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What’s sweet, the star of every dessert table and possibly wreaking havoc on your health? Sugar. And over the past 30 years, Americans have been consuming it in epic proportions.
How epic? When it comes to added sugar (we’re talking white sugar, brown sugar, honey and high fructose corn syrup, not natural sugars found in fruit and milk), the American Heart Association recommends no more than 100 calories per day (that’s 6 teaspoons or 24 grams) for women, and 150 calories (9 teaspoons or 36 grams) for men. But the reality is, the average American consumes about 19.5 teaspoons (82 grams) of added sugar each day, which adds up to almost 66 pounds of added sugar each year. One person. 66 pounds of sugar. That’s three times the recommended amount.
All this extra added sugar takes a toll. Diets high in added sugar can increase the risk of diabetes, obesity, tooth decay, nonalcoholic liver disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure (which can lead to stroke), and even premature aging.
The best way to fight the sugar epidemic and lower your risk of disease is simple: consume less sugar. Here are a four important ways you can cut back.
While food labels don’t separate natural sugar from added sugar, reading the list of ingredients can give you a good idea of what type of sugars are included. Added sugars include brown sugar, corn syrup, fruit juice concentrates, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, raw sugar, molasses, malt sugar, syrup, and all sugar molecules ending in “ose” like dextrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose and sucrose. Naturally occurring sugars can be found in products that contain milk (such as yogurt or cheese) or fruit (fresh or dried).
A good rule of thumb to remember while shopping is that four grams of sugar equal one teaspoon. If you’re trying to stick to the 6 to 9 teaspoons recommendation, this trick can help you decide which foods to enjoy, and which to avoid.
Soda. Pop. Whatever you call it, stop drinking it right now. A single serving of a non-diet soda contains 9 teaspoons (38 grams) of added sugar. That’s almost twice as much as a person is supposed to consume in an entire day.
At 36 percent, liquid sugar represents the leading source of added sugar in the American diet, and there’s growing evidence that it’s the most dangerous. Liquid sugar – also found in juice, energy drinks, coffee drinks, etc. – is considered dangerous because your body processes it differently than other types of sugar.
For example, when you eat a piece of fruit, you might be eating 18 grams of natural sugar, but you’re also getting fiber. It takes your body a long time to digest that fiber, making the fruit (and the sugar that comes with it) a sustained source of energy.
Liquid sugar, on the other hand, comes with zero fiber, so it’s quickly released into the bloodstream, giving your body a bigger, faster dose of sugar than it can handle. If your body is consistently dealing with this type of sugar overload day in and day out, it might mean an increased risk of liver disease, heart disease and diabetes.
Replace soda with water, naturally flavored water, carbonated seltzer water or unsweetened tea. It might take a couple days, or even weeks to successfully kick a soda habit, but your liver, kidneys and heart agree it’s worth it.
Stir in some cinnamon, bananas slices and a drizzle of natural peanut butter into plain oatmeal.
Mix plain Greek yogurt with berries, nuts and a spoon of natural honey.
Add a single teaspoon of sugar to your unsweetened, whole-wheat breakfast cereal and top with fresh fruit. Yes, it’s sugar, but you’re completely in control of the amount.
It’s easy to think of sugar in cakes, frosting, Oreos, soda and candy, but did you know there is a ton of added sugar in processed foods like white bread, tomato sauce, salad dressing and granola bars? The more foods you make from scratch, the more control you have over the amount of sugar you’re consuming.
While you aren’t expected to bake every loaf of bread yourself, it definitely pays to be aware of how much sugar is hidden in everyday foods. Figure out the foods that matter most and make a lower-sugar version from scratch. Take tomato sauce, for example. You could make your own healthier version by substituting grated carrots for sugar. And adding unsweetened applesauce to your next batch of whole-wheat pancakes could make dousing them in maple syrup completely unnecessary.
Remember, reducing sugar can help cut calories, control weight and improve heart health. While cutting back might not be easy, the key to success is to take it one step at a time. Master some easy swaps first, and then move on to more advanced ‘sugar-less’ eating. You might even be surprised how quickly your body adapts to your improved eating habits because you’re giving it more of what it craves and less of what it doesn’t. | 2019-04-22T04:18:24Z | https://parsseh.com/115748/how-to-cut-back-on-sugar.html |
While there’s plenty of talk these days about remotely controlling platoons of driverless trucks and doing a better job of competing with rail, there’s no substitute for the way Strategic Transportation uses logistics for delivery in St. Paul, MN and other parts of the region.
In this growing age of e-commerce, the trend is toward smaller packages. This quite naturally favors trucking over rail, especially when delivering in a metro area. Just how much will the demand for parcel deliveries increase over the next decade? Some predict it could be double or triple what we’re used to today.
That’s not good when you figure highway congestion is expected to rise sharply over the next 25 years. More dedicated funding is required to pay for highway expansions and repairs. Whether that will be achieved through higher fuel taxes or other user fees is anyone’s guess.
Will what’s known as ride sharing also include a version of package delivery in the future? It’s not clear that alternative or autonomous cars will really offer a reliable solution, and experts believe it just might make the anticipated traffic hassles even worse. Regardless of how trends change, Strategic Transportation is ready with our logistics services.
There really is no substitute for strategic thinking about these issues, and Strategic Transportation is ready to help with custom logistics for your needs. Geared toward getting around transportation and warehousing issues, we use the latest technology to not only track your shipment but to also anticipate problems that might prevent it from arriving on-time.
It’s a lot of opportunity for Strategic Transportation. From dry van deliveries, both short and long distances, to partial and full truckloads, we can nimbly deliver not only small orders but custom jobs of varying complexity. Maybe a flatbed is needed to handle over-sized or overweight shipments. We also have heavy haul capability for intense loads and height.
If it’s something that needs to be there even faster, Strategic has expedited air freight and air international services. Not only do we have the transportation options, but we also have the logistics to manage all of your deliveries, ensuring they arrive safely and on time.
Strategic Transportation is strategic by design when it comes to dealing with the growing delivery challenges e-commerce and infrastructure create these days. We want to create a transportation experience for you that fits your needs in St. Paul, MN and other destinations across the country. Call Strategic Transportation today at (651) 433-7310 and we’ll help deliver the perfect transportation strategy for you. | 2019-04-26T05:56:02Z | http://www.strategic-transportation.com/2019/01/ |
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F2 is one of the three papers that form the Knowledge base for your ACCA studies. Whilst Paper F1 – Accountant in Business gives you a broad overview of the role and function of the accountant, Papers F2 – Management Accounting and F3 – Financial Accounting give you technical knowledge at a fundamental level of the two major areas of accounting. Paper F2 will give you a good grounding in all the basic techniques you need to know in order to progress through the ACCA qualification and will help you with Papers F5 – Performance Management and P5 – Advanced Performance Management in particular.
The paper is examined by computer-based exam or a written exam consisting of objective test questions (mainly multiple-choice questions). You are not required, at this level, to demonstrate any written skills. However you will be required to demonstrate the following.
Core knowledge – classification and treatment of costs, accounting for overheads, budgeting and standard costing, decision-making.
Numerical and mathematical skills – regression analysis, linear programming.
Spreadsheet skills – the paper will test your understanding of what can be done with spreadsheets. This section will be particularly useful to you in the workplace. | 2019-04-22T02:41:17Z | https://irancfa.org/course/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C-f2-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B3%D9%87-lsbf/ |
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Stronghold 1 adds free build mode to the game and extra options into multiplayer mode. You can stop alliance while playing in multiplayer mode. Gatehouses can be captured now from an enemy player. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
dont waste your time, cnet keeps adding mods in the games sections..
"This isn't the right one."
Amazing game for a very low price.
"Dont wast your time here.."
I used to play this game and it was very good for its time, wanted to play it as a throwback..
The download appears to work howeber, upon attempting to run the game it asks for the CD-ROM.
"this game is verry funny and can make u relax"
Life is full of giggles for Sim Town toddlers, and the good times continue with the latest update. | 2019-04-21T22:52:11Z | https://download.cnet.com/Stronghold-1/3000-2119_4-10825215.html |
Quest Palmerston North serviced apartment style hotel rooms offer guests a relaxed and comfortable Palmerston accommodation experience perfect for short or long stays.
Quest Palmerston North is conveniently located in the Palmerston CBD, a short walk to Palmerston City Library, Gym-Jetts, and only minutes from Manawatu River Walkway, Victoria Esplanade and Lido Aquatic Centre.
Quest Palmerston North has 40 serviced apartments including Studios, One and Two Bedroom Apartments. Studios are the perfect alternative to a hotel room, each with a fully equipped kitchenette. The One and Two Bedroom Apartments are ideal for families, colleagues or larger groups looking for a home away from home experience.
Standing out in a vibrant city centre, Quest Palmerston North offers premium short and long term accommodation to both the business and leisure guest. Ideally situated for all your needs, with shopping, relaxation and entertainment options within walking distance.
Quest Palmerston North guests can enjoy an exciting range of dining options from casual and gourmet, to family friendly and fine dining. There is something for everyone.
When you book direct with Quest Palmerston North you get the “Quest Best Rate” and pay no booking fees. You will have access to last room availability, with more choice and superior service.
The well-appointed Studio provides a modern open-plan space to unwind and relax. Offering a comfortable king bed (or two single beds), apartment-controlled heating/air conditioning, kitchenette with cooktop, bar fridge, toaster, kettle and microwave, ensuite bathroom with amenities and hair dryer, desk, LCD TV and high-speed internet access. A wardrobe, ironing board and iron, and private safe add to the convenience. Car parking is available (charges apply). A daily housekeeping service is included (excluding Sunday and public holidays). Breakfast and restaurant options are available, contact us for details.
Feel right at home in the One Bedroom Apartment. There’s space to move, with a separate bedroom featuring comfortable king bed and wardrobe. The relaxed living area contains a sofa, LCD TV and work desk, whilst the fully equipped kitchen provides a cooktop, oven and full-size fridge, and dining table. The bathroom offers laundry facilities, amenities and hair dryer. A daily housekeeping service is included (excluding Sunday and public holidays). Breakfast and restaurant options are available, contact us for details.
Unwind, relax and recharge in the stylish One Bedroom Executive Apartment. There’s plenty of room to move; the spacious living area contains a sofa, LCD TV and work desk. The separate bedroom features a comfortable king bed, and wardrobe. Enjoy some fresh air on the balcony, before utilising the fully equipped kitchen with cooktop, oven and full-size fridge, and dining table. The bathroom offers laundry facilities, amenities and hair dryer. A daily housekeeping service is included (excluding Sunday and public holidays). Breakfast and restaurant options are available, contact us for details.
Ideal for families or small groups, the Two Bedroom Executive Apartment is our Studio interconnected with a One Bedroom Apartment. Both bedrooms can be configured as either a king or two single beds. A fully equipped kitchen featuring an oven, cooktop, full-size fridge and dining table means meals can be prepared and enjoyed in the apartment. Take in the views from the private balcony. A daily housekeeping service is included (excluding Sunday and public holidays). Breakfast and restaurant options are available, contact us for details. | 2019-04-21T15:11:03Z | https://www.questapartments.co.nz/properties/north-island/palmerston/quest-palmerston-north/overview |
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and Eastern Europe. This collection of essays challenges assumptions that Communist leaders and Western-influenced youth cultures were inimically hostile to one another.
While initially banning Western cultural trends like jazz and rock-and-roll, Communist leaders accommodated elements of rock and pop music to develop their own socialist popular music. They promoted organized forms of leisure to turn young people away from excesses of style perceived to be Western. Popular song and officially sponsored rock and pop bands formed a socialist beat that young people listened and danced to. Young people attracted to the music and subcultures of the capitalist West still shared the values and behaviors of their peers in Communist youth organizations. Despite problems providing youth with consumer goods, leaders of Soviet bloc states fostered a socialist alternative to the modernity the capitalist West promised.
Underground rock musicians thus shared assumptions about culture that Communist leaders had instilled. Still, competing with influences from the capitalist West had its limits. State-sponsored rock festivals and rock bands encouraged a spirit of rebellion among young people. Official perceptions of what constituted culture limited options for accommodating rock and pop music and Western youth cultures. Youth countercultures that originated in the capitalist West, like hippies and punks, challenged the legitimacy of Communist youth organizations and their sponsors.
Government media and police organs wound up creating oppositional identities among youth gangs. Failing to provide enough Western cultural goods to provincial cities helped fuel resentment over the Soviet Union s capital, Moscow, and encourage support for breakaway nationalist movements that led to the Soviet Union s collapse in 1991. Despite the Cold War, in both the Soviet bloc and in the capitalist West, political elites responded to perceived threats posed by youth cultures and music in similar manners. Young people participated in a global youth culture while expressing their own local views of the world. | 2019-04-20T05:24:28Z | https://lennep.eu/library/youth-and-rock-in-the-soviet-bloc-youth-cultures-music-and-the-state-in-russia-and-eastern-europe |
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By focusing on innovation and a customer-centric strategy of business excellence, DHL is using “The Power of Global Trade” for the greater good—demonstrating that businesses crossing borders can impact opportunity, prosperity, and optimism.
Connectedness Index to its Disaster Response Team—which was in Nepal 48 hours after the devastating April 2015 earthquake.
With this new purpose and ambition in mind, DHL is increasing efforts to ensure that its existing infrastructure can meet the ever-increasing demands of international e-commerce and global trade. It’s investing hundreds of millions of dollars in utilizing faster, more efficient aircraft; expanding the capabilities of its American, European, and Asian hubs; establishing a new South East Asian hub in Singapore; and launching an expansion program in the Middle East and North Africa. Through these initiatives, DHL seeks to bolster its image as the leading international logistics brand.
As the world’s largest logistics specialist, however, DHL knows its efforts to stay innovative and relevant will be futile if it doesn’t prioritize sustainability. That’s why the company’s GoGreen program works to improve its carbon footprint, for example through the exploration of alternative fuels. DHL’s commitment to a sustainable future means that business doesn’t stop at the corporate balance sheet or, for that matter, with green initiatives. DHL is also committed to helping employees give back. In 2014, more than 108,000 employees in 117 countries participated in the brand’s annual Global Volunteer Day initiative, and the company encourages year-round volunteer activities as well.
Innovation has proven vital for DHL, as the brand works diligently to expand in this area, with recent experiments from drone delivery trials of urgently needed medication and goods to delivering packages into the trunks of cars in cooperation with Amazon and Audi. By rethinking what it means to be where its customers are, DHL is building the global strength of its brand. | 2019-04-21T10:07:50Z | https://www.interbrand.com/best-brands/best-global-brands/2015/ranking/dhl/ |
This is the most comprehensive history of motor sport from 1902 to 1950s-60s and is widely regarded by some as the best Motor Sport documentary Series ever made.
It's notoriously famous and well worth watching whether you like cars or not as it's extreemely informative and historical. It was made in the 1960's and directed by Bill Mason father of Nick Mason the drummer in the group Pink Floyd. The documentary was available 20 years ago on VHS but it has now sunk into the depths of obscurity and copies now fetch prohibitively high prices due to collectors.
It is a unique chronological history of what was an exhilarating, dangerous, competitive and largely amateur sport until the outbreak of WW2.
It covers the very early days, with superb original footage of the pioneers at venues like the Grand Prix de l'ACF in Dieppe northern France, right the way through to Type 35 Bugattis racing at Monaco, Auto Unions and Mercs of Nazi Germany in action at the original Nurburgring and 250F Maseratis with all the famous drivers.
There is current day (1960s) footage of VSCC racing at Silverstone too with some pretty impressive and rare machinery, much of which is was no longer in competitive use.
It is a shocking but fascinating video from a truly different era of motorsport. As the video keeps saying (as noted by Axis of Oversteer), “no-one was seriously injured”. But of course injury and death was a part of motorsport back then. Indeed it is today, even though great safety improvements have been made in recent decades.
But some of the stuff in these Volumes is shocking. A particular stand-out is the flaming driver-less car free-wheeling around in the pitlane!
You don’t often get the chance to see footage like this, and I find it absolutely fascinating to see the sport as it was so many decades ago. | 2019-04-23T14:09:07Z | https://formulaonestuff.com/shell-history-of-motor-racing.html |
The New Psychology of the Consumer - and Dogmania!
Blythe Jack, partner at TSG Consumer Group, joins Shopcast to talk about the psychology of the consumer and how it affects retailers. What is a 'fear-based society' and what does it mean for what consumers are searching for? There is a linkage to psychological needs and how it's manifesting in the market - these needs drive consumer behavior, and how they spend their money. There are certain sectors that are booming due to these needs and trends towards health, mindfulness and self-care for the consumer. However, there are also other sectors such as the pet industry that are being affected. Michael Dart and Blythe Jack take a deep dive into the consumer behavior behind these trends, on this episode of Shopcast. We want to hear from you! Please send us an email at shopcast@atkearney.com for feedback or topic requests.
Shopcast: Talking Retail Strategy is an in-depth look at the changes shaking the retail world. Hosted by A.T. Kearney partner and retail expert Michael Dart, Shopcast addresses topics such as new consumer values, generational and demographic trends, and emerging technologies and business models. Leading executives lend their voices to our discussions, including: Harvey Kanter, Chairman of the Board at Blue Nile, Michael Massey, former chairman at PetSmart, and David Jaffe, CEO of Ascena Retail Group.
Michael’s expertise is regularly featured in The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, and also in his coauthored books Retail’s Seismic Shift and The New Rules of Retail.
Michael Dart is a partner in A.T. Kearney's Consumer Products and Retail Practice. He is an accomplished consultant and advisor with a wealth of experience leading major strategic transformations and due diligence studies for many of the largest private-equity funds and global retailers. He also has extensive experience leading the development and implementation of business strategies and growth efforts. Michael is based in A.T. Kearney’s San Francisco office.
Michael has been recognized by Consulting magazine as one of its top 25 consultants. He co-authored The New Rules of Retail and Retail's Seismic Shift, both best sellers on Amazon, and is a frequent contributor in the press. He has spoken at major conferences and delivered keynote speeches at the Women’s Wear Daily Apparel and Retail CEO Summit in New York and the Global Department Store Summit in Paris and Beijing.
Before joining A.T. Kearney, Michael was a senior partner in the strategy and private equity practice at Kurt Salmon, where he led engagements for seven of the top 10 private equity funds and multiple retailers in the United States. He was also a partner with Bain and Company. Michael earned a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Oxford University and an MBA in finance and strategic planning from the Wharton School of Business. | 2019-04-24T04:25:48Z | https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/113076/the-new-psychology-of-the-consumer-and-dogmania |
My teaching philosophy is to encourage my students to love music and enjoying preparing pieces that they enjoy and are able to master. I use many current method books and also choose solo and duet music that appeals to each individual.
I learn what method my student learns best with and then we choose what books/iPad app will help them enjoy learning the most.
My goal with each student is to help them to find and refine the music which is already within them. Through listening to what a student wants to learn... together we develop the approach that is best for them. My goal is for MUSIC TO BECOME THEM!
Flaxton (ND), Portal (ND), Sherwood (ND), Carlyle (SK), Bowbells (ND) .
Postal Code(s) associated with Oxbow, SK: S0C .
The above search is a free service maintained by DoReMiWORLD.com for the benefit of private music teachers, as well as music students and their parents. Our goal is to help you locate a private music instructor, for example, a private piano teacher, a private violin teacher, a private voice coach, an online music teacher or another music education specialist who may offer private music lessons or online lessons to music students in Oxbow Saskatchewan.
Private music instruction is considered to be the best way to learn to play a musical instrument. Use this directory to find a private music teacher offering music lessons in your local area (Oxbow SK) or online lessons around the world. At the moment, our directory is limited to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, United States, and New Zealand. This music teachers directory classifies private music instructors by instrument, such as private piano teachers (for private piano lessons), private voice teachers (for private voice lessons), private violin teachers (for private violin lessons), etc. Please use the above search function to find a private music teacher near you.
We welcome the following types of instructors in our Oxbow Saskatchewan directory: Bagpipes Professionals, Electric Guitar Educators, Saxophone Instructors, Ukulele Teachers, Classical Guitar Educators, Mandolin Professionals, Oboe Tutors, Piccolo Tutors, Drums Teachers, Harp Instructors, Piano Instructors, Brass Coaches, Woodwinds Teachers, Recorder Coaches, Clarinet Professionals, Trombone Coaches, Bass Coaches, Viola Da Gamba Educators, Lute Educators, Accordion Teachers, Trumpet Instructors, Electric Bass Professionals, Cello Instructors, Organ Educators, Percussion Instructors, Double Bass Teachers, Flute Tutors, Harpsichord Tutors, Keyboard Teachers, Bassoon Tutors, Voice Educators, Banjo Educators, Viola Professionals, Tuba Professionals, Acoustic Guitar Coaches, English Horn Instructors, French Horn Tutors, Violin Coaches, Bass Guitar Coaches, Dulcimer Teachers . | 2019-04-24T18:12:38Z | https://musicteachersdirectory.org/CAN/SK/Oxbow-Music-Teachers-Saskatchewan-Music-Lessons |
You are invited to share this special Teacher Appreciation Shabbat–including Tot Shabbat, community dinner*, and our service. Relax and let us do the cooking. We look forward to seeing you!
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It can be really hard to buy something meaningful and appreciated for Valentine’s Day. Let’s face it, you don’t just want to give a box of chocolates every year!
Valentine’s Day is a fun and loving day for many people and the fondest wish is that may you all find happiness in yourself and in your relationship, no matter what stage you are at in a blissful union or recovering from a broken heart.
Love is the most amazing thing in our lives. It is what makes us human, what makes life worth living. | 2019-04-26T02:10:40Z | https://www.carolazeta.com/blogs/news/love-love-love-luxury-valentines-day-gift-ideas |
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What's The PolyFi Site About?
Have you ever been in love with more than one person at the same time or are you already in a polyamorous relationship? Do you live in regional Australia and feel isolated because of your lifestyle choices? Then you have arrived at the right place, this site is devoted to people such as yourselves.
If you're not sure what it is and isn't, we help clear that up here.
If you're interested in the joys and benefits, our forums give you chances to learn or share.
If you're dealing with jealousy, we offer great suggestions and resources here.
If you want to socialise with or meet other polys, no matter where you live in Australia, we can point you to local groups, and our weekly Text Chats & Skype ® Fests are great.
If you've got children, and are considering “coming out of the closet” with them, we've got resources and fellow parents to help you.
If there just aren't enough hours in the day for all the love and responsibilities in your life, we can help with time management.
And if there are other topics you're interested in, we've either got them covered elsewhere or you can ask us to add them.
How does a person start (or continue) a poly relationship?
Just what exactly is polyamory, anyway?
