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Management Courses
Part A: Courses on Sustainability and Environmental Issues
Creating Business Sustainability
Part B: Courses with Some Content that Relates to Sustainability
Accounting Control Systems
Strategic Information Systems and Design
Organization Development, Transformation & Change
Global Organization Development and Change
Organizational Development and Macro Change Theory
Leadership: Effective Skill Development
Leading Organizational Change
eBusiness Strategies, Architecture and Design
Business Issues and Practices
Introduction to Business Law
International Business
Strategic Management
Business Applications of Statistical Analysis
Leading Change and Capacity Building Non-Profits
Ethics and Business in Society
Perspectives in International Business
Strategic Management (capstone)
Strategic Non-Profit Management
Comprehensive Fund Development for Non-Profit
Information Systems and The Enterprise
Analysis and Design of Complex Systems
Virtual Work Environments
Information Technology Leadership and Management
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Global Marketing
Marketing Management
Operations Management (OPM3113)
Operations Management (OPM 6033)
Creating Business Sustainability
Course Number: GLM 6343
Course Utility: This course is one of four elective courses comprising the "Global Technology and Innovation" track for the MBA International program.
Course Description: Businesses struggle with keeping products and services current and staying ahead of changing global market demands. This course focuses on applying the concepts of sustainable value to create business sustainability through investment strategies, market insight, and operational excellence. Students will gain an understanding of how sustainable development and sustainability principles are used as drivers for innovation, collaboration, and transformation. Environmentally-friendly, socially-driven, and capitalism-restricting agendas, and sustainability principles will be discussed as they relate to business sustainability. This course sets the landscape of sustainability for creating long-term competitive advantage and growth.
Course Outline: This course sets the landscape of what sustainability must include in business terms to provide a competitive advantage and enable growth. Students will learn the common pitfalls for entropy of offerings such as slowness to market, inability to respond to market demands, under-investment in innovation, inattention to environmental and social issues, poor succession planning, and many more. Students will explore successful sustainable business strategies and the management processes needed to support them.
Course Objectives: The objectives of this course are:
1. Define sustainability, sustainability leadership, business sustainability, and the sustainable enterprise as it relates to stakeholder value that requires performance on multiple dimensions.
2. Apply sustainability values using a variety of frameworks for engaging in meaningful business sustainability practices.
3. Discuss how any product or service can be sustainable, regardless of its costs, materials, or regulations if attention is paid to fundamental business feasibility and acceleration.
4. Select leadership actions that support the natural rhythms of change when engaging with others in continuous process of social change.
5. Demonstrate ability to work effectively with relational power dynamics, strategic partnerships, and risk-taking.
Possible Text and Readings:
Dresner, S. (2007). The Principles of Sustainability, London: Earthscan.
Epstein, M. (2008). Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impact, San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Galea, C. (2007). Teaching Business Sustainability: Cases, Simulations, and Experiential Approaches, Stanford, CA: Greenleaf Publishing.
Laszlo, C. (2008). Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies are Doing Well, Stanford, CA: Greenleaf Publishing.
Selected Articles:
Ferguson, G. (May 2003). On the Edge: Vanishing Point - The Search for Sustainable Competitive Advantage, Outlook Journal.
Salz, P.A. (2005). Sustainable Success is Based on Three Key Building Blocks: Sharply Defined Strategies are Vital, Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2005.
Stuart L.H. and Milstein, M.B. (2003). Creating Sustainable Value for Business Enterprises, Academy of Management Executive, V17, N2, p. 56-69.
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development: From Environmental Emissions to Profit and Sustainability (1994-Present).
Accounting Control Systems
Course Number: ACC 6013
Course Description: This course focuses on the design, implementation, and use of managerial planning and control systems to achieve a firm's strategies. Case studies emphasize the role of accounting information in the decision making process. Topics include: the nature and design of control systems, responsibility and profit centers, financial performance measures, planning and budgeting systems, transfer pricing, management compensation, and the role of directors, controllers, and auditors in the control process. The use of control systems for global, service, and non-profit firms is integrated throughout the course.
Sustainability Content: Students learn life cycle costing (LCC) through case analysis. The objective of performing a LCC analysis should be to choose the most cost-effective approach for using available resources over the entire lifespan of a product or system (http://lifecyclecost.net/). Students learn about life cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) that is the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence. These concepts go hand in hand - in assessing environmental impact and its cost and ROI.
Strategic Information Systems and Design
Course Number: DBA8063
Course Definition: This course is designed to enable leaders to anticipate and evaluate the political, economic and social impact of technology in an organization. Students examine the strategic relationship of information technology and systems to the organization. The role of technology is then examined within the organization's environment to determine its core and distinctive competencies to sustain a competitive advantage. Topics on management of innovation, technology and knowledge transfers between nation-states, and intellectual properties in a digital-global world are covered.
Sustainability Content: Topics include the concepts of technology life cycles, technology adoption patterns, disruptive technologies, balanced scorecards, technology governance, and innovation management. At the technology level, we address issues of virtual computing and cloud computing in MIS8033, both of which contribute to reducing carbon footprints.
Organization Development, Transformation and Change
Course Number: DBA8073
Course Description: Organizations and their surrounding environments are constantly changing. It is important for business leaders to understand the nature of the various changes and their own responses to it. This course provides the conceptual frameworks and tools to lead and orchestrate organizational change. Several leading theories and models used in management of organizational change are presented. Students will explore case studies associated with organizational change, including methods of discovery, envisioning change, and various design process and implementation issues. Students will complete a self-assessment on his/her change leadership capabilities to facilitate a change initiative with their organization and develop a change management system to lead a team, division or organization from action to impact.
Sustainability Content: Students are introduced to a number of readings and research agendas in sustainability such as systemic sustainability and appreciative inquiry and how these approaches and models help global organization like the United Nations in partnership with 1200 organizations (business, government, and civil society) create and implement policies and strategies that focus on the triple bottom line - people, planets, and profits. Students read the latest book on Sustainable Value and examine what does sustainability mean to the field of OD and change? And, how can you take the sustainability concept from a value to an innovation or part of your business model? Several case studies are reviewed of the early adopters of sustainability that applied it as a business strategy to derive economic value to its shareholders and also achievement of social and environmental outcomes.
Global Organization Development and Change
Course Number: GLM6033
Course Description: This course integrates the theory and practice of global organization development using transitional and transformational leadership models for negotiating change. Values, vision, communication, and coalition building are explored to build the structure needed to overcome organizational inertia and open the way to orchestrate change in complex global organizations. Cultural factors affecting group and individual incentives and moral values are considered and integrated into the design and implementation of plans for strategic change.
Sustainability Content: Students explore how to incorporate the values of sustainability into the cultural assumptions of the organization as an intentional and incremental change process or disruptive transformational change. Students are introduced to the Systemic Sustainability TM Framework as a way of embracing sustainability and integrating it into the conversations, strategies and actions of the organization.
Organizational Development and Macro Change Theory
Course Number: HRM3043
Course Description: This course will introduce the student to methods, theories, and practices of organizational development and change with a focus on addressing organizational ineffectiveness and strategies to maximize the health (managerial, fiscal, operational, and structural/organizational) of the organization. Theories, design, structure, systems, process, continuity, and the behavior of organizations as part of the larger society are studied from a macro perspective. In addition, theories, methods, and practices of organizational change and development are introduced as means of addressing organizational ineffectiveness and maximization of organizational health.
