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Awls
Awl may refer to: Tools * Bradawl, a woodworking hand tool for making small holes * Scratch awl, a woodworking layout and point-making tool used to scribe a line * Stitching awl, a tool for piercing holes in a variety of materials such as leather or canvases Biology * Butterfly species called "awl", of the family ''Hesperiidae'' **Awls, genus ''Hasora'' * Awl-flies, family Xylophagidae *Awl nematodae, or genus ''Dolichodorus'' People *Farah Awl (1937–1991), Somali writer *William Maclay Awl (1799–1876), American psychiatrist and politician Other uses * AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile * Academic Word List, a word frequency list from a broad range of academic texts * Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain * Arizona Winter League, a former instructional baseball league * The Awl, a current events and culture website in New York City * Statement List (German: ''Anweisungsliste'' (AWL)), an instruction list langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stitching Awl
A stitching awl is a tool with which holes can be punctured in a variety of materials, or existing holes can be enlarged. It is also used for sewing heavy materials, such as leather or canvas. It is a thin, tapered metal shaft, coming to a sharp point, either straight or slightly bent. These shafts are often in the form of interchangeable needles. They usually have an eye piercing at the pointed end to aid in drawing thread through holes for the purpose of manual lockstitch sewing, in which case it is also called a sewing awl. Stitching awls are frequently used by shoe repairers and other leatherworkers. Sewing awls are used to make lock stitches. The needle, with the thread in the eye is pushed through the material. The thread is then pulled through the eye to extend it. As the needle is pushed through the material, the extra thread from the first stitch is then threaded through the loops of successive stitches creating a lock stitch. The action is likened to that of a "miniat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy places the family in the superfamily Papilionoidea, the butterflies. They are named for their quick, darting flight habits. Most have their antenna tips modified into narrow, hook-like projections. Moreover, skippers mostly have an absence of wing-coupling structure available in most moths. More than 3500 species of skippers are recognized, and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South America.Ackery et al. (1999) Description and systematics Traditionally, the Hesperiidae were placed in a monotypic superfamily Hesperioidea, because they are morphologically distinct from other Rhopalocera (butterflies), which mostly belong to the typical butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasora
''Hasora'', the awls, are a genus of skipper butterflies. ''Hasora'' species are found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. Species * '' Hasora alta'' de Jong, 1982 Sumatra * ''Hasora anura'' - slate awl ** ''Hasora anura taiwana'' Hsu, Tsukiyama & Chiba, 2005 Taiwan * ''Hasora badra'' - common awl * '' Hasora borneensis'' Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Borneo * '' Hasora buina'' Evans, 1926 Solomon Islands (Bougainville, Vella Lavella). * '' Hasora celaenus'' (Stoll, 782 Maluku Islands, New Guinea * '' Hasora coeruleostriata'' De Jong, 1982 Philippines * ''Hasora chromus'' - common banded awl Cramer, 1780 ** ''H. c. chromus'' Cramer, 1780 * '' Hasora danda'' Evans, 1949 Burma, Thailand, Laos, North Vietnam, West China * '' Hasora fushigina'' Maruyama & Ueda, 1992 * '' Hasora lavella'' Evans, 1928 Solomon Islands (Bougainville, Vella Lavella). * '' Hasora leucospila'' (Mabille, 1891) * ''Hasora lizetta'' (Plötz, 883 Malaya, Java * ''Hasora mavis'' Evans, 1934 Thailand, Malay Penin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scratch Awl
A scratch awl is a woodworking layout and point-making tool. It is used to scribe a line to be followed by a hand saw or chisel when making woodworking joints and other operations. The scratch awl is basically a steel spike with its tip sharpened to a fine point. The tip of the spike is drawn across the timber, leaving a shallow groove. It may also be used to mark a point by pressing the tip into the timber. It is generally used when dimensioning and for laying out with the grain. It may also be used across the grain. However, a marking knife is preferred for this operation. Scratch awls are traditionally used in leather crafting to trace patterns onto leather. They are sometimes used in the automotive and sheet metal trades to punch holes and scribe lines in sheet metal. See also *Bradawl *Stitching awl A stitching awl is a tool with which holes can be punctured in a variety of materials, or existing holes can be enlarged. It is also used for sewing heavy materials, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradawl
A bradawl is a woodworking hand tool with a blade similar to that of a straight screwdriver and a handle's made from wood or plastic. Purpose A bradawl is used to make indentations in wood or other materials in order to ease the insertion of a nail or screw. The blade is placed across the fibres of the wood, cutting them when pressure is applied. The bradawl is then twisted through 90 degrees which displaces the fibres creating a hole. This cutting action helps to prevent splitting of the wood along the grain. See also * Gimlet * Scratch awl * Stitching awl A stitching awl is a tool with which holes can be punctured in a variety of materials, or existing holes can be enlarged. It is also used for sewing heavy materials, such as leather or canvas. It is a thin, tapered metal shaft, coming to a shar ... References Woodworking hand tools {{Woodworking-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Workers' Liberty
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty, is a Trotskyist group in Britain and Australia, which has been identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna throughout its history. It publishes the newspaper ''Solidarity''. History Workers' Fight The AWL traces its origins to the document ''What we are and what we must become'', written by the tendency's founder Sean Matgamna in 1966, in which he argued that the Revolutionary Socialist League – by then effectively the Militant tendency – was too inward-looking, and needed to become more activist in its orientation. The RSL refused to circulate the document; hence, with a handful of supporters, he left to form the Workers' Fight group. Espousing left unity, they accepted an offer in 1968 to form a faction within the International Socialists (IS) as the Trotskyist Tendency. Trotskyist Tendency The Trotskyist Tendency clashed with the leadership of the International Socialists over many issues; for examp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alas Nacionales
