...Dubai One should visit Dubai, because it is a beautiful city located in the United Arab Emirates with the modern development and wonderful and luxurious attractions. The first sightseeing that needs to be mentioned is Burj Khalifa. It is a skyscraper with the height of 829.84 m; the high rise is the tallest artificial building around the world. The structure was officially opened on the 4th January, 2010, and it is a component of the new 2 km flagship district named Downtown Dubai. This tower is the heart of the world-famous area for shopping, eating and amusement. It is also the highest skyscraper, the structure of which consists of numerous floors, while the tallest one has the biggest and swiftest elevators. In order to test one of the performances, it is essential to pay a visit to “Atmosphere”, which is the world tallest restaurant on the 122nd floor, at the height of 442 m. In contradiction to the title, it offers a supervision deck, which is not placed on the tip, namely on the 163th floor, but on the 124th one. When it was opened at first, it was the tallest supervision deck in the world in terms of the open air, taking into consideration its height of 452 m; however, since that time, it has been exceeded by the Cloud Top 488 supervision deck on the tip of Canton Tower in Guangdong, located in China. Another place of interest in Dubai is Burj Al Arab. It is one of the most splendid buildings with the height of 321 m; it is considered to be the fourth elevated hotel...
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...manufacturing company in the world by volume. Part of the Tata Group, it was formerly known as TELCO (TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company). Its products include passenger cars, trucks, vans and coaches.Tata Motors is South Asia’s largest automobile company; it is the leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three in passenger vehicles. Worldwide it is the world's fourth-largest truck manufacturer and second-largest bus manufacturer. It has auto manufacturing and assembly plants in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad and Pune, India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, Thailand and the United Kingdom. Tata Motors has produced and sold over 6.5 million vehicles in India since 1954. Tata Motors is a cross-listed company; its stock trades on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Established in 1945 . India's largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs.70,938.85 crores (USD 14 billion) in 2008-09 . Over 4 million Tata vehicles ply on Indian roads. Vision of the Company: “Best in the manner in which we operate. Best in the products we deliver. Best in our value system and ethics. “ Product mix: A product mix is the set of all products and items a particular seller offers for sale. A product mix consists of various product lines. Passenger cars and utility vehicles * Tata Sierra (Discontinued) * Tata Estate (Discontinued) * Tata Sumo/Spacio * Tata Sumo Grande * Tata Safari * Tata Indica ...
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...Target Segmentation 1.1 Introduction Red Bull is a non-alcoholic energy drink and therefore falls under the category of soft drinks. Soft drinks can be divided into sub-segments and one of these segments is energy and sports drinks. These can be divided again into three different categories: • Glucose energy drinks • Sport drinks • High energy stimulation drinks • Since 1996 the market of soft drinks has grown by 5% and by 1997 it reached a total amount of £6.896bn, which is an equivalent of 10bn liters. Moreover we can say that the segment of energy and sports drinks represents 2.6% or £177m of the overall soft drink market. Since 1992 an increase of 64% in volume sales can be found within this very young market of energy and sports drinks. • The main differences of the three above mentioned sub-segments of soft drinks are as followed 1.2 Glucose Energy Drinks These drinks provide physical energy through glucose or a mixture of sugars. Originated from the Lucozade brand. These drinks do not contain any other substantial ingredients such as Lucozade Energy, Lucozade NRJ or Red Card. In 1927 they were originally positioned as a convalescence drink. 1.3 Sports drinks Also known as isotonic drinks, replaces body fluids after sport activities or exercises. Sport drinks help to re-energize and re-hydrate the body and can be taken before, during or after exercises. That’s because you should drink it in great amounts and fairly quickly, they are usually...
