...Mayor Bill de Blasio warned New Yorkers on Sunday that more snow was expected in the city overnight, but he said officials were prepared to handle the storm and schools were expected to open on Monday morning. The latest forecast called for 2 to 5 inches of snow by Monday morning, with up to 7 inches possible, Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference on Sunday. The snowstorm comes less than a week after much of the city shut down for a storm that brought significantly less snow than predicted. The mayor said he would watch the forecast overnight and make a final decision about schools early Monday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s trains and buses will run on Monday, he said, noting that commuters should take mass transit if possible because roads could be dangerous. “Based on what we know now, school will be open, M.T.A. will be running pretty smoothly,” the mayor said. “You will experience delays; people should give themselves extra time and should act carefully.” Continue reading the main story Related Coverage Zachary Maxwell, filmmaker. New York Today: A Snow Day ExpertJAN. 28, 2015 Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. video The Blizzard That Wasn’tJAN. 27, 2015 Jonathan Lamberton, left, is deaf, a relative rarity in his profession. Mr. Lamberton works with a hearing partner who signs an initial translation to him. He then signs his own take on the sentence. video De Blasio Defends Storm PreparationsJAN...
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...Snow removal is necessary during the winter season at Wheeling Jesuit University for the safety of students, staff, student commuters. Snow accumulations can range from any amount, so maintenance employees need to be more prepared before the winter season even occurs. If the university cares for the safety of the students and staff, then the school should be well equipped before the winter season occurs. By pre-treating roads/sidewalks with salt before snow accumulation happens, the safeness of students on campus, and the staff and commuters off campus will be able to get to the university safer manner. Currently at Wheeling Jesuit University snow removal is not taken care of in the best possible way. Employees in charge of removing snow from roads and sidewalks are not well prepared, as if they do not know it was going to snow. On campus, the roads are fully covered with the snow, and the snow is left on the road being packed down as some may walk or drive over the snow. For example, the article No-stick surface says, “the bond between the ice and the pavement is strong, removal by plowing alone may not be effective” (Tuan, Yahia 26). If the roads and...
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... Abstract This case study focuses on the problem of how management is becoming more and more important in many different fields of life. In this case, how good management can contribute to ski resorts. It observes and answers to the four important questions: In the first part it is explained what are the mainly changes in the business environment that have occurred 30 years ago, and how they effected ski resorts. The next part shows why management becomes more and more important for the survival and success of the ski resorts comparing it to 30 years ago. How competition from Europe has influenced ski resorts in the USA, and the discussion about the competition between the Colorado resorts and the other resorts from the east is made. In the last part the focus is on the predictions in the future, how will environment and future of the ski resorts change. Question 1: What are the most important changes in the environment that have contributed to the drop in revenues? From the period of 1970’s to 1980’s the Ski resorts and the ski industry in the USA was blooming, but suddenly in the mid 1980’s, all ski resorts were facing problems caused by the changes in the environment. Most ski resorts were having low profits. The losing of the profits were caused because of the change of the average year of the skier. This happened because of the Boom age Generation. People who were born...
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...Madison Forte “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Woolf, is a very contentious and vexed story which deals with controversial, real-life issues. This story contains three main characters who are socially inept, immature, and otherwise incompetent when it comes to maintaining healthy friendships or any kind of relationships at all. Frank is one of the three main characters in the story “Hunters in the Snow.” Frank is a very unbecoming character in the aspect of love and familial matters. He is a selfish man and a pervert; he believes that he is in love with a fifteen year old girl and he is prepared to leave his current wife and children for the chance to be with her. Frank tells Tub, another main character, that he is “really” in love...
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...remains on the earth's surface is runoff, which empties into lakes, rivers and streams and is carried back to the oceans, where the cycle begins again. Lake effect snowfall is good example of the hydrologic cycle at work. Below is a vertical cross-section summarizing the processes of the hydrologic cycle that contribute to the production of lake effect snow. The cycle begins as cold winds (horizontal blue arrows) blow across a large lake, a phenomena that occurs frequently in the late fall and winter months around the Great Lakes. Evaporation of warm surface water increases the amount of moisture in the colder, drier air flowing immediately above the lake surface. With continued evaporation, water vapor in the cold air condenses to form ice-crystal clouds, which are transported toward shore. | By the time these clouds reach the shoreline, they are filled with snowflakes too large to remain suspended in the air and consequently, they fall along the shoreline as precipitation. The intensity of lake effect snowfall can be enhanced by additional lifting due to the topographical features (hills) along the shoreline. Once the snow begins to melt, the water is either absorbed by the ground and becomes groundwater, or goes returns back...
