...Great Falls; the pride of Northern Virginia, an awe-inspiring work of nature, has essentially been the non-stop work of geological events that occurred over many million years ago. The Great Falls is located along the boundaries of the Piedmont and the coastal plain of the Atlantic Ocean. A coastal plain is a flat land that sits next to the ocean. Also, the Potomac River that flows through the Falls has been a key factor in the creation of the gorge and the falls as we see them today. Dating rocks through the radioactive elements can tell a lot about the geologic past about the earth, while some rocks have radioactive isotopes, others, unfortunately, don’t. The oldest rock in Great Falls is Meta Greywacke, which is a metamorphic rock and is about 550 million years old. Around 550 to 600 million years ago, continuous deposition of sediments through turbidites, eventually metamorphosed into Greywacke and Mica Schists. Once Granite intruded into the rocks around 470 million years ago,...
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...Reconnecting to a Forgotten River An Ecological Solution Design Thesis | Aaron Hanson Reconnecting to a Forgotten River A Design Thesis Submitted to the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture of North Dakota State University By Aaron Hanson In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelors of Landscape Architecture Primary Thesis Advisor Thesis Committee Chair May, 2012 Fargo, North Dakota Ma, 0 2 y2 1 table of contents abstract problem statement statement of intent narrative user/client description major project elements site information project emphasis plan for proceeding previous studio experience theoretical premise research case studies climate data historical context project goals site analysis an ecological solution personal identification reference list 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 - 12 13 14 15 16 - 34 35 - 58 59 - 65 66 - 71 72 73 - 88 89 - 108 109 110 - 111 abstract Waterways are a vital and productive resource to our environment. Rivers provide a variety of amenities and services to communities across the world such as drinking water, food, travel, recreation, wildlife habitat, connection to place, aesthetic appeal, economic development, etc. This thesis project examines the importance of the Mississippi River to its urban community and how riverfront design can function as a unifying element for the city center and its ecosystem. Over half of the world’s future population will be living in urban environments...
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..."The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" (1917) Summary: This poem takes the form of a letter from a lonely wife who has not seen her husband in five months. She begins by reminiscing about meeting him during childhood. She was pulling flowers at the front gate and he came by on stilts, playing horse. The next two lines, "And we went on living in the village of Chokan/Two small people, without dislike or suspicion," imply that the pair did not grow close right away following that encounter; they continued to grow up separately. In the next stanza, the wife describes marrying her husband at age fourteen. After that, she was continuously shy, either out of respect, sub-ordinance, or just because of her introverted personality. According to the next stanza, she became more comfortable with the marriage by age fifteen and "stopped scowling." A year later, her husband (a merchant) departed for another village, which is where he has been for the past five months. The monkeys' sorrowful noise mirrors her loneliness. She writes that her husband "dragged [his] feet" when he left - indicating that he did not want to leave her. She ends her letter by writing that if he comes back along the river, he should send word ahead, and she will come out to meet him. The poem is signed "by Rihaku." Analysis: Pound was not the creator of this poem; he translated it from the original Chinese version by Li Po. The Chinese original likely had a specific form and identifiable meter, but Pound...
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...“Dams it Is!”, written in June 2008, David Fullbrook writes about the conflicting interests between governments that wish to raise revenue and increase energy security through dam projects along the Mekong River and the populations that rely on the fish and fertile soil in and along the river to survive. In this paper, the author feels that Southeast Asian Governments do not properly assess the potential consequences of their decisions to pursue massive energy projects on the people who rely on the river for food and job security. Although at times it seemed that Fullbrook was strong in his convictions, I found that I agreed with many of his conclusions. Based on my experiences living as an expat in Southeast Asia, I was also not surprised by the author’s extreme conclusions and found the topic very interesting. The Mekong River runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodian and Vietnam and is over 4,000 km long. According to Fullbrook, the livelihoods of over sixty million people depend on the ecology of the free-flowing river. But current dam construction along the Mekong has the potential to seriously upset the ecological balance of the Mekong and in turn, displace millions and negatively affect food security. One theme of the passage is that further analysis of the consequences of these projects is needed. As I will discuss in more detail below, this concern seems like a legitimate one. It is true that energy security is an important in Southeast Asia...
