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Cartoonist Jim Wilkins helpfully suggests 101 occupations which may be suitable for a redundant lord, from window cleaner, busker, draught excluder and weather vane, to GM-food taster, flood barrier, Lollipop Lord and inflatable swimming platform. ... Read more

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Written by a top team of industry professionals, this must-have guide will introduce you to everything you'll need to know about MXF.The MXF Book introduces and explains the MXF standard and helps engineers write MXF applications.The book also explains the reasons behind many details of the specification documents.

* The only complete introductory resource on MXF
* Written by the key authors of the standard
* The book includes video, audio, metadata, television, film, and multimedia ... Read more

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rich metadata inclusion
MXF is an ambitious idea that has been long overdue in the film and audio industries. It harks to the common problem of how to compress and store films, and do so digitally. There are tremendous advantages in doing so, including the ability to analyse and manipulate such films with ever more powerful software. The enduring problem has been various different compression and storage standards.

The authors describe how an industry wide effort has produced MXF. It certainly took long enough; 5 years! But perhaps the deal was worth the wait. Thumbing through the book, you can see that provision has been made for very flexible inclusion of metadata. A rich format that permits sophisticated file searching based on that metadata.

Plus, there is aid for transitioning between current encodings and MXF. The aim is clearly for MXF to be a global standard. ... Read more

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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE

Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of great black men and women during the fabulous Harlem Renaissance:

louis "satchmo" armstrong
eubie blake
thomas andrew dorsey
w. e. b. du bois
duke ellington
james reese europe
jessie redmon fauset
marcus garvey
w. c. handy
fletcher henderson
langston hughes
zora neale hurston
hall johnson
henry johnson
oscar micheaux
philip payton jr.
gertrude "ma" rainey
paul robeson
augusta savage
noble sissle
bessie smith
james van der zee
dorothy west
carter g. woodson

"The books in the Black Stars series are the types of books that would have really captivated me as a kid."
–Earl G. Graves, Black Enterprise magazine

"Inspiring stories that demonstrate what can happen when ingenuity and tenacity are paired with courage and hard work."
–Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books

"Haskins has chosen his subjects well . . . catching a sense of the enormous obstacles they had to overcome. . . .Some names are familiar, but most are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful place in history."
–Booklist

"The broad coverage makes this an unusual resource–a jumping-off point for deeper studies."
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I actually used this book as a source for a college paper. It is one of few resources out there if you are interested in Augusta Savage. I thought it was fun, but of course would recommend it for late Elemantary School to Junior High in normal situations. ... Read more

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This interview with James Hardy Wilkinson will take listeners back to a period, now 50 years ago, when computers were quirky, cantankerous, hand-built contraptions; duplicate copies of documents were made with carbon paper; trains were pulled by steam locomotives; and (black and white) television was just being introduced. Recorded in July 1984, just two years before Wilkinson’s death, this interview preserves some of the spirit, as well as the facts, of mathematical history. Wilkinson discusses his work, including the building of Turing’s Pilot Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), his involvement in the field of computation, and his personal view of early computational developments in numerical analysis.

Educated at Cambridge in mathematics, Wilkinson was drawn into computation as a result of work on ballistics calculations during World War II.He joined the Mathematics Division at the National Physical Laboratory in England shortly after the war and stayed there for the rest of his career, although he was a frequent visitor to other institutions, particularly Argonne National Laboratory and Stanford University.

Although an extensively edited version of the technical content of the interview appeared in the February 1985 issue of Byte magazine, the written form could not convey the slips and nuances in Wilkinson’s voice as well as some of the anecdotes and intonations that brought spirit to his words. Now, thanks to modern audio technology, the original tapes, which had begun to deteriorate, have been reproduced and preserved in their entirety on compact disk. ... Read more

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A star in the vast universe was lonely. The star decided to talk to someone. Anyone! Who the star found to talk to leads us to understand that everyone likes to talk. No matter who they are. ... Read more

