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Each level identifies teacher and student behaviors that are typical for teachers at that developmental level. The developmental scales provide a context or basis for reflection on performance and a tool for self-reflection. The scales are designed to provide a common way of looking at beginning teaching for beginning teachers and those who support them.
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Red robin sitting on a branch, looking cute. Love little birds like this one.
Pencil drawing. Colour and texture added in Photoshop. Texture comes from http://pendlestock.deviantart.com/.
I am a former Illustration student who finished her Master degree and is now looking to take her love for art further. I hope to someday be able to do illustration as my profession and to make my living that way by becoming a children's book illustrator. I love bright colours and cute images, because I don't think there's ever enough of it in this world!
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I love little birds like this one too! I get very distracted watching the little fairywrens out the window when I should be working.
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Beautifully expressed! I had a nest of robin's late last year! A whole family with 5 young! It was delightful and they are such wonderful creatures! Your picture displays their personality and grace!S
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HAIL List >> Examples of sites in our region that may be contaminated include: Timber treatment sites Service Stations Disposal of wastes, controlled and uncontrolled Scrap yards Sheep dips Bay of Plenty Regional Council has the responsibility, under section 15 and section 30 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) to: a) control discharges to the environment, such as a discharges from a contaminated site to soil, air, groundwater or surface water. b) investigate land for the purposes of identifying and monitoring contaminated sites. Where subdivision or landuse change is occurring the National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health (NES) may apply. Details on the NES can be found on the MfE website. The NES is administered by the local Territorial Authority. 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does any one know any source codes for the word game boogle??? if so please could you help me???
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BV boogle codelizzie 02-04-2002, 11:50 PM does any one know any source codes for the word game boogle??? if so please could you help me??? thank you:D orufet 02-04-2002, 11:55 PM Why? I'm not familiar with this game, but try: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb Do a quick search there. You might not get a whole lot of results by searching for "boggle" (as I guess not many people know about it), but if you think about programming concepts used it, you can try a more broad search. (Like, say, "word find" or "word game") Remember, I don't really know what this game is, so I'm just taking a blind shot here. wild wolf 02-05-2002, 03:56 AM i searched for boogle and this is what i get Boogle 2.0 Think your vocabulary doesn't suck? You have three minutes to prove it! Boogle tosses you a grid of twenty-five random letters and it's your job to create as many words, from adjacent letters, as you can before the timer goes off. Statistically speaking, Boogle is packed with features, including the BRI: the ultimate way to prove your lexical superiority! Sure, Boogle is fully Appearance-savvy, but you can also use custom Themes to improve the look of your game screen. Best of all, you can create your own full color Themes in any graphics program and share them with other players. License: Shareware, $10 Author/Publisher: C.DEV And Eric Reid Modification Date: May 4, 2000 Requirements: PPC since it says that it is a licensed software and retails at $10, i dun think they will allow anyone apart from the creators themselves to have a copy of the source code but that does not mean u cant get it, try ur luck (by the way this is the game ur talking about right? if not please disregard this reply) orufet 02-05-2002, 09:47 AM Did you search PSC or a web search engine? Of course you're not going to find source code on a web search engine by just searching for the name...Try the link I gave you just up a post or two. wild wolf 02-05-2002, 11:21 AM searched on that page but din get anything of interest, maybe i wasnt using the right words to look up orufet 02-05-2002, 11:23 AM Odd. I got lots of information. wild wolf 02-06-2002, 12:50 AM yeah odd, hey what search words did u use? lizzie 02-06-2002, 01:00 AM i searched at the site you gave me and i did not get any results....that is the game i was talking about.....i am not sure how you get the source code from the game if it is licenced..... thank you for all your help wild wolf 02-06-2002, 01:04 AM but there is a possibility that someone has created another game just like it using vb and if ur lucky enough u could get the source code AcidBoot 02-06-2002, 02:28 AM Isn't the game "boggle" rather than "boogle"? Boggle, as in mind-boggling. Boogle sounds more like a bad dancing game. wild wolf 02-06-2002, 07:37 AM the description that i got above proves it is boogle Squirm 02-06-2002, 07:50 AM No, I believe it is called Boggle, I have it right here with me. The following website will "prove" it is Boggle...Boggle (http://www.centralconnector.com/GAMES/boggle.html) :rolleyes: wild wolf 02-06-2002, 10:10 AM oh my god thats very true, it seems like they are both the same type of games and only the name is different, but squirm u should know about this, do u think u we can get a source code of a game that is licensed? one thing, since both the games are similar, only the name is diff, iam sure there must be a game similiar to this made in vb,lets start the hunt!!! orufet 02-06-2002, 10:15 AM Don't worry about the liscence problem. You probably won't be able to get "Boggle" or "Boogle", but I'm sure someone has remade these in VB. If you search on PSC like I showed you, you'll get exactly what you'r looking for. |
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Restaurants near Cobbs Comedy Club- Lombard and Columbus
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Are there any (quality food) casual places to eat within walking distance to this comedy club? North beach is ok. So much in North Beach is touristy and not good food generally.
Tony's Pizza Napoletana about 1/3 mile.
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Sotto Mare for Italian/Seafood would seem like a fit.
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Albona (Istrian), on Francisco between Mason and Taylor, is a charming, unique, small restaurant with a very different cuisine with bold flavors.
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L'Osteria Del Forno is a couple of blocks away and isn't touristy. It's quite small and homey.
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I enjoy La Trappe, a Belgian gastropub. http://latrappecafe.com/ It's at Greenwich and Mason.
I also agree with Albona.
