Straight edge - Straight edge If you are looking for the tool used in geometrical construction, see Straightedge. Straight edge is a lifestyle and subculture where, intentionally, and in the face of actual opportunities, one does not: Drink alcohol Smoke tobacco Use recreational drugs One can view Straight edge as a lifestyle only, or as a life-time commitment to ones self to stay away from the things listed above. There is not one main reason people choose to be straight edge. Typically, the lifestyle is used as a stepping stone to allow one to be more involved with ones mental and physical health. In doing so, one may find some straight-edge people do not intake caffeine, or they choose to be vegetarian or vegan. In its early days, straight.
Straightedge - used in geometry. For information on the subculture of the same name, you may want Straight edge instead. A straightedge is a tool similar to a ruler, but without markings. An straightedge is used in ruler-and-compass constructions. It may be used to: Given two points, draw the line connecting them. Given a point and a circle, draw either tangent. Given two circles, draw any of their common tangents. It may not be marked or used together with the compass so as to transfer the length of one segment to another. It is possible to do all straightedge-and-compass constructions without the straightedge. That is, it is possible, using only a compass, to find the intersection of two lines given two points on each, and to find the tangent points to circles. It.
Hard-edge - Hard-edge Hard-edge is a painting style that uses very straight and clean linear patterns and/or lines to create a 3-D effect on a 2-D surface, hence a canvas. Many tools can be used to do such work. Most often, normal tape can be used to make clean lines. Using a flat and very soft paintbrush can have a nice smooth look without seeing any of the marks usually left by rough bristles. Palette knives can also be used to create these patters. See also: abstract art.
Vegan Reich - formed by Sean Muttaqi, embracing something similar to a straight edge philosophy (they did not drink/do drugs), but taking it to a more extreme conclusion, ie, advocating the developement of a vegan society, where people that violate the laws of that society could possibly face 'extermination'. Followers of the band where sometimes also involved in the deep ecology movement called Hardline, expressing a rhetoric that seemed to be a strange hybrid of both anarchism and extreme authoritarianism (if you violated someones rights, you could be subject to losing your own). None of their record releases ever dented the Billboard Top 50, and for the time being omnivores the world over continue to sleep safe in their beds at night. See also: hardcore punk.
Knife - use a knife to pry or as a screwdriver. A piece is likely to break off the blade. In the woods, use the knife as a tool to make tools, rather than as the only tool. For example, rather than using it as a skewer, use it to cut skewers from a nontoxic wood. To cut thick wood, chopping with a knife is almost always faster than using a saw on the back of the knife. Sharpening The trick is to control the angle between the stone and knife. It should be constant. A tool is very helpful. Very sharp knives sharpen at 12 degrees. Typical knives sharpen at 22 degrees. Knives that chop may sharpen at 25 degrees. In short, the harder the material to be cut the larger the.
Jian - in a different Chinese dialect, and Kim in Korean) is a double-edged straight sword used during the last thousand years in China. Historical one-handed versions have blades varying from 18-32 inches in length. The weight of an average sword of 28 inches blade-length would be in a range of approximately 1.5-2 pounds. Hilt general article: hilt A guard protected the hand from an opposing blade. The shape of the guard could be described as short wings pointing either forward or backward depending on the era and region of manufacture. A grip behind the guard would accommodate one hand plus 2 or three fingers of the other hand. Some two-handed Jian were used, although not nearly as common as the one-handed version. The end of the handle was finished with a pommel.
Viking program - m solar panels, two on each wing. The solar panels were made up of a total of 34,800 solar cells and produced 620 W of power at Mars. Power was also stored in 2 nickel-cadmium 30 amp-hr batteries. The main propulsion unit was mounted above the orbiter bus. Propulsion was furnished by a bipropellant (monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide) liquid-fueled rocket engine which could be gimballed up to 9 degrees. The engine was capable of 1323 N thrust, translating to a delta-V of 1480 m/s. Attitude control was achieved by 12 small compressed-nitrogen jets. An acquisition Sun sensor, a cruise Sun sensor, a Canopus star tracker and an inertial reference unit consisting of 6 gyroscopes allowed three-axis stabilization. Two accelerometers were also on board. Communications were accomplished through a 20 W.
