Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century: An Introduction, Second Edition

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Nice “Puerto Rico” photos

Some cool Puerto Rico images:

Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

1941 Dec.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Agricultural laborers
Spouses
Sugar plantations
United States–Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras

Format: Slides–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34001

Call Number: LC-USF35-381

Street in San Juan, Puerto Rico (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

Street in San Juan, Puerto Rico

1941 Dec.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photograph shows Coca-Cola sign in foreground.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Streets
United States–Puerto Rico–San Juan

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34067

Call Number: LC-USF35-613

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Features Of The Best Flower Delivery Puerto Rico Shop

Features Of The Best Flower Delivery Puerto Rico Shop

Flowers are one of the most popular gift items across the world. Be it a single rose or a bouquet of many flowers, it has the potential to express varied emotions. This is the reason why flowers are used to share happiness, show appreciation and express condolence.

In order to cater to the growing demand of flowers, many online flower delivery shops have come up to make flower delivery convenient and fast. If you want to send flowers to someone in San Juan Puerto Rico, Vieques Puerto Rico, Culebra Puerto Rico, or any other city in Puerto Rico, you must select the best online flower delivery Puerto Rico shop. Here are some of its unique features:

Offers a wide variety of flowers: Different flowers have different meanings and are therefore selected accordingly. Good flower delivery Puerto Rico stores offer a wide variety of beautiful and fresh flowers to choose from. You can go for roses, orchids, lilies or carnations in different colors. The choice of flower and its color depends on the occasion for which you are buying them.

Has the ability to think out of the box: Flower delivery is an art. The Vieques Puerto Rico florist must be creative enough to provide flower delivery in unique ways. He must be able to arrange flowers in impressive baskets or vases rather than standard ones. These days, good Culebra Puerto Rico florists offer other gift items as well to compliment the flowers. You can choose a bottle of champagne, a cute bear or a box of chocolates to be delivered along with flowers.

Promises on-time flower delivery Puerto Rico: No matter how beautiful your flowers are, if they are not delivered on the date and time mentioned by you, they are of no use. A reliable flower delivery Puerto Rico shop will always deliver your flowers on time.

Has a secure payment system: Good flower delivery shops ensure that your order is registered. They give you your personal order reference number for any further questions you may have concerning your flower order delivery.

Provides proper customer care assistance: Be it the Vieques puerto Rico florist or the Culebra puerto Rico florist, he can’t enjoy success if he doesn’t value customer satisfaction. This is the reason why good flowers San Juan puerto Rico shop provide customer care service. This helps them know customer feedback and thereby improve their flower delivery services.

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Independencia Dos Estados Unidos

Independencia Dos Estados Unidos

A ocupação do território onde hoje estão os Estados Unidos começa com a migração de humanos da Ásia, através do Estreito de Bering, num período indeterminado (estimativas variam de dez a quarenta mil anos atrás).


Durante o século XVI e século XVII, exploradores espanhóis exploraram e colonizaram esparsamente as regiões que constituem hoje o sul da Flórida e da região sul dos Estados Unidos. O primeiro assentamento inglês bem-sucedido foi Jamestown, localizado no atual Estado de Virgínia, fundado em 1607. Durante as duas décadas seguintes, vários assentamentos neerlandeses foram fundados no que atualmente constitui o Estado de Nova Iorque, incluindo a vila de Nova Amsterdam, que é atualmente a Cidade de Nova Iorque, bem como extensiva colonização inglesa da costa leste dos Estados Unidos, tendo removido os neerlandeses da região por volta da década de 1670.


Após a Guerra Franco-Indígena, onde a França perdeu suas colônias que atualmente constituem o leste do Canadá para o Reino Unido, este começou a impor impostos nas Treze Colônias – sendo os custos financeiros uma das principais razões da guerra. Estes impostos tornaram-se extremamente impopulares entre os colonos americanos, que além disso, não dispunham de representação no Parlamento do Reino Unido. As tensões entre as Treze Colônias britânicas e entre o Reino Unido cresceram, e as Treze Colônias eventualmente rebelariam-se contra os britânicos, na Guerra de Independência, iniciada em 1775, e que perdurou até 1783. A estrutura política original das Treze Colônias era uma confederação, ratificada em 1781. Em 1789, os Estados Unidos optaram por se tornarem uma República Federal.