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...Going The Distance: Plan in place to ensure Michael Phelps’ legacy By Tripp Mickle, Staff Writer July 30, 2012 07:42 AM Font Size Resize Small Resize Normal Resize Large | Print | Share | Swimming icon Michael Phelps plans to retire after the London Games. GETTY IMAGES Call it Michael Phelps 2.0. Long before Phelps won his eighth gold medal in Beijing, his agent, Peter Carlisle, was developing a post-career plan for the swimmer. The time to put it to use will come later this week when Phelps pulls himself out of the pool after competing at an Olympics for the last time. The plan is designed to potentially fulfill Carlisle’s belief that the swimmer could make more than $100 million in his lifetime and further his aim of increasing interest in competitive swimming worldwide. To do so, Carlisle believes Phelps will need to continue signing endorsements, promoting his foundation, traveling to international markets and developing new lines of business like the Michael Phelps Skills Center, a remote training system being piloted in Maine. Octagon's Peter Carlisle has a goal of Phelps earning $100 million in his lifetime. SHANA WITTENWYLER “The goal is still there,” Carlisle, head of Octagon’s Olympic and action sports division, said of the career earnings target he set in 2008. “Just do the math over time. He’s young. He’s not going anywhere. People aren’t going to forget who he is. It’s burned in their memories.” Transitioning an athlete into...
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...when it sees a festive spike of 15 per cent. For the first time, Cadbury's advertising went off air for a month and a half after Diwali, following the controversy. Consumers seemed to ignore their chocolate cravings. As a brand under fire, in October itself, Cadbury's launched project 'Vishwas' - a education initiative covering 190,000 retailers in key states. But what the company did in January 2004 is what really helped de-worm the brand. By investing up to Rs 15 crore (Rs 150 million) on imported machinery, Cadbury's revamped the packaging of Dairy Milk. The metallic poly-flow was costlier by 10-15 per cent, but Cadbury didn't hike the pack price. Bharat Puri, managing director, Cadbury's India says, "While we're talking about a few bars of the 30 million we sell every month - we believe that to be a responsible company, consumers need to have complete faith in products. So even if it calls for substantial...
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...Remove a broken key from a lock. Put some super glue on broken off part, insert, hold a few seconds and pull. 2. Remove a broken light bulb. Stick a bar of soap into jagged edges, use soap as handle. 3. Remove a stubborn screw. Heat with a soldering iron for a few seconds first. 4. Protect children from sockets. Keep a piece of electrical tape over them when not in use. 5. Good glass door safety tip. Put a BIG decal on the glass and patio doors. 6. Keep nails from splitting wood. Blunt sharp end of nail before you use by hitting with hammer. 7. Repair small holes in screen. Plug holes with clear nail polish, let dry, repeat until filled. 8. Straighten warped phono records. Place record between two sheets of glass, let sit in sun for a while. 9. Best way to clean phono records. Dip in solution of detergent and water, rinse and wipe dry. 10. Make your own fireplace logs. Roll newspapers up tightly in shape of logs. 11. How to remove oil from a driveway. Cover with sand let stand for a few days, then sweep off. 12. Keep fish hooks from rusting. Stick them in a cork and submerge in some baking soda. 13. Make sandpaper last longer. Back sandpaper with masking tape. 14. How to revive old razor blades. Rub them back and forth inside a drinking glass. 15. Remove road tar from cars. Sodium bicarbonate on a damp cloth. 16. Remove labels from bottles and jars. 17. Cut glass without a glass cutter. Use tin snips and cut under water...
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...PAULO COELHO THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM Translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor Harper Collins Ptty/stars 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith London W6 8JB The HarperCollins website address is: www.fireandwater.com Paulo Coelho's website address is: www.paulocoelho.com.br First published in English by HarperCollinsPwfe/js/ws 2001 This edition published 2002 13579 10 8642 © Paulo Coelho 2000 English translation © Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor Paulo Coelho asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 00 711605 5 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Omnia Books Limited, Glasgow All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, Hail Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who turn to Thee for help. Amen. ALSO BY PAULO COELHO The Alchemist The Pilgrimage The Valkyries By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept The Fifth Mountain Veronika Decides to Die And a certain ruler asked him, saying, 'Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?' And Jesus said unto him, 'Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is God.' Luke 18: 18-19 Author's note The first story about division comes from ancient Persia: the god of time, having created the universe, sees...
