...Pope 1 Garett Pope Professor Nora Kabaji English 100 Military Base Support 12 November 2010 The Military and the Community The government’s decision to build more military bases has been a topic that has surged through communities around the United States. The government is strict and deliberate when deciding where to place new installations. Yet, some local government’s and communities dispute and debate over whether establishing a base in their neighborhood would be in the best interest of the city and its patrons. The local community should support military bases that are built within the city. Military bases provide a community with many job opportunities. Gas stations, postal services, grocery stores and shopping centers blanket most military bases. These on base facilities provide civilians the unique opportunity to interact and work with military personnel. Many of the civilian employees attain and take a firm grasp of the military’s high level of expectation and professionalism. This dedication and commitment brings an abundance of praise from outside industries and companies. Also, government employees and families receive exceptional benefits. Medical, dental and health care costs are either discounted or paid for by the United States government. With rising health care costs in America, this benefit is an economic blessing to a majority of Pope 2 families. In addition, the influx in population increases the...
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...Railway Station Introduction Energy saving of buildings is ever-increasingly emphasized by modern society. With the emergence of innovative technologies, new materials, and sophisticated architectural design, designers are hard to know the energy consumption of a building. It will reduce the real meaning of building's energy consumption test if we conduct this test on a building already built. Therefore, it is recommended to simulate a building's energy consumption within project design stages. Owing to the complexity of the air conditioning process and the mechanism of thermal components, the work of analysis and computation is time-consuming. Meanwhile, simulation software advantages over the traditional way in the application of design compare and equipment selection. In a nutshell, building energy simulation softwares play a vital role in the analysis of building energy consumption. Tianjin Railway Station is the main railway transport hub of Tianjin city. With the help of software to simulate its air conditioning system and conduct energy analysis, we can obtain some salutary design advices, which are beneficial to the energy saving of Tianjin Railway Station. Introduction to Waiting Hall of Tianjin Railway Station Tianjin Railway Station is located in the center of Tianjin, at the junction of Heping District, Hedong District and Hebei District, and is the most important railway transport hub of Tianjin. Tianjin Railway Station is the largest railway station in Tianjin...
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...Area, news about Mayor Rob Ford’s scandal on consuming narcotics approximately a year ago has gotten a lot of attention. When this story is portrayed on local news stations, for an example on City Pulse 24, Rob Ford is “celebritized”—made into a popular figure in society—, on the other hand, on national and global news stations, he is made to look like a criminal. Upon analyzing both local and global news, the ratio of serious news to entertainment news of popular news stories, will be exposed; ultimately, looking at news in a more systematic way displays that news media is presented to entertain and inform the public. “Serious” local news media is often portrayed to the public as entertainment news. When watching most local and national new broadcasts, you will see a series of news stories varying from current political events, to coverage of a celebrity who just had a baby. The media is able to frame stories in a way where shock value and the ability to entertain becomes the forefront of the news. In this booming technological era, people have the ability to stay connected to current news via the Internet and several news broadcasting stations. Mobile applications developed by the news stations to provide easy and effective news broadcasting. Internet streaming is also a new form of technology for news stations. These new developments make the liaison between the people and their community convenient,...
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...News of a Nation In the modern age of technology, the individual is able to receive news of around the nation or the world from various sources. Since stations; such as NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, are distinct broadcast stations, some may have different techniques of presenting their stories. Some broadcast stations, such as NBC, use the words “pierce” and “wail of sirens” to set the tone of the story to evoke emotions from viewers at home. Broadcast stations, like CBS, use visuals and interviews to give a clearer understanding of what happened and how it happened. However, some stations, like FOX tend to give viewers a goofy and simply non-serious report on events and incidents that occur in the nation. Then there are stations, like ABC, who simply deliver the news clearly and directly to viewers at home. News stations around the nation have different methods of delivering their news, although some of them are less beneficial than others. During NBC’s Nightly News, with Brian Williams, the Pentagon correspondant, Jim Miklaszewski, emphasizes the implications the Navy yard shooting had in the four mile radius of the incident. He states, “... nearby schools were locked down, highways shut down, the Capital closed and the Nationals game postponed.” The emphasis of these implications the shooting had on the public shows the intense and immediate fear that struck throughout Washington D.C. The emphasis constantly hits the reader with the consequences of the shooting and it allows...
