...the radar gun models the cops are able to establish a vehicle driver’s speed efficiently and effortlessly. They just point and also shoot, and in that flash they are informed how fast over the limit you were speeding. Radar devices are a substantial benefit for authorities. They clock the speed exactly, and also it provides them the capacity to establish the speed of a given car from a fair range away. This helps them stop speeding as well as assure that several drivers are complying with the regulations. If you are detained by a police officer or woman that has actually utilized their radar gun to videotape your speed, all hope is not lost. As soon as the ticket has been written there are things you can do that might result in you beating the speeding ticket. Several different steps, when done in conjunction, can help give you the best shot at winning. Radar guns are machines. Depending on the size of your penalty and also its effect on not your DMV record and your current insurance coverage premiums, this may be a rewarding defense to go after....
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...within and between cities contribute mainly to the high rate of accidents in Saudi Arabia. This is in addition to the increased number of emigrants from different countries who are unacquainted with local driving conditions and requirements. Nonetheless, most accidents happen specifically as a result of drivers’ error. Over 50% of the traffic accidents are due to over speed and violation of signals at intersections. Signal violation accidents in Saudi Arabia are 4.5 times more common than in the USA. (1) “The report found that almost a third of traffic accidents in the Saudi capital Riyadh were due to drivers jumping red lights, followed by 18 percent of accidents caused by illegal U-turns. The most common dangerous driving activities were speeding, sudden stops and speaking on the phone while driving.” (2) Therefore, the misbehavior and negligence of drivers are dominant factors in most traffic accidents in...
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...EFFECTIVNESS OF ADVERTISMENT FOR SPEEDING BEHAVIOURS A Review of the Effectiveness of Advertisement Campaign as a countermeasure for preventing Speeding Behaviours in Drivers Name: Mylinh Huynh Student number: n8910481 Unit Name: Traffic Psychology Word Count: 3488 Abstract This essay discusses about the theoretical and empirical evidence relating to the effectiveness of advertisement as a countermeasure for speeding. The results of the review highlight the mixed and inconsistent findings that have been reported in the literature. While fear arousal appears important for attracting attention, its contribution to behaviour change appears less critical than other factors, such as perceptions of vulnerability and effective coping strategies. Furthermore, physical threat appeals such as death or portraying physical harm is less effective for males then females. Consequently, further research is required to determine the optimum way to utilise advertisement as a countermeasure for speeding. A Review of the Effectiveness of Advertisement Campaign as a countermeasure for preventing Speeding Behaviours in Drivers Most traffic accidents are caused by dangerous driving habits attained and carried out by drivers. Risky driver behaviours such as speeding and drink driving represent one of the leading causes to road trauma (Boyle, 1984). One of the most prevalent factors contributing to Australia's road death accidents is speeding. According to New South Wales statistical...
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...The effects of physical and psychological changes associated with ageing referring to Marilyn Monroe. Physical changes during the ageing process occurs at all stages during the human life, body is constantly changing with age. Marilyn Monroe unfortunately died before she reached old age where the more significant ageing process takes place. However in her adulthood she did show significant signs of ageing before her death even though she only died at the age of 38. Stress and anxiety are a factors of speeding up the ageing process which is probably the reason why Marilyn started show physical changes so early in her life. Mostly the changes where in her face which was made obvious to the public because being a model and also actress her face was everywhere. When you start to age the face loses elasticity so it no longer look plump and youthful it beings to get fine lines and wrinkles. Accusations about Marilyn having Botox and other facial plastic surgery to slow down the process so she could keep that youthful look she was so ironically famous for. If Marilyn had lived for a longer length of time it would have been more noticeable the ageing process because her hair would have started to turn grey and maybe even thin out, however now with hair dye a lot of older people do tend to find the grey to give off the appearance of being younger. Another physical sign of ageing would have been her organs slowly decreasing in rate of which they function, such as the liver won’t...
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...spilled oil on the surface and separate it from the water. Mechanical recovery requires cooperative weather, calm seas, and lots of man power to operate the work boats and equipment used to perform these processes. Mechanical recovery is usually the first and most common line of defense when it comes to oil spills. Dispersants are also commonly used to cope with disastrous oil spills. A dispersant is an agent used to spray on oil slicks to break them up into water soluble molecules and transfer them into the water column where they are then subjected to natural process such as waves and current to further separate the oil. This technique is used to break up large oil slicks that would otherwise wash ashore where it can have a devastating effect on the environment. Dispersants are usually applied using planes that fly over the oil slicks spraying the agents. The dispersing agents are also used to...