Sustainability Content: The question of how an organization's behavior affects the larger society inherently involves issues of sustainability. An examination of the macro environment includes how the organization's present behavior affects not only the greater society in the present, but also the organization's future abilities to meet the needs of society and the marketplace.
Leadership: Effective Skill Development
Course Number: HRM3053
Course Description: This course is designed emphasize the meaning, importance, and nature of leadership. In this course, we will identify the attributes associated with effective leadership and how these attributes can be applied in everyday situations. We will also explore why everyone has the potential to be a leader, and how to tap into the leader within. Woven through the course are themes of social responsibility, leadership and ethics.
Sustainability Content: Students receive exposure to the need for leaders to understand the implications of present-day organizational and managerial decisions on the future of the organization and its surrounding environment.
Leading Organizational Change
Course Number: HRM6033
Course Description: Dealing with change is part of every individual's job in an organization today. Given this factor, individuals must have the capacity to manage and lead a division or organization's change agenda. This course provides the conceptual framework and tools to help individuals deal with organizational change. It also examines both social and organizational change that provides the foundation to lead a change initiative. Strategies and tactics used in organization development and behavior are presented. Students will learn an OD process called appreciative inquiry to learn how to embrace any change agenda.
Sustainability Content: This course looks at the human element of sustainability to look at these organizations that are value led and mission and vision driven to succeed if they take a holistic approach to social, economic, and environmental issues.
Various tools for learning and personal change as support for personal and organizational capacity building are utilized including: identification of personal values; self-reflection in order to develop a personal vision and mission; a strategic hunt to locate one's organization's values, vision, and mission;; use of instruments for identification of leadership style, level of emotional intelligence regarding change; use of the Internet to enhance these tools; a learning library; the Change Leadership Self-Assessment (self as leader) and the Change Initiative Proposal (a proposal for change in one's organization and students address sustainability concepts) and 'learning reports' written to both 1) cause deeper thinking and reflection about the basic topics of the course and 2) serve as accountability for learning. Case studies (both written and video), theory discussion, and models are used as well.
eBusiness Strategies, Architecture and Design
Course Number: INT3603
Course Description: This course examines the linkage of organizational strategy and electronic methods of delivering products, services, and exchanges in inter-organizational, national, and global environments. Information technology strategy and technological solutions for enabling effective business processes within and between organizations in a global environment are considered.
Sustainability Content: A variety of factors drive firms to engage in e-business. Sustainability is one such factor. This course touches on the impact of e-business on society - reduced burden of transportation on the environment, increased global communication, etc. Students work on a group project in which each group discusses a hypothetical firm planning to move at least some operations into the online environment. Each group must identify the business objectives, personnel plan, and a contingency/continuity plan, among other elements.
Business Issues and Practices
Course Number: MGT1212
Course Description: Introduction to the field of business and management through examination of business principles, practices, and trends and how they are reshaping today's business and altering tomorrow's competitive environment. Technology and the global economy are covered extensively. Key themes stressed through the study of business cases include leadership, ethics, managing change, customer satisfaction, and quality. Career planning within such areas as accounting, finance, operations, human resources, information technology, marketing, or entrepreneurship.
Sustainability Content: The course includes an introduction to the concept of the triple bottom line. Social responsibility and ethics are key themes interwoven into all discussions, from human resource management to production processes and public relations. Students gain an awareness of the relationship between the individual firm and the social, physical and economic environment in which it operates.
Introduction to Business Law
Course Number: MGT2113
Course Description: Introduction to U.S. legal system and its role in management of business and non-profit organizations. Outline of legal institutions and procedure and their Constitutional basis. Survey of contract, tort, and property along with regulatory issues of employment, competition, consumer protection, and environmental rules.
Sustainability Content: Relationship between traditional and modern property rights in broader context of the legal system; evolution of regulation and social responsibility for sustainable and environmentally thoughtful business decisions.
International Business
Course Number: MGT4013
Course Description: Exploration of the multi-faceted topics necessary to develop and nurture the international dimension of business. Geography, cultural differences (including religions), economics, politics, regional alliances, transportation modes, exchange mechanisms and rates, balance of payments, tariffs, quotas, assisting agencies, trade documents and agencies, and various options for entering foreign markets such as exporting, licensing and manufacturing.
Sustainability Content: The ethical and societal ramifications of expanding into foreign markets are explored.
Strategic Management
Course Number: MGT4213
Course Description: The capstone course in the series of required management courses. Demonstrates how knowledge from various study areas contributes to the formulation of management policies and strategies.
Sustainability Content: Students analyze the relationship between social responsibility, including all aspects of sustainability, and organizational performance. SWOT analyses are also employed to organize environmental and organizational information to understand the firm's position in the marketplace and in relation to its own goals. Strategic change is a prominent component of the course, as students come to learn growth strategies, how to identify and implement diversification opportunities, how to enter into the global marketplace, and the competitive and cooperative strategies available to corporations.
Business Applications of Statistical Analysis
Course Number: MGT5012
Course Description: This course provides an overview of statistical concepts and analysis applied to business problems. Topics include probability distributions, statistical inference for means and proportions, estimation and hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, correlation, and simple regression. Use of cases and spreadsheets
Sustainability Content: The analytic aspects of business problem solving and decision-making. Discussing specific techniques and management, marketing, and financial models are evaluated for their practical application to organizational decision-making requirements for sustainability and growth. Fundamentals and statistical reasoning for making sound decisions in any business system is essential to its sustainability. The course provides a framework for applying basic statistical methods in process development and process decision making to improve the performance of productive processes, manufacturing or service. It is a broad yet comprehensive introduction of fundamental concepts and real-world up-to-date problems.
Potential enhancements of sustainability content: Introduce statistical strategies for resources conservation and sharing.
Leading Change and Capacity Building Non-Profits
Course Number: MGT6033
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students a comprehensive understanding of how to lead and sustain change, and build capacity, in a nonprofit organization. This course provides the conceptual framework and tools to lead and deal with the organizational change needed to pursue capacity building strategies. Students will examine both social and organizational level change that provides the foundation to lead a change initiative. Students will be introduced to the field of capacity building: its key players, concepts, and theories. It addresses basic competencies, principles and skills necessary to bring about change and build capacity at the individual, organizational, multi-organizational, and global capacity levels.
Sustainability Content: In the nonprofit sector, this course looks at the human element of sustainability to look at these organizations that are value led and mission driven to succeed if they take a holistic approach to social, economic, and environmental issues.
Various tools for learning and personal change as support for personal and organizational capacity building are utilized including: identification of personal values; self-reflection in order to develop a personal vision and mission; a strategic hunt to locate one's organization's values, vision, and mission; 360-degree feedback process; use of instruments for identification of leadership style, level of emotional intelligence regarding change; use of the Internet to enhance these tools; a learning library; the Change Leadership Self-Assessment (self as leader) and the Change Initiative Proposal (a proposal for change in one's organization and students address sustainability concepts) and 'learning reports' written to both 1) cause deeper thinking and reflection about the basic topics of the course and 2) serve as accountability for learning. Case studies (both written and video), theory discussion, and models are used as well.
