A floating hinge is a hinge that, while able to behave as a normal hinge, enables one of the objects to move away from the other hence float. In effect the hinge allows for two parallel axes of rotation, one for each object joined by the hinge, and each axis can be moved relative to the position of the other. Floating hinges are used in flatbed scanner s designed to scan thick objects such as books. A sheet of paper is placed on the glass, and the cover is lowered over it the glass, the paper, and the sheet are very close together. If a thick book is placed on the glass an ordinary hinge would leave the cover at an angle to the glass. A floating hinge raises the hinged edge of the cover to the level of the book, so that the cover remains parallel to the glass, but raised above it. Floating hinges are also used in two plate electric grill cooking cooking grills , as they allow for even heating of both sides of a thick piece of food without crushing it. Unreferenced date February 2008 Category Hardware mechanical mech engineering stub ... more details
Cleanup date June 2008 Infobox Anatomy Name Floating rib Latin costae fluctuantes, costae fluitantes GraySubject GrayPage Image Skeleton woman back.png Caption The four floating ribs indicated with red arrows Image2 Profil du tose f minin et du tose masculin d apr sThomson.gif Caption2 The six lower ribs on a woman left and a man right . The four floating ribs are small, especially on a woman. Map MapPos MapCaption Precursor System Artery Vein Nerve Lymph MeshName MeshNumber DorlandsPre c 58 DorlandsSuf 12262706 Floating ribs are four atypical rib s two lowermost pairs, XI XII in the human ribcage . They are called so because they are attached to the vertebrae only, and not to the Human sternum sternum or cartilage coming off the sternum. Some people are missing one of the two pairs. Others have a third pair. Most, however, possess two pairs. Fact date February 2007 Their position can be permanently altered by a form of body modification called tightlacing , which uses a corset to compress and move the ribs. See also Eleventh rib Twelfth rib False ribs Additional images gallery Image Gray115.png Anterior surface of sternum and costal cartilages Image Gray127.png Eleventh rib Image Gray128.png Twelfth rib gallery External links eMedicineDictionary Floating ribs Spine Corsetry Category Bones of the torso musculoskeletal stub es Costillas flotantes it Costole fluttuanti pt Costelas flutuantes ... more details
File Kaljakellunta 2007.jpg thumb Beer floating in 2007 Beer floating Kaljakellunta in Finnish is an open Finnish summer event. In the event, the participants literally float on the Kerava River Kerava River or on the Vantaa River Vantaa River from Vantaa to a downstream riverside beach in Helsinki . The participants use small rubber crafts while equipping usually nothing more than a paddle and loads of beer . ref http www.hs.fi english article Beer floating mass event in Vantaa attracts thousands and leaves an annoying mess behind it 1135259202332 Beer floating mass event in Vantaa attracts thousands and leaves an annoying mess behind it HS.fi, 9 Aug 2010 , referred on 30 Mar 2012 ref The event has no official organizers ref Pipsa Palttala http omakaupunki.hs.fi paakaupunkiseutu uutiset keravanjoella kaljakelluttiin hauskanpidon merkeissa Keravanjoella kaljakelluttiin hauskanpidon merkeiss HS.fi, 2 Aug 2008 , referred on 30 Mar 2012 ref but instead the date is decided on online social forums such as Facebook or IRC Galleria . The Beer floating event is also organized in Oulu , where the participants float on the Oulu River Oulu River ref Ville Koivuniemi http www.kaleva.fi uutiset oulu kaljakellujat tayttivat oulujoen 174921 Kaljakellujat t yttiv t Oulujoen Kaleva.fi, 3 Jul 2010 , referred on 30 Mar 2012 ref . The Beer floating event has been organized annually since 1997. There were only under 10 participants in the first event in 1997 but ever since the number of participants has been doubled every year. In 2011, around 5 000 people participated in the event ref http www.iltalehti.fi uutiset 2011073014136912 uu.shtml Kaljakellunta saanut jopa 5000 ihmist veteen Vantaalla Iltalehti.fi, 30 Jul 2011 , referred on 30 Mar 2012 ref . The date of the Beer floating event has been varying but the most likely date is considered to be either the last weekend in July or the first weekend in August . References Reflist Category Events in Finland fi Kaljakellunta ... more details
A floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company law company or a limited ... . Floating charges can only be granted by companies. If an individual person or a partnership ... to grant a floating charge, it would be void law void as a general assignment in bankruptcy . ref For example .... See section 344 2 of the Insolvency Act 1986. ref Floating charges take effect in Equity law ... under a floating charge, this is only of any consequence in relation to disposals after the charge has crystallised. The floating charge has been described as one of equity s most brilliant creations ... 0 19 929993 5 ref Definition Although the nature of a floating charge has been widely considered by the courts ... and Other Securities Investment Co Ltd v Manila Rly Co 1897 AC 81 at 86 he said A floating security ... ...a floating is ambulatory and shifting in nature, hovering over and so to speak floating with the property ... in that case that he did not intend to give a definition of the term floating charge, his description is generally cited as the most authoritative definition of what a floating charge is it is a charge ... of Lords House of Lords elected instead to describe the essential characteristic of a floating .... Recharacterisation Because of the lower priority of a floating charge as to which see below , most security documents that create floating charges also seek to create fixed charges over as many assets ... expressed as a fixed charge it should be recharacterisation recharacterised as a floating charge, with the lower priority that floating charges have. This issue arises most frequently in relation ... as a floating charge. See also http www.hg.org articles article 724.html analysis of the House of Lords ..., 1996 ref have suggested that the floating chargee, prior to crystallisation, may have no proprietary ... interest does exist. Alternatively, the floating chargee may have an inchoate type of proprietary ... is that the holder of a floating charge may have the same quality of proprietary interest as a fixed ... more details
Expert subject Aviation date August 2008 A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure VLFS located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type of device or devices ... becomes more expensive and scarce, very large floating structure s VLFS such as floating airports could help solve land use , pollution and aircraft noise issues. Early History The first discussion of a floating ... payload. An article appeared in January 1930 issue of Popular Mechanics in which a model of a floating ... of that time, it called for eight such airports in the Atlantic. But unlike future floating airport ideas which were free floating, this 1930 concept had a floating airport platform, but with stabilizer ... of today s off shore oil rigs. The cost of establishing eight such floating airports in 1930 was estimated ... result&resnum 7&ved 0CEEQ6AEwBjgK v onepage&q&f true Sea Legs of Floating Airport Prevents Rolls ... ref The idea of floating airports was forgotten until in 1935 the famous French aviation pilot and builder Louis Bl riot Bleriot gave one of his last interviews in which he made the case for floating ... would be a part of an offshore mass transit system that could connect the floating airport to coastal communities and minimize traffic issues. A floating structure, such as a floating airport, is theorised ..., if any, dredging or moving of mountains or clearing of green space and the floating structure provides ... Floating airport projects In 2000, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Japan Japanese ... http www.mlit.go.jp english maritime mega float.html Mega Float ref a 1000 metre floating runway in Tokyo Bay . After conducting several real aircraft landings, the Ministry concluded that floating runways ... in use. The Pneumatic Stabilized Platform PSP was proposed as a means for constructing a new floating ... J. Hillyard PSP Floating Airport technology could be used for Cost Effective Cargo & Port Security http www.pulseplanet.com archive Sep96 1302.html September 1996 Floating Airports Wave of the Future ... more details
Popping dance Floating , gliding or sliding refers to a group of footwork oriented dance techniques and styles closely related to popping dance popping , which attempt to create the illusion that the dancer s body is floating smoothly across the floor or that the legs are walking while the body travels in unexpected directions. It is most famous for its use by Michael Jackson and his moonwalk dance moonwalk a.k.a. the backslide , but is commonly used in popping with much greater variation. Image 51189166 46f7e0b2b5 o.jpg thumb left 150px A dancer doing the moonwalk dance moonwalk backslide . The terms floating , gliding and sliding can also be used to refer to more specific areas, though still closely related FloatingFloating is a simple traveling technique of alternating between the toe and the heel of the feet to make the body float smoothly across the floor. It is normally performed sideways. ref name wiggles cite web title Move Lessons author Mr. Wiggles work Dance Lessons url http www.mrwiggles.biz move lessons.htm accessdate 2006 05 16 ref Gliding Gliding uses the float technique but also adds a push and a pull to cause the feet to glide over the floor, taking up more space and creating a bigger illusion. ref name wiggles Gliding can be performed in many directions, but most common are the sideglide and the circleglide . Sliding Sliding and airwalking are a kind of walks that make it appear as if the dancer is walking in the air or on ice, with no friction under their feet, while traveling in unexpected directions. Common sliding moves are the forward , backslide , and the moonwalk which is a technique very similar to the backslide popularized by Michael Jackson . Notes div class references small references div Street dance Category Funk dance Category Popping dance pt Floating ... more details
