2012 Denise M. Capalbo Logistics 6/23/2012 2012 Denise M. Capalbo Logistics 6/23/2012 The hearts demonstrate our passion for our work and our customers’ passion for their businesses The We ♥ Logistics communications platform features 11 hearts – one universal and 10 illustrative. Each heart helps us tell the story of how UPS is logistics. The universal heart represents everything we do, while the illustrative hearts further educate customers and potential customers on how
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Femi Babatunde History of insurance The first examples of insurance related to marine activities. In many ancient societies, merchants and traders pledged their ships or cargo as security for loans. In Babylon creditors charged higher interest rates to merchants and traders in exchange for a promise to forgive the loan if the ship was robbed by pirates or was captured and held for ransom. In post medieval England, local groups of working people banded together to create "friendly societies," forerunners
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Kayaking Kayaking is about 4000 years old and was first founded by the Inuits. The word ‘kayak’ means ‘hunter’s boat’ and comes from the Paloe-eskimos of Greenland. They designed the kayak to hunt animals and used them for transportation of passengers or goods. The Inuits used to make the kayaks out of seal skins that they would stretch over the driftwood that was collected from the beaches. The native builders of the kayaks used to design and adapt the boats based on their own experiences and that
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ROGER B RUEDA WRITING CLASS 10 Kinds of Rhetorical Modes (1) Description Descriptive writing calls for close attention to details. Whether your subject is as small as a strawberry or as large as a football stadium, you should begin by observing your subject closely and deciding which details are most significant. Topic Suggestions: a basketball, baseball glove, or tennis racket a bowl of fruit a character from a book, film, or television programme a child's secret hiding place a
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was dotted with container ships of all sizes, flying flags of many nations. As the restaurant rotated, the massive port infrastructure came into view with its many berths and giant cranes loading and unloading container ships at berth. Khoo Teng Chye, explained with pride: The story of PSA is the story of Singapore. At the port, as in all of Singapore, we have limited land, limited sea space, and a limited number of people. Yet, we handle a large and growing volume of ship calls with cargo that have
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the differences between water and alcohol 1. you could try burning. alcohol is extremely flammable, whereas water will put out a fire 2. alcohol has a smell, water does not. 3. alcohol will evaporate quickly, water will just sit. 4. pH test, water will be neutral, alcohol will be acidic. 5. you could dye one of them with food coloring and mix them. the alcohol will be the one on the top, because alcohol is less dense than water. 2. Water: molecular mass of 18.015, density of 1 g/cm³
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Introduction Since the indefinite commercial whaling moratorium was introduced in 1986, the whaling nations have killed around 15,000 whales between them. At the time of writing, the Japanese whaling fleet has just returned from Antarctic waters where a further 300 or so minke whales have been killed for so called ‘research’, in open defiance of world public opinion and the IWC which has never validated the Japanese programme. The meat from those dead whales will end up on sale in Japanese restaurants
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Harvard Business School 9-282-042 Rev. September 15, 1986 Marriott Corporation The idea of repurchasing shares was no stranger to Bill Marriott by January 1980. Almost five million shares of common stock had been repurchased on the open market by Marriott Corporation during 1979 at a total cost of $74 million and an average price of $15.16 in the belief that they were undervalued—a belief that still was not fully reflected in the market price. At $19 5/8, the stock was selling at only
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Ship Design and Construction Written by an International Group of Authorities Thomas Lamb, Editor Volume II Y OF NA IET VA C O L CHITECT AR S & RINE E NG MA I The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 601 Pavonia Avenue • Jersey City, NJ • 07306 THE ERS S NE • Published in 2004 by Copyright © 2004 The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. ISBN 0-939773-41-4 The opinions or assertions of the authors herein are not to be construed as official or
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the broker 4.1 The patron and the compadre 4.2 The returned migrant 4.3 The private recruiter 4.4 The broker – some general and concluding remarks 38 40 43 45 52 Part V Life at sea 5.1 What characterizes a ship in the merchant marines? 5.2 The seafaring experience 5.2.1 The ship seen as a prison 5.2.2 The total institution 55 57 66 67 72 5.2.2.1 A total institution is a secluded place 75 5.2.2.2 A total institution follow a certain pace 77 5.2.2.3 Some running themes in the inmate culture
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