Homework 7 – Preparation for the Role Play* 

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Homework 7 – Preparation for the Role Play* 
* Evaluating Elements of the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan
To prepare to take part in the class activity, you need to learn about the water challenges of the Yakima River Basin and the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan.  To do this, you will have several readings. Some will be shared by everyone so we have some common understanding, some will be specific to your stakeholder role.
In any serious effort to promote more sustainable water resource management, one must engage in a long, interdisciplinary, and hopefully inclusive process – one that blends science, policy, politics, values, traditions, etc.  The people in the Yakima River Basin and the Washington State government have long been aware of the water challenges in the basin and have been struggling to come to some compromises to preserve water resources and ecosystems while also accommodating cultural needs, agricultural productivity, and development potential.  Learning about the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan will provide a window into the kind of controversies and decisions that must be grappled with in any region coping with insufficient water to meet demands.
For this assignment, work through the following steps…
Step 1 – Work through the common readings
Step 2 – Do the readings specific to your stakeholder role
Take good notes throughout steps 2 and 3 to help you keep in mind the most significant water-related challenges in the Yakima River Basin, potential solutions to them, and your stakeholder perspectives related to them. To learn more, you can peruse the articles listed in Other Resources, or dive into the readings for other stakeholders.
The Common Readings

Stakeholder Specific Readings (citations lacking links are in Canvas in the Readings for 5/21 Module)

  1. Senior Water Rights Holders (Anthony Arutyunov, Katie Boyd, Michael Case, Danielle Hufana, Binit Khadka, Bob Lewis, Lauren Mamaghani, Angelica Mendoza, Emily Person)
  2. Center for Environmental Law & Policy (n.d.). Kittitas County: Water Scarcity and Exempt Wells. http://www.celp.org/archive/kittitas/petition/overview.html
  3. Bacon, T (2015). State Buying Up Water Rights in Yakima River Basin. Spokane Public Radio. http://spokanepublicradio.org/post/state-buying-water-rights-yakima-river-basin
  4. Washington State Department of Ecology (2013). Water Rights in Washington. https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/publications/961804swr.pdf  [As much of the controversy in water allocation in the Yakima Basin (and elsewhere) revolves around water rights, this is a FAQ that can help you get a sense of how water rights are established.]

 

  1. Junior Water Rights Holders (Nora Abdi, Abdullah Alsubhi, Eugene Joo, Alexa Luna, Duha Mohamed, Michael Ngo, Mevin Santhosh, Shawn Smith, Clarissa Teodoro)
  2. Morrison, S (2013). Letter to the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Workgroup on behalf of the Yakima Basin Storage Alliance. http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/2011integratedplan/2013meetings/2013-03-13/11ybsa.pdf
  3. Columbia Institute for Water Policy (2007). History of Over-Appropriation in the Yakima River Basin. http://columbia-institute.org/blackrock/backrock/Overappropriation.html
  4. Columbia Institute for Water Policy (2007). The Black Rock Dam Proposal. http://columbia-institute.org/blackrock/backrock/Proposed_dam.html

 

  1. Government Representatives (Gerardo Apin, Kayla Chamberlain, Highland Edelman, Keegan O’Neill, Juan Pena, Marvin Puna, Melissa Radecke, Anna Strigenz)
  2. Malloch, S and Garrity, M (2015). Yakima River Basin Integrated Plan: Implementing Basin-Scale Water Management & Climate Adaptation. The Water Report. Pages 1-8. http://swwrc.wsu.edu/documents/2015/05/thewaterreport135.pdf
  3. There are several comment letters from government agencies in the following report starting on page 522 of the pdf reader (CR-30): S. Department of Interior (2012). Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Plan Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/reports/FPEIS/fpeis.pdf
  4. Benitz, M (2009). Re: Yakima Supplemental Draft. Comment letter to Derek Sandison, Washington State Department of Ecology. First letter in pdf. [See Readings for 6/2 Module in the Canvas site]

 

  1. Environmental Groups (Roni Bass, Kylie Cope, Gloria Gonzalez-Zapata, Emma Hattori, Stephanie Mai, Angelina Monary, Jake Salvador, Ranim Shayko, Audrey Tinnin)

Read the first article by Martin, then at least three of the others taking issue with aspects of the plan:

