...Our growing population, economic dependency on agriculture and dry rain seasons makes has set California up for a multitude of problems. Yet, the land of California never really had an abundance of water. The film “Mulholland’s Dream”, a series of The Cadillac Desert, describes vision and work of Water Department chief William Mulholland as he constructed an aqueduct that moved water from the Owens River, 230 miles north of Los Angeles, across the Mojave Desert to Los Angeles. His vision came to life in 1923 after his agents secretly purchased water rights to the Owens. He had always tried to advocated water conservation, but the growth of L.A. made this impossible. The Los Angeles Aqueduct System more than adequately supplied water to the booming city, but Mulholland still opposed additions to the...
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...hydropower plants operating in the United States, making hydropower the country's largest renewable energy source (NREL.gov, 2012). On September 30, 1882, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. The plant, later named the Appleton Edison Light Company, was initiated by Appleton paper manufacturer H.J. Rogers, who had been inspired by Thomas Edison's plans for an electricity-producing station in New York (americanlibrary.gov, 2013). Thomas Edison’s plant in New York used steam power to drive its generators, the Appleton plant used the Fox River. In the new world, Indians had dabbled with irrigation, and the Spanish had improved their techniques, but the Mormons approached the desert, flooded it, and subverted its indifference until they made a Mesopotamia in America between the valleys of the Green River and the middle Snake. In 1902, the government...
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...water use, however it is not an easy task to determine what benefit the water used added. Furthermore, by assigning water allocations from dams, with the policy of use it or lose it is just making the issue more complicated, since most would try to use their allocation in anything even if it is not as beneficial. The water policy in the west not only brought farmers and ranchers to the area, but it also created some of the biggest cities in the US. When talking about the beneficial use of water, imagine that an acre of corn use 350000 gallons of water in 100 growing days to make only about a 1000 dollars, would it be more beneficial to give the same amount of water to a casino in Las Vegas that would make about 100 million dollars. In Cadillac desert reading Reisner mentioned that the climate difference between eastern and western United States is so obvious, as east generally gets enough rainfall to support farming, while western agriculture has to be irrigated. At a time the profit of the western agriculture was very high, the western population was very low and mostly rural, the west water issues were limited. However the growing population in western US cities and, the emerging new ways to use water more profitable made the limited water resources a central focus. Well it is the rural verses the urban. ...
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...Sundays. I agree Colorado is wonderful place. But I like New England, you get the best of both worlds – the mountains and the ocean J I would love to go camping in March, I agree that we have to camp in the snow – a wonderful adventure J It should be really hard to part with your side kick – maybe we can do some repairs. There is nothing a gorilla tape can’t fix. I’ve been to Acadia a couple of times. My mom and my older sister visited me during the first week of October. We drove up the Cadillac Mountain and saw the sunset – it was gorgeous. I have never seen a sunrise there, it should be amazing to see the sunrise on the horizon. I would love to visit Acadia again - may be this time I'll be your alarm clock ;) I like the meaning of your name too – a cool breeze off of a grassy meadows is really pleasant. National Parks are my favorite to visit. You are so lucky to have visited so many of them - have you been to Yosemite National Park? Apple crisp is one of my favorite desert. It's awesome that you know how to bake it. May be we can cook together sometime. I'll be happy to cook you an authentic Indian curry - what's your favorite Indian dish? Do you eat meat? My grandmother lives with my uncle, in India. She is such a sweetheart. My grandfather used to come to my hometown and take me with him to their village every summer. I used to spend all my summers there - they used to pamper me a lot. How about you? Did your grandparent always live in Bangor? I love...