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...alright. None of them will be, for we were a remarkably diverse group, the 300 or so of us who were arrested in Jackson in May-June of that year, convicted of "disturbing the peace", detained at the Hinds County Jail, and transported upstate to the maximum security facility at Parchman State Penitentiary to serve our six month sentences. South Carolina My road to Jackson probably began in December, 1960. Benjy Rosen, my roommate at Middlebury College in Vermont, had agreed to join me on a non-stop run to Florida for the first week of Christmas break. With the savings from a job on an oil rig the previous summer and a great deal of help from my Dad, who was a corporate executive in New York, I'd bought a new Morgan+4, a British racing car. We thought it'd be cool to use it as an airplane - straight to Florida from Vermont in 30 hours, a week in the sun, and back home to New York for Christmas. We got lost, of course, and found ourselves at a small filling station, surrounded by fields, on a back road in South Carolina. It was a two person operation - an older white man in overalls was the owner and watched us from the doorway of the station, and a young black man almost our age pumped the gas. Groggy from the overnight drive, we staggered around in the sunlight, stretching our legs. We must have looked like something from a different planet. Several times I tried to strike up a conversation with the attendant while he filled the car. He'd grunt in response, embarrassed at the...
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...1. Using examples, explain the difference between obscene and indecent materials. Obscene and indecent both have different meanings but are similar in many ways. Obscene material is described as disgusting or repulsive but indecent material is described as being offensive to the public. Both obscene and indecent can be view differently by the public; however, the Constitution plays a role with indecent material. Obscene material "is not protected by the First Amendment,” (The Dynamics of Mass Communication Tenth Edition, page 377) and broadcast stations cannot air obscene material at anytime. The problem with this is that no one had come up with a set standard of what obscene material is. Due to the difference in beliefs between families and individuals, no two people have the same beliefs and will not agree to a set standard of what obscene material really is. Since obscene material is can not be banned completely and therefore can be view during nighttime broadcasting. A good example of this is the adult swim channel. During the day children can view cartoons like Spongebob and Rugrats; but when 10 o’clock p.m. hit, the channel switches to adult swim when there are show with naked women and sex scenes. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, to be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test, "(1) an average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., material having a tendency to excite...
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...Studying in Bournemouth University Name : Ngoc Diep Nghiem Class : IT 2 Introduction to Bournemouth University 3 Student Accommodation 3 Sports and entertainment 4 Nightlife. 5 Travel to and from university. 5 University study facilities 6 Accommodation (See Student Accommodation 6 Placements & Careers Service 6 Sports ( See Sports and entertainment ) 6 IT Services 6 Academic areas 6 Conclusion 7 Introduction to Bournemouth University Bournemouth University ( BU) located in Bournemouth town – a large resort town in south coast of England. According to University league table of the Guardian 2013, Bournemouth University is ranked 6th for its Hospitality and Tourism courses. Bournemouth University has two campuses: Talbot Campus and Lansdowne Campus” (Wikipedia) . In 2009, Bournemouth University was the finalist for 2 biggest prizes in the UK higher education: “University of the year “and “Research project of the year”. Student Accommodation BU has ten halls of residence for students to choose. These halls of residence are all around Bournemouth town, they are: • Cranborne House • Lyme Regis House • Corfe House Dorchester House Dorchester House • Dorchester House • Purbeck House • Student Village • Hurn House • Chesil House • Okeford House • Abbotsbury House All residences just take a 15 – minute bus ride to the university. Each room of these residences has 4-7 bedrooms with fully...
