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BAeSEMA was a naval technology joint venture between British Aerospace and the French Sema Group. The company was formed in 1991 and dissolved in November 1998 when BAe purchased SEMA’s 50% share.

BAeSEMA acquired Dowty-Sema in 1992, another naval systems joint venture between Dowty Group and Sema.

Capabilities

• Naval combat management systems
  • Type 23 frigate – command and control system
  • Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine – command and control system
• Warship prime contracting
  • HMS Scott Ocean Survey Vessel – (building subcontracted to Appledore Shipbuilders)
• Communications
• IT

History

From BAe’s perspective BAeSEMA was an attempt to increase its capabilities as a naval prime contractor. This was not entirely successful for two reasons:

• A customer was more likely to choose a prime contractor with shipbuilding experience and capabilities.
• Another shipbuilder was unwilling to team with the company due to the fact that as prime contractor BAeSEMA would effectively control that shipbuilder.

BAeSEMA’s major competitor in the UK naval systems market was GEC-Marconi through its Ferranti Naval Systems and Plessey Naval Systems businesses.

On November 11 1998 BAe acquired Sema’s interest in the company for £77 million and merged it into British Aerospace Defence Ltd. BAe’s naval capabilities increased dramatically in the next year, its acquisition of Marconi Electronic Systems to form BAE Systems saw it take control of Marconi Marine’s shipyards; VSEL (Barrow-in-Furness), Govan (Glasgow) and YSL (Scotstoun).

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The term Kickstart can refer to:

• The bootstrap for computers running AmigaOS
• A configuration management system for some Linux distributions.
• The task of using the foot activated starter (the kickstarter) on a motorcycle, see kick start
• Kickstart (TV series), A motor bike racing/trials competition TV series which aired on UK TV.
• A Popular bike racing computer game (derived from the TV series) for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers.
• Kickstart Audio, a record label

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Availability, salience and vividness are three terms which refer to very similar things in social psychology but have slightly different meanings. They may actually all refer to the same underlying concept, and they positively influence one another, but they are each used consistently in different theoretical contexts.

Availability refers to how likely or probable something appears, in probability estimation.

Salience refers to the likelihood that something will appear causal, in attribution theory.

Vividness refers to how easily recalled and convincing something is, in persuasion.

References

• Plous, S. (1993). The psychology of judgment and decision making. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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A Boot Jack, sometimes known as a Boot Device, is a small tool which aids in the removal of boots. It consists of a U-shaped mouth which grips the heel of the boot, and a flat area to which weight can be applied. To operate it, the user places the heel of the boot in the mouth of the jack, stands on the back of the device with the other foot, and pulls his foot free of the front boot. The process is then repeated until both boots are removed.

The boot jack has several advantages over the removal of boots by hand. By allowing the wearer to pull his foot straight up and out of the boot, and by using his full body weight to hold the boot in place, far greater leverage and a much more secure grip are possible than can be achieved with the hands. In addition, the wearer is spared the inconvenience of having to bend over or sit down to remove the boots, or directly handle them if they are dirty.

The function of the boot jack can be approximated with a variety of other objects that may be on hand, ranging from a convenient piece of furniture to a rifle butt, but these generally cannot remove the boot as easily as a proper boot jack. Additionally, the sole of a boot still being worn can also function as an improvised jack, but the disadvantages of this last system are readily apparent.

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Tourist Trophy may refer to:

Motorsport Races:

• The original Tourist Trophy motorcycle racing event, the Isle of Man TT
• the Dutch TT at Assen, a MotoGP event
• the German TT, Eifelrennen, held until 1974 as a combined motorcycle/automobile event
• the Swedish TT
• the RAC Tourist Trophy held until 1988 for car race in the United Kingdom and resurrected in 2005 in the FIA GT Championship

Other:

• The PlayStation 2 video game Tourist Trophy by Polyphony Digital

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Margaret Thom is the current Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories Canada.
She was appointed June 2 2005.

External links

• Deputy Commissioner Margaret Thom Biography

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In U.S. politics, the minority leader is the Floor Leader of the second-largest caucus in a legislative body. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat, with their counterpart being of the opposite party. The position is essentially that of the Leader of the Opposition. In bicameral legislatures, the counterpart to the minority leader in the lower house is often the Speaker and the majority leader is hence only the second-most senior member of the majority caucus, whereas in the upper house the titular Speaker is often a separately-elected officer such as a lieutenant governor and the majority leader may in fact be the single most powerful member of the majority caucus.

The minority leader is often assisted in his role by whips, whose job is to enforce party discipline on votes deemed to be crucial by the party leadership and to ensure that members do not vote in a way not approved of by the party. Some votes are deemed to be so crucial as to lead to punitive measures (such as demotion from choice committee assignments) if the party line is violated; decisions such as these are often made by the minority leader in conjunction with other senior party leaders.

In a state where the executive branch and both houses of the state legislature are controlled by the other party, the minority leader of one of the houses (most often the upper one) may be seen as the seniormost member of the party in that state with regard to state government (although inferior in rank to a United States Senator or United States Representative, if there is such in that party from that state).

At times, particularly with regard to crucial legislation, the minority leader and other senior members of his/her party may be consulted with an eye to enacting such legislation on a bipartisan basis. The minority leader may also work closely with leaders in the majority party to ensure that provisions important to the interests of his party are included in legislation, which often occurs if it can be done without seeming to be seen as particularly harmful to the interests of the majority party.

The level of partisanship in state legislative bodies varies greatly from one state to another, so the foregoing must be regarded as a guideline of rather typical circumstances rather than a reflection of the situation in every state.

See also

• Specific minority leaders
  • Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives.
  • Minority Leader of the United States Senate
• Majority leader

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The Boot houses were built in the United Kingdom after World War I to house the service men and women coming home from war. They were named after a Mr Boot. The houses were built using concrete, therefore the exterior walls all now need to be reconstructed to meet building standards.

As buildings, they were somewhat more substantial than the “prefabs” built after World War II.

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The Physics of skiing refers to the analysis of forces applied on a skier using the discipline of physics. A common question any analytical thinker might ask is: “Do big people go faster?”. The answer is yes, to an extent. This is because heavier people can get more potential energy and also since larger skis move faster, to an extent. The reason larger skis generally move faster is basically because the weight is spread out and less force is applied per unit snow, allowing the skis to glide on the thin water coating on the top of the snow.
Of course, there are many complications. For instance, heavier people may not be able to turn as well.

Surprisingly, using the square-cube law, said to be first noticed by Galileo, one finds that air resistance slows a big person down less than a small person. [1]

Friction is what allows you to stay in control while skiing. It is what slows you down. You apply wax to the base of your skis to try and reduce this in order to go faster. In ski racing it is the person who allows the least amount of friction between themselves the snow and air who wins. But without friction we would not be able to experience the true joy of skiing. There are several ways to model this friction, and also theories on ideal carves. The equation for determining the coefficient of friction is =Fn/Ff. You can determine how much force the friction is creating by using the equation, Ff=(Fn). Ff equals the force created by the friction, Fn equals the force perpendicular to the direction of travel.

External links

• More general information on the physics of skiing, including basic principals of mass, acceleration, torque, etc
• Math models of the physics of skiing
• Paper on carving
• The square-cube law in aircraft design

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Koolaburra is a privately held American importer of authentic sheepskin footwear made in Australia. They are based in Santa Barbara, California. Their boots are one of the few brands of Australian sheepskin boots sold in the US that are still made in Australia.

In 2005, they lost a lawsuit with Deckers Outdoor Corporation about the use of the term “ug” in reference to Australian sheepskin boots.

External Links

Corporate Website

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