La Trappe
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Olympic-class ocean liner
Belfast, Ireland, 6 March 1912: Titanic (right) moved out of the drydock to allow her sister Olympic to replace a damaged propeller blade.
Class overview | |
Builders: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland[1] |
Operators: | White Star Line[1] |
Subclasses: | 2 |
Built: | 1908–1914 |
In service: | 1911–1935 |
Planned: | 3 |
Completed: | 3 |
Lost: | Titanic (1912) and Britannic (1916) |
Retired: | Olympic (1935) |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Ocean liner Titanic's dimensions used as all three vessels' dimensions were slightly different. |
Tonnage: | 45,000 - 48,000 gross |
Displacement: | app. 52,310 tons |
Length: | 882 ft 9 in (269.06 m)[1] |
Beam: | 92 ft 6 in (28.19 m)[1] |
Height: | 175 ft (53 m) from keel to top of funnels |
Draught: | 34 ft 7 in (10.54 m)[1] |
Depth: | app. 64 ft 9 in (20 m) from keel to side of C-deck |
Decks: | 9 (all three liners); 7 for passengers |
Installed power: | 24 double-ended and 5 single-ended 15 bar Scotch marine boilers, tested to 30 bar. Two 4-cylinder reciprocating engines for the two outboard wing propellers. One low-pressure turbine for center propeller. Together 50.000 HP nominal, 59.000 max.[2][3][4] |
Propulsion: | Two bronze 3-blade wing propellers. One bronze 4-blade centre propeller. |
Speed: | 21 kn (38.9 km/h; 24.2 mph); 23.5 kn (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph) max.[1] |
Capacity: | 3,295 passengers,officers,and crew[1] |
Crew: | 944 Crew Members (maximum) |
Notes: | Approximate cost 7.5 million (USD) (approx. $177.56m at 2008 prices) |
The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line in the early 20th century. They were Olympic, Titanic and Britannic. Two were lost early in their careers: Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and Britannic sank on 21 November 1916, after hitting a mine laid by the German minelayer submarine U79 in a barrier off Kea during World War I. Olympic, the lead vessel, had a career spanning 24 years and was retired in 1934 and was sold for scrapping in 1935.
Although the two younger vessels did not have successful careers, they are among the most famous ocean liners ever built. Decorative elements of Olympic were purchased to adorn many places. Titanic 's story has been adapted into many films and books, and Britannic has also inspired a movie of the same name.[5]
Origin and construction[edit]
The Olympic-class had its origins in the intense competition between the United Kingdom and Germany in the construction of the liners. The Norddeutscher Lloyd and HAPAG, the two largest German companies, were indeed involved in the race for speed and size in the late 19th century. The first in service for the Norddeutscher Lloyd was SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which won the Blue Riband in 1897 [6] before being beaten by Deutschland of HAPAG in 1900.[7] Then followed the three vessels of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse: SS Kronprinz Wilhelm, SS Kaiser Wilhelm II and SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie all of whom were part of a "Kaiser class". In response to this, the Cunard Line of the UK ordered two vessels whose speed earned them the nickname "greyhounds of the seas:" Lusitania and Mauretania.[8] Mauretania kept the Blue Riband for more than twenty years, from 1909 to 1929.[9][10]
The White Star Line knew that their Big Four, a quartet of ships built for size and luxury [11] were no match for the Cunard's new liners in terms of speed. In 1907, J. Bruce Ismay, president of White Star and William J. Pirrie, director of the shipyard Harland & Wolff decided to build three vessels. And so, the Olympic-class ships were built to surpass rival Cunard's largest ships, Lusitania and Mauretania, in size and luxury. Olympic, along with Titanic and the soon to be built Britannic,[12] were intended to be the largest and most luxurious ships to operate on the North Atlantic, but not the fastest, as the White Star Line had already switched from high speed to size and luxury. The three vessels were designed by Thomas Andrews and Alexander Carlisle.[9]
Construction of Olympic started in December 1908 and Titanic in March 1909. The two ships were built side by side.[13] The construction of Britannic began in 1911 after the commissioning of Olympic and Titanic 's launch. Following the sinking of Titanic, the two remaining vessels underwent many changes in their safety provisions.[14]
All three of the Olympic-class ships had nine decks, seven of which were for passenger use. From top to bottom, the decks were:
- The Boat Deck, on which the lifeboats were positioned. The bridge and wheelhouse were at the forward end, in front of the captain's and officers' quarters. The bridge stood 8 feet (2.4 m) above the deck, extending out to either side so that the ship could be controlled while docking. The wheelhouse stood directly behind and above the bridge. The entrance to the First Class Grand Staircase and gymnasium were located midships along with the raised roof of the First Class lounge, while at the rear of the deck were the roof of the First Class smoke room and the relatively modest Second Class entrance. The wood-covered deck was divided into four segregated promenades; for officers, First Class passengers, engineers and Second Class passengers respectively. Lifeboats lined the side of the deck on both sides except in the First Class area, where there was a gap so that the view would not be blocked.[15][16]
- A Deck, also called the Promenade Deck, extended along the entire 546 feet (166 m) length of the superstructure. It was reserved only for First Class passengers and contained First Class cabins, the First Class lounge, smoke room, reading and writing rooms and Palm Court.[15] The promenade on Olympic was unenclosed along its whole length, whereas on Titanic and Britannic, the forward half was enclosed by a steel screen with sliding windows.[17]