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...BUS 317 Strategic Management Management Report for SMRT Corporation By: Subash S/O Tharumalingam Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 4 2. Introduction 5 3. Current Company Situation 5 3.1. Past Performance Assessment 6 4. External Environment Analysis - PESTEL 6 4.1. Political 6 4.2. Economic 6 4.3. Socio-Cultural 7 4.4. Technology 7 4.5. Environment 8 4.6. Legal 8 5. Industry Analysis 9 5.1. Porter's Five Forces 9 5.2. Competitor Analysis 9 6. Internal Environment Analysis 10 6.1. Financial Performance 10 6.2. Value Chain 11 6.3. Key Success Factors 12 6.4. Core Competencies 14 6.5. SWOT Analysis 15 6.6. Objectives 16 6.7. Key Issues Identified 17 7. Development Strategies 17 7.1. Strategies base on SAVED 17 7.1.1. Strategy One: 17 Venture into tourism by providing two-way transport services to Johor Premium Outlets, Legoland and Hello Kitty Land from Singapore for families and schools 17 7.1.2. Strategy Two: 19 SMRT to provide transport services mainly for tourists to send them to their hotels from airport and partnership with budget hotels chains and hostels. 19 8. Selection of alternatives 21 8.1. Chosen Alternative 21 8.2. How is the chosen alternative superior to the rejected alternative? 21 8.3. Weakness of the chosen alternative and how to overcome 22 9. Implementation 22 10. Evaluation and Control 23 11. Conclusion 23 12. References 24 13. Appendix 27 13.1. Appendix 1: SMRT Operating Metrics 27 13.2. Appendix 2: Porter’s Five Forces 28 13.3...
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...Launched on 05 September 2008 (in the holy month of Ramadhan), the station beams a single encrypted channel via the Thaicom 5 satellite and offers a range of news and entertainment programmes in Dhivehi, the Maldivian national language. The station is a state-of-the-art facility featuring an all-digital tapeless workflow for ingest, post-production, storage and transmission with full station automation and a full-fledged newsroom computer system. The Villa Television station emerged from the vision of Gasim Ibrahim, the Chairman of the Villa Group who also served as the Finance Minister of the Maldives. Project coordination on-site was handled by VTV's Mohamed Shameem and principal engineering on-site was coordinated by VTV's Abdul Latheef. The design, consultancy, procurement and turnkey systems integration jobs were all handled by LSV Singapore (Derrick Ang - Team Head, Bobby Nair - Project Director, Boon Kim Ang - Technical Director, David Phillips - Integration Chief, Anthony Choo - Sales & Supply, and Werner Pauser - Installation Engineer). Nearby cities: Male', Kanduhulhudhoo, Fares Coordinates: 4°11'8"N 73°26'34"E VTV is the second private TV channel of the Maldives. It was inaugurated in 2008. The channel is run by Island Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd. Launched | September, 2008 | Owned by | Island Broadcasting Company | Country | Maldives | Broadcast area | Maldives, South Asia | Headquarters | Malé, Maldives | Website | VTV Website | ...
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...ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURE (FOR SHELL FOOD & GAS STATION) Executive Summary/Proposal: wheeling is a small town with a population 3,400. Located on rural Highway 255, the town is 30 miles south of the city of Chicago and 34 miles north of the city of Wisconsin. Highway 255 connects Chicago and Wisconsin that both have universities and a cumulative population of 200,000 residents. The highway is the main road through town and is used daily by thousands of commuters between the two cities. These commuters sustain a number of road side businesses on Highway 255 that sell flowers, produce and bakery products. In order to get gas in the Wauconda area, commuters currently have to leave the highway and drive three miles into the edge of town. Shell gas station's Food and Gas will offer these commuters gas, organic produce, and a deli. On the way to work, a commuter could stop for gas and pick up a sandwich. On the way home, the same commuter could stop again to pick up something for dinner. Objective: •To capture an increasing share of the commuter traffic passing through Wauconda. •To offer our customers superior products, at an affordable price. •To provide customer service that is second to none •Good quality products at competitive prices. •Excellent customer service that will promote customer loyalty. •A location that will assure that commuters will stop. Mission The mission of Shell’s Food and Gas is to offer commuters...
