. Currencies can be classified as either floatingcurrencyfloating currencies or fixed currency fixed ...Other uses File Euromoenterogsedler.jpg thumb right Coins and banknotes the two most common forms of currency. Numismatics In economics , the term currency can refer to a particular currency, for example, the Euro , or to the coins and banknotes of a particular currency, which comprise the physical aspects ... card s, or other forms of money transfer. Deposit money and currency are money in the sense that both ... Chapters 4 5 ref Money in the form of currency has predominated throughout most of history. Usually ... contemporary money systems are based on fiat money modern currency has value only by government order fiat . Usually, the government declares the fiat currency typically notes and coins issued by the central bank to be legal tender , making it unlawful to not accept the fiat currency as a means of repayment ... History This section is linked from Shekel Early currencyCurrency evolved from two basic innovations ... granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia , then Ancient Egypt . This first stage of currency ... in the southeast. Although it is not known what functioned as a currency to facilitate these exchanges ... as a currency. It is thought that the increase in piracy and raiding associated with the Bronze Age ... including beads, ingots, ivory , various forms of weapons, livestock, the manilla currency , ochre ... from the 15th century onwards to buy and sell slaves. African currency is still notable for its variety ... the government finally took over these shops to produce state issued currency. Yet the banknotes ... and uniform government issue of paper money was made into an acceptable nationwide currency. The already ... high value currency the dinar . Innovations introduced by Muslim economists, traders and merchants ... often weighing several kilograms had to be made. The advantages of paper currency were numerous ... else redeemed the note and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed ... more details
unreferenced date November 2006 Floating capital denotes currency in circulation and asset s which are movable and storable. It represents working capital assets which are in circulation or transportable rather than those that are fixed asset fixed , such as buildings, installations, etc. It comprises the materials and components, constantly supplied in the effecting of all manufacture s currency used for the purpose of transactions, wage s and salaries products in transportation , or in the process of being stored in the prospect of being eventually utilized for this purpose and the working, circulating capital rather than that which is fixed as permanently stationary value. Types of capital Category Financial accounting Category Capital finance stub ... more details
Floating bladderwort may be a common name for Utricularia gibba , floating bladderwort Utricularia inflata , large floating bladderwort Utricularia radiata , little floating bladderwort disambig Category Utricularia species by common name ... more details
Foreign Exchange Unreferenced date May 2009 The currency band is a system of exchange rate s by which a floatingcurrency is backed by hard money . A country selects a range, or band , of values at which to set their currency, and returns to a fixed exchange rate if the value of their currency shifts outside this band. This allows for some revaluation, but tends to stabilize the currency s value within the band. In this sense, it is a compromise between a fixed or pegged exchange rate and a floating exchange rate. For example, the exchange rate of the renminbi of the mainland China mainland of the People s Republic of China has recently been based upon a currency band the European Economic Community s snake in the tunnel was a similar concept that failed, but ultimately led to the establishment of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ERM and ultimately the Euro . Category Currency Band Category Foreign exchange market econ stub he ru ... more details
Floating city may mean Floating city science fiction , settlements that use buoyancy to remain in the atmosphere of a planet Ocean colonization , the theory and practice of building structures to allow humans to live permanently in areas of Earth covered in water Very large floating structure , the theory and practice of building floating structures on the sea. Floating city freshwater , the theory and practice of building floating structures on freshwater e.g. rivers, ... . Several projects have been set up already in countries such as the Netherlands Some Mythical city mythical cities are regarded as being floating cities, such as Asgard Shamballah , as conceived by Theosophy , as floating above the Gobi Desert on the etheric plane and being the home of the governing deity of Earth , Sanat Kumara Floating city may also refer to Freedom Ship , a concept for a floating city ship proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International. America World City , a concept for a floating city ship proposed by John Rogers of World City Corporation Floating City song Floating City song , by Tori Amos 1980s synthpop band Traction City Raft Cities Raft Cities from the Mortal Engines Quartet of books Floating Cities book a book by Stephen Wiltshire See also Stilt house Mobile offshore base MOB disambig ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Floating Island author Elizabeth Haydon er The Floating Island is a fantasy novel by Elizabeth Haydon . Released in 2006, the book is the first installment in The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme series. External links http www.venpolypheme.com Ven Polypheme Curriculum Site http www.fantasticfiction.co.uk h elizabeth haydon floating island.htm Fantastic fiction Elizabeth Haydon DEFAULTSORT Floating Island, The Category 2006 novels pl P ywaj ca wyspa. Zaginione dzienniki Vena Polypheme a ... more details