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...------------------------------------------------- Prudential Europe Business Summary and Analysis Accounting Information Systems Professor R Overview There is no question that the world we live in is highly competitive and prone to change. Technology is always advancing and business needs are always changing. “Every year, businesses spend billions of dollars on software projects in order to improve or replace their information systems.” (Romney & Steinbart, p. 579.). This includes insurance company Prudent Europe and how they had intended to expand their business by developing their own information system with IT Company Unisys. The project was ultimately terminated and €12 million of its €35 million total investment was already spent by the end of August of 2001. Management of Prudential Europe did not feel the software met their expansion needs especially with the increasing costs. The purpose of this writing assignment is to analyze Prudential Europe’s development project along with the successes and failure of it. (Prudent firms, n.d.) System Analysis The first step of the system development life cycle is to determine whether a new information system is needed. Prudential Europe figured that a project to increase its processing ability would be economically feasible given that management calculated the capital budgeting of €35 million. If successful, the project would have given the company a huge competitive advantage and improved business processes over...
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...Corporate Finance 2 March, 2015 Case 26 – Star River Electronics Ltd. Introduction Star River Electronics is a joint venture between England’s Starlight Electronics Ltd. and an Asian venture-capital firm, New Era Partners. Star River Electronics is based in Singapore, and its mission was to manufacture CD-ROMs as a supplier to major software companies. Star River Electronics has gained fame in the industry for producing high quality discs. As the optical and multimedia products became more and more popular in the mid-1990s, CD-ROM manufacturing industry experienced rapid growth during this time. Due to this effect, small manufacturers overreacted, creating oversupply that pushed prices down by as much as 40%. Consolidation followed as less efficient producers went out of business. Because of its superior reputation, Star River was able to survive the shakeout. While other CD-ROM manufacturers floundered, Star River’s volume of sales grew at a robust rate in the past two years. Unit prices, however, had declined because of increasing competition in the market and the growing popularity of substitute products, especially digital video discs (DVDs). DVDs had 14 times larger storage capacity and is a threat to displace CD-ROMs. Although, CD-ROMs still comprised 93 percent of all optical-disc-drive shipments in 1999, a study predicted that this number would fall to 41% by 2005, while DVD drives would fill the remaining 59%. Star River Electronics had begun to experiment with DVD...
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...(Geology of Ice Age National Scientific Reserve of Wisconsin)Create a 12- to 15 slide MicrosoftPowerPoint® presentation for your chosen geologic feature. Address the following: Describe the various geologic events that have occurred in the region around your feature. Describe the geological features and various types of rocks that formed in the area, such as mountains, craters, canyons, volcanoes, fault lines, or folds. What is the most prevalent rock type of your feature? Describe the rock type’s mineral composition. How old is your geologic feature? Estimate the absolute age of the feature, and discuss methods used to determine the age. What geologic event created your feature? Discuss the process of plate tectonics related to the formation. Explain the significance of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks in your region. Describe the types of weathering and erosion processes that have likely affected the physical appearance of your feature. Describe any significant water, ocean, desert, or glacial features associated with your region, and the process involved with creating one of them. Explain what resources are abundant in the region and the importance and economic value of these resources to the region. In conclusion, explain why you selected this geologic feature for your presentation. Include graphics. Include details in speaker notes . http://wisconsingeologicalsurvey.org Climate change—the long view Updated December...