Scope of the Term "Polyamory"
Help us make this site great. We want you to contribute your stories, news and views. Go on be a devil - Join us - it's free! | 2019-04-24T09:16:34Z | https://polyfidelity.org.au/component/users/?view=login&Itemid=254 |
31st of January, 2019 - Facts, Nostalgia and Videos!
What Day: The 31st of January, 2019, fell on a Thursday.
2 months and 17 days have passed since the 31st of January, 2019.
Native American Zodiac: The 31st of January, 2019 falls under the Otter.
American Format: 01-31-2019 (the MDY format is also used in Belize).
YMD Format: 2019-01-31. This format is often used by software applications, simply because numbers such as "20190131" are easier to sort.
Unix Timestamp: The Unix Timestamp for this date is 1548892800.
Donald Trump was the President of the United States on the 31st of January, 2019.
A baby that was born on the 31st of January, 2019 was probably conceived around the 23rd of April, 2018. (Rough Estimate).
The due date for a baby that was conceived on the 31st of January, 2019 is the 10th of November, 2019. (Rough Estimate).
Looking for some nostalgia? Here are some Youtube videos relating to the 31st of January, 2019. Please note that videos are automatically selected by Youtube and that results may vary! Click on the "Load Next Video" button to view the next video in the search playlist. In many cases, you'll find episodes of old TV shows, documentaries, music videos and soap dramas.
Visualize the days that have passed since the 31st of January, 2019. Each day that has passed will be represented as a calendar icon.
Here are some fun statistics about the 31st of January, 2019.
77 days have passed since this date.
6,649,200 seconds have passed since the 31st of January, 2019.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beated approximately 7,757,400 times.
Since the 31st of January, 2019, earth has travelled approximately 3,430,987,200 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 1,108,200 times.
If you were born on this day, you have taken approximately 571,831 steps. That's about 254 miles!
Since this date, 79,790 meteors have entered the earth's atmosphere!
What does the 31st of January, 2019 mean to you? Were you born on this date? Did you finish school? A loved one passed away? | 2019-04-18T10:33:09Z | http://bestofdate.com/2019-01-31 |
What is another word for meek?
evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; " compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; " a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; " she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; " was submissive and subservient"
emboldened, unyielding, impertinent, intractable, brave, excited, bold, disobedient, troubled.
narcissistic, condescending, bombastic, uppish, lordly, dominant, showy, high-handed, stubborn, magisterial, Self-complacent, self-satisfied, obstinate, overconfident, self-obsessed, unregenerate, egocentric, boastful, extroverted, patronizing, outgoing, Fastuous, flamboyant, high hat, immodest, swaggering, uppity, uninhibited, dominating, high-and-mighty, self-centered, unreserved, braggy, hoity-toity, highfalutin, pontificating.
" I'll try," was the meek answer.
She looked very meek this morning.
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Franco Albini’s atmospheric museum and exhibition display designs of the 1950s have recently become the focus of renewed critical attention by artists, curators and historians. Originally celebrated by critics such as Manfredo Tafuri, Gio Ponti and Michael Brawne as simultaneously producing a ‘dreamlike suggestiveness’ (Tafuri) and an unprecedented concentration on the isolated autonomous artwork, Albini’s extraordinary floating and aerial display devices from the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa are now referred to as key examples of the ‘radical new visual modality’2 that animated Italian post-war museum design.3 The case for such radicalism can be tested against one of Albini’s most renowned, but now dismantled, display systems: the viewer operated hydraulic hoist or ‘piston’ for Giovanni Pisano’s Fragment from the Tomb of Margaret of Brabant (1313). Images of this extraordinary device, which, in a gravity- and convention-defying manner, spiralled Pisano’s Carrera marble sculpture through the air, are now a common feature in discussions about the radical designs and display systems introduced by architects into European and South American museums in the post-war years.
Enigmatic and emblematic, the limited number of photographs of the streamlined and polished steel support holding aloft an ancient stone fragment now circulate as some of the most striking visual depictions of a form of museological modernity associated with post-war Italy. As the photographs evidence, it is a form of display that is concerned with suspending objects in space: with lightness, an aerial sensibility, the isolation of objects, the juxtaposition of old and new, durational looking, and the production of atmospherics.4 While this circulation of images is paired with an increasingly awareness of Albini’s display design,5 detailed discussion of his most renowned and reproduced setting, the hydraulic piston, remains scant to non-existent. To our knowledge, there is no film or television footage and no one can recall seeing Albini’s display system at work in the Palazzo Bianco. There are no accounts of what it was like to use your hand to spin an apparently now weightless and free moving Late Gothic masterpiece around in mid-air.
Images of Albini’s device are perhaps most readily available in the pages of Michael Brawne’s 1965 book Neue Museen. Planung und Einrichtung.6 Hovering between a gazetteer, a photographic survey of international post-war museum design and an instruction manual for exhibiting art, Neue Museen contains images and descriptions of the museums that had been newly built in Western Europe, Scandinavia and America in the immediate post-war period alongside drawings of light fittings, fixing systems for hanging paintings, and diagrams of climate control systems. Notably, Brawne begins his survey in Genoa in the Palazzo Bianco designed by Albini in conjunction with Caterina Marcenaro, who was for a period of nearly 30 years Superintendent of Museums in Genoa. Italy, according to Brawne, is the home of the modern museum. ‘The quantity and quality of Italian museums’, he claims in his opening paragraph, ‘has been astonishing’.7 Stylistically, the Italian museums illustrated in Brawne’s book all employ a certain grammar: sculpture floats on narrow plinths and supports, platforms raise objects from the floor, pictures are suspended, walls float, the display design hovers, and there is a preponderance of custom-built armatures holding ancient objects aloft. In this world of inventive and extraordinary display devices, Albini’s designs for his three museums in Genoa8 are positioned as particularly innovative. What distinguishes them is the way in which this logic of suspension is pushed to the point where everything appears to be touched by a kind of fragility. Here handles are attached to old master paintings that pivot on metal stanchions and seem to be projected at dizzying distances from gallery walls, or they hang on extremely long thin wires in high ceilinged galleries, while sculptures are mechanized and made mobile.
A number of technical drawings of the support reproduced in Neue Museen indicate that the column was hydraulically powered, its pump hidden behind a false wall, and that it could be raised or lowered by a viewer using a small switch mounted on the wall to one side. Brawne then tells us that the device was, in fact, built around a ‘found’ hydraulic jack from a car mechanic’s workshop and that as the mount rose and fell the Pisano’s sculpture could be spun around by hand.
For Brawne, the museum focuses attention. The museum must communicate what is ‘individual and specific’ about the artefact so that the observer can have ‘an intense experience among selected objects’. But reading Brawne’s account of the Palazzo Bianco display it’s immediately apparent that Albini’s hydraulic device does something quite extreme to the experience of monumental forms of sculpture. Thinking of monumental funerary sculpture like the Fragment from the Tomb of Margaret of Brabant and its use of massive volumes of stone or marble, it is implicitly understood that its defining characteristics are stillness, permanence, and immutability. Albini’s ‘support’ for the Pisano fragment, however, endows the Margaret of Brabant with the very opposite qualities: the combination of fragment and armature promising motion, animation and change. Here, the weighty becomes light and airborne, spiralling through the space before the now stationary viewer. As it becomes airborne and acrobatic the experience of the sculpture becomes temporal in a new and surprising way.
Seeing the device in the back corridor of the Museo di Sant'Agostino, where it had been in storage for 40 years, all such descriptions appeared to be more than a little fanciful. The piston had rusted and seized up and evidence of some significant repairs and crude alterations made it look rather forlorn. Nonetheless, although it wasn’t the polished, sleek object pictured in the photographs, as we began to study, measure and draw it, it wasn’t difficult to appreciate the audacity of Albini and Marcenaro’s decision to mount the Pisano fragment on such a narrow support.
Pisano’s Fragment is now mounted on a large squat plinth, and the combination is anything but aerial, poised, acrobatic or light. Standing next to it, it’s immediately apparent what Henry Moore intended when he suggested that his appreciation of Pisano was transformed by seeing his carving close up.28 The folds in the drapery, the twisting form, the intertwined arms, the tension in the neck as the figure of Margaret raises her head, are all compelling; – the sculpture seems to unwind and tighten itself up again as you walk around it. Combining this sense with the art historical evidence that Pisano’s sculpture represents the ‘empress being raised heavenward by two angels’,29 either in the form of the ‘elevatio anime’ (the soul being raised to heaven), or the bodily resurrection, the combination of represented and real movement must have been an incredibly seductive idea.
Neue Museen (excerpt) from Graham Ellard& Stephen Johnstone on Vimeo.
All of which makes the recent attempt to reconstruct the device so disappointing. Marco Ferreri’s installation of the hydraulic device as part of the ‘Sindrome dell'influenza’ exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, 2014, lovingly repaired and refurbished the piston but exhibited it with a silhouette style cut-out of the Fragment hanging above it. Ferreri’s restaging was really only a diagrammatic representation of the elements of the display without any of its material, visceral actuality that would make the original experience of the displayed work so enthralling. Everything that makes the photographs of the device so strange, so magical, was lost. The device is extraordinary precisely because of its relationship to the fragment and the improbability of what it does to a heavy object that ought to be immovable. In short, Ferrari’s presentation lacked atmosphere and enchantment and, although the now immaculately polished piston now rose and fell, its movement appeared entirely prosaic.
It’s still possible to get some idea of how radically innovative and atmospheric the galleries must have appeared at the time of their design. While there have been some changes and the galleries need some refurbishment, much of what Albini designed is still in place. It’s still possible to pick up one of the ‘campaign’ chairs and place it in front of a painting and the moving picture supports do still work. The effect of using them is genuinely eccentric, some of the paintings can be made to project about a metre from the wall and they look terribly precarious floating in mid-air. In some of the galleries in the Palazzo Rosso it is possible to create a kind of maze of floating pictures, some with the image facing you, some now appearing to be back to front. To protect the pictures from damage when being swung back to their location on the wall a small piece of cork is attached to the back of the frame or picture board.
It should be said that there is something unnerving about holding a small metal handle attached to an old master painting and pulling it away from the wall. Falguieres talks of the new Italian museums of the 1950s being flooded with a zenithal light and Bea Jones suggests they are ‘prismatic spaces’. In the Palazzo Bianco, these are perfect descriptions. There’s an intensity about the galleries in the way they engage the senses; brilliant bands of light are reflected in shifting patterns on the black and white marble floor, an effect that is multiplied as light is refracted by the glass doors. And it’s perhaps this physical sensation prompted by a hands-on and bodily engagement with the space of display that is the measure of just how radical Albini and Marcenaro’s project was. | 2019-04-21T10:47:30Z | https://afterall.org/online/an-aerial-sensibility-notes-on-franco-albini-caterina-marcenaro-and-a-museum-of-floating-objects |
The seaside electoral commission decided to refuse registration to four more to the candidates proposed to the place of the governor of the region. The corresponding message on Saturday at a briefing was made by the chairman of local electoral commission Tatyana Gladkikh. She also noticed that as a result five people will take part in elections of the head of the region. During the meeting in committee his members considered questions of registration by candidates for governors of the communist independent candidate Andrey Ishchenko, the independent candidate Alexander Kovalenko, Oleg Mitvol ("Green"), and Victor Staritsyn ("Communist Party of Social Justice"). | 2019-04-18T13:14:39Z | http://wellnews.us/articles/the_electoral_commission_of_primorye_refused_registration |
With less than four weeks to go until Kids Dress a Grown Up Day on 13th May, it seems daughters want glamour and sons want a laugh, when it comes to choosing their parents’ outfits for the day.
The Family Works team have been busy having ‘dress rehearsal’s’ with their children and grandchildren in preparation for Kids Dress a Grown Up Day.
Chris Walsh, Family Works Regional Manager for Nelson was recently dressed by son, Michael (nine). “Michael’s shark onesie didn’t fit me so he picked out a jester’s hat, sunnies, because they’re cool, and some bling from his Mum’s jewellery box,” said Chris.
Father of three, Johnny, says his sons (aged five and three) were excited about the idea of dressing their Dad for the day. “Their eyes lit up!” he said. “They really liked the idea of Daddy going to work in a funny outfit.” “Luckily, they went for the first items they saw which was a bit mix and match but not too embarrassing!” he said.
Suse (dressed by daughter Ivy, five) was also impressed with the care her daughter took to “make Mummy look soooo pretty!” ” How could I argue? How can I not feel like the queen my daughter thinks me to be?” she said, and headed to work in A LOT of jewellery.
Kids Dress a Grown Up Day is a fundraiser for Family Works in Nelson, one of the region’s oldest social service agencies.
“We’re asking offices and sports teams to get in on the fun, let their kids choose their outfits and turn up to work or practise with a gold coin,” said Family Works Regional Manager, Chris Walsh. “It’s a lighthearted way to celebrate what we have in own lives and to recognise and support those who live without the safety and protection we take for granted,” he said.
In Nelson-Tasman, the organisation provides counselling; home based social work; family workers in schools and kindergartens; youth counselling and the Family Works Youth Service. | 2019-04-18T13:34:58Z | https://www.familyworksuppersouth.org.nz/mums-youre-luck-dads-not-much |
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Sash windows are excellent for older properties since they mimic the stunning design of traditional Georgian windows but are stronger and more secure. However, it would be a mistake to say that sash windows are only for heritage homes since they can also work for modern houses! With the right colour and finish, you can have highly attractive sash windows that match your home’s contemporary look.
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So, you’ve decided that creating an estate plan with a living trust is the right choice for you. How do you move forward? Let’s discuss briefly.
Establishing a living trust requires the assistance of an estate attorney and will often be created in conjunction with your will, an advance medical directive, and financial powers of attorney. Attorney fees vary by firm. I’ve seen them beginning around $2,500 and rising with the complexity of the planning. Before meeting with the attorney, gather your complete financial account information and list of assets. Consider who you will designate as beneficiaries and in what percentages assets will be distributed.
You will need to appoint a successor trustee to administer the trust if you pass. This person could be a trusted family member or friend, a bank, or a trust company. All trustees have a legal fiduciary duty to the beneficiaries of the trust. While banks and trust companies charge significant fees for their trust administration services, they provide the greatest assurance of continuity since they will manage the trust as an entity rather than a single person (like your sibling). If your estate is sizeable, somewhat complex, or will continue after you passing for some time (i.e. you have young children) engaging a bank or trust company is something you will likely want to explore.
Once the trust is executed you will transfer title of your assets. By funding the trust you begin to actually remove the assets from the potential probate process. If you own real property, such as a home, a new deed will need to be executed that includes trust language. You will maintain ownership of your financial accounts but additional language will be included in the documentation to indicate that the assets are held in trust. You’ll want to periodically review ownership of accounts to coordinate as many of them as possible with your trust.
Since you maintain ownership to the assets the trust does not need to file a tax return. However, if you pass away and the trust holds assets that earn undistributed income the successor trustee will need to file an income tax return on its behalf. You can save them a step by applying for your trust’s free tax ID number (EIN) here.
Now it’s your turn. If you have further questions or you’d like a referral to an experienced attorney please drop me an email. I’d be happy to point you in a helpful direction. | 2019-04-26T15:59:18Z | https://www.wealthsf.com/blog/2017/5/30/how-to-establish-a-living-trust |
The Nigerian Senate has approved N30,000 as the new national minimum wage.
The approval came subsequent to the submission of the report of the ad hoc committee set up to review the minimum wage. The committee was headed by Senator Francis Alimikhena.
The decision was taken at the plenary session on Tuesday.
A request was also made to the Nigerian government to submit a supplementary budget, which would include the structure of the new national minimum wage.
The House of Representatives had also earlier approved the new figure as the national minimum wage. | 2019-04-20T02:11:17Z | http://nubunk.com.ng/senate-approves-n30000-as-minimum-wage |
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I printed out some flooring designs, glued them down to foamcore. The pieces were 12″ x 18″, sized to fin in my Convention Box, that fits in my luggage. The walls and such were glued in place on site the night before the Con. | 2019-04-23T23:59:59Z | http://journal.stephenpsmith.com/2016/05/06/getting-ready-for-huzzah-2016/ |
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With a small IT staff, SRSSA struggled to maintain its legacy VDI environment. Between VDI reliability problems and an inability to respond quickly enough to employees who need to work from home “when life happens,” SRSSA Principal Tim Johannesson and his team realized it was time for a new solution that would give them greater flexibility while reducing IT management overhead.
The firm has a mobile workforce – a team of power users that travel worldwide for design work, another team that travels extensively for project review, plus several on-the-go executives. Additionally, they have employees in Puerto Rico, Singapore, and in U.S branch offices – some who require GPU power and others who do not.
Johannesson was referred to Workspot by a colleague who was also considering the solution. Johannesson contacted Workspot and a POC ensued.“Our experience with Workspot was about as easy as it could be,” said Johannesson.
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The upcoming Workbench is not included – we may also make an Open Source release to lag behind the commercial release later, but this is going to be a chargeable add on to EigenD to start with.
The main source code and needed binaries can be found on Github. If you’d like to contribute code, we do need you to agree to our Contributors Agreement. This is derived from the Canonical one used for Ubuntu projects (by kind permission of Mark Shuttleworth). You can download it here.
All details can be found on the Eigenlabs wiki.
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The school in Ghana which was supported with your money (you surely remember, we sent only e-mails at Christmas, no presents) has now, in the beginning of the new school year, two more rooms. This was only possible thanks to three construction experts, who led the work on site in the course of an internship, people from Bomboi who helped a lot and free of charge, too, and our collected donations, which were used to purchase the material. As a side benefit they also supported the local economy. We are in the opinion that you couldn’t have made them and us a better Christmas present. | 2019-04-25T08:38:09Z | https://www.q-fin.de/school-in-ghana/?lang=en |
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We will send packages International to Canada, United Kingdom, England, Australia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Japan. They will be charged actual shipping charges plus $3.00 handling fee. You may request a rate quote by email at speedyhealthco@gmail.com prior to shipping. Normally International packages are not tracked unless higher more expensive shipping options are selected. Customers must pay all taxes and duties imposed on them by their governments. We do ship all smaller orders as commercial samples. Limits to change per country being sent to. Check with USPS.com for order sales amount limits. | 2019-04-19T14:18:19Z | https://blue-lion-jewels.myshopify.com/pages/shipping-policy |
Here is a frozen sweet treat to end your work week and help start up your weekend. My parents were coming over to play with my girls and give me a little break. I made this Espresso Ice Cream for my MIL and The Country Cook's Chocolate Frostys for my FIL and kiddos. Neither frozen treat lasted very long around here!
In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar.
In a medium sauce pan over medium heat, whisk together the heavy cream and milk. Bring to a simmer, then whisk in the instant espresso until it is dissolved.
While whisking the egg yolks/sugar mixture, slowly pour in 1 cup of the hot cream mixture. This will temper the eggs. Pour the eggs into the sauce pan and reduce heat to low. Whisk constantly until thickened, about 5 minutes. Do not let the mixture boil.
Rinse out the bowl from earlier. Place in a larger bowl filled 1/4 of the way full with ice and water (ice bath). Pour the thickened custard through a fine mesh strainer into the cleaned bowl. Whisk until cooled to room temperature. Stir in the vanilla extract.
Place in the refrigerator until well chilled. When ready to make, pour into your frozen ice cream canister and freeze according to manufacturer's directions. It took about 25 minutes in my ice cream maker.
This would be really good served with chocolate covered espresso beans or shaved dark chocolate. Enjoy!
This sound really good. I have no doubt they wouldn't last long at my house either.
Oh my Goodness - sounds to die for! | 2019-04-20T12:17:22Z | http://www.bigmamashomekitchen.com/2011/09/espresso-ice-cream.html |
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Just a quick note to say we have agreed to continue our long standing relationship with IMOC and renewed our partnership agreement.
Established way back in 1993, we understand your special car deserves a special insurance policy and we are told we have a refreshing attitude to insuring high performance, modified, imported or classic cars!
We would like to thank those members who have already arrange insurance via ourselves and look forward to speaking to more of you in the near future!
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Many have of heard of Maslow's pyramid representing the hierarchy of needs. Maslow proposed that physiological factors such as food, drink, air, and protection from the elements were first, followed in order by safety, love/belonging, esteem and finally self-actualization. The Social Brain will cause you to rethink this long-standing model of human needs proposing instead that love/belonging is the primary need of the human being.
In this session, we will look at the work of psychologists Matthew Lieberman, author of The Social Brain and John Medina author of Brain Rules. Both suggest that the need for cooperation, bonding, and other pro-social behavior is essential for us as a species, even more critical than food or drink. If this is true, what does it mean for emotional intelligence?
Ann Holm, MS, ACC, draws on 25 years of experience as a speech pathologist to help clients achieve maximum personal potential using brain-based principles. Now as a leadership and personal development coach, she uses a broad base of individual assessment tools and her knowledge of brain science to serve her clients. Ann is an MBTI Master Practitioner, Intentional Leadership Master Coach; she is also certified to use the MBTI Step III and the EQi 2.0. | 2019-04-25T06:28:14Z | https://www.crescendoinc.com/emotional-intelligence/crescendo-connect-conversations/46-march-30-2015-emotional-intelligence-and-the-social-brain-with-ann-holm |
A chapter from David Carr’s new book, The Night of the Gun, will appear in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. It is an exquisite and painful account of his drug abuse that manages to do something fascinating: Shed light on addiction in a new and important way. Instead of offering up yet another memoir that merely details Carr’s gut-wrenching journey, Carr reports out his own life. With a humbleness too few memoirs adopt (and a humbleness that is, of course, a crux of sobriety), Carr gets the inalterable fact that he himself is not a reliable source in his own autobiography. By tracking down old acquaintances and interviews with his own family, a more complete picture of Carr’s life--the addict’s life--is delineated. Too many addicts will never fully appreciate the toll their disease has taken on others, simply by not remembering. Carr takes the brave and excruciating steps of finding out.
And then there’s the unintentionally hilarious New Yorker rejection letter above. I think Jay McInerney was already on that beat.
Check out Carr's cool and unique website here. I'm pretty blown away by Carr; after endless junkie memoirs, Carr has managed to take what should by all rights be trite and make it visceral, compelling, moving, and, most important, new.
Update: New Yorker letter via Gawker. | 2019-04-22T00:10:30Z | https://newrepublic.com/article/43013/junkie-lit |
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Schedule Posted for SQL Saturday Chicago! Presenting at SQL Saturday Maine 2016! | 2019-04-19T22:46:15Z | https://www.bobpusateri.com/archive/2016/02/presenting-at-sql-saturday-madison-2016/ |
We have Secondary School Students on a regular basis as part of their formal year ten work experience program. These students must be 15 years or older at the time of placement, and organise the experience through their school’s work experience co-ordinator.
