![]() Even though firearms were introduced to Japan and widley used on the battlefield during this period, the final outcome of a confrontation was primarily settled with the sword. Loyalty | Benevolence | Honor | Courage | Honesty | Justice (Rectitude) | Courtesy (Respect)ĭuring the warring states period (late fifteenth to early seventeenth Centuries) the martial arts, of which swordsmanship was one of the oldest, were systematized and many schools or ‘ryu’ of swordsmanship were formed. The code has a rich history which has evolved throughout the ages since it was conceived, but is generally summed up into seven virtues : Bushido is made up of the words Bushi (warrior) and Do (way), which literally means ‘the way of the warrior’. During this period, the Samurai started living by the code of conduct known as bushido. Japan was split into many provinces which were ruled and fought over during much of this time by the Samurai Clans and families. Japan was ruled by this warrior class for nearly 800 years. Samurai (the word means ‘to serve’) were warriors who emerged as a defined group or class in the late Heian Period (mid-twelfth century). This period in Japanese history is known as the Heian period, and it is believed martial arts flourished during this time as Samurai developed their skills through constant battlefield experience. Between the eleventh and twelfth centuries the curved bladed sword was developed. These were probably straight, single edged swords (the oldest known was made between the sixth and eighth century). It’s roots can be traced back to the early ninth century where Japanese warriors were known to employ swords as principle weapons.
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![]() įorrest Mars Sr., son of Frank and his first wife, Ethel G. By 1920, Mars had returned to his home state, Minnesota, where the earliest incarnation of the present day Mars company was founded that year as Mar-O-Bar Co., in Minneapolis and later incorporated there as Mars, Incorporated. This factory produced and sold fresh candy wholesale, but ultimately the venture failed because there was a better established business, Brown & Haley, also operating in Tacoma. Mars, his second wife, in Tacoma, Washington. He started the Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with Ethel V. įranklin Clarence Mars, whose mother taught him to hand dip candy, sold candy by age 19. Though abandoned shortly after the war, about 30 years later, Orbit came back to America during the chewing gum craze. During World War II, Wrigley was selling their eponymous gum only to soldiers, while Orbit was sold to the public. Orbit gum is among the most popular brands, managed by the Mars subsidiary brand Wrigley. It also produces non-confectionery snacks, such as Combos, and other foods, including Ben's Original, and pasta sauce brand Dolmio, as well as pet foods, such as Pedigree, Whiskas, Nutro and Royal Canin brands. Mars is a company known for the confectionery items that it manufactures, such as Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix. History Old Mars logo used between the company's founding in 1911 until March 2019 headquarters in Hackettstown and Newark, New Jersey), Petcare ( Zaventem, Belgium Poncitlán and Jalisco, Mexico Querétaro, Mexico), Food ( Rancho Dominguez, California), and MARS Edge ( Germantown, Maryland), the company's life sciences division. ![]() Mars operates in four business segments around the world: Mars Wrigley Confectionery (headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with U.S. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the company is entirely owned by the Mars family. Mars was ranked as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Mars, Incorporated is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022. If I can't fix it, I'll see if Costco will replace it. It's worked great for a year, and I'm the guy who likes writing with sharp pencil tips, so it's very handy. Saw all the bad reviews and thought this could use a boost, since apparently people don't leave reviews on brand websites unless they're unhappy (true of many brands it seems). I was hoping to find some answers, but I guess I'll just unplug and take it apart soon. I'm here though because I broke a pencil tip or something in my sharpener and now the auto-start/stop is working very erratically. It's a slight down-side, but it's not annoying. Titanium-bonded blades stay sharper longer for. It's nice that the whole thing can be unplugged (just hold the cord with something else so you don't have to re-tuck it behind your desk), because when you go to dump the shavings, you really have to, since the shavings cup has a hole on the bottom to enable vertical sharpening. Battery-powered pencil sharpener features an innovative design to quickly sharpen your pencils to a fine point. It works great and has a small form factor, so it doesn't hog your desk.
