All Acronyms - The Largest and Most Comprehensive Acronyms and Abbreviations Dictionary. The hidden history of housing, by Colin Ward. You are here: Research » Policy papers » by Colin Ward Executive summary Up to 1945 'plotlanders' were able to make use of small patches of land not needed for agriculture, gradually building up weekend shacks into permanent residences, by using their own time and labour rather than large sums of money.
Immediately after the Second World War, homeless people in their thousands squatted in recently-vacated military camps, organizing their own communal services. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, a similar movement erupted across vacant local-authority properties, evolving into long-term housing co-operatives. Introduction My purpose in this paper is to explore aspects of the history of housing, in terms of housing based on local and popular initiative, self-help and mutual aid. Wine Application Database. The giant Skylifter airships which can carry buildings hundreds of miles. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:25 GMT, 7 October 2010 Invention could see disaster-relief centres dropped into remote areas Giant balloons that can carry loads over long distances could one day even transport entire buildings.
Australian firm Skylifter is developing a piloted airship that will carry up to 150 tonnes more than 1,200 miles. They hope that the vehicles could one day carry rural hospitals and disaster-relief centres to remote areas. See video of the prototype below The airship has been designed as a disc rather than a conventional cigar shape, which the developers say makes it easier to steer and carry heavy loads under different wind conditions. Global development news, comment and analysis. Writing and setting SMART objectives and SMARTER objectives. This is always an interesting topic. the following was recently posted on a community forum: “We are currently reviewing our appraisal process and have realised our line managers need training on how to set clear SMART objectives.
Has anyone got any information that they have used to train managers on this area? I am looking for something to use that is clear and easy to understand for the managers to be able to go away and set SMART objectives during employee appraisals.Any help or information would be great.” My reply to this was essentially…Much of the material on the page mentioned above (www.rapidbi.com/smarter ) has been used at one time or another for training managers..
It all depends what type of objectives you want to train them in – I have found that most trainers think you can train the acronym and that is job done.. well it is not. writing SMARTer learning objectiveswriting SMARTer performance goals… etc. Norwegian Red Cross. Other protection. Intellectual Property (IP) covers a wide range of subjects and you may find that you can protect your idea by another right.
Companies House Companies House deal with the registration and provision of company information. Company Names Tribunal. Engineers race to design world's biggest offshore wind turbines. The revolutionary 10MW Aerogenerator X, a new breed of mammoth offshore wind turbine in development by British firm Arup.
Illustration: Wind Power Limited and Grimshaw British, American and Norwegian engineers are in a race to design and build the holy grail of wind turbines – giant, 10MW offshore machines twice the size and power of anything seen before – that could transform the global energy market because of their economies of scale. How Britain said farewell to its Empire. 23 July 2010Last updated at 16:28 The end of the British Empire saw the Union flag lowered in ceremonies around the world - but the so-called "wind of change" continues to blow, observes David Cannadine in his Point of View column.
The recent controversy surrounding the discovery that the British taxpayer is footing the bill for a family of former asylum seekers from Somalia who are living in a luxury town house in London reminds me that it's exactly 50 years since the colony of British Somaliland became independent. The oldest swingers: the Jolly Boys. A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I'm in Kingston inside a windowless room with a low ceiling and brown carpet on the walls watching five old men.
How Inception proves the art of baffling films does make sense. 'Dad, what do you think it meant when the totem wobbled like that?
" Many parents will be asked a tricky question like this as they leave the cinema after watching Inception. Some will inevitably answer, "Er… what was the totem again? " Once upon a life: Sloane Crosley. In an early version of this piece which I have since lost to the ether, I wrote about a specific two weeks I spent in complete isolation in the New Hampshire woods at the age of 22.
In one paragraph, a goose waddled out of a lake to defecate on a draft of my novel. In another, I had this line, which I was quite partial to: "I was nonplussed by the accidental use of someone else's toothbrush but would sooner use my own to scrub a toilet than go to a restaurant by myself. " But it doesn't matter now. Caravaggio: how he influenced my art. David LaChapelle – Photographer and film director Caravaggio is often called the most modern of the old masters – there's a newness, a contemporary feel to his work that painting prior to him just didn't have.
It's like when [fashion designer Alexander] McQueen came on the scene, everything else [in the fashion world] suddenly looked old. Caravaggio used light like a photographer and his pictures are cropped like photographs. Doomsday scenarios: is humanity prepared for the worst? Corridors are deserted. Office doors are locked. Riba Stirling prize 2010. Zaha Hadid's MAXXI, the Museum for 21st Century Arts in Rome, shortlisted for this year's Stirling prize.
Photograph: Roland Halbe. Michael Pritchard. WakeUpMillwall.com. Are ageing lefties in denial? 16 July 2010Last updated at 10:06 By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine. Transparency International UK. Have Your Say: How important is philanthropy? Europe's new GM laws offer hope – but we must remain vigilant. Since 2000 almost all of the 54 GM crop trials attempted in Britain have been vandalised to some extent. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA GM food remains a hugely contentious issue. Despite more than 12 years of public resistance to GM, knowledge of its drawbacks – from the rampant growth of herbicide-resistant "superweeds," to the loss of insects vital to the food chain – and unknown long-term risks to humans, the debate keeps returning. Yesterday, the European commission (EC) approved changes to how GM food and organisms are regulated. The EC proposals aim to keep the current authorisation system for GM at EU-level, but would give member states the right to ban GM cultivation at a national level.
The changes would also require that any deliberate release of GM organisms into the environment would have to be adopted in co-decision between member states and the commission. The greatest internet sports games of all time. Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The headquarters of probably the most powerful charity in the world, and one of the most quietly influential international organisations of any sort, currently stand between a derelict restaurant and a row of elderly car repair businesses.
Gentrification has yet to fully colonise this section of the Seattle waterfront, and even the actual premises of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which, appropriately perhaps, used to be a cheque-processing plant, retain a certain workaday drabness. Only four storeys high, with long rows of windows but no hint of corporate gloss, its beige and grey box sits anonymously in the drizzly northern Pacific light. There is no sign outside the building. There is not even an entrance from the street. Instead, visitors must take a side road, stop at a separate gatehouse, also unmarked, and introduce themselves to a security guard, of the eerily polite and low-key kind employed by ex-heads of state and the extremely rich.
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