthcare systems impact the community is step one in developing a global perspective. How do the healthcare systems around the globe impact their target communities? Use this discussion to begin developing your understanding of how the healthcare systems around the world impact the community.

Choose two countries and compare their healthcare systems. How are the healthcare systems organized? Who has access to healthcare, and why?

After describing the systems and explaining who has access, rate the systems as good, bad, or neutral. Explain the rationale for your ratings and provide supporting evidence.

Textbook: Global Health Care: Issues and Policies, Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Chapter 1—Global Health: An Introduction

• What is global health?
• How would healthcare change if the Alma-Ata was embraced?
• How does the Affordable Care Act demonstrate support of the Alma-Ata declaration?
• What interventions will be needed to manage the projected future patterns of health?
• What are the consequences of not providing universal healthcare?

Chapter 2—Global Health in Developed Societies: Examples in the United States, Sweden, Japan and the United Kingdom

• Which countries’ health trends surprised you?
• How does U.S. healthcare compare to the healthcare provided in Sweden?
• Does life expectancy differ based on the level of healthcare provided?
• What differences exist in mortality rates?

Chapter 3—Developing Countries: Egypt, China, India, South Africa

• How is the access to healthcare different in each of the countries?
• What similarities exist in the health priorities identified by each of the countries?
• What health issues did you find most surprising, and why?

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company was established by president and founding father Colgate Holmes along with four business partners in 1983. At that time, the only existing Ritz-Carlton hotel was located in Boston. By 1992, the company had opened 22 additional hotels in the United States. By 1998, the company was acquired by Marriott International. Today, Ritz-Carlton Hotels is based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, operates more than 90 luxury hotels in 30 countries and territories, and employs more than 40,000 people.

The Credo

• The Ritz-Carlton is a place where the genuine care and comfort of our guests is our highest mission.
• We pledge to provide the finest personal service and facilities for our guests, who will always enjoy a warm, relaxed, yet refined ambiance.
• The Ritz-Carlton experience enlivens the senses, instills well-being, and fulfills even the unexpressed wishes and needs of our guests.

The Motto

At the Ritz-Carlton, “We are Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentlemen.” This motto exemplifies the anticipatory service provided by all staff members.

Service Values

1. I build strong relationships and create Ritz-Carlton guests for life.
2. I am always responsive to the expressed and unexpressed wishes and needs of our guests.
3. I am empowered to create unique, memorable, and personal experiences for our guests.
4. I understand my role in achieving the Key Success Factors, embracing community footprints, and creating the Ritz-Carlton mystique.
5. I continually seek opportunities to innovate and improve the Ritz-Carlton experience.
6. I own and immediately resolve guest problems.
7. I create a work environment of teamwork and lateral service so that the needs of our guests and each other are met.
8. I have the opportunity to continuously learn and grow.
9. I am involved in the planning of the work that affects me.
10. I am proud of my professional appearance, language, and behavior.
11. I protect the privacy and security of our guests, my fellow employees, and the company’s confidential information and assets.
12. I am responsible for uncompromising levels of cleanliness and creating a safe and accident-free environment.

In order to ensure the effective implementation of its legendary service philosophy, the Ritz-Carlton emphasizes the importance of teamwork at all of its properties. In particular, teamwork is emphasized in service value #7—I create a work environment of teamwork and lateral service so that the needs of our guests and each other are met. Lateral service means that all Ritz-Carlton employees must support each other in realizing the hotel’s mission. Sometimes this may involve performing duties and responsibilities that are not part of their job, such as assisting a guest with his/her luggage, obtaining a bottle of shampoo or soap from housekeeping for a guest, or providing a recommendation for a good local restaurant or show to see for a guest.

The company uses a variety of practices to support lateral teamwork, including the following:

• Managers foster a culture that supports teamwork through the effective modeling of desired behaviors and recognizing those who practice lateral teamwork;
• Employees provide informal training on what their coworkers need to do to provide lateral teamwork and how they need to do it;
• Employees complete formal training on teamwork as well as participate in team-building activities;
• Employees team up with each other (e.g., concierge and the hotel’s restaurant manager) when doing so will enhance a guest’s experience;
• Managers incorporate lateral teamwork into the professional development plans of employees so that they can see how lateral teamwork can enhance their ability to grow and advance at a personal and professional level.

Discussion Questions

1. What types of groups/teams are used at the Ritz-Carlton Hotels?
2. How are roles defined in order to support teamwork at the Ritz-Carlton Hotels?
3. Evaluate the performance of teams at the Ritz-Carlton Hotels in terms of the six dimensions of a team process.
4. How does the Ritz-Carlton develop teams?