TOCright The term floating bridge can to refer to the following Bridges that float on water Temporary floating crossings Military pontoon bridge Permanent floating crossings These are usually a pontoon bridge Bergs ysund Bridge Berg ysund Floating Bridge Demerara Harbour Bridge Dongjin Bridge Eastbank Esplanade Evergreen Point Floating Bridge Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge Evergreen Point also known as the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge Floating Bridge, Dubai Galata Bridge Hobart Bridge Hood Canal Bridge Howrah Bridge Interstate 90 floating bridge which consists of two bridges Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge , which carries Interstate 90 s eastbound traffic. Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge , which carries Interstate 90 s westbound traffic and the carpool lanes. Okanagan Lake Bridge Nordhordland Bridge Queen Emma Bridge Sozh Floating Bridge Sunset Lake Floating Bridge Sunset Lake Floating Bridge, Vermont Ferries A cable ferry , especially one designed by British civil engineer James Meadows Rendel engineer James Meadows Rendel , including Cowes Floating Bridge Torpoint Ferry Woolston Floating Bridge Card games Floating bridge card game Musical instruments A type of bridge instrument the Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars have one, see tremolo arm Fender floating bridge . See also List of bridges in the United States disambig ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 File Floating Concrete Floor.PNG thumb Detail of floating floor over concrete. File Floating Timber Floor.PNG thumb Detail of floating floor over joists. A floating floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is often used synonymously with laminate flooring in a domestic context. A sprung floor is a special type of floating floor designed to enhance sports or dance performance. In general though the term refers to a floor used to reduce noise or vibration . A domestic floating floor might be constructed over a subfloor or even over an existing floor. It can consist of a glass fibre , felt or Cork material cork layer for sound insulation with neoprene pads holding up a laminate floor. There is a gap between the floating floor and the walls to decouple them and allow for expansion this gap is covered with skirting board s or Molding decorative mouldings . Floating floors as used in sound studios can be either just larger versions of the domestic variety, or much larger constructions with slabs of concrete to keep the resonance frequency down. The manufacture of integrated circuits uses massive floating floors with hundreds of tons in weight of concrete to avoid vibration affecting mask alignment. Floating floors are one of the requirements for the THX high fidelity sound reproduction standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems. While floating floors add to the appeal of a home, they are not recommended for areas that may get wet, i.e. bathrooms and near exterior doors. See also Floor vibration Vibration isolation DEFAULTSORT Floating Floor Category Building materials Category Floors element arch stub cs Plovouc podlaha fr Parquet flottant ... more details
Floating University may refer to Flying University , Uniwersytet Lataj cy , sometimes also translated Floating University Oceanic II ship Oceanic II ship , an ocean liner being refitted for use as ocean going educational vessel disambig ... more details
About floating islands in fiction floating island fiction the French dessert floating island dessert Refimprove date February 2010 Image Titikaka Uros.jpg thumb 300px Uros island A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from a few inches to several feet. Floating islands are a common natural phenomenon that are found in many parts of the world. They exist less commonly as a artificial island man made phenomenon . Floating islands are generally found ... occurrences When floating islands occur naturally they are sometimes referred to as tussocks , floatons , or sudds . Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat consisting of plant roots or other organic detritus. Some cenote s in northern Mexico have natural floating ... date June 2007 . The area beneath these floating mats is exceptionally rich in aquatic lifeforms ... up in heavy weather. Natural floating islands may have been the source of many disappearing ... Floating artificial island s are generally made of bundled reeds, and the best known examples ... , was surrounded with chinampa s , small artificial islands used for agriculture known as floating gardens though not really floating . Spiral Island was a more modern one person effort to build an artificial floating island, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico . The British wartime Project Habakkuk ... it more of an artificial iceberg or island than a ship. Commercial development of floating islands has begun taking place. A commercially produced floating island was installed in the North American ... , and Floating Islands West, a Floating Island International license holder. ref cite web url http www.birdresearchnw.org Feature Story 348002.aspx title Floating Island Constructed for Caspian ... 2010 06 29 ref A company called Floating Islands International licenses technology for creating floating islands to a variety of organizations. ref http www.FloatingIslandInternational.com ref ... more details