Infobox Film name Floating Vessel image Ukifune poster.jpg caption Japanese movie poster director Teinosuke Kinugasa producer Kadokawa Pictures Daiei writer Teinosuke Kinugasa screenplay starring music cinematography editing distributor released April 30, Japanese films of 1957 1957 ref jp icon http www.jmdb.ne.jp 1957 cg001690.htm accessed 9 January 2009 ref runtime 118 minutes country Film Japan awards language Japanese budget preceded by followed by Floating Vessel Ukifune is a 1957 black and white Cinema of Japan Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa . Cast Michiko Ai as Sawarabi Kazuo Hasegawa Raizo Ichikawa and others References reflist External links jp icon http www.raizofan.net link4 movie2 uki.htm imdb title 0051122 Floating Vessel Teinosuke Kinugasa Category Japanese films Category Black and white films Category 1957 films Category Films directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Category Daiei films 1950s Japan film stub ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2011 Floating licensing is a software license software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for a software application are shared among a larger number of users over time. When an authorized user wishes to run the application they request a license from a central license server. If a license is available the license server allows the application to run. When they finish using the application, or when the allowed license period expires, the license is reclaimed by the license server and made available to other authorized users. The license server can manage licenses over a local area network , an intranet or virtual private network , or the Internet . Floating licensing, also sometimes known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is often used for high value applications in corporate environments, such as electronic design automation or engineering tools. See also Software metering License manager License borrowing License queuing Category Software licenses Category System administration de Floating License Server fr Licence flottante ... more details
The Floating Dutchman is a 1952 British crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Dermot Walsh , Sydney Tafler and Mary Germaine . ref http ftvdb.bfi.org.uk sift title 33487 ref Its plot involves a Scotland Yard detective who goes undercover amongst jewel thieves after a dead Dutchman is found floating in the river. It is based on a novel by Nicholas Bentley . Cast Dermot Walsh ... Alexander James Sydney Tafler ... Victor Skinner Mary Germaine ... Rose Reid Guy Verney ... Snow White Hugh Morton actor Hugh Morton ... Inspector Cathie James Raglan ... Mr. Wynn Nicholas Bentley ... Collis Arnold Marl ... Otto Derek Blomfield ... Philip Reid References references External links imdb title 0212164 CinemaoftheUK Vernon Sewell DEFAULTSORT Floating Dutchman, The Category 1952 films Category British films Category 1950s crime films Category English language films Category Films directed by Vernon Sewell 1950s UK film stub ... more details
Floating signifiers or empty signifiers is a term used in semiotics to denote Sign semiotics signifiers without referents, such as a word that doesn t point to any actual object or agreed upon meaning. Origin and definition Claude L vi Strauss originated this term, ref Claude L vi Strauss, Introduction l oeuvre de Marcel Mauss in Mauss, Sociologie et Anthropologie , Paris, 1950. ref where he identifies terms like mana magical mystical substance of which the magic is formed , or oomph American slang term for flavor in the figurative sense ref cite web url http www.thefreedictionary.com oomph title Oomph definition publisher Thefreedictionary.com ref to represent an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning . Daniel Chandler defines the term as a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non existent signified. ref name Chandler cite web url http www.aber.ac.uk media Documents S4B sem02a.html last Chandler first Daniel title Semiotics for Beginners publisher aber.ac.uk ref As such a floating siginifier may mean different things to different people they may stand for many or even any signifieds they may mean whatever their interpreters want them to mean. Such a floating signifier which is said to possess symbolic value zero results necessary to allow symbolic thought to operate despite the contradiction inherent in it . ref Jeffrey Mehlman, The Floating Signifier From L vi Strauss to Lacan , Yale French ... The notion of floating signifiers can be applied to concepts such as Race classification of human beings race ref cite web url http caffeinesparks.blogspot.com 2007 08 race floating signifier.html title Race a Floating Signifier? Stuart Hall speech publisher caffeine sparks ref and gender ... the term floating signifier explicitly, referred specifically to non linguistic signs as being so open to interpretation that they constituted a floating chain of signifieds. ref name Chandler For example ... more details