School students are able to experience a variety of day-to-day procedures at the Hospital, including surgeries, grooming, and care of unwell hospital patients. They assist the Veterinary Nurses with their daily cleaning routines and other jobs around the Hospital.
Work experience is a good opportunity for Secondary School Students with an interest in animals to have a behind-the-scenes look at working in the animal industry.
We get a great number of potential students who would like to participate in our work experience programme and with only 52 weeks in the year it is hard to fit in all applicants. Placement is competitive.
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Email these, addressed to the ‘work experience coordinator’, stating your available dates for placement. We may then arrange an interview, in person or on the telephone. If you have not heard back within 10 days then please give us a call.
Dandenong Veterinary Hospital is part of the Academic Associate program for the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Veterinary Science. Veterinary Students visit our hospital as part of their training to learn the practical application of both knowledge and skills. Dr Darren Shortt is a Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Veterinary Science (University of Melbourne) in his capacity as an Academic Associate. Veterinary Students in training are assessed as part of their formal course material and are provided feedback in order to develop their skills in clinical practice.
We accept students at various levels of the Veterinary Science Course for work experience, allowing them to gain the experience and skills they will need upon graduation. Veterinary Students often start consultations to build skills in collecting patient histories, performing clinical examinations and developing differential lists for the illnesses seen. The Veterinarian on duty will complete consultations and discussions with owners, and dispense any medications required. Veterinary Students assist the Veterinarian in general day-to-day procedures and surgeries, and are under supervision of a Veterinarian with any case involvement.
If you are a veterinary student looking to perform work placement at Dandenong Veterinary Hospital, then please first speak to your Extramural Coordinator in the Veterinary Faculty, after which you can arrange suitable placement time at our Hospital.
We also have students from some Veterinary Nursing courses for work experience. We are not currently able to offer ongoing work experience for studying nurses needing larger hours of time, but we may be able to offer shorter time frames if required. If you are a nursing student and would like to attend Dandenong Veterinary Hospital as part of your work experience program, then please just give us a call on to check for availability and suitability. | 2019-04-26T05:49:48Z | http://www.dvh.com.au/work-experience-programs/ |
The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar.
The one-of-a-kind discovery helps put flesh on the bones of these extinct creatures, opening a new window on the biology of a group that dominated Earth for more than 160 million years.
Examination of the specimen suggests the tail was chestnut brown on top and white on its underside.
The tail is described in the journal Current Biology.
"This is the first time we've found dinosaur material preserved in amber," co-author Ryan McKellar, of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada, told the BBC News website.
The feathers lack the well-developed central shaft - a rachis - known from modern birds. Their structure suggests that the two finest tiers of branching in modern feathers, known as barbs and barbules, arose before the rachis formed.
Kachin State, in north-eastern Myanmar, where the specimen was found, has been producing amber for 2,000 years. But because of the large quantity of insects preserved in the deposits, over the last 20 years it has become a focus for scientists who study ancient arthropods.
"The larger amber pieces often get broken up in the mining process. By the time we see them they have often been turned into things like jewellery. We never know how much of the specimen has been missed," said Dr McKellar.
"If you had a complete specimen, for example, you could look at how feathers were arranged across the whole body. Or you could look at other soft tissue features that don't usually get preserved."
Other preserved parts of a feathered dinosaur might also reveal whether it was a flying or gliding animal.
"There have been other, anecdotal reports of similar specimens coming from the region. But if they disappear into private collections, then they're lost to science," Dr McKellar explained.
Dr Paul Barrett, from London's Natural History Museum, called the specimen a "beautiful fossil", describing it as a "really rare occurrence of vertebrate material in amber".
He told BBC News: "Feathers have been recovered in amber before, so that aspect isn't new, but what this new specimen shows is the 3D arrangement of feathers in a Mesozoic dinosaur/bird for the first time, as almost all of the other feathered dinosaur fossils and Mesozoic bird skeletons that we have are flattened and 2D only, which has obscured some important features of their anatomy.
"The new amber specimen confirms ideas from developmental biologists about the order in which some of the detailed features of modern feathers, such as barbs and barbules (the little hooks that hold the barbs together so that the feather can form a nice neat vane), would have appeared also."
Earlier this year, scientists also described ancient bird wings that had been discovered in amber from the same area of Myanmar. | 2019-04-21T15:44:35Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38224564?post_id=10153220939722225_10154723087547225 |
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Simply because litigation has arisen as a result of dismissal is not enough to amount to being inappropriate to reinstate (Wark v Melbourne City Toyota (1999)). If a worker is granted an order for reinstatement, he or she will be appointed to their former position, or a new position where the terms and conditions of that position are no less favourable than that former position.
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What do societies, the Internet, and the human brain have in common? The immediate answer might be “not that much”, but in reality they are all examples of complex relational systems, whose emerging behaviours are largely determined by the non-trivial networks of interactions among their constituents, namely individuals, computers, or neurons. In the last two decades, network scientists have proposed models of increasing complexity to better understand real-world systems. Only recently we have realised that multiplexity, i.e. the coexistence of several types of interactions among the constituents of a complex system, is responsible for substantial qualitative and quantitative differences in the type and variety of behaviours that a complex system can exhibit. As a consequence, multilayer and multiplex networks have become a hot topic in complexity science. Here we provide an overview of some of the measures proposed so far to characterise the structure of multiplex networks, and a selection of models aiming at reproducing those structural properties and at quantifying their statistical significance. Focusing on a subset of relevant topics, this brief review is a quite comprehensive introduction to the most basic tools for the analysis of multiplex networks observed in the real-world. The wide applicability of multiplex networks as a framework to model complex systems in different fields, from biology to social sciences, and the colloquial tone of the paper will make it an interesting read for researchers working on both theoretical and experimental analysis of networked systems. | 2019-04-21T08:33:59Z | https://comdig.unam.mx/2016/08/20/the-new-challenges-of-multiplex-networks-measures-and-models/ |
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PLEASE make sure your car is leak free and is in pristine running condition before coming for a dyno appointment. Any clean up that is required after your dyno runs will be subject to a clean up fee. Do not bring a car with any issues to be worked out on the dyno. If your car needs injectors, plugs, wires, boost leak checked or anything else, schedule having the car fixed first. The dyno is a tuning apparatus, not an install bay. NO repairs will be made on the dyno.
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Dyno use is by appointment ONLY. If you have any questions or if you would like to setup an appointment please feel free to give us a call. | 2019-04-25T14:45:21Z | https://cp-e.com/dyno.html |
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So as some of you already know school's out for me for 3 months time. That means more painting less procrastinating ;) I've finally moved back home for summer and here's a couple of news, hobby related of course.
Firstly I've finished previous "black" project that has been haunting me for last couple of weeks. I managed to close up work on Morgul Knights, thus officialy that commission is over. I;m quite found of the effect, especially on the 'worn off' armour, the blacks themselves are not bad either.
Next on the agenda is Warhammer 40k piece or should I say pieces. Close Combat Terminator Squad is up on the horizon. Some 40k stuff to give me some break from Lotr sculpts.
I decided to go for the Ultramarines scheme and maybe alter it a bit. Typicall 'for fun' project since minis will end up on eBay probably. I think I'll go for shades of blue for most of Power Armor and mix it with some white/beige on shoulder/knee pads/hip pads finished with silver and gold. I haven't decided yet either I'll go with NMM or metallics on those. Well I guess I'll figure it out as I go.
Thous MM guys are much better then previous ones on foot. Good amount of powder, still nice black robes and interesting bases must make them look very good on table. I especially like armors and shields. Which paints have you used to reach this effect?
Thans Kris. Armor are painted the simpliest way I guess. Boltgun Metal, washed With Badab Black, then another leyer of Boltgun metal , highlightes succesively with Chainmall and Mithril Silver, then a wash of watered down Badab Black is added to emphasis shades and slightly watered Gryphonne Sepia for the worn out look. If you like you can give it a subtle drybrush with mithril silver. | 2019-04-22T17:00:30Z | http://www.whatthefaux.net/2010/07/welcome-to-black-parade.html |
“if you think your valley looks like a lake, some parts of southern Spain look like a sea “.
“Well I'm a landscape painter .I'm supposed to be inspired by the landscape, the richness of the soil the textures, the harmonies…I'm not inspired by POLYTHENE STRAWBERRY TUNNELS…. It’s like; if I was a portrait painter and they stuck plastic bags over the heads of my sitters”.
photo: polytunnels across footpath KC 16. The council were informed in June 11th 2002 two months later a pathway was cleared but they failed to issue directives to remove the polytunnels, Not only have residents to stare across the plastic destruction of the landscape but they are it seems expected to walk beneath it in their enjoyment of the public footpaths in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
“Environmental Eyesore, Spreading like a virus across the countryside. Supposedly an area of outstanding natural beauty sacrificed on the altar of over-production and commercial gain. A sea of white plastic threatening to become an ocean, is this natural or necessary? Is commerce going to override all other considerations, why should the desire to produce strawberries out of season be allowed to create such environmental havoc”.
11th March - "It is with considerable concern and consternation that I witness the erection of yet more plastic polytunnels by Mr Neil Cockburn, over the fields facing my property. I find it difficult to comprehend how in a designated 'area of outstanding natural beauty' this could be allowed to happen.
"Whilst not wishing to deprive Mr Cockburn of his living, it would appear that he has shown precious little regard for his position as a 'steward of the countryside' and contemptuously ignored the feeling of his neighbours in his pursuit of profit."
“Restrictions should be placed on the agricultural sector to inhibit and control the intrusion of these ugly polythene tunnels so that the area may once again be truly classified as an area of outstanding natural beauty”.
“I know what people think a polytunnel is pure visual pollution.. …Plastic slugs littering the fields … an alien presence in the rural landscape…Perhaps local planning officers should conduct a campaign to get rid of them.
A King’s Caple fruit farmer is facing local opposition over his plastic covered “polytunnels” which he uses to farm strawberries.
“We find it deeply depressing now that the whole riverside Area of Outstanding NATURAL Beauty is swathed in shiny artificial white skin. For Herefordshire it is economic suicide. Tourists are appalled by this ugliness along the famous Wye”.
John Kuusisto, Hoarwithy Resident, Formerly, Senior Architect Greater London Council.
*DOES THE AONB HAVE POWERS TO STOP OR CONTROL THIS?
*DO THEY INTEND TO USE THESE POWERS IF NOT, WHY NOT?
In no way can these tunnels be described as objects of beauty; the glaring white colour and sheer scale of development is destroying the countryside.
“We live in a commanding position on the west bank of the River Wye not only an Area of Outstanding Beauty but also an SSSI. With the arrival of polythene tunnels facing us at Kings Caple our environment has been blighted and these tunnels are unlawful.
Remove these from the AONB as indicated in the Chichester appeal decision.
"When I moved into Hoarwithy part of the attraction was obviously the beautiful views that could be seen from all directions …………………have the polytunnels removed to ensure that local Hoarwithy residents do not have to look out at the unsightly poly tunnels for yet another year."
Enforcement and remove from AONB.
"Remove from AONB as indicated in the Chichester appeal decision."
"Grateful that something is being done about this."
"I can understand your personal comments having viewed the valley from your property. I am sure that many will await the outcome of your complaint lodged with the Ombudsman."
"CPRE have long been concerned about the present exclusion of farming developments from the planning process which allow consideration of the wider impact of such developments on the landscape and local community. We contend that the special circumstances which gave rise to the removal of agricultural development from the democratic planning system and gave them special treatment (arguments which applied after the Second World War) no longer apply. Farmers plan their business futures like any other business and should be treated in the same way.
We were hopeful that the recent Rural White Paper would signal a revision of PPG7 which brought farming development into the planning system and allowed issues of landscape to be considered before permitting the development. Sadly this was not the case but we will continue to press for necessary revisions to planning policy. I would therefore be pleased to know if Paul Keetch is supportive of a change of legislation, as we would wish to keep him informed of our campaign on this issue.
The CPRE (South Wye Group) considers that polytunnel plastic farming seriously degrades areas of sensitive landscape notably Areas of Outstanding Beauty and there is a need for planning controls to protect such areas.
The CPRE wishes to ask the district council to examine closely ways to control this within current legislation.
Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Group Parish Council, like any other parish council, has a responsibility to respond to issues put to it by the local community. At the 2002 Annual Parish Meeting held in Hoarwithy, councillors were made aware of the concerns of Hoarwithy residents over the impact on the village of the increasing area of polytunnels in the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and of their frustration at the apparent unwillingness of Herefordshire Council to take any steps to control the spread of these structures.
ii. the wider impact of these polytunnels on the community as a whole, on the other.
The Parish Council is not attempting to claim for itself the right to make the definitive judgement on this balance, but it does believe that it is a question which should be open to full public discussion, with an input from all those who are affected by the spread of polytunnels.
c. In most instances, the forum for debate about commercial developments and change of land use is the Planning Process, and the Parish Council has previously urged this method upon both Herefordshire Council and Paul Keetch MP. The reply has been that polytunnels are not subject to control because they are temporary structures (“temporary” not in its everyday sense of “in place for a limited time” but in the technical sense of “not requiring a hard-standing foundation”). If this is the case, it means that it will be quite legal for polytunnels to be erected over any extent of countryside, to surround any housing area, or to destroy any beauty spot.
d. The Parish Council emphasizes that it is not against commercial development, or indeed even against polytunnels in themselves; it recognises that there may be a case to be made for them in some locations. However, it believes that their unrestricted spread, without any consultation of all those who are affected by them, is an injustice to the local community. It also recognizes that the importance of preserving the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty may involve additional considerations. Any businessman who intends to introduce polytunnels to his land should have his wishes balanced against those of the community, and the case for both sides should be open to public scrutiny and debate, as with any other development.
e. Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Parish Council believes that the Planning Process is the best forum in which this discussion should take place.
Adopted unanimously by Ballingham, Bolstone and Hentland Parish Council at its meeting on 18 June 2002.
The third largest polytunnel / business in the UK and allowed by Herefordshire planning to destroy one of England’s Finest Landscape, the famous Wye Valley.
KINGS CAPLE opposite the village of HOARWITHY once proudly featured on the cover of Hereford Planning Booklet, the picturesque “Gem” of riverside hamlets. Now a white wasteland of billowing plastic in the heart of the Wye Valley AONB, alongside the main geographical feature in Herefordshire the river itself, in open valley and amidst historical buildings, the most sensitive location in an area of great landscape value, site of special scientific interest.
Ian Slater, former Head of Planning to Paul Keetch M.P. 6th Dec 2000.
Classed, as “temporary structures”, will not look at visual impact on the landscape.
Hereford planning has failed to implement that decision, worse they have concealed these facts.
The latest argument turns away from the tunnels themselves and seizes upon the fact that the strawberries at Chichester were grown in hay whilst in Herefordshire they are grown in the soil This shameful attempt to divert focus was confirmed with Julie Preston 31st May 2002.
Other “clever “ points are about duration of cycle that attempts to dismiss the reality that these are a permanent ever-present blight.
No doubt other equally spurious argument will be given. Barrister opinion is being sought but the Chichester decision is crystal clear, such polytunnels should never have been allowed in the AONB, so by past and present record Queens Council will be asked to protect Hereford planning and their negligence rather than its landscape and people.
This position follows six months of continuous flow of detailed record, visual documentation, aerial photographs, legal argument and the full knowledge that this viewpoint is not accepted byother planning authorities there are numerous examples i.e. Worchester considers polytunnels are agricultural buildings requiring planning consents.
Being “caught” the planning dept might have swiftly moved to correct this injustice, but no.
In desperation large numbers of residents through out Herefordshire have now made complaint to the Ombudsman against the council for maladministration and injustice.
Hereford planning is being perverse in their interpretation of the Chichester decision in their wish to wriggle out of its implementation. No doubt business interests are thwarting justice.
These childish games and determination not to “see” will plunge the council into Judicial Review. Hereford will have to contest both the Chichester decision and legal argument of Case Law” Skerrits of Nottingham Ltd v. Secretary of State for the Environment” March 22 2000 This case overturns previous notions of what constitutes a building.
Clearly many farmers need to diversify if they are to make a living but this is not farming in any previous convention of the word this is third world factory enterprise in the midst of the most glorious English landscape. Surely here there is need to encourage “green” farming that employs local agricultural workers .All recent government directives point to the need to protect landscape.
These businessmen with their plastic work sheds are not in a temporary business.
“2000 acres of tunnels constructed in the last five years” says John Berry, Haygrove Tunnels, and Herefordshire. This method is in its infancy, trials and research are set to expand production to larger tunnels in a variety of coloured plastics, it is imperative to have controls as would be required in all other planning issues, so as to protect individual democratic rights and sensitive landscape throughout Herefordshire. MARDEN once nominated as best-kept village and enjoyed the open landscape now swamped in plastic, a vast overseas workforce working day & night, creating enormous social problems and injustice.
Covering the finest landscape within the AONB with plastic is plain crazy. Surely there are opinions in the council that deplore this visually blind policy of Hereford planning department? Other councils’ planning departments do not agree, expressing disbelief with this viewpoint.
If you wish this issue to be open for public enquiry or have any contribution you can make to bring this to a speedy conclusion then the large numbers of people contesting this issue would be grateful if you would make your views known.
It is the view of the planning department that a woodshed of “Wendy house” proportion larger than 10 cubic metres is considered potentially detrimental to an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
On the 15th April 2002 Mr ........ received a letter from Terry Jones, a response to a complaint against the polytunnels decimating Hoarwithy village.The council cannot decide whether or not polytunnels require planning consents.
ONE HUNDRED & SIXTY ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED & EIGHTY NINE TIMES larger than the 10 cubic metres considered harmful to the Area of Outstanding Beauty.
I would be pleased if you could enlighten me, what is the planning departments thinking on this issue?
over the use of polytunnels.
The council held an Environment Programme Meeting 2nd September 2002 for supposedly open ended discussion, a proposal, a way forward, had been made to which we were adamantly opposed. Surprise then when we discovered in the press that the council would now go forward with this proposal. It was a meeting dominated by two long introductory talks by the two millionaires selling their products whilst the opposition as we are called failed to keep Douglas Gardiner on the floor for three minutes before he was silenced by the councils lawyers.
The reason he was “silenced” was that he was about to say that we have been banging on the door of this council for four years. The planning department had repeatedly said they had no powers to control these polytunnels. Subsequently however we discovered that they had concealed legal ruling on this very issue since 15th June 1999.
Now of course we have in the Wye Valley AONB two monstrous polytunnel sites as well as the abuse at Marden and ever increasing explosions throughout Herefordshire. The sheer scale of these buildings is having disastrous effects upon the landscape and village communities. Despite what the agenda for the Environment Programme reports seventy people have made complaint to the Ombudsman on grounds of "maladministration" and "injustice”. This is but the tip of a surfacing iceberg.
Voluntary control, on an issue of this magnitude is a fairy story. A proposal no doubt to divert focus from the urgent need to enforce planning regulation and a theatre acted out to appease the Ombudsman .The Ombudsman can only consider primarily matters of procedure rather than the rights and wrongs of a decision. There is a failure to address existence of the Brinkman ruling. Herefordshire is set to continue to allow these millionaire businesses men under the sympathy vote of “poor farmers” to dictate terms, seize control, destroy our best landscape and pervert democratic rights.
The proposal of voluntary control is further insult to the long-suffering majority that daily witness year upon year the abuse thrust upon them and the environment.
Time and time again the justification for tearing up the most beautiful landscape in the AONB as was indeed reiterated by Polly Andrews Head of council is that Herefordshire is a farming community and we must support the farmers. So what is Worchester doing with its landscape and all the other rural counties throughout Britain who have planning controls? Perhaps they are listening to the majority and diversity of people in their county and acting responsibly to reflect their concerns and adhering to legal precedent.
To consider the wider political outlines of the government’s papers, and address the need to truly protect landscape and for changes in farming practice.
To uphold a duty and responsibility to protect our finest landscape.
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty share equal status with National Parks in terms of scenic beauty and landscape protection.
The Environment Programme Agenda for the 2nd September meeting states, “Advice from Counsel indicates that each case must be considered on its merits in certain circumstances the erection of polytunnels could constitute development requiring planning permission” .So even the advice from Herefords appointed counsel has to concede that polytunnels do require planning consent. The Way forward which is” just” as opposed to A way forward,” voluntary code” is to identify those polytunnels to which counsel is referring and issue enforcement.
This decision remains the highest legal authority on this issue, this ruling is underpinned by Skerrits case law, which overturns all previous interpretation of what, constitutes a temporary structure. We have two irreconcilable interests those of business/profit versus those of protecting the landscape and the democratic rights of people. Were conflict occurs as in all other walks of life the law has to intervene. In this case the law is the Brinkman ruling, which asserts polytunnels require planning consents, and should not be allowed in an AONB.
Polytunnels are clearly a permanent and expanding blight all year round year upon year, a fact to which large numbers will emphatically testify.
People should have the right to object as they would in any other planning issue. The numbers of communities and individuals being effected is ever increasing .We are currently at the mercy indeed victims of these growers. There is a long history of abuse a voluntary code will not stop this, indeed if these growers are now allowed to continue and survive this current spotlight matters will become worse. We should not be forced to resort to the courts to resolve this issue.
To act in accord with other councils and require planning consent for polytunnels.
A plastic shroud creeps across this once gentle landscape in the heart of Wye Valley AONB linking the two historic sites of Kings Caple and Hoarwithy Churches.
Once of breathtaking beauty now breath taking in the sheer audacity of this grower Mr.Cockburn with yet more fields beyond now being prepared for expansion. What is the madness that brings Herefordshire Council to insist on planning consents for a "wendy" house least it should be detrimental to the AONB whilst harmful to the Area of Outstanding Beauty. resisting implementing controls over this nightmare, a council that now proposes a "voluntary code of practice will see it right, is breathtaking in its stupidity.
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The following article was published last week at Journey Films. It has been republished here with the agreement of all parties involved.
But seeing the film again at a recent screening at Loyola University Chicago, I was particularly struck by the importance of the prophetic tradition in the Hebrew scriptures to Niebuhr’s work, and to his influence. That tradition has—or had—a resonance in American public life that gave authority to Niebuhr’s voice and drew others to his message, even when it included things they were not eager to hear. You see this especially toward the end of the film, during the Civil Rights Movement, when Niebuhr, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Martin Luther King, Jr. become a trio of Hebrew prophets for modern times.
Niebuhr was not as visible as the other two, of course, and not as outspoken as some wanted him to be. His health limited his activity, and as Cornel West points out, there was a Burkean caution in his later works that worried about resistance to changes that ran too deep or came too fast. There were tensions and differences between Niebuhr, Heschel, and King, but they recognized each other as leaders whose prophetic commitment to justice was setting directions for American society.
