RAY-BAN: ThE hISTORY Of ThE TOp SELLING EYEwEAR BRANd wORLd wIdE 1936 Birth of Ray-Ban Eyewear For aviation‚ both military and civil‚ the 1920s was a decade of remarkable advances. Air traffic grew as a result. With the development of new aeroplanes that could fly higher and higher came altitude-related problems. Pilots were suffering from headaches and nausea because of glare and the great distances that they had to traverse. In 1929‚ General MacCready asked Ray-Ban for a new type of air force
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PHILPS Consumer Electronics division set up a joint taskforce to create a new audio format (i.e. Compact Discs) and thereon in 1984‚ the second wave of PAP’s were born with SONY introducing the “DISCMAN”‚ a portable CD player. Further‚ in the 1990’s with computers becoming truly “personal” and with the wide spread adoption of the internet‚ music and its consumption too became revolutionized. The revolution was primarily on account of the introduction of a sharable digital audio format called MP
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Complete ALL problems under each heading in your packer. SHOW ALL WORK AND LABELS! Bolye’s Law Problems Example: If I have 5.6 liters of gas in a piston at a pressure of 1.5 atm and compress the gas until its volume is 4.8 L‚ what will the new pressure inside the piston be? • Read the problem and determine what is given and what is unknown? • Decide which law to use. • Substitute the values (given numbers) from the problem into the equation Given: P1 = 1.5 atm Unknown
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oyment incomeEMPLOYMENT INCOME Source of Employment Income The basis of taxation on employment income is that income from exercising an employment in Malaysia is regarded as Malaysian derived income. All income attributable to the employment exercised in Malaysia is subject to Malaysian tax irrespective of where the remuneration is paid. Where an employee is required to perform his duties outside Malaysia‚ the entire remuneration is still chargeable to Malaysian tax if the services rendered outside
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Type of marriage Arranged marriage- a marriage arranged by the families of the couple Shotgun marriage- a marriage forced or required because of pregnancy. Marriage of convenience- A marriage or joint undertaking arranged for political‚ economic‚ or social benefit rather than from personal attachment. Elope- to run off secretly to be married‚ usually without the consent or knowledge of one’s parents. kinship term Manogamy - single marriage of one man and one woman. polygamy- The practice
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Nancy Gupton for National Geographic News Published February 27‚ 2010 A tsunami can kill thousands of people and level entire blocks in mere seconds. See how much you know about these walls of water (tsunami safety tips). (Related: "Tsunami Warning for Hawaii After Huge Chile Earthquake.") 1. What can cause a tsunami? a. Landslide b. Underwater earthquake c. Volcanic eruption d. All of the above 2. Do all undersea earthquakes trigger a tsunami? a. Yes b. No 3. What does the word "tsunami"
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and improve the environment. The cost of gas is expensive enough and car companies are employing new tactics to alleviate most of the pollution that cars cause‚ by the use of electric cars‚ cars that have higher gas mileage‚ smaller cars‚ smaller engines and inspection regulations for each automobile to be done every year. As far as raising gas prices‚ I think that will cause more damage than good. People rely too much on transportation nowadays to make gas expensive. It would potentially put the
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[Obama ’s Gun Ban] The reasons I am against Obama’s gun ban is as follows. The Second Amendment states that the people have the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. When the government steps in and starts deciding what kind of arms we can and cannot keep‚ or what we cannot bear that is an infringement on our rights I will cover several reasons why are gun rights should not be infringed upon by Obama’s gun ban His ban targets the wrong weapon to begin with‚ most weapons used
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HIGH AND LOW CONTEXT: HOW MUCH INFORMATION IS ENOUGH? Context is the information that surrounds an event; it is inextricably bound up with the meaning of that event. The elements that combine to produce a given meaning - events and context - are in different proportions depending on the culture. The cultures of the world can be compared on a scale from high to low context. A high context (HC) communication or message is one in which most of the information is already in the person
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Introduction to Gas Turbines A turbine is any kind of spinning device that uses the action of a fluid to produce work. Typical fluids are: air‚ wind‚ water‚ steam and helium. Windmills and hydroelectric dams have used turbine action for decades to turn the core of an electrical generator to produce power for both industrial and residential consumption. Simpler turbines are much older‚ with the first known appearance dating to the time of ancient Greece. In the history of energy conversion‚ however
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