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Cool Vendors in Green IT and Sustainability, 2013
Written by Gartner
Published: April 23, 2013
Published: April 23, 2013
We look at six Cool Vendors that address two key themes that are becoming increasingly related in the area of sustainability: namely, building energy efficiency and stakeholder engagement, especially through the use of gamification.
Key Findings
Sustainability-related programs will increasingly put specific focus on using technology to influence the behavior of the relevant stakeholders — including initiatives at the enterprise and community levels, or a more integrated supply-chain-wide effort.
Measuring engagement is an important metric for assessing the progress of energy efficiency and sustainability programs.
Gamification presents a potentially effective technology that can be used to influence behaviors in support of energy efficiency and sustainability programs.
The energy efficiency of buildings remains a key focus for enterprise sustainability programs and vendor solutions.
Increase collaborative efforts with facilities managers, energy managers and chief sustainability officers to better exploit technologies that increase bottom-up stakeholder engagement in energy efficiency and sustainability programs.
Engage facilities managers to collaborate on the use of information, analytics and automation to substantially increase building the energy efficiency of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), and the lighting and distributed IT load.
What You Need to Know
Many large enterprises that are household names are actively pursuing strategically important sustainability programs. But sustainability as a core strategy and a discipline is struggling to battle its way across the chasm from use by early adopters to acceptance by the mainstream.
An interesting area that has gained increased focus over the past 12 months has been stakeholder engagement, where the stakeholders might be employees, customers, consumers or suppliers. Influencing behavior and educating stakeholders are critical parts of this journey across the chasm, and important to integrating sustainability into business-as-usual processes and systems. In some cases, the need for actively nudging engagement is transitory; in others, it may prove to be more of a long-term approach.
In the past, we've looked at several Cool Vendors concerned with energy management, because it was and remains the area gaining most attention from enterprises and receiving the most investment. We continue that focus with BuildingIQ and WegoWise, but we've looked for a stakeholder engagement twist to it this year. Although not focused on energy, Recyclebank is an interesting example of driving community engagement in recycling by using gamification. Like Recyclebank, CloudApps has employed gamification techniques, but it uses gamification to increase employee engagement in corporate sustainability programs, which is an area we see a great future for in sustainability-related initiatives.
We are also taking a retrospective look at Lucid, which has been active in driving stakeholder engagement in building energy efficiency programs for many years by presenting information in an attractive way and providing a platform for creating and running competitions. We are also revisiting JouleX as it extends its energy management platform from the desktop and the network to a wider spectrum of IP-connected assets that will play an increasing role in overall building energy management, and will encroach into the data center.
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Why Cool: Recyclebank is an IT-enabled service provider that is an innovator in combining IT, gamification techniques, marketing and partnerships to educate and incentivize citizens to adapt behaviors to increase recycling program participation.
Garbage is a major byproduct of today's consumer-driven economies. According to World Bank estimates, between 1.5 and 2.5 kilograms of municipal solid waste per capita per day is generated in advanced economies like the U.S. (at the high end), or France and Japan (at the low end). Environmental impacts are significant, including resources to create packaging and other future trash, landfills, or emissions from incineration. Waste handling costs are high and typically borne by local governments (in the U.S., "tipping fees" range from $20 to $100 per ton). Conversely, recycling generates revenue. A recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) case study cites $25 per ton as a figure for revenue generated by recycling.
A perfect municipal recycling program has 100% participation and 100% compliance (all eligible materials recycled, no contamination). However, challenges include ignorance (about what can be recycled) and low participation rates. Recyclebank partners with local governments and waste haulers to increase recycling rates and encourage citizens to make more-sustainable choices. It offers participating households points for increasing recycled tonnage, and then partners with major brands and local merchants for rewards. Recyclebank's gain-share model is attractive for municipalities looking for low-risk upside.