For Niebuhr, the prophetic tradition was about a standard that doesn’t bow to power and that always stands in judgment—not just on what other people do, but on our own injustices and failings. In Niebuhr’s reading of the Hebrew scriptures, the false prophet is the one who pronounces judgment on our enemies. The true prophet is the one who pronounces judgment on ourselves.
Niebuhr loved the scene depicted in I Kings 22, where the king of Israel complains that the prophet Micaiah never prophesies anything favorable for him, but only disaster. The king of Judah demands nonetheless to hear what Micaiah has to say, and the prophet at last, reluctantly, foretells the defeat that will follow if the two kings go to war against the Arameans as they propose. They went to war anyway, with disastrous results. Ahab, the king of Israel, was killed. We do not know what finally happened to Micaiah.
I update Niebuhr’s idiom a bit there, but his point is clear, both for our political leaders and for those who advise them: “Men are always trying to prove that what they are doing is in accord with God’s will or with ultimate truth or with the supreme good. But they can do this only on the supposition that there is a will beyond their own, a truth higher than their knowledge and a good better than their own.” It is for that reason that the true prophet will invariably at some point contradict the wishes of those who seek the word of the Lord. “A prophet who speaks only what the king wants to hear ceases ere long to be of use even to the king” (79).
More important, the prophet recognizes that the people share in the sins of their leaders, and the prophet shares in the sins of the people. Niebuhr concludes an extended meditation on Jeremiah with this axiom: “The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet” (110). True prophets take the sins of the people upon themselves, and the point of this is basic to Niebuhr’s theology.
“The ethic of Jesus is the perfect fruit of prophetic religion,” he wrote in An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (37). Niebuhr’s theological critics often say he has no Christology. But I think this is his Christology. He understands the passion and death of Christ not only as a sacrifice, but as a prophetic act. Christ takes on the burden of human evil so completely that all attempts to denounce our enemies and justify ourselves are silenced.
That is what made the prophetic tradition powerful in the late twentieth century. It does not depend on our own achievements for its authority, and so it can acknowledge the failures in which we all have had a part. King, Niebuhr, and Heschel were not calling Americans to go back to the eighteenth century, when the Founders declared that “all men are created equal” and kept their slaves.
Nor did they look back to the nineteenth century, when legislators amended the Constitution to end slavery and guarantee equal protection of the law while they were drafting Jim Crow statutes. King, Niebuhr, and Heschel were calling Americans to live in the twentieth century according to covenants that none of them had fully kept. Prophecy allows you to demand justice without having to be right all the time.
By contrast, our polarized politics today states, “Whether you go right or left, your goal is to be completely right.” EITHER you follow an elite leadership and rewrite all the rules so that they conform to a theoretical standard of liberty or equality, OR you make America great again by putting things back the way they were, which in a lot of people’s minds means putting other people back in their place.
We have a shortage of prophetic politics today. I think that’s one reason why An American Conscience is so powerful. It’s not just nostalgia—though there is some of that for those of us who are old enough to remember those iconic moments from the 1960s. It’s a hope for a politics that knows how to proclaim judgment, even while acknowledging our share in the guilt; and that knows how to offer a vision of a better future without having to claim that we’ve already been there.
Robin W. Lovin is the Director of Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry and the Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at Southern Methodist University. He has been serving as Project Leader of CTI’s three-year interdisciplinary research project on New Approaches in Theological Inquiry, 2012-2015, and was Co-Leader of CTI’s Inquiry on Theology and International Law, 2006-2010, with Professor Jeremy Waldron. He is the author among other works of An Introduction to Christian Ethics: Goals, Duties, Virtues, Christian Realism and the New Realities, and Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism. | 2019-04-25T16:16:06Z | https://politicaltheology.com/reinhold-niebuhr-and-the-shortage-of-prophets-nowadays-robin-lovin/ |
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Happy New Year had a huge first weekend with collections around the 97 crore nett mark. The collections were record breaking on day one as it was national holiday but the next two days saw collections drop to lower levels with both days collecting below 30 crore nett. Saturday was a holiday in some parts of the country which meant Sunday failed to show any worthwhile growth from Saturday.
The film set a record in Mumbai circuit grossing around 32.5 crore nett but most of the other circuits fell a little short of Dhoom 3 as far as weekend business is concerned. Both Delhi/UP and East Punjab were around 25 lakhs nett less than Dhoom 3.
The weekend numbers are huge but ideally it would have been better a trend if the film settled at above 30 crore nett on Saturday and Sunday rather than below it. Now the Monday number is all important if it is to challenge the biggest grosser of 2013 Kick. Kick grossed around 155 crore nett in week one.
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A Transparent Leaf instead of The Mouth is the first institutional solo exhibition of work by artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (b. 1977, Barcelona) in the United States. Based in Rio de Janeiro since 2004, Steegmann Mangrané is considered to be at the forefront of a generation of artists currently emerging from Brazil. A Transparent Leaf instead of The Mouth will include a cross section of his past work in 16mm film, drawing, holography, and installation, alongside newly commissioned sculpture and installation. The exhibition will be presented at the Center for Curatorial Studies, in the CCS Bard Galleries from June 23 to October 14, 2018 and is organized by Lauren Cornell, Director of the Graduate Program and Chief Curator.
In a recent interview, Steegmann Mangrané stated: “The question—who is a subject of full right, who belongs to ‘us’—is the most essential political question.” Notions of “us,” of distinction and belonging, founder and disintegrate in Mangrané’s practice. His early aspirations to be a biologist manifest in works about permutation, mutation, and transformation across materials and life forms. This exhibition takes its title from the large-scale installation A Transparent Leaf instead of The Mouth (2017–18), which is a glass pavilion containing a dynamic ecosystem that combines local foliage and foreign insects. Produced for CCS Bard in consultation with Bard College’s horticultural staff, Dr. Linda S. Rayor of Nature Outreach Consulting, and Cornell University Entomology major Joseph Giulian, this project stages an argument for interdependency and entanglement, even across allegedly opposed genealogies or perspectives.
Steegmann Mangrané’s works often unsettle the conventional ways in which art is seen or felt; examples include his virtual reality–based project Phantom (2015) and his subtler drawings and sculptures that entwine light, color, and the architecture of the venues they are displayed in. In its emphasis on experience over object, Steegmann Mangrané’s practice echoes some of Brazil’s most significant contemporary artists, like Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, whose pioneering work of the latter half of the 20th century exchanged spectatorship for full-body participation.
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One in five homes in the UK were sold chain-free this year, down from one in three in 2015.
Chain-free sales are becoming increasingly rare. In the UK, most homeowners who move are reliant on the sale of their current home. While in some cases owners might briefly choose to move into rented accommodation to help with the sale of their home, most look to find a buyer for their own home at the same time as buying a property for themselves.
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Few things add elegance and color to weddings like flowers. Floral garland weddings takes his idea up a notch. There are several different ways that floral garlands can be used. One of the best ways to accent where the couple are exchanging vows is to have floral garlands outlining the altar area or on a pergola above the couple.
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One of the best ways to use floral garlands is as bunting throughout the reception hall. The floral garlands add depth to the space and the couple can arrange the garland to create different focal points. The eye will follow the garland and where the garland ends is naturally where the eye is drawn to. This is the perfect place to seat the married couple.
However floral arrangements are finalized, the wedding garlands will feature prominently. These floral arrangements are elegant and bring a higher level of refinement to this once-in-a-lifetime event.
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Seasonal garlands are the perfect way to tie in thematic elements. Spring is the ideal time to plan a wedding because the season symbolizes the blooming of new things. Just the way flowers are coming into full bloom, so too is the romance of two people. Seasonal garlands of springtime flowers is perfect for this.
Likewise, other seasons have different representations and can be effectively used for the same purposes. These floral garlands are the best way to bring the natural world into a wedding or another type of event. Because flowers are available on a seasonal basis, this makes seasonal garlands perfect for whatever time of year the event takes place in. | 2019-04-19T21:09:35Z | https://www.samsclub.com/sams/wedding-flower-packs/1640107.cp?xid=cat1256-wedd_vnav_2_5 |
With now three device hardware databases for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan, I decided to create a single landing page the will display links to those three databases along with the number of uploaded reports.
This is written in PHP just like the databases and the sources can be found at github.
The landing page will direct to the different databases and also displays the number of reports uploaded to those databases.
While the landing page mostly is just a simple link setup, gpuinfo.org also includes a special device listing page for Android at android.gpuinfo.org that combines data from the OpenGL ES and Vulkan database.
Using this you can check what devices support those APIs and quickly get e.g. a listing of android devices that support Vulkan and OpenGL ES. | 2019-04-24T08:36:56Z | https://www.saschawillems.de/creations/gpu-info-org/ |
I am remembering my experience of childhood, climbing my favorite tree in our front yard. It was a huge pine tree and had wonderful branches close to each other like a perfect ladder to heaven. I would climb to the very top and swing blowing in the wind for hours.
Often I would sing the only song I knew about a tree, “I talk to the trees but they don’t listen to me….” It seems ironic now because indeed the tree was listening to me and I knew it, but this was one of the few songs in my limited repertoire. I sang it with great melancholy and the tree, like a faithful dog was just there, present, holding me and my sadness.
My last article The Healing Benefits of Walking Barefoot got me thinking about how formative these experiences of nature are to us as children, if we were fortunate enough to be around it. I realize how blessed I was to have an actual forest to explore, and a choice of many fabulous trees to climb and a tree house that I had access to.
Shortly after writing my last article I decided to practice what I preached and found a park with field to experience grass under my feet again. I was instantly transported to my childhood where I went barefoot everywhere. I could literally walk on nails. So different from my wimpy feet now! I then took time to lie on the grass and gaze at the clouds. It felt incredibly rejuvenating to connect to that child like part that I haven’t let out in a very long time. It seemed to lighten my soul and I am still feeling the positive affects.
I observed my surroundings and saw a few pubescent girls contemplating climbing a tree, not sure if it was the cool thing to do. To encourage this behavior I sauntered over and asked if they would indulge me and climb the tree so that I could get a picture.
I could see their minds spinning …the cool ‘fashionistas’ wrestling with the children who relished the prospect of having an adventure. To my joy the child- part won. They worked out how to shimmy each other up and before long were laughing and playing letting out squeals of joy. I silently slipped off, hoping they might continue a little longer, celebrating the child that had won out, perhaps for the last time. I pondered how fleeting this precious time is and what it would be like to know the last time you climbed a tree that it was indeed the last time you would ever climb a tree.
I was brought back to my own childhood. I was about their age, doing the dance between wanting desperately to be an adult and still wanting to hang out in my beloved tree, singing my melancholy tunes.
As an adult I have since had many amazing communications with trees. (But haven’t climbed one since I was a child… something I promise to do again soon!) I have always been convinced of their healing properties, and am happy to know that science has now caught up with what many of us have known all along.
In a recently published book, Blinded By Science, Matthew Silverstone reveals the scientific data showing trees improve many health issues such as mental illness, ADHD, depression, the ability to alleviate headaches, reaction time and concentration levels. He lists countless studies of children who showed significant psychological and physiological improvements in their health and well being when they interacted with plants and trees. Their cognitive and emotional abilities improved and they experienced more creative play in ‘green’ areas.
He explains that the reasons are simply that everything vibrates and different vibrations affect biological behaviors. When we touch a tree its different vibrational pattern will affect the various biological behaviors within the human body bringing it into a healing alignment.
Plants and trees facilitate the cleansing and revitalizing of all of the stored up negativity and stress humans experience and give it a place to be absorbed. Being in their presence realigns our vibrations to be more in alignment with their healing and grounding vibrations.
So tree hugging is not just for hippies or children. It is beneficial to all!
I encourage you to set aside 30 minutes to go out and climb, touch, hug or just be near a tree and meditate on all of the richness they provide to the planet, not only visually, but in their healing medicinal properties, cleaning our air, providing a place for children to play and providing the materials for our homes. The fact that trees give off oxygen just before dawn, which wakes up the birds and makes them sing! Put your hands on a tree and open to the teaching it has for you and send your gratitude back to her.
Experience the powerful healing properties of being among these incredible, free and natural resources that are still available to us, and work to protect, preserve and cherish them for all generations to come!
Please share with us your own healing experiences and appreciation of trees!
I do it as often as I can,but do it like you would hug a person so not that long.How long you should hug a tree?Thanks.
Plant and protect Danny's trees for life.
I used to climb trees when younger. | 2019-04-18T10:17:24Z | https://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-healing-benefits-of-hugging-a-tree.html |
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Bubba the Pirate: It Must Be Right.
This morning, the beginning of the first week of my new adventure, birds were singing and the sun was up. It was an awakening of a new sort. Things are working quickly and according to plan. I will keep you posted. | 2019-04-21T06:06:35Z | https://www.bubbathepirate.com/2007/04/it-must-be-right.html |
March 9. Last here in August 2018 Stonecold Country made an early return as they were available at short notice standing in for our scheduled act who were double booked. I was away and have compiled this report from notes sent to me.
Father and son duo, Ray and Steve Kedge, were on top form and had the dancers up from the start. An early song, Dangerous Curves, featured some great guitar work from Steve. Ray (vocals/steel guitar) and Steve complemented each other all evening with their singing and instrumentation.
They performed Kiss the Girl, a Disney song from the film/show The Little Mermaid, which to me is a catchy and pleasant song to listen/dance to and yet across the Atlantic some have branded the lyrics sexist and misogynistic. As usual, Steve played a guitar solo and this time it was Ghost Riders In the Sky which club host Mary rated the best so far. Another song of note was Call Me When It’s Over written by local country singer/songwriter Billy Levin and you can see Stonecold Country singing this on YouTube.
They closed the evening with Gary Perkin’s Thank You which seemed appropriate as those present left thanking them for a great evening’s entertainment and the best they have heard from Stonecold Country. | 2019-04-20T07:28:17Z | https://kent-country.org/index.php/clubs/club-reports/21-best-of-british/399-best-of-british-report-march-2019 |
I hope you enjoyed the video as well as the interview! I loved being a part of HGH's Read.Watch.Enjoy! series so big thanks to Katie!
OMG - too cute! And her hair has grown soo much! Great vid!
lol that was so cute, i couldn't understand anything she was saying lol!!!
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Hahaha! So cuuuute! No idea what she's saying! I heard 'orange' in there somewhere I think! Where can I buy her album? | 2019-04-23T08:34:57Z | http://beadsbraidsbeyond.blogspot.com/2011/03/freestylin-happy-girl-hair-interview.html |
Please Note: a gas filling adapter is required.
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0-4-2 inside framed chassis with double acting slide valve cylinders operated by slip eccentric valve gear.
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Dimensions of the tender (loading gauge) are:- length 15cm over buffers, width 10.7cm, height 10.5cm, weight 0.8Kg.
By their nature these locomotives involve naked flames and will have hot surfaces and hot water and steam under pressure. As such these locos are sold as a collector model and are for age 14+ and then should only be used under the close supervision of a competent adult. | 2019-04-26T10:16:46Z | https://www.dreamsteam.co.uk/whats-new/rh-jennie.html |
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This week, I’ve seen two pick-up trucks parked in town, each stacked with high with firewood. This may be a sure sign of the coming of winter in rural towns across the nation, but it’s an uncommon sight in downtown Telluride these days.
When I moved to Telluride in the 1980s, most every house was heated by wood. A quality wood stove is a worthy heat source because it can bring a room from freezing to blow-your-socks-off hot in a matter of minutes. I remember many a dinner with housemates, sitting around the table in only our long underwear, with faces flushed and the doors and windows wide open while a snowstorm raged outside. If we’d had a thermostat, I’m sure it would have hovered near 90. Of course we could have damped the stove to reduce the flame. But we didn’t, at least not until we went to bed and wouldn’t stoke the fire again until morning. It sounds profligate, but cut us some slack: We were 20-something-year-old ski bums, living in squalid shacks—heat was our only real indulgence.
They say that all good things must end, and so it was for most all the wood stoves in Telluride. In the late 1980s, the EPA determined that the quantity of airborne particulates in Telluride was higher than in downtown Denver. How could it be that a small mountain town had worse air quality than an urban center? Geography and meteorology were to blame. In this tight box canyon, temperature inversions would often set in, trapping chimney smoke in the valley like a lid on a pot. Town council tightened wood stove regulations initially, and then, in 1996, banned wood stoves in any newly constructed house and mandated their removal upon the sale of any existing structure. After the real estate boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, few stoves remain. Today, I know of only a handful of houses within Telluride town limits that still burn wood.
The good news is that it worked. A greasy gray cloud no longer blankets town in winter, and Telluride’s air quality is far better than it was 20 years ago. The bad news is that there’s no substitute for the heat of a wood stove. When I bought my house (and sadly removed the wood stove), I installed a freestanding gas stove, which poses as a wannabe wood stove in the living room. I’m warm enough, but it’s not the same.
Come fall, I miss the excursions into the woods with a chainsaw and the steady rhythm of splitting wood in the driveway. Stacking a good woodpile is perhaps the most gratifying weekend activity of all time, one that certainly confirms the old adage that “a wood stove warms you twice.” Getting ready for the cold—scurrying about like a squirrel tucking away nuts—is a physical harbinger of winter that isn’t fulfilled by paying the gas bill. During the coldest and darkest days in December, I long for that familiar crackling heat from a wood stove—and it’s then that I must remind myself to savor Telluride’s clean mountain air. | 2019-04-20T08:15:28Z | https://www.visittelluride.com/plan/blog/blowin-smoke/ |
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This page describes the process of forming a six piece mold from the plug which was constructed earlier.
I'm planning the seams as follows.
Part 1 will be mouth area.
Part 2 will be the chest and programming area.
Part 3 will be the top dome.
Part 4 will be the bottom dome.
Parts 5&6 will be the left and right tube sections.
The first step is to prepare the plug to allow release of our mold. First apply and polished 3 separate coats of release wax. Then after waiting 6-8 hours apply and polish two more coats.
Note how the pole allows access to all sides of the torso without touching the ground.
After waxing we apply a coat of PVA release agent. This stuff is best sprayed on in three thin coats. It forms a very thin sheet that separates the plug from the mold. Once the plug is released from the mold the PVA can be washed off. Let the PVA dry between coats.
We must create seam lines so that each separate mold piece can be pulled. I will align my seams on the raised trim areas, this will allow any flashing on the final piece to be easily sanded off. I will start with the moutharea. Then the chest and programming area. Domes and finally the two tube sections.
We use clay to create a "dam" around the area to be done. Once done the clay is removed and release agent is again applied. We will make "keys" or small indentations in the clay dam. These will ensure good alignment of the separate mold sections when we reassemble it.
I'll show step by step how to do the first portion, the other portions will be similar.
I created a dam around the mouth portion using clay. Note the small "key" holes in the clay. The clay has been given a coating of PVA release agent.
Next step is too apply the tooling gel coat. This should give our mold a smooth, hard and durable surface. The tooling coat will be 20-25 mils thick. The first mat layer should be added with 1.5 - 5 hours to stabilize the tooling gel coat. After that cools, we'll build up using 8-10 layers of 1.5oz mat.
Here the black tooling gelcoat has been applied. Also note that a fillet of resin, cabosil (thickener) and 1/4" chop strand has been used to round out the sharp corners. This will allow use to lay up mat without trapping air bubbles in the corners.
Now we can lay-up the mat. I'll do only two layers for now. After all sections have two layers I'll go back and add more.
Remove the clay and we're ready to start the next portion.
Note how this area will mate up against the first area. We continue this process until all the areas are done (two layers of mat).
OK, we've covered all portions of the mold. Next we use 8-10 layers to build up the mold thickness to ~3/8 - 1/2 inch thick. This makes a very strong mold.
Then we drill holes for the bolts that will hold the portions together when we are ready to cast a torso. Finally we trim the edges.
The release agent washes right off. Here the mold family sit and watch their favorite Lost In Space episode, "Wreck of the Robot".
The mold is finished! Next step is to give this baby about six coats of wax, then it'll finally be time to cast our torso! | 2019-04-21T22:33:52Z | http://b9robotbuildersclub.com/tools/protected/reference/construct/homemade_torso_mold.html |
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 10 Straight Lines Ex 10.3 are part of NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths. Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 10 Straight Lines Ex 10.3.
Reduce the following equations into slope- intercept form and find their slopes and the y-intercepts.
Hence the slope is and the y-intercept = 0.
m = 0, c = 0.
Hence, slope is 0 and the y-intercept is 0.
Reduce the following equations into intercept form and find their intercepts on the axes.
On comparing (1) and (2), we get a = 4, b = 6 Hence, the intercepts of the line are 4 and 6.
Hence, the intercepts of the line are and -2.
The above equation shows that, it is not the required equation of the intercept form as it is parallel to x-axis.
We observe that y-intercept of the line is , but there is no intercept on x-axis.
Reduce the following equations into normal form. Find their perpendicular distances from the origin and angle between perpendicular and the positive x-axis.
⇒ – cos 60°x + sin 60° y = 4.
⍵ Distance of the line from origin is 4 and the angle between perpendicular and positive x-axis is 120°.
⍵ Distance of the line from origin is 2 and the angle between perpendicular and positive x-axis is 90°.
is the required equation in normal form.
∴ Distance of the line from the origin is and the angle between perpendicular and the positive x-axis is 315°.
Find the distance of the point (-1, 1) from the line 12 (x+ 6) = 5(y — 2).
Find the points on the x-axis, whose distances from the line are 4 units.
Let (a, 0) be the point on x-axis whose distance from line (i) is 4 units.
(ii) |(x + y) + p = 0 and |(x + y) – r = 0.
Find equation of the line parallel to the line 3x – 4y + 2 = 0 and passing through the point (-2, 3).
Find equation of the line perpendicular to the line x – 7y + 5 = 0 and having x intercept 3.
⇒ 7x + y – 21 = 0, is the required equation of line.
Find angles between the lines + y = 1 and x + = 1.
Since we have to find an angle between the two lines i.e., firstly we have to find the slopes of (i) and (ii).
The line through the points (h, 3) and (4, 1) intersects the line 7x – 9y – 19 = 0 at right angle. Find the value of h.
Given points are (h, 3) and (4,1).
Prove that the line through the point (x1 y1) and parallel to the line Ax + By + C = 0 is A(x-x1) + B(y-y1) = 0.
=> A(x – x1) + B(y – y1) = 0.
Two lines passing through the point (2, 3) intersects each other at an angle of 60°. If slope of one line is 2, find equation of the other line.
We have given a point (2, 3), through which two lines are passing and intersects at an angle of 60°.
Find the equation of the right bisector of the line segment joining the points (3, 4) and (-1, 2).
suppose the given points are A and B.
Let M be the mid point of AB.
Find the coordinates of the foot of perpendicular from the point (-1, 3) to the line 3x – 4y – 16 = 0.