O primeiro presidente dos Estados Unidos da América, George Washington.

Mapa mostrando a expansão americana em direção ao oeste.Desde tempos coloniais, os Estados Unidos enfrentaram a falta de mão-de-obra. À época, as diferenças socio-econômicas no país eram enormes, com um norte industrializado e um sul agrário. A falta de mão-de-obra incentivou a imigração européia no Norte e o uso do trabalho escravo no Sul – que fazia uso extensivo de escravos comprados no continente africano. Os Estados industrializados do norte eram contra a escravidão, enquanto o Sul achava que a escravidão era indispensável para o contínuo sucesso da agricultura sulista. Estas diferenças foram um dos muitos motivos de tensão política que gradualmente desencadearam a formação dos Estados Confederados da América, e irromperam na Guerra Civil Americana, da união, contra os sulistas – confederados – entre 1861 e 1865, uma guerra civil na qual o número de baixas americanas foi maior do que a soma de todas as baixas americanas sofridas em todas as outras guerras na qual os Estados Unidos se envolveram, desde sua independência, até a atual Guerra contra o Iraque.


Ao longo do século XIX, vários novos Estados foram adicionados aos 13 originais (por exemplo o Texas, anexado do México), à medida que a nação se expandiu na América do Norte. O Destino Manifesto foi uma filosofia política dos Estados Unidos que encorajou a expansão rumo ao Oeste no país. À medida que a população dos Estados do Leste americano crescia e um número cada vez maior de imigrantes entrava no país, cada vez mais assentadores passaram a habitar regiões cada vez mais ao Oeste do país. Enquanto isto acontecia, os Estados Unidos acabaram efetivamente com todas as nações nativo americanas existentes em território americano, e movendo forçadamente a população indígena de seus antigos territórios para reservas indígenas. Esta migração forçada é ainda um assunto muito discutido nos Estados Unidos, com várias tribos nativos americanas ainda reindivicando terras, e defendendo uma política separatista.


Em algumas áreas, os nativos americanos foram exterminados pelos colonos, que os expulsaram de suas terras. Ao contrário da maioria dos países europeus, os Estados Unidos nunca foram uma potência colonial, embora, através de várias vitórias militares, diplomacia e acordos externos, os Estados Unidos tivessem adquirido um número de possessões ultra-marítimas, desde Cuba até as Filipinas. Embora gradualmente, muitos destes territórios adquiriram soberania, e outras destas possessões continuaram sob controle dos Estados Unidos, geralmente, na forma de territórios (como Porto Rico). O Havaí é o único destas possessões que se tornou um Estado, em 1959.


Os Estados Unidos adotavam, até a Guerra Civil Americana, uma política isolacionista, não procurando intrometer-se em conflitos internacionais. Porém, isto mudou com o fim da guerra civil. Durante o século XIX, os Estados Unidos tornaram-se uma potência econômica e militar mundial. O crescimento da influência dos Estados Unidos sobre o mundo continuou no século XX, um século que é por vezes chamado de O século americano, por causa da tremenda influência americana sobre o resto do mundo. O país se tornou o maior pólo de desenvolvimento tecnológico do planeta.

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Rincon PR Beaches

This is our beach on a lazy afternoon at Villa Orleans. This was taken a few days before Hurricane Earl. The water is still a frothy brown, and I can’t wait till it returns to its turquoise color. www.VillaOrleansPR.com

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Why Does Incorporating My Business In the United States Make Cents?

Why Does Incorporating My Business In the United States Make Cents?

So, you’ve been growing your business regionally and now you’re thinking about expanding into the United States or maybe you’re an entrepreneur who is not a citizen or resident of the United States and you want to start a business in the United States.

You understand that you can gain several advantages by expanding your business outside your region. Benefits such as: – Increasing your sales and profits – Gaining additional market share – Taking advantage of the global economy – Minimizing the impact of seasonal fluctuations on your business – Extending the reach of your market – Reducing your dependence on your regional market – Increasing your knowledge of your foreign competition

Before you expand you ask the very basic question of why expand into the United States and what does the US economy have to offer me?