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Infobox book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Floating Staircase title orig translator image author Ronald Malfi cover artist country United States language English language English series genre Horror novel publisher Medallion Press release date October 2011 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages 492 isbn ISBN 978 1 60542 436 1 first paperback edition preceded by Cradle Lake followed by The Narrows Floating Staircase is a ghost story mystery novel written by Ronald Malfi . It was published in 2011 by Medallion Press, with a limited edition hardcover collectors edition from Thunderstorm Books. ref http thecrowscaw.com 2011 08 05 reviewed floating staircase by ronald malfi Review of Floating Staircase ref The novel was nominated by the Horror Writers Association for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2011. ref http www.horror.org HWA website ref Synopsis Following the success of his latest novel, Travis Glasgow and his wife Jodie buy their first house in the western Maryland town of Westlake, across the street from Travis brother Adam and his family. At first, everything is picture perfect, from the beautiful lake behind the house to the rebirth of the friendship between Travis and Adam. Travis also begins to overcome the darkness of his childhood and the guilt he s harbored since his younger brother s tragic drowning for which Travis holds himself responsible. Soon, though, the new house begins to lose its allure. Strange noises wake Travis at night, and his dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through ... 2011 08 05 reviewed floating staircase by ronald malfi The Crows Caw review ref with some reviewers ... hw 2011 08 floating staircase HorrorWorld Reviews ref A reviewer for the New York Journal of Books stated, Floating Staircase deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz at their best ... the obsession it takes to be a writer. ref http www.nyjournalofbooks.com review floating staircase ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Floating Point Type studio Artist John McLaughlin musician John McLaughlin Cover Alt Released Start date 2008 05 20 Recorded April 2007 Genre Jazz Length Duration m MM s SS Label Abstract Logix Producer John McLaughlin Last album Industrial Zen br 2006 This album Floating Point br 2008 Next album To the One br 2010 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1Score Rating 4 5 ref name Allmusic rev2 rev2Score Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin musician John McLaughlin , released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix. ref name Allmusic cite web url http allmusic.com album floating point r1382256 review title Floating Point first Michael G. last Nastos accessdate May 13, 2011 publisher Allmusic ref The album reached number fourteen on Billboard magazine Billboard s Top Jazz Albums chart. ref name Chart cite web url http allmusic.com album floating point r1382256 charts awards title Floating Point Charts & Awards accessdate May 13, 2011 publisher Allmusic ref Track listing Abbaji For Alla Rakha McLaughlin 9 01 Raju McLaughlin 8 21 Maharina McLaughlin 6 09 Off the One McLaughlin 6 55 The Voice McLaughlin 9 19 Inside Out McLaughlin 8 30 1 4 U McLaughlin 7 07 Five Peace Band McLaughlin 7 06 Personnel John McLaughlin guitar synthesizer , guitar 2, 4, 6, 8 Hadrien Feraud bass guitar Louiz Banks Keyboard instrument keyboards Ranjit Barot Drum kit drums Sivamani Percussion instrument percussion , konokol 6 George Brooks soprano saxophone 1 Debashish Bhattacharya Lap slide guitar Hindustani slide guitar 2 Shashank bamboo flute 4 Shankar Mahadevan voice 5 U Rajesh electric mandolin 6 Naveen Kumar bamboo flute 7 Niladri Kumar sitar 8 References reflist Category 2008 albums Category John McLaughlin albums ... more details
Infobox film name Floating Life image FloatingLife.jpg image size caption Video tape cover director Clara Law producer Bridget Ikin writer Eddie Ling Ching Fong br Clara Law narrator starring Annette Shun Wah br Annie Yip br Anthony Wong Australian actor Anthony Wong music Davood A. Tabrizi cinematography Dion Beebe editing Suresh Ayyar distributor Footprint Films released 7 June 1996 Sydney Film Festival runtime 95 minutes country FilmAustralia language English language English , German language German , Yue Chinese Cantonese budget preceded by followed by Use dmy dates date September 2010 Floating Life is a 1996 Australia n drama film directed by Clara Law about a Hong Kong family who move to Australia. Cast Annette Shun Wah as Yen Chan Annie Yip as Bing Chan Anthony Wong Australian actor Anthony Wong as Gar Ming Edwin Pang as Mr. Chan Cecilia Fong Sing Lee as Mrs. Chan Toby Wong as Yue Toby Chan as Chau Julian Pulvermacher as Michael , Yen s husband Bruce Poon as Cheung , Bing s husband Celia Ireland Awards 1996 Locarno International Film Festival Silver Leopard Clara Law 1996 Golden Horse Film Festival Golden Horse Award Best Original Score Davood A. Tabrizi 1996 Gij n International Film Festival Best Director Clara Law 1996 Gij n International Film Festival Grand Prix Asturias Best Feature Clara Law 1997 Cr teil International Women s Film Festival Grand Prix Clara Law Availability