Flexible baton round - Flexible baton round The flexible baton round is the trademarked name for a type of non-lethal kinetic projectile, it is more widely known as a beanbag round. It is typically fired from a shotgun and is used by civil and military forces, mainly in the USA. The shotgun type round consists of a strong nylon fabric bag filled with around 40 grams of lead shot. This bag is then fitted within a standard 12-gauge shotgun shell. When fired the bag is expelled at around 70-90 m/s, it spreads out in flight and distributes its impact over about 6 cm² of the target. It is designed to deliver a blow that will cause minimum long-term trauma and no penetration but briefly render the target prone and immobile..
NeoStead 2000 - NS2000 include a full 18" barrel in a weapon with an overall length of 20". The short length makes this weapon easier to handle in close quarter situations, while accurate at relatively long ranges. The long barrel length is achieved by using a bullpup configuration, with a rear-fed loading and a tubular magazine. Another aspect of the NS2000 is its dual six round magazines. This allows two types of rounds to be used interchangeably. For example in riot conditions non-lethal flexible baton rounds can be used with standard rounds in reserve. Its pump mechanism operates in a forward-back motion, due to it's rear-load configuration. This is different from conventional pump methods as the pump action is achieved by shifting the trigger hand back-forward, as opposed to the standard forward-back motion of.
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Riot - them, rioting would be a daily occurrence. To control riots often non-lethal weapons are used, such as water cannons, rubber bullets, flexible baton rounds and riot control agent. Deadly force is used in some repressive countries to stop riots, particularly if martial law is declared or in a country at war. This is generally permissible under the laws of war so long as nonparticipating civilians are not intended targets. Collateral damage is a usual result. Riots in Newark, New Jersey See also Riot control: police, Riot control agent, paramilitary, military, Riot laws: Riot Act, Tools of Riot: CS gas, Plastic bullet, Rubber bullet, Molotov cocktail, Types of Riot: Race riot, Anarchism, Black bloc, Hooliganism, Demonstration, List of riots.
Projectile - spears are generally tipped with sharp metallic or lithic artifacts called projectile points that allow them to more easily penetrate a target, although some types of arrows used for hunting are designed to stun or kill through shock rather than to penetrate. Projectiles designed to be non-lethal, for example for use against riots, include rubber bullets and flexible baton rounds. See bow (weapon), atlatl, and gunpowder..
James Nasmyth - Great Western had been so successful in voyaging between Bristol and New York, led to him being asked to make some machine tools of unusual size and power which were required for the construction of the engines of their next and bigger ship SS Great Britain. When even the largest hammer was tilted to its full height its range was so small that if a really large piece of work were placed on the anvil, the hammer had no room to fall. Faced with this dilemma the constructional engineer wrote to Nasmyth. Nasmyth thought the matter over and seeing the obvious defects of the tilt-hammer, that a small object was struck a heavy blow while a large object, which required a much heavier blow, received only a light one, sketched out.
Juniper - than 30 m (100 ft) tall, and more than 120 cm (four feet) in diameter. Its sky blue berries are used to flavor gin and as kidney medicine. They furnish winter food for wildlife and the tiny wingless seeds are scattered by birds. This species is a host for Apple rust. The red cedar's fine-grained brittle wood -- pinkish red to brownish red, surrounded by a thin layer of white sapwood -- is very fragrant, very light and very durable in soil. It is in great demand for pencils, cigar boxes, fence posts, poles, woodenware, canoes, and lining for clothes chests and closets. Moths avoid it. Cedar oil is distilled from the twigs and leaves. Because of its shreddy reddish bark, which peels off in narrow fibrous strips, French traders named.
Fixed point - In computing, a fixed-point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits after the decimal (or binary or hexadecimal) point. For example, a fixed-point number with 4 digits after the decimal point could be used to store numbers such as 1.3467, 281243.3234 and 0.1000, but would round 1.0301789 to 1.0302 and 0.0000654 to 0.0001. As long as the numeric value uses only the number of digits specified after the decimal point, fixed-point values can exactly represent all values up to its maximum value (determined by the number of bits in its representation). This is in contrast to floating-point representations, which include an automatically-managed exponent but cannot represent as many digits accurately (given the same number of bits in its representation). A common.