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Terri Linville thought she was going to the Amazon to work on her Thesis. Instead she finds herself in the middle of a terrorists plot. She gets help from her father, Sam Linville, head of the NSA, and other charactors whose experiences tend to overlap around a web of intrigue with potentially wide reaching implications. After a grisley find she learns of a mystical creature called MOM-BRE. A creature that eats the muscles of a body and leaves the skin and bones. With time running out Terri, Dr. James Newhouse, and the rest of the team, set off to find Dr. Keller and the team abducted by the terrorists. Taking into account an understanding of certain contemporary political and cultural conditions, with elements of suspense and emotion, you will explore the relative complexities of human nature and interaction as well as capturing the imagination and to provoke thought. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Coach and Athletic Director, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1338 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Winning high school baseball by the books.(BASEBALL)
Author: Jim Wilkinson
Publication: Coach and Athletic Director (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 76Issue: 4Page: 32(2)

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Chapters: Theodore S. Wilkinson, Al Hopkins, Jim Connors, John Woods, Micah Harris. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson (December 22, 1888 February 21, 1946) was a Vice-Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. He also received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Veracruz, Mexico. Wilkinson as a midshipman at the United States Naval AcademyWilkinson entered the United States Naval Academy in 1905 and graduated first in the class of 1909. He served the two years of sea duty then required by law prior to commissioning, in the battleships Kansas (BB-21) and USS South Carolina (BB-26), before he received his ensign's commission on June 5, 1911. After instruction at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd), Wilkinson reported to the battleship Florida (BB-30) on July 25, 1913 for sea duty. During his time in that dreadnought, Ens. Wilkinson led Florida's 2d Company in action during the landings on 21 and April 22, 1914 at Veracruz, Mexico. For his skillful and courageous leadership of that unit of the battleship's landing force and his exhibition of "eminent and conspicuous" conduct, he received the Medal of Honor. On August 4, he was transferred to the armored cruiser USS Tennessee (ACR-10), and two days later sailed eastward in her across the Atlantic. Tennessee and North Carolina (ACR-12) were ordered to European waters to evacuate Americans trapped on the continent by the outbreak of World War I. On September 3, he became an assistant to the naval attaché at Paris and a month later left that post to join North Carolina in the Mediterranean. Subsequently, the young officer had tours of sea duty: first as aide, to Commander, 2d Division, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2337793 ... Read more

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How do you crack nuts with a piece of string? Reverse gravity? Cobble together a clock out of a coffee cup, a soda bottle, and some water? Use a vacuum cleaner and nineteenth-century railroad technology to fashion a makeshift bazooka that can launch paper projectiles? Create a rainbow in a block of Jello? This is a one-volume romp through a whole array of counterintuitive science experiments that require little more than common household items and a sense of curiosity. Prepare to have your surprise sensors on overload as Neil Downie stretches math, physics, and chemistry to do what they have never done before.

This book describes twenty-nine unusual but practical experiments, detailing how they are done and the math and physics behind them. It will delight both casual and inveterate tinkerers. Of varying levels of complexity, the experiments are grouped in sections covering a wide field of physics and the borders of chemistry, ranging from dynamic mechanics (''Kinetic Curiosities'') to electricity (''Antediluvian Electronics'') and combustion (''Infernal Inventions''). The chapters are titillatingly titled, from ''Twisted Sinews'' and ''Mole Radio'' to ''A Symphony of Siphons'' and ''Tornado Transistor.'' More-detailed explanations, along with simple mathematical models using high-school level math, are given in boxes accompanying each experiment.

Armchair scientists will welcome this edifying and entertaining alternative to idleness, not least for the buoyant prose, enriched by historical and literary anecdotes introducing each topic. With this book in hand, tinkerers, whether dabblers in science or devotees, students or teachers, need never again wonder how to impress friends, the judges at the science fair, and, not least, themselves. ... Read more

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Science Challenges for all ages
Neil Downie has developed another outstanding summary of science projects/challenges for all ages. At this time, when bcominig a scientist may not be the #1 career--- these projects get the attention of the student,parent and teacher alike. The opportunity to try, fail and try again--usually ends in success. We need this type of approach to encourgae our children to consider science as a career.

Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects.
The technical language was easily understood and presented in a clear interesting manner.
Mr Downie has inspired me to have a real go at these projects.
As we say in New Zealand "Sweet As".

