This document outlines the terms and conditions for a competition called "Meet The Vamps" hosted by Blogmusik SAS between April 14-21, 2014 on Twitter. It specifies that the competition is open to UK and Ireland residents aged 16+, with one entry per person. The winner will receive a pair of tickets and meet & greet passes to a Vamps concert of their choice, as well as Vamps merchandise goodie bags. The terms also cover participant requirements, winner selection process, use of personal data, intellectual property rights, and dispute resolution.
This document provides resources for writing a thank you letter after an interview for a hotel banquet manager position. It includes samples of thank you letters, tips for writing an effective letter, and links to additional materials like sample resumes, cover letters, and lists of common interview questions and answers. Key recommendations are to send the letter within 24 hours, address it to each interviewer individually, and use it as an opportunity to reiterate your interest and qualifications for the role. The document also lists additional job search resources that can be found on the listed website.
This document lists the names of various female celebrities. It includes actresses, singers, models and other prominent women from Latin America and other parts of the world. The list highlights the names of over 20 celebrities without any additional context or information provided about them.
The document provides information about weather terms and atmospheric gases. It lists many words related to weather such as freezing, thunderstorms, and precipitation. It also includes data about the longitude, latitude, and elevation of four cities. Additionally, it outlines the composition of gases in the atmosphere such as nitrogen, oxygen, and water vapor. It notes the importance of the atmosphere in moderating temperature and protecting from harmful rays.
Learn how to create powerful spreadsheets on the iPad using Apple’s Numbers. Teachers will learn how to navigate and build new spreadsheets as well as convert dirty old Excel spreadsheets to amazing new shiny Numbers spreadsheets.
This document outlines the terms and conditions for a competition called "Meet The Vamps" hosted by Blogmusik SAS between April 14-21, 2014 on Twitter. It specifies that the competition is open to UK and Ireland residents aged 16+, with one entry per person. The winner will receive a pair of tickets and meet & greet passes to a Vamps concert of their choice, as well as Vamps merchandise goodie bags. The terms also cover participant requirements, winner selection process, use of personal data, intellectual property rights, and dispute resolution.
This document provides resources for writing a thank you letter after an interview for a hotel banquet manager position. It includes samples of thank you letters, tips for writing an effective letter, and links to additional materials like sample resumes, cover letters, and lists of common interview questions and answers. Key recommendations are to send the letter within 24 hours, address it to each interviewer individually, and use it as an opportunity to reiterate your interest and qualifications for the role. The document also lists additional job search resources that can be found on the listed website.
This document lists the names of various female celebrities. It includes actresses, singers, models and other prominent women from Latin America and other parts of the world. The list highlights the names of over 20 celebrities without any additional context or information provided about them.
The document provides information about weather terms and atmospheric gases. It lists many words related to weather such as freezing, thunderstorms, and precipitation. It also includes data about the longitude, latitude, and elevation of four cities. Additionally, it outlines the composition of gases in the atmosphere such as nitrogen, oxygen, and water vapor. It notes the importance of the atmosphere in moderating temperature and protecting from harmful rays.
Learn how to create powerful spreadsheets on the iPad using Apple’s Numbers. Teachers will learn how to navigate and build new spreadsheets as well as convert dirty old Excel spreadsheets to amazing new shiny Numbers spreadsheets.
In late November, children in Leskovec begin preparing for Christmas by making wreaths and crafts in workshops. The holiday season officially starts with a visit from St. Nicholas, who brings presents for children. Families get into the Christmas spirit through activities like reading stories, baking cookies, and putting on a play about a lost Santa Claus. In the last two days before Christmas, there is a feeling of magic in the air as children enjoy creative workshops and parties while waiting for Santa's arrival at their school play.
The Central Government may appoint persons with expertise in fields like investigations, cyber forensics, financial accounting, management accounting, and cost accounting to efficiently discharge the functions of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office.
Before appointing an investigation officer, the Central Government may require the applicant to provide a security ranging from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 25,000 depending on the company's turnover as per the previous year's balance sheet.
The terms and conditions of appointment for the Director of SFIO will be governed by the deputation rules of the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India, while terms for experts, officers, and employees from Central/State Governments or Public Sector Undertak
The document discusses the evolution of smart objects in the Internet of Things to social objects. It defines smart objects as objects that provide services and information, while social objects interact with other smart objects. The document proposes that social objects will autonomously interact, discover services from other objects, and advertise their presence. It reviews different platforms for smart objects and identifies open challenges, such as how to design architectures and communication for social objects. The goal is for objects to form social networks similar to humans to build more complex services.
