May 12

On the Road Again. road

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On the Road Again may refer to:

  • On the Road Again (Canned Heat song), a 1968 song by the blues group Canned Heat
  • On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song), a 1980 country song by Willie Nelson
  • On the Road Again (Hannah Montana), an episode of the television series Hannah Montana
  • On the Road Again (TV series), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary television series
  • On The Road Again, a Roy Wood album.


See also

  • On the Road, a novel by Jack Kerouac
May 11

Carra. it can refer

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Carra is a surname and may refer to:

  • Carlo Carrà, Italian futurist painter
  • Lawrence Carra, American drama professor
  • Raffaella Carrà, Italian TV host, singer, and actress

It may also refer to:

  • footballer Jamie Carragher
  • Carra, County Mayo, Ireland
May 09

Gene lethality. accident that occurs

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Gene lethality occurs when two individuals of the same phenotype mate and a 2:1 phenotypic ratio exists in the offspring (as long as many offspring have been produced). Usually the homozygous dominant individuals will have been aborted before birth.

The number of offspring in a litter can also indicate whether gene lethality occurs. For example, on average, the litter size of a heterozygous x heterozygous cross will be less than a heterozygous x homozygous recessive cross if homozygous dominant is lethal.

May 09

Time Indefinite. have unpredictable

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Time Indefinite is an autobiographical 1993 documentary film directed by Ross McElwee and exploring themes of grief, mortality, and the convenient disconnection of watching life through a camera lens.

The title comes from a passage from the Bible mentioned by a visiting Jehovah’s Witness. McElwee is filming the interaction and focused on adjusting the exposure to try to catch the play of light over the man’s face; distracted, he “hears” the phrase about 30 seconds after the man says it and understands it to refer to the unpredictable imminence of death.


Plot

In the film, director Ross McElwee gets married, finally putting an end to his family’s worrying; his grandmother dies; his wife Marilyn has a miscarriage; and his father, a medical doctor, dies suddenly within a week of McElwee’s wife’s miscarriage. His mother had died of cancer ten years earlier and so McElwee returns to his father’s house, where his father’s housekeeper ministers to him about Christianity and faith.

McElwee goes to visit his friend Charleen, who is now living alone in a new apartment. She had lived on an island in an old two-story house abandoned by the U.S. Army; she and her husband worked to restore it and lived together there for years before becoming estranged. Charleen then lived there alone, but on returning home from a trip she finds that her husband has set fire to the house and died downstairs at the grand piano in an arson/suicide. Charleen has her husband’s cremated remains in a bag inside a box and tries to get rid of them but can’t bring herself to do it.

McElwee’s brother is a successful doctor; on a visit to his brother’s practice, Ross talks with his brother about their father’s death, which took them both by surprise. Ross’s brother receives a patient who has a large malignant tumor on her breast; the woman has had the tumor for years without seeking medical help. Ross’s brother takes a slide of the tumor for his files; it has spread across much of her chest and is both multifaceted and multicolored. Ross incorporates his brother’s interview with the woman–and the slide his brother takes–into his film, musing in voiceover about motivation and fatality and marvelling at the power of denial.

Eventually Ross abandons the film, only to continue it later: his wife is pregnant. The pregnancy comes to term and Ross and Marilyn go with their baby son to visit Charleen, who criticizes them for bringing children into such a hostile and unpredictable world. Ross and Marilyn dote on their son and seem largely unbothered by the criticism.

Ross McElwee’s web page

May 08

Cooper (motorcycles). likely not made

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Cooper was a brand of off-road motorcycles made in Mexico using engine parts made in Italy and later, engines made by Sachs. Imported into the United States in the early 1970’s by Frank Cooper and sold as Cooper. Frank Cooper was a dealer for Maico when he contracted with Mexican motorcycle company, Islo to produce an Enduro and also a motocross model.

Islo also made a trials bike from 1971 - 1975 called GRM (Grapevine Racing Motors) that was imported to the USA, for Bill Grapevine, who designed the bike. Islo also supplied the engines for California’s Jones Motorsports who had the AMMEX motorcycle franchise. The Islo manufacturing facilities and name were bought by Honda around 1982

May 05

Leading actor. crashes leading to

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A leading actor, leading actress, or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist in a film or play. The word lead may also refer to the largest role in the piece and leading actor may refer to a person who typically plays such parts or an actor with a respected body of work. Some actors are typecast as leads, but most play the lead in some performances and supporting or character roles in others.

