Presentations from Annual Road Management Seminar: Innovative Road Maintenance Contracting Practices (#)
„The new approach, which extends the contractor's share of responsibility over a relatively long period of time, encompasses either routine maintenance activities alone or integrated contracts involving the rehabilitation and routine maintenance of road networks. The latter form, the so-called CREMA system is now implemented in Argentina and covers approximately 12,000 km of roads generally carrying less than 2,500 vehicles per day. Starting with a review of the key features of the system and the experience gained so far in Argentina, the presentation will analyze critical issues related to the use of the CREMA system --especially the need to prepare adequate contract bidding documents, conduct proper bid proposal evaluations, and monitor contractor's performance. The presentation will finally discuss the comparative advantages of the CREMA system in transferring to the private sector the responsibility for managing road networks, especially suited to the specific design and construction features of medium and low volume roads -in particular in the risks related to uncertain traffic projections and in the use of local or non traditional materials in thin pavement structures.“
http://www.worldbank.org/transport/rdmgmnt/ summary.htm - Cached
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„ Stumptown does have a few choice pieces of what I would call guerilla marketing—marketing that encompasses the creativity and ingenuity of a person and business rather than a large cash outlay. For instance, customers are welcome to take handmade, pocket-sized booklets that describe the store's coffees and offer serving suggestions. Multiple drink punch cards on the same card stock are available at the cash register. They are also handcrafted—the implication is that quality is just as important for these materials as it is for the coffees.“
http://www.freshcup.com/feb02_marketing.htm
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Amazon.com: Books: The Turning Point : Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
„Like The Tao of Physics, this book looks toward a world view that encompasses a balance of science and spirit. Capra is also not shy about deconstructing or critisizing popular economic and political mythology, which may disturb some readers, but he has the benefit of input from some of the greatest minds of our time and his analysis is unassailable. Female readers will probably appreciate his sensitivity and balanced approach to feminist perspectives as he discusses what's wrong with our world and what we can do to change things.“
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn%3d0553345729/
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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
„The Italian-American cuisine encompasses the traditional menu of espresso drinks that was developed in Italian-American communities during the 1920s through 40s, moved from there into Bohemian and university communities via the American coffeehouse and its various offshoots during the 1950s, and by the 1960s had been taken up by the speciality coffee culture, that world of small boutique coffees roasters and burlap-decorated stores that has now grown to become a major part of the American coffee industry.“
http://www.coffeereview.com/ reference.cfm?id=196
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„In response, the specialty coffee industry has tried to find common ground for labeling conscious coffees. Finding a suitable term that encompasses all three conscious coffees (perhaps a superseal that generically calls all of them "sustainable coffee") would reduce consumer confusion over the three issues; consumers would not have to struggle over what to support -- organic coffee cooperatives, songbird habitat, or fair pay to coffee growers.“
http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/coffee/ wakeup.html
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