Founded in 2004, Recyclebank claims to have 4 million members and 125 employees. Early on, Recyclebank included equipment, such as scales for weighing collected garbage and RFIDs for trash bins, but it has exited out of equipment and now partners with waste management companies instead. Company management claims 4,000 local and national partners, and average benefits of $165 per household per year. Partnering with local merchants is another win, as it drives incremental economic activity in participating communities.
Recyclebank is cool because it uses an innovative gain-share model. Moreover, it borrows elements of the loyalty rewards business model in a creative way to motivate and activate citizens, and in so doing it creates a more tangible reward for good environmental behavior.
Challenges: There is money in recycling and trash hauling, but not a lot, especially once overhead costs are factored in. Recyclebank needs to monetize points so that they have redemption value. From a financial perspective, this makes Recyclebank's business model a starting point, but not necessarily the endgame. In response, the company is diversifying by providing marketing services to brands interested in getting sustainability messages out to consumers. Program participation is another challenge. Households must opt-in by joining as members, and the company needs to balance customer acquisition costs with economic benefits. Multifamily dwellings where trash and recyclables from different households are commingled present another challenge that the company is working to overcome with a multifamily pilot project. Recyclebank is predominantly focused in the U.S., but it does have a presence in a few U.K. boroughs.
Who Should Care: Local government officials interested in increasing recycling revenue should investigate the merits of the Recyclebank model, including likely fiscal benefits. Others that may want to consider Recyclebank include brand managers from consumer products and service companies interested in building an association with environmentally conscious consumers, and chief sustainability officers interested in direct outreach programs that build awareness. Those with interests in techniques to influence and motivate behaviors toward sustainability, conservation or civic engagement will find relevance in the gamification tactics used by Recyclebank.
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M-State Fergus Falls freshman Morgan Kapphahn of Wadena was named the MCAC Southern Division All-Around Volleyball Player of the Week ending Sept. 3.
Kapphahn's finesse at the net and overall defensive play helped the Spartans to wins against Anoka-Ramsey and Central Lakes. She had 29 kills (2.9/game) and 29 digs, plus a pair of blocks.
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Holm, a senior, rushed for 82 yards on 13 carries and was 8 of 13 passing with three touchdowns and no interceptions in a 21-0 victory over Fosston.


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text: Politics 2 October 2006 Victim of the media Observations on Marie-Antoinette Sign up for our weekly email * Queen Marie-Antoinette has always been associated with scandal. In her lifetime, salacious pamphlets portrayed her as a sexual libertine and, at her trial in 1793, she was accused of sexually abusing her son. So it is no surprise that trailers for Sofia Coppola's biographical film, due out towards the end of October, emphasise rumour, scandal and sex. Historians have linked scandals about the queen to the outbreak of revolution in 1789, arguing that popular pamphlets helped strip the monarchy of the sacred aura essential to its legitimacy. This "pornographic interpretation", as it has been called, regularly features in treatments of the era. There is a fundamental problem with this, however, because my own research shows that the timing and purpose of the sexual libels against Marie-Antoinette have been misunderstood. Though some scandalous pamphlets were written about her before the revolution, they were few in number and none of them was available to the public until 1789. Early scandalous works about Marie-Antoinette emanated from a handful of blackmailers, based mainly in London. Rather than market their works openly, which was dangerous and financially risky, these people preferred to sell their silence to the French government. Royal agents would thus seize or buy entire print runs, and the pamphlets would either be destroyed or placed in the security of the Bastille. If any libellous pamphlets about the queen did circulate before 1789, they did so in manuscript form and in small numbers at Versailles, where powerful factions sought to undermine her position, marriage and children, as well as France's alliance with Austria (she was Austrian-born). The first printed libel against Marie-Antoinette, the memoirs of the Countess de la Motte, did not appear until February 1789. A breathtakingly mendacious work, it linked the queen with a tangled conspiracy, also involving the countess and a cardinal, to acquire a fabulous diamond necklace by fraud. According to the countess, besides masterminding the swindle, the queen had also had sexual affairs with both her and the cardinal. Although the tale was absurd, many readers reportedly found it credible, and some revolutionary politicians even hoped it might precipitate a royal divorce. The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 precipitated a flood of new allegations, as entrepreneurial publishers rapidly printed new editions of old pamphlets that were found stored in the fortress. Among them was a scandalous Historical Essay on the Life of Marie-Antoinette, which went through numerous editions and was translated into English. That such works had been suppressed by the monarchy seemed to confirm suspicions that the queen had something to hide, and they found a ready market because Marie-Antoinette had already become a hate figure, though for political rather than sexual reasons. That the allegations were entirely unfounded did not stop her enemies using them against her in their efforts to break the hated alliance with Austria. At her trial, the language and accusations of the pamphlets resurfaced, together with the charge that she had debauched her son. In this way, sensational pamphlets written before 1789 to extort money from the French crown were used for political purposes during the revolution. But they were not a cause of the revolution. Indeed, but for the revolution, they would probably never have surfaced, and would not have been able to stain Marie-Antoinette's reputation for ever. Simon Burrows's book "Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution" will be published by Manchester University Press on 30 October. Sofia Coppola's film "Marie Antoinette" goes on general release on 20 October Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 02 October 2006 issue of the New Statesman, Warming up: a new double act More


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What is it used for?
