What is green building? As the global climate warming‚ more and more people focus on building energy efficiency. There is more awareness that CO2 produced by building energy use is the main source of climate warming. Energy-saving buildings become inevitable trend of development‚ the green building also arises in time. Green building can be define as to the construction of the whole life cycle‚ for maximize resource conservation (epa.gov‚ 19/12/2012). It includes energy saving‚ land saving‚ water
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The doctrine of Indoor management‚ popularly known as the Turquand’s rule initially arose some 150 years ago in the context of the doctrine of constructive notice. The doctrine of constructive notice of a company’s public documents was‚ of course‚ abolished prospectively. The rule was partly dictated by practical necessity - persons contracting with a company were not expected to spend their time checking that any required resolutions had properly been passed‚ at meetings that had been correctly
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are less dangerous for driving cycling. The village has clean air and the environment is very beautiful. The village has less noise and rush. So the pollution is less. A lot of places you may reach on foot. The environment of the village is pleasant and silent and it has scenic beauty. In the village there are a lot of breathtaking sceneries‚ space and other amazing places such as forests‚ lakes or mountains. You can go to the nature or forest‚ or you can go cycling or you can run on the field. If
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any reason‚ people should be able to walk safely in a society of freedom and choices (U.S. Department of Transport‚ 2006: 1). Therefore‚ planners should make sure the physical environment of all streets is safe enough for pedestrians walking and cycling (Barton & Tsourou‚ 2000:135). According to the Moreland City Council (2011)‚ the use of active transport will be promoted by improving accessibility and connectivity. However‚ people will not willing to walk or cycle if it is unsafe to do so because
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A person who is‚ without a doubt‚ the prime example of this truth is none other than cycling legend Lance Armstrong. In 1996‚ Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs‚ abdomen‚ and brain. Doctors told him he had less than a 50% chance of survival. At this point in his career Armstrong had not won the Tour de France (the holy grail of cycling) but had won various stages. Unbelievably‚ Armstrong made a full recovery and went on to win a record seven
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in the storage and transfer of heat energy across the globe. The movement of this heat through local and global ocean currents affects the regulation of local weather conditions and temperature extremes‚ stabilization of global climate patterns‚ cycling of gases‚ and delivery of nutrients and larva to marine ecosystems. Ocean currents are located at the ocean surface and in deep water below 300 meters. They can move water horizontally and vertically and occur on both local and global scales.
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Lance Armstrong was no stranger to the Tour de France‚ being a seven time winner of this distinguished international cycling competition. Although on the 17th and 18th of January after two interviews with Lance were telecast around the world‚ it became apparent that he was also no stranger to taking performance enhancing substances. In the second interview Lance did not say that he thought his lifetime suspension from all competition was ‘unfair’ although he did mention that he thought his penalties
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One of the best and worse emotions that comes out of us is Pride. Introduction What is pride? Is it the quality or state of being proud? Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meaning with a negative connotation‚ pride refers to an inflated sense of one’s personal status or accomplishments. Positively pride refers to a satisfied sense and actions‚ or toward a whole group of people‚ and can be used to praise one’s self‚ or a feeling of gratification and belonging. There
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basketball‚ football‚ or baseball i had fun with all of them. Yet as I got older and began to figure more out about myself i started to trend away from them. When my dad was in his twenties and thirties he competed in lots of triathlons and followed cycling religiously. Somehow my mom decided to start doing triathlons after being a runner for years. So I got a road bike and immediately fell in love. I started doing triathlons but now I have dropped the swim and the run to focus on the bike. Being on
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complex as there are many different sources and their individual effects vary from one to the other. It is not only the ambient air quality in the cities but also the indoor air quality in the rural and the urban areas that are causing concern. In fact in the developing world the highest air pollution exposures occur in the indoor environment. Air pollutants that are inhaled have serious impact on human health affecting the lungs and the respiratory system; they are also taken up by the blood and
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