The Fast Lane: Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Stars

Bumpy Road ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Sylvia Townsend
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Gas Station ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Joni Mitchell ◽  
Fast Lane

In this chapter, the film company arrives in Tucumcari, New Mexico to shoot the gas station scene where the race is set up – a tour de force of cinematography. Jaclyn Hellman blows up at her husband, Monte, over his affair with the leading lady, 17-year-old Laurie Bird. Some of the cast and filmmakers indulge in drugs, but they don’t hinder the filmmaking much except for Dennis Wilson, who is stoned nearly all the time and can’t remember his lines. But he and the amateur, off-balance Laurie Bird cause Hellman to call for 10, 15 and even 25 takes when they blow their lines. Joni Mitchell visits her boyfriend, James Taylor, and the actor Harry Dean Stanton arrives for his scene, in which he plays a gay cowboy hitchhiker.

New Mexico

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Jones
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
The State ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right

The fight over an exchange had a very different dynamic in New Mexico because there were no loud voices on the right calling for the state to reject control. Republican Governor Susanna Martinez supported retaining control, but strongly preferred a governance model that allowed insurers to serve on the board of directors and limited the degree of oversight by the board on the types of plans that could be sold on the exchange. Governor Martinez vetoed legislation in 2011 that would have set up a different model of an exchange. Institutional quirks meant the legislature did not have the opportunity to weigh in again for two years, until 2013. By this point it was too late and the state had to rely on the federal website despite passing legislation to run its own exchange.

PROPAGATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY THROUGH THE EARTH

Geophysics ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. McGehee
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Propagation Characteristics ◽  
Attenuation Constant ◽  
Radio Frequency Energy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Similar Series ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Good Agreement ◽  
Made In

Measurements have been made of some propagation characteristics in the earth of 1,614 and 1,700 kc radio frequency energy. The experiments were conducted at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Transmitters were set up on the surface 710 ft above an unwired tunnel in Carlsbad Caverns and the signal strength was measured at many points in the tunnels. A similar series of measurements was made in Mammoth Cave in a tunnel 270 ft below the surface. The data show that the attenuation constant is about 0.012 and 0.02 to 0.064 neper/meter at the two locations respectively. These values are in good agreement with theory.

Application of 3D Virtual Scene Building Technology Based on OSG in Gas Station Training Simulation System

2014 ◽  
Vol 918 ◽  
pp. 252-257
Author(s):  
Jian Mei Song ◽  
Zhong Hua Yan ◽  
Hao Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Simulation System ◽  
Virtual Scene ◽  
The Real ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Model Library ◽  
Extensible Markup ◽  
Training Simulation ◽  
Gas Station ◽  
Set Up

For a gas station training simulation system, the real time and reality of scene directly affect the application of system. In order to solve this problem, we used 3D virtual scene building technology based on OpenSceneGraph (OSG) to build gas station scene. Technology of levels of detail (LOD) was used to improve the real-time ability of the system during entity modeling. And then based on 3D entity model library and information files in Extensible Markup Language (XML), we built the parametric library and set up the gas station scene, which provided function information and attribute information. Experimental results show that the scene of virtual gas station can not only greatly improve the reality and immersion of system, but also well support the real-time simulation. Now, 3D virtual scene building technology based on OSG has applied successfully in gas station training simulation system, which provides feasible evidence for engineering simulation to solve practical problems.

scholarly journals ANALISIS MODEL ANTRIAN PADA STASIUN PENGISIAN BAHAN BAKAR UMUM (SPBU) LILIBA

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-325
Author(s):  
Febyana Wolla ◽  
Christien C Foenay ◽  
Tarsisius Timuneno
Keyword(s):  
Single Channel ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Busy Time ◽  
Multiple Line ◽  
Phase Data ◽  
Gas Station ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Multi Phase

The purpose of this research is to know the performance of queue service and to find solutions to overcoming queues at Liliba gas station. This study using the observation method. Based on the observation data obtained and then set up a calculation of the observed system. The data analysis method uses multiple line queue models (Single Channel – Multi Phase). Data in the analysis is descriptively quantitative and qualitative. The results derived from such calculations are noticeable that there is a queue in the afternoon. So that the solution is given that in the period of busy time or at the time there is a long queue, companies should divert motorcycle customers to the car line if on the car line there is no queue, so it can improve efficiency of service at Liliba gas station. Keywords : Queueing Theory, Queueing Model

American Indians, World Markets: The Evolution of a Career

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Author(s):  
Gordon Bronitsky
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

Somewhat to my surprise, I've become a social and applied anthropologist. Certainly, I received a firm grounding in the hallowed fourfield approach both as an undergraduate and a graduate student, but I always supposed that the "lesser three fields" would merely serve as adjuncts to my career as an academic archeologist, useful mainly for teaching yet another generation of undergraduates the importance of eating mongongo nuts among the Bushmen. I began with an interest in Southwest anthropology and archeology and received a B.A. from the University of New Mexico and a doctorate from the University of Arizona. Yet even then I was interested in the full range of Indian America, contemporary as well as historic and prehistoric. Now I am founder and president of Bronitsky and Associates, a firm with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Bergamo, Italy, which works with American Indian individuals, communities and organizations throughout the United States (including Alaska) and Canada to bring to the world the best that Indian America has to offer. Over the last few years, among other accomplishments, we've toured a Comanche fluteplayer to Ireland, set up a one-man show for a hot glass artist from Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, at the National Glass Museum in Finland, and gotten a Navajo writer published in Ireland—in Navajo, English, and Irish. How I got here from where I started—well, thereby hangs a tale.

