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Weather Temperature

Weather Temperature variations during the Holocene. The Holocene began after the event ended the Younger Dryas cooling, after which the temperatures are milder. The Holocene Climatic Optimum was a warm period that occurred during the interval between approximately 9000 and 5000 years ago. The global climate was between 0.5-2 C warmer than it is today. However, the warming probably was not uniform throughout the world. This period ended around 5500 years ago, when the first human civilizations in Asia and Africa began to flourish. Then began the Neoglacial, where temperatures dropped gradually until the twentieth century, with the possible exception of heating the Medieval Climatic Optimum (siglos X-XIV).The highlight of the cooling was the Little Ice Age, with three maxima: over 1650, 1770 and 1850. The warming of the Holocene has been an interglacial period and there is no reason to believe they represent the view of glacial cycles. However, current global warming may cause the Earth to warm more than the previous interglacial period, Riss-W rm, which peaked at approximately 125,000 years ago temperatures warmer than today. This phenomenon is sometimes called a super-interglacial. Compared to glacial conditions in the habitable zones interglacial spread northward, reaching its northernmost point during the Holocene Climatic Optimum. Increased moisture in the polar regions caused the disappearance of boreal grasslands.

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Works His first

Works His first book, April (1935), published just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, links with the style of the poetry of the previous generation for its aesthetic research and the importance of images, but not avant-garde pretensions. Like some 27 poets, this book is in youth a taste for classical verse, and in general by the poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, particularly Garcilaso and Herrera. However, its main innovation is the combination of loving-religious themes. His next work, The best Queen of Spain. Figuration in prose and verse (1939), written in collaboration with LF Vivanco, is a subject very own test of time, imbued with the ideology and recalling past glories Falangist. In the postwar era, participated in several prestigious literary magazines as Escorial. In 1941 appears The content of the heart, and loving classical tone. In 1949 he published the first version of the burning house, regarded by critics his best work.The book was remade and expanded to produce a new version, published in 1967. Something similar happened with his first book, April, which was revised and expanded with new poems and republished in 1972 under the title Second April, almost 40 years after its first ion. The house is a poem-turned-book written in free verse stanzas, where Rosales without interspersed lyricism and narrative, existentialism and imagination, rationality and irrationality, kicking off a new poetics that incorporates personal resources of Cesar Vallejo and Antonio Machado. Between 1937 and 1951 worked on the book Rhymes (1951) exploring the short poem, demonstrating its great versatility and technical mastery. Among his essays include Cervantes and Freedom (1960), Passion and death of the Count of Villa Mediana (1962). His later works, more autobiographical and disheartened, keep the union of lyric and narrative with surreal and present findings in the burning house.

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Gymnastics Gala

With chance of achieving our Traditional Gymnastics Gala in Comuna de Recoleta, took out the recognition of other activities, such as: Awarding of Healthy Recipe Implementation of new materials for physical activity in our gyms. Recognition of the involvement of A.over our Commune Award winning school children in the Painting Contest All this, with the presence of our Mayor, Mrs. Sol Letelier, Directors and Managers Health Centers Health Promotion.

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Stalag Stalag Luft

Stalag Stalag Luft III. Stammlager (symbol: Stalag) in the Third Reich was the name of a camp for prisoners of war in World War II. The precise title was “Mannschaftsstamm und-straflager. In Stalags could be maintained, according to the 1929 Geneva Convention prisoners of war only, never civilians. At first they were planned as Stalag camps for soldiers and noncommissioned officers. In the course of the war and increasing the number of prisoners they also entered official, previously and in accordance with the Hague Convention were separated from their troops being sent to calls Oflags. The Stalag and Nazi concentration camps are very different realities, but there are points of contact between them. In any case can lead to confusion that the term Stammlager (in the sense of source field) is also sometimes used in relation to the Nazi concentration camps.He refers in this case to the superior administrative unit, which may depend on several areas are annexed, in some cases very far from the principal. There is thus a level of subordination within the fields Inspection dependent concentration camps, which sometimes is misleading.

