...MERCHANT SHIPPING NOTICE MSN 1781 (M+ F) The Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996 Notice to Owners, Masters, Skippers, Officers and Crews of Merchant Ships, Fishing Vessels, Pleasure Vessels, Yachts and Other Seagoing Craft. This notice takes immediate effect and supersedes MSN M.1642/COLREG 1 Summary This Notice and the Rules referred to in it are an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996, which came into force on 1 May 1996. These Regulations implement the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended. They enhance safe navigation, by prescribing the conduct of vessels underway, specify the display of internationally-understood lights and sound signals and set out collision avoidance actions in close quarter situations. This notice incorporates amendments to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, up to and including those annexed to IMO Resolution A.910(22). In accordance with the Convention, the latest amendments come into force internationally on 29 November 2003. 1. Introduction This Notice and the Rules referred to in it are an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (Distress Signals and Prevention of Collisions) Regulations 1996, which came into force on 1 May 1996. These Regulations implement the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at...
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... Soft, even light is often desirable in a beautiful photograph whether provided by shade, the weather, or the time of day. When making good photographs, it is also important to pay close attention to the direction of the light. There is no direction of light that is always best, and the photographer must learn to judge what is best in every picture he takes. One direction is backlight, which is where the light source is directly behind the subject. When exposed correctly, this type of light can be one of the most beautiful, often giving off a golden glow behind the subject. Sidelight can only be created outside in the early morning and in the evening when the sun is at a low enough angle. Sidelight allows the photographer to be more selective in what he or she lights, and can add depth to subject as Rembrandt did in many of his paintings. When the sun is directly overhead, neither backlight or sidelight can be created naturally, and the photographer must endeavor to conquer the harsh shadows it creates with complex equipment. In order to make a good photograph, one must pay careful attention to the color of light, the intensity of light, and the direction of light. Light changes constantly, both as time passes and from location to location. While one's eyes adjust naturally, the camera must constantly be adjusted by a photographer who has mastered seeing the variations of light. Once the photographer has begun to master these elements, color, intensity, and direction can be...
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...------------------------------------------------- Comparing two articles about the same incident Both texts are about a woman named Laura Jane Lamont, who was driving too fast because she had a sick father at home, waiting. The police waved to her, but she had impaled up to 70 mph. The police caught her first when she got home. Laura was fined £ 20 and had taken his license for, a year. Text A is very simple text because there are not many details about her, and the history is very direct. There are used longer sentences and the way it is written is frozen and there is not so many emotions in the text. There is much focus on the situation itself and the subsequent judgment. Such kind of text can be found in, the newspaper "The Gardian”. In text B focuses more on the Jane Lomant 's history and situation. Text B is very detailed, caring, and understanding in relation to the text A. This kind of text can for example be found in the newspaper, "The Daily Mirror". A prime example is started with "A hat designer, Laura Jane Lamont " in the text A, which only told about what she is, while the text B is started , more affectionately , "Lovely fashion -girl Laura Lamont " . Here you can also see the difference in terms of the three different texts. In the two texts, there is another difference that is eye-catching. It is the facts they give in the texts, they both have a hand facts, but in text A, there is more focus on the time when it happened i.e. date and her age. And in text...
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...federal funds. In 1840, he established a 10-hour day on public works. Defeated by Harrison in 1840, he was the leading contender for the Democratic nomination in 1844 until he publicly opposed immediate annexation of Texas, and was subsequently beaten by the Southern delegations at the Baltimore convention. This incident increased his growing misgivings about the slave power (Niven). After working behind the scenes among the anti-slavery Democrats, Van Buren joined in the movement that led to the Free-Soil Party and became its candidate for president in 1848. He subsequently returned to the Democratic Party while continuing to object to its pro-Southern policy. He died in Kinderhook on July 24, 1862. His autobiography throws valuable sidelights on the political history of the...
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...federal funds. In 1840, he established a 10-hour day on public works. Defeated by Harrison in 1840, he was the leading contender for the Democratic nomination in 1844 until he publicly opposed immediate annexation of Texas, and was subsequently beaten by the Southern delegations at the Baltimore convention. This incident increased his growing misgivings about the slave power (Niven). After working behind the scenes among the anti-slavery Democrats, Van Buren joined in the movement that led to the Free-Soil Party and became its candidate for president in 1848. He subsequently returned to the Democratic Party while continuing to object to its pro-Southern policy. He died in Kinderhook on July 24, 1862. His autobiography throws valuable sidelights on the political history of the times. Sources: Niven, John. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics. American Political Biography Press, 2000. Print....
