Conflicted SUV and environment lovers—feast your eyes on a potential solution! Tesla Motors unveiled their latest electric car, the Model X. CEO Elon Musk hopes the Model X will “redefine the upscale SUV market,” mainly because of two standout features: its Back to the Future-ish falcon wing doors, whose two hinges allow for greater access to the second and third rows; and its dual electric batteries, which individually power the front and rear wheels, giving the SUV greater responsiveness on the road. The sleek Model X is projected to have a range of 220 to 270 miles when fully charged and is expected to make its debut on the showroom floor sometime in 2014. Though no official price tag has been set, it will likely range from 000 to 000, and will definitely have a place for your Starbucks cup. If price is of no consequence and you’re worried about peak oil, Tesla is currently taking reservations. Just put some money aside for that first electricity bill.
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World Environment Day, which is commemorated each year on June 5th, is one of the most significant mode through which the United Nations stimulates the global awareness of the environment. It is by this way that the United Nations attract political attention and enhances action to shape a better global environment. Each year the World Environment Day is celebrated in recognition of unique theme. Norway was honored to host International World Environment Day 2007 celebrations in recognition of the theme — ‘Melting Ice – The Hot Topic’. Over a hundred nations across the globe celebrates the World Environment Day with highly relevant theme each year.
The slogan for World Environment Day 2008 is ‘Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy’. With an understanding of the fact that the change in climatic condition is gradually becoming one of the most defining issue of the age, UNEP is requesting the nations, companies and communities to put special focus on the greenhouse gas emissions and to put spare thought over how to reduce them. The World Environment Day 2008 is going to highlight resources and focuses on promoting low carbon economies with a view to shape a better and healthier future. Promoting a low carbon economy involves steps towards improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption. The chief international celebration of the World Environment Day 2008 is going to be held in New Zealand.
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The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Environment deliver statements and commit themselves to care for this only green planet of the universe. Serious pledges establish sound and non-transitory governmental policies related to environmental management and economic planning. bicycle parades, tree planting , recycling campaigns, clean-up campaigns, street rallies, school level essay and poster competitions etc. are organized all over the world on June 5th to celebrate the World Environment Day.
Here are some information on World Environment Day for the last ten years regarding where the WED celebration was held at and what were the respective themes each year:
Places of celebration: World Environment Day 2007 – Tromsø, Norway World Environment Day 2006 – Algiers, Algeria World Environment Day 2005 – San Francisco, U.S. World Environment Day 2004 – Barcelona, Spain World Environment Day 2003 – Beirut, Lebanon World Environment Day 2002 – Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China World Environment Day 2001 – Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba World Environment Day 2000 – Adelaide, Australia World Environment Day 1999 – Tokyo, Japan World Environment Day 1998 – Moscow, Russian Federation
Themes of celebration: World Environment Day 2007 – Melting Ice – a Hot Topic? World Environment Day 2006 – Deserts and Desertification – Don’t Desert Drylands! World Environment Day 2005 – Green Cities – Plan for the Planet! World Environment Day 2004 – Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive? World Environment Day 2003 – Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It! World Environment Day 2002 – Give Earth a Chance World Environment Day 2001 – Connect with the World Wide Web of Life World Environment Day 2000 – The Environment Millennium – Time to Act World Environment Day 1999 – Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It! World Environment Day 1998 – For Life on Earth – Save Our Seas
Dorothy Smith, the author of this article, writes about the events & special occasions. Want to know more about world environment day or world environment day ecards ? Celebrate world environment day 2008 by sending free ecards and check some other resources .
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BioWare developers chronicle the creative process of creating a fantasy world in Dragon Age: Origins and how they’ve worked to tell a story with the atmosphere of environments around them. (03:47)
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The Mobile World Congress 2009 will take place in Barcelona next week (Feb 16-19), under the big
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who visited in 2008. The budget shrinkage also impacted the Israeli delegation to GSMA, which has been reduced from 60 to 46 companies this year.
