He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.

* If it is required to use a single number X as an estimate for the value of numbers, then the arithmetic mean does this best, in the sense of minimizing the sum of squares ( x < sub > i </ sub > − X )< sup > 2 </ sup > of the residuals.

Once the Swiss developed their pike squares for offensive as well as defensive use, infantry started to become the principal arm.

the commonly-used ordinary least squares method may not recover the theoretical relation desired or may produce estimates with poor statistical properties, because the assumptions for valid use of the method are violated.

This idea proved influential, serving as an alternative to a full Dyson Sphere that required fewer assumptions ( such as artificial gravity ) and allowed a day / night cycle to be introduced ( through the use of a smaller ring of " shadow squares ", rotating between the ring and its sun ).

Houses without telephones were entitled to free use of the communal phone of a neighbouring house ; the decree further ordered the immediate installation of at least 150 telephones in public squares, particularly in outlying regions .< Ref > Sovnarkom decree, 11 July, 1918, ' On the Use of the Moscow City Telephone Exchange ',

Some low-cost sets ( especially those sold in toy stores ) may use red and black squares and include pieces for both games ; though suitable for informal play, such boards are often not accepted for sanctioned play, depending on the local authority's rules on equipment standards.

The physician can use a single spot laser or a pattern scan laser for two dimensional patterns such as squares, rings and arcs.

Two of the common ones are barred crosswords, which use bold lines between squares ( instead of shaded squares ) to separate answers, and circular designs, with answers entered either radially or in concentric circles.

Variety ( UK: " advanced ") cryptic crosswords typically use a " barred grid " with no black squares and a slightly smaller size ; 12 × 12 is typical.

Dee was apparently intending to use these Keys to " open the 49 Gates of Wisdom / Understanding " represented by the 49 magic squares in Liber Loagaeth:

There are many methods we might use to estimate the unknown parameter k. Noting that the n equations in the m variables in our data comprise an overdetermined system with one unknown and n equations, we may choose to estimate k using least squares.

Thus, although the two use a similar error metric, linear least squares is a method that treats one dimension of the data preferentially, while PCA treats all dimensions equally.

* Mecklenburgh Square, east of Coram's Fields, one the few squares which remains locked for the use of local residents.

In May the McPherson Town Company had offered, as an inducement for the location of the county seat at this point, the free use of rooms for ten years, and the donation of two squares of land on the town site.

He established one hundred lots, each containing one-half acre ; convenient streets and squares, and a common area for the use of the town.

The checkerboard and grating patterns use light and dark squares and stripes, respectively.

For most commercial uses, yeast of any form is packaged in bulk ( blocks or freezer bags for fresh yeast ; vacuum-packed brick bags for dry or instant ); however, yeast for home use is often packaged in pre-measured doses, either small squares for compressed yeast or sealed packets for dry or instant.

The researcher Irene Pepperberg has published work on the learning capacity of an African grey parrot named Alex, that was trained to use words in order to identify objects, describing, counting, and even answer complex questions, such as " How many red squares are there?

It's also possible to use Go equipment as a low-tech interface to Conway's Game of Life ; use black stones in the board's squares as ' pixels ', and for each generation use white stones to indicate where new cells will be born.

1. d5 blocks the paths of both black pieces to these squares, and whichever black piece takes the pawn interferes with the other and has to defend against both threats itself ( to use chess jargon, it becomes overloaded ).

The traditional domain of rugs from far away continents, hand knotted squares and rugs use the expertise of weavers to produce work of the finest quality.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

Often depicting few characters and concentrating a ' single effect ' or mood, it differs from the anecdote in its use of plot, and the variety of literary techniques it shares with the more extensive novel.

ABC, Hume and Papazian realized that for the scene depicting the nuclear blast, they would have to use state-of-the-art special effects and they took the first step by hiring some of the best special effects people in the business to draw up some storyboards for the complicated blast scene.

Naval enthusiast and analyst Fred T. Jane came up with a set of rules for depicting naval actions with the use of model ships, or miniatures around 1898 ( Reprinted 2008 ).