Ethics and Business in Society
Course Number: MGT 6043
Course Description: Interactions between business entities and society at large in an ethical framework. By examining society's values and needs and the ethical assumptions, attitudes, values and behavior of business institutions, future managers will have a basis for making ethical decisions that affect society. Balancing the needs and the values of organizations with those of society represents the significant ethical dilemma. A systematic view of the place of business institutions enables managers to determine the effect of their actions on society. Both conceptual and applied considerations are given weight.
Sustainability Content: The predominant application of sustainability occurs in the area of corporate social responsibility. The interaction between the zeal of business for immediate profit and the need to make decisions which support desired values, reject questionable cultural norms and preserve certain societal mores is central to the concept of how business and humanity can thrive now and long into the future. Environmental and safety issues frequently juxtapose the desire to produce cheaply now despite the long term ramifications of such behavior. While a perceived solution may be far more cost effective presently, long term consequences and costs must be considered in arriving at, and implementing critical decisions.
Specific ethical theories such as Utilitarianism, Civilization and Kant's Categorical Imperative are presented and are central to the analysis of various factual scenarios. Topics such as whistle blowing, employment, sexual harassment and economic equity are far-sighted and ripe for analyzing potential areas to maximize human potential on both individual and societal levels. Intellectual property and recognition of the need to promote and reward ingenuity and industry cultivate and reinforce the importance of creative and entrepreneurial ventures which can benefit both present and future generations.
Perspectives in International Business
Course Number: MGT 6053
Course Description: Examination of the size and scope of international business and its impact on the domestic economy. Rules of multinational corporations, institutional structure and economic theories, and environmental constraints. Emphasis on regional and ethical issues in the operation of multi-national corporations and strategic issues in international business.
Sustainability Content: The textbook used incorporates sustainability by focusing on making the student aware of markets, environmental issues and culture outside the borders of the United States. The class then exposes the student to not only the need for corporations to expand into foreign markets to sustain itself, but also the awareness that organizations need to define itself within other cultures, and be aware of the desire of local nationals to sustain their local sovereignty. By growing within local sovereign nations instead of keeping an American identity will ensure a sustainable global enterprise respected by other nations/cultures.
Professor Rinkus in his class introduces the Carbon Trading Market, its inception and growth and how international investment derivatives can positively affect environmental sustainability. are providing financial incentives to positively affect environmental sustainability. He also incorporates examples of corporations like Ikea, Volkswagen, and Ford Motor Company, and their contributions to environmental sustainability, and the positive reaction of consumers globally to the responsible citizenship these companies are demonstrating.
Strategic Management (capstone)
Course Number: MGT6063
Course Description: A capstone business class. The development of the administrative perspective on management, including establishing and analyzing policy and strategy in various settings, as well as the relationships between administrative decision making and important social issues. Case methods and computer simulations are used.
Sustainability Concepts: This course examines stakeholder theory and strategy as it relates to social responsibility. Social responsibility applies to business strategies that are executed with respect to human capital and the environment. Students consider global tectonics and its strategic implications. Global tectonics "describes the process by which developing trends in technology, environment, and society slow revolutionize the business environment ... tectonic shifts are categorized as societal, technological, or environmental" (deKluvyer and Pearce, 2008, p. 59).
Strategic Non-Profit Management
Course Number: MGT 6073
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students a strategic and comprehensive approach to nonprofit management. It reviews areas essential to effective leadership of today's nonprofit organization, such as governance, fund development, financial accountability, human resource and volunteer management. Woven through the course are the three key themes of social responsibility and leadership; multi-sector collaboration; and service and careers in the nonprofit sector. It is the combination of these themes, coupled with traditional areas of nonprofit management, which creates the innovative educational aspects of this course. Topics will include types of nonprofit organizations, dual bottom lines (mission and financial), strategic planning, fundraising, volunteerism, and director responsibilities.
Sustainability Content: This course provides an introduction to a broader understanding of nonprofits and their role in society. Students survey leadership and management competencies and strategies for today's charitable nonprofit organizations and learn about the growing role of charitable nonprofit organizations in the United States and the global economy. Students relate other business coursework to the management of mission-based organizations and help students relate to nonprofit organizations from a variety of perspectives.
Comprehensive Fund Development for Non-Profit
Course Number: MGT6083
Course Description: This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of fund development for charitable (501c3) nonprofit organizations. It addresses basic principles and skills of all areas essential to a complete fund development program and introduces unique management competencies of each. Topics covered include comprehensive campaigns, capital campaigns, case statements, prospect research, major gifts, planned giving, annual fund campaigns and gift stewardship and management. It includes an introduction to the psychology of giving and communication competencies of successful solicitation. Woven through the course are themes of social responsibility, leadership and multi-sector collaboration.
Sustainability Content: This course presents the foundations of educational theory and practical training that underlie financially sustainable, mission based enterprises and the variety of social missions they seek to achieve. It provides an understanding of the motivations for individual charitable giving to social causes and the professional and ethical training best practices used today in connecting with those who desire to support a particular social cause. It is essential to understanding one key means by which people in our society help other people, that is, through charitable giving.
Information Systems and the Enterprise
Course Number: MIS 6013
Course Description: Examines the use of information systems for achieving and maintaining competitive advantage, and managerial issues concerning the development, implementation, and management of enterprise information systems. Case studies address the impact of information systems on the organization, challenges involved in managing technological change in organizations, and the impact of emerging technologies. Students will develop a socio-technical perspective on the use of information systems to solve real-world problems.
Sustainability Content: The students learn about integrating information technology into all aspects of business operations and planning. The emphasis is the use of technology within the business social and organizational culture to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the internal processes and those processes which impact employees, customers, and the community. As information technology changes and increases its impact on all parts of the business environment, management can address the various aspects of the technological and social/organizational systems change. The focus will be on improving the conditions of people impacted by the technology and the improvement of business processes and profitability.
Analysis and Design of Complex Systems
Course Number: MIS 6123
Course Description: Examination of the tools and methods of traditional systems development, including systems analysis, design, test, and implementation. Focus on structured analysis techniques.
Sustainability Content: The focus of this course is on the implementation of information systems that improve business processes from a socio-technical perspective. New systems are designed, developed and/or purchased and then implemented to improve all aspects of a variety of business systems. These systems include hardware, software, data, business processes, and people. The new system must be sustainable for the people within the system and those people that come in contact with the system. In this respect sustainability focuses on the short and long term impact on the people involved with the technology.
Virtual Work Environments
Course Number: MIS 7463
Course Description: Design and use of virtual collaboration technologies to support virtual work environment. Technologies to support communication, conferencing, and collaboration are explored, with emphasis placed on behavioral, social, managerial, and technical aspects of implementing and gaining benefit from these technologies.
Sustainability Content: Course covers virtual work group management in relation to enhancing productivity and improving organization performance while positively reducing the carbon foot print. This results in reduction in travel expenses and emissions; reduction in net office space; opportunity for innovative space design and increased productivity for knowledge workers.
Information Technology Leadership and Management
Course Number: MIS8033
Course Description: This Course gives an advanced treatment of current IT leadership and management issues in the global business arena, including the role of chief information officer (CIO) as a change initiator, outsourcing as a solution strategy, and Business Process Re-Engineering.