Flax - for the production of linen goes back 5000 years. Pictures on tombs and temple walls at Thebes depict flowering flax plants. The use of flax fibre in the manufacturing of cloth in Northern Europe dates back to pre-Roman times. In the USA flax was introduced by the Pilgrim fathers. Currently all flax produced in the USA and Canada are seed flax types for the production of linseed oil or flaxseeds for human nutrition. Flax fibre is soft, lustrous and flexible. It is stronger than cotton fibre but less elastic. The best grades are used for linen fabrics such as damasks, lace and sheeting. Coarser grades are used for the manufacturing of twine and rope. Flax fibre is also a raw material for the high quality paper industry for the use of.
Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - 24 February 1863 and captain on 23 February 1866, being then appointed to the command of the frigate HMS Galatea. In the Queen's Birthday Honors in May 1866, the prince was created Duke of Edinburgh and Earl of Ulster and of Kent, with an annuity of £15,000 granted by Parliament. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 8 June. Having created him a Knight of the Garter on 24 May 1863, the Queen also conferred upon the Duke of Edinburgh the Knighthoods of the Thistle (Scotland) and St. Patrick (Ireland), as well as Grand Crosses of the Orders of the Bath, the Star of India, St. Michael and St. George, the Indian Empire, and the Royal Victorian Order. In addition, he held the principal foreign orders of chivalry.
Drunkenness - drinking in a social setting significally and dramatically altered their behaviour immediately after the first sip of alcohol, well before the chemical itself could have filtered through to the nervous system. Excessive doses The effect alcohol has on the NMDA receptors, earlier responsible for pleasurable stimulation, turns from a blessing to a curse later in the evening if further alcohol is consumed. NMDA receptors start to become unresponsive, slowing thought in the areas of the brain they are responsible for. Contributing to this effect is the activity which alcohol induces in the gamma-aminobutyric acid system (GABA). The GABA systen is known to inhibit activity in the brain, and would cause other areas to slow down. GABA could also be responsible for the memory impairment that many people experience. It has been.
Diaphragm - out by the elasticity of the lung and the tissues lining the thoracic cavity. The diaphragm also helps to expel vomit, feces, and urine from the body and produces the pressure necessary for coughing and sneezing. A hiccup occurs when the diaphragm contracts periodically without voluntary control. A hiatal hernia is a tear in the diaphragm. There are three main apertures (or holes) in the diaphragm, one each for the inferior vena cava, aorta and oesophagus. Mechanics A diaphragm is a sheet of a semi-flexible material, anchored at its periphery, and most often round in shape. It serves either as a barrier between two chambers, moving slightly up into one chamber or down into the other depending on differences in pressure, or as a device that vibrates when certain frequencies are.
Data storage device - older/archaic media. Flash memory/memory card (solid state semiconductor memory) Compact Flash I and II SONY Memory stick (Std/Duo/Pro/MagicGate versions) Secure Digital MMC USB flash disk (a.k.a. "thumb drive") Magnetic bubble memory Disk storage (flat, round, circularly spinning object) Optical disc like CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, Blue Ray Hard disk (magnetic) Floppy disk, ZIP disk (removable) (magnetic) Gramophone record (used for distributing some 1980s home computer programs) (mechanical) Tape storage (long, thin, flexible, linearly moving bands) Magnetic tape (a tape passing one or more read/write/erase heads) Paper tape (mechanical) Paper card storage Punched card (mechanical) As of 2003, it is expected that in the future, miniaturization might lead to the invention of storage devices that store bits using one single atom each (Bekenstein, 2003). References Bekenstein, Jacob.
Aerial refueling - and receiver system and the probe and drogue system. USAF KC-135R Stratotanker, two F-15ss (twin fins) and two F-16ss, on an aerial refueling training mission. Boom and receiver The boom is a long, rigid, hollow shaft, usually fitted to the rear of the aircraft. (It almost connects the two lower aircraft in the picture at right.) It usually has a telescoping extension, a valve at the end to keep fuel in and permit it to flow, and small wings, sometimes known as ruddevators depending on design particulars (visible in picture below, in the "V" shape), to enable it to be "flown" into the receiver of the aircraft to be refueled. This receiver is fitted onto the top of the aircraft, on its centerline and usually either behind or close in front.
