The Non-Traditional structure that I chose to design is a log home. When doing research on styles of construction I was a little overwhelmed with the options that are available for construction methods. The first thing I needed to find out is what type of footing and foundation is needed to support the immense weight of the logs. An 8"x16" footing and 8" foundation is sufficient enough to support the weight of a log home. There are three different options available for supporting the floor joist
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The Social Construction of Race By watching the film I have a deep understanding‚ I know racial distinction is not just by appearance‚ we don’t really know what is race‚ actually the race is not important‚ but the race is still bringing great influence on people’s lives. This film is about race‚ not about attitude and behavior of the individual‚ and in the past in the history of the institutional and policy in the United States is still on the basis of race‚ through sacrifice others bring interests
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Abstract We have to complete an assignment for our Construction Technology about green building. Our lecturer‚ IR Han had also held an visit programme to one of the green building that located at Putrajaya which is Diamond Building to help us in obtaining more information for this assignment. Our assignment had inserted these information that we obtained from the visit to Diamond Building and also some other green buildings around the world. In the introduction part we can see that green
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The social construction of disasters evolves throughout the years due to political and economic factors as well as education and technological advancement. One thing is that disasters are commonly understood to be limited in both time and effect (Hills‚ p.163). When analyzing and interpreting past‚ present and future political synergies‚ it is necessary to include a human dimension that encapsulates and embraces socio-cultural appreciation and understanding of man and his environment (Trim‚ p. 218)
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Console games vs. PC games Let’s start with the console’s themselves. Maybe you’ve heard it before‚ but some people say PC-gaming is dying. Can PC games still compete with Console games? Gamers have never been so spoiled for choice. While the console vs. PC war has been around for ages‚ consoles today have bridged the gap by finally providing decent multiplayer capabilities. Is this the end of the PC as the dominant gaming machine? Gaming has been around for a long time. It is serious business
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People are people Autumn Heather Lundy Concorde Career College Friday‚ July 12‚ 2013 Prepared for MS Hill Multicultural competence is the ability to appreciate‚ value‚ interact with and benefit from difference cultures. Cultures are group with a common outlook. They may be racial or ethnic; male or female; of a certain sexual orientation belief or age (job readiness‚ 2013‚ page 104). You will always see in this world multicultural competence because every judges everybody. Before I was born
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A Swarm Intelligence Method Applied to Manufacturing Scheduling Davide Anghinolfi‚ Antonio Boccalatte‚ Alberto Grosso‚ Massimo Paolucci‚ Andrea Passadore‚ Christian Vecchiola‚ DIST – Department of Communications Computer and System Sciences‚ University of Genova STWTSDS problem. Regarding the latter point‚ note that the approach in [4] seems to be the only previous DPSO application to the single machine total weighted tardiness (STWT) problem. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section
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HOW TO PLAY SCI – DAMATHS ? ( SCI = Science‚ DAMA = Pinoy checker board‚ MATHS = Mathematics ) TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Rules of the Sci - Damaths 3 Special moves and score 4 What is Sci - Damaths? 5 Construction of standard Board Sci - damaths board and chips 6 Notation 7 Powers of the chips 8 How to use the board? 11 Sci-Damaths operation 12 Writing moves 13 Scoresheets 14 Notes 15 Chips 17 Counting Damaths
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Panama Canal had impacted the history of the United States. As imperialism continued‚ Panama had sparked an interest to the Land Of Liberty. For the United States Panama could bring a whole new experience in market and trade with other nations. Many people‚ the Americans believed building the aqueduct was a new hope for America’s forthcoming. The Panama canal is a key piece of global force in the United States. The waterway brought many emulation between the US and other countries‚ like Colombia. The
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| Report toThe Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee | Assessment of Macro-Environment Forces&Marketing Mix | | | 29th November 2010 | | * INTRODUCTION This report aims to assess the impact of macro-environmental forces on the credibility of the recent Commonwealth Games held in Delhi‚ India and provide recommendations on strategic marketing improvements that could be made in the delivery of future international sporting events. In doing‚ this report shall make reference
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