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Alva Storrie
No full textJean Hower and Harold. Harold was bought into the hospital as a small prem baby only 3 weeks old, his mother had died out on a station. He returned home later.Courtis, Alva.Date:1943Jean was Alva's friend, they first met on the train going to Darwin. They went south on the same plane, DC-3, in April 1944. Alva worked at a small camp hospital in Ballarat, Jean was at Heidelberg Military Hospital. Both women and 6 others applied to go to Rocky Creek, North Queensland until the war ended. Jean was a Victorian, she died in 1978 - Alva's story
Oral History Interview with Alva B. Sampson, October 26, 2002
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alva B. Sampson. Sampson was born in May 1926 in Columbus, Ohio. He entered the Army in September 1944 and took basic training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Upon completion, he went aboard RMS Queen Mary, disembarking at Glasgow, Scotland. Sampson tells of being assigned to the 4th Armored Division, 37th Tank Battalion even though he had no experience in tanks. He was assigned as a replacement in a light tank. He describes what he saw as his unit liberated several concentration camps. He recalls being in Czechoslovakia when an estimated 20,000 Germans surrendered to his unit rather than the Russians. Three tanks were assigned to guard the prisoners. Sampson remembers the captives were turned over to the Russian Army as they were ordered to do. After the surrender of Germany, he was assigned to a military police unit in Lorch, Germany, until he returned to the United States
Instrumentality in Electronic Music
No full textThere is nothing intrinsically musical about a laptop computer, but there has in the past two decades been a rise in popularity of using portable computers to perform music. Computers powerful enough to create music were once exclusive to Universities and music studios. Now computers are as accessible to people as traditional instruments and have fully opened the world of electronic music to the non-musician through the use of graphic interfaces.
This commentary will discuss the relationship between instrumentality and the performance and
composition of electronic music by examining traditional methods of instrumental performance and the relatively modern idea of performing live with a laptop computer. The issue of imperfection will be discussed and how certain ‘errors’ have become widely acceptable even to the point where
whole genres have arisen entirely from their creation. I will look at the way glitch music began as a genre entirely reliant on the computer for its creation into one that has embraced traditional instrumentation and the idea of performance.
There will be a comparison of the compositional styles of Alva Noto's earlier solo work and his
more recent collaborations, in particular with the Ensemble Modern and the formally trained pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The aim of this is to examine whether the inclusion of
instruments or notions of instrumentality in the compositional process has in some way changed
Alva Noto’s approach to composing from a visually led (cymatic) process to one that is more
sonically led. This comparison is used as a case study to inform my own work as some works in the
portfolio set out deliberately to explore traditional instrumental playing techniques, whereas others deal with virtuosity within the software environment of Ableton Live
Alva Sähköverkko Oy:n liittymismaksujen määrittäminen
No full textAlva Sähköverkko Oy:n sähköverkon liittymismaksut päivitettiin viimeksi vuonna 2011. Toimeksiantajan antaman tehtävän tavoitteena oli tarkastella nykyisten liittymismaksujen kustannusvastaavuutta ja määrittää sen perusteella uudet liittymismaksut.
Liittymismaksujen kustannusvastaavuustarkastelu tehtiin keräämällä menneiden työmaiden rakennuskustannukset ja vertaamalla niitä alueelta saatuihin liittymismaksuihin. Huomattiin, että kustannusvastaavuustarkastelu on hyvin työläs tapa määrittää liittymismaksut. Tämän seurauksena haluttiin vaihtoehtoinen tapa määrittää liittymismaksut tulevaisuudessa.
Kustannusvastaavuustarkastelun tulosta käytettiin vertailupisteenä tehtäessä uutta työkalua, jonka avulla liittymismaksujen oikeellisuutta olisi mahdollista tarkastella tulevaisuudessa. Työkalu käyttää hyväkseen Alva Sähköverkon yksikköhintoja ja jakeluverkon keskiarvoistettuja arvoja. Tehty työkalu laskee hinnaston pienimmän ja suurimman liittymän liittymismaksun ja sovittaa liittymismaksuista suoran. Suoran yhtälöä käytetään määritettäessä muiden liittymäkokojen liittymismaksuja.
Kustannusvastaavuustarkastelun ja työkalun avulla saatiin uudet liittymismaksut pien- ja keskijänniteverkolle. Työkalun antamat liittymismaksut ovat hyvin lähellä liittymien aiheuttamia todellisia rakennuskustannuksia sisältäen kapasiteettivarausmaksun.
Laskentatyökalun antamien tulosten mukaan liittymismaksuja tulisi nostaa. Toisin sanoen nykyisten liittymien liittymismaksut eivät vastaa niistä aiheutuvia rakennuskustannuksia. On tärkeää huomioida, että opinnäytetyö on tehty Energiaviraston 2011 julkaisemilla ohjeilla. Ohjeet päivittyvät vuonna 2019-2020 eli ennen liittymismaksujen nostoa on tarkasteltava periaatteiden oikeellisuutta uusien ohjeiden mukaisesti.Alva Sähköverkko Oy's power grid connection fees were last updated in 2011. The purpose of the thesis assignment was to review the cost-relatedness of the existing connection fees and based on that, to determine the new connection fees.
The cost-relatedness of the connection fees was examined by gathering the construction costs of past worksites and comparing them with the connection fees received from the area. It was found out that cost-relatedness analysis is a very tedious way to determine connection fees. As a result, an alternative method was sought for determining connection fees in the future.