- Treating nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy medicines used to treat cancer.
How does it work?
Maxolon high dose injection contains the active ingredient metoclopramide hydrochloride, which is a type of medicine called a dopamine antagonist. It is an anti-emetic medicine, meaning it is used to treat nausea and vomiting.
Metoclopramide works primarily by blocking dopamine receptors found in an area of the brain known as the chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ). The CTZ is activated by nerve messages from the stomach when an irritant is present. It is also activated directly by agents circulating in the blood, for example anti-cancer medicines. Once activated, it sends messages to another area of the brain, the vomiting centre, which in turn sends messages to the gut, causing the vomiting reflex.
Blocking the dopamine receptors in the CTZ prevents nausea messages from being sent to the vomiting centre. This reduces the feeling of sickness and prevents vomiting.
Metoclopramide also acts in the upper end of the digestive system, where it enhances the action of a natural chemical called acetylcholine. This results in the tightening of the muscles at the entry to the stomach, relaxation of the muscles at the exit of the stomach and increased contraction of the muscles in the stomach itself. These actions speed the passage of food through the stomach into the intestine, which physically helps to prevent vomiting.
Both actions make metoclopramide useful in treating nausea and vomiting due to many causes. This high dose preparation of metoclopramide is given by a drip into a vein (intravenous infusion) to treat nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy.
- This medicine may reduce your ability to drive or operate machinery safely. Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how this medicine affects you and you are sure it won't affect your performance.
- Metoclopramide can increase the rate of absorption of alcohol and increase its blood level and effects. You should avoid drinking alcohol while you are having this medicine.
- If you feel sick or are vomiting despite having treatment this medicine you should tell your doctor.
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- Children or young adults under 20 years of age.
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- Parkinson's disease.
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- People with heart problems involving the conduction of the electrical signals in the heart, such as sick sinus syndrome, heart block or irregular heartbeats.
- Hereditary blood disorders called porphyrias.
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- The first three to four days following surgery on the gut (eg pyloroplasty or gut anastomosis).
- People with bleeding in the stomach or intestines (gastrointestinal haemorrhage).
- People with an abnormal hole in the stomach or intestines (gastrointestinal perforation).
- People with a blockage of the stomach or intestines (gastrointestinal obstruction).
- People with a tumour of the adrenal gland (phaeochromocytoma).
- Epilepsy.
This medicine should not be used if you are allergic to one or any of its ingredients. Please inform your doctor or pharmacist if you have previously experienced such an allergy.
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Certain medicines should not be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, other medicines may be safely used in pregnancy or breastfeeding providing the benefits to the mother outweigh the risks to the unborn baby. Always inform your doctor if you are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, before using any medicine.
- This medicine is not known to be harmful when used by pregnant women, but as with all medicines it should be used with caution during pregnancy, and only when considered essential, particularly during the first trimester. Seek medical advice from your doctor.