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...Plant Attains Near Net Zero Efficiency was built into Frito-Lay’s Casa Grande plant a quarter-century ago, but the snack maker takes the facility’s energy- and water-conservation systems to a new level with near net zero. Is it feasible for food or beverage production ever to be resource neutral, consuming no more gas, electricity, water and other utilities than what it generates itself? Perhaps theoretically, but not as a practical matter. Still, placing sustainable manufacturing in the context of assuring resource availability so operational capabilities are maintained, regardless of external disruptions, is intriguing. What would a food plant with net-zero impact look like? A close proximity sprawls across 283 acres of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Part learning lab, part sustainability showcase, the Frito-Lay facility in Casa Grande is the focus of the snack food manufacturer’s ambitious goal of creating a blueprint for sustained production in a resource-strapped tomorrow. Most of the energy-generation and water-reclamation technology in Casa Grande can be found elsewhere in the Frito-Lay production network, but never before has such a comprehensive infrastructure been created. The result is a plant that pushes the limits of what is possible in energy and water self-sufficiency. Selection of Casa Grande came after an assessment of Frito-Lay’s 37 US facilities by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Abundant real estate, Sunbelt location...
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...Segmentation and Market Mix Michael A. Costa MKT/571 May 19, 2014 John Mullin Segmentation and Market Mix AutoZone is a unique company in its ability to market to a multitude of consumers. The company targets all consumers that own and operate motor driven equipment. AutoZone targets these consumers using a variety of segmentation methods. AutoZone segments its markets demographically, geographically, using psychographics, behaviorally, and using business segmentation to achieve its marketing goals. AutoZone understands that its customers will go to whichever company is willing to provide him or her with the best products at the right price. The company is willing to create the brands to entice consumers to pay more for higher quality products. AutoZone’s strategy has been to provide its customer with the best quality products at the right price. The company will only market those products it believes are the best for its customers. AutoZone markets itself to one type of consumer. When discussing AutoZone's patrons, the type of consumer refers to a large part of the population. AutoZone markets its products and services to any individual who owns and operates anything with a motor. The company markets its products to the do-it-yourselfer, the hobbyist, the backyard mechanic, the small business, and the individual that wants to purchase the product and use someone else to install it. The do-it-yourselfer market is what AutoZone is built on. This market...
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...Zombie Outbreak in Literature Looking at literature, there are so many different genres and subgenres. When writing is involved, there are hundreds of possibilities and potentials to make an amazing piece that’ll be loved, hated, and talked about for years to come. There is a certain genre that has come into higher and higher power, that’s almost as well renowned as romance or adventure would be the horror genre. In horror there are so many amazing authors, capable of causing the reader to feel such intense emotions through just their writing. But unlike romance or adventure, these emotions are more so fear, anxiety, or paranoia. They write books or poems that leave people checking their closets, plugging in a nightlight, and hiding underneath their blankets to go to sleep at night. Some of the most amazing authors include H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, Dean Koontz, and Peter Straub. All of them having different writing styles and stories, yet their pieces all yield the same results. Just like all the other genres, horror can also be broken down into different subgenres. This includes types like psychological horror, which leaves the reader questioning everyone’s sanity, even their own. There’s gothic, involving a mixture of psychological terror in romantic settings, including mysteries, ghosts, castles, decay, madness, hereditary curses, and death. Also on this list of subgenres is supernatural, the main cause of people seeing things out of the corner of their...
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...Brower also mounted a grass root marketing campaign to get the public involved. Brower’s background included working at the University of California Press, so he used print media as a weapon against the bureau’s plans. He was very successful and soon enough, Dominy gave up the idea of building a dam on Echo canyon. In exchange, building a new dam on Glen Canyon would take place. Brower’s realized that he had committed a colossal mistake himself by agreeing to build a dam on Glen Canyon (Holyoke). Brower visited Glen Canyon after the Colorado River Storage Project was enacted in 1956, and was shocked and alarmed to see what he had sacrificed in order save the less striking Dinosaur National Monument (Holyoke). As he describes in Desert Cadillac, he tried to pressure Congress into changing the deal, but it could not be done. Furthermore, Dominy had learned very well from his nemesis and used Brower’s own marketing and grass root tactics. Dominy in all of his astuteness, published a series of convincing picture books about the gorgeous lake that would substitute unknown and dusty Glen Canyon (Holyoke). After the construction of the dam on Glen Canyon, the town of Page flourished near Lake Powell. Its economy greatly benefited from tourists who came to visit the lake for water sports and raft the Colorado River below the dam (Holyoke). However, for environmentalists Glen Canyon ignited a movement that would never again allow a beautiful part of the United States be destroyed...