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...Conversion of a Propeller Turbine to Full Kaplan Operation at Michigamme Falls By Gerard J. Russell, P.E., American Hydro Corp., York, Pennsylvania, USA, Craig Peterson, P.E., American Hydro Corp., York, Pennsylvania, USA, and Douglas T. Eberlein, P.E., We Energies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA ABSTRACT FERC license renewal stipulations for We Energies’ Michigamme Falls plant included new flow constraints that were outside the existing fixed-blade propeller turbines’ efficiency range. One of the turbines was converted to fully adjustable Kaplan operation to regain the lost generation. Introduction Renewal of the project’s FERC license in October of 2001 required that the minimum flow could be no less than 50% of the maximum flow during a given calendar day. The existing generating units were typical fixed-blade propeller turbines with a very narrow range of efficient operation, so they could not effectively meet this new requirement. We Energies evaluated several options for addressing the new operating regime including spilling the required low flow when necessary, installation of a minimum flow turbine-generator unit, and conversion of one of the propeller units to full adjustable blade Kaplan operation. The Kaplan conversion was chosen as the most effective option to improve the operating efficiency and flexibility of the plant while achieving the required low flow operating capability. This paper describes the Owner’s planning process that resulted in the decision to convert...
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...A stunningly beautiful girl, Psyche, is born after two older sisters. People throughout the land worship her beauty so deeply that they forget about the goddess Venus. Venus becomes angry that her temples are falling to ruin, so she plots to ruin Psyche. She instructs her son, Cupid, to pierce the girl with an arrow and make her fall in love with the most vile, hideous man alive. But when Cupid sees Psyche in her radiant glory, he shoots himself with the arrow instead. Meanwhile, Psyche and her family become worried that she will never find a husband, for although men admire her beauty, they always seem content to marry someone else. Psyche's father prays to Apollo for help, and Apollo instructs her to go to the top of a hill, where she will marry not a man but a serpent. Psyche bravely follows the instructions and falls asleep on the hill. When she wakes up, she discovers a stunning mansion. Going inside, she relaxes and enjoys fine food and luxurious treatment. At night, in the dark, she meets and falls in love with her husband. She lives happily with him, never seeing him, until one day he tells her that her sisters have been crying for her. She begs to see them, but her husband replies that it would not be wise to do so. Psyche insists that they visit, and when they do, they become extremely jealous of Psyche's beautiful mansion and lush quarters. They deduce that Psyche has never seen her husband, and they convince her that she must sneak a look. Confused and conflicted...
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...Star River Electronics Ltd. Executive Summary Group 6 Josh Patience Eli Hohbach Mary Chicoine Star River Electronics was founded as a joint venture between Starlight Electronics Ltd., United Kingdom, and an Asian venture-capital firm, New Era Partners. Star River Electronics produced CD-ROMS as a supplier to major software companies. In the last two years, CD-ROM sales have grown at a healthy rate, however, their unit prices have dropped due to the introduction of digital video discs (DVD’s). Tasked with a declining trend in CD-ROM usage, and a growing usage of DVD’s in the market, Star River hoped that their newly installed capacity would help them stay in the market and increase their proportion of revenue from DVD’s. Star River Electronics steady growth rate of sales of 15% is one positive sign from the analysis, however, there’re many red flags concerning Star River Electronics. The operating margin, return on sales, return on equity and return on assets all seem to decline from 1999 to 2000. There was also a giant jump in inventories from 1999 to 2000. This would explain their newly installed capacity that they were talking about earlier. This new capacity was more than likely financed with debt as their debt/equity and debt/capital ratios all had a significant jump in 2000. Linked with declining sales in CD-ROM’s and an increasing amount of debt; one could believe that the riskiness of Star river Electronics have gone up. The financial forecasts for 2002...
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...innocent, given the considerable amount of time that has passed it would be irrational to speculate on the jury’s decision to acquit Lizzie. Focusing on the evidence obtained by the Fall River police department and District Attorney Hosea Knowlton we can obtain a better view of the events which occurred that fateful day in August, 1982. Why did the panel of judges disallow so much key evidence presented by the prosecution and could the actions of key courtroom figures have set free a guilty woman? The late nineteenth century would be a critical time in the evolution of substantive and procedural rights, including the right to remain silent for United States citizens. Today men and women enjoy equal rights in the eyes of the law but late in the nineteenth century things were much different, could the way men viewed women have set free a murderer? On a scorching 1892 August day in Fall River, Massachusetts, Andrew and Abby Borden were violently murdered in their home on Second Street. The Lizzie Borden trial held in 1893 attracted attention from nearly the entire United States with newspapers in New York City, Providence, and Boston publishing articles at a frenzied pace. The subsequent police investigation and trial of Lizzie Borden gained national attention and nearly every resident of Fall River had their own theory as to the identity of the murderer. A female murder defendant on trial was and is to this day an extremely rare proceeding but in 1893 a Christian woman coming...