United by Land

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina Lozano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Mexican War ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The U.S

After the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), the newly created treaty citizens largely remained in the United States. Treaty citizens were tied to the land by occupation, and for the elite, by ownership of ranches and farms. Some chose to cross the border into Mexico in an attempt to retain their language and other cultural customs. Most treaty citizens resided in New Mexico where they remained the overwhelming majority of the settler community who precariously secured the territory for the United States over autonomous Indians. California’s treaty citizens, by contrast, encountered a swift attack on their land claims through the 1851 Gwin Act, which set up a system to verify Spanish and Mexican land grants. Treaty citizens’ use of the Spanish language often led to the loss of their land and disrespect from new Anglo settlers. The struggle to retain land in the U.S. Southwest facilitated elite treaty citizensinvestment into the territorial and state governments of the United States, which required concessions to their use of the Spanish language.

Applying Absorption in Environmental Mechanics’ Decreasing of Aspiration Emissions of Gas Station

2018 ◽  
Vol 875 ◽  
pp. 145-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Koshkarev ◽  
Valery N. Azarov ◽  
I.V. Stefanenko ◽  
E.V. Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Protection Zone ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Filling Station ◽  
Mathematical Processing ◽  
Gas Station ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Vapor Emissions

The article presents the results of applying environmental mechanics in research of absorber for capturing emissions’ hydrocarbons vapors exhausting from the gas station into the atmosphere air. Often residential human habitants are located within the boundary of the sanitary protection zone (SPZ) of these gas filling stations. The analysis measurement’s and stratification’ modeling results these gas emissions’ in the atmosphere showed that benzene and xylene vapor’s concentration in the atmosphere exceeds the existing sanitary-hygienic norms for these ingredients often. There presented the research results of the proposed aspiration schemes was equipped absorbing device for the capture of gas vapor’ emissions at the gas station in this article. It was obtained the regressions of capture effectiveness for the proposed device by mathematical processing. The research results were implemented for design of pilot industrial set up that was installed and successful tested in one of the gas filling station in Russia. It was showed the reliability of the proposed device for practical commercial use.

The Effects of Drying Techniques on Clay-Rich Soil Texture

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
T. G. Naymik
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen Temperature ◽  
Drying Methods ◽  
Air Drying ◽  
Freeze Dried ◽  
Critical Point Drying ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quartz Grains

Three techniques were incorporated for drying clay-rich specimens: air-drying, freeze-drying and critical point drying. In air-drying, the specimens were set out for several days to dry or were placed in an oven (80°F) for several hours. The freeze-dried specimens were frozen by immersion in liquid nitrogen or in isopentane at near liquid nitrogen temperature and then were immediately placed in the freeze-dry vacuum chamber. The critical point specimens were molded in agar immediately after sampling. When the agar had set up the dehydration series, water-alcohol-amyl acetate-CO2 was carried out. The objectives were to compare the fabric plasmas (clays and precipitates), fabricskeletons (quartz grains) and the relationship between them for each drying technique. The three drying methods are not only applicable to the study of treated soils, but can be incorporated into all SEM clay soil studies.

Evaluation of Freezing Methods by Low Temperature X-Ray Diffraction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 330-333
Author(s):  
T. Gulik-Krzywicki ◽  
M.J. Costello
Keyword(s):  
Biological Materials ◽  
Molecular Organization ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Glass Capillary ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Rate Dependent ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Freeze Etching ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
Set Up

Freeze-etching electron microscopy is currently one of the best methods for studying molecular organization of biological materials. Its application, however, is still limited by our imprecise knowledge about the perturbations of the original organization which may occur during quenching and fracturing of the samples and during the replication of fractured surfaces. Although it is well known that the preservation of the molecular organization of biological materials is critically dependent on the rate of freezing of the samples, little information is presently available concerning the nature and the extent of freezing-rate dependent perturbations of the original organizations. In order to obtain this information, we have developed a method based on the comparison of x-ray diffraction patterns of samples before and after freezing, prior to fracturing and replication.Our experimental set-up is shown in Fig. 1. The sample to be quenched is placed on its holder which is then mounted on a small metal holder (O) fixed on a glass capillary (p), whose position is controlled by a micromanipulator.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

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