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...TIME | SPEED (km/h) | | VEHICLE CLASS | | 1 (motor) | 2 (car) | 3 (van) | 4 (truck) | 5.30-5.45 | 76 | 120 | 128 | 134 | 97 | 126 | 77 | 144 | 84 | 67 | 54 | 52 | | 83 | 151 | 132 | 66 | 156 | 140 | 130 | 89 | 98 | 34 | 39 | 57 | | 99 | 80 | 110 | 158 | 140 | 137 | 130 | 80 | 91 | 34 | 61 | 53 | | 160 | 106 | 96 | 140 | 140 | 126 | 48 | 90 | 60 | 39 | 35 | 43 | | 136 | 127 | 78 | 153 | 105 | 140 | 80 | 113 | 63 | 45 | 59 | 32 | 5.45-6.00 | 103 | 131 | 138 | 140 | 84 | 126 | 83 | 64 | 53 | 45 | 39 | 42 | | 127 | 103 | 145 | 97 | 105 | 140 | 63 | 140 | 45 | 56 | 51 | 35 | | 131 | 137 | 131 | 115 | 126 | 84 | 74 | 42 | 63 | 51 | 41 | 50 | | 160 | 147 | 151 | 158 | 84 | 158 | 66 | 67 | 62 | 36 | 37 | 50 | | 84 | 90 | 160 | 115 | 126 | 158 | 104 | 63 | 74 | 69 | 45 | 40 | 6.00-6.15 | 37 | 40 | 56 | 105 | 84 | 84 | 69 | 61 | 79 | 59 | 33 | 41 | | 49 | 49 | 74 | 74 | 66 | 66 | 95 | 96 | 85 | 34 | 38 | 35 | | 58 | 63 | 60 | 70 | 105 | 97 | 63 | 137 | 81 | 36 | 42 | 47 | | 97 | 88 | 58 | 105 | 140 | 158 | 91 | 148 | 62 | 44 | 33 | 34 | | 50 | 63 | 64 | 140 | 90 | 60 | 62 | 77 | 103 | 47 | 61 | 33 | 6.15-6.30 | 64 | 63 | 62 | 90 | 105 | 84 | 67 | 80 | 95 | 48 | 34 | 33 | | 43 | 56 | 44 | 140 | 126 | 66 | 119 | 88 | 86 | 60 | 34 | 32 | | 90 | 53 | 78 | 105 | 55 | 90 | 117 | 147 | 111 | 36 | 40 | 34 | | 67 | 60 | 56 | 115 | 126 | 79 | 81 | 89 | 66 | 40 | 39 | 50 | | 84 | 36 | 76 | 97 | 105 | 115 | 46 | 129 | 110 | 56 | 45 | 37...
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... Professor: Kanyo 08/03/2011 Mid-Michigan Community College Abstract Most of nations have their own road speed limits. This is also an argumentative problem in the modern society. A number of people think that it is necessary to use speed limits to protect people because they believe that lower speed limit can decrease fatalities, injuries and property damage. Others believe that we need to change this policy because it cannot correspond with the development of car quality. According to the data from many car manufactures, the technology of vehicles has changed a lot. I think we do not need to maintain the old standard. We should make new policy to accommodate new technology and new society. Lower speed do not means safer and not fast speed means dangers. I am the one who wish government can change this policy because I think that changing the speed limit cannot only save our time but also boost our economy. Road Speed Limits Most of countries have their own speed limit; it is used to regulate the speed of road vehicles. Speed limits may define maximum, minimum or no speed limit and are normally indicated using a traffic sign. Speed limits are commonly set by the legislative bodies of nations or provincial governments and enforced by national or regional police or judicial bodies. The first speed limit legislation was created in the United Kingdom with the Locomotive Acts. Drives are required to control at a safe speed for conditions. However, the present cannot compare...