The survey found that 21% of respondents currently use e-signature technology. DocuSign and EchoSign were the most popular providers according to the survey. Usage was found to be similar across regions, though the American region had higher adoption rates. Nearly all industries reported some use of e-signatures, most commonly for sales, purchasing, and internal documents.
Framing the conversation: incident response and enterprise mobilityinfra-si
Mobility incidents impact incident response approaches and require resources assigned to recovery, communication strategies for end users, and understanding costs including lost productivity and hidden expenses. The document discusses how mobility affects recovery time objectives, whether threat monitoring is in-house or outsourced, and ensuring incident response processes are in place to address people, costs, and workflows for mobility incidents.
The necessity of Intellectual Property Translation ServicesTennycut
IP has to be protected, but part of that protection, at least for foreign countries, relies on the strength of the translation. Here's how to choose the right translation service.
Lakota is a seven-month-old golden retriever who shares her adventures through photos taken by her owner Kelly. The document follows Lakota from being a puppy with her siblings to her current activities which include playing with toys, going to the park, meeting new animals like a kitten named Bart, going for swims, getting fed twice a day but always being hungry for more, and having lots of energy that sometimes gets her into trouble. Kelly and their roommate Matt keep Lakota safe, happy, and make sure she winds down at the end of the day for bedtime.
This document discusses collaborative approaches to outreach for academic music libraries. It defines outreach as investigating community activities and supporting them, whether on or off library premises. The primary user group for music libraries are music students, faculty and staff who need scores, multimedia, books and online listening. Secondary groups include the wider university community and outside community. The document recommends using social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram to promote services and build relationships with students, faculty and the local community. It provides examples of outreach activities like orientation events, lectures, concerts and collaborations that target different user groups.
Employers have the legal right to require vaccinations for workers to prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases like measles, which is experiencing an outbreak across 14 US states. However, employers risk potential lawsuits if workers claim medical or religious exemptions under the Americans with Disabilities Act or Civil Rights Act. While healthcare employers have more flexibility, they still must balance vaccination requirements with privacy concerns and the risk of litigation.
This document discusses using a blog to promote the spa products of Tuli Hotels & Resorts. It begins by defining what a blog is. It then outlines a SOSTAC plan for the blog. The situation analysis finds that Tuli has spas but lacks blogs and detailed photos/descriptions. The objectives are to improve branding, foster relationships, solicit feedback, and educate guests. The strategy is to optimize social networks and blog content for awareness and search. Tactics include keeping up with industry news and developing a content strategy. Actions include frequent updates, replies, participation in other blogs, and sharing content. Control involves monitoring traffic, sales, and competitors.
The document outlines a plan for an article about an artist's new album, including discussing how the artist came up with the album and songs and what the music represents. It will feature a photo of the artist writing lyrics and use a large sans serif font for the title with pull quotes and a drop cap for the text.
The document discusses the design of magnetic sail (magsail) systems for spacecraft propulsion. It describes a proposed demonstrator magsail with a 200m radius and 25.7kg mass, and an operational magsail with 20,000m radius and 7,060 metric tonne mass. The operational design could accelerate at 0.003185 m/s^2 and deliver over 100,000kg payloads to Mars or Saturn. Future advances in superconductors could enable magsails to deliver payloads of over 400,000kg to Jupiter and millions of kilograms to the outer planets.
I. X-ray astronomy will play an increasingly important role in studies of the early universe and large scale structure, but these studies are ultimately limited by sparse photon numbers. There is a need to develop progressively larger collecting area telescopes under increasingly severe mass constraints.
II. The challenge is greater in the X-ray band than optical, as X-ray telescopes reflect X-rays twice, requiring reflectors two orders of magnitude larger than the effective aperture. Large mass is currently problematic for Constellation-X mission.
III. Looking beyond Constellation, a radically different approach is needed based on super lightweight reflectors and perhaps in situ assembly of the telescope. This could enable an ultra high throughput X-
This document discusses the concept of an X-ray interferometer called MAXIM that could achieve micro-arcsecond resolution. It would consist of an optics spacecraft holding multiple flat mirrors in formation with a detector spacecraft to form interference patterns. The goal is to image phenomena like black hole accretion disks and supernovae with much higher resolution than current telescopes. A pathfinder mission is proposed with 100 microarcsecond resolution using two spacecraft separated by 1.4 meters as a technology demonstration.
USAF intercepted a report of a Cuban pilot's encounter with a UFO. In the 1970s, reliable military personnel sighted unidentified aerial objects near nuclear weapons facilities. Though the Air Force said these were isolated incidents, an Air Force document revealed they implemented increased security measures. Newly declassified documents from the CIA, FBI and other agencies indicate unidentified flying objects exist and some pose a threat to national security by demonstrating technologies beyond present human capability. However, the government has misled the public about the true nature and implications of the UFO phenomenon.
