Missouri Department of Health

Do you ever worry if your family will have access to clean drinking water tomorrow? If your mother or father’s final resting place will be bulldozed, excavated, and defiled? These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile…

Can you imagine a world without the happiest place on Earth? A world without the magic, whimsy, and optimism that he created. Walt Disney helped create the entertainment industry that we know today. He discovered the fields of animation, and explored different ways educate. Walt Disney was and still is a very popular man. However, some people may not know how he began his career an animator. Walt Disney ingrained himself and his brand as a part of America, during his forty-three year Hollywood…

“Welfare is the fastest growing part of government spending. Between 1989 and fiscal year 2008, mean-tested welfare spending increased by 292 percent.” (The Heritage Foundation, Web) Roughly 12,800,000 Americans, which is 4.1% of those living in the United States are on welfare or some form of government assistance. The United States government spends $131.9 billion on welfare annually, not including food stamps and unemployment. $1 trillion annually are spent throughout all 83 government…

As of 2014 it is reported that roughly 75% of American adults use social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter. These results are much greater than the 2008 report of 26%.( Hampton ) If one visits any park, restaurant, or any other social gathering across the United States, they are likely to witness more than one individual using a portable electronic device, using some type of social media. People no longer congregate in groups and talk to one another, but separate themselves from actual…

‘Our review indicates there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organic over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority,’ said Alan Dangour of the London School's Public Health Intervention Research Unit. Surveying 50,000 studies conducted over 50 years, the authors focused on 55 that met their standards of scientific rigor. The studies that led to the group's controversial conclusions covered a wide range of crops and…

Unionidae) in der Schwalm, einem nordhessischen Mittelgebirgsfluß. Decheniana 145: 165-176. Neck, R.W. and R.G. Howells. 1994. Status survey of Texas heelsplitter, Potamilus amphichaenus (Frierson, 1898). Unpublished report, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Resource Protection Division and Inland Fisheries Division, Austin. 47 pp. Neel, J.K. 1963. Impact of Reservoirs. Pages 575593. In: Frey, D.G. (editor): Limnology in North America. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. 734 pp. Nelson,…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…

Even before Claussen began pushing his architectural vision, others were busy designing the inner workings of the plant. Jan Knau, an engineer, was only 27 when he was asked to come up with a flexible assembly line for the factory. Knau, then just a junior associate, contacted BMW’s top 15 assembly engineers. He invited them to a two-day workshop at a BMW retreat near the Austrian Alps. After a series of marathon sessions that included discussions of every facet of the ideal assembly line, Knau…