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CASSIN'S FINCH
Haemorhous cassinii cassinii
Status: Rare regular but erratic winter visitor Panhandle, rare casual west central. Accidental breeder northwest.
Documentation: UNSM ZM10486, 7 Dec 1910 Crawford, Dawes Co (Mickel and Dawson 1920).
This specimen and UNSM ZM10487 are labelled Purple Finch, possibly inadvertently by the collector.
Taxonomy: No subspecies are generally recognized (Gill and Donsker 2017), although Pyle (1997) recognized weakly differentiated vinifer, resident from southern British Columbia and western Idaho to northern California, and cassinii, resident from eastern Idaho and Montana south to southeast California and west Texas. The eastern Rocky Mountain subspecies cassinii is resident in the Black Hills of South Dakota (Tallman et al 2002) and the Laramie Mountains of eastern Wyoming (Faulkner 2010).
Nebraska birds are presumed subspecies cassinii.
Spring: winter <<<>>> May 24, 25, 26
Later dates are 28 May 1988 Sioux Co, and 8 Jun 1985 Chadron SP, Dawes Co.
Both altitudinal and latitudinal migration in Wyoming begins in late Feb, but peaks in Apr and early May (Faulkner 2010). Nebraska spring records fit this schedule, although there are few reports, all listed here: 1 Apr 2015 Lake McConaughy, Keith Co (photo), 5 Apr 2016 adult male Chadron Creek Ranch WMA, Dawes Co, 12 Apr 2015 Scotts Bluff Co, 17 Apr 1987 Sioux Co, a female 26 Mar-18 Apr 2020 Wildcat Hills NC, Scotts Bluff Co (eBird.org), male 4 May 2018 Wildcat Hills NC, 10 May 1979 (52) Crawford, Dawes Co, departing in May (Rosche 1982), 12 May 1999 Scotts Bluff Co, one of a group of 25 that wintered at Wildcat Hills NC in winter 2014-2015 remained until 23 May, 24 May 2020 (4) Chadron Creek Ranch WMA, and a singing male 25 May 2017 Chadron SP, Dawes Co.
Summer: Although Cassin's Finch breeds regularly in the Black Hills of South Dakota, with dates Jun-Jul (Tallman et al 2002), as well as in the Laramie Mountains of eastern Wyoming (Faulkner 2010), there is only one confirmed breeding record for Nebraska, perhaps because of a lack of its preferred breeding habitat of high elevation coniferous forests (Andrews and Righter 1992). Rosche (1982) found a female feeding two juveniles in Chadron SP 25 Jul 1980; breeding probably occurred in Nebraska, as movement away from breeding areas in Wyoming and South Dakota is rare (see Fall). Mollhoff (2016) showed two reports from the first breeding bird atlas period 1989-1994, one of these classified as "Probable", on the Pine Ridge of Sioux Co, apparently in the Soldier Creek and Wood Reserve areas (Wayne Mollhoff, personal communication). In the 2006-2011 atlas (Mollhoff 2016), it was stated "the species was found [in a single block] in three separate years, and "despite repeated searching, no nest was found". This block is near Exit 1 on Interstate 80 in Kimball Co; observations included the following: a female carrying an object 28 Jun 2007, and five birds, including at least one pair, engaged in courtship activities 15 May 2008 (Wayne Mollhoff, personal communication).
The only other summer records are of a pair near limber pines near I-80 Exit 1 in southwest Kimball Co 21 Jun 2008 and a male at a Chadron, Dawes Co feeder 25 Jun 1987 (Williams 1987).
Fall: Aug 28, 30, 30 <<<>>> winter
This species is generally resident in its South Dakota and Wyoming breeding areas, but at least some birds leave the breeding range in late summer and early fall, if only as altitudinal migrants (Faulkner 2010); adult males and all females consistently disappear from breeding areas in northern Utah in mid-Sep (Hahn 2020). Nebraska reports in late summer fit this pattern.