Sometimes there is more than one significant leading role in a dramatic piece, and the actors are said to play co-leads; a large supporting role may be considered a secondary lead. Award nominations for acting often reflect such ambiguities. Thus, sometimes two actors in the same performance piece are nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress — categories traditionally reserved for leads. For example, in 1935 Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone were each nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for Mutiny on the Bounty. There can even be controversy over whether a particular performance should be nominated in the Best Actor/Actress or Best Supporting Actor/Actress category.

A title role is often, but not necessarily the lead.


See also

  • Charisma
  • Lead (disambiguation)
  • Leading lady
  • Leading man
  • Movie star
May 05

Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System. vehicles have unpredictable

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“DROPS” can also stand for the microkernel-based Dresden Real-Time Operating System developed by Technische Universität Dresden. [1]

A series of logistics vehicles operated by the British Army. Currently consists of two vehicles:

  • Leyland Medium Mobility Load Carrier (MMLC)
  • Foden Improved Medium Mobility Load Carrier (IMMLC)

Both are able to transport 15-tonne flatracks or containers and to load/offload them in seconds. The IMMLC is used primarily in support of the AS90 self-propelled gun. Both may be fitted with Simple Rail Transfer Equipment (SRTE) for loading/unloading railway wagons.

Leyland and Foden vehicles mounting Mulitilift loading equipment were selected from designs submitted to the MOD by a wide cross-section of the UK engineering industry. It was by far the most detailed, searching and expensive selection process ever undertaken for a British Army logistic system and never before had wheeled vehicles been required to transport such large loads over such demanding cross-country conditions. The provisionally selected vehicles were extensively trialled for a year by a specially-formed trials unit before both the unit and the MOD were completely satisfied that they met the Army’s requirements in all respects.


External links

  • British Army DROPS Vehicles

Interestingly, because of the tight and short-sighted finance controls placed on the MOD by the Treasury, all DROPS vehicles and equipment were limited in their design to operate effectively only in NATO’s European climatic conditions of temperature and humidity. It has, therefore, been a challenging engineering problem to ensure that they have performed extremely well under war conditions in an environment for which they were specifically not designed - the desert!

May 05

Picnic hat. Another common cause

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A picnic hat is a hat, usually composed of straw (sometimes referred to as wicker), that is worn while partaking in a picnic. This hat is especially common in warm areas where it is needed to shade the picnic-goer from the sunlight beating down from above. The picnic, a common North American tradition, has caused this hat to become an icon of the culture that surrounds the eating of a meal outside with family and friends.


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May 04

Gypsy in Amber. accident an

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Gypsy in Amber (1971) was Martin Cruz Smith’s first mystery novel.

It features Romano Grey, the gypsy antique expert, who is pulled into a murder investigation when one of his friends dies in an automobile accident and is suspected of the murder of a girl whose body is found at the scene of the accident sliced up into six pieces.

Apr 28

Fetal screening. and/or defects

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Fetal screening refers to any tests that allow a fetus to be tested for certain traits or characteristics.

Most often this is performed to test for birth defects. Common procedures include amniocentesis, sonograms, nuchal translucency testing, or genetic screening. The tests can be used to check for conditions such as Down syndrome, spina bifida, cleft palate, Tay Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, cystic fibrosis, and fragile x syndrome. In some cases, the tests are administered to determine if the fetus will be aborted.

In some cases, fetal screening has been done to determine characteristics generally not considered birth defects. In some parts of the world, if a fetus is determined to be female, it is sometimes aborted. The rise of designer babies and parental selection for specific traits raises a host of bioethical and legal issues that will dominate reproductive rights debates in the 21st century.