Everyone knows about the wealth of the United States and the vibrant economy. The USA has a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) approximately forty-percent higher than most western European countries and Japan, as well as having one of the highest levels of disposable income for the consumer. Other advantages to expanding and incorporating your business in the United States include a business friendly regulatory environment, one of the best infrastructures in the world and an educated labor pool to meet all your business requirements.

The United States celebrates the entrepreneur and has created a business environment that favors small business owners, whether they are US citizens or investors outside the United States. Small businesses, which are defined by the Small Business Administration as having fewer than 500 employees, represent 99.7 percent of all employers. They have generated 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs in the United States over the past year and account for more than 50 percent of non-farm GDP.

The government promotes free trade and deregulation of businesses allowing owners to compete based on the merits and value of the product and services they offer. It also allows owners the ability to adjust the size of their work force easily with few ramifications. If a business has to lay-off workers it can do so without several months of advance notice. This is unlike a number of other countries which require several months advance notice to lay-off workers. In addition the US allows profits and capital gains to be repatriated to almost every country, subject only to taxation.

A key to expanding and reaching your customers is ease of accessibility to the market. Can you get your goods or services to your end user and if so what is the cost of delivering your products or services. Because the infrastructure within the United States is so outstanding a business should never have a problem with distributing the goods or products to customers in the United States.

There is not a place or customer within the United States that you cannot reach either via phone, internet or roadway. The United States has 268 million land line telephone users, over 194 million mobile phone users, and over 203 million internet users. There are over 14,000 airports with 5,000 of those airports having paved runways. If you do not want to have your product delivered by air or you do not need to fly to a destination you can drive or take a train. There are over 6,407 kilometers of roadway with 74,000 of them highways and 227,000 kilometers of railway.

Every business owner knows that they must rely on their employees to help implement and execute their business plan if they are to be successful. The United States work force, whether it is laborers or skilled employees are experienced and well educated.

The likelihood to comprehend, implement and successfully execute a business plan is much higher with an educated work force than with a non-educated work force. Additionally, if the business requires a technically skilled employee, you can draw on a well educated and skilled pool of individuals from any sector, whether it is research, technology, healthcare, retail, manufacturing or construction.

Finally, launching and incorporating your business in the United States, although it has never been easier, is still a daunting task. A key factor in determining your success is finding key local resources and using the right tools to help you implement, execute and manage your business plan and communicate the performance and progress of your business. A trusted local resource, such as a local CPA firm, combined with right tools will allow you to manage and monitor your business remotely.

Now is the time to take advantage of the US economy and expand your business and launch your new corporation in the United States.

Michael Beauchemin is Marketing Director for Incorpinusa. A company dedicated to helping non-US citizens incorporate and manage businesses in the USA. Visit us at www.incorpinusa.com to see how we can help youincorporate and launch your business in the USA.

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Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan (LOC)

A few nice Puerto Rico images I found:

Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico … San Juan

1941 Dec.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Malaria
Posters
Hotels
United States–Puerto Rico–San Juan

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34060

Call Number: LC-USF35-562

Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.

Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

1941 Dec.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Agricultural laborers
Sugar plantations
United States–Puerto Rico–Rio Piedras

Format: Slides–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34016

Call Number: LC-USF35-406

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Que sabes usted sobre la cerveza?

La cerveza es una bebida natural y con bajo contenido en calorías (aprox. 42 Kcal. por 100 ml), bajo grado de alcohol, no contiene grasas ni azúcares y sí una cantidad importante de hidratos de carbono, vitaminas y proteínas; por lo que su “consumo con moderación” es benéfico para la salud humana y claramente recomendable para cualquier dieta equilibrada.

Lúpulo:Ingrediente que solamente se encuentra en la cerveza; un sedante suave y al mismo tiempo de sabor amargo que estimula el apetito.

Malta: Este componente de la cerveza, proporciona carbohidratos, minerales, elementos trazas, y los ácidos orgánicos y vitaminas importantes para la vida.

Agua:El consumo de agua es muy benéfico para la salud del ser humano y el contenido de este líquido en la cerveza es muy alto.

Bajo contenido calórico: El contenido de calorías de una cerveza es menos que un vaso de jugo de manzana, leche o un refresco. Además de que fuciona como diurético, por que es rica en potasio y baja en sodio, lo que ayuda a limpiar el organismo.