There are earlier reports: one was netted in Garden Co 24-25 Jul 1979 (eBird.org), there are Sioux Co reports 1 Aug 1997, 5-6 Aug 1989 (Grzybowski 1990) and 15 Aug 1981, and two were in Carter Canyon, Scotts Bluff Co 6 Aug 2013. Rosche (1982) listed an early observation date of 28 Aug, one was in Scotts Bluff Co 30 Aug 1985, one at Wildcat Hills NC 30 Aug 2004, and singles were banded at Wildcat Hills NC 30 Aug and 5 Sep 2014.
Winter: Wintering birds in Nebraska are most often reported in Scotts Bluff Co, suggesting arrival via the North Platte River Valley from the Laramie Mountains in eastern Wyoming. Tallman et al (2002) consider Cassin's Finch to be "accidental" away from the Black Hills in South Dakota with only two records.
In years when they occur, Cassin's Finches typically arrive in small numbers, increasing to as many as the 52 seen 10 May 1979 at Crawford and then disappearing in May (Rosche 1982). In 2015 good numbers were in Scotts Bluff Co, with first report 10 Jan and highest numbers 28 Feb. An influx occurred in 1996-97, when several appeared in early Oct and wintered in Scotts Bluff Co. Good numbers appeared in the western Panhandle in fall 2020; best counts were 26 at Exit 1 on I-80, Kimball Co 18 Oct and 16 at Wildcat Hills NC 26 Oct, where reports were 10 Oct-27 Nov. Elsewhere in 2020, a pair was at the Clark feeders in Lincoln Co 14 Nov, in Scotts Bluff Co, two were along Old Stage Road 20 Nov and one in Carter Canyon the same day, and three were at Bushnell, Kimball Co 22 Nov.
There are several Nebraska reports east of the Panhandle, generally in or close to the North Platte River Valley. These are one on 22 Nov 1936 Lincoln Co trapped and examined "very carefully" (Tout 1947), one at an Ogallala, Keith Co feeder 17 Dec 1993 (Brown and Brown 2001), a flock of 14 at Ogallala 15 Dec 2002 (Silcock 2003), 19 Dec 2004 Lake McConaughy CBC, a group of six with House Finches near LeMoyne on the Lake McConaughy CBC 31 Dec 2016, and, at Lake McConaughy, one on 2 Jan 2006, two on 29 Dec 2007, and one photographed on 1 Apr 2015.
CBC: Christmas Bird Count
Andrews, R., and R. Righter. 1992. Colorado birds. Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Brown, C.R., and M.B. Brown. 2001. Birds of the Cedar Point Biological Station. Occasional Papers of the Cedar Point Biological Station, No. 1.
Gill, F., and D. Donsker (Eds). 2017. IOC World Bird List (v 7.3), accessed 30 January 2018.
Hahn, T.P. 2020. Cassin's Finch (Haemorhous cassinii), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.casfin.01.
Mickel, C.E., and R.W. Dawson. 1920. Some interesting records of Nebraska birds for the year 1919. Wilson Bulletin 32: 73-79.
Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2021. Cassin's Finch (Haemorhous cassinii). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org
Updated 26 Dec 2021


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The Prince William Board of County Supervisors recently chose a location for a new parking garage. The new 1,400-space Potomac-Neabsco Commuter Garage will be located at 2501 Opitz Boulevard in Woodbridge.
The approximately $37-million parking garage will be funded through the Smart Scale program, a program coordinated through the Virginia Department of Transportation, or VDOT, and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, or DRPT, which invests state and federal funds in projects that meet the state's most critical transportation needs.
An agreement between VDOT and Prince William County grants the county local administration over the design, right-of-way acquisition and construction phases of building the garage, which will relieve capacity at the Route 1/234 park-and-ride lot, as well as the Prince William Parkway/Horner Road park-and-ride lot.
The county has agreed to buy the 17.68-acre tract on Opitz Boulevard from JBG/Woodbridge, LLC for $5.5 million plus closing costs. The agreement also requires a non-refundable, $275,000 escrow deposit. Money from the county's Recordation Tax Revenue Fund and Northern Virginia Transportation Authority local funds haves been identified to fund additional costs of acquiring the land, which straddles the Neabsco and Woodbridge Magisterial Districts and is bordered on the west by River Rock Way, on the east by Potomac Center Boulevard, with Opitz Boulevard to the north.