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Juan Hurtado Gonzalez

Juan Hurtado Gonzalez was born in Abla, Almer a, in 1943. From his youth and demonstrated ways in the world of cars and with only 17 years and worked in Barcelona, producing the cabs of trucks Pegasus. At 20 years and was responsible for the assembly of the SEAT 800. Once again the fate it would change his residence at 25, to meet a woman from Granada who later became his wife. Once in Granada, in 1967, opened his own auto repair shop in the town of Maracena, but despite having one of the larger shops in the area, John Howard fails to make the project economically feasible. This and the dream that haunted him in the head as a kid, you make separate canvas by a small part of his workshop to devote to the creation of prototypes, the first of which ended in 1969.That was one of the first steps and from this “prototype section” would begin to invest their spare time and savings in the production of small-circulation models. For years he made prototypes to the guffaws of many people who saw his project as madness, including the people that John Howard would buy the components for their prototypes. In 1995 begins to realize her dream when a friend asks one of his prototypes for display in their booth at a trade fair for industrial machinery business to be held in Armilla (Granada), in order to draw the attention of visitors to come over to this stand. The next day several newspapers Andalusians speak of that model exposed and this, along with word of mouth would lead to accumulate in a few days orders for that English-style car. Thus was born the Hurtan T in 1996, and “tradition” of using Hurtan platforms, engines and other components of the Renault group.In 1997 Hurtado presented her model at the fair Hurtan T Retromovil in Madrid and after that event the decision to invest all efforts in the production of cars, leaving the repair of vehicles took place in the family workshop. That same year 3 of his 4 children left their work to join the family business. In 2000 and again in Retromovil, presents the new version 4 places. From 2001 he worked on developing its new model, theft Albaycin presented in the classroom Retromovil 2003 auto show in which Juan Hurtado Gonz lez and his company are common in almost every ion. In December 2004 the Howard family will join efforts with Juan Ramos, who brings extensive experience in management control and international marketing and in designing and implementing specific marketing plans for market consolidation.This union would represent a change of company name MHURTAM the European Group and the models MHURTAM call, but did not work and in 2006 the Howard family retakes control of the company and returns the name Hurtan. Following this tour, Juan Hurtado Gonz lez and continues to expand with the introduction of new models like the Grand Albayc n addition to moving the factory to the town of Granada of Santa Fe