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...oil shortages, and oil prices have been a catalyzing topic for anyone that considers themselves American for many years. This is because a very large portion of our quality of life comes from the use of and consumption of mostly foreign oil. Anything from gasoline for our personal cars to get around daily to diesel for our trucks to move our goods from place to place is what we get from oil. Like stated earlier, the US depends greatly on foreign oil, creating great demand for a relatively specific product. The US does indeed have its own oil producing capabilities scattered through the mainland and also alongside its coasts, but it has not gotten to the point where the oil supply created in-country, has exceeded the demand. In this article, they look at how in certain states oil production is blooming, increasing our supply and reducing the demand for foreign oil. “Look no further than Texas, North Dakota, and other states where oil production is blooming” states the BusinessWeek article. This quote directs the attention to the growing oil production in the US. With increased supply of their own oil, the US will slowly demand less oil from other countries that are richly saturated with the black gold. When the self-produced oil outweighs the supply demanded from the other countries, debt will shrink and will be able to start producing excess to perhaps generate a profit from. According to Morgan Stanley economist Ted Wieseman,” …that as recently as 2006, the inflation-adjusted...
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...PA 16802-5011, USA a r t i c l e in f o Article history: Received 7 February 2008 Received in revised form 3 May 2008 Accepted 4 May 2008 JEL classification: L72 Q32 Keywords: Artisanal and small-scale mining Recognition Flourishing Alternative livelihoods Ghana a b s t r a c t Much of the discourse and literature on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa has inherently prescriptive recommendations on how the sector should develop. Devaluation, misrecognition, and criminalization of artisanal, largely illegal miners hamper their participation not only in environmental and political decision-making but also in negotiating potential alternative livelihoods. This article addresses the following three questions: (a) what are the pull and push factors in Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector?; (b) what concrete livelihood options exist for unregistered miners when regularization is impeded and undermined?; and (c) in the absence of promising alternative livelihoods, how can the ASM sector be re-imagined to allow poor men and women miners to flourish as recognized and valued members of their society? The findings suggest that as long as currently illegal miners have some expectation that they will legitimately acquire even small parcels of land for gold extraction, they are very unlikely to commit to any of the fashionable, yet shortlived alternative livelihood options that are introduced by external...
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...Environmental Impact: California Gold Rush The Gold Rush of Yesterday and Its Effect on the Environment Today The California Gold Rush of 1848 produced more than a just a fever for the fortune seekers. It also produced an impact upon the environment whose effects can still be witnessed today. In 1848 the call went out across the nation, there is gold in Sutter’s Mill. As the word spread settlers and immigrants began their long treks across the plains and from far foreign lands across the seas to California. Up until the discovery of gold, much of the Californian lands had been unsettled. Between the years 1848 and 1866 some 350,000 emigrants had traveled to California in search of their fortune.1 This massive influx of such a vast number of people placed a huge burden upon the land and resulted in the dishevel of its indigenous people. As the population rapidly increased so did the need for food, water, and shelter. The requirements placed upon the land by its new population were great. The natural wildlife of the area was quickly over hunted for their meat and furs. The rivers were over fished and huge forests were clear cut to provide the demand of construction materials in support of structures and dwelling. In the lower lands trees were cut to clear land needed for farming and to provide fuel material to the mines. Natural water ways were redirected and damned to support the mining efforts. These changes only further exasperated the dwindling fish and fresh...
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...[pic]Top of Form Aboriginal Australia [pic] Find out how you can connect with the world’s oldest living culture. Discover it the same way Aboriginal Australians have passed it down for at least 50,000 years - through art, dance, myths, music and the land itself. See Aboriginal art and contemporary dance in the cities. Or head to the outback and listen to Dreamtime myths of creation by the campfire. Let Aboriginal Australians help you understand this ancient land and its spirituality and wonder. Six special places you can connect to Aboriginal Australia [pic] Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory Visit Uluru and you’ll see why the rock and surrounding land have such huge spiritual significance for the Anangu Aboriginal people. According to their creation myths, ancestral spirits formed Uluru, which lies in Australia's red centre like an enormous, moody heart. Aboriginal guides will share these ancient tales as you walk around the rock’s base. Just 32 kilometres away is another sacred site - Kata Tjuta. You’ll be awestruck by these steep, rounded, russet domes over 3,500 hectares. [pic] Kimberley, Western Australia Featuring vast horizons and ancient gorges, the Kimberley region is one of the world’s last great wilderness areas. See Wandjina figures painted in caves and the mysterious Gwion Gwion paintings. Ride a camel on Broome’s breathtaking Cable Beach and 4WD the red-dirt road along the Dampier Peninsula. Learn the legend of the orange and black beehive...