This document summarizes the agenda for the NIAC Phase I Fellows Meeting held on October 23-24, 2002. It provides an overview of the presentations and speakers, including status reports on various advanced aerospace concepts from NIAC fellows, as well as keynote speeches from experts in the fields of aerial robotics and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The document discusses the possibility of controlling global weather through small, precise perturbations to the atmosphere. It describes how the chaotic nature of the atmosphere implies sensitivity to small changes and suggests a series of small perturbations may control weather evolution. It outlines components a global weather control system may have, including advanced numerical weather prediction, satellite sensing, and methods to introduce perturbations. It also presents an experiment using data assimilation to calculate perturbations needed to slightly alter a hurricane's track as a proof of concept.
The document discusses observations of various amphibian and reptile species' behavior in microgravity during a flight experiment. It was found that none of the animals vomited, possibly because they did not eat before the flight or because amphibians and reptiles have a weaker vomiting response than mammals. Different species reacted variably based on their ecology and phylogeny. Flexible limbed lizards tended to roll more, while geckos commonly displayed a "skydiving posture" related to their arboreal ancestry. Overall reactions to microgravity varied significantly between species based on both ecology and evolutionary history.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise has also been shown to boost self-esteem and can serve as a healthy way to manage stress.
In late November, children in Leskovec begin preparing for Christmas by making wreaths and crafts in workshops. The holiday season officially starts with a visit from St. Nicholas, who brings presents for children. Families get into the Christmas spirit through activities like reading stories, baking cookies, and putting on a play about a lost Santa Claus. In the last two days before Christmas, there is a feeling of magic in the air as children enjoy creative workshops and parties while waiting for Santa's arrival at their school play.
The Central Government may appoint persons with expertise in fields like investigations, cyber forensics, financial accounting, management accounting, and cost accounting to efficiently discharge the functions of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office.
Before appointing an investigation officer, the Central Government may require the applicant to provide a security ranging from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 25,000 depending on the company's turnover as per the previous year's balance sheet.
The terms and conditions of appointment for the Director of SFIO will be governed by the deputation rules of the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India, while terms for experts, officers, and employees from Central/State Governments or Public Sector Undertak
The document discusses the evolution of smart objects in the Internet of Things to social objects. It defines smart objects as objects that provide services and information, while social objects interact with other smart objects. The document proposes that social objects will autonomously interact, discover services from other objects, and advertise their presence. It reviews different platforms for smart objects and identifies open challenges, such as how to design architectures and communication for social objects. The goal is for objects to form social networks similar to humans to build more complex services.
The survey found that 21% of respondents currently use e-signature technology. DocuSign and EchoSign were the most popular providers according to the survey. Usage was found to be similar across regions, though the American region had higher adoption rates. Nearly all industries reported some use of e-signatures, most commonly for sales, purchasing, and internal documents.
Framing the conversation: incident response and enterprise mobilityinfra-si
Mobility incidents impact incident response approaches and require resources assigned to recovery, communication strategies for end users, and understanding costs including lost productivity and hidden expenses. The document discusses how mobility affects recovery time objectives, whether threat monitoring is in-house or outsourced, and ensuring incident response processes are in place to address people, costs, and workflows for mobility incidents.
The necessity of Intellectual Property Translation ServicesTennycut
IP has to be protected, but part of that protection, at least for foreign countries, relies on the strength of the translation. Here's how to choose the right translation service.
Lakota is a seven-month-old golden retriever who shares her adventures through photos taken by her owner Kelly. The document follows Lakota from being a puppy with her siblings to her current activities which include playing with toys, going to the park, meeting new animals like a kitten named Bart, going for swims, getting fed twice a day but always being hungry for more, and having lots of energy that sometimes gets her into trouble. Kelly and their roommate Matt keep Lakota safe, happy, and make sure she winds down at the end of the day for bedtime.
This document discusses collaborative approaches to outreach for academic music libraries. It defines outreach as investigating community activities and supporting them, whether on or off library premises. The primary user group for music libraries are music students, faculty and staff who need scores, multimedia, books and online listening. Secondary groups include the wider university community and outside community. The document recommends using social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram to promote services and build relationships with students, faculty and the local community. It provides examples of outreach activities like orientation events, lectures, concerts and collaborations that target different user groups.