- This medicine passes into breast milk. It is not recommended for women who are breastfeeding. Seek further medical advice from your doctor.
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- Shortness of breath.
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- Diarrhoea.
- Skin reactions such as rash and itch.
- Swelling due to fluid retention (oedema).
- Depression.
- Visual disturbances.
- Rhythmical involuntary movement of the tongue, face, mouth and jaw, which may sometimes be accompanied by involuntary movements of the arms and legs (tardive dyskinesia).
- High temperature combined with falling levels of consciousness, paleness, sweating and a fast heart beat (neuroleptic malignant syndrome). Requires stopping the medicine and immediate medical treatment.
- Problems with the conduction of electrical signals in the heart.
The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the medicine's manufacturer. For more information about any other possible risks associated with this medicine, please read the information provided with the medicine or consult your doctor or pharmacist.
How can this medicine affect other medicines?
It is important to tell your doctor or pharmacist what medicines you are already taking, including those bought without a prescription and herbal medicines, before you start treatment with this medicine. Similarly, check with your doctor or pharmacist before taking any new medicines while having treatment with this one, to make sure that the combination is safe.
Due to its action on the gut, metoclopramide may affect the absorption of various other medicines that are taken by mouth. A positive application of this is for relieving migraine, where metoclopramide speeds up the absorption into the bloodstream of painkillers such as paracetamol and aspirin.
Metoclopramide may decrease the blood level of atovaquone.
Metoclopramide may increase the blood level of ciclosporin.
Metoclopramide may increase the drowsiness and sedation that are side effects of opioid painkillers such as morphine.
Metoclopramide may oppose the effect of medicines for Parkinson's disease that work by stimulating dopamine receptors in the brain, for example levopdopa, ropinirole, pergolide, rotigotine, bromocriptine.
Metoclopramide may oppose the prolactin lowering effect of bromocriptine or cabergoline.
There may be an increased risk of side effects known as extrapyramidal effects if metoclopramide is used with tetrabenazine or with antipsychotic medicines, eg chlorpromazine, haloperidol, thioridazine. Extrapyramidal side effects involve abnormal movements of the hands, legs, face and tongue, for example tremor or twitching.
There may be an increased risk of a side effect called the serotonin syndrome if metoclopramide is used in combination with the following medicines:
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRIs), such as citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine or sertraline
- the herbal remedy St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
- triptans for migraine, eg sumatriptan
- tryptophan.
The following medicines may oppose the effect of metoclopramide on the gut:
- antimuscarinic medicines for Parkinson's disease, eg procyclidine, trihexyphenidyl, orphenadrine
- antimuscarinic medicines for urinary incontinence, eg oxybutynin, flavoxate, tolterodine, propiverine, trospium
- antispasmodic medicines, eg atropine, hyoscine
- opioid painkillers, eg morphine, codeine.
Other medicines containing the same active ingredient
Metoclopramide tablets, oral solution and injection are also available without a brand name, ie as the generic medicine.
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An old recruiting adage says that college football is more about the Jimmys and the Joes than the Xs and the Os.
Texas Tech's defense is confounding that notion today, taking a group of unheralded recruits and combining them into one of the Big 12's most productive units.
The Tech defense isn't dotted by four- and five-star recruits. The Red Raiders don't consider internet rankings when they are filling in players for their defense.
"We recruit to fit our system," Texas Tech defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill said. "Coach Leach has always done that and we as a defense are doing it now, too. We go by film only and how we think guys will help in how we play defense."
Starting defensive end Jake Ratliff was an undersized tight end in high school in Lawton, Okla. Nose tackle Colby Whitlock got more notoriety as a state wrestling champion in Noble, Okla., than he did for football. Making his development even more intriguing is that Noble is only a couple of long touchdown passes away from Norman, where the Red Raiders will be playing for a shot at the Big 12 South title Saturday night against the Sooners.
And defensive end Brandon Williams, the Big 12's leader in sacks, was discovered playing defense and rebounding in a basketball game for his high school in Fort Worth.