The perpendicular from the origin to the line y = mx + c meets it at the point (-1,2). Find the values of m and c.
If p and q are the lengths of perpendiculars from the origin to the lines x cosθ – y sinθ = k cos 2θ and x secθ + y cosecθ = k, respectively, prove that p2 + 4q2 = k2.
Given p and q are the lengths of perpendiculars from the origin to the lines x cos θ – ysinθ=k cos 2θ and xsecθ+y cosec θ = k.
In the triangle ABC with vertices A(2, 3), 8(4, -1) and C( 1, 2), find the equation and length of altitude from the vertex A.
If p is the length of perpendicular from the origin to the line whose intercepts on the axes are a and b, then show that .
We hope the NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 10 Straight Lines Ex 10.3, help you. If you have any query regarding NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 10 Straight Lines Ex 10.3, drop a comment below and we will get back to you at the earliest. | 2019-04-19T16:59:28Z | https://www.cbsetuts.com/ncert-solutions-for-class-11-maths-chapter-10-ex-10-3/ |
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RSPCA Cymru is reminding members of the public to consider the needs of pets, and the welfare of animals, as Wales prepares to welcome in 2017.
Fireworks are a common part of New Year’s festivities – but many animals can find them deeply distressing, and RSPCA Cymru is reminding the public of the many practical steps which can be taken to help protect their welfare.
Almost 60 animals from the RSPCA’s Bryn-Y-Maen Animal Centre will be looking for a forever home in the New Year.
Dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets and even a cockerel are among the animals at the centre hoping to find their perfect family in 2017.
The RSPCA is appealing for information after a shivering puppy with a broken leg was found in a field on Boxing Day.
The female Staffie-type puppy, who was named Ali by RSPCA staff, was found in playing fields off Vicarage Road, in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in the afternoon.
An RSPCA centre in Cheshire is appealing for bird-lovers to get in touch after becoming inundated with budgies.
Stapeley Grange, in Nantwich, currently has 21 budgies at the centre – 18 of which came from the same household after their owner passed away.
Seal pup rescued by RSPCA Cymru – an incredible seven miles from the sea!
A seal pup has been rescued by RSPCA Cymru in remarkable circumstances – after being spotted almost seven miles from the sea in the Vale of Glamorgan!
The charity rescued the pup after it was found in a farmer’s field in Graig Penllyn near Cowbridge on December 21.
RSPCA Cymru believes the pup must have reached the field after undertaking an extraordinary journey up the streams of the River Thaw. | 2019-04-24T04:06:15Z | https://news.rspca.org.uk/2016/12/ |
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The most common symptom of sacroiliac joint dysfunction is pain, either in one side of the lower back or in the hip. Pain usually increases when the patient bends, stands after a long period of sitting or reclining, or climbs stairs, and decreases when the patient lies down. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction is diagnosed through physical examination, during which the physician moves the patient's legs and hips into varying positions, and through imaging tests like X-rays or a CT scan. Anesthetic injections may also be used as a diagnostic tool. | 2019-04-22T19:01:49Z | https://www.northcountyomg.com/sacroiliac-joint-dysfunction.php |
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Models his style of play after Islanders forward John Tavares.Back to Home Page.Didier Deschamps’ side know a victory over Belarus – live on the red button – book their place Russia next year.03 2018 by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire Titans’ : Gets new backfield partner.The club trails only there NFL’s Cowboys , Real Madrid , Barcelona and MLB’s New Yankees , according to . | 2019-04-18T10:55:22Z | https://www.framerschelvey.com/archives/581 |
The mid-nineties were huge for me musically not just because there was so much to choose from but because I was in college at Montana State and that's just what you're into when you're in college right?
1995 gave us a female alt-rock (potential) goddess, Poe. She appealed to chicks with her smooth, breathy vocals but had additional appeal with some serious attitude behind the lyrics. Her album "Hello" contained one Alternative hit, "Angry Johnny" but also contained an album full of gems. And a full album of listenable songs is always a winner, then or now. | 2019-04-23T15:54:35Z | https://mooseradio.com/albums-i-forgot-i-loved-poe-hello/ |
GFI, makers of several products we deploy at various client locations, has announced that they are giving away a freeware version of their LANGuard Security Scanner. This should be of interest to our micro-business clients, as this product, while not my favorite vulnerability scanner, can be used on small networks to find and fix potential security problems.
Over 15,000 vulnerability assessments are carried out when the network, including any virtual environment, is scanned by GFI LANguard. When the scan is complete, GFI LANguard’s Patch Management functionality allows administrators to deploy and manage patches and security updates on all machines across the network. Hardware information can be retrieved and baseline comparisons used to check for unauthorized changes.
The English translation is that it helps ensure your systems are up to date with respect to patches and updates.
Previously you would have had to purchase at least a 10-node license (for $320 or more), but now the software is free, so there’s one less excuse for making sure your micro-business network or remote office is up to date.
Note: Paradigm Consulting Co. is a GFI reseller. | 2019-04-24T01:35:27Z | https://www.paradigmcc.com/2009/04/21/gfi-languard-security-scanner-free-for-up-to-5-machines/ |
다음 표에서는 DMX(Data Mining Extensions)의 데이터 마이닝 DDL(데이터 정의 언어) 문 중 일부를 나열합니다.The following table lists the statements that are part of the data mining data definition language (DDL) in Data Mining Extensions (DMX).
마이닝 구조 만들기 (DMX)CREATE MINING STRUCTURE (DMX) 데이터베이스에 새 마이닝 구조를 만듭니다.Creates a new mining structure in the database.
ALTER 마이닝 구조 (DMX)ALTER MINING STRUCTURE (DMX) 기존 마이닝 구조에 마이닝 모델을 추가합니다.Adds a mining model to an existing mining structure.
마이닝 모델을 만들 (DMX)CREATE MINING MODEL (DMX) 데이터베이스에 새 마이닝 구조 및 마이닝 모델을 만듭니다.Creates a new mining structure and mining model in the database.
마이닝 모델 삭제 (DMX)DROP MINING MODEL (DMX) 데이터베이스에서 마이닝 모델을 삭제합니다.Deletes a mining model from the database.
마이닝 구조 삭제 (DMX)DROP MINING STRUCTURE (DMX) 데이터베이스에서 마이닝 구조를 삭제합니다.Deletes a mining structure from the database.
내보내기 (DMX)EXPORT (DMX) 마이닝 모델이나 마이닝 구조 및 연결된 개체를 .abf 파일로 내보냅니다.Exports a mining model or mining structure and associated objects into a .abf file.
가져오기 (DMX)IMPORT (DMX) .abf 파일에서 마이닝 모델이나 마이닝 구조 및 연결된 개체를 가져옵니다.Imports a mining model or mining structure and associated objects from a .abf file.
SELECT INTO (DMX)SELECT INTO (DMX) 기존 마이닝 모델의 복사본을 만듭니다.Creates a copy of an existing mining model. | 2019-04-22T08:29:35Z | https://docs.microsoft.com/ko-kr/sql/dmx/dmx-statements-data-definition?view=sql-server-2017 |
This country-specific Q&A provides an overview to tax laws and regulations that may occur in Japan.
The business environment in Japan has changed drastically since the bubble years. Changes such as the downsizing of companies, increase of the number of foreign competitors and creation of joint venture enterprises with foreign companies increased pressure on the management of labor costs. Such changes have also affected the style of employment in the country, affecting not only the classical life-time employment style, but also mid-career employment. Under this movement, a number of companies have started adopting a variety of incentive plans; some of them expecting from employees a recognizable performance development in the short term.
An incentive plan commonly adopted by Japanese companies is the payment of a bonus. The bonus scheme is usually calculated based on the performance of the employees. According to statistics recently published by the Japanese government, 90% of Japanese companies have a bonus plan in place and 95.7% of such companies have actually paid the bonus. Among such companies, more than 50% have taken into consideration the individual performance of the employee for granting the bonus. The employee’s performance is measured mainly based on his/her level of achievement of goals, which is normally assessed during the course of HR evaluation procedures. There are several criteria utilized by companies for assessing an employee's performance, such as points prorated by seniority, title, ability/skill and performance towards the objectives of work, which are typically established in the process of evaluation.
In addition to the payment of a bonus, Japanese companies listed on stock exchanges commonly offer share options to their employees. Roughly speaking, approximately 95% of Japanese listed companies have adopted a share purchase plan as an incentive plan for their employees. In the case of overseas corporations holding a subsidiary or an affiliate in Japan, different types of share plans in their jurisdictions are commonly offered to the employees in their jurisdictions.
Although it is not so common in Japan when compared to the performance bonus and share option plans explained above, a “profit sharing” scheme also is an option for Japanese companies. Under such an incentive plan it is possible to implement a bonus scheme by which the funds to be allocated for the payment of a bonus to employees are calculated based on the company’s profits by multiplying a certain percentage to the business profit. Generally, the payment will be made in a same way as a cash bonus, i.e., annually or semiannually in cash.
Some companies have implemented the Japanese ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) scheme, mainly by utilizing their existing share purchase partnerships by the employees. Although there was a movement to encourage companies to implement an ESOP around year 2000, the ESOP is not yet recognized as a major scheme for incentive plans.
(ii) granting of an option to the employees and/or directors to exercise the right to purchase shares at a lower price than the market price. In substance, this type of option is supposed to be used to pay a wage-related compensation such as a retirement allowance. It is common to set an exercise condition, for instance, the retirement of the holder of the right.
The traditional type of employee share purchase plan is the scheme of an employee shareholding partnership provided by the Japanese Civil Act. Under such a plan a small amount of contribution is deducted from the employees’ salaries on a regular basis for the purchase of stock of the company via the partnership. The employees are entitled to receive dividends in proportion to their contribution to the capital stock.
As mentioned above, some companies have implemented a scheme so called a “Japanese ESOP” under which employees can obtain shares utilizing certain financial instruments such as a trust. Regardless of the name “ESOP”, this scheme is different from an ESOP as is utilized in the USA for which a specific law is enacted. A Japanese ESOP is considered as a general term of financial instruments which are particularly developed for companies willing to grant the company’s shares to employees.
In a conservative payment scheme, age is considered the most significant factor for determining the employees’ position in the rank-hierarchy and it reflects their wages, especially the base salary scheme. It is considered one of the core elements of the life-time employment style and is connected to the long term incentive for employees since the length of service period tends to be proportional to the increase of salary. There are numerous companies that still adopt such a payment scheme, especially in the manufacturing industry. A retirement allowance system could be a form of long-term incentive since the retirement allowance reflects the service period. Looking at the bonus scheme, Japanese companies have changed their trends of bonus scheme from long-term incentive to short-term incentive such as bonus linked to individual performance.
No limits on participants. Non-employees, such as non-employee directors and consultants, can participate. Companies have discretion over to whom an incentive plan is offered as long as each plan is offered on the same conditions to all participants. In practice, however, many companies have forfeiture conditions such as the termination of employment condition or retirement of the employee in their incentive plans. In that sense, in the standard incentive plans, having a connection with the company, such as employment and/or director, is the threshold requirement for participation of an individual in such plans.
In most Japanese companies, awards are a separate issue from the other incentive plan alternatives such as bonus and share option plans. Awards may be considered as proof of excellent performance but will not be subject to performance criteria, vesting schedules and forfeiture.
In relation to the payment of the bonus, they are subject to income tax and the employer company is required to withhold such tax from the bonuses. In addition, contributions to the national social and labor insurance systems are required when the participants receive the bonuses. If an employee receives a payment from the profit sharing plan mentioned above, the payment received is also subject to income tax and social security contribution.
No taxable income and social security contribution.
The formula for calculating the amount to be taxed depends on the type of stock option. For example, if an employee is able to acquire listed shares by exercising the options, the taxable amount is the amount deducted from the market price of the listed shares by a certain amount.
On the other hand, stock options that satisfy certain conditions, such as transfer restrictions, are not subject to taxation at the time of exercise.
The exercise of stock options is not subject to social security contribution.
The acquisition and holding of any underlying share of securities are not subject to income tax. On the other hand, when the share is sold, the income from the disposal is subject to income tax.
(v) in connection with any loans offered to participants (either by the company operating the incentive plan, the employer of the participant (if different) or a third party) as part of the incentive plan.
There is no special taxation system for borrowing related to stock options.
If the employee’s stock ownership plan uses a partnership, the partnership itself is not subject to taxation. Income tax will be imposed directly to the individual who is a member of the partnership in the event of disposal of the acquired stock.
With regard to an ESOP, the Japanese National Tax Agency (“NTA”) has published their answer regarding its taxation. The fact is that the ESOP trust acquires all the shares that the Employee Shareholding Partnership is planning to acquire in the future, sells it to the Employee Shareholding Partnership on a regular basis, profits from the sale of the stock and distributes it to the employees after the trust period expires. NTA understands that the payment of dividends to employees under this plan is subject to income tax.
In relation to the payment of a bonus, the payment is deductible. On the other hand, if the bonus is paid to an officer, in principle, the payment is not deductible in order to prevent the officer from manipulating the amount of the company’s income. The companies are required to withhold tax and social security contributions from the payment of bonuses.
In addition, if a company adopts the profit sharing plan mentioned above, the company also is required to withhold tax and social security contributions from the payment made under the profit sharing plan.
The acquisition and holding of any underlying shares of securities are not deductible. On the other hand, when shares are sold, the acquisition cost is deductible.
When the employer is a public company (i.e., a company whose shares are transferrable without restriction), a summary of stock options allocated to officers is required to be disclosed in the business report, a mandatory document under the Companies Act and where the general business activities of the company are reported to the shareholders.
In the case of listed companies, under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (which is a securities law in Japan), information regarding stock options shall be disclosed in a security report, a mandatory document for such companies in which certain facts and data of annual business performance are disclosed, mainly for the investor’s analysis. In practice, the listed companies disclose the same information required to be disclosed in the business report (i.e., summary of stock options allocated to officers) to simplify the process. Information regarding an ESOP and/or shareholding membership needs to be disclosed in the security report as well.
the total value of the share options is more than JPY 10 million but less than 100 million.
the total value of the share option is JPY 100 million or more.
Participants in incentive plans do not have any right to compensation for loss of their awards when their employment is terminated. Far from it, companies may stipulate that employment termination is a condition of forfeiture of the incentive plan’s rights. In this sense, it is difficult to see a right of employees in a common incentive plan as a definite legal right in Japan since right in a common incentive plan involves conditions to vest and/or exercise and rely upon the discretion of the company.
When an incentive plan takes into account personal data such as individual performance review, such data should be protected by law, the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), under which a company may not disclose such data without the consent of that person.
There are no guidelines applicable to the operation of incentive plans.
As described in 9 above, there is a disclosure requirement under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (which is the primary securities law in Japan) regarding incentive plans.
Further, in principle, when an ESOP is structured as a trust scheme using a share purchase partnership, the trust acquires the shares in order to sell the same to the partnership. Under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, in principle, such acquisition could fall under the transactions requiring a license to be implemented. However, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act exempts an ESOP from the requirement of registration as a financial instruments business operator under certain conditions.
There are no specialist regulatory regimes applicable to incentive plans. The operation of incentive plans is regulated by internal policies which are stipulated by individual corporations and they normally take into account the qualification of specialist as a positive criterion; e.g., obtaining the qualification of CPA affects the benefits in incentive plans but there is no regulation on the operation of incentive plan arising from a specialist regulatory regime.
When a Japanese resident (i.e., Japanese employee) makes a payment to a non-resident outside of Japan (i.e., foreign parent company of an employer) in an amount exceeding JPY 30 million (or its foreign currency equivalent) in a single transaction, such transaction may have to be reported to the Bank of Japan after the transaction has been concluded.
There is not a particular formal process for granting awards under an incentive plan. It is common to define the process for granting awards in the company’s internal policy or rules of employment which is normally a part of the employees’ annual evaluation.
Yes. Overseas corporations are able to implement various incentive plans for employees of their Japanese subsidiaries or affiliates with reasonable flexibility. However, it is important to note that (i) the Japanese Companies Law does not apply to incentive plans implemented by a foreign parent company; and (2) the Japanese Labor Standards Act and other labor related laws and regulations may not apply to incentive plans implemented by a foreign parent company provided that such plans are kept separate from the employment contract and work rules. As result, the majority of overseas corporations holding Japanese subsidiaries offer incentive plans operated by the mother company, which is an overseas corporation, in the same manner of the original plan abroad.
Yes. Overseas employee can participate in incentive plans referred to herein. Practically speaking, however, Japanese companies tend to construct incentive plans for domestic use. Therefore, there are a limited number of companies that provide an incentive plain at the global level.
There are two categories of individual taxpayers under the Japanese income tax law; resident and non-resident. A resident means an individual who has continuously lived in Japan for 1 year or more. A non-resident means an individual other than a resident.
“An internationally mobile employee” may be a non-resident, because she/he usually has not resided in Japan for a continuous period of 1 year or more. Thus, the issue in this question is taxation on non-resident.
Japanese source income of non-residents is taxed. In other words, income corresponding to work in Japan is subject to Japanese taxation.
There have been no major trends over the last 12 months. METI has been encouraging Japanese companies to introduce incentive plans to board members’ compensation by publicizing a report titled “Guidebook for Introducing Incentive Plans as Board Members’ Compensation to Encourage Companies to Promote Proactive Business Management”. The amendments to the Corporate Tax Act in 2016 and 2017 relate to the implementation of incentive plans to directors and high management-level employees such as stock-based compensation and performance-based compensation.
Recently, Japanese government has shown proactive behavior to strengthen corporate governance. In 2018, the Corporate Governance Code issued by Japan Exchange Group (self-regulatory organization) was revised and the requirements related to the transparency of holders of shares were increased. Furthermore, due to reform of the tax law in 2017, a tax privilege can be granted to the remuneration of officers when the calculation is linked to the company’s performance. Given these trends, it is likely that the companies will consider more seriously the implementation of incentive plans, including the granting of stock to employees and/or officers. | 2019-04-26T00:18:59Z | http://www.inhouselawyer.co.uk/practice-areas/employee-incentives/japan-employee-incentives/ |
On the heels of a corporate restructuring, a manufacturing subsidiary realized they needed to simplify and consolidate information access across their complex global environment. Multiple high priority Business Intelligence initiatives rose to the surface. SDLC Partners was there to help them design and create an environment that would get them closer to accomplishing their strategic objectives.
The Business Intelligence Practice of SDLC Partners managed the primary tasks related to the upgrade to Cognos 8. The team also spearheaded the activities necessary for Installed Base Reporting including functional and technical design, cube and report development, as well as testing. Subsequent phases of the project entailed collaboration with the client to create a prototype that reflected future state data mart design. Key sales measures were identified, as well as the appropriate dimensions for analysis, via sessions among both business and technical stakeholders. This phase concluded with a comprehensive deliverable outlining the data mart implementation recommendations and detailed project plan. Moving forward, SDLC intends to put forth a working data model for structured reporting that will utilize BI best practices empowering the client to quickly comprehend and interpret dashboard functionality, multi-dimensional reporting, drill through capability, and ad hoc reporting. Arming the client with this range of reporting capabilities will pave the way for them to further explore the trends, correlations, and root causes behind sales performance.
Not only is key data prominently displayed in a personalized dashboard, but the client now has a single solution for all enterprise reporting and executive analysis. With the ability to create simple or complex report layouts, executives can examine key sales drivers and benchmarks, enabling this organization to assess performance and trends at a glance. The Cognos Business Intelligence tool suite has become a potent weapon, providing the competitive edge this client needs to survive and prosper. | 2019-04-20T09:03:47Z | https://sdlcpartners.com/case-study/harnessing-the-power-of-business-intelligence-for-a-manufacturing-giant/ |
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To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustainable manner. Research on and funding towards sustainability and resilience are growing rapidly, and significant research is being carried out at a number of institutions and centers worldwide. This handbook brings together current research on sustainable and resilient infrastructure and, in particular, stresses the fundamental nexus between sustainability and resilience. It aims to coalesce work from a large and diverse group of contributors across a wide range of disciplines including engineering, technology and informatics, urban planning, public policy, economics, and finance. Not only does it present a theoretical formulation of sustainability and resilience but it also demonstrates how these ideals can be realized in practice. This work will provide a reference text to students and scholars of a number of disciplines.
This book focuses on the principles and the state-of-the-art of metaheuristic methods for engineering optimization. This book shows how metaheuristics can be used to solve complex problems of engineering. The book is intended to present the main metaheuristics and approximate and stochastic methods for optimization of complex systems in Engineering Sciences. With its wide-range of everyday problems and solutions, this book can serve as a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheuristics, optimization in civil engineering and computational intelligence.
Over the last years a number of researches have been done dealing with the achievements in these areas of fundamental sciences and their application in civil engineering as well as in building and construction. This book discusses the importance of civil engineering in the history of civilization, explores problems civil engineers face each day, and outlines some modern accomplishments in the field. A useful reference tool for students, professionals, and researchers working on sustainability related problems in civil engineering.
The purpose of this book is to present a state-of-the art review of the computational research performed in the field of earthquake engineering of bridges during the past decade. The focus of the book is on bridge structures and computational modeling as opposed to bridge components. This valuable reference can be very appropriate and useful for all professors, researchers, engineers, practicing professionals, trainee practitioners, students and others who are concerned in the bridge projects.
Construction Robotics examines various aspects of Construction Robotics including an extensive historical overview of Construction Robotics and related issues. It includes The Basics of Construction Industry, History of Robotics in Construction, Economic Consideration of Robotic Implementation. Provides the reader with insights into the development of its development, so as to understand the rise of construction robotics in the industry and the crucial role they play in speed, accuracy and safety, when it comes to design complicated structures.
A comprehensive information guide on fast-developing field of structural analysis in concrete; this book discusses causes of concrete cracking, including tensile strength of concrete, temperature, shrinkage and creep effects. This book also investigates the application of distributed optical fiber strain sensors to civil engineering structures, because no other tool can satisfactorily detect the location of the unpredictable phenomenon. This book will be of valued to professional civil and structural engineers as well as researchers in civil and structural engineering and related disciplines.
Today, long span suspension bridges, cable stayed bridges, truss girder and composite bridges figure among the high points of bridge construction. This book focuses on current and future trends in bridge design, construction and maintenance, in conjunction with a team of world-renowned bridge engineers, practitioners and international organisations. This book will be of interest to geotechnical, bridge construction, and maintenance engineers and others interested in design, construction, and maintenance of embankment approaches to bridge abutments.
A plethora of intelligent components and products that have been introduced and made available in the building industry over the last few years, are a testimony to the same. Buildings of the future have to take into account the challenges and the opportunities brought about by technological, environmental and societal changes. The emphasis of this book lies in the analysis of intelligent buildings against the principles of total sustainability to reveal their benefits and limitations. Smart applications of the Internet of Things are improving the performance of buildings, reducing energy demand. The book covers the costs and benefits of smart buildings, and the basic design foundations, technology systems, and management systems encompassed within a smart building.