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This is a story about people. I want to pay tribute to all the people that walk into my life. In this instance I am referring to those that walk through the doors of my physical rehabilitation facility, or those associated with it in some way.
To begin, there are my very loyal clients that have been there from the beginning. We have become friends and I value your honesty and opinions. When there is change, I know I can rely on you to help me stay in focus. I look forward to our appointments, whether weekly or monthly. You are my stabilising force.
Then there are the challenges. For me these are made up of clients who demand a lot from me in terms of emotional investment. Any emotional vibration, especially in the form of distress, can be overpowering and it is easy to be drawn into the drama. You have challenged me to keep the balance between objectivity and compassion. You have taught me to go deep within myself to find personal stability so that I can focus these consultations into positive experiences, perhaps not always for the humans but hopefully always for my patients. You are the force that drives me to develop a sense of equilibrium.
The well-read and knowledgeable clients keep me on my toes. Those that think out of the box and are often faced with difficult decisions about the quality of life of their companions. You continue to encourage me to find solutions, often unconventional and, admittedly, not always successful. You stimulate my mind and it is exciting to consider options and make new discoveries. Many of you recognise that we are on a journey and this motivates me to seek answers. You broaden my horizons. I store all of these new experiences and am able to draw on them for future patients. You are the force that stimulates me to grow both professionally and intellectually.
This story would be incomplete without mentioning my colleagues. Animal physical rehabilitation is an emerging field, and as it grows we bring in more aspects that allow us to improve our results. Each one of us seems to have a different interest within the field. I am delighted that all are willing to share training and experiences. This also opens my eyes and increases my considerations. You are my guides.
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In closing, my heartfelt thanks and gratitude. You are part of my journey as I am part of yours. Long may it continue.


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Home Sun & Moon Eclipses Dammam, Saudi Arabia
November 8, 2022 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Max View in Dammam
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, in Dammam
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Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 4:52 pm
Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 4:54 pm -1.031 Magnitude
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November 8, 2022 — Total Lunar Eclipse — Dammam
The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looked like in Dammam. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below. All times were local time (AST) for Dammam.
11:02 am Tue, Nov 8 Not directly visible Penumbral Eclipse begins Below horizon 354°
12:09 pm Tue, Nov 8 Not directly visible Partial Eclipse begins Below horizon 17°
1:16 pm Tue, Nov 8 Not directly visible Total Eclipse begins Below horizon 36°
1:59 pm Tue, Nov 8 Not directly visible Maximum Eclipse Below horizon 45°
2:41 pm Tue, Nov 8 Not directly visible Total Eclipse ends Below horizon 53°
3:49 pm Tue, Nov 8 Not directly visible Partial Eclipse ends Below horizon 63°
4:52 pm Tue, Nov 8 Rising Moonrise Rising 70°
4:54 pm Tue, Nov 8
Maximum in Dammam This is the moment when the eclipse reaches its greatest magnitude while the entire Moon is above the horizon in Dammam. The true maximum point of this eclipse cannot be seen in Dammam because the Moon is below the horizon at that time.
Since the Moon is near the horizon at this time, we recommend going to a high point or finding an unobstructed area with free sight to East-northeast for the best view of the eclipse. 70°
Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends.
The curvature of the shadow's path and the apparent rotation of the Moon's disk is due to the Earth's rotation.
The total phase of this lunar eclipse was not visible in Dammam, but it could be observed there as a penumbral lunar eclipse. A penumbral lunar eclipse can be a bit hard to see as the shadowed part is only a little bit fainter than the rest of the Moon.
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Rated R, 118 minutes "20th Century Women" is the touching new dramedy from director and writer Mike Mills of "Beginners" fame. Well-acted, compelling and humorous, it's a little too leisurely at times, but it has some relevant statements on feminism. In 1979 Santa Barbara, Calif., Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann), at a moment brimming with cultural change and reb
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The 1968 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament took place during March and April 1968. It was the 3rd CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.

Argentina and Bolivia did not participate. Brazil and Colombia qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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Hosted in Brazil and Colombia.

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The September wedding party was a huge success.
It marked not only the union of a man and a woman, but also the start of a new enterprise on Okinawa.