Employers have the legal right to require vaccinations for workers to prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases like measles, which is experiencing an outbreak across 14 US states. However, employers risk potential lawsuits if workers claim medical or religious exemptions under the Americans with Disabilities Act or Civil Rights Act. While healthcare employers have more flexibility, they still must balance vaccination requirements with privacy concerns and the risk of litigation.
This document discusses using a blog to promote the spa products of Tuli Hotels & Resorts. It begins by defining what a blog is. It then outlines a SOSTAC plan for the blog. The situation analysis finds that Tuli has spas but lacks blogs and detailed photos/descriptions. The objectives are to improve branding, foster relationships, solicit feedback, and educate guests. The strategy is to optimize social networks and blog content for awareness and search. Tactics include keeping up with industry news and developing a content strategy. Actions include frequent updates, replies, participation in other blogs, and sharing content. Control involves monitoring traffic, sales, and competitors.
The document outlines a plan for an article about an artist's new album, including discussing how the artist came up with the album and songs and what the music represents. It will feature a photo of the artist writing lyrics and use a large sans serif font for the title with pull quotes and a drop cap for the text.
The document discusses the design of magnetic sail (magsail) systems for spacecraft propulsion. It describes a proposed demonstrator magsail with a 200m radius and 25.7kg mass, and an operational magsail with 20,000m radius and 7,060 metric tonne mass. The operational design could accelerate at 0.003185 m/s^2 and deliver over 100,000kg payloads to Mars or Saturn. Future advances in superconductors could enable magsails to deliver payloads of over 400,000kg to Jupiter and millions of kilograms to the outer planets.
I. X-ray astronomy will play an increasingly important role in studies of the early universe and large scale structure, but these studies are ultimately limited by sparse photon numbers. There is a need to develop progressively larger collecting area telescopes under increasingly severe mass constraints.
II. The challenge is greater in the X-ray band than optical, as X-ray telescopes reflect X-rays twice, requiring reflectors two orders of magnitude larger than the effective aperture. Large mass is currently problematic for Constellation-X mission.
III. Looking beyond Constellation, a radically different approach is needed based on super lightweight reflectors and perhaps in situ assembly of the telescope. This could enable an ultra high throughput X-
This document discusses the concept of an X-ray interferometer called MAXIM that could achieve micro-arcsecond resolution. It would consist of an optics spacecraft holding multiple flat mirrors in formation with a detector spacecraft to form interference patterns. The goal is to image phenomena like black hole accretion disks and supernovae with much higher resolution than current telescopes. A pathfinder mission is proposed with 100 microarcsecond resolution using two spacecraft separated by 1.4 meters as a technology demonstration.
USAF intercepted a report of a Cuban pilot's encounter with a UFO. In the 1970s, reliable military personnel sighted unidentified aerial objects near nuclear weapons facilities. Though the Air Force said these were isolated incidents, an Air Force document revealed they implemented increased security measures. Newly declassified documents from the CIA, FBI and other agencies indicate unidentified flying objects exist and some pose a threat to national security by demonstrating technologies beyond present human capability. However, the government has misled the public about the true nature and implications of the UFO phenomenon.
This document summarizes the agenda for the NIAC Phase I Fellows Meeting held on October 23-24, 2002. It provides an overview of the presentations and speakers, including status reports on various advanced aerospace concepts from NIAC fellows, as well as keynote speeches from experts in the fields of aerial robotics and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The document discusses the possibility of controlling global weather through small, precise perturbations to the atmosphere. It describes how the chaotic nature of the atmosphere implies sensitivity to small changes and suggests a series of small perturbations may control weather evolution. It outlines components a global weather control system may have, including advanced numerical weather prediction, satellite sensing, and methods to introduce perturbations. It also presents an experiment using data assimilation to calculate perturbations needed to slightly alter a hurricane's track as a proof of concept.
The document discusses observations of various amphibian and reptile species' behavior in microgravity during a flight experiment. It was found that none of the animals vomited, possibly because they did not eat before the flight or because amphibians and reptiles have a weaker vomiting response than mammals. Different species reacted variably based on their ecology and phylogeny. Flexible limbed lizards tended to roll more, while geckos commonly displayed a "skydiving posture" related to their arboreal ancestry. Overall reactions to microgravity varied significantly between species based on both ecology and evolutionary history.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise has also been shown to boost self-esteem and can serve as a healthy way to manage stress.
This document describes an operational analysis conducted as part of the Air Force 2025 study to identify
high-value future air and space system concepts and their enabling technologies. A value model called
Foundations 2025 was developed to quantify and compare different system concepts. Various futuristic
systems and technologies were identified, described, and scored using the model. The analysis determined
the most valuable system concepts and technologies that could enhance future air and space capabilities.