Turquerie, which began as early as the late 15th century, continued until at least the 18th century, and included both the use of " Turkish " styles in the decorative arts, the adoption of Turkish costume at times, and interest in art depicting the Ottoman Empire itself.

According to Sergio Caruso, when talking of Homo economicus, one should distinguish between the purely “ methodological ” versions, aimed at practical use in the economic sphere ( e. g. economic calculus ), and the ” anthropological ” versions, more ambitiously aimed at depicting a certain type of man ( supposed to be actually existing ), or even human nature in general.

The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.

In line with this quest, they are developing a profile plan, wherein they have established the use of a symbol depicting its location by Vänern.

The habit of depicting the deceased was not a new one, but the painted images gradually replaced the earlier Egyptian masks, although the latter continued in use for some time, often occurring directly adjacent to portrait mummies, sometimes even in the same graves.

Delius's next work, Appalachia, introduces a further feature that would recur in later pieces — the use of the voice instrumentally in wordless singing, in this case depicting the distant plantation songs that had inspired Delius at Solano Grove.

In 2006, during the protests over cartoons depicting Muhammad, CAIR responded by launching an educational program " Explore the Life of Muhammad ", to bring " people of all faiths together to learn more about the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and to use mutual understanding as a counterweight to the tensions created by the cartoon controversy ".

The Utraquist churches had retained the use of relics and images in church, but Scultetus now launched an iconoclastic crusade against images: beginning on 21 December 1619, images were removed from St. Vitus Cathedral, and on 27 – 28 December, a famous altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Younger depicting the Virgin Mary was destroyed.

Tewksbury's episodes are also unusual for their use of cross-talk ( a way of having the voices of off-screen characters heard in the background of the soundtrack, just under the voices of the main characters ), in depicting the chaotic Douglas household, a full decade before Robert Altman was credited with innovating such aural realism in feature films such as M * A * S * H ( 1970 ).

In the case of Scotland, use of a blue background for the Saint Andrew's Cross is said to date from at least the 15th century, with the first certain illustration of a flag depicting such appearing in Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount's Register of Scottish Arms, circa 1542.

Many movies depicting the use of straight keys ( e. g., World War 2 submarine movies, or near the end of the modern " Independence Day ") belie the actors ' lack of training: they are invariably shown as lightly " tapping " the key with one or two fingers, when the proper method is to grasp the knob with the thumb and two or three fingers.

This meant that they did not have to rely on extensive use of models like most naval war films, although they did make use of a 23-foot model ( with details only on the side being shot ) in a six-foot-deep tank at Pinewood Studios for scene depicting the scuttling of Admiral Graf Spee, which was assembled from multiple takes from different angles.

Although his health would not allow him to serve in the military, during World War II, Kelly also worked in the Army's Foreign Language Unit illustrating manuals, including several on language — a favorite Kelly subject — and one manual on the use of tools depicting his friend Ward Kimball as a caveman.

On the other side of occupied Austria, the Allied Military Government issued a series 28 June depicting a posthorn, for use in areas under Allied occupation ( Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Styria, and Carinthia ).

The attorney for Miramax claimed that the AAP ( Average American Parent ) was not well served by a system that was lenient on films with hard violence and drug use while being harsh with films depicting sex.

Desjarlait went on to become a successful artist and is well known for his striking use of watercolors depicting Ojibway life in his ancestral home of Red Lake, Minnesota.

A prohibition against depicting representational images in religious art, as well as the naturally decorative nature of Arabic script, led to the use of calligraphic decorations, which usually involved repeating geometrical patterns that expressed ideals of order and nature.

Several mesolithic rock paintings from Tassili n ' Ajjer ( a prehistoric North African site identified with the Capsian culture ) have been identified by author Giorgio Samorini as possibly depicting the shamanic use of mushrooms, possibly Psilocybe.

IMPRES, nonetheless, printed unofficial banknotes depicting the White Tower, which were sold as souvenirs on the streets of Skopje, bearing a disclaimer " this is a souvenir banknote and not for official use ".