...Cuban-American community has been able to become assimilated into the United States culture. Sean Buffington believes there is a long dispute between the Black and Cuban communities because Cubans are able to blend into the American culture more easily. Cubans have, according to Buffington, have also participated into American Politics and have become involved in the economy in the South Florida, Dade County area. The Cuban American culture is very large in the South Florida area that they have become an important economic and political power in the area. The American government also provides Cubans with an easier means to gain United States citizenship with the Wet Foot Dry Foot federal policy, allowing many Cubans the right to stay in the United States if they can make it to American soil by almost any means possible. This policy only applies to the Cuban immigrants, which seems to unfairly protect the Cuban society over any other, especially the Mexican society that is always vilified in the American media when the topic of immigration reform is discusses, along with illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States. According to Richard Alba from the American Political Science Association, the Mexican community has gained a socioeconomic and legal status within the United States. However, this author will lean towards disagreeing with that statement, given the current immigration arguments throughout many States and in the current Presidential election campaigns. The American...
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...correction facilities and sent many convicts towards American soil. The 1994 Cuban migration known as the “Balseros Crisis” marked a pause in Cuban immigration when President Clinton halted the nation’s three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees. At this point, critical levels had reached Cuba as food and fuel started drying up leaving many hours of blackouts. With a crisis at hand Castro had to face riot and in a sense enforce laws against those fleeing Cuba. In its integrity Castro did set laws but did not actually enforce them because those who wanted to leave he allowed and left all the burden on the American government until they decide to change their immigration policy. At this point President Clinton was forced to re-locate those new “Balseros” and was forced to re-open Guantanamo Bay in order to accommodate and process the vast volume of Cubans seeking freedom and a new life. Entry to the United States was later discussed between both parties and the outcome was that the US agreed to grant 20,000 visas annually and implemented the wet-dry foot policy. This policy declared that those Cuban migrants who are intercepted at sea “wet foot” will be sent back to Cuba or a third country, while those who manage to make it to US soil “dry feet” are allowed to remain in the United States. The 1960 Dominican migration in part was due to the US putting halt on the spread of communism. Political repression, poverty, and political instability increased the wave...
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...Although their journey can be completed without need of much money, their process to legalization proves to be both difficult, and confusing. The United States recently opened an embassy with Cuba, the first time ever since the Cuban revolution in the 1950s. The relationship between Cuba and the U.S. is becoming stronger, but another issue is arising. These Cuban athletes will have a harder time getting asylum and simply fitting in. If a Cuban is found at sea, they are taken back to Cuba, but if they cross the border and are found on land, they are free to stay. These terms are loosely known as the dry foot versus wet foot policies. Because Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida, the only goal people strive for at first isn't to create a better life, but instead to step foot on land for have guaranteed asylum. These cases are not rare. Reading another story that is less than common, we learn of a man born in Somalia who has been considered a refugee for most of his life. This problem took a huge toll on his identity, because he wasn't legal in his home country, but had no complete access to the country was in at the...
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...the United States congress in the year 1917 and declared the manufacturing sale and transportation of alcoholic material in the country as illegal. The ramification of the amendment was approved by over two thirds of the American congress. Prohibition was to initiate one year later. The prohibition law was perceived as an act of social engineering that could spell out various implications to the American public. What was not understood was whether the governments and citizens were ready to deal with the prohibition. Before the prohibition many Americans labelled themselves as wet or dry. [1: Parramore, Thomas, et al Norfolk: The first four centuries (Charlottesville: University Press of...
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...[pic] Resolution of the World Health Organization After meeting in Geneva in May 2003 for the Fifty-Sixth World Health Assembly, the WHO outlined its Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness, or VISION 2020 plan. The WHO urges national governments to: • Set up, not later than 2005, a national VISION 2020 plan, in partnership with the WHO and in collaboration with NGOs and the private sector. • Establish a national coordinating committee for VISION 2020 or a national blindness prevention committee, which may include consumer or patient groups, to develop and implement the plan. • Commence implementation of such plans by 2007 at the latest. • Include effective information systems with standardized indicators and periodic monitoring and evaluation, with the aim of showing a reduction in the magnitude of avoidable blindness by 2010. • Mobilize resources for eliminating avoidable blindness. In turn, the WHO agrees to: • Maintain and strengthen the WHO’s collaboration with governments and all partners of the initiative. • Ensure coordination of the implementation of the VISION 2020 plan, by setting up a monitoring committee grouping all those involved, including national government representatives. • Provide support for strengthening national capability, especially through development of human resources, to coordinate, assess, and prevent avoidable blindness...
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...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 glacial fluctuations influenced geological, climatological, and biological environments and affected the evolution and development of early humans. Almost all of Canada, the northern third of the United States...