This document discusses a research paper presented to Air Force 2025 that argues the US Air Force should transition from being an atmospheric force to an infospheric force focused on controlling information and the battlespace. It proposes three new missions for the Air Force in the 21st century: extended information dominance to empower allies, global transparency to deter potential adversaries, and strategic defense. The paper advocates for the Air Force to develop a "metasystem" to integrate information and capabilities from all services and envisions the Air Force guiding the development and maintenance of this system.
This document summarizes potential paths to the extinction of the US Air Force by 2025. Externally, extinction could occur through the ascendancy of other military services, economic constraints, changes in strategic environment/policy, technological changes, or the rise of jointness. Internally, extinction could result from losing its vision/mission, mismanaging people/programs, choosing wrong future paths, being too effective at strategic war, or failing to adapt. The document argues the USAF risks becoming extinct unless it reverses trends threatening its viability and ability to evolve appropriately on external and internal challenges.
This document presents a research paper on Planetary Defense, which proposes establishing a system to protect Earth from catastrophic impacts by asteroids and comets. It discusses the threat posed by near-Earth objects, the social, economic and political implications of impacts, and recommends developing a three-tiered Planetary Defense System. The system would include detection subsystems to find threats, command and control systems, and mitigation subsystems to deflect objects, including kinetic impactors, mass drivers, solar sails and nuclear devices. It argues such a system could help ensure humanity's survival and have dual-use benefits from related technologies.
This document presents a research paper on space operations and a potential future system called the Global Area Strike System (GASS). It discusses issues around space operations in 2025, including manned vs unmanned systems and military vs cooperative operations. It then outlines the required capabilities for GASS, including timeliness, responsiveness, flexibility, and precision. It proposes an integrated system-of-systems for GASS using various weapon platforms and classes, including directed energy weapons, projectile weapons, and a transatmospheric vehicle. It concludes with concept of operations and recommendations.
This document provides a historical overview of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their use by various militaries. It discusses early UAV development in the 1950s-1960s for reconnaissance and weapons delivery missions. During the Vietnam War, UAVs conducted thousands of reconnaissance missions with a high recovery rate. Experimental armed UAVs were also tested. Later, UAVs were used effectively by Israel in the 1970s-1980s and by the US during the Gulf War for reconnaissance. Following the Gulf War, the US began developing longer endurance UAVs like the Predator and Global Hawk to address reconnaissance needs. The document suggests expanding UAVs' role beyond reconnaissance to include lethal strike missions.
This document proposes an integrated hypersonic weapons platform called the S3 concept to fulfill three broad missions for US air and space forces in 2025: deliver decisive early blows, provide cost-effective in-theater dominance, and maintain access to space. The S3 concept involves three vehicles: the SHAAFT hypersonic attack aircraft, the SHMAC standoff hypersonic missile, and the SCREMAR reusable spaceplane. The SHAAFT would use a zero-stage flying wing to stage to Mach 3.5 and then cruise at Mach 12, able to launch the SHMAC missile or SCREMAR spaceplane. Together these vehicles aim to provide global reach, in-theater dominance, and access to space with
This document summarizes a research paper presented to Air Force 2025 that outlines special operations forces capabilities needed to conduct precision operations against weapons of mass destruction, high-value targets, and assets in the hypothetical world of 2025. The paper identifies communications, mobility, and destruction/neutralization as the top three enabling capabilities required for these missions. It then proposes various futuristic technologies that could fulfill requirements for these capabilities by 2025, such as stealth airlifters, extraction rockets, and targeting systems, to allow special operations forces to accomplish their missions with zero tolerance for error.
This document proposes a concept for Special Operations Regional Engagement (SORE) forces in 2025. The core capability of SORE forces would be engaging in less developed, first- and second-wave nations while not disrupting their evolution. SORE forces would exploit third-wave technology to operate effectively in these environments without introducing advanced technology prematurely. The proposed concept of operations involves SORE forces conducting defensive and offensive operations like training, advising, and assisting host nations. To enable these operations, the document outlines key tasks for SORE forces including recruitment, training, observation, communication, decision-making, countermeasures, and sustainment. It argues that SORE forces will need systems and technologies to complete these tasks while
This document proposes concepts and technologies for counterspace operations in 2025, including space detection, anti-satellite weapons, space interdiction nets, miniaturized satellites, satellite cloaking, kinetic and directed energy weapons. It outlines offensive and defensive counterspace architectures and recommends further analysis of miniaturization, stealth, detection and targeting concepts as well as kinetic and directed energy weapons. The goal is to maintain US space superiority as space becomes increasingly vital to national security and more countries and commercial entities access space.