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...Starwoods Number of Rooms I) Sheraton 1) Sheraton Birmingham Hotel 757 2) Sheraton Anchorage Hotel & Spa 370 3) Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa 500 4) Sheraton Crescent Hotel 342 5) Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel 1000 6) Sheraton Desert Oasis Villas, Scottsdale 300 7) Sheraton Phoenix Airport Hotel Tempe 210 8) Sheraton Tucson Hotel & Suites 216 9) Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel 280 10) Sheraton Anaheim Hotel 489 11) Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort 490 12) Sheraton Carlsbad Resort & Spa 250 13) Sheraton Cerritos Hotel 203 14) Sheraton Garden Grove - Anaheim South Hotel 285 15) Sheraton La Jolla Hotel 252 16) Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel 802 17) Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown Hotel 487 18) Sheraton San Jose Hotel 229 19) Sheraton Ontario Airport Hotel 164 20) Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel 346 21) Sheraton Pasadena Hotel 311 22) Sheraton Sonoma County - Petaluma 183 23) Sheraton Pleasanton Hotel 170 24) Sheraton Fairplex Hotel & Conference Center 247 25) Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel 503 26) Sheraton Mission Valley San Diego Hotel ...
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...THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge documents with breathtaking fidelity, and color copiers can reproduce them. Imagine a dishonest executive boarding a plane and carrying a laptop computer with a modem. Using the on- board telephone, he hooks up to the mainframe at headquarters and transfers $50 million to his Swiss bank account -- as he jets toward Rio. Such new opportunities, plus the spirit of an age that encourages rather than represses the natural lust for wealth, are greatly intensifying the allure of ripping off one's employer. The amounts being stolen from companies appear to be growing dramatically. In the past several weeks a former General Electric Capital manager, allegedly in cahoots with a bank vice president, was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees...
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...| Hospitality and Restaurant Management As an In-Demand Course: | A Survey Study | | Peter Jay Obillo | 10/1/2013 | | CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM Background of the Study In the annual rate of enrollees at Panpacific University North Philippines, The College of Hotel and Restaurant Management takes the place of one of the courses that has a high percentage of enrollments every year in the other courses offered. This result shows that many students are giving interest of taking up Hotel and Restaurant Management course. Hospitality Management is one of the courses that is in-demand in the Philippines and all around the world. The program has a very broad scope of subject and skills to be learned, it may come in many names; these are food and beverage, hospitality management, and travel and tourism business, cruise line and maritime. Here are some factors why Hotel and Restaurant Management course is in-Demand: 1.)Wide Range of Opportunities- Hospitality Industry is very huge. You can find different Hospitality companies anywhere in the globe. Because of this you will Have Unlimited opportunities for your career. You can choose to work in your local or find jobs abroad. 2.)Different Career Path- Graduates who study Hotel and Restaurant Management choose a career based on their expertise or shift to another field related to Hospitality Management. You can be a Restaurant Manager, Hotel Manager or any career that is related in hospitality industry. 3.)High...
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...Something called the Danish Twin Study established that only about 10 percent of how long the average person lives, within certain biological limits, is dictated by our genes. The other 90 percent is dictated by our lifestyle. So the premise of Blue Zones: if we can find the optimal lifestyle of longevity we can come up with a de facto formula for longevity. But if you ask the average American what the optimal formula of longevity is, they probably couldn't tell you. They've probably heard of the South Beach Diet, or the Atkins Diet. You have the USDA food pyramid. There is what Oprah tells us. There is what Doctor Oz tells us. The fact of the matter is there is a lot of confusion around what really helps us live longer better. Should you be running marathons or doing yoga? Should you eat organic meats or should you be eating tofu? When it comes to supplements, should you be taking them?How about these hormones or resveratrol? And does purpose play into it? Spirituality? And how about how we socialize? Well, our approach to finding longevity was to team up with National Geographic, and the National Institute on Aging, to find the four demographically confirmed areas that are geographically defined. And then bring a team of experts in there to methodically go through exactly what these people do, to distill down the cross-cultural distillation. And at the end of this I'm going to tell you what that distillation is. But first I'd like to debunk some common myths when it comes...
