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Beachcraft 1900D/Gulfstream IV L. Jones


I sometimes feel like slapping a chokehold on, and dragging one of these guys out to the old C-46, loaded, on a hot day, and make him do an engine failure on takeoff, where he'd be lucky to get 50 feet per minute. 500 fpm up is pure LUXURY! it's all in the perspective, I guess (Deaken, 2003)

South Beach Diet: Help or


The types of foods with the highest GI include (those scoring 70 or more) include bagels, white rice, white bread and potatoes. In contrast, the types of foods with the lowest GI (those scoring 70 or more) include artificially sweetened yogurt, peanuts and tomatoes ("High" n

Beach Erosion and the Eastern


This is enough to fill a football filed of a height of more than 100 miles. Considering that all this sand is returned to the 2000 miles of American coastlines, the beaches would all be 70 feet wider (Douglass, 2002)

Beach Erosion and the Eastern


Beach erosion occurs when sand is being taken off the beach by either man or nature and it was first observed in the 1830 as the residential market on the beaches increased. The owners of homes near seas and oceans observed that some of the beaches were disappearing, but by 1960, when the communists began to address the problems, much of the damage done was permanent (Drake, 2007)

Beach Erosion and the Eastern


Built with the aim of protecting the eastern frontage, they ended up in causing immense erosion on this side of the coast. "The effect of the [piers] has been to lessen the wave-stroke at the western end of the Dover frontage, and to protect it more to the eastward, and this, in combination with the stoppage of the supply of beach, cause considerable erosion on the eastern frontage" (Wheeler, p

Transportation Long Beach Naval Shipyard


Ballast water is an ongoing problem because of the contaminates it can contain. One writer notes, "[T]he International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates that about 3-5 billion tons of ballast water are transferred internationally each year, often carrying exotic plant species and disease-causing organisms" (Sharma, 2006)

Transportation Long Beach Naval Shipyard


And yet, more than three years after 9-11, after hundreds of millions of dollars spent on risk assessments and plans, the L.A. port is still, essentially, an open bull's-eye" (Verini, 2005)

Perimeter Protection the Palm Beach Marina Grove


The new changes will mean making temporary and permanent transformations in the protocols and procedures. (Garcia, 2007) To understand how this is accomplished requires focusing on the basic strategy that will be utilized

Beach Erosion: Causes and Remedies Beach Erosion


There are also concerns about the type of sand used to 'fill in' the coast line and what the project may unearth. One reconstruction project in Long Beach Island, NJ found many old munitions from World War I (Berry 2012)

Beach Erosion: Causes and Remedies Beach Erosion


"Bulkheads and seawalls may accelerate beach erosion by reflecting wave energy off the facing wall, impacting adjacent property owners as well," ("What causes beach erosion," Scientific American, 2008). Another solution, which has been proposed to help the rapidly-shrinking island of Galveston in Texas, is using "geotubes or artificial reefs" to "trap sand" (Rice 2007)

Participant Observation: The Beach for


The nature of what might be called 'social deviance' typical of adolescent behavior, however, was quite mild in what I saw, mainly manifesting itself in terms of attitude. The main transgressive actions were collectively disobeying traffic guidelines, putting themselves at risk more than drivers: deviancy is often "distinctly unheroic" in adolescents and is often more risky with negative consequences to the self (Hobbs 207)

Participant Observation: The Beach for


And adolescents in bathing suits shouting greetings to one another on the beach, or on bicycles formed another 'world,' a world connected by motion and language. While childhood, by some ethnographers has been called a "microcosm" of adult society, as the assumptions and needs of adulthood are imposed upon the body of the child, in American society it is very typical for adolescents, even younger adolescents to create their own, clearly-defined societies, language and social enclaves distinct from adult culture (James 247)

Participant Observation: The Beach for


This was a very common way for young people to create their own private spaces. They shouted to one another in a linguistic display of their unity, often using one another's names or slang that could not be identified by a casual listener: exhibiting the deployment of "language as cultural knowledge" (Keating 287)

Participant Observation: The Beach for


Other beach-goers used the shade of their umbrellas on the beach itself, or simply pulled their chairs or towel away from the crowds. "Material forms play a fundamental part in the creation and establishment of forms of sociability" (Tilley 260)

Ethnography Le Petit Cafe in Brighton Beach


If cultures bond through the symbolic medium of sport, then that bonding is also made possible because of new technologies related to globalization. "As time and space compress, as the world gets smaller, migration, economic activity, flows of money, ideas, media images, popular culture, music, movies and television have created a new diversity of experiences that reach every corner of the world, mingle with and influence local cultures and challenge traditions and customs," (Guest, "Anthropology in a Global Age," p

The Beatles vs Beach Boys


Beatlemania: Rediscovering Sixties Music, is ambitious in scope. Within this chapter the author attempts to reconstruct the context of the Beach Boys' career as it took place in a zeitgeist that spanned from the early 60s to the end of the 1980s (De Forest, 2007, p

The Beach

Year : 2000

Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach

Year : 1988

On the Beach

Year : 1959

The Palm Beach Story

Year : 1942