...Mayor Bill de Blasio warned New Yorkers on Sunday that more snow was expected in the city overnight, but he said officials were prepared to handle the storm and schools were expected to open on Monday morning. The latest forecast called for 2 to 5 inches of snow by Monday morning, with up to 7 inches possible, Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference on Sunday. The snowstorm comes less than a week after much of the city shut down for a storm that brought significantly less snow than predicted. The mayor said he would watch the forecast overnight and make a final decision about schools early Monday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s trains and buses will run on Monday, he said, noting that commuters should take mass transit if possible because roads could be dangerous. “Based on what we know now, school will be open, M.T.A. will be running pretty smoothly,” the mayor said. “You will experience delays; people should give themselves extra time and should act carefully.” Continue reading the main story Related Coverage Zachary Maxwell, filmmaker. New York Today: A Snow Day ExpertJAN. 28, 2015 Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. video The Blizzard That Wasn’tJAN. 27, 2015 Jonathan Lamberton, left, is deaf, a relative rarity in his profession. Mr. Lamberton works with a hearing partner who signs an initial translation to him. He then signs his own take on the sentence. video De Blasio Defends Storm PreparationsJAN...
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...Snow removal is necessary during the winter season at Wheeling Jesuit University for the safety of students, staff, student commuters. Snow accumulations can range from any amount, so maintenance employees need to be more prepared before the winter season even occurs. If the university cares for the safety of the students and staff, then the school should be well equipped before the winter season occurs. By pre-treating roads/sidewalks with salt before snow accumulation happens, the safeness of students on campus, and the staff and commuters off campus will be able to get to the university safer manner. Currently at Wheeling Jesuit University snow removal is not taken care of in the best possible way. Employees in charge of removing snow from roads and sidewalks are not well prepared, as if they do not know it was going to snow. On campus, the roads are fully covered with the snow, and the snow is left on the road being packed down as some may walk or drive over the snow. For example, the article No-stick surface says, “the bond between the ice and the pavement is strong, removal by plowing alone may not be effective” (Tuan, Yahia 26). If the roads and...
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... Abstract This case study focuses on the problem of how management is becoming more and more important in many different fields of life. In this case, how good management can contribute to ski resorts. It observes and answers to the four important questions: In the first part it is explained what are the mainly changes in the business environment that have occurred 30 years ago, and how they effected ski resorts. The next part shows why management becomes more and more important for the survival and success of the ski resorts comparing it to 30 years ago. How competition from Europe has influenced ski resorts in the USA, and the discussion about the competition between the Colorado resorts and the other resorts from the east is made. In the last part the focus is on the predictions in the future, how will environment and future of the ski resorts change. Question 1: What are the most important changes in the environment that have contributed to the drop in revenues? From the period of 1970’s to 1980’s the Ski resorts and the ski industry in the USA was blooming, but suddenly in the mid 1980’s, all ski resorts were facing problems caused by the changes in the environment. Most ski resorts were having low profits. The losing of the profits were caused because of the change of the average year of the skier. This happened because of the Boom age Generation. People who were born...
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...remains on the earth's surface is runoff, which empties into lakes, rivers and streams and is carried back to the oceans, where the cycle begins again. Lake effect snowfall is good example of the hydrologic cycle at work. Below is a vertical cross-section summarizing the processes of the hydrologic cycle that contribute to the production of lake effect snow. The cycle begins as cold winds (horizontal blue arrows) blow across a large lake, a phenomena that occurs frequently in the late fall and winter months around the Great Lakes. Evaporation of warm surface water increases the amount of moisture in the colder, drier air flowing immediately above the lake surface. With continued evaporation, water vapor in the cold air condenses to form ice-crystal clouds, which are transported toward shore. | By the time these clouds reach the shoreline, they are filled with snowflakes too large to remain suspended in the air and consequently, they fall along the shoreline as precipitation. The intensity of lake effect snowfall can be enhanced by additional lifting due to the topographical features (hills) along the shoreline. Once the snow begins to melt, the water is either absorbed by the ground and becomes groundwater, or goes returns back...
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...School to help teach his future cartoonists and staff his ways of animation. Walt called some animators together after closing one night in 1934. He told them to all take a seat in chairs set out on a stage as Walt began to tell them the story of Snow White, just like he would do every time he started a new short cartoon. He acted out each character to the fullest, switching back and forth from each line to the next in perfect character. When Walt finally got to the end of the story were Snow White finally wakes up, he had many of his animators in tears. Unlike all his other creations, this was a full length cartoon. Many doubted Walt, including his own wife, Lilly. Nevertheless, Walt continued on and accepted nothing less than perfection from this future film. Every voice had to perfectly match the character, and if they couldn’t find anyone they decided on no voice at all, such as dopey. But Snow White’s voice was the main struggle. It had to be high, young, and pure, but Walt did not want to be influenced by the women’s looks. To avoid the possibility he had a sound system set up from the stage to his office as he listened to the singers. He immediately exclaimed “Perfect.” as he listened to Andriana Caselotti, the soon to be Snow...
