List two characteristics each of real, intellectual, and personal property.

List two characteristics each of real, intellectual, and personal property.  Do owners of real, intellectual, and personal property each have the same rights under the law?  List how each type of property is treated under the law. Explain why it is in the best interest of society to treat these types of property the same or differently.Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings by Day 7.  Do you agree or disagree with any of their views on real, intellectual or personal property? Do you agree with your classmate’s position on why society should treat property interests the same or differently? Explain.

Why is the United States Government not holding Russia accountable?

Provide (3) 150 words substantive response with a minimum of 1 APA references for RESPONSES 1 AND 2. Additionally, answer the question on DISCUSSION 1 below. Response provided should further discuss the subject or provide more insight. To further understand the response, below is the discussion post that discusses the responses. 100% original work and not plagiarized. Must meet deadline.RESPONSE 1:It has been gone over in the school’s given curriculum, but one instance of a cyber attack that I feel is very important to mention is the success of Stuxnet. While Iran was building what the United States intelligence determined was a nuclear arsenal, the United States and Israel were working in a conjoined effort in building an extremely sophisticated worm with the purpose of setting back the Iranian nuclear arsenal financially and at least a couple of years. At the time, this was considered groundbreaking levels of technology for a worm, and it was very successful. Stuxnet was unleashed, and centrifuge tubes needed for nuclear construction began spinning erratically, with some becoming damaged while others self destructed entirely. It’s estimated that over two thousand centrifuges were destroyed, and that it set Iran back around two years of progress, and more importantly, valuable economic power to re-purchase the centrifuges. Crucially, if more centrifuges were purchased, it could help confirm the presence of the heavily suspected nuclear facility, enabling potential further action or sanctions onto Iran. – DANIELRESPONSE 2:Reported by the Department of Justice (2018), the series of intrusions involving the Fancy Bear Hack Team which include what has been referred to as the DNC hack resulted in an investigation conducted by the FBI. The objective of the agency was to determine the identities of assailants, mechanisms of intrusion and associated actors which in this case comes down to the Russian state through military actors.In the same DoJ report, the officers of Russia’s Military Unit 26165 researched victims later targeted in a spear-phishing campaign using proxy servers and maintaining command and control infrastructure for the deployment of malware as a mechanism of penetration. From here, the investigative cyber response transitioned to a legal format where officers identified in this unit were charged in a court of law.Importantly and what is hopefully now common knowledge is that these operations aren’t standalone, and have been emphatically stated to be part of a larger series of Russian cyberespionage and subversion operations which continues now.BibliographyDepartment of Justice. 2018. U.S. Charges Russian GRU Officers with International Hacking and Related Influence and Disinformation Operations. Retrieved from: .-JOSHUADISCUSSION 1:Evil Corp, which is known to be a cybercrime organization, is led by Russians Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev, who were yet to face charges until 2019 in the US. The level of sophistication of the group is yet to be figured out correctly as the cybercrime organization is thought to have very close ties with the Russian intelligence agency (FSB) (McCullagh et al., 2006). I can add that, in the United States, precisely in New York, the FBI secretly installed software on two key members of the Genovese crime family’s cell phones, converting them into “roving bugs” that could be remotely activated to eavesdrop in on discussions in a room, even if their owners had switched them off.However, despite the indictment of its top members in the United States, Evil Corp is still operating in the hacking business, but it may have transitioned into corporate spying services. This organization has stolen masses of dollars from unwary banks. One is the South Korean banks (Allyn, 2019). In the year 2011, hackers used a compromised laptop of an IT support contractor to obtain access to systems belonging to Nonghyup, a South Korean bank. The malware erased vital data on over 100 servers within the network, preventing millions of clients from accessing their accounts and ATMs for three days. Backup files for disaster recovery were also corrupted. I also agree that in another attack by Evil Corp, the software used was known as botnet.It would freeze a computer’s operating system leading to a malware spread where the hackers would transfer money from victims to their overseas accounts.QUESTION: So you bring up a great point about Russia.  Why are we not doing more?  Why is the United States Government not holding Russia accountable?  Is holding 12 Russian’s responsible enough?

Write a reflection about the relationship between your art production and the inspiration piece.

 Part 1: Art CreationSelect a photograph to use as a point of inspiration. Create an art piece of photography inspired by your selected art piece.Part 2: ReflectionWrite a reflection about the relationship between your art production and the inspiration piece. Include the following in the reflection paper:Original Artwork RequirementsWriting Requirements (APA format)

Briefly describe your understanding of copyright, fair use, and creative commons.

