Volvo ECC

The Volvo ECC (Environmental Concept Car) was a concept car built by Volvo in 1992. It was a design exercise in using recycled material and hybrid technology. It was powered by a hybrid electric and gas turbine engine. Many of its lines and general styling were used as inspiration for the Volvo S80 I.

The Volvo ECC was built on the Volvo 850 platform. In contrast to most production hybrids, which use a gasoline piston engine to provide additional acceleration and to recharge the battery storage, the Volvo ECC used a gas turbine engine to drive the generator for recharging. This type of engine has a higher thermodynamic efficiency than the conventional internal combustion engine with pistons. Also in Volvo's design, the fuel is evaporated and mixed with air before ignition. This provides a very low NOx emission. The driver can also switch between gas turbine electric and hybrid by switches on the dashboard.

The maximum power available was 95 brake horsepower, with 76 available for continuous use. It had a drag coefficient of 0.23. With the vehicle weighing approximately 1580 kg or 300 pounds more than a conventional Volvo 850, acceleration from zero to sixty miles per hour was in the twenty second range. Top speed was 109 miles per hour (175 km/h). The vehicles range on batteries alone was 90 miles (140 km), and when combined with a full tank of fuel for the turbine, about 415 miles (668 km).

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes (/ᵻˌkliːziˈæstiːz/; Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής, Ekklesiastes, Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, Qoheleth, Koheleth) is one of 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim (or "Writings"). It is among the canonical Wisdom Books in the Old Testament of most denominations of Christianity. The title Ecclesiastes is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Koheleth (meaning "Gatherer", but traditionally translated as "Teacher" or "Preacher"), the pseudonym used by the author of the book.

The book is an anonymous treatise; critical study believes it was composed in the last part of the 3rd century BC. The author "Koheleth" uses a literary device to introduce himself as "son of David, king in Jerusalem" (i.e., Solomon), which dates the book itself to the 10th century BC. It proceeds to discuss the meaning of life and the best way of life. He proclaims all the actions of man to be inherently hevel, meaning "vain", "futile", "empty", "meaningless", "temporary", "transitory", "fleeting", or "mere breath," as the lives of both wise and foolish people end in death. While Koheleth clearly endorses wisdom as a means for a well-lived earthly life, he does not ascribe eternal meaning to it. In light of this senselessness, one should enjoy the simple pleasures of daily life, such as eating, drinking, and taking enjoyment in one's work, which are gifts from the hand of God. The book concludes with the injunction: "Fear God, and keep his commandments; for that is the whole duty of everyone" (12:13).

ECC

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ECC (eikaiwa)

ECC Foreign Language Institute (ECC外語学院, -gaigo gakuin) is one of the major private English teaching companies or eikaiwa in Japan. It is part of the ECC group.

ECC (Education through Communication for the Community) is based in the Kansai region of Japan and also has many branches in the Chūbu and Kantō regions. As of February 2013 it has 171 schools across Japan. It has over 650 native English speakers as instructors.

In November 2013 it was reported that ECC had 379,267 students studying seven different languages.

Teaching staff

The majority of the over 650 foreign instructors employed at ECC are recruited abroad. A large number of these are recruited in Canada, where regular recruiting sessions are held. Periodic recruiting sessions are held in Australia, the US, the UK and more recently in New Zealand.

Half of the average teacher's weekly schedule is composed of English lessons for children, with the remainder of the schedule made up of different types of adult lessons. Some teachers are also chosen to teach at businesses and universities. ECC does have limited voluntary overtime, mainly during the peak holiday periods when attendance is high.