Capital Improvement Essay

Medical technology is advancing rapidly with each passing minute. It is becoming more urgent for health care facilities to invest in equipment that is current and state of the art. Behind these advancements are proven statistics that certain equipment is a necessity when diagnosing and treating patients. We, as health care workers, owe it to our patients to have the best possible equipment in our facilities. Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer has become the most common cancer among women in the United States. Breast cancer does not discriminate. It is one of the

Connell, II, Disaster Management Solutions Inc., MA [M] Melody Eady, Georgia Fire Academy, GA [SE] Richard J. S. Karasaki, Jr., Honolulu Fire Department, HI [U] Wesley V. Kitchel, Santa Rosa Fire Department, CA [L] Timothy A. Kovacs, Phoenix Fire Department, AZ [L] Timothy J. Lombardi, Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department, OH [L] Rep. NFPA Fire Service Section J. Michael McCreary, American Emergency Response Training, TN [SE] Robert N. Moody, Montgomery County, Maryland, MD [L] Robert E. Rhea, Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department, VA [U] Brian Rousseau, State of New York, NY [E] Robert J. Schappert, III, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, DC [U] Peter M. Schecter, Government of the British Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands [E] Rep. International Association of Fire Chiefs Ralph Sproul, Chevron Products Company, CA [U] Michael L. Walker, Oklahoma City Fire Department, OK [U] Charles A. Wehrli, Spec Rescue, IL [SE] Ernest R. Wright, Wright Rescue Solutions, Inc., FL [SE] Leonard E. Yox, Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, MD [SE] Andrea Zaferes, Lifeguard Systems, RIPTIDE, AZ Training, NY [SE] Alternates Brad Eveland, U.S. Air Force, AK [E] (Voting Alt. to U.S. Air Force Rep.) Fred J. Jackson, Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department, OH [L] (Alt. to T. J. Lombardi) Rep. NFPA Fire Service Section Frank E. Florence, NFPA Staff Liaison

For the case of GE Capital Canada, Clark Carriers submitted a request for a loan amounting to $270000. It was first confirmed that Clark Carriers met the minimal requirements set out by the commercial equipment financing division of GE for loans. Cash flow was then analyzed to ensure that Clark Carriers has sufficient cash flow from operations to make payments on current loans. Next the financial ratios were analyzed to ensure that Clark Carriers was efficient in its profitability, liquidity, stability, efficiency and growth in which they proved to achieve positive outcomes in all areas, especially profitability.

In accordance with our previous discussion, as promised, attached is our proposal to provide business investment plan for Eagle’s Nest Hotels Inc., prepared by the following staffs: Weng Hong Hoh, Kang Yi, Nicklas Ivarsson and Moneeb Aziz.

The data used to be analyzed was based on the data reported from the 593 fire districts that reported out of the 728 Fire Departments in the state in 2005. The sections used of the data set was the Career; Injury Date and State. The subsection data used was the numbers for professional firefighter and volunteer firefighter. The number of incidents from each month for that reporting year were taken from the data section: Professional Firefighter; Jan-3; Feb-1; March-2; April-4; May-2; June-4; July-2; August-10; September-4; October-1; November-8; December-4. Volunteer Firefighter; Jan-4; Feb-4; March-2; Arpil-0; May-2; June-2; July-6; August-9; September-1; October-0; November-1; December-4. Each month was analyzed to determine the differences in the incidents that occurred with Professional and Volunteer Firefighters. There were no additional data added collected or changed for this

I am excited to share that the American Red Cross is taking our Home Fire Campaign to the next level. This October, we are launching a unique national event, that saves lives by raising public awareness regarding the devastating impact of home fires in our communities, and installing smoke alarms in at-risk neighborhoods. Home fires kill more Americans than every other natural disaster combined every year. Together we can make a difference by preventing these unnecessary deaths. We already have XXX documented lives saved…we can have many more.