 1) Briefly describe your understanding of copyright, fair use, and creative commons. How do these terms relate to one another?2) You have a blog that has become very popular with friends and strangers. They tell you that you are a great storyteller and a fantastic photographer and should write a book of your adventures.  You decide to self-publish a book of the stories and pictures you documented on your last trip and hope to make a little money from this venture. The book will be available in electronic form, so your pictures will be easy to “borrow” online. Would you apply for a copyright, a Creative Commons copyright, or no copyright at all? What is your reasoning?

How many FAs and OAs should Arthur and Son attempt to conduct each year to maximize their firm’s profits?

FINANCE (BANKING)Palmetto National Savings and Loan makes five kinds of loans. These loans, with the yearly interest rate charged to customers, are shown in the table below:Type of Loan Interest charges (percent)Commercial loans 15Home mortgage (first mortgage) 10Home improvements 13.6Home mortgage (second mortgage) 14Short-term revolving loan 18 The bank has $53 million in available funds. Its objective is to maximize yield on investment.The Demand for FundsThe demand for short-term revolving loans never exceeds $5million. All other demands are unlimited.Policies and Regulationsa. Home improvement loans cannot be higher than 20 percent of first mortgage loans.b. Commercial loans must be smaller than or equal to the second mortgage loans.c. The bank must invest at least 60 percent of the loans outstanding (total loans) in mortgages.d. For safety reasons, there must be at least $2 invested in first mortgage loans for every dollar invested in second mortgage loans.e. Short-term loans cannot exceed $5 million.Find the best bank fund allocation plan.AUDITINGArthur and Son, P.A., is an auditing firm that conducts both financial and operational audits. Arthur can conduct 90 financial audits (FAs) per year if he spends full time on just FAs, or 180operational audits (OAs) per year full time, or any linear combination of both. Son processes the reports made by Arthur. Son can prepare 180 financial audit reports or 150 operational audit reports per year, or any linear combination thereof. The office staff finalizes the reports  submitted by Son. They can handle no more than 160 reports of any kind, per year. Arthur and Son have calculated that to keep their association solvent, they must produce at least 30 FAs and 50 OAs each year. The profit from each FA has averaged $720 in the past and for each OA has been about $650. How many FAs and OAs should Arthur and Son attempt to conduct each year to maximize their firm’s profits?

Discuss how do victim statements impact the process of parole?

please address the following situation: “According to a new state police, the criminal justice system will allow parole to all inmates who have served 50% of their sentence to reduce the overcrowded prison population. In your response, assume the role of a parole officer and discuss the idea of sentencing guidelines and earning parole.  List at least 3 alternatives that are available to you, a parole officer, as a requirement of parolees, and why would you add these stipulations? Lastly, discuss how do victim statements impact the process of parole?

Create a food web that involves your chosen character

 Think of a cartoon show or a character. Create a food web that involves your chosen character (can use characters from the show or from other shows – it just has to make sense). The food web should have at least 4 cartoon characters (species). The only exception is producers (plants/algae/phytoplankton) since you may not find a cartoon character for it, so you can just use a graphic. Make sure your food web starts with a producer.You may use , , PowerPoint or any other tool that you are familiar with to create your infographic. Your infographic should encompass the concepts in a visually pleasing way (including photos of the characters chosen). An infographic is a collection of imagery, charts, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic, typically on one page not multiple slides (learn how to to make it all one page).

What other incentives would assist the company in motivating the sales staff?