Zack de la Rocha - destroy his paintings -- paintings which had helped him establish a sense of Chicano identity. After a while, he was unable to cope with this lifestyle, and stayed with his mother in Irvine, which at the time was "perhaps one of the whitest cities" in Southern California. The lifestyle Beto forced upon Zack brought on culture shock, and an identity crisis. He was alienated from the Chicano community, and was an outsider in the California suburbs where Chicanos were typically only seen doing menial work. In high school, he became involved in the punk and hardcore scene, and played guitar and sang for a straight edge band called Hardstance. His interest in bands like the Sex Pistols and Bad Religion turned into an appreciation for other bands like Minor Threat, Bad.
Ian MacKaye - singer for The Teen Idles, Minor Threat and Embrace and guitarist/singer for Fugazi. He is credited with starting the straight edge philosophy and is one of the pioneers of the DIY punk ethic. External Link Dischord Records.
Vickers Valiant - anything the US or the USSR had. The request went to most of England's major aircraft manufacturers. While the Short Brothers submitted a design that was judged too ambitious, the Air Staff accepted another submission from the company for a separate requirement, B.14/46, to provide a very conservative bomber design as "insurance" in case the advanced B.35/46 effort ran into trouble. The Shorts design was became the S.A.4 Sperrin. A prototype Sperrin was completed and flew in 1951, but it was basically a World War II bomber with jet engines on straight wings and tail. The engine fit was unusual, with nacelles accommodating twin Rolls-Royce Avon turbojets arranged in a top-and-bottom fashion. Improvements in aeronautical design and engineering had passed it by before it ever flew, and though a second prototype.
International Commission on Illumination - three-dimensional colour space into two artificial dimensions of colour (collectively called chromaticity) and one of intensity, and then took a two-dimensional slice through this space at the level of maximum intensity. This slice became the chromaticity diagram. Incidentally, this technique of converting a three-dimensional colour space to a combination of chromaticity and intensity is also used in colour television. The gamut of all visible colours on the CIE plot is a tongue-shaped or horseshoe-shaped figure, with the curved edge corresponding to the colours of the visible spectrum and the straight edge (the purple line) corresponding to non-spectral shades of purple. Less saturated colours appear in the interior of the figure, with white at the centre. A three-dimensional figure can be made by plotting the CIE's chromaticity on two axes and intensity.
Inside Out - Machine's Zack de la Rocha was the frontman. (Before fronting Inside Out, he also played guitar in a straight edge band called Hardstance, and another band called Farside.) Their existence was relatively brief -- they released a single 7" EP, No Spiritual Surrender (album), in 1990, on Revelation Records. They played several shows and even toured the east coast once before their breakup in 1991. They had written material for a second record, to be titled Rage Against the Machine (whence the name for de la Rocha's next band came), but the band broke up shortly after their guitarist, Vic DiCara, left the band to become a Hare Krishna monk. Inside Out's was composed of the following: Zack de la Rocha (vocals) Vic DiCara (guitar) Mark Hayworth (bass) Chris Bratton (drums).
Hardcore punk - violently expressive. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 American hardcore 3 British Hardcore 4 Diversification of influences 5 Hardcore Bands 5.1 General 5.2 Straight Edge 5.3 Pacifist/anarchist 5.4 Hindu/Hare Krishna 5.5 Hardcore-Metal 5.6 Irrealist 5.7 Acapella 5.8 Emotional Hardcore (Emo) 6 Reference History Hardcore originated in the United States, primarily in and around major cities like Los Angeles, Washington D.C, New York City, and Boston, as a vehicle for expressing urban and suburban teen angst. Commentator Steven Blush claimed (in American Hardcore: A Tribal History) that hardcore was punk rock adapted for suburban teens. Most hardcore bands had lyrical themes that ranged from righteous indignation at societal hypocrisy--both within and without the punk scene itself--to promotion of some form of anarchism. American hardcore Like the British punk wave of 1976.