The first wedding party at Nago City's Kise International Convention Hall, used in 2000 for the G-8 Summit which brought world leaders to the northern Okinawa city, was the beginning of a new business venture for the Okinawa Prefecture Convention Bureau.
Few international conferences were being booked at the sprawling facility, so officials decided to go a new direction, developing Okinawa as a wedding resort island. At Nago City, the idea was to use the wedding party hall, with its beautiful views overlooking the ocean and sugary white beaches, as the idyllic spot for weddings.
The first couple to tie the knot, Teru Sasaki, 32, and his bride Keiko Sasaki, 30, are from mainland Japan. They brought 90 relatives for the wedding party.
The prefecture is pressing the wedding resort island concept seriously. There's a one year waiting list already, with 2,000 reservations in place. The prefecture's goal is to have 10,000 couples a year marrying on Okinawa within five years. The Nago City convention hall has a capacity of200-230 weddings a year.
The cost? The budge for a total wedding party for 100 guest, including foods, the ceremony, photography, arrangements and everything: ¥2,000,000. Several Tokyo companies are coordinating the weddings business now, but Okinawa Prefecture officials say they're going to recruit local wedding planners, beauticians, etc., to get involved.


TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Booms of outgoing artillery shaking the ground, militia fighters from the remote Libyan mountain town of Zintan hunker down in the passenger terminal to defend Tripoli airport, the biggest prize in the capital.
Across the city a few kilometers away, a commander of a brigade from the port city of Misrata rallies his men to take the airport back.
Three years ago, Zintani and Misratan rebel brigades descended simultaneously on Tripoli from east and west to storm the palaces of Muammar Gaddafi. Now, fighters from the two towns are waging open war in the capital.
"This war is harder than the revolution," said Mohammed, a fighter in a unit allied to the Zintanis, standing in the debris of the airport terminal, dark smoke billowing from a nearby blast. "They want to take the airport, and when you take the airport you take Tripoli."
Across the city at his Tripoli base lined with tanks and trucks mounted with cannons, Hassan Shakka, a commander of Misrata's Central Shield brigade, said his forces were "completing the revolution".
"We are not fighting the Zintanis: we are fighting the remains of Gaddafi's army," he said. "There will be no ceasefire until they leave Tripoli."
Two weeks of shelling have knocked Tripoli International Airport out of commission. A control center is damaged, nearly 20 jets parked on the tarmac have been hit, burned or destroyed and the passenger terminal sports a gaping hole in its roof.
Grad missiles roar over the city. Fighters have closed off parts of southern Tripoli with blockades and earth barricades. Apartment blocks on the airport road bear bullet and blast marks. Zintan fighters have set up checkpoints on the empty highway where blackened grassland marks recent shelling. More are dug in by the airport with anti-aircraft canons.
"It can still be contained. There is room to negotiate. But it is a very delicate situation," said one Libyan government official. "We are trying to negotiate to slow things down. If it spins too much, you can't stop it and it becomes a hurricane."
The war for Tripoli's airport is not even the only war being fought in Libya. A day's drive away in Benghazi, Libya's second biggest city, followers of a renegade former Gaddafi general are waging street battles against an alliance of militia groups, including Islamist fighters that Washington blames for killing the U.S. ambassador two years ago.
The Benghazi militia alliance has overrun a special forces base and forced irregular forces and the army to retreat.
The collapse of Gaddafi's four decades of single man rule has left Libya an armed free-for-all, where cities, regions, charismatic individuals, urban neighbourhoods and rural tribes all field their own armed forces.
Towns fight towns; Islamists oppose nationalists; federalists rise up against central government; ex-Gaddafi units clash with former revolutionaries - and everyone has guns, artillery, tanks and missiles, taken from the vast arsenals the deposed dictator had stashed across the country.
Western countries, which helped blast Gaddafi out of power with a NATO bombing campaign in 2011, are mostly getting out, shutting and evacuating embassies as the OPEC oil exporter teeters toward becoming a failed state.
With the main airport shut, the Americans left by road escorted by Marines; the French sailed out by sea.
For the past three years, the central government has largely failed to build a national army, instead buying off the loyalty of armed groups by putting individual fighters or whole militia units onto the payroll. Despite taking the government's money, most remain loyal to their commanders, regions or cities.
