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In 2012, ABC news ran a story regarding BPI, a South Dakota meat processing company, describing the company’s ground-beef  product as pink slime. The company sued ABC News for defamation claiming that the term nearly put the company out of business, forcing them to close down several plants (3 out of 4 plants) due to a decrease in revenue (a drop of 80%) as a result of the report.

The company sued ABC for $5.7 billion dollars, claiming that ABC, and its reporters Diane Sawyer and Jim Avila, defamed the company by using the term “pink slime” and making errors and omissions in its 2012 reporting. The company argued that it took 30 years to succeed in the industry and it took ABC less than 30 days to damage the company irreparably.

But ABC lawyer argued there was no defamation because “pink slime” was a common term, used more than 3,800 times in the media prior to ABC’s reports. They also claimed that the company already lost customers prior to the report due to the unhappiness with the product. ABC claimed their coverage was accurate and deserved first amendment protection. Diana Sawyer, when deposed for the case, stated: “I read the script and it seemed to be factual and fair and seemed to be credible reporting.”

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Please answer the following questions in your original post:

(1) Is the report considered defamatory? Product disparagement? Why or why not?
(2) Please provide a definition of defamation and apply the case to all elements of defamation to form the basis for your answer.

(3) Why do we have defamation laws in this country?
(4) Is it federal or state law?

You must post an original comment of 150-250 words with citation to sources used, such as eText page references and/or credible websites) 

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post a substantive response to the post below. Must be at least 50 words

our required reading expresses a variety of reasons as to why it is important to have management and leadership develop programs during the process, Cummimgs said, “OD  practitioners involved in organization design and employee involvement interventions have realized the need to bring human resources practices more in line with the new designs and processes.” (Cummings P.440). The streamlining of current practices and relevant processes are invaluable to the growth of any organization. When management and leadership have the opportunity to research other organizations, sit a table and brainstorm together, and finally roll out a comprehensive plan. Not only will it (in most cases)  be received well. But it will also show the camaraderie throughout various stages of management. This concerted effort will push any organization to unmitigated growth.

 
 

My personal experiences with managers and leadership programs I will rate at 50 on a scale of 100. Specifically, There were initiatives that we sought to implement as it related to the growth of the practice. From scheduling, to check in process, up to and including authorizations etc. We met weekly for approximately 6 weeks, there were brainstorming, passionate discussions, etc.  As time progressed there was no follow up, no implementation and the countless meeting hours were seemingly in vain.  I was taken aback because it seemed as if there would be progress, but it fell through. I was more disturbed because it then seemed like the voice of the employees were taken for granted.

These sessions were of no effect at all, because nothing ever came from them. Essentially, it was a waste of time, and I feel that it was a ploy to make the employees feel involved, meanwhile those in management knew that our voices, suggestions, and ideals would never be implemented.

In Conclusion, To improve effectiveness, I would have initiated processes on a meeting by meeting basis. By this, I would not have scheduled any new agenda items until was was being discussed, was properly implemented. We would have taken time on the roll out, to ensure no issues. Then once first initiative was successful, I would move on to the next, keeping everything in order. 

Law Enforcement Christopher

 

What is the benefit of accurate report writing in law enforcement intelligence operations insofar as having an influence in operational decisions? A written report is often the first impression an officer makes on commanding officers, lawyers, or judges – and a poorly written report can cause an inaccurate portrayal of competence level. Additionally, it can also mean the difference between a rightful conviction and an erroneous release of a guilty person. On the other hand, an accurate and intelligent report can make a positive first impression and can lead to new opportunities for the future. It may sound dramatic, but the consequences for not being able to write well can be significant when you are writing documents to be used in a legal setting. Attorneys in criminal cases are looking for anything that they can use to support their cases, and if your reports fail to accurately articulate the facts, they will use that as evidence to exonerate their clients. Not to mention, if your reports are consistently poorly written, riddled with errors, or a grammatical mess, you are not representing your agency in the best possible light.