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History and causes

The market share of the “Big Three” U.S. declined from 70 in 1998 to 53 in 2008. The companies lost market share for imports and “transplants” (cars manufactured in U.S. factories owned by foreign producers). Must face constant financial losses, the Big Three have closed many factories and drastically reduced employment, especially in Michigan. General Motors transferred many of its employees in certain divisions into independent companies, including American Axle in 1994 and Delphi 1999. In 2000, Ford segregated division in the company Visteon. The subsidiaries and other parts makers have shared the decline of Detroit as well as plants in Canada owned by U.S. companies. Overall, auto parts fabricanets employ 416,000 people in the U.S. and Canada.It is estimated that General Motors alone has lost 51 billion in the three years preceding the financial crisis of 2008. The Big Three are distinguished not only by its size and location, but also for their business model. Most of its operations are unionized (United Auto Workers and Canadian Auto Workers), resulting in higher labor costs than other multinational car manufacturers, including those with North American plants, which have managed to keep unions at bay . The Harbor Report 2005 estimated that Toyota’s leadership in labor productivity amounted to a cost advantage of 350 to 500 per vehicle on U.S. manufacturers.The auto workers union agreed to a salary in two tiers in negotiations conducted in 2007, something that the Canadian union had refused before. Delphi, which was created from General Motors in 1999, requested bankruptcy after the union refused to cut their wages and it is expected that GM is responsible for a loss of 7 billion. To improve profits, the Detroit automakers made deals with unions to reduce wages while making commitments on issues of pension and social security.For example, GM took the total cost of funding health insurance premiums for their employees, relatives and retirees, as the U.S. does not have a universal health system. With most of these plans short of funds to late 1990s, companies have tried to provide retirement packages to older employees and have made agreements with the union to transfer pension obligations to an independent fund. However, the Japanese automakers do not unionized work forces with younger Americans (and many fewer American retirees) will continue to enjoy an advantage in cost. A Chevrolet TrailBlazer, SUV from General Motors. Despite the history of their brands, many cars have been discontinued or relegated, because the Big Three shifting resources from compact cars and midsize in support of the “trendy SUV.”Since the late 1990s, more than half of its profits have come from these SUVs. Ron Harbor said that many “econobox” of the past were aimed at attracting consumers to the brand with the hope that remain loyal and then acquire more expensive models. A 2008 report estimated that a car manufacturer to sell 10 small cars needed to achieve the same benefit as a large vehicle, and had to produce small and medium cars profitably to succeed, something the Detroit Three have not made yet. SUV sales peaked in 1999 but have not returned to that level since, due to high gasoline prices. The Big Three have suffered from a perception of inferior quality and reliability of their cars compared with their Japanese counterparts, which has been difficult to overcome.They have also been slow to introduce new vehicles on the market, while the Japanese are considered leaders in the production of smaller cars with better fuel efficiency in terms. The drop in sales and market share have resulted that the Big Three plants operate below their installed capacity (the GM plants were at 85 capacity in November 2005, considerably less than the plants of its Asian competitors), which in turn led to production cuts, plant closings and layoffs. They have been heavily dependent on considerable incentives and subsidized loans to sell cars, which was crucial to keep the plants running, since they run a significant part of Michigan’s economy. These promotional strategies, including sales, prices employees and full financing, sales have risen, but have also cut benefits.

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History With

History With the advent of the welfare state in Europe and populism in Latin America after World War II, it became very common expropriation or nationalization of private companies that went public in orbit, until the mid 70s of the twentieth century occurred in almost every country in the world large numbers of public enterprises under the State called an entrepreneur. In countries with a socialist economic system and a planned economy, as was the Soviet Union and it is Cuba, the state controls the entire economy or much of it, so that virtually any company’s existing state. However, just as they say that public companies seek the good of society, are targets of criticism from economic orthodoxy and the neoliberal doctrine, which describes them as inefficient by nature, because of the administrative bureaucracy and lack encouragement of employees, considering that competition also improves productivity.With the rise of this set of theories in the late ’70s and its subsequent dominance in the ’80s and ’90s, many former state enterprises were privatized and turned into private companies, leading to the so-called free market. Latin America and Eastern Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union were a testing ground for privatization, promoted by the IMF and WTO, among other international agencies. However, there were differences in the degree of privatization of the economy across countries. While in Argentina the state enterprises were almost all sold or dissolved, as Argentine railroads and the oil company YPF. Her neighbor Eastern Republic of Uruguay maintained a large number of them, such as telephone ANTEL, UTE electricity, water and sanitation and oil company ANCAP SBI, are enshrined in the Constitution in the name of autonomous entities and decentralized services, and are often monopoly.In some countries like New Zealand were corporatized, ie remained state property on the company but its operation is self-sufficient in form like a ordinary private enterprise. Most European countries the state retains many companies such as British or Spanish RENFE British Railways, the latter with the particularity of being privatized and then reestatizada. For structural reasons, most African countries also retained public enterprises. In the United States public companies were always short, so that the advance of neoliberalism as an economic doctrine did not involve many changes. Today, especially in Latin American countries, is experiencing a slight turn to the state economy. Examples could be the re-nationalization of the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA and Argentina Correo Argentino, a descendant of the ancient Encotel. thanks for reading my story.

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