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...OTIS IS RESURRECTED by Brady Udall It was three days after our old man died that my brother, Donald, accomplished the most spectacular deed of his life. I wish I could have been there to see it: Donald taking the Greyhound down to Nogales all by himself, buying the baby armadillo for eight hundred pesos from a pie-faced Indian woman at the Santa Acuna market, tucking the little thing under his arm like a football and running the length of the pedestrian border station, past the heat-struck tourists in their sombreros and loud socks and the guards with their sidearms and walkie-talkies, pushing through the last steel-toothed turnstile into the heart of the Nogales slums. It was his proudest moment, though it did take him the rest of the day and half the night of wandering among the hookers and street-corner punks to find a bus that would bring him back to Ajo. I don't know how he managed not to get robbed or killed or at the very least his teeth kicked in, but there he was after I came home from hours of frantic searching, sitting stiff-backed on the couch, beaming. Donald ended up giving the armadillo to me. A present, he said, something to make me feel better. I thanked him, took the armadillo, which clawed at my T-shirt like a cat, and gave it a little squeeze. What else could I do? My father had worked as a janitor for twenty-one years, but he was also a reader of books, a scholar—if it is possible to be both a scholar and a sixth-grade dropout—and one of his favorite subjects...
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...UNIT 1- CAR BODY DETAILS Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. Some are still in production, while others are of historical interest only. These styles are largely (though not completely) independent of a car's classification in terms of price, size and intended broad market; the same car model might be available in multiple body styles (or model ranges). For some of the following terms, especially relating to four-wheel drive / SUV models and minivan / MPV models, the distinction between body style and classification is particularly narrow. Please note that while each body style has a historical and technical definition, in common usage such definitions are often blurred. Over time, the common usage of each term evolves. For example, people often call 4-passenger sport coupés a "sports car", while purists will insist that a sports car by definition is limited to two-place vehicles. Body work In automotive engineering, the bodywork of an automobile is the structure which protects: ⦁ The occupants ⦁ Any other payload ⦁ The mechanical components. In vehicles with a separate frame or chassis, the term bodywork is normally applied to only the non-structural panels, including doors and other movable panels, but it may also be used more generally to include the structural components which support the mechanical components. Construction There are three main types of automotive bodywork: ⦁ The first automobiles were designs...
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...07-046 Rev: December 8, 2011 Sony's Battle for Video Game Supremacy John Sterman, Khan Jekarl, Cate Reavis As Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Corporation, settled in for his flight back to Japan from New York, a number of pressing issues occupied his mind about Sony’s future. At the forefront, Sony’s next generation video game console, the PlayStation 3 (PS3), was set to launch worldwide on November 17, 2006, a mere week away. Despite PlayStation 2’s (PS2) dominance in the last generation of gaming consoles, Stringer understood that past successes were no guarantee of future success in the intensely competitive game industry. Microsoft had launched the first volley in the last console war by releasing the Xbox 360 in the fall of 2005. Within one year, almost 4 million Xbox 360s had been sold worldwide, giving Microsoft a significant head-start in the race for market dominance. Meanwhile, Nintendo, a competitor thought to be dead due to the lackluster sales of its previous console, the Nintendo Gamecube, had generated significant “buzz” around its new entry, the Nintendo Wii (pronounced “we”). Targeting more of a mainstream audience than Sony and Microsoft, the Wii, scheduled to launch just two days after the PS3, posed a serious threat to Sony’s market share, particularly due to its $249.99 retail price, half the price of the PS3. Stringer also knew that there was much more at stake than winning the console war. The next generation of the DVD market was at stake as well...
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