2.  What intelligence value is gained by a police department that provides street officers with training in collecting and documenting information they receive on the streets while working their assigned sectors or beats?

Officers should be assigned to neighborhoods on a long-term basis. Stability is essential to developing positive relationships and building trust. It provides officers an opportunity to learn more about and participate in the life of the community. When officers “interact with the same people on a face-to-face basis each day, allows average citizens formal and informal input. People have the chance to help set local police priorities and to develop creative solutions to community problems

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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Note: All character and company names are fictional and are not intended to depict any actual person or business.

Theresa and Mike understand that building the culture they envision requires effective communication, collaboration, and participative problem solving. They envision creating an organization such that Joe and other employees will know exactly what to do when faced with choices that involve ethics. As the first step in embedding clear ethical processes in the organization, they realize they need to devise a code of conduct. Both companies have operated with an unwritten code that was never formalized. The consultant is asked to help them understand the purpose and content of an excellent code of conduct and how they should go about developing it. 

Answer the following questions:

  • What is the purpose of a code of conduct?
  • Why is it important for a company to have a written code of conduct?
  • What issues should be considered to be included in a code of conduct, especially given the merger scenario?
  • Evaluate the code of conduct for your current or past employer (if the information is not available, evaluate a code of conduct identified in an Internet search).

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

  • What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
  • What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
  • What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
  • What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Criminal Justice W7

  

Prisoner Reentry into the Community

Most inmates return to the community at some point. It is in the best interest of the community that the ex-offender be able reestablish himself and be a contributing member of society, however; how successful their reentry is and how long it lasts depends on a variety of factors.

Using your text and at least one of the following sources, describe some of the risks and problems associated with offender reentry into the community. Can these problems be anticipated and planned for? What can the corrections system do to help prepare the offender for reentry? What can the community do to help the newly released inmate smoothly transition back into society?

For reference material use at least your text and one or more of the following sources. Remember to identify passages in your essay where you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing as well as the source you are using.

·  Justice Department of United States Government

·  Department of Homeland Security

·  National Institute of Justice

·  National Criminal Justice Reference Services

·  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

 Your paper must be formatted in the following manner:

·  The paper must be 500-750 words in length. Only the body of the paper counts towards the length. No information that belongs on a title page or reference page will count towards the length requirement.

·  Use Times New Roman 12 point font, and double-space your lines.

A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here.

Reply to discussions

reply to the below discussions with 250 words

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  • Information Technology (IT) infrastructure is identified as a composition of software, hardware, network services and resources, and data centers (Vacca, 2013). IT infrastructure are important when it comes to the operation, existance, and management of enterprise information technology environment. It is understood that the weakest link in the security of an IT infrastruture plays a very important role in its success. When it comes to the secutiry of an IT infrastructure, the human element is considered as the weakest link. Even if the security of an IT infrastruture has a strong anti-virus software, firewall, cryptography, and intrusion detection system, it is only as strong as its weakest link. Human is to err is a common philosophical statement, and intrudors that want to take advanatge of an IT infrastructure are always waiting for this opportunity.   There are various strategies though that an organization may employ to reduce the risks possed, for exampe, organizations may engage in employee training to raise awareness of the various vectors of attack (Vacca, 2013). In addition, management of organizations may implement incentives which will encourage employees to take an active role and attention when it comes to matters security. Organizations may also engage in penetration testing and vulnerability assessment periodically in order to reduce the threat posture. In terms of costs, the whole process of mitigation of a data breach costs less than training and testing processes, and therefore it would be wise for any organization to carry-out the necessary steps in strengthening the weakest link.
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  • What is the weakest link in the security of an IT infrastructure?  The weakest link in security is the Humans. The chain is the security of the organization and its cyber defense is majorly independent and we already know the link of the weakest part in an organization’s security. As per the report, 78% of the security professional thinks the biggest threat to the endpoints in the security where peoples neglect among the employees’ security practices. Here the percentage also shows us 9.3% of the organization’s threats per month.  We are all humans and we do make mistakes and among these people there are a plethora of people who are always trying to take advantage of any mistakes made by other people which costs the business in financial loss. Any technology and security practices no matter how much sophisticated there will always be the errors made by humans.  How to reduce the vulnerabilities:  In-depth training should be provided to all the employees such that there will be total awareness on all the different attacks.  Any regular people risk assessments of the employees can reduce cyber risk in many ways can help the organization.  To use Hitech mechanism to the employees to keep the attention towards securities.  The periodic vulnerability assessments and penetration testing reduces the threat to the organization.  Many small businesses simply do not have the strict guidelines for creating the passwords in uniquely to all the online accounts. Employees are left to their own devices which always relying on the humans nature that simple develop a single and easy passwords that they use for the accounts that they have in the organization.  Enforcing the passwords management to combat the human errors, where many large companies IT departments force their users to create a complex passwords and builds their passwords not to be stolen easily and its easy to get a new password to create it.  Benefits: Improved Security, Reduced Information Theft, Enhanced Productivity, Compliance.