The film was released on videocassette by Cineplex Odeon and Universal Studios Universal in Canada. ref cite web url http db.cht.gov.mb.ca FCB Catalog.nsf b6ac177941f809bb8625674b004c1db9 f6c473d9de2824c48625674b00601c4f?OpenDocument title Floating Life publisher Manitoba Film Classification ...?id 900012 publisher Kanopy title Floating Life accessdate 2010 04 15 ref Box Office Floating ... also Cinema of Australia References reflist External links IMDB title 0116325 Amg movie 136202 Floating ... holdingType page 0 parentid query Number 3A295505 querytype rec 0 resCount 10 Floating Life at the National ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date August 2006 att December 2010 A floating breech is a breechblock of a firearm that is not held rigidly to the barrel firearms barrel at the moment of firing, but instead is free to move in the opposite direction to the projectile. This can help to reduce the recoil induced in the body of the firearm so long as the subsequent motion of the breechblock is retarded in some manner either by a spring, or by back pressure against a piston attached to the breechblock provided by tapping the expelled propellant gases. The motion of the breech and or the expansion of the expelled gases can also be used to power a case ejection mechanism and or reloading mechanism. If the ammunition is caseless, the time required to expel the previous case is removed from the cycle time of an automatic firearm and a higher rate of fire can be obtained than with normal ammunition. The Heckler & Koch Heckler & Koch G11 G11 Assault rifle uses caseless ammunition, but has a rotating breech, not a floating breech. However, the barrel, breech and magazine as a whole float within the housing of the weapon. Note that the breechblock in this firearm rotates about an axis perpendicular to the main axis of the barrel, whereas most other rotating breechblocks rotate about the same axis as the long axis of the barrel. DEFAULTSORT Floating Breech Category Firearm components Weapon stub ... more details
The term floating craps refers to an illegal operation of the dice game craps . The term floating refers to the practice of the game s operators using portable tables and equipment to quickly move the game from location to location to stay ahead of the law enforcement authorities. The term may have originated in the 1930s when Benny Binion later known for founding the downtown Las Vegas hotel Binion s Horseshoe Binions set up an illegal craps game utilizing tables created from portable crates for Texas s Centennial celebration. ref name PrestonAmarilloSlim Preston, Amarillo Slim and Greg Dinkin. Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People April 26, 2005 , p. 132, Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 978 0060762308 ref In the 1950s and 60s the The Sands The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas had an actual legal craps table that floated in the swimming pool to play off the notoriety of the term. ref name RoyerVictor Royer, Victor H. Casino Gamble Talk The Language of Gambling and New Casino Games 2003 , p. 59, Lyle Stuart, ISBN 0818406348, 9780818406348 ref The 1950 Broadway theatre Broadway play Guys and Dolls musical Guys and Dolls features a major plot point revolving around a floating craps game. References reflist Category Dice games dice game stub ... more details
sound change A floating tone is a morpheme ref Clark, Mary M. 1993. Representation of downstep in Dschang Bamileke . The PhOilOlogy of Tone The Representation of Tonal Register, ed. by Harry van der Hulst and Keith Snider. Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 29 73 ref or element of a morpheme that contains no consonant s, no vowel s, but only tone linguistics tone . It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighboring morphemes. ref Mary Paster, UC Berkley, FLOATING TONES IN GA http elanguage.net journals index.php sal article view 1366 925 ref ref Wentum, Comfort. 1997. A Lexical Tonology of Ga. Legon University of Ghana, M. Phil thesis. ref An example occurs in Bambara language Bambara . Bambara has two phoneme phonemic tones, ref Clements, G. N. and Kevin C. Ford. 1979. Kikuyu tone shift and its synchronic consequences. Linguistic Inquiry 10 179 210. ref high and low. In this language, the definite article is a floating low tone. With a noun in isolation, it is associated with the preceding vowel, turning a high tone into a falling tone b river b the river . When it occurs between two high tones, it downstep phonetics downstep s the following tone IPA b t it s not a river IPA b t or IPA b t it s not the river Also common are floating tones associated with a segment linguistics segment al morpheme such as an affix. ref Kropp Dakubu, Mary E. 1986. Downglide, floating tones and non WH questions in Ga and Dangme. The Phonological Representation ofSuprasegmentais, ed. by Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst, and Maarten Mous. Dordrecht Foris Publications. Pp. 153 173. ref For example, in Okphela language Okphela , an Edoid languages Edoid language of Nigeria, ref Zimmerman, 1. 1858. A grammatical sketch and vocabulary of the Akra or Galanguage with an appendix on the Adanme dialect. Stuttgart, 2 vols. Republished with an Introduction by 1. Berry ... Floating tones derive historically from morphemes which assimilation linguistics assimilate ref ... more details