U.N., U.S. and European special envoys are pushing for a ceasefire and political settlement around a new parliament due to start its work in August. But the negotiations are difficult.
Each brigade claims to be a legitimate armed force authorized by competing factions within ministries or the previous parliament; each claims the entitlement as revolutionary liberators of the capital, and refuses to give up its Gaddafi-era heavy weaponry.
Since the 2011 war, Libya's factional rivalries have flared before, only to be restrained by a tenuous balance of power that Libyan officials and diplomats say comes from the knowledge that neither side can overcome the other.
For now, the main rivalry in the capital is that between Zintan and Misrata, which both played outsized roles in the 2011 war that unseated Gaddafi and parlayed their victory into status as kingmakers in the capital.
Zintan, a rugged Arab garrison town of barely 50,000 people perched among poor Berber villages in the arid heights of the Western Mountains, led an unlikely campaign against much larger Gaddafi forces, bursting through the front to reach the coast and march on Tripoli in a lightning advance. Its militia later captured Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, still held in its jail.
Misrata, a thriving port of nearly 300,000 with a mercantile tradition, was the biggest city in the west to hold out against Gaddafi's forces, keeping the revolution's hopes alive under intense bombardment during a months-long siege, before its forces battled their way to the capital.
When Tripoli fell, Misrata and Zintan brigades both rushed in from opposite sides to lay claim to stakes in the capital. Zintan took the civil airport; Misrata and its allies took a military airbase. Since then they have skirmished in turf wars.
Despite their local origins, the militia of both towns have allied themselves to political factions with national ambitions.
The Zintanis, with allied groups called the Qaaqaa and al-Sawaiq brigades which include some former Gaddafi special forces, have sided with the National Forces Alliance, led by Mahmoud Jibril, an interim prime minister after the war.
Zintanis have long complained of their town's neglect by Gaddafi, and say they missed out on Libya's oil wealth. Rivals say they have grown rich from exploiting control of the airport.
Many of the Qaaqaa brigade members are fiercely opposed to what they see as growing Islamist influence in Libya.
On the opposite side, the Misrata brigades, including "Libya Shield" units created by parliament, are allied to Islamist-leaning militias whose allegiance is with the Justice and Construction party, seen as close to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The depth of Misrata's suffering under siege by Gaddafi's forces has become a rallying cry for fighters who accuse the Zintanis of cooperating with ex-Gaddafi figures.
"The revolution didn't finish. It is about perceptions over the future of the country. They both think they can win, but do they go to the brink?" said one Western diplomat. "The hope is that they realize that no side can win."
Opponents of the Islamists blame them for starting the latest violence to scuttle the start of the new parliament, elected in June under a system that required candidates to stand without party affiliation, which cost Islamists some clout.
"What is happening is an attempted strike against election results, which handed more power to the Islamists' enemies," said Ziad Dgheim, a federalist and member of the new parliament.
Now each blames the other as positions harden. Zintan says it is only defending the airport from attack and urged a ceasefire to stop "Libyan blood being spilled."
Ahmed Hadia, spokesman for the Misrata Central Shield Brigade, said his group joined the battle only after Zintan's Qaaqaa and Sawaiq brigades were accused of trying to stage a coup and the government was not strong enough to respond.
The airport struggle is hardly the first time Libya's armed factions tried to decide Libya's future. The last parliament and ministries were repeatedly stormed by armed groups to make demands on the fragile state.
The government blames one Islamist militia for the kidnapping of the prime minister from his hotel room in Tripoli last year. Another federalist ex-rebel blockaded Libya's oil ports for a year to demand more autonomy for the east, halting the exports that form the government's lifeblood.
But Professor Dirk Vandewalle, a Libya expert at Dartmouth College in the United States, said militias had now crossed a threshold by openly attacking institutions like Tripoli airport that before would have been viewed as out of bounds.
"What the militias are saying is we are willing to do whatever it takes to solve this," he said. "This is much more visceral, and it is about the spoils of the state and who will control them. A much larger battle is starting to evolve."


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Who Is the Owner of the Armadillo Boots That Were Auctioned?