Dealing with practical applications in the civil and environmental engineering, this book deals the methods as well as problems with emphasis on applications to Civil Engineering topics. This book summarizes recently developed methods and theories in the developing direction for applications of artificial intelligence in civil engineering, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, expert system, reasoning, classification, and learning, as well as others like chaos theory, cuckoo search, firefly algorithm, knowledge-based engineering, and simulated annealing.
Construction projects are facing a number of risks which have negative effects on project objects such as time, cost and quality. Risk management is an important field of construction industry and has gained more importance internationally due to the latest researches carried out on a large scale. This book tends towards reviewing the existing literature on construction project risk managements. This guide for construction managers, project managers and quantity surveyors as well as for students and practitioners shows how the risk management process improves decision-making.
Discusses the importance of civil engineering in the history of civilization, explores problems civil engineers face each day, and outlines some modern accomplishments in the field. Designed to enrich the preliminary conceptual knowledge about civil engineering to the students of non-civil branches of engineering.
Geoengineering is the deliberate manipulation of the environment in an attempt to counteract the harmful effects of human-influenced climate change. This book covers activities specifically and deliberately designed to effect a change in the global climate with the aim of minimizing or reversing anthropogenic climate change.
This handy book guides you on plumbing and heating - whether unblocking a WC, repairing a burst pipe or changing a central heating pump. Presents a clear and concise coverage on plumbing essentials, illustrations, tips, shortcuts - the lowdown on brazing, soldering, pipe fittings, commercial water coolers, automatic bathroom systems, and more.
Filled with illustrations and practical “punch-list” summaries, this career-building guide provides an introduction to the practice of masonry, including lots of detailed advice. This text is an ideal resource for anyone seeking the specialized knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the masonry industry, covering every aspect of home repair and construction covers concrete and masonry work, bricklaying, framing foundations and walls, plastering, painting, woodworking, and more.
The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "modernity" has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives. In doing so, this volume presents theories and methods for understanding space and gender as they relate to the development of cities, urban space and individual building types (such as housing, work spaces or commercial spaces) in both the creation of and resistance to social transformations and modern global capitalism. The book contains a diverse range of case studies from the US, Europe, the UK, and Asian countries such as China and India, which bring together a multiplicity of approaches to a continuing and common issue and reinforces the need for alternatives to the existing theoretical canon.
SF01-476 Structures and Infrastructure Systems: Life-Cycle Performance, Management, and Optimization.
The biggest problem for a shallow foundation, just as for any other type of foundation, is a failure due to an overestimation of the bearing capacity. This means that the correct prediction of the bearing capacity of the foundation is often the most important part of the design of a civil structure. That is why the publication by Prandtl in 1920 about the hardness of a plastic body, was a major step in solving the bearing capacity of shallow foundations, although it is well possible that he never realised this, because his solution was not made for civil engineering purposes, but for mechanical purposes.
SF01-473 Design for Maintainability: Benchmarks for Quality Buildings.
SF01-472 Illustrated Dictionary of Building & Construction.
SF01-472 Illustrated Dictionary of Civil Engineering.
SF01-470 Geomechanics and Soil Engineering.
Subsurface contamination of soils and groundwater is an area of growing concern in our society. This literature presents the comprehensive coverage in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering range from studies of the basic physics and chemistry of soil behavior to applied field problems. The Book addresses the modeling of geomechanical effects induced by reservoir production and their influence on fluid flow in the reservoir.
SF01-470 Modern Trends in Environmental Geomechanics.
Geomechanics has proven to be the backbone of safe and cost effective mining practice. The last 20 years have seen wide application of fracture mechanics to geotechnical and geomechanical problems. This book covers a broad class of problems where deforming geomaterials are involved, usually coupled with fluid flow and transport of some substance. All these aspects are addressed in this book together with a theoretical framework. This work is intended for educators, industry and practicing engineers what it takes to be a good rock engineer and the real benefits of the subject for the good of society.
This book presents an overview of the different aspects of resource and material efficiency in building construction. It provides essential information that will help improve efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in world markets. It includes original research, state-of-the-art review articles, discussion papers, innovative industrial application, insightful case studies, and reviews from experts in the field of building construction and planning. It is vital reading for all professionals and academics involved with research into, or specification of, building materials.
SF01-470 Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics.
The design of structures resistant to seismic events is an important field in the structural engineering, because it reduces both the loss of lives and the economic damages that earthquakes can produce. The different perspectives present in the book span from statistical seismology studies, the latest techniques and advances on earthquake precursors and forecasting, as well as, new methods for early detection, data acquisition and interpretation. This Book will be of interest to civil and structural engineers and students with an understanding of the dynamic response of structures to earthquakes and the common analysis techniques employed to evaluate these responses. It will be of great need for practitioners and researchers also.
SF01-470 Earthquake Resistant Design and Risk Reduction.
The number of human and economic assets at risk is growing as megacities and urban areas develop all over the world. The book covers seismic-resistance design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures to be constructed as well as safety assessment, strengthening and rehabilitation of existing structures against earthquake loads. This book will be of invaluable reference and guiding tool to practicing civil and structural engineers and architects, researchers and postgraduate students in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, local governments and risk management officials.
SF01-470 Handbook of Modern Earth Buildings.
The construction industry is one of the largest sectors in most economies, accounting for a considerable percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employing a sizeable percent of total labor force. For the economy to perform, it is important that construction-related activities are delivered to a high standard, with state-of-the-art technology, materials and techniques. This book presents an essential investigation of the materials and techniques essential to the design, development and construction of modern earth buildings. The construction of earth buildings has been taking place worldwide for centuries.
SF01-470 Theory, Practice and Techniques in Construction Management.
Provides a comprehensive understanding of when, where, and how to use the most effective project management resources. This comprehensive book's logical, well-structured format follows the natural sequence of a construction project. Looks at management principles and techniques applied to the day-to-day problems facing a business in the construction industry.
Covers current developments advancing concrete technologies through coverage of new theories, models, and testing techniques. Illustrates the basics of concrete-microwave field interactions; microwave-assisted concrete technologies for use in the production, demolition, and recycling of concrete as well as the control mechanisms. Presenting the latest advances in the science of concrete this book focuses particularly on sustainability, durability, and economy.
Aims to provide current practice and equipment for students or non-specialist surveyors in the various professions involved in the construction industry and the environment. Examines the major changes in the technology now used for the measurement and processing of topographic and non-topographic spatial data, with emphasis on the new and emerging technology and its applications. Readers will acquire an understanding of the skills and competencies required by the contractor's quantity surveyor.
Covers the fundamentals of drawing and continuing with draughting practice and conventions, this text emphasizes detailing, rather than the calculations or design of the components. This book brings together a range of topics which focus on the role of design in engineering. This book has been designed to meet the needs of the students in a simpler manner. Every topic has been dealt carefully with necessary explanation and presentation.
SF01-470 Theory, Practice and Techniques in Civil Engineering.
Discusses the importance of civil engineering in the history of civilization, explores problems civil engineers face each day, and outlines some modern undertakings in the field. Aims to recognize and embrace the growing interconnectedness of the global infrastructure, economy, society, and the need to work for more sustainable, life-cycle-oriented approaches.
This updated edition will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working in construction sector to interpret and convey information in response to workplace requirement. Covers complete information that a person must achieve and that will enable him / her to prepare tools, painting materials and equipment; prepare surfaces (wood, concrete and metal) for painting and erect scaffolds and platforms; and perform painting work.
This updated edition consists of aptitudes to perform construction of brick and concrete block structure, installation of pre-cast balluster/handrail and plastering of concrete wall surface. Covers the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to gather, interpret and convey information in response to workplace requirements. A valuable tool competent to be a Mason.
SF01-466 New Financial Strategies for Sustainable Buildings: Practical Guidance for Built Environment Professionals.
SF01-466 Inverse Design Methods for the Built Environment.
Le Corbusier (1887-1965), born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), is considered by many to be the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Educated in his hometown in the Arts and Crafts tradition under his mentor Charles L’Eplattenier, his early training included important travels and periods of work in the offices of the Perret Brothers (Paris) and Peter Behrens (Berlin). He settled permanently in Paris in 1917, after which he encountered the modernist painter Amedee Ozenfant who would have a significant influence on his work; together they established Purism and the L’Esprit Nouveau journal. During this period he also took the name Le Corbusier derived from the name of a relative. The 1920s saw Le Corbusier emerge as one of the leading modern architects internationally with his designs for a series of villas and projects for the modern city. His ‘white’ architecture of this period was inspired by modern machines, including early aircraft, automobiles, and ocean liners, along with an abiding interest in architectural history. Many of his ideas were captured in two important publications: Vers une architecture (1923) and Urbanisme (1925). In the early 1930s he sought larger commissions internationally and his architecture evolved away from the Purist work of the 1920s with the adoption of vernacular elements. This four-volume collection of writings on the career and legacy of Le Corbusier traces the various periods of his life from his early training to his final projects. The writings, by Le Corbusier and leading scholars, also explore important themes and specific buildings. The final volume includes articles, some critical of his ideas, which examine his legacy and impact.
SF01-479 Social Media and Internet for Home Builders.
SF01-472 Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment.
SF01-466 Management of Construction Projects: A Constructor's Perspective.
SF01-466 Fundamentals of Sustainability in Civil Engineering.
SF01-463 An Introduction to Civil Engineering.
SF01-463 Illustrated Handbook of Geotechnical Engineering.
Geotechnical engineering is an important field of engineering that is concerned with behavior of earth materials. Some of the important tasks of geotechnical engineering are designing of foundations for structures, embankments, storage systems for hazardous materials, and lessening soil erosion. This knowledge is applied to the design of foundations, retaining walls, earth dams, clay liners, and geosynthetics for waste containment. The goals of geotechnical engineers could range from the design of foundations and temporary excavation support, through route selection for railways and highways, to the increasingly important areas of landfill disposal of wastes and groundwater contamination. This handbook deals with the fundamentals and general principles of geotechnical engineering, this text also provides essential information related to the evaluation of engineering properties of soils, design of foundations such as spread footings, mat foundations, piles, and drilled shafts.
SF01-463 Illustrated Handbook of Civil Engineering.
This comprehensive handbook provides a basis for the practicing engineer to design concrete structures which avoid the problem using modern concepts and specifications. Civil engineering has a great importance as without this branch of engineering roads, buildings, canals, dams cannot be made as it is work of a civil engineer. Civil engineers are becoming more and more important with time. Now, they are also responsible for looking after the fire control systems and installing quick fire exit points in the buildings they design. This will help in minimizing the loss of life during fire accidents. Civil engineering is one of the oldest of the engineering professions. Ancient feats such as the building of the Egyptian pyramids and Roman road systems are based on civil engineering principles. Another very important aspect of civil engineering is environmental engineering.
Irrigation is the practice of arti cially applying water to otherwise dry land during summer. Gardeners use hoses and sprinklers to water owerbeds, vegetable gardens and lawns. This is irrigation at its most basic. Large scale irrigation is where market gardeners, farmers, orchardists and grape growers apply water at critical times to assist plant growth and therefore produce quality crops. Irrigation water can come from nearby rivers or under-ground water (groundwater) or storage ponds speci cally designed to collect high river ows during winter. Pipes, channels and wells dug into the ground allow water to be taken from its source to the farms, vineyards and orchards where it will be used. Today a diverse range of ever-evolving technologies exist to e ciently apply irrigation water to crops. How much water is used depends on the type of crop, the soil in which the crop is being grown and the amount of rainfall in that area. Hydraulic design involves the application of ow theory to the design of various water containment and control structures. The designer should ensure that the structure and the systems will function e ectively and economically under all foreseeable service conditions. Hydraulic structures must be capable of withstanding ow conditions and forces caused by both static and owing water loading. They must be so designed as to last over their design life span and be resistant to deterioration, aging, and extemporaneous forces due to weather extremes and earthquakes. In designing a hydraulic structure, the designer chooses from many options available, and from past experience, that particular design believed to be the most cost-e ective, functional, and safe.
Hydraulics engineering is a eld within the civil engineering discipline that addresses the control and management of water resources Hydraulic engineering is the Science of water in motion and its interactions with the surrounding environment. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to cause the movement of the uids. Hydraulic engineering consists of the application of uid mechanics to water owing in an isolated environment (pipe, pump) or in an open channel (river, lake, ocean). Civil engineers are primarily concerned with open channel ow, which is governed by the interdependent interaction between the water and the channel. Applications include the design of hydraulic structures, such as sewage conduits, dams and breakwaters, the management of waterways, such as erosion protection and ood protection, and environmental management, such as prediction of the mixing and transport of pollutants in surface water.
SF01-460 Principles and Practices of Geoenvironmental Mapping.
This book illustrates the range of environmental geoscience mapping presently carried out around the world. It presents a number of sub disciplinary and thematic topics including volcanic hazards, landslides, dolines, tsunamis, radon potential, medical geology, rainfall erosion, engineering geology, borehole stratigraphy, lake sediment geochemistry, aggregate resources and remote sensing.
SF01-460 Organic Materials for Civil Engineering.
Organic materials are substances in the soil that were once alive. Dead plants, animals, bacteria and fungi are all examples of organic material. This book provides a substantial and detailed overview of traditional materials used in structures and civil infrastructure. The book discusses properties of organic materials in construction and materials? manufacturing.
SF01-460 Measurement in Science and Civil Engineering.
Testing and measuring of certain desired parameters have taken place in the field of civil engineering in the latest century. Up-to-date reference set on engineering measurements covering all major engineering disciplines, Measurement in Science and Civil Engineering provides a multidisciplinary resource of engineering measurement theory, necessary tools, techniques of measurement and analysis, and applications.
SF01-460 Civil Engineering Problems and Solutions.
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Civil engineering is arguably the oldest engineering discipline. It deals with the built environment and can be dated to the first time someone placed a roof over his or her head or laid a tree trunk across a river to make it easier to get across. This guide provides an opportunity to practical approaches on solving problems that mirror the scope and difficulty of the Civil Engineering.
SF01-460 Geology for Civil Engineer.
Geology is the study of the Earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials, and the processes acting upon them. It includes the study of organisms that have inhabited our planet. An important part of geology is the study of how Earth?s materials, structures, processes and organisms have changed over time. This book introduces researches about geology valuable for both researchers and civil engineering students also.
SF01-460 Foundations and Retaining Structures.
Foundations and Retaining Structures provides a framework for students to carry out simple foundation design and appreciate the design process. This book offers a systematic treatment of the analysis and design of foundations and retaining structures subjected to dynamic loads. A foundation is the element of an architectural structure which connects it to the ground, and transfers loads from the structure to the ground.
SF01-460 Robotics in Civil Engineering.
Robots have been investigated for automation of construction, maintenance, and inspection of civil works since the early 1980s. This book presents research in construction robot which are more flexible, adjustable, and able to cope with constantly changing construction environments. It focuses on the environment and motivation for implementation of robotics, identifies key centers of development, identifies regional differences, and describes progress in key areas. It also traces the emergence and change of development strategies over time, it identifies practical achievements, and it identifies key developments for the future. Research and development in construction robots is intended to extend present capabilities of conventional equipment to an integrated and fully automated system.
SF01-460 Advanced Building Construction and Materials Handbook.
This book is an authoritative reference for all students and professionals. The principles and processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive coverage of building construction practice and techniques, representing both traditional procedures and modern developments, are also included to provide the most comprehensive and easy to understand guide to building construction.
SF01-460 Modern Earth Building Handbook.
The construction of earth buildings has been taking place worldwide for centuries. With the improved energy efficiency, high level of structural integrity and aesthetically pleasing finishes achieved in modern earth construction, it is now one of the leading choices for sustainable, low-energy building. Modern earth buildings provides an essential exploration of the materials and techniques key to the design, development and construction of such buildings. Modern earth buildings is a key reference work for all low-impact building engineers, architects and designers, along with academics in this field.
SF01-460 Handbook of Engineering Hydrology.
Hydrological engineering, also called water resources engineering, is a civil engineering specialty offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Hydrological engineering is chiefly concerned with the flow and storage of water. This book contain information on climate change and hydrological hazards, hydrological modeling, and urban water systems, as well as climate change impacts on hydrology and water resources, climate change uncertainty.
Hydraulics is a topic in applied science and engineering dealing with the mechanical properties of liquids or fluids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid version of pneumatics. Covering all the fundamental topics in hydraulics and hydrology, this text is essential reading for undergraduate students and practising engineers around the world who want an accessible, thorough and trusted introduction to the subject.
SF01-460 Optimization in Civil Engineering.
Today?s highly capitalized societies require maximum benefit with minimum cost. In order to find a low cost design in practice, experienced engineers have traditionally used trial- and-error methods based on their intuitive engineering sense. This book intends to show a big picture how the optimization techniques can be applied to various civil engineering problems in construction and project management; structural engineering; water and environmental engineering.
VF01-34 Civil and Environmental Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 3-Vols/Set.
VF01-33 Handbook of Research on Advanced Computational Techniques for Simulation-Based Engineering.
SF01-459 Engineering Rock Mass Classification: Tunnelling, Foundations and Landslides.
This book consists of competencies that a person must achieve that will enable him/her to perform fabrication, installation and stripping of formworks, its components and supports.
The information in This book consists of competencies that a person must achieve and that will enable him / her to install architectural ceiling, wall sheats / panels / boards and floor finishes; fabricate door / window jambs and panels; install stair components or pre-fabricated stairs assembly; and install built-in or pre-fabricated cabinets.
The information in this book consists of basic to core competencies that a person must achieve and that will enable him / her to prepare tools, painting materials and equipment; prepare surfaces (wood, concrete and metal) for painting and erect scaffolds and platforms; and perform painting work.
The information in this book consists of basic to core competencies that a person must achieve and that will enable him / her to erect scaffolds and platforms, estimate paint requirement, prepares concrete, wooden and steel surfaces for re-painting and / or re-touching work and perform re-painting / re-touching works.
This book consists of competencies that a person must achieve to enable him/her to prepare surface for final coating, apply final coating using spray gun system and perform basic preventive maintenance servicing for spray gun equipment and booth.
The information in this book covers basic to core competencies that a person must achieve that will enable him/her to prepare masonry materials and perform basic masonry works.
The information in this book covers basic to core competencies that a person must achieve that will enable him/her to perform construction of brick and concrete block structure, installation of pre-cast balluster/handrail and plastering of concrete wall surface.
The information in this book covers basic to core competencies that a person must achieve and that will enable him / her to lay bricks / blocks for structure, plaster concrete masonry / concrete surface, install pre-cast baluster and handrail, apply special cement finishes to concrete and masonry surfaces and repair defective concrete and masonry surfaces.
The information in this book covers basic to core competencies that individuals must achieve to enable them to fabricate and install RSB materials in high rise and infrastructure projects.
Rigging: Beginner comprehends various diverse practical and visual skills with knowledge of specialized materials and techniques. Rigging is the action of designing and installing the equipment, in the preparation to move objects. A team of riggers design and install the lifting or rolling equipment needed to raise, roll, slide or lift objects such as with a crane or block and tackle. This book will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working in construction industry to interpret and convey information in response to workplace requirements.
Scaffold Erection: Intermediate combines many different practical and visual skills with knowledge of specialized materials and techniques. Scaffolding is often a necessary part of building and home maintenance. Set up scaffolding properly to make sure you and anyone else using the equipment stay safe. This book will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working in construction industry.
Structural Erection: Intermediate deals with numerous diverse practical and visual skills with knowledge of specialized materials and techniques. The erection of structural steelwork consists of the assembly of steel components into a frame on site. The processes involve lifting and placing components into position, then connecting them together. Generally this is achieved through bolting but sometimes site welding is used. The assembled frame needs to be aligned before bolting up is completed, and the structure handed over to the principal contractor. This book will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working in any construction industry.
System Formwork Installation: Intermediate comprehends various diverse practical and visual skills with knowledge of specialized materials and techniques. Formwork is the addition of base materials and concrete contained within retaining walls to use as a slab for construction of homes, businesses, and other buildings. This book will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working in formwork industry to interpret and convey information in response to workplace requirements.
Tile Setting: Intermediate combines many different practical and visual skills with knowledge of specialized materials and techniques. A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops. Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from lightweight materials such as perlite, wood, and mineral wool, typically used for wall and ceiling applications. This book will introduce the knowledge and skills for those studying and/or working in tile setting.
Engineering geology is the application of the geological sciences to engineering study for the purpose of assuring that the geological factors regarding the location, design, construction, operation and maintenance of engineering works are recognized and accounted for. Engineering geology studies may be performed during the planning, environmental impact analysis, civil or structural engineering design, value engineering and construction phases of public and private works projects, and during post-construction and forensic phases of projects. This book covers the fields of the earth sciences and engineering, particularly geological and geotechnical engineering. The focus of the book is on geological or engineering studies that are of interest to engineering geologists.
SF01-456 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering & Seismology.
Earthquake Engineering can be defined as the branch of engineering devoted to mitigating earthquake hazards, it covers the investigation and solution of the problems created by damaging earthquakes, and consequently the work involved in the practical application of these solutions. The main aim of this book is a collection of data which is useful in understanding the state-of-art technology and its application to new topics.
SF01-456 Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering.
Soil mechanics is used to analyze the deformations of and flow of fluids within natural and manmade structures that are supported on or made of soil, or structures that are buried in soils. This book discusses about the fundamental principle and foundation application of soil mechanics is needed to predict the behavior and performance of soil as a construction materials or as a supporting medium for engineering structure.
SF01-456 Mechanics & Characteristics of Soil.
Soil mechanics is a branch of engineering mechanics that describes the behavior of soils and differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics in the sense that soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of fluids and particles but soil may also contain organic solids, liquids, and gasses and other matter. This book involves the study of soil mechanics formation by weathering and its transportation characteristics by wind and water. Whereas the formation process determines many of the physical properties of soil, such as structure, composition and relative density.
VSF01-001 Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook.
This valuable work consists of 24 chapters in four sections covering: •Design and construction of various lifeline facilities •Maintenance •Disaster management •Environmental protection •Disaster and emergency recovery measures •Urban planning •Life cycle costing •GIS analysis of lifeline systems •Computerized integrated management systems •New materials and technologies The Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook comprehensively describes common issues of lifeline systems, and provides practical information to engineers and industry professionals involved in the planning, construction, and maintenance of lifeline systems.
VSF01-001 Geometric Design of Roads Handbook.
