When designing earthquake safe structures the first consideration is to make the highest bit‚ the roof‚ as light as possible. This is best done with profiled steel cladding on light gauge steel Zed purlins. This can also have double skin with spacers and insulation. It can have a roof slope between 3 and 15 degrees. If it is required to have a ’flat’ roof‚ this could be made with a galvanised steel decking and solid insulation boards‚ and topped with a special membrane. Even a ’flat’ roof should
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Amiee Montano Heidi Gornto Public Speaking Tuesday: 5-9:15pm 12/03/2012 Final Outline Beyond the Stars Speech Topic: NASA Funding Speech Title: Beyond the Stars Categories: Policy General Purpose Statement: To Persuade Organizational Pattern: Problem‚ Cause‚ Solution Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade to my audience that we as tax payers should fund NASA. Central Idea Statement: To persuade to my audience‚ that we as tax payers should fund NASA. By first‚ discussing
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SWOT Analysis – Beyond the Text Book By Bobette Kyle When conducting strategic planning for any company - online and/or offline - it is useful to complete an analysis that takes into account not only your own business‚ but your competitor’s activities and current industry happenings as well. A SWOT analysis is one such analysis. SWOT stands for strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats. Completing a SWOT analysis helps you identify ways to minimize the affect of weaknesses in your business
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chapter‚ is a form of behavior by which one person influences others. ‘Our team won the championship because of the leadership of the quarterback.” In other words‚ leadership is the incremental influence one individual exerts over another‚ above and beyond mechanical compliance with routine directives. Leadership occurs when one individual MBO-influences others to do something voluntarily rather than because they were the required to do it or because they feared the consequences of noncompliance.
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A way beyond death is the inspiring story of a young girl in Brazil named Marcia. The book talks about the tribes she ministered to‚ and the struggles she had in the process. The book starts off by talking about Marcia as a child. She grew up in Rio‚ and at a young age was accepted into a organization named Youth With A Mission. She later finds her calling to be working with the country’s natives. One of the first groups she worked with were the Satere-Mawe. These people were known to be hostile
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Everyone must have‚ at some point‚ met someone whose capabilities they under- or overestimated. In “Proof”‚ David Auburn presents a main character‚ Catherine‚ whose basic abilities to take care of herself is sometimes questioned by the reader. Other characters in the story also challenge her decision to live by herself‚ but she and another main character maintain that she is perfectly capable of taking care of herself. Although Catherine exhibits some disturbing behaviors‚ she should not be considered
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-1- Beyond Porter – A Critique of the Critique of Porter The writings of the American managementguru and Harvard-Professor Michael E-Porter are considered to be among the most influential of their subject – and among the most critiqued ones. Porter had a lasting influence on strategic management with his books about competitive advantages on industry level and on global level‚ which were written in the eighties. Porter’s models like the Five Competitive Forces‚ the Value Chain or Porters Diamond
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I must admit‚ when I started reading the first chapter of the ebook To Infinity and Beyond: Journeys of the Mind and Spirit‚ by Dr. Kent A. Bessey‚ I immediately thought of the Pixar movie‚ Toy Story. This is the catch phrase of Buzz Lightyear‚ a main character from the movie. Being a line repeatedly quoted‚ I’m sure most haven’t tried to understand its true meaning. While I have often pondered the idea of infinity‚ I have never given the thought to infinity being mathematically computed. I have
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The video that I watched was called Beyond Perfection: Female Body Dimorphic Disorder. The video featured a woman named Jennifer who strives to be perfect in her looks. It takes her about 3 hours to get ready in the morning because she never fully loves how she looks with or without make-up. So far‚ Jennifer has had a nose job and a procedure to slightly sand down the top layer of her skin. Though she has had these procedures‚ she feels like she looks disfigured. Jennifer claims that if she were
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Beyond the Mirror: How Progressive Social Movements Influenced the Style of the 70s Written by: Carley Deibler AT 430‚ Fall 2016 Kansas State University Introduction Individuality was a key aspect of the 70s‚ and fashion had this style as its vocal point. In the early 1970s‚ Vogue magazine stated‚ “There are no rules in the fashion game now.” The decade known as the “Me” decade is known as one of the most complex periods in the fashion world. With key events happening‚ such as‚ women’s emancipation
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