floating point arithmetic replica on display at Deutsches Museum in Munich . In computing , floating ... sup exponent sup The term floating point refers to the fact that the radix point decimal point, or, more ..., and floating point representation can thus be thought of as a computer realization of scientific notation . Over the years, a variety of floating point representations have been used in computers ... 754 Standard. The advantage of floating point representation over fixed point arithmetic fixed ... places can represent the numbers 12345.67, 123.45, 1.23 and so on, whereas a floating point representation such as the IEEE 754 Decimal32 floating point format decimal32 format with seven decimal digits could in addition represent 1.234567, 123456.7, 0.00001234567, 1234567000000000, and so on. The floating ... stored in the same space, floating point numbers achieve their greater range at the expense of accuracy and precision precision . The speed of floating point operations, commonly referred to in performance ... notation as 1.528535047 e 5 seconds. Floating point representation is similar in concept to scientific notation. Logically, a floating point number consists of A signed digit string of a given .... To derive the value of the floating point number, one must multiply the significand by the base raised .... Historically, several number bases have been used for representing floating point ... exotic ones like 3 see Setun . Floating point numbers are rational number s because they can be represented .... For instance, 1 5 cannot be represented exactly as a floating point number using a binary ... 32 bit floating point representation p 24 and so the significand is a string of 24 bit s. For instance ... were actually tables of mantissas. Some other computer representations for non integral numbers Floating .... The hardware to manipulate these representations is less costly than floating point and is also ... each digit is represented by its own binary sequence. It is possible to implement a floating point ... more details
Orphan date April 2012 Fear of floating refers to situations where a country prefers a smoother exchange rate to a floating exchange rate regime. This is more relevant in emerging economies , especially ... market economies, there is evidence showing that countries who claim they are floating their currency ... of floating as the title of one of their papers in 2000. ref cite web title Fear of floating url ... called fear of floating . Most of the studies on fear of floating are closely related to literature on costs and benefits of different exchange rate regimes. Floating vs. Fixed exchange rate To understand the benefits and costs of floating a currency, we need to make a simple comparison between a floating exchange rate and a fixed or pegged exchange rate. A floating exchange rate refers to the situation ... foreign exchange market . Most of the countries adopting the free, floating exchange rate regimes ... en.wikipedia.org wiki List of countries with floating currencies title Countries with floating currencies accessdate March 4, 2012 ref The basic debate between fixed and floating exchange rate regimes ... Some economists believe, in most circumstances, floating exchange rates are preferable to fixed .... Secondly, as floating exchange rates automatically adjust, they enable a country to dampen the impact ... period by using policy instruments. Thus, a pure floating exchange rate regime is quite rare in reality, most of floating currencies may be classified as a managed float . However, the extent to which ... merely dampening large exchange rate changes. Other reasons are required to justify this fear of floating ... could consider some countries with relatively pure floating regimes as benchmark cases, for example ... cite journal last Reinhart first Carmen title Fear of Floating Exchange Rate Flexibility Indices journal ... in developing countries with floating exchange rate, or fear of floating . Following this preference ... the exchange rate is not quite floating. It is closely pegged to the US dollar so that the regime ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Floating Admiral title orig translator image Image TheFloatingAdmiral.jpg 150px First edition cover image caption First edition cover author Detection Club G. K. Chesterton , Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , Ronald Knox , Freeman Wills Crofts , etc cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Mystery novel publisher Hodder & Stoughton release date December 1931 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages 351 pp first edition, hardback isbn NA published before ISBN system preceded by followed by The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence Canon Victor Whitechurch , G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole , Henry Wade, Agatha Christie , John Rhode , Milward Kennedy , Dorothy L. Sayers , Ronald Knox , Freeman Wills Crofts , Edgar Jepson , Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley . G. K. Chesterton contributed a Prologue, which was written after the novel had been completed. ref Charles Osborne, The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie , London, 1982. ref In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, each of the authors provided their own solution in a sealed envelope, all of which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie s ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be enough to make the book worth buying on its own . As Sayers explained in the introduction to the book, Each writer must construct his instalment with a definite ... Floating Admiral, The Category 1931 novels Category Mystery novels Category Collaborative fiction mystery novel stub hr Plutaju i admiral pt The Floating Admiral sh The Floating Admiral ... more details
Infobox Film name Floating Clouds image Ukigumo poster.jpg caption Japanese movie poster showing from the left Mariko Okada , Masayuki Mori actor Masayuki Mori and Hideko Takamine . director Mikio Naruse br Kihachi Okamoto assistant director producer Toho , Sanezumi Fujimoto writer Fumiko Hayashi author Fumiko Hayashi novel br Y ko Mizuki adaptation starring music Ichir Sait cinematography Masao Tamai editing Hideshi Ohi distributor released January 15, Japanese films of 1955 1955 ref jp icon http www.jmdb.ne.jp 1955 ce000290.htm accessed 18 January 2009 ref Japan br June 6, 1980 USA runtime 123 minutes country Film Japan awards language Japanese budget preceded by followed by File Ukigumo poster 2.jpg thumb Japanese film poster nihongo Floating Clouds Ukigumo is a 1955 black and white Cinema of Japan Japanese film drama directed by Mikio Naruse . It is based Floating clouds on the novel of the same name by Japanese author and poet Fumiko Hayashi author Fumiko Hayashi . Floating Clouds follows female protagonist Yukiko Koda, a Japanese woman just returned to Japan from French Indochina , where she has been working as a secretary . The novel is set after World War II and contains the common post war theme of wandering Yukiko struggles to find where she belongs in post war Japan, and ends up floating endlessly until her death at the novel s end. Cast Hideko Takamine Masayuki Mori actor Masayuki Mori Mariko Okada Chieko Nakakita Sadako Ka Daisuke Kat Isao Yamagata Awards 1956 Blue Ribbon Awards for best film Mikio Naruse 1956 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Masayuki Mori actor Masayuki Mori , for best actress Hideko Takamine , for best director Mikio Naruse and for best film Mikio Naruse 1956 Mainichi Film Concours for best actress Hideko Takamine , for best director Mikio Naruse , for best film Mikio Naruse and for best sound recording Hisashi Shimonaga 1995 Named the Third Best film in Japanese history, in Kinema Junpo s 1995 All Time Best 100 list. References ... more details
Cleanup rewrite date September 2011 In an electric circuit , a floating ground is a Ground electricity ground , that is a reference node serving as a common return path for electric current current from other components, which is not electrically connected to the Earth. This can occur in 3 possible ways as the result of intentional design, and entirely harmless as the result of failure to ground equipment that was designed to require grounding as the result of exposing a live ground that was intended to remain unexposed live chassis TVs were common until the 1990s at least in the UK and the Irish Republic , where the set s ground is derived by rectifying live mains When an electrical device is accidentally or intentionally grounded to its surrounding structural component chassis , this is called a live chassis. Circuit failures resulting in live chassis contrary to design plans can mean that anything e.g. a person that touches the device and is grounded on something with a different charge e.g. terra firma will now experience a voltage potential across its body. This can lead to death or harm by electrocution. Intentional floating grounds formed by design are widespread in domestic electronic appliances. Providing the design is satisfactory they aren t a safety issue. Ungrounded equipment designed to be grounded is a safety issue. It leaves users unprotected against the risk of shock due to a potential further fault . Exposed live grounds are dangerous. They are live, and can Electrocution electrocute end users if touched. Headphone sockets fitted by end users to live chassis TV s are especially dangerous, as not only are they often live, but the danger is carried directly to the user s head . Sets that have both headphone socket and a live chassis use an audio isolation transformer to make the arrangement safe. Floating grounds can cause problems with audio equipment using RCA phono connectors. With these common and somewhat antiquated connectors, the signal pin connects ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Floating into the Night Type studio Artist Julee Cruise Cover jc float.jpg Released start date 1989 9 12 Recorded Excalibur Sound, New York Genre Dream pop Length 47.56 Label Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Producer