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Favorite Stats Benchmark!

Posted by Glenn Brailsford in Statistics - Thompson on
My favorite statistics benchmark over the course of my time in statistics was probably the most recent one that we did. I think it was my favorite because it gave us a chance to reflect on everything that we did in our time of statistics and put it into a sort of study guide that would help us in the future with any statistics we may use and even other math as well. For this benchmark we were required to go back throughout our time in statistics and put together a study guide filled with a few select things that we had learned and also topics in our freshman college math course which would we could use in the future for help. We had to inquire about our college math course and our curriculum in our college math course to be able to successfully complete this project. We researched the different topics we were going to do in or notebooks and past assignments/benchmarks, and could also use the internet as a place for ideas as long as we had original problems. We could collaborate with our other classmates if we needed help with anything. Most of us presented it in keynote form to Ms. Thompson but not the class as a whole. We sat down with Ms. Thompson and discussed what we thought the strongest and weakest points of our benchmark was and what we thought our final grade should be. I think this project as a whole was a reflection benchmark because it made us look back on everything we did in our time in this class and how we could/should apply to our lives by using it to study with.

Bureacracy Reflection:

Posted by Glenn Brailsford in American Government - Laufenberg on

1) We selected food stamps. We talked out the process of how to get food stamps.

We went over filling out the paperwork, where to get it from and the interview process.

2) Our process was basically to fill out the application and to find out what it was like to go through filling out a lot of paperwork. We had to come up with different numbers such as social security and policy numbers for our insurance and things of that nature. We then had to get to work on starting our flow chart. We didn't really know how we wanted to do it at first but we tried some different things out and finally found something that worked.

3) The paperwork wasn't hard but it wasn't the easiest thing to fill out either. There were a lot of thing included in it that we didn't understand. We did the best we could with creating a fake identity and to come up with a social security number and with numbers for his insurance such as the policy number. Overall there were still some questions we had about the application itself because there were a lot of thing on there that didn't make sense, at least to us.

4) i would change the interview/paperwork process. I think that there should always be a worker or someone working with you throughout the process so there won't be the chance of getting turned down or anything. You can make sure you have all the paperwork and make sure that everything is filled out correctly the first time. Or at elate there should be someone that explains everything from the beginning of the process.

5) I think it's become so complicated for a variety of reasons. 1, in my opinion, is that they need to make sure there aren't any frauds going on and that there is accurate information being given and the right system for each person if given. Also  to make sure people are serious about what is going on I guess they need to make it long because people wouldn't waste their time on something that they weren't serious about.

6) I just want to say if someone was going to fill out the application to make sure they do it with some so they don't get confused and will have done everything correctly.

Process for Campaign

Posted by Glenn Brailsford in American Government - Laufenberg on
Thoughts: 12/9 - I was going to write a few letters to send the different people in charge of finances such as the Mayor, CFO and who ever else I can send a letter to that will have a direct effect on the way that our finances are managed. I think that I will also make posters and try to hand out fliers that display something intriguing about our cities finances. I think that in order to really capture the audiences attention I’m going to have to make the fliers either very vibrant or have maybe a table listing how our finances our spent and [if I can find it] how much each member of our government makes like the mayor, CFO, etc...
• Process: First I will gather more information and think about everything I want to say in my letter to send out. I don’t think I will send out multiple copies of the same later because I don’t want to sound repetitive. I want each letter I send out to make a statement all on it’s own.

- For my fliers I hope to attract a lot of attention to myself maybe with some sort of catchy saying or something then get people to ask questions based on what info I will have on my fliers.

Finances In Philly!

Posted by Glenn Brailsford in American Government - Laufenberg on

I’ve been reading some of these links and I can see that over the past few years the numbers in terms of how they spread out the money is pretty much the same at least in the same range. The things that have really noticeable differences are that the 3/30/10 stats went up later in the year when they took the numbers again on 6/30/10. In my opinion this will continue to be an up year rolling into 2011. I think the people who are essential to the turn out of the financial process that we are in are the CFO and the mayor and every individual outlet that our cities money goes out to, such as the police, firemen and public heath services. We as citizens are also partially responsible for how our cities finances are managed. If we are socially responsible and don’t have a high crime rate and armed robberies and other offenses then that in my opinion is us playing a key roll in our cities finances.

• I think that I can influence the people that are around me. Without having more in-depth knowledge about the exact situation of our finances, (which I plan to do) I can’t really give them different statistics just yet.

•  The time frame is from now until 12/30/10. That’s when they do the different summaries of what the cities finances are and compare them to other state governments finances.

• Every qtr. of the year CFO and other members of the government such as the mayor sit down and discuss the cities finances and things of the sort.

3/30

6/30

9/30

12/30

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Links: http://www.phila.gov/reports/reports2.html

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.phila.gov/finance/pdfs/QCMR_81610.pdf

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.phila.gov/finance/pdfs/Quarterly_City_Manag6.pdf

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.phila.gov/pdfs/qcmr_081809.pdf

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.phila.gov/finance/pdfs/Quarterly_City_Manag5.pdf

Disease: Evolution in Humans Vs. Animals

Posted by Glenn Brailsford in Science and Society - Best on
Question: How do diseases in animals and diseases in humans show the different evolutionary paths that we have gone down and what does it say about our immune systems?


Animals and humans can get the same diseases but to my knowledge there are some diseases that we are immune to that they aren't and vice versa. Humans have had an advantage for the past century or so with having plumbing access to for the most part clean water and other means to prevent and fight diseases. Penicillin and amoxicillin are among pills that are made to fight and prevent diseases. Animals on the other hand have evolved in the wild where they have to rely on natural selection and how they have evolved to adapt in their environments to fight off sickness and disease.


Zoonotic diseases are diseases naturally able to transfer from animals to humans and vice versa. This shows that we share some of the same immune system capabilities as animals. For instance it is known that while sharks are able to get cancer their immune system prevents cancer/tumors from being able to grow.The recent Swine Flu outbreak is recent evidence of this resulting in many people becoming ill and around 12,000 actual deaths in the U.S. in the recent 2009-2010 outbreaks, and shows how diseases originate in animals and transfer to humans. AIDS however is a disease that cannot from my knowledge and research thus far, be contracted by animals except for in chimps. Is this because of our DNA similarities and because of the similar evolutionary path that we have gone down? Also, how has the evolutionary path of diseases influence how and who it effects between animals and humans? What about the sharks? Has evolving in the ocean over these millions of years gave them a sort of advantage from not letting cancer or tumors progress?

These following links show other diseases and how either vaccines are similar or animals and humans can contract similar diseases.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7270562.stm

http://www.mrmcmed.org/aids.html

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/immune.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=imm&part=A1480

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v248/n5446/abs/248344a0.html

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/p_bite_on_cancer.htm

http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/aboutp/pets/zoonoses.html



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