McGee Carpet and Trim installs carpets in commercial offices. Andrea McGee has been very concerned with the amount of time it took to complete several recent jobs. Some of her workers are very unreliable. A list of activities and their optimistic completion time, the most likely completion time, and the pessimistic completion time (all in days) for a new contract are provided in a given table. Following are the activities that are required to install the carpets in the offices:

• Activity 1: Measure office room dimensions
• Activity 2: Estimate cost
• Activity 3: Material requisition
• Activity 4: Workforce requisition
• Activity 5: Special tool requisition
• Activity 6: Installation
• Activity 7: Inspection and customer acceptance

Activity 2 starts immediately after Activity 1. Activity 3, Activity 4, and Activity 5 start concurrently after Activity 2. Activity 6 does not start until after Activity 3, Activity 4, and Activity 5 are completed. The carpet installation project is complete after Activity 7 is completed. If OT = Optimistic Time, MT = Most Likely Time, and PT = Pessimistic Time, use a Program Evaluation Review Estimate (PERT) to compute the statistical time for each activity, as in the following table:

You must also do the following:

• Determine the expected completion time and the variance for each activity
• Determine the total project completion time and the critical path for the project
• Determine Early Start (ES), Early Finish (EF), Late Start (LS), and slack for each activity
• What is the probability that McGee Carpet and Trim will finish the project in 40 days or less?
• Define project management and the necessary requirements.
• Analyze implications of changes in project scheduling.
• Evaluate application of project management techniques in terms of the firm’s business operational goals and requirements.

See attached file and need help in answering questions.

Find the opinion of the Oregon Court of Appeals in the 2008 case of Helen Sollars (aka Helen Kelly) and Estate of Helene Valoff v. City of Milwaukie, and answer the following questions about the case. Please number your answers and, for the sake of clarity, refer to the parties as “the Seller”, “the Buyer”, and “the City”; avoid using names or “plaintiff” or “defendant” to identify the parties.

1. The case caption says that Helen Sollars (aka Helen Kelly) and the Estate of Helene Valoff are the plaintiffs in the case and that the City of Milwaukie is the Defendant. Why is the City of Milwaukie a party in the case? Why did the City of Milwaukie fail to appear (file any documents with) the Court of Appeals? This answer should take you only a few sentences.
2. Compare this case with the “Ohio treasure trove case”. If the link is not working, you will find that article in the Chapter 1 Illustrative Articles. (Note: If you find yourself looking at a tax case, you are not looking in the right place!)

1. 1. What were the legal issues that were at the core of the treasure trove case?
   2. Are the legal issues that the Sollars case is based upon the same as those presented by the treasure trove case? If not, how are they different?

This answer will take a couple of paragraphs.

3. What were the conflicting arguments of the buyer and the estate in the Sollars case about the language of the contract? (Please use legal terminology.) Again, a couple of well-thought out paragraphs should be sufficient

4. Do you feel that the language of the contract was unambiguous? If so, what do you think the clear meaning of the contract was? In other words, do you think the Court of Appeals or the trial court was right? (Remember that the Supreme Court hasn’t yet ruled on this, so we don’t yet have the Last Word on the matter and you can’t say that “the Oregon Court of Appeals was right because it had the last word.”) If you feel that the language was ambiguous, what are the potential meanings you see, and which one do you feel the court should have applied? Why? A couple of paragraphs should be okay.

5. Rewrite the “personal property” provision of the contract to make it clearer in regard to unknown property on the premises. (Note: Don’t tell me what your provision would be intended to do: write the provision!) Can you see any problems that might arise from including your language in all contracts for the sale and purchase of residential real estate?

Choose a policy issue that interests you. It can be a US domestic policy issue, such as immigration or health care, an international policy issue such as terrorism or nuclear security, or a California state policy issue such as education funding or carbon emissions regulation (just to name a few).

1. First, research the issue using newspaper or magazine articles, and reputable media websites, to get an overview and background information on the issue.
2. Next, research different proposals for policy change, or support or criticism of current U.S. or state government policy on this issue using media and scholarly sources.

For the topic proposal, submit a one paragraph description of the issue you have chosen, and what is currently happening with a specific policy related to this issue. Also submit a list of at least 8 sources you will use, including both media and website sources (minimum of 5), and scholarly sources (minimum of 3), using either APA Style or Chicago Author/Date Style.

There are several online resources through the SJSU Library that you may find helpful for this assignment.

The Political Science Research Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. is a good starting place. See tabs on the left-hand side including Scholarly vs. Popular Articles (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Citation Styles (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Evaluating Information (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and Avoiding Plagiarism (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. The Web Sites (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. tab also lists a number of sites where you can get started researching policy issues.

Introduction

Disaster responses will differ from one agency to the next. While planning and response follow a similar framework, the contributions by your team will likely result in different ways to solve the problem. Your Unit 7 assignment focused on the EOC operations and use of the EOP to address one of two scenarios. For this discussion, we will share the varied approaches taken to complete the last assignment and discuss the different approaches to decision-making.

Instructions

1. Complete the following, then post your paper as an attachment:
   • Identify the EOC staff position and scenario you selected in Unit 7.
   • Explain the role of your selected position as it related to your chosen incident.
   • Describe any challenges your team had within the scenario and which strategies would be effective to build the incident objectives in the midst of conflict by team members.
   • List at least one question related to your approach to the scenario or EOC operations that you would like to discuss.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the posts of at least two of your fellow learners and provide substantive feedback to compare the relationship between general staff roles or approaches to decision-making. How might you approach the identified conflicts differently? Offer productive insight to address questions posed about the response to the scenarios or EOC operations.

Resources

• Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.