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...Introduction: The Yarra River Catchment covers an over 4000 Kilometres. The water of the Yarra River was clear during the European settlement, but there has been intensive land clearing and ongoing development since the mid 1800’s. As a result of the industrialisation clay particles have appeared. The ecosystem is home to over 240 faunas, including the endangered growling grass frog. Given that over time industrialisation has resulted and therefore the salt from the building products that have been used to construct the buildings may have resulted in affecting the salinity levels. Although with saying this the more rainfall will decrease the salinity levels. Though over the past years there has been little rainfall therefore this means that...
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...Primary Tourism & Hospitality Sectors: 3 A Review of Tourism and Hospitality Product: Barrack Square 3 Sustainability Cost-Benefit Analysis: 6 Maximizing Benefit, Minimizing Cost: 7 Assessment of Butler’s Life Cycle Model: 8 Sign Off: 10 Works Cited 10 Introduction to Primary Tourism & Hospitality Sectors: Tourism and hospitality are multi-dimensional. According to UNWTO (Understanding Tourism Basic Glossary) Tourism is a social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes. These people are called visitors (which may be either tourists or excursionists; residents or non-residents) and tourism has to do with their activities, some of which imply tourism expenditure. The concept of hospitality underpins much of what the tourist experiences when travelling, namely the consumption of food, drink and accommodation away from the home environment (Page & Connell, 2006). It is a broad service industry. It includes lodging, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line and the other factors of tourism industry. The competition and usage rate is an important variable for this sector. A Review of Tourism and Hospitality Product: Barrack Square Barrack Square is situated right on the Swan River. You can find restaurants, shops, Swan Bells and the Barrack street. There is also jetty to catch a ferry. There are 6 jetties (Greater...
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...Comparative Phylogeography of Freshwater Habitats in Southern Australia: Using Palaeodrainage Reconstructions to Investigate Population Structure and Historic Population Connectivity Sarah Jackson A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience with Honours Department of Genetics School of Molecular Science La Trobe University October, 2011 Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................... iii 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Phylogeography....................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Palaeodrainage........................................................................................................ 4 1.3 Background on Study Species .................................................................................. 6 1.4 Aims and Hypothesis ............................................................................................... 8 2. Materials and Methods ............................................................................................... 10 2.1 Locations ............................................................................................................... 10 2.2 Expectations of Hypothesis.....................................
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...14 Spring 14 08 Fall 08 Fall US Army Corps of Engineers Ken Lynch A brief analysis of the US Army Corps of Engineers role in locks and dams US Army Corps of Engineers Ken Lynch A brief analysis of the US Army Corps of Engineers role in locks and dams US Army Corps of Engineers Nature has constructed a labyrinth of highways perfect for resourceful materials handling. The web of rivers cutting their way throughout this country comprises the United States Inland Waterway System. There are over 12,000 navigable miles carrying almost 625 million tons of commodities annually on the rivers (C. James Kruse). An in depth look in one of the oldest methods of transportation describes the design, creation, implementation, and maintenance of locks and dams as conducted by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A closer look will also be taken at the history of the US ACE. A brief explanation of what is the inland waterway helps to understand the significance the US Army Corps of Engineers has played in shaping the capacity of waterborne transportation. The United States has used rivers for materials handling dating back hundreds of years. As time went on, the potential for using rivers became more and more apparent. Locks and dams had to be constructed to fully utilize the waterways. The rivers were already in place but for barges to travel up and down the rivers the implementation of locks and dams alleviated the problems arising from drops in river elevation or shallow...
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