unreferenced date February 2010 File Damoen Saduk Floating Market.jpg thumb upright Damnoen Saduak Floating Market in Ratchaburi, Thailand, is a famous tourist attraction. A floating market is a market where merchandise is sold from boats. Originating in times and places where water transport played an important role in daily life, most floating markets operating today mainly serve as tourist attractions, and are chiefly found in Thailand , Indonesia and Vietnam . Damnoen Saduak Floating Market in Ratchaburi Province Ratchaburi , Thailand, is one of the most famously known floating markets, and a major tourist destination. Floating market at Damnoen Saduak is the old traditional way of selling vegetables, fruits,etc from a small boat. The excellent quality soil beside the canal is very fertile and suitable for growing many kinds of fruits and vegetables.The area is famous for Malacca grape, Chinese grapefruit, mangoes, bananas, and coconut. Thai style canoes laden with colourful, succulent fruits, vegetables, sweets and meats, gently ply their way through the canal. Category Retail markets Category Visitor attractions tourism stub fr March flottant id Pasar terapung vi Ch n i ... more details
Image FNLave1854.jpg thumb French Navy ironclad floating battery Lave , 1854. This ironclad, together with the similar Tonnante and D vastation , vanquished Russian land batteries at the Battle of Kinburn 1855 . Image DevastationClassCrimeanWinter1855 1856.JPG thumb Ironclad floating battery of the D vastation class, spending the winter in Crimea, winter of 1855 1856. Image PaixhanFloatingBatteries.jpg thumb The floating battery Paixhans 1862 , designed for war in Cochinchina . File Arrogante 1864.jpg thumb French armoured floating battery Arrogante 1864 . A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries a heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship . An early appearance was during the Great Siege of Gibraltar . A purpose built Floating Battery was Fl debatteri No.1 ref http www.orlogsbasen.dk tegn 106 2000.jpg ref , designed by Chief Engineer da Henrik Gerner skibskonstrukt r Henrik Gerner in 1787, 47 m long, 13 m wide and armed with 24 guns and used during the 1801 battle of Copenhagen under command of Peter Willemoes . The most notable floating batteries were built or designed in the 19th century, and are related to the development of first the steam warship and the ironclad warship . Demologos , the first steam propelled warship, was a floating battery designed for the protection of New York Harbour in the War of 1812. In the 1850s, the British and French navies deployed iron armoured floating batteries as a supplement ... armoured batteries was step towards the development of ironclad warship s. Floating batteries were popularly ... Confederacy during the American Civil War . The first was the Confederate Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor Floating battery of Charleston Harbour which took an active part in the Battle of Fort ... or were underpowered were often converted into floating batteries and posted for river and coastal waterway control. Notes Reflist DEFAULTSORT Floating Battery Category Ship types Mil ship stub ... more details
Floating is the name of a stage production created and performed by emerging Welsh performance artist Hoipolloi Hugh Hughes Hugh Hughes , in collaboration with British touring theatre company Hoipolloi . It tells the story which Hughes insists is true of the Isle of Anglesey floating away from the mainland of Wales and voyaging around the world. Hughes performs alongside actor Sioned Rowlands. Hughes introduces the story to the audience and re enacts the story, playing himself, with Rowlands playing all the other parts. Floating won a Total Theatre Award at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe . ref http www.totaltheatre.org.uk awards pastwinners.html Past Winners of Total Theatre Award . Total Theatre website ref Following its run in Edinburgh, the show has continued to tour to venues and festivals across the World including Sydney Opera House , Barbican Centre , Barrow Street Theatre in New York and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver . ref http www.hughhughes.me floating the places ive visited with floating List of Floating perfs . Hugh Hughes website ref Since Floating, Hugh Hughes has created two new stage shows, Story of a Rabbit and 360 ref http www.hughhughes.me projects show 360 360 Hugh Hughes website ref . References references External links http www.hughhughes.me projects floatingFloating on Hugh Hughes website http www.guardian.co.uk culture 2006 aug 15 edinburgh2006.edinburghfestival1 The Guardian s review of Floating Category 2005 plays 2000s play stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Floating Type ep Artist Smog band Smog Cover Smog floating.gif Released August 23, 1991 small 7 on Drag City record label Drag City small Recorded Length Label Drag City record label Drag City Producer Last album Sewn to the Sky br 1990 This album Floating br 1991 Next album Forgotten Foundation br 1992 Floating is Smog band Smog s first Extended play EP , released on Drag City record label Drag City in 1991. Red Apples is an early version of the better known Red Apple Falls Track of the same name from 1997. Floating and Hole in the Heart later appeared on Smog s rarities compilation Accumulation None . Track listing Mice Turb Floating Red Apples Hole in the Heart Cursed Bill Callahan DEFAULTSORT Floating Ep Category 1991 EPs Category Debut EPs Category Smog EPs Category Drag City EPs ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Floating Type Album Artist Eloy band Eloy Cover Eloy Floating.jpg Released 1974 Recorded 1974 br EMI Studios, Cologne, Germany