Apr 28

List of holidays in Pakistan. that occurs during

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Holidays in Pakistan:

Date English Name Local Name Remarks
March 23 Pakistan Day یوم پاکستان
Yom-e-Pakistan 		Commemorates Pakistan Resolution on March 23, 1940 in Lahore

May 1 Labor Day (May Day) یوم کاریگر
Yom-e-Karegar 		Labor day in Pakistan

August 14 Independence Day یوم استقلال
Yom-e-Istiqlal 		Commemorates Pakistan’s independence from the United Kingdom on August 14th, 1947

September 6 Defence Day یوم دفاع
Yom-e-Difa 		Defense Day

November 9 Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal یوم ولادت محمد اقبال
Yom-e-Viladat-e-Muhammed Iqbal 		Birthday of national poet Muhammad Iqbal

December 25 Birthday of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah;
Christmas		 یوم ولادت قائداعظم
Yom-e-Viladat-e-Quaid-e-Azam
عيد الميلاد المسيح
Eid-ul-Milad-ul-Masseh		 Birthday of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah;
Christmas

Dates following the lunar Islamic calendar
Dhul Hijja 10 Eid ul-Adha عيد الأضحى Commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, occurs on the 10th day of the month of Dhul Hijja

Shawwal 1 Eid-ul-Fitr عيد الفطر Commemorates end of Ramadan (Ramazan). It occurs on the 1st day of Shawwal

Rabi`-ul-Awwal 12 Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi عيد ميلاد النبي Birthday of Prophet Muhammad. It occurs on the 12th of Rabi’-ul-Awwal

Muharram 10 Ashura عاشوراء Martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain. It occurs on the 10th day of Muharram

Ramadan last Friday Jumu’ah-tul-Wida جمعة الودع It occurs on last Friday in Ramadan before Eid-ul-Fitr

Ramadan last ten nights of the month Laylat al-Qadr ليلةِ القَدر It occurs on last ten nights in Ramadan

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See also

  • Muslim holidays


External links

  • Dates of Muslim holidays
Apr 28

Aland (automobile). single-vehicle collision is not

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The Aland was an advanced (for the day) four cylinder 2.5liter 16-valve, single ohc automobile with four-wheel internal expanding brakes and aluminum pistons. It was made in Detroit, Michigan, USA and was built between 1916 and 1917. Two and five seater bodied versions were available for $1500.

Apr 28

Long term. The term

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In economics

Long term, in economics, is the period of time required for economic agents to reallocate resources, and generally reestablish equilibrium.

The actual length of this period, usually numbered in years or decades, varies widely depending on circumstantial context. During the long term, all factors are variable.

According to John Maynard Keynes, “In the long term, we’re all dead.”


In finance

For financial operations (borrowing, investing…), what is considered

  • long term is usually above 7 years,
  • medium term is usually between 2 and 7 years,
  • short term is usually under 2 years.


See also

  • time horizon
Apr 25

Synproportionation. time to react.

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Synproportionation or comproportionation is a concept in chemistry and is a redox reaction where two reactants that share an atom but differ in oxidation number react to a single reaction product.

Examples:

  • Potassium permanganate contains manganese with oxidation number of +7 and reacts with a manganese compound having oxidation number +2 to Manganese(IV) oxide (manganese dioxide) with oxidation number +4, potassium hydroxide and water.
  • In chalcogen chemistry 15Se + SeCl4 + 4AlCl3 -> Na[AlCl]4 + 3Se8[AlCl4]2. [1]
  • In volcanic eruptions, the redox reaction 2H2S(g) + SO2(g) -> 3S(s) + 2H2O(g).

It is the chemical opposite to disproportionation, where two or more atoms originally having the same oxidation state react with other chemical(s) to give ions with different oxidation numbers.


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Apr 24

Municipal Service Car. single-vehicle accident

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Municipal Service Car was a concept streetcar being considered by the Toronto Transit Commission in the 1970s to replace their ageing PCC fleet.

The project began in 1972 and was a co-operation between Hawker Siddeley Canada and the Toronto Transit Commission. The vehicle had a bus-like chassis and was somewhat of a low floor vehicle.

In the end the vehicle lost out to the Canadian Light Rail Vehicle or CLRV made by Ontario Transit Development Corporation (later renamed Urban Transportation Development Corporation) in 1973.

No vehicles were developed and only concept drawings exists of this vehicle.


Reference

  • The Canadian Light Rail Vehicles (The CLRVs)
Apr 24

Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway. speed.

