...My Home-Made Biomass Gasifier Making your own gasifier is easy I've built a lot of alternative energy projects over the years. See my home-built solar panel and wind turbine pages. I've always wanted to build a wood or biomass gasifier too. Why? Well, the internal combustion engine is really an important part of our society and the basis of a lot of our transportation and portable power technology. It isn't going to be going away any time soon. I've mastered making my own electricity from the sun and wind, but that doesn't help my truck go down the road, power the lawn mower, or run my generator on cloudy, windless days. Those all have internal combustion engines, and they all need fuel to run. I finally decided it was time to master making my own fuel. Why pay the Arabs for it if I can make a working substitute myself? So what is A biomass gasifier? Basically is a chemical reactor that converts wood, or other biomass substances, into a combustible gas that can be burned for heating, cooking, or for running an internal combustion engine. This is achieved by partially combusting the biomass in the reactor, and using the heat generated to pyrolyse or thermally break down the rest of the material into volatile gasses. A well built reactor will also convert combustion byproducts like CO2 and water vapor into flammable CO and H2 by passing them over a bed of hot charcoal where they will get reduced. Thus the gasifier converts most of the mass of the wood (or other...
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...Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Inc: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive A Written Case Analysis by Mr. Aristotle Metin CASE BACKGROUND The U.S. Ice Cream Industry The total retail value of ice cream and related products in the United States was about $9.8 billion in 1990. The superpremium ice cream market held about 9.5% of the ice cream industry in the US. By 1990, Ben & Jerry’s was a strong # 2 in the superpremium ice cream market and the fifth largest ice cream maker of any type in the United States. Ben & Jerry’s Home-made Ice Cream Inc. Incorporated in 1977 by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the first Ben & Jerry’s Home- made Ice Cream shop was opened in Burlington with an investment of $12,000. The company was known for “standing for something better than a typical corporation”. Its business mission was primarily to “become a growing force for social change.” Since its inception, the ice cream company was now gearing for further business growth. It had grown tremendously (9000%) from 1981 to 1997; with a yearly average growth in net income of not less than 12%. Stockholders equity had an average 3-year growth of 20% from 1986 to 1989. In 1990, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream was a public traded company. The 5-to-1 Policy This compressed salary structure means the highest paid employee (including corporate officers) will be paid at the rate no more than five times what the lowest paid employee could earn for an equivalent work week. It was applicable...
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...1. INTRODUCTION The term “Exchange rate” is referred to as the value of the money of one country compared to the money of another country exchange rate movement is therefore the fluctuation in the value of a country’s currency when compared to another country at particular time period. The importance of foreign exchange rate on inflow of foreign private investment has been traced by Obadan (1994) who noted that its importance as the center pieces of the investment environment derives from the argument that a sustained exchange rate misalignment in terms of over-valuation or under-valuation is a major source of macro economics disequilibrium which spells danger for investment. A stable exchange rate encourages, foreign and local investor into such an economy. This is because, an over-valued exchange rate discourage export and negatively affect the foreign private investment Salako (2004). Further state that there is a long run equilibrium relationship between investment inflow to Nigeria and variables such as nominal effective exchange rate. A high foreign exchange rate increase the prices of goods and services and discourage exportation while at the sometime encourages importation of goods which are cheaper. This has negative effect on the investment and with such factors investors withdraw their money from such an economy (Solomon, 2012). It is therefore imperative to state that foreign exchange rate is a significant factor that determines investment in...
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...Dress Homes TABLE OF CONTENTS S.No. 1. Contents Competitors’ Background - Bareeze Home Expressions IKEA Pakistan alKaram Studio ChenOne Ideas Habitt Junxion Zubaida’s homestore 2. 3. 4. Marketing Audit - Tagline Comparison - USP Comparison - Website Comparison Action Plan (8-Step Plan) - Step 1: USP - Step 2: Vision Mission & Values - Step 3: Brand Personality - Step 4: Corporate Tagline - Step 5: Product Development Strategy - Step 6: Service Development Strategy - Step 7: Social Media Marketing - Step 8: Promotional Strategy References Page No. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 2 3 Home Expression was founded in 1998 by Bareezé. All bed sets, bed covers, etc. of Home expressions are made with Bareezé quality fabric. Bed sets by home expressions are designed according to local and global fashion trends. Beautiful bed without beautiful bed cover looks ugly, taking consideration this need of customers, Home expressions has made several stylish bed sets in several designs and color combination. Now Home expressions has also introduced various new home accessories as well like beautiful rugs, soft furnishing etc. which helped Pakistani women to decorate their home in a more stylish way. Design Type: Floral/trendy motif Designs 4 Affordable Solutions for Better Living The IKEA Concept is founded on a low-price offer in home furnishings. It is based on offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing...
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...“I really enjoy living out of my home country,” says Zoey when being asked if she misses her hometown. Not everyone knew that Zoey is an international student. Being born and raised in Hong Kong, Zoey explains she never had many friends and emphasized that Hong Kong occasionally felt crowded. From a jam-packed city in Hong Kong, China, Zoey moved to Everett in 2015 to pursue a degree in arts at Everett Community College. During her enrollment, Zoey explained that she had not communicated with her family for a month, this made her family, especially her mom, mad and worried. Her relation has improved due to the communication classes Zoey claims she took here at Everett Community College. She eventually changed her degree to arts and communication and is pursuing an AA degree....
