Better Together brings together a dozen case studies of successful community-building efforts in the United States. The book is an outgrowth of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America‚ a three-year dialogue among leading thinkers and activists about how to build and strengthen the American community (though it bears little resemblance to the Seminar’s final report of the same name). As Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein note in the book’s opening pages‚ the stories in the book represent
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conventional monocular 2D camera‚ with minor hardware modifications. Our approach targets close-range human capture and interaction where dense 3D estimation of hands and faces is desired. We use hybrid classification-regression forests to learn how to map from near infrared intensity images to absolute‚ metric depth in real-time. We demonstrate a variety of humancomputer interaction and capture scenarios. Experiments show an accuracy that outperforms a conventional light fall-off baseline‚ and
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logograms; “r u okay?” and also uses an emoticon to end her message;”XO”. This shows that the teenagers are influenced by their colleagues at school or could be the way in which people speak in their demographic that would affect how they talk to people. By using emoticons‚ it shows how the teenagers can be creative by making up symbols to use such as :) for a smile. The message is then carried on by the next participant replying as “not
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source‚ socially essential concepts created from human mind‚ such as justice‚ would be undermined (responsibility implies freedom of choice) and‚ in short‚ civilization and human values would crumble. It is useful to compare the idea of moral agency with the legal doctrine of mens rea‚ which means guilty mind‚ and states that a person is legally responsible for what he does as long as he should know what he is doing‚ and his choices are deliberate. Some theorists discard any attempts to evaluate
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situation at the time. Coming from a broken home‚ I wondered why I was not able to enjoy certain luxuries that other families could‚ although I was privileged enough to go to a private school through scholarships. My father did not pay child support. My mom had to work three jobs just to afford the price of living for us. Moreover‚ even though we barely had enough to provide for ourselves‚ we always did what we could‚ above and beyond‚ for others. Recently‚ much like most families in this nation‚ mine
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McKinstry Advertising Agency You are the president of the McKinstry Advertising Agency‚ a medium sized firm that specializes in preparing the marketing strategies‚ performing the market research studies‚ arranging the distribution channels‚ and designing the advertising and promotional materials for industrial companies that have developed ”off-shoot” consumer products. You obviously serve a very specific niche. Your clients are industrial companies- that is‚ they sell primarily to other manufacturing
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ARVIND MILLS LIMITED Arvind Mills is India’s largest and the world’s third largest denim manufacturer. Background Arvind Mills Ltd. (AML)‚ the flagship company of the US$ 500 million Lalbhai Group‚ was incorporated in 1931. It aimed at manufacturing high-end superfine fabrics with imported state-ofthe-art machinery.With 52‚560 ring spindles‚ 2552 doubling spindles and 1122 looms‚ it was one of the few companies in the early period of India’s industrialisation to have spinning and weaving
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Work Experience Speech. From a young age I have dreamed of becoming a doctor so I was thrilled to find out I was successful in securing a two week work experience placement at Kings Mill Hospital in Mansfield. The hospital itself consists of 12 operating theatres‚ 623 beds‚ many clinics and multiple day case facilities. The main building is very much so a maze‚ so I was very relieved to discover the simple system that was put in place to help us find our way around. You first get told whether
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Name of Course: The Explanation of Crime Code of Course: CMY3701 Semester Code: 02 - Second Semester Assignment Number: 01 - Compulsory Student Name: Riëtte du Bruyn Student Number: 4238-255-6 Unique Number: 363036 Assignment Closing Date: 22 August 2013 Rational Choice Theory Table of Contents Section A: 15 marks 3 1. Introduction 3 2. Definition of Rational Choice 3 3. The Six propositions of Rational Choice (Joubert 2009:19-20) 3 3.1 First: Crimes are deliberate acts‚ committed
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special cases of traffic. Configuration tables will vary in the number of lines depending on how big the capability of the router is. (McGraw)Data transmitted over the Internet‚ travels over the system of the packet-switching network. This system breaks down data and information files into packages of about 1500 bytes. The data package carries the sender ’s IP address‚ the receivers IP address‚ information on how many packets the data is broken down to‚ and the information on rebuilding the package. Each
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