One example of this was the fact that the hardware store did not present an active sprinkler system and if the system sprinkler was in place at the time of the incident, chances of the explosion would have been less that what it was. Sprinkler systems in buildings reduce the chances of fire growth significally, also resulting in a successful interior fire attack. Consider to the building owners that if they do have hazardous materials located in the building, to either store them outside in a cage where it is marked and labeled accordingly with placards or have placards attached to the building if the materials are located inside the building. Having that in place will give the fire department a good judgement on whether to go inside the structure or go defensive attack during a fire. This fire was a tragic fire that could have been prevented if the kids that were in the back yard had not had knocked over the gasoline can. Hopefully, fire departments across the nation learned from this fire and is more proactive in better pre-planning older style buildings in their

“Across England, on average each firefighter attends 110 incidents a year. False alarms now outnumber fires - 46 of the 110 incidents are false alarms, just 43 are fires.”

The world around us is constantly changing, and so is the fire service. The fire service is built off of tradition, but sometimes new traditions need to be made. Over the past thirty years the fire service has adopted new techniques and training to improve the outcome and safety of calls. The fire service has seen changes in their personal protective equipment, safety and performance advances of the apparatus and changes of residential fire dynamics.

Hall, International Fire Service Accreditation Congress, OK [SE] Jon C. Jones, Jon Jones & Associates, MA [SE] Rep. TC on Industrial Fire Brigades Pro Qual VL to Professional Qualifications System Management Jacklyn Kilby-Richards, Town of Groton Emergency Dispatch, CT [U] Rep. TC on Public Safety Telecommunicator Pro Qual VL to Professional Qualifications System Management F. Patrick Marlatt, Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, MD [SE] Rep. TC on Fire Fighter Pro Qual VL to Professional Qualifications System Management Michael J. McGovern, Lakewood Fire Department, WA [U] Gerard J. Naylis, Penn Well Company, NJ [C] Rep. TC on Fire Investigator Pro Qual VL to Professional Qualifications System Management

The Plan includes an ambitious list of projects and investments that exceed current funding levels. The successful implementation of the Plan will require a greater commitment of organizational and financing resources and will also require establishing project priorities. It will also require creative (out-of-the-box) thinking and partnerships to accomplish some of the bold objectives leading to success.

EnCana Corporation (EnCana) is one of North America’s leading natural gas producers. It is among the largest holders of natural gas and oil resource lands onshore North America and is a technical and cost leader in the in-situ recovery of oil sands bitumen. EnCana’s other operations include the transportation and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; as well as the refining of crude oil and the marketing of refined petroleum products. Its operations are located in Canada, the US, Ecuador, and the UK.

Imagine your smoke detector sounding its screeching alarm every 47 seconds, twenty-four hours day, 365 days a year. That is how often a residential fire occurs in the United States. According to a report issued in September 2007 by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a nonprofit group dedicated to improving fire safety, U.S. fire departments responded to 412,500 residential fires in 2006. Residential fires cause tremendous damage. Some 2,580 civilians (non-firefighters) lost their lives in residential fires in 2006, an average of one civilian fire death every 3 hours and 24 minutes. That represents 80 percent of all civilian deaths due to fire, even though residential fires make up only 25 percent of all reported fires.

3. Value of salvage at the end of the life of the project of $14 million.

Organization should consider about the cost-benefit analysis in three aspects: cash flow (both positive and negative cash flow), assumptions (e.g. container loss and the number of container needed in the cycle) and cost justification approaches. Regarding to the first aspect, some researchers, such as Rosenau et al. (1996), Twede et al. (2004) and Hellstrom (2009), proposed that there are three types of cash flow that should be estimated: initial investment, operational cost and operational saving. The details of each type of cash flow are displayed in Table 3.4. Furthermore, there are some concerns on the validity of cost-benefit analysis. Tajima (2007) stated that a company may suffer from hidden cost and long payback period of RFID adoption. Véronneau et al. (2009) also agreed with Tajima (2007) that based on his case study if the duration that RFID is used in each day is small, the expected useful life will be shorter than the amortization of fixed equipment. Although Hellstrom (2009) agreed that a company should carefully include all possible costs such as man-hours used in the estimation to ensure the validity of cost-benefit analysis, he argued that the payback period of his two case studies was within two years. Moreover, he argued that rather than focus on the cost, companies should emphasize on the number of RFID readers required, the system integration and the implementation process.