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...D400 – TURF MANAGEMENT SCHEDULE OF OPERATIONS EMPLOYEE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS STAFF TRAINING Training is essential for the proper functioning of the golf course maintenance department. The complexity of turf grass management and the equipment and chemicals used makes it imperative that all employees know the requirements of their jobs, the proper operation of tools and equipment, and the correct use and dangers involved in handling various chemicals. This can only be achieved by thorough initial and ongoing training. Departmental Orientation It is the policy of the Club that new employees receive both a Club and a Departmental Orientation. While the Personnel Administrator conducts the Club Orientation, the Golf Course Superintendent is responsible for conducting his Departmental Orientation. A detailed outline of the material to be covered may be found in Departmental Orientation, Personnel Policies, P-300.13. Monthly Meetings Monthly training meetings for all staff will be conducted by the Superintendent or his Assistant. An agenda of the material to be covered will be prepared prior to the meeting and all in attendance must sign in. The Superintendent will also use these meetings to critique the golf course...
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...Industrial Technologies Program Steam Digest A compendium of articles from 2003 on the technical and financial benefits of steam efficiency, presented by stakeholders in the U.S. Department of Energy’s BestPractices Steam efforts Volume IV Compiled for the Industrial Technologies Program By the Alliance to Save Energy Acknowledgements The Steam Digest: Volume IV is the fourth annual compilation of articles dedicated to steam system efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy sponsors the BestPractices Steam program, which either directly or indirectly facilitated the creation of all the articles contained in this volume. BestPractices Steam, which is part of the wider BestPractices program under DOE’s Industrial Technologies Program, works with industry to identify plant-wide opportunities for energy savings and process efficiency. The BestPractices Steam Steering Committee provides a great deal of input and guidance into the program (see more information about the Committee on pages 1 and 2). Mr. Fred Fendt, Technical Fellow with Rohm & Haas, serves as Chair of the BestPractices Steam Steering Committee. Ms. Debbie Bloom, Senior Consultant for Nalco Company, continues as Vice-Chair. Mr. Doug Riley, Director of Global Energy of Millennium Chemicals, serves as the Executive At-Large. These individuals participate on the BestPractices Steam Steering Committee: Bob Bessette President, Council of Industrial...
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...Dear Newsmaker Letter Rory Pritchard Professor Brad Long October 3rd 2014 Actual article: Children working on tobacco farms in the United States are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While US law prohibits the sale of tobacco products to children, children can legally work on tobacco farms in the US. The world’s largest tobacco companies buy tobacco grown on US farms, but none have child labor policies that sufficiently protect children from hazardous work. The 138-page report, “Tobacco’s Hidden Children: Hazardous Child Labor in US Tobacco Farming,” documents conditions for children working on tobacco farms in four states where 90 percent of US tobacco is grown: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Children reported vomiting, nausea, headaches, and dizziness while working on tobacco farms, all symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning. Many also said they worked long hours without overtime pay, often in extreme heat without shade or sufficient breaks, and wore no, or inadequate, protective gear. “As the school year ends, children are heading into the tobacco fields, where they can’t avoid being exposed to dangerous nicotine, without smoking a single cigarette” said Margaret Wurth, children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. “It’s no surprise the children exposed to poisons in the tobacco fields are getting sick.” The report is based...
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...GENERIC RISK ASSESSMENTS CONTENTS PAGE 1. All educational visits 2. Travel on educational visits 3. Residential visit accommodation 4. Use of tour operator or provider of activities 5. Ski trip 6. School exchange visit with a school abroad 7. Walks in normal country 8. Walks in remote terrain 9. Indirectly supervised walks (Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and similar) 10. River walks, gorge or stream scramble as an adventure activity 11. Field study by or in water 12. Rock climbing 13. Swimming during educational visits 14. Visits to coastal locations 15. Visits to farms 16. Cycling 17. Standing camps 18. Lightweight camping (Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and similar) 19. Canoeing/kayaking Assessments completed by. Rob Brindley | Date. January 2010 | Reviewed. | GENERIC RISK ASSESSMENT 1 – ALL EDUCATIONAL VISITS HAZARD OBSERVED | RISK BEFORE CONTROL MEASURES | PERSONS AT RISK | CONTROL MEASURES | COMMENTSACTIONS | RESIDUAL RISK RATING | Exposure to weather. | Cold injury, heat injury, over-exposure to sun. | Pupils and staff. | Consider possible weather conditions and plan appropriate programme, clothing and equipment. Plan for pupils who may not bring suitable clothing – check before departure and/or bring spares. Daily weather forecast obtained and plans adjusted accordingly. | Provide clear information about suitable clothing and equipment to pupils and parents. | Low | Pupil lost or separated...
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...of plants is self-sustaining except for bi-yearly maintenance where the beds are weeded and fertilized. There kind of plants are usually subjected to harsh weather conditions such as wind and frost. ___ _ According to this author, Extensive roofs are more effective in environmental protection but, this is subject to extensive research. ADVANTAGES OF GREEN ROOFS The advantages of green roofs are numerous. According to GSA report the following are the Advantages of the Green roof: I. STORMWATER MANAGEMENT Runoff water from rainfall can over flood and contaminate water bodies from pollution. Green roofs help to slow down runoff water and reuse part of it effectively. II. BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT Not only do Green roofs help to regain the lost foot print of earth in which a building occupies it also gives a chance to consciously choose certain type of plants that improves the biodiversity of a region( within the urban setting). According to the GSA report (2011), these plants may be designed to mimic local native habitats, extending the area available for native plant species to colonize. ___ _ III. URBAN HEAT ISLANDS “Urban heat islands are highly built-up areas that are generally warmer than surrounding rural or suburban areas, due to the absorption of solar radiation by buildings and other man-made surfaces, and the lack of natural cooling from vegetation. (GSA report 2011). According to this report, Heat island effect contributes to a high dependency on artificial cooling which...
