...This book is well known in the field of economics, public policy and environmental studies. If the title alone doesn’t draw you in, then maybe the following question will: Could society’s age old demand for increased productivity and efficiency lead to “The End of Work” as we know it? As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. In this eye-opening book, Jeremy Rifkin argues that improvements such as automation, computerization and re-engineering mean that more goods and services can be produced with less human labor. If less people are working then who will buy all these new products that hit the market at an accelerated rate? The author's organization webpage (www.foet.org), retrieved on March 3rd, 2011 provides a brief biographical sketch on Jeremy Rifkin as an American economist, writer, public speaker, political advisor and activist. Rifkin is the President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, society, the workforce, and the environment. His most recent books include The Empathic Civilization, The Hydrogen Economy, The European Dream, The End of Work, The Age of Access, and The Biotech Century. He currently serves as an advisor to the European Union, European Commission, the European Parliament, and several EU heads of state and has been influential in shaping public policy in the United States. With global unemployment hitting an all time high and effecting...
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...Licom Systems Ltd. 3D Surface Creation Training Course Notes INDEX OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................ 1 WORK VOLUME ................................................................................................................. 1 WORK PLANE .................................................................................................................... 1 WORK VOLUME CREATION. .............................................................................................. 2 2D WORK PLANES ............................................................................................................. 2 RULED SURFACE ............................................................................................................. 3 SWEPT SURFACE 2 CURVES ......................................................................................... 4 SWEPT SURFACE 3 CURVES ......................................................................................... 5 SURFACE OF REVOLUTION.......................................................................................... 6 COONS PATCH 3 CURVES.............................................................................................. 7 COONS PATCH 4 CURVES.............................................................................................. 8 INTRODUCTION .............................................................
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...End-of-life care in social work is a continuously growing and evolving field; the social work profession has embraced the challenge that comes from interaction with the dying process across multiple systems levels. A report from The Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network stated the important role social work plays in end of life care: “Given the broad scope of practice and unique perspective, social workers bring to the field of palliative and end of life care, and to multidisciplinary teams their unique expertise in ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity; family dynamics; and social support networks. Their expertise in this field includes interventions for dealing with advanced chronic illness, trauma, grief, bereavement,...
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...are sent by that agency to work for a third party – an end user. Is the agency worker an employee of (a) the agency, or (b) of the end user? (a) The worker- agency relationship In Construction Industry Training Board v. Labour Force Ltd [1] it was held that unskilled or building workers hired by employment agencies were not in a relationship of employment with the agency. The end-user paid the wages to the agency, and had the right to control the men as to what to do, and to require the agency to remove a man at three days notice (or in the case of misbehaviour, forthwith). The court considered it decisive against the identification of an employment relationship with the agency that no control was exercised by the agency over the workers. This approach was followed in Ireland. In Brightwater Selection v. Minister for Social and Family Affairs [2] a Social welfare appeals officer held that a worker sent by an agency to UCD to work in the administration section worked under the control of the agency: ‘the requirement to notify them of any changes in relation to responsibility, hours worked, pay, grievances… to produce a time sheet’. However, the High Court held that these minimal administrative obligations were not equivalent to control. The High Court held that in determining whether control exists, the alleged employer must not only have the right to tell the individual what work to do, but also to dictate the manner in which this work was to be done’. There was...
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...ALJ Land Holding 1. Existing Owned Properties: a. All existing owned properties ownership will be transferred to ALJLH, however lands which will be divested will not be transferred to ALJLH. b. ALJLH will charge the end-user businesses (Tenant) rentals as per market rates with anchor discount, subject to rental growth at 3.5% pa. c. Tatweer-ALJLH will raise project CAPEX budget approval for all renovation and construction works (Project) required by the tenant for the existing owned properties. d. Tatweer-ALJLH will earn a development management fee1 of 5% of the total project construction cost. e. Upon completion of the development work, the total development cost (TDC)2 will be bought by (transferred to) the tenant as a leasehold improvement which will be amortized in their books. f. For the project feasibility process purpose by end-user business, ALJLH will provide TDC only. 2. Existing Leased Properties: a. All existing leased properties contracts will remain under the end-user businesses (Tenant) name as a tenant. b. Tatweer-ALJLH will raise project CAPEX budget approval for all renovation and construction works (Project) required by the tenant. c. Tatweer-ALJLH will earn a development management fee of 5%. d. Upon completion of the development work, the total development cost (TDC) will be bought by (transferred to) the tenant as a leasehold improvement which will be amortized in their books. 1 Development management fees is 5% of (construction cost + soft costs...