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Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway (京滬高速鐵路) is one of China’s ambitious plans for high-speed trains. It was originally scheduled for completion before the beginning of 2008 Summer Olympics and Expo 2010. The project is being delayed due to controversy. Its construction is expected to start during 2007 Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway construction to start [1] Its top speed will be 350km/h, cutting Beijing to Shanghai travel time from 9 hours to 5 hours. The rolling stocks on this line will be the CRH (China Railway High-speed) series trains.


Stations

There will be 27 stations, including Beijing, Tianjin, Jinan, Xuzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai (the distance between Beijing and Shanghai is about 1,300 km).


See also

  • High-speed rail in China
  • China Railways


References

Apr 23

Cheng Yi (officer). or killed the

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Cheng Yi (成宜; d. 211) was an officer resisting Cao Cao in Guanzhong during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was killed in the Battle of Tong Pass, in the final phases of the battle.

In the Luo Guanzhong novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was a subordinate of Han Sui and was killed by Xiahou Yuan.

Apr 23

Leave of absence. leave the

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Leave of absence (LOA) is a term used to describe a period of time that one is to be away from his/her primary job, while maintaining the status of employee. This term is in contrast to normal periods away from the workplace, such as vacations, holidays, hiatuses, sabbaticals, and “working from home” programs, in that they are considered to be exceptional circumstances, rather than benefits. Generally such an arrangement has a predefined termination at a particular date or after a certain event has occurred.


Classifications


Paid Leave

Generally, paid leave of absences are given at the request of the employer, or per some statutory or contractual requirement. Some examples of typical paid LOA are Employee Injury on the job, bereavement, Jury duty, or if the employer is performing repairs or other activities in the building where the employee normally works which prevents him/ her from performing their duties.


Unpaid Leave

Unpaid LOA’s are generally at the request of the employee or as a result of suspected misconduct on the part of the employee. A leave of absence may be obtained for a variety of employee-requested reasons, including Active duty call-up for reserve military personnel, or to attend to the health needs of the employee or of a family member of the employee.

In many jurisdictions, it is up to the employer’s discretion as to whether an employee’s request for a leave of absence is granted or not. In the United States, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 defines certain circumstances under which approval of a leave of absence is compulsatory. As well, the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) dictates certain circumstances under which a LOA must be granted.

During periods of time where the employer’s market is sluggish, some employers offer certain classes of employees an opportunity to take an unpaid leave of absence as extra vacation time, in an effort to temporarily reduce operating expenses without the complications of performing a Layoff, and potentially losing critical employees permanently. Such a period is referred to as a leave of absence in lieu of layoff.NJ State CAMPS


Continuation of benefits

Generally, continuation of certain benefits, such as medical insurance, is maintained. Other benefits such as Life Insurance normally require the employee to pay the premium in order to be continued during the LOA. Wright.edu

For those benefits that are based on an empoyee’s time in his/ her job, the period of the absence may be included in the tallies of consecutive service for certain benefits. If the time is not included, it is simply omitted from the tally, but not considered a break in service.


References


External links

  • Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
  • Full Text of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 - FMLA - 29 U.S. Code Chapter 28
  • Senate roll call vote
  • House roll call vote
  • Nevada Dept. of Human Resources v. Hibbs
Apr 22

Stuart Pearson Wright. also be hurt

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Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975, Northampton) is an award winninghttp://news.independent.co.uk/media/article229756.ece English artist who works mainly in paint. He was educated at Slade School of Fine Arthttp://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp19004&role=art&page=1, University College of London (1995-1999), where he graduated with honours, receiving a B.A. in Fine Art. He won the BP Travel Prize in 1998, the BP Portrait Prizehttp://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,,509774,00.html in 2001, and the Garrick/Milne Prizehttp://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp19004&role=art&page=1 in 2005.


Portraits

People who sat for the artist include:

Daniel Radcliffe (actor)
Mike Leigh (film director)
David Thewlis (actor)
Charles Saumarez Smith (Director, National Gallery)
Richard E. Grant (actor)
Adam Cooper (ballet dancer)
John Hurt (actor)
Terry Gilliam (film director)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Michael Palin (actor, writer)
Terry Jones (actor, writer)
Diane Abbott (MP)
Christopher Lee (actor)
J. K. Rowling (novelist)


References


External links

  • Home page
  • Paintings at the National Portrait Gallery
  • article Guardian article on BP Portrait Prize win
  • Independent article
Apr 22

Motor vehicle theft. the vehicle

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Motor vehicle theft or grand theft auto is a criminal act of theft generally understood to refer to the stealing of automobiles, buses, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trucks, trailers or any other motorized vehicle legally allowed on public roads and highways, including attempted thefts; but not to aircraft, boats, motorized wheelchairs, bulldozers, and spacecraft.

