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Chaplin’s Music Hall
“Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a failing variety performer and which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers’ lives were ruined when their audience turned against them and he was relieved to exchange the stresses of live performance for screen comedy. Barry Anthony here tells the story of the lives and careers of Chaplin’s family and their music–hall circle–from ‘dashing’ Eva Lester to the great Fred Karno and from Chaplin’s parents Hannah Hill and Charles Chaplin to ‘The Great Calvero’ himself. He reveals the difficult and often–tragic lives of London’s variety community in the late–Victorian and Edwardian years, a time of great change in the music hall and entertainment scene, and in doing so sheds important new light on the inspiration behind Chaplin’s genius, providing a fascinatingly fresh perspective on this popular cultural icon of the twentieth century.”
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Remote Sensing of Nitrogen Stress in Creeping Bentgrass
Development of a remote sensing system that can reliably identify nutrient deficiencies may reduce time spent sampling turfgrass areas and allow for site-specific applications of fertilizers. The objectives of this research were to evaluate the use of a ground-based remote sensing system and partial least-squares (PLS) regression to predict the N concentration, biomass production, chlorophyll content, and visual quality of creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L. 'Penncross') growing under varying N rates, and to compare PLS regression to other vegetative indices. The study consisted of three N treatments (0.0, 12.2, and 24.4 kg ha-1 15 d-1) arranged in a randomized complete block design. Spectral radiance measurements were obtained from plots using a fiber-optic spectrometer to calculate vegetative indices. The PLS regression analysis yielded a strong relationship between actual and predicted N concentration of creeping bentgrass plant tissue during 2002 and 2003 (r2 = 0.95 and 0.71 respectively). However, PLS regression failed to produce a prediction for the chlorophyll concentration. Regressing the normalized vegetation index (NDVI), Stress1 (R706/R760), and Stress2 (R706/R813) ratios against N concentration yielded better results in 2003 when there were distinct differences in N concentration between the N rates. These results indicate that the traditional vegetation indices like NDVI might be better suited for determining the relative N status of turfgrass plants when compared against a well-fertilized control. More research will be required to determine if the PLS regression analysis produces prediction models that are able to specifically identify a particular nutrient deficiency or plant stress, and how the results will vary between grass species.
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Predicting Soil Water Content through Remote Sensing of Vegetative Characteristics in a Turfgrass System
Scouting to determine soil water status throughout a golf course or large athletic field complex is quite time consuming and requires numerous observations to characterize variability across the site. The objective of this research was to evaluate the use of a ground-based remote sensing system to predict soil water content through partial least squares regression analysis of canopy reflectance data collected from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) maintained at 12.7 mm and creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) maintained at 6.3 mm during 2002 and 2003 on a Coland silty clay loam. Volumetric soil water at a 5 cm depth was measured by time domain reflectometry and was collected in conjunction with spectral radiance measurements obtained using a fiber optic spectrometer. Volumetric soil water content was best predicted with partial least squares regression analysis of creeping bentgrass canopy reflectance data with a maximum r2 of 0.64 (P < 0.001) 1 d before development of drought stress symptoms. Similar results were observed for canopy reflectance data collected from perennial ryegrass plots, indicating that this technology and method of data analysis may be useful in the development of automated turfgrass irrigation management systems.
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Resolving The Principal Place of Business Conundrum: Adopting A Single Test For Federal Diversity Jurisdiction
28 Certainty and ease of application are the hallmarks of the nerve center test.29 As the Seventh Circuit explained: Since certainty of jurisdiction is a desideratum too - the parties ought to know definitely what court they belong in, and not face the prospect that their litigation may be set at naught because they made a wrong guess about jurisdiction - this circuit has long used a simple nerve center test for principal place of business.30 The corporation's nerve center is ordinarily found where the corporation has its headquarters.
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Crustal Structure of the Northeastern United States: Contrasts between Grenville and Appalachian Provinces
Average crustal models for the northeastern United States are computed on the basis of the travel times of P and S waves from regional earthquakes. The Precambrian Grenville Province in New York State has a relatively homogeneous crust. The Paleozoic New England Appalachians have a well-defined, two-layer crust that is slightly thicker and shows a high-velocity lower layer relative to the Grenville. A time-term analysis based on P$_{\\text{n}}$ data (waves refracted from the Moho) shows that a relatively thick or low-velocity crust parallels northeast-trending geologic structures in central New England. The observed differences between the two orogenic belts may reflect contrasts in their tectonic evolution.
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There is a Green Hill
The views looking west and south are of parks and woods, dotted with small settlements, the tower of Durham Cathedral further away; north and east is more urban, Washington merging into distant Sunderland, the silver thread of the Wear running through both to the North Sea 10 miles away.
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There is a Green Hill
[...]Shields it is, and on another sunny dayfi fi But here's Emma without her characteristic smile, carrying two pieces of bad news: after another punitive round of Government funding cuts, South Tyneside Council is cutting 365 jobs, and the shopping chain Dorothy Perkins is closing its branch in the town's main shopping avenue, King Street, down which we walk towards the river.
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There is a Green Hill
The Causeway is studded with pools and my feet are soon wet; I should have shed my boots and walked in bare feet like a true pilgrimfi The Lakes to Tyneside contains maps, gazetteer, photographs and tiny vignettes by Thomas Bewick, presenting a frame for its heart - a passionate but clear-sighted essay on the writer's home.
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