Observations in Winter

Growing your business is a co-creative endeavour. You must allow your business to be your teacher. Admittedly, this can be tough to do especially if you ve approached your business with the intent to impose yoxu own will upon it and anyone else who works for it For instance, if you stubbornly want to promote a new service that tite market just isn t buying, be prepared to pay the price. You need to be sensitive and remain conscious of what it is your market does want, when they want it, and how they want it. Furthermore, you need to be in tune with your rhythm to know when to develop this intuitive system. 

This time of your business is actually the most creative and is the most crucial at the beginning because most of us have been taught—especially in business—that this quiet reflective time is a threat, that like a shark, we must keep moving, keep busy, or die. Think about it during the rest of the year, you re mainly doing what you can do to carry out your dream s plan. 

During the wintertime I try to stand back and ask a lot of questions about my business. What will it teach me this year What have I learned from the previous year The 

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Dispersion Normalization. Atmospheric dispersion is greater in winter than in summer in New York City and, in addition, varies from year to year. Thus, for a constantly emitting source of particles, atmospheric concentrations of TSP observed in winter would be lower than in summer. In order to relate ambient concentrations of particulate species to their sources Kleinman, et al. ( 5), suggested the use of a dispersion normalization technique based on the dispersion factor proposed by Holzworth ( ). Ambient concentrations of aerosol species are multiplied by the ratio of the dispersion factor for the sampling period to an average dispersion factor of 4200 m /sec. 

As shown in Figure 7, the lowest toxicity levels were observed in winter (low water temperature and high river flow) and summer (high water temperature and low river flow), whereas the highest toxicity levels were noticed in early spring. The low toxicity in winter could be explained by the elevated degree of dilution of toxicants, whereas the... 

Sometimes the Kuban delta is subject to flooding due to storm surges and ice dams. Significant inundation induced by storm surge was recorded in October 1969, when water level rise at the town of Temryuk at a distance of 7 km from the sea exceeded 3 m [5]. The last large inundation due to ice dam was observed in winter 2003. 

They use abundance of Ice in Persia, as I have been observing in Summer especially every one drinks with Ice But that which is most remarkable, is, That tho at Ispahan, and even at Tauris, which is further North, the Cold is dry and penetrating more than it is in any part of France or England, yet the greatest part of the People drink with Ice as well in the Winter as the Summer. 

In reservoirs with discharge of hypolimnetic water, the effects on the water temperature have been widely studied. If there is stratification, water temperature downstream from the dam is higher in winter, colder in summer, the daily and annual thermal amplitude is reduced and the maximum annual temperature is delayed [5-7]. Recently, it has been observed that hypolimnetic discharges can reduce the variability of the temperature of the water in reduced time scales, in the range of days to weeks [8]. The low temperatures in summer can modify the composition of the fluvial community, but they can also bring the river to a previous stage of the river continuum [9, 10]. 

Ward [49], Barnes and Minshall [5] and Ward [6] describe the typical effects of deep-release reservoirs on downstream water temperature higher temperatures in winter, lower temperatures in summer, reduced daily and annual thermal amplitude and displaced annual maximum and minimum water temperature. These effects have been observed when studying the reservoir of Mequinensa. While just upstream from the reservoir, at Escatron, the annual thermal amplitude is about 19°C, downstream from the reservoir it is reduced to about 15°C and the annual maxima occur about 20 days later. Also, the effect on water temperature varies along the year on a cyclical basis. In November, the mean monthly water temperature at Escatron can be as much as 6°C higher than that of the water exiting the reservoir. On the other hand, it can be as much as 4°C lower in May. 

A seasonal dependence of water concentrations was observed, with winter concentrations of both surfactants and metabolites more than two times higher than those in summer. This was ascribed to increased... 

An increase has also been observed in the LAS concentration in the aqueous phase during the cold season, due to reduced microbial activity [3,18,23]. Therefore the flow of LAS towards the coastal zone will be strongly influenced by the seasonal variable as confirmed by the values obtained by Takada et al. [3], who found that for the Tamagawa estuary the flow of LAS was five times higher in winter than in summer. However, in long-term monitoring [6,31,32], the variations detected are principally a function of tidal influence and of the time of day, or the day of the week, when the LAS is introduced into the system [6,33],... 

Spatial trends in LAS concentrations in marine and estuarine environments show clear relationships with the location of sampling points relative to point sources of wastewater discharges and a rapid rate of decrease is observed as one moves downstream from these. LAS tend to be degraded relatively rapidly in summer, whereas in winter a higher recalcitrance is observed. Sediments constitute the final sink of LAS that have not been degraded. 

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