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“Rather, Mr. Cohen’s gains come from other shareholders. If he buys IBM stock before it rises, he helps to bring the stock price to its proper level, but he gets the gain rather than some other potential stock purchaser. By being faster and better informe
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Jorn also recommends the posts on either side of this one.
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“Just after World War II, Arthur and Nan Kellam left a life in the secretive world of California defense contractors for the quiet of Placentia Island. They spent decades together in a small cabin, their refuge from civilization. Rarely did they have visi
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“I am a builder in Hilo, Hawaii. I have used this book for many (25) years in presenting a class at the University of Hawaii in Hilo, “The Owner Builder”. It is clear, concise and brief enough that the authors are able to get their point across without wi
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“From School Library Journal
Grade 2-6?Detailed instructions for 18 block-building projects, including a boat dock, a farm, a mosque, a city of the future, and the Emerald City of Oz. The constructions require 11 specific sizes and shapes of wooden block -
“From Publishers Weekly …
the volume chronicles the Curtiss JN4-D (nicknamed “the Model T of airplanes” for its mass production) from manufacture to flight. B&w drawings provide an up-close perspective on the plane’s construction during WWI, from its s -
“Our Conference Registration System runs on software written just for us, and is continually upgraded and improved. Using it, we’ll develop a registration form just for your event designed to track information you want, including the following attendee in
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“Helping Your Users Find Your Content – And You …………………………………………………………………… 6
Using Taxonomy and Metadata to Protect Proprietary Information……………………………………………. 7
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“Selecting the first 2 words for your page titles is probably the highest-impact ROI-boosting design decision you make in a Web project. Front-loading important keywords trumps most other design considerations.
Writing the first 2 words of summaries ru
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“One of the big criticisms of iPhone version 1.0’s user experience is that it doesn’t support cut-copy-paste, even though users definitely expect these commands in any modern design.
The cut-copy-paste triad wasn’t the original generic editing command se -
“(born May 10, 1848 in Glasgow; died October 2, 1931 in London) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He created the famous Lipton tea brand and was the most persistent challenger in the history of the
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“In a content-based network, receivers declare their interests to the network by means of predicates, while senders simply inject messages into the network at the periphery. The network is responsible for delivering to each receiver any and all messages m
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“its basic weakness; that is, its capacity to engage us in the horrors of the conflict and simultaneously to mislead us regarding the meaning of many of the most significant events being depicted.”
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” Given the difficulty of determining how much power is enough for today and tomorrow, great powers recognize that the best way to ensure their security is to achieve hegemony now, thus eliminating any possibility of a challenge by another great power.
Archive for October, 2007
links for 2007-10-31
October 31, 2007links for 2007-10-30
October 30, 2007-
The “Persistent link to this record:” urls that EBSCOhost provides in MARVEL don’t work. Add the Accession Number (AN) to this to make one that does work.
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“The article discusses Somali refugees who decided to resettle in Lewiston, Maine, to the surprise of town officials. The Somalis farm small plots and sell their produce to area restaurants. AmeriCorps volunteer William Burke, working for the New American
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“The Mark VI trains have eight 100hp, 600-volt DC electric motors. These motors also act as brakes by turning the motors into generators and dissipating the power into resistor banks between each car. This is called regenerative braking. Each of the twelv
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“# Morgantown GRT – Updated Description. TRB 2005 paper. 1.3MB, morgantown_TRB_111504.pdf. Explanation of A) demand, schedule, and circulation modes, B) station design, C) moving point synchronous control, D) fail safe redundancy.
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” The Hermes Network Simulator is a program that allows us to design a network on a city and observe the level of service it can provide , i.e. how many people and how fast can be served.
It features an easy to use Graphical User Interface. “
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“Vehicle Length (m.) 3.7
Overall Vehicle Width (m.) 1.4
Overall Vehicle Height (m.) 1.8
Payload (kg.) 500
Minimum Turn Radius to centreline of front track (m.) 5
Maximum Climb Angle (%) 20
Maximum Planned Climb Angle (%) 10
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“The government has forfeited its monopsonistic (i.e. sole employer) buying power over government-funded jobs killing people and breaking things, so the taxpayers are having to shell out much higher pay, either to Blackwater mercenaries or in six figure r
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” NASA-SP-139
Price Code: A16
Keywords: DATA ACQUISITION MARINER SPACE PROBES MARS ENVIRONMENT COMPUTER PROGRAMS MARS ATMOSPHERE MARS SURFACE MISSION PLANNING SOLAR ORBITS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TELEMETRY TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS
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” NASA-SP-139 Price Code: A16 Keywords: DATA ACQUISITION MARINER SPACE PROBES MARS ENVIRONMENT COMPUTER PROGRAMS MARS ATMOSPHERE MARS SURFACE MISSION PLANNING SOLAR ORBITS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TELEMETRY TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS Accessibility: Unclassified; N
links for 2007-10-29
October 29, 2007-
New School & Old School
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“FUSION Bangor was inspired by the original FUSION program (www.fusionsj.com) initiated in Saint John New Brunswick to promote networking and activism among Greater Saint John residents aged 19 – 40. The idea was exported during the Bangor Region Chamber
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Sherri, Susan & I took a sick sea gull here today.
“Acadia Wildlife Foundation
Ann Rivers
PO Box 207
Mount Desert, ME 04660
home phone: 288-4239
bus. phone: 288-4960
email: acadiawildlife@acadia.net
website: N/A
Notes: Federal Permit. All birds a -
“Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur
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The beginning of the end of cash as we know it?
