NHTV University of Applied Sciences | Sustainable Development | How Sustainable Am I ? | | Definition Let’s start with the definition of ‘sustainable’. According to the U.N. Brundtland Commission in Our Common Future (1987) sustainability means ‘the ability to sustain’ or‚ ‘the capacity to endure’. Definition of development‚ according to the English dictionary: the act or process of growing‚ progressing‚ or developing. Let’s now combine these definitions. Sustainable development
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This is a surprising fact considering the Constitution is more than 200 years old and the first ten amendments along with the 27th were all adopted by the first Congress. According to Kermit Roosevelt‚ a University of Pennsylvania professor of law‚ the low success rate of Constitutional amendments being ratified is due to the fact that "the founders wanted the bar set high because they believed that most issues should be left to the ordinary
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On July 16th‚ 1945‚ President Harry Truman attended the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam‚ Germany. Truman received the news that the Manhattan Project had been successful; the United States had detonated the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos‚ New Mexico. The Manhattan project started in 1941 as a race with germany to develop the first atomic bomb. The project cost about 2 billion dollars and 120‚000 people worked on it. Truman did not want to risk the lives of American soldiers if the allies were to invade
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In California‚ two recent lawsuits against water bottlers‚ Fiji Water and Aquamantra‚ accused of greenwashing indicate a groundswell of consumer and political discontent with how easy it is becoming to be green. If Kermit only knew. But class-action lawsuits and suits brought by attorneys-general are viable only because American consumers have invested the Federal Trade Commission with the power to protect them from fraud and deception. That protection indeed extends
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Using your keyboard Page 1 of 7 Hide all Using your keyboard In this article How the keys are organized Typing text Using keyboard shortcuts Using navigation keys Using the numeric keypad Three odd keys Other keys Tips for using your keyboard safely Whether you’re writing a letter or calculating numerical data‚ your keyboard is the main way to enter information into your computer. But did you know you can also use your keyboard to control your computer? Learning just a few simple
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QuickFire TK - Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with CHERRY MX RED Switches and Fully LED Backlit The CM Storm QuickFire TK is a compact mechanical gaming keyboard that is equipped with the Cherry MX Red Switched with a Fully LED backlight. The Full LED backlight on this model has 3 various modes and 5 different brightness levels that enable optimum visibility even in the darkest rooms. The CM Storm QuickFire TK is also one of the cheapest mechanical keyboards around‚ it is also equipped with a USB
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name ‘QWERTY’ Keyboard come from? It comes from the top six keys on the keyboard‚ starting with leftmost in the keyboard which read they read exactly ’q’‚ ’w’‚ ’e’‚ ’r’‚ ’t’‚ ’y’. The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Sholes who was issued a patent for a typewriter on July 14‚ 1868. The QWERTY keyboard is named after the five letter keys located at the top left side of the keyboard and is now the official standard of computer keyboards (ISO 9995). Today‚ the QWERTY keyboard is the most
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Introduction to Computing A Journey Towards The Computing World This book provides the introduction to the basic concepts related to the computing field. It also provides you the brief and clean introductory class about various types of the computers. Author: Ali Asghar Manjotho 12/25/2007 A word about the Author and the Book This book is written‚ composed‚ and organized by Mr. Ali Asghar Manjotho — studying at Computer Systems Engineering Department under the kind umbrella of Mehran University
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objectives of the study. A virtual keyboard application with finger-based input such as tapping method implementing N-gram Algorithm and handwriting method is the first objective of the study.The study was able to develop an android virtual keyboard application that supports both tapping method and handwriting method. Tapping method is the commonly used method in entering text which preserve the traditional way of using keyboard on both standard and virtual keyboard. The study was able to utilized the
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Eli’s desire to protect him‚ the brothers fall into the lives of hit men‚ given contracts by a man know only as The Commodore which causes them both mental and physical strain. As the two travel to California to complete a contract to kill Herman Kermit Warm‚ they stop at a town‚ meeting a tailor and shopkeeper- an honest man able to sleep clear of conscience. Although the brothers actively participate in their profession‚ and Eli is primarily the one concerned about his morality‚ both brothers feel
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