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This case study compares two very different models for recycling obsolete computers and electronics hardware that have been created by the two largest computer makers in the U.S. -- Hewlett Packard''s partnership with Micro Metallics of Roseville, California, and Dell Computers'' (recently renamed Dell, Inc.) partnership with UNICOR, the Federal Prison Industry. This study found that the two facilities differed dramatically in their transparency to the public. The Atwater facility exhibited a "fortress UNICOR" mentality, allowing only restricted access to investigators. UNICOR failed to respond to repeated requests to allow an industrial hygienist trained in occupational health and safety to inspect its facility, approving the visit too late for its findings to be included here. During a visit by other inspectors for this study, both investigators and inmates were forbidden from speaking with each other. Fortunately, the investigators were able to supplement their observations with testimonials from inmates, which are presented anonymously in this report to protect prisoners from reprisal. The Atwater facility refused to provide air quality test results, claiming that this information would have to be sought through a Freedom of Information Act request addressed to the federal Bureau of Prisons. In contrast, the Micro Metallics - Hewlett-Packard facility allowed our industrial hygienist to inspect freely, permitted investigators to speak informally with employees, and provided air monitoring and employee blood-lead test results.

The West African diamond mining industry makes a good setting for this adventure mystery. Nigel Ballantyne works for the diamond mining company, WADMINCO. His job is to stop the rampant illegal digging of diamonds which goes on in the WADMINCO lease area. But he finds this is difficult in the pervading political climate. Some of the illegal miners are financed by a shadowy figure known as Mama Sia. Nigel swears he will close her operations down. But as the story unfolds we sense that Mama Sia is gaining the upper hand. One of the main mysteries is to her identity. Who or what is she? From the begining Nigel realizes he is fighting a losing battle against the illegal miners? One of the main reasons is there is a ready market for their diamonds. How do you tell if a diamond has been mined legally or illegally? Intertwined with some violent events is a romance between Nigel and a Sierra Leonean named Rose Dunway. The story illustrates how dificult it is, in an economically poor country, to extract diamonds without suffering a high level of criminal activities.

"A walk round Plugstreet highlights the multitude of little-known actions, places of interest and the activities of the men who served in this area during the Great War. Although much has been written of Plugstreet''s links with Bruce Bairnsfather''s ''Old Bill'' and its position on the southern edge of the Messines Ridge, little has been documented of its importance during the early- and mid-stages of the war. This book helps to remedy this and brings to life an area of the Western Front in which most regiments of the British and Commonwealth armies saw service"--Page 4 of cover.

This is the most ambitious and exciting revision of this book to date! With the addition of an entire chapter on heating controls as well as new material on troubleshooting, it is now the most comprehensive book on electricity for HVAC on the market. Now with added pedagogical features such as chapter objectives, key terms lists and examples of service calls and practice service calls, this text is a must for all HVAC students. In addition, this text stresses practicality and real world application. The material emphasizes the skills required by service technicians, such as reading wire diagrams, installing new HVAC equipment and troubleshooting techniques. The art program has been thoroughly revised and updated. Look for the new Study Guide/Lab Manual to accompany this new edition. The labs are competency based and designed to reinforce the skills needed to become proficient HVAC technicians.

Bar Codes? ISBN numbers? Galleys? SAN? Sound like Greek? No longer. A handy, step-by-step explanation to everything anyone ever wanted to know about publishing a book. Essential for the novice and wonderfully instructive for the experienced publisher.

A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: Larch Wood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery; Second Lieutenant Keith Rae; Bellewaarde Farm; Major William Redmond; H. H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg; Major Cropper?s Craters; Sergeant Harry Combes D.C.M., R.G.A.; A Cemetery Lost; A Scottish Soldier; Along the Messines Ridge; Halloween Night 1914; A Bloodless Victory; Old Bill is Born; The Yanks are Coming; The Lost Mines of Messines; Hospitalization South of Poperinghe and Canada at Ypres.

The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the u0091Ard u0091Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael Ou0092Leary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill 60); - Tanks at St. Julien; - Corporal McBride and the 2nd Worcesters at Neuve Eglise; - Triumph and Tragedy (The 6th DCLI at Sanctuary/Zouave woods 1915) and The Five Forgotten Mines of Messines (unexploded - and four of them still there, the other ''blew'' in 1955).

Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black Watch; Lord Worsley at Zandvoorde; The 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers at Zandvoorde; The Worcesters and the Welsh at Gheluvelt in 1914; The Youngest Soldier; Major Lanoe Hawker at Abeele Aerodrome; 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) at Kichener Wood; Pond Farm; Fray Bentos at Hill 35; The Liverpool Irish at Schuler Galleries; The O''Donnell Twins; New Zealand at the village of Messines; Reconciliation at Broodseinde.

This book, following a weekend on the Somme with Mary Freeman as she visits the old front line and back areas, is about the soldiers who wrote poetry and those with whom they lived, fought and, in many cases died. It takes the reader to to the places where they saw action and to the cemeteries and memorials where those who did not survive, rest or are commemorated. Her uncanny knowledge of the battlefields and her deep understanding of poetry, brings to life the men who shared hardship and horror together, men who experience comradeship forged in conditions that are beyond comprehension today, men with normal desires and aspirations who happened to be wearing uniform and some who chose to express themselves through the medium of poetry.

A classic reference, this comprehensive Bible dictionary provides a wealth of basic background information in a very affordable format. Nelson''s edition is revised and edited by F. N. and M. A. Peloubet to be even more applicable to today''s Bible student. It includes more than 400 illustrations and special articles in addition to page after page of basic information.

Diary of song collecting in the Bangor, Me., area. A fragmentary collection, compiled by Harriman and Ted Smith.

The purpose of this handbook is to acquaint everyone with our new students. In doing this the Le Bijou staff hopes not only to help professors and classmates remember names, but also to enhance O.W.U. social life.