...Antonin Leopold Dvorak was born on September 8, 1841 in Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (Now Czech Republic) and died on May 1, 1904 in Prague, Austrian Empire. He was mainly known as the first Bohemian composer to receive worldwide recognition. He was the eldest of nine children. He religion was Roman Catholic. His parents were Frantisek Dvorak and Anna Zdenkova. Frantisek was a violin musician who helped teach Antonin how to play the violin later in his early life but he was also an innkeeper. His mother, Anna Zdenkova, was a servant in the house of Prince Lobkowitz and was the daughter of one of the Prince’s stewards. Prince Lobkowitz was ruler of Bohemia from 1772 to 1816 and was a friend and patron of Ludwig van Beethoven. His early childhood life was filled with musical encounters. He started off learning how to play the violin by his dad and the village schoolmaster, Josef Spitz. He started performing with his dad in ensembles and celebrations when he knew well enough how to play the violin. He was also taught how to read music and sang in the church choir as well. And at age 12, he had learned all the basic aspects of music....
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...UNITS 1 & 2 TYPING LOG Enter your words per minute (wpm) for each typing practice. At the end of Lessons 5 and 10, respond to the prompt. Your response should be three to four sentences. You will submit this log in Lesson 10. Unit 1 Lesson 1 Typing Pretest 7 ____ wpm Typing Practice 9 ____ wpm Lesson Average 8 ____ Lesson Average 6.5 ____ Lesson Average 10 ____ Lesson Average 10.5 ____ Lesson Average 15.5 ____ Lesson 2 6 Typing Practice 1 ____ wpm 7 Typing Practice 2 ____ wpm Lesson 3 10 Typing Practice 1 ____ wpm 10 Typing Practice 2 ____ wpm Lesson 4 9 Typing Practice 1 ____ wpm 12 Typing Practice 2 ____ wpm Lesson 5 16 Typing Practice 1 ____ wpm 15 Typing Practice 2 ____ wpm Unit Average 10.1 ____ What have I learned about the layout of the QWERTY keyboard? The layout of the QWERTY keyboard makes it easy to learn how to type without looking. This is the most common type of keyboard if not the only type of keyboard layout. This consistency helps an individual learn how to type with ease and even without looking. The keys are not going to change, so it is just up to the person to memorize where each key is. The resting of the hands on the home row helps one visualize where the keys are without looking and hunting for each one. Computer Basics Typing Log © 2013 by FlipSwitch. All rights reser ved. Ver. 1.0 (11/2013)—Page 1 of 2 Unit 2 Lesson 6 13 Typing Practice 1 ____ wpm 16 Typing Practice 2 ____ wpm Lesson Average 14.5 ____ Lesson Average 11...
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...6.1 Occlusion Because QAZ Keyboard is nearly placed at the center of screen, contents on the screen are occluded by the keyboard. To address this issue, we plan to test the following three design alternatives. Reduction of keyboard size The second solution is to reduce the size of the keyboard. Since QAZ Keyboard is surrounded by space, ick or drag outward from the keyboard can also be used along with tapping. By utilizing this, outside keys can be shrunken, because using ick or drag can reduce the number of keys required. In this case, however, the optimum region may be different from the one we used in this paper, because it is necessary to rede ne the size of regions smaller by evaluating accuracy of ick or drag. QAZ Keyboard: QWERTY based Portrait Soft Keyboard 11 Semi-transparent keyboard The third solution is to make the keyboard semi- transparent. Because when we input text, we do not look at contents except for input component. Accordingly, reducing the occlusion with the almost transparent keyboard will be feasible. 6.2 Orientation of keys Orientation of keys may change the learning cost of the QAZ Keyboard, thus is one of our future work. Note that this paper presents QAZ Keyboard with keys oriented to users, i.e., the letter on the top of a key is placed with the same orientation in both keyboards as shown in Figure 1 and 2. However, this arrangement destroys the orientation relationships between the entire keyboard and keys of the conventional QWERTY layout. While...