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...Chapter 1: Media Research Rhetoric Tradition-deals with conviction and persuasion Semiotic Tradition- deeper meaning by various words and actions Socio psychological-deals how human interaction influences people Socio Cultural Tradition-bond of society. Allows to study the role of communication in maintaining or changing the current social order. Critical Tradition-May be very oppressive Chapter 2: Media Ethics, Culture, Education and Society Formal or aesthetic aspects. Students are familiarised with the conventions of the language of different media. As a result students will be able to “read" the media. Content aspect Students are also empowered to assess critically the message that the media present and be able to judge the values and life styles portrayed. Societal aspects Students learn that media messages are produced by organizations with definite ownership structures and which operate according to particular production techniques. These organizations work within a society which influences the media while it is itself influenced by the media. Production aspects Students are helped to "write" with the media by being given the possibility and the opportunity to express themselves through their own productions Chapter 3: Good News is No News Inverted pyramid- a good hard news story Boyd keys to success believes that one must believe in himself, has a passion for what he does and have a balance in order to succeed. Chapter 4: Journalism Censorship...
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...the Mexican War, and not reestablished until 1861 for the Civil War. On July 3, 1862, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry fired rockets at Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Union troops at Harrison's Landing, VA. This was the first recorded use of rockets in the Civil War. Later that year, British-born Major Thomas W. Lion used rockets against The Confederates defending Richmond and Yorktown, VA. The rockets were fired by the Union Army's New York Rocket Battalion. There were 160 men under the command of Major Lion (Ibid, 2). “The only other documented use of rockets is at Charleston, S.C. Maj. Gen. Alexander Schimmelfennig found rockets ‘especially practical in driving off Confederate picket boats, especially at night". As a sidelight, Burke Davis wrote the book Our Incredible Civil War. In it he tells a tale of a Confederate attempt to fire a ballistic missile at Washington, D.C. The missile was fired from just outside Richmond, Va. The missile, 12-foot-long, solid-fueled rocket, carried a 10-pound gunpowder warhead in a brass case engraved with the letters C.S.A. It was ignited and seen to roar rapidly up and out of sight. However, no one ever saw the rocket land. It is interesting to speculate whether a satellite marked with the initials of the Confederate States of America might have been launched into orbit. This occurred over 100 years before Sputnik. During the First World War, rockets were first fired from aircraft. They were attempting to shoot down enemy hydrogen...
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...even when the main character of the main story, Hamlet, came on stage. I knew the whole time I was suppose to be following their story and not what the other characters were doing in the background. Being in a thrust stage, and having the top of the pillars in the way, I understood that lighting the show would be a more difficult task. The designer took that most of the first act was going to be happening mostly downstage and kept that area lit where whoever and wherever the actor stood in this spot could be seen from the audience by all sides. I noticed many of the actors in this play wore big. wide hats, which I would think be a difficult task to overcome to be able to see the actors’ faces, specially since there was no way to direct sidelight or uplight. But the designer was able to still manage to light up the features on the face, where you could directly see any emotion written on the face. The designer was able to keep the focus on certain parts of the stage when needed. For example, when act two started there was little to no light on the downstage area, it was all directed to the platforms in the upstage. I felt the designer gave the right amount of light to show mood, visibility, angles, etc. to the set and acting that was given to him to work with. The first Act to me was. in my opinion, hard to tell when a cue change happened. By the time I started to watch the lights shut on and off slowly I started seeing slight contrast change as the Act 1 went on. Maybe it was...
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...Index: |S. no. |Topic |Page no. | |1 |Abstract |5 | |2 |Introduction |6 | |3 |Methodology |7 | |4 |Liquid crystals |8 | |5 |Working Principle and operation |9 | |6 |Types of LCDs |12 | |7 |Advantages of LCDs |13 | |8 |Disadvantages of LCDs |14 | |9 |Applications of LCDs |16 | |10 |Discussions |19 | |11 |Conclusions |20 | |12 |References |21 | Abstract: Today we see items containing an LCD (liquid crystal display) everywhere. They are all around us -- in laptop computers, digital clocks and watches, microwave ovens, CD...
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...altered over several time periods and by many different owners. The original structure is a brick town house built in the Georgian Style. Robert Sewall contracted the main section of the house in 1799 however, the type of brick used on the section of the house facing Second Street NE, on the west side of the structure indicates that this area was built much earlier, anywhere from 1680-1750. This area of the house is now the kitchen of the Sewall Belmont House. The way the house stands today is a rectangular, two and one half stores high set on a raised basement. The house is joined at the northeast corner with attachments at the kitchen and the stable. The main façade is three bays across with a central doorway. The front door features sidelights on both sides and a keystone molded archway. A double staircase leads to the central entrance. The Georgian style floor plan is based around a center...
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...The column you’re reading is at least in part the result of an accident – a happy one, I hasten to add. A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with the philosopher Christopher Hamilton, discussing the question of whether a world without pain is an appropriate goal for mankind or whether pain serves some additional positive purpose other than the obvious biological one of directing us away from things that might harm us (a topic, perhaps, for a future column). Meeting Christopher after a long interval reminded me of his excellent book Living Philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning and Morality (2001). The volume includes a fascinating essay entitled ‘The Need to Sleep’, where he notes that philosophers have not paid sufficient attention to this extraordinary phenomenon. Well, a decade on, this is the beginning of a response to Christopher’s wake-up call. For sleep is rather extraordinary. If I told you that I had a neurological disease which meant that for eight or more hours a day I lost control of my faculties, bade farewell to the outside world, and was subject to complex hallucinations and delusions – such as being chased by a grizzly bear at Stockport Railway Station – you would think I was in a pretty bad way. If I also claimed that the condition was infectious, you would wish me luck in coping with such a terrible disease, and bid me a hasty farewell. Of course, sleep is not a disease at all, but the condition of daily (nightly) life for the vast majority of us...
