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Letter from Major Sims to John T. Cunningham, on behalf of Senator W.E. Brock, 1930-01-06
No full textA typed letter from Senator Brock's secretary, Major Sims in Washington, D.C. to John T. Cunningham in Clarksville, Tennessee. On behalf of Senator Brock, Major Sims is thanking Cunningham for his letter in regards to Charles Hanratty. Sims assures Cunningham it will be brought to Senator Brock's attention hen he returns to his office
Major Projects Branch
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on December 26, 2014)Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in Englis
Major Projects Branch
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on March 31, 2015).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) in Underground Mines - The SIMS and NEXGEN SIMS projects [Elektronisk resurs] : [Batterimaskiner i underjordsgruvorna – SIMS och NEXGEN SIMS projekten]
No full textAtt ersätta dieselmaskiner med elfordon i underjordsgruvor har identifierats av gruvindustrin som ett kritiskt steg för att förbättra arbetsmiljön genom att minska dieselavgaser, samtidigt som man sänker elkostnaden för gruvventilation genom att minska behovet och minska utsläppen av växthusgaser. Alla dessa är viktiga krav för att uppnå en hållbar framtida gruvbrytning under jord, inklusive ett mål om noll koldioxidutsläpp och en mycket låg koncentration av atmosfäriska föroreningar på arbetsplatser.Av alla typer av elfordon är batterimaskiner (Battery Electric Vehicles – BEVs på engelska) den mest lämpliga för underjordiska gruvdrift på grund av sin flexibilitet. Med den senaste utvecklingen inom batteriteknologi har tillförlitliga BEVs tillverkats sedan 2016. En undersökning måste dock göras för att säkerställa att de introduceras smidigt i den operativa verksamheten. Därför har Europeiska unionen (EU) finansierat två projekt, nämligen SIMS och NEXGEN SIMS där flera BEVs ska utvärderas vid flera gruvor inom EU. Den här artikeln beskriver några resultat av dessa försök som bland annat inkluderar förbättring av arbetsmiljön, förbrukningen av elkraft samt hur tekniken uppfattas av operativ personal och ledning. Studien omfattar resultat från intervjuer av verksamheter utanför EU-projektet.Replacing diesel machines with electric vehicles in underground mines has been widely acknowledged by the mining industry as a critical step to improve working conditions by reducing diesel exhaust contaminants, whilst also lowering mine ventilation electrical power cost by reducing mine airflow requirement and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. All of these are major requirements to achieve sustainable future underground mining practices, including a target of zero carbon emissions and a very low concentration of atmospheric contaminants in workplaces.Among all types of electric vehicles, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) is the most suitable for underground mining application due to its flexibility. With the recent developments in battery technology, reliable BEVs have been manufactured since 2016. However, an investigation must be carried out to ensure their smooth introduction. Therefore, the European Union (EU) has funded two projects namely SIMS and NEXGEN SIMS where several BEVs were trialled at several EU mines. This paper outlines some results of these trials which include, among others, improvement of working conditions, power consumption, perception of the mineworkers, and perception of the mine management. Moreover, perception of the management of mines that are not part of the project consortium but have trialled BEVs is also outlined in this paper.</p
Major Leonidas and Mrs. Lola Sims
No full textFormal portrait of Mr. Leonidas "Lon" and Mrs. Lola Sims. They lived in Palmetto. She was a dressmaker
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Interview with Zoot Sims
No full textInterview with Zoot Sims. Sims' wife is also present and is heard on the recording toward the end. The interview begins with Sims mentioning meeting Jimmy Rowles on Boylston Street near the University of Southern California. Sims discusses Central Avenue around 1945-1946 and going there prior to his U.S. Army service, Honey Murphy's on Central near Watts, jam sessions, playing with Barney Kessel in Hollywood, and with Herb Ellis and Harry Babasin at Kessel's, noting that Ross Russell was active, but Sims was not making records at the time, seeing the original Stan Kenton band at the Palladium, jamming on Central at the Avalon club, feeling at home on Central Avenue, intellectual versus lyrical players, whether he plays comfortable lines or hears a melody, the fun of hitting a note and not knowing where it will lead, his approach to improvising, his non-music work painting houses after Kenton and working with Lawrence Marable and Leroy Vinnegar during that time, how painting houses gave him time to think, cars he had, driving a convertible in the rain, his brother's 1931 Chevy, whether he admired Kenton, Howard Rumsey's admiration of Kenton, Kenton's conducting, Kenton disapproving of Sims' Murray Space Shoes, and Sims being