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...In simple words, this means one error in six million transactions,a benchmark reserved for blue-chip companies like Motorola. For the humble dabbawallah, it was a treasured feather in his Gandhi cap. But the ground realities for him will not change. His story begins every sultry Mumbai morning at 9 a.m. sharp. The doorbell rings at the Bhalekar residence in Dahisar, a far-flung suburb, in a ritual that is being played out simultaneously in thousands of Mumbai homes. Vrinda Bhalekar hands over an aluminum container with piping hot lunch for her husband to a middle-aged man wearing the regulation white cap.In an hour's time, the man will have collected 30 such dabbas (lunch boxes) to pass on to a waiting colleague at the local railway station. It's not easy covering so many houses quickly in a city like Mumbai. The heat and the crawling peak-hour traffic make reaching a home a task in itself. At each stop the dabbawallah has to park his cycle at the gate, go to the...
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...Sydney’s CBD, but also within walking distance of Chatswood, a hub of activity when you want to shop, eat out, or enjoy other entertainment. Linfield is home to several great bushland parks, a few of its own local cafes, and the Lindfield railway station, which is the way most people get back and forth to work and home. Lindfield 2070 Profile Lindfield, an Upper North Shore Sydney Suburb, is a virtually undiscovered treasure. Lindfield shares its...
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...“COOKIES” BY DOUGLAS ADAMS “Cookies” by Douglas Adams is an anecdotal story. He recalls an incident that took place at a train station in Cambridge during 1976 while waiting he was waiting for a train. Adams tells the story by making use of humour and a conversational tone and comments on the culture and behaviour that British men possess in general Adams arrives early at the train station because had gotten the time of his train wrong. He buys a cup of coffee, newspaper and a packet of cookies. He takes a seat at a table opposite of a businessman. After a while the man leans forward, takes the packet of cookies, tears it open and eats one. In his story, Adams explains how he (as an Englishman) does not know how to cope with this type of a situation and therefore takes a cookie himself. A minute later, the man takes another cookie and so does Adams. This procedure continues until the packet is empty. Finally the man leaves and they exchange meaningful expressions. When the train arrives, Adams gets up, takes his newspaper and discovers underneath it – his packet of cookies! This is quite hilarious because the businessman probably felt the exact same as Adams except he had right to since Adams had been eating his cookies. The use of conversational tone by Adams in this anecdotal is effective. It resembles a conversation as if he is directly addressing the reader. For example, the ‘you’ in “I want you to picture this scene” (Adams,1976;26) is involving the reader and therefore...
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...Allston, is a Boston neighborhood located on the western edge, which is bordered by the cities of Brookline and Cambridge. The area does not have adequate transportation to accommodate the growing population. The Green “B” line serves provides transportation from Boston, on the East, to Brighton and Newton, on the West. However, there is very little transportation North-South transportation, connecting North Allston to the rest of Allston, Downtown Boston and Brookline. Furthermore, there are a lack of support for other modes of transportation other than cars. Bike lanes in the area are either nonexistent or unsafe. Furthermore, many large streets have intersections that are unsafe for pedestrians. It is for this reason residents were excited when Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Mass DOT) announced the Allston...
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...On July 12, 1967, a taxi driver named John Smith was beaten by police after allegedly violently resisting arrest. He had driven around a double-parked police car. A crowd gathered outside the police station where Smith was detained. Due to miscommunication, the crowd believed Smith had died in custody, although he had been transported to a hospital via a back entrance to the station. This sparked scuffles between African Americans and police in the Fourth Ward, although the damage toll was only $2,500. Subsequent to television news broadcasts on July 13 however, new and larger riots took place. Twenty-six people were killed; 1,500 wounded; 1,600 arrested; and $10 million in property was destroyed. More than a thousand businesses were torched or looted, including 167 groceries (most of which would never reopen). Newark's reputation suffered dramatically. It was said, "wherever American cities are going, Newark will get there first." Newark is home to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, located near Military Park, which since its opening in 1997 has become one the most visited in the United States. Included among the artists appearing on NJPAC stages in its first thirteen seasons are the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Yo-Yo Ma; Bob Dylan; Ballet Nacional de Cuba; Lauryn Hill; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Twyla Tharp Dance; Dance Theatre of Harlem; Israel Philharmonic; the Berlin State Opera Orchestra; the Royal Danish Ballet; Hilary Hahn;...
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