Angelo Badalamenti , David Lynch Reviews Allmusic Rating 4.5 5 Allmusic class album id r4879 pure url yes link Last album This album Floating into the Night br 1989 Next album The Voice of Love br 1993 Misc Singles Name Floating into the Night Type studio single 1 Falling Julee Cruise song Falling single 1 date 1990 single 2 Rockin Back Inside My Heart single 2 date 1991 Floating into the Night is the debut album by dream pop artist Julee Cruise , released in 1989. The album was produced and all songs were written by film director, David Lynch , and composer, Angelo Badalamenti . Lynch wrote the lyrics to Badalamenti s music. Two singles were released from the album, Falling Julee Cruise song Falling and Rockin Back Inside My Heart , which were also both featured in Lynch s television series, Twin Peaks . The instrumental version of Falling was used as the theme to the series. The track, Mysteries of Love , was prominently featured in Lynch s 1986 cult film , Blue Velvet film Blue Velvet . In addition to the two singles, a number of other tracks from the album appeared in Twin Peaks as well, including Into the Night , The Nightingale , and The World Spins . The World Spins was also featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 Robert Altman film, The Company film The Company . Julee Cruise performs Rockin Back Inside My Heart , Into the Night , I Float Alone and The World Spins in the 1990 David Lynch production, Industrial Symphony No. 1 . In 2010, influential online music site Pitchfork Media ranked the track Falling ... David Lynch all music Angelo Badalamenti title1 Floating length1 4 51 title2 Falling Julee Cruise ... Top Certification Table Entry region United Kingdom title Floating into the Night artist Julee Cruise ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Floating Me image caption image size background group or band alias origin Sydney , New South Wales , Australia genre Progressive rock , hard rock years active 2009 present label Cross Section associated acts Karnivool , Cog band Cog , Juice band Juice , The Hanging Tree band The Hanging Tree , Scary Mother website URL floatingme.com current members Andrew Gillespie br Antony Brown br Tobias Messiter br Lucius Borich br Jon Stockman past members Floating Me sometimes stylised as FLOATINGME is a progressive rock group from Sydney, Australia , featuring Lucius Borich from Cog band Cog , Jon Stockman of Karnivool and Andrew Gillespie, Antony Brown and Tobias Messiter from the 90s grunge metal band Scary Mother. ref Citation last first author link date 20 April 2011 title Come together right now periodical Caloundra Weekly ref Their debut self titled album entered the ARIA Charts ARIA album chart at 90. ref The ARIA Report issue 1104 ref History Guitarist Antony Brown, singer Andrew Gillespie and keyboards player Tobias Messiter had all previously worked together in the Sydney band Scary Mother. Also featuring bassist Dorian West and drummer Tim Burcham, Scary Mother formed in 1991 and released several singles and the album Tai Laeo 1994 before further progress stalled and the group parted ways. Some years later, Gillespie, Brown and Messiter began working on new material. Lucius Borich from Cog, who had known all three from his history touring with them in Juice band Juice and The Hanging Tree , was invited to collaborate on some material. By late 2009 it had become apparent to Borich that Cog was winding down as a full ... drums small 2009 present small Jon Stockman Bass guitar bass small 2009 present small Discography Floating Me ref cite web url http www.sputnikmusic.com review 42812 Floating Me Floating Me title Floating Me Floating Me album review publisher Sputnikmusic date 2011 04 05 accessdate 2011 08 14 ref 2011 ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Floating Power was a technology developed in the 1920s by the United States automobile firm of Chrysler . It was a new means of attaching an engine to its chassis , with the intention of reducing vibration. Four cylinder engines of the day started and rode rather roughly, transmitting the torque to the whole chassis. By attaching the engine at only two points fore and aft , on two points defining an axis that passes through the engine s center of mass , the engine would be able to rotate slightly about this axis and reduce the transmission of torsional vibration to the chassis. One mounting attachment was at the upper front of the engine, directly below the water pump. The rear mount was under the transmission case. A transverse spring went from the bottom of the engine to a rubber lined snubber bracket on the frame rail to limit the rotational travel of the engine. Advertisers gave this concept its brand name. It was used on the Plymouth automobile and other Chrysler Corporation cars starting in 1932. The French firm of Citro n leased the technology for its front wheel drive car of the 1930s. References cite web url http www.lawrencesavell.com pdf cp.pdf title The Floating Power Lawsuit last Savell first Lawrence language English accessdate 2009 08 12 automotive tech stub Category Automotive technologies ... more details
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