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...Pre-Feasibility Study DAIRY FARM (25 Animals) Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority Government of Pakistan www.smeda.org.pk HEAD OFFICE 6th Floor LDA Plaza Egerton Road, Lahore Tel 111 111 456, Fax 6304926-7 Website www.smeda.org.pk Helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE SINDH NWFP 5TH Floor, Bahria Complex II, M.T. Khan Road, Karachi. Tel: (021) 111-111-456 Fax: (021) 5610572 helpdesk-khi@smeda.org.pk Ground Floor State Life Building The Mall, Peshawar. Tel: (091) 9213046-47 Fax: (091) 286908 helpdesk-pew@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE PUNJAB REGIONAL OFFICE BALOCHISTAN Bungalow No. 15-A Chaman Housing Scheme Airport Road, Quetta. Tel: (081) 831623, 831702 Fax: (081) 831922 helpdesk-qta@smeda.org.pk 8 th Floor, LDA Plaza, Lahore, Tel: (042) 111-111-456 Fax: (042)6304926-7 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk October, 2008 Pre-Feasibility Study Dairy Farm (25 Animals) 1 INTRODUCTION TO SMEDA..........................................................................................................4 2 PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT.....................................................................................................4 3 CRUCIAL FACTORS & STEPS IN DECISION MAKING FOR INVESTMENT ..........................5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 STRENGTHS ................................................................................................................................5 WEAKNESSES..................................................................
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...Pre-Feasibility Study DAIRY FARM (25 Animals) Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority Government of Pakistan www.smeda.org.pk HEAD OFFICE 6th Floor LDA Plaza Egerton Road, Lahore Tel 111 111 456, Fax 6304926-7 Website www.smeda.org.pk Helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE SINDH NWFP 5TH Floor, Bahria Complex II, M.T. Khan Road, Karachi. Tel: (021) 111-111-456 Fax: (021) 5610572 helpdesk-khi@smeda.org.pk Ground Floor State Life Building The Mall, Peshawar. Tel: (091) 9213046-47 Fax: (091) 286908 helpdesk-pew@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE PUNJAB REGIONAL OFFICE BALOCHISTAN Bungalow No. 15-A Chaman Housing Scheme Airport Road, Quetta. Tel: (081) 831623, 831702 Fax: (081) 831922 helpdesk-qta@smeda.org.pk 8 th Floor, LDA Plaza, Lahore, Tel: (042) 111-111-456 Fax: (042)6304926-7 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk October, 2008 Pre-Feasibility Study Dairy Farm (25 Animals) 1 INTRODUCTION TO SMEDA..........................................................................................................4 2 PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT.....................................................................................................4 3 CRUCIAL FACTORS & STEPS IN DECISION MAKING FOR INVESTMENT ..........................5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 6.3 STRENGTHS ................................................................................................................................5 WEAKNESSES...........
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...Edition: 1.1 February 2002 Distance Education Course ML–302.5 Marine Terminal Operations Unit 1 Marine Terminals The three lessons in this unit will cover the topics of: • the role and function of marine terminals • terminal development • operational planning • civil engineering aspects of terminal design. Module B: Certificate in Maritime Logistics Diploma in Shipping Logistics—Jamaica Maritime Institute 1−1 Unit 1: Marine terminals Marine Terminal Operations Unit 1 ...........Activities and expectations Agenda To complete this unit, you will: • Read and study the text in this unit and any assigned passages in the Student Reader. • Apply the information by performing the Activities • Test yourself by doing the Practice Exercises and checking your answers. Resources There is no textbook for this course. All the information you require is in this Study Guide. In addition, your Student Manual lists some books that you may wish to read to expand your knowledge. Learning outcomes When you have completed this unit you will be able to: • • Explain some of the considerations in equipment selection. • Discuss the needs for storage areas. • Discuss safety and emergency response considerations. • 1−2 Describe the role and functions of marine terminals. List the broad categories of studies that are needed in planning a new terminal. Module B: Certificate in Maritime Logistics (Course...
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...which supports the health and safety act. * The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (known as COSHH) which ensures safe storage and usage of any substances that could harm other workers or service users. * The Manual Handling Regulations of 1992, which sets out methods and requirements to be met when manually handling objects, as well as people. * The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985 (known as RIDDOR) outlines what is required to be recorded and reported. * Food safety act 1990 * Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations (PPE) 1992 * Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998 1.2) The main points of health and safety policies and procedures largely centre on standards that must be upheld in order to create a safe place of work, and also to ensure that somewhere meets all legislation requirements when it comes to things like COSHH, where all...
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