![]() In 1937, Rooney and Garland appeared in their first of 10 films together, “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry.” They became extremely close, remaining friends until her death in 1969, and he always spoke with great love of her and their friendship. Andy often found himself in “girl trouble,” with the likes of such MGM starlets as Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford and, most famously, Judy Garland. “A Family Affair” was the first of 16 films in which he played the popular character Andy Hardy, the rambunctious and girl-crazy teenage son to the wise Judge James Hardy. Then in 1937, he made the film that would establish his star status. In 1927, he starred in the first of several short films in the “Mickey Maguire” series, and adopted the stage name “Mickey Rooney.” He made 78 of these comedies, and also received great notices in films such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1935). At 17 months old, he made his stage debut in his parent’s vaudeville act, and made his motion picture debut in 1926. on September 23, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York. He had one of the longest careers of any entertainer, with a body of work that spans nine decades in the industry, including vaudeville, films, television, radio and the stage. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.At 5’2, Mickey Rooney may have been small in stature, but he had a huge personality and was one of the biggest stars in the heyday of the Golden Era of Hollywood. I decided we were right going into World War II.” – from a CBS interview with Morley Safer, Oct. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. “Dogs are nicer than people.” – from an essay on the true things in life, Dec. How much would it cost if you didn’t handle it before you sent it to me?” – from an essay on fine print, March 12, 1989 “I understand shipping – you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company – but what’s this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don’t want a lot of people handling something I’m going to buy before I get it. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you’ve taken a pill out?” – from an essay on pill bottles, Oct. “I don’t know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. But why are they always trying to con us with the contrived pictures on the box that don’t look anything like you get when you eat it?” – from an essay on the pictures on food packages, Dec. “A lot of these products are actually pretty good. “The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.” – from an essay on coffee cans, Oct. “One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.” – from Rooney’s first “60 Minutes” essay, July 2, 1978 You don’t get any luckier in life than that.” – from Rooney’s final “60 Minutes” essay, Oct. ![]() … All this time I’ve been paid to say what is on my mind on television. “Not many people in this world are as lucky as I’ve been. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.” – on the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger after it exploded on takeoff in 1986 “We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that’s what they were. I lose that much getting mad, waiting to get on the plane through security at the airport.” – from an essay on computers, Feb. “I recently bought this new laptop to use when I travel. ![]() These “gray flashes” are just as important as killing ferocious, mutant rodents, as every moral choice you make produces them and determines the final outcome of the game’s plot. As you progress through the storyline, small, gray flashes across the screen appear when you listen to fellow Metro dwellers talking to one another or by locating dead soldier bodies in the outside world. Instead, the heart of this game lies in the unfolding story and the player’s interaction with the characters and beautiful environments. Last Light isn’t about racking up the highest kill count or obtaining the best items. Long story short: things take a turn for the worst you become captured by an enemy faction looking for blood, and must escape them to complete your original mission. Becoming a hero of the underground tunnels called the “Metro”, you eventually are told that a surviving Dark One was spotted on the surface and are tasked with finishing the job you started. A handful of years have passed since the events of the first game, after having obliterated the psychic monstrosities known as the “Dark Ones” who were threatening human existence below the surface. Players continue the story of Russian Ranger, Artyom, who lives in a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, radical faction conflict, and massive, mutated creature attacks. Being the slightly matured version of Metro 2033, Last Light moves the franchise even closer to storytelling and gameplay perfection within the FPS genre. Thus, I felt it needed to have some light shed on it and be given the credit it deserves. Its predecessor, Metro 2033, was a great game released back in 2010, but easily found its way into my “Most Overlooked Games” list of the decade. Enter Metro: Last Light a model of what the modern FPS’s should aspire to be. Perform daring raids for food and ammunition, and do whatever it takes to live another day.It’s rare to find a First Person Shooter that goes beyond the common “run and gun” nowadays, even more so finding one with a solid storyline and added stealth elements thrown in the mix. ![]() Design and fortify your base against the relentless hordes of the undead. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Capture your most dramatic moments with Game DVR integration. Test yourself against monthly Challenges to unlock even more items, weapons, and vehicles. New Weapons: Under-Barrel Grenade Launchers and Incendiary Shotgunsįind new assault rifles equipped with under-barrel grenade launcher attachments as well as shotguns that fire incendiary rounds. Not only do players get a brand-new SUV, but custom vehicle skins are also distributed across all maps for greater personalization. Your favorite characters from Lifeline can now be unlocked in Breakdown, including the previously unplayable Kelly “Sasquatch” Eldridge. Wipe out the infestation and you can grab some of the rarest and most powerful equipment seen in State of Decay. Mysterious supply crates start dropping into remote areas across the map, attracting massive hordes of zombies. How will you survive the zombie apocalypse? New missions, weapons, and extra content, along with improved lighting, textures, animations and combat mechanics, will pull you even deeper into the post-outbreak world. ![]() State of Decay, along with major Add-Ons Breakdown and Lifeline, is now fully remastered in stunning 1080p. State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition brings the hit zombie survival-fantasy franchise to Xbox One. No need to transfer ballast load between tanks to achieve optimum surf wake. With the touch of a button Cobalts automated computer control surf system adjusts the Bi-Axis Surf Tabs to create the optimum surf wake either left or right. **SOLD**2015 COBALT R5, VOLVO PENTA V8-380C DP/ 380HPģ-COLOR CUSTOM, EBONY ACCENT STRIPE, SHALE HULL BOTTOM, EBONY TAHOE GREY INTERIOR BLACK PIPING DEL MAR SPORT SEATING (STD) DASH/TRIM PACKAGE,OIL RUBBED MAKASSAR BATTERY SWITCH W/ACR-DUAL PREMIUM SOUND,W/TRANSOM & ARCH SPEAKERS PUMP OUT PORTA POTTI SINK CONSOLE, HEAD ARCH, BLACK(FWD FOLDING) W/BIMINI,EBONY BOW TONNEAU COVER, EBONY COCKPIT TONNEAU COVER, EBONY RUDDER INDICATOR,VOLVO DOCKING LIGHTS-STAINLESS STEEL PORTAL LIGHT (1-HEAD COMPARTMENT) SWIM PLATFORM TRANSOM LIGHTING UNDERWATER LIGHTING And one more name to drop - the Rockford Fosgate stereo, optimized and ready, as we say, to crank. Our owners have always insisted on comfort and convenience and accessibility -"ergonomics" to our designers - and so the R5's armrests and footrests and controls and cupholders and every last little amenity aboard arrives with a form and a function just too ergo for words. The wheel wraps in leather: one of the most time-honored of Cobalt traditions, this masterpiece of a steering wheel. The helm gleams in hand-craftsmanship, in oil-rubbed ebony Makassar trim and duotone aluminum dash panels and switches of stainless steel and five-inch digital gauges with multi-function readouts and, over all, a form-fitted eyebrow in everlasting vinyl. A console door, elegant in its woodgrains and crafted vinyls, opens to a head larger above and all-around than any other boat in the class. ![]() The twice wide passenger seat forward makes the cockpit even more flexible in its service of a good time - fully convertible in direct reflection of seating aft. This seating configuration, by the way, belongs only to Cobalt in boats of the R5's size. We then followed with yachtesque, wraparound seating to capitalize on those wishes for a flawless ride, a ride begun of course in that legendary Cobalt hull. The back-rest is convertible, and the space forward is wide and wider still, with an interior beam almost a foot wider than the ever so super-spacious 242's. Very, very aggressive, per the R5's Edge graphics, set forward of the sculpted truth that is the R5's transom, swim platform, and sunpad - cohesive in their integrated design, free-flowing in their easy functionality. ![]() Asked to create a mid-sized runabout with traditional elegance and the smoothest of quiet rides, we went to the prototype shop with an exterior profile first in mind. Case in point: the revolutionary Cobalt R5. We listen with interest and with respect. We listen to what our owners and our dealers tell us. Cobalt has built boats for almost 50 years with a careful ear to the water. Options Include Aft Walk-Thru Carpet, Aft Walk-Thru Gate, Air Compressor, Battery Charger, Dual Batteries w/ACR, Bow and Cockpit Covers, Bimini Top, Del Mar Sport Seat, Dinette Table w/cockpit & platform receptacle, Docking Lights, Electric Porcelain Head, Fender Clips, Flagpole, Seagrass Flooring, Motor Box Actuator, Portal Light, Premium Sound w/Transom Speakers, Stainless Steel Foot Tread, Swim Platform Transom Lighting, Transom Shower, Trim Tabs w/ Indicators, Underwater Lights, Windlass, Wood Dash & Trim, Garmin GPS. ![]() That means it can measure, to within 20 percent accuracy, the distances of stars that lie tens of thousands of light-years away. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, currently underway, can measure parallax angles of just a few millionths of an arcsecond. That’s why a parsec has that value, and not any other.