Explore the Art and Science of Geometric Design The Geometric Design of Roads Handbook covers the design of the visible elements of the road—its horizontal and vertical alignments, the cross-section, intersections, and interchanges. Good practice allows the smooth and safe flow of traffic as well as easy maintenance. Geometric design is covered in depth. The book also addresses the underpinning disciplines of statistics, traffic flow theory, economic and utility analysis, systems analysis, hydraulics and drainage, capacity analysis, coordinate calculation, environmental issues, and public transport. Background Material for the Practicing Designer A key principle is recognizing what the driver wishes to do rather than what the vehicle can do. The book takes a human factors approach to design, drawing on the concept of the "self-explaining road." It also emphasizes the need for consistency of design and shows how this can be quantified, and sets out the issues of the design domain context, the extended design domain concept, and the design exception. The book is not simply an engineering manual, but properly explores context-sensitive design. Discover and Develop Real-World Solutions Changes in geometric design over the last few years have been dramatic and far-reaching and this is the first book to draw these together into a practical guide which presents a proper and overriding philosophy of design for road and highway designers, and students.
VSF01-001 Spon's Asia Pacific Construction Costs Handbook.
Highlights the Economies and Construction Industries of the Asia-Pacific Region Spon’s Asia-Pacific Construction Costs Handbook: Fifth Edition provides overarching construction cost data for 16 countries: • Brunei • Cambodia • China • Hong Kong • India • Indonesia • Japan • Malaysia • Myanmar • Philippines • Singapore • South Korea • Sri Lanka • Taiwan • Thailand • Vietnam Provides an Introduction to each Country and its Construction Industry It contains a regional overview of the construction industry in the Asia-Pacific region as well as broad and macroeconomic data on key national indicators, construction output indicators, and general construction cost data. In the last few years, the global economic outlook has continued to be shrouded in uncertainty and volatility following the financial crisis in the Euro zone. The world economic landscape and tendering climate have also changed. Updated information is therefore important and even crucial. While the US and Europe are going through a difficult period, investors are focusing more keenly on Asia. Utilizing information compiled from a variety of individuals, organizations, and publications, Spon’s Asia-Pacific Construction Costs Handbook: Fifth Edition outlines the development, property, and construction in a specific country or region. A resource for clients, consultants, contractors, and the manufacturers of construction materials and equipment, this ideal reference breaks down information using national, economic and construction indicators, industry structure, regulations and standards, tendering and contract procedures, labor and material costs, exchange and inflation rates, and more.
VF01-32 Emerging Design Solutions in Structural Health Monitoring Systems.
VF01-29 Handbook of Research on Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Historic Structures, 2-Vols/Set.
VF01-28 Technology and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering.
VF01-25 Fracture and Damage Mechanics for Structural Engineering of Frames: State-of-the-Art Industrial Applications.
SF01-457 From Fundamentals to Applications in Geotechnics, 3-Vols/Set.
The work of geotechnical engineers contributes to the creation of safe, economic and pleasant spaces to live, work and relax all over the world. Advances are constantly being made, and the expertise of the profession becomes ever more important with the increased pressure on space and resources. This book presents the proceedings of the 15th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XV PCSMGE), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November 2015. This conference, held every four years, is an important opportunity for international experts, researchers, academics, professionals and geo-engineering companies to meet and exchange ideas and research findings in the areas of soil mechanics, rock mechanics, and their applications in civil, mining and environmental engineering. The articles are divided into nine sections: transportation geotechnics; in-situ testing; geo-engineering for energy and sustainability; numerical modeling in geotechnics; foundations and ground improvement; unsaturated soil behavior; embankments, dams and tailings; excavations and tunnels; and geo-risks, and cover a wide spectrum of issues from fundamentals to applications in geotechnics. This book will undoubtedly represent an essential reference for academics, researchers and practitioners in the field of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. In this proceedings, approximately 65% of the contributions are in English, and 35% of the contributions are in Spanish or Portuguese.
In November 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina became the location of several important events for geo-professionals, with the simultaneous holding of the 8th South American Congress on Rock Mechanics (SCRM), the 15th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XV PCSMGE), and the 6th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, as well as the 22nd Argentinean Congress of Geotechnical Engineering (CAMSIGXXII). This synergy brought together international experts, researchers, academics, professionals and geo-engineering companies in a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss current and future practices in the areas of soil mechanics and rock mechanics, and their applications in civil, energy, environmental, and mining engineering. This book presents the proceedings of the 8th South American Congress on Rock Mechanics (SCRM). Topics covered include rock mechanics, rock engineering, natural resources, mining, mechanics, geology and engineering. Approximately 60% of the contributions are in English, and the remaining 40% of the contributions are in either Spanish or Portuguese.
VSF01-001 Bridge Engineering Handbook, 5-Vols/Set.
Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection provides detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subject, and also highlights bridges from around the world. Published in five books: Fundamentals, Superstructure Design, Substructure Design, Seismic Design, and Construction and Maintenance, this new edition provides numerous worked-out examples that give readers step-by-step design procedures, includes contributions by leading experts from around the world in their respective areas of bridge engineering, contains 26 completely new chapters, and updates most other chapters. It offers design concepts, specifications, and practice, and presents various types of bridges. The text includes over 2,500 tables, charts, illustrations, and photos. The book covers new, innovative and traditional methods and practices; explores rehabilitation, retrofit, and maintenance; and examines seismic design and building materials. This text is an ideal reference for practicing bridge engineers and consultants (design, construction, maintenance), and can also be used as a reference for students in bridge engineering courses.
VF01-24 Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories.
The ‘fit for purpose’ of the built environment has been a focus of attention since classical times, both in the West and in the East. However, an explicit focus on ‘sustainable buildings’ is relatively new. The last two decades in particular have seen an explosion of published material on the design, construction and assessment of buildings purported to be ‘sustainable.’ Many governments and owners of buildings now routinely require their buildings be ‘sustainable’ and are certified to be so. In the case of sustainability certification, the recent growth in tools, techniques and assessment systems is phenomenal: even as early as 2005 there were over 600 such tools in different parts of the world! New ones sprout all the time and design guides attempt a losing battle to keep pace. This new title in Routledge's Major Works series brings together authoritative canonical and cutting edge reference work to establish a framework for easy comprehension of the vast and continually expanding subject matter. It is a four-volume reference work and an indispensable research tool for all interested researchers, students, building owners and policy-makers to gain a thorough understanding of the field. It showcases a variety of approaches to sustainable buildings from around the world and links these to on-site construction practices and assessment. Comprehensive introductions to each volume place the collected material in its historical, intellectual, and global practice context.
The evolution of the construction industry is closely linked with the introduction and evolution of information technologies. Today, collaboration, distributed document management, and instant communications are joining classic scheduling and estimating applications as the standard tools employed by construction professionals. However, the next generation of information technology applications is already having an impact; the emerging fields of visualization, Building Information Modeling and construction simulation are being applied to projects and demonstrating initial opportunities. This reference set provides a comprehensive perspective on the role of information technologies in the construction industry. Beginning with the seminal works on computerizing scheduling operations, these volumes provide both a breadth of representations of construction technologies as well as depth of understanding in each area. They focus on: 1) traditional applications including scheduling, estimating, and operations simulation; 2) second generation applications including collaboration and document management applications; and 3) next generation technologies including 4-D simulation, virtual worlds, and safety modeling. Within each of these focal points, the volumes provide the reader with a cross-section of papers that introduce both the theory and the application of the technologies. The collection is introduced by the Editor to provide the context of the industry as a basis for Construction Technology emergence and each volume has its own short introduction. These volumes present a comprehensive review of the role of technology in responding to the continuous changing environment of the construction industry.
SF01-437 Self-Sensing Concrete in Smart Structures.
VF01-23 Computer-Mediated Briefing for Architects.
VF01-22 Implementing IT Business Strategy in the Construction Industry.
SF01-461 Response Analysis of Structure Using TLC Damper.
VF01-18 Design Optimization of Active and Passive Structural Control Systems.
VF01-17 Challenging ICT Applications in Architecture, Engineering, and Industrial Design Education.
SF01-443 Green Building with Concrete: Sustainable Design and Construction.
VF01-16 Interactive Textures for Architecture and Landscaping: Digital Elements and Technologies.
SF01-416 Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes.
SF01-411 Introduction to Soft Soil Geotechnique: Content, Context and Application.
Habitable space in deltas and river basins is under increasing pressure worldwide from economic expansion, population growth and the impacts of climate change. It is expected that within 40 years, 80% of all people will live in deltaic regions. An understanding of the complex behavior of the subsoil is particularly important in these areas. Solutions must be found which draw on the potential of the coastal system and enhance safety in densely populated coastal areas whilst minimizing ecological impact. This book focuses on the behavior of soft soils, notably sand, silt, clay and peat. The first part of the book explains and summarizes fundamental aspects of the complicated multi-phase material we refer to as soil. In the second and third parts of the book this theoretical knowledge is further developed and used to analyze a large number of specific soil-related problems including slope stability, earth retaining structures, foundations, ground improvement, environmental impact, underground construction, coastal engineering and dike technology. In addition, the book deals with the issue of context - the society within which the geotechnical engineer must operate - and explores the aspects of public perception and transparency which must be addressed if the engineer is to enjoy adequate social support for his indispensable contribution. Exercise applications are also included, providing ample support for self-training and teaching.
SF01-411 Proceedings of the 15th African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
This volume contains 94 papers and 3 keynote lectures presented at the 15th African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, held in Maputo, Mozambique on 18-21 July 2011. The general theme of the conference was Resource and Infrastructure Geotechnics in Africa: Putting Theory into Practice. The papers are divided into the following sections: Dams, Environmental Engineering, Foundations, Lateral Support and Retaining Structures, Materials Testing, Roads, Site Characterisation and Slopes. This publication is of interest to academics and practitioners in the field of soil mechanics, geotechnical and ground engineering.
SF01-411 Geotechnical Engineering: New Horizons.
You'll be re-directed to the IOS Press Booksonline Platform. This book presents the proceedings of the 21st European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference, held in the Netherlands in September 2011. Six sections cover the topics of: underground construction; pile foundation and ground improvement; soil dynamics; dams, erosion and piping; deformation and soil properties and geothermics. The papers included here present the new and refreshing perspective of young engineers exploring the field of geotechnics. Geotechnical engineering aims to contribute to sustainable living and to the creation of safe, economic and pleasant spaces to live, work and relax.
SF01-411 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 3-Vols/Set.
This publication contains the papers presented at the 15th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, held in Athens, Greece. Considerable progress has been made in recent decades in understanding the engineering behavior of those hard soils and weak rocks that clearly fall into either the field of soil or of rock mechanics, and there have been important developments in design and construction methods to cope with them. Progress would be even more desirable, however, for those materials which fall into the ‘grey’ area between soils and rocks. They present particular challenges due to their diversity, the difficulties and problems arising in their identification and classification, their sampling and testing and in the establishment of suitable models to adequately describe their behavior. The publication aims to provide an updated overview of the existing worldwide knowledge of the geological features, engineering properties and behavior of such hard soils and weak rocks, with particular reference to the design and construction methods and problems associated with these materials.
SF01-403 Stakeholder-Oriented Project Management: Tools and Concepts.
Stakeholder-oriented Project Management: Tools and Concepts, is about managing construction projects that are characterized by complexity and uncertainty. The management of such unpredictable projects requires a stakeholder-oriented approach focused on the interests of all stakeholders: powerful ones and those having little influence, experts and laymen, local and foreign parties involved. The author offers best management practices, concepts and computer tools to support this approach. The book is of interest to students and lecturers in Civil Engineering and Business Administration as well as to practitioners interested in deepening their insights into these fields.
Slope Engineering for Mountain Roads.
This book gives the basic analytical framework for the description of turbulent flows and discusses various types encountered by engineers involved in hydraulic analysis and design. It also presents a detailed exposition of the various dimensions of turbulent flow. The book would be extremely useful for practicing engineers, particularly in the field of hydraulic analysis and design, building dynamics and environmental engineering.
SF01-391 Characterization and Behavior of Interfaces.
SF01-389 Working Guide to Pump and Pumping Stations: Calculations and Simulations.
SF01-388 Hydraulic Modelling-An Introduction: Principles, Methods and Applications.
VF01-15 Protection of Historical Buildings, 2-Vols/Set.
This book is a comprehensive review of recent developments in the field of the protection of relevant buildings belonging to the cultural heritage. It collects the papers presented at the first International Conference PROHITECH 09 (Rome, Italy, June 2009). The latest progress in theoretical and experimental research on the seismic protection of existing constructions, including the relevant output of the EC funded PROHITECH International Research Project on the a��?Earthquake Protection of Historical Buildings by Reversible Mixed Technologiesa��?, is presented under the following topics: Conservation of the Religious Heritage; Rehabilitation of Old Bridges; Old Timber Structures; Cultural Heritage in China, Korea and Japan; Modern Heritage; The use of FRP in Structural Restoration; Passive Control; Rehabilitation of Medinas; Monitoring and Diagnosis; Study Cases; Innovative Materials and Techniques; Numerical Analyses; Traditional Restoration Techniques; Intervention Strategies; Vulnerability to Man-Made Hazards; Vulnerability to Natural Hazards; Experimental Analyses; Reversible Mixed Techniques. The aim of the book is to transfer the findings of scientists and experts involved in research, codification and application into common practice, giving a complete framework of the most recent tendencies in this field, and so providing a valuable contribution to the efforts in saving human lives and reducing both economic and cultural losses due to catastrophic events.
VF01-14 Multi-Agent Systems for Traffic and Transportation Engineering.
Our increasing societal demand for mobility now challenges researchers to devise more efficient traffic and transportation systems. Multi-Agent Systems for Traffic and Transportation Engineering provides a unique compendium of research covering topics such as transportation system designs, control devices, and techniques to optimize existing networks. Presenting a collection of approaches to issues in traffic and transportation, this authoritative reference offers a compilation of chapters with innovative methods and systems written by leading international researchers.
VF01-13 Icons of American Architecture: From the Alamo to the World Trade Center, 2-Vols/Set.
What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and world, popular culture? Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide. Approximately twenty five images are included in the set, along with sidebars featuring additional structures. *Alamo *Alcatraz *Brooklyn Bridge *Capitol Building *East Los Angeles Freeway Interchange *Empire State Building *Fallingwater *Golden Gate Bridge *Graceland *Grand Central Terminal *Hoover Dam *Hotel del Coronado *Independence Hall *Lincoln Memorial *Monticello *Pentagon *San Simeon *Sears Tower *Statue of Liberty *USS Arizona Memorial -- Pearl Harbor and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial *Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA *Walt Disney Concert Hall, Walt Disney World (FL) and Disneyland (CA) *Washington Monument *White House *World Trade Center and more.
VF01-12 Encyclopedia of Structural Health Monitoring, 5-Vols/Set.
Covering all aspects of structural health monitoring, this encyclopedia will prove an essential reference source for all engineers, engineering managers and scientists active in the field of structural design, operational management and maintenance. An international board of expert authors and editors provides readers with the theories and applications crucial to aerospace; road, rail and sea transport; heavy machinery; and all types of civil infrastructure, including specialist subjects such as land fills or disaster (i.e. earthquake) management. Moreover, each topic, ranging from the background of physical and mathematical principles to real practical engineering applications, is reported on in-depth and has a very practical orientation underlined by a variety of case studies. With its thorough content, high calibre contributors and comprehensive coverage, the Encyclopedia of Structural health Monitoring will be crucial to all those involved in the field of Structural Health Monitoring. For ease-of-use it will be available online and in print.
SF01-443 Dynamics of Structure and Foundation - A Unified Approach: 1. Fundamentals.
SF01-443 Dynamics of Structure and Foundation - A Unified Approach: 2. Applications.
SF01-416 Ethics for the Built Environment.
SF01-416 Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings.
SF01-392 Estimating Sea Floor Dynamics in the Southern North Sea to Improve Bathymetric Survey Planning.
SF01-392 Regional Gavity Field Modeling Using Airborne Gravimetry Data.
SF01-392 Regional Gravity Field Modeling with Radial Basis Functions.
SF01-389 Construction Delays: Understanding Them Clearly, Analyzing Them Correctly.
SF01-386 Development Trends in Building Services Engineering.
SF01-383 Risk and Decision Analysis in Maintenance Optimization and Flood Management.
The late professor J.M. van Noortwijk (1961-2008) worked to bridge the practice of mathematical modeling with solving complex problems in the field of civil engineering. He developed advanced probabilistic and statistical models and made these accessible to engineers working in such areas as structural reliability, hydraulic engineering and maintenance optimization. This book contains an overview of his work and a collection of twelve papers presented at the symposium held in his honor on November 24, 2009, in Delft, the Netherlands. The topics covered by these contributions include the elicitation of experts’ opinion, condition-based maintenance optimization using the gamma process, and the assessment and management of flood risks. They present the latest developments by his peers in their respective fields.
SF01-383 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: The Academia and Practice of Geotechnical Engineering, 5-Vols/Set.
The 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering convenes on 5-9 October 2009 at the international award-winning Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt to explore the future of our profession under the conference's main theme: 'The Academia and Practice of Geotechnical Engineering.' Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of these proceedings contain the accepted papers addressing these five topics: 1) Material Behavior and Testing 2) Analysis and Design 3) Prediction, Monitoring and Evaluation of Performance 4) Construction Process 5) Management, Training and Education. Volume 4 of the proceedings contains the State-of-the-Art lectures on the five topics, as well as the Terzaghi Oration, Heritage Lecture, Great Project Lecture, and 16 general reports that present an overview of the accepted papers for each of the 15 technical sessions. Post-conference volume 5 will include the Practitioners/Academia Forum and a summary of the 4th International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference.
SF01-382 Millwright Level 4 AIG.
SF01-382 Core Curriculum Annotated Instructor's Guide 2009.
SF01-381 Core Curriculum Trainee Guide.
SF01-379 Employee Resourcing in the Construction Industry: Strategic Considerations and Operational Practice.
SF01-379 Operations Management for Construction.
SF01-379 Practical Channel Hydraulics: Roughness, Conveyance and Afflux.
SF01-378 Business Organisation for Construction.
SF01-378 Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety.
SF01-378 Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment.
SF01-374 Building Regulatory Enforcement Regimes: Comparative Analysis of Private Sector Involvement in the Enforcement of Public Building Regulations.
It is often assumed that traditional regulatory regimes centered on governmental action will benefit from greater private sector involvement. And, with the catchy phrase ‘from government to governance’ a wide variety of hybrid forms of governance has emerged globally. However, little empirical insight exists in the actual effects of such hybridization. The author aims at filling up this knowledge gap. He introduces a heuristic tool for comparative policy analysis, regulatory enforcement regimes, and applies this tool on a series of case studies. Following different building regulatory enforcement regimes in the Netherlands, Canada and Australia the author explains how different forms of private sector involvement play out in different settings. Building Regulatory Enforcement Regimes contains a wealth of scholarly and applied findings. It is insightful in showing different regime types and in suggesting meaningful differences in implementation and potential effects. The publication adds both to studies on regulation of the built environment and its enforcement, and to studies on governance reform.
SF01-374 Building Response Due to Ground Movements.
SF01-367 Shovel-Truck Systems: Modelling, Analysis and Calculation.
Little House on a Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats, and Energy Efficient Possibilities.
SF01-416 440.2R-08 Guide for the Design and Construction of Externally Bonded FRP Systems for Strengthening Concrete Structures.
SF01-392 Global Gravity Field Recovery from Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking Data with the Acceleration Approach.
SF01-392 Functional and Stochastic Modelling of Satellite Gravity Data.
SF01-377 Development and Appraisal of a Numerical Cyclic Loading Protocol for Quantifying Building System Performance.
SF01-377 New Experimental Capabilities and Loading Protocols for Seismic Qualification and Fragility Assessment of Nonstructural Systems.
SF01-374 Ventilation Systems: Design and Performance.
SF01-371 The Application of Stress-Wave Theory to Piles: Science, Technology and Practice.
SF01-371 Comparative Analysis of Australian Building Regulatory Enforcement Regimes.
Globally, the private sector is becoming increasingly involved in regulation and regulatory enforcement – often mutually competing or, as a sector, competing with traditional government departments. Competitive Enforcement provides insight into this trend in a specific policy area: the built environment. Building on from general notions in regulatory literature, a methodical approach is introduced for comparative analysis of such privatization. This book gives an in-depth analysis of building regulatory enforcement regimes in Australia. Private sector involvement made its entry here in the early 1990s as a competitive alternative to existing public sector involvement. Yet, each Australian state and territory introduced a slightly different regime. The differences amongst the regimes provide a unique opportunity to gain insight into how combinations of policy instruments produce diverse policy outcomes. This book will assist all those interested in (building) regulation and regulatory enforcement in further exploration of the study of regulation, grasping opportunities presented by the construction, maintenance and the use of buildings.
The Department of Building Technology at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft is studying and developing cardboard as a potential building material on a broad, systematic and where possible comprehensive basis. The guiding research question is: “How can cardboard be used in both architectural and structural terms as a fully fledged building material, making use of the material-specific properties?” An exploratory phase from 2003 to 2005 – including an outdoor pilot structure (multi-shed), a pilot pavilion accommodating, an exhibition, workshops on resistance to fire and to damp, a first patent (KCPK), the design of an interior wall (Besin) and the publication of this book – was concluded by an international symposium attended by both the paper industry and the building industry. This publication comprises the report on that symposium.
SF01-356 The Future Envelope 1: A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Facades convey the image of new architecture. Today the planning of this very complex building component requires a collaboration of many specialists. A multitude of possibilities are being projected into the building envelope. Design, visionary construction, new materials, the desire to achieve optimum energy performance or even energy generation all meet with predominantly conventional crafts. What is the future of the facade and how can we get there? What are current trends and future developments? Experts from the fields of architecture, structural and climate design, material science, construction and product development, industry, planning and building innovations will reflect on current projects and their vision for the future. The aim of this publication is to make the reader feel challenged to join the creativity or to evaluate own ideas about the future in order to keep the discussion alive. Every contribution is of relevance as long as it sincerely supports future development. Universities have, of course, a special mission to take the lead in developing long term visions and future scenarios in order to create a fecund soil for breakthroughs for the benefit of the entire building industry. This book is an inspiring example of just that.
Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. In Bridge, Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of their role in the advancement of human culture. From ancient Roman arches to the rail bridge of Lhasa to the suspension bridge over Niagara Falls, we traverse in this book the full span of the globe to examine numerous types of bridges and their diverse architectural styles. Bridge includes iconic examples such as the Brooklyn, Sydney Harbour and London’s Millennium bridges and 'mega-spans' such as Hong Kong’s Tsing Ma Bridge; the integral role of bridges in railroad networks; and the social dynamics of class and mobility that surround urban bridges in cities such as New York. Drawing upon sources in art, politics, science, philosophy and the media, Bishop argues that the cultural meaning of bridges today revolves around the idea of expanding geographical claims, rather than connecting to others, and he explores the implications of that idea for the future. A fascinating and richly illustrated study, Bridge will engage enthusiasts of planning, architecture and design alike.