Read the case study.Submit in essay form, following APA format, the answers to the questions related to the case study Sodexo Incentives.Be sure to follow APA guidelines and write your paper in the proper format, not as a question and answer.420 SECTION 1 Environment of Human Resource Management HR EXPERIENTIAL PROBLEM SOLVING Your insurance company needs to update the sales incentive program for its sales/marketing representatives. Due to growth in the volume and diversity of the products being sold, the existing system of having one incentive program for all sales marketers no longer meets the needs of the company. To maximize sales in each of the product lines, the system needs to provide an incentive and reward system to encourage employees to focus on their specific product lines while also cross-marketing the company’s portfolio of other products. To identify the key facets of a sales commission program, visit websites including www.8020salesperformance .com/sales_compensation.html. 1. Would a compensation program that offered only commission work for your company? Why or why not? 2. What other incentives would assist the company in motivating the sales staff? Many employers offer incentives to employees working in different jobs. Often, the incentives are to reward employee performance, both in the short and the long term. But some company incentive plans are viewed negatively by employees, while others are seen as highly positive by employees at all levels. One firm that has a well-regarded, broad-based incentive plan is Sodexo, a large food and facilities service firm with more than 350,000 employees in 80 countries. Being such a large firm, Sodexo has a variety of clients, including many corporate and governmental entities, hospitals, manufacturing firms, and universities. Thus, the firm’s client services are varied, with many of them being basic ones such as cleaning offices, maintenance of all types of facilities, doing landscaping, and managing other basic and professional activities. In North America, including the United States, Sodexo has almost 125,000 staff members. More than 40,000 of the North American staff members work in health care, including clinics, offices, and hospital sites. Being such a large firm with employees doing many different types of jobs, a key part of Sodexo’s organizational and HR cultures involves engaging its employees in many ways. One aspect is having a widely based employee rewards program containing recognition and incentives. The company’s “Spirit of Sodexo” program focuses on three general-award facets: service, teamwork, and progress. To operate this program, the company has required executives, including the top HR officer, to develop processes for the nomination of employees who make significant contributions, locally and regionally, as well as in business and corporate divisions of the firm. Some of the recognitions and awards provided to employees are interesting. Because the biggest division of workers is in health care locations, a special incentive program called Sodexo CARES has been used for several years for employees who accomplish especially unique results. At one hospital, a small group of dieticians developed a new system for ordering medication and devices online, something that is not done in most hospitals. These dieticians received recognition and incentive awards for their job-related accomplishments. Another incentive reward for exceptional efforts went to a female employee who worked as a food caterer and prepared special meals for a young foreign hospital patient who had difficulty eating typical U.S. foods. The employee homecooked various items for that patient when the patient had surgery. Her efforts were increasingly recognized throughout Sodexo, and she received a national incentive award. Both she and her husband attended a national meeting in a different city where she was recognized and became the subject of a short video. She also received a $500 gift card and a lot of publicity. Numerous other examples exist showing how Sodexo uses employee incentives as part of its culture in many different industry jobs. To learn more about Sodexo and its organizational and HR culture, go to www.sodexo.com. The overall picture of such widely focused incentive recogition efforts Sodexo Incentives CASE 5315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 420 315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 420 17/07/10 5:54 PM 7/07/10 5:54 PM CHAPTER 12 Incentive Plans and Executive Compensation 421 SUPPLEMENTAL CASES Cash Is Good, Card Is Bad Both the positive and negative issues associated with the use of an incentive plan are discussed in this case. (For the case, go to www.cengage .com/management/mathis.) Incentive Plans for Fun and Travel This case discusses incentive plans that stimulate employee interest and motivate them to perform well. (For the case, go to www.cengage .com/management/mathis.) illustrates how incentives can significantly influence the motivation and performance of employees.50 QUESTIONS 1. Based on the Sodexo example, discuss the importance of widespread incentives in improving both the culture and employee retention efforts in a firm. 2. How might having employees receive recognition and incentives at a national level impact the performance of their coworkers and colleagues? NOTES 1. Based on David J. Cichelli and Angie Keller, “Cox Communications Tackles Central vs. Local Compensation Design,” Workspan, September 2007, 53–56. 2. Allison Avalos, “Salary Budget Increases,” Workspan, September 2009, 27–30. 3. M. Rush Benton, “Hope Is Not a Business Strategy . . .” Investment News, June 1, 2009, 1. 4. Bruce Ellig, “What Pay for Performance Should Measure,” WorldatWork Journal, Second Quarter, 2008, 64–75. 5. Brad Hill and Christine Tande, “Incentive Pay: Short-Term Change Agent or Long-Term Success?” Workspan, September 2009, 61–64. 6. Ken Abosch, “The Past, Present, and Future of Variable Pay,” Workspan, July 2009, 27–30. 7. Eric Chapman, “Where Executive and Employee Compensation Is Headed in the Next 12 Months,” Workspan, July 2009, 23–25; Robert J. Fulton, Jr., “How Do Professional Services Firms Tie Pay to Performances?” Dear Workforce Newsletter, April 30, 2009, www .workforce.com. 8. Based on Susan Lackey, “Fill Those Unpopular Shifts,” HR Magazine, April 2009, 63–66. 9. Jinyu He and Heli C. Wang, “Innovative Knowledge Assets and Economic Performance,” Academy of Management Journal, 52 (2009), 919–938. 10. M. J. Gibbs, et al., “Performance Measure Properties and Incentive System Design,” Industrial Relations, 48 (2009), 237–264. 11. Ken Abosch, et al., “Broad-Based Variable Pay Goes Global,” Workspan, 56–62. 12. Tyler Gentry and Karl Glotzbach, “Incentives Without Borders,” The Power of Incentives, 2007, 77–82. 13. Leo Jakobson, “$46 Billion Spent on Incentives,” Incentive, November 2007, 27–28. 14. Chris Silva, “An Incentive to Provide Incentives,” Employee Benefit News, May 2007, 11–12. 15. Michael Marino and Steve Van Putter, “Four Cardinal Directions for Navigating Incentive Design in Uncertain Times,” Workspan, December 2008, 57–61. 16. Patricia K. Zinghelm and Jay R. Schuster, “Revisiting Effective Incentive Design,” WorldatWork Journal, First Quarter, 2005, 50–58. 17. Scott A. Jeffrey, “Justifiability and the Motivational Power of Tangible Noncash Incentive,” Human Performance, 22 (2009), 143–155. 18. Peter A. Lupo, “Keep It Simple,” Workspan, October 2009, 65–68. 19. Jean VanRensselar, “Designing an Incentive Program for NonSales Employees,” The Power of Incentives, 2007, 87–96. 20. Bonnie Schindler, “Understanding Private Company Incentive Pay Practices,” Workspan, March 2008, 43–48; Dan Kleinman, “Getting Our Bonus Expectations Right,” Workspan, July 2009, 75–76. 21. Christopher Cabera, “Non-Cash Rewards . . .,” Workspan, July 2008, 25–26. 22 Leo Jakobson, “Don’t Show Me the Money,” Incentive, September 2009, 14–19. 23. Rebecca R. Hastings, “Length-ofService Awards Becoming More Personal,” HR Magazine Supplement on SHRM’s 2009 HR Trend Book, www.shrm.org, 43–48. 24. Robert Masternak, “Gainsharing and Lean-Six Sigma—Perfect Together,” WorldatWork Journal, First Quarter, 2005, 44–49. 25. M. W. Van Alstyne, “Create Colleagues Not Competitors,” Harvard Business Review, September 2005, 24–28. 26. A. Bayo-Moriones and M. LarraaKintana, “Profit-Sharing Plans and Affective Commitment,” Human Resource Management, March–April 2009, 207–226. 27. “In Depth Profit Sharing: Share Peace of Mind,” Employee Benefits Magazine, January 2006, 42. 5315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 421 315X_12_ch12_p394-423.indd 421