Genre Progressive rock Length 40 25 Label Harvest Producer Eloy ref cite web url Allmusic class album id r36618 credits pure url yes title allmusic Floating Credits publisher www.allmusic.com accessdate 2009 05 05 ref Reviews Allmusic Rating 3 5 Allmusic class album id r36618 pure url yes link Last album Inside Eloy album Inside br 1973 This album Floating br 1974 Next album Power and the Passion album Power and the Passion br 1975 Floating is the third album by the German progressive rock band Eloy . ref cite web url Allmusic class album id r36618 pure url yes title allmusic Floating Overview publisher www.allmusic.com accessdate 2009 05 05 ref It was released in 1974. Track listing All songs written by Eloy except where indicated. Side One Floating 3 59 The Light from Deep Darkness 14 35 Side Two Castle in the Air 7 13 Plastic Girl 9 07 Madhouse lyrics by Gordon Bennit 5 15 2001 Remastered Edition Bonus Tracks Future City live 4 59 Castle in the Air live 8 08 Flying High live 3 30 Personnel Frank Bornemann Singing vocals , guitar Manfred Wieczorke Organ music organ , guitar Luitjen Janssen Bass instrument bass Fritz Randow Drum kit drums Record producer Produced by Eloy Engineered By Wolfgang Thierbach References references External links cite web url http www.discogs.com Eloy Floating master 42572 title Eloy Floating at Discogs publisher www.discogs.com accessdate 2009 05 05 cite web url http www.progarchives.com album.asp?id 507 title ELOY Floating music reviews and MP3 publisher www.progarchives.com accessdate 2009 05 05 Category 1974 albums Category Eloy albums Category Harvest Records albums progressive rock album stub nl Floating pt Floating lbum ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Floating canvas is a term used by tailor s to describe the cloth construction inside a jacket or Coat clothing coat . It consists of two layers of Textile cloth into which horsehair has been Weaving woven , which are then Sewing sewn together to create a curving of the finished canvas . This is then sewn into the front of a coat. Clothing sewing DEFAULTSORT Floating canvas Category Sewing Category Jackets Category Coats textile arts stub Clothing stub ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2006 Other uses of figure Figure disambiguation A floating block in writing and publishing is any graphic, text, table, or other representation that is unaligned from the main flow of text. Use of floating blocks to present pictures and table information table s is a typical feature of academic writing and technical writing , including scientific and articles and books. Floating blocks are normally labeled with a caption or title that describes its contents and a number that is used to refer to the figure from the main text. A common system divides floating block into two separately numbered series, labeled figure for pictures, diagrams, Plot graphics plots , etc. and table . Floating blocks are said to be floating because they are not fixed in position on the page at the place, but rather drift to the side of the page. An alternative name for figure is image or graphic . By placing pictures or other large items on the sides of pages rather than embedding them in the middle of the main flow of text, typesetting is more flexible and interruption to the flow of the narrative is avoided. For example, an article on geography might have Figure 1 Map of the world , Figure 2 Map of Europe , Table 1 Population of continents , Table 2 Population of European countries , and so on. Some books will have a table of figures in addition to the table of contents that lists centrally all the figures appearing in the work. Other kinds of floating blocks may be differentiated as well, for example Sidebar For digressions from the main narrative. For example, a technical manual on usage of a product might include examples of how various people have employed the product in their work in sidebars. Also called an intermezzo . See sidebar publishing . Program Articles and books on computer programming often place code and algorithms in a figure. Equation Writing on mathematics ... text. DEFAULTSORT Floating Block Category Page layout Category Documents Category Indexing table of figures ... more details
Image Vaal River Floating Restaurant 001.jpg thumb 250px A floating restaurant on the Vaal River unreferenced date March 2008 A floating restaurant is a kind of vessel which is usually a type of steel barge used as a restaurant on water. For example, the Jumbo Palace at Aberdeen Harbour Aberdeen in Hong Kong is one such restaurant. Sometimes retired ships are given a second lease on life as floating restaurants. The former car ferry New York , built 1941, serves as DiMillo s Floating Restaurant DiMillo s in Portland, Maine . Another example was the railroad car ferry SS Lansdowne Lansdowne which served as a restaurant in Detroit. Unfortunately plans for the Lansdowne to continue in this capacity on the Buffalo, New York waterfront came to naught and she was scrapped in the summer of 2008. A third example of a ship s hull converted for this purpose is Captain John s in Toronto, a former Eastern European ship. The Normac , the first Captain John s restaurant, was moved to Port Dahousie as the floating cocktail lounge Big Kahuna . See also Houseboat Kettuvallam a houseboat type in Kerala, India many of which serve as hotels for tourists with cooking on board Examples Captain John s Harbour Boat Restaurant Jumbo Kingdom ship PS Lincoln Castle ship TS Queen Mary Moshulu MS Normac MS Normac Rustar dhow USAT General Frank M. Coxe Sherman Star Seafood Floating Restaurant ship MV Sydney 2000 ship PS Tattershall Castle External links http www.rivieraonvaal.co.za petit verdot