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...------------------------------------------------- PROPOSAL PREPARED BY NOAM DESIGN GROUP FOR CLIENT NAME Submitted on 09/30/2009 by your name Email: youremail@yourcompanywebsite.com Offer is Valid until: 10/31/2009 Dear contact name, Thank you for your interest in working with Noam Design! Our team has reviewed your business requirements and has prepared the following detailed proposal. Given our experience and specific expertise in design, usability, programming, SEO, and marketing, we are confident that we can work with you to achieve your aims and goals. Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to working with you! ------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview 4 Solutions, Scope of Work, and Deliverables 5-6 1. Preliminary Research 2. Strategic Planning 3. Interface Design - Graphic Design Work 4. Web application Front End Programming 5. Web application Back-end Development 6. Quality Assurance and Launch 7. SEO, Web Promotion, Statistics and Reporting Maintenance and Hosting 7 Fees – special recession rates 8 Payment plan and turn-around time 9 Noam Design Qualifications, responsibilities and commitment 10-11 1. Cutting Edge Technologies & Open Source Philosophy 2. Our experience 3. Our Clients 4. No outsourcing. Period. 5. The team allocated to this project 6. Our Website Your responsibilities 12 Next...
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...PREFACE The world today is witnessing a new kind of revolution—the Information Revolution—ushered in by technology. This revolution is far more sweeping than any other revolution in history in its reach and influence, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of our life. Information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. As computers grew in speed and capability, a number of general-purpose database systems emerged. In the present context, I have great pleasure in presenting “Factory Time Attendance Management System (FTAMS)” program. This program is used by factories of all sizes. The FTAMS works with RFID time attendance devices to manage working hours of employees recorded in the devices in order to pay their wages. FTAMS could protect a factory from payroll fraud and provide both employer and employees with confidence in the accuracy of their wage payments. The present system is necessarily providing a convenient, simple, and comprehensive program on managing the time and attendance system for the benefits of employees and the factory. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you to your education. Writing this book has been a lot of fun for me and I sincerely hope that you get a lot out of it. I have tried to be balanced in presenting both the advantages and disadvantages of some of the new ideas. I encourage you to adopt a similar open and critical stance when reading this book. You are welcome to e-mail me at so.sereyboth@gmail...
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...CLERK OF WORKS REPORT Site: Yuen Long CDA Area 15 – Retail Bridge Site Activities / Programme of Construction (up to 10 May 2013) Contract Period: 195 days (CDA 15) Piling Contractor: Simon & Son Engineering Limited Hand-over Date: 04 January 2012 Commencement Date: 12 January 2012 |Progress of Socketted Steel H-Piles Works |Remarks | |Region |Total No(s) of |Nos. of Socketted Steel |Nos. of Socketted Steel H-Pile(s) |Completion Date |Completed % | | | |Socketted Steel H-Pile |H-Pile (s) in Progress |Completed | | |Sanfield handed over CDA12 side to S&S on 26 | | | | | | | |Sep 12 | | | | | | | |S&S handed over CDA15 side to Sanfield for | | | ...
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...University of Technology, Jamaica 237 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6 F.E.N.C School of Engineering Mechanical Workshop 1 Assignment # 1 Lathe, Milling Machines & Drill Press Mr. E Bonnick Name: Dean Rankine ID #: 1105891 October21, 2014 Table of contents Table of contents 2 INTRODUCTION 4 What is a lathe? 4 DIAGRAM OF LATHE MACHINE 5 FIG 1 5 FIG.2 6 HEADSTOCK 6 FEED AND LEAD SCREW …………... 10 FIG.3 11 CARRIAGE 11 CROSS SLIDE 12 COMPOUND REST 12 TOOL POST 13 FIG.4 13 TAILSTOCK 14 FIG.7 18 Single-Point Cutting Tool Variety 21 MILLING MACHINES 22 TYPES OF MILLING MACHINES 24 FIG.16 29 MILLING MACHINE PARTS AND FUNCTION 30 Milling Tools and Equipment 33 MILLING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 41 Collets, Spindle Adapters and Quick Change Tooling 44 Vises 47 Adjustable Angle Plate 48 Indexing Fixture 48 High Speed Milling Attachment 49 DRILL PRESS 51 Introduction 51 TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 57 TWIST DRILLS 57 OTHER TYPES OF DRILL PRESS DEVICES 61 DRILL HOLDING DEVICES 63 REFERENCES 71 INTRODUCTION What is a lathe? A lathe is a machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation, facing, turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis. Lathes are used in woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, thermal spraying, parts reclamation, and glass-working...
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...relating to your maternity leave and pay. Full details and guidance are provided in the enclosed maternity policy. Maternity Leave You are entitled to 52 weeks of maternity leave, which comprises 26 weeks of Ordinary Maternity Leave (OML) and a further 26 weeks of Additional Maternity Leave (AML). AML will commence immediately after the end of OML. We note that you intend to commence your maternity leave with effect from 05 May 2013. If you subsequently wish to change this date, you must notify me by no later than 28 days before your intended revised start date or 28 days before 05 May 2013, whichever is sooner, or as soon as it is reasonably practicable for you to do so. Given the date you have chosen to start your maternity leave, your OML will end on 03 November 2013 and the latest date you may return to work is 03 February 2014, the day after your AML ends. We note that you currently intend to return to work on 03 March 2014, following a period of annual leave commencing immediately after AML. If you wish to return to work before this date, you must give us at least eight weeks' notice in advance of the date that your AML is due to end. Maternity Pay From the date on which you commence your maternity leave, you are entitled to (SMP) for a period of 39 weeks. The first 6 weeks of SMP is payable at 90% of your basic salary and thereafter at the statutory rate determined by the government from time to time. At the sole discretion of the company, you are eligible to receive...