Sustainability Content: Topics include the concepts of technology life cycles, technology adoption patterns, disruptive technologies, balanced scorecards, technology governance, and innovation management. The course also addresses issues of virtual computing and cloud computing both of which contribute to reducing carbon footprints.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Course Number: MKT3033
Course Description: This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills needed to successfully market and promote a business to customers, prospective employees, and possible investors. This dynamic course will address important principles of marketing, pricing, selling, strategic management, hiring, and promotion. Woven through the course are themes of social responsibility, leadership and ethics.
Sustainability Content: The course includes components on internet-based marketing, a key component of organizational sustainability when managed properly. A firm's responsibility to consumers and the public is highlighted.
Global Marketing
Course Number: MKT3113
Course Description: Course provides an environmental/cultural approach to international marketing from a truly global perspective rather than just the U.S point of view. Topics covered include assessing global market opportunities, emerging markets, and international distribution systems. Research will include the Internet and its expanding role as firms are able to position themselves internationally in competition with larger players. Also discussed are the formation of virtual alliances, negotiations with customers, partners, and regulators, country-of-origin effect and global brands, green marketing, and the changing profiles of global managers.
Sustainability Content: Course indirectly addresses sustainability by including topics such as the country of origin effect (COE) and "green" marketing. These concepts assist businesses in utilizing and increasing customer demand for sustainable practices and products.
Marketing Management
Course Number: MKT6013
Course Description: This course focuses on managing the marketing function in a changing, competitive environment in coordination with other organizational functions. Special attention is given to the development of marketing strategies for the achievement of competitive advantage in product, price, place, and promotion. Students also develop analytical marketing tools and techniques by utilizing case analysis and decision making in the management of marketing strategies.
Sustainability: The students review case studies that address corporate social responsibility, green marketing strategies, public relations and overall good corporate citizenship as it relates to branding. This is developed in the marketing plans and the integrated marketing communications plan.
Operations Management
Course Number: OPM3113
Course Description: An overview of production functions in both manufacturing and service organizations. Forecasting, capacity planning, product and service system design, aggregate planning, inventory and project management, and quality assurance.
Sustainability Content: The basic objective of this course is to learn the science of operations management. Operational decision-making involves an understanding of how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. This is particularly true in the subject area of transportation and transshipment models. One unit focuses on lean systems, which enable an organization to eliminate waste in the production cycle.
Operations Management
Course Number: OPM 6033
Course Description: This course deals with all aspects of the operations function - the activities that result in the production and delivery of the firm's products or services. These activities include product design, production planning, demand forecasting, and inventory control. This course provides the basic knowledge on all the related activities from the point of view of the plant manager. Thus, the student would develop the knowledge and skills to effectively supervise the operations of any firm.
Topics Introduced: Long-term forecasting, productive systems design, capacity planning, aggregate planning, inventory replenishment planning, material requirements planning, resources planning and scheduling, total quality management, waiting line systems analysis and design, and project planning and scheduling.
Sustainability Content: Student learn that in order to sustain business, maintain leadership, and expand market share we need to effectively and efficiently manage our productive resources, be competitive, and bring to market fast and constantly provide high quality goods and services that would delight our customers with respect for our environment. Operations management is the science, art, and techniques of the managing of productive resources in a sustainable manner. It is responsible for the management of productive systems: systems that either create goods or provide services or both. Operations management entails the design and control of systems and/or processes responsible for the productive use of raw materials, human resources, equipment, and facilities in the transformation and development of a product or service while maintaining the respect for the environment in which we live.
Potential enhancements of sustainability content: To promote sustainability (as the ability to meet present needs without compromising those of the future generations, we need to emphasis the topics such as "design for environment," "extended producer responsibility," "environmental analysis (as it pertains to physical characteristics and location of a job)," and "environmental waste (as it pertains to lean production, lean operation, and lean consumption)."


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My Savior
Bella Swan is never far from harm's way. In fact, as soon as she arrives, disaster strikes. Fortunantley there is a doctor on scene to help. And so starts the events of a Bella Swan, and a Doctor Carlisle Cullen. *Loverly banner made by Iris. Clap for her!* *I do not own any of these characters. Stephenie Meyer does, I'm just playing with them*
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1. Chapter 1:Can?t I Even Get Here Without Killing Myself
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The rain pelted down on my head as I stepped off the plane. Forks, Washington. The wettest place on Earth. I went to put up my hood as I searched for my father. The man I left Phoenix for.
The cruiser could easily be spotted. It stuck out like a sore thumb, not to mention the fact everyone else parked as far away from it as possible. I couldn't have agreed more with them. I wouldn't want a ticket either.
My father was easily spotted as well. He was grinning from ear to ear, looking younger than he was. I grinned back.
I was far too distracted for my well being. I mistook the next step height and missed it completely. I never regained the chance to settle my footing as I tumbled down the rest.
The ground came fast on my face, instinct told me to put my hands up and close my eyes. The brunt of the hit was taken on by my left wrist. The sound of the crack and the shifted bone could tell an idiot it was broken.
I could feel the sudden warmth that the people had gathered around me. I could hear my father as he pushed his way through the crowd yelling, "That's my daughter! Let me through!"
He came into sight, in all his police chief glory. "Bella!" He gasped.
"Are you alright?" Of course I wasn't alright you idiot.
"Yeah, Ch-Dad. I fell down a flight of stairs. I'm perfectly fine." He chuckled in response.
"Anything broken?" He gently lifted my right arm (thankfully) to help my stand up.
"Probably." The once numb wrist now had fire shooting through it.
"What is?" He asked anxiously.
"Left wrist." My shortened sentences were a result of my hyperventilating as everything set in.
He released my hand only to examine the other and he clucked his tongue.
"Yeah. That's a broken wrist for you."
He put an unsure hand behind my waist and led me to the car, only to be stopped by a gorgeous man.
"Sir, I'm a doctor. I've seen broken bones before, and I believe I could help with your daughter's dilemma." He spoke swiftly, but his voice was musical and soft.
Charlie stuttered at the beautiful man, as anyone would have. Except if you were me, and you stood senseless.
"Uh…well. You…uh. What's your name?" Charlie struggled.
"Dr. Carlisle Cullen, sir. I work at the Forks Hospital." The angel named Carlisle responded.
"Dr. Cullen, forgive me. I should have known." Charlie laughed, rather loudly.
"Chief Swan?" Carlisle asked incredulously.
Charlie sighed. "I'm relieved you're here. I was afraid I would have to have Bella be treated here."
"Happy to help, Chief."
"Please, it's Charlie."
My wrist was quieted as Carlisle softly looked to me and I nearly fainted.
His skin was as pale as snow and he was tall. All his features were angled sharply, but his eyes were large and round. They were the color of honey-suckle and framed by impossible thick eyelashes. He had a sense of gentle authority about him, and it pleased me.
"May I look at your wrist, Bella?" He asked softly and formally.
I nodded dumbly to this angel.
He took my wrist in his large hand. I was startled at the coldness and I withdrew, only to have a sharp pain shoot through my arm.
"It's probably best if you don't move it." Carlisle chuckled.