- B Deck, the Bridge Deck, was the top weight-bearing deck and the uppermost level of the hull. More First Class passenger accommodation was located here with six staterooms (cabins) featuring their own private promenades. The Second Class smoking room and entrance hall were both located on this deck. The raised forecastle of the ship was forward of the Bridge Deck, accommodating Number 1 hatch (the main hatch through to the cargo holds), numerous pieces of machinery and the anchor housings. It was off limits to passengers and only accessible by the crew. Aft of the Bridge Deck was the raised Poop Deck, 106 feet (32 m) long, used as a promenade by Third Class passengers. The forecastle and Poop Deck were separated from the Bridge Deck by well decks.[18][19]
- C Deck, the Shelter Deck, was the uppermost deck to run uninterrupted from the ships' bow to stern. It included the two well decks; the aft one served as part of the Third Class promenade. Crew cabins were located under the forecastle and Third Class public rooms were situated under the Poop Deck. In between were the majority of First Class cabins and the Second Class library.[18][20]
- D Deck, the Saloon Deck, was dominated by three large public rooms – the First Class Reception Room, the First Class Dining Saloon and the Second Class Dining Saloon. An open space was provided for Third Class passengers. First, Second and Third Class passengers had cabins on this deck, with berths for firemen located in the bow. It was the highest deck reached by the ships' watertight bulkheads (though only by eight of the fifteen bulkheads).[18][21]
- E Deck, the Upper Deck, was predominantly a passenger accommodation for all three classes as well as berths for cooks, seamen, stewards and trimmers. Along its length ran a long passageway nicknamed Scotland Road by the crew, in reference to a famous street in Liverpool.[18][22]
- F Deck, the Middle Deck, was the last complete deck and predominantly accommodated Third Class passengers. There were also some Second Class cabins and crew accommodation. The Third Class dining saloon was located here, as were the swimming pool and Turkish bath.[18][22]
- G Deck, the Lower Deck, was the lowest complete deck to accommodate passengers, and had the lowest portholes, protruding above the waterline. The squash court was located here along with the travelling post office where mail clerks sorted letters and parcels so that they would be ready for delivery when the ship docked. Food was also stored here. The deck was interrupted at several points by orlop (partial) decks over the boiler, engine and turbine rooms.[18][23]
- The Orlop decks and the Tank Top were at the lowest level of the ship, below the waterline. The orlop decks were used as cargo space, while the Tank Top – the inner bottom of the ship's hull – provided the platform on which the ship's boilers, engines, turbines and electrical generators were housed. This part of the ship was dominated by the engine and boiler rooms, areas which were generally never seen by passengers. They were connected with higher levels of the ship by flights of stairs; twin spiral stairways near the bow gave access up to D Deck.[18][23]
Propulsion was achieved through three propellers: two outboard or wing propellers had three blades, while the central propeller had four. The two lateral propellers were powered by reciprocating steam triple expansion, while the central shaft was driven by a steam turbine.[24] All power on board was derived from a total of 29 coal-fired steam boilers in six compartments. However, Olympic 's boilers were adapted for firing by oil at the end of the First World War,[25] which reduced the number of engine crew required from 350 to 60.[26]
The Olympic class ships were 269.13 metres (883.0 ft) long, displacing 52,310 long tons normally (their draft at this displacement being 34 ft 7 inches), and their tonnage was around 45-46,000 GRT.[27] Olympic, originally the smallest of the three, regained the title of the biggest British built ship ever constructed post the loss of Britannic in 1915 and held the title until the commissioning of RMS Queen Mary in 1936.[28] All three vessels sported four funnels, with the fourth being a dummy which was used for ventilation purposes. Smoke from the galleys and Smoking Room fireplaces was exhausted through a chimney up the forward portion of this funnel. On the one hand it was a decoration to establish a symmetry in the ships' profile, on the other hand, acting as a huge ventilation shaft, it prevented the large amount of ventilation cowls on deck as on Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania.[29]
Sixty-four lifeboats were the number possible to be added to each ships.[30] However, only 20 boats were installed on Olympic and Titanic during construction to avoid cluttering the deck and provide more space for passengers. Shipbuilders of the era envisaged the ocean liner itself as the ultimate lifeboat and therefore imagined that a lifeboat's purpose was that of a ferry between a foundering liner and a rescue ship. Despite the low number of lifeboats, both Olympic and Titanic exceeded Board of Trade regulations of the time.[31] Following the sinking of Titanic, more lifeboats were added to Olympic (some lifeboats might even have been from the foundered Titanic[30]). Britannic, meanwhile, was equipped with eight special large davits to be able to launch many lifeboats at the same time.
The three vessels had several levels of passenger accommodation, with slight variations between the ships. However, no class was neglected. The first class passengers enjoyed luxurious cabins, some were equipped with bathrooms. The two most luxurious even included a private promenade deck.[a] There were also large dining rooms, a lavish Grand Staircase built only for the Olympic-class ships,[32] a Georgian-style smoking room, a Veranda Cafe decorated with palm trees,[33] a swimming pool, Turkish bath,[34] gymnasium,[35] and several other places for meals and entertainment.
