...PROJECT PLAN MAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTRE PROJECT MANAGER: Geoff Blackland START DATE: 01/12/2015 PURPOSE: Develop a new staff recruitment and selection process for mail distribution centre. TIMELINE: Three months REQUIRED STAFF FOR PROJECT: Henry Smith (Human Resources), Roger Tucker (Mail Distribution Manager) & Janine Taylor (General Manager) Interview Panel (to be advised) Stage 1 of the Planning Process: 1) Select the Interview Panel and block out appropriate times to conduct the interviews. Ensure interviewees have had training and know their role and responsibility in the process. 2) Determine how many interviews you would like to conduct later in the process. Book interview rooms depending on availability. 3) Analyse job requirements and develop a recruitment plan to determine the requisite knowledge, skills and attributes. Further information on this if required is available in the form of an information booklet 4) Develop Key Selection Criteria – refer to booklet for How to develop Key Selection Criteria. 5) Develop or revise position description – refer to booklet Developing or revising position description 6) Develop interview questions - refer to booklet preparing for interviews. 7) Develop scoring criteria for short listing and other selection techniques to be used. ROLES, RESPONSIBILITY AND WORKING TIMELINES: Select the Interview Panel. Geoff Blackland and Roger Tucker this will need the attention of your experience, Roger being the...
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...Net Primary Productivity Procedure Materials * Grass seeds should be sown into the flats and grown to approximately 2-3 cm in order to begin the experiment. The grass must be watered well at least an hour prior to each time data is collected. * Scissors * Newspaper * Fertilizer * Aeration punches (the types used to aeration of lawns) * Light sources * Water Drying oven or blotting paper and plant press for drying of plant material * Aluminum foil * Spoons or indoor garden spades to remove plants * String or other marking method to mark plot boundaries * Other supplies to vary growth conditions as desired Procedure 1. Take 5 Complete Plants from the soil. 2. Place the plants on an open container made from aluminum foil, and let dry in a high temperature(Microwave) 3. In the section of the tray from which you took your samples, count the number of plants in a 5cm by 5 cm area. Record this count in your data table. 4. After the plants have dried, weigh and record the mass. 5. Allow the remaining grass to grow for one more week 6. Find the difference in the dry mass. This number is in grams of added carbon per five plants. Scale this up by using the number of plants growing in 25 cm. Then convert units of CM to m and also number of days between samples to years 7. Calculate and report the NPP into units of grams of carbon per square meter. Food Web Sun Grass organic matter...
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...Texas than there are similarities. Two such regions that have undoubtedly diverged from their common ancestry are the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area and the Austin “Hill Country” region. From sports and music, to leisure activities and geography, each area boasts its own culture that is neither superior nor lesser to its counterpart. In 2011, the official U.S. Census ranked the Dallas-Fort Worth area as the largest metropolitan area in the south. The expanse, which also accounts for Plano, Irving, Arlington, as well as a range of other small cities, is estimated to encompass over 6.5 million residents, which each contribute to the unique culture of “The Metroplex.” The territory is unique in that majority of the land is categorized as blackland prairies, with elevations ranging from 450 feet to 550 feet above sea level. Additionally,...
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...This area is dry and only holds flowing water after a significant rainfall. At the eastern boundary of the Rolling Plains, the confluence of the Double Mountain Fork and Salt Fork create the Brazos River. Then the Brazos River passes through rough terrain in the Cross Timbers and Prairies region of Texas. Next, the Brazos River travels through the hills of the Blackland Prairie and Post Oak Savannah. Finally, before reaching the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River runs through the low, wet Coastal and Gulf Marshes and Prairies. Throughout the Brazos River Watershed, soil is made up of sand loams, clays, and sands. The main tributaries running into the Brazos River Basin Watershed are Salt Fork, Double Mountain Fork, Clear Fork, Yegua Creek, and the Bosque, Little and Navasota Rivers. There are also many lakes in the Brazos River Basin. Some are Lake Abilene, Lake Georgetown, Lake Granbury, Lake Mineral Wells, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Whitney. Due to the lack of rain in northwest Texas, the lakes are low. The shortage of rain also causes the flow of water to decrease in the tributaries connecting to...