I gaped at how musical his laugh was, and I instantly committed it to memory. He was obviously older than I was and it wouldn't be proper for me to…be…with…him. Not to mention the fact that he was probably already married.
His honey eyes examined my wrist with such knowledge and precision, it was as if he was the X-Ray machine himself.
"Well, it looks like your forearm bone shifted onto your wrist during the fall. I can't tell for sure until we get to the hospital." Like he would actually need a machine.
"It's a little ways away, Bella. I have some pain killers in my briefcase, but I doubt they'll be strong enough for a broken bone." He said sadly.
"I can hold out." I squeaked for the first time. Instantly, I realized how childish it sounded. I swallowed my spit to wet the back of my throat, but his lips were already twitching at the sound of me.
"Sorry." I mumbled in an attempt to preserve what pride I had left.
"Bella, I think you should ride with Dr. Cullen. He can watch you better that way to regulate your pain." I mentally cursed my father for that one.
"It's fine with me. Bella?" Carlisle looked to me for approval of this proposition.
"Fine." I grumbled.
Charlie smiled and walked back to the cruiser, while Carlisle had his hand on the small of my back.
I could feel his cold skin through my jacket, but I didn't mind. I didn't mind at all.
He led me over to a fancy black car. A Mercedes. He opened the passenger door for me and I quickly climbed in.
The neat, clean black of the car was comforting. As Carlisle swiftly climbed into the other side and turned on the car, he adjusted the dials. Turning down the music, the heater on high, and the seat warmers I felt extremely relaxed, despite my broken wrist.
I snapped out of it and realized who I was riding with.
His beautiful eyes were on the road, boringly staring at it, as if he was forcing it.
The clock read 9:44 and it was an hour drive to Forks from Port Angeles. I sighed and squirmed back into the warm chair, awaiting the very awkward conversation that was to come.
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NIJ funding helped the Boston Police Department solve a rape and murder case almost 50 years after the crime.
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This was a ghastly crime.
Nineteen-year-old Mary Sullivan had just moved from Cape Cod to Boston, where she rented an apartment in the bustling Beacon Hill neighborhood. Within a few days of her arrival in January 1964, she was found dead. Her attacker raped her and strangled her to death.
Sullivan was one of 11 women whom Albert DeSalvo — known as the Boston Strangler — would later confess to killing. However, he then recanted, leaving lingering doubts about the possibility that the real assailant had eluded capture.
DeSalvo was never convicted of any of the Strangler killings, but he was sentenced to life in prison on other rape charges. Fellow inmates stabbed him to death in 1973. For decades after his death, experts argued about whether he really was the Strangler or whether someone else committed the crimes and got away.
Evidence that finally linked DeSalvo to the Sullivan assault emerged in July 2013.
Over the years, NIJ has funded the examination of "cold cases" across the country through its Solving Cold Cases with DNA program. The funding helps police departments identify, review, investigate and analyze violent crime cold cases that could be solved through DNA analysis. Sometimes the cases are so old that DNA testing did not yet exist when the crimes were committed, and testing biological evidence now might show a match with a suspect.
In 2009 and 2012, the city of Boston received competitive grants under NIJ's cold case program. The Boston Police Department's cold case squad decided to use some of the NIJ funding to test DNA from a nephew of DeSalvo's and look for a match with seminal fluid that had been found on Sullivan's body and on a blanket at the crime scene. When forensics experts ran the test, they got a hit.
The match was possible because of tests that zero in on short tandem repeats (STRs), which are patterns found on DNA strands. Forensic scientists use a specialized test that focuses on male (Y) chromosomes. Y-chromosome DNA comes from fathers who pass their Y-STR DNA profiles to their male offspring. Barring a mutation, the profiles remain unchanged. Every male in a paternal lineage has the same Y-STR DNA profile. This includes fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, nephews and a wider group of male relatives, even out to third and fourth cousins.
NIJ has funded research on Y-STRs for years, believing that it would give forensics experts a powerful and important tool in certain cases.
Y-chromosome DNA testing examines the male-specific portion of biological evidence. This can be especially important in cases in which a small amount of male DNA is recovered in the presence of a large amount of female DNA, such as in sexual assault evidence.
For more than a decade, NIJ has funded research and development projects on the Y chromosome. These projects include:
Read more about these and other NIJ-funded Y-STR projects.
Testing of Y-STRs in the Mary Sullivan case showed a match between DNA from the crime scene and DeSalvo's nephew. According to Boston officials, this match implicated DeSalvo and excluded 99.9 percent of the male population. But because a Y-STR profile is common to a group of male family members, it does not yield the more precise match to a particular individual available in other DNA tests.
Armed with the Y-STR testing results, Boston authorities went a step further and exhumed DeSalvo's body in July 2013 so they could conduct a confirmatory test using a DNA sample directly from DeSalvo. DNA extracted from a femur and three teeth yielded a match — specifically, DNA specialists calculated the odds that a white male
other than DeSalvo contributed the crime scene evidence at one in 220 billion — leaving no doubt that DeSalvo had raped and murdered Mary Sullivan.
Since 2005, NIJ has awarded more than $73 million to more than 100 state and local law enforcement agencies through its Solving Cold Cases with DNA competitive grant program. This funding has allowed the agencies to review more than 119,000 cases. The funding has also facilitated the entry of almost 4,000 DNA profiles into the FBI's Combined DNA Index System, yielding more than 1,400 hits.
The program has given agencies the opportunity to put resources toward solving homicides, sexual assaults and other violent offenses that otherwise might never have been reviewed or reinvestigated. Crime scene samples from these cases — previously thought to be unsuitable for testing — have yielded DNA profiles. And samples that previously generated inconclusive DNA results have been reanalyzed using modern technology and methods.
Thanks to these cold case funds and the latest Y-STR technology, the Boston Police Department was able to solve the mystery surrounding Mary Sullivan almost 50 years after her death.
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Philip Bulman is a former NIJ writer and editor.
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HOUSTON -- A Houston manufacturer will pay $60,000 and provide other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit, filed in November 2010, Metallic Products Corp. had an unlawful mandatory retirement policy which required employees to retire upon reaching age 70. Before he turned 70, company officials advised Jeronimo Vidals that he would be required to retire upon reaching 70 years of age. Then, on his 70th birthday, he was fired from the company pursuant to its unlawful mandatory retirement policy.
"With rare exception, mandatory retirement policies violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits forcing an employee to retire at any particular age," said R.J. Ruff, Jr., district director of the EEOC's Houston District Office.
A four-year consent decree settling the suit was signed today by Judge Sim Lake. In addition to the monetary payment to Vidals, it requires Metallic Products to rescind the unlawful policy and notify all current employees and former employees who may have been affected by the policy about this settlement. The company must rewrite all company policies and employee manuals and eliminate any mention, reference or description of the former mandatory retirement policy. Additionally, the company must provide annual ADEA and anti-discrimination training to its board of directors as well as all management and other personnel making employment decisions.
"Qualified and productive employees cannot be fired based on the employer's belief that the employee is too old to continue working or that at a specific age, all employees are expendable," said Jim Sacher, regional attorney for the EEOC's Houston District Office. "That type of biased decision making is exactly why the ADEA was enacted."
