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What is the benefit of understanding the Baldridge Criteria when conducting a Homeland Security Assessment for an organization? First we must have an understanding of just what the Baldridge Criteria is and where did it originate. Both public as well as private business organizations have been using a criterion that was developed for performance excellence by Malcolm Baldridge. It was founded in 1987 as an internal self-assessment to measure their organizations performance excellence against…

The annual tradition of rewarding players that rank high in personal brand popularity All-Star starting spots may have finally come to an end this season. The NBA All-Star Game has always been an annual treat for the loyal fans of the league. Showcasing the NBA's best stars from the first half of the season while rewarding fading veterans who have given their best in the past for the league's future to grow. The other aspect that has been constantly debated is the fan voted popular star who may…

Beginning as a modest 648 acre farm in 1858, the Iowa State University campus was hardly more than a large prairie with a few buildings scattered around. As enrollment rates skyrocketed, it was clear that the landscape needed a change. In the early 1900s, the Olmstead Brothers were hired to survey the land and construct a detailed recommendations report to assist in the campus’s future landscape design. Their design of Iowa States campus was designated to not only serve the travel needs of its…

Reorientation therapy is therapy that people with homosexual or bisexual tendencies come to for gender-role reorientation, or to become heterosexual as some might argue. Until recently, Gagnon (2015), reports that the underlying assumptions that a therapist is trying to convert an individual to heterosexuality is actually false, and adds that a client can explore his heterosexual potential without having to convert. This has been a hot topic across the last several years with major bills being…

The YouTube video, The Big Fix: The 1985 Patrick Ewing NBA Lottery, indicated that the reason why the envelope was thrown in there like that was because Jack Wagner was purposely marking which envelope contained the Knicks logo. When Stern would see the marked envelope, he would go in there and pick up the envelope. After the globe was spun several times, the globe was opened and the commissioner visibly exhaled like he was deeply nervous. The video then suggested that Stern did that because he…

Motors on July 2003, San carlos, CA and there an American automaker, energy storage company and a solar panel manufacturer based in Palo Alto, CA. ELon Musk also founded SpaceX (Space Exploration technologies Corp) . It's an American Aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company Headquartered in Hawthorne, CA in 2002. One of his big accomplishments were “Paypal” witch was founded on December 1998, Palo Alto, CA. Paypal is an American company operating on worldwide online…

According to Holmes (2009), one of the public health challenges of the millennium is aging, which has been compounded with the increased incidence of chronic diseases and disabilities. Diabetes has been identified as a chronic disease and the American Diabetes Association [ADA] (2015) reported that there is an increased risk of type 2 diabetes as people get older. According to ADA (2015), one in every four people over the age of sixty is diabetic. RELEVANCE…

voice. Although I have not received any feedback stating I have used passive voice, I am aware this could become an issue in the future. In order to fix this concern, I plan on reviewing chapters 3 and 4 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual). These chapters extensively review mechanical style and basic grammar. Additionally, I intend on making a checklist that is comprised of my most common errors. Before submitting each paper, I intend on reviewing…

He caught the ball with eight seconds left in the game. A defender ran towards him, one hand in the air to try to block the shot. As he jumped up, the entire crowd held their breaths. Everything was moving in slow motion; his arm extended and the ball spun out of his hand, gliding up into an arc headed towards the hoop. As the ball neared its highest point, the shot clock went off, and the shrill buzzer pierced through the silence. Everyone in that arena was focused on one thing: the basketball,…

I recently watched a movie about a young woman who was blind and deaf. Her communication was very limited and as a result how this young woman interacted with life was also very limited. When we use solid communications skills we make interacting with all aspects of our lives…