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...Atlantic Coastal Plain Province is underlain by a wedge of unconsolidated sediments including gravel, sand, silt, and clay, which overlaps the rocks of the eastern Piedmont along an irregular line of contact known as the Fall Zone. Eastward, this wedge of sediments thickens to more than 8,000 feet at the Atlantic coast line. Beyond this line is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province, the submerged continuation of the Coastal Plain, which extends eastward for at least another 75 miles where the sediments attain a maximum thickness of about 40,000 feet. The sediments of the Coastal Plain dip eastward at a low angle, generally less than one degree, and range in age from Triassic to Quaternary. The younger formations crop out successively to the southeast across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. A thin layer of Quaternary gravel and sand covers the older formations throughout much of the area. Mineral resources of the Coastal Plain are chiefly sand and gravel, and are used as aggregate materials by the construction industry. Clay for brick and other ceramic uses is also important. Small deposits of iron ore are of historical interest. Plentiful supplies of ground water are available from a number of aquifers throughout much of this region. The Atlantic Continental Shelf contains abundant...
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...Atlantic Coastal Plain Province is underlain by a wedge of unconsolidated sediments including gravel, sand, silt, and clay, which overlaps the rocks of the eastern Piedmont along an irregular line of contact known as the Fall Zone. Eastward, this wedge of sediments thickens to more than 8,000 feet at the Atlantic coast line. Beyond this line is the Atlantic Continental Shelf Province, the submerged continuation of the Coastal Plain, which extends eastward for at least another 75 miles where the sediments attain a maximum thickness of about 40,000 feet. The sediments of the Coastal Plain dip eastward at a low angle, generally less than one degree, and range in age from Triassic to Quaternary. The younger formations crop out successively to the southeast across Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore. A thin layer of Quaternary gravel and sand covers the older formations throughout much of the area. Mineral resources of the Coastal Plain are chiefly sand and gravel, and are used as aggregate materials by the construction industry. Clay for brick and other ceramic uses is also important. Small deposits of iron ore are of historical interest. Plentiful supplies of ground water are available from a number of aquifers throughout much of this region. The Atlantic Continental Shelf contains abundant...
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... I have always found that just a bit of laughter can make the situation one hundred times better. When I lived in Alaska, my family and I faced some of the harshest winters on record. Moving from Maryland where it was odd if we even accumulated a foot of snow during the winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to slide across the ice on my feet. I found this fun and all, until one day it took a turn for the worst. We were at the local Wal-Mart and we had just got dumped on with four feet of snow. The snowplows were right in the middle of clearing out the parking lot so they were leaving paths of solid ice, perfect for sliding on. My mom never fancied me sliding across the ice. She would always say...
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...part of my week one assignment, I created a flowchart that detailed my weekday morning process. I chose this process because I wanted to find ways to reduce the amount of time it took me to get the kids off to school. By creating a flowchart, bottlenecks were identified as well as opportunities to maximize the limited amount of time I have to complete my morning routine. This paper will again use the process identified in week one to complete a Statistical Process Control that can be used to verify my standard process is operating in a way that allows me to complete all of the tasks and affords me additional time. This paper will also outline the control limits of my morning process, the effects of any seasonal factors, and the confidence intervals involved. Statistical Process Control Data was recorded for a period of two weeks on how long it took me to complete my morning routine and get my kids off to school. I tracked the minutes it took me to complete each step of my morning routine and used the totals from each day to calculate the mean. On average, the time it took me from the time I woke up to the time the kids were delivered to school was 150 minutes. The standard deviation is 10.54 minutes. [pic] Control Limits It would be unreasonable for me to expect that I could complete this process – each day – with no variance in the completion time. This is why I created the control limits to serve as the minimum and maximum expected standard. The upper and...
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...union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash and several others quickly succumbed to cold and injury. Of the 27 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage. The last 16 survivors were rescued on 23 December 1972, more than two months after the crash. The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found Chilean arriero Sergio Catalán, who gave them food and then alerted the authorities to the existence of the other survivors. The crash On 13 October 1972, a chartered Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the Andes carrying the Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to play a match in Santiago, Chile. The trip had begun the day before, when the Fairchild departed from Carrasco International Airport, but inclement mountain weather forced an overnight stop in Mendoza, Argentina. At the Fairchild's ceiling of 9,000 metres (30,000 ft), the plane could...