Kathy D. Boutchee, the senior trial attorney in charge of the case, added, "Mr. Vidals was, and continues to be, able to perform in the workplace. Employers cannot let their pre-conceived notions about when an employee should stop working color their employment decisions. Older workers can continue to make vital contributions far beyond the period when others think they should retire."
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By Angelo Lynn
Area residents against any outside development in Middlebury must think the sky is falling.
Within just the past couple of weeks, Middlebury has seen applications to develop a 2,400-square-foot Starbucks coffee house, a 15,000-square-foot Staples, and now a 17,000-square-foot warehouse type building for an Aldi discount food store, plus 4,200 square feet to be leased for commercial/retail uses. Add that to the prospect of Aldi building another office building on an adjacent lot in the future, and the prospect of a 40,000-square-foot commercial building in the downtown behind the Ilsley Library (see stories Page 1A) and that's a whole lot of change coming down the pike in a hurry.
But is the sky falling down or is this managed growth?
To be fair, the prospects of growth within The Centre Plaza, where Hannafords is located, have always been contemplated. And certainly town officials and residents have been anticipating for the past couple of years some commercial enterprise replacing the dilapidated car wash next to McDonald's. And to the extent that The Centre Plaza has had the capacity to expand on its existing lot — or could achieve that with adjoining land acquisition — it's not beyond the pale to believe the town has anticipated a full build-out of that property since its original application.
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October 8, 2007
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — A change in the way Vergennes Union High School teachers assign letter grades has sparked concerns, mostly among parents of high-achieving students, that it may be more difficult for their children to earn top grades, get onto the school's honor roll, and get into colleges.
Four dozen parents met with VUHS Co-principal Ed Webbley last Wednesday to discuss the grading changes, the most significant of which is actually at the other end of the spectrum: Essentially, 70 is the new 60 — students now must earn at least a grade of 70 to pass a course and stay eligible for sports. At the same time, students will also have to earn a 93 to get an A, and an 85 to get a B.
VUHS administrators made that change, Webbley said, in tandem with a scheduling tweak: Students now have two 25-minute periods free daily in which they can meet with teachers to get help learning material and improving grades.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County Humane Society (ACHS) will soon get a new executive director to replace its former leader, Jill Tucker, who recently left to help authorities take a bite out of crime against pets.
Jackie Rose, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based attorney, will officially take the helm of the ACHS on Oct. 22 after a move to Vermont. Rose recently completed a 25-year stint as executive vice president of Spectrum Programs, a nonprofit provider of substance abuse programs and mental health services in Florida.
Rose originally earned a degree in psychology and had seriously considered using that knowledge in a career caring for animals. She ended up going into law and nonprofit administration, but jumped at the opportunity to revisit her original career path when she heard about the ACHS vacancy.
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — The steadily increasing number of economics majors at Middlebury College unnerves Michael Claudon. There's nothing wrong with economics as a discipline — Claudon himself is a professor of the subject, which claims 11.9 percent of all majors — but he gets the feeling that many students choose that path because they believe it is the only way into the business world, the only way they might land a well-paying job after graduation.
This is simply not true, Claudon said. And he's prepared to prove it with his new winter term program, MIDD CORE (Creativity, Organization, Risk and Entrepreneurship), which aims to expose Middlebury students to professionals from both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors in an effort to deepen their understanding of the post-college world.
"The big picture is to help our students understand that there are all kinds of paths that you can follow to great careers and great personal lives," Claudon said. "So whatever their passion is at the college — philosophy, Spanish, dance — they can pursue it."
DYLAN GOOLEY, 6, of Bristol reacts to the image of his painted face in a mirror held up by face-painting artist Ashley White, 9, of Bristol. Gooley was one of hundreds of kids and thousands of people who attended Bristol's Harvest Festival Saturday. More than 100 vendors participated in this year's event.
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October 4, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen have hired a consulting team to uncover creative financing options for a new in-town bridge project that officials hope could be built before the end of this decade.
The consulting team of RKG Associates and McFarland-Johnson will spend the coming weeks looking at revenue sources to finance as much as $10 million of the estimated $16 million price tag of the project. The project would involve building a new bridge linking Main Street to Court Street via Cross Street, across the Otter Creek in downtown Middlebury.
If things go as scheduled, selectmen will have financing information in hand — along with some recommendations — in time for the 2008 town meeting next March.
"We really have as a goal to get something done within the next couple of years," said Selectman Dean George, chairman of Middlebury's in-town bridge committee. "We know that's ambitious."
MONKTON — It was only 18 months ago that Monkton resident Caitlyn Bushey was hitting the books at Plymouth State University, preparing herself for a career in nursing.
Last month saw Bushey return from a military stint in Iraq during which she saw more catastrophic injuries in one year as a combat medic than she may see during her entire career as a hospital nurse.
Bushey, now 21, signed up with the New Hampshire National Guard soon after graduating from Mount Abraham Union High School in 2004. She saw the Guard as an opportunity to serve her country while receiving tuition reimbursement at Plymouth State.
"I saw it as the best of both worlds," Bushey said.
She joined the 3643rd Ordinance Co. based in Concord, N.H.
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I just saw your post about miso pork and wondered whether you recommend buying organic meat in Japan. I moved to Tokyo a year ago and don't know anything about how meat is raised in Japan, whether there is widespread use of hormones and/or antibiotics in treating cattle or poultry. Thanks!
That's a bit of a complicated question. Domestically produced meat, in general, does not use a lot of hormones and so on. However, a lot of meat sold in Japan is imported, especially from the US, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina etc. There are frequent trade problems with the US about importing meat that has been fed growth hormones and so on (the US has similar trade issues with the EU). So you should read labels and see about country of origin if you are concerned (especially, I'm sorry to say, meat of U.S. origin). You could also look into farm coops (農協), who generally tout that their meat is growth hormone-free etc. You do pay more for 'happy' meat, as you do in most places.
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42 minute drive from Cleethorpes
Elsham, Lincolnshire is the closest Paintball site to Cleethorpes
This awesome purpose-built paintball park is set in over 120 acres of woodland and fields, which makes it the perfect place to kit up and head into battle! With five different game zones to explore and scenarios including the Village of the Dammed, Fort Brave and the Pyramid of Doom your combat skills will be pushed to the limit, but thanks to the semi-automatic paintball markers you're opponents won't stand a chance!
Easily accessed from the A180/ M180 and the A15. Full maps and directions will be provided on completion of booking.
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Paintball Scunthorpe - Messingham
Scunthorpe - Messingham is the closest Paintball site to Cleethorpes
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A brilliant, fun-packed site for up to 60 players, our Scunthorpe venue offers 12 varied gaming environments such as Fort Knox, The Castle and The Huts From Hell.
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70 minute drive from Cleethorpes
Our wonderful Lincoln site is a 40 acre battleground set within dense woodland and divided into 10 amazing game zones like Island Attack and Trench Warfare. Each features varied exciting team mission objectives and each is complimented by impressive sound effects and Hollywood style pyrotechnics.
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With around 20 acres of woodland to blast your way through and a variety of missions scenarios to test yourself against, a breathless day of action is in store when you book an event with us. Don the military overalls, grab your paintball gun and take part in electrifying paintball games like Tank Battle, Alamo, Hostage Rescue and Fort Assault. Will you have what it takes to emerge victorious.
