the most devastating wildfires in California’s History‚ The Yosemite Rim Fire. This massive fire started on August 17‚ 2013‚ Took nearly a full 9 weeks of fire fighters fighting to get the fire fully contained. Nearly costing $127.35 million just in the fight against this devastating wildfire.The size of the Yosemite Rim Fire was nearly 257‚314 acres. A total of eleven homes‚ three commercial structures‚ and 98 outbuildings were destroyed in the fire. Just Think about it‚ a Wild fire about the size
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Pacific Rim movie review If I were nine years old‚ I would see the monsters-versus-robots adventure "Pacific Rim" 50 times. Because I’m in my forties and have two kids and two jobs‚ I’ll have to be content with seeing it a couple more times in theaters and re-watching it on video. Like George Lucas’ original 1977 "Star Wars"‚ Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi actioner uses high technology to pump up disreputable subject matter to Hollywood blockbuster levels. The film’s main selling point is its overscaled
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CHALLENGES FACED BY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN GHANA A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST. INTRODUCTION: Background of Study Increasingly over the past 50 years and especially in response to globalization and internationalization‚ post- secondary institutions are expanding to include more and more international students. Paige (1990) defined international students as individuals who temporarily reside in a country other than their country of citizenship‚ in order to participate in international
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The challenges faced by the Muslim Leaders(dai) Challenges between Muslims There are a lot of problems and challenges even among the Muslim. Nowadays‚ the unity of Ummah is lacking in many places. Muslim society is supposed to be one whole community but there have been many internal conflict among us. The following are some of the challenges faced by the Muslim leaders as a Dai. (1) Racialism or nationalism even among Muslim themselves. A muslim treats other muslim depends on where
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NAME: BUSINESS LAW UNIT CODE: BHR 101 TOPIC: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND PATENT LAWS -Presentation- Introduction. Intellectual property law is that type of law that protects the legal rights of creators and owners in relation to intellectual activity. It lets people own the work they create. Intellectual property rights (IPR) are broadly rights granted to creators and owners of works that are as a result of human intellectual activity. These works can be in the industrial
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What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property‚ and how did RIM handle those challenges? RIM vs. Glenayre Technologies‚ Inc. * This claim‚ a response to an earlier suit brought forth by Glenayre‚ insisted that Glenayre blatantly imitated BlackBerry technology and marketing. * Later in 2001‚ Glenayre’s initial 1999 patent suit against RIM was dismissed. In early 2002 RIM and Glenayre agreed to drop their remaining lawsuits and work together to
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with bad news‚ as the American film studio - Universal Pictures has announced it’s pulling Pacific Rim 2 off its release calendar completely but the American musical comedy film - Pitch Perfect 3 is moving back two weeks to fill Pacific Rim 2’s old slot. A Universal representative said in a statement‚ "Legendary and Universal Pictures are committed to having Pacific Rim 2‚ the sequel to 2013’s Pacific Rim‚ which triggered a $411 million at the global box office‚ be the vanguard‚ fully-immersive experience
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workforce led to the start of trade unions to protect employees’ working conditions such as good working environment‚good salaries‚medical cover and other allowances. The umbrella of trade unions known us Central Organisation of Trade unions was fromed to represent unions in various capacities has been on the frontline to empower employees to join unions to help them address their employment grievances. Trade unions are faced by a number of challenges that needs to be addressed to enable them meet
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In this time period America faced a lot with the wars. Some of our states were being targeted by British Soldiers in the war. In 1780 the patriots from America tried to push the British soldiers out of our country. The American soldiers were to tired and hungry to fight anymore. Most of the soldiers tried to escape‚ but couldn’t. According to General Nathanael Greene‚ he had never witnessed such scenes before in his life. General Greene was very discouraged when he arrived to the scene. America finally
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2-The idea of challenges Natives face is major‚ from having to deal with so much‚ including generations being destroyed and are still in the process of fixing all these problems. Some which include colonialism‚ which is defined as the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country‚ occupying it with settlers‚ and exploiting it economically‚ including Christopher Columbus. Policy a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government‚ party‚ business
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