The second class also included a smoking room, a library, a spacious dining room, and an elevator. Britannic's second class also featured a gymnasium.[36]
Finally, the third-class passengers enjoyed reasonable accommodation compared to other ships, if not up to the second and first classes. Instead of large dormitories offered by most ships of the time, the third-class passengers of the Olympic-class lived in cabins containing two to ten bunks. The class also had a smoking room, a common area, and a dining room. Britannic provided third-class passengers more comfort than its two sister ships.[37]
Name | Builder | Ordered | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned[2] | Fate |
Olympic | Harland and Wolff, Belfast | 1 August 1908 | 16 December 1908 | 20 October 1910 | 14 June 1911 | Broken up at Inverkeithing, 1938 |
Titanic | Harland and Wolff, Belfast | 1 August 1908 | 31 March 1909 | 31 May 1911 | 10 April 1912 | Sunk following iceberg strike, 15 April 1912 |
Britannic | Harland and Wolff, Belfast | 1 August 1908 | 30 November 1911 | 26 February 1914 | 23 December 1915 | Sunk following mine strike off Kea, 21 November 1916 |
1: ^ For ships in passenger service, "commissioned" is taken to mean the date of departure on maiden passenger voyage
Olympic was launched on 20 October 1910[38] and commissioned on 14 June 1911.[39] She made her maiden voyage on 14 June 1911. On 20 September of the same year, under Edward J. Smith, she collided with the cruiser HMS Hawke in the port of Southampton, leading to her repair back at Harland and Wolff.[40] When RMS Titanic sank, the Olympic was on her way across the Atlantic just in the opposite direction. She was able to receive a distress call from Titanic but too far away to reach her before she sank.[41] After the sinking of Titanic, Olympic underwent a number of refinements to improve her safety. She then resumed her commercial service.
During the First World War, the ship served as a troop transport. On 12 May 1918, she rammed and sank the German submarine U-103.[42] Once placed back in the commercial service during 1920, she crossed the Atlantic with two ships seized from Germany, Majestic and Homeric.[28] In 1934 she inadvertently collided with and sank Nantucket Lightship LV-117, leading to the death of seven of her eleven crewmembers.[43]
Following the merger of White Star Line and Cunard Line in 1934, Olympic was taken out of service in 1935, and scrapped between 1935 & 1937.
Titanic was launched on 31 May 1911,[44] and her commissioning was slightly delayed due to ongoing repairs of Olympic.[45] The ship left the port of Southampton 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage, narrowly avoiding a collision with SS New York, a ship moored in the port pulled by the propellers of Titanic. After a stopover at Cherbourg, France and another in Queenstown, Ireland, she sailed into the Atlantic with 2,200 passengers on board (a total capacity of 3,500), under the command of Captain Edward J. Smith headed for New York City. The crossing took place without major incident until Sunday, 14 April at 23:40.[46]
Titanic struck an iceberg at 41°46′N 50°14′W / 41.767°N 50.233°W.[47] while sailing about 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland shortly before midnight. The strike and the resulting shock sheared the rivets, thus opening a leak in the hull below the waterline. This caused the first five compartments to be flooded with flooding in a sixth compartment controlled by the pumps; the ship could only stay afloat with four compartments flooded. The Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after the collision. There not being enough lifeboats for all of the passengers,[30] 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board died, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
Britannic was launched on 26 February 1914 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and fitting out began.[48] In August 1914, before Britannic could commence transatlantic service between New York and Southampton, World War I began. Immediately, all shipyards with Admiralty contracts were given top priority to use available raw materials. All civil contracts (including the Britannic) were slowed down.
On 13 November 1915, Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship from her storage location at Belfast. Repainted white with large red crosses and a horizontal green stripe, she was renamed HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic.[48]
08:12 am on 21 November 1916, The HMHS Britannic struck a mine[b] at 37°42′05″N 24°17′02″E / 37.70139°N 24.28389°E,[49] and sank. 1,036 people were saved. Thirty men lost their lives in the disaster. One survivor, nurse Violet Jessop was notable as having also survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, and had also been on board RMS Olympic, when it collided with the HMS Hawke in 1911. The Britannic was the largest ship lost during World War I, but her sinking did not receive the same attention as the sinking of her sister, Titanic, and the sinking of the Cunard superliner Lusitania, when she was sunk by a torpedo in the Irish Sea.[50]
Wrecks and expeditions[edit]
When Titanic sank in 1912 and Britannic sank in 1916, their sinkings did not receive the same attention, due to the death toll (1,517 on Titanic and 30 on Britannic). Because the exact position of the sinking of the Britannic is known and the location is shallow, the wreck was discovered relatively easily in 1975.[51] Titanic, however, drew everyone's attention in 1912. After several attempts, the wreck was finally located by Jean-Louis Michel of Ifremer and Robert Ballard following a secret mission for the US Navy.[52] The discovery of the wreck occurred on 1 September 1985, at 25 kilometres from the position given of the sinking. The wreck lies about 4,000 metres deep, broken in two. The bow is relatively well preserved, but the stern partially imploded, and to a large extent disintegrated during the descent and impact on the seabed.[c]
The wreck of Britannic was discovered in 1975 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. It has a large tear in the front caused by the bow hitting the ocean floor before the rest of the ship sank (the ship's length is greater than the shallowness of the water). She has been, after the discovery, regularly seen as part of many other expeditions. In contrast to Titanic, which lies at the very bottom of the North Atlantic and is being fed on by iron-eating bacteria, the Britannic is in remarkably good condition, and is much more accessible than her infamous sister. Many external structural features are still intact, including her propellers, and a great deal of her superstructure and hull.[53]
Cultural heritage[edit]
Museums and exhibitions pay tribute to the ships, and the two tragedies have inspired many movies, novels, and even musicals and video games.
When decommissioned, Olympic was previously set to be converted into a floating hotel,[54] but the project was cancelled. However, its decorative elements were auctioned. The First Class Lounge and part of the Aft Grand Staircase, can be found in the White Swan Hotel, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. The à la carte restaurant of Olympic is now restored on the Celebrity Millennium.[55]
Replicating the class[edit]
Several attempts have been made to make new ships based on the Olympic-class, the most recent - the Titanic II - started in 2012 by Australian businessman Clive Palmer.