"He must have weighed about 215 pounds at the time," McNeill said. "(Safeties coach) Carlos Mainord saw him playing basketball and thought he might be able to eventually help us."
After extensive work in college, Williams has blossomed into a 265-pound sacking specialist who has wreaked havoc on Big 12 offenses throughout his career. He's just another one of Tech's underrated defenders who came to the South Plains and got better.
Daniel Charbonnet arrived at Lubbock as a walk-on, mainly because of his friendship with former Texas Tech wide receiver Danny Amendola. He had started his career at Duke as a freshman starting cornerback who got homesick repeatedly losing with the Blue Devils. Charbonnet wanted to come home and Tech provided him that opportunity.
"I was looking around and Tech looked like the best place for me," said Charbonnet, who has combined with free safety Darcel McBath to contribute 11 interceptions this season. "It's worked out well for me. This is a great situation for me."
The Red Raiders' group of defensive overachievers has been the underrated component of a 10-0 team that is off to the best start for Texas Tech since 1938.
The defense almost was an afterthought in some of coach Mike Leach's early teams. But the installation of McNeill has helped them develop into a cohesive unit that meets the specifications of the coach.
"I think the key is more good, solid, overall defense," Leach said. "Just to not have flaws in your defense. Understand the other guy is going to get some yards, and then just outlast them and keep making plays
The little team that could has blossomed under McNeill's tutelage.
After taking over four games into last season -- after Tech was blistered for 49 points and 610 yards in a loss to Oklahoma State -- McNeill has built a defense in his vision.
His mantra is "fast legs and clear minds" and the Red Raiders are playing like it. He jokes that he took his original playbook of concepts and then cut it in half to enable his players to have a clearer understanding of his philosophy.
Over the last nine games last season, Tech was No. 1 in the Big 12 in total defense. This season, the Red Raiders are second and have been especially effective in recent weeks holding high-powered offenses like Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma State well below their averages for scoring and total offense.
"Their defense is playing with almost an offensive style," Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said.
But the biggest challenge will come this week against Oklahoma, which leads the nation in scoring offense, is third in passing offense and fourth in total offense. Adding to the difficulty is that Oklahoma is 59-2 at home under Bob Stoops.
"You have a lot of confidence, but going to Norman is a tough place to play," Ratliff said. "This is a completely different team. And I wouldn't expect to see much of what they did last year. This will be two different teams going against each other."
McNeill utilizes one of the most basic philosophies in the Big 12. The Red Raiders like to sit back in a zone defense and make opposing offenses go the length of the field to beat them.
With Tech rarely making turnovers on offense and the Red Raiders' potent attack scoring a high probability of the time, it gives the Tech defense a unique advantage. If they can contribute two or three stops during the course of the game, they should be in good shape.
"It's a very good defense and very solid," Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford said. "There's lot of zone coverages they use. They try to force mistakes and end drives with their zone defense and don't make many mistakes. We're going to have to be disciplined and take what they give us within our system if we're going to be successful."


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The year is 2023, America is no longer a capitalist deomcracy. Years of corruption within political parties has lead the once free country to become a dictatorship. Under a new government project by Dictator Mark Lynch, men and women from differnt federal backgrounds are being 'volenteered' for an experiment known only as PROJECT X. No one knows what the project is or does, only that it is supposed to set America far ahead of the world in preparation for a new type of war.
These people are then taken to a secret governemnt facility housed under the Nevada desert, where the experimentation process begins. Their new enhancements make them faster and stronger than a normal human, plus they gain the ability of exceptional reaction times. The latest pool of volenteers having been brought in only a week previous. Those who survive the enhancement process will earn the title of Supersoldier....


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|Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, 2012.
|400 pages ; 21 cm
|Karen Russell.
This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL, and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking.