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...Title Page Benedictine University 8/4/2014 Abstract The following text examines the recall of the drug Vioxx and the pharmaceutical industry’s responsibilities when it comes to ethical testing and distribution of consumer medicines. The role of the Federal Drug Administration is examined. The text also contemplates the actions that Merck, the maker of Vioxx, took during the product’s recall and how we can improve the current drug testing system to protect consumers. INTRODUCTION Merck, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, created Vioxx, a once best-selling painkiller. In 2004, the company learned that its drug increased the risk of stroke and heart attack. After a few different studies, Merck finally gave in and recalled the product. The company had to face troubling questions and allegations that Vioxx had caused many deaths even though it wasn’t proven to be completely safe. Do you believe that Merck acted in a socially responsible and ethical manner with regard to Vioxx? Why or why not? In your answer, please address the company’s drug development and testing, marketing and advertising, relationships with government regulators and policy makers, and handling of the recall. I don’t think that Vioxx acted in a socially responsible and ethical manner with regard to Vioxx. Even before the drug was approved and released into the market, there was evidence that Vioxx wasn’t 100% safe. Dr. Alise Reicin, one of the scientists that worked for...
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...and functional dynamics in the deserts ecosystem is how competitive it is for plants retrieve sunlight. Over time most plants are altered to reduce effects of too much energy from the sun. It is common for life of all living creatures that live in any surface of the desert to undergo the process of being part of a food chain which is the linkage of who feeds on whom. An example of a food chain that is part of the ecosystem would be how a hawk eats lizard, scorpion, tarantula, and insects. “Many animals get their energy by eating plants, but desert plants give up the fruit of their production very reluctantly. Sharp spines and chemical-laden leaves discourage plant-eaters….. Many are small and look like grains of sand. With sensitive front paws a kangaroo rat sifts sand to find seeds by touch eats them and transforms them into animal tissue.” -Desert Ecosystem. (n.d). Retrieved from http://digital-desert.com/joshua-tree-national-park/ecosystems.html For centuries, humans have affected biogeochemical cycles in many different ecosystems. Some of the impacts we have made on them are within the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle. A desert like the Mohave Desert is affected from carbon cycles like when people are driving at 75mphs and they surprise a helpless creature that is trying to cross a highway and gets struck by a speeding car. The dead creature on the side of the road releases large quantities of carbon dioxide that eventually ties up biological tissues and is released...
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...amazing that the little critters living just outside your house know more about health and longevity than you do, and they barely have a brain. Natural intuition is more powerful than all the rocket science in the world. As a species, we are the unhealthiest life form on the planet. We have been here the shortest amount of time and done the most damage. Actually we are the ONLY species causing damage. We are stressed-out materialistic comfort-driven beings totally out of touch with nature, and as a result hundreds of millions of people are rapidly aging, falling apart and dying long before their time. Almost everyone in the modern world has some kind of physical problem now. Many have silly diseases for no other reason than they are either too lazy or they just don't know any better. The motto is "I can do what I want, and if something happens, a doctor can fix it". Right? Wrong. Doctor's don't fix. They hide symptoms. They drug you up so you don't feel anything. They cut out infected body parts and give you poisons to try and kill things. If you break a bone or cut off a finger- they put the bones and finger back in place and hope your body will heal it....
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...Parham, chairman of the House Motor Vehicles Committee, and many of his colleagues were not pleased when Gov. Roy Barnes recently proposed raising the legal driving age to 17 from 16. It did not matter that the change would affect only a few counties around the Atlanta area, or that the newspapers seem increasingly full of stories about young drivers dying in high-speed crashes. For the rural counties that surround Atlanta's urban island, teenage driving is too fundamental to permit any erosion. The governor's proposal is not quite dead yet, and on Monday, a Senate committee agreed to raise the driving age in five counties around Atlanta. Many legislators, however, predict that the proposal will end his remarkable winning streak with the Georgia Legislature. Over the last three years, he has pushed through changes in education, transportation and even the state flag that few people thought possible. But this issue, more than most, affects the daily lives of families, and highlights the deeply divided character of a fast-growing state. Under Governor Barnes's proposal, drivers under 17 would be treated as learners in 18 counties around Atlanta, able to drive only with a licensed driver over 21. He also urged that drivers under 18 be off the roads after 10 p.m. ''You can't look at the safety statistics on young drivers and not...