unconcerned with Kenton's judgment of his music. There is a pause in the recording from 18:30 to 19:04, and the interview resumes with Sims discussing Kenton's talks about music, followed by another pause from 19:50-20:16. The interview resumes with a microphone check and discussion of logistics (this may be the actual beginning of the interview), after which Sims discusses Pontrelli's Ballroom, playing at Pontrelli's with Herbie Stewart, stock arrangements of "Mexican style" music there, and band members Jimmy Giuffre, Stan Getz, and Tommy DeCarlo, Gene Roland as the originator of the "Four Brothers" sound, Giuffre writing Four Brothers for Woody Herman, the three tenor plus baritone saxophone instrumentation, getting considerable work from Mexican music gigs, getting out of the Army in 1946 and joining Benny Goodman, Sims' being from Inglewood, California, the musicians' union prohibition on jam sessions, Bill Harris and the Cafe Society, knowing Art Pepper when he was young and playing in Pepper's band in 1953, Bill Russo's arrangements, playing with Lee Konitz, Dave Schildkraut, Bill Holman, Stan Levey, Conte Candoli, and Ernie Royal, having initially joined Benny Goodman's band in 1943, the 1950 Goodman band with Roy Eldridge and Toots Thielemans (noting Thielemans was not whistling in this setting), his experience of growing up in LA, segregation in the LA area, the war effort and factory work changing the city, people who would come to the Central Avenue scene, his impressions of Charles Mingus, Sims' band with Barney Kessel at the Band Box, a tip jar with Benzedrine and half a joint, the woman bouncer at the Band Box, being bored by playing alone, his record with Bucky Pizzarelli, playing saxophone exercise books with Al Cohn, Dave Frishberg's idolizing Sims and Cohn, the hard bop era and blues, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young as a creative disrupter, getting to know young on the Birdland tour, Young's imprisonment and how it changed him, one's personality projected through one's tone, not being complacent, Sims' praise of his wife, Lester Young in the Billie Holiday / Teddy Wilson era, where Sims would go in a time machine, whether he teachers, young players and the unavailability of jam sessions as in Sims' youth, major big bands getting players out of colleges, his assessment of college-educated musicians, what future there is for musicians in schools, Gerry Mulligan and his sextet, hanging out with Mulligan in the Birth of the Cool era, bad times for jazz around 1950, the demise of big bands, working with Miles Davis, the West Coast sound, Shorty Rogers, the Lighthouse, Stu Williamson, Jack Montrose, Herbie Stewart and the first time Sims had an artichoke, driving in LA before the freeways, the Lockie music store, the LA streetcar system and the Red Car line, transferring between buses and streetcars, Sims' decision not to double on other instruments, Teddy Edwards on road work versus studio work, Chris Connors' praise of Zoot Sims, Stan Levey being replaced in the Kenton band by Mel Lewis, Sims' being one of the first to leave the Kenton band after a difficult European tour and leaving after a bus accident in Pennsylvania, and Kenton riding shotgun on the bus and what he was like to work with. The formal interview concludes, but Sims goes on to discuss two neighbors growing up -- Leonard Slye, who became Roy Rogers, and Lester Bollinder, who took in the future Marilyn Monroe as a foster child. Sims also discusses when he got his first saxophone and having a clarinet before that, playing in a band at Leuzinger High School, the musical background of this family, Sims' reiterating that "the whole joy of jazz is not knowing what's coming next until it comes, praise of Charlie Parker, believing that as a musicians "you're supposed to become you," and whether he saw Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker at Billy Berg's club
General Benjamin Butler Letter Regarding the naming of Newport News, Virginia
No full textDigital images of an original letter written by Former Union Major-General Benjamin Butler in reply to a query by author, Edwin Everett Hale on how Newport News, Virginia had received it's name. both sides of the original letter are included along with a typed transcription of the letter
Major, Kevin
No full textThe fonds consists of records created and received by Kevin Major as a Canadian writer, editor and teacher between 1974 and 2014. Material includes correspondence with family, friends, writers, editors, agents and readers; contracts and royalty statements; material related to author readings and appearances at literary festivals; school visits and other author appearances; literary awards received by the author; literary awards juries the author participated in; as well as general media coverage about the author. The fonds contains materials related to each of the author’s published works, including administrative documents, research, manuscript drafts and media coverage. The fonds also includes documentation about the author’s personal life, including materials related to his education, his teaching career, travel, and family life.