The Armadillo boots were designed by Alexander McQueen for his Atlantis-inspired Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Their design, extremely high heels -some models even denied walking the show because of it- and the fact that they were never meant to go for sale have created a myth around them. So far it was only Lady Gaga who was lucky enough -let's also say brave- to have worn them, except for the 21 models of the runway show, during her "Bad Romance" video clip.
Two weeks ago, news broke that three pairs of the Armadillo would go for auction. And who put the winning bid? Lady Gaga! Seems that noone else will ever get the chance to make them theirs. And after that, she submitted a note to V magazine for Alexander McQueen:
"There is no diamond, no award, nothing I ever wanted more than a memory of my brief friendship with McQueen. I am sad every day that I enter my closet, knowing he is not here anymore to dazzle the world with his beautiful, dark, limitless, brave mind. These shoes are the only tangible piece I have left of our work together. They came to me this morning, after a dream I had again about him. As the dream goes, I enter my closet and his clothes are no longer there. I'm tortured. The loss is deep. Mourning in my own way constantly, why he is gone, he was so talented. I hate the empty space, not only in fashion, but in the creative consciousness that fizzled when he passed. This morning I got the call I would now be the caregiver to three pairs of armadillo platforms, just like the kind I wore in the "Bad Romance" video, the shoes from his crescendo collection "Plato's Atlantis," the ones that made everyone gasp from the front row because they had NEVER seen something like them before. I was reminded this morning that he is still here. He is everywhere. In every store window. In the designs of commercial mainstream retail, fashion, in music, in the heart of every young designer that wishes he could be as free and as fearless as McQueen was. I cried all morning, convinced he was with me. Convinced that I'm loved from somewhere far beyond the eternal body and mind, outside of all the chaos. He wanted me to have them. They made their way back to me. I am here today not just because of my talent, but because he believed in me. My weird brand of art pop manic expression of my emotions was the part of me he knew he taught me. I will be grateful long after I pass and join him wherever it is they put souls like us. Long live McQueen."
The singer and the late designer, who died in 2010, were close friends. Lady Gaga had even dedicated her 2010 Brit Awards to his memory. Watch her performance below.
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Navigation: A Very Short Introduction
De jim bennett
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Navigation: A Very Short Introduction de BENNETT, JIM
From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is fascinating. The scientific and technological developments that have enabled accuratemeasurements of position were central to exploration, trade, and the opening up of new continents, and the resulting journeys taken under their influence have had a profound influence on world history.In this Very Short Introduction Jim Bennett looks at the history of navigation, starting with the distinctive cultures of navigation that are defined geographically - the Mediterranean Sea, and the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. He shows how the adoption of mathematical methods, the use ofinstruments, the writing of textbooks and the publication of charts all combined to create a more standardised practice. Methods such as longitude-finding by chronometer and lunar distance were complemented by the routine business of recording courses and reckoning position by account . Bennettalso introduces the incredible array of instruments relied on by sailors, from astrolabes, sextants, and chronometers, to our more modern radio receivers, electronic equipment, and charts, and highlights the crucial role played by the individual qualities of endeavour and resourcefulness frommathematicians, scientists, and seamen in finding their way at sea. The story of navigation combines the societal, the technical, and the human, and it was vital for shaping the modern world.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, andenthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is fascinating. The scientific and technological developments that have enabled accurate
measurements of position were central to exploration, trade, and the opening up of new continents, and the resulting journeys taken under their influence have had a profound influence on world history.
In this Very Short Introduction Jim Bennett looks at the history of navigation, starting with the distinctive cultures of navigation that are defined geographically - the Mediterranean Sea, and the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. He shows how the adoption of mathematical methods, the use of
instruments, the writing of textbooks and the publication of charts all combined to create a more standardised practice. Methods such as longitude-finding by chronometer and lunar distance were complemented by the routine business of recording courses and reckoning position "by account". Bennett
also introduces the incredible array of instruments relied on by sailors, from astrolabes, sextants, and chronometers, to our more modern radio receivers, electronic equipment, and charts, and highlights the crucial role played by the individual qualities of endeavour and resourcefulness from
mathematicians, scientists, and seamen in finding their way at sea. The story of navigation combines the societal, the technical, and the human, and it was vital for shaping the modern world.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Histoire | very short introduction
Titre : Navigation: A Very Short Introduction
Éditeur : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collection : VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
Sujet : HIST. UNIVERSELLE/GENERALE
Navigation: A Very Short Introduction , BENNETT, JIM
© OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017


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Welcome to LivingMelody.com - I'm a singer, composer and producer, and I'm now happy to share these very alive melodies with you. On this site you will be able to listen to all the songs and pieces as I write them, and I've also included all my past projects.