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The world is full of harmful chemicals, and unfortunately many of them can be found in the industries that drive the global economy. While there is a perpetual spotlight on the dumping of these chemicals in streams, rivers, and the oceans, or when a business fails to notify its employees of a potentially harmful substance in the workplace, few people realize how many workplaces put humans into close contact with potentially lethal substances on a daily basis. Luckily, with the proper training and safety measures in place, these potentially dangerous situations rarely get out of hand. H2S Alive training is a perfect example of the type of mandatory training course that helps keep workers safe, even when working in the petroleum industry, which is rightly considered an inherently dangerous industry. Not all dangers can be avoided with, even with the best efforts by a company to do so, and that is why every employee being knowledgeable, aware, and able to deal with any situation that may arise is vitally important.
What is H2S?
H2S Alive training gets its name from the substance that it is designed to educate about: hydrogen sulfide gas (known commonly by its chemical formula of H2S). Hydrogen sulfide gas is interesting in that it is a necessary part of the human body, and is produced and used in trace quantities for a variety of things on a physiological level. Despite this usefulness in extremely low quantities, breathing in H2S can quickly turn this innocuous gas, with its trademark "rotten egg" smell, into a lethal poison. At high concentrations the gas is considered a "broad-spectrum" poison, which means that it has a number of negative effects on the human body, but one of the strongest is on the nervous system. On a cellular level, the gas can inhibit cellular respiration, and has a similar toxicity level to cyanide or carbon monoxide.
A potentially lethal dose is considered between 300-500 parts per million on most scales, but that can vary greatly depending on the specific individual inhaling it; a variety of physiological characteristics can affect the actual "lethal" concentration of the gas from person to person. At below lethal levels, prolonged and regular inhalation can have a variety of negative effects, including: nausea, eye irritation, sore throat, and others. More advanced symptoms of prolonged exposure can be chronic headaches, loss of appetite, and even adverse effects on memory.
H2S and the Petroleum Industry
The reason that H2S gas is such a major concern in the petroleum industry, and why the Canadian petroleum industry requires all employees to complete H2S Alive training, is because of where hydrogen sulfide gas can be found in nature. The two primary sources are places where organic matter is broken down by bacteria in the absence of oxygen (such as swamps), and in volcanic gases; the latter causes underground natural gas and petroleum deposits to become injected with H2S gas. Prior to the refining process, many deposits are composed of what is known as "sour" gas or crude (petroleum), which is a term for natural gas or crude oil that has not had the sulfur separated from it.
Because the hydrogen sulfide gas must be separated, there is ample time during the extraction and refining processes for contact with H2S. Companies take every effort to ensure that H2S is not a danger on the job, but the history of the industry across the world shows that accidents happen, and the results can be lethal. One of the most notorious tragedies occurred in Texas in the mid-70s. A drilling operation released a large deposit of H2S gas, which ended up taking the lives of nine workers. While tragedies such as this are not commonplace (thankfully), it illustrates the need for regular, and thorough training on the dangers of working around such a toxic compound.
What is H2S Alive?
In the Canadian petroleum industry, safety has been the impetus for requiring all industry workers to undergo a training course on hydrogen sulfide gas called "H2S Alive." The training covers a range of topics concerning H2S. The main areas of training are: H2S gas and its basic properties; detecting H2S gas; respiratory safety equipment and its usage in case of emergency; emergency response, including rescue carries and C.P.R; and the general guidelines for recognizing, responding, and resolving H2S related incidents.
There are numerous organizations throughout Canada that offer H2S Alive courses, and it is important that individuals make sure any course they complete covers the proper breadth and depth of material to offer certification. While each course may be slightly different in content and structure, certified courses typically last for about 8 hours. Once a certified course has been completed, the certification provided is currently valid for up to three years; after three years another H2S Alive training course will have to be completed.
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Eight hours can seem like a lot of time to devote to something that will most likely (and hopefully never) be called into use; however, the unfortunate truth is that training courses like H2S Alive save lives. Hydrogen sulfide is lethal enough that it was used by the British in World War I as a chemical weapon, and with substances like that there is no margin for error. Not knowing that hydrogen sulfide is heavier than air for example, could be the difference between life and death in an emergency situation. No one should have to rely on the knowledge of others in the case of a serious accident involving hydrogen sulfide; for anyone working in the petroleum industry that is nearing the expiration date for their training, don't put it off – find an H2S Alive training course today.


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The owner of the recently built Sonic drive-in restaurant at 6101 Airline Road in Arlington has filed a $1.2 million loan on the property.
Pasture Investment Properties LLC filed the real estate deed of trust Jan. 22 through BancorpSouth Bank. Patricia A. Solberg signed the deed as partner of Solberg Properties, a member of the borrowing entity.
Completed last year, the 2,044-square-foot restaurant sits on slightly less than an acre on the west side of Airline Road at its intersection with U.S. 70.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 appraisal was $527,600.
Pasture Investment Properties received the property in a June 2011 quitclaim deed from Solberg Properties, a family-owned business that operates Sonic restaurants throughout the area.
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A countywide school board ethics committee recommended no board action Wednesday, Feb. 13, against board member David Pickler on conflict of interest allegations made by fellow board member Martavius Jones.
The committee also recommended the board revise its conflict of interest policy.
The specific complaint was that Pickler voted for a school board budget last June that included a $12 million contribution for investment into a Tennessee School Boards Association trust for which Pickler's financial services firm was the financial adviser.
Jones also called on Pickler to resign from the school board.
Pickler denied any conflict and any wrongdoing.
Memphis City Schools attorney Dorsey Hopson, before he was recently appointed interim superintendent of the district, said his preliminary inquiries showed the Memphis City Schools board decided in 2009 to set aside money for such an account.
In June, the city schools superintendent and the school system's chief financial officer decided to put the money into the Tennessee School Boards Association account.
"In my review of the records, there was no vote by the board to put the money into the TSBA account and there was no requirement," Hopson said last month. "The board had a vote early on to set the money aside but not the actual decision where to place it."
The 2009 decision was made by the Memphis City Schools board at a time when there were still separate city and county boards of education and Pickler was a member of the county school board, not the city school board. The 2012 decision was after the creation of the current 23-member board structure in which Pickler became a member because of his position on the old Shelby County Schools board.
Between the two dates is the 2010 decision by the city school board to move toward a consolidation of the two school systems.
– Bill Dries
The Senate voted Thursday to place a proposed constitutional amendment to ban a state income tax before Tennessee voters.
The chamber approved the measure on a 26-4 vote, and if the House concurs, it would be placed on the ballot in next year's general election.
The political fallout from failed efforts to impose a state income tax more than a decade ago has already made renewed efforts exceedingly unlikely. But Republican Sen. Brian Kelsey of Germantown said his proposal is aimed at eliminating any uncertainty about the measure in the future.
Sen. Douglas Henry of Nashville, one of the four Democrats to vote against the measure, likened himself to "the skunk at the garden party" for raising concerns that the proposal would also eliminate the possibility of payroll taxes on employers.
"If you're going to rule out an income tax, you should not rule out the payroll tax, because we may very well need it some time," Henry said.
He stressed that he has long opposed the income tax, including during his time as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, when three governors unsuccessfully sought his support for changing Tennessee's sales tax-based system.