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...The foyer was crowded. Mary leaned in close to William as they stepped through the crowd. A soft whisper ran through the room as William made his way towards the steps leading to the basement. Men and women tripped over themselves to shake his hand, congratulate him on passing the bar, and ask after Mary and the baby. William was surprised that word of his appointment to the Virginia Bar had travelled so quickly. As a naturally humble person, he failed to recognize his place as a fixture in The Movement’s inner circle. Without a law license, he was regarded as a man of stature; becoming an attorney elevated his standing even...
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...Rainmaker Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. ----BURNT NORTON Chapter One At that time, I saw Joe stand there, far away from us, despaired. No one could stop Old Joe from killing us. He came from the future, he had known what would happen thirty years later, and he must kill Sid to save his wife. Old Joe raise his arm, “I am sorry, but your son will became a devil, he must die now.” I shook my head, “Please, I will take him away from here; I will make him to become a normal person. Please.” “I am sorry,” Old Joe was ready to pull the trigger. It was impossible for Joe to save us; he was on the edge of the field, out of his blunderbuss’ firing range. But this time, just as Old Joe was pulling the trigger, a distant shot was heard. And Old Joe disappeared. Joe turned his blunderbuss back on himself and FIRED. I knew it was not the only choice of Joe, but the best. ----From Looper: Destined by Sara White 11th July 2044 The house stands on a slight rise just on the edge of a Kansas corn field near the highway. Not a remarkable house by any means-it is about thirty-year old, squatty, and squarish, made of brick, and had no furniture. The only thing in the house is an Indian ausan. It is about four o’clock in the afternoon. The sky is pregnant with rain. Now, there is a young man stand in the middle of the house, waiting before the dirty ausan. It is Joe, an...
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...STAT 225: Introduction to Probability Models Extra Examples 1 Introduction to Probability Extra 1.1 Let A be an event that happens 40% of the time. Let B be an event that happens 75% of the time. Answer the following 4 questions. What is the smallest probability the intersection of A and B can have? What is the largest probability the intersection of A and B can have? What is the smallest probability the union of A and B can have? What is the largest probability the union of A and B can have? .15, .4, .75, and 1 respectively. Extra 1.2 Suppose we are rolling 2 independent, fair 10-sided die. Let A be the event that the sum of the rolls is a prime number. Let B be the event that the sum of the rolls is odd. Let C be the event that the sum of the rolls is even. Find the following sets: BC , A ∩ B, A ∪ C, A ∩ C, (A ∩ C)C , A ∩ (B ∩ C)C , (A ∩ (B ∩ C))C ? BC = C, A ∩ B = A \ {2}, A ∪ C = Ω \ {9, 15}, A ∩ C = {2}, (A ∩ C)C =Ω \ {2}, A ∩ (B ∩ C)C = A, and (A ∩ (B ∩ C))C = Ω. Extra 1.3 Suppose a lottery has balls numbered 1-20. 4 balls are picked at random and without replacement. Let A be the event that all 4 balls are even. Let B be the event that all 4 balls are less than 10. Let C be the event that all 4 balls are primes. (Allow 1 to be a prime.) Find P(A), P(B), and P(C). (Hint an extended general multiplication rule could be helpful.) P(all 4 even) = (10)4 (20)4 = .0433. (9) P(all less than 10) = (20)44 = .0260. What numbers are prime? 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and...
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...what if teens want to watch Trace this year when they were hooked on MTV last year? And if youngsters’ primary device is a cellphone, is that really going to change the world? Although less often than before, we are still confronted by “youth cynics” after the Sunday Times Generation Next study is published every year. Their concern, generally, is that youth are still a relatively marginal market segment, so why do a brand preference study? South Africa, like most developing countries, has a very young population — more of our citizens are 22 — the age limit of the study — or younger than those who are older. So, with a sample set aged between eight and 22, the study tracks the consumer behaviour and preferences of a large, not small, part of the market. The segment is also significant for other reasons: ý Their annual direct spend, as per the study, is over the R95-billion mark; ý They are key household influences — to the tune of more than 60% in categories such as groceries, treats, eatout venues, technology, holiday destinations and more; ý They are the future consumers of all brands —...
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