As well as much-needed electricity, dams generate extremes of emotion. Traditionally, dams have facilitated hydraulic civilizations such as those in the Nile Valley, China and Mesopotamia, and, in the twentieth century, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Yet with the proliferation of dams – there are now more than 40,000 large dams worldwide – opposition and support can be measured in equal proportion. Their outstanding design and construction, often in inhospitable conditions, is representative of the skills of their engineers, yet others do not see such beauty in the ‘taming’ of rivers. In 1998 the continuing controversy led to the forming of the World Commission on Dams to seek a meeting of minds. Dam, a new addition to Reaktion’s Objekt series, traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution to the present day through a number of themes – both successes and failures – including the extension of the design teams forming an alliance between engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and ecology. A profusely illustrated exploration of a previously neglected subject, this book is neither a polemic against dams nor a defence of their proliferation. It offers a fresh and much-needed account of their design, construction and function, which will appeal to dam engineers, environmentalists, historians and students, as well as those who previously recognized only The Dambusters march.
SF01-386 Decision Making and Operations Research Techniques for Construction Management.
SF01-351 Portugal SB07 Sustainable Construction, Materials and Practices: Challenge of the Industry for the New Millennium, 2-Vols/Set.
The construction industry is a vibrant and active industry. The building sector is responsible for creating, modifying and improving the living environment of humanity. On the other hand, construction and buildings have considerable environmental impacts, consuming a significant proportion of limited resources of the planet including energy, raw material, water and land. Therefore, the sustainability of the built environment, the construction industry and the related activities is a pressing issue facing all stakeholders in order to promote Sustainable Development. The new millennium is challenging practitioners and researchers with the sustainability of the built environment and the construction industry. Hence, the main purpose of this publication is to discuss these challenges and present solutions that actively facilitate and promote the adoption of policies, methods and tools to accelerate the movement towards a global sustainable built environment. The issues presented include: Building sustainability assessment tools; Indoor environment quality and benchmarks; Sustainable resources and materials use; Use of non-conventional materials; Use of industrial waste; Eco-materials and technologies; Sustainable management of existing building stock; Innovative sustainable construction systems; and Design.
SF01-351 Free form Structural Design: Schemes, Systems and Prototypes of Structures for Irregular Shaped Buildings.
Irregularly shaped building designs with surfaces curving in two directions (‘double curved’), and also known as Free Form, Blob or liquid architecture, have gained renewed interest in the last decade due to the then emerging availability and user-friendliness of computerized design tools in the 1990’s. These tools were introduced in the domain of architectural design through a technology transfer from film-, car and aeroplane industry. Whereas architects explored the tools’ formal consequences and proposed building designs with them, the disciplines involved in the technical realisation of such building designs underwent little change, as they focussed on digitising their existing working methods. This has resulted in structural designs which, despite fulfilling the functional and structural requirements, are not perceived as fully satisfying by the engineering disciplines. This study demonstrates how structures consisting of systematically generated components fulfil the needs for structures appropriate for free form building designs. The systems resulting from this research give unprecedented freedom of shaping, while maintaining rational fabrication standards. This can be implemented through parametric modelling, in which systems adapt themselves to the local geometry, as well as to local structural needs. Technically speaking, structures of irregularly shaped buildings no longer need to be constructed as 2-dimensional frames that slice through a building with total disregard of the building’s geometry.
SF01-344 EU COST C13 Glass and Interactive Building Envelopes: First Report.
The main objective of the COST Action C13 was to increase the knowledge of properties and possibilities of glazing in order to increase the performance of building envelopes, to reduce the energy consumption and to improve the quality of life with respect to interior space, impact on the environment and human welfare. This collection of papers, presented at meetings and workshops of the COST C13 working groups 1 (Architectural Aspects and Design Integration), 2 (Quality of Interior Space) and 3 (Structural Aspects of Glass) are the result of five years of exchange of ideas, experiences and know-how between members, delegates and experts. It represents the body of knowledge from a restricted but representative group of professionals in Europe on the subject of glass building envelopes. The Steel Structures Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and the research group Facades & Systems of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology have taken the initiative to publish these COST C13 papers in order to disseminate the knowledge to the world of glass facade professionals and to contribute to the development of a new generation of high-performance glass building envelopes.
SF01-392 Precise Relative Positioning of Formation Flying Spacecraft Using GPS.
SF01-392 Semantic Interoperability of Distributed Geo-Services.
Improvement of the life cycle assessment methodology for dwellings.
he aim of this thesis is to improve the environmental life cycle assessment methodology for buildings by incorporating damage to the health of occupants of emissions from building materials and local traffic. It also intends to determine the overall impact reduction by building environmentally improved dwellings. This reduction is referred to as the so-called factor X for dwellings. a methodology has been developed to calculate damages to human health caused by pollutants emitted from building materials or from the soil to the indoor environment. The dwelling used in the calculations is divided in three compartments: crawl space, first floor and second floor. Fate factors are modelled based on indoor and outdoor intake fractions or on dose conversion factors. Effect factors are calculated from unit risk factors. Damage factors are expressed in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALYs). Characterisation factors have been calculated for 36 organic compounds, radon and gamma radiation emitted by building materials applied in a Dutch reference dwelling. Health effects due to indoor exposure to pollutants emitted from building materials appeared to be dominant in the characterisation factors over outdoor exposure to such pollutants. The health effects of emissions of organic compounds into the crawl space are very small, compared to the health effects of emissions into the other compartments.
SF01-392 The GNSS Integer Ambiguities: Estimation and Validation.
SF01-392 Segmentation and Classification of Airborne Laser Scanner Data.
Dutch Involvement in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Overseas.
For several decades now, the Dutch Government has been involved in stimulating and facilitating the restoration and conservation of cultural heritage overseas. First primarily related to properties and sites of the former colonial period, but over time increasingly focusing on the broader field of cultural heritage, which is being addressed as part of strategies of socio-economic development and sustainability. During this period attention also has gradually shifted from the establishment of inventories to actual interventions in architectural objects and urban setting, while currently the transmission of knowledge and skills in restoration and conservation is a key element in Dutch government-sponsored projects and programmes. It is important to take stock of recent restoration and conservation projects overseas, which have a significant Dutch involvement either technically or financially, and to establish actual trends. With this overview, issues such as the feasibility of integrated conservation, conservation as a social process (with broad stakeholder involvement) demand driven conservation projects at the local level versus master planning on a regional level, and the importance of capacity building, are to be discussed and evaluated. Next to establishing new, or a change in, directions for professionals in the field, the Dutch Government will gain insight in the viability of current policies guiding support and funding for restoration and conservation activities overseas. This book contains comments and recommendations on the issues mentioned above, supplemented by richly illustrated papers on a diverse range of restoration and conservation projects, ranging from the Caribbean Sea in the West to Yemen and India in the East.
Virtual Context: Investigating the Characteristics and Opportunities of Digital Visualisation Media for Situated Approaches to Architectural Design in an Urban Environment.
Design ideas and sketches, noted down via physical or digital means, are translated into a ‘Virtual Context’ allows those involved to ‘foresee’ what may come to be in the future, whereby constructions can be anticipated and prepared successfully. This research project was intended to contribute to a greater understanding of the implications of ‘Virtual Context’. Points of view and viewpoints (both mental and on screen) are the central subjects of study. This thesis presents a documentation of this exploration which was carried out by means of several smaller case studies and one larger final experiment. It began by focusing on emerging techniques, but gradually all sorts of human aspects gained prominence and began to play a considerable role in the research project as a whole. Besides the relationships: man – media, architect – researcher, object – subject, this study attempts to address new ways to carry out research, to evaluate data and to draw conclusions.
The European City: Architectural Interventions and Urban Transformations.
The EAAE conference and 'European City' international conference was jointly organized by the Delft University of Technology and the Antwerp Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences Henry van de Velde. This collection is not only valuable to academic specialists in the field but also, or even more so, to everybody involved in the field of designing, building and managing the built urban environment. The opening lecture of the conference chairman is the opening chapter, followed by Part I, containing the contributions of the keynote speakers. Part II collects the paper presentations by the individual participants, thematically organized according to the three main conference themes: typo-morphological, research by design and theoretical studies. These studies are divided into eleven subsections: city and territory; block and public building; block and dwelling; urban morphology; urban and public space; architectural projects; urban and landscape projects; methods and techniques of analysis; methods and techniques of design; the urban question; urban reflections - time, memory, identity. The second Part is followed by a text that discusses the exhibition 'drawings of the city' that was presented at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft during the conference. It reflects on different forms of research on the city and its architecture conducted by means of drawing. The book concludes with a conference declaration that was the result of a plenary closing session where the chair people of the different sessions formulated and discussed their conclusions with the participants.
Collective Urban Design: Shaping the City as a Collaborative Process.
This book deals with two urban design issues: City Planning and Architectural Design. The relationship between these two issues has been regarded as an ‘eternal’ topic in the domain of urban design. The book offers a method to create a harmonious, individual and environmentally friendly collective form, through a collaborative design process. In order to achieve this purpose, civil engineers, city planners and architects have to work together, sharing a common object. The Master Architect Design Collaboration Method, which is studied mainly in this book, is a design method to create mixed types of collective forms. This method can be used for urban renewal projects and urban development projects. To understand the design process and method, the following is discussed: the issue of collective form creation and its history, design coordination, design communication and design development. Finally, the book discusses the urban design method from a practical point of view. This book is aimed at people working in public sectors, building engineers, city planners, architects and students and contributes to the making of urban design strategies and the carrying out of urban design processes.
VF01-8 Nature of Order, The. 4-Vols/Set.
Christopher Alexander's four volume masterwork, the result of twenty-seven years of research, considers three vital perspectives: a scientific perspective; a perspective based on beauty and grace; a commonsense perspective based on our intuitions and everyday life. This ground-breaking work allows us to form one picture of the world in which all three perspectives are interlaced. It opens the door to twenty-first century science and cosmology. The four volumes can be read separately, independently, and in any order. However, it is together that they have their greatest impact as each one informs and illuminates the others.
The importance of nanotechnology related research and development has become recognised worldwide. Substantial public and private investment is now being ploughed into research and development in a number of industrial sectors, where nanotechnology has become established and has led to new commercial products. The construction industry, having major economic significance with nano-scale research and development which is only emerging, offers a wide scope for exploitation of nanotechnology. With international contributions from experts in the field, Nanotechnology in Construction amalgamates previously fragmented research and emerging trends. It reflects the inherent multi-disciplinary nature of nano-scale research in construction and contributions cover a wide spectrum, from highly scientific investigations to futuristic applications. The books is organised into four broad sections, the first reviews and analyses the prospects of exploitation of nanotechnology in construction, the second discusses novel tools and their capabilities, the final two sections show existing significant products where nanotechnology has been already been exploited or where product development is under-way. Nanotechnology in Construction will appeal to researchers already working in this field as well as those wishing to enter it. It will also inform governmental and other funding agencies of the most promising future directions and their related timescales. Practical applications are considered and explanations of the underlying basics are given, raising awareness and understanding of what nanotechnology can offer to construction professionals in general.
VA18-51 Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, 3-Vols/Set.
In its extensive coverage of architecture's multifaceted production from 1900 to 2000, Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture encompasses a far-reaching range of international architectural subjects to provide a fundamental understanding of the century's prominent architects and their buildings. Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture profiles the century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. More than 700 cross-referenced articles examine twentieth-century materials and building technologies, planning, building types, schools and movements, and critics and historians, and architectural practice and the profession in developing and developed cities, countries and regions. In addition to a list of further readings, essays are supported with professional and historic photographs or architectural drawings and plans. Unlike existing works in architecture, the three-volume Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across both traditional geographic and cultural boundaries. Seeking well-informed variety, an international team of 300 writers - architectural historians, architects, engineers, preservationists, urban historians, critics and independent scholars - present a comprehensive and critical assessment of buildings, architects, cities and related topics of interest, to provide experts and general readers alike with an integrated view of the practice and profession of architecture around the world.
SF01-416 440.4R-04: Prestressing Concrete Structures with FRP Tendons.
SF01-377 Assessment of Geotechnical Issues in Acute Care Facilities in California.
Spacemate: The Spatial Logic of Urban Density.
Spacematec is a truly new method and tool, making the relationship between form & space and density explicit. It helps planners and designers in calculating their spatial possibilities and helps policy and decision makers by demonstrating the quantitative consequences of their spatial ambitions. In this sense, Spacematec is a tool that fills a gap between design knowledge and practice. In Spacematec, the authors take a novel approach to the study of urban density and form. To this end, they define three variables, FSI (Floor Space Index), GSI (Ground Space Index), and the OSR (Open Space Ratio), quantifying the qualitative aspects of space, and thus making them measurable. This allows them to discuss the relationship between the quantitative aspects of density and the characteristics of urban space. The method, which has already been applied by the authors in some urban planning projects of Amsterdam, is explained in this book.
VA18-19 Architecture of the Renaissance, 2-Vols/Set.
This extensively illustrated study opens with an account of the movement's founders: Brunelleschi, arbiter of Florence's building problems, and Alberti, who supplied the new architecture with a suitable theoretical foundation. The editor considers the general effect of the new artistic culture on the changes that took place first in fifteenth-century Italian cities and then throughout Europe. The relationship between the development of architecture and that of other related fields, especially the great advances in painting and sculpture, receives special attention. Also considered are the effects of the beginnings of modern science and the general economic and social changes of the age. Finally this study takes the reader to the point where the history of modern architecture, discussed in volumes of the same name by Professor Benevolo, begins.
VA06-104 Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4-Vols/Set.
In its most specific form, deconstruction is a mode of philosophical and literary analysis, derived from the work of French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, which questions the most basic philosophical categories or concepts. Since deconstruction has traditionally been an activity based in philosophy, it has required, from the outset, explanation and explication. Indeed, one could argue that deconstruction has to a considerable extent been formed by critical accounts of it. This collection will reprint a cross section of these important works. The result is a set which charts the ways in which deconstruction is conceptualised and demonstrates the impact it has had on a wide range of traditions - areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, law, gender studies and architecture.
SF01-392 Systems of Land Registration: Aspects and Effects.
SF01-392 Fast Precise GPS Positioning in the Presence of Ionospheric Delays.
SF01-392 The First Absolute Gravity Measurements in The Netherlands: Period 1991-1999.
SB01-424 Understanding and Negotiating Turnkey and EPC Contracts.
This work is a practical commentary on the FIDIC and EPC turnkey contracts widely used in the international construction industry. It provides clause-by-clause analysis of these contracts, accompanied by practical guidance on their application in specific projects. It also reproduces the contracts in full as an appendix. * Detailed, clause-by-clause approach makes it a highly practical working tool * Invaluable for international projects where the use of FIDIC standard contracts is increasing all the time CONTENTS Types of contract. Turnkey and EPC contracts. The FIDIC Designbuild, Turnkey and EPC contracts. The contract. The employer. The employer's administration. The contractor. Design. Staff and labour. Plant, materials, and workmanship. Commencement, delays and suspension. Tests on completion. Employer's taking-over. Defects liability. Tests after completion. Variations and adjustments. Contract price and payment. Termination by employer. Suspension and termination by contractor. Risk and responsibility. Insurance. Force majeure. Claims, disputes and arbitration. Negotiation of the Orange Book. Appendices. | 2019-04-23T10:11:50Z | http://www.unifacmanu.com.tw/Unif-PrdLists.asp?Action=Category&CatID=SF01 |
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The language school in Cartagena is ideally located in the historic centre, near Trinidad Square, in a beautiful colonial-style building. In the 6 bright classrooms, motivating professors teach Spanish with innovative methods. You will study in a group of 8 people maximum in order to facilitate a constant, stimulating language exchange. Common spaces include a rooftop terrace with breathtaking views, another terrace with a pergola (perfect for dance classes, offered by the school), and a swimming pool, where you will be able to meet the other international students for a refreshing break. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the whole building. Enjoy the friendly, relaxed environment and develop your Spanish skills!
Due to specific visa requirements, it not possible to book stays of more than 24 weeks.
I have been living in Cartagena and studying Spanish for 3 weeks. I am happy to be able to spend time in this beautiful city. Every day, I go to the school to learn Spanish. I’ve significantly improved my language skills as I put everything I learn in class into practise with my friends and at home. My classmates are friendly and interesting. The teacher is intelligent and very nice, just like the other students. We usually go out together to party and make the most of Cartagena. Last week, we visited white sandy beaches, I loved it. Now I am a bit blue because some of my friends had to go back home, their stay was quite short. As for me, I’m staying here for another two or three months.
It had been a few years since I wanted to go to Colombia and combining this project with a language stay seemed to be the best idea. I chose Cartagena because I wanted to go on holiday and the sea had to be part of the setting! When I arrived at the Nueva Lengua school I received a warm welcome and I was treated accordingly during my whole stay. The classes were very interesting, but also very entertaining and gripping. With the intensive course, you enjoy the first lesson best, as only one or two students attended most of the time. During my stay, I considerably improved my Spanish skills, due also to the fact that I lived with a very nice host family! In the afternoon, we had the choice between at least 3 various activities in which all the students participated – big fun guaranteed! The city of Cartagena offers a lot of attractions and it is the ideal point of departure for excursions on the weekend I can only warmly recommend the school and the city of Cartagena but one has to be aware that we are on the Caribbean coast of Colombia and that life here is filled with comfortable tranquillity.
When I arrived in Cartagena, I felt lost and lonely. I therefore recommend all those who go on a linguistic stay to organise an airport transfer. Yet, I felt right away at home when I arrived in my host family. The mum of my host family is an extraordinary woman and I was very surprised to even find a private bathroom, only for me! The first day at school was very exciting and a bit chaotic, but there was a big improvement in the organisation during the first 8 weeks. The Nueva Lengua school was a good choice as it has constantly improved the critical points to develop in the right direction. The teachers are super qualified and help the students, in extracurricular areas as well. I strongly recommend going on a language trip to Cartagena, because it is a very safe destination with an excellent leisure offer. Women should nonetheless be wary of the charming Latinos who tend to exaggerate everything. In conclusion I can say that this was a wonderful experience for me and that I will do my next language stay with ESL again, the service, the price and the quality were perfect.
Latin America is a dream location for learning Spanish in an environment which is a complete change of scenery. If you stay with a host family, you will have the ideal opportunity to immerse yourself in the Colombian culture. The families are chosen carefully by our partner schools and are situated around 15 minutes from the language school. They offer accommodation in a single room with half-board. They take care of your laundry once a week and provide you with a house key to enable you to be totally independent.
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Discovering Cartagena and its surroundings during the outings planned by our partner school is an absolute must. Don’t miss the tour of the historic city, its ramparts, alleyways and other places of interest. As it is right beside the sea, you will also be able to enjoy its magnificent beaches, like those of the Corales del Rosario National Park and the Rosario Islands, which allow you to dive in and discover truly beautiful marine fauna. For a different type of excursion, you will be invited to slosh about in the mud baths of the Totumo Volcano at an altitude of only 30 metres above sea level! Cartagena and its surroundings are not to be missed.
64 students rated this school. See the testimonials of former students. | 2019-04-21T04:59:45Z | https://www.esl-languages.com/en/adults/spanish/language-school/colombia/cartagena/nueva-lengua/index.htm |
New release in my real spaces series. The reverbs in this one are short decays, like typical room reverbs. I haven't compared every single one, but I'm pretty sure that all or most of these have shorter decays than all or most of my other sampled real spaces. So these aren't quite as wet sounding as the echo chambers and even the hard wood floored rooms can sound.
These also use less CPU than the echo chambers, partly due to being shorter but also because the programs are less complex. 35 uniquely sampled reverbs in this library, 44 total reverbs including the stereo combos. Lots of choices, lots of variety while still having a similar tone to them (small rooms).
Introductory price takes several dollars off. Will stay at this price probably as long as my summer sale remains up.
Thanks for the "live room" reverb, Tim!! so much!!
I had been hoping for a long while to see something like this appear eg: realistic rooms & spaces..
Nice to have Tim. I'll enjoy using these. Thanks. John. | 2019-04-20T20:44:56Z | http://forum.acustica-audio.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=30593&view=print |
Manas Resort Petting Zoo, Igatpuri, is surrounded by misty mountains and is a home to a variety of friendly animals and exotic birds. We have nourished and encouraged interesting birds in the surrounding area to make Manas Resort as their natural home. We have started an unique concept of Petting zoo offering pet therapy. We have created many walk in aviaries for exotic birds with natural habitat. Guests are welcome to enter the aviaries and experience the birds. study their behavior. Feed them with your hands. Manas Resort has developed a 15000 sq. ft pet park ( off leash park) for exotic dog breeds with in house trainer. Come and play with our in-house pooches including Japanese Akita, Long Coat German Shepherd, Rough Collies, Siberian huskies, French Bulldogs, Jack russell terriers and many more. Manas Resort has exotic mammals like sugar gliders, German Angoras, Mini lops etc. We have socialized these pets, to an extent, that they are super friendly with our guests and other pets. Also meet our variety of exotic pheasants and variety of chickens including Polish cap, Silkie Bantam the fur balls and Cochin Bantam and have a fun-filled stay at our resort.
We have created a massive 15000+ sq.ft., off-leash park, so that your canine buddies can play and exercise to their heart’s content. Its a Fenced area with trees and greenery all around, where your pets can play, jump and exercise in the company of, other four-legged pals. This playground used for pet training, has an assortment of agility equipment like dog jump bar, see-saw, dog walk ramp, doggie jump hoops, weave posts, canvas tunnel and doggie rest table where your pets will enjoy playing. Being a pet friendly resort, we have guests walking in with the pets. it gives you an opportunity for your pets to make new friends. Apart from the fun, your pet is assured of, this increased physical activity will be instrumental in minimizing health and behavioral problems in pets.
Get your pet companion trained by our world-renowned trainer, Mr Sachin Raawte. He knows all that there is to know, about training pets. Dogs need physical and mental stimulation. Certain breeds are working breeds. if they don’t get stimulation pets can turn to be destructive. Pets should not get bored and all the excess energy need to be creatively used. Scientific methods, interactive props and proper training ensures your pet learns a few tricks, of its own before you reach back home. We also provide training to new pet parents on behavioral management for them to understand different behavior aspects of their pets.
We pamper our guests to no end, including our four-legged friends, especially when it’s meal time. Manas Resort is famous for its delectable yet healthy food options and your pets will surely love it too. We will consult with you about your pet’s likes and dislikes and provide with food that makes your pets feel absolutely at home or you can bring your own pet food too. | 2019-04-25T23:40:40Z | https://www.manasresort.in/petting-zoo/ |
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