Energy For The Future John Hosking We live in a world where technology has outgrown us‚ and where we have outgrown our world. Beyond our dependence on the earth’s resources for simple necessities we have grown dependent on it for energy. Since we developed our need for energy the quest to find it has been perpetual. Over the last 200 years that need has been mainly supplied by fossil fuels‚ predominately coal. Recently‚ interest in the development for more sustainable energy options has
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The future of auditing Called to account The auditing industry has yet to recover from the damage inflicted by an era of corporate scandals Nov 18th 2004 |From the print edition * * NO ONE becomes an auditor because the job is adventurous. In recent years‚ however‚ the profession has been really rather racy. Auditors have been implicated in fraud after fraud. The Enron scandal brought down Arthur Andersen‚ which had been one of the profession ’s five giant firms. Now a scandal at
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JET PACKS If you’ve ever seen the classic James Bond flick ’Thunderball‚’ you probably remember that great action scene in which 007 makes his escape from some bad guys by slipping on a rocket-equipped backpack and blasting off into the sky [source: Parker]. Jet packs were first dreamed up by German scientists during World War II‚ and after the war‚ the Pentagon longed to develop its own version [source: Kaku]. In the 1950s‚ at Bell Aerosystems in New York‚ a visionary engineer named Wendell F
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Taken from http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1766936.html [Accessed on December 18‚ 2008] 5 New Ideas To Power Our Future - October 2005 Cover Story from Popular Mechanics With the outlook for oil uncertain‚ it’s time for new ideas. Here are five emerging technologies--from buoys that harness the power of waves to bacteria that extract electricity from wastewater. Together they can keep the world humming. BY KRISTIN ROTH Illustrations by Flying-Chilli.com Published in the October
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What does it mean to have Hope? According to Merriam Webster‚ Hope is to want something to happen or be true and thinks that it could happen or be true. My definition of Hope is something to hold onto in the midst of trouble. In Shawshank Redemption‚ Stephen King is trying to tell us that Hope is something that is fought for and can give enough courage to push ourselves to do anything‚ that why he gives Andy and Red different points of views on the topic. Andy Dufresne was convicted for murdering
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Summary In an era where globalization and digital technology is changing the terrain and setting the ground for a new work atmosphere‚ it is time for organizations to address specific challenges and opportunities that matters most of the workforce. The world is changing. Demographic shifts of the current pattern‚ influenced by choices made by double income no kids families. There is an increasing reality of older‚ matured and more tenured employees staying in the workplace longer. In the context
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Case study: Selling Hope Case Summary State lotteries consider as a marketing challenge. As a legal monopoly‚ they have no competitors which are a major aim of much advertising. The company only remain two objectives which are recruiting new players and encouraging existing player to increase their activity. To aid them in product development and advertising‚ marketers use variety research tools to learn people’s preferences and responses to proposed games. They also engage in target marketing
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FUTURE OF SAARC THE vast South Asia subcontinent was split into two nations in 1947 when India and Pakistan came into existence because of their irreconcilably divergent religions‚ political perceptions and ethnic cleavages. It became impossible to make the Hindus and Muslims live under any single arrangement. They could not get along side by side any more. The other States which became independent were Sri Lanka (1948)‚ the Maldives (1996) and Bangladesh 1971‚ whose story of creation is somewhat
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Theology of Hope: Junger Moltmann Moltmann was born in 1926. Identifies himself as an Evangelical. Moltmann’s first book Theology of Hope(1964) was also greatly influenced by Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope. Also‚ Moltmann identifies the sources of his theology of hope and of God’s presence in suffering with his experiences of WWII. Moltmann studied at Göttingen‚ continued to do a doctoral dissertation and his second dissertation which qualifies him to become a lecturer in Germany. In 1967-1994
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“No generation has yet lived from cradle to grave in the digital era‚” say authors John Palfrey and Urs Gasser‚ in “Born Digital”. This book gives another look at technology in the eyes of the individual who has not only been surrounded by technology‚ but enveloped by it. They also bring to the point‚ “Digital Natives live much of their lives online‚ without distinguishing between the online and the offline” (Palfrey and Gasser 4).In this instance‚ “digital native” would be any individual who was
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