  1. Martin, J (2007). Big Growth, Big Fight Over Water. The Seattle Times. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/big-growth-big-fight-over-water/
  2. Cantrell, S (2009, 2012, 2013). 3 Letters regarding the Bumping Lake enlargement proposal from the Seattle Audubon Society. http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/2011integratedplan/2013meetings/2013-03-13/14audubon.pdf
  3. Evans, B (2009). Re: Comments of the Endangered Species Coalition on Work Group Draft Integrated Plan. Letter to the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Working Group. [pdf available in Readings for 5/22 Module in the Canvas site.]
  4. Forsgaard, K (2013). Yakima Plan Blunders On. The Wild Cascades. http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/2011integratedplan/2013meetings/2013-03-13/12cmaykut.pdf [A pretty scathing assessment of the plan.]
  5. McGuire, R, Bates, M, Suckling, K, Skinner, S, Bekker, G, Evans, B, Zuber, J, Maykut, C, Pica, E, Adams, C, Town M, Konigsmark, K, and Baldi, G (2012). Re: Proposed National Recreation Areas. Letter to the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Workgroup on behalf of several environmental groups. [pdf available in Readings for 5/22 Module in the Canvas site.]
  6. O’Keefe, T (2011). Re: Integrated Water Resource Management Plan, Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project. Comment letter representing views of American Whitewater in U.S. Department of Interior (2011). Scoping Summary Report – Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan. http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/2011integratedplan/final-scopsum-red.pdf [See the docx of just the letter in Readings for 5/22 Module in the Canvas site]
  7. Platt, E (2009). Letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regarding the Bumping Lake Storage Expansion Proposal on behalf of the Gifford Pinchot Task Force. [pdf available in Readings for 5/22 Module in the Canvas site.]
  8. Ransel, K, Carter, N, Del Giudice, P, Ellis, S, Baldi, J, Wahl, L, Masonis, R, Leaumont, R, Arthur, B, Curtis, J and Beardslee, K (2003). Letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation about the Black Rock Storage Proposal from 10 environmental groups. Water Planet. http://www.waterplanet.ws/pdf/wpbr20061210.pdf

 

  1. The Tribal Nations (Benny Lee, Hank Kilmer, Daniel McCoy, Maritza Ortega, David Perales, Elena Pham, Elizabeth Roe, Angelo Tadrous, Xiting Wang, Xuefing Xia, Luxin Zhang)
  2. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (2012). Re: Joint Yakama Nation, Roza Irrigation District Comments on Yakima Basin Storage Study. Letter to Derek Sandison, Washington State Department of Ecology and David Kaumheimer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.   [See Readings for 5/22 Module in the Canvas site]
  3. Normandeau Associates (2014). Water Rights/Tribal Treaty Rights, in Technical Review: Yakima River Basin Study  Proposed Integrated Water Resource Management Plan. Prepared for the Yakima Basin Storage Alliance.  Pages 27-32. http://ybsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/YBSA-IP-Technical-Review-Revised-Final-Report-7-29-14.pdf
  4. There are several other comment letters from tribal nations in the following report starting on page 509 of the pdf reader (CR-17): S. Department of Interior (2012). Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Plan Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/reports/FPEIS/fpeis.pdf

 
 
Other Resources
Cook, J and Rabotyagov, S (2015). Water Markets: Do Agricultural Sellers Only Care About the Offered Price per Acre-Foot?  Evans School of Business. University of Washington. http://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/public/EvansWorkingPaper-2011-06.pdf
 
Kent, C (2004). Water Resource Planning in the Yakima River Basin: Development vs. Sustainability. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 66: 27-60. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yearbook_of_the_association_of_pacific_coast_geographers/v066/66.1kent.html#fig01
 
Martin, J (2007). Big Growth, Big Fight Over Water. The Seattle Times.  http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/big-growth-big-fight-over-water/
Ulep, AJ. (2013). Water They Doing Right in Yakima? A Qualitative Study in Collaborative Watershed Planning of the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan. Thesis, Goldman Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. http://www.academia.edu/10665427/Water_they_doing_right_in_Yakima_A_Qualitative_Study_in_Collaborative_Watershed_Planning_of_the_Yakima_River_Basin_Integrated_Water_Resource_Management_Plan
 
U.S. Department of Interior (2011). Scoping Summary Report – Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan. http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/2011integratedplan/final-scopsum-red.pdf
 