- ^ This last provision was a novelty on board Titanic.
- ^ The hypothesis of the sinking caused by a mine was the one that had been accepted by the inquiry following the sinking. However, it's possible that the sinking was caused by a torpedo [1](Accessed 21 March 2009)
- ^ On the contrary to the bow, the stern of the ship was not filled with water when it sank, and imploded as a result of the air.
- ^ a b c d e f g Maritimequest: Titanic's Data
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- Hutchings, David F.; de Kerbrech, Richard P. (2011). RMS Titanic 1909–12 (Olympic Class): Owners' Workshop Manual. Sparkford, Yeovil: Haynes. ISBN 978-1-84425-662-4.
- Le Goff, Olivier (1998). Les Plus Beaux Paquebots du Monde (in French). Solar. ISBN 978-2-03-584196-4.
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- McCluskie, Tom; Sharpe, Michael; Marriott, Leo (1998). Titanic & Her Sisters. ISBN 978-1-57145-175-0.


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The tracks on "Black Heksen Rise" were previously released but have since been remastered. Both compositions see INTEGRITY's trademark sound permeated by somewhat more of a blackened Japanese metal punk influence through raw, driving power chords; explosive solos and crazy tapping runs; pounding midpaced breaks with just the right amount of eerie melody. "Black Heksen Rise" is a part of the Indie Recordings seven-inch collectors series. Pre-order "Black Heksen Rise" at this location. INTEGRITY, which currently consists of Dwid Hellion and Robert Orr, has been ravaging the underground scene since the early '90s and has no plans to stop. INTEGRITY will release a new full-length album in May 2013.INTEGRITY Signs With INDIE RECORDINGS
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Hercules Stands 3- Section Orchestra Stand Perforated Folding Desk with page retainers
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Hercules Stands 3- Section Orchestra Stand Features:
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We've already had the more practical little Big Muff, introduced eight years ago, but now EHX has taken things a stage further and squeezed the circuitry into this Nano version.
The Big Muff Pi has always been wonderfully versatile pedal that offers many flavours of fuzz and distortion partly due to the wide-ranging tone knob, which will go all the way from a rounded flutey tone ideal for David Gilmour or Ernie Isley leads, through all the grunge and alt-rock tones, to a brighter, raucous garage fuzz.
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Eppenhof, a former Mennonite family, now extinct. Members of this family came from Burgsteinfurt in Westphalia, Germany, to Enschede, Dutch province of Overijssel, and especially to Winterswijk, Dutch province of Gelderland, where this family was found in the 17th century. Harmen Eppenhof, born about 1620, died 1693, and married to Henrica Willink (1614-81), was the last unsalaried and untrained minister of the Winterswijk congregation. In the 17th and 18th centuries members of this family are also found in Amsterdam, where some of them were deacons of the Lamist congregation. Laurens Hendriksz Eppenhof, formerly also a deacon and a Collegiant, wrote two booklets against Galenus Abrahamsz: Nieuwe Jaarsgeschenck, of Twalef Bedencklijcke Vragen (Amsterdam, 1682) and Ses-en-dertigh Grontstellingen aangaande de Reformatie der Protestanten (n.p., 1697).
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Beets, P. Stamboek der Willingen. Deventer, 1767.
Meihuizen, H. W. Galenus Abrahamsz. Haarlem, 1954.
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RH ECL86 Amp: Dave?
I've decided to hang onto the console amp I had posted for sale, and instead begin my first tube amp project. (Telefunken, se ECL86's and a while bunch of other stuff.) I don't know anything (I've read a bit, but that doesn't count for much). I'm looking for something simple and cheap that sounds as good as possible. I don't need much power. It will mainly be a learning exercise, my Hemp BIB's are plenty efficient, and I've got 50W of chip amp when I need it. I'd like to build it with as many salvaged parts as possible (mostly from the Telefunken console). I've been looking over ECL86 circuits. I know the RH84 has been popular, and it looks simple. Planet 10/Dave posted this schematic awhile ago (a couple of years), which evidentally is a stab at an RH ECL86. Is this useable? Has anyone built it?
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The idea is certainly sound. You'd need to get the bias right (i can't rember where i pulled the values for that map, but i likely took an existing ECL86 SE and just changed the feedback to RH style.
It should likely have a bit lower B+ than a regular RH84, and a bit less power. I'd also work to get a bit more robust supply for the screens. Have a look for Gingertube's push-pull variant -- his 1st one used ECL86. dave
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The feedback ratio in the ECL86 version has been radically increased when compared with Alex's RH84.
Feedback is determined by the ratio of the feedback resistor (100k) to the paralled combination of V1 plate resistor + (internal plate resistance of V1+ {u +1}Rk) + grid resistor of V2. Using rough mental calcs, Alex's design ballparks at 10%, with the ECL86 version approx 35%. Raising the value of the feedback resistor to around 470k would restore the balance.
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ECL86 as per schematic with 100k feedback resistor (assuming triode Ri of 62.5k and mu of 70 with Rp as per schematic)
feedback = 1 - (100k/ [100k + 1/{(1/100k + 1/(62.5k + 71k) + 1/470k)}] = 1 - (100/150.82) = 34% ECL86 with 470k feedback resistor 1- (470k/[470k + 1/{(1/100k + 1/(62.5k + 71k) + 1/470k)}] = 1 - (470/520.8) = 9.8%
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I changed the feedback, added a screen supply bypass, and hinted at regulating the screen supply.