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...School to help teach his future cartoonists and staff his ways of animation. Walt called some animators together after closing one night in 1934. He told them to all take a seat in chairs set out on a stage as Walt began to tell them the story of Snow White, just like he would do every time he started a new short cartoon. He acted out each character to the fullest, switching back and forth from each line to the next in perfect character. When Walt finally got to the end of the story were Snow White finally wakes up, he had many of his animators in tears. Unlike all his other creations, this was a full length cartoon. Many doubted Walt, including his own wife, Lilly. Nevertheless, Walt continued on and accepted nothing less than perfection from this future film. Every voice had to perfectly match the character, and if they couldn’t find anyone they decided on no voice at all, such as dopey. But Snow White’s voice was the main struggle. It had to be high, young, and pure, but Walt did not want to be influenced by the women’s looks. To avoid the possibility he had a sound system set up from the stage to his office as he listened to the singers. He immediately exclaimed “Perfect.” as he listened to Andriana Caselotti, the soon to be Snow...
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...Atlantic Coastal Plain Province is underlain by a wedge of unconsolidated sediments including gravel, sand, silt, and clay, which overlaps the rocks of the eastern Piedmont along an irregular line of contact known as the Fall Zone. Eastward, this wedge of sediments thickens to more than 8,000 feet at the Atlantic coast line. Beyond this line is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province, the submerged continuation of the Coastal Plain, which extends eastward for at least another 75 miles where the sediments attain a maximum thickness of about 40,000 feet. The sediments of the Coastal Plain dip eastward at a low angle, generally less than one degree, and range in age from Triassic to Quaternary. The younger formations crop out successively to the southeast across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. A thin layer of Quaternary gravel and sand covers the older formations throughout much of the area. Mineral resources of the Coastal Plain are chiefly sand and gravel, and are used as aggregate materials by the construction industry. Clay for brick and other ceramic uses is also important. Small deposits of iron ore are of historical interest. Plentiful supplies of ground water are available from a number of aquifers throughout much of this region. The Atlantic Continental Shelf contains abundant...
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...Atlantic Coastal Plain Province is underlain by a wedge of unconsolidated sediments including gravel, sand, silt, and clay, which overlaps the rocks of the eastern Piedmont along an irregular line of contact known as the Fall Zone. Eastward, this wedge of sediments thickens to more than 8,000 feet at the Atlantic coast line. Beyond this line is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province, the submerged continuation of the Coastal Plain, which extends eastward for at least another 75 miles where the sediments attain a maximum thickness of about 40,000 feet. The sediments of the Coastal Plain dip eastward at a low angle, generally less than one degree, and range in age from Triassic to Quaternary. The younger formations crop out successively to the southeast across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. A thin layer of Quaternary gravel and sand covers the older formations throughout much of the area. Mineral resources of the Coastal Plain are chiefly sand and gravel, and are used as aggregate materials by the construction industry. Clay for brick and other ceramic uses is also important. Small deposits of iron ore are of historical interest. Plentiful supplies of ground water are available from a number of aquifers throughout much of this region. The Atlantic Continental Shelf contains abundant...
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... I have always found that just a bit of laughter can make the situation one hundred times better. When I lived in Alaska, my family and I faced some of the harshest winters on record. Moving from Maryland where it was odd if we even accumulated a foot of snow during the winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to slide across the ice on my feet. I found this fun and all, until one day it took a turn for the worst. We were at the local Wal-Mart and we had just got dumped on with four feet of snow. The snowplows were right in the middle of clearing out the parking lot so they were leaving paths of solid ice, perfect for sliding on. My mom never fancied me sliding across the ice. She would always say...