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...Keith Davis EGR 104 DATE \@ "MMMM d, y" March 30, 2014 Historical Tech Critical Review An inquiry of keyboard layouts A keyboard layout is the arrangement of the keys on a keyboard or typewriter. Rather than following, “A, B, C, D E, F…” you will notice that your keyboard follows the layout of “Q, W, E, R, T, Y”, known as the QWERTY keyboard layout. The creator of QWERTY, Christopher Latham Sholes, had originally invented a layout with a first mentioned style, where every letter follows an alphabetical order: - 3 5 7 9 N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 2 4 6 8 . A B C D E F G H I J K L M This soon became an issue with typewriters as the metal arms (typebars) would clash and jam. Sholes began to rearrange his keyboard layout so that commonly used letter combinations in the English language, such as “th” and “st” were further apart, thus preventing the typebars from jamming. Contrary to popular belief, this strategy was not to slow down the typist but rather speed them up by preventing jams. After many keyboard layout variations and Sholes’ collaboration with partners, it was eventually sold to E. Remington & Sons. From there, the company made many adjustments to QWERTY, eventually arriving at the modern layout most of us use today: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] \ A S D F G H J K L ; ' Z X C V B N M , . / To reiterate, this is currently the most popular keyboard layout, which makes it an indisputable success. Many things have lead to its domination...
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...any other female composer in the medieval era. She gained much experience while being part of the Divine office which she sang. She had many music forms that she used as a composer. Hildegard von Bingen used antiphons, responsories, sequences, and hymns. Hildegard von Bidgen was well known and will never be forgotten as a musical composer. She was laid to rest in 1179 but she still lives on in her musical work. Fierro, N. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: SYMOHONY OF THE HARMONY OF HEAVEN. 1997. 05 Novmeber 2012 <http://www.hildegard.org/music/music.html>. "Hildegard of Bingen." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2012. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Nov. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Hildegard of Bingen." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Nov. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Josquin Deprez Josquin Deprez was a Flemish composer during the Renaissance period when was from 1450-1600. Just as many other composers of history, he influenced the life of many others with...
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...Will Marion Cook is a name to reckon with in the history of black American music. “His great genius will always be a guiding star to those of us who remain,” black violinist Clarence Cameron White wrote on hearing of Cook’s death. Trumpeter Arthur Briggs called Cook “the greatest real musician ever.” Duke Ellington and Eubie Blake praised him as a mentor. Yet while Ellington’s and Blake’s careers are well documented, only academics can describe Cook’s. Even diehard fans of the American popular songbook are hard-pressed to name one of his songs. The first recording devoted to his work appeared only a few years ago, and Marva Griffin Carter’s 2008 biography, Swing Along, is the first since his death in 1944. In the end, the fact of Cook’s importance is better known than its reason. A significant composer, but of what? Didn’t he write something like the first black Broadway musical? Yes, but what else? The tale most often told about Cook has him returning from conservatory training at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1889 and performing a concert at Carnegie Hall. When a reviewer praised him as “the world’s greatest Negro violinist,” Cook stormed into his office, smashed his violin to bits on the man’s desk, and yelled, “I am not the world’s greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!” He never played the violin again. Cook’s words might suggest that racism explains his obscurity. Yet a few years later, Cook gave the world a song with these lyrics: Such...
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...Art history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the academic discipline of art history. For an overview of the history of art worldwide, see History of art. For other uses, see Art history (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2011) Venus de Milo on display at the Louvre Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style.[1] This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects. As a term, art history (also history of art) encompasses several methods of studying the visual arts; in common usage referring to works of art and architecture. Aspects of the discipline worms. As the art historian Ernst Gombrich once observed, "the field of art history [is] much like Caesar's Gaul, divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians".[2] As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual works with respect to others of...
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...Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress | Table of Contents Music History from Primary Sources An Introductory Essay Alfred Mann A vellum leaf, 22 by 17 cm., from a prayer book. The letter forms of early Gothic script suggest the twelfth century, or a period even earlier. Neumes (marked in red) are placed above the first four lines of the Latin text. The entire page is richly illuminated in black, red, and blue, with a heavy gold layer decorating the initial A for the phrase beginning "Adoro te." The leaf was obtained for the Moldenhauer Archives from the music dealer and publishing firm Schneider, Tutzing. The Art of Musical Notation In its primary sources, music merges with the representational arts. Oral tradition has played a fundamental role in all ages, but in its formal sense, history--and the history of music--begins with the visual record. Musical notation, having emerged on a wide scale in all civilizations, produced in itself a highly individual record of artistic endeavor. The medieval monks who compiled the missals and other liturgical books for the service of worship rose from their function as scribes to artists in their own right; among the greatest documents of Baroque art are the holographs by Bach; and an entirely novel phase in artistic musical score design was initiated in the twentieth century. The primary sources of music reproduced in this volume rely on various aspects of the graphic arts, but foremost among them stands the representation...