More suggestions? B+? 250-275V? dave
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Thanks for you input thus far. Circuit design considerations are way over my head. I, of course, like the look of the simple screen supply. Are there big gains to be had? Dave, you mentioned bias early on. I've looked around at the various published circuits and found a bit of variance in the size of the cathode resistor, but you're 180ohms seems to be in the middle. There are a few at 170 and one or two at 200. I don't think I need much power, and I have a little stash of used and I believe NOS ECL86's, if either of those plays into the consideration of where to bias it.
I assume that my power tranny will produce an adaquate voltage. I should pull it out and see. Given the complexity of this receiver, it has plenty of little taps too. In this application, is the choke worth the $$ over big electrolytics? If you believe so, I'm certainly up for it. Finally, I have some parts quesitons as I plan this thing. I assume that if I test enough of them I'll find some good carbon resistors. Is there any chance I could reuse a pair of the axial caps for the coupling caps? pj |
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I stumbled upon a free Ward's Airline SE EL84 console amp this weekend. The transformers all appear to be Hammonds, and the outputs are slightly larger than the Telefunkens. They are also probably have 8 ohm taps, whereas the Telefunkens had 5.5 ohm speakers. Fate is forcing me to build this amp, or something along these lines.
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Whiteley, Jessica A. URN etd-12282001-151511 Title An Internet-based Walking Program for Women Degree PhD Department Psychology Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2001-12-14 Availability unrestricted Abstract The primary objective of this project was to determine if a walking program based on social cognitive theory and delivered via the Internet could improve fitness levels in women. Fifty-three women were randomized to either an Educational Only condition or a Social Cognitive theory (SCT) condition. The SCT condition emphasized personalized mastery steps and goals to increase walking pace while the Education Only condition primarily provided general physical activity and walking information. The One-Mile Walk Test (Kline et al., 1987), an objective measure of fitness, was conducted to determine if women in the SCT condition had greater improvements in their fitness levels. The psychosocial measures of knowledge, depression, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, social support, and decisional balance pros and cons were administered to determine if changes were evidenced in these psychosocial measures pre to post treatment. Results indicated that both conditions had significant improvements in their fitness levels as measured by their walk test times and estimated VO2max. The SCT condition improved their time on the walk test by 69 seconds at post-test with an increase in estimated VO2max of 2.65 ml/kg/min whereas the Education Only condition improved their time on the walk test by 37 seconds with an increase in estimated VO2max of 1.1 ml/kg/min. Both groups also evidenced change on the self-report measures of stage of change with the SCT condition advancing 1.25 stages and the Education Only condition advancing .76 stages. Total minutes walked per week in the SCT condition increased by 31 minutes to 94 minutes total per week and by 47 minutes to 82 minutes total per week in the Education Only condition. Few of the psychosocial measures evidenced change pre to post. Of note, however, was the significant decrease in self-efficacy seen in the Education Only condition. In summary, both programs were able to make improvements in participants' fitness levels and time spent walking per week. However, the SCT condition, with its guided mastery experiences, had greater fitness improvements that are likely to have a larger clinical health impact. Files
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Copy number variations (CNVs) are gains and losses of genomic sequence between two individuals of a species when compared to a reference genome. The data from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarrays are now routinely used for genotyping, but they also can be utilized for copy number detection. Substantial progress has been made in array design and CNV calling algorithms and at least 10 comparison studies in humans have been published to assess them. In this review, we first survey the literature on existing microarray platforms and CNV calling algorithms. We then examine a number of CNV calling tools to evaluate their impacts using bovine high-density SNP data. Large incongruities in the results from different CNV calling tools highlight the need for standardizing array data collection, quality assessment and experimental validation. Only after careful experimental design and rigorous data filtering can the impacts of CNVs on both normal phenotypic variability and disease susceptibility be fully revealed.
Genomic structural variation, including copy number variation (CNV), has been extensively studied in humans [
CNVs can be identified using various approaches, including comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) arrays, SNP arrays, and DNA sequencing. In spite of the increasing adoption of next-generation sequencing, microarrays will continue to be the primary platform for CNV detection in the near future. Compared to other approaches, the advantages of SNP arrays include their relative low cost and high throughput. Substantial genotyping data have been produced from genome-wide association studies, which can be directly exploited for CNV analysis. Dozens of human and mouse CNV studies have demonstrated that some CNVs are associated with phenotypic traits and diseases [
SNP arrays were initially designed to genotype thousands of SNPs across the genome concurrently. Their applications have now expanded to include CNV detection using additional information such as the probe hybridization signal on each individual chip. The most well-known SNP microarrays are available from commercial vendors such as Illumina and Affymetrix [
Segmental duplications (SDs), defined as >1 kb stretches of duplicated DNA with high sequence identity in a species, were shown to be one of the catalysts and hotspots for CNV formation [
Since SNP chips are primarily designed for their use in SNP genotyping, some background noise that does not affect SNP calling may cause problems for CNV calling algorithms. For example, SNP data is typically normalized against a reference population in order to reduce between-array variations and probe-specific hybridization effects. The assumption that the large majority of reference samples have the same two copies does not hold for common CNV regions. At these regions, the normalization should be further optimized to derive correct parameters. Several new array designs have incorporated CNV detection, for example, monomorphic probes in common CNV regions are included on more recent Illumina and Affymetrix SNP array platforms.
Undoubtedly, microarray development has spurred the advances in computational analysis methodology in quantitative fields of biology. A wide range of CNV discovery tools has been developed based on data derived from SNP arrays, such as cnvPartition [
QuantiSNP, by contrast, uses an Objective Bayes approach [
As shown in
Survey of recent comparison studies of copy number variation (CNV) detection.