floating restaurant.asp The Petit Verdot , Vaal River , South Africa Category Ship types Category Theme restaurants restaurant stub fi Ravintolalaiva ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2007 Image Floating dock at North Haven.jpg thumb 240px A floating dock at a private marina . The large vertical pole in the foreground is used to keep the dock in position. Rollers around the base of the pole allow the dock to freely rise and fall with the tide. A floating dock is a platform or ramp supported by Pontoon boat pontoon s. These are usually joined to the shore with a ramp that rests upon the dock on rollers, to adjust for the vertical movement of the dock maritime dock . The dock is usually held in place by vertical poles embedded in the soil under the water or by anchored cable s. Frequently used in marina s for small boat s, this type of dock maintains a fixed vertical relationship to watercraft secured to it, independent of tide tidal , river , or lake elevation. It is less suited for larger craft as the docks cannot support large structures or crane machine cranes . In some regions of the world, a floating dock is called a pontoon. PILES Pontoon Installation Location Engagement System Piles are used to secure pontoon and give as little movement as possible. See also Floating dry dock Battery Park City Ferry Terminal Category Coastal construction de Schwimmsteg id Dermaga apung pl Dok p ywaj cy ru ... more details
Wikify date April 2010 Orphan date September 2008 A floating shelf is a form of shelf designed so as to avoid showing any unsightly brackets, appearing as though it is floating on the wall. Design and Use Image Floating shelf diagram.jpg thumb right 300px Diagram of floating shelf installation and design. A floating shelf is designed to fit within a minimalist decor by hiding the supporting brackets within the shelf ref http www.homesite.com.au home living furniture and decor ideas and designs shelving options Shelving options shelving shelving unit laminate shelving shelf shelf unitShelving options Ideas and designs Furniture and d cor Home Living homesite.com.au Bot generated title ref . The shelf has at least two symmetrical channels into which slide brackets attached to the wall. Screws are inserted through the bottom of the shelf to hold it on the brackets. Though usually constructed of light weight material such as Medium density fibreboard MDF and laminated, these shelves can often hold considerable weight. References Reflist Category Furniture furniture stub ... 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 such as Pneumatic Stabilized Platform PSP technology. As the population increases and land 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. Description In theory, issues and problems of land based airports could be minimized by locating airports several miles off the coast. Takeoffs and landings would be over water, not over populated areas, thereby eliminating noise pollution ... 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 to have less impact on the environment ... of mountains or clearing of green space and the floating structure provides a reef like environment ... waves into energy to help sustain the energy needs of the airport. Floating airport projects In 2000 ... 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 hydro elastic response would ... Platform PSP was proposed as a means for constructing a new floating airport for San Diego in the Pacific ..., Cost Effective Cargo and Port Security Strategy by Dr. Michael J. Hillyard PSP Floating Airport ... Sep96 1302.html September 1996 Floating Airports Wave of the Future http www.sfgate.com cgi bin article.cgi ... Staff Writer Planes would land on floating runways built on S.F. Bay http cat.inist.fr ?aModele afficheN&cpsidt 3494214 Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Floatport a floating solution ... San Diego Union Tribune SignOnSanDiego.com Floating airport proposal resurfaces http www.jimbell.com ... San Diego CityBEAT , The sinking of the San Diego floating airport proposal by D.A. Kolodenko Category ... more details
A floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company law company or a limited ... proceedings . 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 .... See section 344 2 of the Insolvency Act 1986. ref Floating charges take effect in Equity ... 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 ..., ISBN 0 19 929993 5 ref Definition Although the nature of a floating charge has been widely considered ... Stocks and Other Securities Investment Co Ltd v Manila Rly Co 1897 AC 81 at 86 he said A floating ... stated ...a floating is ambulatory and shifting in nature, hovering over and so to speak floating with the property ... stating 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 the House 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 ... being 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 ... effect as a floating charge. See also http www.hg.org articles article 724.html analysis of the House ... 2nd edn, 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
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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
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 s most famous for its use by Michael Jackson and his moonwalk dance moonwalk a.k.a. the backslide , but is commonly utilized 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 and backslide the latter referred to by Michael Jackson as the moonwalk dance moonwalk . Notes div class references small references div Street dance Category Funk dance Category Popping dance pt Floating ... more details
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