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text: NECC 2004 Crossing Borders: Digital Cultural Exchange for Preservice Teachers Presenters Karen Jogan Michele Mislevy Albright College, Reading PA Ana Heredia Albright College, Reading PA Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica Chile Gladys Aguilera Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica Chile Overview What? Why? To advance proficiency in target language and culture How? Cultural and bilingual exchange (Spanish – English) Through collaboration and technology For whom? Preservice teachers Outline Digital exchange as "best practice" Establishing institutional collaboration Addressing standards Examining contexts of instruction Defining project objectives – four models for cross-cultural exchange Challenges and possible solutions Discussion Defining a "best practice" in preservice teacher education Provide authentic context for learning target language and target culture Allow for collaborative learning Incorporate technology in the instructional model Defining culture What is culture? …some definitions Defining culture "Culture is…believing that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs…and the analysis of [culture] to be … an interpretive one in search of meaning." Clifford Geertz Defining culture How can we engage students in interactive discussion of culture? How can students view another cultural perspective? How can we help students interpret the "web" of another culture? Defining culture Establish cross cultural connections Connect with a colleague abroad… Connect students with peers abroad Locate a colleague abroad through http://www.iecc.org Addressing standards National and international organizations ISTE ACTFL TESOL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Ministry of Education abroad Selecting appropriate technology Consider lowest common denominators E-mail PowerPoint sound digital images streaming video Blogs Selecting appropriate technology Advantages of asynchronous dialogue Learner centered Self-paced No time zone problems Requires limited tech skill Examining contexts of instruction: in Arica, Chile in Reading, Pennsylvania Examining contexts of instruction Preservice teachers Similar age Similar educational background Similar interests Similar motivational level Examining contexts of instruction Roles of coordinators in US and in Chile Defining project objectives Cross-cultural competence Communicative competence Interactive strategies Critical thinking and analysis of authentic texts Collaborative strategies to support peer correction Defining project objectives: cross-cultural e-mail Advantages of e-mail Promotes active collaboration Authentic, meaningful context Immediate and efficient "culture is dialogically created through language in discourse" Defining project objectives: cross-cultural e-mail Project design Time frame Topics Process Coaching in dialog journal strategies Assessment Defining project objectives: cross-cultural PowerPoint Collaborative research projects On site team research Dialog and discussion Comparison and contrast Creative final project Defining project objectives: cross-cultural PowerPoint Possible topics: Compare Independence Day activities Compare daily activities in school Compare a supermarket Interview an individual in a specific career Describe a local monument and its significance Cross cultural PowerPoint -examples Cross cultural PowerPoint -examples Cross cultural PowerPoint -examples [Click on picture to view project] Cross cultural PowerPoint -examples [Click on picture to view project] Culture Modules Designing materials for teachers of English as a Foreign Language abroad Culture Modules Topic selection Design process storyboarding identifying and capturing digital artifacts Creating cultural module Culture Modules – some examples [Click on picture to view project] Culture Modules – some examples [Click on picture to view project] Developing cultural insights Post-questions: What did you learn about this topic in your own culture? 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PDN.........I guess they're waiting on a box of chocolates.
I probably won't get the cover either. Most of the time I don't, I confess.
Oh, and Chris, my Horticulture professor in undergrad assured us that MOST
landscape architects didn't know squat about plants ;-)
And she has been proven right many times by the ones down here.......I
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Every time I go to my Dr's office I just shake my head at the plants
installed. And of course most of them are dead now.
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> > ...is here. funny artwork about "Gitmo Plant Evaluation Center" on the
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> I mean, I get the GITMO part and the plant being tortured, but why is
> the ASLA represented as the torturers? And why is Hortus III being
> down the toilet (although it should be, since it hasn't been updated
> since '76 and Cronquist changed things for the better a decade later
> anyhow, but don't get me started)...
> I'm guessing he's saying landscape architects just plant plants to kill
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• Formulate a requirements' management plan which will define all types of requirements including business, stakeholder, solution (functional & non-functional) & transition requirements
• Acquire the skills & competencies to elicit quality requirements
• Learn business analysis techniques: analysis, modeling (process & data), documentation, communicating, verifying & validating requirements.
