Windpumping is an established technology, with over one million windpumps in use worldwide. A windpump needs no fuel, little maintenance and it usually lasts 20 years or more. Designs exist which are suitable for small-scale local .manufacture. The aim of this handbook is to help potential users and decision makers take advantage of the benefits that windpumps can offer. This handbook was first written for a windpump familiarisation seminar held in Nairobi in November 1986. The seminar was organised and presented by I.T. Power, hosted by the Ministry of Water Development of Kenya and funded by the Overseas Development Administration.

Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations--from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation

Just as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 can't imagine having to enter phone booths and deposit coins in order to call someone from the street corner. Every August, the Mindset List highlights the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of that year's incoming college class. Now this fascinating book extends the Mindset List approach to dramatize what it was like to grow up for every American generation since 1880, showcasing the remarkable changes in what Americans have considered ""normal"" about the world around them.Expands Tom McBride and Ron Nief's popular annual Mindset Lists to explore the mindset of nine generations of Americans, from 1880 to the future high school graduates of 2030 Offers a novel and absorbing way to understand the frame of reference of Americans through history, whether it's the high school grads of 1918, who viewed riding an elevator as a thrill second only to roller coasters, or those of 2009, who have always thought of ""friend"" as an active verb Puts a human face on the evolution of historical changes related to technology, the struggle for rights and equality, the calamities of war and depression, and other areas The annual Mindset List garners extensive media attention, including on "Today," "The Early Show," the "NBC Nightly News," CNN, and Fox as well as in the "Wall Street Journal," the "New York Times," "USA Today," the "Los Angeles Times," "Time" magazine, and hundreds of international publications

Whatever your own generational mindset, this book will give you an entertaining and important new tool for understanding the unique perspective and experience of Americans over more than a hundred and fifty years.

Obra con dos objetivos fundamentales: por una parte, analizar los fundamentos y la tecnologia de los equipos y servicios telefonicos fijos y moviles, de manera que tras su lectura se posean los conocimientos teoricos suficientes para entender y comprender su funcionamiento y los servicios que se prestan y, por otra, la exposicion de los metodos habituales para su puesta en servicio y mantenimiento, explicando las tecnicas empleadas en la programacion de centralitas, su integracion con otras redes, y las rutinas de mantenimiento para su correcto funcionamiento.

Cell phone apps share location information; software companies store user data in the cloud; biometric scanners read fingerprints; employees of some businesses have microchips implanted in their hands. In each of these instances we trade a share of privacy or an aspect of identity for greater convenience or improved security. What Robert M. Pallitto asks in Bargaining with the Machine is whether we are truly making such bargains freely - whether, in fact, such a transaction can be conducted freely or advisedly in our ever more technologically sophisticated world. Pallitto uses the social theory of bargaining to look at the daily compromises we make with technology. Specifically, he explores whether resisting these 'bargains' is still possible when the technologies in question are backed by persuasive, even coercive, corporate and state power. Who, he asks, is proposing the bargain? What is the balance of bargaining power? What is surrendered and what is gained? And are the perceived and the actual gains and losses the same - that is, what is hidden? At the center of Pallitto's work is the paradox of bargaining in a world of limited agency. Assurances that we are in control are abundant whether we are consumers, voters, or party to the social contract. But when purchasing goods from a technological behemoth like Amazon, or when choosing a candidate whose image is crafted and shaped by campaign strategists and media outlets, how truly free, let alone informed, are our choices? The tension between claims of agency and awareness of its limits is the site where we experience our social lives - and nowhere is this tension more pronounced than in the surveillance society. This book offers a cogent analysis of how that complex, contested, and even paradoxical experience arises as well as an unusually clear and troubling view of the consequential compromises we may be making.

Die globale Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise 2008/2009 belegt: Die Fokussierung auf die Wertschoepfungskette ausschliesslich innerhalb der eigenen Unternehmensgrenzen reicht kaum aus. Vielmehr sind Unternehmen nur dann krisenfest, wenn sie innerhalb der gesamten Supply-Chain unternehmensubergreifend zusammenarbeiten. Dieses Buch stellt die Widerstandsfahigkeit von Organisationen und Wertschoepfungsketten in den Mittelpunkt. Zugrunde liegt eine umfassende Analyse von zahlreichen Unternehmen, um deren Handlungs- und Reaktionsweise in Krisenzeiten zu erfahren. Die Studie erarbeitet Erfolgsfaktoren zur Starkung der Widerstandsfahigkeit von Supply-Chains. Praktikern wird eine Herangehensweise zur Starkung der Krisenfestigkeit des Unternehmens und der gesamten Supply-Chain erlautert. Wissenschaftler finden hier ein methodisch fundiertes Modell fur die bislang in der Forschung noch nicht umfassend erforschte Wertschoepfungskettenresilienz.

Un'eccellente introduzione agli algoritmi, alla loro struttura, a come modificano i dati, alla computabilita e alla complessita, il libro e scritto in una forma allo stesso tempo elegante e schietto che fa si che possa essere considerato sia un valido testo per un corso introduttivo di Informatica, sia un tesoro da custodire per i programmatori provetti e i progettisti di software.

Food hacking brings together two fundamental and complimentary passions: cooking and making. In this issue you'll learn avant-garde cuisine techniques like using liquid nitrogen to make unique ice cream sundaes and using a laser cutter to create beautiful sushi artwork. Delve into classic projects like building a tin can camping stove and making your own signature cocktail bitters, then organize your cupboard with a periodic table of spices and construct a superior, microcontroller-driven cold brew coffee tower. Altogether over 25 how-to projects, including: Build a Raspberry Pi-powered mini fridge that tells you how many beers you have left. Assemble a one-day outdoor brick pizza oven that can reach 1,000 degrees. Put together the perfect field kit for any electronics repair job.

What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in an immersive 3D environment. In Basic Metaverse, leading futurist David L. Shrier explains how the technology works, unpacks its potential uses - including its relationship to the development of Web3 - and its impact on everyday life and work. He explores some of the legal and moral quandaries that could accompany widespread adoption of this transformational technology, from issues of wealth disparity and access to what happens if your virtual avatar commits a crime in the metaverse. The metaverse future is full of possibility. One thing we can be certain of is that it will be stranger than we can imagine. Join Shrier as he journeys across virtual worlds in search of understanding.

Part One contains details of how to make and maintain a small hydraulic ram on a suitable site, whilst Part Two takes a more technical look at ram performances and design considerations and also contains a useful bibliography.