“Apple has apparently instituted a credit card-only policy for iPhone sales at its retail stores in order to guarantee supply for the holidays and frustrate potential resellers, according to multiple report
links for 2007-10-27
October 27, 2007-
“a crack team of whipsmart librarians. Armed with some guidelines and an organizational zeal, they’re able to maintain consistent tagging rules on our daily output. They and their predecessors have been doing this for our material all the way back to 18
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“Jon Udell invites Stuart Weibel to reflect on his leading role in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. They also discuss how databases like the Online Computer Library Center’s WorldCat – which consolidates bibliographic data from over 50,000 participati
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via http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3392.html
“Aristotle Asimov Augustine Austen Bach Balzac Beethoven Bloom Brahms Bush Cervantes Saavedra Charles I Chaucer Chopin Christie Cicero Clinton Columbus Conrad Dante Alighieri Debussy Dickens D
links for 2007-10-26
October 26, 2007-
“ISE Project Approach
•Develop and demonstrate tools that are low cost
–can be selectively used by shipyards to support interoperability
–capitalize on XML and related Internet technologies
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“Here after you will be looking at post that are more advanced in concepts and detailed design approach in a totally different CATIA V5 environments that will take you thro an understanding of how things are done in real time ! So as a matter of fact ther
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” Since 1955 Gladding-Hearn has produced more than 340 high quality commercial vessels. Gladding-Hearn is renowned for its ability to design and build unique and specialized craft such as Fast Ferries, Police and Fire boats, Pilot boats, Tug boats, Fishin
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“By December 31, 2008, according to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the government of Iraq intends to have replaced the existing mandate for a multinational security force with a conventional bilateral security agreement with the United States, an agreem
links for 2007-10-25
October 25, 2007-
This is where…
…email from Lisa at Reel Pizza will be posted.
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http://reelpizzaemailsfromlisa.blogspot.com/ may have more current schedule information.
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“2D/3D CAD/CAM Fashion & Textile Design Software
OptiTexOptiTex™ – specializes in the development of innovative, easy-to-operate, 2D and 3D CAD/CAM Fashion Design Software.”
links for 2007-10-24
October 24, 2007-
“”If compelled to cite only a single book on cartography to stock a desert-island shelf or to assign to the eager novice, this is the automatic choice….Although I have been drawing and poring over maps, as well as reading about them, since childhood, I
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I saw this last night with Bob at Reel Pizza. Michael Collins has the most screen time, Alan Bean is animated and funny. They’re all great. It’s all about Wonder.
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“Through out this book, the author describes his feelings and experiences about being an astronaut, what it’s like to fly in space, what he did, what he saw and all the numerous sacrifices he and his family made so that he could be an astronaut. His exper
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“There have been several excellent Apollo astronaut memoirs, especially Gene Cernan’s “The Last Man on the Moon” and Jim Lovell’s “Lost Moon,” which was made into the feature film “Apollo 13.” This one is still the most honest and reflective of them all.
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“The Actuator Disc Theory: This first practical theory of propellers was developed by Rankine in 1865, extended by R. E. Froude in 1886. The theory stated that force (thrust) equals the mass times acceleration of the fluid. It gives no information on geom
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“Reichek’s samplers include embroidered reproductions of a Web page, Seurat’s portrait of his mother sewing, an Attic frieze, quotations in needlework from Freud and Colette, Charlotte Brontë’s favorite collar patterns with a paragraph from “Shir
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“Here are 25 websites that make use of very little unnecessary design elements but still manage to pull off a beautiful appearance. When it comes to design, if you feel that less is more, I’m sure you will find inspiration from these sites.”
links for 2007-10-23
October 23, 2007-
“1945
L. M. Cox Manufacturing Co., Inc. founded by L. M. Cox1947
moved to Poinsettia Avenue, Santa Ana1963
moved to East Warner Avenue, Santa Ana1965
Cox International Ltd., Hong Kong established1969
Mrs. Cox died, L. M. Cox sold his -
Net Tender – September 2007
Net Tender – September 2007 (.pdf)
Net Tender – October 2007
Net Tender – October 2007 (.pdf)
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“This paper describes a procedure for the design of marine propellers where more realistic representation of the slipstream shape by the trailing vortex system is taken into account. The slipstream shape behind the propeller is allowed to deform and to al
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Mechanical Engineering | 2.23 Hydrofoils and Propellers, Spring 2007 | Syllabus“This course develops the theory and design of hydrofoil sections, including lifting and thickness problems for sub-cavitating sections, unsteady flow problems, and computer-aided design of low drag cavitation-free sections. It also covers lifting line an
links for 2007-10-22
October 22, 2007-
” Mormons for Equality and Social Justice (MESJ), for example, is made up of Latter-day Saints who are “anxiously engaged” in “furthering the cause of Zion by working for the gospel values of peace, equality, justice and wise stewardship of the Earth i
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“Katahdin Welding
Steve Crouse
79 Potato Row
Patten, Maine 04765
Phone: 207-528-2924
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http://truckworksandmore.com
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October 20, 2007-
“A crosshead (or crosshead bearing) is a bearing used in large reciprocating engines, whether internal combustion engines or steam engines.”
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“278 Structure of Beam engines Fig 389 illustrates a typical arrangement of an American river boat beam engine of the period 1850 to 1875 The type was practically fixed by the late Charles W Copeland and the sketch shows the beam supported on a frame of w
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“specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care.
Our physician editors and authors review and update our content on a continuous basi