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...part of my week one assignment, I created a flowchart that detailed my weekday morning process. I chose this process because I wanted to find ways to reduce the amount of time it took me to get the kids off to school. By creating a flowchart, bottlenecks were identified as well as opportunities to maximize the limited amount of time I have to complete my morning routine. This paper will again use the process identified in week one to complete a Statistical Process Control that can be used to verify my standard process is operating in a way that allows me to complete all of the tasks and affords me additional time. This paper will also outline the control limits of my morning process, the effects of any seasonal factors, and the confidence intervals involved. Statistical Process Control Data was recorded for a period of two weeks on how long it took me to complete my morning routine and get my kids off to school. I tracked the minutes it took me to complete each step of my morning routine and used the totals from each day to calculate the mean. On average, the time it took me from the time I woke up to the time the kids were delivered to school was 150 minutes. The standard deviation is 10.54 minutes. [pic] Control Limits It would be unreasonable for me to expect that I could complete this process – each day – with no variance in the completion time. This is why I created the control limits to serve as the minimum and maximum expected standard. The upper and...
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...union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 27 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash. The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found Chilean arriero Sergio Catalán, who gave them food and then alerted the authorities to the existence of the other survivors. The crash On 13 October 1972, a chartered Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the Andes carrying the Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to play a match in Santiago, Chile. The trip had begun the day before, when the Fairchild departed from Carrasco International Airport, but inclement mountain weather forced an overnight stop in Mendoza, Argentina. At the Fairchild's ceiling of 9,000 metres (30,000 ft), the plane could...
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...improved existence for their selves. The leaders were two prosperous brothers Jacob and George Donner. Their group was traveling out west like many others looking to start a new life with new opportunities but things turned out to be much worse than they expected. The party had to face challenges along the way that left them struggling to stay alive and well. The Donner party left Springfield, Illinois on April 16, 1846 with about ninety migrants and one wagon per every three individuals. Their plan was to reach San Francisco, California a place full of new and prosperous opportunities. They left almost two weeks after another group with the same intentions, and were the last wagon group to depart for the year from Springfield. People in Springfield had said that even the previous party of wagons had left to late to beat the harsh California winter. The trip was supposed to take four months but then things turned much worse for the Donner Party. The Reeds and Donners were given a letter from one of Hasting’s solicitors warning them to expect trouble from Mexican authorities and Native Americans in California. He advised them to stay...
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...ice age began about 70,000 years ago and it ended about 10,000 years ago. An ice age is a natural system. It is a period of time where the temperature of earth´s surface and atmosphere are reducing, which melts ice and breaks into glaciers. The ice age might have occurred because the temperatures were much colder so it never rained; only snowed. Another reason why it might have occurred is because the earth changed its tilt away from the sun. The ice age people would hunt for food like a mammoth meat. People had many difficulties to get food. Some countries like Britain, France, Spain and Germany were very cold. The land looked mostly uncovered because trees and plants were difficult to grow. There were no grass only plants like bushes. They painted pictures of the animals on the sides of...
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...Glacier Glacier, any large mass of perennial ice that originates on land by the recrystallization of snow or other forms of solid precipitation and that shows evidence of past or present flow. Exact limits for the terms large, perennial, and flow cannot be set. Except in size, a small snow patch that persists for more than one season is hydrologically indistinguishable from a true glacier. One international group has recommended that all persisting snow and ice masses larger than 0.1 square kilometre (about 0.04 square mile) be counted as glaciers. Glaciers are classifiable in three main groups: (1) glaciers that extend in continuous sheets, moving outward in all directions, are called ice sheets if they are the size of Antarctica or Greenland and ice caps if they are smaller; (2) glaciers confined within a path that directs the ice movement are called mountain glaciers; and (3) glaciers that spread out on level ground or on the ocean at the foot of glaciated regions are called piedmont glaciers or ice shelves, respectively. Glaciers in the third group are not independent and are treated here in terms of their sources: ice shelves with ice sheets, piedmont glaciers with mountain glaciers. A complex of mountain glaciers burying much of a mountain range is called an ice field. Distribution of glaciers A most interesting aspect of recent geological time (some 30 million years ago to the present) has been the recurrent expansion and contraction of the world’s ice cover. These...
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...the Starbucks thing was or is more important? It started with a tweet on November 5th by Joshua Feuerstein, a evangelist and social media personality. He shares his messages through the internet to his over 1.8 million Facebook fans and almost 8300 Twitter followers. In his tweet, he shared a video of him being angry about the red cup from Starbucks. He claimed that they removed the Christmas logos from their normal winter cups. So let us look at the cups form the last few years to see if there is any truth. In 2014, the cups had illustrations of snowflakes on...
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