How would you value a leased fee interest in someone’s lot under their home? Does this ruling basically forcing the estates to sell their leased fee interests to the homeowners seem fair and why?

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Hawaii Land Reform Act

The land comprising the Hawaiian Islands was originally controlled by the Hawaiian monarchy and over the years wound up being divided up between five (5) major estates, or families, the State of Hawaii and the Federal Government.

The point of this discussion post is to share this story as a perspective behind leased fee and leasehold interests for much of the residential homes in Hawaii and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling using two of the four public limitations on title (police power, eminent domain, taxation, and escheat or abandoned property laws) to allow property owners to acquire the leased fee (landlord) interest in the land under their homes from the five estates.

Please see the link below and be prepared to discuss during our class during week 2. I was involved as an expert witness in 1981 in helping the Hawaiian courts to establish an equitable way to value the leased fee interests in the underlying lots for the purpose of facilitating the sale between the landlord (estates) and leaseholders who owned their homes, but only leased their lots.

Details of the court rulings and history of this phenomenon are presented in the following link as the history are fascinating and didn’t happen that long ago which we will discuss further.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/467/229 (Links to an external site.)

Questions:

1) How would you value a leased fee interest in someone’s lot under their home?

2) Does this ruling basically forcing the estates to sell their leased fee interests to the homeowners seem fair and why?

What did you learn or find interesting about a well? Does it seem simple or complex to you how wells are designed? Why?

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Water Distribution Operator I

What did you learn or find interesting about a well? Does it seem simple or complex to you how wells are designed? Why?

Compose a text in which you identify your choice of topic for your Researched Argument, as well as present the initial research you have found on this topic, summarizing what you have learned so far.

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Pros and Cons of Video Gaming

Compose a text in which you identify your choice of topic for your Researched Argument, as well as present the initial research you have found on this topic, summarizing what you have learned so far.

Educate us about what your organization does. After learning more about them/or working with them in person, were you able to get a realistic picture of the organization? Explain both its strengths and weaknesses, and both its opportunities and threats how you saw them through your experience.

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Introducing Your Nonprofit Organization

1. Educate us about what your organization does. After learning more about them/or working with them in person, were you able to get a realistic picture of the organization? Explain both its strengths and weaknesses, and both its opportunities and threats how you saw them through your experience.

2. Applying the concepts and theories learnt in the course, demonstrate how this organisation fits in the overall picture of the nonprofit sector in the U.S., and identify relevant issues, challenges and debates with respect to nonprofit management in this particular organization and for the nonprofit sector more generally.

3. Reflecting on the required readings of this module, elaborate (1) whether you think that the staff of your selected organization experience any emotional labor at work (See Remington’s article), (2) what types of HR strategies the organization applies to manage volunteers and their experience (See Einolf’s article)? (hint: in case you think that your organization does not have any volunteers, think about the Board of the Directors. These guys are not paid, and thus volunteer, right?)

4. Convey the importance of the work done by the organization.

Distinguish between EC Internal and External Audiences and analyze their information needs. Analyze communication systems and evaluate role of technology in facilitating communications during a crisis. Assess utility of various forms of Communications for Emergency Systems.

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Disaster Communicationsin

Read textbook:
Disaster Communicationsin a changing media world second edition by george D. Baddie and Kim S. Haddow

text chapters 2,3,6, (PP 107-118), 7,9 and 11.

Compose a paper that speaks of the following comprehensively:

Distinguish between EC Internal and External Audiences and analyze their information needs.
Analyze communication systems and evaluate role of technology in facilitating communications during a crisis.
Assess utility of various forms of Communications for Emergency Systems.

collate all your notes and turn in at least 9 pages of notes. in other words, put all your notes into one file, including your notes from your first two project reports. Then watch my video on doing a behavioral study using an ethogram, and fill out this worksheet.