Carjacking is a subset of “grand theft auto” in which the owner of the stolen vehicle is occupying the vehicle at the time of the theft. In some jurisdictions, carjacking is charged as “grand theft auto”.


See also

  • VIN etching
  • TWOC (Taken Without Owner’s Consent)
  • Car alarm
  • Road crime unit
  • Vehicle tracking system
  • In popular culture, the video game series Grand Theft Auto uses carjacking as a main focal point of its games.
Apr 21

Brack. unless the rider/driver and

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Brack may refer to Brackish water or a variety of tea cake. Other uses include:

In people, as a surname:

  • Bill Brack, race car driver
  • John Brack, Australian painter
  • Kenny Bräck, race car driver
    • Brack (band), a rock group led by race car driver Kenny Bräck.
  • Viktor Brack, Nazi physician


See also

  • Bräcke, a municipality in Sweden
  • The Brack, a hill in Scotland
Apr 20

MV Bukoba. passengers of

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MV Bukoba is the name of a passenger steamer that sank 30 kilometers from Mwanza, Tanzania on May 21 1996, killing nearly one thousand people. The boat had been used to transport passengers and cargo between Lake Victoria ports Bukoba and Mwanza.

The steamer’s capacity was 430, but around 800 people drowned as the boat sank to the bottom of Lake Victoria. The manifest showed 443 passengers in the first and second class cabins, but the cheaper third class compartment had no manifest.

The lack of equipment and divers were partially to blame for the tragedy. Rescue teams from South Africa were flown in to salvage the ship and retrieve bodies that sank 25 meters under water.

President Benjamin Mkapa declared 3 days of national mourning after the tragedy.


See also

  • Lake Victoria ferries
Apr 18

Vehicle setup. vehicle is involved.

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In motor racing circles, vehicle setup is a term used to describe the personalised settings on the vehicle which help the vehicle handle and perform predictably and quickly. Vehicle setups are variable for a variety of reasons, ranging from weather, driver/rider preference and race track characteristics. Contrary to common misperceptions, setup is not used to maximize the performance of the engine, but to optimize it for the track at which it is being used. For example, motorcycle racers frequently detune their engines to reduce performance and power output so as to ensure the bike accelerates in a predictable manner.

Usually adjustable vehicle parts include shock absorbers and anti-roll bar (suspension), gear ratios and differential, tyre pressures and type, wing angles, wheel toe-in and camber angle, brake bias, steering lock and ride height.


See

also

  • Car handling


External links

  • The “ULTIMATE” Racing Car Chassis Setup Guide and Tutorial
  • Building a setup for Grand Prix Legends
  • Race Car Set-up Overview
Apr 16

Normal operator. normal inference

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In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a normal operator on a Hilbert space <math>H</math> (or more generally in a C* algebra) is a continuous linear operator

<math>N:H\to H</math>

that commutes with its hermitian adjoint N*:

<math> N\,N^*=N^*N. </math>

Normal operators are characterized by the spectral theorem.

A bounded operator T is normal if and only if ||Tx|| = ||T*x|| for all x. We have <math>\|Tx\|^2 = \langle T^*Tx, x \rangle</math>, <math>\|T^*x\|^2 = \langle TT^*x, x \rangle</math> and the fact that <math>\langle Tx, x \rangle = \langle Sx, x \rangle</math> for all <math>x</math> implies that <math>S = T</math> If N is a normal operator, then N and N* have the same kernel and range. Consequently, the range of N is dense if and only if N is injective.

Examples of normal operators:

  • unitary operators ( <math>N^*=N^{-1}</math> )
  • Hermitian operators ( <math>N^*=N</math> )
  • positive operators (<math>N = MM^*</math>)
  • orthogonal projection operators (<math>N=N^*=N^2</math>)
  • normal matrices can be seen as normal operators if one takes the Hilbert space to be <math>C^n</math>.


See also

  • Quasinormal operator
  • Subnormal operator


Notes