U.S. Department of Interior (2012). Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Plan Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/reports/FPEIS/fpeis.pdf
Washington State Department of Ecology – Yakima Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan (YBIP) http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wr/cwp/YBIP.html [A web page with links to many documents]
Wilkins-Wells, K (2011). Water Rights Markets – Again. Wisdom in Water, Please… http://nwksgmd4.blogspot.com/2011/07/water-rights-markets-again.html
Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Columbia-Cascades Area Office – http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/yrbwep/ [A web page with links to many documents]
Yakima Basin Storage Alliance – http://ybsa.org/ [A web page with links to many documents. This alliance promotes the formation of more and bigger reservoirs.]
Yakima Basin Storage Alliance (2012). Why YBSA believes more water is required for the Integrated Plan. http://ybsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Why-YBSA-belives-more-water-is-required-for-the-IP-final1.pdf

Eng

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In a minimum 250-word paragraph, Answer the following questons: what do you see as the biggest difference between communites of practice and discoures communities. Between the two frameworks, which do you find to be the most useful for thinking about your professional and academic life and why? Explain and give examples.

Discussion 8

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We are your parting thoughts as we finish this course? To persist in our development as a scholarly community that works collectively to extend knowledge, what wisdom can you offer your classmates? What tips would you offer to a learner just beginning this course?  In 250-words or less provide at least three valuable insights you have developed; making sure to identify to whom this information is useful and why it is of import. Keep in mind, your insights will most likely be shared with future DBA candidates

New Approaches To Supply Chain Management Concept. Logistics Integration Of "Hub And Spoke" Model.

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Learning Outcome:
1.  Demonstrate a deep understanding of the logistic function concepts and theories as well as supply chain management strategies.(Lo.1.1)
2.  Demonstrate the ability to understand complex issues pertaining to supply chain integration and strategic supply chain partnership (Lo 1.2).
3.  Apply essential elements of core logistic and supply chain management principles.(Lo 2.1)
Assignment Workload:
This assignment is an individual assignment.
Critical Thinking
The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities.
Use Saudi digital Library (SDL) search engine.
Search Title: New Approaches to Supply Chain Management Concept. Logistics Integration of “Hub and Spoke” Model.
Authors Name: MINCULETE, Gheorghe; OLAR, Polixenia
Source: Valahian Journal of Economic Studies. 2014, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p21-32. 12p.
Read out the research paper carefully and based on your understanding you should answer the following questions.
Questions:
1.  Why in in the current modern trade, the integration of economic affairs from design to completion is an important priority to every Manufacturing Companies?
2.  Define the parties involved directly and indirectly in supply chain and their role for smooth running of business?
The Answer should be within 2- 3 pages in length including the cover and appendices.
You can take any company of your choice as an example reference should be included.

New Approaches To Supply Chain Management Concept. Logistics Integration Of "Hub And Spoke" Model.

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Learning Outcome:
1.  Demonstrate a deep understanding of the logistic function concepts and theories as well as supply chain management strategies.(Lo.1.1)
2.  Demonstrate the ability to understand complex issues pertaining to supply chain integration and strategic supply chain partnership (Lo 1.2).
3.  Apply essential elements of core logistic and supply chain management principles.(Lo 2.1)
Assignment Workload:
This assignment is an individual assignment.
Critical Thinking
The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities.
Use Saudi digital Library (SDL) search engine.
Search Title: New Approaches to Supply Chain Management Concept. Logistics Integration of “Hub and Spoke” Model.
Authors Name: MINCULETE, Gheorghe; OLAR, Polixenia
Source: Valahian Journal of Economic Studies. 2014, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p21-32. 12p.
Read out the research paper carefully and based on your understanding you should answer the following questions.
Questions:
1.  Why in in the current modern trade, the integration of economic affairs from design to completion is an important priority to every Manufacturing Companies?
2.  Define the parties involved directly and indirectly in supply chain and their role for smooth running of business?
The Answer should be within 2- 3 pages in length including the cover and appendices.
You can take any company of your choice as an example reference should be included.

Dis #4

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  • Watch the video linked below and answer the following questions.

 

 

  1. What was the ethical moment?
  2. Do you agree with what he did?
  3. What would you have done?

 
 
 

  • Please read the two discussions (the discussion includes the following 3 questions) below and write a 100 to 150 words respond for each discussion.

