217Plus is a methodology and a software tool that was developed by the RIAC to aid in the assessment of system reliability. It represents the next generation of the PRISM software tool initially released in 1999. The original software contained six embedded models to estimate the failure rate of various components when exposed to a specific set of stresses that are defined by the user. The 217Plus contains twelve embedded component models. Until the release of this handbook, the equations comprising the component reliability prediction models were not available in printed form. As such, a user of the old software tool could not see the exact equations that comprised the models. It is always advantageous for analysts to be able to review details of the models, so that reliability prediction results can be better interpreted and supported through mutual practitioner, management and customer understanding. The RIAC, therefore, developed and published this handbook to make available the equations and model parameters that form the basis of the 217Plus methodology.
A Quandary of Fibbles" by Howard Denson tells the story of Princess Esmeralda in the Kingdom of Quandary. She is in love with a clumsy knight, Sir Jonathan d'Klutz, but her father, King Geoffrey the Grouch, despises her suitor. Sir Jonathan's protectors are Sweet Margaret (whom children call "Mag the Hag with the Sagging Bags") and Fred, Ted, Ed, and Ned, the talking heads on the pikes at Hogmoor Castle. They try to protect the young knight, but he decides to prove his merit by taming the rampaging Sir Bull in the pasture near the castle. Unfortunately, Sir Bull dispatches the youth and then does in the princess when she rushes to his side. Their spirits then begin migrations over the centuries until she ends up in a pot-bellied stove and he in the body of Johnny the Junkman. Sweet Margaret has given the Talking Heads the mission of looking out for the two so they can be united at some point. Meanwhile, King Fengon from Miasmort has been trying to destroy Quandary, and Esmeralda's lascivious sister, Princess Ethel the Ready But Remember She's the King's Daughter, assembles a team of the Talking Heads, four headless country boys, and a raven to face the challenge of the Miasmorticians. The book can be viewed as a collection of fibbles (part fable and part fib, but always poetically true), or even as a family saga novel since it takes generations for the story to be resolved. It tips its hat to medieval troubadours, Thurber, Aesop, Freberg, Fractured Tales, and Python, plus Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.
Presents a study guide on William Shakespeare's classic play "As You Like It," that contains reproducible exercises that help develop vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Easy Reading Shakespeare! Introduce your students to the famous literary accomplishments of William Shakespeare. Easy-reading adaptations will ignite the interest of reluctant and enthusiastic readers. Each of these condensed works is arranged in a ten-chapter format with key words designed and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require students to recall specific details, sequence events, draw inferences, develop new story names, and choose the main idea. Improves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
George William Russell, better known as AE (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland. From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (translator of the Enneads of Plotinus), James Joyce, and other writers, thinkers, and artists, and was closely associated with the Irish National Theatre Society (later the Abbey Theatre). Russell's influence was as extensive in practical and political affairs as it was in the more intimate spiritual domain. The length and breadth of his thinking on the social issues of his day, which are only heightened in ours, is evident in this present work. This exhaustive and unsurpassed bibliography of the works of George William Russell, includes, in addition to a chronological listing of all his published written works, Notes on his Paintings and Portraits by Alan Denson, a Foreword by Padraic Colum, Reminiscences of AE by M. J. Bonn, and a Note on AE and Painting by Thomas Bodkin. Of the compiler, Alan Denson, the late Oliver St John Gogarty wrote: 'I do not know anyone who is better equipped to write about AE.' Mr. Denson also edited The Letters of AE (available again from Coracle Pr
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