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...Rethinking the Networked Economy: The True Forces Driving the Digital Marketplace. By Stan Liebowitz Professor of Economics University of Texas at Dallas 2/3/2002 Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1 A. What you will find in later chapters............................................................ 3 Chapter 2: Basic Economics of the Internet.............................................................. 9 A. How the Internet creates value.................................................................... 9 B. Special Economics of the Internet, or maybe not so special..................... 13 i. Network effects......................................................................................... 13 ii. Economies of Scale................................................................................... 15 iii. Winner take all.......................................................................................... 17 C. How the Internet Alters the likelihood of Winner-take-all....................... 20 Chapter 3: Racing to be first: Faddish and Foolish ................................................. 25 A. From Winner-take-all to First-Mover-Wins ............................................. 26 B. The Concept of Lock-In............................................................................ 32 i. Strong Lock-In ...................................................................
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...Outline The overall objective of this research paper is to identify and address those aspects of alcoholism, which contribute to it as a medical disease. True, alcoholism has many ramifications for society as well as the economy, but the focus of this paper shall be, for the most part, on the medical aspects. In the way of background, alcoholism refers to the drinking of alcoholic beverages to such a degree that major aspects of the individual’s life -such as work, school, family relationships or personal SAFETY AND HEALTH, above all, are seriously and repeatedly interfered with. Alcoholism is considered a disease, meaning that it follows a characteristic course with known physical, psychological, and social systems. The alcoholic continues to consume alcohol despite the destructive consequences. Alcoholism is serious, progressive, and irreversible. If not treated, it can be fatal. It is generally thought that once the disease has developed, the alcoholic will not drink normally again. An alcoholic who abstains from drinking, however, can regain control over the aspects of life with which ALCOHOL interfered. The alcoholic is then said to be “recovering” not “cured” of the disease. It is important to note that the particular symptoms and pattern of DRINKING PROBLEMS may vary with the individual. ALCOHOLISM is, therefore, a very complex disorder, and it is this very complexity which has led some recent researchers to question the accuracy of the disease concept of alcoholism...
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...N E L L D A L E J O H N L E W I S illuminated computer science J O N E S A N D B A RT L E T T C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E computer science illuminated N E L L D A L E J O H N L E W I S computer science illuminated N E L L D A L E J O H N Villanova University L E W I S University of Texas, Austin Jones and Bartlett Publishers is pleased to provide Computer Science Illuminated’s book-specific website. This site offers a variety of resources designed to address multiple learning styles and enhance the learning experience. Goin’ Live This step-by-step HTML Tutorial will guide you from start to finish as you create your own website. With each lesson, you’ll gain experience and confidence working in the HTML language. Online Glossary We’ve made all the key terms used in the text easily accessible to you in this searchable online glossary. The Learning Store Jones and Bartlett Publishers has a wealth of material available to supplement the learning and teaching experience. Students and instructors will find additional resources here or at http://computerscience. jbpub.com The Language Library Here you will find two complete chapters that supplement the book’s language-neutral approach to programming concepts. A JAVA language chapter and C++ language chapter are included and follow the same pedagogical approach as the textbook. http://csilluminated.jbpub.com eLearning Our eLearning center provides chapter-specific...
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...McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. Course BBE 4505 Omar Espinoza University Of Minnesota NATURAL RESOURCES McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. http://create.mcgraw-hill.com Copyright 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. This McGraw-Hill Create text may include materials submitted to McGraw-Hill for publication by the instructor of this course. The instructor is solely responsible for the editorial content of such materials. Instructors retain copyright of these additional materials. ISBN-10: 1121789048 ISBN-13: 9781121789043 McGraw-Hill Create™ Review Copy for Instructor Espinoza. Not for distribution. Contents 1. Preface 1 2. Methods, Standards, and Work Design: Introduction 7 Problem-Solving Tools 27 3. Tex 29 4. Operation Analysis 79 5. Manual Work Design 133 6. Workplace, Equipment, and Tool Design 185 7. Work Environment Design 239 8. Design of Cognitive Work 281 9. Workplace and Systems Safety 327 10. Proposed Method Implementation 379 11. Time Study 413 12. Performance Rating and Allowances 447 13. Standard Data and Formulas 485 14. Predetermined Time Systems 507...
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