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...New South Wales Government Procurement System for Construction Space Procurement Practice Guide Building project elements July 2008 Procurement Practice Guide Procurement method selection Important notices Current version The current version of this Procurement Practice Guide is maintained on the Internet at: http://www.nswprocurement.com.au/Procurement-System-for-Construction/Reference-material/Procurementpractice-guides.aspx Amendments Refer to the Procurement Practice Guide Amendments Log which is available on the Internet at: http://nswprocurement.com.au/psc/ppg/amendments.aspx Copyright This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth), no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. © NSW Government 2008 Requests and enquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to: NSW Procurement Client Support Centre: Telephone: 1800 NSW BUY (1800 679 289) Email: nswp_support@commerce.nsw.gov.au Using hyperlinks in this document This Procurement Practice Guide contains embedded hyperlinks and Uniform Resource Locators (URL). To follow a hyperlink or URL: Right mouse click; and Select “Open in web browser” in the drop-down box. July 2008 ©NSW Government Page ii Building project elements Guidance notes This guide is provided to assist with the preparation of GC21 tender schedules titled „schedule of information for “Schedule 3 – Progress Claims Worksheet” This guide...
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...Pioneer Savings and Loan Late in the third quarter of 1994, the board of directors of Pioneer Savings and Loan of Orlando, Florida requested that their president, Herbert Jones, submit a recommendation on whether or not to grant branch managers a cash bonus that year. According to the company’s Management by Objectives (MBO) system, the granting of yearly bonuses was contingent upon the attainment of specific corporate profit objectives, in addition to the individual manager’s performance against pre-established MBO targets. Earnings in 1994 were targeted for a 15% increase over the 1993 profit. This 15% growth objective was established late in 1993 when management fully expected that Pioneer Savings could continue compounding the growth at a rate of 15% to 20% per annum it had achieved in the previous few years. But a variety of factors had conspired to hit Pioneer Savings’ bottom line hard in 1994. An active hurricane season had brought with it torrential rains, washing away millions of tourist dollars. Many locals had been forced to withdraw (rather than add to) savings to meet living expenses, which depleted Pioneer’s assets against which to make loans. Perhaps related to lower numbers of northern visitors was a mini-glut in housing, and the construction industry had slowed (albeit briefly) to a crawl. Finally, what house buyers there were seemed more and more to be arriving in Orlando with allegiances to their home northern financial institutions in...
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...the still dominant Adam ("Federal" in U.S.) style in domestic architecture. The popularity of Greek Revival led it to be called the National Style. Newly established towns throughout the country even took names such as Athens, Sparta, and Ithaca. Identifying features: * Most have porticos (either entry or full-width) supported by prominent square or rounded columns, typically of Doric style, but also Ionic and Corinthian * Gabled or hipped roof of low pitch * Cornice line of main roof and porch roofs emphasized with wide band of trim (this represents the classical entablature and is usually divided into two parts: the frieze above and architrave below) * Enormous windows and doors * Front door surrounded by narrow sidelights and a rectangular line of transom lights above, door and lights usually incorporated into more elaborate door surround (ancient Greek structures did not use arches) * Window sashes most commonly with six-pane glazing * Small frieze-band windows, set into the wide trim beneath the cornice (attic), are...
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...362 Chapter 9. Root Finding and Nonlinear Sets of Equations } a=b; fa=fb; if (fabs(d) > tol1) b += d; else b += SIGN(tol1,xm); fb=(*func)(b); Move last best guess to a. Evaluate new trial root. Sample page from NUMERICAL RECIPES IN C: THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (ISBN 0-521-43108-5) Copyright (C) 1988-1992 by Cambridge University Press. Programs Copyright (C) 1988-1992 by Numerical Recipes Software. Permission is granted for internet users to make one paper copy for their own personal use. Further reproduction, or any copying of machinereadable files (including this one) to any server computer, is strictly prohibited. To order Numerical Recipes books or CDROMs, visit website http://www.nr.com or call 1-800-872-7423 (North America only), or send email to directcustserv@cambridge.org (outside North America). } nrerror("Maximum number of iterations exceeded in zbrent"); return 0.0; Never get here. } CITED REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: Brent, R.P. 1973, Algorithms for Minimization without Derivatives (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall), Chapters 3, 4. [1] Forsythe, G.E., Malcolm, M.A., and Moler, C.B. 1977, Computer Methods for Mathematical Computations (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall), §7.2. 9.4 Newton-Raphson Method Using Derivative Perhaps the most celebrated of all one-dimensional root-finding routines is Newton’s method, also called the Newton-Raphson method. This method is distinguished from the methods of previous sections by the fact that...
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