Afghanistan timeline 1981-1985 - Karmal announces a new set of proposals for negotiations with Pakistan and Iran, either separately or together; this is a slight departure from proposals he made in May and in December 1980. The democratic revolutionary government of Afghanistan, he says, will be prepared to hold tripartite talks with Pakistan and Iran under the aegis of UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim or his representative. The government wants a political settlement that would ensure "a full and reliable end to armed and other interference from outside into Afghanistan's internal affairs, and the creation of conditions under which such interference would be excluded in future." The Soviet troops could withdraw if such international guarantees were given and implemented. Iran, itself going through a period of internal chaos, reacts negatively to the Kabul proposal, while Pakistan.
Archery - (and eccentric pulleys on the opposite side of the riser (handle)). Symmetrical bows are easier to make and use but many cultures have nonetheless developed assymetrical bows. The projectiles shot by bows are arrows. A standard archery target has five colored rings each divided in two bands. each band of the target has the same width, The central two bands (bullseye, 10 points) and the ring valued at 9 points are yellow. The next two bands from the center out (7, 8) are red. The 6 and 5 rings are blue; the 3 and the 4 are white and the lowest, outer bands are black. When counting points, an arrow shaft that breaks the line dividing two zones is counted as being in the higher zone. Most archery competitions have the.
Chair - 5.6 18th century chairs 6 Phrases relating to chairs 7 References Types of chairs An Aeron chair is an ergnomic trademarked chair. A barber's chair swivels and has easily adjusted heights to make it easy for the barber. It may also recline for washing hair. It typically has footrests as the height may be adjusted and raise the patron's feet off the floor. For children's barbershops, the chairs may come in fanciful shapes such as horses and cars to distract the children while their hair is cut. A Barcelona chair class="external">[1 is a proprietary chair characterized by leather upholstery, backward sloping seat, reclined back and no armrests. A barrel chair [1] is a chair with a high round back like half a barrel. It is large and upholstered. Beanbag chairs are.
Coaxial cable - Coaxial cable is an electrical cable consisting of a round, insulated conducting wire surrounded by a round, conducting sheath, usually surrounded by a final insulating layer. The cable is designed to carry a high-frequency or broadband signal, usually at radio frequencies. Sometimes DC power (called bias) is added to the signal to supply the equipment at the other end, such in direct broadcast satellite receivers. Because the electromagnetic field carrying the signal exists (ideally) only in the space between the inner and outer conductors, it cannot interfere with or suffer interference from external electromagnetic fields. Coaxial cables may be rigid or flexible. Rigid types have a solid sheath, while flexible types have a braided sheath, both usually of copper. The inner insulator, also called the dielectric, has a significant effect on.
Scorpion - Arthropoda. Physical characteristics Scorpions are distinguishable at a glance from all the other arachnids by having the last five segments of the body modified to form a highly flexible tail, armed at the end with a sting consisting of a vesicle holding a pair of poison glands, and of a sharp spine behind the tip of which the ducts of the glands open. Like spiders they have four pairs of walking legs; but the legs of the second pair form a couple of powerful pincers, and those of the first pair two much smaller flippers. They feed entirely upon animal food, principally upon insects such as beetles or other ground species, although the larger kinds have been known to kill small lizards and mice. The sting The large pincers are studded.
Snake - snakes are non-venomous or have venom that is not harmful to humans, and are Colubrid. Australia is an exception - most snakes in Australia are extremely venomous and should be given a very wide berth. All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals, birds or insects. Snakes do not chew their food. Snakes have very flexible lower jaws, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, allowing them to open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if it is larger in diameter than the snake itself. Contrary to the popular myth, at no point do they "unhinge" their jaws (disarticulate their mandibular joints). After eating, snakes become torpid while the process of digestion takes place. The skin is covered in scales. Most snakes use specialized belly scales.