What was the problem in the joint venture that triggered the conflict between the two companies?

This week’s discussion will focus on cultural negotiation using the case study Danone’s Wrangle with Wahaha (p. 255).This case is a cautionary tale of how important cultural differences are when forming strategic partnerships or joint ventures with companies from different countries.Our content this week reflects on the impact of conflict on decision-making. As a decision-maker within your organization, it is important for you to deal with conflict in a skilled manner. Doing so can create positive outcomes and provide opportunities for improvement rather than undesirable results. After reading the case, reflect on the following:What was the problem in the joint venture that triggered the conflict between the two companies?What were the differences of each company’s understanding of their own respective roles and responsibilities in this venture?Did any aspect of organizational cultural or national culture affect this perspective?As a leader, what are some ways you can handle conflict when it arises?Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories, which require supporting citations along with two scholarly peer-reviewed references supporting your answer. Keep in mind that these scholarly references can be found in the Saudi Digital Library by conducting an advanced search specific to scholarly references. Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing all sources referenced. Post your initial response early and check back often to continue the discussion. Be sure to respond to your peers’ posts as well.2 pages 3 references

Do you have any advice for Logan?

  · Book: Forensic and Investigative Accounting· Please answer the questions listed below and submit in a word document.  The Dirty Accountant? Logan Johnson is a recent graduate of MidUniversity’s accounting program. She has begun her work as the accountant for Platinum Automotive run by Joe and Tom Younger. Platinum has a series of car lots where they sell top-end “previous driven” cars in Baltimore, Maryland. On February 6, 2011, Joe Younger sold a 2010 BMW X3, 3.01 SUV for $38,000. Logan entered the following entry into the accounting database for the sale:Feb. 6, 2011  Cash    9,800Note Receivable      28,200BMW X3      38,000Logan thought nothing of the sale. On February 10, Joe Younger dropped off documentation that showed $9,900 of the loan had been paid off. Logan booked the proper entries. On February 15 and again on February 20, documentation showed that the loan was being repaid and paid off with payments of $9,500 and $8,800, respectively. Shortly afterward, Logan received an envelope with $250 in cash on her desk. On the front of the envelope, the word “bonus” was written. Logan is happy that her work is being favorably recognized by the owners.Do you have any advice for Logan?

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