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From: Joel Koltner on 28 Jun 2010 12:54 JosephKK wrote: > I have a fellow who has a kid recently in Navy boot camp. I'll ask. Thanks. I have great respect for all those men and women!
From: Joerg on 28 Jun 2010 13:25 Nial Stewart wrote: >> That could be fixed but first you'd have to do a welding job on the barrel: >> >> http://www.megandy.com/honeymoon/edinburgh/edinburgh7.html > > > Although the 1 O'clock gun (1 shot fired at 1 instead of 12 at noon to save money) > is quite a bit smaller! > > To allow the ships in Leith to synchronise their chronometers there's another > indicator of 1 o'clock. At the top of Nelsons Monument on Calton hill a > big white ball is raised up a flag pole just before 1:00, this can be > seen from Leith. Exactly at 1:00 the ball's dropped. > > A couple of points on your photos from an Edinburgh resident. > > Edinburgh's not the biggest city in Scotland, although it is the capital. > The population of greater Glasgow is > 1 milion, Edinburgh's only ~550,000. > > The clock tower in photo 2 is the Balmoral Hotel, I think the architect was > just showing off. > > The Romanesqe columns on Calton hill were a folly started by a businessman > some time in the 1800's. It was supposed to emulate the Parthenon, but he > ran out of money fairly quickly. > > Beautiful church on Princes Street is St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile! > > > I've been here for 10 years and with friends and family visiting I've done > most of the tours round the city. I hope you don't mind the extra info. > Interesting stuff, thanks. I had an apartment near Aberdeen for a while but never made it to Edinburgh (should have). At the end of my stay I rented a raggedy old Ford Cortina and toured the north-western parts of Scotland because I am more of a country guy. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Don Lancaster on 29 Jun 2010 11:42 On 6/25/2010 11:16 PM, John O'Flaherty wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:56:52 -0700, RST Engineering > <jweir43(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:14:35 -0500, "amdx"<amdx(a)knology.net> wrote: >> >>> The vuvuzela produces notes at approximately 235Hz frequency and its first >>> partial at 465Hz. >>> American tv soccer fans need a filter to rid the audio of the constant >>> noise caused be the vuvuzela. >>> >>> Here's your chance to be a hero! >>> Mike >>> >> What is a "partial". If you mean second harmonic, it is at 470, not >> 465. > > A tone that is part of a sound. The first partial is the fundamental. > The second partial is the second harmonic (and so on). > Nope. Its waaay more complicated than that, especially on a piano. Lateral string stiffness often INCREASES the partials significantly beyond their exact harmonic multiples. So much so that a properly tuned piano has to be "stretched" by 15 cents on the low end and 30 cents on the high. One cent is roughly 0.06 percent frequency or more exactly, one one hundredth of the twelveth root of two minus one. A partial is "sort of" a harmonic, shifted by physical second order effects. And often significantly higher than a true harmonic. A harmonic is an exact multiple. An exactly harmonic tuned piano sounds awful. -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: don(a)tinaja.com Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com
From: JosephKK on 30 Jun 2010 00:17 On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:54:13 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >JosephKK wrote: >> I have a fellow who has a kid recently in Navy boot camp. I'll ask. > >Thanks. I have great respect for all those men and women! > Got it. The answer surprised even me. They get to keep about $50 cash and a calling card. No cell phones, no mp3 player, no ebook reader, no personal electronics of any kind. It goes on, _ALL_ your clothes, including your underwear, you are issued new ones. Even your glasses, you are provided with new ones meeting military requirements. It is all boxed up and sent back to your 'parents', sometimes causing some consternation there. The next couple of weeks is training for over 12 hours a day, no break. Boot camp has changed hugely in the past 40 years. No KP week though, can't afford the training time. Not often over 10 minutes to eat your meals. Slam it and go, gotta make your next training. Damn little marching though, no time to mess around with forming up. Better not be late for you next assigned training though.
From: Joel Koltner on 30 Jun 2010 13:49
Thanks Joseph, that's quite enlightening! |