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...ANTEBELLUM TEXAS. In the drama of Texas history the period of early statehood, from 1846 to 1861, appears largely as an interlude between two great adventures-the Republic of Texas and the Civil War.qqv These fifteen years did indeed lack the excitement and romance of the experiment in nationhood and the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy. Events and developments during the period, however, were critical in shaping the Lone Star State as part of the antebellum South. By 1861 Texas was so like the other Southern states economically, socially, and politically that it joined them in secessionqv and war. Antebellum Texans cast their lot with the Old South and in the process gave their state an indelibly Southern heritage. When President Anson Jonesqv lowered the flag of the republic for the last time in February 1846, the framework for the development of Texas over the next fifteen years was already constructed. The great majority of the new state's approximately 100,000 white inhabitants were natives of the South, who, as they settled in the eastern timberlands and south central plains, had built a life as similar as possible to that experienced in their home states. Their economy, dependent on agriculture, was concentrated first on subsistence farming and herding and then on production of cotton as a cash crop. This meant the introduction of what southerners called their "Peculiar Institution"-slavery.qv In 1846 Texas had more than 30,000 black slaves and produced an even larger number...
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...The Diversityof Life Lab Manual Stephen W. Ziser Department of Biology Pinnacle Campus for BIOL 1409 General Biology: The Diversity of Life Lab Activities, Homework & Lab Assignments 2013.8 Biol 1409: Diversity of Life – Lab Manual, Ziser, 2013.8 1 Biol 1409: Diversity of Life Ziser - Lab Manual Table of Contents 1. Overview of Semester Lab Activities Laboratory Activities . . . . . . . . . 2. Introduction to the Lab & Safety Information . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 15 30 39 46 54 68 81 104 147 3. Laboratory Exercises Microscopy . . . . . . Taxonomy and Classification . Cells – The Basic Units of Life . Asexual & Sexual Reproduction Development & Life Cycles . . Ecosystems of Texas . . . . The Bacterial Kingdoms . . . The Protists . . . . . . The Fungi . . . . . . . The Plant Kingdom . . . . The Animal Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 17 22 26 29 . 32 . 42 . 50 . 59 . 89 4. Lab Reports (to be turned in - deadline dates as announced) Taxonomy...
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...Establish and Manage Your Home Lawn The home lawn and turf areas surrounding churches, parks, and office buildings do more than just serve as pleasant green backdrops. The grass plants that make up the lawns serve as miniature air-conditioners and pollution-abatement centers. On a block of eight houses, the front lawns have the cooling effect of 70 tons of air-conditioning. The plants, in transpiring water to cool themselves, also cool the surrounding area. Roughly 50 percent of the heat striking a turf area is eliminated by transpiration. When the temperature of the sidewalk is 100 °F, the temperature of the adjacent turf remains near 75 °F. This cooling may last into the night, with studies showing a 13-degree cooling at 9 p.m. This air-conditioning is not free, however. An average 5,000-square-foot lawn transpires about 3,000 gallons of water on a hot summer day. If this water is not supplied by rain, it must be applied by some other means. Turfgrass also functions as a noise barrier. Studies at the Riverbank Acoustical Laboratory in Geneva, Illinois, found Kentucky bluegrass turf more sound-absorbent than a heavy carpet on a felt pad. One of the most significant byproducts of a living, green backdrop is its effect upon the atmosphere. A 250-square-foot lawn produces enough oxygen for a family of four. The average lawn traps significant amounts of carbon dioxide, peroxyacetyl nitrates, and ozone, as well as particulate matter. A most important effect is the prevention of soil...
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...JOHN WYNDHAM THE CHRYSALIDS 1 When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city — which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was. But this city, clustered on the curve of a big blue bay, would come into my mind. I could see the streets, and the buildings that lined them, the waterfront, even boats in the harbour; yet, waking, I had never seen the sea, or a boat. ... And the buildings were quite unlike any I knew. The traffic in the streets was strange, carts running with no horses to pull them; and sometimes there were things in the sky, shiny fish-shaped things that certainly were not birds. Most often I would see this wonderful place by daylight, but occasionally it was by night when the lights lay like strings of glow-worms along the shore, and a few of them seemed to be sparks drifting on the water, or in the air. It was a beautiful, fascinating place, and once, when I was still young enough to know no better, I asked my eldest sister, Mary, where this lovely city could be. She shook her head, and told me that there was no such place — not now. But, perhaps, she suggested, I could somehow be dreaming about times long ago. Dreams were funny things, and there was no accounting for them; so it might be that what I was seeing was a bit of the world as it had been once upon a time — the wonderful world that the Old People had lived in; as it had been before God sent Tribulation. But after that she went on to warn me very seriously not to mention it...
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