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Content analysis

As the weeks have been passing, you should have been working on your projects. For this update:

Those doing content analyses, you need to first make sure your coding protocol has been approved by me. If not, then you should communicate with me by email *before* this assignment is due to make changes and get your protocol approved. Once that is done, you need to test out your protocol on two items that are NOT part of your sample. This is a test run. For this project update, you will turn in the coding sheets for your two test items.

For those doing observation based projects, collate all your notes and turn in at least 9 pages of notes (Times New Roman 12 pt font, double-spaced); in other words, put all your notes into one file, including your notes from your first two project reports. Then watch my video on doing a behavioral study using an ethogram, and fill out this worksheet.

In order to do this well—regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him—you will need to clearly explain what he believes to be the major ‘ills’ of democracy as well as his reasons for rejecting the better democracy solution.

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Overdoing Democracy

Talisse’s position in this book is that the cure for democracy’s ills cannot be more and better and democracy (in other words, he rejects what he calls the ‘better democracy response’). Engage with the relevant material in the book and present an argument showing why Talisse is either right or wrong about this position. In order to do this well—regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him—you will need to clearly explain what he believes to be the major ‘ills’ of democracy as well as his reasons for rejecting the better democracy solution.

Be brave and write about something that others are not going to write about, not just a typical paper on a common Homeland Security theme.

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Border Security: Human and Drug Trafficking

Instructions
Unlike the Reflections, for your Analyst’s Paper choose a topic that relates to the materials covered during your studies of the Homeland Security world. This topic cannot be one that you wrote about in any of your courses at APUS or any other institute of higher learning. This is your opportunity to explore in-depth a topic that you have a greater interest in than what you covered during the other courses at APUS. Feel free to explore the world of Homeland Security and write about something that really interests you. Be brave and write about something that others are not going to write about, not just a typical paper on a common Homeland Security theme. Explore and enjoy.

Policies for Windows computers: You realize that is also a good idea to develop policies and standards for the Windows computers that connect to the network. What procedures or tools would you recommend employees use to prevent and identify issues on the network?

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Network Policies and Troubleshooting

In this assignment you will consider a specific case and answer questions about how to create a secure and reliable network and troubleshoot any issues that arise. When responding to this assignment, assume that you are discussing a local area network (LAN) for a small office with 10 employees. Both wired and wireless connections are required for employees and occasional guests. The company relies on cloud infrastructure and services but does maintain their own internal network for sharing resources within the office. Most desktop and laptop computers used in the office run the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS). Mobile devices that connect to the network might use any standard mobile OS.

Answer the questions in each section to describe your network choices and the techniques you would use to support this network. Be sure to clearly label each section of your paper so that the answer to each question is clear.

  1. Network diagram: Draw a diagram of how you think this LAN should be set up and include all hardware components. Any topologies you would use for your network should be represented. Be sure to include any hardware devices that you might use for network operations, performance, security, or maintenance. Your drawing should not exceed half of a page.
  2. Network issues: Identify at least five issues that might occur to disrupt data communication for this organization. For each issue, identify the level(s) from the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model where it occurs. Be sure to discuss issues and disruptions that might occur when relaying messages within the LAN and those that are delivered outside the LAN across a wide area network (WAN).
  3. Tools and techniques for securing and troubleshooting: As the most knowledgeable person in the organization about the topic of networks, you need to make recommendations to the owner about how to protect and maintain the network. Write a summary of the tools and techniques that can be used to prevent or react to the disruptions (discussed in part 2 above), and ensure that the network performs as required.
  4. Policies for Windows computers: You realize that is also a good idea to develop policies and standards for the Windows computers that connect to the network. What procedures or tools would you recommend employees use to prevent and identify issues on the network?

Using “the yellow wallpaper” short story by charlotte perkins gilman and short story “madrid” by Joel Fishbane compare and contrast the themes of these two stories.

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“The yellow wallpaper” and “Madrid” short storys

Using “the yellow wallpaper” short story by charlotte perkins gilman and short story “madrid” by Joel Fishbane compare and contrast the themes of these two stories.