Suzanne White explains how the Chinese New Year works. What the Rat is like and how the Earth Rat will treat all of us during the next 12 months. Each Chinese Sign’s 2008 horoscope is included. Hang on to your hat, here comes the Rat!
I have spent some time writing about the iPhone, first about the firmware 1.0 and then some articles about the firmware 2.0 with GPS and 3G.
I have compiled all articles in one article for easier reference for you as a reader. This summary article will make it easier for you to find information about the iPhone, and be a better judge for yourself, whether iPhone is the next wonder or just a flop.
The articles are summarized according to my submission date for this specific article.
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It was announced at the beginning of 2009, that Capital One, one of the UK’s largest credit card providers, will be increasing credit card rates by 14 per cent. The company justified the rate hike in a notice to clients claiming that it’s costing them more money to lend funds due to “changes in the credit environment.”
The Pittsburgh resident also has fond memories of the Altar Society, a group of women who took care of the church. Joe Zanotti remembers the women arguing over who would get to wash and iron the altar napkins and linens that week.
News paper has turn into one of the informative-source for delivering the news. In the news paper, you can find various types news like current affairs, current political affairs, current happening in India and also the political and economic condition around the world.
The Central Indian tiger reserve of Panna lost all its tigers to poachers not too long ago, A few tigers have since been relocated from elsewhere. But they too are not safe as nothing much has changed in respect of security of the tigers in the reserve since it lost all of them.
The recent Texas electricity emergencies are a clear indication that the state and the rest of the country as well, is not yet fully energy independent. Unless really cheap electricity is made abundantly available to all, each member of community should do his or her part in conserving energy. Electricity is a very important commodity and unless people do something to protect available resources, energy security for future generations will be placed in jeopardy.
Thank You completes the magical trio of polite expressions that we are taught in our child. We are told that we must be grateful for everything we receive, even if it is basic needs like food and water.
Summer solstice is the peak of summer. Snow begins to thaw in places where they had not budged previously. That is why it is looked upon as the ‘beginning of something’ in many cultures.
No matter who or how old you are, birthday is always a very special day. It’s a day which is special for many different reasons to many different people.
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Application or IT Environments Management service will fall under Application Management as defined in ITIL2 (operational guidance) because it contributes to improving the overall quality of IT Software development and support through the lifecycle. Application Environments Management set encompasses a set of best practices proposed to provide an effective, end to end management service for test software platforms or development environments. The software test bed or development environment could consist of a client server application, Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), middleware, interfaces, daemons, customised processes (written in any software programming language), FTP utilities etc.
Functional test phases such as Unit, Integration, Acceptance, all manner of performance or non functional testing and development phases all require Application Environments.
The primary clients of an Application Environments Management service are Software Project and Test teams.
The service will cater for the following;
Manage the creation, build, upgrade and support for all test and development Application Environments.
Clearly defining auditable processes of allocating application environments, multiple bookings or shared usage, code upgrades, service level agreement, support, decommissioning and re-allocation.
Manage data refreshes, collating test data and assist in the anonimising of production or other sensitive data if necessary.
Supply, provision and manage all Application Environment Requirements from the Project and Test teams all through the software development cycle of a project.
Assist the Project in establishing their application environment requirements, provide expert knowledge on the APPLICATION environment’s set up, connectivity and serve as a guide to the projects in using the application environment in the most efficient manner.
Review and contribute to the Project Initiation Document (PID) ensuring that the IT Environments Management function and its deliverables are clearly defined and captured.
Create and maintain project plans to assist in managing all activities required to successfully carry out major code upgrades to all application environments.
Provide reports on usage/utilisation, availability, forward planning and schedules.
Application Environments Management is clearly a new and emerging area which has arisen due to the following reasons:
The increased Application Environment requirements for many companies who have several software projects running at any one time.
The increased levels of interfacing and connectivity between several systems in most organisations also known as spaghetti. For example in some companies more than thirty systems are interfaced or connected with each other exchanging files and data flows etc and has meant that any changes to one system most times could require a change to many others and then require large numbers of test and development application environments.