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...your submission needs to be your own words… be sure to indent the first line of the paragraph. This section of the paper must contain research - which means that a citation must be included in the section (Last name, year, page). The punctuation goes after the citation not at the end of the sentence. If no author is stated: (Short Title of Article, year). The punctuation goes after the citation not at the end of the sentence. Be consistent in the way you cite your group’s compiled work throughout this paper! Product & Firm History Throughout this paper use research to support your analysis / evaluation, but remember to keep your use of citations/quotes/credits to about 15% of your total paper (in other words, 85% of your submission needs to be your own words… be sure to indent the first line of the paragraph. This section of the paper must contain research - which means that a citation must be included in the section (Last name, year, page). The punctuation goes after the citation not at the end of the sentence. If no author is stated: (Short Title of Article, year). The punctuation goes after the citation not at the end of the sentence. Be consistent in the way you cite your group’s compiled work throughout this paper! The Traditional 4Ps Product Throughout this paper use research to support your analysis / evaluation, but remember to keep your use of citations/quotes/credits to about 15% of your total paper (in other words, 85% of your submission needs to be your own...
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...Downey Kates Associates M 22 any HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade. This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING 29.2 and controlling the cost of transactional work. Little formal consideration has been given, however, to how these new complex HR organizations should be configured to best achieve these goals. This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws. Each model is described and discussed and a set of considerations for the HR leader is offered in order to maximize the effectiveness of the chosen organization design. Over the last decade there has been a profound shift in the work of the HR function. The publication in 1997 of David Ulrich’s Human Resource Champions spurred HR leaders across various industries to realign their organizations in order to undertake “strategic business partner” work. At the same time, a focus on cost-cutting and efficiency aimed at staff functions in general—and at HR in particular—has pushed much HR transactional work into shared services or to outsourced vendors. For many HR departments, this process of “transformation,” as it is popularly called, has been a wrenching...
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...knowledge. What people don’t realize is it effects more than you, it is a direct waste of money for all those who have to pay for their education. Eventually you’ll end up regretting your decisions if it causes problems in your life and you end up wasting years of your time by trying to get those years back and going back to school. People don’t realize their mistakes when they create them but these mistakes can affect your whole future, whether it’s if people go back and look at what you did in high school and your grades. What people don’t realize is that the opportunities that are given to them can help them out a lot in their future and if they just try to pass or ditch class it can...
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...Nigeria Dates of Training : 30.7.2014 – 23.9.2014 Duration of Training : 40 working days November 2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………….. | | 1 | 2. Company Description……………………………………………………………………………………. | | 3 | 2.1 Services Rendered…………………………………………………………………………………... | | 3 | 2.2 Projects Executed……………………………………………………………………………………. | | 4 | 2.3 Roles of D.M.S. IT Department………………………………………………………………… | | 5 | 2.4 Contact Person………………………………………………………………………………………… | | 6 | 2.5 Computers and Hardware………………………………………………………………………… | | 6 | 2.6 Working Environment ……………………………………………………………………………… | | 6 | 3. Problem Definition………………………………………………………………………………………… | | 7 | 4. Work Done…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. | | 8 | 4.1 Software Development ……………………………………………………………………………. | | 8 | 4.2 Troubleshooting Printer Issues…..…………………………………………………………….. | | 15 | 4.3 Troubleshooting Network Connectivity and Hot Swapping ….…………………… | | 16 | 4.4. Learning New Software…………………………………………………………………………… 4.5 Help Desk Activities……………………………………………………………………………… 18 4.6 Problems Faced…………………………………………………………………………………… 18 | | 17 | 5. Tools and Techniques Used……………………………………………………………………………….5.1. Programming Language……………………………………………………………………………. | | 19 | 5.2. Software ……..…………………………………………………………………………………………... | | 19 | 5.3. Hardware………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… | | 19...
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...Francis Fukuyama. The end of the Cold War as the end of history. Introduction. The specifics of the international situation after the Cold War. Since 1985, the world is going through an amazing evolution. The interdependence emerged and has become a reality of understanding of all processes in the world. Peace, freedom, human rights, social security, democracy have taken place of those values, because of which the major battles were unfold in the international arena and within countries. Overnight concepts collapsed that before seemed unshakable. In this case, not only the political picture of the world changed . At large numbers of people in different countries sense of global community, solidarity, public interest, human intimacy has been strengthened . Not surprisingly, that the rapid evolution of the global situation, the collapse of the bipolar system and fade into the background of ideological aspects confused scientists specializing in political predictions. Now, it is necessary not only to explain the reasons which led to the formation of new political realities after the "cold war", but also suggest new approaches and concepts on the basis of which it was possible to trace the dynamics of international relations in a changing world. Francis Fukuyama, his works and intepretations. Francis Fukuyama - known American political scientist and geopolitician. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University (New York), then - PhD in political science from...
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