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Roving (other)
Roving is a long and narrow bundle of fiber. It may also refer to: *Roving bridge, also known as changeline bridge or turnover bridge, a bridge over a canal constructed to allow a horse towing a boat to cross the canal when the towpath changes sides *Roving Enterprises, Australian television production company * Roving reference, also called roaming reference, a library service model in which, instead of being positioned at a static reference desk, a librarian moves throughout the library to locate patrons with questions or concerns and offer them help in finding or using library resources * ''Roving'', having no fixed or permanent abode or travelling from place to place ** Roving reporter, common name used for a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place * Roving wiretap, a wiretap that follows the surveillance target See also * Roving Boy (1980–1983), American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse * Roving Crows, English folk fusion band * The Maid of Amsterd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving
A roving is a long and narrow bundle of fiber. Rovings are produced during the process of making spun yarn from wool fleece, raw cotton, or other fibres. Their main use is as fibre prepared for spinning, but they may also be used for specialised kinds of knitting or other textile arts. After carding, the fibres lie roughly parallel in smooth bundles. These are drawn out, by hand or machine, and slightly twisted to form lengths suitable for thread spinning. These unspun strands of fibre are the rovings. Roving can also mean a roll of these strands, the strands in general (as a mass noun In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete eleme ...), or the process of creating them. Because it is carded, the fibres are less parallel than wool top (which is combed) and are not of uniform l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving Bridge
A roving bridge, changeline bridge, turnover bridge, or snake bridgeWilliam George Victor Balchin, ed., ''The Country Life Book of the Living History of Britain'', 1983, , p. 109 is a bridge over a canal constructed to allow a horse towing a boat to cross the canal when the towpath changes sides. This often involved unhitching the tow line, but on some canals they were constructed so that there was no need to do this by placing the two ramps on the same side of the bridge (see middle photo), which turned the horse through 360 degrees. On the Macclesfield Canal this was achieved by building spiral ramps and on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal and others by constructing roving bridges of iron in two cantilevered halves, leaving a slot in the middle for the tow rope. This was also called a split bridge. For cost reasons many ordinary Stratford bridges were also built in this way as they had no towpath. Bridges were also necessary at canal junctions and where the towpath was interrupted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving Enterprises
Roving Enterprises Pty Ltd is an Australian television production company, owned by television presenter, producer and comedian Rove McManus and his business partner Craig Campbell and managed by General Manager Kevin Whyte. The company is responsible for producing many shows and events, particularly for Network Ten. Productions Programs with a shaded background indicate the program is still in production. Fire In October 2004, one of Roving Enterprises production offices in Abbotsford, Victoria, Abbotsford, a Melbourne suburb, was destroyed by a large fire that caused up to $2 million damage and required 16 fire engines and over 50 firefighters to extinguish it. The offices were used for production, graphics editing and wardrobe/props and among the many things lost, the fire destroyed pieces that were to be used for the ARIA Music Awards of 2004 ceremony. The company also lost its costume department, valuable editing equipment, computers and irreplaceable video tapes and digi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving Reference
Roving reference, also called roaming reference, is a library service model in which, instead of being positioned at a static reference desk, a librarian moves throughout the library to locate patrons with questions or concerns and offer them help in finding or using library resources. History Roving reference as a library service practice was first formalized in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A 1999 report from the International Federation of Library Associations identified several advantages and disadvantages with roving reference in the pre- mobile era. The roving model allowed librarians to engage with "the majority of users who have questions in mind hodo not approach the reference desk for assistance". However, libraries reported that some staff were uncomfortable with the practice, and that there were concerns about user privacy. Beginning in the 2000s, librarians used laptops or laptop carts to engage in technology-supported roaming reference. Since the development of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving
A roving is a long and narrow bundle of fiber. Rovings are produced during the process of making spun yarn from wool fleece, raw cotton, or other fibres. Their main use is as fibre prepared for spinning, but they may also be used for specialised kinds of knitting or other textile arts. After carding, the fibres lie roughly parallel in smooth bundles. These are drawn out, by hand or machine, and slightly twisted to form lengths suitable for thread spinning. These unspun strands of fibre are the rovings. Roving can also mean a roll of these strands, the strands in general (as a mass noun In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete eleme ...), or the process of creating them. Because it is carded, the fibres are less parallel than wool top (which is combed) and are not of uniform l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving Wiretap
In United States law, a roving wiretap is a special kind of wiretap permit that follows the surveillance target. For instance, if a target attempts to defeat a regular wiretap by throwing away a phone and acquiring a new one, another surveillance order would usually need to be applied for to tap the new one. A "roving wiretap", once authorized, follows the target rather than a specific phone device, and would give the surveilling body permission to tap second and subsequent phones without applying for new surveillance orders. In the US, it is allowed under amendments made to Title III of the ''Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968'' (the "Wiretap Statute") in 1988 by the ''Electronic Communications Privacy Act'', and was later expanded by section 604 of the '' Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999''.''U.S. Government Printing Office The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO or GPO), formerly the United States Government Printing Office, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving Boy
Roving Boy (1980–1983) was an American Eclipse Award, Champion Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse. Bred and raced by Robert E. Hibbert, Roving Boy was a descendant of Man o' War on his sire's side. His dam's grandsire was the undefeated Italy, Italian racing superstar, Ribot (horse), Ribot. Trained by Joseph Manzi, Roving Boy was the dominant juvenile in California whose earnings in 1982 of $800,425 set a world record for a two-year-old. He was a winner of four important West Coast of the United States, West Coast races including the Graded stakes race, Grade I Norfolk Stakes (United States), Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita Park and both the Del Mar Futurity, Del Mar and Hollywood Futuritys. His 1982 performances earned Roving Boy American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors. A winterbook favorite for the 1983 Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#United States Triple Crowns, U.S. Triple Crown series, in late January 1983 Roving Boy suffered a E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roving Crows
Roving Crows are a four-piece Irish folk rock band, based in Worcestershire, England. Since forming in 2009, they have released three albums and received a number of awards. History Formation and self-titled demo Singer-Songwriter Paul O'Neill and fiddle player Caitlin Barrett first performed as a duo in 2007, under the name Elysian. In 2009 they decided to expand the line up and change the name to The Roving Crows (the word 'The' was later dropped from the name). The band went through several line-up changes early in its life. A self-titled demo album was recorded and released in 2010 with John David at Berryhill Studios with the addition of Mark Miletich on double bass and Phil Hall on drums. Greg Wilson-Copp joined Roving Crows in 2010 on trumpet, bringing Ska and Soul influences to the sound. By this point the rhythm section had changed to Joe Ball on bass guitar and Josh Balen on drums, and in 2011 this line-up self-recorded and released an EP previewing the new musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid Of Amsterdam
"The Maid of Amsterdam", also known as "A-Roving", is a traditional sea shanty. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 649. History The song may date to the Elizabethan or Jacobean era The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scotland, Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI and I, James VI of Scotland who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabeth ..., and versions have been found in Great Britain, Denmark, and France. Its origin is sometimes given as Thomas Heywood's play ''The Rape of Lucrece'', published 1608 and first performed around 1630. This opinion was held by, and may originate with, John Masefield who wrote, "The words of the solo are scarcely fitted for quotation, but those who wish to know what they are like may consult Thomas Heywood's play of 'Valentinian', where a song almost identical, is given at length." — noting in a later article that ''Valentinian (play), Valentinian'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