Compuestos proteícos: Es un buen suplemento para una dieta de bajo contenido proteíco.

Minerales y elementos trazas: La cerveza contiene más de 30 minerales, la mayoría de éstos se originan en la cebada malteada. Un litro de cerveza satisface casi la mitad de las necesidades diarias de magnesio de un adulto, y un 40% y 20% respectivamente de las necesidades diarias de fósforo y potasio.

Al ser baja en calcio y rica en magnesio, tiene valores preventivos contra todo tipo de enfermedades del corazón y contra la formación de cálculos y piedras en las vías urinarias.

La cerveza también contiene ácido fólico, auxiliar en la prevención de la anemia.

Vitaminas: contiene todas las vitaminas importantes del grupo B, además de las vitaminas A, D y E. Por ejemplo, con un litro de cerveza se cubre el 35% de la necesidad diaria de Vitamina B6, el 20% de la de B2 y el 65% de la de niacina.

Gas carbónico: La cerveza contiene aproximadamente 0,5 g de CO2 por 100 g. de cerveza.El gas carbónico favorece la circulación sanguínea de la membrana mucosa bucal, promueve la salivación, estimula la formación de ácido en el estómago y acelera el vaciado de estómago, todo ello favorable para una buena digestión.

Polifenoles: son efectivos contra las enfermedades circulatorias y el cáncer.

La ingesta de flavonoides presentes en buena cantidad en la cerveza, está relacionada con el incremento de la calcitonina. Estos evitan la pérdida de masa ósea tras la menopausia al aumentar la actividad de las células que construyen el hueso y disminuir la de las destructoras.

La mejor forma de aprovechar los beneficios de la cerveza, es consumiendola con moderación.

la cerveza sin alcohol

Según diversos estudios, es la bebida más ligera después del agua. Y entre sus principales propiedades es que contiene vitaminas como: B1, B2 y B6, así como glúcidos de asimilación lenta como el almidón y un apreciable aumento de las fibras alimenticias.

Al igual que la cerveza tradicional , la que no contiene alcohol esta provista de ácido fólico que previene los riesgos de enfermedades cardiovasculares, previene la anemia, estimula el apetito, evita el estreñimiento y ayudan en los procesos de calcificación.

La cerveza sin alcohol es recomendada para las personas que practican algún deportes, siguen una dieta , para las mujeres embarazadas o que estan en la etapa de lactancia; así como quienes por prescripción médica, no pueden ingerir alcohol; de igual forma es muy adecuada para las personas que tienen que manejar pero desean probar el sabor de la cerveza.

Tipos de cervezas

La cerveza se puede clasificar, según su contenido de alcohol, el modo de fermentación, de acuerdo al lugar en el que se elaboran, así como por los productos que utilizan para su producción.

De acuerdo a los ingredientes , en el mercado existen cervezas elaboradas a base de trigo, mijo y arroz, siendo la más habitual, la elaborada a partir de la fermentación de la cebada.

En Japón, China y Corea, la cerveza se elabora con arroz y recibe el nombre de sake, samshu y suk respectivamente. En África se usan mijo, sorgo y otras semillas; mientras que el kvass ruso se hace con pan de centeno fermentado.

De igual manera en México también existen diferentes tipos de cervezas, su diferencia radica en la variedad y mezcla de maltas y por el método de elaboración:

Cerveza clara: cerveza joven que se produce con malta sin tostar.

Cerveza oscura: se elabora a una temperatura más alta que la clara y se elaboran a base de malta y cebada tostadas.

Cerveza campechana:Resultado de la mezcla de cebadas de diferentes tipos de tostado; su color es intermedio entre la cerveza clara y la oscura.

Cerveza lager:cerveza añejada con lúpulo y se elabora en frío.

Cuvées: elaborada solo en ciertas temporadas como las Navideñas.

Cerveza sin alcohol: se elabora principalmente en Estados unidos y Alemania. En este tipo de cerveza se realiza todo el proceso normal de una cerveza, pero después de que haya fermentado, los productores, remueven el alcohol con la utilización de la tecnología. Un ejemplo es old milwaukee.

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