Feel free to listen to what you feel like, and don't hesitate to leave a comment if you have something to say, I'll be glad to hear from you..
Inspirium
Inspirium, the instrumental album I've been working on for the past three years, is out now! Check it out here
"Analog" is now out! An album of electronic music all made with old fashion analog gear. Find out more here.
Tubular World
The Mike Oldfield documentary for which I've contributed a track is now available to purchase
Fun with modes
Episode 2 of "Instrumental adventures" is now online:
https://youtu.be/fZy8AuMjknA
Instrumental adventures!
Check out this new YouTube series following how I go about writing, recording, and producing a 40 minute instrumental album
https://youtu.be/JGHttd6m1WI
Analog and modular
Working away on various projects, including more collaborations and recording for "Inspirium", as well as a new collection of pieces recorded exclusively on analog and modular equipement. The latter will be released on a new YouTube channel that is currently being worked on.
Projects galore!
Keeping busy working on various projects, the main one being a long instrumental all hand-played and featuring a variety of guest musicians. The working title is "Inspirium", which doesn't mean anything, but it sounded good.
"Chapter Eight" is out
"Chapter Eight", the album by Canadian artist Caroline Colantonio that I have had the pleasure to produce, is out now!
Check it out at https://www.carolinecolantonio.com/listen
I've been working on producing a record with talented singer/songwriter Caroline Colantonio. Check out this interview about the record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CGiebnxOA
Choir writing
Recently I've enjoyed writing a few choral pieces, including "God's Love", the mini-oratorio mentioned below, "In the Hour Between", a contemporary piece written in support of a foundation against child abuse, "Yo Ake ni Mukatte", put to music for a French-Japanese festival, and "Spring's Saraband", premiered at a recent concert at the Lawrence Park Community Church.
God's Love - a mini-oratorio
I've written a new choral piece for SATB choir and organ. It's a sort of mini-oratorio based on texts from the new testament. Check out a recording of it on YouTube!
Polymer by Original Fire - Now available!
Polymer is now available! The name of the new project is "Original Fire", and you can find all about it on www.originalfire.net
"Polymer" - coming soon!
A 25 minute instrumental piece mainly played on electric guitar!
New videos section
I've just added a new "videos" section, for, yep, videos. You can find a couple of recordings from a singing recital I did in August 2014, with a mix of originals, classical music, and musical theatre.
I wrote the music for a short "Kung Fu musical" of sort, which tells the story of a famous Kung Fu school's lineage. Hop on to this merry page to listen to the music and find a link to a video version.
Once Upon a Rose
The music I wrote for the wonderful Irish dance show "Once Upon a Rose" is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and some other handy platforms. You can find all the links on this page. I hope you and your happy feet enjoy it!
In progress: Sacred music
I've started to put to music some texts from various sacred traditions, and rather than wait for the whole thing to be finished I've decided to publish it as I go. You can follow the project and listen to the first two pieces on this handy page.
New Re:mind album - Little Tales
I've got this project called "Re:mind", with which I publish some sort of electronic music. You can now listen to 10 new tracks in a new album called "Little Tales". Find out more and listen to the new tracks here!
To celebrate the release of a new collection of music, the website has been updated with a shiny new layout, architecture, and even some fancy social media links (to stay very modern)


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United Kingdom The London Red Bus is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the capital of United Kingdom. Its toy-like old style typical image is that of the Routemaster Bus which still operates on two of the City's historical routes. This red double-decker remains a popular icon to be found on a resin fridge magnet souvenir showing a splendid background view of the Palace of Westminster. The Palace is a vital part of United Kingdom's political life with its vivid dramatic history of destruction and reconstruction and hugely notorious landmarks such as the Big Ben Tower, one of the most photographed buildings in the city.
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