Alas Nacionales S.A. ("National Wings" in Spanish) was a Puerto Plata-based carrier that operated charter flights between Dominican Republic and Germany. The airline served as a representative of Birgenair.Pope, Hugh and Phil Davison.Crash plane may not have been serviced" ''The Independent''. Saturday 10 February 1996. Retrieved on 26 June 2010. History In summer 1994, the German tour operator Öger Tours and the small German airline Ratioflug entered into a cooperation to offer low-cost charter flights from Germany to the Dominican Republic in winter 94/95. The German Federal Ministry of Transport granted traffic rights to Ratioflug for period of six months. Because Ratioflug did not have any airplane with corresponding capacity and range it leased a Boeing 757-200 from the Turkish airline Birgenair for these flights. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instruction List
Instruction list (IL) is one of the 5 languages supported by the initial versions of IEC 61131-3 standard, and subsequently deprecated in the third edition. It is designed for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It is a low level language and resembles assembly. All of the languages share IEC61131 Common Elements. The variables and function call are defined by the common elements so different languages can be used in the same program. Program control (control flow) is achieved by ''jump'' instructions and function calls (subroutines with optional parameters). The file format has now been standardized to XML by PLCopen. Example Variations from IEC 61131 Many vendors whilst incorporating the full IEC 61131-3 requirements have additional vendor specific calls/function blocks to suit their hardware such as reading or writing to I/O. Siemens PLC instruction list language is known as "Statement List" or "STL" in English, and "Anweisungs-Liste" or "AWL" in German, Italian and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Awl
''The Awl'' was a website about "news, ideas and obscure Internet minutiae of the day" based in New York City. Its motto was "Be Less Stupid." History Founded in April 2009 by David Cho and former ''Gawker'' editors Choire Sicha and Alex Balk out of Sicha's East Village, Manhattan apartment, after they were laid off by the pop culture magazine ''Radar'', the trio decided to launch their own blog, completely "out of pocket with a bare-bones site." The site's name was coined by contributor Tom Scocca, after the small pointed tool used for piercing holes. "He’d always wanted to have a newspaper named The Awl. So we semi bought it from him in a friendly arrangement." Sicha told '' Vanity Fair''. The first posts on the site were an infographic by Emily Gould of ''Gawker''s office seating chart, "a video of a Miss USA contestant responding to a gay marriage question from Perez Hilton, and an item linking to a Reuters article about physicist Stephen Hawking being taken to the hosp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Winter League
The Arizona Winter League was an independent instructional winter baseball league. Arizona Winter League games were all played at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, Arizona. The league was founded in 2007. It disbanded in 2013 due to parent league, the Golden Baseball League/ North American League, folding, but was restarted in 2016, only to fold again following the 2018 season. League format The inaugural season consisted of a 21-game regular season, with the first and second place teams facing off in a one-game playoff for the championship. All teams are based in the Yuma, Arizona area playing all games at Desert Sun Stadium and utilizing the Ray Kroc Complex which used to house the San Diego Padres and Yakult Swallows spring training operations. The league is for players out of college or university and other players who are looking for professional contracts either from independent leagues, Minor League Baseball or Major League Baseball. It is an instructional winter league that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Maclay Awl
William Maclay Awl (May 24, 1799 – November 19, 1876) was a psychiatrist, a politician and a mental health hospital administrator. Biography He was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Mary (Maclay) Awl and lawyer and Senator Samuel Awl. He studied basic medical concepts under a local physician. At age 20 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Failing to graduate, he began a temporary practice in his hometown, specializing in anatomy and surgery, but later accompanied a knapsacker to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1826. In 1830 he married Rebecca Loughey. He then practiced his profession in many towns within Ohio, but finally settled in Columbus, Ohio, in 1833 where he stayed for the rest of his life. He was the first surgeon west of the Allegheny Mountains to tie the left Common carotid artery.''Western and Physical Journal'', October 1827 In Columbus he quickly specialized in treating mental disorders and management of people suffering from insanity. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Word List
The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English words which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium higher education, and teachers of such students. The AWL was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and divided into ten sublists in decreasing order of frequency. The AWL excludes words from the ''General Service List'' (the 2000 highest-frequency words in general texts); however, many words in the AWL are general vocabulary rather than restricted to an academic domain, such as ''area'', ''approach'', ''create'', ''similar'', and ''occur'' in Sublist One. The list is available on the Simple English Wiktionary. See also *General Service List The General Service List (GSL) is a list of roughly 2,000 words published by Michael West in 1953. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
