Community Building and Organizing Initiative Annual Report 2007-2008

Annual report of NeighborWorks America's Community Building and Organizing Initiative

CES P-143

This report summarizes the vegetable variety evaluations of the Horticulture Department of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1979. Variety trials were conducted at the Agricultural Experiment Station’s research farm. The objective of this research is to select varieties of vegetables that are adapted to this environment. It also identifies types whose adaptability may be improved through development of cultural techniques. The selection effort is directed at finding varieties useful to commercial and home garden growers.Varieties are chosen for inclusion in the variety tests on the basis of their description, their latitude of origin, and the record o f the plant-breeding program for producing kinds that have previously been found adapted. Standard recommended varieties are included for comparison. In the past, the vegetable variety evaluation program has been responsible for a continuous improvement in yields, quality, and dependability for many vegetable crops. Our philosophy is to depend upon the many existing plant-breeding programs instead of investing in an expensive, on-site, plant-breeding program . Progress can be made more rapidly by selection than by breeding.Introduction -- Growing-Season Summary: Table 1: Rainfall by Month During the 1979 Growing S e a s o n; Table 2: Broccoli Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 3: Cabbage Variety Trials, Upland, 1 9 79; Table 4: Carrot Variety Trials, Bottom land, 1979; Table 5: Cauliflower Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 6: Cucumber Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 7: Green Pea Variety Trials, 1979; Table 8: Lettuce Variety Trials, Bottom land, 1979; Table 9: Pepper Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 10: Potato Variety Trials, Bottom land, 1979; T able 11: Pumpkin Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 12: Snapbean Variety Trials, 1979; Table 13: Squash, Summer Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 14: Squash, Winter Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 15: Sweet Corn Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 16: Tomato Variety Trials, Upland, 1979; Table 17: Tomato Variety Trials Without Plastic Mulch, Upland, 1979; Miscellaneous Vegetables Tested; Seed Sources

The Crescent Student Newspaper, March 13, 1981

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 12 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1979/thumbnail.jp

Path planning algorithm for a car like robot based on MILP method

This project is presents an algorithm for path planning optimal routes mobile robot “like a car” to a target in unknown environment. The proposed algorithm allows a mobile robot to navigate through static obstacles and finding the path in order to reach the target without collision. This algorithm provides the robot the possibility to move from the initial position to the final position (target). The proposed path finding strategy is to use mathematical programming techniques to find the optimal path between to state for mobile robot designed in unknown environment with stationary obstacles. Formulation of the basic problems is to have the vehicle moved from the initial dynamic state to a state without colliding with each other, while at the same time avoiding other stationary obstacles. It is shown that this problem can be rewritten as a linear program with mixed integer / linear constraints that account for the collision avoidance. This approach is that the path optimization can be easily solved using the CPLEX optimization software with AMPL interface / MATLAB. The final phases are the design and build coalitions of linear programs and binary constraints to avoid collision with obstacles by Integer Mixed Linear Program (MILP). The findings of this research have shown that the MILP method can be used in the path planning problem in terms of finding a safe and shortest path. This has been combined with collision avoidance constraints to form a mixed integer linear program, which can be solved by a commercial software package

Review of The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942 by Ronald McCrum

Review of The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942 by Ronald McCrum

Glass Beads from Kinsloe Focus Sites in Gregg, Harrison, and Rusk Counties, Texas

European glass beads are one of the most common artifact categories found on historic Caddo sites in the middle reaches of the Sabine River basin in East Texas on what Jones had dubbed Kinsloe focus sites. Several thousands beads were found by Jones in his investigation of burial features at these sites, along with other European trade goods and Caddo ceramic vessels, pipes, and chipped stone tools. In Jones’ description of the beads from the Kinsloe focus sites, he relied on the analytical and chronological interpretations of John Witthoft, then of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, although he did seek the advice of R. K. Harris, a notable glass beads expert who had worked on numerous historic Caddo and Wichita sites in eastern and northern Texas. Witthoft’s interpretations of the age of the beads from the sites tended to suggest that the Kinsloe focus sites dated to the early 17th century—when beads of such types tended to date in aboriginal sites in the Northeast U.S.—while Harris suggested that the glass beads on the Kinsloe focus sites dated from no earlier than the early 18th century, and likely dated in several cases after ca. A.D. 1750. Given the likely late 17th to late 18th century ages of the engraved ceramic vessels found on the Kinsloe focus sites, based in large measure on their occurrence on a wide range of Historic Caddo sites, Harris’ temporal interpretations of the glass bead assemblages are consistent with these ceramic temporal ranges, and thus the Kinsloe focus sites are seen as indicative of Caddo settlements postdating the beginning of intensive contact between Europeans and Caddo peoples that began after A.D. 1685