Authors | Year | Algorithm | Data | Platform | Vendor | Conclusion | Comment | |
Lai [ |
2005 | CGHseq, Quantreg, CLAC, GLAD, CBS, HMM, Wavelet, Lowess, ChARM, GA and ACE | Simulation and empirical samples for Glioblastoma | array CGH | Custom cDNA array | Several general characteristics of future program development were suggested. | Earlier programs for array CGH. | |
Baross [ |
2007 | CNAG, dChip, CNAT, GLAD | Simulation and empirical mental retardation 100K Affymetrix SNP array | SNP array | Affymetrix | Multiple programs were needed to find all real aberrations. | False positive deletions was substantial, but could be greatly reduced by using the SNP genotype information to confirm loss of heterozygosity. | |
Winchester [ |
2009 | Birdsuite, CNAT, GADA, PennCNV, QuantiSNP | NA12156, NA15510 | SNP array | Affymetrix, Illumina | Multiple predictions from different software. | Use software designed for the platform. | |
Dellinger [ |
2010 | CBS, cnvFinder, cnvPartition, GALD, Nexus, PennCNV and QuantiSNP | Simulation and empirical samples from Singapore cohort study of the risk factors for Myopia | SNP array | Illumina | QuantiSNP outperformed other methods based on ROC curve residuals over most datasets. Nexus Rank and SNPRank have low specificity and high power. Nexus Rank calls oversized CNVs. PennCNV detects one of the fewest numbers of CNVs. | The normalized singleton ratio (NSR) is proposed as a metric for parameter optimization. | |
Tsuang [ |
2010 | PennCNV, QuantiSNP, HMMSeg, and cnvPartition | 48 Schizophrenia samples | SNP array | Illumina | Both guidelines for the identification of CNVs inferred from high-density arrays and the establishment of a gold standard for validation of CNVs are needed. | Given the variety of methods used, there will be many false positives and false negatives. | |
Zhang [ |
2011 | Birdsuite, Partek Genomics Suite, HelixTree, and PennCNV-affy | ~1,000 Bipolar + 270 HapMap samples | SNP array | Affymetrix | Birdsuite and Partek had higher positive predictive values. | Poor overlap between 2 gold standards (Kidd et al. and Conrad et al.). | |
Marenne [ |
2011 | cnvPartition, PennCNV, and QuantiSNP | 96 pair samples from Spanish Bladder Cancer/EPICURO study | SNP array | Illumina | PennCNV was the most reliable algorithm when assessing the number of copies. | Current calling algorithms should be improved for high performance CNV analysis in genome-wide scans. | |
Pinto [ |
2011 | Birdsuite, cnvFinder, cnvPartition, dCHIP, ADM-2 (DNA Analytics), Genotyping Console (GTC), iPattern, Nexus Copy Number, Partek Genomics Suite, PennCNV, QuantiSNP | 6 samples in triplicate on 11 array platforms | array CGH, SNP array, and BAC array | Agilent, NimbleGen, Affymetrix, and Illumina | Different analytic tools applied to the same raw data typically yield CNV calls with <50% concordance. Moreover, reproducibility in replicate experiments is <70% for most platforms. | The CNV resource presented here allows independent data evaluation and provides a means to benchmark new algorithms. CNV calls are disproportionally affected by genome complexity as they tend to overlap SDs and a single CNV is detected as multiple smaller variants. | |
Koike [ |
2011 | Birdsuite, Birdseye, PennCNV, CGHseg, DNAcopy | HapMap samples | SNP array | Affymetrix | Hidden Markov model-based programs PennCNV and Birdseye (part of Birdsuite), or Birdsuite show better detection performance. | Segmental duplications and interspersed repeats (LINEs) are involved in CNVs. | |
Eckel-Passow [ |
2011 | Affymetrix Power Tools (APT), Aroma.Affymetrix, PennCNV and CRLMM | 1,418 GENOA (Genetic Epidemiology Network of Atherosclerosis)/FBPP (Family Blood Pressure Program) samples | SNP array | Affymetrix | Recommended trying multiple algorithms, evaluating concordance/discordance and subsequently consider the union of regions for downstream association tests. | Advocated that software developers need to provide guidance with respect to evaluating and choosing optimal settings in order to obtain optimal results for an individual dataset. |
We performed an analysis of CNVs based on Illumina BovineHD chips, which contain more than 750,000 SNP markers [
In order to perform an accurate and fair comparison of calls across the different methods, our PennCNV calls were derived from the same 630 animals of 27 cattle breeds on the cattle reference assembly UMD3.1 without using trio information [
CNVs and CNVRs identified using PennCNV, cnvPartition, SVS, and DNAcopy.
Tool | Event | Count | Gain | Loss | Average Length |
CNVR | 3,364 a | 1,382 b | 2,376 c | 147,476,461 (43,840) | |
CNVR | 1,298 a | 541 b | 916 c | 172,378,730 (132,803) | |
CNVR | 7,099 a | 78 b | 7,056 c | 151,471,634 (21,337) | |
CNVR | 5,961 a | 1,457 b | 5,284 c | 194,287,154 (32,593) |
Numbers in parentheses are values normalized by sample counts, except in the case of the parentheses values in the "Average Length" column, which are average lengths normalized by CNV counts. a These numbers represent non-redundant CNVR counts after merging both gain and loss CNVs identified across all 630 samples. b Gain CNV events were merged separately. c Loss CNV events were merged separately.