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...improved existence for their selves. The leaders were two prosperous brothers Jacob and George Donner. Their group was traveling out west like many others looking to start a new life with new opportunities but things turned out to be much worse than they expected. The party had to face challenges along the way that left them struggling to stay alive and well. The Donner party left Springfield, Illinois on April 16, 1846 with about ninety migrants and one wagon per every three individuals. Their plan was to reach San Francisco, California a place full of new and prosperous opportunities. They left almost two weeks after another group with the same intentions, and were the last wagon group to depart for the year from Springfield. People in Springfield had said that even the previous party of wagons had left to late to beat the harsh California winter. The trip was supposed to take four months but then things turned much worse for the Donner Party. The Reeds and Donners were given a letter from one of Hasting’s solicitors warning them to expect trouble from Mexican authorities and Native Americans in California. He advised them to stay...
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...ice age began about 70,000 years ago and it ended about 10,000 years ago. An ice age is a natural system. It is a period of time where the temperature of earth´s surface and atmosphere are reducing, which melts ice and breaks into glaciers. The ice age might have occurred because the temperatures were much colder so it never rained; only snowed. Another reason why it might have occurred is because the earth changed its tilt away from the sun. The ice age people would hunt for food like a mammoth meat. People had many difficulties to get food. Some countries like Britain, France, Spain and Germany were very cold. The land looked mostly uncovered because trees and plants were difficult to grow. There were no grass only plants like bushes. They painted pictures of the animals on the sides of...
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...the Starbucks thing was or is more important? It started with a tweet on November 5th by Joshua Feuerstein, a evangelist and social media personality. He shares his messages through the internet to his over 1.8 million Facebook fans and almost 8300 Twitter followers. In his tweet, he shared a video of him being angry about the red cup from Starbucks. He claimed that they removed the Christmas logos from their normal winter cups. So let us look at the cups form the last few years to see if there is any truth. In 2014, the cups had illustrations of snowflakes on...
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...ELAN ˝GO TO MARKET STRATEGY˝ Group members: Laura Sešek 19553905, Mateja Pirnat 19554965, Vito Petan 19553657, Tilen Lenarčič 19537762, Dejan Lukić 19538765 Ljubljana, 28/05/2015 TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Five-steps analysis of Elan 4 Step 1: TARGET MARKETS 4 Step 2: TARGET CUSTOMER 6 Step 2.1: ONLINE SURVEY 7 Step 2.2: CUSTOMER PROFILE EXAMPLE based on online survey and analysis of the Elan skis: 13 Step 3: BRAND POSITIONING 14 Step 4: OFFERING 14 Step 5: CHANNELS 15 2. BUSINESS IDEAS: 18 2.1 SHORT TERM 18 2.1.1 ˝OLD FOR NEW˝ 18 2.1.2 PROMOTION VIDEOS 18 2.1.3 OUTDOOR EVENTS WITH SPORT CELEBRITIES 19 2.1.4 ELAN COMPETITION DAY 20 2.2 LONG TERM 21 2.2.1 PARTNERSHIPS WITH SKI RESORTS 21 2.2.2 RENTING STORES 22 2.2.3 ELAN SKI SCHOOL / ELAN SKI JUMP SCHOOL / ELAN SKI CROSS SCHOOL 22 2.2.4 COLLABORATION WITH PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SLOVENIA 23 2.2.5 FUTURE SKIS 23 2.2.6 PARTNERSHIP WITH SKI TRAVEL AGENCIES 23 3. FUTURE TRENDS 25 4. ATTACHEMENT 27 1. Five-steps analysis of Elan Step 1: TARGET MARKETS In 2014, the world ski market was spread around 80 countries, with more than 2 000 ski resorts. It is estimated that the skiers are spread upon Asia and Pacific- with 20% of market share, America with 19%, Western Europe with the third biggest share-27% and Eastern Europe and Central Asia with 16%. On the last places are Alps with 18% of total share and other with 1%. Seven countries are ranked on the top of...
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...and live. In an article printed on December third 1966 in Time magazine, the author proposed that Disney films were just as much for adults as they were for children. “Disney always maintained that he made films not for children but for "honest adults."”(time.com). Anyone who has seen a Disney animated film can see that most of these movies are based on adult situations that involve the union of man and women in one way or another. For as long as Walt Disney animated films have been around, spanning eight decades, they have made a great impact on the way children view themselves and others, and they help shape how children view the opposite sex in a negative way. Most people were exposed to the wonderful world of Disney animated films when they were still toddlers. And since people are exposed to this material at such young ages, these films tend to give children an early idea of how men and women, according to Walt Disney studios, interact with each other. They also show children at an early age how people of their gender should act and feel. Disney films paint a vivid picture for children of where woman and mans place is in the world. Most of Walt Disney’s animated films are timeless masterpieces that are beloved by many people. Ever since Walt Disney released his first animated short “Steamboat Willie”, in 1928, Disney has been a household name and to this day still is. Though Disney had been producing...
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