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Attackers don’t span a single way which helps them make their targets compromise. Their biggest weapon lies within the organization but not in the newest technology available in the market. This makes the weakest link in the information security. One such weakest is the emails and the system that manages email. Email is the source for most of threats like phishing, scams, ransomware and any such related malicious code. Even a single email which contains the confidential data goes out of the organization, may lead to the biggest threat and lowers the reputation of the organization. For this, employees should be given a training on what type of emails can be shared with their co-employees and what type of emails can be sent out of the scope of the company. Management should have access to the emails of their employees and should regularly monitor them. 

Some of the strategies that can be applied to reduce the effects of the emails are stated here. Users should be aware of the types of risks caused by the emails. Even if the user clicks the unsafe link unknowingly, that may lead to malware infection or that might give the attacker the access to the system. Humans are the primary cause that leads to email related breaches.  The phishing awareness and training program must replicate the various categories of methods and risks that spread over to other roles in the group so that individuals recognize accurately what to look in for. Just offering the training won’t serve the purpose, management should ensure that employees understand their security aspects and are willing to apply in their real time projects.

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Please discuss the importance of resiliency vs. reactionary approaches to dealing with terrorism.

REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE? (A MINIMUM OF 150 WORDS or MORE)

While boosting the capacity of individuals to respond in an appropriate manner a resilience approach accepts a certain degree of risk as inevitable (Howard-Williams, 2017). According to Flynn, resilience could actually defeat terrorism though investing in it might seem like an expression of defeat (Friedman, 2016). To “fail gracefully and recover nicely” is the goal of resilience along with designing systems so they can withstand shock (Friedman, 2016). The nature of contemporary terrorist threats and how to spot potential plots to the public in greater details is what resilience policies can involve by the government (Friedman, 2016). A staple of international security conferences over the past few years and has begun making its way into government documents known as the concept of resilience (Roggeveen, 2010). To absorb shock and recognize while retaining its essential structure and identity is resiliencies ability of a system or society (Roggeveen, 2010). Resilience advocates argue our society must be made more robust since to some degree terrorism has to be endured (Roggeveen, 2010). Advocates also say the better approach is to improve our ability to bounce back from such attacks (Roggeveen, 2010). A proactive approach is required to prevent attacks which is more important (Stewart, 2009). Early indicators that planning for an attack is under way authorities can establish systems to proactively identify (Stewart, 2009). Authorities respond to a crime scene after a terrorist attack to find and arrest the militants responsible for the attack is a reactive approach to counterterrorism (Stewart, 2009). The individual or group behind the attack is a customary focus point (Stewart, 2009). When an unknown actor carried out the act in an effort to identify a suspect, much time is emphasized in this approach (Stewart, 2009).