Īlthough astronomers often measure distant objects in parsecs or megaparsecs (1 megaparsec is 1 million parsecs), only nearby objects have parallaxes that we can actually measure. And a parsec is the distance - 3.26 light-years - that a star must lie from the Sun for its parallax angle to be exactly 1″. The two different sightlines, one at each end of Earth’s orbit, create a triangle the parallax angle is defined as half the angle at the triangle’s apex. If you draw a simple diagram, you’ll see that the distance the star appears to move is related to the angle at which it is viewed. A star with a parallax angle of 0.01 arcsecond is 326 light-years away. Translated to the stars in the sky, two photographs of the same nearby star taken six months apart will show it appearing to move against the background of more distant stars because Earth has moved to the other side of the Sun in its orbit. A star with a parallax angle of 0.1 arcsecond is 32.6 light-years away from us. Your finger will appear to shift because each eye views it from a slightly different angle. Next, open your left eye and close your right. Close just your left eye and observe where your finger appears against the background. One of the simplest ways to see for yourself how this works is to hold your hand at arm’s length in front of your face and raise one finger. This is because as our planet moves, our viewpoint changes. Over the course of several months, nearby stars appear to move with respect to more distant objects - an effect called parallax. Earth circles the Sun, making one complete orbit per year. 1 parsec is about 3.3 light years.Question: Why is a parsec 3.26 light-years and not some other number?Īnswer: A parsec, or “parallax second,” is defined as 3.26 light-years because of how it is measured. #p = (1"AU")/d#, or in other words, #d=(1"AU")/p#Īstronomical units are not the most convenient units to work with, though, so instead we define a parsec to be the distance to a star that shows #1# arc-second of parallax angle. the distance to this star is, the spectral sequence sorts stars according to and more. Then because a is small, the bodys real diameter will be nearly the same as the arc of the big. Imagine drawing a big circle through the body, with radius d. Since the star will be very far away, we can make the assumption that #tan p# is about equal to #p#. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like why do astronomers often measure the visible-light apparent brightness instead of the total apparent brightness of a star, suppose that you measure the parallax angle for a particular star to be 0.5 arc second. Small angle formula (repeat) - we started talking about this by imagining an object at distance d that has an angular size a. We can use #tan p# to find the distance to that star. In the image above, we can see that by cutting #alpha# in half, we get a right triangle where one leg is the distance between the sun and the other star. ![]() This is enough to get a noticeable angle, #alpha#, between the star's two apparent locations. One AU is the average distance from the Sun to the Earth. If we made two observations of the same star on opposite sides of the Earth's orbit, we would have a separation of #2# astronomical units, or AU. In astronomy, the distances to other stars is too great to measure using two objects on the Earth's surface. ![]() This is true in astronomy as well, but on a much larger scale. The closer the object is, the more it appears to move relative to the background. If you look with just one eye, then the other, the object will appear to move against the background.īecause your eyes are separated by several centimeters, each eye has a different perspective of where the object is relative to the background. One way to understand parallax is to look at a nearby object and note its position against a wall. 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Newton County as a whole mostly supported the Union however, in 1863, while searching for Cecil, Union troops burned Jasper to the ground and moved their sympathizers to Springfield, Missouri.Īfter the Civil War, Jasper became a boomtown. ![]() John Cecil, former sheriff of Newton County, was known for showing off his twin pearl-handled pistols he had worn as a guerrilla leader for the Confederacy. James Vanderpool was a Union hero who returned home in August 1865. The county produced two famous leaders, fighting for different causes. The Civil War brought strife to this isolated community. ![]() Between 18, Ross served in several posts for the town, including postmaster, storekeeper, county clerk, and county judge. On December 14, 1842, Governor Archibald Yell signed legislation creating Newton County from land in Carroll County. By 1843, Ross had relocated his family to Jasper, where he became the first postmaster and established another trading post. In 1839, Ross moved his wife and baby from Ohio to Clarksville (Johnson County), where he established a trading post on the Arkansas River. Settlers began moving to the area as early as 1825, according to census records made in 1850. Yet another account states that postmaster John Ross coined the name by comparing the mellow color of the local stone to jasper, one of the twelve precious stones mentioned in Revelation. A second version of this same story tells of a precious ring, containing a jasper stone, given to the postmaster in gratitude for care given to the Cherokee travelers. One oft-repeated legend says that Cherokee Indians traveling west on the torturous Trail of Tears gave the town its name after being surprised by the village’s warm hospitality. Louisiana Purchase through Early StatehoodĪt least three different stories are told about the origin of the name Jasper. ![]() Today, it is the hub for outdoor enthusiasts enjoying the Buffalo National River, one of the last free-flowing waterways in the United States, and the Ozark Highland Trail. Jasper was established as a village along the Little Buffalo River by 1840. |
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