... others, local community groups, elected members, voluntary organisations, residents, businesses, council services and officials. This consultation ‘phase’ would have to examine what other plans, initiatives, programmes and policies may be in place and any resultant impact on existing service provision and resources. Inter-agency and intra-agency co-operation is essential if information is to be collated and processed in any meaningful fashion and to ensure that any plan once in place will be properly supported. Barriers to co-operation need to be removed through consultation, participation, negotiation, and improved communication channels. Reso ...

... the crowd cheered, the bartender paid the $1000, and asked the little lady, "What do you do for a living? Are you a lumberjack, a weight-lifter, or what?" The woman replied, "I work for the IRS!" Apparently, the crowd laughed because the woman was not expected to squeeze anything out of the lemon. In fact, a woman in such a situation would be expected to just stand around her hero, the bartender, and cheer him up. How come a woman stepped into the role of a traditional masculine challenger and surprised the audience? Why was it difficult for the crowd to accept a woman in a power-challenging role? How was that swallowed? In the body of the essay to follow, I go on t ...

... Although working together interdependently is effective, conflicts do arise. Conflict is frequently characterized as a controversy between interrelated individuals who intervene with one another in reaching their objectives (McReady 191). When there is a breakdown in communication, conflicts will arise; however, there are effective ways to resolve them. Improved communication is the key to keeping work teams on course. Because of the rapid change in corporate society of today, this remains true more than ever before. One conflict in work teams is not being able to adapt to changing situations. Change of time, as well as place for meeting places, are facts of lif ...

... so many years of experience writing for such shows as Saturday Night Live, and even producing the longest running cartoon series, “The Simpsons”, Conan knows comedy. This knowledge is evident in his opening monologue. With his well timed one liners, and hilarious gestures and facial expressions on stage, he draws the audience in. And once I’m tuned in, I am unable to look away. Conan’s jokes are endlessly funnier than Leno. One reason for this is that Leno’s humor is so expected. He takes the easy way out of jokes. Where as O’ Brian’s humor is off the wall, and straight out of left field, and unexpected. This is why ...

... by providing a high-resolution 'area of interest' insert within a large, low-resolution field of view. If the image-generating computer 'knows' where the pilot's fixation is, it mage there. The technology to make this possible was developed by a research team headed by Professor Richard Frecker and Professor Moshe Eizenman. The work was carried out in collaboration with CAE Electronics Ltd. of Montreal with financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Their eye-tracker can record and analyze accurately up to 500 eye positions per second. The system works by means of capturing and processing the reflections of a ...

... important. Yet all three writers agree that natural science should be freed of the grip of theology and human ethics, what sets them apart from previous generations of scientists and thinkers. In his Discoveries, Bacon goes at great length to discuss the influence the prescientfic mode of thinking has had on generations of scientists, and tries to Descartes asserts that the mathematical method of examining the relationship between objects and expressing them in concise formulas, applied to the entire realm of knowledge, permits him to exercise his own reason to the best of his ability. Since nothing in philosophy is certain, it is evident that he must discover his ...

... time, the general public has set the less fortunate apart from themselves without even realizing it. “I’m seeing more apathy on the part of people. I think people used to feel badly. And now, I think people feel bothered. That’s a dangerous shift.” (Cannon 1) What she means is that at one point in time we used to care for the homeless. We used to try and help them out. Now we don’t care and we just want to get rid of them. This is very similar to the situation in the Grapes of Wrath. At first they wanted thousands of people to come and work, but when they actually started coming, the general public wanted to get rid of them. “And the men of the towns ...

... any other in the world. He raises the question, "If American education is so tragically inferior, why is it that this is still the country of innovation?" Everyone seems to have a different opinion when it comes to this topic. Some feel that the youth of America is lazy when it comes to school. Others like Ho, feel that creativity which America has the most of , is something that people tend to dismiss or take for granted. Having the freedom to express oneself and to be creative can perhaps help a child learn better than any book or school can teach. Other foreign countries such as Japan, do not allow young students to express their true thoughts. True, they ...

... them do silly circus tricks like, standing on their heads and climbing on top of other animals. Angling might be the only exception to this because without angling, the rivers would be over populated with fish (who have a very small memory span anyway). It could disrupt the food chain. Hunting wild animals and reptiles is not necessary. The food chain would be just fine if we stopped wild animal hunting, for example, fox hunting, wild cat hunting, elephant hunting, crocodile hunting and whale hunting. We should not kill animals for fur. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors wore animal skins and furs to keep warm and dry. Today we have man ma ...

... the introduction of gun powder was the foundation of many of today’s weapon systems. When the Byzantine Army was being developed as a model fighting force in the early 7th century, the armies of Western Europe were made up of mostly barbarians who relied on weight, numbers and sheer physical courage to do battle (Hindley, 22). These battles were fought exclusively on land, as naval warfare did not evolve until somewhere around the 13th century. In comparison to future centuries, weapons during this period of time were extremely primitive. The most common weapons of this time period were battle-axes, daggers, and hatchets. During this era defensive weapons ...