• Become more effective change agents
• Become catalyst in identifying root causes to problems
• Develop and generate creative and innovative solutions
• Prepare to eventually qualify and write the IIBA CBAP®° CCBA™* or PMI-PBA** certification exams.
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• Facilitating the requirement workshop
• Introduction to modeling
• Business process modeling techniques
• Use cases
• Business rules & data models
• Requirements verification & validation
• Solution assessment & transitioning to deployment
• Presenting requirements
• Lean 6 Sigma in the BA world
• The agile business analyst
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- Are there any additional recommended readings?
- Although the course binder includes all the material you will need for this course, some students find the following optional text to be a useful complement:
Wiegers, Karl Eugene, Software Requirements , 3rd Edition, Microsoft Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0735679665.
This book is also available at the McGill Bookstore.
- Will I obtain an attestation of completion?
- This course will appear on your official McGill transcript. Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive an Attestation from McGill University. This attestation will indicate the number of CEUs and PDs earned.
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- For initial IIBA® CBAP®/CCBA™ certification, the term IIBA® uses is Professional Development hours, or PD hours when referring to the structured learning experience requirement. The number of Credit Hours for this course 1 hour of PD = 1 hour of classroom time x 76 hours = 76 PDs. Participants who successfully complete the Comprehensive Business Analysis course earn 76 IIBA® PDs.
For those Business Analysts who are seeking recertification, the term IIBA® uses is CDU (Continuing Development Units). The CDUs may be applied by IIBA® Certified Business Analysis Professionals (CBAP®) towards their maintenance of certification under the IIBA® Continuing Certification Requirements Program (CCR). Click here to visit the IIBA's website and find out more.
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- If you do not wish to be evaluated, you can fill out a Request for Non-Evaluation form at the Department prior to the second class. Your McGill transcript will show a grade of NE (Not evaluated). You will find the Request for Non-Evaluation form here. Note that students who request non-evaluation will not receive an Attestation of successful completion from McGill University, nor will they be granted CEU's.
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The consensus is that Sidney Rice will not fall much further past pick 40. If he were coming out in 2008, he would be a top 15 pick.
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"Sidney will be a great NFL receiver. He's got all the intangibles. His 40 speed and his field speed are two different things. I think he plays a lot faster. That's what people don't realize. Watch his film. Film don't lie."So for a guy who is projected to go somewhere in the top of the second round, is it really a reach to take Rice at 30? I don't think so. And Sidney isn't bothered much about slipping to the second round. But hopefully he won't have to slip. He has visited the Chargers already and he is an option for the team at the bottom of the first:
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The 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Collector Plate measures 8-1/2 inches in diameter. It is extensively marked on the back "1991 Plate No 3563B "Wigeons" Created by the 1984-85 Federal Duck Stamp Competition winner, William C. Morris/ Representing the sixth issue in The Federal Duck Stamp Plate Collection, and the only officially licensed plate series of the award-winning paintings. Crafted under the hallmark of W.S. George in an edition limited to a maximum of 150 firing days. Ceramic Art - not for food uses. Faithful color pigments may poison food. Bradex No.:84-G20-31.6." There is also a double oval with "W.S. George Fine China" ©, and a graphic of the Federal Duck Stamp with this image.
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This Mirror from Yuan Tai is part of the Dante Series. This series is constructed using hardwood solids and wood veneers. Mirror comes in a beautiful dark cherry finish. We invite you to browse furniture that takes craftsmanship and style beyond the expected. The Dante Mirror from Yuan Tai Furniture will tastefully complement your decor and transform your room with luxury and style. Available at AppliancesConnection
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Written by Brian Wood Cover by Wood Art by Riccardo Burchielli, Vikto Kalvachev and Nathan Fox Collecting issues #18-22 of the acclaimed series by Brian Wood! Matty Roth reluctantly lands an interview for Liberty News with an enlisted U.S. solider who's found guilty of a massacre within the DMZ. What follows is a look at how the DMZ came to be, from the perspective of a kid who came from the Midwest and walked right into a nightmare.
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