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld a district court ruling requiring marketers of the “Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet” to give up almost $16 million in net profits as part of a maximum $87 million they must pay in refunds to consumers. In a decision issued on January 3 and written by Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, the court concluded, “The magistrate judge did not commit a clear error, or abuse his discretion, in concluding that the defendants set out to bilk unsophisticated persons who found themselves in pain from arthritis and other chronic conditions.” The court found that the defendants’ claims about how their product worked, for example, through “ionization” or “enhancing the flow of bio-energy” were “blather.” Judge Easterbrook wrote, “Defendants might as well have said: Beneficent creatures from the 17th Dimension use this bracelet as a beacon to locate people who need pain relief, and whisk them off to their homeworld every night to provide help in ways unknown to our science.” The FTC filed its case in May 2003, alleging that QT Inc., Q-Ray Company, and Bio-Metal, Inc., located in Illinois, and their owner, Que Te Park, also known as Andrew Q. Park, made false and misleading advertising claims that the Q-Ray bracelet provided immediate and significant pain relief and deceptively advertised their refund policy, in violation of Sections 5 and 12 of the FTC Act. In September 2006, the federal district court in Chicago found in favor of the FTC. In November 2006, the court required the defendants to turn over a minimum of $22.5 million in net profits and up to $87 million in refunds to consumers who bought the bracelets between January 1, 2000 and June 30, 2003, when the bracelet was advertised on infomercials and Internet Web sites, and at trade shows. The district court later reduced the minimum disgorgement amount to $15.9 million, which the appellate court has upheld. The appellate court rejected the defendants’ argument that the magistrate judge had held the defendants to too high a standard of proof for their purported therapeutic claims about the bracelet and found that the claims must be based on science. The court found that “proof is what separates an effect new to science from a swindle” and that the defendants “have no proof,” stating that the “tests” the defendants relied on were “bunk.” The court also rejected the defendants’ contention that testimonials could support their claims -- the defendants could not show that the testimonials would not have enjoyed the same pain relief even if they had not worn the bracelet. “That’s why the ‘testimonial’ of someone who keeps elephants off the streets of a large city by snapping his fingers is the basis of a joke rather than proof of cause and effect,” stated the court. The appellate court also rejected the defendants’ argument that because their bracelet conferred a benefit to consumers through its placebo effect, they were vindicated in making their false therapeutic claims. The court held that the Federal Trade Commission Act “lacks an exception for ‘beneficial deceit’.” The court noted, “Deceit such as the tall tales that defendants told about the Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet will lead some consumers to avoid treatments that cost less and do more . . .”. The court also found that the defendants deceived consumers who purchased online and received only a 10-day return period when the infomercials promised a 30-day refund and suggested that consumers purchase online. “The disclosure of this shorter period was buried several clicks away on the website” and did not ameliorate the infomercial time frame upon which “reasonable consumers” could rely, the court stated. The Q-Ray defendants are currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

1. Are not such claims as those at the center of this case so transparent that there is no need for a government agency or court to intervene?

2. Does not the marketplace effectively wee out such frauds?

3. Assume that the defendant had actually conducted scientific studies, which had proved inconclusive. How might the judge have ruled in that situation?

CIO sought to organize the unskilled workers, which was on an industrial bases. They organized the United Auto Unions, and the United Steel Unions.

a) Give 5 reasons why the CIO sought to organize this type of labor.

On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas, in which he appealed for support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s program to land humans on the Moon. The following passage is an excerpt from Kennedy’s speech. Read the passage carefully. Compose a thesis statement you might use for an essay analyzing the rhetorical choices Kennedy makes to accomplish his purpose. Then select at least four pieces of evidence from the passage and explain how they support your thesis.

In your response you should do the following:

• Respond to the prompt with a claim that establishes a line of reasoning.
• Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.
• Explain the relationship between the evidence and your thesis.

No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man’s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.

Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America’s new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight.

This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.

So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward—and so will space.

William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it—we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.

Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world’s leading space-faring nation.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.

A small country consists of seven states. there are 160 states in the legislature that need to be apportioned among the seven states and the population of each state is shown in the table.

State A B C D E F G

Population 1283 2374 2725 2155 1592 2511 2017

Does the Alabama paradox occur using Hamilton's method if the number of seats is increased from 160 to 161?

1. A comparison of salaries at comparable institutions in two states was undertaken to examine if states pay professors similarly. Professors in each institution were selected and then matched on the basis of gender, length of service with the institution, number of publications, number of grants obtained, and average student evaluations.  The data are as follows.

            Pair     State "T"       State "G"                   Pair     State "T"       State "G"       

            1          38,432             42,134                         6          39,232             42,143

            2          47,984             49,243                         7          48,394             50,003

            3          58,423             63,243                         8          51,248             53,381

            4          35,345             36,454                         9          64,458             68,454

            5          43,214             44,365                         10        42,345             43,294

1. What is the null hypothesis?
2. What is the alternative hypothesis?
3. What test statistic will you use? Why?
4. What alpha level will you set?
5. What is the average salary for each state?
6. What is the value of the test statistic?
7. What is the p-value?
8. What is your decision about the null hypothesis?
9. What is your interpretation of the results? (2-3 sentences; 2pts).

With respect to the division of property, what is the difference between community property states and states that are not community property states?