A summary of CNV and CNVR results derived from all 630 samples is shown in
Comparisons of CNVR results identified by PennCNV, cnvPartition, SVS, and DNAcopy based on genomic location in UMD3.1. The overlap lengths of CNVRs were indicated in Mb.
Overlaps among CNVRs across 4 CNV detection tools.
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Tool1 | Tool2 | Intersection a | Union a | Percentage | Intersection b | Union b | Percentage |
PennCNV | cnvPartition | 1,420 | 3,242 | 43.80% | 107,775,740 | 212,079,451 | 50.82% |
PennCNV | DNAcopy | 2,355 | 6,970 | 33.79% | 93,149,061 | 248,614,554 | 37.47% |
PennCNV | SVS | 1,264 | 9,199 | 13.74% | 59,557,597 | 239,390,498 | 24.88% |
cnvPartition | DNAcopy | 1,284 | 5,975 | 21.49% | 79,825,624 | 286,840,260 | 27.83% |
cnvPartition | SVS | 981 | 7,416 | 13.23% | 56,569,347 | 267,281,017 | 21.16% |
DNAcopy | SVS | 2,332 | 10,728 | 21.74% | 88,864,805 | 256,893,983 | 34.59% |
a These numbers represent intersections and unions of two CNVR datasets by count. b These numbers represent intersections and unions of two CNVR datasets by length in base pair.
Like other published comparisons of CNV calling methods, we observed large variations in calls made by different programs. As pointed out previously, hybridization studies will generate both false positive and false negative results, regardless of how the data are analyzed [
We thank members of the Illumina Bovine HD SNP Consortium for sharing their data. The bovine data will be available to scientists interested in non-commercial research upon signing a Materials Transfer Agreement (MTA). We would also like to thank Reuben Anderson and Alexandre Dimtchev for technical assistance. G.E.L. was supported by NRI/AFRI grants no. 2011-67015-30183 from the USDA NIFA and Project 1265-31000-098-00 from USDA-ARS. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this article is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the US Department of Agriculture. The USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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From: | Konrad Karpieszuk |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] 0.5.5 -> cvs. did You change something? |
Date: | Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:07:19 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 |
helloI used qemu in version 0.5.5 and it works fine. Now i upgrade to cvs version and i cannot run this :(
When i type: qemu boot.iso (it is like in documentation) i got: QEMU 0.5.5 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) And thats all. No window is opening. Did you change syntax or I do something wrong? -- pozdrawiam |<onrad Karpieszuk www.Karpieszuk.prv.pl
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a 4 wheelin board to pop a nice 10 stiar handy
skate on your sisters can bed
di sodomy
03 maggio 2003
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Its skateboard not rollerblade(fruit booter).
Skateboarding kicks ass.
di cartman5000
27 luglio 2004
(verb) to leave.
"Look baby, if you ain't gonna give me no ass, Imo hafta skate."
di The Hawk
03 ottobre 2002
Originates from Naval sailors of Portsmouth in England getting lonely while at sea. These sick individuals would get a skate fish, slit it in half and nail it to a board. This would then be used to provide sexual pleasure.
Hence people from Portsmouth are known as Skates.
Hence people from Portsmouth are known as Skates.
Harry Redknapp is a skate. Peter Crouch used to be a skate but he's alright now.
di Oliver Cuntwell
12 agosto 2006
Military acronym used as steps to accomplish skating, aka: avoiding work.
S= Seek Cover
K= Keep Quiet
A= Accept No Responsibility
T= Take No Action
E= Evade
S= Seek Cover
K= Keep Quiet
A= Accept No Responsibility
T= Take No Action
E= Evade
Use S.K.A.T.E. to accomplish effective skating.
di S1ber
08 luglio 2010
Military terminology meaning any service member who avoids his duties.
Private Jones is a real skate. This is the fifth time this month he avoided garbage detail.
di Arnie Schiffer
11 maggio 2008
to goof off or take it easy.
That job is skate duty. You fuckers have been skating and didn't get the job done.
di Bob L
03 luglio 2003


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Just as a fine wine evokes a series of different flavors as it breathes, the very best scents evolve throughout the day. Designed by Atelier Cologne fragrance expert Jerome Epinette, Atelier Cologne's Vétiver goes from fresh citrus grove to cedar forest as it mingles with your body chemistry.
To my wife's horror, I'm developing quite a collection of asthma inducing aromas. While I don't mind being prepared for any situation, this was a less than ideal scent. It was spicier than previous samples I've received, but not in a pleasant way. On the whole, it was unremarkable, which is saying something from a small glass bottle that came packaged with an exotic postcard in a sheer rice paper envelope. I mean, cologne and perfume is known for it's pretentious marketing schemes, but usually they have a strong enough scent to warrant the proverbial parade that this thing was packaged in. I'm familiar with this brand, and I realize that all their samples are packaged as such, but out of the three I have, I only like one. And that's only because it smells like lemonade.


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Though it comes as no surprise, Leg Lab spinoff Boston Dynamics (of BigDog and PETMAN fame) announced earlier this month that it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the first ever "Legged Squad Support System."
The legged robot, called the LS3, will be designed to lighten warfighters' load by carrying over 400 lbs of gear and enough fuel for missions covering 20 miles and lasting 24 hours. Development of LS3 will take 30 months at a cost of $32M, with first walk out scheduled for 2012.
In a press release, Boston Dynamics president Marc Raibert PhD '77 said, "If LS3 can offload 50 lbs from the back of each solider in a squad, it will reduce warfighter injuries and fatigue and increase the combat effectiveness of our troops."
Learn more about BigDog, PETMAN, the LS3 program, and the Waltham-based company, Boston Dynamics.
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