References:

Friedman, U. (2016). Learning to live with terrorism. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com

Howard-Williams, R. (2017). Terrorism and world risk society: Resilience, resentment, and spectacle Vol. 10 Iss. 70 Retrieved from https://www.21global.ucsb.edu

Roggeveen, S. (2010). Resilience the key to fighting terrorism Retrieved from https://www.smh.com

Stewart, S. (2009). Counterterrorism: Shifting from ‘who’ to ‘how’ Retrieved from https://worldview.stratfor.com

Law (Business) due TONIGHT at 6PM (EST)

 

Answer questions Completely

 

 

1. How does the UCC define a good? How does the UCC define a merchant? How are the UCC requirements different for a merchant versus a nonmerchant? Provide examples and remember to support your response.

 

2. What are the UCC principles of good faith and reasonableness to sales contracts?  What are the remedies for contract breach available under UCC Article 2? How do you differentiate between implied and express warranties under UCC Article 2? Provide examples and remember to support your examples.

 

 

3t. Discuss the common contracts that you have encountered in your personal and professional life. Your discussion should include the topics (Common law contracts and the UCC Article 2.) you are comfortable with, the topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to the common contracts.

 

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1. Common law contracts and the UCC Article 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Law Enforcement Kali

 Crime mapping through GIS mapping technology can be applied to a crime such as serial murder by providing comprehensive mapping that can be used to plot out locations to create a larger picture that analyst can use to find trends and connections. Knowing important locations are “factors that contributed to solving serial murder investigations revealed that time and distance proved significant, suggesting that the more information on “the location of the original contact between the victim and the killer, where the assault occurred, the murder site, and the body recovery site the more likely a murder case will be solved” (Godwin, 1998, p.75). To solve a crime such as a serial murder, crime mapping can be used by identifying murders in an area. By using identifying information about the means of a murder such as say strangulation, if multiple murders have the same means of murder through strangulation, you can begin to map the locations of the murders and start to use GIS mapping to see any patterns or if the murders are happening within a certain amount of miles. This information could help you identify where the perpetrator could be located since if the murders are all happening within a certain number of miles, it can be assumed the killer works in the location or lives nearby. The type of GIS mapping that would benefit solving a crime like serial murder would be pin mapping model, which is where a dot or symbol can be placed where a single murder occurred via strangulation on a map, and then the same dot or symbol can be used for the other locations of murders happening via strangulation. With murders plotted on the map patterns and trends can be seen, helping to pinpoint as said earlier the location of where the perpetrator is and predictions can begin to made about where they could strike next or where more patrols or undercover agents could be placed to help catch the perpetrator and solve the crime.   

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History

Question 1. The Evolution of Greek Sculpture

As we learned this week, sculptors in Ancient Greece strove to achieve perfection in the works of art they created. Carefully examine the following sculptures and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:

Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, c. 530 BCE
Warrior, found in the sea off Riace, Italy, c. 460-450 BCE
Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and His Sons, 2nd-1st c BCE

Then, in a minimum of 2 well-developed paragraphs, answer the following questions:

  • What specific visual similarities do you observe in these three sculptures?
  • What specific differences do you see? Consider the representation of the figure, facial expression or suggested emotion, additional objects portrayed, and the role of the viewer for each sculpture.
  • How is each sculpture representative of the period in Ancient Greece (e.g., Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic) in which it was created?

Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific details about each sculpture.

Question 2. Religious Symbolism

This week, we studied cultures that recognized a pantheon of gods and goddesses, such as Ancient Greece and Rome, and also explored the early artistic objects of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

Carefully examine the following sculptures and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:

Dionysiac mystery frieze, Second Style wall paintings in room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 60–50 BCE
Samuel anoints David, detail of the main interior wall of the synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, ca. 245–256
The Transfiguration of Christ, Church of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe, 533-549 CE