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...Before buying a home, you want to make sure that everything stays up to par. It is sometimes surprising how many people place trust in the home inspector to tell them the truth. What a lot of people do not realize is that most home inspectors will not scrutinize anything that is not blatantly obvious. The typical response when something seems out of place is to refer it to the specialist. The problem has become so widespread that the state of Arizona has now created a system where you have to attend college to be given a license. Is There a Problem? Refer It to the Specialist Your standard home inspector might spot an issue, but a lot of them aren't going to tell you if there is a gas problem or the home had previously been used as a meth...
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...However, with the right strategy balancing life and school can be manageable. We live in an age where women play a crucial role in the job market and in the home setting. This is no exception for me. Prior to school, my work and home life consisted of being a mother to my dogs, a wife to my partner, a leader and manager at my job, a socialite to my friends, a dedicated family member, a maid and a cook! Trying to factor in college classes seemed frightening at first! It has been ten years since I have attended any kind of educational classes; however, seeing that I regretted not attending college directly after high school, I made the decision that going back to school would open up many career opportunities for me. Deciding that I wanted to go back to school to expand my knowledge and career opportunities was the biggest decision that I have ever made thus far. Since I do not have the luxury to always have a set schedule to where I can attend traditional college classes in a classroom, I made the big decision to do distance learning as opposed to traditional college classes. In order to achieve this goal I needed to decide what my career and educational goals were, what my major would be, and what school I would attend to meet this goal. So after much soul searching and countless hours of research I finally made those crucial decisions. Ultimately my career and educational goal is to obtain my Bachelor’s degree with a high GPA so that one...
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...An Undisputable Edge The Indiana Pacers, the Golden State Warriors, and the Denver Nuggets… these three NBA teams all made the playoffs last season. However, so did several other teams, so why mention these three? If we look back at their road to the postseason, these three squads have a significant difference in their win-loss record when compared to all the other teams: when playing at home, their records were far better as compared to when playing on the road. Let’s take a look at the Indiana Pacers. Going into the playoffs, this team was the third seed in the Eastern Conference, a noteworthy achievement. However, when playing on the road, this team was mediocre throughout the season, ending up with a sub-500 record, 19-22 (ESPN). However, this squad seemed to sync and “click” when playing in Indianapolis, recording 30 home wins as opposed to only 11 losses, enabling them to clinch such a high seed in the playoffs. A similar pattern occurred in Golden State, seeded six due to their home record of 28-13, despite a road record of 19-22 (ESPN). The most astonishing team was the Denver Nuggets, who were also the three seed, but in the Western Conference. This squad managed to tally a whopping 38 wins at home to only three losses! With this near-perfect win-loss ratio, you must be questioning how they were not seeded number one. The answer lies in their struggle to achieve similar success while playing as the visiting team: the Nuggets had the same road record as...
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...and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia.”1 This website houses data for more than 90 million homes to buy, rental homes, rental apartments and rental properties, across the United States. Information on these properties includes size, bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, living room, location, cost, and even color. Zillow will let you know if properties are pet-friendly, what style the home is, what the cabinets are made of and what color the tile is in the bathroom. The site provides not only the information about the homes look, but it also about the cost and the valuation of the home. It also automatically recalculates the valuation of the properties every day to provide users with historical grafts of the properties over time, so with 10 years’ worth of history.2 Just like buying a car and getting all the maintenance history, renters or buyers can get the information on the homes and be better educated on what they are buying or renting. As one would imagine, having a website like this where a buyer could look at properties across the country if they are moving would save a great deal of time for them when they actually visit the area. Busy people everywhere now have a new tool that will allow them to virtually visit homes even at 2am. This site now represents homes 95% of homes available across our nation. With all of the data needed to run this site, it has to be massive. And with all of the hits happening on the...
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...stating that a woman work is not a high art (Alvarez, Pg. 766). However, in detail she explains the different types of challenges the character known as “the woman”, who struggles as she does her basic routine of cleaning. As I ponder on this week’s readings, I find myself thinking on how my Ancestors had to work in the cotton field and their master’s home. Also, tending to their needs. They really went through a lot and some even died so that there next generation could not experience the hardship. What I am stating, is that there comes a time in someone’s home that an individual has to sacrifice their lives so that their children can have better ones. People may not like the situation that there in but they are seeing the big picture and that is the future that lies ahead. In line 3, Alvarez states that the woman is keeping her house as if the address was their heart. Like the saying “your home is where your heart” (Alvarez, Pg. 766). When you find a place in your heart where your home is. You will always go back to your first love, which is your family. I know my mother did everything she could to make a home for my family because to me she was the sole bread winner in the house hold. I could see that she was tired and...