But the state's fiscal situation could become difficult with the payroll tax option off the table, he said.
Kelsey is also the sponsor of a constitutional amendment to give the lawmakers the power to confirm or deny the governor's appointments to the state Supreme Court.
A scheduled vote was put off for a week on the request of Sen. Ophelia Ford, D-Memphis.
– The Associated Press
Southwest Tennessee Community College will hold a grand opening of the Inventory Locator Service Technology Center Feb. 26 at 10 a.m.
There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony followed by remarks from Dr. Nathan Essex, president of Southwest, and Eric Anderson, president of Inventory Locator Service LLC, the local firm sponsoring the new technology center.
Located in the Butler Building on the Southwest campus, the center will function as a testing facility for the college's Information Technology Services Department as well as for students taking information technology classes.
– Sarah Baker
Several agents with Crye-Leike Realtors Inc. will host a free-to-the-public home buying and selling class on Saturday, Feb. 16, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Crye-Leike's Hickory Ridge branch office, 3565 Ridge Meadow Parkway.
Crye-Leike Realtors Bertha Pitts, Brenda Hampton, Tina Black, Alice Payne, Joyce Miller and Carolyn Randolph will help potential buyers with getting pre-qualified to buy a home, obtaining a credit report, credit repair counseling, the type of mortgages available, and the importance of house inspection and homeowners insurance.
Potential sellers will learn how housing is performing in their area, home staging tips, and ways to market to get the most money in the least amount of time.
Free food and door prizes will be provided. For questions about the class, contact Black at 859-1322 or Crye-Leike's Hickory Ridge branch office at 794-9925.
Employees of Paragon National Bank spent more than 500 hours volunteering in the community in 2012.
Each Paragon employee is granted one week of paid time to support local, regional and national nonprofit groups of their choosing through the bank's Assisting the Community Through Service program.
The bank began tracking employees' use of time through the program in 2008, and since then the team has contributed more than 2,000 hours to dozens of community organizations around the Memphis area.
– Andy Meek
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell by 27,000 last week, an indication that hiring could improve.
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications dropped to a seasonally adjusted 341,000, the lowest level in three weeks. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, ticked up to 352,500 from a five-year low of 351,000 the previous week.
Applications have declined slowly but steadily in recent months. The four-week average has fallen 5 percent since November. Applications are a proxy for layoffs. As they fall, net hiring typically rises.
The snowstorm that hit the Northeast last weekend had limited impact on the latest figures. The report covers the week ended Feb. 9, before the storm hit. The Labor Department said it estimated figures for two states, including Connecticut where the storm closed state offices. Illinois also didn't provide data.
Job gains have picked up in the past three months, although companies remain cautious about adding workers.
Employers added an average of 200,000 jobs a month from November through January. That's up from about 150,000 in the previous three months.
The economy added 157,000 jobs in January, the government said earlier this month. And revisions showed employers added 181,000 jobs per month last year, up from an earlier estimate of 153,000.
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When the Rafter E branded recently, a bunch of us went out to help. It's a badge of pride to have worked your way up the branding ladder.
As a kid, you flank the calves; you grab them, throw them and hold them down. This is conducive to abrasions, muscle strain, and involuntarily changing the color of your shirt.
As you get older, you get to handle the branding iron, then move up to giving shots. After that comes earmarking. When you reach the pinnacle of branding, that is, when you own the calves, then you get to rope the calves and drag them up to the fire.
It is a swirling cauldron of heat and hooves, excited cowdogs and bawling cows. There is the smell of manure and singed hair and sweat and corral dust.
At the Rafter E, I wielded a syringe as the youngsters got their teeth rattled by the heavy stuff.
Wasn't the first time I'd given the shots, though. Once during a branding at the Triangle Cross, I was about to immunize a calf when the calf jumped and I stuck the needle into my thumb.
Hurt like the dickens, of course, but at least it was effective. I haven't had black leg since.
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WASHINGTON — For the third time in as many weeks, Republicans in the Senate blocked a vote on one of President Obama's nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, spurring Democrats to renew their threat to change long-standing filibuster rules.
As expected, the Senate voted largely along party lines, 53 to 38, to end debate on the nomination of Robert L. Wilkins, currently a U.S. district judge, falling short of the 60 votes needed to proceed to a confirmation vote.
Last week, in a similar vote, Republicans blocked the nomination of Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, a Georgetown law professor. Patricia Millett, a Washington attorney who worked in the Office of the Solicitor General, was blocked on Oct. 31.
Caitlin Joan Halligan, another Obama nominee, withdrew from consideration in March after Republicans voted against her nomination for a second time.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), speaking before Monday's vote, slammed Republicans for rejecting another "exceedingly capable nominee" for what he characterized as "blatantly political reasons."
"Republicans have blocked these nominees solely to deny President Obama his constitutional right to appoint judges," Reid said, calling it a violation of an earlier bipartisan agreement to only block nominations in "extraordinary circumstances."
"No senator has questioned the character, ethics or qualifications of the three women that have already been rejected for the D.C. Circuit," he said. "No one has questioned the character, ethics or qualifications of Judge Wilkins."
In May the Senate confirmed Srikanth Srinivasan to the D.C. Circuit Court, the first such confirmation in seven years to what is considered the second-highest court in the nation.
Obama named Wilkins, Pillard and Millett for the three remaining open seats in June, leading Republicans to accuse him attempting to appoint more liberals to a panel that is currently evenly divided between Democratic and Republican appointees.
Republicans accused Democrats of having used similar tactics to deny President George W. Bush the ability to fill the same vacancies in his second term. They accused the Democratic majority of engaging in a "political exercise" on judicial nominations to distract from issues with the new healthcare law.
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"There is no crisis on the D.C. Circuit, because they don't have enough work to do as it is," said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee. "But there is a crisis occurring right now all across this country as a result of Obamacare."
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, said Democrats should instead focus on calling votes for nominees to other federal courts around the country, where vacancies are classified as "judicial emergencies" due to the heavy workload.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of two bank robbers who escaped a high-rise Chicago federal prison.
Officials said Joseph "Jose" Banks and Kenneth Conley fashioned a rope out of bedsheets and broke a window in their 15th story jail cell, then climbed down the side of the building to freedom. They were last seen at a cell check at 10 p.m. Monday. Guards alerted by incoming employees of the rope dangling from the building checked the cell again at 7 a.m. and the two were gone.
The FBI said it hasn't had much luck tracking down Banks or Conley, the Chicago Tribune said Wednesday.
"Unfortunately, we don't have any new news," FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde said. "Our focus is still primarily on the Chicago metropolitan area."
Agents searched a home Tuesday where Banks' cousin lived and said they believed they missed the pair by a few hours.
Investigators said they were evaluating video showing Banks and Conley getting into a taxicab at 2:40 a.m. Tuesday about seven blocks from the jail, FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde said.
The daring attempt is only the second successful escape from the hulking downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center. It remained a mystery how the two managed to fit through the building's narrow 5-inch windows to get outside.
A law enforcement source said Banks and Conley may have created a larger opening by removing a building block beneath the window, the Tribune reported.
Testimony at Banks' trial indicated he might have about $500,000 stashed away, the newspaper said.


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