The result of the analysis on cost-relatedness was used as a benchmark for creating a new tool to review the correctness of connection fees in the future. The tool utilizes the unit prices of Alva Sähköverkko Oy and the average values of the distribution network. This tool calculates the minimum and maximum connection fees for the price list and make a line fitting. The slope-intercept form is used to determine other size connection fees.
The analysis and tool on cost-relatedness provided new connection fees for low and medium voltage networks. The connection fees provided by the tool are very close to the actual construction costs of the connections, including the capacity reservation fee.
According to the results of the calculation tool, the connection fees should be increased. In other words, the connection fees for the existing connections do not reflect the costs of building them. It is important to note that the thesis is based on the guidelines published by Energy Authority in 2011. The guidelines will be updated in 2019-2020; therefore, before increasing the connection fees the correctness of the principles will need to be reviewed in accordance with the new guidelines
Alva Belmont letter to Dr. Gillette Hayden, June 23, 1921
No full textAlva Belmont wrote this letter to Dr. Gillette Hayden on June 23, 1921. In the letter, Alva responds to Dr. Hayden for praising the creation of the headquarters in Washington, D.C. for the National Woman's Party. Alva and Dr. Hayden share the belief that the headquarters will "give an impetus to the work so much needed still on the behalf of women". Alva Belmont (1853-1933) was an American socialite, billionaire, and president of the National Woman's Party. Her donation allowed for the NWP to build a national headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Gillette Hayden was born in 1880 in Greenville, Florida. She graduated from the Ohio Medical University, later the Ohio State University College of Dentistry, in 1902, becoming the third woman to graduate from the school. She took graduate classes in periodontology at Northwestern University, and practiced in Columbus, Ohio, spending a few years in Germany as well. She served as the third president of the American Association of Women Dentists and the Journal of Periodontology is dedicated to her.
Ohio ratified the nineteenth amendment on June 16, 1919, due mainly to the campaigning of Dr. Gillette Hayden and her sister, Kenyon Hayden Rector. They organized fund raising campaigns, and were able to raise over six thousand dollars for the ratification work of the National Woman's Party (NWP). Hayden and her sister became two of the twenty-seven original founders of the new NWP. Hayden became second vice-chairperson and Rector became the finance chairperson; both serving on the National Council
Register of green-roof activities: database application
No full textThis repository contains a web application (written in Flask, Python) that allows green roofs (and other locations) to register held activities. All entires are automatically added to an SQLite database. In its presented form, six green roofs of Barcelona are included, but this can be customised as wished.
An empty database file is provided along with the SQLite schema to generate the tables. The Python code is also included in order to allow the application to be offered through a server.
The application registers internal and external activities, alongside different fields of data that allow the characterisation of indicators related to the social performance of the roof. The menu is offered in Catalan, but can be customised for other languages. The list of external activity types can be expanded and edited. Moreover, each activity entry can be edited after its creation
Assesment of technical green-roof indicators: database application
No full textThis dataset contains a web application (written in Flask, Python) to register periodic and one-time data that is later used to assess technical indicators for the performance of green roofs. All entires are automatically added to an SQLite database. In its presented form, six green roofs of Barcelona are included, but this can be customised as wished.
An empty database file is provided along with the SQLite schema to generate the tables. The Python code is also included in order to allow the application to be offered through a server.
The application registers one-time, yearly and monthly data needed for the assessment of green roofs. The menu is offered in English
Harvesting in green roofs: database application
No full textThis dataset contains a web application (written in Flask, Python) that allows green roofs (an other locations) to collect harvesting data that is automatically added to an SQLite database. In its presented form, six green roofs of Barcelona are included, but this can be customised as wished.
An empty database file is provided along with the SQLite schema to generate the tables. The Python code is also included in order to allow the application to be offered through a server.
The application allows harvesting events to be registered, where data needs to be recorded in kg. The menu is offered in Catalan, but can be customised for other languages. The list of available products is dynamic and can be expanded and edited. The list of uses is also expandable and editable. Moreover, each harvest can be edited after its creation
Author response
No full textThe seemingly limitless diversity of proteins in nature arose from only a few thousand domain prototypes, but the origin of these themselves has remained unclear. We are pursuing the hypothesis that they arose by fusion and accretion from an ancestral set of peptides active as co-factors in RNA-dependent replication and catalysis. Should this be true, contemporary domains may still contain vestiges of such peptides, which could be reconstructed by a comparative approach in the same way in which ancient vocabularies have been reconstructed by the comparative study of modern languages. To test this, we compared domains representative of known folds and identified 40 fragments whose similarity is indicative of common descent, yet which occur in domains currently not thought to be homologous. These fragments are widespread in the most ancient folds and enriched for iron-sulfur- and nucleic acid-binding. We propose that they represent the observable remnants of a primordial RNA-peptide world
Guy-Noonan, Alva. Video of Alva discussing the Registered Heritage Structure, Drake House, located in Arnold’s Cove.
No full textAlva discussing the Registered Heritage Structure, Drake House, located in Arnold’s Cove. This interview was part of Celebrate 75 in recognition of the 75th anniversary of confederation in Newfoundland and Labrador. They are part of the "If these walls could talk!" project which supports social inclusion and community vitality as well as sense of place, and oral history in NL and was funded by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program. For more information on Drake House please see the Heritage NL website: https://heritagenl.ca/heritage-property/drake-house-registered-heritage-structure/Introduction; history of the Drake House; resettlement; confederation; history of the museum; moving houses; importance of preserving history; future of the Drake house; personal involvement with site; Joey’s connection to the area
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