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    The Carnevale di Viareggio is an annual festival held in the beautiful city in Venice. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, which is forty days before Easter, on Shrove Thursday. The festival is world famous because of its elaborate, detailed and amazing masks. Masks have always been an important feature of the Venetian carnival. Usually people could wear them between the festival of Santo Stephens’s day and the start of the carnival season, midnight, on Shrove Tuesday. Venetian

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    the Day of God. The name or term, Monday, represents “moon’s day” and is a very sacred day for the moon goddess. The Norse god Tyr and the roman war-god Mars or dies Martis influenced the name of Tuesday. The god Wodin or Odin gave the name of Wednesday. Thursday, also recognized in Norse Language as Torsdag, was named in honor of Thor and Thursday being named “Jove’ Day,” honorably after Jupiter, leader of the Roman gods. Friday was named in honor of the Norse Goddess Frigg. Saturday was originally

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    Bushfires are common occurrences within Australia, with each summer an average of 54,000 burning across the country, but this one in particular took a higher toll than previous bushfires. On the 7th of February 2009 a series of devastating bushfires burned across several townships in Victoria. The flames claimed 173 lives, injured 500, destroyed over 2000 homes and injured or killed millions of wildlife. This day became known as Black Saturday. Different individuals and community groups who were

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    Poles Out Case Study

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    Poles Out- In this section of the project we are going to saw out the basketball poles from the tennis courts base, to minimize the risk of injuries. The price for the removal of the basketball poles will be approximately: $600.00 (Price with a third party ~$1000.00) Filling of the Basketball Poles- The next step to the renovations, we will mix the concrete and fill the basketball pole holes with concrete to give the surrounding ground a fine finish. The estimated cost for the concrete will be roughly:

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    Cmgt 410 Week 2 Essay

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    The objective of this project is to help train DC Construction staff with their BRIX problems by planning how to operate the new system. The company will provide 20 laptops for this training session. When DC Construction changes their BRIX system, they will also change their financial system. Currently all locations have trouble with the financial and accounting system. The sites do not have a standard system, which may have contributed to the problem. The new STIX system will allow each site to

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    Tennis

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    Clinics - 2011/2012 Schedule Beginner Clinics Kickoff Special! Five Week Program for just $75.00! Day Wednesday Friday Saturday Time 10:30am - 11:30am 10:30am - 11:30am 8:00am - 9:00am Duration 5 weeks 5 weeks 5 weeks Cost $75.00 $75.00 $75.00 Dates 9/07 - 10/05 9/09 - 10/07 9/10 - 10/08 Learn how to play in just 10 weeks! Sign up for 10 consecutive weeks. Day Monday Monday Wednesday Friday Saturday Time 10:30am - 11:30am 7:30pm - 8:30pm 10:30am - 11:30am 10:30am - 11:30am 8:00am - 9:00am

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    Nature of the case and the Central Legal Issue In September 2008, the Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC) instituted proceedings against Cement Pty Ltd, Pozzolanic Enterprises Pty Ltd and two other companies (Respondents via subsidiaries including Pozzolanic) in the Federal Court of Australia in Brisbane. The ACCC alleged that four exclusive contracts related to the Respondents entering into contracts to acquire ‘flyash’ from four power stations in South East Queensland, between 2001

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    RESEARCH PROPOSAL RESEARCH TITLE: Durability of waste glass aggregate concrete countertop INTRODUCTION –A Wall Street Journal article once reported that some cities in the US are pulling back from the recycling of waste glass. The sustainability officer for the town of Montclair, N.J, was mentioned in the report saying; “glass has become the scourge of recycling, and money can’t be made from it.” This problem associated with waste glass could be resolved through seeking profitable alternative uses

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    pelletizing and packaging of 300 to 500 tons of fly ash for retail sale. Along with this request, we would like to request a second permit allowing us to continue disposing of any remaining fly ash in a Type III landfill, which we have been taking advantage of on our property for the past two years. The amount of fly ash disposed of on our own property will range from 500 to 700 tons. According to our recent research and analysis, pelletizing our fly ash waste and selling it to the public as low-grade

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    Short Story: Rattata

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    platform and saw a Graveler. "Geodude evolved yesterday helping me fix up the platform," Brock explained. "Lucky, huh?" Not so much. Gabby was beginning to regret letting Ash go first. She pulled out a Pokéball. "Time to trim your fangs, Rattata!" she called out. Rattata came out of the ball with a high-pitched screech. Ash and Misty stood behind Gabby and stepped closer, interested in seeing just how well Rattata fought. If it could make a three gang members run, it had to have some skill, and

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