 

  • The first discussion (3 questions):
  1. The ethical moment is when the soldiers were told to lie about the death of their fellow soldier by their captain instead of telling the truth that it was due to an accident.
  2. I do not agree with the decision to lie because I imagine the soldiers would feel extremely guilty and eventually the truth would come out and when it did, it would make the captain look like a terrible person. The soldiers have a million other things they are worried about and the last thing they should have to stress about is lying.
  3. I would have told the truth because the soldiers are already having to deal with the loss of their friend and to lie would feel like a dishonor to him.
  • The second discussion (3 questions):
  1. The ethical moment is when Captain Winters decides to tell his men that they do not need to do another patrol across the river into enemy territory again, despite direct orders from the Colonel. Although the first patrol was “successful” in recovering two prisoners to question, the mission took the life of one of Captain Winters’ young soldiers. Winters told his men to lie and say that they were able to get across the river into enemy territory a second time but were unable to capture anymore prisoners this time, when in reality they got a full nights sleep.
  2. I agree with Captain Winters’ actions to spare his soldiers’ and friends’ lives by not having them do another mission that could cost them more than reward them. Captain Winters and the soldiers did not agree with Colonel Sink’s orders, so Winters decided to give his men a break from horrific war action. Although Captain Winters defied an order from a superior, I believe it was the right thing to do considering the losses all of the men have suffered already.
  3. It is hard to say what I would have done because I could not even fathom the amount of courage and bravery to even fight in such a brutal war. I think that I would try to do what Captain Winters did to spare my friends’ lives, especially from a mission that nobody agrees with except the braggadocios command of the Colonel who likes the idea of commanding a “successful” infantry unit.

 

Assignment.

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For Assignment #8, carefully review all the information you have accumulated on your topic (CRM)as well as the feedback you have received.  Select 5 peer-reviewed articles that you believe are most on point with your topic and approach to your study.

  1. Draft an annotated bibliography for each of the five peer reviewed studies.
  2. Each annotation should begin with the full APA reference for the article, summarize the salient points of the source, assess the value of the source from a scholarly and/or business perspective, as well as reflect on how the source aligns with your proposed topic or study approach.
  3. Each annotation should be no more than 1 page for a total of five pages (title page and references excluded) for this entire composition.

Pharmacotherapy For Cardiovascular Disorders

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As an advanced practice nurse, it is your responsibility to recommend appropriate treatment options for patients with cardiovascular disorders. To ensure the safety and effectiveness of drug therapy, advanced practice nurses must consider aspects that might influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes such as medical history, other drugs currently prescribed, and individual patient factors.
Reference: Murphy, S. L., Xu, J., Kochanek, K. D., & Arias, E. (2018). Mortality in the United States, 2017. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htm

To Prepare
  • Review the Resources for this module and consider the impact of potential pharmacotherapeutics for cardiovascular disorders introduced in the media piece.
  • Review the case study assigned by your Instructor for this Assignment.
  • Select one the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior factors.
  • Reflect on how the factor you selected might influence the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
  • Consider how changes in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy.
  • Think about how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan based on the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes. Reflect on whether you would modify the current drug treatment or provide an alternative treatment option for the patient.

you will examine how patient factors may influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes of pharmacotherapeutics used in the treatment of cardiovascular disorders.  You also explore ways to improve drug therapy plans for cardiovascular disorders based on patient factors and overall health needs.
When writing your Week 2 Assignment, consider the following scenario:
Patient CB has a history of strokes. The patient has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Drugs currently prescribed include the following:
•     Glipizide 10 mg op daily
•     HCTZ 25 mg daily
•     Atenolol 25 mg po daily
•     Hydralazine 25 mg QID
•     Simvastatin 80 mg daily   
•     Verapamil 180 mg CD daily
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are fundamental to clinical practice, as they assist providers with clinical decision making.  I have attached some applicable guidelines below for your reference.
2017 ACC-AHA Guideline Mgmt HTN in Adults.pdf
2018 AHA-ACC Guideline on Mgmt Blood Cholesterol.pdf
2017 ACC-AHA-HFSA Guideline Mgmt HF.pdf
ASH 2018 Guidelines Mgmt of VTE_Optimal Anticoag.pdf
2019 AHA-ACC-HRS Guideline for Mgmt A Fib.pdf
2017 AHA-ACC Guideline Mgmt Valvular Heart Disease.pdf
Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

  • Explain how the factor you selected might influence the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in the patient from the case study you were assigned.
  • Describe how changes in the processes might impact the patient’s recommended drug therapy. Be specific and provide examples.
  • Explain how you might improve the patient’s drug therapy plan and explain why you would make these recommended improvements.

Qnt/561 SUBSTANTIVE WK6

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Black, K. (2017). Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making, (9th Edition). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
 
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
 
Discussion 1
 
Due Thursday
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
 
 
This week, we learn about regression analysis and regression “models’. Discuss the role of regression analysis in business by using examples of how these models might work to make predictions. In your discussion, consider the various components of the output and how it might be of value to understanding the data.
 
Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.
 
 
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