The bazooka is a good experiment
I enjoyed the book, but so far the only experiment we've done is the vacuum bazooka, for which I recommend using a wet vac and small water balloons as ammo.

Interesting Book
I've only had this book for a few days, but have found the projects unusual and offbeat. For the most part, they are not a rehash of old science projects. They are well described and each one has a good description of the science and math behind them. The illustrations are not overly detailed, but they do the job quite well. I found it a little odd that the description of what the project is about is separated from the chapter on the project. The summaries of what is interesting about the projects and simply what they do is in the front of the book. If you open to a project within the book, you'll wonder what the real appeal of the project is until you go to the front of the book.

The author is quite a tinkerer and at least one of the project toys is patented. I believe a few others are heading toward patents.

Several projects require access to a small amount of Mecanno (or Erector) set parts. These companies almost do not exist it the U.S. any longer. However, Brio recently started distributing Erector sets again. I'm sure one could find substitutes for the Mecanno parts at a local hardware store or maybe even make them. ... Read more

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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE

Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of great black men and women during the Colonial and Revolutionary War era:

richard allen
crispus attucks
benjamin banneker
daniel coker
paul cuffe
austin dabney
james durham
estevanico
catherine ferguson
james forten
lemuel haynes
anthony johnson
"free frank" mcworter
marie therese metoyer
jean baptiste point du sable
deborah sampson
peter salem
pierre toussaint

"The books in the Black Stars series are the types of books that would have really captivated me as a kid."
–Earl G. Graves, Black Enterprise magazine

"Inspiring stories that demonstrate what can happen when ingenuity and tenacity are paired with courage and hard work."
–Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books

"Haskins has chosen his subjects well . . . catching a sense of the enormous obstacles they had to overcome. . . . Some names are familiar, but most are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful place in history."
–Booklist

"The broad coverage makes this an unusual resource–a jumping-off point for deeper studies."
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Colonial Times
I love anything and everything written by James Haskins. He was a dear friend and I know how much research goes into his Biographies that what is written is real and personal.I feel like when I read a biography written by him that I am right there in the moment with that person.

Summer reading
I had to read this book for summer reading and i thaught it was pretty good. Also it isn't that long which makes it a good summer reading book also. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jim Smith, Steve Evans, Howard Wilkinson, Stewart Talbot, Fred Tunstall, Mel Sterland, Tommy Taylor, Steve Welsh, Ray King, Arthur Mann, Neil Thompson, George Kerr, Gordon Bolland, Peter Morris, Ray Middleton, Keith Jobling. Excerpt:Arthur Mann Arthur Fraser Mann (23 January 1948 4 February 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a defender. He later moved into management and coaching. Biography Mann was born in Falkirk , Scotland and began his playing career at Heart of Midlothian . He played for Hearts in the final of the 1967-68 Scottish Cup, although he ended up on the losing side as Dunfermline won 3-1. He then moved to England , where he represented Manchester City . He was signed by Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison for a then club record of £65,000. Unfortunately he in common with Dennis Bergkamp had a fear of flying and so was unable to take part in City's European escapades. He failed to break into the successful Cup winning side and moved on after a season to Blackpool . He then moved to Notts County , Shrewsbury Town , Mansfield Town , Boston United (whom he also managed), Kettering Town and Telford United . He was Alan Buckley 's assistant manager at Grimsby Town and West Bromwich Albion , and had a spell as caretaker-manager at Albion early in 1997 following Buckley's dismissal. He is the father of former Hull City stalwart Neil Mann . Mann died on 4 February 1999 in an industrial accident at a Birmingham factory. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Fred Tunstall Fred Tunstall (May 28, 1897 in Darfield, South Yorkshire , England July... ... Read more

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Covers: auto racing, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, figure skating, football, golf, horse racing, ice hockey, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field. yachting, and other miscellaneous sports, as well as all-time sports records. Illustrated with black & white and color photos of big-name sports stars of the time. ... Read more

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16 stories of Appalachia today by some of our top writers. This collection brings us into the present with its struggles and beauty. Human character remains strong in these stories of life in Appalachia. Writers include: Rusty Barnes,Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton, Richard Hague, Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman, Chris Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson

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