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Disaster prevention
First I searched for an actual plan of my city, with topographical information of ground elevation. I stablished the correspondence between the topographic elevation and the sea levels, considering the tides. I found that the maximum sea level, only considering astronomical tide is 1.7 m above zero elevation.
The next step was to draw a city plan with the areas under the maximum sea level and steps of 5 metres in elevation, e.g. 6.7, 11.7 and 16.7 m. Those could be the potential risk areas.
Fortunately my house is not in this risk areas but the tsunami could appear when visiting downtown, where there are various streets in risk areas.
There are not historical evidences of large tsunamis in my region, but in my country, a tsunami took place 250 years ago 1000 km away from my town. A recent guideline published by the government assets that there is a potential risk of a tsunami with a sea elevation of two metres maximum. The time of arrival would be in one hour and fifteen minutes and the maximum high would reach the coast in one hour and fifty two minutes. Due to the lack of recent seismic activity, they hardly could make a statistical analysis of the phenomenon and they estimated the maximum possible surface displacement without reference to a return period.
After this I stablished that a 5.7 m elevation could be a good election for the determination of risk areas. This high could be reached for the water if considering astronomical and barometrical tide, inundation height, maximum run-up and wind waves, which are large in my region (up to twelve metres of significant wave high in a recent storm).
Firstly, it would be easy to plan evacuation routes to the higher parts of the city, classified as Category A evacuation points. Secondly, as in this risk areas is plenty of tall buildings with concrete structure, the best election is to select them as category B evacuation facilities. Finally a good campaign of information and an alert protocol would be necessaries for achieving the target.
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Reasons for learning English.
Nowadays being fluent in English has become a must for living plenty in our globalizated world. All the world is connected using the new technologies so, if you want to be up to date, you must understand and being capable of comunicate yourself with people all around the world, and English is the standard.
In last years in my country, because of the economical crisis, the goverment decreased the money invested in infraestructures. Because of this, a large number of my mates started to work abroad. Companies made a big effort for doing bussines in a international context. The result is that you must be a fluent english speaker now if you want to apply for most of the job opportunities offered in Spain for my profession. Also, if you want to improve your qualifications attending courses of interesting matters, most of them are in English.
Obviously there is another big advantage if you speak English. This allows you to travel all over the world with confidence, because everywhere you go, there will be there somebody who will understand you. And if you go to a country where English is the main language, your life will be easier and you will have the opportunity to have better relationships with the locals.
But in my opinion, the first reason for learning the language is the one related to the job opportunities and the improvement of the working conditions. This is because I have travelled a lot with a very poor English and I never had big problems to cover my basic necessities.
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Tohoku tsunami.
My choice is Tohoku Tusnami. The main reasons for this are:
• My region is part of the western Europe. A developed country with good infraestructure: roads, ports, highly urbanized residential areas. Besides, there are good and well developed rescue services: emergencies, hospitals near all residential areas, civil protection services in every council and an emergencies specialized unit in the army. So, in terms of social and material development, I think is very similar to Japan.
• There is a big occupation of coastal areas, with the most important cities located around big ports. Also, there are plenty of small fishing ports with communities living around them. So this is another coincidence with Tohoku region.
But there are big differences too:
• We are in an area with a few seismic activity so historical registers of tsunamis are rare.
• Only one is documented enough for being a relevant data. It was in 1755 and the epicenter was about 2000 km away from our coast. It is known that in the south of my country, a big tsunami reached the coast but, in my region, only a small elevation was detected.
• Because of this lack of experience, the preparedness of the population is none existent. After the Indian Tsunami, known all over the world, people now know about the existence of them, but people think about it like something that happens in far countries and it does not concern us.
But authorities have taken account of the problem and are developing strategies for the prevention of Tsunamis. The first step has been the release of a guideline for the matter. This document analyzes the possibility and risk of tsunamis in all of the coastal regions of the country. Thus, regional and local governments must develop plans of actuation, but with no dead end dates. So the first step has been made, but there is still a long way to achieve the preparedness of Japan and other countries with more culture in this matter.
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Production procedure
The total number of units to be made is not excesive, only 35, so the treatment of the termal effects will preval over the production velocity. For garanting the absence of craking in the blocks it will be neccesary to maintain the external surfaces in thermal isolation, in order to reduce the temperature gradient inside the block within the first 96 hours.
It will be possible to make five blocks per week because there will be two casts, as it has been showed in the activities program.
For the purpouse above mentioned, the metallic cast will be revested in the inside with wood panels, laying a plastic film between the wood and the metallic surface as showed in the figure.
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The burning plane
Few days later while passing the river, at the Armería, we met Petronilo Flores. We went backwards but it was to late. It was like we were shot. Pedro Zamora passed at the front of us riding that male small horse, wich was the best animal I have known. And we passed after him in a bunch, stucked to the neck of our horses. In any case, there was a big killing. I did not realize soon because I get sunk in the river, below my dead horse, and the stream got both of us far away to shallow calm waters, the bottom full of sand.
El llano en llamas.
Juan Rulfo.
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What is the word for the act of cataloguing things.
What is the word for the act of cataloguing things. In spanish is catalogación, but catalogation is not in the dictionory. Somebody help me? thanks
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Previous considerations about an urbanization project.
Nowadays this neigbourhood need improvement. Its condition is not adequate for the historic part of the town in terms of urban aesthetics, poor uniformity in pavements, problems in the wastage and fresh water nets, and finally, the urban services are in a meshy disposition, because they have been placed in the streets without a coordination project.
This is what the urban planing stablish as the objectives of the improvement projects to be executed in the area:
They must conservate, worth and improve the urban patrimony, architectural and cultural, including the catalogation of elements to be preserved.
The improvement of the urban environment and the services for the neighbours.
The neighbourhood must be better integrated in the city, and economical activities must be impulsed.
The improvement of the urban aesthetics and facilities to be similar to the ones in the rest of the city.
In 2003 various projects were planned but it never came at term because of the badly conditions of the buildings. It coul be dangerous to remove the ground near the foundations of them.
Since then, it has been an advance in the works for the rehabilitation of the buildings therefore is the time for starting with the projects for the works in the streets.
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Conection issue
I am attending an on-line course on Maritime Engineering. But on Friday, the laptop on the classroom used for the video streaming of the lesson failed. It was something related to the conection. So, only the on-line students chat could be used and we spent most of the afternoon chatting about when they could fix it.
After half an hour or so, we received a phone call from a course's responsible. She told us to wait, because they were fixing the problem and the streaming would be available soon. I read an essay, a chapter from a history book, a story from a novelist from my town, one who lives near my father's house and I used to see often......
Two hours later my laptop started to sound, and it looked like the video was there. But it was a false alarm. There were interruptions on the transmission and it was impossible to understand anything.
Some students started to chat goodbye messages, and after a while, I did the same, I switched off my laptop and I got my car to go and spend the rest of the day with my children.
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