Research Portfolio: Ben Pettit - DJ Zinc In this essay‚ I will be looking at one of the producers who has greatly influenced my work and has a successful career spanning over 20 years in multiple genres; Ben Pettit AKA DJ Zinc. When I first heard "Super Sharp Shooter" in 1995‚ which came out on DJ Hypes Ganja Records and his Dope Skillz alias for Six Million Ways; I was astounded as this track seemed to elevate the "jump up" sound of DnB and Jungle to a higher level. At a time when Jungle was
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Do you ever sit down and wonder what if people hunted down priests because the society was impoverished‚ well in the book The Power and The Glory it portrays just that. The author’s idea that intrigued me the most is that the priest has lost his morals‚ and is at the same time struggling with a foe hunting him down because the way society is impoverished. When I started reading this book I said to myself ‚ “ This is going to be another boring book‚” and then I realized when I was near the end of
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Short Case A business trip to Brussels My flight to Stockholm would be late landing. The pilot told us that we were in a ‘stack’ of planes circling above the snow clouds that were giving Brussels its first taste of winter. Air traffic control had closed the runways for a short period at dawn‚ and the early morning flights from all around Europe were now being allocated new landing slots along with the long-haul jumbos from the Far East and the US. After a 20-minute delay‚ we descended bumpily
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Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall. Park‚ A. & Burrows‚ P. (2003‚ November). What you don’t know about Dell a look at the management secrets of the best-run company in technology 84. Retrieved June 1‚ 2008‚ from ABI/INFORM Global database. Pascal‚ Z. G. (1995‚ April). The once and future Microsoft. Upside‚ 7(4)‚ 16. Retrieved June 1‚ 2008‚ from ABI/INFORM Global database. Rooney‚ P. (2001‚ November). Bill Gates‚ chairman & chief software architect‚ Microsoft. CRN‚ (971)‚ 95
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AGAINST THE GODS The Remarkable Story of Risk By Peter L. Bernstein I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by Against the Gods. I expected this book to be a typical dry book on a given financial subject‚ detailing use‚ application‚ and theory. I completely took for granted the fact that math‚ particularly risk‚ has history. The author did a fantastic job of painting a picture and explaining how‚ why and when concepts we use today came into being. While reading this book I became excited
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Olaudah Equiano ’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ Written by Himself‚ is the story of the eponymous real-life character‚ Olaudah Equiano‚ his life‚ trials‚ tribulations and journey from slavery at an early age to freedom. For Equiano‚ it seems that slavery is almost a metaphysical phenomenon. His entire life is essentially characterized by the different experiences relating slavery‚ from Africa to the Middle Passage to plantation life in
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A History of Computer Programming Languages The first programming languages predate the modern computer. From the first‚ the languages were codes. Herman Hollerith realized that he could encode information on punch cards when he observed that railroad train conductors would encode the appearance of the ticket holders on the train tickets using the position of punched holes on the tickets. Hollerith then proceeded to encode the 1890 census data on punch cards which he made the same size as the boxes
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by surface tension‚ makes a barometer using a very small glass tube‚ having a diameter d = 1.45mm‚ in order to save on the amount of mercury he needs. He reads the barometric pressure to be 7 519 mm Hg. a) W hat is the corresponding pressure in Pascal? b) W hat is the pressure after correction for the meniscus effect? (σ = 0.478 N/m‚ θcontact = 1390) 5- A vertical‚ clean‚ glass piezometer tube has an inside diamet er of 0.77 mm. When a pressure is applied‚ water at 330 C rises into the tube
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can perform addition and subtraction - invented in China Pascal’s calculating machine/Pascaline - The first mechanical calculator - Invented by Blaise Pascal - Can perform addition & subtraction Leibnitz calculator - First general-purpose calculating machine - Extended version of Pascal Calculating machine - Can perform multiplication and Division - Invented by Gottfried Leibnitz Automatic weaving loom/1805 - Invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard - This device
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The packaged combination of a diesel engine‚ a generator and various ancillary devices (such as base‚ canopy‚ sound attenuation‚ control systems‚ circuit breakers‚ jacket water heaters and starting system) is referred to as a "generating set" or a "genset" for short. Set sizes range from 8 to 30 kW (also 8 to 30 kVA single
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