Willamette Valley Epilogue

Rusty Gaffney gives a brief overview of the culture of the wine industry in Oregon, focusing on the wineries of the Willamette Valley, in this article from his Prince of Pinot blog, volume 9, issue 42. Gaffney highlights information on the area, a travel guide with advice, and places not to miss

Geologic Guide for the Northern Part of the Peninsular Range Province, Southern California

This geologic guide deals with parts of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, in southern California, and in effect is a sampling of the geology and mineral deposits in the northern part of the Peninsular Range province. The main route of travel, essentially an elongate loop (fig. 1), begins in downtown Los Angeles, extends eastward to Pomona, and from there extends southeastward to Lake Henshaw via Corona and the Elsinore-Temecula Valley. The return part of the loop trends in a general northerly direction to the San Jacinto Mountains and San Gorgonio Pass, and thence westward to Los Angeles. The entire route is approximately 320 miles long, involves travel over good roads, and can be traversed without undue haste in 2 days. Several points of special interest can be reached by means of short side trips, about 87 miles in aggregate length, that are included in the guide. An additional trip, 82 miles long, has the form of an auxiliary loop through the Escondido-Ramona area, in San Diego County. Both the main tour and the side trips provide excellent opportunities for observation and study of fault phenomena, geomorphic features, and a wide variety of rock types and mineral deposits. Encountered along the main route of travel are the Elsinore and San Jacinto fault zones, the Pala and Rincon pegmatite districts, and the contact metamorphic deposits at Crestmore

Travel Guide Mobile Web Application

Cieľom tejto práce je vytvorenie mobilnej webovej aplikácie pre plánovanie ciest. Aplikácia využíva vektorové geodáta z otvorených zdrojov OpenStreetMap a vizualizuje ich do formy interaktívnej mapy. Mapa dokáže zobrazovať tiež miesta a trasy, ktoré sú vyhľadávané pomocou aplikačných rozhraní tretích strán. Aplikácia poskytuje cestovné harmonogramy pre plánovanie návštev zvolených miest. Využívajú sa vnútorné úložiská webového prehliadača, čo umožňuje prácu aj bez internetového pripojenia. Pre tvorbu aplikácie sú esenciálne prvky HTML5 a CSS3 štandardov. Funkcionalita aplikácie je implementovaná v transpilovanom, objektovo-orientovanom jazyku TypeScript.The aim of this thesis is a development of mobile web application for planning trips. Application uses vector-based geodata from open source of OpenStreetMap and visualizes them into form of interactive map. Map can also display places and routes, which are searched through application interfaces of 3rd parties. Application provides trip schedules for planning of visiting defined places. It uses inner storages of web browser, which allows it to function without internet connection. For development of this application are essential elements of HTML5 and CSS3 standards. Functionality of application is implemented in transpiled, object-oriented language TypeScript.460 - Katedra informatikydobř

Stemless ball valve

A stemless ball valve comprising two flanges and a ball with a channel, two axis pins and two travel pins. One end of each axis and travel pin is fixedly attached to the ball, and the other end of each axis pin is lodged into a notch in the first or second flange such that the axis pin is allowed to rotate in the notch. The guide sleeve comprises two channels, and one end of each travel pin is situated within one of the two channels in the guide sleeve. An outer magnetic cartridge causes the inner magnetic cartridge and guide sleeve to rotate, and when the guide sleeve rotates, the travel pins move up and down within the channels in the guide sleeve. The movement of the travel pins within the channels in the guide sleeve causes the ball to rotate, thereby opening and closing the ball valve

Designing a Travel Guide to the Un-Natural World: Exploring a Design-led Methodology

The analogy of designer as tourist in the un-natural world is used as an aid for thinking my way into the nature of design research. An exploration of how the design researcher, like a tourist, travels widely through the un-natural world of thought, theory and concept. If we are to design a travel guide for the un-natural world then what would this guide book look like, why do we need it and how could it work? The paper will propose that a ‘travel guide to the un-natural world’ in the form of a design-led methodology is needed for research into sustainable development and is useful not only for the design discipline but for the research community at large. These premises have been derived from the aptitude of the design process and the creative methods it employs to deal with the complex messiness of issues such as sustainability. Such a design-led methodology would be useful for the wider research community due to the integrative abilities of the design process and the trans-disciplinary scope of the tour through the un-natural world. Design-led methodology will be explored using examples from field work in Tumut (rural New South Wales, Australia) Keywords: Design Research, Design-Led Methods, Metadesign, Sustainability.</p

Two Answers are Better than One

What powerful mathematical tool do you use everyday? If you have ever considered how much food you can eat and still leave room for dessert, or made a rough calculation of how long it will take to travel to school, you are using estimates to help guide and inform your decisions