The types of documents include letters and e-mails, transcripts, posters, contracts, reports, research notes, manuscripts, certificates, books, newspapers and journals, photographs, slides, interviews, and audio/visual materials in a variety of media: cassette tapes, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs and VHS tapes
Orchestra music. Selections
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 9, 1997, 3:00 p.m., the 100th concert of the School of Music's 1997-1998 season.University Symphony Orchestra, Eric Shumsky, conductor ; Lori Sims, piano soloist (2nd work)Information from performance program.Overture to The magic flute -- Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor, K.466 -- Symphony no. 41 in C major, K. 551 (Jupiter)
Detection of hopanes and steranes in single oil-bearing fluid inclusions using ToF-SIMS
No full textHopanes and steranes are key biomarkers when tracking early evolution of life on Earth. A potential contamination-free source of Precambrian biomarkers is oil-bearing fluid inclusions as the oil has been secluded from the environment since the formation of the inclusion. Due to presence of often several generations of inclusions it can be problematic to assign the biomarkers to specific inclusions. It has, however, because of the small size of inclusions (5-30 µm), not been possible to analyse single oil-bearing fluid inclusions. We present here an approach employing time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) to selectively open individual oil inclusions in situ by ion etching, and precisely analyse their picoliter content for steranes and hopanes. A number of oil-bearing inclusions from hydrothermal veins in the Siljan impact structure in south-central Sweden were analysed. The approach used for analysis of a single inclusion consisted of the following steps i) localization of suitable inclusion in double polished thin section with optical microscopy, ii) opening of inclusion by ion etching with C60+ gun inside the ToF-SIMS instrument while recording in real-time the opening of the inclusion and, iii) analysis of the exposed inclusion contents with ToF-SIMS. The micrographs and the ToF-SIMS ion images collected before, during and after analysis ensured the correct inclusion had been analysed. ToF-SIMS spectra reconstructed from analysis times and 2D regions of interest with increased organic ion signal showed a large number of organic peaks (up to m/z 500) that are characteristic for a crude oil. Comparison of the reconstructed spectra with those of a Siljan seep oil, which has previously been analysed with ToF-SIMS, showed a high degree of resemblance, as expected from the geological interpretation of the origin on the oils. All major characteristic peaks for several hopanes and steranes were detected in the mass spectra from the single fluid inclusion (Fig. 1). The agreement with respect to mass accuracy (< 50 ppm), fragment pattern and isotope distributions between these peaks and those observed in spectra from standard samples and from hopanes and steranes in the Siljan seep oil, provide strong evidence for the presence of hopanes and steranes in the analysed single fluid inclusions. The results thus demonstrate that the approach presented here has the capability to detect specific biomarkers in individual single oil inclusions. It is to our knowledge the first time hopanes and steranes have been detected in single oil-bearing fluid inclusins and the next step will be to analyse single oil-bearing fluid inclusions in Precambrian rocks with ToF-SIMS in search for organic biomarkers. Detection of hopanes and steranes in such an inclusion could help to answer questions regarding early evolution of life on Earth, including the first appearance of the eukaryotes on Earth.</p
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