Increased awareness and more commitment to carrying out rigorous software testing especially with more companies opting to use the Prince 2 methodology and ITIL Framework
A typical Application Environments Management tool should be able to provide the following services: environments bookings and allocation, manage multiple bookings and re-curring bookings. Provide reporting on usage, availability, interconnectivity or interfacing environments, utilisation and conflict reporting etc. It must also serve as a repository of all information on an Application Environment to include Host Server names, Hardware Type, Operating System, IP Address and Interfaces if any.
The ideal background for an Application Environments Management personnel could be Software Development, Application or Technical Support, Infrastructure Project Management, Configuration and Release Management etc but must be
exposed to at least the ITIL Framework, Client – Server development, System Architecture/Design, Networks, TCP/IP and Messaging systems etc.
Terminologies defined & explained:
Application Environment – A single test bed or development platform instance of a software application or system that can also be used for all manner of functional and non functional testing or could be the production instance (production environment). It could also be large, medium or small which normally refers to the size of data the RDBMS will be holding depending on the type of testing it is required for.
Integrated Application environments (also known as stripes): More than one application environment connected to each other also communicating with each other and exchanging files and data flows. Connections could be via Microsoft ODBC, via FTP, TCP/IP, daemons, middleware, defined interfaces and database links etc.
Anonimising of data
Anonimising of data refers to the manipulation or transformation of production data held in the RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Microsoft Access, DB2 etc to be used in a test or development Application Environment ensuring that for example real names, addresses, date of birth, bank account details and other sensitive information or data is transformed to dummy data.
The data is transformed whilst still maintaining its defining characteristics in a Relational Database Management System table such as character length (Char 25 or Varchar 50) etc to ensure its usage in testing or development is not compromised and that the integrity is maintained. For example a valid name such as John Smith defined as Char 10 will now be updated in the table to become possibly a unique character string XXXXXXYYYY (comprising of ten characters including the space between John and Smith).
Pipe cleaning
Pipe cleaning caters for the all the activities required to be carried out before a test or development environment is handed over to the Test or Project team and includes disk clear down, archiving and purging logs, importing test data, killing off rogue processes, resetting passwords, changing environment settings, end to end connectivity or integration tests to make sure everything is working okay.
Depending on the complexity of the system a checklist of activities may be required and ticked off capturing all the checks and tests that have been completed on an environment or an integrated suite of environments prior to its hand over to a Project or Test team.
Smoke Test
A smoke test describes an initial end to end test of all the integrated or even stand alone environments very possibly using dummy data and carried out by the support teams who have created or built the environment or by the test team when the environment is handed over.
Freelance IT Environments Manager & Technical Project Manager
Previously Global FX technology manager at Citibank International
Worked in several sectors to include energy, utilities, Investment banking, railway transport, software development, healthcare, manufacturing, research, insurance and the gaming sectors.
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As Facility mgmt systems congregate with traditional IT infrastructures, budding standards are
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Any SAP project is a significant undertaking and every company that is planning to implement SAP usually gears up to give 100% to make their SAP IT transformation project successful. Being through 13 SAP implementations in various roles and now serving as SAP Program Advisor, I would like to share some of the best practices that a customer should consider to setup your project for success. These best practices should assist you in addressing project challenges in a better and efficient manner.
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Over the last few years social networking and especially Facebook has seen unexpected and phenomenal growth. Everyone is hooked on to Facebook for their every need. People now days find Facebook to be the most convenient mode for promotion of their products, solution to their personal problems or just keeping in touch with their friends.
Cloud computing refers to the use and access of multiple server-based computational resources via a digital network (WAN, Internet connection using the World Wide Web, etc.). Cloud users may access the server resources using a computer, netbook, pad computer, smart phone, or other device. In cloud computing, applications are provided and managed by the cloud server and data is also stored remotely in the cloud configuration.
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