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...The Home Depot Johnathan Benson ETH/316 3/4/2015 Clement Stubstad The Home Depot The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement store. People from all over the world, shop at The Home Depot for all their home improvement needs. Currently, the company is listed in the number thirty-three spot on the Fortune 500 list. The Home Depot has eight core values where they speak of not only the community and their employees, but they also speak about their commitment to their shareholders. The Home Depot states (The Home Depot Values, 2013) " The Home Depot's values guide the beliefs and actions of all associates on a daily basis. Our values are the fabric of the Company's unique culture and are central to our success. In fact, they are our competitive advantage in the marketplace. Associate pride and our "orangeblooded" entrepreneurial spirit are distinctive hallmarks of our culture." These values are listed as; Taking care of our people, Giving back to our communities, Doing the right thing, Excellent customer service, Creating shareholder value, Building healthy relationships, Entrepreneurial spirit, and Respect for all people. These values have helped the organization grow over the years, however; these values have helped the company grow tremendously since 2013. Home Depot's values are very near and dear to the heart of CEO and President Craig Menear. He believes that these values are what will make The Home Depot grow. As a stakeholder in any company, an individual...
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...in-house and out-house laundry. In each room, every maid has a 30 minutes for cleaning the room, and there are 3 shifts / day in which the maids has to clean the room. (every floor has at least 10 maids). The laundry in the hotel is one in-house, and one of the reasons why the hotel is dotated with a in-house laundry is that the GM provides greater control of where the inventory will be laundred. What housekeeping meaning? Housekeeping is the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a home. It is one of the many chores included in the term housework. Housecleaning includes activities such as disposing of rubbish, cleaning dirty surfaces, dusting and vacuuming. It may also involve some outdoor chores, such as removing leaves from rain gutters, washing windows and sweeping doormats. The term is often used also figuratively in politics and business, for the removal of unwanted personnel, methods or policies in an effort at reform or improvement. Housecleaning is done to make the home look better and be safer and easier to live in. Without housecleaning limescale can build...
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...Exclusive Resorts situation in terms of industry, environment, and as well as internal factors. We will present a number of possible strategic alternatives with its advantages and disadvantages. Finally we will conclude the analysis with our recommendations. II. INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS Over the last few decades the luxury vacation industry has been characterized by the increased demand for the perfect vacation and increases in income in top percentages of the American population. Around the time of the early 2000's only 3 to 5 million Americans could afford the type of membership fee required to join a business similar to Exclusive resorts. The residence club industry is high fragmented and made up of timeshares, private resident clubs, whole ownership second homes, luxury villa rental, branded private residence clubs and destination clubs. The only one of the above mentioned that competes directly with Exclusive Resorts are destination clubs. Exclusive Resorts follows a differentiation strategy distinguishing themselves from the others by product offerings, market presence and growth strategies. As mentioned there are several key segments in the industry. Timeshares traditionally have...
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...Home. Let’s face it we all have our pre-conceived norms on what “home” means. The most common outcomes that come to mind are the literal house you were raised in, the people you grew up with, or perhaps your hometown. Webster dictionary states that home is “the place where one lives permanently, esp. as a member of a family or household.” Houses, apartments, trailers, mobile homes, and even tents are considered to be homes for people. But what makes a home, a home? Home is what you make it. For me, home is where I can be at peace and especially comfortable. I kid you not there is no greater feeling than using the bathroom in your own house. I think what most students can relate too is enduring through a tough day at school, and as soon they come home they undress into sweats and a t-shirt and either eat, sleep, or go on Facebook. If you think about it, you can essentially do whatever you want because it is your house. You can do all of your pondering, crying, sleeping, eating, schoolwork, etc. in the comfort of your home. I view it as a safe haven, somewhere I can call sanctuary. I know for a fact after I’ve had a long school day I like to just lock myself in my room and listen to music. It’s my way of escaping from the world and all of its distractions. Sure I can pleasure you with nostalgic memories from my childhood or the numerous holidays and vacation spots I enjoyed, but what’s unique about that. Like you said, I’m sure you don’t want to read the same thing eighteen...
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...Hi.. This is _________ with _________., and Im calling about the home for sale on _____________________. Are you the owner? Great!! Did the home sell already or is it still for sale? Fantastic Im calling because I know of all the homes for sale….. and even about the ones that aren’t listed through Real Estate Agents. My name is Eddie by the way what’s yours? How many bedrooms is the home? How many Baths? On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your home, 10 being the best . Fantastic So tell me…If I had a buyer that made a reasonable offer on your home, are you prepared to pay a commission? Ok great , how much is that ? So how much are you asking for the property? Do you consider that a discounted price because your selling it yourself? Or do you consider it fair market value? Great! It sounds like you have a great home…where you folks heading after you sell this home? How soon do you have to be there? Do you have to be there in 5 months? Or do you have to be sold at that time? So ____ I understand that you want to sell the home privately…And if the home doesn’t sell are you thinking of interviewing a powerful agent to sell your home? If there was an advantage to... using me now... to market your home would you consider it? Let’s just meet for 20 minutes or so... so I can show you how I’ve been able to help so many people... like yourself... I have time this afternoon or is tomorrow better for you? If they say no.. then schedule a...
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