Stella (yacht)

The Stella is a 'one-design' Bermuda rig sloop yacht, designed for cruising and racing by the noted yacht designer CR (Kim) Holman in 1959. The design was to the requirements of a customer who had seen the Nordic Folkboat and decided that the English east coast needed a similar vessel but modified for North Sea as opposed to Baltic conditions and a competitive racer on handicap. The prototype: Stella No. 1 La Vie en Rose was built to win the 1959 Burnham (on Crouch) week, which she promptly did. Clinker built of mahogany or larch on oak frames.

The restoration of Amulet, a Stella class yacht originally built in Fort William in 1964, is described by Bob Orrell in the book Amulet: A Charm Restored and Sailed to the Western Isles.

Fleets exist in the UK (estimated 100 built) and Australia (approximately 20 built).

Key dimensions

  • Length (LOA): 25' 10"
  • Length on waterline: 20' 0")
  • Beam: 7' 6"
  • Sail area: 338sq ft (main & genoa)
  • Draft: 3' 10"
  • Weight: 2.7 Imp. tons
  • Ballast: 1.22 Imp. tons
  • Stella (software)

    Stella, a computer program available in three versions (Great Stella, Small Stella and Stella4D), was created by Robert Webb of Australia. The programs contain a large library of polyhedra which can be manipulated and altered in various ways.

    Polyhedra

    Polyhedra in Great Stella's library include the Platonic solids, the Archimedean solids, the Kepler-Poinsot solids, the Johnson solids, some Johnson Solid near-misses, numerous compounds including the uniform polyhedra, and other polyhedra too numerous to list here. Operations which can be performed on these polyhedra include stellation, faceting, augmentation, dualization (also called "reciprocation"), creating convex hulls, and others.

    All versions of the program enable users to print nets for polyhedra. These nets may then be assembled into actual three-dimensional polyhedral models of great beauty and complexity.

    Stella 4D

    In 2007, a Stella4D version was added, allowing the generation and display of four-dimensional polytopes (polychora), including a library of all convex uniform polychora, and all currently known nonconvex star polychora, as well as the uniform duals. They can be selected from a library or generated from user created polyhedral vertex figure files.

    Social network analysis

    Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of network and graph theories. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties or edges (relationships or interactions) that connect them. Examples of social structures commonly visualized through social network analysis include social media networks, friendship and acquaintance networks, kinship, disease transmission,and sexual relationships. These networks are often visualized through sociograms in which nodes are represented as points and ties are represented as lines.

    Social network analysis has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology. It has also gained a significant following in anthropology, biology, communication studies, economics, geography, history, information science, organizational studies, political science, social psychology, development studies, and sociolinguistics and is now commonly available as a consumer tool.

    Cascade, Atlanta

    Cascade in Atlanta may refer to:

  • Southwest Atlanta
  • Cascade Heights, a neighborhood in Southwest Atlanta

  • Cascade (Guy Manning album)

    Cascade is the third studio album released by Guy Manning.
    In Summer 2008, it was re-packaged and re-issued as part of the Guy Manning 10th Anniversary celebrations for 2009

    Track listing

  • "Walking In Cascade" – 05:42
  • "By The Book" (A Pop Song) – 06:19
  • "Tears In The Rain" – 05:07
  • "Catholic Education" – 05:48
  • "Hushabye Mountain" – 03:03
  • "Lead Me Where You Will" – 06:52
  • "Flight 19" – 05:55
  • "The Night & The Devil" – 05:52
  • "Owning Up" – 05:41
  • "Time Of Our Lives" – 06:11
  • "Winter" – 07:35
  • All words and music written by Guy Manning (Except 'Hushabye Mountain' by Sherman & Sherman)

    Personnel

  • Guy Manningguitars, keyboards, drums, bass, mandolin, vocals
  • Laura Fowles – sax and vocals
  • Angela Gordon (Courtesy of Mostly Autumn) – flute, recorder
  • Gareth Harwood – electric guitar
  • Jonathan Barratt – bass
  • References

    External links

  • 2004 interview
  • Cascade at Guy Manning's website
  • Album reviews for Cascade at Guy Manning's website
  • Podcasts:

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