Hard-line - A different sense of the word is treated here. Hardline is commonly considered to be a more extreme form of straight-edge. The most obvious thing that sets hardline apart is its defence-of-all-life philosophy, which means being both vegan and pro-life. Hardliners typically advocate violence in the furtherance of their beliefs, whereas straight-edge is generally considered to be personal. They also tend to uphold the principle of living naturally, which can encompass everything from organic food to not cutting one's hair. Most hardliners are also religious, generally Christian..
Hip hop music - a form of folk music. MCs could be creative, pairing nonsense rhymes and teasing friends and enemies alike in front of crowds (this teasing was similar to the Jamaican practice of toasting at blues parties). Another reason for hip hop's rise was the decline of disco, funk and rock in the mid- to late 70s. Disco arose among blacks and gay males in America, and quickly spread to Europe. Once disco broke into the mainstream in the United States, its original fans and many other listeners instantly rejected it as pre-packaged and soul-less. While many remember the white teens shouting "disco sucks" at every available opportunity, inner-city blacks were similarly rejecting disco and disco-fied rock, soul and funk (which was virtually everything on the radio at the time). If disco had.
History of golf instruction - concentration primarily on a long-running disagreement as to whether an open stance or a closed stance was the better way to address the guttie, which for all it’s low cost was something of a dodo and difficult to put into the air. The controversy was only truly resolved when the modern wound (Haskell) ball appeared in the early 1900’sand made the guttie obsolete. At roughly the same point in time as the Haskell, golf instruction was advanced even more directly by the arrival of the touring professional golfer. Soaring popularity and plummeting travel costs ushered in the barnstorming era when golfers such as Harry Vardon could earn a living from personal appearances, tournament purses, and exhibition matches, avoiding the low status and even lower pay of the golf club professional. Vardon's.
House music - the stamina of the clubbers. The disco boom was short-lived. There was a backlash from Middle America, epitomised in Steve Dahl's Anti-Disco Rally in 1979. Disco returned to the smaller clubs like the Warehouse in Chicago. Opened in 1977 the Warehouse in Chicago was a key venue in the development of House music. The main DJ was Frankie Knuckles. The club staples were still the old disco tunes but the limited number of records meant that the DJ had to be a creative force, introducing more deck work to revitalise old tunes. The new mixing skills also had local airplay with the Hot Mix 5 at WBMX. The chief source of this kind of records in Chicago was the record-store "Imports Etc." where the term House was introduced as a shortening.
Hogwarts - kitchens. Kitchens The kitchens are located directly under the Great Hall and contains tables that are identical to the house tables in the Great Hall. The kitchens are staffed by over 100 house-elves. Ground Floor Entrance Hall The Entrance Hall is entered through double oak front doors that face to the west. The Entrance Hall is very large and has a wide marble staircase opposite the front door leading to the first floor. As well as two other staircases, one which leads to the Hufflepuff Common Room and the Kitchens and the other which leads to the dungeons. Great Hall The Great Hall contains the four house tables (one for each house) and the teachers' staff table. The celling is enchanted so it mirrors the sky outside. Staff Room The staff.
How to swim - with water, sink to the bottom, and become fixed with one of the points upwards. If human habitations should be near, beware of broken glass and crockery, fragments of which are generally thrown into the river, and will inflict most dangerous wounds of trodden on. If the bed of the stream should be in the least muddy, look for mussels, which lie imbedded almost to their sharp edges, that project upwards and cut the feet nearly as badly as broken glass. Failing sea or river, a pond or canal is the only resource, and furnishes the very worst kind of water. The bed of most ponds is studded with all kinds of cutting and piercing objects, which are thrown in by careless boys and remain where they fell. Then, the bottom.
Galois theory - for the very purpose of describing symmetries of roots. Galois theory has many applications to such classic mathematical problems as "Which regular polygons can be constructed in the classical way with straight edge and compass?" and "Why can't an angle be trisected?" (again, in the classical way with straight edge and compass) and "Why isn't there a formula for the roots of a 5th or higher degree polynomial in terms of the usual algebraic operations (+,-,*,/) and the taking of n-th roots?" (The Abel-Ruffini theorem.) What exactly do we mean when we say "symmetries of roots of polynomials"? Such a symmetry is a permutation of the roots such that any algebraic equation which is satisfied by the roots is still satisfied after the roots have been permuted. These permutations form a.
