The associated machine uses the outward codes in these dots to direct bundles of letters into the correct bags for specific delivery offices. With a machine knowledge of the specific addresses handled by each delivery man at each office, the bundles can be further sorted, using the dots of ...
Kinghorn is a town and parish in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh.Burntisland Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0. Burntisland is a port on the...
While being in and around a shared space often felt like a privilege, some of us (Ashley, Hannah, Phil) began to attempt to bridge the distance—physically, relationally, and professionally—to our disciplines by attending their shared offices for one or two days a week. While the Project ...
London’s working-class youth grew up in a city that in the 1960s began to move away from the London their parents had known during their own childhood. This chapter illustrates how the making of a post-Victorian Britain can be viewed as a project that took place and was materialised acro...
Don't say to yourself, "When I have the time," but make time for tomorrow in your life today. What is it you've wanted to do? What have you wanted to work on? The Holy Days are a great time to ask this question, but when the sun sets onYom Kippur and you hear the final ...
Thereafter the labourer could leave his indentured employer and become a ‘free man’, remain in Natal and open his own business or enter employment. If having served 2 indentured work terms (10 years) the passage back to India was free of charge.13 1865 –in terms of the Cape and Natal...
‘bang’ another bomb blast (more like a muffled ‘thump’ actually), this one a couple of city blocks away in nearby Doornfontein and the target is the old Beeld Newspaper Offices, the bomb later turned out to be placed by the Orde Boerevolk – one of the spin-off militant White ...
(this year in New Orleans) and February trips to Comma Con (I gave a keynote about the future of language online), Social Science FooCamp, PanLex at Long Now, the Internet Archive offices (all San Fransisco Bay Area) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ...
Alderman for culture Sjoerd Feitsmatold the Friesch Dagbladhe came up with the idea after visiting the Robert Burns festival in Edinburgh at the end of January. 'I was thinking of replacing the Union Jack with an EU flag or a rainbow flag,' he said. 'I noticed what a big deal it was...
After the annexation of Crimea, the Finnish Ministry of Defence started to draft a law to restrict the possibilities of people with dual citizenship or other links to foreign states to serve in or to get an education for security-related public offices. Simultaneously, the Russian government ...