One of the aims of April’s Placemaking Leadership Council’s (PLC) inaugural meeting was to form an agenda for a global campaign for placemaking as a movement. The 300 delegates from around the world spilt into groups tacking different aspects of placemaking – from multiuse destinations and transport to entrepreneurial places and place governance. I joined the healthy communities group‚ which will be the focus of this piece. The group was made up of a diverse cluster of practitioners from across
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The Black Death changed Europe by making the people lose faith in the church‚ which makes the government collapse. A big reason why the government collapsed‚ as explained by Anne Chapman was that “Some have seen popular loss of confidence in Church and political authorities as contributing to greater individualism and to a rising interest in personal‚ mystical religious beliefs”(Anne Chapman). In the middle ages many people looked towards religion as an answer to their diseases and problems‚ so when
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Financial Management fin855 Whirlpool Europe Case Report Date: March 2nd‚ 2015 The benefits proposed in the case are all reasonable. Half reduction in potential optimal DSI improvement is neither too optimistic‚ nor too conservative. The forecasting on profit margin is based on sales increase. As a benefit resulted from economies of scale enhance‚ but not from products upgrading‚ the limited .25% gross margin improvement is quite reasonable. Together with that‚ if the ERP system can be effective
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Salzburg to Munich to Nuremberg (one of the oldest city of Germany) to Ulm with a cathedral (considered the largest and tallest in all Germany) to Scuttgart‚ Baden‚ then to Rheinhall (Cascade of the Rhine) where they saw the most beautiful waterfall in Europe. * They crossed the frontier to Schaffhausen‚ Switzerland to Basel‚ Bern and Lausanne. * Left Lausanne in a little boat crossing foggy Leman to Geneva. * The people of Geneva were linguists who talked in three languages namely French‚
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Political System Transformation in European and Euro-American Societies The Enlightenment is well known to be an important cultural and intellectual movement that revolutionized the lifestyle of several European and Euro-American people during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It brought changes on the scientific‚ economic‚ and religious field. However‚ the field that resulted mainly affected by the Enlightenment was the political realm. Many important European philosophers like Thomas
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Car Price Differentials in the European Union (Case Study) Source: www.turbo-nutters.co.uk Prepared by: Mahsa Derakhshan Reza Pourabrisham Professor Lucia Tajoli June 2013 Car price differentials in the European Union (Case study)1 1. What are the sources of significant price differentials in the EU automobile market? The difference in products’ prices observed among the twenty-seven countries of the EU2‚ with no doubt‚ has a various number of causes. Some of the key reasons
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* Early Medieval Europe Founding of the Church * 2. Introduction: The Roots (This Series) Judaism Greece Rome Christianity and Christ Himself The Early Theologians * 3. Introduction: Fluorescence (The Next Series) Dark Ages Feudalism The Sociopolitical Structure Eve of the Renaissance * 4. Roots of Medieval Era: Judaism of Abraham Hebrews: a population in the city of Ur in Sumeria The word is derived from Greek biblia‚ which means “book‚” hence “People of the Book” Abraham was said
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The National Security Council Report 68-(NSC 68) was presented to the president Harris S. Truman on April‚ 4 1950. The report was a group effort‚ created with input from the Defense Department‚ the State Department‚ the CIA‚ and other interested agencies; NSC-68 formed the basis for America’s Cold War policy for the next two decades. The USA Patriot Act is an law that fights against terrorist‚ started by the U.S. Congress in October 2001‚ by President George W. Bush. The major cause was to respond
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The identity of Good Christians in medieval Europe defied the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the monastic orders of the Church‚ they lived and preached in the world. They exhibited a righteous lifestyle and teachings that threatened the influence of the Church. The Good Christians contrasting beliefs were heretical in the eyes of the Catholic Church. For this infraction‚ they needed to be reeducated and brought back to the fold. Heretical teachings and beliefs would not be tolerated
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The Jedi Council Meeting Chamber was abuzz with activity. The twelve members of the High Council were urgently making their way to the chairs in which they sat every meeting. The chairs were custom made for each Master. Once the room had settled down‚ the Grand Master‚ a short‚ long-haired man with his dark hair tied loosely over his shoulder‚ addressed his colleagues. "I’m sure you all know why we are here‚ correct?" he asked in a thick accent. The other masters nodded solemnly. "The recent attempt
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