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...Architecture has become in today’s society too dependent on the visual experience. The excess of images both in quantity and speed that afflicts our society has been observed by writers and philosophers and called “the unending rainfall of images” by Italo Calvino, “image addiction” by Richard Kearney, the civilization of the image” by Roland Barthes and “the society of spectacle” by Guy Debord. The critique of the dominance of visual aspects in architecture and the excessive rationalization of the design process is the ongoing work of a group of architects that somewhat loosely adapted the principals of phenomenology to architecture. The philosophical principals were partially applied to architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century, but reappeared as a viable alternative for architectural thought as a response to modernity and have gained a following in recent times. Juhani Pallasmaa has written: “In our time, architecture is threatened by two opposite processes: instrumentalisation and aestheticisation. On the one hand, our secular, materialist and quasi-rational culture is turning buildings into mere instrumental structures. devoid of mental meaning, for the purposes of utility and economy. On the other hand, in order to draw attention and facilitate instant seduction, architecture is increasingly turning into the fabrication of seductively aestheticised images without roots in our existential experience and devoid of authentic desire of life. Instead of being...
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...She then drew her pistol and pointed it at King, ordering him to lie on the ground. Singer approached, gun drawn, preparing to effect an arrest. At that point LAPD Sergeant Stacey Koon, the ranking officer at the scene, told Singer that LAPD was taking tactical command of the situation. He ordered all officers to holster their weapons. LAPD officers are taught not to approach a suspect with a gun drawn, as there is a risk that a suspect may gain control of it if an officer gets too close. “Koon then ordered the four other LAPD officers at the scene: Briseno, Powell, Solano, and Wind to handcuff King using a technique called a "swarm." This involves multiple officers grabbing a suspect with empty hands, in order to quickly overcome potential resistance.” As four officers attempted to restrain King, he resisted, and stood up to remove Officers Powell and Briseno from his...
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...While driving down the freeway do you ever see a car in front of you that is swerving or speeding up and slowing down? Then you think to yourself, “I don’t want to follow behind or be in the lane right next to them.” So you speed up, and sure enough the driver is using their cell phone. Well, I am sure you have. Cell phone use while driving is not only frustrating for other drivers; it is very dangerous to all drivers who are on the road. When a driver is using a cell phone, it doesn’t matter what kind of person they are, or what their age is, or their gender. Accidents don’t show any sympathy. Driving while using a cell phone is dangerous and there should be laws that prohibit the use of cell phones while driving. These laws should be effective in every state, not just some states. This is a seriously dangerous issue because that driver is putting not only but their life at stake, but the lives of other drivers on the road at stake when cell phones are used. In 2009, 5,474 people were killed in the U.S. that involved distracted driving (dd), of the 5,474 deaths, 995 of them involved reports of a cell phone being a factor, and 24,000 injuries were reported from cell phone related accidents (Cell Phone & Texting While Driving Statistics, 2010). This is a serious problem in our world today in the lifestyle we live, but the problem is solvable. All that needs to happen is for a few laws to be passed to refrain people from using cell phones. It should not be legal in any state to...
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...Caitlin Birch Dr. Weinstein English 202 6 October 2012 When the Paparazzi Go Too Far 1. Introduction Everyone who is interested in pop culture and the entertainment industry knows who the paparazzi are. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the term paparazzi is defined as “a free lance photographer who aggressively pursues celebrities for the purpose of taking candid photographs.” The term actually came from a film from the 1960’s called ‘La Dolce Vita’, directed by Federico Fellini. A character in the film was a news photographer named Paparazzo. Paparazzi target celebrities and public figures that are in the spotlight. In recent years, the paparazzi have taken their job of snapping photos to another extent. They will go to any length to get the shot of a celebrity, even if that means stalking a celebrities’ every move. The media’s intrusive and insistent attention towards celebrities has caused celebrities to lose their privacy. An anti-paparazzi law is the best solution to help celebrities and public figures who entertain us gain their rights and privacy back. 2. Power of the Media Its almost impossible for us not to be under the power by the media. Every event that happens in the world is brought to everyone’s attention faster with the technology that has enhanced our way of receiving media. The media is everywhere we turn and it makes us question how we will be able to control the media so that its a proper influence on our lives. 2.2 Celebrity...
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